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This game colorfully combines the theme of football with a number of attractive women.
The first thing that players should notice when they play Benchwarmers Football Girls is that the number of adjustable paylines. With up to 30 available across the five reels and three rows that are available, there are plenty of opportunities to form winning combinations.
Bets can be placed from as little as $0.01 per spin when the lowest values have been selected – for example, by having just one payline active and having the coin value set at $0.01 – whereas those bettors that feel they have a great chance of glory can place wagers as much as $150 when everything is at its maximum limit.
Playtech have made the game highly customisable for players, as there are plenty of different options available for them to enhance their gameplay experience. As already mentioned, players are able to customise their bets and the paylines available, however they are also provided with the opportunity to use a 'Max Bet' button and the 'Autoplay' button, which will allow them to spin the reels uninterrupted for a set period of time.
Our Benchwarmers Football Girls game review found that there were a number of different icons available on the paytable in which bettors would be able to collect for some nice rewards. The low-value icons are the traditional royal playing card symbols, which are represented by the 10, J, Q, K and A.
There are five girls in the game which players can look to try and form winning combinations with, although the girl in the red Italia top is the most rewarding. This blonde lady will provide the lucky bettors with a prize of 750 when she appears in five positions on an active payline.
The game's Wild, though, is the most rewarding as five of these will provide a reward of 10,000 whilst it also has the ability to substitute other icons on the grid to help form winning sequences. However, it is unable to replace the game's Scatter (the logo) or the bonus symbol.
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Players would be forgiven if they felt the Benchwarmers Football Girls Free Play version felt bland, however the arrival of some bonus features is certainly welcomed.
There are two that players are able to activate in this game, with the first being triggered by the bonus symbol. This icon can appear on the first and last reels of the gameboard. When this happens, players will need to pick three footballs, with each of them providing an instant cash reward.
The last feature that we found doing our Benchwarmers Football Girls review is the free spins feature. This is triggered when three or more of the game's logo Scatter appears anywhere on the reels. Players will receive ten free spins and they will also get their choice of which lady will expand to fill the entire first reel. She will then appear more frequently on the reels in this bonus game, thus providing players with a greater chance of winning big rewards.
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SpaceX shifts South Texas focus to Starship's orbital launch pad
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Highlighted by a Wednesday jam-packed with important milestones, SpaceX appears to be shifting its focus in South Texas to the completion of Starship's first orbital launch pad.
Boca Chica will be the first time in its history that SpaceX has faced the challenge of (or had the opportunity to) build an orbital launch complex from scratch after gaining a great deal of expertise modifying, reactivating, and rebuilding two existing pads in Florida and one in California. SpaceX's Boca Chica facilities must also support what will be the most powerful rocket ever built (or tested) and a planned flight rate and turnaround capability that drastically exceeds anything the company (or anyone else, really) has attempted.
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As a result, the site looks almost nothing like SpaceX's other launch facilities. On top of the already significant hurdles faced, SpaceX is also attempting to complete its from-scratch facility in record time and work on Starship's orbital launch site (OLS) really only began in earnest around the start of 2021. That aggressive work schedule has begun to clearly bear fruit in the last few months and arguably reached a bit of a local peak on Wednesday, July 28th.
Kicking off the day after an aborted attempt on Tuesday, SpaceX began what would turn out to be an extremely busy Wednesday around 5am CDT (UTC-5) with the installation of the Starship launch tower's ninth and final prefabricated section, effectively completing the structure's skeleton. Unlike all other SpaceX pads, save for Pad 39A's single-purpose Dragon and Crew Access Arm, Starship's first orbital launch pad will lean heavily on a massive steel tower.
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By all appearances, Starship's launch tower will host an elevator-like carriage outfitted with several large arms on its exterior and will use those arms to stabilize, stack, fuel, and maybe even catch Starships and Super Heavy boosters. The tower will be integral to routine Starship launch operations, in other words.
With the installation of one last steel segment, that tower grew to a height of ~145m (~440 ft) and isn't expected to get any taller after a 10m/30ft lightning rod is eventually added. SpaceX's pad team can now begin the process of finalizing tower construction, ranging from adding cladding on its rectangular exterior and welding all nine steel sections together to filling its four legs with concrete.
Just a few hours after the start of Tower Section #9 installation, a fleet of SpaceX's self-propelled modular transporters (SPMTs) left the build site with two major pieces of orbital pad hardware in tow. For the first time in three months, one of those payloads was an OLS propellant storage tank built by SpaceX itself out of parts almost identical to those found on Starship. Since the first two ground support equipment (GSE) tanks were rapidly installed in April, activity on that front has been curiously stagnant.
Since modifications of those tanks began in-situ over the last month or so, the general consensus has been that a fairly minor design flaw or oversight was discovered well after production began, requiring a significant pause to rework and redesign the crucial pad components. In the meantime, work on contractor-built GSE tank shells meant to eventually insulate SpaceX's thin cryogenic storage tanks continued unabated and one water tank and six shells have already been more or less completed. With any luck, GSE tank #5's delivery to the OLS means that SpaceX has removed the roadblock(s) and is ready to move into plumbing and tank farm activation.
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Simultaneously, a far more significant part known as the Starship 'launch table' also left SpaceX's Boca Chica build site after nearly six months of around-the-clock assembly and outfitting. Designed to secure, fuel, and launch orbital Starships, the launch table has to be able to withstand the ~5000 metric ton (~11 million lb) weight of a fully-fueled Starship, hold Super Heavy in place during static fires and prelaunch ignitions that could produce ~7500 metric tons of thrust, and survive the unspeakable fury of 33 Raptor engines operating simultaneously.
Unlike all other major orbital Starship launch pad parts, the custom launch mount and table's successful and near-total completion is an absolute necessity for any kind of orbital test flight or full-up Super Heavy static fire. Only part of the tank farm is truly necessary and the vast majority of the tower's intended tasks can be completed with workarounds if neither are fully ready. Without the launch mount, however, testing much beyond what SpaceX has already accomplished is mostly impossible in the near term.
This table will eventually be installed on a tall, six-legged launch mount. (NASASpaceflight – bocachicagal)
Finally, while less pressing, SpaceX also accepted delivery of four Raptor engines on top of three more that were delivered to Boca Chica on Tuesday. According to CEO Elon Musk, Starship's first orbital test flight(s) will happen with a full complement of engines installed, meaning that SpaceX will need to build, qualify, and ship at least 35 new Raptors for a single flight.
SpaceX recently completed assembly of the 100th full-scale Raptor engine at its Hawthorne factory and HQ – an encouraging sign that the engines needed for Starship's orbital launch debut will be ready for flight sooner than later.


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'Coco' tops box office for second straight week with $26.1M
The film has already racked up a global gross of $280 million
In this image released by Disney-Pixar, character Hector, voiced by Gael Garcia Bernal, left, and Miguel, voiced by Anthony Gonzalez, appear in a scene from the animated film, "Coco." (Disney-Pixar via AP)
In a sleepy post-Thanksgiving weekend at the box office, Pixar's "Coco" remained the top film for the second straight week while a number of Oscar contenders packed theatres in specialty release.
"Coco" again easily led all films with $26.1 million in the U.S. and Canada, according to studio estimates Sunday. The acclaimed animated tale based on the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) has dominated new releases both domestically and abroad. It has already racked up a global gross of $280 million, including record-breaking totals in Mexico and an impressive $75.6 million in China.
With no major wide releases, Warner Bros.' "Justice League" also held in second place with $16.6 million in its third weekend. With a domestic total of $197.3 million in three weeks, the DC Comics superhero team-up release isn't going to catch Marvel's "Thor: Ragnarok." The better-received "Thor" sequel has proved far mightier, with nearly $300 million in five weeks of release.
The family film "Wonder," about a fifth-grade boy (Jacob Tremblay) with facial abnormalities, likewise stayed in third with $12.5 million. The sleeper hit of the season, also starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson, has taken in $88 million in three weeks for Lionsgate.
Among new releases, most successful was James Franco's "The Disaster Artist." The comedy opened with $1.2 million on 19 screens, good for a per-screen average of $64,254. The film, directed by and starring Franco, is about the making of the infamously bad cult movie "The Room."
With most studios staying clear ahead of the impending release of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" (which some forecasts peg for a $200-million debut), much of the weekend's action was with awards-season releases. They helped drive the weekend to the biggest post-Thanksgiving weekend in five years, according to comScore.
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Greta Gerwig's "Lady Bird," which spent the week collecting honours from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Gotham Awards and the National Board of Review, added 403 theatres, for a total of 1,194. The A24 release, starring Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf, earned $4.5 million, bringing its total to $17.1 million.
Fox Searchlight's "The Shape of Water," an acclaimed monster-movie fantasy from director Guillermo del Toro, opened in two New York theatres with $167,000. (The $83,400 per-screen average ranks as among the best of the year.) Searchlight's "Thee Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri," also expanded to 1,630 screens and grossed $4.5 million. The Frances McDormand-led film has grossed $13.7 million.
The coming-of-age tale "Call Me By Your Name," which topped the Gotham Awards on Monday, remained in very limited release — four theatres — and pulled in an excellent per-screen average of $67,000. The Sony Pictures Classics last weekend debuted with the highest screen-average of the year. The film's young star, Timothee Chalamet, has emerged as one the leading best-actor contenders.
Also of note: Woody Allen's latest, "Wonder Wheel," opened with $140,555 in five theatres; Focus Feature's Winston Churchill biopic "Darkest Hour" took in $106,000 in four theatres; and the 20th anniversary release of "Titanic" grossed $415,000 in 87 theatres.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to comScore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "Coco," $26.1 million ($69 million international).
2. "Justice League," $16.6 million ($35.7 million international).
3. "Wonder," $12.5 million ($7.8 million international).
4. "Thor: Ragnarok," $9.7 million ($6.5 million international).
5. "Daddy's Home 2," $7.5 million ($15.6 million international).
6. "Murder on the Orient Express," $6.7 million ($23.1 million international).
7. "Lady Bird," $4.5 million.
8. "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," $4.5 million.
9. "The Star," $4 million.
10. A Bad Moms Christmas," $3.5 million ($3.7 million international).
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Sandy is the current chairman and has so far made two hundred and twenty-one appearances in the role. She is prone to descending into uncontrollable giggling when a remark strikes her as particularly funny and catches her off guard. She's often the victim of comments referring to her (lack of) height and to the fact that she hails originally from Denmark. Sandi has also appeared as a panellist twenty-nine times.


Are Housings Early Demolished in Urban Renewal Area?
The main objective of urban renewal is to improve neighborhood environment by reconstructing obsolescent buildings. There are three approaches for implementing urban renewal projects in Taiwan but developers prefer reconstruction to renovation and maintenance of buildings. Local government creates lots of criteria to define the qualified buildings which could be reconstructed. The basic criterion could be the life of buildings. Due to the renewal area should be involved continued lots; some new buildings could be planned into a renewal project. This might lead new buildings to be reconstructed when they are young. Constructing a building costs a lot and it should not be demolished just because of the reason of urban renewal. Therefore, in this paper, the building life of approved urban renewal units was examined for analyzing the efficiency of urban renewal projects in real estate market. The data of Construction Licenses, Usage Licenses and Demolition Licenses of the buildings involved in urban renewal projects were used for the analysis.
Ding, Hsiu-Yin. "Are Housings Early Demolished in Urban Renewal Area?" In 20th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference. ERES: Conference. Vienna, Austria, 2013.
Ding, Hsiu-Yin. "The impacts of building life on the implementation of urban renewal business." In 19th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference. ERES: Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012.
Kamelgarn, Yona. "Analysing Sustainability in Real Estate through Obsolescence." In 20th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference. ERES: Conference. Vienna, Austria, 2013.
Ding, Hsiu-Yin. "An Analysis of Additional Building Bulk as an Incentive for Arranging Urban Renewal Projects." In 18th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference. ERES: Conference. Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2011.


A field experiment was conducted on calcareous clayey soil at Junagadh (Gujarat) during rabi season of 2016-17 to study the effect of phosphate and sulphur fertilization on growth and yield of Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). The experimental results revealed that application of 90 kg P2O5 ha-1 (P3) recorded significant maximum plant height (85.2 cm) at harvest, effective tillers (85.7) and grain yield (4451 kg ha-1 ) and straw yield (6886 kg ha-1), which was found at par with P2 (i.e. 60 kg P2O5 ha-1). Application of 40 kg S ha-1 and it was found at par 20 kg S ha-1 and significantly increased grain yield by 28.13 and 15.95% and straw yield by 11.13 and 03.37% over the control (S0). Significantly the maximum grain yield 4937 kg ha-1 was produced when wheat crop was fertilized with 90 kg P2O5 ha-1 + 40 kg S ha-1 (P3S2) which was remained statistically at par with treatment combinations of P3S1, P2S1, P1S2, and P0S2.
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In business, competency and fluency are far from synonymous. Competency is possession of knowledge of a particular task or subject matter. Fluency is the ongoing demonstration of expertise no matter how much time has passed since competency was first achieved.
Many companies view competency as an individual's ability to complete a technical job or task. In most cases, however, that is not enough — being competent does not make one fluent.
Consider an example. When it comes to a foreign language, some have basic competency — they understand what is being said or can speak at a basic level. On the other hand, they may lack the fluency to carry on an in-depth conversation.
The same scenario applies in business. Say an individual enters the realm outside competency and expertise and must connect with another person to establish insightful interpersonal relations. Weakness in this area exemplifies lack of fluency and represents a major obstacle to success.
The difference between competency and fluency can be especially glaring within the context of interpersonal relationships. Those whose expertise is in the sphere of technical competence tend to be very analytical and less perceptive in recognizing and reacting appropriately to the subtleties of interpersonal relations.
Often their interpersonal behavior reflects a corporate culture that minimizes the importance of people and communication skills — a major oversight resulting in real bottom line consequences.
Why is this? Consider that interpersonal relations impact business outcomes. Those more skilled in interpersonal relations are more aware and insightful in their communications during negotiations and transactions. Such proficiency is a classic example of the difference between fluency and competency.
Business development software support tools such as Team Visibility, Playbook and Mobile PC Game Planning have emerged to help achieve business fluency. The tools are sophisticated enough to take into account the variables that occur in interpersonal relationships. The goal is to enable users to adapt their behavior to those whom they are trying to persuade — a subject not contained in competency technology, which has been relatively unchanged for more than two decades.
Through the use of handheld devices, learners can ascertain needs and the communication styles necessary for appropriate responses. These support tools are programmed to provide advice on recognizing and speaking the other party's language based on input from the user's observations, all accessible within seconds. Such capability can be an immediate help to those who never considered interpersonal relationships relevant to their profession.
There is another notable value to fluency: its potential impact on HR. Including interpersonal communication fluency among HR responsibilities can give departments a greater say at the corporate table — especially when financial results of fluency become readily apparent.
Instead of their traditional roles as cost centers, fluency's ROI offers the potential of transitioning into profit centers, a possibility bound to attract the attention of chief financial officers. Organizations that move beyond traditional competency to fluency in interpersonal communications will find a competitive advantage in building trust and persuasion. It is up to the CLO to address fluency's growing importance.


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1.2.3.8. The highest ever measured thunderstorms
The strongest updrafts reach the tropopause and produce overshooting tops. The highest thunderstorms in the world have been recorded in the tropics, where the tropopause is the highest (15-18 km). Thunderstorms reaching 20-22 km high have been recorded there.
The July 23, 2010 Vivian, South Dakota severe supercell thunderstorm, which produced the world record hailstone (20 cm in diameter!) reached a maximum height of 17 km! This is all the more remarkable, since this storm was far from the tropics, with the tropopause at a lower altitude, indicating an exceptionally strong updraft. Recently, on May 26, 2016, a severe supercell thunderstorm on the Mexico-USA (Texas) border was measured at 20.7 km peak height; the storm was so intense it produced lightning up to 95 km from its core!
Keep in mind that the average cruising altitude of commercial airplanes is 11-12 km, so these thunderstorms are up to twice as high as you would normally go on your flights!
And with this example we finish our second part of the tutorial. There will be (much) more coming in the next days as we continue with downdrafts in thunderstorms, tune back in soon and follow us for updates on Severe Weather Europe on Facebook!


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Sports stars gear up for awards evening
Women's squash team, from left, Annie Aling, Siyoli Lusaseni, Gina Robinson and Angela Bonora.
Students who have excelled in their sports fields over the past 12 months will be toasted at UCT's annual sports awards dinner, to be held this Saturday. The sport and recreation department has in the meantime released the names of the students and clubs who will be up for accolades. Here they are.
The candidates named for the Transformation Trophy, awarded to those clubs or individuals who have made strides in changing the membership profiles of their clubs or for reaching out to communities beyond UCT, are the volleyball, rowing and rugby clubs, as well as "JJ" de Castro Maia (capoeira) and Margot Scheffer (gymnastics) for their combined work to get UCT clubs involved with Shawco's development programmes in Manenberg.
Up for the Turpin Cup for service to UCT sport is Ramzi Solomon, chair of Sassu-UCT, and De Castro Maia, who is also an executive member of Sassu-UCT and out-going chair of the UCT capoeira society.
Nominated for the Butterworth Cup as team of the year are the women's squash first team, the men's water polo team and the men's hockey first team, who have all taken top honours in their respective Western Province leagues.
There will be tight competition for the Landstem Trophy awarded for the performance of the year. Vying are the rugby first team for their historic intervarsity win over Maties, the yachting team that excelled in the World Student Regatta in France, yachtsman Richard Tanner for his win in the South Star Double-Handed Cape Town to St Helena race, the men's fencing team that swept the trophies at the Sassu games, the men's side that won the Sassu water polo competition, and the men's hockey team who shared the honours at their Sassu event.
The Jamison Cup for UCT sportsperson of the year is also going to be a nailbiter, with six students nominated. They are Andrew Cronje, who made it into the SA senior and under-21 hockey squads; hockey's Liesel Dorothy, part of the SA team at the Athens Olympics; Gareth Samuel, who competed with the SA water polo team in Egypt in March and has been included in the team to make another trip there in October; Kimberly Schmidt, who has just returned with the SA water polo women from a successful tour to Sweden; South Star yachting champion Richard Tanner; and Jiajie Zheng, selected to the SA senior table tennis team.
Monday Paper will report on the sports awards dinner shortly.
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Out in Africa
LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa
Ashley Currier
The first insider's view of contemporary LGBT rights activism in Namibia and South Africa
Out in Africa presents an intimate look at how Namibian and South African LGBT organizations have cultivated visibility and invisibility as strategies over time. Ashley Currier situates these countries' movements in relation to developments in pan-African LGBT organizing, offering broader insights into visibility as a social movement strategy rather than simply as a static accomplishment or outcome of political organizing.
Out in Africa is an extremely important book. Ashley Currier broadly addresses factors influencing mobilization of LGBT movements within sub-Saharan Africa at the local, national, and international level. She further extends existing literature on social movements, identity, and development by examining the prospects of mobilization among disadvantaged groups within newly democratized developing countries.
Kathleen Fallon, author of Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sociology, Cultural Criticism, Human rights, Citizenship, Democracy, Apartheid, Civil Rights, Africa, Homosexuality, Global South, LGBT rights, Protest, Feminism, Political activism
Visibility matters to activists—to their social and political relevance, their credibility, their influence. But invisibility matters, too, in times of political hostility or internal crisis. Out in Africa is the first book to present an intimate look at how Namibian and South African lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations have cultivated visibility and invisibility as strategies over time. As such, it reveals the complexities of the LGBT movements in both countries as these organizations make use of Western terminology and notions of identity to gain funding even as they work to counter the perception that they are "un-African."
Different sociopolitical conditions in Namibia and South Africa affected how activists in each country campaigned for LGBT rights between 1995 and 2006. Focusing on this period, Ashley Currier shows how, in Namibia, LGBT activists struggled against ruling party leaders' homophobic rhetoric and how, at the same time, black LGBT citizens of South Africa, though enjoying constitutional protections, greater visibility, and heightened activism, nonetheless confronted homophobic violence because of their gender and sexual nonconformity.
As it tells the story of the evolving political landscape in postapartheid Namibia and South Africa, Out in Africa situates these countries' movements in relation to developments in pan-African LGBT organizing and offers broader insights into visibility as a social movement strategy rather than simply as a static accomplishment or outcome of political organizing.
$25.00 paper ISBN 978-0-8166-7801-3
$75.00 cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-7800-6
272 pages, 1 table, 6 x 9, July 2012
Series: Social Movements, Protest, and Contention, Volume 38
Ashley Currier is assistant professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Cincinnati.
Out in Africa provides a useful reminder that social movements are composed of people, who bring their own ideals, politics, and needs to the work that they do. ... For students of social movements, post-colonial theory, and sexuality studies, the careful, deliberate sociology and ethnography that Currier has produced is a welcome landmark in a growing field of scholarship.
African Affairs
Out in Africa is the first study of its kind from Africa, and as such an important addition to the historiography of sexualities and social movements in southern Africa.
Journal of African History
Out in Africa makes a unique contribution to social movement literature and our collective knowledge of the sexual-political landscape of grassroots organizing around gender and sexual diversity in Southern Africa.
Introduction: How Visibility Matters
1. The Rise of LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa
2. "This Lesbian Issue": Navigating Public Visibility as Lesbian Movement Organizations
3. Disappearing Acts: Organizational Invisibility in Times of Opportunity
4. Homosexuality Is African: Struggles "to Be Seen"
Conclusion: Why Visibility Matters
Methodological Appendix
UMP blog - Invisibility and its advantages: Why LGBT rights activists in Africa sometimes strategize to remain hidden
When people learn that I study lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizing in southern Africa, their eyes usually widen with interest.
"You mean, there is LGBT activism in Africa?," they ask eagerly.
I tell them that in fact, LGBT activism is quite vibrant in many African nations. Typically, interlocutors go on to explain that what little they know about the situation of African LGBT persons is mostly negative. They will cite the 2011 murder of David Kato, a fearless LGBT rights defender in Uganda; the rapes and murders of black South African lesbians; or the frequent anti-gay rhetoric from some African state leaders whose ranks have swelled in the past few years to include the late Malawian president Bingu wa Mutharika, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Gambian president Yahya Jammeh, alongside leaders like Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who has been making anti-gay threats since 1995.
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African Intimacies Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization An innovative investigation of African homosexuality under globalization
Globalizing AIDS A long-awaited look at responses to the AIDS epidemic in relation to globalization
How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism An unexpected analysis of the battle between opposing activist movements
South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom Uncovers the story of how the politics of queer sexuality have played out in the struggle for multiracial democracy in South Africa
Gay Rights at the Ballot Box From Boulder in 1974 to Maine Question 1 in 2009, the first comprehensive history of the LGBT movement's fight against anti-gay ballot measures
Brand Aid Shopping Well to Save the World A critical account of the rise of celebrity-driven "compassionate consumption"
3 UMP books are Lambda Literary Award finalists
The 25th annual Lambda Literary Awards will be announced June 3, 2013.


The ORACLE network was founded in Athens in September 1992 by participants of the European Diploma in Cultural Project Management by the Association Marcel Hicter.
ORACLE is more than a traditional network – it is a dynamic community of individuals who are committed to fostering intercultural co-operation through the development of transnational projects within Europe, Africa and European partner countries.
Whilst most members are cultural managers who have undertaken the diploma, this is not compulsory – the network also welcomes freelance workers, artists, academics and anyone who wishes to play their part in creating genuine cultural exchanges and dialogue within a modern European and global context.


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Akane Hosoyamada relishing opportunity with Team Japan
Inferno defender will join Team Japan for the first time.
By Meredith Foster Jan 28, 2017, 9:00am EST
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Akane Hosoyamada, center, with Inferno teammates Meaghan Mikkelson, left, and Hayleigh Cudmore, right.
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The Calgary Inferno will play two exhibition games in Tomokomai, Japan this weekend against the Japanese Women's National Team. Two Calgary players will don the opposing colors. Alberta-born Akane Hosoyamada will join her teammate, Japanese Olympian and second-year Inferno defender Aina Takeuchi as a member of Team Japan.
Known locally as the MK Trust Smile Japan Challenge Match, the two games take place just a week before Team Japan vies for the final place at the PyeongChang Olympics. The relationship between Team Japan and the Calgary Inferno dates back to the last Olympics. Inferno head coach Scott Reid was Team Japan's goalie coach in Sochi and the two sides kept in touch, paving the way for a 2015 exhibition game between the Inferno and Team Japan in Calgary, and now for this event.
A little Mario Karting in the streets of Tokyo
A photo posted by Calgary Inferno (@infernocwhl) on Jan 26, 2017 at 11:58am PST
Hosoyamada, who is of Japanese heritage, has been attending Japanese training camps since 2015, but just received roster eligibility this past August. This will be her first time suiting up for Team Japan, and she's excited for the challenge ahead, both for herself and for her team: "As Team Japan, we've been playing against midget boy's teams throughout every training camp," she said. "But, with the qualifiers so close, we wanted an exhibition play against a highly skilled women's team, and that's what we got."
The Inferno play a fast, unrelenting game bolstered by strong depth and an incredible goaltending trio. They upset the dominant Les Canadiennes to snatch the 2016 Clarkson Cup victory, and currently top the CWHL standings with 34 points. No one knows better than Hosoyamada just how lethal her team can be. She's effusive in her praise for Calgary and anticipates Team Japan will face a "tough game" against the "highly talented" Inferno.
Her sentiments on playing for Japan echo the sentiments shared by women's hockey players across North America: it's about something bigger than herself. "To me, playing for Japan means giving hope to the younger generations...I hope our team can influence young girls and boys around the country."
In addition to her personal excitement, Hosoyamada is also looking forward to the Inferno showcasing their world-class hockey talent for a new audience: "If they want a fast, high-paced women's hockey, the Inferno is the team to watch..these are athletes who know how to compete every single day."
Team Japan will face the Calgary Inferno at the Swan Prince Ice Arena in Tomokomai, Hokkaido, Japan on January 28 and 29.


NEW YORK, N.Y. — NexHealth, a fast-growing, New York-based patient experience management solution, is announcing its partnership with The Smilist. With a total of 21 (and growing) locations throughout New York City, Long Island, and New Jersey, The Smilist makes it easy for patients to find a convenient dental office.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Dr. Lisset Arenas, a dedicated and highly-skilled general dentist, has joined the Spodak Dental Group team in Delray Beach, Fla. A 2017 graduate of the University of Florida College of Dentistry, Dr. Arenas looks forward to providing her patients with unparalleled dental care.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Spodak Dental Group has once again been named a VIP: Diamond Provider of Invisalign(R) for 2019, which remains to be the highest distinction in the field. VIP: Platinum Providers make up a select few of all North American Invisalign(R) Providers and are among some of the most experienced.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Dr. Alfredo Arauz, a highly proficient general and cosmetic dentist, has joined the Spodak Dental Group in Delray Beach, Fla. He brings more 10 years of dental experience to the established practice. Dr. Arauz is also an advanced Invisalign certified provider, with knowledge in simple and complex cases.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Spodak Dental Group is pleased to announce that general dentist, Tiffany Dudley, has earned the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (AADSM) Qualified Dentist distinction. She is the first and only dentist in Delray Beach, Fla. to hold this distinction.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Dr. Michael Paisner, an accomplished and talented general dentist, has joined the Spodak Dental Group in Delray Beach, Fla. A 2017 graduate of the University of Southern California Ostrow School of Dentistry, Dr. Paisner is well educated and experienced in the most current dental procedures and techniques.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Spodak Dental Group ("SDG") recently provided complimentary dental services to the men and women of the US Armed Forces and their family members as part of the Sixth Annual Freedom Day USA. In total, 32 patients were treated at no cost during the event.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Spodak Dental Group ("SDG") proudly announces its participation in the Sixth Annual Freedom Day USA, in which SDG will provide complimentary dental services to the men and women of our Armed Forces, and their immediate family members. Freedom Day USA is a "Day of Free" to thank military personnel and their families for the sacrifices they make each day to ensure our freedom.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Spodak Dental Group is pleased to announce that Practice Optimizer Erika Pusillo has achieved the distinction of Fellow in the American Association of Dental Office Management (AADOM). The Fellowship achievement recognizes outstanding professional and educational achievements in dental practice administration and is awarded only to those who have completed rigorous requirements set forth by AADOM.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Dr. Tiffany Dudley of Spodak Dental Group is committed to saving lives and is dedicated to helping her community members treat their sleep apnea condition. Studies show that people who suffer from untreated sleep apnea can have a decreased life expectancy, so treatment is incredibly important for overall health.


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The average flight time from London to Lapland is 3 hours 39 minutes
Distance from London to Lapland is 1,465 miles / 2,357 km
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Sometimes we need to read books which push us out of our comfort zones—it's part of what helps us learn and know we are alive. DRIFTNET was such a book for me. The fatalities in DRIFTNET are victims of paedophilia and Lin Anderson is one of those British authors with the talent to make one feel the awful perpetrators of such crimes are almost perfectly normal … just like everyone else, nearly.
DRIFTNET by Lin Anderson is a police procedural, the protagonist is the lovely forensic scientist Dr. Rhona MacLeod, in Glasgow.
DRIFTNET is a disturbing, exciting read and I almost couldn't put it down.
The ebooks are a compendium of her first three titles!


Baseball America released the Blue Jays' Top 10 Prospects recently (I won't say which day because, with the time zone differential of 10 1/2 hours right now, the concept of "days" is a little fuzzy) and Ben Badler also did his very informative Blue Jays prospects chat. Here are some of my thoughts about the list, the comments and the chat.
First let's look at the list. Baseball America has made at least that much (and the general comments) free for the public but Badler's breakdowns about each player are behind a paywall.
While we haven't been doing top prospect lists here at Blue Jays from Away for a number of years, there are several reasons that the Baseball America list is going generate some heated discussion.
The placement of Guerrero and Bichette as #1 and #2 are pretty much accepted and I think that we'll see those two in that order on a number of lists as they come out over the winter. I think Anthony Alford has done enough in the time that he's spent healthy to warrant a #3 rating. His upside as a solid, everyday outfielder (and possibly a centerfielder) combined with his proximity to the majors leagues gives him a high position.
At the #4 and #5 position, we're going to start to see some divergence. Nate Pearson is giving a lot of people a lot of excitement as a potential mid-rotation starter and impressed in his dominance of the Northwest League last year despite the Jays heavily limiting his innings. At #5, I think Lourdes Gurriel may be ranked a little high. I saw the upside and the downside from Gurriel and I think he needs to find a way to hit better pitching quickly or he'll be exposed a few weeks into his big league career. Badler even admits in his chat that the lack of OBP from Gurriel could be a troubling indicator.
At #6, many people are excited about Eric Pardinho, but it's tough to rank a 16 year old this high. Despite that, he's pitching in the low-to-mid-90s with some very advanced offspeed pitches for someone his age.
Danny Jansen, being ranked the #7 prospect of the Blue Jays is probably a bit of a stretch for most people. That said, Jansen has had some tremendous success after finally being healthy and getting some glasses. Additionally, his success at the higher levels of the minors (Double-A and Triple-A) could very well mean that his excellent season is not a fluke. My gut feeling on the subject is that Jansen got such a high ranking because finding catchers who can hit is getting harder and harder and Badler sees him as an MLB regular who hits with more power when he gets to the majors (noting the livelier MLB ball as a factor in his chat).
In the back end of the Top 10, there are a number of players who could be somewhat interchangeable. Richard Urena (#9) is probably in the Top 10 solely for the potential with the bat he has and the talent he's shown on defense. Logan Warmoth (#8) is a guy who isn't outstanding at any one thing but puts things together very well with a high baseball IQ and at #10, Ryan Borucki is close to the majors with a potentially solid back-end of the rotation arm.
I don't want to give away any of paywalled comments that Badler makes but I do want to note a few comments from his chat.
Badler is very high on Bo Bichette, writing that "Bichette for me is one of the top five prospects in baseball." We may not see Bichette feature as high on some other lists but he's proven that he has a superior ability to get the bat on the baseball while also having a very good idea of the strike zone. Badler compares him to Josh Donaldson and since the Blue Jays look like they won't interfere with his unique swing unless he really hits a rough patch, Bichette could have a smoother transition into the major leagues that Donaldson did.
Some of the omissions from the list are players who featured very highly in years past. Conner Greene, Sean Reid-Foley and T.J. Zeuch just missed but Zeuch was close (and likely will be #11 or #12 when BA's Top 30 is published in their prospect handbook) and Greene and Reid-Foley have fallen after struggling in Double-A. I have concerns about both pitchers but I think that both will be able to find a way to the major leagues in the next year or two.
Another players whom Badler likes is Ryan Noda who destroyed the Appalachian League in his draft year. Could he be like Ryan McBroom, a player who continued to hit well as he rose through the minors or L.B. Dantzler, who struggled by the time he got to A-ball? Without having seen Noda, I can say that I really liked how he took walks, particularly towards the end of the season (when I don't think pitchers were giving him much to hit). That said, I'll probably have more to write about him after I've been to spring training.
The final note I'll touch on is that Badler repeatedly mention Edward Olivares (who I had tabbed as the offensive player to watch on the Lansing Lugnuts last year). He loves his tools and thinks that if his approach develops, he could be really good.
Overall, I think Ben Badler's list at Baseball America is a fair one and, without having lost anyone in the Rule 5 draft, there are a lot of good young players to look forward to in 2018.


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On a sunny day in Aromo sub-county, the girls and boys of Oketkwer Primary School excitedly gather under a large tree. A group of classmates holding props are preparing to perform a skit they wrote on violence as well as their own sexual and reproductive health and rights. Over the past weeks, using conversation circles, a team of the district's community development staff, locally based WOPI-U and Isis-WICCE, have been talking to pupils and teachers in Aromo about bodily changes and vulnerabilities to abuse that often come with adolescence.
Of the Primary 5 to 7 pupils gathered, 53 are boys while 85 are girls; however only 9 of these girls are in P7 and set to graduate, compared to 13 boys. This places Oketkwer girls' dropout rate at 89% and boys at 75%, a trend that carries across Aromo. In Uganda, despite policies such as Universal Primary Education (UPE) to increase enrollment rates, 35% of girls still drop out of school due to early marriage, 23% because of early pregnancy along with factors like family responsibilities. (UNICEF 2015) Northern Uganda's Lira district and Aromo sub-county are no exception with the latest study conducted in Aromo by the District Education Office revealing that 400 of 700 enrolled pupils have since dropped out.
"In 2013, Aromo was the leading sub-county in Lira with the highest incidence of teenage pregnancy, child marriage and physical violence." Francis Okello, Lira District Community Development Officer explains. "At the peace expo we realized that the engaging of children on gender-based violence was limited and children's sexual and reproductive health was not being spoken about in schools because parents think it is spoiling children" he adds.
As such, Lira district leaders partnered with Isis-WICCE and WOPI-U to kick start conversation circles, equipping female and male teachers as well as pupils to understand their sexual and reproductive health along with the related rights. The sessions include information on bodily changes, menstrual hygiene, sexual abuse, harassment, teenage pregnancy, psychological stress, the risk of acquiring HIV/STIs, early marriage as well as positive messages to encourage girls and boys to complete their education.
"Talking with children, we help them understand sexual and gender-based violence and how it applies to their lives by using everyday examples of abuse of power due to harmful gender stereotypes, attitudes and social norms," Isis-WICCE's Prossy Nakaye expounds. Through the circles, the pupils are equipped to make positive choices and champion a violence-free existence for themselves, their schools and their homes. As such, the Oketkwer skit also addresses issues like parents prioritizing children's work in the garden over attending school, abuse of alcohol and intimate partner violence at home, emotional abuse, wrangles between parents over agricultural produce and economic violence.
Since 2013, Isis-WICCE has been working in Aromo sub-county, Lira district with local government, volunteer community activists, religious leaders, traditional leaders, health workers and the police to prevent sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) through policy, positive behavioural and attitude change in addition to enabling adequate SGBV responses.


Video presentations of 45-minute webinars which provide support in making positive changes in Aboriginal communities. PowerPoint files and handouts are also available.
This 16 page .pdf from America Walks - touches upon the power of walking and walkability for health, business, community, schools, and the environment.
Every Body Walk! is a campaign aimed at getting Americans up and moving. Through the help of our partners, we are working to spread the message that walking 30 minutes a day, five days a week really can improve your overall health and prevent disease. We provide news and resources on walking, health information, walking maps, how to find walking groups, a personal pledge form to start walking, as well as a place to share stories about individual experiences with walking.
"The city of Calgary has seen inner-city neighbourhood real estate prices skyrocket in recent years as people become fed up with long commute times from outer suburbs," said REIN research analyst Allyssa Epp. in a commentary. "Between 2000 and 2012, the 10 communities that saw the largest spikes in average home prices were in the city's core and surrounding neighbourhoods.
League of American Bicyclists, March 2013, Washington D.C.
Two great infographics can be found in the right hand (media and assets) column of this page. Anatomy of Walking and Health Benefits of Walking.
The Mighty Moves intervention demonstrated significant changes in gross motor skills among preschoolers.
► This study focuses on the under-researched group of early primary school children (5–7 year olds). ► We capture children's motivation to play and help adults reconsider value of healthy risk taking. ► Increased physical activity during school breaks, larger than comparable studies, was measured. ► Whether the increases can be maintained remains to be seen; evidence in one school suggests they can.
In early 2013, the Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario Division (CMHA), in partnership with YMCA Ontario and Parks and Recreation Ontario (PRO), launched the Enabling Minds project. The goal is to reduce barriers that prevent people with mental health-related disabilities from accessing physical activity programs and resources at community centres, fitness clubs, parks and other recreation or fitness facilities.
Given the challenges of pharmaceutical treatment for modifiable and non modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer's disease, a focus on modifiable risk factors such as physical inactivity is warranted…..
A growing body of research points to the importance of designing or retrofitting communities for walkability to accommodate senior citizens and allow them to maintain a healthy, active lifestyle upon retirement. Walkable neighborhoods help seniors remain active, healthy, social and free to move around.
From this website you can download the full report or individual chapters – such as 'physical activity'. The user-friendly format addresses risk factors in short chapters with summary tables linking risk factors/exposures and cancers. Shaded boxes in many chapters give definitional and measurement information. Each chapter has an extensive bibliography for further detail on specific cancer-risk factor associations.
A document from Coaching Ireland about the importance of pathways for fundamental movement skills and physical literacy. Regular physical activity is an essential element of a healthy lifestyle for children and adults, and it is one area of our health over which we have control. The LISPA framework of Lifelong Involvement in Sport and Physical Activity can assist in creating an environment that ensures everyone learns the fundamentals of movement and are provided with a pathway to develop and continue within sport and physical activity.
► Do physical activity based labels result in the selection of lower calorie meals from a sample menu? ► Physical activity based labels were effective in influencing the selection of lower calorie meals. ► A majority of participants reported a preference for these physical activity based menu labels.
News Story based on above research paper…… Public awareness posters used by the campaign showed the number of miles a person would have to walk to burn off the calories in a 20-ounce soda, and new research suggests that physical activity–based conversions such as these can actually persuade people to make healthier choices.
Both developed and developing world cities are still struggling to get urban development right, said some of the world's leading urban experts at the Transforming Transportation conference organized by the World Bank Group and the EMBARQ program of the World Resources Institute (WRI).
Neighborhoods with a mix of residences, offices and retail outlets are now conventionally thought to have a host of benefits, a departure in thinking from the years of urban planning when cities sought to segregate uses of land….. add one more – reduced crime.
These resources are designed to be used by local leaders working to put Complete Streets policies into action. Throughout those pages you can find best practices, suggested activities, and resources to help guide your community through Complete Streets implementation. We provide examples of materials that are used by communities of all sizes from across the country at all stages of policy implementation.
Reconnecting America has launched The Direct Transfer, a new site that compiles news, blog posts and research papers on different urban-focused topics.


The Pennington office is located within the Pennington Point West complex among other medical and mental health professionals. There is plenty of free parking in the complex for client convenience. The office is located across the street from a shopping plaza on Route 31 which offers the ease of grabbing a bite to eat at several small bistros or grabbing a cup of coffee at Dunkin Donuts. The office is tastefully adorned with cheery colors and modern décor and includes a small relaxing waiting room for clients to unwind. Before or after your appointment, you can take a trip to charming downtown Pennington for boutique shopping and dining.


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With the expansion of e-learning and the emphasis on 21st Century competencies, instructors are creating more opportunities for collaborative learning in online higher education environments. As we create these environments, we need to carefully examine the assumptions that are underpinning these collaborative learning opportunities. There is a need to explore how these assumptions impact the design and facilitation decisions with regard to collaborative learning in online environments. Working through a process of interrogating four key assumptions, this article provides a framework to help instructors to make better decisions that influence the design, development and facilitation of online collaborative learning experiences for students.
Lock, J. (2014). Online Collaborative Learning: Checking our Assumptions. In M. Searson & M. Ochoa (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2014--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 2145-2149). Jacksonville, Florida, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved April 24, 2019 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/131106/.
Brindley, J., Blaschke, L.M., & Walti, C. (2009). Creating effective collaborative learning groups in an online environment. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 10(3). Retrieved from http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/rt/printerFriendly/675/1271 Blumenfeld, P., Kempler, T.M., & Krajcik, J.S. (2006). Motivation and cognitive engagement in learning environments. In R.K. Sawyer (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of The Learning Sciences (pp. 475-488).
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2G may be back in Jammu, broadband in Kashmir from Wednesday
Staffers of various local newspapers work at the government media facilitation centre due to internet ban in Kashmir, in Srinagar. PTI file
In a significant development, authorities in Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory are mulling to restore internet services, though partially, from January 15 (Wednesday), sources in the J&K administration said.
The services would be restored partially. According to sources, the government is set to restore broadband internet in the Kashmir Valley and low speed internet in the Jammu region, the sources said, adding that the formal announcement in this regard is likely to be made by government spokesman Rohit Kansal.
"Things are being finalised and an announcement will be made soon.
"There is every likelihood that authorities may announce restoration of 2G internet services in Jammu region and partial restoration of broadband in Kashmir region," a source said.
Internet services were suspended across J&K on August 5, when the Centre announced to scrapping of the Constitution's Article 370 and bifurcation of the erstwhile state into two Union Territories - J&K and Ladakh.
However, in Jammu, broadband services were restored in October last year, while in Ladakh, both mobile and broadband services were restored. — IANS


When "High Expectations" are a poor excuse for callousness.
There are many forms of poverty – we tend to group them into "absolute" and "relative". Absolute poverty offers immediate threat to life – it is where people lack the basics they need to survive in the short term – we see this type of poverty on our television screens all the time from drought or war torn countries. It is terrible. But relative poverty is also terrible – more of a terminal illness than a sudden death threat. People suffering from relative poverty live in prosperous nations and yet struggle to maintain what anyone might call a reasonable standard of living. They are more likely to get cancer, to die young, to end up in prison and suffer from abuse or violence.
Even within the realm of relative poverty, there are sub groups – the main two being generational and situational poverty. In situational poverty, circumstances have conspired to send the person or family into financial straits. This could be unemployment, long term sickness, immigration or the break up of a marriage. Parents who find themselves in situational poverty can often offer ways out for their children. They remember a better life and can shape a vision of what a better future might look like. They are more likely to value education and to sacrifice basics to ensure that their children are in correct uniform and have their equipment. They are more likely to understand how to make tiny budgets stretch and to know where to turn to for help. The children of these parents carry the same label as other children in poverty, but their chances of success are vastly improved.
Generational poverty, on the other hand, is far more tricky. In homes where there has been persistent poverty and sometimes worklessness over a number of generations, it is hard for any adult to be able to offer a child a vision of a different or a better life. Education is less likely to be valued. In this group there are higher levels of substance abuse, a higher chance of chaotic home lives and a sense of hopelessness. High levels of chronic stress are common in these environments and it is well documented that the production of cortisol in response to persistent stress inhibits cognitive function and memory. A perfect storm for any child.
Of course, both of these categories are roughly drawn and there are overlaps and grey areas. But they offer us an interesting question. To what extent are those schools claiming that their zero tolerance behaviour policies, their perfect uniforms, their insistence that every child should have the proper equipment with them, simply enacting a form of social cleansing? They claim that their policies lead to higher outcomes for FSM children but I wonder if they simply filter out the problem kids and leave themselves with those most likely to succeed. The poor children of aspirational immigrant families. Or the poor children of those in situational poverty. The others can be permanently excluded in the name of high expectations. And that simply exacerbates the underlying social problem. Throwing these children out of school, or refusing to accept that they might need equity more than equality, is an abdication of responsibility.
There are catastrophic events in some children's lives which most of us can barely even imagine. In this Youtube clip, Chris Kilkenny speaks of what it was like to move from council flat to rehabilitation centres with his addicted mother, to care homes while trying to "hide in plain sight" at school. When you listen to him, you must surely realise that punishing a child living under this level of stress for not having a pencil is not a sign of having high expectations, but of having an almost inhuman lack of empathy and understanding. What would it cost us to have a pot of pens in the middle of the table and to focus on the business of learning? Not a lot.
But the Government, and many schools (especially those in favour with the Government) push a 'zero tolerance' policy. They justify it by saying poverty is no excuse. But, as you pithily point out, there are different types of poverty and such zero tolerance policies could subtly deter those in generational poverty.
But these children have to be educated somewhere and they need dedicated, experienced, expert teachers. But teaching in schools where there is a large proportion of children in generational poverty isn't attractive and could be career suicide. What is the Government's answer? Parachuting in superheads who like to 'make a difference' quickly (eg by imposing tough rules about uniform and the length of rulers) before being parachuted elsewhere.
Thanks as so often Debra for providing the sprinkling of humanity. I am sure that there are some who will label comments such as these as, "making excuses" but these are rarely those who have every had to live with the pangs of hunger or the fear of having nowhere to live the next day. I had three months of homelessness once when a family member who was looking after, and supposedly paying bills in my flat, simply failed to pay and then flat was repossessed – the first I knew was when a large demand for the outstanding debt arrived, the family member had ignored all the other letters and I did not have the funds to pay this large debt. Luckily for me the kindness of friends meant I could "sofa surf" for a while. How would I have coped if this was before my exams, or if I had been 13 I do not know.
I shudder at times at the "no excuses" culture we see from heads earning six figure salaries to politicians far removed from similar arenas. There is no simple solution but there is the place for compassion and this needs to start in a system willing to treat people as individuals not data recognising that different children need different opportunities and support. We move more and more to a one size fits all be this the "perfect uniform" (I know a school which has as part of its merit system the accolade 'outstanding uniform'), the perfect pencil case, the perfect SPaG score, or the perfect GCSE profile.
I see schools and systems which plot out perfect lines of progress and see children as data points on these lines – not asking questions about them as individuals. You are correct about the exclusions where available data indicates that academies exclude up to 70% more children than LA schools – though it is hard to get more recent data. This is also exemplified by comments from schools like Micheala Free School where children who do not conform are told they are not "Micheala sort of children".
Well said. Children should feel safe and secure. Schools have a responsibility to avoid making existing issues worse while the child is in school.
I am amazed that some of these individuals choose teaching as a job.
Thank you for this article, found it through Twitter somehow? I'm currently on my first placement for my PGCE year in a school that punishes children for not only not having a pen, but a ruler, protractor (even when not in maths lessons), a set of headphones among many other items of stationery and uniform. I have to comply with this system even though morally I don't agree with it. I worked as a teaching assistant in an inner city school for two years and honestly did not mind spending a few extra quid on pens to lend out if it meant that children could get on with learning and not worry about having a pen because of their personal situation. High expectations in what you expect from pupils in terms of their learning are important, but I totally agree that in this guise, it can become punishment for the sake of punishment and shows a lack of empathy with the child who as a teacher, we are supposed to out first.
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News from BACP
20 November: New vice-presidents outline their goals with BACP
New vice-presidents outline their goals with BACP
BACP welcomes Nancy Rowland and John Cowley as new VPs
Vice-presidents Nancy Rowland and John Cowley have spoken about their goals in their new roles with BACP.
Nancy Rowland, BACP's former deputy CEO (external), and John Cowley, a BACP fellow and former member of the board of governors, were confirmed as new VPs at our annual general meeting.
They have been appointed to the role alongside Luciana Berger MP, who made the first keynote speech to our AGM last Friday (November 16) about the need for a mental health revolution.
"It's a huge honour," said Nancy, who has been a member of BACP for almost 40 years, said: "I started off as a student in BACP when I was 28 and now at 64, I can't believe I would have ever offered this.
"I want to have conversations with people in power.
"I want to have conversations with politicians, policy makers and decision makers so that I can represent the voices of counsellors and psychotherapists, so that I can represent people who use counselling and psychotherapy, and so that I can argue strongly for counselling and psychotherapy to be part of mental health services."
John made one of AGM's keynote speeches at our AGM entitled 'Who would I talk to a stranger?'. And he said: "I have had a long of time with a lot of experience with BACP in the past and I know it is an organisation that is evolving.
"I was really flattered to be asked to be a VP because, hopefully, it means I can be part of influencing some of that change."
David Weaver, BACP president, said: "We are delighted to welcome Nancy and John as vice-presidents, alongside Luciana Berger MP.
"In Luciana, Nancy and John we have three powerful and passionate voices on mental health issues.
"Nancy and John each have a long association with BACP and are passionate about the work we do, our members and the potential for the future.
"We know that counselling changes lives, and they share our commitment to making talking therapies available and accessible to the people who need them."
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On a quest to photograph and document the best in culture and fashion, Scott Schuman, blogger of The Sartorialist, drops by New York City's Meatpacking District to chat with world-class chef Jonathan Waxman, owner and chef at Barbuto.
Waxman's menu at Barbuto changes every day depending on what's fresh and in season; that approach to cooking seasonally is seen more commonly today, but at the time Waxman was training in Paris it was a ground-breaking concept. "When then when I was in Paris and I was going to school, I realized all around me were these chefs that were breaking the rules. They started thinking seasonally, huge thing. They stopped having menus that were good the whole year," he says.
Check out the video playlist above to discover chef Jonathan Waxman's approach to food and flavor.
What's Really in Chefs' Refrigerators?


On this Valentine's Day, we're going to be writing about college app essays and how you should absolutely, positively not in any way discuss your love life. You should also not discuss your love life in college interviews, with your teachers, or with your guidance counselor. Because you don't want your teachers or your guidance counselor writing about how all you do is talk about this boy or that girl in your letter of recommendation. If you write about a boyfriend or girlfriend in your college essay, you run the risk of a college admissions counselor gagging. Nobody wants to read about a sixteen year-old falling in love with the love of his or her life. It's great that you've fallen in love at such a young age — that's wonderful for you — but just avoid writing about it. Avoid talking about it.
It doesn't shed insight into who you are and what you're all about. It doesn't set you apart as unique. It doesn't demonstrate your intellectual curiosity and love of learning. Elle Woods didn't actually get into Harvard Law! So, whatever you do, make sure that your college essays don't revolve around a boy who has nice eyes or a great smile. Don't write about how another girl is cheer captain and you're on the bleachers (sorry, Taylor Swift). Nobody cares. Not your teachers. Not your guidance counselor. Not the admissions counselor reviewing your college application.
Happy Valentine's Day! But if you applied Regular Decision to colleges, don't send your regional admissions counselor a Valentine's Day card! Were you seriously thinking about doing that? Oy vey! If you were even considering doing it, we wonder what other mistakes you've made in the highly selective college admissions process!


Arrive Bhavnagar. On arrival check-in to the hotel. Later proceed for Palitana. The Palitana temples of Jainism are located on Shatrunjaya by the city of Palitana in Bhavnagar district Gujarat India. The city of the same name, known previously as Padliptapur, has been nicknamed "City of Temples". Shatrunjaya means a "Place of victory against inner enemies" or "which conquers inner enemies". Visit the main temple is reached by stepping up approx 3500 steps. It is said that 23 Tirthankaras (a human being who helps in achieving liberation and enlightenment). In the evening, visit Jain Museum and Handicraft Market of Palitana town. Later back to Bhavnagar. Overnight stay at the Hotel.
Today morning after breakfast proceed for Lothal & Velavadar. Lothal, literally "Mound of the Dead", It is the Harappan culture in India, allows the most insight into the story of the Indus Valley Civilization, its exuberant flight, and its tragic decay & also Roam the ruins. With the help of the local museum here, allow yourself to be trans- ported to an era 4,500 years ago, The artisans and crafts below, and the bustling dockyard that once reached out to the rest of the world. Later depart to Velavadar National Park at Velavadar, also known as Blackbuck National Park, is situated in the Bhavnagar District of Gujarat state. Flat land, dry grasses & Herds of Antelope and blackbuck, wolf, lesser florican has been sustained here. Migratory birds arrive like three species of harriers, lesser florican, eagles, waders and other water birds. Overnight stay at hotel.
• 03 Days Private AC Vehicle (INDIGO/INNOVA) on disposal from "Bhavnagar to Bhavnagar" for Sightseeing & Transfers as per the itinerary.
• Jeep Safari Charges at Velavadar.
• Jeep Safari at Velavadar Park Tentative Charges = Jeep Charges - Rs. 3000/- & Other Charges for Indian = Entrance Fees Per Adult Rs.50/-, Jeep/Car Entrance Rs. 500/-, Guide Rs. 300/- & Per Camera Rs. 200/-Tentative. Tentative Charges for Foreign Tourist = Entrance Fees Per Adult 6 US$, Jeep/Car Entrance = 50 US$, Guide 10 US$, & Per Camera 20 US$), Which Is Not Included in This Package.


The Double Decker Dance Band plays afro-pop, reggae, and other dance music. It's led by Liberian-born songwriter, singer, guitarist, and keyboard player Joseph Paye and also includes drummer Matt McLaren, guitarist Chris Monti, bassist Scott Reber, keyboardist Jacob Haller, percussionist Elvys Ortiz, and singer Michelle Brown. They've backed up Sierra Leone sensation Steady Bongo and have opened for the Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars.


The magnetic drawing pad is erasable, so you can enjoy the book again and again!
Paw Patrol fans will love this Everest Backpack with an adorable 3D image of Everest on the front.
Paw Patrol fans will love this Marshal Backpack with an adorable 3D image of Marshal on the front.
Paw Patrol fans will love this Skye Backpack with an adorable 3D image of Skye on the front.
Paw Patrol fans will love this Skye Backpack with a striking image of all the Paw Patrol characters on the front.
The PAW Patrol Pup Pals Plush is a super cute and soft toy that any child will love.
Any young Paw Patrol fan will love this polar fleece blanket.
The kids will have a great time with these Paw Patrol sticker sheets.
Create great Paw Patrol scenes again and again!
Create great Paw Patrol scenes again and again with reusable stickers!
Create great Paw Patrol scenes again and again with their supply of over 700 stickers!
Box set contains three books featuring favourite Paw Patrol characters.