The conventional wisdom of our day promotes anything and everything except Christ-like character. They may speak of values, integrity and doing the right thing. But, in reality, they define these things in a subjective manner. The truth is that as followers of Jesus Christ, we do not have the privilege of defining values or integrity. We can articulate them. But we do not define them. They must be defined objectively.
The conventional wisdom of our day promotes anything and everything except Christ-like character.
The good news is God has defined for us life principles in His Word that objectively identify the values by which we should live as followers of Jesus Christ. However, I do not intend in this post to list every value by which we should live. That is best left for individual posts in the future to dedicate more space to each value. The purpose of this post is to challenge your thinking concerning Christ-Like character.
You are called to live a life of holiness. The Apostle Paul states, "we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory (1 Thessalonians 2:12)." God's glory is the manifested presence of His holiness. Living in holiness is to pursue Christ-like character.
You are to press toward the goal of holiness. Paul testified, "I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:14)." This means that your focus must always be locked on Christ-likeness. The pursuit of holiness is to imitate Christ. This pursuit is a relentless and life-long pursuit. It will not be easy. It will be filled with temptation and wrong turns. But, it is not impossible. It will require determination on your part to keep pressing toward the goal.
You must lay down the weight that hinders you. The writer of Hebrews states, "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, (Hebrews 12:1)." You may be carrying the baggage of your past. Lay that weight down! You may be carrying the burden of the present. Give that weight to Jesus. But, you may also be walking in sin. Your sin is keeping you from living a life of holiness. It is time to repent of that sin. It is time to confess it, turn from it, and run from it as hard and as quick as you can. Pursue Jesus!
Integrity is to be whole or complete. There are no cracks. There are no leaks. Integrity is a product of character. Your character is who you are I the dark when no one is watching you. The only way to ensure Christ-like Character and integrity is to keep your focus on Christ. This begins with your thought process. It is no wonder Paul said, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect (Romans 12:2)." The pursuit of holiness, a life of integrity, and Christ-like character begin with the renewing of your mind. You must renew your mind by taking in the Word of God on a regular basis.
The pursuit of holiness, a life of integrity, and Christ-like character begin with the renewing of your mind.
Find a Bible Reading Plan and use it. More will be said about this in the next post. But, there are plans available on the internet and in the YouVersion Bible app. The point, though, is if you are going to renew your mind, it must begin with filling it with God's Word.
Quality, not quantity. I am a proponent of making the most of your Bible reading. So, it may be profitable for you to read more slowly and really meditate on what you are reading rather than worrying about reading through the whole Bible in a year. For example, I am using plan now in which I will read through the Psalms twice this year and the Proverbs 12 times. Now, as I read a Psalm each day, I am recording in my journal only thoughts about what it tells me about God.
Memorize the Scriptures. Memorization is great for aiding you in meditation. When you commit Scripture to memory, it is more readily available for you to commit it to your heart. I personally suggest that you purchase 100 Bible Verses Everyone Should Know By Heart by Robert J. Morgan. It is a great resource for helping you with Bible memorization.


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New NARAL Ad Aims to Put Pressure on Senator Capito
As Kavanaugh prepares to answer for sexual assault allegations, NARAL ad highlights Kavanaugh's previous lies under oath
For Immediate Release: September 25, 2018
Today, NARAL Pro-Choice America announced a new hard-hitting digital ad campaign targeting Senator Shelley Moore Capito and highlighting the fact that Kavanagh has already lied multiple times to Congress. The ad ends by asking, "Senator Capito, why would you believe him this time?"
You can see the ad here.
Senators who claim to be allies to women cannot vote to confirm Kavanaugh in light of these allegations. Senator Capito is a Holton-Arms alumnus herself, like Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
Senator Capito, along with the Republican women who voted for the Violence Against Women Act, took a strong stance years ago and they must now. After fighting for sexual assault survivors then, they can't possibly justify voting against women and our fundamental freedoms by supporting Kavanaugh now. Women and families across West Virginia and all of America are watching.
Evidence shows that Brett Kavanaugh has lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee at every one of his three confirmations hearings since 2004. Revealed documents show Kavanaugh is a skilled, intentional liar who is only concerned with his own advancement, and the GOP will stop at nothing to ram him through the process.
The ad comes right after an NBC/WSJ poll found more Americans oppose Kavanaugh's confirmation than support it—the first time a Supreme Court nominee has been underwater in the history of the poll. The majority of Americans don't want to see him on the Court, and Senator Capito can no longer ignore the will of West Virginians and the American people.
NARAL Statement on Donald Trump's Attacks on Deborah Ramirez
New NARAL Ad Questions How Senator Collins Can Believe Kavanaugh's Lies

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New Merchant Apprenticeship Standard launched for 2018
Published: 05 December, 2017
The Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) and the Electrical Distributors Association (EDA) have collaborated to create a new, industry specific Trade Supplier Apprentice Standard.
It is the first Apprenticeship to be designed for the merchant industry by experts in the industry, and is set to become the sector's primary Level 2 qualification when it is launched to employers next year.
The Trade Supplier Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard has just been launched to more than fifteen training providers who will deliver the training programme across the UK. From January 2018, the new Standard will be offered to builders merchants through BMF Apprenticeships Plus.
During the presentation at the BMF's headquarters in Coventry on 30 November, Vicky Ordish, Learning and Business Partner at Rexel UK and Trailblazer Chair, took the 50 delegates through the process of reaching approval for the Standard.
She explained that the process took almost three years from identifying what merchant apprentices require to developing an assessment plan and then sending to the Skills Funding Agency and OFQUAL for approval.
The aims for the Standard are to keep ahead of the changing marketplace, to add value to the apprenticeships, and to attract and then maintain apprentices by showing a clear path of progression in the business.
Margaret Fitzsimons, Director EDA, spoke about the collaboration that was required by all involved to achieve this standard. She said: "We took off your company hats and put on our industry hats to work together for the good of the standard.
"Created by wholesalers for wholesalers, this new entry-level apprenticeship reflects the substantial commitment and knowledge sharing from across the building, timber and joinery, kitchen installation and electro-technical sectors. It has been a pleasure to work with similar trade organisations and their members to pool our significant wholesaling experience."
Trade Supplier Level 2 was developed as part of the government's Trailblazer initiative. This encouraged groups of employers to work together to create robust apprenticeships for their own sector, to ensure that people have up-to-date workplace skills that are fully relevant to business and industry.
John Henry, Director of BMF Apprenticeships Plus (the BMF's Apprenticeship Training Agency) said: "This employer-led qualification will give young people entering the industry an excellent grounding in merchanting and will raise the bar in terms of skills and knowledge at an early point in their careers. Having been in close communication with many businesses it is clear that the merchanting sector has been waiting for this new apprenticeship and I am confident of a significant take up by employers wishing to recruit and train new entrants and existing colleagues."
The new Trade Supplier Apprenticeship Standard will replace the Trade Business Service framework apprenticeship, formerly used by merchants. The new Standard is aligned with the merchant working environment. Trade Supplier Apprentices will be trained and assessed on:
Dealing with customer sales at the trade counter and over the telephone
Understanding incoming deliveries, stock control and despatch
Processing customer orders and taking delivery of goods
Technical knowledge of the products and services offered
Using bespoke systems and equipment within their company
Communication and building relationships both internally and with customers
Trade Supplier Apprentices may work on the trade counter, or they can specialise in other roles in the trade business environment including sales, purchasing account management, logistics and administration.
The new Apprenticeship received approval from the Skills Funding Agency and OFQUAL earlier this autumn, and will be eligible for funding under the new Levy system.
Crawford Knott of Hawk Training, an Ofsted accredited Outstanding training provider added: "Boosting the level of skills and productivity in the UK is vitally important, even more so as we move into the post-Brexit era. Apprenticeship standards like this one will enable employers in the sector to harness new talent and support the development of industry-specific skills."
New BMF Apprenticeship Training Agency to boost apprentice employment
The Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) has formed an accredited Apprenticeship Training Agency (ATA) that will help its members benefit from the opportunities created by the Apprenticeship Reforms – whether or not they are required to pay the Apprenticeship Levy.
Why it is important to attend trade shows?
Attending a trade show can be an excellent way to showcase and market your product. But, the shows can also be expensive so it is vitally important that you select the correct one that the business will benefit and ultimately get the best return from.
Saint-Gobain launches new Entrepreneurhip Foundation
Saint-Gobain in the UK and Ireland, in association with the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), has launched its new Entrepreneurship Foundation.
BMF promotes industry apprenticeships
As part of the Builder's Merchants Federation's Youth Recruitment Campaign for 2018, the BMF's Apprenticeship Plus team was out in force using the platform provided by Apprenticeship Week to promote the merchant industry as a career choice for school and college leavers.
BMF puts the building materials industry in the national spotlight
The Builders Merchants Federation is championing the value and significance of the building materials industry in a new regional and national approach.


For this evenings demonstration we welcomed Robert Till who introduced his projects both of which were based on a discus form rocking bowl. The first was to be painted black and gilt waxed and the second was to be coloured with Chestnut spirit stain.
An Oak bowl blank was mounted on a screw chuck which allowed Robert to true up the edge and faces and cut a tenon.
A pencil line was made midway along the edge which would be used to define the discuss shape. The bottom of the bowl was shaped out using a pull cut and then finished using a shear scraping cut with the toolrest dropped right down to get the angle on the tool and the lathe speed increased.
Keep the tool traverse slow to give the tool time to cut. The bowl would be sanded from 120 grit to 600 grit wiping off the dust between each grit and the bowl reversed onto the chuck using the tenon. With a little bit of juggling the bowl ran true on the pencil centre line. The top of the bowl was shaped in the same way as the bottom making sure the curve looked the same. This was sanded 120 to 600 grit and the dust wiped away. The top was sprayed black with Chestnut Ebonising Lacquer and dried using a hot air gun. Gilt cream was rubbed over the black area using his finger and allowed to dry a little. The excess would have been wiped off using Finishing Oil so that only the pores are left filled with the wax. Normally the bowl would be left to dry but for this demo Robert turned out the bowl with an undercut. A great couple of tips here was to use the shaping of the top of the bowl to practice the colour on. If you do not like it you can turn it off an d try something else. Also with the hollowing of the bowl use each cut as a practice cut to pick up the bevel without a catch.
The finish Robert uses is 6 to 8 coats of Finishing Oil each allowed to dry thoroughly and denibbed with webrax between each coat.
Although not fully completed the bowl was passed round and looked really striking.
For the coloured bowl Robert produced an Ash bowl that was completed to the colouring stage in exactly the same way as he worked the Oak bowl. The colouring was done on the lathe and consisted of a base coat of purple which was dried off then sanded back so that the colour became a background. Make sure you use fresh areas of the abrasive as it clogs with the lacquers in the stain. He then applied red, yellow, blue and green "smears" and using Robert's words it looked like a child had coloured it.
He then used methylated spirit on a tissue to blend the colours. More coulours can be added until your artistic talents decide that enough is enough.
Once dry the surface would be denibbed and then sprayed with Acrylic Sanding Sealer. The bowl was then reversed onto a wooden form with a felt pad and the tenon turned away. As this is a rocking bowl the base was turned to a curve. One tip that came from the audience was if you can get an old wet suit this can be cut up to make the pad on the wooden form. The oil finish would really make the colours sing.
This was a very inspirational demonstration and gave us many tips that we can use on other projects.
At the end of the evening Robert donated one of his finished bowls to the club for us to raffle or auction to raise funds for the club. We are very grateful to him for this generous gift.
We also had the February Competition and the results were as follows.


Jeff and Simon welcome guests Dean Hall, Andrea Bennett, and Marcus Lundgren.
The discussion continues with a look at the appeal of the Fringe festival for local groups, the CAFF circuit, and a proposal for a free theatre festival.
Simon and Jeff run down this month's listings.
The panel members recount their respective theatre backgrounds.
The panel discussion concludes with (very!) brief comments on directing.


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Dennis, with his faithful flea-ridden companion, Gnasher, and friends Curly and Pie Face, this book takes us on a hilarious tour of Beanotown and all that happens there.
The author is an actor, dancer and trained circus performer, and has been a fan of The Beano since childhood. He has appeared in the Wizard of Oz in London's West End and was previously Henry in Horrid Henry Live and Horrid! This book tells his story.


Originated in social theory and political theory, the concept of the public sphere has become over the past forty years one of the most important conceptual references in communication studies. Inspired by the seminal work of Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, but also by some of his critics (for instance Nancy Fraser or Craig Calhoun), contemporary media research has turned the reference to the concept of the public sphere into one of its defining and legitimizing theoretical routines. However, uses of this concept in contemporary media research are characterized by a recurring ambiguity. Used as a normative concept, the public sphere refers to the set of ideal conditions that characterizes democratic public debate and satisfies demanding standards of transparency, rationality and inclusion. In that first sense, the public sphere is an ideal by comparison with which one can assess the deliberative value of actual media conversations. Nonetheless, used as a positive concept, the public sphere refers to all forms of communication taking place in a public setting, to all actual interactions happening outside of the private realm. In that second sense, the public sphere is a "space" that actually exists and can be described as well as explained. It is not an ideal and it is most of the time considered to be far from ideal. This presentation will outline the risks inherent to an undifferentiated use of these two very different conceptions of the public sphere. By studying the evolution of this notion from political philosophy to communication studies in the past forty years, I will emphasize the need to clearly distinguish between a positive concept and a normative concept of the public sphere and I will point out the theoretical difficulties inherent to this much needed separation.
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Arduino breakout shield components. Solder green parts (left in picture) last, after the black pieces (bottom in picture).
Notes: The cheaper version recommended by Nophead from RepRap was this . See discussion.
Test Arduino on laptop - for example by blinking Channel 13 output on Duemilanove.
Test sensors by passing magnets over them. See this sample code.
This model is "latching" which means it turns on from one pole, and off by the other, remembering its state in the meantime.
Test solenoid valves by attaching power to battery and running this sample code for 2 solenoid channels.
Note we can reduce 3 solenoid channels to 2 by running both the shaker motor and the drawer cylinder from the same channel - the shaker is activated at every stroke of the drawer, as there is ample hydraulic fluid flow available in that part of the overall CEB operation cycle.
Test motion of soil drawer cylinder with this code.
Test motion of both cylinders, and machine is ready to run.
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Federal Reserve Monetary Policy Tools: Open Market Operations, Discount Lending, and Reserve Requirements
The economy can be expanded or contracted by monetary policy, changing either the money supply or the interest rate. The term monetary policy refers to the actions undertaken by a central bank, such as the Federal Reserve, to influence the availability and cost of money and credit as a means of helping to promote national economic goals. A 1977 amendment to the Federal Reserve Act stipulated that the Federal Reserve should promote the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates.
Monetary policy is made by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which consists of the members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and 5 Reserve Bank presidents. The FOMC holds 8 regularly scheduled meetings during the year and other meetings as needed.
Federal Reserve's Monetary Policy Toolbox
The Federal Reserve (Fed) implements monetary policy using three major tools, called monetary policy instruments:
open market operations: the buying and selling of U.S. Treasury and federal agency securities in the open market;
discount window lending to depository institutions directly from their Federal Reserve Bank's discount window, at rates set by the Reserve Banks and approved by the Board of Governors;
reserve requirements: the amount of reserves that depository institutions must hold as a percentage of their transaction deposits.
The Fed controls 2 primary interest rates: the federal funds rate, which is the rate that banks charge each other for overnight loans and the discount rate, which is the interest rate that the Fed charges on loans it makes to banks.
By setting a target federal funds rate and using the tools of monetary policy — open market operations, discount window lending, and reserve requirements — to equalize the market rate with the target rate, the Federal Reserve and the FOMC seek "to promote effectively the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates," as required by the Federal Reserve Act.
Controlling The Interest Rate By Setting The Target Federal Funds Rate
The primary monetary policy instrument that the Federal Reserve uses to control the interest rate is using open market operations to constrain the market federal funds rate, which is the interest rate that banks actually charge each other in the interbank market for overnight loans, to closely approximate the target federal funds rate, which is the rate that the FOMC has set, based on the consensus of the committee members, which is based on information gathered from the regional Federal Reserve banks.
Banks borrow reserves in the federal funds market to meet reserve requirements set by the Federal Reserve and to ensure adequate balances in their accounts at the Fed to cover checks and electronic payments processed by the Fed on their behalf.
The term federal funds comes from the fact that banks trade their deposits held at Federal Reserve banks. Because each bank has a different balance of reserves at the end of the day, those with excess reserves lend to those with deficiencies. Because federal funds are not backed by collateral, banks must be creditworthy to borrow in the interbank market; otherwise, it must borrow from the Fed, which will alert the Fed that the bank is having financial difficulties.
The market federal funds rate is often published as an effective federal funds rate, which is the average of the interest rates charged in the interbank lending market weighted by the size of the transactions.
Changes in the federal funds rate changes other short-term interest rates, foreign exchange rates, long-term interest rates, the amount of money and credit in the economy, and, ultimately, a range of economic variables, including employment, output, and the prices of goods and services.
The Open Market Trading Desk estimates the demand for reserves at the target rate each morning, then supplies that quantity for the day, which keeps the daily supply curve for reserves vertical until it reaches the discount rate, then it becomes horizontal, because then the banks will simply borrow from the Fed rather than pay higher rates from each other.
The Federal Reserve conducts open market operations with primary dealers — government securities dealers who have an established trading relationship with the Federal Reserve. So while the target policy rate is the uncollateralized lending rate between banks (fed funds), the Fed operates in the collateralized lending market with 20 primary security dealers (repo). This structure works because the primary dealers have accounts at clearing banks, which are depository institutions. So when the Fed sends and receives funds from the dealer's account at its clearing bank, this action adds or drains reserves to the banking system.
The Federal Reserve Act requires that the Fed buy securities only in the secondary market — United States Treasuries can only be bought from the government's auctions directly to replace Treasuries that are maturing.
The federal funds rate can also have a significant influence on the stock market, though it is not the only factor. Rising rates can depress the stock market, while falling rates can stimulate the stock market. This chart shows how the S&P 500 Index declined as the federal funds rate increased during the latter half of 2018. After the Federal Reserve indicated that it would pause increasing interest rates further, the stock market started to recover from the beginning of 2019.
Discount Window Lending — Providing Liquidity For Banks
The discount rate is the interest rate charged to commercial banks and other depository institutions on loans they receive from the lending facility of their regional Federal Reserve District Bank — the discount window. By law, the board of directors of each Reserve Bank sets the discount rate independently every 14 days subject to the approval of the Board of Governors. Originally, each Reserve Bank set its discount rate to reflect the banking and credit conditions in its own District. Over the years, the transition from regional credit markets to a national credit market has gradually produced a national discount rate, which is uniform across all Reserve Banks.
The main purpose of discount lending is to ensure short term financial stability, to prevent bank panics, and to prevent the sudden collapse of financial institutions experiencing a liquidity crisis, such as those that occurred following the stock market decline of October 1987, the international debt crisis in the fall of 1998, and the terrorist attacks in September 2001, when on September 12, 2001, discount lending greatly increased to $45.5 billion. In January, 2007, before the 2008 - 2009 Great Recession, discount window loans amounted to $1.3 billion; by October, 2008, discount lending peaked at $111 billion. Thus, because of its ability to create any amount of money, the Federal Reserve can act as lender of last resort.
Primary, Secondary, and Seasonal Credit
The Federal Reserve Banks offer 3 types of discount loans — all secured — to depository institutions: primary credit, secondary credit, and seasonal credit, each with its own interest rate that is established by each Reserve Bank's board of directors, subject to the review and determination of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Primary credit is extended short-term, usually overnight, to banks with CAMELS ratings of 1 or 2. The interest rate for primary credit is 100 basis points above the federal funds target rate, called the primary discount rate. Primary credit is provided to make up for errors in market forecasts by the FOMC. Primary lending provides liquidity and interest rate stability by preventing the market federal funds rate from spiking too far above the target federal funds rate.
Secondary credit is generally set at 50 basis points above the primary discount rate and is available only to banks that do not qualify for primary credit. Unless they have short-term liquidity deficiencies, banks will generally not ask for secondary credit unless they are having long-term difficulties that they cannot overcome, since it indicates that the bank may be having financial difficulties.
Seasonal credit is extended to many small agricultural banks in the Midwest and to small banks in seasonal resort communities to provide liquidity when needed. The seasonal discount credit rate is an average of selected market rates.
Discount Window Lending Will Be Disclosed by the Federal Reserve
The discount window has been available to banks since 1913, when Congress created the Federal Reserve. However, the list of banks that have borrowed from it and the amounts have always been kept secret, because it was feared that if the public knew which banks were borrowing from the discount window, then they may withdraw their money from those banks, worsening their financial position. Furthermore, because there is a certain stigma from using the discount window among banks, a lack of secrecy would prevent banks from using the discount window when they really needed it, possibly causing their failure. The stigma resulted from the fact that the Federal Reserve only allowed the banks to use discount window when they had no other available source of credit. Since banks generally need to borrow from other banks, using the discount window would indicate that they were not creditworthy.
In fact, to avoid using the discount window during the Great Recession, banks paid higher interest rates by bidding on loans from the Term Auction Facility (TAF), which was set up to provide emergency lending during the crisis, and provided banks with $493 billion in short-term credit.
However, since 2003, the Federal Reserve has allowed banks to borrow from the discount window without first exhausting all other sources of credit.
The secrecy surrounding discount window lending will also be changing. As a result of the lawsuit filed by Bloomberg and Fox News Network, the Fed must disclose which banks borrowed from its discount window during the 2008-2009 Great Recession. However, the Fed does not have to disclose the collateral that it accepted, which would have revealed the risks that it took.
The Dodd-Frank financial reform law, signed into law on July 21, 2010, also requires the Fed to disclose discount window lending after a 2-year delay.
Reserve Requirements
Reserve requirements are the amount of funds that a depository institution must hold in reserve against specified deposit liabilities. The Federal Reserve Board has been authorized, since 1935, to set reserve requirements, which is the minimum level reserves that banks must hold either in their accounts at the Federal Reserve or in their vaults. Within limits specified by law, the Board of Governors has sole authority over changes in reserve requirements.
Although the money supply depends on required reserves, adjusting the reserve requirements is not an effective way to control the economy:
The money multiplier expands or contracts the money supply for small changes in the reserve requirements.
The Fed has no control over how much excess reserves the banks would hold, so there will not necessarily be a correlation between the reserve requirement and the actual amount of reserves held by the banks.
Computing required reserves is complex because of what is called lagged reserve accounting, implemented in August, 1998, which was developed so that the Federal Reserve could better forecast reserve demand so that the market federal funds rate closely approximated the target rate.
The reserve requirement is first determined by taking the average balance in transaction deposits, such as checking and savings accounts, where the account holder can make withdrawals at any time without penalty, over a 2-week period called the computation period, which ends every 2nd Monday. The reserve requirements are then applied to the average balance over a 2-week period, called the maintenance period, which begins on the 3rd Thursday after the end of the computation period. Thus, banks have 16 days to determine their reserve requirement based on their actual deposits.
The 1980 Monetary Control Act allowed the Federal Reserve to set reserve requirement ratios between 8% and 14% of the transaction deposits. The accounting rules also allow banks to carry some excess reserves forward or backward for one maintenance period to satisfy the reserve requirement.
The reserve ratio depends on the amount of transactions accounts at the depository institution. The Garn-St Germain Act of 1982 exempted the first $2 million of reservable liabilities from reserve requirements, adjusted each year according to a formula specified by the Act. Also, the Monetary Control Act of 1980 created a low-reserve tranche where the 1st $25 million, adjusted for inflation, has a reserve ratio of 3%, and a reserve ratio of 10% for the remaining amounts. Hence, smaller banks will have a smaller effective reserve ratio than larger banks.
Liability Type
Net Transaction Accounts
% of Liabilities
$0 to $10.7 million 0 12/30/2010
More than $10.7 million to $58.8 million 3% 12/30/2010
More than $58.8 million 10% 12/30/2010
Nonpersonal time deposits 0 12/27/1990
Eurocurrency liabilities 0 12/27/1990
Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
How the Federal Reserve Responded to the Great Recession
Between 1987 and 2007, the Fed's response to changing inflation and unemployment had closely followed Taylor's rule, but with the advent of the Great Recession that began in 2007, Taylor's rule would have implied a negative federal funds rate, since the output gap, which is the difference between real GDP and its potential, was almost -8%, so the Federal Reserve followed a more ambitious policy to stimulate the economy. Short-term credit markets, namely the money market mutual funds and the commercial paper market, ceased to function because, especially after Lehman's bankruptcy, savers were fearful that the economic downturn would increase the likelihood that borrowers would be unable to repay the funds, even over the short term, so the Fed provided secure loans to the issuers of commercial paper and money market mutual funds. The Fed also supplied short-term secured loans to security dealers, like the loans provided to banks through the discount window. As a result, short-term credit markets greatly improved in 2009. The Fed also provided loans to institutions deemed too big to fail, including J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, and AIG. To increase consumer confidence in the banking system, the Fed expanded deposit insurance.
To increase interbank lending, the Fed provided 1- to 3-month discount loans to banks, including dollar-denominated loans to foreign banks, and created a temporary liquidity facility that guaranteed newly issued bank debt. To restore confidence in the banking system, the Fed also started conducting stress tests to ensure that banks can weather bad economic conditions, and if not, then they were forced to raise new capital.
To stimulate the economy, the Fed started buying longer-term Treasury securities and mortgage-backed securities, called quantitative easing, to increase the available funds for banks and to lower long-term interest rates. The Fed also created the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, to lend to institutions that securitized asset-backed loans, including consumer loans, student loans, auto loans, and business loans.
Although many feared that the Fed's massive stimulus would stoke inflation, inflation remained low until 2018. By then, the Fed was pursuing a policy of gradually increasing interest rates to slow the overheating economy.
Interest Rates Paid on Required and Excess Reserves
In October 2008, the Federal Reserve began paying interest on required reserve and excess balances. Hence, the holding of excess reserves can be regulated through the interest rate, which is determined by the Board, giving the Federal Reserve an additional tool for the conduct of monetary policy.
Term Deposit Facility
The Term Deposit Facility (TDF) was a program through which the Federal Reserve offered interest-bearing term deposits, which are deposits with a specific term, usually 84 days or less, paying a fixed rate of interest, to eligible institutions. The aggregate quantity of reserve balances held by depository institutions can be regulated by the term deposits, since any money so deposited is removed from reserves during the term.
Term deposit offerings will be issued primarily through competitive single-price auctions, but will also include a noncompetitive bidding option to ensure access to term deposits for smaller institutions.
A Day in the Life of the FOMC – Philadelphia Fed.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE DODD-FRANK WALL STREET REFORM AND CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT
Federal Reserve Credit and Liquidity Programs and the Balance Sheet - Expands information provided about the policy tools the Federal Reserve has employed to address the financial crisis. Includes a detailed explanation of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, discussion of Federal Reserve risk-management practices, and information on the types and amounts of collateral being pledged at various lending facilities.
Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion Undisclosed to Congress - Bloomberg
The Fed Partially Lifts the Veil on Its Discount Window - BusinessWeek
In Fed Documents, a Bank Run We Knew So Little About - NYTimes.com
Fed Emergency Loans Saved Many During Financial Crisis - NYTimes.com


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Sen. Tim Kaine will seek reelection in 2024, bringing sigh of relief for Democrats
Sen. Tim Kaine announced Friday he will seek a third term, which is welcome news for Democrats as they face a tough 2024 cycle. Kaine, who has represented Virginia
in the U.S. Senate since 2013, said "there is so much to be done." "I am happy to announce that I will seek re-election in 2024 to keep delivering results for Virginia,"
he said in a statement. "I've been honored to serve people as a missionary, civil rights lawyer, and elected official at the local, state, and federal levels. I love the
Commonwealth and its citizens and want to keep being your Senator." Kaine handily won reelection in 2018, and Virginia is considered a must-keep seat for Democrats with
control of the chamber on the line. Democrats have more than twice as many Senate seats to defend in 2024 as Republicans. This is a developing story. Please check
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Ikpeazu Appoints Acting Chief Judge For Abia
Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia has appointed Justice Obisike Oji as the Acting Chief Judge of the state barely three hours after the State House of Assembly suspended the incumbent, Justice Theresa Uzokwe.
He was sworn in at the Executive Council Chambers of the Governor's Office on Friday.
Ikpeazu said the appointment became expedient following receipt of a resolution of the House suspending Uzokwe.
He said Oji, who is next to Uzokwe, was sworn in in accordance with the provisions of the 1999 Constitution.
The governor, who expressed worry over the recent developments in the state judiciary, urged Oji to take immediate steps to restore the confidence of the people in the judiciary.
Responding, Orji said he appreciated the enormous responsibility of his office and promised not to betray the confidence and trust reposed in him.
He also promised to put the necessary machinery in place to restore the confidence of the people in the state's judicial system.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the House of Assembly suspended Uzokwe over allegations of acts of tyranny, infamy, gross misconduct and incompetence.
Abia judiciary had been rocked by crisis following the dissolution and reconstitution of the State Judicial Service Commission by the governor in November 2017.
It was, however, alleged that Uzokwe did not recognise the new body.
She was also alleged to have refused to recognise and work with the new Chief Registrar, Mr Benson Anya, who was appointed by the new commission to replace, Mrs Elizabeth Akwiwu-Chukwu, who was sacked following the dissolution of the commission.
The crisis in the judiciary reached a climax on Thursday when Uzokwe allegedly closed all the courts in the state and invited all the judiciary workers to a meeting in Umuahia.
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Local newspaper data journalism – school admissions in Birmingham
The Birmingham Mail has been trying its hand at data journalism with school admissions data. It's a good place to start – the topic attracts a lot of interest (and so justifies the investment of time) while people tend to be interested in more than just who finishes top and bottom of the tables (justifying the choice of medium).
The results are impressive. Applications data is plotted on a Google map on the main page, while an "interactive chart" page allows you to compare schools across various criteria, and also narrow the sample by selecting from two drop down menus (town and school).
The charts have been made in Tableau, which includes a download link at the bottom. However, you need Tableau itself (free, but PC only) to open it.
A further page features links to tables for each area. Sadly, the pages containing tables do not contain any link to the raw data. This presents an extra hurdle to users – although you can scrape the table into a Google spreadsheet using the =import formula. If you want to see how, here's a spreadsheet I created from the data by doing just that. Click on the first cell to see the formula that generates it.
I asked David Higgerson, Trinity Mirror's Head of Multimedia and the man whose name appears on the Tableau data, to explain the process behind the project. It seems the information was a combination of freely available data and that acquired via FOI.
"The Mail took the data available – number of places available, number of first choice applicants and number of total applicants – and worked out a ratio of first choice applicants per place. This is relevant to parents because councils try to allocate places to children based on preference once they've decided which schools a child is eligible for. Eligibility varies depending on type of school.
"The figures showed how popular faith schools were, and also how fierce competition was for places at grammar schools. That's the story which generated most interest.
"As you've said on your blog, the hardest part was making the data uniform, and the making it relevant to readers.
"In print, it ran across three days. Day one was grammar schools, day two was all schools and day three revealed how catchment areas for oversubscribed schools which use distance from school to fill their last few places.
"Online, Google Fusion was used to create maps, Tableau for the interactive chart which lets people choose based on town or school, and Tableizer for the quick tables which appear in the section too. We also had a play with Scribble Maps, which we think has real potential for print/online newsrooms."
It seems education reporter Kat Keogh deserves the credit for spotting the stories in the data, "with the usual support you'd expect in the newsroom – newsdesk etc."
David and Anna Jeys experimented with the online presentation and others laid out the data for print.
This entry was posted in online journalism and tagged birmingham, birmingham mail, Education, school admissions on October 10, 2010 by Paul Bradshaw.
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Peter Demain October 10, 2010 at 11:19 am
That's true of any data including straight-up text – if you look at a popular science show like The Sky at Night you can, after reading NASA's press releases and technical websites, observe that difficult concepts are altered to become comprehensible and relevant to the audience who mostly aren't working in say astrophysics or rocket propulsion. Similar case with Feynman, Sagan and any scientist who ventured to layman's terms.
For this you've got a tonne of information that must be converted and condensed so the audience ideally derives the benefit of insight. It's rare to see a graph/chart heavy article in a Trinity rag; that's broadsheet territory. You're likelier to get one simple bar chart with a big picture of a school incase anyone forgot what one looks like.
Point is that for any journalist who has a cache of information concerning anything there's choices to be made and a tone to be achieved. That's the job for any who have a modicum of investigation in their hackery. It's also a skill that is lacking; flexibility in language is vital – however my unresearched, evidence-less belief is that there remains a pompous line that sees papers oversimplify as readers are mostly 'uneducated'.
It's the birthday today: Paul I never got the statuette we spoke about. However these are trying times so if you used the slow post it's understandable: Not by me as I wanted my frigging dachshund figurine in time, but kindlier people would let it slide.
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Q: default URL Routing with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms it seem that we need to specify a route for every page in webform routing
I want to use default route to a page called cms.aspx with parametr called nameofurl for each page expect default.aspx
sometimes I want to send the cms.aspx more then one parametrs,for example
mydomain.com/cms.apx?nameurl=somevalue
or
mydomain.com/cms.apx?nameurl=somevalue&order=6
I have this code but it isn't the solution since you have to tell the routing the name of the page
  routes.MapPageRoute("",
        "pageName/{nameofurl}",
        "~/cms.aspx")

I want something like this
 routes.MapPageRoute("",
        "?/{nameofurl }",
        "~/cms.aspx")

sometimes I want it to be like this
routes.MapPageRoute("SalesRoute",
    "?/{nameofurl}/{order}",
    "~/cms.aspx");

any idea how to Achieve that kind of routing without specify the name of the page?

A: You can create routes like given below:
routes.MapPageRoute("Route1","{nameofurl}","~/cms.aspx")
routes.MapPageRoute("Route2","{nameofurl}/{order}","~/cms.aspx")
routes.MapPageRoute("Route3","{nameofurl}/{order}/{abc}","~/cms.aspx")

The above routes will work if there are no other pages with 2 or 3 parameters. But if there is some other page which you want to route and which has 2 parameters to be passed, then you need to mention a hard-coded string before the parameters otherwise the new route will override the old route.
For Example:
routes.MapPageRoute("Route4","{nameofurl}/{order}","~/products.aspx")

In the above case, Route4 will override Route 2. Thus, you need to define route something like below:
routes.MapPageRoute("Route4","products/{nameofurl}/{order}","~/products.aspx")

You can find URL Routing related articles at following URLs:
http://karmic-development.blogspot.in/2013/10/url-routing-in-aspnet-web-forms-part-2.html
Thanks & Regards,
Munjal

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Are you planning to buy a new shower head? If so, then you should definitely consider buying a handheld model. More and more people are using a handheld shower head due to its ease of use. Not to mention, it can also function as a wall-mounted shower, essentially providing you the best of both worlds. It's also worthy to note that handheld shower heads are very affordable. Keep reading to learn why people prefer a handheld shower head over a wall-mounted one.
1.1 Why Buy A Handheld Shower Head?
The main advantage of handheld shower heads is their flexibility. You can use the shower to wash your entire body thoroughly. By taking the shower head in your hand, you can position it in such a way that it reaches areas that are very difficult to clean or rinse when you have to use a fixed head shower.
Why Buy A Handheld Shower Head?
Take a look at the current setup of your shower and see whether the handheld shower will fit perfectly. You can confirm this by carefully reading the product information. If it doesn't fit, then it's best to buy new mountings to ensure that the new shower head will have the right fit.
Of course, quality is one factor you should always consider. You can turn to user reviews to get an idea about what other people have to say about the model you plan on buying. This is a good way to gauge the quality of the product and whether you'ree getting real value for your money. It's also important to consider the style and finish of the shower head. Make sure that it complements the other features of your bathroom.
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Up to 4 percent of the DNA of people today who live outside Africa came from Neandertals, the result of interbreeding between Neandertals and early modern humans. That conclusion comes from scientists led by Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, who pieced together the first draft of the Neandertal genome—which represents about 60 percent of the entire genome—using DNA obtained from three Neandertal bones that come from Vindija cave in Croatia and are more than 38,000 years old.
The evidence that Neandertals contributed DNA to modern humans came as a shock to the investigators, who published their findings in the May 7 Science. "First I thought it was some kind of statistical fluke," Pääbo remarked during a press teleconference on May 5. The finding contrasts sharply with his previous work. In 1997 he and his colleagues sequenced the first Neandertal mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondria are the cell's energy-generating organelles, and they have their own DNA, which is distinct from the much longer DNA sequence that resides in the cell's nucleus. Their analysis revealed that Neandertals had not made any contributions to modern mitochondrial DNA. Yet because mitochondrial DNA represents only a tiny fraction of an individual's genetic makeup, the possibility remained that Neandertal nuclear DNA might tell a different story. Still, additional genetic analyses have typically led researchers to conclude that Homo sapiens arose in Africa and replaced the archaic humans it encountered as it spread out from its birthplace without mingling with them—the Out of Africa replacement scenario, as it is known.
But mingle they apparently did. When Pääbo's team looked at patterns of nuclear genome variation in present-day humans, it identified 12 genome regions where non-Africans exhibited variants that were not seen in Africans and that were thus candidates for being derived from the Neandertals, who lived not in Africa but Eurasia. Comparing those regions with the same regions in the newly assembled Neandertal sequence, the researchers found 10 matches, meaning 10 of these 12 variants in non-Africans came from Neandertals. The contributions do not seem to encode anything particularly important from a functional standpoint, however.
Intriguingly, the researchers failed to detect a special affinity to Europeans—a link that might have been expected given that Neandertals seem to have persisted in Europe longer than anywhere else before disappearing around 28,000 years ago. Rather the Neandertal sequence was equally close to sequences from present-day people from France, Papua New Guinea and China. By way of explanation, the investigators suggest that the interbreeding occurred in the Middle East between 50,000 and 80,000 years ago, before moderns fanned out to other parts of the Old World and split into different groups.
Intermixing does not surprise paleoanthropologists who have long argued on the basis of fossils that archaic humans, such as the Neandertals in Eurasia and H. erectus in East Asia, mated with early moderns and can be counted among our ancestors—the so-called multiregional evolution theory of modern human origins. The detection of Neandertal DNA in present-day people thus comes as welcome news to these scientists. "It is important evidence for multiregional evolution," comments Milford H. Wolpoff of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the leading proponent of the theory.
In a prepared statement, Out of Africa theorist Christopher B. Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London acknowledged that the genome results show that "many of us outside of Africa have some [Neandertal] inheritance." But Stringer maintains that the origin of our species is mostly an Out of Africa story. Population geneticist Laurent Excoffier of the University of Bern in Switzerland agrees, noting that the alleged admixture did not continue as moderns moved into Europe. "In all scenarios of speciation, there is a time during which two diverging species remain interfertile," he explains.


In today's highly-competitive and overflowing market, staying relevant and up to par with competitors is a tough challenge, but standing out from the crowd and gathering gazes is even harder. A new eccentric and bold design is definitely a plan, but that has become increasingly difficult in the current mobile market, dominated by the boring "slab" handset design.
Still, ZTE seems to have managed to find a way to stick out with the upcoming Nubia X8. A new set of photos, recently shared by the OEM on Chinese social outlet Weibo, seem to show a new control design for the phone, featuring resistive touch volume rockers.
From the looks of things, the X8 will have a set of three grooves carved right into the side if the frame, two of which are touch operated volume controls. It is hard to tell whether the power button will be resistive as well, but, judging by the space around the button, it could also be a standard physical one, albeit quite shallow.
In any case, besides being a peculiarity, we really doubt the concept will yield anything good. There are obvious reasons the industry has stuck with physical power and volume buttons for so long. It is quite simply the more convenient and responsive way. Still, we are inclined to keep an open mind.
Another piece of information was also shared alongside the photos – what appears to be a promotional banner. It is even complete with a date – October 15, when we will most likely see the release of the Nubia X8. As for the rest of the specs of the phablet, we first heard somerumors, back in May when the Nubia Z9 was unveiled, some of which sound pretty plausible.
The Nubia X8 is said to have a huge 6.0-inch display and sport a slim unibody design. Previous images have actually shown what appears to be a fingerprint reader below the camera on the back, much like recent Huawei devices, but rumors also hint at a possible front placement for the sensor – underneath the signature Nubia home ring. ZTE will also, allegedly, pack the flagship with 4GB of RAM and offer it in 32GB and 64GB storage options.


Eight years ago, my partner and I started our branding firm, Motto. We were both in our twenties and we had a desire to make a mark on the world and help our clients do the same. As young guns with no prior agency experience and $250 to our names, all we had was ambition and heart.
Never eat your soul to fill your belly. It's one thing to be hungry. It's another to give up your values for impetuous gain.
You can never walk out on your own story.It's a simple truth, but you can't abandon who you are. We all have aspirations to shed parts of ourselves or hide what we don't want people to see. You need to embrace your special gifts and even your faults and learn how to work with them. After all, they make up the story of who you are and let's face it, everyone else is already taken.
The greatest glory isn't in never failing, but in how we rise when we do. If you chase your dreams, you're bound to get bruised a few times. Or as my dad used to say, "I haven't just been hit by the bus, I've been under it." The difference between those who go onto greatness is simple - they get up quicker when they've been knocked down.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear. Fear prevents us from going after what we truly desire. As Jim Carrey said in his inspiring 2014 MUM graduation speech, "Fear is going to be a player in life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all it will ever be is what's happening here, the decisions that we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear." He goes on to say, "Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart."
Endure with a smile. At my 2008 Savannah College of Art and Design graduation, André Leon Talley, former Vogue editor and famed fashionista from shows like "America's Next Top Model," gave our commencement speech. His entire speech was soul-stirring, but one piece of advice struck a chord in me. He said that if someone above you asks you to run to Starbucks or mop the floors, do it with a smile and jaunty gait. People look for endurance and appreciate those who work their way up.
You're going to be told you're not good enough, maybe even not worth it. You'll hear this more times than you can imagine. You'll be told your ideas aren't good, that you're not good enough for the jobs you want; for the accolades you desire, and that you're not worth someone's time or mentorship. Maybe it's true, but mostly it's not. Do not be discouraged. It's just an opinion.
If you can't get the little things right, you won't get the big things right. Some people say good is better than not done. It's not. For example, if people pay for your ebook and it's filled with spelling mistakes, it's a reflection on your attention to detail. Some things require iterations. But carelessness shouldn't be a substitute for speed.
Always do a little more. Extra effort is not a quality to be overlooked. Most of us are grateful to those who help us achieve great things. We're even more grateful to those who genuinely give a little more of themselves to help others.
Everyone is hungry. Just get to the table earlier than everyone else. We are all hungry for something. But some of us are a little hungrier than others. Which one will you be?
Break the rules before they break you. Sometimes rules need to be broken in order to have creative breakthroughs. Don't stay within the grid, break outside of it.
Give what you get. If someone asks you for personal or business advice, give it away and expect nothing in return. Help others reach success and grow their business. Share your ideas and inspire others on their journey to greatness.
Your legacy is yours to make. Start now. Don't wait.
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A version of this post originally appeared on the author's LinkedIn column.
Sunny Bonnell is a branding consultant and serves as the co-founder and creative director at Motto. Motto is a comprehensive branding firm that helps visionary entrepreneurs and companies build inspiring brands using their most powerful asset: their purpose. She was named one of GDUSA's "25 Creatives to Watch in 2014" and has been featured on Forbes, Inc., MSN Business, CBS News, AMEX, and various print and online design publications.


I love the dress, but the front comes down waaaaay too low. Since I'm . . . uh . . . well-endowed . . . I end up showing everything when I wear it. Not my style.
Usually my solution with too-low tops is to wear a tank top underneath, but since this is a halter, that's a no-go. So what I'd do is wear a tank-top, then wear a pink jacket over that, making the dress look like a skirt. Since the top comes down so low, no one can see the top of it over the jacket . . . so all they see is my tank top, looking like a camisole. But that's too much work. So that stunning, little dress has been languishing in my closet for years unworn. Until the other day when I thought: why don't I make a skirt out of it?
So I sat down with that dress and a pin (I don't have a seam ripper) and started ripping seams. The seams on this dress were PERFECTLY positioned for this project. In only a few moments, I managed to rip the bodice off the skirt with both in one piece. I even managed to save the zipper.
All I had to do was hem the top, and voila! New skirt.
And now I have this lovely bodice.
It seems a shame to throw it out, so I'm going to try my hand at adding fabric to the bottom to make a shirt out of it. And I can close up the top so it's not so low. Um . . . I guess I could have done that in the beginning and saved the dress. But, oh, well. I love the skirt idea.


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Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology, abgekürzt Pediatr. Allergy Immunol. Pulmonol., ist eine wissenschaftliche Fachzeitschrift, die vom Mary Ann Liebert-Verlag veröffentlicht wird. Die Zeitschrift wurde 1987 unter dem Namen Pediatric Asthma, Allergy & Immunology gegründet, änderte 2010 den Namen in Pediatric Allergy, Immunology und Pulmonology und erscheint mit vier Ausgaben im Jahr. Es werden Arbeiten veröffentlicht, die sich mit der Behandlung von Atemwegserkrankungen sowie Fragestellungen zur Allergologie und Immunologie beschäftigen.

Der Impact Factor lag im Jahr 2014 bei 0,657. Nach der Statistik des ISI Web of Knowledge wird das Journal mit diesem Impact Factor in der Kategorie Allergologie an 22. Stelle von 24 Zeitschriften, in der Kategorie Atemwegssystem an 55. Stelle von 58 Zeitschriften, in der Kategorie Immunologie an 143. Stelle von 148 Zeitschriften und in der Kategorie Pädiatrie an 107. Stelle von 120 Zeitschriften geführt.

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Allergologie
Immunologische Zeitschrift
Pädiatrische Zeitschrift
Pneumologische Zeitschrift
Medizinische Fachzeitschrift (Vereinigte Staaten)
Englischsprachige Vierteljahreszeitschrift
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Activity books can be fun as well as educational for children. One of the advantages of homemade activity books is that you can tailor them to your child's preferences. They also make nice gifts for your friends' children. You can plan, write, and construct activity books using items you have at home. For a fun bonding activity, you can even include your child in the construction process.
Choose a theme. Although it can be general, most books have a theme based on holidays, seasons, or your child's preferences. This is an important step because it will make it easier for you to come up with content to fill the pages. Having a coherent message will also make it easier for you to educate your child.
Holidays make good themes for activity books. You can educate your child about the cultural origins of the holiday and how people celebrate it. It also gets your child excited about the season.
Seasons of the year are also good themes. They can teach your child fun outdoor activities as well as cultural folklore surrounding that time of year.
If you want your activity book to tell a fun story, the theme may simply be adventure.
Some examples of other topics are family, farms, flowers, food, animals, history, and cultures.
Figure out activities your child enjoys. You may already know that he or she enjoys - for example, coloring or doing simple crosswords. Ask your child their favorite activities or get together a few for he or she to try. Observe which your child enjoys the most. This is a good time to ask your child if he or she wants to help you make the activity book.
Look in the newspaper for comic strips and puzzles. Children love comic book strips and they are a great way to encourage a burgeoning reader.
Examples of other children's activities that could easily be compiled in an activity book are fill-in-the-blank stories, mazes, word search puzzles, and even open-ended doodling.
A few examples of creative activities that your child may not have tried before are stenciling, torn paper art, and stamps.
Decide on some educational content for the book. In addition to reading, you can supplement an activity book with activities that include telling time, simple math, writing, vocabulary, history, and more. If you incorporate the lessons into the activities well enough, your child will only notice the fun they're having. Choose activities at your child's level and search for them online, or write the problems yourself.
You may have a book that teaches your child days of the week, months, and holidays by having them write in the correct answer in the blanks.
Another example of educational content may be a series of mathematical crossword puzzles. If you can weave the puzzles into the plot of the book, it is a fun way for your child to learn basic arithmetic.
Write a story to include in your activity book. This is a great opportunity to include your child in the story. Look at the types of stories they enjoy and try to create something similar. This will keep your child turning the pages and discovering what happened to his or her favorite character. Who knows, your child may enjoy the story so much you have to write a sequel.
Some examples of fun adventures may involve a child rescuing a pet, a family discovering what is in their attic on a snow day, or a knight journeying to a foreign land.
Try to include songs, nursery rhymes and poetry. This will draw your child in and promote an appreciation for music. You can write your own lyrics or put in well-known songs and poems. Choose songs that are based on the theme – such as "Let it Snow" for a winter-themed activity book. You all can sing the songs together.
Decide on a medium. Now that you have a collection of activities, stories, and songs for your child to enjoy, you need to think about the physical makeup of the book. Will it be paper printouts, or will you get more creative with it? This is an excellent time to get your child involved in the joy of making something by hand.
The simplest way to make an activity book is with a three ring binder or folders with built-in brads. You can print out or design pages, punch holes in the side, and put them in.
Fold computer paper in half to create an easy binding system. This will also make the book smaller and more easy for your child to handle.
Blank bound books are inexpensive. This will give the activity book a more polished feel. They are also a more interesting texture for your child to interact with. You can paste pages in the bound book, or draw on activities by hand.
A fun project is dry erase coloring exercises. Make the black and white outline on a piece of paper and place it in a plastic sheet protector. Give your child dry erase crayons and watch them redo the activity over and over again!
Decide the size of your book. Larger books using an entire piece of paper for each page are good for coloring activities. If you use more word searches or are more interested in telling a story, opt for smaller paper or half sheets. Keep in mind that your child may want to take the book in their backpack, so make it small enough to fit. If your child will only play with it at home, you can afford to make a larger book.
Create coloring pages by tracing other images. Print off family photos or large images and place them behind a white piece of A4 or 8.5"x11" paper. Trace the image outlines using a thick black marker. This is a good way to create professional looking images for your child to color.
Write final drafts of the content. It is easy to combine images and text in most computer project software, presentation software, and even word processing programs. Make sure you take note of which pages will be side-by-side when you print them out. This is especially important if you are binding the book by folding the paper in half.
Create a cover and a title page. Be sure to include your child's name, such as "David's Activity Book" on the cover. A title page should list the authors, if you and your child have written a story together. Having a colorful and attention-grabbing cover will ensure that your child wants to pick up and open the book.
Print computer-generated content. Now you are ready to piece the book together. Collect your printed content and that you made by hand. Make sure you have them in the correct order before binding them together.
Number the pages on the front and back. Insert blank pages, if you want to have extra drawing paper.
If you use a three ring binder or folder with brads, you can continue to add activities.
Consider professional binding. You may not have the materials to bind the book yourself, or might want a more professional look. Take your activity books to an office supply store or print shop. They have printing departments that can bind the book for you. This is usually inexpensive, depending on the materials you want them to use.
Provide any supplementary supplies. Your book may require crayons, colored pencils, stickers, stencils or something else for your child to complete the activities. There are many ways to include them in the book. Stick a cloth pouch on the front with adhesive, or fold paper like an envelope.
Hand sewing a cloth pouch is a good activity for to teach your child basic sewing methods and safety.
Consider laminating the activity book, if you have access to a laminating machine. Laminated activity books are great for breakfast time, trips and restaurants. You can use erasable markers so your child can wipe off the color and start again. Some print shops may be able to provide this service.
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