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namespace Microsoft.Azure.Management.DataFactory.Models
{
    using Microsoft.Rest;
    using Newtonsoft.Json;
    using System.Linq;

    /// <summary>
    /// Log location settings.
    /// </summary>
    public partial class LogLocationSettings
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the LogLocationSettings class.
        /// </summary>
        public LogLocationSettings()
        {
            LinkedServiceName = new LinkedServiceReference();
            CustomInit();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the LogLocationSettings class.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="linkedServiceName">Log storage linked service
        /// reference.</param>
        /// <param name="path">The path to storage for storing detailed logs of
        /// activity execution. Type: string (or Expression with resultType
        /// string).</param>
        public LogLocationSettings(LinkedServiceReference linkedServiceName, object path = default(object))
        {
            LinkedServiceName = linkedServiceName;
            Path = path;
            CustomInit();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// An initialization method that performs custom operations like setting defaults
        /// </summary>
        partial void CustomInit();

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets log storage linked service reference.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "linkedServiceName")]
        public LinkedServiceReference LinkedServiceName { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the path to storage for storing detailed logs of
        /// activity execution. Type: string (or Expression with resultType
        /// string).
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "path")]
        public object Path { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Validate the object.
        /// </summary>
        /// <exception cref="ValidationException">
        /// Thrown if validation fails
        /// </exception>
        public virtual void Validate()
        {
            if (LinkedServiceName == null)
            {
                throw new ValidationException(ValidationRules.CannotBeNull, "LinkedServiceName");
            }
            if (LinkedServiceName != null)
            {
                LinkedServiceName.Validate();
            }
        }
    }
}


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The search for an independent or parochial school's head or principal is one of the most intimidating tasks facing school communities and the boards that lead them. In addition to the complications inherent in an ordinary executive search—the annual employment cycle, the complex evaluation of the right "fit", the sticky issues of compensation and contracts—the pool of competent and available executive school leaders is shrinking.
Given the growing social, legal, and technological complexities of the head of school role, there are fewer and fewer emerging candidates who aspire to the head position. In a recent straw poll of independent school leadership students at Vanderbilt University, only 1/6 of the students surveyed saw headship as a possibility in their future.
Further exacerbating the talent shortage is the fact that the private school environment is a fractured collection of isolated professional networks that have little, if any, contact with one another. Many search firms (comprised mostly of non-educators) conduct head of school searches as only one of many executive searches they perform. They have little understanding of these networks or the complexity of the work that school leaders do, day in and day out.
The head of school position is the most complicated and tenuous position in PK-12 schooling. Over the past few decades the average tenure of heads has declined precipitously, to as low as four years. To combat high turnover rates and to ensure the value of our search services, BetterSchools embeds transition support as a critical element of every search.
We know from research and experience that the main contributor to leadership turnover is tension between heads and their boards. Our unique transition support service is designed to equip newly appointed heads with a firm base of support from and clear communication with their boards. Furthermore, the service delivers a set of mutually-agreed upon key metrics between newly appointed heads and their boards, metrics that define success for boards and job satisfaction for the heads they hire.
We Are Not Headhunters
We are a well-connected team of educational professionals and consultants who understand the daily realities of leading successful schools. We have a passion for independent school education and a commitment to see it thrive.
As a result of our leadership and scholarship, we are actively involved in a carefully constructed combination of school leadership networks. We don't connect to high quality leadership candidates and schools by showing up as vendors at conferences. We have unique credibility as thought leaders, authors, practitioners, and educational entrepreneurs. We represent and serve diverse constituency groups, from traditional parochial schools, to large independent faith-based schools, to innovative global curriculum schools, to market shaping classical schools.
We run in the same circles as the heads of school sought by leading schools. We don't just know "about" the people search committees are looking for. We know them.
Our job is to partner with school communities in the interest of establishing the framework, through an intentionally designed search and transition support system, for the next head of school's long-term impact. We believe that hiring the "wrong-body" is more dangerous than hiring "no-body", and we know how to position a school's key constituencies to work together toward strategically oriented success.
Even the most exacting search can end up in a placement that doesn't last. As we have watched searches and placements in private schools over the past 25 years, we've come to the conclusion that searching and screening is not enough. Personality and psycho-metric matching are not enough. Heads and boards, often coming to the table with widely varying perspectives on what's important in their schools, need more than help finding each other. They need help learning to live and work together.
We reject the notion that the all-too-common cycle of honeymoon—skepticism—cynicism—divorce should inevitably characterize board and head relationships. In our executive coaching work with sitting heads of school, we have discovered that re-framing the most important relationship on campus in goal-oriented terms can save a head's job and save a board from the arduous and expensive task of replacing him or her.
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BetterSchools engages directly with the board and the head, establishing a framework for institutional success. The heart of the process is a mutually considered set of four to eight near to mid-term strategic objectives. Our associate assists the board in determining its top areas of institutional growth or improvement for which the new head will be accountable. For a comparable fee to conventional head hunters, BetterSchools ensures a school's investment by facilitating an on-site goal-setting retreat and by scheduling monthly coaching calls with the board chair and newly appointed head of school.
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Weinstein Co. Board Members Targeted in Racketeering Class Action
The new case follows a similar action, which has stalled thanks to the bankruptcy of TWC.
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Bob Weinstein and other members of The Weinstein Company's board of directors have been hit with a new class action for allegedly facilitating Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct. The lawsuit filed on Friday in New York federal court appears to be an attempt to dodge the bankruptcy of The Weinstein Co., which is called an "unnamed co-conspirator" in the newest complaint.
Previously, six women led an attempted class action asserting racketeering against The Weinstein Co., Miramax and various individuals including James Dolan, chairman of The Madison Square Garden Company. Notably, the case was being handled by attorneys at Hagens Berman as well as M. Cris Armenta. Those same attorneys are now leading the new action against Miramax and TWC board members with new named plaintiffs including Caitlin Dulany, Larissa Gomes and Melissa Thompson.
According to the complaint (read here), Dulany met Harvey Weinstein in 1996 outside the Miramax office. Through the complaint, the aspiring actress says she "felt very lucky" at the time but later was "sexually assaulted, battered, threatened and falsely imprisoned… in his Miramax hotel suite at the Cannes Film Festival."
Gomes, a Canadian citizen who was looking for opportunities in Miramax films, alleges she was imprisoned by Weinstein in a hotel room and assaulted.
Thompson alleges she pitched a new technology platform for marketing TWC films in 2011 and was sexually harassed and subsequently assaulted.
"Moreover, in October 2017, Weinstein's attorneys, Benjamin Brafman and Alex Spiro, used deceptive tactics to cause her to believe that Brafman and Spiro were working for the victims in order to entice her to turn over her visual and audio evidence of Weinstein's actions (which she did)," states the complaint. "She did not learn that Brafman was actually Weinstein's attorney until after turning over the evidence in her possession, causing her credible fear for her safety, severe emotional distress and injury to her business and property."
Brafman isn't a co-defendant, but his law firm is among those listed as "Law Firm Participants" in the "Weinstein Sexual Enterprise" that allegedly violated the RICO law. Others include Boies Schiller Flexner; K&L Gates; and BCL Burton Copeland. The complaint also has a section for "Journalist Participants," mentioning Dylan Howard at American Media Inc.
(K&L Gates says it has never represented Weinstein or any entity concerning investigations related to Weinstein. Spiro responds, "I never have and I never would represent Harvey Weinstein, and, in fact, I represent one of hte key victims, but Ms. Thompson has never been a client.)
The case could first explore whether the action was properly brought in court.
The attorneys in the prior class action have asked the bankruptcy judge for relief from an automatic stay that is imposed on civil litigation upon the filing of a company's bankruptcy.
The Weintein Company has been opposing the motion.
"They request relief from the automatic stay imposed by the Bankruptcy Code to pursue — from start to finish — their broad 'casting couch' class action litigation, asserting 14 separate causes of action against The Weinstein Company Holdings LLC, Harvey Weinstein, nine other current and former directors of TWCH and various Miramar companies," stated TWC's lawyers on May 24. "That litigation is still in its infancy. As such, the relief Movants seek would subject the Debtors to briefing on motions to dismiss, extensive document requests, depositions and other fact and expert discovery, class certification proceedings, pre-trial motion practice and a full trial on the merits — all while the Debtors simultaneously try to preserve what value remains in the estate, close the sale of substantially all of their assets and establish a plan of liquidation for the benefit of Movants and all other creditors."
Attorneys for the six women replied today in court and questioned whether the debtor was living up to its public pledge to take victims' injuries seriously.
"They have fallen far short of that pledge and instead have seized every opportunity to thwart, silence and shut down the victims in an attempt to discredit their interests and voices," stated court papers. "The Debtors' objection to the Motion for Relief is the most recent example that the Debtors continue to refuse to take the claims of the Movants — Mr. Weinstein's victims — seriously, mockingly referring to the Geiss Litigation as a 'casting couch' class action litigation."
The Delaware bankruptcy judge has yet to rule, but now the attorneys at Hagens Berman have moved ahead with a new lawsuit with different named plaintiffs but largely the same type of claims.
The complaint begins, "The proverbial 'casting couch' was Harvey Weinstein's office of choice, a choice facilitated and condoned by Miramax, The Weinstein Company and its Board of Directors. Plaintiffs, and hundreds of other females like them, found themselves with Weinstein on the casting couch at offices, in hotel rooms, in his homes or in rooms at industry functions. Under the guise of meetings ostensibly to help further Plaintiffs' careers, or to hire them, or to make a business deal with them, or to socialize at industry events, Weinstein isolated Plaintiffs and Class members in an attempt to engage in unwanted sexual conduct that took many forms: flashing, groping, fondling, harassing, battering, false imprisonment, sexual assault, attempted rape, and/or completed rape."
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The focus of the project "Equal Quality in Construction and Vehicle VET" (EQVET) is to create educational tools which educate labour force whose skills and competences meet the needs of labour market in the 21st century.
EQVET will expand previous experience of partners' current needs to increase the quality in VET teaching and mobility in construction and vehicle vocational fields. 4 partners of this application are the same as in LLP TOI project STEVTA where five countries compiled common UNITs and the assessment forms.
1) Students/graduates of VET schools need better quality training – better competencies to meet the real working life needs (situations and tasks need to be solved in work situation).
3) The learning outcomes (LO)-based curricula are quite new for all EU VET schools and teaching/assessment in this framework is complicated for teachers and tutors, but also students.
In partner countries there is a lack of complex teaching and learning exercises as problem based training tasks, which cover and integrate professional and key competences and allow the assessment of several LOs within one task. The situation with such materials vary in different countries: for EE, LT and CR there is no supporting materials prepared in national level, teachers in VET schools are the main designers of such tasks. In DE and DK the curriculum is supported also with training tasks on paper-based books, but the shortage is use of ICT elements and teachers should still provide additional tasks to their students. In ES the schools use lot of ICT based elements like BIM (Building Information Modeling) etc.
There is a great need to integrate all training materials with ICT skills – as according to the entrepreneurs the qualified staff needs much more ICT skills and knowledge then it is set today in VET curricula. Unfortunately teachers of VET schools do not have enough competencies to prepare such kind of training tasks/exercises which include several learning outcomes by implementing one complex task. That's why the training of trainers and methodological support is needed.
4) One reason why the high quality of WBL or acquisition of all LO's is not easy to achieve is that for the company tutors it is hard to guarantee the achievement of LO's as the work in certain company may not offer the possibility to practice all tasks. By using complex exercises in addition to everyday working situation will cover this gap.
2) to create problem-based complex training and assessment exercises. These complex teaching /learning /assessment materials should cover vocational competencies together with key competencies (communication in the mother tongue and in foreign languages; mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology; digital competence; learning to learn; social and civic competences; sense of initiative and entrepreneurship; cultural awareness and expression). These complex exercises should be problem-based and inter-cultural (valid for all partner-countries).
These complex tasks would be available in all partner languages electronically and downloadable. This material could include videos, elements of e-learning, links to different software programs etc. These will be based on Moodle or other internet or cloud-based environment. This material will be available for all VET schools in partner countries.
The European Commission support for the production of this training material does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.


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EconomyIn The News
Interactive Map: How Fragile Are The Worlds Major Cities
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The world is urbanizing at a breakneck pace. But not all regions are moving at the same speed. Most population growth today and tomorrow will occur in the sprawling cities and slums of Africa and Asia. Just three countries — China, India and Nigeria — will account for 40% of global growth over the next decade. Meanwhile, many cities in North America and Western Europe are actually shrinking.
The pace of this urban revolution is mesmerizing. Just 3% of the world's population lived in cities in the early 1800s, compared to over 50% today. Yet future urbanization will take place not only in megacities, but in small and medium-sized cities of the Global South. There are tremendous opportunities in these fast-growing settings, but also unsettling risks. Some cities are especially susceptible to insecurity.
All cities are fragile. The intensity of their fragility, however, varies considerably across time and space. Some cities – Aleppo, Caracas, Kabul, or Mogadishu – are affected by acute fragility and are close to collapse. Others – Abuja, Baltimore, Dhaka, and San Salvador – are also at risk, albeit to a lesser degree. Even cities like Amsterdam, London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo are not immune.
Fragility occurs when city authorities are unable or unwilling to deliver basic services to citizens. It is triggered by a rupture of a city's social contract. So what tips cities over? The intensity of fragility is conditioned by an accumulation of risks. And some risks – the pace of urbanization, income and social inequality, youth unemployment, homicidal and criminal violence, poor access to key services, and exposure to climate threats – are more serious than others.
Which cities are most fragile? This straight-forward question is surprisingly hard to answer. Part of the problem is that there is no agreed definition of what constitutes a city. More fundamentally, there is a shocking paucity of data on the vast majority of the world's cities. While there are dozens of think tanks and private firms that claim to gather data on cities, their geographic coverage is surprisingly thin.
Today's debate on cities is limited to the world's 30-odd megacities and the 600 cities driving international economic growth. They've expanded with dizzying speed: these cities constitute a new layer of global governance. Yet there is virtually no discussion about what is happening in the other roughly 3,400 cities with over 100,000 residents. And there is a veritable silence about the other 50,000 cities and urban localities around the world. This is worrying because it is cities whose names you've never heard of that will shape the future.
Read this full paper: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/02/how-fragile-are-our-cities/
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OHL Writers
KNIGHTS' CONNOR MCMICHAEL NAMED OHL 'ON THE RUN' PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Posted on September 30, 2019 by Dominic Tiano
Toronto, Ont. – The Ontario Hockey League today announced that Washington Capitals prospect Connor McMichael of the London Knights is the OHL 'On the Run' Player of the Week for the week of regular season action ending September 29 with five goals, two assists and seven points over two games with a plus/minus rating of plus-3.
• HIGHLIGHTS: McMichael scores twice in win over Otters
• HIGHLIGHTS: McMichael's five point night fuels Knights
McMichael recorded a pair of multi-point performances as the Knights recovered from a slow start to win both of their weekend matchups. The 6-foot, 181Ib. centre produced a two-goal effort on Friday as the Knights scored their first victory of the season in a 6-2 triumph over the visiting Erie Otters. McMichael recorded five shots on goal in the game and went 10-for-14 in the faceoff circle, book-ending London's scoring with goals in the first and third periods. He proceeded to register a career-high five points in Saturday's 7-3 road win over his former club, the Hamilton Bulldogs. McMichael recorded his second career OHL hat-trick along with two assists, capping his trio with a shorthanded goal beyond the midway point of the third period.
An 18-year-old from Ajax, Ont., McMichael receives Player of the Week honours for the first time in his OHL career. The first round (25th overall) pick of the Washington Capitals in this past summer's NHL Draft currently leads the league with seven goals to go with 10 points through four contests. He put up 72 points (36-36–72) over 67 games with the Knights last season and was originally a first round (11th overall) pick of the Hamilton Bulldogs in the 2017 OHL Priority Selection from the Ajax-Pickering Raiders Minor Midgets.
Also considered for the award this week was Saginaw Spirit 19-year-old defenceman Ilya Solovyov. The first-year blueliner from Belarus recorded an impressive five points (1-4–5) in Friday's 9-3 road win over the Sarnia Sting, finishing the weekend with eight points (1-7–8) over three contests as the Spirit went 2-1. Owen Sound Attack winger Sergey Popov also received consideration, recording six points (1-5–6) in a 10-0 win over the Barrie Colts on Thursday before finishing the weekend with seven points (1-6–7) as the Bears went 2-1.
2019-20 OHL 'On the Run' Players of the Week – Regular Season:
Sept. 26 – Sept. 29: Connor McMichael (London Knights)
Sept. 19 – Sept. 22: Semyon Der-Arguchintsev (Peterborough Petes)
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Aden Keefer is a great example of the many kids of motocross families that come out to race the Transworld Race Series. The son of Kris Keefer, a well known test rider and pro racer, he was in the pits with his family and friends as they all talked about the day's races when we stopped by. Aden was racing in his YZ85 in the Beginner 85/150F class and it was apparent that he had been working on his skills as he raced his motos. Aden had a very smooth corner style and a never-give-up attitude from the drop of the gate until the checkered flag flew.
How did your racing go today at the Terra Firma Series?
The first moto went alright, I got a terrible start but kept going as best as I could and was about 5th on the last lap but then I landed on another kid that swapped out in front me and I went down. I got back up and finished the race and ended up in 6th. In the second moto I had a terrible start again, but I made my way through the pack and got 5th.
How do you like racing the Transworld Race Series?
They are pretty fun, there are some pretty fast kids out here and some good competition. I like having competition so that is one thing I like.
How did you get started riding and racing motocross?
I got started racing dirt bikes because of my dad, he races and then I wanted to race, so one day I hopped on a KX65 and went out to a Transworld race here at Sunrise, just like today, and did pretty good.
Why do you like motocross compared to all the other sports you could play?
I like the competition and I also like working with my dad a lot. I also really just like two wheels, going fast and I like to jump. It is pretty fun for me.
Would you like to be a professional racer like your dad some day?
Oh yes! For sure! For sure. I don't want to be a football player, I'd much rather be a motocross racer.
What other activities do you have besides motocross?
I like to play football, and also go to school. I also like to ride my scooter and hoverboard too.
Do you have a lot of friends that you ride and race with?
I do sometimes, otherwise I am by myself and I just focus on my own racing and not other kids. I just want to do good and win.
Do you do any kind of training to help you with your racing?
I work out sometimes with my dad, I sometimes go for a run after school. I also come to the track and we work on riding ruts and cornering. I also have a rower and I do some rowing, so that's all the things I do.
Do you spend a lot of time with your dad working on your skills and technique?
Yes, he works with me from time to time, I will be out doing motos and he will pull me over and tell me that I am doing this or that wrong, so I will go correct it and work on it, and then I will go back to doing my motos.
Who is your favorite supercross or motocross racer?
That is a tough question, I would have to say Ken Roczen. He is a fast rider and he has good technique and I like to watch him ride. I like to try to use the same technique that he does when I ride.


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Liposomes are highly complex microscopic liquid spheres, 1/50th the diameter of a human hair. They encapsulate water and the chosen active ingredient inside a highly purified lecithin membrane. The liposome traps the nutient in multiple layers and unravels like an onion, releasing the nutrient over an extended period of time.
Carrying a nutrient within a liposome also makes it more lipophilic- enhancing the nutrient's bioavailability dramatically. The liposomes are delivered under the tongue, via a sublingual oral spray, known as a Lipoceutical. This method delivers the majority of the nutrient directly through the mucosal membrane, so a greater amount of the nutrient reaches the bloodstream.


The Gerontologist (one of the top journals in ageing research) has published a recent paper by MICRA's Tine Buffel. Tine's paper reports on an innovative methodology of co-production involving older people as co-researchers to develop age-friendly communities. Evaluating the potential and limitations of co-research with older people has become an important task for social gerontology, especially given the support for co-production that now exists within funding bodies and policy organisations.
The paper explains how a group of eighteen older adults were recruited and trained as co-researchers to take a leading role in a study aimed at developing 'age-friendly' communities in the Manchester area. This group of co-researchers completed 68 interviews with residents aged 60 and over who were experiencing isolation within their neighbourhood. The study takes into account that although increasing amounts of evidence suggest that co- or peer-research can contribute to understanding the complex health and social problems experienced in later life, only a limited number of studies have actually involved older people as co-researchers in this way, or if they have that their views have tended to be ignored. This paper draws upon the experiences of these older people trained to undertake a community-based research project and assigns them a leading role in developing, delivering, and disseminating the study.
The findings highlight the importance of a comprehensive training and learning program for developing research skills and addressing the ethical, methodological and practical issues involved in co-research methodology. They also present co-research as an effective method for accessing and incorporating the views of marginalized groups.
You can read the full paper.


THE 2017/2018 Championship home shirt is now available for supporters in all sizes.
From babies through to 5XL, the new-look shirt, designed by Burton company TAG, is available to buy.
Adult shirts will sport the Tempobet logo, for junior shirts it will be Burton Albion Cmmunity Trust.
Home shirts are priced at £39.99 for adults, £37.99 for XL junior and large junior, medium junior £28.99 and £22.50 for 0-6 months, 1-2 years, 2-3 years.
The new Burton Albion training tops are available in youth sizes and adult sizes and are priced at £24.00. The training bottoms are available at £28.00.
Club coats are available for supporters too priced at £35.00. For all you keen cyclists, we even have a Burton Albion cycling jersey.


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Be an apprentice
Kevin Lynes Apprenticeship Scheme
The Kevin Lynes Apprenticeship Scheme provides financial support, or just a simple bursary to help with travel, clothing and equipment for those who might otherwise be unable to take up an apprenticeship opportunity.
To be eligible, applicants need to be:
Kent residents
aged between 16 and 24 years old
already have a provisional offer or endorsement of an apprenticeship or other work based training
not in employment
from a low income household (on a means-tested benefit such as Income Support, Income -based Job Seekers Allowance, Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Pension Credit, Housing Benefit, Council Tax Support or Working Tax Credit).
If you are looking for an apprenticeship go to the Apprentice Kent website.
To apply for support please fill in an application form.
Once submitted, we will contact you within 10 working days to discuss your application in more detail.
Board decision
The board will consider all applications and a decision will be made within 10 days.
If you would like to donate to the charity please email KLAS@kent.gov.uk to talk about making a donation, or post a cheque, payable to KLAS to Sessions House, County Hall, Maidstone, ME14 1QX.
Kevin Lynes, who was KCC Cabinet member for regeneration and economic development, died in March 2012, this charity, set up in the memory of Kevin Lynes, is to support young people in Kent.
Before Kevin sadly passed away, he had added so much to the lives of many people around him. He encouraged many Kent businesses to flourish under the banner of Backing Kent Business, and was passionate about enabling young people who he saw as the future entrepreneurs and saviours of this country.
He was particularly keen on young people accessing apprenticeships and on making sure a quality workforce stayed within Kent. Kevin recognised that supporting the Kent economy was a top priority for future progress and that young people were the key. Kevin's enthusiasm for engaging with young people was limitless. He was always among the first to offer a placement or work shadowing opportunity. It seems therefore fitting that Kevin's legacy should be a fund that benefits young people.


Most of our time was spent on digging out a base for the shed and squaring off the base to be within the lot line restrictions. There are better methods such as use of batten boards that would have made this much easier.
Ice and water shield is extremely sticky and requires two people for proper installation otherwise shoe laces, leg hair and anything else you value might experience some abnormal wear and tear.
Building walls and standing them up, requires more than two people to complete with any degree of accuracy.


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Timeless Treasures of Udon Thani
Situated in northeastern Thailand, the regional hub of Udon Thani – or Udon for short – was once a sleepy, far-flung provincial town until it became a major USAF airbase during the Vietnam War. It has since grown into a multiculturally-diverse base you see today, home to one of the largest expat populations in Thailand.
Some of Udon's best attractions lie just beyond the city, ranging from ruins of ancient civilisations and caves to the otherworldly red lotus lake.
Udon is home to one of the world's earliest bronze-age civilisations, at Ban Chiang. Here you'll see archaeological evidence of prehistoric settlements that existed between 2100BC and 200AD. This UNESCO site contains burial remains of more than 300 skeletons, earthenware pottery and bronze fragments. Nearby is Wat Pho Sri Nai, an open-air museum featuring archaeological excavation pits where you'll see skeletons and pottery as they once were buried thousands of years ago.
At Phu Phra Baht Historical Park in Ban Phue, there are sandstone caves, caverns, Bronze-age cave paintings, as well as dinosaur footprints and Buddhist structures. The park has a nature trail roughly 2km long, where you can explore all of its attractions. This historical park dates back more than three thousand years, and it's particularly known for its mysterious rock formations – which include rocks balanced precariously on top of each other – around which religious shrines have been constructed. The most significant shrine is the Wat Phra Putthabaht Bua Bok, where a Lao-style chedi enshrines Buddha's footprint. There is a temple fair and celebration to pay homage to the shrine every March.
There are also prehistoric rock paintings, some dating back 6,000 years, that can be found in natural shelters – at Tham Wua you can find paintings of oxen, while at Tham Kho you can see human figures.
Erawan Cave is situated in an imposing limestone outcrop where a winding scenic climb (over 600 concrete steps) takes you to a giant Buddha statue and the entrance to the temple cave. As it's a sacred site, the cave's stalagmite and stalactite formations are decorated with temple artefacts. There are more stairs within the cave, taking you through the entire length of the cave. At the deepest point of the cave, more stairs lead to a large opening on the outer wall where a wooden platform offers a spectacular view of the surrounding nature.
In Kumphawapi, an hour from Udon Thani, lies the spectacular Talay Bua Daeng, or Red Lotus Sea, a lake that is home to millions of floating hot pink lotus flowers. While it may not look like much from the lake's edge, a boat ride (45-90 mins) can take you through this flowery highway to the centre of the lake where you'll find yourself surrounded by an unending sea of pink flowers.
The blooms are seasonal and best observed between the beginning of December to the end of February, and the best time to observe them is in the morning when it is cooler (the flowers close when the sun is hottest). The lake is also dotted with a few small islands, which are home to Buddha statues, shrines, and pagodas.
Udon Thani has regular flights to and from Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Hat Yai, and Phuket; it's also accessible by train from the capital.


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The Colombian photographer who finds the "beautiful" side of everyone; if he sees you on the street, you can star in his works
The creator of content and photographer Sebastián Moreno is dedicated to portraying people who are on the street and those that he considers have style and dress in a very striking way.
In one of his latest videos, the tiktoker came across Edwin, a 23-year-old who was sitting on a platform in the La Castellana sector, in the north of Bogotá; there he asked her to let him take a picture and, meanwhile, he was finding out about his personal life.
In the middle of the questions and answers, Moreno gave him several compliments that were recorded in his video: "The guy is pretty, you have to admit, and he's sexy. […] You are very pretty. […] I think they keep an eye on you fed up, I kept an eye on you. […] What a handsome man, what a sexy man." were the repeated times that Moreno highlighted the beauty of the protagonist of his work.
During the talk, Edwin told him that he had a partner and that he was a lover of tattoos; He also told her that in order to "scratch" his body, he had to leave his house when he was 20 years old.
"On the street they look at me a lot because of my tattoos, my mom didn't accept it at first, but now she does," Edwin explained.
While the photo session was taking place, Moreno assured that none of his work is done with professional models and that he walks the streets looking for people who, in his opinion, register well and have a "good style."
Although the doubt about whether or not I compliment the protagonist of his most recent work, In another video, he made it clear that he treats all people that way, he also indicated that he has a wife and that this has not caused him problems.
"I have seen many comments asking me what my wife says about me treating people as 'pretty or pretty.' I treat everyone the same, because we are all pretty. You who are seeing this are beautiful. We're all cute." Moreno assured in the clip in which he photographed a young woman.
Tiktoker records how gang of thieving monkeys operates in India
On another shore, but also as a content generator, there are different content generators who travel the world recording their adventures and telling their followers the anecdotes they live in each of the destinations they visit; They usually show typical dishes, tourist places, strange customs and even give tips to those who want to visit those sites.
One of them is the tiktoker Camilo Duque, who on his trip to India decided to record a particular fact that affects tourists who come to Vrindavana town in the district of Mathurá, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, where not even the police have been able to prevent the thefts committed by a gang of monkeys.
In his story, the content generator, a travel expert, captured the story of this group of primates who, in addition to being fast and stealing from tourists, specialize in stealing glasses and cell phones. In addition, he explained in his videos that they extort walkers so that, in exchange for food, their belongings are returned to them.
"In the event that they take your cell phone or something valuable that they cannot eat, there are two options. One, that it will end up on a roof, or two, that they know, that it is something valuable to you and they exchange it for food, "Duque explained in his publication.
That was the first impression of the traveler on TikTok; however, he wanted to verify that everything they say about these little apes was not a lie and he put himself as bait. On his head he placed broken glasses and went right through where the monkeys attack.
It didn't take long for Duque to catch the attention of the monkeys and one of them approached him and tried to remove his glasses; At that moment, another tourist who saw what happened managed to scare away the 'thief', but since it is an organized gang that operates in a synchronized way, another ape jumped from the roof and managed to keep the loot.
At that moment and convinced that what they wanted was some food in exchange for returning the glasses, he offered them fruit, but this time the ape did not want to cooperate and decided to keep the treasure that he managed to snatch from Duque.
"It is somewhat curious because they remove them so precisely that I felt that something fell behind me, but I did not feel that I took off my glasses, that is, they are experts"added the content generator.
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I was very hesitant to introduce it to my class as I thought it was very "elementary" but my students really took an interest right away. I started off by playing the student introduction clip. Next we discussed what types of behaviors earn points vs. losing points. We spent a week just focusing on the positives so the class was able to see the types of points that earn points.
I had a particular student that was having difficulty staying on task and participating in a constructive way in our class. I had after class meetings, parent contacts, positive reinforcement, etc. with little to no success. When I introduced ClassDojo I could instantly see he was engaged and wanted to know how he could earn more "Dojo Points." From that day on he had his materials out and ready for class and has even stayed after to help put away books and other materials.
Another benefit to ClassDojo is I can now have evidence for students that reflect their citizenship grade. Before I would assign a grade to their citizenship because I thought they kinda-sorta-almost seemed like they were doing goodish in class… Now I can easily track those positive behaviors along with negative with evidence which can also serve as a talking point for parent contacts. Each week students can reflect on their behavior and set goals for the next.
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Straight Guys of Reddit Shared Their Most Intimate Same-Sex Experiences, and Well, We're Shook
Written by Matt Keeley on September 12, 2018
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Recently on r/AskReddit, u/Megapumpkin asked "Straight guys of Reddit, what's the most intimate moment you had with another guy?" Many of the answers were heartfelt, but some had a serious tinge of sadness — we're devastated that people felt some of these very real emotions had to be "hidden" lest they be seen as gay.
The Reddit thread combined hilarious stories with more touching revelations. This beautiful story comes from u/tinsinpindelton:
My mom attempted suicide years ago. She was hospitalized for a month. I thought I could handle it but a week or two after it happened, I got into a fight with my girlfriend at a party and started crying. I couldn't stop. I totally unraveled in a friend's kitchen. My best friend put me in his car and we drove around while I sobbed uncontrollably. I've never been more emotionally unstable. He didn't talk, he just drove around. Then he dropped me off at home. I felt so much better. He never even brings it up to this day.
It's unfortunate that many straight guys feel their most intimate moment with another guy should be kept secret or is shameful
Redditor u/svd1399 had this to say when asked about his most intimate moment:
My fraternity brother/roommate was having a bad day. We were all drinking but he clearly had the most and texted an ex, so I brought him back to our room to keep an eye on him. He got real sad and started crying, except he was insecure about his masculinity so he would cry for a few minutes about how he felt around other guys, then deny that he felt like that and this cycle would repeat every five minutes.
Finally I broke through to him that feeling like this was completely fine and actually good (better acknowledging than hiding it). I held him in my arms while he weeped for about half an hour. He kept trying to push back because his every instinct was telling him that this wasn't OK, but I just shushed him and rubbed his back as I held him. He eventually calmed down and went to bed. That happened two weeks ago and we haven't talked about it yet, but I'm glad he trusted me, and hope he seeks me out if he's feeling that way again.
Though those are both stories of people being there for each other, one recurring theme was people feeling awkward about it. For example, u/Wompingsnatterpuss shared his most intimate moment:
Talking another guy out of suicide. He just needed someone to listen. We hugged for a solid 30 seconds and he sobbed into my chest. Awkward looking back, but in the moment he needed it.
Why should that be awkward? As he says, the guy needed it. It's sad when sharing an intimate moment is awkward because of perceived masculinity issues. This is exactly what we talk about when we say that toxic masculinity hurts everyone. There is no shame in loving another person, helping another person or being there for another person, especially when they need you most.
Toxic masculinity is the culprit behind many guys keeping these 'most intimate moment' stories a secret
Though that one was pretty heavy, one of the funnier stories was u/MonsieurMagnet's 'most intimate moment' story that happened on his way to Japan. He was playing a fighting game, while nearby was a man playing the same game and getting perfect scores. As MonsieurMagnet puts it:
I was struggling to even get past the first stage, and this guy notices. So he stops playing his game, takes his hands, gently put them over mine, and moves my hands and pushes my fingers so I can learn how to do combos with the characters. I look into his eyes, laughing out of the absurdity of what this man was doing. He smiles at me, and goes back to his game. I'm straight but gay for that guy.
Even the funnier, happier 'most intimate moment' stories feel the sting of toxic masculinity. The thread is peppered with "no homo" jokes. And while many of these Reddit writers intend it as a punchline, it just comes off as a sad, insecure button on an otherwise amusing story.
But one of our favorite stories, from u/miatapasta, scraps the homophobia head on. He writes:
I had a girlfriend in 9th grade who, upon breaking up, told everyone I was gay. This one dude later on comes up and introduces himself under the pretense "I heard you were gay." Explained he was mistaken but we could still be friends. I'm 27 now and he's my best friend, lol. I got a divorce and bought a house and invited him to be my roommate.
Miatapasta, you and your BFF are awesome. We wish you years of (platonic) love.
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HomeEnglishWhat is English ? And Importance Of English In Our Daily Life
What is English ? And Importance Of English In Our Daily Life
*What is English ?
1. Value of English :-
Language is the media of communication through which we express our feelings. Different languages are used in different parts of the world. English is one of them. It has achieved the value of international language. If we know our mother language, we can move all over our state easily, If we know Hindi we can move all over India eaisly, But If we know English Language,we can move all over the world eaisly.
2. Use and Value of English in India :-
English is Foreign language, which was interduced in India by Lord Machale. It is considered as second language in Indian Courses of study. It helps to unite the world people in one thread of communication. Now a day's, it has been playing a vital role in every sphere of Education Sector and Service Sectors.
3. Value of English in Modern Age :-
In this modern age, modern Man dreams to be Scientifically devloped by which the Word will be within our reach. So English is very essential for the preparation of Scientific procedure. It is mostly used in operation of different machineries and electronics devices. It unites the people of different nations Politically, Commercially, Economically & Socially. So English has a great value which can't be denied and we have to learn it heartly with a great interest.
When we talk about English,we often think of it as a single languagebut what do the dialects spokenin dozens of countries around the worldhave in common with each other,or with the writings of Chaucer?And how are any of them relatedto the strange words in Beowulf?The answer is that like most languages,English has evolved through generations of speakers,undergoing major changes over time.
By undoing these changes,we can trace the language from the present dayback to its ancient roots.While modern English shares many similar wordswith Latin-derived romance languages,like French and Spanish,most of those words were not originally part of it.Instead, they started coming into the languagewith the Norman invasion of England in 1066.When the French-speaking Normansconquered Englandand became its ruling class,they brought their speech with them,adding a massive amount of French and Latin vocabularyto the English language previously spoken there.Today, we call that language Old English.This is the language of Beowulf.It probably doesn't look very familiar,but it might be more recognizableif you know some German.That's because Old Englishbelongs to the Germanic language family,first brought to the British Islesin the 5th and 6th centuriesby the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.The Germanic dialects they spoke wouldbecome known as Anglo-Saxon.Viking invaders in the 8th to 11th centuriesadded more borrowings from Old Norse into the mix.
It may be hard to see the rootsof modern Englishunderneath all the words borrowedfrom French, Latin, Old Norse and other languages.But comparative linguistics can help usby focusing on grammatical structure,patterns of sound changes,and certain core vocabulary.For example, after the 6th century,German words starting with "p,"systematically shifted to a "pf" soundwhile their Old English counterpartskept the "p" unchanged.In another split, words that have "sk" sounds in Swedishdeveloped an "sh" sound in English.There are still some English words with "sk,"like "skirt," and "skull,"but they're direct borrowings from Old Norsethat came after the "sk" to "sh" shift.These examples show usthat just as the various Romance languagesdescended from Latin,English, Swedish, German, and many other languagesdescended from their own common ancestorknown as Proto-Germanicspoken around 500 B.C.E.Because this historical languagewas never written down,we can only reconstruct it by comparing its descendants,which is possible thanks to the consistency of the changes.We can even use the same processto go back one step further,and trace the origins of Proto-Germanicto a language called Proto-Indo-European,spoken about 6000 years agoon the Pontic steppe in modern day Ukraine and Russia.
This is the reconstructed ancestorof the Indo-European familythat includes nearly all languageshistorically spoken in Europe,as well as large parts of Southernand Western Asia.And though it requires a bit more work,we can find the same systematic similarities, or correspondences,between related words in differentIndo-European branches.Comparing English with Latin,we see that English has "t" where Latin has "d",and "f" where latin has "p"at the start of words.Some of English's more distant relativesinclude Hindi, Persianand the Celtic languages it displacedin what is now Britain.Proto-Indo-European itself descendedfrom an even more ancient language,but unfortunately, this is as far backas historical and archeological evidencewill allow us to go.Many mysteries remain just out of reach,such as whether there might be a linkbetween Indo-Europeanand other major language families,and the nature of the languages spokenin Europe prior to its arrival.But the amazing fact remains that nearly3 billion people around the world,many of whom cannot understand each other,are nevertheless speaking the same wordsshaped by 6000 years of history.


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These two unique fruits could be uncommon nevertheless it's good for the physique. So, get them on your subsequent recipe. Give these fruits artistic justification, too. The implausible fruits will not at all give up supplying you with the right vitamins you wanted. So, get refreshed, renewed and look higher with these incredible tasting dragon fruit and horned melon.
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Asian Online Recipes (Food Glossary)
Aburage This is a Japanese-style fried bean curd which is unlike the Chinese type which comes in cubes, aburage is prepared in thin sheets, square or rectangular, and is sold frozen. It can be kept frozen for months if kept properly.
Agar-agar Made from seaweed. Very widely used throughout Asia, for it sets without refrigeration. Available in powder form from chemists or in packets from Chinese grocers or health food stores. It is also sold in strands. Gelatine can be substituted, but texture will be different and the amount used varies.
Ajowan Of the same family as parsley and cummin, the seeds look like parsley or celery seeds, but have the flavor of thyme. It is used in Indian cooking, particularly in lentil dishes that provide the protein in vegetarian diets, both as a flavoring and as a carminative. It is one of the seeds used to flavor the crisp-fried snacks made from lentil flour.
All Spice Allspice is the dried, unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, an evergreen tree in the myrtle family. After drying, the berries are small, dark brown balls just a little larger than peppercorns.
Amchur Green mango that has been dried, usually available in powder form. Used as an acid flavoring ingredient in Indian cooking.
Annatto Seeds These small red-brown seeds also known as achuete are used in Filipino cooking for their strong color. They come from a small flowering tree native to Central and South America which was introduced into the Philippines by Spanish traders. Annatto seeds are also used by the Chinese to color barbecued pork. Substitute paprika and turmeric in given amounts.
Anise Seed Anise Seed is a graybrown oval seed from Pimpinella anisum, a plant in the parsley family. It is related to caraway, dill, cumin, and fennel.
Aromatic Ginger see galangal
Arrowroot Used for thickening sauces and not for flavoring. Should be used at the very end of cooking, since unlike other thikerners such as cornstarch, it will break down after about 10 minutes.
Asafoetida A hard resinous gum, grayish white in color when fresh. Will darken with age to yellow, red and eventually brown. It is normally sold in blocks or pieces as a gum and more frequently as a fine yellow powder. Sometimes sold in crystalline or granulated form. It has a pungent smell of rotting onions or sulfur but will dissipates with cooking. On its own, it is extremely unpleasant like concentrated rotten garlic. However when cooked, it adds an onion-like flavor to the dish.
Atta Fine wholemeal flour popularly used in making Indian flat breads. As a substitute for fine wholemeal sold in health food stores. Can bought from stores specializing in Asian foods.
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Today's popular birthday list for April 22, 2022 includes celebrities Jack Nicholson, Machine Gun Kelly
Birthday wishes go to Jack Nicholson, Machine Gun Kelly and all the other celebrities with their birthdays today. Check out the slideshow below to see photos of celebrities getting a year older on April 22nd and learn an interesting fact about each of them.
Celebrity birthdays on April 22, 2022
Actors Lauren Nicholson and Jack Nicholson attend an NBA basketball game on Wednesday, November 29, 2017, in Los Angeles. The Golden State Warriors won 127-123 in overtime. (AP Photo/Ringo HW Chiu)AP
Actor Jack Nicholson is 85 years old
Fun Fact: He's been nominated 12 times for Oscars
Director John Waters attends the Film Society's 50th Anniversary Gala at Lincoln Center in Alice Tully Hall on Monday, April 29, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)Ivan Agostini / Invision / AP
Director John Waters is 76 years old
Fun fact: She appeared in an episode of The Marvelous Mrs.Masel earlier this year
Peter Frampton performs on stage at the Ameris Bank Theater, Sunday, August 11, 2019, in Alpharetta, Georgia (Photo by Paul R. Giunta/Invision/AP)Paul R. Giunta / Invision / AP
Singer Peter Frampton is 72 years old
Fun Fact: He attended the same art school as David Bowie
FILE – In this file photo Wednesday, May 12, 2021, Cleveland Indians coach Terry Francona, center, celebrates with Amed Rosario (1) and James Karinczak (99) after beating the Chicago Cubs 2-1 in 10 rounds of a baseball game in Cleveland. India coach Terry Francona is confident that he will return next season after missing most of the past two seasons due to serious health issues. Francona was forced away from the club in late July to undergo surgeries on his hip and big toe (AP Photo/Ron Schwane, File)AP
Terry Francona, guard manager, is 63
Fun fact: I became the Cleveland franchise's all-time leader in victories as last year's manager
FILE – In this Sept. 27, 2018, file photo, left to right, Norman Reedus, Andrew Lincoln, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan arrive at the Los Angeles premiere of season 9 of their show "The Walking Dead" in Los Angeles. The network behind the show, which has become synonymous with Georgia, says it will reassess its activism in the state if the new abortion law goes into effect. The success of The Walking Dead attracted steady flows of tourists to the Georgia cities where it was filmed. A statement from AMC Networks describes abortion legislation as "highly restrictive" and says it will keep a close eye on what may be a "long and complex battle" over the law. Georgia's ban on nearly all abortions will take effect next year if it is not outlawed in the courts. (Photo by Willie Sanjuan/Invision/AP, file)Willy Sanjuan / Invision / AP
Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan is 56 years old
Fun fact: Before Grey's Anatomy, he once appeared on an episode of ER as a firefighter
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Actress Amber Heard is 36 years old
Fun Fact: She once appeared as a younger version of Charlize Theron's character in 'North Country'
Megan Fox, left, sits next to Machine Gun Kelly Stadium as they watch the first half of the NBA All-Star basketball game, Sunday, February 20, 2022, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP
Rapper Machine Kelly is 32 years old
Fun fact: She got engaged to her friend Megan Fox earlier this year
Singer Mel Carter is 83 years old. The age of Singer Cliff Francis is 77. Singer Paul Karak (Squeeze, Mike The Mechanics) is 71 years old. Actor Joseph Bottoms is 68 years old. Actor Ryan Stills ("The Drew Carey Show") is 63. Comedian Byron Allen ("Real People") is 61 years old. Actor Chris Makepeace is 58 years old. Pennywise's guitarist Fletcher Dragge is 56. Actress Cheryl Lee ("Twin Peaks") is 55 years old. TV personality Sherri Shepherd ("The View") is 55 years old. Heath Wright from Ricochet is 55 years old. Country singer Kelly Coffey is 51 years old. Actor Eric Mabius ("Ugly Betty") is 51 years old. The age of Basset Chavo Udajian of System Down is 48. Singer and guitarist Daniel Jones of Silverchair is 43. Actor Malcolm Barrett (TV's "Timeless") is 42. Actor Cassidy Freeman (Longmire, "Smallville") is 40. Actor Zack Gottsagen ( The Peanut Butter Falcon) is 37. Drummer Tripp Howell of LANCO is 33.
Other popular or historical birthdays on April 22
Queen Isabella I, patroness of Christopher Columbus
Nikolai Lenin, Russian Prime Minister
Robert Oppenheimer, President of the Manhattan Project
Charlotte Ray, actress
Glenn Campbell, singer
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Q: Removing default shadow from search box I created a search box:
<form>
   <input type="search" class="search" placeholder="Search...">
</form>

The search button seems to have some kind of default inner shadow which I'd like to remove. This is how my CSS looks:
form
{
    float: right;
}

.search
{
    box-shadow: none;
    padding: 6px 14px 6px 30px;
    margin-top: 16px;
    background: url(../images/search.png) no-repeat 8px 6px;
}

The "box-shadow: none;" doesn't work, I also tried the "box-shadow: 0 0 0 0;" but that doesn't work either. How can I remove the shadow? Thank you in advance.

A: Update: Don't do this. The outline is good for accessibility.
Try outline: 0.  I think that you may also simply be referring to the default border.  Try updating the border to whatever is desirable such as 1px solid black
http://jsfiddle.net/smZPy/


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Amembranaster is een geslacht van zeesterren uit de familie Pterasteridae.

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 Amembranaster dimidatius Golotsvan, 1998

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The interviews will take no more than one hour. They can be conducted in-person, or via skype/phone.
If you live in and around Manchester, Birmingham, London or Brighton, we can meeting you in-person.
Contact us if you think you fit the criteria above (or you want to know more about the project): Gunjan Sondhi (gunjan.sondhi@open.ac.uk).


Interested in contributing to research regarding Adoption Disruption for MA degree?
My name is Clare Heyhoe and I am a counsellor. I am undertaking a research project on adoption breakdown as part of my Masters degree at Cambridge University, and I would like to invite anyone who has experienced adoption breakdown to talk to me about it and for me to hear your story.
I believe the impact, trauma and emotional cost of breakdown for adoptive families and children, is never truly understood or heard. I would like Local Authorities and Agencies to hear the voices of adoptive parents and their experiences, in order to try to prevent future breakdowns.
During March, when and where convenient for you – within Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire or Cambridgeshire if at all possible. It will be an informal, semi-structured interview, where I hope you will feel relaxed enough to talk to me.
All that you say will be confidential. Names will not be used and I will make sure you cannot be identified. I will need your consent to record our session(s) in order for me to analyse what you have said for the report. You will be able to read through these transcripts. You can change your mind about taking part at any time and leave the research project.
By talking about your experience, many mixed and possibly overwhelming emotions may be triggered. I offer empathy, warmth and am non-judgemental. I am also a member of the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists), bound by their ethical guidelines for research where well-being is paramount. I have ongoing supervision with Fiona Peacock, who is a BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor and a Certified Theraplay Therapist and Trainer.
If you are willing to take part, thinking about it, and/or have any questions, please can you get in touch with me at: clare.heyhoe@btinternet.com.
Thank you for reading this and hope you get in touch. Clare.
Claire – thank you for letting me do this.
Adoption Post Disruption – the story that refuses to go away….
This is a genuine email from someone who has contacted the website raising the same issue about adopting post disrupting. There is an extremely serious issue at heart here . Local Authorities will simply NOT allow a parent who has disrupted (post adoption order) to adopt again. However they will not say this to their face and follow the farcical procedures of pretending to examine them as a potential adopter again with the same end result – a series of reasons at the end of it why they may not. My local authority will simply not tell me how many adopters who disrupted have gone on to successfully adopt again – why not?
It must be a very easy figure to ascertain. They said I would have to pay the LA £450 for them to reveal this information. What a ridiculous response and an evident diversion away from the truth.
Adopting post disruption and treatment by LA's handling this subject is a human rights issue, and one that refuses to go away. Discrimination to protect themselves?
Contact me or share this story if you know someone willing to speak up and tell me about their positive second time round adoption story.
'however it seems we are now facing being discriminated against even though the breakdown was because of social services and not us.
I am really interested to investigate how many more adoptive parents have suffered discrimination once a disruption has taken place. It seems to me that the adoptive parents are made the scape goat for the social workers sheer incompetency.' Anonymous.
The message received loud and clear from parents who have contacted me via this website is that Social Services neglect, abandon, disown parents who have disrupted or wish to disrupt. Every single parent who has emailed me reports the exact same experience. This is a shocking FACT. Why do the SS fail parents at a time when support should not be greater? That is the bigger question – something to do with statistics? having to admit failure/poor representation of the child to start with – inadequate services/ poorly educated staff? Social Services distance themselves from parents almost immediately a disruption is on the cards and offer zero support; and instead go on the defensive, close rank and make sure that the parent accepts all the blame for the disruption. Authorities accept NO blame or failure in the adoption breakdown. The question we need to ask ourselves is what is wrong with Social Services and how a Dickensian organisation like this can purport to be on the side of children's best interests? Woe betide you ever fall short as a parent and end up the wrong side of the fence…. Parents who have experienced the tragedy of disruption are further traumatised by SS attitudes, the adoption disruption meetings and the Care Orders and are further more bamboozled by the Local authorities appalling internal formal complaints procedure, yet again designed to protect all those within the SS for their own internal miserable failures. Don't forget your human rights 'No one shall be subject to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to protection of the law against such interference or attacks' Declaration of Human Rights Article 12. Feel free to quote and repeat this next time SS blames you for the disruption in its entirety. As parents who have been through an adoption disruption trauma we need to collectively report our experiences and stand up and be counted without cowering in the shadow of fear. The LA's shambolic internal formal complaints procedure has left us as parents with one other powerful option – go to your local MP, media, radio stations, and national papers. The SS have left parents with no other choices as they consistently defend the indefensible, have no hesitation to misreport facts, and will have you as the parent cast aside as the pariah and accept no blame or part in any of the breakdown. Your voice does count. Make it count.
I think Edward Timpson Department for Education, Ministerial and Public Communications may be the only person who can help further financial support for http://www.adoptiondisruptionuk.com and further the campaign to change the current nature of the Care Order to protect parents post adoption disruption. I have emailed him today 26.5.15 I will let you know when I hear back.
I am sharing the article published by Grazia in South Africa – it doesn't wholly reflect my story. I am discovering that it's probably best to tell my story in my own words in future to the press ! however it does raise awareness about adopting damaged children and the subsequent Adoption Disruption which occurs and Care Orders which as you know I am passionate about changing and is the only reason why I went public with my story. Thank you South Africa for your support.
I am getting inundated with parents who have been through an adoption disruption, applied to adopt again, and been declined by their LA who have put the blame for the disruption squarely at the parents feet. This cannot be right? These parents are heroes who deserve support – and have tried their hardest with damaged children often at the cost of their marriages ; ask yourself the question – could you do any better?
A lovely friend of mine just said a prayer for my son while she was in GOSH yesterday with her daughter when she visited the chapel. For anyone who doesn't know the chapel at GOSH is one of the most beautiful places in the world and one of the most poignant. Thanks again everyone for all your support for the new website.


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<?php

/**
 * Abtract class to be used as a plugin template.
 * Must be implemented before using this class and it's recommended to prefix the class to prevent collissions.
 * There are some special functions that have to be declared in implementations to perform main actions:
 * 		- pluginActivate (Protected) Actions to run when activating the plugin.
 * 		- pluginUpdate (Protected) Actions to update the plugin to a new version. (Updating version on DB is done after this).
 * 						Takes plugin running version as a parameter.
 *
 * @author		Jordi Canals
 * @package		Alkivia
 * @subpackage	Framework
 * @link		http://wiki.alkivia.org/framework/classes/plugin
 */
abstract class akPluginAbstract
{
	/**
	 * Module ID. Is the module internal short name.
	 * Filled in constructor (as a constructor param). Used for translations textdomain.
	 *
	 * @var string
	 */
	public $ID;

	/**
	 * Module version number.
	 *
	 * @since 0.8
	 *
	 * @var string
	 */
	public $version;

	/**
	 * Full path to module main file.
	 * Main file is 'style.css' for themes and the php file with data header for plugins and components.
	 *
	 * @var string
	 */
	protected $mod_file;

	/**
	 * URL to the module folder.
	 *
	 * @var string
	 */
	protected $mod_url;

	/**
	 * Flag to see if module needs to be updated.
	 *
	 * @var boolean
	 */
	protected $needs_update = false;

    /**
	 * Class constructor.
	 * Calls the implementated method 'startUp' if it exists. This is done at plugins loading time.
	 * Prepares admin menus by seting an action for the implemented method '_adminMenus' if it exists.
	 *
	 * @param string $mod_file	Full main plugin's filename (absolute to root).
	 * @param string $ID  Plugin short name (known as plugin ID).
	 * @return spostsPlugin|false	The plugin object or false if not compatible.
	 */
	public function __construct( $mod_file, $ID = '' )
	{
		$this->mod_file = trim($mod_file);

        $this->loadModuleData($ID);

		add_action('plugins_loaded', array($this, 'pluginsInit'));

		//if ( ! apply_filters('ak_' . $this->ID . '_disable_admin', $this->getOption('disable-admin-page')) ) {
			add_action('admin_menu', array($this, 'adminMenus'), 5);  // execute prior to PP, to use menu hook
		//}

		// Load styles
		add_action('admin_print_styles', array($this, 'adminStyles'));

		$this->moduleLoad();

		// Activation and deactivation hooks.
		register_activation_hook($this->mod_file, array($this, 'activate'));

		add_action('plugins_loaded', array($this, 'init'));
	}

	/**
	 * Fires on plugin activation.
	 * @return void
	 */
	protected function pluginActivate () {}

	/**
	 * Updates the plugin to a new version.
	 * @param string $version Old plugin version.
	 * @return void
	 */
	protected function pluginUpdate ( $version ) {}

	/**
	 * Activates the plugin. Only runs on first activation.
	 * Saves the plugin version in DB, and calls the 'pluginActivate' method.
	 *
	 * @uses do_action() Calls 'ak_activate_<modID>_plugin' action hook.
	 * @hook register_activation_hook
	 * @access private
	 * @return void
	 */
	final function activate()
	{
        $this->pluginActivate();

        // Save options and version
		add_option($this->ID . '_version', $this->version);

        // Do activated hook.
		do_action('ak_activate_' . $this->ID . '_plugin');
	}

	/**
	 * Init the plugin (In action 'plugins_loaded')
	 * Here whe call the 'pluginUpdate' method.
	 * Also the plugin version and settings are updated here.
	 *
	 * @hook action plugins_loaded
	 * @uses do_action() Calls the 'ak_<modID>_updated' action hook.
	 *
	 * @access private
	 * @return void
	 */
	final function init()
	{
		// First, check if the plugin needs to be updated.
		if ( $this->needs_update ) {
			$version = get_option($this->ID . '_version');
			$this->pluginUpdate($version);

			update_option($this->ID . '_version', $this->version);

			do_action('ak_' . $this->ID . '_updated');
		}
	}

	/**
     * Functions to execute after loading plugins.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    final function pluginsInit ()
    {
		load_plugin_textdomain('capsman-enhanced', false, basename(dirname($this->mod_file)) . '/lang');
    }

    /**
     * Enqueues additional administration styles.
     * Send the framework admin.css file and additionally any other admin.css file
     * found on the module direcotry.
     *
     * @hook action 'admin_print_styles'
     * @uses apply_filters() Calls the 'ak_framework_style_admin' filter on the framework style url.
     * @uses apply_filters() Calls the 'ak_<Mod_ID>_style_admin' filter on the style url.
     * @access private
     *
     * @return void
     */
    final function adminStyles()
    {
		if ( empty( $_REQUEST['page'] ) || ! in_array( $_REQUEST['page'], array( 'capsman', 'capsman-tool' ) ) )
			return;

		// FRAMEWORK admin styles.
		$url = apply_filters('ak_framework_style_admin', AK_STYLES_URL . '/admin.css');
		if ( ! empty($url) ) {
   			wp_register_style('ak_framework_admin', $url, false, get_option('ak_framework_version'));
   			wp_enqueue_style('ak_framework_admin');
    	}

        // MODULE admin styles.
		if ( file_exists(dirname($this->mod_file) . '/admin.css') ) {
		    $url = $this->mod_url . '/admin.css';
		} else {
		    $url = '';
		}

		$url = apply_filters('ak_' . $this->ID . '_style_admin', $url);
		if ( ! empty($url) ) {
   			wp_register_style('ak_' . $this->ID . '_admin', $url, array('ak_framework_admin'), $this->version);
   			wp_enqueue_style('ak_' . $this->ID . '_admin');
    	}

		if ( file_exists(dirname($this->mod_file) . '/admin.js') ) {
			$suffix = defined('SCRIPT_DEBUG') && SCRIPT_DEBUG ? '.dev' : '';
			$url = $this->mod_url . "/admin{$suffix}.js";
			wp_enqueue_script( 'cme_admin', $url, array('jquery'), CAPSMAN_VERSION, true );
			wp_localize_script( 'cme_admin', 'cmeAdmin', array(
				'negationCaption' => __( 'Explicity negate this capability by storing as disabled', 'capsman-enhanced' ),
				'typeCapsNegationCaption' => __( 'Explicitly negate these capabilities by storing as disabled', 'capsman-enhanced' ),
				'typeCapUnregistered' => __( 'Post type registration does not define this capability distinctly', 'capsman-enhanced' ),
				'capNegated' => __( 'This capability is explicitly negated. Click to add/remove normally.', 'capsman-enhanced' ),
				'chkCaption' => __( 'Add or remove this capability from the WordPress role', 'capsman-enhanced' ),
				'switchableCaption' => __( 'Add or remove capability from the role normally', 'capsman-enhanced' ) )
			);
		}

    }

	/**
	 * Loads module data and settings.
	 * Data is loaded from the module file headers. Settings from Database and alkivia.ini.
	 *
	 * @return void
	 */
	final private function loadModuleData ( $id )
	{
        $this->mod_url = plugins_url( '', CME_FILE );

		if ( ! isset($this->ID) )
			$this->ID = ( empty($id) ) ? strtolower(basename($this->mod_file, '.php')) : trim($id) ;

   		$old_version = get_option($this->ID . '_version');
		if ( version_compare($old_version, $this->version, 'ne') ) {
			$this->needs_update = true;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Executes as soon as module class is loaded.
	 *
	 * @return void
	 */
	protected function moduleLoad() {}

    /**
     * Fires at 'admin_menus' action hook.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function adminMenus () {}
}

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