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- In the Layout configuration page, choose the sidebar where you would like to install the gadget and click on the Add a gadget link.
- Enter a title for your gadget in the Title box.
- Open the recent_posts_gadget.txt file included with the template file that you downloaded.
- Copy and paste all the contents of the recent posts file into the Content section of the configure window.
- Click the orange Save button.
You can configure several settings for the Recent Posts gadget. Settings are changed directly in the code of the recent_posts_gadget.txt file.
The following options can be changes:
- Number of posts: Find the "var numposts = 3;" code; change the number to your desired number of posts to show.
- Show thumbnails: Find the "var showpostthumbnails = true;" code; to hide the post pictures, change true to false.
- Display "More" link: Find the "var displaymore = false;" code; to display the "More" link, change false to true.
- Show comments number/link to comment form: Find the "var showcommentnum = false;" code; to display the comments link, change false to true.
- Show the post date: Find the "var showpostdate = false;" code; to display the post date, change false to true.
- Show post summary: Find the "var showpostsummary = true;" code; to hide the post summary/excerpt, change true to false.
- Post summary length: Find the "var numchars = 50;" code; to change the length of the post summary, change the 50 to any number of your choosing. This is the number of letters/spaces in the post summary.


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- Complete the card sort assignment in google classroom
- Mathia "Introduction to proofs and Connecting Steps in angle Proofs" workspaces due Friday
Learning Target: SWBAT identify specific reasons to statements by completing the google classroom assignment.
Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

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In Use or abuse we queried the meaning of 'significant' in the context of Paragraph 112 of the NPPF, which relates to the loss of agricultural land.
An inspector dealing with an appeal against the refusal of planning permission for 28 dwellings in Leicestershire has given us the answer (DCS Number 200-006-606).
"The proposed scheme would result in the loss of 2.58 hectares of grade 3 agricultural land to development" the inspector recorded. "Land within grade 1, 2 and 3a is defined in the glossary to the Framework as being the best and most versatile agricultural land. In preference to the development of this type of land the use of land of poorer quality is encouraged by paragraph 112 of the Framework. This government policy though relates to proposals involving the development of significant amounts of such land. The view of the Council, expressed in its Development Control Report on the application, is that the development of less than 20 hectares of such land is a low amount of land. I agree with that position."
So there we have it. 'Significant' in the context of Paragraph 112 of the NPPF means 20 hectares. For the time being.
The following DCP section is relevant: 4.145


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Why We Have Moral Rules, But Don't Follow Them
From New Scientist
WHY do we sometimes wrestle with moral dilemmas? A
twist on a classic psychology experiment suggests that our minds have
two parallel moral systems, and they don't always agree.
In the trolley experiment,
participants are told that a runaway tram trolley could kill five people
on the tracks. They must decide whether to divert it onto a second
track with only one person on it. Almost everyone diverts it, sacrificing one to save five.
But if instead you have to push one
person off a bridge onto the track to stop the trolley, most people
demur. That suggests most of us have a strict rule against killing
people directly, even for the greater good.
How are such rules formed? Although
moral codes appear to rule out the act of killing in the bridge
experiment, most moral behaviour in animals appears focused on outcomes -
the death of an individual, say - rather than the act that brought it
about. When an animal experiences harm to help a relative, evolutionary
biologists view this as increasing the chances that copies of the
animal's genes will survive. Many psychologists think that human moral
rules are an extension of this "kin selection".
Read the article.
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Spectrum Works Consulting is a boutique consulting firm designed to support individuals on the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) with employment issues. We have a unique mandate to deliver targeted services that have been designed by highly trained professionals in the health care and legal industries.
The focus of Spectrum Works is on:
- Employment support for individuals on the spectrum
- Training and support for employers
Spectrum Works has brought together a highly trained team of professionals with considerable experience supporting individuals with ASD over the lifespan. Specialists include:
- Occupational Therapists
- Employment Lawyers
- Job Coaches
- Management Consultants
Why do we do what we do?
Current estimates indicate that 1 in 68 people fall somewhere on the Autism Spectrum. Unfortunately, there are a number of potential challenges for individuals with ASD in the workplace. A recent review1 found that up to 54% of young adults with ASD had not found paid work up to 4 years after high school graduation—this is a staggering unemployment number when compared to the typical young adult employment numbers. More importantly, this employment figure is even higher than among young adults with other disabilities (such as learning disabilities, intellectual disability, etc.)!
We know that adults with autism spectrum disorders have unique skills to offer and reducing unemployment among this group is the challenge we want to help solve.


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Ferric Carboxymaltose (FCM) is widely used in the treatment of anaemia of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). The clinicians must be alert of the rare adverse events such as hypersensitivity with subsequent doses of Ferric carboxymaltose. Here, we report a case of a 59-year-old male a known case of CKD, with anaemia and thrombocytopenia. Ferric carboxymaltose was the treatment of choice. There was a hypersensitivity reaction to the second dose whereas, the first dose was well tolerated. This case report indicates the onset of adverse reaction with ferric carboxymaltose with the second dose even though the first dose was well tolerated.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Clinical Biochemistry


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The Smithsonians collections of Kiowa drawings include works of art on buffalo hide and more recent examples on paper, a medium that Kiowa artists adopted after it became widely available in the late nineteenth century. Together, these drawings offer a unique source of information on tribal social and artistic traditions.
The best-known bodies of Kiowa graphic art are the drawings produced by Kiowa men imprisoned at Fort Marion in the 1870s and the work produced in the twentieth century by the Kiowa Five, a group of artists who studied at the University of Oklahoma. The National Anthropological Archives has excellent material from both of these important traditions, plus many other drawings that provide a bridge between the two.
Fort Marion Artists
At the conclusion of the Southern Plains Indian war, a group of 72 warriors, primarily Kiowas, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes, were taken prisoner and transported to Fort Marion, in St. Augustine, Florida, where they were held as hostages to ensure the peaceful conduct of their tribes.
The officer in charge of the prisoners, Lt. Richard Pratt, saw their captivity as an opportunity to demonstrate the value of Indian education, and the men were offered English lessons as well as Christian religious instruction. A number of them learned to read and write, and several continued their education in the East after they were released. Two of the men, Tichkematse (Cheyenne) and Etahdleuh (Kiowa), worked for a period of time at the Smithsonian Institution. Lt. Pratt encouraged the men to produce souvenirs for sale to the tourists who frequented St. Augustine, and 23 of the Fort Marion prisoners are known to have produced drawings during their tenure in the East, often in small drawing books. They were able to keep the money from their sales, and many sent funds home to help support their families.
Often working in close collaboration, the Fort Marion artists developed a distinctive style built upon their earlier graphic art tradition. These works in the Smithsonian collections by Kiowa artists display the increased range of subject matter and the incorporation of landscape and perspective from European art traditions characteristic of Fort Marion art. Because the prisoners were being educated in the English language and method of writing, many signed their works, an innovation unknown (and unnecessary) in art that had been created within the confines of the small Kiowa community. One artist, Koba, produced several pages on which words carefully transcribed in English cursive writing are accompanied by small pictures conveying the same concepts. View Fort Marion images.
James Mooney, an anthropologist with the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, began work on the Kiowa Reservation in 1892. Over the next decade and a half he regularly employed artists to make drawings related to his Kiowa studies, particularly of shields and tipis.
These drawings were produced purely as illustrations for field notes, not as works for display, and most are heavily annotated on the face of the drawings. Many nevertheless stand as fine works of art in their own right. While these drawings are not signed in the conventional sense of the term, Mooney often noted on the drawing the name of the artist and the date. Many of the drawings are by Silver Horn (Haungooah, or Hangun, as Mooney rendered the Kiowa name), the artist he employed most regularly. A few other artists are noted by name, and a significant number of anonymous works attest to the existence of a pool of competent artists among the Kiowa during this period. View Anthropological Illustrations.
Silver Horn Pictorial Calendar
Pictorial art was used by Plains Indians to maintain formal calendar records as well as to illustrate stories. The Kiowa had a particularly complex calendar system with events recorded for both summer and winter of each year. Most calendars had very simple pictures that helped calendar keepers remember the name of each year.
This calendar, which was produced by Silver Horn in 1904, was more richly illustrated. It is a copy he made for James Mooney of another calendar, which he kept. It begins with the year 1828 and ends in 1904, with summer and winter pictures for most years. Summers are indicated by a green, forked pole, representing the center pole of the Sun Dance, which was held at that time of year. Winters are indicated by a bare tree. In years when no Sun Dance was held, a tree in leaf marks the summer season. The calendar is heavily inscribed with interpretive notes made by Mooney. View Silver Horn Pictorial Calendar.
Silver Horn Target Record Book
Many Plains artists used the leaves of bound record books for their drawings. These drawings appear in a book used for recording Army targetpractice sessions. Drawings include scenes of warfare, courting, personal dress, the Sun Dance, and stories of the mythical trickster figure, Saynday.
At the end of the volume is a 30-page pictorial diary. Most of the drawings, including the diary, are by Silver Horn (Haungooah), but some drawings are by other, unknown artists. The drawings were made in the 1890s while Silver Horn was enlisted in Troop L of the 7th Cavalry, based at Fort Sill, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). View Silver Horn Target Record Book.
Twentieth Century Art
During the twentieth century, Native American painting gained national and international acceptance as fine art. Artists began to produce paintings for sale, combining traditional and modern techniques to produce images of their current ceremonies and dances as well as their historic past. Kiowa painters were prominent in the development of contemporary Indian painting, and led the early "Oklahoma school" of work. Most famous among them were the Kiowa Five -- Spencer Asah, James Auchiah, Jack Hokeah, Stephen Mopope, Monroe Tsatoke and, briefly, Lois Smokey, all of whom studied at the University of Oklahoma in the late 1920s.
Their paintings were effectively promoted by their professor, Oscar B. Jacobson, through international exhibition and a limited-edition portfolio, plates of which are included in the collection. Their success paved the way for several other notable Kiowa artists, whose works are also represented here.
Much of the Smithsonian's material from the Kiowa Five and other twentieth-century artists comes from the collection of Acee Blue Eagle, a Pawnee/Creek teacher, television personality and artist who worked in many media. His papers and personal art collection were donated to the Smithsonian after his death in 1959. The artwork by Native American artists dates from the 1930s to the 1950s and represents a wide range of tribes, with especially strong Kiowa material. View Twentieth Century Art.
Read More About It
To learn more about the NAA's Kiowa artwork collection, see A
Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution
(Smithsonian Contribution to Anthropology 40, 1997), by William L.
Merrill, Marion K. Hansson, Candace S. Greene and Frederick J. Reuss.
Kiowa Drawings was written by Candace S. Greene and designed by Robert Leopold.

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See previous blog article: Patient Identity Matching. IHE has a set of profiles all focused on Patient Identity Matching. Each has their focus. There is also recorded webcasts available for replaying, and presentations available for download.
To Centralize or not:
To start, XCPD assumes that the implementation of a centralized source of patient demographics, identifiers or record locations is unacceptable. This is a fundamental assumption because if a centralized source of these types of information is acceptable there are many more effective means of solving the problems XCPD solves. For instance, if all demographics can be sent as feed transactions to a central patient matching engine, like a PIX Manager, then a PIX or PDQ Query is much more effective at finding patient identifiers and correlating patients than any deployment of XCPD. In fact, XCPD was created only because there were countries which felt that collecting demographics for all the patients in a country or region into one system would be dangerous. So XCPD is only appropriate when it is used to link communities that are not closely tied and have only limited governance, in particular, are not willing to feed all patient demographics to a single, central server, or even a small number of duplicated central servers.
To Federate or not:
The challenges are: what is a "reasonable number" and how do we encourage centralized approaches in every place where it makes sense. XCPD does not design the architecture; that is for organizations, nations, and regions to do. XCPD, plus many other IHE profiles and healthcare standards, can work together to allow interoperable participation in whatever the architecture turns out to be.
Once we have agreed that a wholly centralized source of patient matching is not acceptable – due to policy or security/privacy concerns or others – application of XCPD can begin.
XCPD is written to be flexible in its requirements. During the development of XCPD organizations throughout the world expressed requirements to the IHE team and these requirements were designed in as optional behavior. For instance:
- We want to use a national patient identifier instead of demographics.
- We want to only pull data, never support other peer networks to pull data from us.
- We want to restrict the demographics shared in a query/response due to privacy concerns.
- We want to restrict the number of matching responses due to privacy concerns.
- We want to collect patient record locations for selected patients and make that list available for other communities in order to enable efficient searching for the patients we select.
- We want to return multiple potential matches so that a local decision can be made for patient safety reasons.
- We want to avoid returning multiple potential matches due to privacy concerns but would like to request additional demographics to aid in disambiguation.
- We need to provide a cache value for matched patient matches to allow for refresh of that information.
- We need to revoke prior matched patient due to policy, consent or demographic changes.
- We need asynchronous behavior.
- We want to have enough security and privacy context to make an access control decision that respects the patient consent directives
Because of all this optional behavior, XCPD cannot be effectively implemented out of the box. An organization must first understand the environment in which it will be deployed, the balance of risks organizations are willing to accept (e.g. false negative/false positive criteria), and how the mitigations necessary for unacceptable risks should be applied to the optional behavior of XCPD.
Modes of Operation:
There are a few modes of operation of XCPD to allow for different types of typical interactions:
- Demographic Query and Feed mode: This is the base mode and allows the initiator to both feed knowledge or a local patient as well as query for a match at the responder site. This mode allows both sides of the transaction to learn about matching patients.
- Demographic Query only mode: Here we see a simple demographic query, asking only for the responder to provide a match to a local patient. This mode does not allow responder to know about a match with the initiator's patient. This satisfies the requirement for nodes that will not support other peer network pull requests.
- Shared/national Patient Identifier Query and Feed: This mode includes in the query only identifiers, no demographic data is shared.
XCPD asynchronous behavior:
The XCPD Patient Discovery transaction, the base transaction discussed here, supports three interaction modes each of which satisfies a different interaction environment. The chapter references given are within the XCPD supplement.
the SOAP request and response are carried in one TCP/IP connection
Response is expected in very short timeframe, e.g. less than 60 seconds
where the WS-Addressing support for "replyTo" is used to return the response through a separate TCP/IP connection
Response is expected in short timeframe, e.g. less than 60 minutes
where the request is decoupled from the reply so each are a separate SOAP interaction (Section 22.214.171.124)
Response is expected to have lengthy delay, e.g. more than 60 minutes
XCPD as a Record Locator Service (RLS):
A challenging requirement addressed by XCPD is the ability to use XCPD as a form of Record Locator Service. There are several capabilities built into XCPD which enable this functionality. But, as with everything else in XCPD, the architecture for doing this is not spelled out by XCPD since a variety of architectures may be desired. Instead there are hooks within XCPD which enable the capability to be designed. The particular capabilities for enabling this functionality are:
- Carry senders homeCommunityId and local patient identifier in the request (see 126.96.36.199.2.4)
- Carry responders homeCommunityId in response (see 188.8.131.52.2.4)
- Specify support for Health Data Locator in response (see 184.108.40.206.2.5)
- Specifies the "Patient Location Query" optional transaction
See the Patient Identity article for a short explanation of Security Considerations. The shorter is that XCPD uses SOAP, and therefore can be grouped with XUA. Thus there is plenty of security/privacy information available for a Privacy and Security decision to be made. Thus things like Privacy Consent can be enforced right away at Patient Identity discovery.
XCPD is just a profile from IHE, in order to understand how it works and determine the scalability of the solutions that it enables one must include specific Policies, operational environment factors, application workflow, functionality, and safety/security/privacy. There likely is no perfect solution, the problem of patient identity discovery is a very hard one. If you can centralize or have a unified Identity, then that is a solution that is going to be far more efficient.
A more detailed and specific examination of the way that the NwHIN Exchange uses this profile is at NwHIN-Exchange use of XCPD for Patient Discovery. This shows some of the ways that an operational environment can constrain XCPD, and some of the ways that one can get in trouble.
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Molybdenum Copper Alloy Properties
Molybdenum Copper Alloy Properties As Follows:
molybdenum copper alloyMolybdenum Copper Alloy nature - a special high-temperature performance
The melting point of molybdenum 2610 ℃, the melting point of copper is only 1083 cC, molybdenum-copper alloy at room temperature and the temperature, both good strength, but also a certain plasticity, and when the temperature exceeds the melting point of copper, the material of the copper can endothermic evaporation liquefaction, play a cooling effect (transpiration cooling). This performance can be used as high-temperature materials for special purposes, such as drug refractory lined combustion temperature nozzle throat, under the action of high temperature electrical arcing contacts and so on.
Molybdenum Copper Alloy nature - high conductance thermal conductivity characteristics
Molybdenum metal in addition gold, silver, copper and other metals, the conductivity and relatively good thermal conductivity element. Therefore, molybdenum and molybdenum-copper alloy composed of copper has a high electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity.
Properties of Molybdenum-copper alloy - with low thermal expansion coefficient can be adjusted
High coefficient of thermal expansion of copper, molybdenum has a low coefficient of thermal expansion. Therefore, the application can be made of a combination according to different required components low thermal expansion coefficient, so that they can communicate with other material combinations of the thermal expansion coefficient matched to avoid excessive thermal expansion coefficient difference in thermal stress caused damage.
Copper-molybdenum alloy - good machinability
Pure molybdenum metal itself due to the high hardness and brittleness, machining more difficult. The copper-molybdenum-copper alloy material after the incorporation of lower hardness, ductility increases, so is conducive to machining, can be processed into complex shaped parts.
Copper-molybdenum alloy - non-magnetic
Molybdenum and copper are non-ferromagnetic metal, so the composition of the molybdenum-copper alloy is an excellent non-magnetic material.
Copper-molybdenum alloy - low gas content and good vacuum performance
Either molybdenum or copper, an oxide easily restore their N, H, C and other impurities can easily be removed under vacuum to maintain a very low outgassing performance with good vacuum.
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Social Disorder in Britain, _PHONE_
The Power of the Gentry, Radicalism and Religion in Wales
Tauris Academic Studies
London: I.B. Tauris, 2011
Hardcover. x+259 pp. ISBN 978-_PHONE_. £59.50
Reviewed by David W. Howell
During the turbulent years of social
and political unrest in Britain between 1750 and 1850, Wales was to experience
corn riots in the 1790s and 1800-01, the Merthyr Rising of 1831, the Chartist
Rising at Newport in 1839 and the Rebecca Riots of 1839 and 1842-43. Indeed,
the early nineteenth-century iron towns clustering around Merthyr were the most
unsettled part of the
Before embarking on this two-pronged enterprise, Professor Thomas commendably investigates the social and economic hinterland in successive chapters entitled 'The Welsh Squirearchy'—who as the ruling landed class he somewhat uncritically disparages as feckless, idle and incompetent—and 'The Peasantry of Wales', a chapter which undertakes a broad-ranging examination of both the farming population and rural industrial workers like colliers and lead miners, whose poverty is rightly stressed. As the focus is largely confined to the three south-western counties, however, no attention is paid to the hardship endured by the emerging industrial proletariat of the Glamorgan iron and coal-mining communities further east.
The discussion proper begins with an
investigation of the 'explosion' of protest, which mainly concentrates on the
corn riots and other forms of violence manifested in the south-west, including
that erupting at times of political elections. As his chronological span is largely
limited to the late eighteenth century and the opening two decades of the
nineteenth, hardly any attention is given to the farmers' protest in the form
of the Rebecca Riots of the early 1840s or to the industrial workers' protest
Professor Thomas moves on to properly query whether there was an intellectual basis of protest, a discussion which encompasses the impressive level of literacy among the Welsh lower orders, and the radical literature of Welsh writers available to them in the late eighteenth century which expressed radical and Jacobinical sentiments. His conclusion is that the ideas and ideology flowing from the American and French Revolutions that spread among the common people through literature in both the English and Welsh languages helped inspire unrest, a wholly plausible if familiar contention.
Discussion as to how such social unrest was contained comprises the later part of the study. His emphasis is on the fact that besides the eventual build-up of anti-French sentiment occasioned by the perceived excesses of the later stages of the Revolution and also the resort to force through the sending in of the soldiery, there were other more subtle factors at work, notably the failure on the part of leading Nonconformists to sympathise with the suffering of the Poor or with their protests, the isolation of many monoglot Welsh-speaking people from current ideas and events, and—plausibly argued—the draining away of some of the most talented people through emigration to America. His handling of the repression by government, magistrates and the military is well-done, if, again, covering rather familiar ground. A trait throughout the book is his welcome willingness to re-appraise received wisdom, and sometimes this is well-taken by this reviewer, as, for instance, his dismissal of the notion that the London Welsh Societies from mid-eighteenth century showed much concern for the social misery of the Welsh lower orders. Interesting, too, if more problematic, is his contention that monolingualism was possibly deliberately promoted by Welsh leaders well-versed in English in order to block their acquaintance with ongoing ideas and information and thereby steer them away from physical protest. For Professor Thomas, language was thus 'a vital tool for control' , the common people themselves being hoodwinked into believing that their leaders were concerned to protect the native language from the assault upon it by the English Establishment. Social discontent could thereby be deflected into non-threatening channels, above all into demanding Disestablishment of the (Anglicised) Anglican Church in Wales.
Nonconformity's perceived crucial role in shaping and channelling Welsh people's aspirations is given a separate chapter entitled 'Towards a Theocratic Wales', wherein he emphasises disparagingly the opposition of religious dissenters to workers' unions and to Benefit Societies, both seen by them as trouble makers. Again, he is critical of the fact that only from mid-nineteenth century did Nonconformist leaders slowly abandon their former opposition to secular aid for elementary education. His explanation that the intense early nineteenth-century inter-denominational rivalry so overrode all other concerns that Dissent was rendered politically quiescent is certainly true, as is his claim that Nonconformist leaders' Calvinistic, individualistic theology led to preoccupation with personal salvation and the afterlife and indifference to contemporary social problems. Missing from his analysis, however, is the fact that from mid-century Nonconformity gradually shed itself of this fierce inter-denominational rivalry and became a united political movement, Liberal and increasingly radical in its politics. Thomas, again the would-be debunker of generally accepted views, challenges the notion that Welsh nonconformity and Welsh politics in the late century were radical—a misuse of the word, he claims..
His contention that Nonconformity completely took over Welsh politics in the late nineteenth century, shaping its agenda towards achieving Nonconformist aspirations which amounted to religious and social equality for Nonconformists, is absolutely true; but his denial that such a programme constituted a radical assault upon a static, hierarchical social order governed by the gentry and Anglican Church is unsustainable. Moreover, he fails to discern the transition from this radical Liberalism to nationalism which occurred from the mid-1880s, so that demands for Disestablishment and land reform were now for the first time driven by the conviction that only their delivery could solve what were distinctive Welsh grievances. Similarly, to contend as he does that Welsh liberalism in the late century could claim 'success' only in its passing the Welsh Sunday Closing Act in 1881, for otherwise it did nothing to address the urgent need to alleviate poverty in Wales, is invalid. True enough, as he stresses, little attention was paid by Nonconformist leaders to the working and living conditions of rural labourers and industrial workers alike and only minimal support was given to their efforts to better themselves. However, the radical Liberal agenda was concerned to promote elementary education for the children of the poor, and (admittedly with Conservative and Anglican churchmen as well) secondary and higher education for the brightest children of the lower classes, both campaigns achieving notable success. Again, and a point which he only eventually recognises in the Epilogue , the Welsh Liberal party and Nonconformist leadership campaigned tirelessly to achieve Welsh land reform to ease the insecurity of Welsh tenant farmers; that they failed to achieve a Welsh Land Act similar to the Irish one of 1881 is not to deny their striving for it. His insistence on the overriding obsession of Welsh Liberalism with Disestablishment is, however, wholly correct (though not a new claim).
It will be apparent that the study has
strengths and weakness in this reviewer's eyes. It has merit in pointing to the
Nonconformist leadership's neglect of the social ills of the day and to their
claims that the roots of Welsh misery lay in the indifference and hostility of
Welsh landlords (he might, too, have included the early nineteenth-century iron
masters) and the Anglican Establishment in Wales, thereby deflecting the common
people from protest against poverty. Again, Professor Thomas is right to
conclude that the so-called 'Treason of the Blue Books' of 1847, an
investigation into the social and educational conditions of the lower classes
of Wales undertaken by Parliamentary Commissioners, which criticised
Nonconformity and the Welsh language, was not a misrepresentation of the truth
but a report by the Commissioners of what they were told and what they
themselves witnessed. However, he overdoes his anti-nonconformist strictures.
Nonconformity's leadership was indeed narrow in its social agenda and exercised
a 'tyranny' over its followers but, at the same time, the chapels
provided a vibrant cultural and social life for the lower classes before the
coming of a variety of alternative secular activities from the 1870s. Moreover,
from mid-century Nonconformist Liberalism succeeded in freeing
The discussion, too, lacks strict organisation and discipline. Too much attention is accorded to developments within the late nineteenth century and even beyond while, pari passu, there is a want of proper concentration on the protests occurring in the years _PHONE_—which is promised in the title; in particular greater attention should have been paid to discussing the disturbances of the 1830s and 1840s, above all the Rebecca Riots in south-west Wales (which bore such a close resemblance to the 'War of the Demoiselles' waged between 1829 and 1834 by the peasantry of the French Pyrenees) but also the industrial protests of the Scotch Cattle, the Merthyr Rising and the Newport Rising, even though they occurred outside the south-west.
In sum, there is a commendable willingness on the part of the author to question received wisdom and to offer fresh interpretation—not least his claim that Nonconformist leaders selfishly promoted mono-lingualism among the Welsh in order to shield them from outside influences


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An unexpected death of a loved one in a nursing home is a difficult time for any family. If you want answers, you may need to consult a lawyer quickly.
Move Quickly When Someone Unexpectedly Dies in a Nursing Home
A nursing home resident should not die suddenly and unexpectedly except by a diagnosable and not-preventable medical condition.
If someone dies suddenly and unexpectedly in a nursing home and you can't get straight, honest answers as to what happened–and why–you should have someone investigating that death as soon as possible.
How We Investigate Sudden Nursing Home Deaths
Here is an overview of how we investigate sudden deaths in nursing homes generally. Every case is different, and may involve different approaches.
 1. Get the Medical Examiner / Coroner Involved Immediately
 2. Put the facility on notice of a potential claim and their legal requirement to preserve evidence like video footage
 3. Obtain all video footage
 4. Identify and interview witnesses
 5. Review all medical records
 6. Check for changes or alterations to records
 7. Consult experts
Get the Medical Examiner / Coroner Involved Immediately
Medical examiners should be investigating and ruling on the cause of death for suspicious sudden nursing home deaths.
The goal here is to figure out why the person died. There could be an innocent medical explanation. The evidence of that may be inside the person or require examining their body. That's something, ideally, the medical examiner or coroner should do.
It can include seeking an autopsy. While this may not be pleasant, there are certain medical causes of death that may only be detected (or ruled out) through an autopsy.
Any suspicious or sudden death, or death involving physical trauma, should already be reported to the medical examiner's office. Many times they aren't in my experience.
So ask doctors and hospitals to report the death. Follow up with the medical examiner's office directly. Once the person is cremated or buried, it may be too late for them to do anything.
Purple note with the word "important" written on it in black handwriting with a red push pin at the top.
Don't let important evidence be destroyed by letting time pass.
When a potential lawsuit defendant knows or should know there's a potential legal claim being investigated, and they may have certain evidence in their possession (like video footage), they have a duty not to destroy that evidence.
If they do destroy it, we may be able to get sanctions for destruction of evidence (called "spoliation"), which may include the jury being instructed that the evidence would have helped our case.
Lots of types of evidence may be destroyed over time. For example, there may be security cameras in hallways that record on a "loop," so the footage is deleted every two weeks or 30 days.
If we wait until 6 months have gone by to put the facility on notice, they can claim they did not know it was evidence anyone wanted.
Obtain all video footage
Video footage may be missing or destroyed if you wait too long to get it after an unexplained nursing home death.
If there's any footage of the person, or the hallway to / from their room, we want it. This will help prove (or disprove) what staff wrote in the medical record or may later testify about.
For example, if the family discovers someone dead in their room, the facility may claim "we just checked on her." If no one actually shows up on the video going to her room, we know that's a lie.
Identify and interview witnesses
Getting to witnesses early to figure out what they know can be critical to ever knowing why someone died suddenly in a nursing home.
There are lots of people in nursing homes: other residents, their families, staff, outside medical providers, and others.
Any of these people may be able to shed light on what happened. And in Ohio, nursing homes may be able to find some of these people, but hide what they said.
We go find them and get their story for ourselves.
Time is crucial here, too. Many residents may leave a nursing home, especially if they were just there for rehabilitation. You can lose the story that can help you figure out why someone died in a nursin ghome if you let witnesses disappear.
Review all medical records
Medical records can provide important clues as to what happened, and what did not happen, leading up to a sudden nursing home death.
Medical records help us understand what may have happened. They show prior medical conditions that could lead to sudden death. For example, death by heart attack, stroke, or pulmonary embolism.
They also contain records of staff involved with the person leading up to their death. Was there neglect? Abuse? Failure to recognize and respond to warning signs of an impending medical emergency?
Check for changes or alterations to records
You cannot trust medical records to tell you the truth about what happened. You have to check for changes and alterations–or flat out lies–when someone dies suddenly in the nursing home.
As useful as medical records can be, we cannot assume they're accurate or honest.
Staff at nursing homes can alter records after the fact as a cover-up of what happened. This will show up in the record of medical record changes, called an "audit trail," for electronic medical records. It can be harder to detect with hand-written medical records, but we've seen it.
People can also make self-serving or false records of care before a death. For example, we've seen cases in which someone says they took vital signs, took a resident to the toilet, or gave medications, when we know it's a lie.
We've even seen cases where care was supposedly given after the person has already left the facility, or died.
Consult experts
A forensic pathologist can be critical to finding out the cause of death when a nursing home resident suddenly dies without warning.
There are private doctors who can determine causes of death–called "forensic pathologists"–and we can and do retain such experts in cases like this. Even when we have the medical examiner's office on board.
Getting an Experienced Nursing Home Lawyer on Board Early
Time is of the essence in getting an investigation started when a loved one dies unexpectedly in a nursing home and you can't get answers.
You can see from this list how important time is when a nursing home resident unexpectedly dies.
Getting an experienced nursing home lawyer investigating quickly can be important to finding out what really happened.
But a word of warning: any "personal injury" lawyer can say "I do nursing home cases." Any lawyer can put a page on their website talking vaguely about nursing home cases. Do your homework and ask them tough questions:
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 3. How many of this type of nursing home cases have they handled?
 4. Can they answer your specific questions about nursing home laws and regulations? Or do they give general answers and change the subject?
 5. Do they seem like subject-matter experts on nursing home law?
Remember, you're interviewing them as much as they're interviewing you. Changing lawyers can be time-consuming. And by the time you realize they aren't the right lawyer for your family, it may already be too late.
So put the effort in up front to get it right if you can.
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While Kingsville, Texas, was officially established in 1904, when the railroad came through town, the history of this region goes back long before that time. The King Ranch, still a working cattle ranch, was founded in 1853, when Captain Richard King purchased land that was once part of the Rincon de Santa Gertrudis Mexican Land Grant.
The land was originally called the Wild Horse Desert by early settlers. Captain King and his family, with the help of an entire village of people from Mexico, cleared and fenced the land, fought off the raiding Indians, and made the area safe for settlers. These same villagers became some of Texas' first cowboys (the Kineños), and their descendents are a vital part of the community today.
In 1913, Texas Legislators created the County of Kleberg, with Kingsville as the county seat. Shortly thereafter, various events provided the impetus to further spur the growth of Kingsville: the discovery of gas and oil and the arrivals of South Texas State Teacher's College (now Texas A&M University-Kingsville), the U.S. Navy, and Celanese.
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The mayor of Kenosha was recently quoted in the local newspaper:
"The Vietnam War has left lasting impressions on the history of this country and it is vital for the generations that represent our future to learn the lessons of the Vietnam War. We cannot allow this war, indeed all wars, to be a forgotten page in a forgotten history book. We need to learn from our past in order to secure our future."
He then announced a plan to hire a local artist to paint a large mural on the side of the Northside public library. He would like it to commemorate the Vietnam War.
But the plan for a mural is causing a lot of controversy. Some citizens are very excited about the plan. Some don't want it to be about Vietnam at all. Everyone has different opinions about what the mural should look like.
 In a few days the mayor is going to have a town meeting to make a final decision about the mural. The mayor has three questions that need to be answered:
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You are to be the citizens involved in the process. Each group of four will represent the different viewpoints of the citizens. Each person within a group will take a position on the mural and research his/her "role" in order to defend his/her belief.
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 1. Divide up the four roles among your group members.
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story)
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"A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
Author Flannery O'Connor
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Short story, Southern Gothic
Publication type Collection
Media type Print
Publication date 1955
The story was first published in 1953 in the anthology The Avon Book of Modern Writing.[1] In 1960, it was collected in the anthology The House of Fiction, published by Charles Scribner's Sons. "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," because of its publication in many anthologies, became the most well known of O'Connor's works.[2]
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A man named Bailey intends to take his family from Georgia to Florida for a summer vacation, but his mother, (referred to as "the grandmother" in the story) wants him to drive to Tennessee. She argues that his children, June Star and John Wesley, have never been to Tennessee and shows him a news article about an escaped murderer called The Misfit last seen heading to Florida. The next day, Bailey takes his family to Florida anyway. The grandmother wakes up early to hide her cat, Pitty Sing, in a basket on the floor in the back of the car. (She is worried that the cat would die while they were gone.) Bailey finds her sitting in the car, dressed in her best clothes and an ostentatious hat; she says that if she should die in an accident along the road, she wants people to see her corpse and know she was refined and "a lady." The Grandmother talks continuously during the trip, trying to engage her two grandchildren in games and telling them jokes and a story, all of which they ignore with disdain. She recalls her youth in the Old South. She reminisces about how much better everything was in her time, when children were respectful and people "did right then." When the family stops at an old diner for lunch, she talks to the owner, Red Sammy, about The Misfit. He and the grandmother agree that things were much better in the past, that the world at present is degenerate, and she agrees with Sammy's remark that "a good man is hard to find."
After the family returns to the road, the grandmother begins telling the children a story about a mysterious house nearby with secret passages, a house she remembers from her childhood. This catches the children's attention and they want to visit the house, so they harass their father until he reluctantly goes through with it to let them take a side trip. As he drives them down a remote dirt road, the grandmother suddenly realizes that the house she was thinking of was actually in Tennessee, not Georgia. That shocking realization makes her involuntarily kick her feet which frightens the cat, causing it to spring from its hidden basket, onto Bailey's neck. He then loses control of the car and flips it over to end up in a ditch below the road. Only the children's mother is injured, the children are frantic with excitement, and the grandmother's main concern is dealing with Bailey's anger.
The family waits for help. When she notices a car coming down the road, the grandmother flags it down until it stops. Three men come out and begin to talk to her. All three have guns. The grandmother says that she recognizes the leader, the man in glasses, as The Misfit. The Misfit confirms this, saying it would have been better for them all if she hadn't recognized him, and Bailey curses his mother. The Misfit has his two men take Bailey and John Wesley into the woods, claiming that "the boys want to ask you something." After they leave, the grandmother speaks to The Misfit who says he's been falsely imprisoned for killing his father, when his cause of death was actually a flu epidemic. The Misfit mentions talking to a psychiatrist while in prison about why he did not remember what crime he had committed.
The men shoot Bailey and John in the forest, then come back to take the children's mother, the baby, and June Star for the same purpose. The grandmother begins pleading for her own life. When The Misfit talks to her about Jesus, he expresses his doubts about His raising Lazarus from the dead. As he speaks, the Misfit becomes agitated and angry. He snarls into the grandmother's face and claims that life has "no pleasure but meanness". In her growing confusion, she thinks that The Misfit is going to cry, so she reaches out and touches his shoulder tenderly, saying "You're one of my own children!" His reaction is to jump away "as if a snake had bitten him" and he kills her with three shots.
When they finish murdering the family, The Misfit takes a moment to clean his glasses, saying that the grandmother would have been a good woman if "it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." The story ends with the Misfit chastising one of his sidekicks for claiming that the family's murder was good fun. The Misfit tells him to shut up, that "it's no real pleasure in life." [3]
Atlanta resident with a wife and three children and his mother. He crashes their car on a family trip to Florida when he gives in to the children's wishes to visit an old plantation.
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A film adaptation of the short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," entitled Black Hearts Bleed Red, was made in 1992 by New York filmmaker Jeri Cain Rossi. The film stars noted New York artist Joe Coleman[11] but the film does not depict the story or its characters well according to most reviewers.[citation needed]
 1. ^ Gooch, Brad. Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor. New York: Little, Brown, 2009, p. 238.
 2. ^ Ann Kirk, Connie (2008). Critical companion to Katelyn Smith. Infobase Publishing. pp. 74–78. Retrieved April 24, 2011.
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 4. ^ Desmond, John (2004), Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil, Renascence, pp. 129–138
 5. ^ Ochshorn, Kathleen (1990), A Cloak of Grace: Contradictions in "A Good Man is Hard to Find", Studies in American Fiction, pp. 113–117
 6. ^ Asals, Frederick. "The Limits of Explanation." Critical Essays on Flannery O'Connor. Melvin J. Friedman and Beverly Lyon Clark, eds. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985, p. 52.
 7. ^ Bandy, Stephen (1996), 'One of my Babies': The Misfit and the Grandmother, Studies in Short Fiction, pp. 107–117
 8. ^ "Means, Meaning and Mediated Space in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find.'" The Southern Quarterly. 44.4 (2007): 125-38.
 9. ^ Wood, Ralph C. Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South. Grand Rapids, Mi.: Eerdman's Publishing, 2005, p. 41-42.
 10. ^ O'Connor, Flannery. Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970, p. 112.
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Further reading[edit]
 - Flannery O'Connor (1993). Frederick Asals, ed. A good man is hard to find. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-1977-7. Contains the original text as well as a collection of critical essays on it.
 - Jan Nordby Gretlund, Karl-Heinz Westarp, ed. (2006). Flannery O'Connor's radical reality. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-601-9. Several essays discuss the story in the context of Flannery's work as whole.
 - George Kilcourse (2001). Flannery O'Connor's religious imagination: a world with everything off balance. Paulist Press. ISBN 978-0-8091-4005-3. Focuses on the religious aspects of Flannery's writings, including those in this short story.
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This paper focuses on the point of view of the society about what nationalism is, if this is important or not, it's positive and negative effects, and the modern-ways of expressing nationalism.
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Surprising Difference between Dentists and Periodontists? Best Guide
difference between dentists and periodontists
Although most of the peoples do not know the difference between dentists and Periodontists that's why Dentist and Periodontist are commonly considered as similar there is a difference in between dentist and Periodontist. Most of the persons however do not know about this as many of the problems of periodontists are treatable for a dentist.
Simply we can say that the dentist treats the problems and diseases related to the teeth, gums and other areas of the mouth while the periodontist only treats the problems and disorders related to gums and bones which support the teeth.
General Dentist:
General dentist is similar to MBBS or MD means he/she is not a specialist in any special part of the mouth. A general dentist can treat most of the problems related to teeth and supporting structures of teeth and some mouth problems. In most of the cases General dentist is required while in a few cases requires specialist of that part.
General dentists provide a routine treatment that includes X-rays, tooth extraction, and other common dental problems such as nerve damage, fractures, discoloration of the teeth, cavities, calculus bridge removal, etc.
In most of the problems General dentists are required they not only treat common dental problems as well as oral health problems. Consulting a General dentist is really important for maintaining great oral health and also maintaining hygienicity of the mouth and teeth.
Common responsibilities of a General Dentist includes:
 - Promoting person's health wit different methods for proper oral care
 - Performing X-rays or other techniques for diagnostic purposes.
 - Extraction of teeth when teeth is non treatable.
 - Administration of anesthetics to alleviate pain in affected areas of the oral cavities.
Here one must know the basic concept of Periodontology, which makes it easier to remember the difference.
Periodontology commonly known as Periodontics is the branch of dentistry which deals with the study of supporting structures of teeth as well as diseases related to the supporting structure.
So simply we can say that Periodontists are just like dentists but they can treat only supporting structures of teeth while dentists not only treat supporting structures as well as teeth and mouth problems as well.
A common question is asked that "can periodontist do general dentistry". Of-course Yes. Periodontist is a dentist with additional qualification as well.
Regular visiting to the periodontist can help a person to avoid serious health problems. The periodontist commonly asked for treating severe and complex cases related to supporting structures as it completely relates to his field while general dentists face difficulty to treat these problems.
In both specializations dental graduation is necessary from any dental colleges or medical and dental universities while the Periodontist requires additional 3 years for specialization.
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Just like a Doctor, When he/she has completed the MBBS/MD. He became a doctor after completing FRCS. So Dentist is like MBBS/MD when any dentist completes its studies and also completes additional 3 year course for Periodontology He becomes Periodontogist.
When it talk about the periodontist vs dentist salary, The Salary of Periodontist is much more then General dentist as Periodontist requires specialization and has higher qualifications then dentist.
Commonly Periodontists treat Cases such as
 - Tissue removal i.e soft Tissues
 - Recontouring Hard Tissues
 - Cleaning Deep Pocket
 - Grafting in Bone
Common Responsibilities of periodontist includes:
 - Interpreting various examinations of tooth and imaging it
 - Removal of gingivitis agents along the gum lines and teeth
 - Administration of numbing agent at required areas
 - Pulling of irreparable teeth
 - Performing grafting of tissues and bones.
While Dentist commonly treats minor cases of Periodontists as well as other cases of teeth and mouth such as
 - General Cleaning of Teeth
 - Extractions of teeth
 - Non-surgical cases of Periodontal cares
One may confuse Periodontist with implantologist, so one must differentiate periodontist with implantologist. Implantology deals with the techniques for dental implants. An Implantologist is trained to implant surgeries, prosthetic rehabilitation etc. There are a few techniques which an implantologist performs that are also performed by the Periodontist but not all the techniques of implantologists can be performed by the Periodontists. Simply, we can say an implantologist performs the work of dental implants. One must remember the implantologist requires Diploma (DICOI stands for Diplomate of International Congress of Oral Implantologists) of 1 to 2 years while the Periodontists requires 3 years for specialization.
What does a Periodontal dentist do?
A periodontist is a dentist who specializes in preventing treating and diagnosis of periodontal disease i.e disease related to the supporting tissues of the teeth such as gums. They use different methods and latest techniques for diagnosing and treatment of periodontal diseases such as gingivitis and perform different procedures for the treatment of different periodontal disease. Remember that Periodontal is also considered as a specialist in oral inflammatory diseases.
What type of procedures does a periodontist perform?
Periodontists treat a wide range of gums and supporting structures problems and different procedures includes scaling and root planing (i.e the cleaning of infected root surfaces), debridement of root surface (i.e the removal of damaged tissues) and regenerative procedures as well.
Should I see a dentist or Periodontist?
Not all the time you need a periodontist. Some of the experienced dentists can manage and treat mild periodontal problems and diseases but if cases are severe and complex periodontists are necessary. In most of the cases dentist refers person to periodontist. Research suggests that Periodontitis have a high amount of cases at older age i.e aged person has higher risk of Periodontitis i.e case of Periodontist. In some instances, genetic disorders are found in these cases one must visit a Periodontist clinic. When you have the following signs you should look for Periodontist:
 When you noticed a change in your bite:
If our teeth feel different while talking, chewing or biting or brushing you should see a Periodontist. In long term problems of these cases one must visit a Periodontist while in less severe cases you can visit a general Dentist clinic.
 When You have Redness, Swelling or Bleeding from Gums.
These are the obvious signs as discussed earlier periodontists are considered as experts in inflammatory problems.
Loosening of Teeth:
When losing teeth due to gum problems it is an obvious sign for a Periodontist. One should look for a periodontist and it is one of the signs of Periodontitis. In these cases periodontists are necessary.
When Your have Pain and Discomfort:
Oral pain can occur due to various reasons such as gingivitis. In most cases a general dentist is enough to treat disorders and diseases. While a few cases require a Periodontist, Normally general dentist refers to the periodontist in these cases.
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Self into Song by Carol Rumens
Carol Rumens is the author of 14 collections of poems, the latest being Poems, _PHONE_ (Bloodaxe Books), as well as occasional fiction, drama and translation. She has received the Cholmondeley Award and the Prudence Farmer Prize, and was joint recipient of an Alice Hunt Bartlett Award. Her most recent publication is the prose book, Self into Song, based on three poetry lectures delivered in the Bloodaxe-Newcastle University Lecture Series. She is currently professor in creative writing at the University of Wales, Bangor, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Take a look at her exercise on the triolet
The mediaeval verse-forms are like little windows in time. Through them we can hear faintly the fluid, inflected languages of southern Europe, and glimpse a decreasingly familiar conception of poetry, rooted in dance and song. We see troubadours, hear lutes and viols. We may also notice Victorian top hats or, as in the triolet below, Edwardian ladies' gloves, since 19thand early 20th-century poets were the form's chief English importers:
 O why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
 Missing so much and so much?
 O fat white woman whom nobody loves
 Why do you walk through the fields in gloves
 When the grass is as soft as the breast of doves
 And shivering sweet to the touch?
 O Why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
 Missing so much and so much?
 (Frances Cornford, 'To a Fat Lady seen from the Train')
I first read this poem at school and, while admiring its technical skill, felt mildly irritated by the rhyme-driven assumption about the protagonist's character. How did the poet know that the fat woman was not an adored and adorable person with masses of friends and a deep love of nature, merely dressed for church or some such formal event? Later, I discovered Housman's wickedly twinkling, and rightly foreshortened, six-line parody:
 Oh why do you walk through the fields in boots
 Missing so much and so much?
 Oh fat white woman whom nobody shoots
 Why do you walk through the fields in boots
 When the grass is as soft as the breast of coots
 And shivering sweet to the touch?
Wendy Cope is a deft contemporary triolet-writer. Her satire on boring poets and unrealistic poetry-fans in the collection Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis boasts particularly memorable refrain lines: "I used to think all poets were Byronic,/ Mad, bad and dangerous to know." (Read it in full here.) The second line, of course, is a quotation: Lady Caroline Lamb's excited assessment of Lord Byron very handily fits the meter. The poem turns on a brilliantly organised central clutch of polysyllabic rhyme: 'Byronic, ironic, tonic' - rhymes that are amusing in themselves. A nice little technical detail is the alternation of feminine and masculine rhymes in the two refrains. 'Byronic' is feminine, ending on an unstressed syllable, and 'know' is masculine, being stressed. The original form seems to have used this alternation of stress, only reversed: the feminine ending followed the masculine. It's the variation which counts. Not all English writers bother with it but it seems essential to the form's musicality.
As will be obvious by now, one of the rules of the triolet is that its first two lines return as the last two, a position in which they risk being shadows of their former selves. They are almost redundant, mere reiteration. They can't, it seems, take us anywhere new.
Or can they?
Cope cleverly precedes her last refrain pair with an adverbial clause (my italics): "Not long ago/ I used to think all poets were Byronic -/ Mad, bad and dangerous to know." They resonate a little differently because of it. A note of wistfulness, which we deduce from a narrative hint about the speaker's timeframe, sounds through the reiteration, making it feel a little more thoughtful and disillusioned. And not a word has been changed.
Some poets have a fine old time with homonyms and homophones, or they use clever punctuation shifts to reconstruct the syntax and alter the sense. This can be great fun, like watching a skilful magician turning scarves into doves. But there's much to be said for simplicity. A refrain is a refrain is a refrain. It must, of course, be worthy of repetition.
Forms such as the triolet are sometimes called closed forms or, just as damningly, fixed forms. These terms imply fossilisation, which is why I dislike them. Fossil poems can be written in any form or none. If the writer has a fresh eye and is prepared to apply a touch of boldness, she or he can produce poems of any shape that are living organisms. I encourage my new poetry students to write triolets, and I am always heartened by the results. In fact, it is my students over the years who have kept alive my interest in the old forms. I introduced them as a teachable element of 'creative writing' but found, over and over, that they were brought to life by people with no preconceptions beyond a basic grasp of the structure and the non-cynical belief that it could encompass something they genuinely wanted to say.
Form is sometimes considered politically conservative, but it is neutral. It has no politics, no morals. That's entirely up to the poet. It may simply provide an exercise-mat for verbal limbering-up till the big idea demanding its own space and unique rhythms comes along. Yet sometimes, even for an experienced writer, a symmetrical 'plot' liberates the imagination, temporarily quells the critic. I have written (or been written by) several triolets, one of which, 'Jarrow', broke the rhyme-scheme for the sake of euphony. Inspired by Gavin Ewart's'serious' limericks, I sought to make the form contain uncertainty and loss, and, in 'Jarrow', social criticism. My personal favourite, which also bends a rule, is 'Round Trip'. The aim was to layer the statement with questions and mood-shifts. The speaker, hopeful at first, realises that her initially unconscious adoption of the local accent is itself a mode of self-doubt and exile - unless, of course, dislocation is itself implicit in the notion of 'home.'
 This must be home, when a voice returns from floating
 And sinks into the dialect of a bay.
 Its wonderment instantly becomes dismay.
 This must be home, when a voice returns from floating
 Out among islands, sheds' protective coating,
 Achieves itself, then catches itself self-quoting -
 'This must be home, when a voice returns from floating
 And sinks into the dialect of a bay.'
A cumbersome name for the muse of symmetrical form, borrowed from mathematics, might be 'generative closure.' The term, as I re-interpret it, implies that the necessities of a rhyme or a repetition stimulate unforeseeable chains of possibility. Even the modest little triolet can have this effect.
Your workshop assignment, then, is to try a triolet. It will need eight lines and rhyme ABaAabAB. The capital letters indicate the refrain lines. You can use any meter. Cornford's poem is unusual in that it has the second and seventh refrain line in a different meter - a trimeter in a poem made of tetrameters ("Missing so much and so much"). You can do something like that - or even go for the difficult dimeter:
 I purchased The Ring.
 I shall play it this winter,-
 A long-drawn-out thing.
 I've purchased The Ring
 Where for hours they all sing.
 It's not cryptic like Pinter.
 I've purchased The Ring.
 I shall play it this winter.
 (Gavin Ewart, 'Triolet: Buying Records in July')
The tone and lexicon you adopt may be 'light' - or you may want to be surreal, serious, elegiac, polemical, satirical or impressionistic. You may want to split your verse into stanzas, indent or'step' your lines, or use half rhymes, as does Tina Moran in 'Aquarist'. A student I met on an Arvon Course many years ago, she brought an unusual flair to the form. I hope she doesn't mind my quoting her beautiful little poem. Her lines have a lightly irregular beat, and are so filled with seductive names and images that we barely notice the machinery turning:
 Cardinals, coolies, marble angels, a clown
 peopled this glass world. Here, I'm a king:
 waves do as I want: I light the sun.
 Cardinals, coolies, marble angels, a clown
 kissed and fed from my hands. I know no-one
 who has spent such treasure as these glittering
 cardinals, coolies, marble angels. A clown
 peopled this glass world, here. I'm aching.
(Note how line eight turns the brightly flourished scarf of 'a king' into the pale feather of 'aching').
Though a more strongly stressed affair, there is also an impressionistic shimmer in the last stanza of Dana Gioia's double-triolet,


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Issues of identity have long been a topic of research in the education context in the sociology of education and pedagogy, but the social identity perspective has some new insights to offer this domain through a social psychological understanding of the self, groups and social systems that is complementary to the sociological and pedagogical perspective. One main area of activity in this domain has involved examining how our approaches to learning are linked to our discipline-based social identities and dynamically influence each other throughout a course of study (LACES). We are also interested in the implications of how our discipline-based social identity fits within the self, and the implications for well-being, particularly in intense learning domains such as medical education (Prevalence to Process).
Learning Approaches, Course Experience, and the Self (LACES)
The LACES project is exploring the role of discipline-based social identity, and the normative beliefs about the collective learning approach in a given course, on an individual's approach to learning in a course, their experience of the course and their learning outcomes, as well as the reciprocal effects on the learner's integration of the discipline identity into the self. We examine these effects in the context of many other traditional predictors of learning approach, and int the context of traditional classrooms as well as problem-based learning settings. Read more.
From Prevalence to Process:
Understanding the role of Self and Identity in Medical student Wellbeing
Within the intense domain of medical education it has been known for some time that medical students often experience high levels of stress and also higher negative consequences for wellbeing. Our interest is in progressing beyond these acknowledgments of prevalence and applying social psychological models to understanding the processes that might buffer or intensify these effects. We have been examining models of broad self-complexity as well as the specific effects of a strong identification as a medical student.


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Canada recently took part in celebrations marking the first International Day of the Girl Child in New York and at the United Nations Headquarters. Canada, along with Peru and Turkey, led the resolution that called for the creation of an "International Day of the Girl Child" that was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 19 December 2011. Since then, many organizations and countries have raised awareness and promoted issues of concern to girls worldwide.
To celebrate the adoption of the resolution, Canada, Peru and Turkey, hosted a panel discussion entitled "Ensuring Bright Futures." The purpose of the panel was to discuss issues that girls face, particularly violence in and around schools, the role of education in helping girls find their voice, and ways to advocate for better and safer opportunities
The panel filled the UN's Dag Hammarskjöld auditorium to capacity, and was attended by many ambassadors and girl youth ambassadors. The clear highlight of the panel was a speech given by Fabiola, a youth activist from Cameroon. Fabiola spoke passionately of her desire to go to school, to be a leader in her community, and to represent girls from across her country and the world:
"Because I am a girl, people think I should wash babies' napkins, rather than hold a computer mouse. Because I am a girl, I will cook while my brothers do their science homework. Because I am a girl, I should stand behind and watch the boys use the computers in the science lab. Because I am a girl, I may be forced into early marriage instead of being able to pursue studies in science and technology. But because I am a girl, I will fight for my rights. I will make known to my society that I exist. I will change the world into one where everyone is treated equally, regardless of gender, race, language, culture or religious perspectives."
The panel was facilitated by Geeta Rao Gupta, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF. A webcast of the panel discussion is available on the United Nations website.
Also present was Alaina Podmorrow, Canada's honorary Youth Ambassador and vocal supporter of girls' rights in Afghanistan. Alaina is a strong advocate for girls' rights in Canada and around the world.
At just 15 years of age, Alaina Podmorow is living proof that a little inspiration can lead to great things: Journalist and human rights activist Sally Armstrong's 2006 speech on the plight of Afghan girls and women so inspired Alaina that she founded Little Women for Little Women in Afghanistan to support education projects in Afghanistan. She was only nine years old at the time.
Alaina dedicates herself to the organization, which has raised close to $400,000, and now has 10 chapters in Canada and the United States. Alaina speaks to audiences across Canada, sharing information about the importance of education as a key tool in peace-building.
The UN Department of Public Information hosted a panel presentation entitled "The Girl Child: Protection from Violence, Exploitation, and Abuse." Minister Ambrose spoke about her role as a woman leader, and expressed her hope that the day would help to raise awareness for girls' issues worldwide. Dr. Changu Mannathoko, the Senior Education Advisor to UNICEF, gave a moving speech on the need for girls' schooling, and Muslim women's activist Raquel Evita Saraswati spoke about the many challenges that Muslim girls face including access to education.
In addition, Plan International organized a launch event for their visionary Because I am a Girl campaign aimed at raising awareness of girl's rights around the world. As Ms. Ellen Margrethe Loj, Chair Members' Assembly and International Board, Plan international eloquently put it: "Girls are among the most marginalized and discriminated against groups on the planet. We know that empowering girls to secure their rights is also one the best solutions to sustainably reducing global poverty."
Minister Ambrose met with Michelle Bachelet, the Executive Director of UN Women and former President of Chile to discuss violence against women. Minister Ambrose spoke to Canada's efforts in engaging men and boys in preventing violence against women and about Canada's commitment to ending child marriage.
For more information about how Canada supports the International Day of the Girl, visit the Status of Women Canada web site.
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The success of operator splitting techniques for convex optimization has led to an explosion of methods for solving large-scale and nonconvex optimization problems via convex relaxation. This success is at the cost of overlooking direct approaches to operator splitting that embrace some of the more inconvenient aspects of many model problems, namely nonconvexity, nonsmoothness, and infeasibility. I will introduce some of the tools we have developed for handling these issues, and present sketches of the basic results we can obtain. The formalism is in general metric spaces, but most applications have their basis in Euclidean spaces. Along the way I will try to point out connections to other areas of intense interest, such as optimal mass transport.


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|1.||Also called: panorama a large picture, such as a battle scene, on the interior wall of a cylindrical room, designed to appear in natural perspective to a spectator in the centre|
|a. a curtain or wall curving along the back of a stage, usually painted to represent the sky and serving to enhance certain lighting effects|
|b. any set of curtains that enclose the back and sides of a stage setting|
|the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.|
|a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.|
in theatre, background device employed to cover the back and sometimes the sides of the stage and used with special lighting to create the illusion of sky, open space, or great distance at the rear of the stage setting. Introduced early in the 20th century, a cyclorama usually forms a smoothly curving, concave wall at the rear of the stage. Some, called dome horizons, also curve at the top, heightening the illusion of open space. Although some theatres have a curved back wall that serves as a permanent cyclorama, it most commonly consists of a drop curtain that can be raised or lowered according to need.
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