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Educational Approach
The educational mission of the Center for Global Awareness is to provide holistic, globally-focused, and culturally-enriched books and resources for educators and students grades 9-university.
Our Educational Approach…
The increasing complexity and interdependence of the world today calls for different approaches to teaching and learning. In response to this need, we—Denise Ames and Nancy Harmon, founders of the Center for Global Awareness—have researched, experimented with, and discussed at length what we think is the most insightful approach to take in creating our educational resources. Drawing upon our more than six decades in the education field, our wealth of cross-cultural travel experiences, our concern for the education of young people, and our alarm at the direction of the United States and the world, we feel passionate about designing books and resources infused with a holistic approach and global perspective.
Our books and educational resources are an engaging alternative curriculum rather than a "one-size fits all" world of standardized testing and corporate textbooks. These materials have been thoughtfully designed for educators and students in grades 9 through university.
With most educational resources coming from the for-profit world, along with a hefty price tag, these very affordable resources are sold through our non-profit organization, the Center for Global Awareness, whose mission is to provide affordably priced and stimulating educational resources. As veteran educators, we are able to write freely about and interpret global topics and world history without constraints of whether the book will meet profit goals of corporate investors.
Educators will find this standards-based curriculum especially helpful in teaching about global issues, cross-cultural topics, holistic world history, and in globalizing their curriculum. Students will find this approach connects topics such as history and global issues to their everyday lives in a meaningful way.
What is our Educational Curricula?
The curriculum is designed for educators, students in grades 9-12, college undergraduates, and the general reading public. These thought-provoking and timely books systematically explore a range of critical global issues, engaging cross-cultural topics and holistic approaches to history. The series has teacher resources guides, activities, and links to additional resources.
Who are the authors?
Dr. Denise R. Ames draws upon her extensive teaching experience, far-reaching world travels, and careful research in developing an alternative, holistic, globally-focused approach to world history, the global economy, human rights, and significant global topics. She has over 30 years teaching experience in secondary schools, a community college, universities, professional development training, and public speaking. She is the founder and president of the Center for Global Awareness, author of seven books and blogs regularly for CGA.
Nancy W. Harmon, MA, draws on her 30 years in different teaching capacities to add a multi-cultural and global perspective to the CGA curriculum. Her book, International Folktales for English Language Learners, was inspired by her students' delighted response to the folktales from around the world she used to teach English language skills in U.S. classrooms and abroad. It is developmentally organized for high beginning through intermediate students and offers comprehension, vocabulary and sentence building exercises as well as lively communicative activities.
Who is the audience for our curriculum?
The curriculum is thoughtfully designed for educators and students who wish to add a holistic, alternative approach to their social studies curriculum or other programs. Educators will find this curriculum especially helpful in teaching about current events, cross-cultural topics, holistic world history, and globalizing their curriculum. Students will find this approach links topics such as history to their everyday lives in a meaningful way.
The Global Awareness Educational Program…
1. Envisions new paradigm thinking and learning.
2. Uses a holistic approach.
3. Infuses a global perspective.
4. Sees through a big picture lens.
5. Draws on transdisciplinary knowledge.
6. Applies systems thinking.
7. Encourages openness and world-mindedness.
8. Imagines the world as an interdependent web.
9. Connects topics to real life education.
10. Inspires students and educators to action.
11. Places the environment as the nexus.
12. Challenges students to a rigorous curriculum.
13. Studies patterns and relationships across time and space.
14. Fosters curiosity about new ideas and hope for the future.
15. Motivates students to act in creating a just and sustainable planet.
Advantages of using a holistic approach and global perspective:
1. Promotes the Big Picture. A holistic approach and global perspective place information into a "big picture" in which the breadth of a subject is considered instead of just a narrow examination. For example, our holistic world history book includes hunting and gathering people and those living in small, agricultural villages who continue to practice their way of life today, as well as contemporary people manipulating information with sophisticated technology.
2. Is Interdisciplinary. Our holistic approach is interdisciplinary, which means we integrate the disciplines of history, economics, politics, sociology, anthropology, humanities, literature, psychology, religion, ecology, the sciences, philosophy, and others into the narrative. This lifts the topic of study from the narrow confines of an academic discipline into a study of the relationship of all the facets of a topic. For example, in our book on the global economy, the economy is studied in relation to society, the environment, and human well-being.
3. Provides a Framework for Understanding. Malcolm Gladwell, a noted author and thinker, has stated that we in modern society are "information rich but theory poor." I agree. We have found that students and educators today have available a treasure trove of information that they are able to easily access with modern technology. Yet, as educators have told us, this plethora of information often overwhelms students, who are left adrift without a framework for understanding it. Educators and students are drawn to our holistic approach and global perspective since it provides a framework for organizing and understanding the vast amount of information available to them. Students have a context which helps them to retain, critically analyze, and apply the information to other situations.
4. Anticipates the Long Term. When using a holistic approach and global perspective, we can better consider and anticipate the long-term impacts of actions, events, and information. For example, the Gross Domestic Product growth rates evaluate the world economy, which are often not a true indication of the actual economic performance, while the number of people starving or the effects on the environment are ignored.
5. Engages Students in the Learning Process. Our purpose in applying this holistic approach and global perspective to the subjects that we write and teach about is to more deeply engage students in the learning process. We need to use strategies to draw students into a learning process that more fully reflects the 21st century world in which they live. This means more than using the latest technology or educational tool to gather and manipulate more information; it means providing a comprehensive framework for understanding and simplifying complexity and emphasizing the urgency of the topics found in our books.
6. Inspires a Paradigm Shift. Our holistic approach and global perspective is a deliberate and thoughtful way to study different subjects. In fact, some people have remarked that they see this approach as a paradigm shift in the way we write, study and teach different subjects. There is not necessarily new information in our books, but we place existing information into a comprehensible, systematic, and thought-provoking framework. Our approach reframes existing information to encourage multiple perspectives and explore unfamiliar points of view. It lifts topics beyond the narrow confines of rigid disciplines to study the relationships found within a system. As one thoughtful student exclaimed about our world history book, "This world history is different, it is a process!"


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Other Memories
"I was speaking to my granddaughter Sarah and she was worried about the current situation caused by the Coronavirus. I likened it to the situation our parents found themselves in during the second world war, when the UK was at war with Germany. She suggested that Jeffrey and I wrote down our wartime memories as she was unaware of the hardships and restrictions that were imposed on the British people during the war and she would be very interested to read what we remembered. I thought that as our generation is the last one that will have memories of life during the war, it would be a good idea to ask friends to write their memories, and to give us all something to do to help pass the time. I intended to collate all our memories but I have decided that the best way was to keep them all separate, as we all had different memories. For the readers of these memories, please bear in mind that they depict life during the second world war as seen by young children, it must have been much worse for the adults living through those times."
"I thank all contributors for their memories and for taking the time to put them into words."
- Ruth Glassman
Adrian and Maureen
"I remember an Anderson shelter that took up half the garden that was submerged below the lawn. We were carried out to the shelter during air raids and air raid sirens woke us up in the middle of the night. It was a relief when you heard the all clear. We swapped shrapnel of different shapes with other children."
"I was born in 1936 so when the war ended I was only 8 and a half. During the war, my family lived in the Queen's home town of Windsor and surprisingly we had almost no bombing. In about 1944, a V2 rocket hit a local high chimney and the shrapnel scattering into our garden but no one was injured.
About that time my father came home from Army duties and we used to plot on a big map the progress of the Allied forces into Europe. On VE Day and the days after we had street parties almost every day."
"My first memories of the war was when I was about 2 or 3 and I was sent to a nursery in Surrey to be safe. I remember the nurse there was very kind and used to take me home to her family, my mother and sister came once a week to visit. I don't remember being unhappy.
We lived in Clapton E5 at the time which was only a few miles from the docks and there was a lot to bombing round there.
When I came home if there was an air raid my mother took us to the shelter at either Liverpool Street station or Hyde Park Corner station, she thought there was a better class of people there!
We then went to Norfolk on a farm where they didn't know what a Jew was like, I don't remember much of that time. We came home because my father was working in a a clothing factory and couldn't join us.
Next, we spent the rest of the war in Leeds because my father got a job there working for Burtons making uniforms. We shared a home with two other families and I went to infant school there. I can't remember being unhappy because I was with my family.
We came back towards the end of the war and found that our home had been bombed. We stayed with relatives until we eventually moved into a prefab which was specially built quickly for families who were homeless. I remember going with my mother to a church hall where the Salvation Army was distributing clothing, bedding and utensils for cooking as we had lost everything. My parents managed to go to the ruins of our house and managed to save a few mementoes, some of my dollhouse furniture and a lovely tortoiseshell dressing table set that was undamaged. All the rest had been looted.
My clearest memory at the end of the war was standing in my aunts garden and seeing a V2 bomber flying past, when the engine cut out you knew it had dropped a bomb nearby.
After the war there was rationing and I remember going to the corner shop to get sugar which was measured into a blue bag and a few ounces of butter for the week. Of course there was no chocolate or sweets and I remember seeing my first orange and banana."
"I was very close to my fourth birthday when war was declared and lived with my parents in a few rooms behind a shop in Ley St , Ilford.
My father was not in a reserved occupation so it was not too long before he found himself in the army and eventually he was to spend the rest of the war in India and Burma and, of course, a total stranger to me, returned after the war ended in the Far East.
My mother, my six year old sister and I left London as the Blitz began. We were taken from an evacuee centre in Oxford by two elderly spinsters who had a very large house on the Woodstock Road. We stayed there for a couple of years. Then we went to Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire. Later we moved again to Luton.
Of course I have many memories of all these places, some horrible, others less so. Everyone will remember air raids and queueing and rationing and dried egg and no bananas but here is my strange ,daily experience during the period we lived in Luton.
Cutenhoe Road was an ordinary street on the very edge of Luton. It stretched from the lower, older part of the town in a long climb to the main road that led to London. The Vauxhall Works was producing tanks and every day a tank, sometimes two, would pass the house we lived in on its way to The Luton Hoo estate for testing , before being sent to the Front.
At the time I simply saw it as normal and it is only in retrospect that I realise what a strange thing it was for a child to see armoured tanks move between semi - detached houses on an otherwise quiet suburban street."
"I was born 17.4.37. Two years before the war started. At the age of 3, I had double pneumonia, and gave mum and dad a big fright when they were told that in the morning, I would either be alive or dead. There were no antibiotics in those days. My grandfather Israel Stroh, died age 27 years with pneumonia in 1899.
I continued to be a worry to my parents, as I developed asthma. I remember, as a young boy, aged 5 and onwards (1942) having dreadful asthma attacks. The worst time was at night when I just could not breathe and my mum would sit with me on the edge of the bed, most of the night. Remember, there was no magic Ventolin, or steroid inhalers.
In Lingwood Road, we also had a Morrisons shelter, where the family would shelter from bombing raids. I particularly remember my mum, saying " Oy Vey " every time we heard a bomb explode. Of course as children we were not worried.
As a young boy, I clambered over bombed houses and collected shrapnel which I would show off in school (Craven Park) where all the upper crust were tutored. I remember one day at school that the headmaster of Craven Park School, called an assembly of all the pupils.He told us that his son had just been killed in a Kami Kasi attack on his ship, and that he was donating his sons boxing gloves to the school.
Some time during the war, my mum, my sister Shirley and I were evacuated to Harrogate. We were in an old house adjacent to a farm, and it was here that I saw a real live chicken (my first). We had a coal fire in the kitchen, and we would toast thick slices of bread on this fire using a long toasting fork. This toast, was the best toast, I have ever tasted, after a liberal coating of real butter!
At home in Clapton, during the war, my dad came home with one banana. I had never seen one before this, and he gave me a half and Shirley a half.
In Harrogate, I also remember a crashed Lancaster bomber, which had made a crash landing near to where we were staying, and members of the public were allowed to go inside the plane, and look it over."
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"I was 18 months old when the war started. My mother and I were sent to Northampton I think for a few weeks but the little boy who lived in the house hated me, so we went back to Clapton. My pushchair outside the shelter on Hackney Downs was destroyed by bomb blast.
I loved being in the shelter where I swapped comics with Anita, next door. When my father was demobbed early (he was deaf and had flat feet), he made an Anderson shelter in our back garden. We had a Morrison shelter in the house later, when Barry was born, and we all slept there, children one end and parents the other.
I can remember going with my mother to see my father while he was still in uniform. They went to a tea dance and I remember watching my parents dancing while I sat at a table with an unknown lady.
Before my brother was born, my mother's father lived with us. He was my best friend and would take me to the Downs to play.
I can remember my father being on leave and he put his rifle in the corner of the 'front room', telling me I mustn't touch it. I think I was a bit scared of it anyway.
When I hear sirens now, I'm taken back to that awful time."
"I was born in December 1936, so was not 3 years old when war was declared in September 1939. I have seen a photograph of me on a small tricycle, which I was told was taken when we lived in Staines. I have no memory of living in Staines, which is where the cinema was, where my Dad worked.
Dad was called up to serve in the army shortly after war broke out, and the story is that my sister, Linda, was conceived on his embarkation leave, before he went overseas.
I have no memories of Dad until he returned after the war, and Mum said he returned as a changed man, in many ways. He used to be a fussy eater, but when he returned, he ate anything he was given without complaint. Dad never spoke about his war experiences, but I did learn that he was in the 8th army under General Montgomery and that he served on the big anti-aircraft guns. He was wounded during the war and spent some time in hospital.
I can remember standing in the playground of my primary school, Craven Park School, wearing an overcoat, with a name and address label attached, and with a gas mask on a string, over my shoulder. I must have been about 4 years old, and we were then living at 32 Moundfield Road. Stamford Hill was where most of the Glassman family lived.
Because of the Blitz, we had to be evacuated away from London. We travelled around quite a bit. Linda was born in November 1940 in Worcester, where we lived in a road called Tunnel Hill, with a lady named Mrs Potter. The house had a large garden, and I can remember Mrs Potter showed me how to skin a rabbit. We also moved to Stevenage, and Warrington, near to Stoke on Trent, where I can remember there was a coal mine.
Mum had a younger sister, Aunty Freda. She had contracted Rheumatic Fever and was very sickly. She came with us some of the time when we were evacuated. I did hear that Grandfather Glassman, "Zeider", had obtained a large house somewhere near Reading for all the Glassman family to move to into, to avoid the Blitz, but heard that Mum would not go there as Zeider would not take Aunty Freda. Linda and I only had one set of grandparents, as Mum's parents both died before she was married.
We had an Anderson shelter in the garden of Moundfield Road and I can remember sitting in the shelter with Mum and Linda. Mum used to make sandwiches for us as to take in the shelter, as we often spent hours in the shelter. We must have moved back to London at some time. I can also remember us sitting under the staircase at home during an air raid, and also sleeping in underground tube stations with many other families on the platform.
While we were evacuated I attended several schools in different places. All I can remember is that I sat in an empty classroom with a teacher, during religious assembly, as I was the only Jewish boy in the school.
A V-1 rocket, called a Buzz Bomb or Doodlebug fell on Moundfield Road and caused extensive damage. They were so called as you could hear the droning noise as it flew overhead, and you knew you were safe as long as you could hear the buzzing noise. The time to worry was when it stopped buzzing, as that was when it fell to the ground. Fortunately we were away from London at the time. Many houses were completely flattened by the rocket, and our house had all the windows blown out, the roof blown off, and the bath from the upstairs bathroom was found in the kitchen. I think we went to stay with Mum's sisters, Aunty Ada and Aunty Polly, in Wellesley Street, in the East End for a time.
I was told that a lady in the house next door ours died in the blast from the rocket. I also had two young cousins Anita and Betty, who were killed from a bomb blast. They were at the doorway to an air raid shelter. Their house was in the next street to ours, Castlewood Road. Aunty Bertha and Uncle Hymie moved to Reading after this tragedy.
My Grandmother Glassman, "Booba", had a brother Marcus, who with his family lived in Berlin. The whole family perished in the Holocaust. I saw a picture of Marcus with Booba and Zeider.
Our house was repaired under the War Damage scheme of 1941, where the Government made compensation for damage to houses and land. Mum had to find a builder to do the work and this was difficult because most men were in the armed services. The house was patched up after a style, but was never the same as before he war. The roof always leaked when it rained and the windows never fitted properly.
We had severe rationing during the war, and had ration books with coupons for everything, from food to clothes and furniture. We had dried and powdered eggs, no fresh eggs were available, and we got so used to the taste of the omelettes, that when fresh eggs were available we did not like the taste. I can remember seeing my first ever banana at the end of the war.
At the bottom of Moundfield Road there was a small parade of shops, a Dairy, a Sweetshop called Chat's and also a Haberdashers. I remember that we heard that Chat's had some sweets to sell, and we went down the road with our ration book and some money, and joined the queue to get a bag of sweets. Food was very short and parents went without , to make sure that children had to eat.
We had no TV's in those dark days. We had a radio in the kitchen, but reception was poor, you had to fiddle with the dial for a station and jiggle the aerial. We sat around the kitchen coal fire and listened to the news and broadcasts from Winston Churchill. We had a daily newspaper, which also doubled as toilet paper when it was cut up into squares and hung on a hook in the "Lav" Aunty Ada had an outside "Lav" and it was cold and miserable to use in the winter nights.
We used to play cards in the evenings, often going over the road to Aunty Esta and Uncle Lou who was Dad's youngest brother. We played Casino, Rummy and Newmarket, and six penny pieces ( half of a shilling) changed hands at the end of each game.
Mum would take Linda and me to the cinemas on Stamford Hill, often twice a week, The Regent and The Super Cinemas, both are now supermarkets. Mum would make sandwiches for us all, and we often arrived in the middle of a film, so we would see it one and a half times. There was always an A film and a B film, and also Pathe or some other news programme, which kept us up to date with the progress of the war, although they were always several days behind with the actual news.
The Gordon Family lived in 30 Moundfield Road. Alan Gordon was my age and we were good friends, and he was in my class at Craven Park school. He had very bad asthma. We played games such as hopscotch in the street with local boys and girls. There were very few cars in those days, so it was quite safe to play in the streets.
The Gordon's emigrated to Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia, just after the war, and I can remember going to the London Railway station to see them off. I must mention that the Gordon's had a big black cat with a white face called Mickey, that my mother hated. She once spent all morning frying Haddock, and she left the fried fish on a plate on the kitchen window sill to cool, and when she went to take the fish in, she saw Mickey Gordon sitting on the fence licking his mouth. He had stolen and eaten all the fried fish..
I have a Craven Park school picture dated 1943, I was 7 years old. I remember many of my classmates, some lived in my street, and some went onto secondary school with me. The classrooms at Craven Park school had gas lights, and when it was getting dark teachers used a long pole with a hook on the end to pull the chain which increased the gas flow and made a mantle glow to give light.
I attended Hebrew Classes at Egerton Road school on Sunday mornings. I seem to remember spending most of my time there playing football in the playground, which probably resulted in my inability to read Hebrew quickly.
I cannot remember when we got our telephone, whether it was during or after the war. Our number was Stamford Hill 7111. It was a party line, which meant we shared the line with several other homes, and you could lift the hand set and hear other peoples conversations, and had to wait for them to disconnect before you could make your call. Prior to getting our own phone, we had to go to the nearest telephone box, armed with lots of 2p pieces, or if a long call was to be made, armed with shilling coins (12p) or Florins (24p).
From time to time we had American soldiers knock on our front door, announcing that they were cousins of Dad. They usually came bearing gifts such as Hershey chocolate bars and chewing gum. Aunty Esta and Uncle Lou kept in touch with these American cousins, and visited them in America several times after the war.
Zeider Glassman was a kosher butcher, born in Russia, and had brothers and sisters who left Russia and went to America. When Zeider left Russia, he got on a ship which he thought was going to America, but when it docked he found he was in Britain. At that time our grandparents spoke only Yiddish and perhaps a little Russian or Polish, so it must have been very difficult for them when they needed to leave their homes.
The story that I heard was that Zeider wanted to marry a girl named Golda, but as she was the younger sister, he had to marry the older sister, Rebecca, my Booba. Zeider went into the property business and was responsible for building a number of cinemas, which was where Dad and some of his brothers worked.
At the end of the war we had a street party, with people bringing tables from their houses and putting them in the middle of the road. There was not much food around due to the war, but we all had a great time celebrating the end to the war and no more bombing raids.
Some time later I remember we all went up to one of the London train stations, where all the soldiers who had been abroad were coming home. I did not recognise my Dad, but of course Mum was delighted to have him home again. He had not seen Linda who was 5 years old.
He used to send us parcels from various places where he was serving. He was in Italy, North Africa, Palestine and Egypt that I know. There is a story that in Palestine, he was the best man at the wedding of his cousin Montague Cohen, who had met a girl Lilly working in a local Pharmacy, and that he went on honeymoon with them. Monty and Lilly settled in North London, and Monty had a solicitors practice in the West End. We have lots of pictures of Dad in service uniform.
The war was a terrible time to live through, particularly difficult for the women folk who had no support from husbands serving abroad. They had to make the best of things with very little food or money, raising children, being evacuated and moving around the country to anywhere they could stay. Bombing raids every night, nights spent in cold dark air raid shelters, houses destroyed, loved ones killed.
Let us hope we never have to endure such times again, but we should not forget what happened, and should remember all those who died at the hands of the German war machine."
"I was five years old on September 3rd 1939 and we were living in a flat at 15 Ritson Road E8. It is a cul de sac and at the bottom of the road is the German Hospital. The nurses lived next door. I can remember that on the evening of the 2nd there was a huge bonfire in the back garden. They must have burnt all their spy documents.
The next memory is waiting in line at Euston station with a luggage label and a gas mask. We ended up at Northampton where we were selected by residents to stay with. All the pretty girls went first and I and another boy were last but we were lucky as many of the others were mistreated. At school there must have been a hundred of us in the classroom.
I was soon back home they said it was a phoney war. But then the Blitz started and one night a policeman knocked on the door and said we had to leave immediately as there was a time bomb in the hospital. The sky was alight with fires and the smoke acrid as we walked to a local school. We went allowed in back home and walked the streets in pyjamas.
Next I was evacuated to Amersham but dad took me home when he heard that I had read the lesson in church on Sunday and ate with the maid.
I was also evacuated to Reading, Wilton and Leighton Buzzard, stayed with my Booba and Zeider in Cable Street as mum was pregnant with sister Suzanne where I went to the Christian Street School and the Talmud Torah opposite, in the evening we slept in the Tilbury or in a tube station.
We ended up in Forest Gate and had our windows blown out several times by bombs, doodlebugs and V2s."
"I was one year old when the war broke out. I was not aware of much until I started school in 1942. Every morning the whole school stood in the playground and we had to try on our Gas Masks which were in the shape of Mickey Mouse. We all thought it was great fun and were sorry when we had to go into school.
I was aware of tensions at home, we were a household of females. My mother, my sister, my grandma and my Auntie and me. My father and uncle were called up early on in the war. We were very lucky that we had a big garden and we kept chickens, so we had plenty of eggs.
One night the Sirens went and we had to run quickly to the Air Raid shelter in our street. My mother had collected a few precious eggs and quickly put them in a bowl under her bed. When the All-clear was heard we went home to discover quite a bit of shock damage, bits of ceiling etc, but NOT ONE EGG WAS BROKEN. That really cheered us up!! We couldn't keep the hens for long though as we couldn't feed them and our food was rationed and everyone had the minimum to eat. The Siren that told us all that bombs were coming was a horrific sound that I shall never forget. Many many years later I heard that siren in South Africa and was frozen with horror. That siren was to keep the Native Africans off the streets from 10pm. That horrified me as much as the war siren had.
Another horrible thing during the war was THE TELEGRAM BOY. You dreaded seeing him because you knew immediately that it was to inform the family who received it that their loved one was dead. Everyone thanked G-d when he passed our doors. Young boys who were not old enough to go into the war took on many jobs and Telegraph and post was an important job.
One thing I do remember THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE. Everyone helped to keep up the morale of the people. Meagre food was shared, the old and infirm were cared for. People who lived on their own were taken into homes by relatives and friends. Everything was shared. In the shelters we laughed ,sang and prayed while the bombs fell around us. Christians, Jews, Muslims and people of colour were all brothers and sisters in the shelters.
I pray to G-d that the people of this country, and others will revive that wonderful spirit and that this horrible time that we are going through now will soon be over."
"I was born in Vienna June 11 1936. On March 30 1938, came the Anschluss, and the Germans marched into Vienna. My dad, Stefek, saw the great danger, and decided to leave. The whole family. me (aged 2) and y mum and dad escaped by plane, via Italy to London. We told no one that they were leaving.
My dad had sewn some gold coins in my pram, which we took with us. He just closed his tailors shop, on the bank of the Danube and left.
Risa, my mum was heavily pregnant, and my baby brother was born 2 days after landing in London. They named him George after the king ( George 6th). We came to live in Golders Green.
Our first house was destroyed by a bomb, and we moved into another house also in Golders Green. We had a "Morrisons Shelter", an iron table in the kitchen, and George would not get in until the family cat was safely inside. The house had an outside toilet, and strips of newspaper, hanging on a nail, were use to toochus wipe.
I have now resided in Golders Green for 83 years where I have two cousins (both kindertransport).
Most of Renee's relatives were murdered by the Nazis.
"I was about 3½ years old when the war started so I don't have many memories of those days. I do know that my parents had a sweet shop in Barking before the war and I have an abiding memory of standing on a chair and looking into the tub of a freezer cabinet as my father scooped out an ice cream.
In the early days of the war we had go and live with my grandparents in Hackney. My father walked with a slight limp from an accident in his youth and was not fit enough to be enlisted into the army but was instead drafted into the police force and served as a London Bobby for the duration of the war.
I do recall the night time air raids and the sirens and being taken from my bed in the middle of the night and going with the whole family into a shelter that had been constructed in the back garden. I suppose the noise of the sirens and the anti-aircraft guns and the planes flying overhead and the searchlights and the sounds of bombs exploding must have been very frightening for the adults. I still vaguely remember the noise but it was just part of normal everyday life to a child of 4 or 5 years old.
My grandparents moved to Leicester to get away from the daily bombing and I was sent to stay with them. My grandparents ran a tailoring business in Leicester in a shop in Hinckley Road. They spoke Yiddish most of the time and I picked it up very quickly and as a young child I could also get by in Yiddish.
My mother and younger brother remained London most of the time with my father. I started primary school in Leicester and in the course of the time that I was there I went to two separate primary schools. I suppose the first was for infants and the second for the older children. I was also taken back to London for a period on at least a couple of occasions and my mother and brother also spent some time in Leicester. This resulted in me attending three different primary schools in London in between my 5th and 11th birthdays. So for my early education I attended 5 different schools and shuttled back and forth between them!
On one occasion when in London my school was hit by a V1 flying bomb during the night. I thought "no more school" but sadly I was sent to another school instead. I remember there were about 50 or 60 children in the classes there.
In London we lived in a council flat in Clapton. One night a barrage balloon caught fire and descended into the quadrangle between the blocks and all the neighbours were rushing about with buckets of water trying to put out the flames. Often during the day one could hear the V1 flying bombs coming over. You knew that when the sound of the engine stopped it would fall and explode. I always wanted to go outside when I heard one as I wanted to see what it looked like, but my mother would grab me and my brother and shove us under the kitchen table."


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I have been waiting for this day for several weeks now. To understand what I am saying, I have to take you back to 3 months ago. In July, I woke up one morning with a pain in my right wrist. I did not fall or do anything unusual the previous day, so I overlooked this pain. After completing my morning shift of work, I decided to give my hand some rest. Rather than the pain subsiding, it increased. By the end of the day, it was swollen. By the next day, I could barely move my fingers.
I thought to myself that most probably, I have a hairline fracture. "A sprain!" said my husband. Anyhow, the x-ray ruled out my doubts. We went ahead on the premise that it's a sprain. Two weeks later, a trip to the orthopaedic surgeon revealed more problems. In effect, I had to sit with a crepe bandage around my wrist.
Life suddenly changed since that ill-fated day in July. I could barely use my hand. I did not have a tight grip in my hand; pain became a constant feature, and I was tired of listing all the complaints I have with my hand. There was a burning sensation, tingling and numbness. Gradually, the fresh pink palm donned a greyish dead fish look. After taking an MRI, the doctor started his treatment, but he warned that I may have to live with some of these pains. The list of ailments was a sprained wrist, TFCC disc tear, nerve compression and CRPS.
Right became left and vice versa. I learnt to work with my left hand. Everything from brushing in the morning to chopping vegetables and cooking, I learned to do all of it with my left hand. I practised writing with my left hand. Most of the time, I laughed at my clumsiness, but sometimes I was depressed. I felt guilty for the trouble I gave to my family. I am not used to dependency.
Today after a long time, I feel a little better. My hand hurts a little less than usual. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. A million thanks to God for this day and for such a wonderful and supportive family and friends.


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How to Manage Numbness, Tingling, and Other Sensory Symptoms of MS
Sensory symptoms are among the most common symptoms of MS. Find out what triggers them and what can be done to manage them.
Some of the most distressing and even frightening symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) are sensory disturbances — sensations that can range from numbness to itching to burning pain. They're also common.
Because these symptoms are caused by the nerve damage that is a part of multiple sclerosis, anyone with MS is at risk of developing them.
But a range of strategies can help with managing MS sensory issues.
Types of Sensory Symptoms
People with MS experience three basic types of sensory symptoms, says Fred D. Lublin, MD, professor of neurology and director of the Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City: loss of sensation, abnormal sensations, and painful sensations.
Loss of sensation is experienced as numbness in the affected area or body part.
Abnormal sensations may include:
- Pins and needles
- Tingling
- Crawling sensations
- Itching (without a rash)
Painful sensations include:
- Hypersensitivity to touch
- Burning sensations
- The "MS hug," a band-like tightness or girdling feeling in the chest or abdomen that can result from nerve damage or from spasms in the small muscles between the ribs
- Lhermitte's sign, an acute, electric shock–like sensation running down the spine and into the limbs that occurs when the head is bent forward
Numbness, abnormal sensations, and pain can affect virtually any part of the body: the face, torso, arms, hands, legs, and feet. The symptoms may come and go, or they may come and stay.
"If they're symptoms caused by old nerve damage, they may flare up during periods of fatigue or illness, and then go away with rest and recovery," Dr. Lublin says.
Rarely Permanent, but Potentially Dangerous
Husband and wife Jennifer and Dan Digmann, who both have MS, frequently struggle with such sensory symptoms.
"My first MS symptom was numbness in my right hand, but that was well before my diagnosis," says Jennifer, who was diagnosed with MS in 1997, eight days after her 23rd birthday.
She describes the feeling as "like that tingly, pins-and-needles feeling you get when your hand falls asleep and the rest of your body is awake, only no matter how hard you try to shake and wake it up, the feeling won't go away."
Dan also experiences numbness and tingling in his hands and feet.
"When I first was diagnosed, I was concerned how that would affect my ability to type, as that's a huge part of my job as a writer," he says. Dan was diagnosed with MS on Valentine's Day in 2000, at age 27. "I quickly realized you don't actually have to feel the keys when you type. Just put your fingers into the proper position and type away!"
While sensory symptoms rarely become permanent, they can be dangerous. Loss of sensation in your legs, for example, can cause a fall. Numbness in your hands can cause you to drop things and may put you at risk for being burned by scalding water. Numbness in your face may be dangerous when chewing.
Dan says his main concern about sensory symptoms now is that they will interfere with his ability to care for his wife.
"My biggest concern with my numb feet is that I will try to run or walk too fast and fall down, because I can't completely feel them underneath me," says Dan. "The fear isn't the fall so much as it is: What damage will it do to me, and will I still be able to be Jennifer's caregiver?"
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Treating and Managing MS Sensory Issues
So what can you do about sensory symptoms? For some symptoms, medication can help.
Neuropathic (nerve) pain may respond to anticonvulsant drugs, such as Neurontin (gabapentin) or Lyrica (pregabalin), Lublin says. Antidepressants are also sometimes used to treat nerve pain.
If sensory symptoms are due to a relapse or to new MS attacks, steroids may help to control them.
Topical capsaicin creams and ointments, which are sold over the counter, can sometimes block painful sensations in the legs, feet, hands, and arms.
Like the symptoms themselves, though, responses to the various drugs vary from person to person.
"In the beginning, steroid infusions helped to alleviate some of these issues," says Jennifer.
For Dan, the best treatment is running his hands under cold water and clenching his hands into tight fists and opening them quickly. "Oh yeah, and regularly asking Jennifer to massage my hands."
Heat may help too, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society: A warm compress may turn painful sensations into warm sensations.
Some other ways to avoid or manage sensory symptoms include:
- Avoid becoming overheated.
- Get plenty of rest.
- Do your best to stay healthy. Illnesses such as colds or the flu are common triggers for exacerbations.
- Wear pressure stockings or a tight glove, which may convert painful sensations to pressure sensations.
- Wear a soft cervical collar to prevent Lhermitte's sign.
- Try cognitive behavioral therapy or hypnosis.
- Meditate to lower stress and, consequently, distress.
Triggers and Help for MS Sensory Symptoms
Learning your unique triggers for sensory symptoms may be the best way to manage them. For Jennifer, being tired is a big trigger. In fact, she says that every night around 9 p.m. her head starts itching. "When I am sleepy, my head itches relentlessly," she says.
For Dan, who writes for the couple's nationally recognized blog, Dan and Jennifer Digmann, and the online radio program A Couple Takes on MS, stress is a huge trigger.
"Whether it's a lot of work-related deadlines or projects we need to complete," he says, "the more stress I have, the more numb my hands get. And the more numb my hands get, the more stressed I am. It just keeps going."
To help keep stress at bay, Dan does his best to make a plan and take care of what needs to be done in the moment, without focusing on all of the other tasks ahead of him.
The couple also urges people living with MS to give themselves time to adjust to any new symptoms or sensory issues.
"Reach out to other people, including your doctor and members of the MS community, for insight and advice," says Jennifer. "The reality is, you more than likely aren't the only person with MS who's encountering your issue or concern."
Additional reporting by Susan Jara.


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Your coworkers may look busy, but if you're not sure what they do all day, you're not alone. According to the State of Work Report 2018 by the project management platform Workfront, 86% of us don't have a clear sense of what our colleagues are working on.
We also believe that we're the most productive employees at work, ahead of those coworkers and company leadership. If we were asked to rate our coworkers like Uber drivers, we'd give them an average score of 3.7 stars out of five, according to the study. Not bad, but not stellar, either. Since it's impossible for everyone to be the most productive employee, the confusion can lead to conflict.
"Coworkers can be a particularly strong influence on employee satisfaction, especially when employees have to rely heavily on each other to complete their work," says Kevin Cruz, assistant professor of management at the University of Richmond's Robins School of Business. "Unfortunately, coworkers' priorities and goals, which can be a result of the particular roles employees fill within their organizations, do not always align. This can cause a lot of frustration between coworkers."
Instead of getting frustrated, assume positive intent, says Colleen Kerr, senior career management consultant at the consulting firm Right Management. "Your coworker is likely not deliberately trying to annoy you," she says.
Here are the top three sources of frustration we have with our coworkers, and how you can resolve or reconsider your perspective to boost collaboration and productivity.
1. Priorities
The top source of trouble is conflicting priorities, with 57% of employees saying there's a lack of alignment on strategic objectives.
"Timelines and urgency aren't commonly understood, and the information that managers and frontline team members need to meet their objectives isn't readily available," says Scott Lee, vice president of product marketing for Workfront. "All of this leads to conflict at the front line."
The way to reduce coworker frustration with conflicting priorities is to increase transparency around what's most important to the organization," says Laura Handrick, career analyst for the resource site FitSmallBusiness.com. "It starts with communicating the organizations' vision, mission, and values," she says. "Those drive how the organization behaves."
Different project leaders, such as those working in operations, HR, or IT, may have different priorities," says Handrick. "Using collaborative and transparent online project management tools like Asana or Trello can help get everyone on the same page," she suggests. "If all are required to use a similar tool for documenting priorities, then conflicting priorities are quickly discovered by management, and workers are no longer caught in the middle."
Team members should also create priority lists at the beginning of a new work cycle, adds John Paul Stephens, professor of organizational behavior at Case Western Reserve University. "What needs to be done when and why?" he asks. "Some degree of strategic planning is important for the most productive people and organizations. It's also important for interdependent work, since you need to be able to articulate these needs and priorities to others."
2. Communication
Fifty-six percent of workers have communication issues with coworkers, according to the survey. Lee says workplace communication tools are in transition, with old tools, like spreadsheets, emails, and meetings being used at the same time as new tools, such as digital workflow platforms. This can lead to trouble.
"Gathering information, sharing insights, and updating team members is still a fairly analog, manual process," he says. "How many times does conflict arise because one person or a team wasn't aware another person or team was doing something?"
Coworkers should get on the same page when it comes to the preferred method of communication, says Stephens. "Some people think a text message or email is enough, while others realize that you need to set up a face-to-face meeting or just go find the person at their desk," he says. "People perceive a lack of timely communication because they may have different ideas of what matters and when it needs to be executed."
Frustration about a lack of communication can also be due to a gap in coworkers' ability to express what they need, when they need it, and why it is so important, says Natalie Baumgartner, chief workforce scientist at the employee engagement firm Achievers. "It is critical to support individuals in being able to provide regular feedback to their manager and coworkers about how they are feeling about the communication on a team, and whether they're being heard in the way they want to be," she says.
3. Urgency
Finally, 47% of employees are frustrated when it comes to a lack of urgency. Whether in small or large groups, someone has to be the orchestra conductor keeping time for everyone else, says Stephens.
"If we assume that individual humans typically tend to focus on their immediate, personal concerns, then it becomes easier to appreciate the need to have agreed-upon timelines, clear accountability criteria, and someone who tracks and updates the schedule," he says. "Research has consistently shown that interdependent or collective rather than individual rewards are needed for effective teamwork. The sense of urgency ideally has to come from a sense of shared goals and accomplishments."
Lack of urgency can also be connected to communication problems, adds Kerr. "It could be that your coworker does not fully understand your deadlines and commitments," she says. "Take the time to explain your timelines and the reason for the tight deadlines. We often assume that everyone understands our roles and responsibilities, yet that is not always the case."


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The AS series of Sony action cameras have in fact probably been the most used Sony product for skydivers, with the releases of the AS15, AS30 and AS100 in just a few short years. Now the new Sony HDR-AS200V is announced with the option for MP4 and professional XAVC S recording. While, the users would get frustrated when import Sony AS200V/W XAVC S to FCP 7/X for further editing. This article is mainly to solve the Sony AS200V/W to Final Cut Pro importing problems.
Q: "I've recently begun shooting video with Sony AS200V. I can record video in MP4 but wanted to check the better encoder XAVC-S. I'm working with FCP 7 and it does not recognize the XAVC S file. Any and all advice is welcome and appreciated."
You might be in the similar trouble like above. In fact, XVAC S as a new codec does not appear to be supported by FCP 7, FCP X. Then how to import Sony HDR-AS200V videos to Final Cut Pro for editing without any issue? Well, if you make the XAVC S recordings editable before taking to the Final Cut Pro program, the incompatible error won't happen any more.
Since Apple ProRes is the best format for FCP, here we highly recommend to transcode Sony AS200V/W XAVC S to ProRes with Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac. This Mac XAVC S converter is the solid tool to help users transcode Sony XAVC S footage on Mac OS X(Mavericks, Yosemite included). It offers the optimal preset profiles for Final Cut Pro and iMovie, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, FCE and more. And there is no need to worry about the quality loss. Download the software and follow the detailed guide.
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Step 1. You need to download, install and run the smart XAVC S to FCP Converter and transfer your XAVC S recordings to the program from the your camcorder or hard drive.
Step 2. Click Format bar and go to Final Cut Pro column by choosing "Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" as the best video format for editing Sony XAVC S in Final Cut Pro 6/7/X with good video quality.
Tip: You also can click "Settings" to set video frame rate, video size and Video Bitrate as you want.
Step 3. As soon as all things are finished, please click "Convert" button to start the Sony AS200V/W XAVC S to ProRes conversion on Mac OS X.
Once the conversion process shows 100%, click Open button to get the output videos. Now you can smoothly import the converted XAVC S files to Final Cut Pro X or FCP 7 as you want.
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$525,000 Settlement Against Negligent Condominium Complex and Snow-Removal Company
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The family of a deceased man accepted a settlement of $525,000 against a condominium complex and snow-removal company for a winter weather slip-and-fall accident.
The condominium complex, located in Princeton, New Jersey, argued that they had done everything that they were obligated to do by contracting with a large snow-removal company and having it come out to the complex to perform snow removal and ice treatment several hours before the fall took place.
The snow-removal company argued that it had fulfilled its obligations by sending a full crew out to the location in question and performing appropriate snow removal and applying calcium chloride to all icy areas.
Through the course of discovery, Gabriel R. Lependorf, Esq., was able to establish that both the condominium complex and the snow-removal company were negligent. It was established at the deposition of the complex's board president that he was aware of the icy condition in the hours before the fall, yet he had failed to contact the snow-removal company to come back and treat the ice. He admitted that he could have taken this step but instead just went back into his house and read the newspaper.
The deposition testimony of the snow-removal company revealed that the crew chief had no training in snow and ice removal, didn't understand how calcium chloride worked, and rounded up his helpers from whoever was available to work in his neighborhood.
The case settled just before a jury trial by way of mediation with a retired superior court judge.
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Our team of professionals at Qualis always go that extra mile to make sure client satisfaction is our top priority. You can trust that you're in the best place with our company. The team at Qualis work with the best health and insulation suppliers and ensure that only the best tools, materials and equipment is used, this is to make sure that our customers receive quality, long-lasting solutions.
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West Virginia Natural Gas Drilling Injury Attorneys
The gas drilling industry is making hundreds of millions of dollars tapping into the enormous natural gas resources here in North Central West Virginia. Working in a natural gas drilling industry is considered to be one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States because the workers hired by the gas companies are subject to the most physical and dangerous jobs imaginable. If you are a worker in the gas fields for any extended period of time, you stand a significant chance of suffering some form of an injury and the chances are even greater that you have witnessed someone suffer a severe injury. All it takes is one mishap or error in judgment or communication for an accident to occur. Workers are subject to toxic chemical exposure, dangerous explosions, fire and chemical burns, crushed limbs and amputation, and even death.
If you have been injured while working for a natural gas company you are entitled to monetary damages for your injuries to relieve the high costs of medical expenses, lost wages, and pain and suffering. Potential defendants in gas explosion cases begin their investigation very quickly and insurance companies and gas mining operations will routinely attempt to save money by offering settlements worth far less than may be deserved. Therefore it is important that the explosion victim or victim's family also conduct a prompt investigation and speak to an experienced attorney who understands the natural gas industry and the types of injuries and compensation involved.
If you were injured in a gas drilling accident, it is essential to preserve your rights for compensation. Colombo Law, has extensive experience handling workplace accident cases and a proven history of successfully representing victims of gas drilling accidents. Contact us at 304-599-4229 to find out how we can help you.


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Before the release of Yarn, NPM was the go-to package manager for Node.js. When Facebook released their own package manager solution, called Yarn in October 2016, it caught the attention of many developers. Yarn is supposed to solve some of the problems with NPM but not replace it completely. It provides a new CLI but uses NPM registry under the hood to retrieve the dependencies. Since it's release, Yarn has received over 22,000 Github stars been named the second fastest growing open source project on GitHub ever.
So should we all make the switch to Yarn? Let's take a look at some of the main pain points developers and teams face when using NPM and compare the available NPM and Yarn solutions. (Note- This post will not cover all the differences between these two package managers, but will explain how to address some of the known issues with NPM and Yarn.)
Very Slow Install Times
If you're a Node.js developer that has used NPM, you've probably run into issues with slow install times. You start cloning a new repository and running
npm install to execute the package and find yourself waiting, and waiting… Yarn solves this problem by providing an ultra-fast caching system and parallelization of operations to maximize resource utilization. This means that in contrast of NPM, Yarn actually downloads the dependencies in parallel and makes sure that everything is cached.
Package Versions Are Not Distinct
One of the biggest problems with NPM is that triggering a single
npm install command will not necessary lead to a deterministic result. So if you tested something locally on your machine but your CI created a final artifact by running the
npm install command, you could end up with different dependency versions running in production. This happens because a single
npm install command is actually a recursive operation performed on all the dependencies of the original dependencies. So if a module required a non-distinct version number, a future
npm install can lead to a different fetched version.
In order to solve this problem with NPM, Shrinkwrap was introduced. Developers can run shrinkwrap manually after running
npm install, which will then create a
npm-shrinkwrap.json filecontaining all the distinct versions of all dependencies recursively. This leaves the responsibility of maintaining the
npm-shrinkwrap.json file on the developer, not NPM.
Yarn built-in a feature to solve this problem so that the actual responsibility of maintaining the distinct versions is on Yarn itself. When a developer runs
yarn (which is the equivalent to
npm install) a
yarn.lock file is created or updated according to the exact versions of the dependencies. The
yarn.lock file also contains the packages sha1 checksum and with this Yarn will make sure to re-pull the package in case it has been changed somehow.
Using Yarn or NPM as Part of Your Continuous Integration Flow
Whether you choose Yarn or NPM in your regular CI flow, every now and then a triggered build will have to re-install all your dependencies from scratch. Let's take a look at the scenarios where this can occur and what you can do to solve it. (Most CI flows, whether using Docker as their facilitator or not, include one or more participating servers that are involved during the entire flow.)
Non-Docker CI Flow:
When using a single server, most CI flows will start from cloning the repository each time a flow starts. As a consequence, it will start installing the dependencies from scratch so the new CI flow will not be able to benefit from previous installations. NPM and Yarn support the ability to cache dependencies to the local file system. So if configured correctly, it solves this problem as long as there's only a single server.
Once the number of CI flows increases, a single server will probably not be enough. When new CI servers are added, the CI flows that are running on a specific server will not be able to use the caching made on a different server. This will become a bigger problem if the servers that are used for the CI flows are constantly being killed and created on demand.
Docker CI Flow:
One of the most powerful strengths of Docker is its ability to use the previously built layers during a build process of an image. As long as a single Docker daemon is used for all CI flows and the installation of the dependencies is being done as part of image build, inserting the install command correctly into the Dockerfile should do the trick. If your CI flow also includes testing, then the dependencies will be needed for the tests. However, this might not always be possible using a built image, meaning it will require an additional installation of the dependencies.
Using Docker is not bullet proof. Once the number of Docker daemons increases, a specific Docker daemon that was chosen for the CI flow will not always be able to use a different Docker daemon's cached layers. This will result in an installation of the dependencies from scratch. It's worth mentioning that even if an image was pulled from a registry to a Docker daemon, it will not be able to use its layers during the caching resolution process. There are solutions for enabling multiple daemons to use cached layers from different daemons, but they are not easy to implement.
Since the release of Docker 1.13, it's possible to pass to the build process of a specific image as its cache source using the
--cache-from flag. But even with this new builds can't always access all the previously built layers.
Using Codefresh to Cache Dependencies Between CI Flows:
Codefresh provides a full distributed solution for Docker-based CI flows. Codefresh manages everything related to resource consumption and allocation for its users and ensures that every CI flow works as fast as possible. In order to support this, Codefresh holds a dynamically large amount of Docker daemons within the platform.
As a team of engineers, we at Codefresh have all encountered these issues so we've to help solve them with our platform. One of the main capabilities Codefresh provides is 'shared volumes.' In Codefresh, a shared volume is created for every pipeline and is persisted so that it is usable in future flows, even if the future flow runs on a totally different Docker daemon. The shared volume will contain the cloned repository associated with the context of the flow and everything saved there will be persisted. This opens a new world of possibilities.
Comparing Performance using Codefresh
If you'd like to test the performance difference between NPM and Yarn, we prepared a
codefresh.yaml file you can commit to your repository. Then using Codefresh, you can easily run it and see the performance difference between the two package management tools. Check out our documentation page for more information.
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I know my posts haven't been very varied, but I guess watching shows is just all I am capable of these days. I think most of you like these posts, so I hope you don't mind the flood of them that you are getting! Here's my latest binge-watches:
The OA (Part 2)
I REFUSE to show you any material from this show. I had to wait literal years for this continuation of the story and I am still head over heels in love with it all. The fact that a mere human thought of this just baffles my mind every single time. The OA is so out there, requires so much faith and patience and attention, I very much doubt it is for everyone. However, if you are willing to go on a one of a kind trip with a show that will mess with your head, make you doubt reality and break your heart with its bittersweet beauty, then please, please, please watch it. One of the best mind-benders out there!
(Although if you have watched the show and want to talk spoilers, either carefully mark them in your comments below, write me a mail via firstname.lastname@example.com or DM me on Twitter!)
On My Block (Season 2)
This is another show that I have anticipated the return of. If you want to check out what it's all about from season 1, I wrote a detailed but non-spoilery post about it here. The first season ended on a massive cliffhanger and so did this season, although I somehow found it less hardcore. I have some theories as to what might have happened, but maybe I am totally off key.
Either way, this is such a heart-warming and great show and I am immensely happy it got to do another season. I sincerely hope they will keep going again, but if the other fans who have eagerly waited for its return binged it as quickly as me, there's a good chance that more content is coming. I like how On My Block always manages to balance really serious topics with so much humour. These kids have to endure more at the age of 14 than others in their lifetime. Also, the friendship dynamic is so interesting and always keeps changing and evolving. This season, my favourite duo was Jasmine and Ruby though, they did such a great job!
Queer Eye (Season 3)
I mean, it's Queer Eye. What do you want me to say about it? I love this show and it's so great to watch something positive and seemingly superficial that can go quite deep every now and then. I have to say that this season didn't hit me as hard emotionally as some of the previous ones, but maybe that's just because I am in a different mind space right now. I still love them to bits and like that even from episode to episode, each one resonates differently with every viewer, just based on their own life and hardships. The Fab 5 did not disappoint again!
After Life
This show came much recommended to me, but I did not find it as a revelatory as some people have said it was for them. I think it's a good show and it's a good take on grief, but "brilliant" is not the word I would have used. In fact, I was quite unhappy with how some parts of it turned out. Still, that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it, I just don't think it's something completely new and mesmerizing. The fact that Joe Wilkinson and Roisin Conaty were in it made it really hard for me to not find it funny sometimes since my brain just directly went to 8 Out of 10 Cats (Does Countdown).
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Med barnens röst : Ettåringar "berättar" om sin förskola
Sammanfattning: In the children's voiceOne-year-olds "tell" about their preschoolThe overall aim of this study is to advance the child's perspective. This is done by a study of one-year-olds in a toddler unit in a Swedish municipal preschool, located in a multicultural suburb in the city of Stockholm. A full day preschool programme is common today in Sweden. More than 40 percent of the one-year-olds and more than 80 percent of the two-year-olds take part in preschool education. The National Curriculum for the Preschool describes the preschool child¬ren (aged 1–6 years) as active participants, and gives them the equal rights to come up with ideas and to influence the activities and the environment.The study is theoretically placed within phenomenology. One's perception forms images of different phenomenon in the everyday life of the children, and these phenomena create the world for us. In a phenomenological study the researcher tries to describe and even to understand the life-world of the participating people. Phenomenology is well aligned with the child's perspective. Six one-year-olds, three girls and three boys, within a toddler group of fourteen one- to three-year-olds were followed during nine months, from April to Decem-ber, 2006. Participatory observations with field notes and video re-cordings were used in the data collection. The teachers' interaction with the children was not studied.The result is presented as "stories" told by the children, stories which of course are the researcher's descriptions, based on the emerg-ing phenomena. Making up "stories" and presenting them as the chil-dren's "stories" is a conscious choice in order to enhance the chil-dren's perspectives. The "stories" tell about friendship among the children, shown when they give attention to each other and when they actively choose their playmates. The children play together most of the time and the play consists of continuous and repeated play ses-sions with regular interruptions, during which the children wander around the premises. Longer uninterrupted periods where the children kept focus on the same activity were also frequent.Key words: one-year-olds, preschool, child's perspective, play, identity formation, friendship
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Much more than just a buzzword, disruptive marketing is changing the way we react to, understand and accept companies and their advertising. From a business standpoint, disruptive marketing represents a key shift in an era where promotional strategies update as fast as the technology that carries them.
Apple didn't change music—it changed the way consumers shop for music with a disruptive service that revolutionized the industry. Netflix has revolutionized media consumption. Tesla has disrupted the auto industry by creating direct-to-consumer purchasing pipelines that break from the traditional dealership model and give consumers a way to interact with a car brand that's familiar to their experiences in other categories. When you look at Airbnb — and also Uber, for that matter — it's clear that many of today's disruptors are focusing on the social aspect of consumerism. There's something more attractive to today's customer about purchasing a product or service from a person as opposed to a large corporate brand. Airbnb accomplishes this by connecting people to people. This peer-sharing aspect is what's allowed the company to grow so quickly.
Whereas disruption turns an industry on its head by offering customers something that previously didn't exist, innovation merely makes an existing value offering better, cheaper or faster. Marketers who focus on building relationships around good products will be rewarded, while fake fast followers with shabby products and poor service will be ostracized.
Follow The Leaders
Financial services companies were some of the first to embrace data mining and customer analytics. It has been used as a tool for customer acquisition, retention, cross-selling and Onboarding for nearly 20 years. Other industries have followed that lead and begun to apply similar methodologies for their business applications. We believe two industries that can benefit greatly from applying data-driven marketing are hospitality companies and health systems.
As outlined in a recent study conducted by Deloitte Consulting, hospitality companies are data-rich but insight-poor. To truly understand their customers' needs and deliver an outstanding experience, hospitality companies should be able to access and leverage the right information at the right time–not an easy task. In fact, many hospitality companies struggle to turn the disjointed data they have into useful information, and valuable insights to enhance the experience. Others have difficulty determining what information to collect, how frequently it should be collected, or how best to distribute it to internal and external stakeholders.
Within the healthcare sector, an evaluation of the marketplace by McKinsey & Company revealed that more than 200 businesses created since 2010 are developing innovative tools to make use of available health care information. The good news is that the proliferation of electronic medical records and mobile devices, enhanced computing platforms and infrastructure, new data sharing and mining tools, and other recent technological advances have dramatically increased the ability of health care providers, payers, and their affiliates to generate, aggregate, store, and analyze health information. As market leaders like Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins develop strategies to leverage existing patient and prospective patient data, we're seeing more interest in embracing data to improve marketing effectiveness and measurement.
Whether you're a brand activation agency fine-tuning a creative brand campaign or an ecommerce business analyzing customer-buying behavior, data analysis plays a huge role in brand disruption. Data-driven marketers are using both unstructured and structured data to discover valuable trends, opportunities, and consumer insights. New analytics tools make it possible to analyze sophisticated text-based data, which can include anything from online customer reviews to emails. Brands that invest in data analytics can easily spot customer behavioral trends, identify areas for improvement in products and services, and glean insight about what their customers want. In other words, data analytics is a gold mine for identifying disruptive market opportunities and capitalizing on them.
We believe the basic principals that we have applied to customer and prospect marketing in other verticals translates to success in hospitality and hospital marketing and advertising. We would also advise you to look no further than your existing data as a starting point for implementing a data-driven marketing strategy in 2017.


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Rose gold, golden hues on the rise in home decorating
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Stephanie Gamble, an interior designer who owns The House Downtown in Belvedere Square, sees the use of gold hues growing in home decor. "I love all the golds coming back – even the brass, bronze, cooper and rose golds," Gamble said. "For so long it …
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