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Browne James | Posted on April 18, 2022 |
A new natural history GCSE will be launched next week, focusing on how students can save the planet.
Eligibility will be available from September 2025 and is expected to be announced by Education Secretary Nadeem Jahavi on Thursday.
The Department for Education says this qualification will help students "gain a deeper knowledge of the natural world around them" about living things and their environment, as well as environmental and sustainability issues.
"Students will also develop conservation skills for future careers, from understanding how to conserve local wildlife to conducting the necessary fieldwork for species identification," the DFE said.
Students have already learned about environmental problems through the study of geography and habitat urbanization in science, but the government says the new course will "go further" to teach them about the history of species and the impact of human activity on the natural environment.
Jahui, who is expected to announce the new GCSE on April 21 when he launches DfE's sustainability and climate change strategy, said: "Sustainability and climate change are the biggest challenges facing mankind."
"None of us can doubt how critical they have become. The new natural history will give GCSE young people the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding and understanding of this amazing planet, its environment and how to preserve it. "
The new GCSE is one of the first to be launched since the qualification reform in 2017.
"The government will work closely with a range of independent experts and stakeholder organizations, including the Cambridge OCR, the Board of Examiners and OfQual to develop detailed content for the GCSE," DfE said.
DfE added that sustainability and climate change strategies would be designed to help "create excellent opportunities for young people to have excellent knowledge about stem and improve biodiversity and climate resilience".
Read moreNew Natural History GCSE Focus on planet protection | GCSEs
Teachers "popping pill" And being on long-term sick leave, due to the culture of non-stop school emails and WhatsApp messages that are "ding and ping" day and night, said at a conference.
Delegate after platform at the annual conference of the NASUWT Teachers Union in Birmingham to condemn the increase in workload and to describe the devastating effects on health and well-being.
Meanwhile, teachers who are being given finger painting, "knit and natter" and mindfulness sessions near the end of their teasers as schools try their best to support struggling workers, are heard at the conference.
Owen Morgan-Lee, a Flintshire correspondent, told members: "We know some colleagues are chronically ill because they are taking pills to rejuvenate themselves. "
Morgan-Lee said her school tried to help by organizing a wellness session for teachers on the day of the training. She was offered finger-painting in the art department, a round of gold on the school grounds, and "Knit and Natter" in the textile class, but decided to be mindful.
"Sweaty, cold, lying on the floor of the hall, wondering what sounded like my knees, how my toes felt, and what the taste of those grapes was and how it felt on my face," he said. "I was thinking about the stress, the anxiety, the fear of going back to the classroom, and how many more seconds or minutes I would have to do before logging into my school emails, how many more minutes I would have to do it, because I had reached Nirvana before it was all over."
"None of this will reduce the workload," Morgan-Lee said. "All we need is colleagues, real, real change. We don't need sticking plaster. We need real change in the workload and we need it now. "
Damien McNalty, the union's national executive, warned that work pressure was pushing teachers out of the profession. "We've got a 24/7 culture where telephones, tablets and smartphones are turned on," and while school leaders can't respond to emails outside of work, they set up WhatsApp groups that "do something all evening when you 'ding and ping.' Trying to rest and relax. "
He says: "It simply came to our notice then. Lots. It's time for a limit. We will no longer tolerate overwork. "
NASUWT members unanimously voted in favor of a campaign to limit their working hours and called on unions to promote teachers' rights for career balance.
According to a NASUWT survey of 4,000 UK members, nine out of 10 (91%) said workload increased last year – 61% said it increased significantly – with full-time teachers working 57 hours a week in the middle of the week. Teachers who took part in the survey said they spent more time in the past year on pastoral care, admin, data and assessment, as well as teaching, distance learning and dealing with parents.
More than four in five (84%) believe their jobs have had an adverse effect on their mental health in the past year, with 52% citing work stress as the main cause.
Dr Patrick Roach, general secretary of NASUWT, said: "No teacher should expect work stress levels to make them sick or drive them out of the job of their choice. Teachers deserve better contracts, which must include a contractual entitlement to their workload and work time. "
The education department has been contacted for comment.
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Teachers have expressed concern about the impact of the "Insell" subculture on teenage boys, as a survey found that seven out of 10 female teachers are victims of school bullying.
The NASUWT Teachers Union survey confirmed a significant culture of sexual harassment and bullying in the classroom, with about 60% of participants saying they felt abused by students.
The union, which has 300,000 UK members, said it was "deeply concerned" about the level of regular abuse by women, trans and non-binary members and students.
It also worries about the lack of government initiative to tackle the subculture of "involuntary celibacy" ("insel"), warning that teenage boys are being attracted to their point of view due to a lack of support from other, more appropriate, sources.
The term incense is used for men who define themselves as unable to find a romantic or sexual partner and express online hostility and annoyance towards those who are sexually active, especially women. Discussions on such Internet forums are often hateful and deeply misogynistic.
According to a recent report, Jack Davison, who carried out a riot in Plymouth in 2021 that killed seven people, killed five, has been enthroned by the online Insel community, and data shows that the number of visits to the forum has increased almost six out of nine. Months
Delegates attending NASUWT's annual conference in Birmingham over the Easter weekend will debate the issue, with a survey of more than 1,500 female members found that 72% had been bullied at their school and more than half (53%) said their school was not doing enough to tackle the problem.
The motion for debate calls on the national executive to lobby the government for Miszini to be recognized as a hate crime. It further states that the Insell community should be considered an extremist group based on "alt-right" attitudes and links to hatred of women, and calls for further research into the impact of the Insell community on young school and college boys, which will be reported back to the conference next year. .
The proposal calls on the union to lobby for fully funded mental health and wellness programs aimed at boys, emphasizing the need for early intervention in mental health services.
Katherine Downs, a high school secondary school teacher in Leeds who proposed the motion, said: "A survey in October 2021 suggested that among the five 'hops' of a non-insole, there was a 6.3% chance of an insole-related video being suggested by YouTube. Was. Related videos. Considering the amount of time our young people spend on social media, 6.3% is too much. It clearly shows the dangers of failing to support and improve the mental well-being of boys in school. "
According to the NASUWT poll, abuse occurred across the school community – 58% from students, 45% from senior leadership team, 42% from other teachers, 30% from their head teacher and 27% from parents.
The majority of respondents complained of intimidation, abusive or professional behavior (76%), comments about power (51%), intelligence (33%), body (32%), teaching style (30%) and dress (29%). Where sexual and physical violence have been reported in 3% of cases.
One in 20 people said the abuse was posted on social media, including Facebook, WhatsApp and TickTock. Of the respondents who reported abuse at their school, 45% said no action was taken, and one in five teachers said they were not trusted or had their claim dismissed. Two in five said abuse affected promotional opportunities, and more than a quarter (27%) said it affected pay.
The survey participants provided a long list of examples of the types of abuse they faced. One says: "Children regularly make sexist comments about the role of women at home and at work. Children comment on feminism as a terrible thing and interpret it as male hatred or even a desire to kill men.
Another teacher wrote: "Students expose themselves during lessons, make sexual gestures, use sexual sounds during lessons to intimidate."
Another contributor said: "Year 9 boys in class are asking if I used to have a breast implant. The students pressed my back into the corridor. "Another said:" When I was in teacher training, my mentor said he would 'tie me up and rape me.'
Regarding the abuse from coworkers, one said: "Only male members of the WhatsApp group have been included in the staff. A member of the SLT commented that I was excited and several teachers agreed. "Another reported:" Senior leaders are dismissing and underestimating female teachers in front of male students. Male students are ignoring female teachers' instructions. "
Dr Patrick Roach, general secretary of NASUWT, said: "It is shocking that so many female teachers are being subjected to such horrific abuse in their workplace. Our schools and colleges must be safe places for all staff and no woman should ever be harassed, intimidated or intimidated just by going to work. "
An official spokesman said: "Under no circumstances should teachers be abused just for doing their job. Any reports of sexual violence or sexual harassment to school leadership groups should be taken seriously.
"Education workers should receive regular safety training to help identify and manage incidents of abuse and harassment among their students or staff."
Read more70% of female teachers face abuse in UK schools, poll shows | Education
According to a survey of teachers, seven out of 10 teachers in England considered resigning last year, with more than half citing pay as the main reason.
More than half of those surveyed said they were forced to reduce their spending on food, while one in 10 took a second job and others resorted to food banks and other charitable aids.
The NASUWT teachers' union, which conducted a survey of 11,000 teachers ahead of its national conference in Birmingham on Easter weekend, said there would be an "unprecedented recruitment and retention crisis" without significant pay increases.
The government has promised to raise the salaries of newly qualified teachers in state schools, raising them from 25 25,000 to ,000 30,000 by 2024, a promise the Conservative Party made in its 2019 election manifesto.
But for teachers who have been in the classroom or in a senior role for more than five years, the salary increase will come at a much lower cost. According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, these teachers will face a 5% actual pay cut over the next two years instead.
Delegates at the NASUWT conference will debate a proposal calling for possible industrial action if the government does not want to discuss teachers' salaries.
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of those surveyed complained about their salaries and said they felt the government was treating them unfairly. Only 1% said the perceived teacher pay scale was right.
As the crisis of life began to subside, nearly nine out of 10 (89%) said they were very worried or somewhat worried about their financial situation. Seven out of 10 (68%) have reduced clothing costs, about a quarter (24%) have either increased their credit usage or applied for a payday loan, and more than half (56%) have lost savings.
11% of those surveyed said they took a second job and only 3% resorted to food banks or other charitable aids.
Dr Patrick Roach, general secretary of NASUWT, said: "Teachers across the UK and at every stage of their careers are seriously questioning whether they can afford to continue one more year in the teaching profession without a pay rise that could meet skyrocketing costs. Alive
"The government has consistently failed to warn teachers that the 12-year salary cuts and continuous pay cut tolls can no longer be tolerated. We are now living in a dark reality where teachers have no choice but to look for a second job, cut back on food supplies and even rely on food bank assistance. "
Shadow School Minister Stephen Morgan says Labor is committed to hiring thousands of new teachers to fill vacancies. "The subsequent Conservative government and the two years of chaos during the epidemic have put pressure on school staff, leading to a record number of school dropouts.
"School staff is being invested in the learning and development of children. Among failed teachers, conservatives are failing our children. "
The pre-conference resolution this weekend states that "unless significant pay increases and restructuring for teachers, a huge recruitment and retention problem in the teaching profession will continue." It adds: "The conference is concerned that we have lost many teachers in the first five years of their careers and that teaching should be an attractive profession in contrast to other undergraduate professions that reward and celebrate experience through fair and equitable pay."
A spokesman for the Department of Education said: "Our latest proposals on teacher salaries set out how we will pay £ 30,000 starting salary for teachers by 2023/24, as well as the highest paid teacher salary award from 2006 to 2022/23.
"We understand that the rising cost of living is a matter of concern for people across the country. We balance rewarding teachers for their hard work – and attract the brightest and best in the profession – a pay system that is appropriate and affordable for taxpayers. "
Read moreSeven out of 10 teachers in England thought of leaving last year, poll shows
A News of a little student loan, why not? The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) recently noted that some UK students and graduates will pay up to 12% interest on their loans from September, before the rate cuts in March 2023, which will raise interest rates (for now, however). This huge, short-term spike in cap costs comes just days after announcing changes to the entire system, with graduates increasing their loan repayment time to 30 to 40 years and lowering the repayment threshold. Forty years of debt in exchange for "learning English, but a little more" seems to me fairly inconsistent, though that is probably the point now.
Whenever something like this happens – a huge student finance mechanic who inevitably decides whether to go to university or not fill up more than before, and it happens every few years like clockwork – I wonder what the end game is all about. Do we want smart people to pay the price for being smart forever? Do we want everyone to be indebted forever? Do we want to be in this society? Well, apparently, yes.
One of the problems here is that everyone in their 30's or older has their own deep-seated and old opinions about students, so no one really cares what they're doing right now. This opinion falls into three categories. First, you didn't go to university yourself and still get fined, in which case you think students are functional isolated people who need a humiliating day to graft them hard to sort them out (that's fine, you're allowed to think that). Another strand of thought is not exactly anti-education, but anti-student, stuck in the late 80s Ben-Elton-and-Viz concept, where they always wear very embarrassing hats and stay right. We do not like sympathetic politics in this country, so it has a large constituency. Third and I think the most important way to think about students is this huge, soul-styling self-deprecation: you remember how unbearable you were personally as a student – you wore that charity-shop suit jacket everywhere! You ass! – And you want to keep modern students from making the same personality mistakes that you made, and the only way you can justify this is to get them into decades of debt. Actually, I don't return this one. I don't want to financially support my 20 year old version. He lay down after jeans and ate pot noodles for breakfast. A helpless little boy.
But without these three years of university, the long-paragraph you enjoy reading today, I simply could not have flourished in that long-paragraph genius, and confuses the fact in this student loan that a university education often says a good thing in itself. I think so. "It's just graduation tax" and "How else would you pay for it?" Some people become the best version of themselves through university, others develop best when they go straight to a business, and some people find their feet in the dirty water of the workplace. There are many people who fall short of these broad options but for the most part, the university works for those who go. And yet we in England seem to be actively committed to making it as cost-effective and off-putting experience as possible.
In just three years now, he has been making bolognese walks, making brief and intimate friendships with a French girl, writing essays in pound-a-pint nights, and the cool dark fog of night. Now at the age of 17 you can decide about the university Matter, One ounce per; The whole thing has become a lifelong mortgage account where your future self is in balance. Nice two A's and A's B's you got there. It would be a shame if the only effective way to deal with them was to take on a constantly growing loan of thousands of pounds, which we change the terms whenever we want.
It won't be the last student loan disaster and it's not the most significant yet, but it will be a footnote on the Wikipedia page on how the entire higher education system in England collapsed when Nick Clegg saw goggles on VR from California over the past few years. The war has turned, among those who have been fined and among the youth who will never really, and this kind of unimaginable generational punishment is now equal for the course. A reminder if you haven't been to the job market hell lately: you need a degree to qualify for an entry-level job by filing in a dimly lit office in any major UK city. How do we change that? If that doesn't happen, it's time to dump her and move on.
Joel Galby is a writer for The Guardian and Vice and the author of Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant.
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Teachers union warns NEU classroom culture war | History
A teachers' union is forming a partnership with education experts to "critically question" the government's plans for a model history curriculum in England, as its leaders warn that a cultural war continues over what should be taught in the classroom.
Mary Bosted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said it was joining the Runnimid Trust and others to monitor changes in the history curriculum announced by the government as part of the Seville report on race and ethnic discrimination.
"We want to make sure that all aspects of black history, culture and perspectives are properly recognized throughout the year. And it must focus on the views of those who were colonists or their descendants, "Bosted told delegates at NEU's annual conference in Bournemouth.
The Department of Education plans to create a model history curriculum for school use by 2024 with the help of "experts, historians and school leaders". The ministers tried to reassure critics that the curriculum would be diversified in a way that was "meaningful, not tokenistic."
Boosted said he was "mocked" by the right-wing media and endured a "storm of anger" on social media when he said he was not interested in a curriculum consisting only of the work of dead white men.
"All that shows me, personally, and all of us politically, is that the war of culture is furious and constantly furious, and they consume anyone who dares to challenge the narrow, single cultural foundation on which the current national curriculum, including all its hypotheses." Based on strong knowledge, "said Boosted.
The partnership with the Runnymede Trust and other education experts will serve as a "point of critical inquiry" into the government's planned changes, Boosted said.
At its annual conference, union representatives had earlier passed a resolution calling for a campaign to colonize the school curriculum.
The UK Statistics Authority says it is investigating the use of DFE statistics by schools in white paper, following the announcement by NEU leaders that the union has made a formal complaint.
Kevin Courtney, NEU's joint general secretary, said the union had complained to the Statistics Observatory about "this shameful, intentional misuse of statistics and deliberate suppression of relevant data" in DfE documents to support local authorities' demand to convert schools into academies. Improved their offstead grade.
Boosted pledged to defeat the government's goal of converting all public schools in England into academies by 2030, calling the White Paper a "final blow to zombie education ideologues with zombie education policy".
Read moreTeachers union warns NEU classroom culture war | History
Cambridge College slave trader has spent 120 120,000 on a failed bid to remove the blade
A Cambridge University college has spent 120 120,000 to remove a monument to its chapel from a 17th-century philanthropist who was heavily involved in the slave trade.
Sonita Allen, a master at Jesus College, defended the decision to sue and criticized the "old" church process that ended in the college's defeat, the Guardian reported.
The controversial memorial was the subject of a three-day court hearing in February, where the college needed permission from the Diocese of Eli to remove the plaque from the chapel wall, where it would deter community members from worshiping, and move the college elsewhere.
Allen, who was the first black master at an Oxbridge college, voted in favor of seeking permission to relocate the Fellow Memorial after the study revealed the extent of Tobias Rust's 30-year involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.
"It simply came to our notice then," Allen wrote. "From an ethical point of view, Rustat's activities helped finance the slave factory off the coast of West Africa. This enabled the ships to transport thousands of slave women, children and men in the middle. And that led to the deaths of these people in the Caribbean and the American killing fields. "
Last month, however, the relevant court ruled that the monument was opposed on the basis of "a false statement" that the monetary reward was derived from Rustat slavery and ordered that the memorial should remain in the chapel. Jesus College has since ruled against an appeal, but has called on the Church of England to find a way to resolve issues of racial injustice and a conflicting tradition.
"There was no question: we have to fight this case," Allen said. "As a result, the college will spend about £ 120,000 on an old process that had very few options but to follow, the dominance of lawyers, and which were wrongly designed to address sensitive issues of racial justice and a competing tradition. The church is certainly better than that." Will develop. "
Throughout the process, Allen said he felt that the Roost Memorial was being weighed more than he had helped 150,000 Africans travel in slavery. "After considering the verdict, I believe that this process is incapable of accounting for the living experience of people of color in Britain today."
He compared Rustat's opposition to the admission of female students to the university. She said female students were admitted for the first time just two generations ago. Opposition groups called for a 483-year-old male-only access. Their argument proves to be absurd. The buildings were rebuilt and new arrangements and traditions were created. As a result, the college is much more beautiful today, and much more exciting academically. "
He added: "I am proud to be the master of an institution like Jesus College. The calm discussions and conversations that began with the Fellows in May 2019 did not shy away from difficult topics or this move. It is part of our journey toward justice. It's important for Jesus College, and it's important for the Church of England. "
Many veterans of the Church of England, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, have expressed their support for the relocation of the Allen and Memorial.
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A London teacher has been awarded 850,000 after a student attack Teaching
A London teacher has been awarded 850,000 in compensation for punching and kicking a student in the face with a history of violence against other children and teachers during a science lesson.
The attack was so severe that it left her with severe mental trauma that resulted in her being sentenced twice under the Mental Health Act for her own safety, according to her trade union, NASUWT.
Since then he has not been able to return to the classroom and medical experts say he is less likely to work as a teacher again, hence the size of the settlement which is considered a record in such a case. The teacher has worked for an academy chain whose insurers will bear the bill.
The incident took place in January 2017 when the teacher was taking science classes at an anonymous academy in the capital. In an account of the attack published on the NASUWT website, the teacher said, "After the previous incident, the student was suspended for three days and I was assured that they would no longer attend my classes."
However, when the student returned to school, he got up in class. "When I saw him at the beginning of the class, I told him he shouldn't be there and tell him to leave, and he went out and locked the door," said the teacher, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"I went back to the door and did not realize that he would return to the room. The rest is a bit vague as he attacks me again. The worst thing is that the school knew this student was in danger. This is not the first time he has been violent – he has been violent towards other children and teachers. "
The last attack of his career resulted in physical and mental trauma, including head injuries, tinnitus, hearing loss, trauma, back and ankle injuries, as well as PTSD and serious depressive disorder.
The £ 850,000 personal injury reward was part of a m 15m compensation that NASUWT secured for its members last year in a variety of areas, including unjust dismissals, discrimination, bullying, trade union-related damages and health and safety.
The case was detailed and disposed of on Thursday, ahead of the NASUWT National Conference in Birmingham over the Easter weekend.
In a separate case, a Welsh drama teacher was paid about £ 80,000 after being fired from his classroom in 2013 after developing life-threatening asthma. There were several problems after the renovation, including cracks in the classroom walls and cracks in the floor.
The teacher suffered from constant headaches, rhinitis, coughing and shortness of breath while teaching and eventually had an asthma attack at school and was taken by ambulance to the hospital where he was diagnosed with late-onset asthma, probably due to his working condition. . NASUWT has succeeded in bringing about demands for unjust dismissal and disability discrimination.
Dr. Patrick Roach, General Secretary of NASUWT, stated: "Although compensation is personal and in some cases, recognition of the financial loss suffered by members, it can never compensate for the effects of unfair treatment, discrimination and physical injury on individuals. .
"The money paid cannot compensate members for the emotional, physical and psychological pain they suffer, and the fact that, for some, their experience has left them unable to continue working in their education."
He said these cases could be the tip of the iceberg. "There is no doubt that many other teachers will be fired without proper redress for poor, discriminatory or unjust treatment because they were too afraid to come forward or believed that nothing could be done."
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The National Union of Students will be investigated for anti-Semitism Students
The National Union of Students (NUS) is set to expose itself to an independent investigation into anti-Semitic allegations following a wave of complaints from Jewish students and the intervention of former NUS presidents and senior political figures.
The announcement came after a crisis meeting of the NUS board on Wednesday, which issued a statement saying there could be no place for anti-Semitism in the student movement and promised to resolve any wrongdoing.
The statement said, "We are hearing concerns and are deeply concerned about the pain and trauma we are experiencing."
"We will take any and all steps necessary to remedy any wrongdoing and rebuild trust with Jewish students as well as our members, partners and stakeholders."
The announcement comes after more than 20 former NUS presidents, including three former cabinet ministers, sent an unprecedented personal warning to the organisation's trustees, urging them to address the concerns of Jewish students.
Among those who signed the leaked letter to the Guardian were former cabinet ministers Jack Straw, Charles Clark and Jim Murphy, shadow health secretaries, Wes Streeting and Labor peer Mayev Sherlock. "This is not just a matter of protecting NUS's reputation, but of respecting NUS's proud anti-apartheid policy," the letter said.
NUS says the investigation will cover all public allegations made over the past two months about NUS and its president-elect, Shaimaa Dallali – in particular, the decision to invite rapper Loki to one of its events, as well as the widespread culture of anti-Semitism within its ranks.
"In relation to the president-elect, an independent investigation will look into various allegations and actions that have been alleged to have taken place over the past decade," NUS said.
Dalli's comments on social media have been criticized by the Union of Jewish Students (UJS), which included a post when he was a teenager, which read: "Khaybar Khaybar O Jews … Muhammad's army will return to Gaza," one noted. AD628 genocide. He has since apologized for the post.
In addition to independent investigations, NUS has promised to meet regularly with UJS to "listen to concerns, receive input, and see how we can move forward together."
"We will appoint a highly respected independent team to investigate and we will consult with the UGS on the appointment," NUS said. "Anyone who is hired must have the confidence of the Jewish students."
NUS added that it adopted the definition of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2018 and in the recent past, it has worked on anti-Semitism, removed a member of the National Assembly in 2018 and removed the candidate in 2019. Anti-Semitic policy.
The chairman of the Commons Education Committee, Robert Halfon, has called on the NUS to investigate the allegations. NUS responded that it was not a charity and therefore was not the subject of such an investigation. "However, NUS voluntarily maintains its highest standards," it added.
Last week, Higher Education Minister Michelle Donnelly warned that the government could suspend its involvement with the union over the allegations. Donnelly called on student unions across the country to "consider deflation until things improve quickly."
NUS replied: "We hope that this will not happen and government colleagues will be satisfied that we are taking swift and appropriate action to address the allegations."
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Schools in England need more resources to address the dangers of pornography, teachers say
Teachers say they need more time, training and resources to tackle the dangers of pornography in schools against the backdrop of increasing incidents of students taking and sharing sex pictures.
Delegates to the annual conference of the National Education Union heard that secondary schools in England were able to devote only a few hours a year to teaching Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) curriculum, giving them very little time to raise issues such as pornography and sexual harassment. They got up.
John Reddford, a teacher in North Somerset, told the conference that he had recently experienced "a really horrible incident" at his school involving 11-year-old students that could have been avoided with further RSE education in previous years.
"Before it appeared to the staff it was a long time ago that several girls were taking clear pictures of themselves and sending them to their boyfriends, which was then being shared around. It later emerged that the girls were being pressured by their boyfriends to do so, "said Reddford.
"It simply came to our notice then. The fact that such images were readily available to 15- and 16-year-olds, and the fact that they did not have a place in school to discuss them in a way that was appropriate for adolescents, made it more difficult for us to deal with it. "
Reddyford said it was important for the union to take a stand on the issue, "because the impact it had on us in the '11s was enormous and we could have dealt with it better at that time."
Bournemouth delegates unanimously passed a resolution calling for "properly funded, high quality" relationships and sex education in schools and colleges, as well as the continuous recording and reporting of sexual harassment, abuse and violence online and offline.
Amy Fletcher, a teacher at Tower Hamlets who led the movement, said: "We must acknowledge that young people will be curious about sex, and may turn to pornography if they do not get a good RSE at school."
Sarah Byrne, a spokeswoman for Hackney, noted that the NSPCC had observed that one in 20 elementary school students shared nude photos with each other.
Byron said staff were expected to teach the current curriculum "with zero training, importantly, with the need to tackle pornography. At my school it would be a fortnightly hour. ? "
Mary Bosted, joint general secretary of NEU, says young children may accidentally come into contact with pornography "due to algorithms" used by social media, many lacking the maturity to understand or adapt.
"There needs to be enough time in the school curriculum for relationships and sex education to empower young people around key areas of consent, self-worth and respect, as the level of sexual harassment is deeply ingrained in school and society and causes real harm and abuse," Busted said. .
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We are always on the lookout for extraordinary educators who share our values and we can never predict when openings may occur, so even if you don't see a current opening that matches your credentials, send us your résumé or refer a friend!
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Throughout its history, Durham Academy has recognized that diversity enriches learning. Co-ed since its founding in 1933 and one of the first schools to integrate in Durham, DA has committed itself at every level — from the boardroom to the classroom — to the dual pursuit of excellence and equity.
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The Rotary club of Montreal-Lakeshore was first Chartered on February 27th, 1961 with Keith Dancy as the first Charter President.
Since it's founding the club has had a proud tradition of involvement not only in the International Efforts of the greater Rotary Organization but also in helping support many of local charities and organizations in the Montreal both through fundraising and active involvement in volunteering.
Why "The Rose Club"?
In 1967, six years after the founding of the Montreal-Lakeshore club the current President Jack G. McIntyre sat bolt upright in his bed at 4 in the morning. He woke his wife and said to her "I've got an idea for Canada's Centenial!". Despite his wife telling him to go back to sleep, he had been inspired. Jack however was not one to sit on an idea but rather a man of action. Jack first went to Montreal-Lakeshore Rotary club to gain support for this idea and they agreed to help him in this process. He then approached the Canadian Centenary Council with his idea and it was accepted. After narrowing down the field to 3 possible roses each type was planted in 27 different communities throughout Canada. A Canada wide vote on the Canadian Centennial Rose was held and an orange-coral bloom was chosen.
A Centennial Rose had been selected, however the work did not end there. A non-profit organization was formed to own the trademark for this new rose. It was planted throughout Canada and appeared on all sorts of goods from bone china to paper napkins. All these efforts generated significant funds for the non-profit estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Those funds were all donated to organizations which provided support and research on behalf of the intellectually disabled. For his actions Jack was even presented to Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II and the moniker of The Rose club was proudly adopted by the Montreal-Lakeshore Rotary club ever since.
You can read more about this proud moment in our history in the Aug 1967 copy of The Rotarian.
The Order of the Rose
Upholding it's proud tradition of being called The Rose Club the Montreal-Lakeshore Rotary club decided in 2009 to form the Order of the Rose. This award was an acknowledgement of members who have gone above and beyond in their contributions both to this club and to the charities we support. Past Order of the Rose recipients include:
Knud Petersen
Wayne Belvedere
Stan Frost
William Hodges
Coos de Vries
Susan Diening
Anne Myles
Fran Hepworth
Graham Martin
Lawrence Cantril
Maureen Cantrill
Cameron Sherry
Kelly-Anne Frendo
In addition to the Order of the Rose members The Rose Club has provided a notable number of district governors from it's past presidents, a complete list of which can be found in the document below.
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Midlake | The Courage Of Others
Bella Union (2010)
By MIKAEL WOOD | February 9, 2010
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These blog-beloved Texans racked up loads of Fleetwood Mac comparisons with their breakout 2006 disc, The Trials of Van Occupanther. Now, on this lovingly crafted follow-up, the men of Midlake have moved on to emulating the late-'60s/early-'70s British folk-rock scene.
With its trilling flutes, pastoral acoustic guitars, and song titles like "Core of Nature" and "Children of the Grounds," The Courage of Others could pass for newly excavated work by Pentangle or Fairport Convention. Problem is, it sounds like newly excavated work that wasn't necessarily crying out for rescue. Although their ear for instrumental texture results in some gorgeous arrangements — check out the slow build of "Rulers, Ruling All Things" — Midlake are exceptionally dull songwriters.
Very few of their melodies go anywhere memorable, and when they do, they never go anywhere else. ("Courage" plays like one long mid-tempo drone.) As for frontman Tim Smith, if dude is excited about his lyrics, he certainly makes no effort to convince you of it. Overall? Pretty but pointless.
Related: Ghost stories, Winged migration, Injustice for all, More
For all of the excitement that surrounded Wilco on the Maine State Pier or Sufjan Stevens at Port City Music Hall or the various sold-out Ray LaMontagne shows of the past year, there is no question that last Sunday's Phish show at the Cumberland County Civic Center was the biggest thing to hit our fair city in a very long time.
Since their start in the middle of the decade, Brown Bird have been one of the region's go-to chamber-folk outfits, with a couple of dark and stormy albums earning them a following in various nooks of New England. The release of their latest album, The Devil Dancing , feels like both an ending and a new beginning.
Injustice for all
Scott Sturgeon loses his train of thought a couple of times during this interview. He's loopy from jet lag — which is unavoidable after a 20-hour flight from New Zealand (halfway around the planet from his non-residency at a squatted apartment building in New York City), where he's just finished a tour with his claim-to-fame band, Leftover Crack.
Wanting more
After its triumphant traversal of the complete Béla Bartók string quartets at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Borromeo Quartet was back for a free 20th- and 21st-century program at Jordan Hall, leading off with an accomplished recent piece by the 24-year-old Egyptian composer Mohammed Fairuz, Lamentation and Satire.
Group hug
Things aren't always what they're called — we know that flying fish don't fly and starfish aren't even fish.
Local heroes, '09 edition
The Rhode Island music community flourished in 2009, with new full-lengths from the Coming Weak, California Smile, and the pride of Cranston West and official big-leaguers Monty Are I, who released Break Through the Silence in September.
Local journalist and acclaimed hip-hop scribe Andrew Martin has corralled a flavorful roster of Rhody-based rap talent on the Ocean State Sampler , 10 exclusive tracks available for free download.
Beyond Dilla and Dipset
With a semi-sober face I'll claim that hip-hop in 2010 might deliver more than just posthumous Dilla discs, Dipset mixtapes, and a new ignoramus coke rapper whom critics pretend rhymes in triple-entendres.
John Harbison plus 10
Classical music in Boston is so rich, having to pick 10 special events for this winter preview is more like one-tenth of the performances I'm actually looking forward to.
Shout it out!
Sharks Come Cruisin' founder Mark Lambert is a Warwick native with a penchant for reworking and penning sea shanties from centuries past, often revised with rollicking punk flare — all thanks to the golden pipes of Quint, the shark-obsessed skipper in Jaws .
Punk wreck
Guitar punk rock has a long and, frankly, dull history.
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DEVO | SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY | July 01, 2010
Given the theory of de-evolution these Ohio brainiacs began expounding more than 30 years ago, it makes a sad kind of sense that Devo's first album since 1990's Smooth Noodle Maps offers such a charmless, base-level version of the band's synth-addled new wave.
TAIO CRUZ | ROKSTARR | June 24, 2010
When Taio Cruz sings, "I can't live without you," in "Take Me Back," pop-song conventions tell us he's referring to a lover.
THE FUTUREHEADS | THE CHAOS | June 16, 2010
"I wish that I could stop the noise," sings Barry Hyde not long into The Chaos . It sure doesn't seem that way.
BETTYE LAVETTE | INTERPRETATIONS: THE BRITISH ROCK SONGBOOK | June 01, 2010
Bettye LaVette's previous two albums had titles that required a little digging to unpack.
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Discovering Your Data Science Career in 2021
lastmileearth	September 30, 2021
Careers in data science are some of the most sought-after in the world and that trend shows no signs of stopping. With the widespread use of AI, IoT devices, and streaming and real-time communication services, it's no surprise many people are pursuing careers in data. In fact, data scientist is the second best job in America, according to Glassdoor.This extraordinary progress in data science has created extraordinary demand for data professionals across many industries. This is great news for aspiring data scientists because it means rewarding salaries and benefits. Increased demand paired with a shortage of trained applicants means hundreds of thousands of new data science job opportunities.Even if you're only just discovering data science and the possibilities of a career as a data professional, there's never been a better time to start, and ample opportunities await you that never existed before.
What Does a Career in Data Entail?
Careers in data, simply put, revolve around the collection, cleaning, organization, manipulation, visualization, and interpretation of data. Even though different career paths specialize in different areas, and each path requires some specific processes and tools, many paths share some common themes.
From budget analysts who inform the government where to spend tax dollars to data engineers who help users like you and me stream our favorite movies, the data science universe is vast and ever-expanding.
As a result, there are hundreds of job titles in the data world, and many overlap regarding the skills they need. This gives the data professional a uniquely flexible position to develop useful skills while they discover which specialization is right for them.
A few job titles in data include the following:
Healthcare analyst
Data technician
Data mining engineer
Data and analytics manager
Transportation logician
If you're wondering where to acquire some of these jobs, Dataquest created a fantastic resource on how and where to find data jobs – link here.
How to Become a Data Professional in 2021 and Beyond
In the past, the only way to get a decent job in data would've been to show up with a bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or some related field. But with the growing demand for data professionals and low supply of trained applicants, hiring managers are now placing more value on skills and relevant experience than formal education.
There's now an opportunity like never before for new applicants in data science to acquire a highly rewarding, entry-level job without a college degree, assuming the applicant can demonstrate aptitude in the necessary skills and a desire to learn and develop their career in data.
A study by Glassdoor lists a number of companies no longer requiring degrees for many open data science positions. A few of these companies include Google, Apple, Nordstrom, Publix, Starbucks, IBM, Bank of America, and more. It's becoming increasingly common that businesses are hiring based on ability, not degrees.
So, how do you get started on the data science career path? Here's our best advice:
Research the field, and discover your role. If data science seems right for you, develop a learning plan to guide your career studies!
Join the data science community on platforms like Kaggle and GitHub for ideas and support. If you can, find a mentor!
Develop fundamental data science skills through online courses and bootcamps; consider certifications instead of degrees. We suggest learning with Dataquest courses if you prefer to learn by writing code, not by watching videos.
Leverage these skills to build a portfolio of real work to showcase your abilities.
Apply for an internship or your first entry-level job to demonstrate your abilities.
Never stop learning; pursue further education in data science, and hone your skills.
Essential Skills, Tools, and Technology for Careers in Data
A carpenter is only as good as his tools. Likewise, a data professional depends not only on their skills but also on an array of powerful tools and cutting-edge technologies.
Below is an overview of the resources and skills you'll use as a data professional:
Analytical mindset
Good organization
Python libraries
RapidMiner
TECHNOLOGIES USED
AWS S3 and other
Proficiency in these areas is non-negotiable for many data professional roles. Luckily, there are incredible resources already available to begin developing the necessary skills for a career in data. Dozens of companies are now offering online data professional bootcamps, online courses, or certifications that can be as general or as specialized as you like.For example, Dataquest offers specific career paths designed to be the only resource you need to take you from beginner to job-ready.
For example, Dataquest offers specific career paths designed to be the only resource you need to take you from beginner to job-ready.
You can also choose to take a more specialized approach with our skill paths, like Machine Learning Intro with Python, Probability and Statistics with Python, R Basics for Data Analysis, and many others.
Data Jobs Growth and Outlook
Demand for data professionals has never been higher, and by all accounts, they are some of the fastest-growing career opportunities. The World Economic Forum's Jobs Report 2020 found that data analysts, machine learning specialists, and big data specialists are the three fastest-growing jobs across industries in the United States.
Every year, LinkedIn releases their Emerging Job Report, outlining the hottest new jobs based on data they collect from their popular job board. In 2020, data science-related jobs occupied three out of the top ten emerging jobs:
#1: AI specialist roles grew annually by 74% in the past four years.
#3: Data scientist roles grew 37% in the past four years.
#8: Data engineer roles grew 33% in the past four years.
Additionally, Interview Query Blog analyzed over 10,000 data science-related interview experiences and discovered that data science positions are still growing extremely fast, despite a slight slowdown during the pandemic:
With such an explosion of demand comes higher salaries — even entry-level data professionals can demand respectable numbers and benefits. reports that careers in data visualization tout an average salary of $85,000. Data analysts, on the other hand, working in the finance, insurance, scientific, or technical services, can command a salary of $90,000, according to a study by Springboard. Data scientists, according to , average a median salary of $96,455 per year, while the sets the average at just over $100,000. Specialized, senior, or manager data science positions can expect salaries of upwards of $200,000.
Source: https://www.interviewquery.com/blog-data-science-interview-report/
However, the reduction in growth rate was not demonstrated with FAANG companies—they saw a 25% increase in interviews compared to last year.
According to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, by 2030, the data science job market is set to increase by nearly 33%, more than three times the national average. Additionally, the big data market size is projected to grow by more than $100 billion.
Glassdoor PayscaleBureau of Labor Statistics
Source: https://www.bls.gov/OES/current/oes152098.htm#st
Are you ready to join the boom of rising talent in data science? Well, you can! But gaining the skills you need won't happen overnight. If you build healthy learning habits and maintain a frequent learning routine, within six months to a year, you could begin an incredibly rewarding and life-long career as a data professional. If that sounds good to you, all of us here at Dataquest are ready to help you get started.
Stop waiting, jumpstart your data science career today
With Dataquest, you can acquire the necessary skills and knowledge for in-demand and highly rewarding data science positions. If you want to increase your salary and job opportunities, we have the tools and resources you need.
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How to Write a Great Data Science Resume
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How Long Does it Take to Learn Python?
How long does it take to learn Python? You can learn the basics in as little as a week or two. Having a solid grasp…
Data Analytics Certification: Do You Need a Certificate to Get a Job as a Data Analyst?
If you're interested in becoming a data analyst, or even just interested in adding some data skills to your resume, you've probably wondered: do I…
lastmileearth	March 18, 2021
Data Engineer, Data Analyst, Data Scientist — What's the Difference?
Data engineer, data analyst, and data scientist — these are job titles you'll often hear mentioned together when people are talking about the fast-growing field…
lastmileearth	April 12, 2021
Comical Data Visualization in Python Using Matplotlib
How to make comical visualizations in Matplotlib? Explained using a Netflix Movie and TV Show dataset. Data visualization is a great way to tell a…
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Brad Pitt has hit out at Angelina Jolie for not putting their kids' best interests first, in court documents seeking to have certain paperwork kept private.
The 53-year-old actor has filed a memorandum to his request to have paperwork relating to the custody of their six children sealed, and in the latest addition, he has set out his reasons why the information should remain private.
He added the 'Maleficent' star has "no self-regulating mechanism" to prevent sensitive information from being released to the public, citing the re-release and filing of documents that contain private information as evidence.
Lawyers acting for the 'Tree of Life' star have drafted a proposed order which they want the judge to approve, but Angelina's team first have the opportunity to respond to the request.
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The Nigerian Army on Sunday said Operation Python Dance, which is currently going on in the South-East, would be staged in the geopolitical zone every year.
The Deputy Director, Public Relations 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Enugu, Col. Sagir Musa, disclosed this in a statement entitled, 'The objectives of Exercise Egwu Eke 11 (Python Dance 11).
The army spokesman insisted that the military campaign was not targeted at anybody or group.
Musa said, "Exercise Egwu Eke 11 (Python Dance 11) is now a scheduled Nigerian Army exercise to be conducted annually in the South-East region and is not targeted at any individual or group.
"Law abiding citizens need not to fear and are advised to freely go about their normal business."
He explained that the first episode of the military operation, which held in 2016, was successful.
"The first exercise Python Dance was successfully and commendably conducted in the South-East from 27 November to 27 December, 2016.
"The peculiar security challenges in the region, such as kidnappings, abductions, violent secessionist agitations, armed robbery, farmers/herdsmen clashes, communal crises and an extra-ordinarily annual traffic gridlock at the Asaba-Onitsha bridge among others which are the focus and targets of the exercise were then successfully addressed," he said.
Musa added that Operation Python Dance was designed to improve soldiers' agility and preparedness.
He said, "The concept of the current exercise, like the previous one, is purely command post, field training and real-time exercise. It is aimed at enhancing troops' agility and preparedness across the spectrum of contemporary and emerging security threats peculiar to the South-East geopolitical zone.
"The exercise is three in one in that it was deliberately designed as a command post exercise that transmuted into field training and where necessary, it can dovetail into real-time mission or activities such as anti-kidnapping drills, patrols, raids, cordon and search, check-points, road blocks and show of force."
Musa, in the same vein, pointed out that Operation Python Dance was similar to other exercises designed by the Nigerian Army for other regions in the country.
He said, "…Some of the successful exercises include, Operation AWATSE to tackle militants and oil installations vandals and illegal oil bunkering in the South-West, especially in the creeks between Lagos and Ogun states.
"Exercise Shirin Harbi, in addition to troops training, was also targetted at addressing restiveness, armed banditry and religious upheavals in the North-East, especially in Bauchi and Gombe states.
"Exercise Shirin Harbi is aimed at containing the reign of killers, armed robbery/banditry in Southern Kaduna.
"Exercise Harbin Kunama in the North-East was aimed at combating cattle rustling, armed robbery, banditry and religious insurrection in Sokoto, Kaduna and the Kano-Zamfara axis and Exercise Crocodile Smiles, which is popular in the South-South, was to deal with criminal elements engaged in the vandalism of oil pipelines and installations."
Buhari's refusal to assent to South-East development bill worrying –Ex-senator
Army begins Python Dance in South-East, others in South-West, South-South
Operation Python Dance: Army assures Ogun residents of security
Musa explained that other security agencies, and some para-military outfits, are also involved in the operation.
He said, "One interesting aspects of the exercise is that it is multi-agency in nature and execution.
"Relevant paramilitary organisations, such as elements of the Nigeria Police Force, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, State Security Services and Federal Road Safety Commission are synergising and collaborating to ensure successful execution and attainment of outlined objectives.
"Also, the non-reliance on only Military Line of Operation to achieve the objectives of the exercise was part of the texture of the strategy.
"For this season, an elaborate generous Civil/Military Cooperation Line of Operation has been successfully planned and will be executed during this exercise.
"In this regard, some relevant Nigerian Army corps and services, such as the Medical Corps and Engineering Corps, will carry out free medical outreaches, roads and schools repairs, across the South-East geopolitical zone."
However, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said that the decision of the Federal Government to send military to the South-East to stop agitations by the Independent Peoples of Biafra will not stop further agitations in the country.
It particularly said that the decision of the Nigerian Army to commence Operation Python Dance in the region at this point in time was regrettable.
It therefore called for immediate termination of the exercise.
Ohanaeze stated this in a statement, which was signed by its President General, Chief John Nwodo, in Abuja on Sunday.
He said this was part of the decisions reached at the meeting of the group , which was held in Enugu on Saturday night.
Nwodo, a former minister of information said "the military option is never a solution to problem of nation-building.
"We refer for instance to the goings on in Spain, Scotland and other parts of the world to reaffirm that only through dialogue can the national question be resolved. Consequently, we condemn all acts of violence in pursuance of freedom of expression. "
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In 1799, the New York State legislature authorized the creation of the the Columbia Turnpike Corporation "for improving the road, from the city of Hudson, to the line of Massachusetts, on the route to Hartford." The Columbia Turnpike was constructed, which more or less followed today's routes 23 and 23B. It was the first turnpike in Columbia County and the fifth in New York State. The legislature also gave the right of the Corporation to use existing roads and approved the construction of three toll houses, spaced about ten miles apart. The revenues from the tolls paid by travelers covered the cost of construction and ongoing maintenance of the turnpike.
The Corporation attracted 13 "incorporators" or main investors. Capital stock was set at $25,000. The charter provided that incorporators were to pay $25 per share of stock and subscribers, $10. After the sale of 400 shares, with the total limited to $1,000 shares, election of officers was to take place.
The three toll houses were known as the East Gate, in Hillsdale; the Middle Gate, in Martindale; and the West Gate, in Greenport. The turnpike operated until 1907. The East Gate Toll House was a private residence for generations until it was acquired in 1970 by Eldena Jenssen, who intended to preserve the venerable old building. Thanks to a generous donation from Copake Falls resident Edgar Masters, Friends of East Gate purchased the toll house from the Jenssen family in late 2016.
The East Gate Toll House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in June 2016.
New York legislature passes a bill to establish the Columbia Turnpike Corporation, which created a usable road from the City of Hudson to the Massachusetts border. The East Gate Toll House is built along with the Middle Gate and West Gate Toll Houses.
After 108 years of operation, the East Gate Toll House is closed. Columbia County buys the rights from the Turnpike Corporation.
Two generations of the Decker family occupy the house.
The East Gate Toll House is acquired by Eldena Jenssen. The house is inhabited off and on for the next twenty years.
The East Gate Toll House is added to the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
Friends of East Gate is formed and acquires the Toll House from the Jenssen family, thanks to a generous donation from Edgar Masters of Copake Falls.
Friends of East Gate launches its mission to save the Toll House.
Building stabilization work completed. Historic marker installed, courtesy of the William G. Pomeroy Foundation.


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Vol. 15 No. 2 Apr 2016
Eliot For Everyone
Comprehensive collection of works includes classics and juvenilia
By Wong Wen Pu
The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems
The Poems of T.S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses
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What we call the beginning is often the end
The end is where we start from…
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,
Every poem an epitaph.
- 'Little Gidding', 1942 (from Four Quartets)
After all, what makes a canon? And what does it mean to be a 'traditional' poet? These were the questions T.S. Eliot attempted to answer in his 1921 essay 'Tradition and the Individual Talent'. In the essay, Eliot tells us that a traditional, canonical poet writes with a "historical sense":
... the historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence; the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature of Europe from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order. … The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
For Eliot, the artist presses ahead alone, but only to be part of larger, more powerful currents.
In the tellingly titled Collected Poems, published in 1963 two years before his death, Eliot included only about 50 poems from his entire body of work. To him, these poems were the acme of his impersonal and historical poetics; radically detached and supposedly transhistorical, they marked the beginning and end of his contribution to the Anglophonic poetic tradition.
The expansion of Eliot's oeuvre, however, has now been ongoing for some time, regardless of the poet's poetics. In 2009, Faber & Faber published the first volume of Eliot's full correspondence, and The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition was published in 2014 under Ronald Schuchard's editorship. The Poems of T.S. Eliot, dedicatedly compiled and curated by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue, is the latest work to build on Eliot's literary legacy. It contains over 240 poems, many of which till recently have been carefully kept from the public eye by the late Valerie Eliot, wife and literary executor of the Eliot estate.
Some of the previously unpublished works the editors have unearthed from Eliot's letters and diaries might have served the poet's standing in history better had they remained unpublished. Eliot's reputation, which has recently been under attack for his anti-Semitism, is now unlikely to recover with the publication of a fresh set of juvenile racist poems (The Columbiad and the King Bolo poems). The editors have also included a set of racy poems that are decidedly personal and lacking in 'historical sense'. I doubt that Eliot would have approved the publication of the uncomfortably intimate poems he wrote for Valerie:
And when my beloved stands beside our bed
Leaning over me and I lie and look up at her
Then her breasts are like ripe pears that dangle
Above my mouth
Which reaches up to take them.
This untraditional, inconsequential poem seems hardly the epitaph the most parsimonious of poets, who declared that poems "should be perfect in their kind, so that each should be an event", would have celebrated.
But thankfully, importantly, the great traditional poems upon which Eliot rests his laurels are also all still there, under the section titled 'Collected Poems 1909-1962'. In this section, Ricks and McCue correctly preserve Eliot's arrangement for the definitive edition of Collected Poems. We still begin with Prufrock's grim invitation to wander into the sunset and along "certain half-deserted streets", afterwards we still stumble across the fecund wasteland of Eliot poetry, and the section still ends gratifyingly with Eliot's only open expression of affection for his wife: "this dedication is for others to read:/ These are private words addressed to you in public". All of these still remain magnificently undiminished and perfectly poised in the collection, except in this edition, they are accompanied by an astounding amount of commentary and notes on the textual histories of the poems. In all, there are over 1,200 pages of miniscule, meticulously researched annotations and detailed commentary, to 400 generously spaced pages of poetry. So extensive are the notes that a good deal of the commentary in Volume I spills over into the pages of Volume II.
This makes The Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot a work of tremendous erudition. But in case the common reader finds the academic verbosity intimidating, I want to say that this collection is not just for the scholarly; there is a poem in here for everyone. To the casual reader, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, which Andrew Lloyd Webber adapted for his musical Cats, is a collection of light-hearted and family-friendly after-dinner verse. The college student can always lean on the lines of 'Gerontion' to impress his/her date. And the more learned readers of Eliot's poetry will spend many delightful days leafing through the editors' encyclopaedic annotations and commentary and the less well-known or newly-rescued poems.
If James Joyce deserves, as many have argued, the title of high priest of modernist prose, then the Pope of Russell Square is the period's poet par excellence. His mark on the literary landscape is so great that most readers of this review can probably recall from memory snatches of 'The Hollow Men', 'Ash-Wednesday' or 'The Waste Land'. If I quoted a line from Eliot's poetry, say: "I have heard the mermaids singing each to each./ I do not think they will sing to me", the reader of this review would probably have found the lines familiar even if he/she did not recognise its provenance ('Prufrock'). For Eliot, these elusive echoes of poetry's imprint in the mind, these rustles of language nestled in the memory, have always been the communal point of the Anglophonic tradition. But Ricks and McCue's monumental work of scholarship has expanded the Eliot canon and redefined the way we critically read Eliot's poetry. With the extensive annotations, we may now, if we choose, appreciate the full weight of the European tradition and its influences behind Eliot's heavily allusive poems. They reveal a dedicated method in the madness of Eliot's references and allusions. There is a refreshing newness in the way the poems have become so accessible to us. Eliot himself tells us that as readers:
We shall not cease from our exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
I have read many of Eliot's poems over and over again in the last few years. But to re-read T.S. Eliot in the new light of this boldly edited collection is to encounter Eliot's poetry again for the very first time.
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The Poems of T.S. Eliot Volume I and Volume II
External link to Faber & Faber.
Another review of The Poems of T.S. Eliot
External link to the Guardian.
A further review of The Poems of T.S. Eliot
External link to The Spectator.
External link to the Nobel Foundation.


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T. Rex in Topeka is One of Seven True DMO Things
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1) TOPEKA, KS — Eighteen robotic dinosaurs are coming to Topeka. The largest and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton ever discovered is a 40-foot-long replica named Sue that will headline the show. A series of dinosaur-themed attractions goes on display in Spring 2022.
"Topeka Dino Days" will be "huge" for the capital city, said Sean Dixon, president of Visit Topeka at a news conference this week. "We can't wait for families and dinosaur enthusiasts alike to see Topeka put on a show of prehistoric proportions."
An opening date of February 1st has been set for the main exhibit at the Great Overland Station, with more exhibits installed at other locations including the Topeka Zoo.
The Chicago Field Museum where the original Sue resides has made high-quality replicas of the dinosaur skeleton available. Known as "Runaround Sues," these go on public display throughout the nation.
Did you know? In 1990, the well-preserved 67 million-year-old T. Rex skeleton was discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota, then named after Sue Hendrickson, the woman who found it.
2) ROCKEFELLER CENTER, NYC — What's 79 feet tall, 46 feet wide, and weighs 12 tons? For the first time in eight decades, the giant Norway Spruce Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center comes from Maryland.
Devon and Julie Price from Elkton, MD told NBC's Today that they had worried that the 85-year-old tree near the house might fall down during a storm. Solution found.
Did you know? Rockefeller Center's head gardener goes on a scouting tour every spring to find the perfect specimen. Then, the massive moving project gets underway. The selected tree is donated by private citizens.
Wrapped with five miles of lights adorned by 50,000 LED bulbs, topped by a 900-lb. Swarovski star covered with 3 million crystals, the popular televised illumination takes place on Wed., Dec. 1, 2021. Mind-Blowing Facts About the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree makes for a fun email newsletter from NYC & Company.
photo: Architect of the Capitol
3) HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CA — On the West Lawn outside the U.S. Capitol, an 84-foot tall white fir from Northern California is provided by the US Forest Service as part of a tradition that goes back 51 years.
The so-called People's Christmas Tree began its more than 2,000-mile journey to Washington, D.C. months ago, having originated in a mountain forest in Humboldt County, known as California's Redwood Coast, home to the world's tallest trees.
Participating hotels in the Humboldt Lodging Alliance will reimburse the $10 permit fee for guests who harvest their own Christmas trees from the Six Rivers National Forest, a 1.2-million acre recreational wilderness featuring wild and scenic rivers, fishing, rafting, hiking, backpacking and the occasional Bigfoot sighting.
Did you know? On Main Street in Ferndale, the world's largest living Christmas tree is a 160-foot spruce that's drawn visitors to the Victorian village since 1934.
4) DENVER, CO — "Play in the Mountains, Stay in the City." Visit Denver has launched a new campaign to emphasize the best of both worlds. Three (so far) video episodes (the sweet spot is 3-1/2 minutes) of Basecamp Denver content uses outdoor enthusiast influencers — they fearlessly fly fish, cling to cliffs and bike on mountain trails — to show visitors how its done:
River to Table
Belays to Brews
Mountains to Murals
Should we help Visit Denver with the next alliteration country/city pair?
5) GOLDFIELD, NV — Out in the desert, the International Car Forest of the Last Church needs no irrigation or gasoline. Off US Highway 95, some 40 junk cars are a tourist attraction in Nevada's largest (and free!) open air gallery where they serve as artists' canvasses.
And there's more. In Pahrump, Nevada, Coffinwood is an expansive cemetery of coffins and gravestones, one of the world's most bizarre coffin-making studios.
About 50 miles from Las Vegas, Dusty and Bryan Schoening run Coffin It Up, a business making custom coffins and they perform weddings, too. Visitors can get married in the Coffin Gazebo, or in the Coffinwood Cemetery, or in the Coffinwood Cavern. See Nevada Dreamscapes on the Culture Trip Instagram account in a paid partnership with Travel Nevada.
6) PALISADES TAHOE, CA — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has signed a new federal order to remove derogatory terms, including the word "squaw," from the nation's public places and lands. The action will affect more than 650 peaks, streams, trails and other geographic features that currently use "squaw" in their name, as well as a pair of small towns in Northern California.
Congress is considering the Reconciliation in Place Names Act, which would create an advisory board to liaise with tribal and cultural groups in a national renaming effort. A federal advisory committee is tasked with reviewing and recommending changes.
In September, the ski resort formerly known as Squaw Valley, home to the 1960 Winter Olympics, opted to rename itself Palisades Tahoe. That's done, however there's a trickle-down effect for many surrounding businesses and places, from streets to a firehouse and a creek.
7) BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS — They've ditched Queen Elizabeth II.
After 400 years, the former British colony that became a republic in 1966 made another big move. At the stroke of midnight on the 55th anniversary of the day (November 29) Barbados declared independence from Britain, they've now dropped the monarch as their queen.
President Sandra Mason, 73, formerly acting governor-general as the queen's representative, is now head of state. VisitBarbados.com
And a shout-out to this team from Visit Reno Tahoe
courtesy Visit Reno Tahoe
"Nearly 20 team members from the Reno Tahoe team came together last week to volunteer in our community by helping clean up McKinley Park in Reno. Tip of the cap to all the great folks who gave of their time, energy and effort to help make our destination shine a little brighter." — Charles Harris, President & CEO, Visit Reno Tahoe
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Not surprisingly, some of the players who left eligibility on the table for an early shot at the pros were left without a chair when the draft music stopped Saturday.
By the deadline in mid-January, a total of 84 players with eligibility remaining filled out their paperwork to make themselves available for the 2015 NFL draft. As noted by Dane Brugler of NFLDraftScout.com, 24 of those 84 players went undrafted as the seven-round event concluded yesterday evening.
While that's 28.6 percent, it's actually a better rate than a year ago. In 2014, 36.7 percent (36 of 98) of the early entrants went undrafted. That total of 98 last year was a record number of draft-eligible players who left with eligibility remaining, which prompted the NFL to change its protocol in an attempt to roll back the number of players leaving early.
Getting back to this year, 16 of the 24 who weren't selected came from Power Five football programs. TCU was the only school with two early entrants who weren't picked (running back B.J. Catalon, safety Chris Hackett), while two of the players came from non-FCS levels.
It should be noted that most if not all of the players in this group will sign as an undrafted free agent.
Below is the complete list of those who went undrafted.
In December of 2013, Kapri Bibbs, Colorado State's leading rusher, announced that he was leaving early for the NFL. A little over a year later, the Rams' running game has taken a similar hit.
In a conversation with the Fort Collins Reporter-Herald, Dee Hart confirmed that he has decided to make himself available for the 2015 NFL draft. Although the running back already has his degree, he still had two years of eligibility remaining before deciding to forego them.
Hart transferred to CSU from Alabama in August of this past year and, because he had already received his degree from UA, was eligible to play immediately. In what turned out to be his lone season at the school, Hart led the Rams in rushing (1,275) and rushing touchdowns (16).
Hart's route to Fort Collins and the success he found in 2014, however, was a circuitous one filled with far more downs than ups.
In July of 2011, Hart, a five-star recruit rated as the No. 1 all-purpose back in the country, suffered a torn ACL that forced him to miss his true freshman season. After rehabbing that injury, Hart tore the ACLin the same knee during an October 2013 win over Ole Miss and, obviously, missed the remainder of the season.
In February of this 2014, Hart was arrested and charged with giving false information and possession of marijuana. It was revealed at that time that Hart hadn't been a part of the team since shortly after the Tide's Sugar Bowl loss to Oklahoma.
The Air Force Falcons have played the role of spoiler all season.
The latest example came Friday against the Colorado State Rams. A Will Conant field goal as time expired proved to be the difference as the Falcons claimed a 27-24 victory.
With the win, Air Force improved its record to 9-3 this season. Colorado State, meanwhile, dropped to 10-2, and the program's aspirations of possibly being the highest-ranked Group of Five program quickly vanished.
For Colorado State, the Boise State Broncos still needed to lose Saturday against the Utah State Aggies to become the top team from a non-Power Five conference. Now, it doesn't matter.
Air Force also upset Boise State earlier in the season which made the Broncos' trek through the season far more difficult before finally being ranked in the College Football Playoff committee's Top 25 for the first time this past week.
The Falcons haven't made life easy for any of their opponents.
The academy also claimed its first Commander-in-Chief's Trophy since 2011 despite the Navy Midshipmen being considered the favorites to win the award.
But Air Force would never have been in the position it currently resides without a poor decision from Colorado State head coach Jim McElwain.
With 44 seconds remaining, the Rams faced a 4th-and-2 from the Falcons' 42-yard line. McElwain decided to go for it instead of trying to pin Air Force deep into their own end. Running back Dee Hart, who ran for 115 yards, was stopped short of the first down, and Air Force took over with 38 seconds left.
A 26-yard pass from Air Force quarterback Nate Romine to junior wide receiver Garrett Brown was the big play the Falcons needed to move into field goal position. Conant proved to be up to the task when it came time to attempt the field goal.
At 9-4, Air Force is the fourth team in the Mountain West Conference to win at least nine games.
.592 – Winning percentage of visiting teams in Pac-12 road games (29-20) this season. The six teams ranked in last week's Associated Press Top 25 (Oregon, UCLA, Arizona State, Arizona, Utah and USC) have a combined overall road record of 23-6 (.793).
.815 — Ohio State's winning percentage (97-22) in Big Ten play since 2000, the highest league winning percentage among all Power Five schools. Oklahoma 99-24 is next at .805.
.933 — Career field-goal percentage for Florida State's Robert Aguayo (42-45). The all-time career mark, for at least 45 attempts per the 2014 FBS record book, was .900 (45-50) by Louisiana-Lafayette's Brett Baer (2009-12). The career mark, for at least 55 attempts, is .895 (68-76) by Nebraska's Alex Henery (2007-10).
0 — Touchbacks this season for Wake Forest punter Alex Kinal, the only player in the Top 25 in punting average who can make that claim.
1 — 400-yard passing games for Jake Waters in his career, the lone one coming in Kansas State's win over West Virginia Thursday night (400 even). Waters had only one previous 300-yard game, that coming in November of last year against Oklahoma (348).
1 — Kickers at the FBS level who have yet to miss a field goal attempt (minimum eight attempts) this season: Maryland's Brad Craddock (17-17). Craddock has made 23 straight attempts dating back to 2013, the longest current streak at the FBS level and third-longest in Big Ten history.
1.2 — Yards per play Savannah State averaged in its 64-0 loss to BYU. The Cougars limited the Tigers to 40 yards passing on 28 attempts and 23 yards rushing on the same number of attempts.
5 — Consecutive games Auburn allowed 30 or more points prior to playing Samford, the first time that's ever happened in the history of the football program.
5 — Number of undefeated home seasons in the history of Utah State football: 1968 (4-0), 1972 (5-0), 1982 (4-0), 2012 (6-0) and 2014 (6-0).
6 — Total touchdowns (five rushing, one receiving) for Colorado State's Dee Hart in a win over New Mexico, the second-highest single-game total in Mountain West History.
The Mountain West Conference may be lacking in victories over power conferences, but somehow Colorado State (3-1) has managed to win two of them. The Rams battled back from a 14-point deficit to leave Boston with a victory, beating Boston College (3-2) by a score of 24-21.
Colorado State outscored the Eagles 10-0 in the fourth quarter. After scoring a field goal off the leg of Jared Roberts to bring the Rams within four points (21-17 in favor of Boston College at the time), it looked as though Boston College was going to have a decisive answer. A seven-play drive instead ended up with a pass from Tyler Murphy being picked off by Bernard Blake to give Colorado State's offense the football from its own 11-yard line with an illegal block on the return. Colorado State did not pick up any points on the drive but keeping Boston College off the board and proved to be critical.
Boston College went three-and-out on its next drive and Colorado State got right back to work. Garrett Grayson led the offense down field and running back Dee Hart broke off a 43-yard run to move the Rams into the red zone. A 12-yard touchdown pass from Grayson to Charles Lovett with 1:02 to play gave Colorado State its first lead of the game. Boston College still had a chance, and Colorado State gave them one more chance thanks to an unsportsmanlike penalty at the end of the game. Boston College was unable to capitalize on the free yards as Colorado State came up with a stop on the final play of the game from the Boston College 42-yard line.
As a result, Colorado State picked up its second win over a power conference opponent, with wins against Colorado nd Boston College. That could become critical. If Colorado State manages to come back and win the Mountain West Conference, they will likely have a very good case to receive the reserved New Years bowl spot for the highest ranked champion from a Group of Five conference. East Carolina probably still has the edge for th time being with wins against Virginia Tech and North Carolina, but if ECU does not win the AAC, their profile may mean nothing. Meanwhile, Colorado State would own wins against the ACC and Pac-12.
Colorado State is already behind the eight-ball with a conference loss to Boise State, but there is so much football to be played.


There are three platforms with £75bn+ assets, together accounting for 45% of industry assets. Cofunds is the largest platform and the first to break through the £90bn ceiling. Not far behind is Hargreaves Lansdown on £82bn. The D2C player also topped the asset growth table with growth of £12bn, demonstrating that there is strong demand for investment solutions among DIY investors.
Industry gross and net sales in Q317 fell slightly to £30bn and £13bn respectively, but were still very high by historical standards. The strength of investment activity in 2017 has been such that year-to-date gross and net sales of £93bn and £42bn are 38% and 50% higher than like-for-like sales in 2016. Platforms with a strong pension heritage performed particularly well. With conversions stripped out, Aegon's Q3 net sales fall to £752m, putting Standard Life in the lead with £1.7bn.
Bella Caridade-Ferreira, CEO of Fundscape said, "ISA activity was less pronounced in the third quarter but pensions picked up the slack, generating around 70% of platforms' net flows." This was due to a combination of people taking advantage of their pension freedom rights and a steady pipeline of DB transfers. The pension factor is expected to remain strong for a number of years. Demand for pension advice and a glide path that goes beyond retirement means the retail adviser channel will benefit the most from this trend. In 2017, it accounts for 65% of industry net sales.
*For timing reasons and because the data is market sensitive, Hargreaves Lansdown reports its figures to Fundscape a quarter in arrears. However, latest assets are correct as per the latest trading statement.


If you have ever tried to learn guitar and turned to YouTube, you have definitely come across our next guest, Marty Schwartz.
At the time of this interview, Marty has almost 1.3 million YouTube Subscribers and is the guy teaching the world to play guitar.
Marty's YouTube career has taken him on such a wild ride. He has been on the radar of big names like Joe Rogan and Jack Black and has shared a stage with bands like Moe, Blues traveler and our mutual friends Slightly Stoopid.
We talk about teaching lessons to actor Jason Statham and how he recreated himself after losing his job as a music teacher. Marty shares the basic lessons and adjustments that helped him to grow his following so massively. Listening to his interview is going to have you reconsider your day job for sure!
Marty is fun goofy and so happy to share his experience and some of the lessons he has learned along the way. Hopefully you can take some small lessons from this one or you can be like us and just fall into the fascinating story of a guitar teacher that somehow struck gold in the saturated world of YouTube.


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