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here's greg!!:
winter wonderful!!! how amazing is this scenic sonnet from santa-hatted greg, who is a local teacher and generally one of the coolest and nicest people we've ever met. for those of you watching in warmer climes, this is in fact about what it looks like around here — so thank you greg, for the beautiful reading in this very lovely setting, and for reminding us all that shakespeare is a man for any season.
Sonnet 146
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
These rebel powers that thee array;
Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?
Why so large cost, having so short a lease,
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?
Shall worms, inheritors of this excess,
Eat up thy charge? is this thy body's end?
Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to aggravate thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,
And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.


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They say the first impression is the last impression and for a business, their logo is the first impression which the prospective customers encounter regarding the companies and the brand. Usually most business organizations spend a lot of money to design a great logo which can easily attract the customers to purchase your services and products. There are in fact numerous studies which show that it is pretty difficult to change the way you feel about a particular thing after it has created the first impression. This is what brand identity is is all about as you're making an impression, creating a clear message about your brand and build a company image. So, what are the ways in which you can create a logo for your brand, that too like a pro? Check out advice from experts.
- Put yourself in the shoes of a customer: Imagine yourself in the shows of the customers. Do you remember shopping from a store where you had come across this terrible logo all over the body of the product? You need to ask yourself how you can create something which actually stands out in the crowd and is able to retain the quality of your brand. Designers usually work for long hours in order to conquer this part of designing and hence you should be able to keep your skills sharp.
- Color of the logo is very important: One of the most vital considerations for designing a logo is its color palette. This isn't a superficial decision as it is the color which communicates ideas and carried meanings. Sometimes you might have to go by the definite colors of a brand and some other times you can explore with different colors. The colors should grab you in and should give shape to the landscape. A good logo should be so good that it should function well in a greyscale.
- Make the logo ownable: The concept of making the logo ownable is indeed a crucial one which is related closely with the last mentioned point. Instead of following the herd, you should use something clichéd so that you can successfully create something which is totally unique. Hence, whenever you're designing logos, consider whether or not the design is unique or generic. Try to make something actually unique.
- Simple and stupid logos often work: Everyone can sometime create awesome hand-drawn script on a whim but just because you're a web designer doesn't mean that you can illustrate well. However, if you can, then there's nothing that can prevent you from making excessively nice logos. Hence, try to keep it simple and stupid which can permeate the minds of the people and also prove to be the best icons over time.
Hence, if you're looking forward for a good company logo design, you can take into account the above mentioned logo designing tips. The more you practice making them, the more you will flourish.

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In one of the most shocking cases of apparent sexual abuse in decades, a woman lying in a coma in a Phoenix area long-term care facility has given birth to a baby! The bizarre incident took... Read more
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This is Part 2 of a two-part article on nurses who have lost their jobs after refusing to take an employer-mandated influenza vaccination. As mentioned in Part 1, the U.S. Centers for Diseas... Read more
This is Part 1 of a two-part article on nurses who have lost their jobs after refusing to take an employer-mandated influenza vaccination. A nurse in St. Louis, Missouri employed by Mercy Ho... Read more
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Buy to let has been getting a poor press lately, yet it has been one of the most successful product developments in the residential mortgage industry over the last few years. This is helped by the fact that it has tapped into the sensibility of a culture that believes in the lasting value of 'bricks and mortar' and is confident that investment in property is likely to be 'as safe as houses.'
Land Registry house price figures show a 17.5% overall rise in house prices in England and Wales in the last two years and a 65% rise over the last five years. For anyone who has seen their own stock market-linked investments stagnate over the last two years, this sort of capital growth must look extremely attractive ' particularly as the prevailing opinion is that a property crash similar to that of the early 1990s is unlikely.
If rental property seems to be a good investment, will the pool of tenants dry up if too many people take the buy-to-let option? Although the luxury corporate letting market in London has suffered since September last year, I don't believe market factors point to a decrease in demand. On the contrary, the increase in short-term contracts and redundancies is creating a sector of the population which would rather have the flexibility of renting than the serious financial commitment of a mortgage.
The traditional factors that encourage property ownership, such as marriage and parenthood, are being undertaken by people in their mid to late 30s, a decade later than the previous generation. Research by from Halifax shows the average age of a first-time buyer is now 34, meaning a strong rental market exists within the 18-34 age group.
If rents are fixed at an optimistically high level, and there is plenty of choice for tenants, then landlords cannot expect to let their property easily. However, it is the sign of a healthy marketplace where supply and demand combine to bring pricing down to a reasonable level.
For an investor, buy to let is an interesting half-way house between residential and commercial lending. It is attractive to those with an entrepreneurial spirit who can see the possibilities for sound capital growth and look to acquire not one, but a portfolio of rental properties.
Those entrepreneurs tend to be less risk-averse than the rest of the population and are likely to have had previous credit problems, a factor which will make them unsuitable for most mainstream buy-to-let lenders. But opportunities still exist in the sub-prime sector which is best equipped to understand the concept of risk and reward.
John Prust is sales and marketing director at SPML


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AC4Formed 2008
AC4 Biography (Wikipedia)
AC4 is a Swedish hardcore band from Umeå, Sweden. Refused members Dennis Lyxzén and David Sandström had been talking about starting a new band for a long time. In the spring of 2008 Karl Backman had written songs for the new band and they started to rehearse. Jens Nordén had played with Lyxzén in pre-Refused straight edge hardcore band Step Forward (1987-1991) and since 1990 with Backman in punk band The Vectors. The "AC" in the name is the regional code for the Västerbotten province where Umeå is located.
The first show was at a squat on Parkgatan in Umeå on May 5th, 2008.
In May 2008 someone posted a live song on YouTube. It got on Kerrang's playlist and had over 14,000 hits the first week.
They performed at Storsjöyran and Umeå Punkfest in 2008.
In 2009 they performed at Way Out West Festival and released the self-titled debut album on Lyxzén's label Ny Våg.
In 2010 their European tour took them around their native Sweden, as well as Norway, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Austria, France, Italy, England and Wales. They also released the Umeå Hardcore 7" EP in Europe, a special 7" for Australia only and the debut album came out in America.
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Pellet Mill Project in SwedenThis pellet mill project is located in the middle Sweden. The customer has a saw mill that consumes about 165,000 cubic meters of timber every year. 85% of the products are for export.
The customer invested the pellet mill production line project in 1995, and the production ability of the production line is 45 thousand tons for each year.
The pellets for bulk sale are used for the district heating device and the small scale residence heating system.
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Sometimes we face situations like we are looking for the best doctor or the best hospital but don't have any clue how to get them. In these cases medical websites are very helpful. If you design a well featured medical website, then it may come very helpful for so many visitors. But the first thing bothers in developing any site is the best theme to choose to serve your purpose.
In this article we are describing 10 well featured medical WordPress themes with the best best features available with the themes. If you are looking for a theme to develop a site with medical facilities available them you may fint this article really helpful for you.
10 Responsive Healthcare WordPress themes free
1. Regina Lite
Regina Lite is the most flexible wordpress theme designed for the websites who provide medical support. It has many color options available to customize it into a better look. It comes with cross browser compatibility to make it run on every browser. So the service will never stop. The best option for web developers.
Top Features:
- Color management
- Retina ready
- Unlimited Google fonts
- Cross browser support
- Clean code
- Responsive layout
2. Skt medical
Skt Medical is a Responsive Medical WordPress theme with cross browser compatibility. Comes with good outlook that attracts visitors to stay on the site. It has the ability to change layouts for blog. Also the best part is there is a ready to use booking appointment form for the easy interaction between doctors and patients.
Top Features:
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- Color picker
- Default slider
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- 6+ page templates
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3. Medics
Medics is a super flexible and a lightweight WordPress theme designed for medical websites. It is designed using tweeter bootstrap so the view is available and same in all devices. Its a free wp theme with a stunning outlook and so many options available. Though its designed for doctors and hospitals, anyone can use it for personal blog website.
Top Features:
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- Theme options
- Responsive design
- Fast loading
- Google fonts
- Translation ready
- Featured image header
4. Healthcare
Healthcare is a free WordPress theme for medical websites. Built on Bootstrap that gives it the flexibility of running in any device and also responsive. WPML compatibility that help it with multilingual support. 4 page templates and custom menus gives a great chance to make the website uniquely designed and more reliable.
Top Features:
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5. Health care
A theme which is ideal for creating a Health / Doctor / Clinic / Medical Business related website. Theme has couple of extra templates makes it even more powerful.
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6. Doctorsline
Doctorsline is an one page wordpress medical theme designed with built in contact form and WooCommerce support. A simple flexible theme with live customizer that makes it easier to customize. Online store to manage the medicine store as a side business and also a great support for the patients.
Top Features:
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- Portfolio section
- Testimonial
- Unlimited color option
- Google reCAPTCHA
- Social icons
7. Medexpert
MedExpert is a great medical WordPress theme designed with fully responsive layout. Unlimited scrolling scrolling keeps showing the web contents continuously. That is really helpful to find something out without keeping changing the page each time. Also comes with a contact us page attached default in the web theme.
Top Features:
- Responsive Web Design
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- Contact us Page
- Translation Options
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- SEO Optimization
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Installations at Olympia Waldorf School
In the early spring of 2014 the Olympia Mycelial Network did an installation with the Olympia Waldorf School! On a brisk March day they gathered in the company of 3rd to 8th graders and learned how to do a fungi-garden bed installation. One garden bed with The Garden Giant, stropharia rugoso-annulata, and one installation with Elm Oyster, hypsizygus ulmarius.
If they continue to add hardwood chips their garden will continue to fruit of be a host garden for sharing at home!
The Olympia Mycelial Network & The Black Lake Grange Present!
Join the Olympia Mycelial Network and the Black Lake Grange on Saturday October 12th for the Black Lake Grange Fall Festival from 12:00-5:00pm! The event is agriculture focused and will feature several local groups and demonstrations based around sustainable agriculture and food security.
The Olympia Mycelial Network will be doing three demonstrations on how to use mushrooms in your garden, and for remediation. We'll feature Elm Oyster(hypsizygus ulmarius), The Garden Giant(stropharia rugoso-annulata), and Oyster(pleurotis ostreatus). The Workshop will start at 2:00 and go until we're finished, rain or shine.
Join us if you're interested in mushrooms for food, medicine or remediation or just come to help out and join in the festivities!
Saturday October 12, 12-5pm
Workshop starts at 2PM
The Black Lake Grange
6011 Black Lake Blvd, Olympia Wa
Spawning a Mycelial Network
We're gearing up for another fungi filled season, hold onto your spore slurries…


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"Jeepers creepers!' she began, "it's raining cats and dogs outside, a real gully-washer! I thought I was a goner a couple of times when my wellies slipped in that mud. Mud! You wouldn't believe the mud. Why it's as muddy as…as…as"
Ella's words trailed off. She had run out of trite metaphors and clichéd similes. She looked at James, who held the stopwatch.
"Sorry, Ella," he said. "You only lasted seven seconds. You're obviously not going to be a winner tonight. But, as you know, heavy the head that wears the crown! Being champion might have been just one more onerous burden for you. Let's move right along. Harold, you're next in line. How about you give a kick at the can?"
Harold cleared his throat and began: "Fourscore and seven years ago… Just kidding, folks. Just tickling your ribs, trying to get a rise out of you. Now here's the real McCoy, the real deal. I'm stepping out here, letting loose with all the bells and whistles and, as they say, I've got rings on my fingers and bells on my toes tonight. I could bend your ears till the cows come home, so don't get your hopes up that I'll let the golden ring slip through my fingers. Old Silver Tongue will be happy as a clam, as smug as a bug in a rug, chattering on for your pleasure. This sort of thing is like mother's milk to me, a piece of cake, as easy as pie. Why, I was born and raised on clichéd phrases and trite expressions. My talent is just a gift. A downright gift. And I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. Now you just stop me, James, if I go on too long, but I think I can safely say that I'm the best of a bad bunch here tonight. I believe I've captured the gold ring and James has the stopwatch to prove it! How'd I do?"
Indeed, Harold's performance was hard to beat. He was crowned winner of the Citywide Cliché Contest, and he reigned in peace for the entire year.


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One thing I'm finding out about Relay is that it's tough. I think that's one of the blessings of it. I was speaking the other week to someone who was struggling to cope with everything on their plate, and it really resonated because I was in exactly the same situation. I'd wasted a lot of time that week, and wasn't feeling close to God. I was feeling overwhelmed by my workload, and I stopped looking at God and started looking at myself. I could have used the gospel to rebuke myself, but I didn't.
Then a friend got in touch.
It's always easier to rebuke other people.
But this rebuke hit me as hard as it hit him.
We were talking about how much we each had on our metaphorical plates, and my friend commented he didn't have the strength to cope with such a big plate. He felt he not only had too much on his plate, but that he broke the plate, so hopeless was his situation. He couldn't cope. There was really only one thing to say. He was correct.
Stop trying to be able to cope. You can't cope! You know that! Give up the natural pride that wants to be able to cope with all the things you've taken on, and throw yourself on God's mercy!
When we feel overwhelmed it is because we are weak. It is pride to deny this truth. We are weak beings. We cannot cope with life at the best of times. We broke the plate. This is why I love the lesson God teaches the apostle Paul when he asks for deliverance from weakness.
My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.
2 Corinthians 12:9
God doesn't give some feel-good message affirming inner strength. Neither does He reduce Paul's load. As He addresses Paul God implicitly affirms both the weakness and the inability of each and every person on the planet. But the Christian, though weak, is strong, because God gives us grace which is sufficient to overcome our weakness. More than that, the weakness actually glorifies God as His strength is seen more clearly by the sharp contrast!
We can't cope with life. There is always too much on our plates, and sometimes we feel like we've broken the plate. But God's grace is sufficient. All we can do is cast ourselves on it.
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness.
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Since I began taking landscape photographs, Glastonbury Tor has been one of my most frequently visited subjects. The atmosphere of misty sunrises on the Somerset Levels is very special indeed; it's the reason so many legends are associated with the area. I have been fortunate enough to capture Glastonbury Tor on many such mornings and from many hilltops and fields throughout the area. Here are some of my favourite views…
Unfortunately this view of the Holy Thorn tree at the top of Wearyall Hill was diminished by vandals who cut the top off of the tree. I captured this image in 2007 on a very frosty morning when fog was shrouding the fields around Glastonbury Tor. Just before the sun broke over the horizon the light was wonderful and the tree appeared as a silhouette against the cool sky.
Several miles north of Glastonbury is a spot on the Mendip hills known as Deerleap. It is well known by local artists because of the far reaching views it provides over the Somerset Levels and of Glastonbury Tor nestled in amongst the hills. On misty mornings it is the perfect spot to appreciate just how flat the landscape is and how it would've looked thousands of years ago when the area was under water. On mornings like this it becomes an island once again.
The morning on which I made this picture was quite special. Having witnessed the misty landscape from Deerleap many times since, I haven't yet photographed it on another morning where the mist was in the right place. By this I mean that it wasn't too thick or too thin. When it's too thick Glastonbury Tor becomes a dot in a sea of white with all other landmarks shrouded in mist. When it's too thin the 'island' effect isn't as pronounced and much of the atmosphere is missing.
It was later on that same morning that I also made this panoramic picture of Glastonbury Tor:
The way the mist gradually thickens as it gets closer to Glastonbury is wonderful. I have since made other panoramic pictures with a similar composition but this is my favourite.
Taking a completely different approach to photographing Glastonbury Tor, this is a much more dramatic, surreal picture. I often get asked how the effect in the sky was achieved as I guess most people assume it is a computer generated effect. The answer is that I spent a lot of time planning and trying out ideas before settling on a composition that would show St Michael's tower appearing to be sucked into the sky.
The circular lines in the sky are called star trails. They are achieved by allowing the camera to expose the picture over a length of time – in this case 1 hour and 20 minutes. During this time the earth's movement causes the position of the stars to change, turning anti-clockwise around the pole star. This movement creates trails, mapping the movement of the stars through the night sky.
I made this picture on a clear (and very cold) evening when the moon was full. The white light hitting the right side of the tower is moonlight. The orange light hitting the left face is light pollution from the town (you can also see light pollution lighting the clouds in the bottom left slightly).
For a period during spring, at the right time in the morning the sun can be seen shining straight through the archway of St Michael's Tower. I planned this image very carefully, working out when would be the best date range to try the picture. The sun needed to reach the right height at the right time to be positioned in the middle of the entrance to the tower. Luckily a window of clear skies coincided with the right time of year so I was able to successfully photograph my idea.
There are few views of Glastonbury Tor that combine reed beds and wetland habitats in such an ornate way. Sharpham Nature Reserve is one such place, yet it hasn't been established all that long. I have pictures of this area taken not so long ago when it was still used for peat digging. Consequently the trees planted neatly in rows are still young and haven't yet grown tall enough to break the outline of Glastonbury Tor.
I hope you have enjoyed this short tour of my Glastonbury Tor photographs. If you happen to visit the area I highly recommend going to some of the places I've mentioned. All the better if you get there early and see some mist!
That's a great shot of the star trails. Was the shutter open all the time? Or was it a series of shots?
Thanks Nev, it was a series of about 140 exposures of 30 seconds each, merged together using a star trail program.
Hi Stephen – is there a way of predicting a good time to see the mists by checking the weather forecast the day before ?
Hi Rose, Yes, it's possible although it requires some practise. Have a read of my blog post here which talks about weather forecasts in general. There's some info in there about mist and it contains links to useful forecasting sites.


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Maplandia.com in partnership with Booking.com offers highly competitive rates for all types of hotels in Dal, from affordable family hotels to the most luxurious ones. Booking.com, being established in 1996, is longtime Europe's leader in online hotel reservations. See the overview of Dal hotels in the following section.
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With Maplandia.com and Booking.com the best price is guaranteed! Dal hotel deals include also long stay accommodation Dal offers. Take advantage of our exclusive offers and long stay discounts for selected Dal hotels' suites.
Unbiased Dal hotel reviews written by real guests and many hotel photos are provided to help you make your booking decision.
Dal is located in Akershus, Norway.
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The Letohallen Hotell Gardermoen is located 10 minutes by car from Oslo Airport Gardermoen. It has a gym and offers two free services: Wi-Fi and parking. Number of rooms: 101.
This bed and breakfast is located 7 minutes drive from Oslo Airport Gardermoen. It offers an early breakfast, free wireless internet and rooms with flat-screen TVs. Gardermoen Hotel Bed & Breakfast offers light meals throughout the day and dinner.
Right next to Oslo Airport Gardermoen, is this hotel. Its advantages include a fully equipped fitness center. The hotel also has air-conditioned rooms with extra long beds and cable TV.
The Radisson SAS Airport Hotel is Europe's second largest meeting and events hotel and is just a few minutes' walk from Gardermoen International Airport's boarding gates.
The hotel is located next to Oslo Airport Gardermoen. All rooms are equipped with iPod docking stations and flat screen TV. The rates include wireless internet and access to the 24-hour fitness center.
Recently renovated, the Clarion Hotel Oslo Airport is one of the leading and largest meeting facilities in Norway, which could also caters to the leisure traveler.
An elegant and modern design hotel that allows you to move from Oslo Gardermoen to your room or conference room in just five minutes.
A modern hotel for meetings and conventions, situated less than seven minutes from Oslo Airport Gardermoen and 40 minutes from the center of Oslo.
This new modern hotel is centrally located just five minutes from Oslo Airport Gardermoen. Its location will allow you to reach in just 20 minutes downtown Oslo and the airport with shuttle available from 4:35.
The centrally located Rica Hotel Gardermoen is only 7 minutes from the airport by shuttle bus. Parking is free for guests and breakfast is served as early as 04:00.
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French research directors resign en masse
Some two hundred directors of laboratories and scientific research teams have resigned from their administrative duties via electronic mail, according to a spokesperson for the "Sauvons la recherche" campaign. On the surface, the action is symbolic, but it could soon lead to paralysis of the French research sector.
( Le Monde, AFP )
Charity calls for benefits extension for students
Centrepoint, the charity for homeless young people, is calling on the government to allow 19-year-olds in full-time education or training to continue claiming benefit for the duration of their courses. It says many homeless youngsters are forced to abandon studies because the day they hit 19, they must start seeking or being available for work in order to claim jobseeker's allowance.
( Guardian )
Science defeats the menopause
US scientists report in The Lancet online today that they have succeeded in creating an embryo from the ovarian tissue of a young woman made infertile through cancer treatments six years earlier. The breakthrough might offer a "cure" for the menopause and babies for women who have had a premature menopause.
( Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Times )
Dolly firm facing bankruptcy
PPL Therapeutics, which was hailed as a scientific pioneer when Dolly the sheep was successfully cloned in 1996, announced last night that it was on the brink of bankruptcy after key shareholders refused to back a last-ditch rescue plan.
( Guardian )
David Attenborough joins campaign against whaling
In a departure from his long held stance of neutrality on political and conservation questions, wildlife broadcaster Sir David Attenborough makes clear his opposition to whaling in a report produced by the World Society for the Protection of Animals.
( Guardian, Daily Telegraph )
Dust storm may have wrecked Beagle probe
Researchers have discovered that the atmosphere 25 miles above Mars was far thinner than expected when the Beagle II probe reached the Mars on Christmas Day. The unusual conditions, caused by a huge dust storm, may have resulted in the £45 million probe plummeting to the surface too quickly and smashing into the ground.
( Daily Telegraph, Times )
Restorers find David's ankle is cracking up
Michelangelo's statue David may be clean in time for his 500th birthday this year, but experts are concerned that his left ankle may not be strong enough to keep him standing forever. A team at Bologna University has begun analysing tiny cracks in the marble masterpiece's left ankle since restoration work began on the statue last September.
( Guardian )
Staying attractive
Former education minister Baroness Blackstone says that rather than worrying about overseas students 'swamping' our universities, we should be afraid that fees will deter them from coming.
( Guardian )
Competition time
A look at whether plush facilities and freebies will bring in more students to universities and satisfy those paying top-up fees in 2006.
( Guardian )
Principal strategist
Feature on Chris Hughes, who led the way for college heads to make themselves heard on a national level, and has just announced he is stepping down as chief executive of the FE thinktank, the Learning and Skills Development Agency - in his first week as a college lecturer.
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News in the past couple of days on the government attitude too and adoption of Cloud services. It seems apparent to me that Australia has leap frogged New Zealand, at least in will and determination, since their government change, where a year ago New Zealand was well in the lead.
The driver for all governments to adopt Cloud, rightly or wrongly, is the promise that it will save money through centralisation of services that are common to all agencies. This appears mostly in the Software as a Service (SaaS) area with the view that HR, Finance, CRM, document management, and other services can be served out of a Community Cloud with all agencies consuming it.
As an aside, there is a problem with that, because SaaS is the most difficult Cloud service to take up for a large agency or enterprise given the integration issues that come with trying to tie an externally delivered system into what is often bespoke applications of their own. The time for adoption of integrated SaaS services is long, where most impact can be made is in the deployment of new software services.
Firstly Australia, who were slammed by central government a few months back for their slow government adoption of Cloud and the "Digital Economy" in general, noting prior to the election that:
'government could "contribute to the growth of a vibrant domestic industry of cloud infrastructure and service providers by moving more rapidly to adopt such services whenever economically justified in its own operations.'
So two things there, firstly the money aspect, it's cheaper, secondly, the words "domestic industry" a clear indicator that unlike New Zealand government there is a clear preference to build Australia Inc. by utilising and growing the local industry.
"To this end the Coalition plans to move 'light user' government agencies with insufficient IT scale to shared or cloud solutions. 'Heavy user' agencies with complex needs will retain autonomy but improve accountability. The bar will be set based on efficiency levels."
Again, this is interesting because unlike New Zealand painting a broad brush over all agencies being compelled to use the DIA IaaS model, the Australians have figured out that a) smaller agencies make better targets for Cloud and b) large agencies have long investment cycles and complex systems that require oversight, but not necessarily a move to government Cloud.
Finally, the new Australian government has slammed the old in this statement:
Further the Coalition has accused Labor of "passivity and timidity" that it says has "wasted some of the good work which has been done within some agencies." It contrasts this with "the aggressive recent commitments by governments in the UK and US to innovation in online service delivery (including via mobile devices), use of public cloud services, open government and increased sharing of resources across agencies."
In other words, get yourself together, look to the U.S. Fedramp and U.K. G-Cloud models and get on with it.
All in all, a welcome push from the top, with a balanced attack, to start unlocking the benefits of Cloud for Australian government.
Meanwhile, news via ZDNet this week on New Zealand's progress toward government Cloud, looking a lot weaker than it should be. It appears that little progress has been made in the last twelve months with at least one key milestone being missed, Office Productivity, which was due for general release in June of this year but has not yet eventuated.
"A Department of Internal Affairs spokesperson says work is continuing to develop risk and assurance frameworks and guidance for the use of cloud computing services by government agencies.
"Updated frameworks and guidance will be rolled out to government agencies as part of the wider ICT assurance framework over the next few months," the spokesperson says."
So they are still back at the "how do we manage this Cloud risk" rather than "how do we unlock Cloud as answer to better e-government interaction while reducing cost and overhead." This approach has been around since the Government Cloud Programme was taken over by the Department of Internal Affairs and, in my opinion, has bogged down progress on the initiatives, of which there are many occurring across government.
There remains a perception that Cloud is insecure and that as a result all agencies should use the government IaaS cartel to deliver those and no data should be allowed offshore.
Now, personally, I agree with data remaining onshore, but NOT for risk reasons. If the government is serious about New Zealand Inc. then pushing hard for local companies to deliver what will become the de-facto delivery method of computing in the next decade, is paramount. That should be the only reason to keep data locally and is a positive PR spin that is being missed in its entirety as, no doubt, the SIS and GCSB, about the most risk adverse agencies in New Zealand, are most likely pushing the security risk angle.
Let's get something clear here, the greatest risk of Cloud isn't security, it's not adopting it. That's because within the next four years all ICT services are likely to be delivered via Cloud. As an example, Microsoft Office will only be available deployed via Cloud from mid-next year.
A couple of more thoughts on this.
The timing for that "risk and assurance framework" is so behind that by the time it is delivered, it is likely to either be redundant or so expensive to comply with that it becomes a complete impediment to progressing toward the Cloud. Let's look at two examples.
The data sovereignty issue is likely to be pushed onto agencies in the form of "store no data outside of New Zealand." However, looking at the market, we see the emergence of technologies that make data sovereignty a complete non-issue now. This technology is in use by banks within New Zealand already. Already we see Health saying that no provider may store data outside of New Zealand. It's a moot point, the issue is dead, the technology exists to overcome it and it's not that expensive, it adds 10 – 15% overhead on a Cloud deployment.
Second example, if government forces agencies to comply with the risk and assurance framework, then how will they retrofit the Cloud services that are already being consumed? I've worked with a lot of agencies over the last few years and I can tell you one thing. To some extent or another, every last one is using Cloud services. Does that mean that all of those services will have to be retrofitted at a cost of hundreds of millions including pulling back data to New Zealand?
The technology is evolving so rapidly that anything other than simple guidelines are likely to fail.
Lastly, the new jewel in the crown after "IaaS" and "Office Productivity" (if they arrive) is Desktop as a Service. The article says:
"DaaS will deliver traditional and virtual desktops, including providing and operating virtual desktop infrastructure, building, deploying and patching desktop operating systems; the delivery of applications to the desktops; and onsite support. It will also cover application packaging, including patching and updating and desktop hardware, either by managing procurement or providing leased hardware."
And the real kicker:
"Using DaaS is expected to become mandatory."
Putting aside the fact that I don't believe central government will ever make any ICT service mandatory, this needs to be delivered now. Again, the market has rallied and I know of some agencies that are already buying this.
I don't know what the cost of DaaS is likely to be, but this is what I pay for it. $34.95 per month for Windows 7, 50GB of space, all of the Microsoft Office suite (including open source variants), an additional installation charge for other apps, and here is the wonder of it, 300Mbs internet connection from that desktop. Yup, three times UFB and twice Vodafones Copper supernet.
What should the New Zealand government do? Simple, two things:
Adopt a New Zealand Inc. approach to buying services. Prefer local companies over multi-nationals and remove roadblocks they are putting in place for those companies to respond to RFP's. Hello IRD and the requirement that whoever responds must have delivered a tax application / transformation of more than $100m NZD.
Second, set guidance. I know for a fact that DIA has some of the smartest brains in the entire world, seriously, these guys are paid by overseas companies to advise and speak on Cloud and digital initiatives. They could set the best guidelines on the planet. Why they don't? It's not that they don't want to, it's that they are constrained by a Cloud of politics, policy analysts, and fear, uncertainty, and doubt merchants like the SIS and GCSB.
What DIA has built, whether you think it a cartel or not, is a magnificent testament to kiwi ingenuity. The problem is that the policy people have got hold of the concept and its being butchered. Colin MacDonald, the government CIO, should let the architects loose with a green fields, start from the beginning, unfettered mandate to create the best government Cloud on the planet rather than being bound by those who have spent far too long twisting words and managing ministers.
The time for revolution is now. We have the best local companies, the best brains, some of the most innovative solutions on the planet, and we need to let the beast loose. Government ICT employees are magnificent and strange creatures. The best in the world, the worst paid, the most loyal, idealistic, and innovative. For god's sake let them get on with doing their job.


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Our Art & Design department attracts promising young artists from across the region who are looking to work at the highest of standards. Our students achieve excellent results and progress to top universities and art schools across the country.
You will learn from artists and designers who are current practitioners and experts in their fields, from art, design, fashion, graphic design, 3D, textiles to contemporary fine art, digital manipulation and more.
Guest speakers from industry, live assignments, competitions, internal and external commissions and work experience give a real insight into working as a practising artist or designer in industry. End of year summer exhibitions provide a fantastic showcase for your work.
Past students on these courses have gone on to study film-making, architecture, graphic design, fine art, fashion management and illustration at universities such as Leeds, Nottingham, the University of the Arts London and Norwich University of the Arts.
Great Reasons to choose Art at CRC
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- Lecturers are practising artists and designers
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Cassells is wrong! University can be cheaper!
"In twenty years time, much fewer school leavers will be going to college. This will be simply because there will be so many more options available to them. Many of the options will be based on technology and the Internet and will be attractive for many reasons, not least that they will be much less expensive for the school-leaver …" (more)
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In the past week or so, certain professional circles (the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers) and the media (here and here) have been discussing a recent announcement by the Correctional Services of Canada that funding for Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) will be cut come March 31st and eliminated completely by the Fall of this year. However, as the story unfolds, the Canadian federal minister responsible for public safety has "asked the prison service to reconsider the decision," but fully-restored funding may not be on its way. Time will tell where the chips will fall.
Though it is really not my story to tell, not having been involved in CoSA development or implementation, I will briefly share what CoSA is all about. Individuals who have committed sexual offences, been assessed to be "high risk", and have served their prison term are released into our communities every day. How we approach their inevitable release probably says more about "us" (that royal "we", society) than it does about the individuals leaving prisons. As Robin Wilson eloquently explained, CoSA started in the early 1990s as an approach by an Ontario (Canada) religious congregation to re-integrate a high risk sex offender into their community. By surrounding a high risk individual convicted of a sexual offence with a support network of volunteers and a few mental health professionals, CoSA provides certain things all humans, including deviant 'Others' like sex offenders, need: social supports that are present and stable in their lives, that care and want to see a better life for them. This kind of support seems like one of those common sense things that most of us desire and aim for in our lives. To me, the incredible thing about the first "circle" and the "circles" that are operating around the world is that these basic human values have and are being applied to sex offenders, a group of people fairly reviled in contemporary Western societies. CoSA seems like an example where "we" are showing our kinder, more understanding side.
On a more technical note, CoSAs alleviate some of the basic psycho-social problems that certain sexual offenders struggle with and may be related to why they offend (some of my research on social anxiety here, or more formally, here; cornerstone work by R. K. Hanson and others, here). In that vein, CoSAs are psychosocial interventions that appear successful at addressing the twin issues of re-offence reduction and being cost-effective (more on that below). Indeed, good reintegration strategies, writ large, include positive social networks and release contexts that include 'social stability' predict lowered rates of re-offence for general offenders. CoSA may indeed have its effects in reducing re-offending by sexual offenders through similar mechanisms (much of the published academic literature on CoSA is available here). In addition, CoSA is a wonderful example of 'what works' from the perspective of the dollars and cents (nextgen's own Ian Elliott has done some stellar cost-benefit research, here, or more formally, here; and Grant Duwe has calculated cost-benefits of CoSA in the US).
As professionals, we all like to implement interventions that actually reduce re-offending and do so at a negligible cost, CoSA seems to be one of the interventions that has proven itself a winner and, most amazingly to me, one that arose naturally out of the goodwill of people. These types of approaches to human and social problems seem to work, regardless of whether the issue is sexual offending or mental disorder (for a fascinating approach to helping those experiencing mental distress re-integrate, see here). Perhaps the reason why these approaches work is because, as a close mentor of mine wrote, "We who work with sexual offenders need to demonstrate humanity to [them] if we are to expect them to demonstrate it later." (Horley, 2003, p. 79).
Here's hoping CoSA in Canada maintains full government funding for the coming years, though thankfully we are not helpless bystanders to the whims of political decisions:
If you're in Ottawa, Ontario, here's a fundraising event to attend on March 12, 2014. I've attended this comedy club and it was well worth the visits! Elsewhere in Ontario? Donate to the Peterborough Chaplaincy. In the UK, check it out and donate here.
Horley, J. (2003). Sexual offenders. In J. Horley (Ed.), Personal construct perspectives on forensic psychology (pp. 55-86). New York: Brunner-Routledge.
Suggested citation: McPhail, I. V. (2014, March 23). Community interventions for sex offenders: Evidence, sense, and funding [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://wp.me/p2RS15-1S.
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I'm sitting near the gate at Dulles that will take me to Long Beach and all I can think about is that I miss my family on both coasts. That and the free airport WiFi has hijacked all of my tabs and why would they do that?!? Next to simple sadness, the most prevalent and enduring emotion of my grief has been anger. I've been angry with God, of course. But also with complete strangers going about their day oblivious to the fleetingness of life. And with the reporter who initially wrote that the circumstances around Bob's death were "unsuspicious" which is as suspicious a way to word the sentiment as can be conceived. And with the commenter who pointed out that odd fact. And with Bob for dying. And his doctor for letting it happen.
And I've been angry with nearly all of my family for reasons that are entirely obscure. I've nothing against them and a far as I know, they aren't angry with me. I'm at least irritated with just about everyone who wants to console me. And plain old outraged by those who don't. I'm even annoyed with people who surprise me with just the right word of comfort. Not to pull a pop psychology trick or anything, but I suddenly discovered this morning that I'm mostly angry with myself.
Bob's death is the very definition of an "act of God" and the only two people who warrant being angry with in this situation are Him and me. When I think of what I failed to do in life and what I've been tempted to do, I'm disappointed in myself. How could I have forgotten to give Bob one more hug before we last parted? How could I get excited that so many people started reading this backwater blog because I started writing about his death? Why don't I start writing about life while I can? And why didn't God give me more time with Bob? Just one more year would have made all the difference.
And now it's so tempting to add shame to my troubles. At moments like this, I praise God that in His mercy He gave us a model like King David:
Cast your burden on the LORD,
and he will sustain you;
he will never permit
the righteous to be moved.
(Psalm 55:22 ESV)
He didn't say "Cast your burden on the LORD, unless it happens to be anger with God". He said that the LORD with sustain you if you cast whatever burden you have on Him. This is the real reason I continue to write about my brother' death—as long as I write I'm putting my burdens out of my hands and into God's.


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30 Years On, I think that "Postliberal" sums it up best
Never heard of The Moth. I guess this is because I listen to very little of NPR and so know little of it. I do know I missed the last Capital Steps show because I forgot about it soon after I heard it was going to be on.
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Disney's live-action movie Aladdin is a vibrant take on a classic animated movie starring Will Smith as the Genie and Mena Massoud as Aladdin himself. Aladdin is about a kind-hearted street urchin desperate to impress a girl who happens to be a princess. In his attempt to impress Princess Jasmine, Aladdin falls prey to the power-hungry Grand Vizier who convinces him to go after the genie's lamp, but Aladdin decides to keep the genie to himself and he is faced with some hard decisions when the power of the genie nearly steers him down the wrong path and almost costs him the girl.
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Parenting Advice: 4 Types of Parenting Styles
By Mara Miller
Celebrity parents Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith encourage their children to show their creative sides and allow their kids to make their own decisions as long as they have a sound reason for doing it. Julie Bowen believes you shouldn't be your kid's best friend. Whether you're a laissez-faire parent, or super strict, in this parenting advice, we'll look at four parenting styles and how they can affect your kids!
Check out our parenting advice on various types of parenting styles.
10 Valentine's Day Date Ideas Inspired by Celebrity Couples
By Lori Zaslow and Jenn Zucher for Project Soulmate
February is right around the corner, and we all know what that means: Yes, Valentine's Day is almost here, the one day of year when couples get to celebrate their love and singles get to eat Ben and Jerry's guilt-free. This day is really magical. It's when romance can finally express itself, and those in a relationship can really show their gratitude for one another.
However, the day doesn't get cut much slack, mostly because a lot of people don't know what to do to celebrate. That's where expert matchmakers Lori Zaslow and Jennifer Zucher can help! They are at the helm of the luxury matchmaking company Project Soulmate, and with their combined expertise, they know how to craft a date idea that's fit for any type of relationship.
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Last Picks on Summer Beauty Products
By Nicole Caico
The summer is winding down, but there is no reason not to make the most of what's left. If the summer products you stocked up on in June are running low right about now, there are still some great products to help you get though the rest of the summer.
You won't want to miss out on these pivotal summer products!
8 Celebrity Couples Who Were Friends First
By Katie Gray
They say that the best relationships stem from friendship. This is all too true for celebrity couples as well. Many celebrity relationships started off as friendships first and develop into more from there. This relationship advice shows us that it's important to communicate and establish a real connection first.
Cupid has compiled eight celebrity couples who were friends first:
Celebrity Couples: Marriages That Survived the Seven-Year Itch
10 Celebrity Couples Who Can't Get Divorced Or We'll Lose All Faith in Love
By Dejha Carlisle
We all love the lives of famous celebrity couples. Everything about their celebrity relationships seem perfect! Their Instagram pictures and cute matching tattoos (for the edgy couples) make us wish to be in their shoes. Of course, they encompass our relationship goals, but which celebrity couples would we hate to see divorced?
These are the top couples that Cupid would hate to see divorced, or we'd lose a little of our faith in love:
Relationship Advice: 5 Ways to Unpack Relationship Baggage
By Donna Arp Weitzman
It's virtually impossible to enter any new relationship without hauling in some personal baggage. We all have our histories—children from a former marriage, ex-spouses, ex-partners, or ex-in-laws. Your new special someone comes with emotional luggage. We all do. Even celebrity couples like Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith have been there. So have Kate Capshaw, Steven Spielberg, Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones … the list goes on. Each of them ventured into the world of new coupledom with a hearty amount of histories on their shoulders.
Here are 5 pieces of relationship advice to help you change your outlook, and unpack relationship baggage:
Celebrity News: Will Smith Says Cheating Ex-GF Inspired Him to Become Famous
By Abbi Comphel
Here's some interesting celebrity news! Will Smith says his cheating ex-girlfriend inspired him to become famous. UsMagazine.com reports that Smith was 15 years old when his girlfriend cheated on him. He then had a realization that he wanted to be the most famous man in the world. And, he did just that! 15 years later, he met his celebrity love Jada Pinkett Smith. They now have two celebrity kids, Jaden and Willow.
This celebrity news is surprising! What are some ways to inspire your partner in his or her career?
5 Celebrity Couples Who Have Massive Height Differences
By Abbi Comphel
There are many celebrity couples in Hollywood that do not let their height difference bother them. They can be seen around Hollywood in love and happy. These celebrity couples definitely know how to make height difference look good!
Cupid has created a list of celebrity couples who have massive height differences:
20 Celebrity Couples Who Are Just Like Us
Willow Smith Responds to Will and Jada Celebrity Divorce Rumors
By Ryan Bonner
During Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith's celebrity marriage, there have been several times when they have been rumored to be splitting up. This time, daughter Willow Smith is laughing the whole situation off. According to UsMagazine.com, Willow recently took to Twitter about the rumors. "The media thinks my parents are getting divorced like every second hahaha!", Willow tweeted after her parents put an official end to the rumors.
Some celebrity divorce rumors just hold no truth! What can you do to combat negative rumors about your relationship?
20 Celebrity Kids Who Look Just Like Their Famous Parents
5 Celebrity Marriages That Are Rock Solid
By Molly Jacob
With news of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's celebrity divorce, we're wondering whether Hollywood relationships can really last through the fame, wealth, and stardom. Not all hope is lost! Some celebs still stay together through all the tabloid rumors, scandals, and ordeals. There are some celebrity marriages that have stood the test of time and stayed rock solid.
See what celebrity couples are still together and stronger than ever, and see what love advice they have for other couples!
Hollywood Stars and Their Trendsetting Celebrity Kids
Relationship Movie 'Focus' Features Will Smith as a Con Artist
In the new relationship movie Focus, Nicky Spurgeon (Will Smith) is a con artist who takes a girl named Jess (Margot Robbie) under his wing. Nicky and Jess become romantically involved, and with Nicky's profession, which includes lying and cheating, he decides to end the relationship. The two reunite three years later.
Celebrity Children Who Are Just Like Their Parents
By Laura Seaman
When you're raised in the spotlight with your celebrity parents, it's difficult not to get pulled into the industry one way or another. Take the Kardashians, for instance, with their entire family being in the public eye 24/7. Some celebrity children take these opportunities to make a career for themselves and make their parents proud. Here are three famous children who followed their parents' examples and made a name for themselves in the entertainment industry:
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith Show Their Love in Hawaii
By Laura Seaman
Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith are showing off their love for each other as they kiss and hold hands during their Hawaiian getaway. According to UsMagazine.com, the couple, married 16 years, was seen on the beach with their daughter Willow Smith, 13, on June 9th looking fit, flirty, and very much in love.
How can you show your partner you care in public?
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith's Marriage is Still Going Strong Despite Cheating Rumors
By Gabby Robles
Rumors can't stop Will and Jada! Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith marriage is still going strong despite cheating rumors. According to UsMagazine.com, photos that have been released of Will Smith and Focus costar Margot Robbie recently led to rumors that the two were getting a little too close. A source claims that the pictures were all in good, clean fun and that nothing is happening between the costars. Jada Pinkett Smith had previously stated, "What is the thing that Will could do to make me not love him?… I can't think of one. I'm sorry. Except if he did something bad to the kids – now we've got a problem."
How do you keep rumors from affecting your relationship?
5 Celebrity Relationships with Open Marriages
By Gabby Robles
Some say that open marriages are a recipe for disaster, but these famous couples say otherwise. These married celebrity couples admit that attraction to other people is a natural force and don't restrict each other in the slightest. If you've been curious about open marriages, why not take a page from these five celebrity relationships that have them?
Celebrity Dads Who Are Doing It Right
By Kelly Rouba for GalTime.com
TV dads, like Cliff Huxtable and Ward Cleaver, often made fatherhood look easy. They effortlessly juggled their work schedules so they could spend quality time with their children and, of course, they were always around to set their kids straight if they stepped out of line. While we all know parenting isn't always as easy as it seems on TV, there are plenty of celebrity dads who've managed to set the bar pretty high when it comes to balancing fame and fatherhood as least as far as we can tell from the outside!
Life in the limelight can be hard, but there are some famous fathers who don't let fame get in the way of fatherhood!
10 New Celebrity Dads
By Jennifer Harrington
Pregnancy, babies and parenting are always some of the hottest topics when it comes to celebrity news. Much of this news revolves around the mom and baby (think of how much time we spend on "bump" watch and anticipating Hollywood baby name choices), and an important part of the equation is often overshadowed: the celebrity dad. There are some great fathers in the celebrity world, and we wanted to shine a spotlight on them to celebrate their dedication to their children and fatherhood. Here is a list of our top 10 celebrity dads:
Top 7 Best-Dressed Celebrity Couples of 2013
By Dixie Somers
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Celebrity Couple Predictions: Halle Berry, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Heidi Klum
By Shoshi
A celebrity's love life tends to be packed with things that create a hot mess. At the end of the day, when it comes to their relationships, they're just like everybody else: simply trying to figure it all out.
For my first expert post, I took at look at the energy (aura) of some hot couples: the sexy Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez, open marriage lovers Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith, and last but not least, Heidi Klum and her bodyguard boyfriend, Martin Kirsten.


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It is Apple season, and that gives enough reason for fun learning activities using apples and apple trees! This 3 in 1 Apple Tree Activity that can be used to work on three different skills: sorting, fine motor and counting! This is such a fun, educational kids activities for toddler, Preschool, and Kindergarten age kids!
Kids are going to love this versatile, easy-to-set-up, and FUN to play with 3-in-1 Apple Tree Activity!
This is a great way to play and learn with a fun fall, apple theme for Toddler, Preschool, and Kindergarten age kids.
3-in-1 Apple Activities for Preschool
This was easy and quick to make, you can make it too!
- Toilet paper rolls (see more toilet paper roll crafts)
- Green felt
- Green, red, yellow pom poms
- Velcro dots
- Markers
- egg cartoon (any type of flat box)
Firstly, draw the apples on the rolls with markers and add the velcro dots to the pompoms.
Then cut the felt into tree shapes. These you add it to the cardboard rolls, after you cut two small slits at the top.
Ready to play and learn!
Sorting & Fine Motor Apple Activity for Kids
When you use it as a fine motor toy, let your child "pick" the "apples" with a tweezer. Adding the right color pompom to the right cardboard roll tree. This activity is not only for fine motor skills development, but hand eye coordination and color identification/sorting skills too!
I attached each roll to the egg carton with a piece of Blue Tack so that it is secure enough not to fall over, but you are still able to lift it so that the dropped pompoms fall out again. (This "hide-n-seek" part was quite fun for my toddler.)
Match the color pompom to the color apple tree to use this toy as a sorting toy. Identifying colors and naming it is a skill children learn easily while playing.
Counting Apple Activity
The great thing about this activity is you can use it in so many ways! You can also use it to help preschoolers practice counting and introduce the concept of addition.
For example: add one pompom to each tree, let your child take them down (picking it), count, and get an answer. You can do subtraction too, using this same method(picking two apples from the three trees, how many is left on the trees?), or even counting in 2's, 3's etc.
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Ethics and social responsibility
Ethics and social responsibility
Perspecta / About us / Ethics and social responsibility
When Perspecta was formed, we envisioned a company unlike any other. A company with employees that would raise the bar in everything they did. Our purpose and values are unique to the people we hire and the work that we do.
Perspecta employees bring these values with them to work every day:
- Respect: We treat each other with respect
- Accountability: We are accountable for our actions
- Integrity: We demonstrate integrity in everything we do
- Success: We bring our customers success through mission focus, commitment and innovation
- Empowerment: We are empowered to drive results
These values define who we are. Integrity and accountability are revealed through our actions, with every decision we make. Our code of conduct, The Standard, is an extension of our values and reflects our continued commitment to ethical business practices and regulatory compliance.
Reporting an ethical issue
Employees can seek guidance or report a concern by contacting the Perspecta ethics helpline at 1.855.ETHICS0 or 1.855.384.4270, by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com, or filing a report online at perspecta.ethicspoint.com.
Anonymous reports may be made through the ethics helpline or the EthicsPoint website.
Inquiries, concerns, or complaints related to the conduct and/or performance of Perspecta Risk Decision Group investigators—including employees, independent contractors and subcontractors—as it pertains to their work on background investigations should be directed to the Perspecta Integrity Assurance and Contract Compliance team firstname.lastname@example.com or fax them anonymously to 866.775.2323 for reporting and resolution.
Social responsibility
Perspecta employees care. We are passionate and civic-minded. We engage both locally and nationally to drive meaningful change and open up greater possibilities for all citizens.
The health and well-being of our employees and their families is at the forefront of our community projects. That's why Perspecta supports organizations like the American Heart Association (AHA). Since 2013, Perspecta has led the Greater Washington Heart Walk fundraising drive by contributing over $1.5 million to AHA. Each year hundreds of Perspecta volunteers put on their walking shoes, join their neighbors and raise money and advance the mission of AHA—to help build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
Perspecta is deeply committed to honoring veterans and providing support to military families. The Home of the Brave Campaign was founded in 2012 to thank those who put their lives on the line for our freedom. The mission of the campaign is to remember, honor and help all generations of veterans in need through a volunteer and fundraising partnership with Soldiers' Angels, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Voluntary Service and the VA Homeless Program. In six years, this campaign has honored more than 100,000 veterans.
Environmental sustainability
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Was it an empty public-relations-driven gesture — or a demonstration that so-called network neutrality regulations are unnecessary?
The smoldering issue of how Comcast and other Internet-service providers treat peer-to-peer traffic that traverses their networks continued to throw off sparks last week.
Comcast further positioned itself as proactively and responsibly addressing peer-to-peer applications, announcing it will lead an industry-wide effort to create a "P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" for users and Internet-service providers.
The cable operator and peer-to-peer technology firm Pando Networks said they will collaborate with industry experts, other ISPs and P2P companies and content providers to create a framework "to clarify what choices and controls consumers should have" when using P2P applications and which processes and practices ISPs should use to manage P2P applications running on their networks.
In addition, Comcast said it plans to conduct a test of Pando's "network-aware" P2P technology to capture and analyze the data flow associated with downloading a file using Pando's P2P application.
The pact with New York-based Pando follows the operator's announced intention last month to work with BitTorrent and others to make P2P run more efficiently on its network. Comcast said the Pando test will provide additional data to help it migrate to a "protocol-agnostic network management technique" by the end of this year.
"By having this framework in place, we will help P2P companies, ISPs and content owners find common ground to support consumers who want to use P2P applications to deliver legal content," Comcast chief technology officer Tony Werner said in a statement.
National Cable & Telecommunications Association CEO Kyle McSlarrow issued a statement supporting the P2P pact that cast the issue as a network-engineering challenge: "We applaud today's announcement by Comcast and Pando Networks, which is further evidence that private-sector collaboration, not government intervention, is the most appropriate way to address complicated technological issues."
But net-neutrality advocates — who want to force Comcast and other broadband providers to deliver all Internet traffic equally, on a best-effort basis — derided the announcement as a meaningless ploy.
"Slick press releases by a dishonest would-be gatekeeper do nothing to protect consumers," Marvin Ammori, general counsel of media-advocacy group Free Press, said in a statement. "The need for net neutrality remains urgent. The [Federal Communications Commission] should do its job to uphold the existing bill of rights for consumers and should do so quickly."
David Sohn, senior policy counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology, said in a blog posting that an individual deal between a service provider and a P2P applications provider is "no substitute for open, generally applicable technical standards."
"An intricate web of individual, ad hoc arrangements and technical measures is not the Web, much less the Internet, that we've come to know and love," Sohn wrote.
Pando CEO Robert Levitan insisted that the collaboration with Comcast will benefit the entire Internet community, as the companies intend to share their protocols, test methodology and results with other P2P software companies and Internet service providers.
Pando recently claimed that a test spanning 1 million broadband users showed its technology sped up peer-to-peer file transfers 235% on cable networks in the United States.
In the last several months, Comcast has been caught off guard by the outcry over its practice of impeding peer-to-peer traffic during periods of peak congestion, which culminated in a still-pending FCC investigation and at least two subscriber lawsuits.
NCTA's McSlarrow, discussing the P2P issue on a March 20 teleconference with reporters, said: "You have engineers who would be stunned to know we are having a conference call about this. Until now, their [network management] decisions probably would not have made it to the front office … CEOs now are digging into this."
The FCC held a hearing April 17 at Stanford University on network-management practices of Internet service providers. That came after the agency held a similar hearing at Harvard University in February, during which Comcast executive vice president David Cohen was grilled on the operator's P2P bandwidth management practices.
Comcast declined the FCC's invitation to send a representative to the Stanford event.
A company spokeswoman said it "felt the issues specific to us were well-covered at the first hearing, and the focus of this event should be broader than any individual company's issues."


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In a nutshell, this book replaces Odysseus with a graffiti artist/historian named Americo Monk, and replaces the Ancient Mediterranean with 1965 Los Angeles amidst the Watts riots, but let's get into what really makes this book an incredible and unique read. By taking the formula used by Homer and Joyce and using it to tell the story of artists who are both figuratively and literally erased from the conversation of "real" art, Lombardo complicates not just the standard for who can be a hero or a monster, but who gets to decide such delineations. But beyond its lofty artistic assertions, the story sucks you in right away because of how damn fun it is – who said literary fiction couldn't be driven by a great plot? If reading a book that blends history with fantasy and features encounters with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, magical albino weed, Godzilla, and a one-eyed gangster who lives in the sewer, look no further my friend.
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In this paper, two metaphors, that of a hydroelectric dam and of a water bottling plant, will be used to illustrate the Social Credit diagnosis of the ills that afflict the existing financial/economic order, the conventional methods that are employed to palliate its various symptoms, and, finally, Social Credit's remedial proposals.
1stMetaphor: The Hydroelectric Dam
As Arindam Basu has explained in a recent paper entitled "The Scales and the Dam: Static and Dynamic Conceptions of the Economy": "A typical run-of-river hydroelectric dam, which uses a flow of water to generate a flow of electricity, may serve quite well as a metaphor for an economy that converts a flow of money into a flow of goods and services."[1] That is, just as the hydroelectric dam employs a flow of upstream water to generate a flow of electricity, the economy employs a flow of money, in the form of producer credit, to generate a flow of goods and services. The hydroelectric dam itself can be likened to the productive capacity of an economy and the flow of water issuing forth from the dam and flowing downstream could be likened to the flow of consumer incomes (wages, salaries, and dividends). Further, just as a flow of costs and hence prices is attached to the electricity that the dam generates, so too is there an invisible flow of costs and hence prices which is attached to the goods and services that are produced by the physical economy.
Part 1: Diagnosis
Using this metaphor as a point of departure we can easily explain in picture form the Social Credit diagnosis, i.e., what is wrong with the current financial/economic system.
A/ Social Credit's 1stCriticism – artificial limitations on production (the artificial limit on producer credit)
Imagine the case of a hydroelectric dam in which the flow of water entering the turbines from upstream, perhaps due to drought or to man-made interventions, is only sufficient to produce 25% of the electricity of which the hydroelectric dam is capable. In other words, the dam is not operating at full utilisation capacity because the relatively low flow of water is limiting the production of electricity.
Social Credit observes that something similar can and often does happen in the case of the economy under existing financial conventions, that is, there are often artificial limitations on production in the form of a lack of producer credit.
Consider, for example, the many instances where there is, on the one hand, the raw material, labour, machinery, technological know-how, etc., to meet, on the other hand, a real need on the part of the population for some good or service … and yet money, in the form of producer credit, is not issued to initiate and catalyze the desired production … simply because it is not created and made available for that purpose.
This is how things stand at present. Because of purely financial reasons, we run our productive capacity at only a fraction of its total possible output, all the while there are people who are doing without needed goods and services.
B/ Social Credit's 2ndCriticism – the production of waste (economic sabotage and inefficiency)
Let's us imagine further, and this is often actually the case, that some of the electricity which is produced by the hydroelectric dam is wasted, either in transport to its final destination, or by the end users themselves (such as lights left on when no one is using them).
In the same way, Social Credit observes that a significant proportion of the artificially limited quantity of what we do produce in the form of goods and services, and hence a significant portion of our economic activities themselves, can be rightly qualified as waste in one form or another, i.e., in terms of quantity, quality, or both. They are things that people really do not need and/or which don't profit them efficiently. Goods and services which contribute effectively and efficiently to human well-being are wealth; anything falling short of that involves waste to the extent that it falls short.
Under the existing financial system, many things are produced and consumed because people are in some way forced, or at least heavily pressured, by artificial financial circumstances to produce them and use them. That is, our economic activities are not just artificially limited, they are often misdirected away from fulfilling our authentic needs in the easiest, most direct fashion.
This phenomenon of waste cannot be properly understood, however, without first examining the third major criticism which Social Credit levels against the existing financial system and economic order. To that third and, in some ways, most basic of criticisms we now turn our attention.
C/ Social Credit's 3rdCriticism – artificial limitations on consumption (the artificial limit on cost-liquidating consumer income)
Imagine once again our hydroelectric dam.
Let's assume that, of the water coming from upstream and flowing down through the turbines, a portion of it is diverted after it has done its job of producing the electricity.
Let's say that some of it is absorbed into fissures in the rocks at the bottom of the gorge and ends up in the water table, while another portion of it is collected in huge subterranean reservoirs.
In this case, the water flowing downstream will be flowing at a far lower volume than the water coming from upstream and entering into the dam. Just by way of example, it might be as if for every 100 m3of upstream water flowing down through the dam per minute, only 50 m3/minute is being released as downstream flow into the gorge below.
Again this provides a perfect ready-made image for conceptualising the third problem with the existing financial system which Social Credit identifies: the chronic lack or deficiency of consumer income.
You will recall that the flow of consumer income was likened to the flow of water issuing forth from the dam and travelling downstream.
Well, Social Credit claims that because only a portion of the flow of producer credit expended by productive organizations – whether private or public – is converted into consumer incomes (the rest being used to transfer capital and/or intermediate goods from one stage of production to another) there is a disparity or a gap between the rate of flow of costs and hence prices and the rate of flow of consumer incomes.
You see, while all of the money expended by producers must be recovered in prices from the consumers (who alone can liquidate costs) in order for them to avoid bankruptcy, the system of production under existing banking and cost accountancy conventions, does not automatically distribute sufficient income to consumers to offset the costs and prices that are simultaneously being generated.
In our metaphorical dam of the economy, if 100,000 dollars are being expended on a particular productive programme, it is as if only 50,000 dollars are being released as income, in which case producers will be looking to recover 100,000 plus profit from consumers when the consuming public has only be given 50,000 in incomes. There is therefore a gap or a deficiency of consumer buying power to the tune of 50,000 dollars.
The primary reason for the gap in the metaphorical dam is the same as with our hydroelectric example.
Just as some of the water, in the physical dam, is being diverted in our imagined example, into the water table and into reservoirs, so too, some of the producer credit is being diverted into other channels during the process of production such that, while it enters into the flow of costs, it is not being transformed into consumer income either at all or not at the same rate that it is being put in.[2]
In other words, some portion of producer credit is being withheld, either permanently or temporarily from the consumer market.
The water being absorbed into the water table is equivalent to producer credit that is used to pay off a capital loan or Capex expenditures and can thus never contribute to the flow of consumer incomes in the same period (money used to pay off bank loans is destroyed and money used to repay other forms of capital investment will only end up in consumer hands if they are invested in a separate project with its own costs), while the water collecting in the reservoirs is akin to the producer credit which ends up collecting in the depreciation and maintenance reserves of the various companies in the chain of production and is only transformed into consumer income at a slower rate than it is collected … and even then it is only ever re-injected into the economy alongside a new and separate flow of costs.
The Core Problem: "Finanz Über Alles"
Such is the nuts and bolts of the Social Credit diagnosis. Now, you will notice that both at the level of production and of consumption the existing financial system artificially limits and/or misdirects our physical economic activity.
In essence, this means that as far as the relationship between the real, physical economy on the one hand and the financial system on the other is concerned, the financial system and its commodity, money, is in the driver's seat. The physical economy and our desire to make use of it is thoroughly subordinated to financial control.
But this is an inversion of the due order, of the order which should obtain between finance and the real economy if the latter is to fulfill the true purpose of economic association: the delivery of goods and services as, when, and where required with the least amount of resource consumption and of human labour.
Instead of wagging its financial tail as, when, and where required – which would be the due or proper relationship between finance and the real economy, the 'dog' of the physical economy is 'wagged' as, when, and where required by the financial tail. Instead of being a mere accounting medium, an adjunct of the physical economic activity, a neutral tool, money has become the driving or determining force of what and how and whether we do things.
It is this improper subordination of the real economy to finance, of real credit to financial credit, which constitutes the very heart of the economic problem according to Social Credit.
The Second Metaphor: The Bottling Plant
Now, in order to more adequately visualize how the existing economic system attempts to cope with the various problems which the subordination of the real economy to finance causes (especially the price-income gap) and how Social Credit's monetary reform proposals would restore the proper arrangement between the two by reversing the relationship of subordination, it is necessary to introduce a second metaphor, that of a water bottling plant.
Having established the dam as a metaphor for describing the relation of the flow of financial credit to the production of goods and services, Arindam Basu has also suggested that the metaphor of a bottling plant may be used to symbolize the connection between the flow of money and the consumption (or, more precisely, the sale) of goods and services.
The Consumer Market
As in the dam metaphor, the flow of water represents the flow of money, and the flow of electricity represents the flow of products (i.e. goods and services): the bottling plant, by uniting these two flows to generate a line of water bottles, is analogous to the consumer market where money meets output and thereby generates a flow of liquidated costs. It should be emphasized that the dam exists for the purpose of supplying the bottling plant - i.e., that's where its power is ultimately destined to be used. In other words, production is conducted for the purpose of selling output in the consumer market.
The Price-Income Gap.
Now, It is also essential to note that bottling plant requires a flow of water equal to the upstream flow entering the dam, in order to utilise in full the electricity it receives from the dam: this reflects the simple fact that all costs of production have to be recovered from the consumer. However, as noted earlier, the downstream flow, (i.e. the flow of water leaving the dam) is less than the upstream flow - since some of the water is absorbed or sequestered. Furthermore, not all the downstream flow enters the bottling plant: a certain portion flows elsewhere, which is a reflection of the fact that not all consumer incomes are spent - the portion flowing elsewhere representing savings.
Consequently, there is a major gap between the upstream flow entering the dam ('prices' - or strictly speaking, the costs of production) and the downstream flow entering the bottling plant ('incomes' - or more precisely, consumer spending), which must be covered if the bottling plant is to employ all the power it receives. Failing this, power goes to waste and ultimately the dam is required to shut off some of its turbines.
We can develop this metaphor further by introducing accumulators (batteries) in the bottling plant, which store electricity for later use. These represent the inventories of firms operating in the consumer market. Once these are filled, production must cease since it is clearly absurd for a firm to produce more when it cannot sell its existing stock - just as it is absurd to keep charging fully-charged batteries.
Part Two: Symptoms and Cures
A/ Conventional Economic (Mis)management
One obvious method of getting more water to the bottling plant is by drilling for it. At first glance, this seems to be a satisfactory solution - but it soon becomes evident that the drilling is lowering the water table or emptying reservoirs, leading to even more water being absorbed or sequestered in the long-run (thus increasing the difference between upstream and downstream flows), and eventually entailing even more drilling to fill the gap.
This is, of course, the method of filling the price-income gap through increased debt - which invariably results in a greater gap in the future due to debt repayments, (not to mention interest and unspent bank charges), necessitating even more borrowing. This debt-money may be distributed to consumers directly as loans, or indirectly as incomes/profits viaincreased public or private production, especially capital production. The downward debt spiral is quite analogous to digging deeper and deeper into a hole.
Other Methods
Alternatively, one could transfer surplus electricity to another dam-plant complex in exchange for part of its water supply, thereby shifting the problem to someone else. This represents running up a trade surplus, which reduces one's own price-income gap, but only at the expense of exacerbating someone else's.
Similarly, one could drill in someone else's turf for the water one requires - in return for permitting him to do so on one's own turn in the future. This is analogous to foreign investment, where funds from outside are used to cover the gap, but will need to be repaid later: the gap in the present is thus covered only at the expense of re-creating it in the future.
It should be clear that none of the conventional methods solve the problem of the gap: they simply deflect the problem to another time or another place. Furthermore, just as continuous drilling damages the land, so too does ever-rising debt damage society.
B/ The Social Credit Solutions.
The National Dividend
Let us imagine a bottomless lake in the vicinity of the dam-plant complex. It is easy to see that a sufficiently large channel from the lake to the downstream flow - and thereby to the bottling plant - would suffice to solve the problem of the gap permanently.
It may come as a surprise to many, but such a bottomless lake does indeed exist in the financial sphere. It is coinage sovereignty: the power of the State to create money in any quantity whatsoever. The channel that supplies the downstream flow with the water it needs, is the National Dividend - money created by the State (ideally through an independent government body like a National Credit Commission), supplied to consumers as a periodic payment issued independently of employment status and (most of it, presumably) spent on the goods and services that the economy has already produced.
The National Discount
There is another method of solving the problem of the gap. By aerating or carbonating the downstream flow, it is possible to increase its size even without increasing the volume of water - and thereby ensure that all the power received by the bottling plant is properly utilised.
This is analogous to the other Social Credit solution to the problem of the gap, the National Discount, (also known as the Just Price or the Compensated Price): the application of a rebate on all retail goods and services (similar to a subsidy but financed by the State's coinage sovereignty) that enables the existing flow of consumer incomes to purchase the entirety of the goods and services that an economy generates.
Both remedies not only eliminate the gap in the present, but - and this is the key difference with the conventional methods - do so without making it larger in the future or larger for anyone else. That is why they are solutions, not deflections.
Conclusion: Managing The Flow.
Almost all the major civilizations that we know of, arose on the banks of one or more rivers. Managing the water flow, so as to avert, or at least mitigate, droughts and floods, was one of the key challenges facing their members, and over the course of centuries, they rose to this challenge, and through their success in meeting it, laid the foundations for the subsequent splendour of their societies.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, men mastered another flow - that of electricity - and here again, their success paved the way for the technological wonders that we take for granted today. Such has been humanity's success in managing both these flows, that, outside war zones, disaster zones and some poor, remote areas, no one feels compelled to stock up on either water or power, thanks to the steady, secure, and sufficient supply of these to the general public.
The long overdue challenge for mankind is to establish a similar supply of money: one that is secure, steady and sufficient for the day-to-day requirements of the individual. It should be noted that this is, technically, a much simpler task than providing water or electricity, since money is a creation of man, whereas the other two have to be drawn from nature. Perhaps this is also why the political difficulty involved is so much greater.
Only once the provision of a steady, secure and sufficient supply of money is achieved, will we finally be able to concentrate fully on managing the most important flow: the flow of time that constitutes our lives.
[1]Arindam Basu, "The Scales and the Dam" http://www.socred.org/s-c-action/social-credit-views/the-scales-and-the-dam
[2]Cf. A.R. Orage, The BBC Speech on Social Credit: "Now while the fact of the Gap is the important thing, the explanation of the gap offered by Major Douglas appears to me to be convincing. He says that much of the money put into the Productive system as bank-loans never, in fact, gets out as Income during the same period in which it is put in. It is used simply to transfer capital Goods from one factory to another, and thus while it adds to the Price-stream, it does not add to the income of us shoppers." http://www.socred.org/images/other-authors/BBCSpeechOnSocialCredit.pdf


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Description of problem:
Given an illegal selinux option it was possible for match_token to work in
random memory at the end of the match_table_t array.
Note that privilege is required to perform a context mount, so this issue is
effectively limited to root only.
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Proposed upstream patch:
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Upstream patch for this issue
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