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Florence: The Essence of Tuscany: Full Day Tour
Enter the heart of real Tuscany with medieval villages and ancient farming traditions that produces wine, cheese, cold cuts and excellent meat. Throughout the hills are old vineyards and olive groves, which characterize the splendid Chianti territory. Your first stop is in Greve, where you will have time to enjoy the charm of its historic square, flanked by open galleries, and wander around the local shops selling handicrafts. Just outside the village is a famous vineyard, where you will be guided through a tasting of different wines of the Chianti area, extra virgin olive oil on Tuscan bread, vin santo with "cantuccini" locally produced and lavender honey. The next stop is in the Crete territory, immersed in the green Val d'Orcia (UNESCO heritage sight), a harmonious landscape of hills dotted with cypresses, interrupted by castles, churches, ancient villages of Etruscan origin and farms. Here, in a historic farm, you will be served a guided lunch-tasting of the renowned Rosso di Montalcino, Brunello and Supertuscan wines and a large selection of typical products of the territory. Lunch is followed by a visit to the cellars and some leisure time to enjoy the nature. We then continue on to the medieval village of Montalcino, with its imposing fourteenth century fortress that offers one of the most beautiful views onto Val d'Orcia. Moltalcino has also narrow streets with dozens of wineries and artisans' shops selling products of the territory. Lastly, after a short journey on a panoramic road, we reach Montepulciano, enclosed by fortified walls and perched on a hill 600 metres above sea level. The town is renowned for its Noble wine obtained from the surrounding vineyards.
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The spring is the time when we need to make some changes in our homes. It is the right time to add freshness that will remind to the beautiful spring. It is good to add some vibrant details in some fresh colors that will break the monotony in every interior design.If you love crafting, this spring is the right time to make some creative DIY projects for your home beautification.


Elizabeth "Bessie" Rockefeller (August 23, 1866 – November 14, 1906) was the eldest child of Standard Oil co-founder John Davison Rockefeller (1839–1937) and school teacher Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman (1839–1915).
Bessie Rockefeller was a special student at Vassar College 1886–1888. Strong Hall, the school's first dormitory, was named in honor of Bessie in 1893 by her father who contributed $35,000 toward the expense of the construction.
On March 22, 1889, she married philosopher and psychologist Charles Augustus Strong and had one daughter, Margaret Rockefeller Strong (1897–1985).
Chernow, Ron. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr. London: Warner Books, 1998.
Stasz, Clarice. The Rockefeller Women: Dynasty of Piety, Privacy, and Service. New York: St. Martins Press. (1995).
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Analyst with $1,000 bull case on Tesla: New $2 billion offering eliminates 'doomsday' cash worries
Wedbush Securities' Dan Ives praised Tesla's announcement on Thursday morning of a new $2 billion common stock offering.
"It's a smart, strategic move," Ives said on "Squawk Box." "It takes any doomsday scenario around cash crunch … off the table."
Shares of Tesla , which have skyrocketed recently, were under some pressure on Thursday after the company said before-the-bell that it's planning a $2 billion common stock offering. It comes just two weeks after CEO Elon Musk said Tesla would not raise more capital.
Musk is set to buy as much as $10 million of stock in this offering, while Tesla board member Larry Ellison will also purchase up to $1 million. The company will offer 2.65 million Tesla shares through underwriters Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
Tesla said it plans "to further strengthen its balance sheet" with the offering's proceeds. "It's really about the cash crunch. Now they've solidified the balance sheet by deliveries going up into the right," Ives said.
Ives holds a baseline price target of $710 per share and maintains his neutral rating on the stock. He also set a $1,000 bull case on the stock.
Tesla currently has a little more than 180 million shares outstanding.
Shares of Tesla on Thursday fell nearly 5% in the premarket. However, even with the decline, Tesla stock is still up 109%, 219% and 135% over the last three, six and 12 months, respectively.
Tesla at one point earlier in the month reached as high as $968.99.
— CNBC's Michael Sheetz contributed to this report.
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About Michèle | What moves you?
This first part of Amiri Baraka's Political Poem reminds me that I live entangled in systems that keep me disconnected and unaware of how to truly contribute to human flourishing. I believe traveling can help open my eyes and move me to action. As I travel, I want to explore how this change takes place. This blog documents this educational experiment that has already long begun and continued in India, Bangladesh, Burma, Lao, Thailand, as well as Malaysia, and Indonesia.
From 2007 to 2009, I worked as program associate in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Primarily, my efforts centered on AAC&U's initiative, Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility, which focuses on the importance of students exploring questions about their ethical responsibility to self and others in our interdependent world.
Since 2007, along with my travel partners Sabrina and Ryan, I also developed What moves you? South and Southeast Asia, a curriculum for a traveling learning community that explores life's big questions and pressing global issues. The challenges of long-term travel in unfamiliar places make the implications of studied theories more readily apparent and facilitate the integration of thought and action. The purpose of such a traveling learning community is to figure out what kind of knowledge and skills we need in order to contribute to human flourishing in increasingly interdependent world.
I grew up in Munich, Germany. I received a B.A. in philosophy and economics from Messiah College and a M.A. in philosophy from the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, Canada. My master's thesis explored themes of subjectivity and violence in feminist ethics, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis. In 2006, an interest in non-violent resistance led me to travel in India for four months, passing from the Hindu temples of Kerala to the Stok Kangri summit (20,161 ft.) in the Buddhist region of Ladakh in the Himalayas, and made me a firm believer in the importance of travel.
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The Evansville Museum Contemporaries are hosting their annual Brew HaHa at the museum on September 29th beginning at 6pm. This is the 21st year for the event. The areas best breweries will be on hand serving up their microbrews, specialties, and imports. There will be appetizers and live music available as well. You do need to be 21 to attend. Admission is $35 in advanced or $45 at the door. If you would like to attend but don't wish to drink, you can purchase a designated driver/food ticket for $20. The event is sponsored by Nikki Davis FC Tucker Emge Realtor. Purchase tickets here.


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Hovis appoints first convenience director
Hovis has appointed Tim Stoller as its first convenience director and he will commence the role next week.
Stoller hails from Lindt & Sprüngli, which he joined in 2010 as head of impulse before becoming grocery business unit controller in 2014, and has also previously worked at Innocent Drinks where he focused on impulse and out of home.
Chad Leembruggen, Hovis commercial director, told British Baker's sister title The Grocer: "Tim has a track record for developing astute impulse strategies that have delivered revenue, margin and profit growth."
Hovis is also looking for a brand manager of innovation – another new role – as it plans to focus on "critical" innovation.
The company is still searching for a chief executive to replace Bob Spooner, who resigned his post last October to take up an opportunity abroad, and also for a chief financial officer following Michael Kennedy's departure in January this year.
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Danone appoints three new deputy CEOs
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PepsiCo Portugal invests €7.5m in biodigester
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Kerry's fellowship with Upcycled Food Foundation explores future of food waste prevention
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October Full Moon 2020: Things you need to know about Harvest Moon
October's first full moon is the Harvest Moon (sometimes known as the Hunter's Moon) on October 1, and the second full moon will happen on October 31. It's hard to believe, but it's true: a full moon on Halloween.
The full harvest moon will ascend at 5:05 pm ET on October 1. The name is given to the full moon that happens nearest to the autumnal equinox. While this full moon for the most part happens in September, a full moon on September 2 was too soon to be known as the harvest moon. In 2019, the full harvest moon happened on Friday, September 13.
The full harvest moon gives light to farmers harvesting their crops into the night, as indicated by the Farmer's Almanac.
The moon will show up full for around three days, as indicated by NASA.
October will likewise close with a full moon on Halloween – the uncommon full Halloween blue hunter's moon.
While the moon won't really look blue, the second full moon in one month is generally referred to as a blue moon. This happens every 2.5 to three years, or "once in a blue moon."
Already, a blue moon was known as the third or fourth full moon in a single season.
Normally, the next moon after the harvest moon is known as the hunter's moon – when hunters used the moonlight to hunt prey and plan for winter.
While a blue moon appears to be uncommon, a full moon on Halloween across time regions is much more uncommon – an occasion that hasn't happened since 1944.
In any case, a full moon happens on Halloween every 19 years in some time regions, so you can expect a full Halloween moon again in 2039, 2058, 2077, and 2096.
The full Halloween moon will rise at 10:49 am ET on October 31 – which clarifies why the moon will be visible across time regions. This is likewise the last day of Daylight Saving Time, so set your clocks back an hour on November 1 at 2 am.
The Harvest Moon will peak in brightness late today around evening time (October 1) when the Moon gets itself straightforwardly opposite the Sun. The moment of full illumination will happen generally at about 10.05 pm BST, here in the UK. Be that as it may, if you look up at the night skies yesterday, you may have just idea the Moon is full.
That is because to the unaided eye, the Moon shows up full for around three days centered on the peak.
The Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers stated: "A Full Moon occurs when the Moon appears as a complete circle in the sky.
"We see it as a full orb because the whole of the side of the Moon facing the Earth is lit up by the Sun's rays.
"The Moon produces no visible light of its own, so we can only see the parts of the Moon that are lit up by other objects."
What is the significance behind the Harvest Moon's name?
The Harvest Moon holds an extraordinary spot in the lunar calendar since it doesn't have a fixed month it shows up in.
The Pink Moon, for instance, consistently shows up in April and the Cold Moon consistently shows up in December.
Rather, the Harvest Moon is depicted as the nearest Full Moon to the fall equinox.
Thus, the Harvest Moon can show up on a night in September or October.
This year, the September Full Moon peaked on September 2 – an entire 20 days before the equinox on September 22.
October's Full Moon will show up just nine days after the equinox, and thusly, will be known as the Harvest Moon.
One year from now, the Harvest Moon will peak in the wee morning hours of September 21.
The Royal Observatory's astronomers stated: "The harvest moon is one of the most familiar Moon names and refers to the nearest full moon to the autumnal equinox.
"The light of the Harvest Moon enables farmers to work late into the night, helping them to bring in the crops from the fields."
However, the upcoming Full Moon is additionally sometimes known as the Hunter's Moon.
This name is believed to start in Native American customs as this season was ordinarily dedicated to hunting for animals that fattened during the summer.
The Royal Observatory stated: "Like the Harvest Moon, the Hunter's Moon is also particularly bright and long in the sky, allowing hunters to stalk prey at night."
Different names for this Moon incorporate Dying Grass Moon, Blood Moon, Sanguine Moon, and Travel Moon.
In certain parts of the world, it is otherwise called the Potato Harvest Moon as it compares to a Japanese Tsukimi festival.
In Korea, this Full Moon compares to the harvest festival of Chuseok.
What's more, the Full Moon's appearance is additionally connected to the Buddhist celebration of Pavarana, which denotes the finish of a three-month fast.
Why is it called the Harvest Moon?
Every one of the moon's 12 phases has its own name that will frequently change between cultures. Huge numbers of the most recognizable are gotten from Native American names that have been gotten and circulated the web.
Lunar master Gordon Johnston from Nasa stated: "The Maine Farmer's Almanac first published Native American names for the Full Moons in the 1930s. 'Over time these names have become widely known and used. 'According to this almanac, as the Full Moon in September and the last Full Moon of summer, the Algonquin tribes in what is now the northeastern USA called this the Corn Moon, as this was the time for gathering their main staple crops of corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, and wild rice."
However, it shows up the term 'Harvest Moon' really goes back even further. The Harvest Moon is really an old European name with the Oxford English Dictionary giving 1706 as the time of its originally published use. Most years the Harvest Moon falls in September yet this is one of the years it falls in October.
When can I see October Full 'Harvest' Moon?
The 'true' Harvest Moon will be visible the evening of Thursday 1 October, and actually, the moon won't be at its 'fullest' until somewhat after 10 pm.
Obviously, you won't need any specialist equipment to see it (the full moon will be similarly as visible as it generally may be), even though there is consistently a risk that cloud cover could scupper your lunar pleasure.
Showers will be heaviest and generally incessant in the southwest, with even a risk of hail and thunder.
How to see the October full moon above the UK
The moon will be visible soon after nightfall, yet for the best perspective on it, we'd suggest waiting until some other time in the night when the last vestiges of sunlight have faded and you're left with a stupendously bright full moon. For the full impact, you'll need to ensure you're away from any light pollution like streetlights or houses.
Given the current circumstance with Covid-19 in any case, we'd suggest the finish of your nursery or a spot in a park while keeping up social distancing. Toward the start of the night, the moon will show up close to the horizon. It will keep on ascending higher in the sky as the hours' pass.
October 2020 is additionally a 'Blue Moon' month with two full moons. The first full Moon is on October 1st. The second, a so-called 'Blue Moon,' happens on October 31st. Lately, individuals have been using the name Blue Moon for the second of two full moons in a single calendar month.
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By Pamela Greenberg
Pamela Greenberg is a science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet. Pamela's works are characterized by an aversion to doing things that have been done before. This attitude is perhaps most notable in her writing. She writes fabulous news on recent things. She is working as an author on timebulletin.com.
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World Vegetarian Day 2020: Health Benefits and Interesting Facts about Vegetarian Diet
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Fjärdens yttre begränsningar utgörs av Lilla Essingen och Essingedjupet i väst, Kungsholmen i norr, Västerbron i öst och Långholmen i syd. Vid Mariebergsfjärden ligger Smedsuddsbadet på Kungsholmssidan och Långholmsbadet. Största vattendjup är 26 meter. Vid Mariebergsfjärden ligger Triewalds malmgård och Mariebergsparken.

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Take a ride in a long submarine or fly away in a hot air balloon. Whatever you do, just be sure to bring your favorite book! Rafael López's colorful illustrations perfectly complement Pat Mora's lilting text in this delightful celebration of El día de los niños/El día de los libros; Children's Day/Book Day.


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Without a doubt, 2020 challenged us and yet brought to light the value technology plays out in our lives. More than ever, a sense of community and a spirit of collaboration has reverberated among us. 2020 started strong with bold initiatives for Rainforest and the Calgary ecosystem. There were projects up to the height of the Calgary tower to execute on: ecosystem mapping, a collaborative volunteer program, a teen tech showcase with the Library, Cheers to the Grassroots version two, visits to large tech companies for the summer tour, and that was just the first half of 2020!
Well, you know what happened as well as we do. And yet, here we are, connecting weekly. Averaging 40 people per week online, consistently, and we couldn't be more proud. The pandemic meant we teamed up with Edmonton to offer LWOL (Lunch Without Lunch) to a broader audience with combined efforts. The online format did not allow for the same serendipitous connections as in person events but we managed to bring value in other ways. Panel speakers, month long topics, and the summer tour continued to offer new musings about how, as a community, we can continue to improve the innovation economy in Alberta.
Rainforest Calgary teamed up with Startup Calgary to offer Power Hour in conjunction with StartUp Pitches and Drinks online. This was a great way to expand our reach into the community. As StartUp Calgary moves under the Platform umbrella, programming and events are being updated to reflect the needs of the community. The goal for 2020 was to partner with other meetups as well. This may be realized into 2021 as many groups have successfully moved back online.
Steven left the Rainforest team to pursue full-time work with the Leftovers Foundation in early April. Brigitte was hired at the end of August to breathe new life into Rainforest and continue the work of responding to the community into 2021. Kourtney announced her departure for the end of 2020 (though she is likely going to hang around a few hours a week supporting for a couple months into 2021). The community manager roles will always ebb and flow and this is part of how we can continue to ensure Rainforest stays relevant and not stuck in an outdated model of behaviour (also thanks covid for shaking that up).
2020 provided an opportunity for us to reflect as a community and measure ourselves. We put out three reports.
Inclusion in the YYC Ecosystem
Covid's Effect on LWOL Participation
2020 Scorecard Presentation to the Community
Despite the challenges of 2020, the scorecard measurement went up from 629 to 686 and made big gains in the Culture and Leadership pillar. This is a testament to the continued efforts of the entire community committing to the values of the social contract and wanting to raise the bar in Calgary.
The LIBI Podcast continued with weekly releases throughout 2020 with guests and hosts from across the province. The podcast continues to showcase innovators, dreamers, and amazing ecosystem builders. January 12, 2021 will be the 100th podcast episode!
Highlights from 2020
Kris Chase with Chase Telecom volunteered to build the "PODMaster 2020" application that we now use to manage all the guests, hosts, and episodes of the LIBI podcast.
The virus scare moved us to online meetings and made it easier and faster for hosts to connect with guests to record shows using tools like Zencastr and SquadCast.
5 Hosts created 50 shows in 2020 with 2 more coming before Dec 31st.
As of Dec 15th, 2020 we broke 8,580 downloads of the podcast (all episodes) all time with 5,300 of those in 2020 alone.
50.1% of our listeners are using Apple Podcasts
Nine entrepreneurs worked through the LIBI Fund Program, getting training to help them validate their startup. They participated in Startup 101 and Customer 101 & 201 from StartUp Calgary, Marketing or Sales Kickstarter from 321 Growth Academy, received $200 in credits from Good Lawyer, and three expert sessions from Nicerr. The entrepreneurs will be presenting at LWOL session in January on their takeaways from the program. Thanks to every who supported the entrepreneurs in their early states.
Lastly, it's not too late to be part of the Rainforest Giving community. There are two opportunities to help those who need to put food on the table.
Rainforest has a team for the YYC Tech Gives Challenge supporting the Calgary Food Bank.
Support vulnerable children and youth by providing donations to Brown Bagging for Calgary Kids.
Donate here (say your organization is Rainforest Alberta)
Kourtney & Brigitte
hiring for a marketing coordinator (Calgary)
As we continue to connect the innovation community through collaboration and trust, a Marketing Coordinator is being brought on to help tell our stories and move our work forward.
Please refer to this link for job description and application details.
the post where Kourtney announces her pivot
It has been an immense pleasure and learning experience to have been Co-Community Manager with Rainforest Alberta for two years. It's also incredibly difficult to be leaving without being able to say goodbye in person.
The community took a chance on me, the tech un-savvy, who as Mackenzie liked to joke, thought full stack referred to pancakes. I am still learning and believe I will never really stop as technology continues to disrupt us.
I am so fortunate to have found amazing people to call mentors, friends, and role-models through this community. I have met talented, smart, kind, and determined people. I've been challenged, and you've let me challenge you too. I couldn't ask for a better role to help me realize the potential and capacity I have to champion a bright and bold future for Calgary.
I'm stepping away at the end of 2020 to focus on a new goal, the ambitious one of being elected for Calgary City Council. Rainforest and the community has taught me to approach this challenge with an open mind, use data, be innovative, use more data, pivot when needed, and to use more data. Rainforest has shown me that the collective is better when the sum of its parts move together, openly, with trust, with room for everybody at the table, and with curiosity to know more.
I want to call out a few people who have made the last few years extra special.
To Mackenzie who brought this ignorant lady into the fold, and to Brigitte who took the hard blow of me leaving just weeks into starting - both of you are fierce advocates for change and I so appreciate what you both have taught me. To Steven in the middle of it all, who made me laugh yet kept me accountable to action. Aaron in Edmonton, thank you for working with me and being one of the most dedicated people I have ever met to supporting innovation in Alberta. Al has been a shining light of consistency and tenacity, who has been an arm to lean on from the beginning as both an educator and friend. Jim has been a constant source of inspiration and has modelled an abundance mindset to me. His outlook and optimism is continually a guiding light. Brad is the very foundation of trust. I have always felt capable and encouraged from his permissive leadership along his open-minded, willing, and inclusive approach. Those of you who come to LWOL weekly, laugh at my absurd topics, have gone with the flow of trying new formats, and who are all the while building community and companies, thank you.
Outside of the core Rainforest group I've found peers and friends through the Calgary Innovation Coalition - at Platform, Startup Calgary, SAIT, and beyond. I want to take all of you on this next step with me, building a smart, resilient, and innovative city.
This is the point when the orchestra would start playing to get me off the stage. To the community - thank you. You are the heart and hustle of the innovation ecosystem. Continue to build each other up, extend a hand, and practice the social contract daily.
Wishing all of you the best and more!
Kourtney
September @ LWOL: A learning journey through Diversity + Inclusion
Throughout September we dug deep into the topic of diversity + inclusion. Let's have a look at a recap of our learnings:
Kourtney presented "Building a Welcoming Innovation Ecosystem" where we discussed our community's role in leading the D+I conversation. We learned about how our pillars and social contract drive the culture of the Rainforest. With that, comes the responsibility to host a welcoming, trusting, and diverse culture.
We discussed the unique makeup of the John Hopkins Diversity Wheel. We then defined inclusion, equity, equality, "othering", BIPOC, and LGBTQ2IA+. We talked about neurodiversity, mental-disabilities, and physical disabilities.
Overall, the message was clear - as a community we need to keep initiating conversations as we move through the journey from diversity to inclusion to belonging!
In week 2 we were joined by panelists Rachel Wade, Ruthann Weeks, and Aatif Baskenderi.
The panelists described how diversity and inclusion need to co-exist. If we are lucky enough to have diversity in our organizations but don't provide an environment where everyone feels included, we may not be able to retain all of the amazing benefits that diversity brings. If we don't have diversity in our organizations (and in our lives), we need to put some intention behind who we surround ourselves with.
Equity is the result of doing D+I well. As Ruthann put it, "diversity is being invited to the dance. Inclusion is being asked to dance!"
To build D+I we need to be courageous, patient, and vulnerable.
Rachel provided us with great steps to take in our organzatons:
Meet stakeholders where they are at when it comes to D+I
Collect data on demographics and ppsychographics and use data to ground conversations
Educate and prepare stakeholders on the terminology used in this space so people feel comfortable contributing
Aatif shared how Startup Edmonton has intention at the core of their D+I work. He encourages the ecosystem to be wary of marketing ourselves as being open and inclusive. When we do so, we are vulnerable to systemic barriers, which can prevent people from coming to our door. He recommends going from open to inviting, inviting to acccommodating + welcoming through agile sincerity.
Want to revisit the panel's discussion? Learn more from the experts and, while you are at it, learn from the insights of Ruthann's 16-year-old son here!
This week was jammed packed with amazing stories of how D+I is alive and well within the innovation sector.
Garth Johnson from Auticon explained how the company hires over 250 consultants across the country who are on the spectrum and who bring incredible, unique value to the organizations that they work with. He talked about how Auticon is working to diversify the workforce and help other organizations do the same.
Ainsley Robertson discussed how Clio engages employees on their diversity, Inclusion, belonging and equity strategy. She also shares how she helped increase women in engineering at Clio from 13% to 25% in less than six months. See how she did it here!
Diego Martins shared Getty Images' mission to drive D+I both externally to customers and internally through training, company leadership principles, creating safe spaces for discussions, transformation of physical spaces, and a Global Advisory Committee.
Kristen Liesch joined us from Tidal Equality Inc. and shared how the Equity Sequence™ practice can be learned to build equity and equality through work and decision making. It provides a tangible, accessible way to make more purposeful decisions around D+I.
Connie Stacey from Growing Greener fosters an open and transparent culture to create an amazingly diverse team. This culture delivers a workplace of respect, broad perspectives, and a focus on users' unique experiences- fundamentals to driving innovation!
In week 4 we had Kathryn Hotte visit from Prospect Human Services to talk about programming and success stories for entrepreneurs with disabilities. She also shared some shocking statistics around mental health among entrepreneurs and things we can all do to maintain our own.
We wrapped up week four by chatting in small groups about what we have learned and what we will do to keep D+I moving forward in our community.
What a month! Innovation doesn't exist when everyone and everything is the same! Diversity is the essence of the work we do and inclusion makes it possible for everyone to show up and flourish! Just like the Rainforest🌱
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Hello Rainforest Community!
It is such a pleasure to be joining you. In only a few short weeks on the job it's obvious that this ecosystem is, in fact, full of dreamers and doers.
As a social entrepreneur and self-proclaimed Jill-of-all trades, I have worked in several sectors within various roles. Most recently I spent three years supporting entrepreneurs through training programs and business coaching and I have also been dabbling in business exit planning. The innovation sector has been tapping on my shoulder for a while now and I just knew I had to play a bigger role in the ecosystem - so here I am.
Aside from my hubby and three kids, the love of my life is learning! I'm insatiably curious and will undertake any opportunity to learn more about the world and people around me. This is why I am so excited to be here as the Rainforest's co-Manager, Community. There is much for me to learn and you have all been so welcoming and forthcoming thus far. I look forward to hearing from more of you in the community. Please connect with me so we can get to know each other and continue to move the needle on innovation in our province!
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The historian G.M. Trevelyan said that the democratic revolutions of 1848, all of which were quickly crushed, represented "a turning point at which modern history failed to turn." The same can be said of the financial collapse of 2008. The crash demonstrated the emptiness of the claim that markets could regulate themselves. It should have led to the disgrace of neoliberalism—the belief that unregulated markets produce and distribute goods and services more efficiently than regulated ones. Instead, the old order reasserted itself, and with calamitous consequences. Gross economic imbalances of power and wealth persisted. We are still experiencing the reverberations.
In the United States, the bipartisan financial elite escaped largely unscathed. Barack Obama, whose campaign benefited from the timing of the collapse, hired the architects of the Clinton-era deregulation who had created the conditions that led to the crisis. Far from breaking up the big banks or removing their executives, Obama's team bailed them out. None of the leading bankers whose fraudulent products caused the economy to crash went to jail; criminal prosecution took a back seat to the stability of the system. Obama's tepid program provided just enough stimulus, via a modest public-spending program and cheap unlimited credit for bankers, for a slow recovery. But the economic security of most Americans dwindled, and the legitimacy of the system was called into question. One consequence has been the rise of the far right; another is Donald Trump.
In Europe the aftermath was worse. Fragmented into twenty-eight member states, the EU could not pursue even the minimal policies of Obama. Germany had already spent some E1.3 trillion on the economic integration of the former DDR and was in no mood to underwrite the recovery of the entire continent. Germany insisted that the struggling countries had to practice austerity in order to restore the confidence of private financial markets. In a deep recession, even orthodox economists at the International Monetary Fund soon recognized that austerity was a perverse recipe for economic recovery.
But the German demands dictated policy for the continent. In addition, the European Central Bank (ECB) had neither the formal powers nor the political consent of its national masters to become a lender-of-last-resort, as the Fed has been in the US since 1932. After the crash, the Fed kept interest rates down and made credit easily available to the financial industry, which prevented the collapse from becoming a general depression. The US government took on debt to pay for services without having to raise taxes (a policy known as fiscal stimulus), and it could extend credit to keep markets liquid. But Europe, because of Germany's worries that these policies would lead to inflation, had no way to extend credit to struggling nations or to raise money through the sale of bonds, which would have allowed the ECB to provide debt relief or to invest in public services.
The political result was the same on both sides of the Atlantic—declining prospects for ordinary people, animus toward elites, and the rise of ultra-nationalism. In the US, there is at least a left-wing opposition in waiting, with a coherent explanation for what went wrong and a progressive alternative to Trumpism. Progressives have been gaining influence in the Democratic Party, and it's possible that a neo-Rooseveltian left that supports financial regulation, public investment, and redistribution will come to power in 2020.
Not so in Europe. Parties such as the German Social Democratic Party, the British Labour Party, and the French Socialists disgraced themselves as co-sponsors of the neoliberal formula that brought down the economy. The European left today is weaker than at any time since World War II. There is just one EU member nation with a left-wing government and a working majority in the national parliament—Portugal—and it is a tricky three-party coalition. In Greece, the radical left-wing party Syriza ostensibly leads the governing coalition, but its sovereignty has been crushed by Athens's minders in Brussels; today Syriza's policies are indistinguishable from those of the center-right. In nation after nation, the main opposition to the party of Davos is neofascism.
There have been hundreds of illuminating books on the great financial collapse.Crashed, written to mark its tenth anniversary, will stand for a long time as the authoritative account. In his masterful narrative, the economic historian Adam Tooze achieves several things that no other single author has quite accomplished. Tooze has managed to explain a hugely complex global crisis in its multiple dimensions, and his book combines cogent analysis with a fascinating history of the political and economic particulars.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, a scholar of the Great Depression, understood the stakes. While insisting to Congress that the emergency response was mainly to shore up US finance, Bernanke turned the Fed into the world's central bank. "Through so-called liquidity swap lines, the Fed licensed a hand-picked group of core central banks to issue dollar credits on demand," Tooze writes. In other words, the Fed simply created enough dollars, running well into the trillions, to prevent the global economy from collapsing for lack of credit. This response, he observes, "contradicted the conventional narrative of economic history since the 1970s," which claimed that markets thrived when states refrained from regulating them. Bernanke instigated government action on an unimagined scale to prop up a private system that supposedly did not need the state. How to explain the contradiction? The state had been hijacked by private finance—both in the permissiveness that caused the crash and in the subsequent policies that contained it but did little to spoil the bankers' party.
Tooze is especially good at explaining the many Fed inventions that pumped trillions of dollars into every obscure corner of the financial industry. He demystifies the impenetrably technical contrivances used by both private companies and central banks. Tooze computes the staggering sums, running into the tens of trillions of dollars. Using deposit guarantees, loans to banks, outright capital transfers, and purchases of nearly worthless securities, the Fed and the Treasury recapitalized the banking system. To camouflage what was at work, officials invented unlimited credit pipelines with disarmingly technical names.
The Term Auction Facility, for instance, provided banks with funds they could no longer get in the frozen market for commercial paper—unsecured, short-term corporate loans—eventually committing a total of $6.18 trillion. To restart that market, the Fed invented the Commercial Paper Funding Facility, which pumped $737 billion into it. The largest beneficiary was the Swiss bank UBS. Virtually unlimited capital also guaranteed funding for retail stockbrokers and much more. The blandly named policy of quantitative easing, which drove interest rates down to almost zero, was a euphemism for Fed purchases of immense quantities of private and government securities.
The crisis, Tooze writes, "was a devastating blow to the complacent belief in the great moderation, a shocking overturning of the prevailing laissez-faire ideology." And yet the ideology prevailed. Homeowners, both those defrauded by subprime mortgages and millions of others whose houses were suddenly worth less than their debt, were the real victims of the collapse. But they got little help. In a reversal of New Deal priorities, most of the relief went to the biggest banks, while smaller banks and homeowners were allowed to go under. Obama's $75 billion mortgage-restructuring programs, known asHAMP and HARP, were used to benefit bank balance sheets, not hard-pressed homeowners, as intended by Congress. Banks were permitted to invent complex provisional loan "modifications" with opaque terms that favored lenders, rather than using their government subsidies to provide refinancing to reduce homeowner debts.
The Dodd–Frank Act, passed in 2010 and meant to limit abuses in the financial industry, was too weak to begin with, and its implementation was largely crippled by the industry's influence, years before Donald Trump's deregulatory crusade. Long before the recession was over, the budget hawks around Obama, who opposed government spending, succeeded in prematurely changing the administration's priority from recovery to deficit reduction. So compromised was the administration that the financial commentator Rick Santelli, speaking from the Chicago Board of Trade in 2009, could depict the bailout program as a corrupt alliance between the liberal rich and the undeserving poor meant to defraud middle-class Americans, and then issue the first call for a new Tea Party.
Turning to Europe, Tooze explores the fatal combination of Germany's demands for austerity with the structural weakness of the ECB and the vulnerability of the euro. In Europe, because of bad policy, the implosion of private financial assets led to a crisis of sovereign debt. Before the collapse, cheap debt caused risky investments to flow into Southern Europe. Countries such as Greece and Italy had, before the introduction of the euro in 1999, been prone to inflation because of high deficits, and the governments, corporations, and citizens of those countries had been made to offset the risk of devaluation by paying higher interest rates to lenders. But in the 2000s there was no risk of devaluation; Portugal or Greece now enjoyed interest rates that were only slightly higher than Germany's, and markets failed to take account of the risk of default, which was more serious than that of devaluation.
After the crisis began, misguided responses compounded the damage. In Ireland, a badly corrupted government took bank losses onto the state's own balance sheet, suddenly putting Ireland in receivership to Brussels and Berlin, which provided capital in exchange for stringent conditions. In Greece, before the crash, the budget books had been altered by a center-right government (with help from Goldman Sachs, which created special securities that allowed Athens to disguise the increased public debt). In 2009 the newly elected social-democratic government of George Papandreou and his Pasok party dutifully reported the faked books and the real numbers to Brussels and the world. Greece's budget deficit was not 3.7 percent, as the outgoing government had falsely claimed. It was more like 12 percent, or four times the permitted limit under EU rules.
Financial markets responded by speculating against Greek sovereign debt, requiring Greece to pay much higher interest. But instead of treating the Greek situation as a crisis to be contained and helping a genuinely reformist new government find its footing, Brussels and Berlin treated Greece as an object lesson in profligacy and an opportunity to insist on punitive terms for financial aid. This mainly served to bail out Greece's creditors and pushed the Greek economy deeper into depression. To qualify for the meager program of what Tooze terms "extend and pretend" from the EU, theECB, and the IMF, the Greeks were made to pursue excruciating cuts in public services and pensions as well as auctions of public assets at fire-sale prices. At one point in the austerity bargaining with the Greek government, Tooze reports, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, "suggested that perhaps it would be better for the Greeks not to hold elections." Schäuble knew how unpopular these policies were. His words suggested that he would sacrifice Greek democracy in order to get the Greek government to accept the austerity demands. This was a coerced version of the neoliberalism that had already been discredited by the collapse.
A central player in this tragedy was the European Central Bank. Tooze does a fine job of explaining the delicate dance between the bank's leaders and its real masters in Germany. Since Germany opposed continent-wide recovery spending, the bank could only pursue monetary policy. The model was the Fed. Yet while the Fed has a congressional "dual mandate" to target both price stability and high employment, theECB's charter allowed for price stability only. In the Maastricht Treaty, which was signed in 1992 and created the euro, Germany's requirement for giving up its cherished deutsche mark was an agreement that the euro would be protected from inflation. TheECB inherited the Germans' fear of inflation. The treaty was made even more austere by the 2011 fiscal compact demanded by Merkel, which added more penalties to enforce the limits placed on debts and deficits. Thus Greece, a nation hit by severe recession and loss of private investor confidence, had no choice but to pursue austerity to reassure creditors.
Nobody was sure what that meant, not even Draghi. "As usual, the inflation hawks at the Bundesbank were aghast at the idea of ECB bond buying," Tooze tells us. "But for Merkel it was the better of two bad options." The ECB, with the consent of the Germans, came up with one of those bland-sounding names, Outright Monetary Transactions, for its direct purchases of government bonds. But the program, at the insistence of the Germans, was restricted to nations in compliance with Merkel's rigid fiscal terms, which limited national deficits and debts. In other words, the money could not go to the very nations where it was needed most, since the hardest-hit countries had to borrow heavily to get themselves out of the recession. And so, despite Draghi, Europe continued to tread water rather than make progress toward recovery. The banks, however, survived.
Tooze excels at explaining the byzantine political bargaining that led to policy compromises that avoided outright depression but stifled the European economy. These were the consequences of shifting alliances among national leaders, with the French, Italians, and Spanish, who were less opposed to inflation, against the conservative Germans and Dutch, as well as complex infighting within the political leadership in individual nations. The infighting was compounded by the interests of different national and international politicians and institutions, above all the banks. Much of the pressure was on Merkel, whipsawed between her own fiscal conservatism, the hostility of the German electorate to bailing out the supposedly profligate southern nations, and her need to hold the EU together. At one excruciating all-night negotiation at which she felt ambushed by other national leaders, Tooze reports, Merkel broke down and declared, "Ich will mich nicht selbst umbringen." (I do not want to kill myself.) Reading Tooze, you realize that it's a miracle that the EU and the euro survived at all—but they did so at terrible human cost.
Crashed does have some minor blemishes. One is its structure. Tooze generally proceeds chronologically. For the most part, this strategy works. However, because he picks up, drops, and then resumes several important subplots—such as the euro, the Fed, and China—the text occasionally loops back on itself, leading the reader to wonder, "Didn't I read this before?" Conversely, there are some aspects of the story that are omitted or glossed over. For example, the ideal of liberalized trade, and the use of trade treaties to promote deregulation or privatized regulation of finance, is a major element of the story of how neoliberal hegemony promoted the eventual collapse. But except for a passing reference, trade and globalized deregulation get little mention here.
Similarly, while Tooze writes extensively about the central bankers Ben Bernanke and Mario Draghi, he has almost nothing to say about Janet Yellen. Her nomination as Fed chair in 2013 to succeed Bernanke was an epochal event and an improbable defeat for the proponents of austerity, deregulation, and bank bailouts who influenced Obama's policymaking. Yellen, a left-liberal economist specializing in labor markets, was the only left-of-center Fed chair other then FDR's chairman Marriner Eccles. She also believed in tough regulation of banks. The extension of quantitative easing well beyond its intended end was substantially due to Yellen's concern about wages and employment, and not just price stability, since low interest rates can also help promote recovery.
The story of how Yellen got the job is also emblematic of deeper power struggles. Obama had all but promised the Fed chair to Larry Summers, who dearly wanted it. But the newly elected progressive senator Elizabeth Warren, who had tangled repeatedly with Summers in her previous position as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the bank bailout program, organized fellow Senate Democrats to warn Obama that Summers would not be confirmed. Warren and the liberals also openly lobbied for Yellen. In Tooze's book, we first meet Yellen in passing on page 503, in a brief reference to the gradual phase-out of quantitative easing, with no explanation of how she got to the Fed or who she was, and not much on her subsequent work.
Another odd omission is the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s. Tooze writes only that many savings and loans went broke in that decade because, while they lent money at fixed rates, they had to pay rising interest rates on deposits from consumers. But far more important were their reckless speculative investments, which had nothing to do with mortgages, plus their excessive borrowing, allowed by the Garn–St. Germain Act of 1982, for which the savings and loan industry had lobbied. The folly was compounded by extensive corruption, for which hundreds of savings and loan executives were criminally prosecuted. The scandal prefigured the deeper corruption to come.


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Twelve-year-old Danny Walker may be the smallest kid on the basketball court -- but don't tell him that. Because no one plays with more heart or court sense. But none of that matters when he is cut from his local travel team, the very same team his father led to national prominence as a boy. Danny's father, still smarting from his own troubles, knows Danny isn't the only kid who was cut for the wrong reason, and together, this washed-up former player and a bunch of never-say-die kids prove that the heart simply cannot be measured.
For fans of The Bad News Bears, Hoosiers, the Mighty Ducks, and Mike Lupica's other New York Times bestselling novels Heat, The Underdogs, and Million-Dollar Throw, here is a book that proves that when the game knocks you down, champions stand tall.
Mike Lupica is the author of multiple bestselling books for young readers, including QB 1, Heat, Travel Team, Million-Dollar Throw, and The Underdogs. He has carved out a niche as the sporting world's finest storyteller. Mike lives in Connecticut with his wife and their four children. When not writing novels, Mike Lupica writes for New York's Daily News, appears on ESPN's The Sports Reporters and hosts The Mike Lupica Show on ESPN Radio. You can visit Mike Lupica at mikelupicabooks.com
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Forces in DR Congo kill 36 Burundi refugees
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Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) killed at least 36 Burundi refugees during protests over plans to send them back to Burundi.
Head of the UN's peacekeeping mission in DRC, Maman Sidikou, confirmed in a statement on Saturday that 36 refugees were reported killed and over 100 others injured. He called for an investigation into the incident and urged security forces in the country to refrain from using force whenever possible.
36 Burundi refugees killed
On Friday, a confrontation broke out between protestors and security forces in Kamanyola, eastern Congo. The refugees were protesting against a resettlement plan intended to return them to their home country, Burundi.
According to reports, police and soldiers shot live rounds into the air in an attempt to disperse crowds. However, security forces were "overwhelmed" when the protestors responded by throwing stones at the armed forces. Police and soldiers then opened fire upon the crowd, killing at least 36 and injuring more than 100.
Calls for investigation
Aside from Maman Sidikou calling for an investigation on behalf of MONUSCO, the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) is also seeking answers over Friday's events. Likewise, Burundian Foreign Minister, Alain-Aime Nyamitwe, demanded that "explanations are needed" on Twitter.
More than 400,000 Burundian refugees have fled the country since violence broke out in April 2015 – many who arrive at DRC. However, Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza is calling upon refugees to return to the country, promising that peace has now been restored in the troubled nation.
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If you are crazy enough to capture all exciting moments of your life but without using your hands for this task then you definitely need to buy a wearable action camera. It allows users to record everything in while keeping their hands free and the best part is that most of these are designed with outstanding qualities like water resistant, shockproof, freeze resistant and many more. Some of these can also be controlled via voice commands or remote applications hence they serve like best tool for athletes, professionals and beginner photographers. The wearable cameras can be clipped to almost all kind of surfaces; you can attach them to helmet, hat, harness, belt, T-shirt and even on your pets.
Photo and Video Quality: First of all you must compare the photo as well as video quality of your camera so that it can create high resolution end results and your videos can be YouTube ready right after recording.
Camera weight, size and shape: Bullet shaped cameras are considered to be best if you want something to mount on your helmet whereas for chest mounting needs you must go ahead with box shaped cameras. A heavy camera unit will not fulfil your recording needs while biking or surfing so prefer to buy lightweight one with a small size.
Streaming and Connectivity: It must be equipped with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity options so that you can easily share, stream and view your collections on other devices. It also helps to operate your camera from remote locations via phone. Prefer to buy a camera that allows direct synchronization with websites for live streaming.
Storage Capacity: Of course it must be higher, usually wearable action cameras can have microSD card capacity somewhere between 4GB to 120GB so you can make decision accordingly. Prefer to carry additional cards on your long tours.
Most of adventure lovers prefer to carry a camera with them so that everything can be recorded during outdoor activities. If you are also searching for a wearable camera then there are lots of options available in market out of which you can pick anyone as per your budget and need.
This small attractive camera unit can capture amazing videos and photos for you. It is portable, waterproof, rugged and can assist you even in toughest situations. The best part is that you can easily mount it on any existing GoPro mount without spending on a new set of accessories. It can record videos with 4K resolution at 30fps but do not have GPS facility. The photo quality goes up to 10MP and the price range is also reasonable.
With 3 axis type optical stabilization, built in GPS, waterproof casing and live streaming capabilities, this camera is rated to be one of the favourite stuff for athletes. You can control its most of functions via voice control commands and it provides 4K resolution for video recording. In case of 1080p resolution at 30fps you will be able to get a battery backup of 2 hours 15 minutes. Professionals say that it is a pretty robust camera for capturing high octane scenes.
Here is a water resistant type wide angle camera unit that can be easily paired up with smart phones using Wi-Fi interface. It is a light weight device that offers 1080p video recording along with 5MP picture clarity and you can store huge data with its 64GB microSD card support. This camera offers wide angle view of 185 degrees and you can easily upload your footage to internet via live SD streaming feature.
With this camera you can captures stills at 8MP clarity and videos can be recorded with 1080p at 30fps whereas for 720p you can go ahead with 60fps. You can control complete functioning of camera via mobile device with the help of drift app. It battery can serve you for approximately two hours and it offers huge variety of mounting accessories.
Sony offers a versatile, rugged and splash resistant camcorder for action lovers so that they can capture all moments while trekking or diving. It comes with Wi-Fi connectivity and your phone can serve like live remote for this device. This camera provides 33' underwater casing and high quality adhesive mounts so that users can easily wear it on vehicle, bike, helmet, boat or even on your pet.
This slim and compact camera is capable enough to serve users with 60fps at 1080p and for stills it can go up to 8MP. The internal flash memory of Qlippie is 32GB and with its aluminium clip it can be easily attached to bag, purse or cloths for live recording. In order to reflect your personal style, this camera comes with 14 colourful stickers whereas WiFi connectivity allows easy interfacing with smart phone for remote control and wireless monitoring.
Cube+ offers wide angle focus with 124 degree coverage lens and the magnetic body allows users to attach this device anywhere on metallic surface. As size of original Cube and Cube+ is almost equal so you can use same mounting accessories with both of these. Its rubberized body is impact resistant, splashproof and the 64GB capacity of microSD card allows huge storage for your long trips.
Its maximum weight is only about 1.6 ounce and size goes up to 3.3". This versatile camera unit can capture videos at 1080p whereas waterproof and quad proof design allows divers to take this camera up to 5' under water without any additional casing. You can easily mount Panasonic HX-A1 on board, bike and helmet while capturing everything in hands-free motion on the way.
The Clip 2 is one of the ultra compact and portable camera units with very light weight and attractive design. This digital camera cannot shoot videos for you but in order to capture stills it makes awesome focus adjustments. The built in accelerometer of this camera helps action lovers to capture flipping photos with awesome clarity.
It offers 16MP capabilities for stills along with 1080p at 30fps for videos. You can mount this camera on tripod and its creative shot capturing abilities allows users to go beyond imagination. This device is waterproof with 3.3' rating and for more advanced controls you can operate it from Bluetooth, WI-Fi connectivity on android and iOS. The mounting accessories are offered by HTC separately as per need of user, you can easily buy them when it is time to be more adventurous with your videos.


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Let me start by saying this is a difficult question. If you mean speaking with a fully grown vocabulary and flawless Danish accent, convincing everybody that you are in fact a Dane, well then it will take a long time! It will likely take years, maybe even decades to reach this.
But before you crumble in despair and let all your hopes and dreams fly away, let me explain it a bit further. That level of mastery (that so many dream of) is incredibly difficult to attain in any language. However a more humble level of fluency where you speak with a good accent and solid vocabulary and can have normal conversations is much more doable.
I'd argue that it's possible for anybody who's fluent in English to reach this level in Danish in around 6 months if you study in a focussed manner and use good study methods. And if you're just looking for the first milestone of being able to have simple conversations in Danish, it shouldn't take you more than 2-3 months.
I know, right ?? !! It might sound impossible, but that's what I experienced when I studied Spanish – it takes a surprisingly short amount of time reach these levels if you shave away all fat and only focus on the most important parts.
The reason why this is possible is that Danish and English are very similar (both being Germanic languages). Because back about 1000 years ago the Vikings invaded and occupied most of England for a while so a large amount of Danish seeped into the English language (together with a bunch of old German).
As a result of that we have a lot similar vocabulary. For instance "window" in Danish is "vindue" and "man" is "mand", not to mention the avalanche of modern vocabulary from English that's invaded Danish. On top of that our grammar and sentence structures are also very similar. That's also a part of the reason why most Danish people speak English more or less fluently.
So what if you aren't fluent in Danish (or German, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Spanish or any of the other Western European languages)? Well, it will definitely take longer, no doubt about that. Maybe a year. It took me a year to get to a conversational level in Japanese where I can speak it somewhat comfortably and understand most of what's being said, and I wasn't very fast at that. So even if you're from East Asia and find Danish to be a very foreign and strange language it should be possible to learn in around a year.


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As a Catholic Academy following the tradition of Ursuline education, we seek the highest standards for all our students.
In an atmosphere of mutual respect, trust and care we work together in the spirit of the Gospel to serve the local community and the Diocese. Through encouragement, responsibility and self-discipline we enable each individual to grow spiritually and intellectually in order to make a unique and positive contribution to society.
Definition of SEN
A child or young person has SEN if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her.
A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty if he or she:
a) Has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age; or
b) Has a disability which prevents or hinders him or her from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools or mainstream post-16 institutions. SEND Code of Practice (2015, p 15)
The four broad areas of need
The 0-25 SEND Code of Practice (2015) identifies four broad areas which cover a range of needs.
Where children and young people have speech, language and communication difficulties which make it difficult for them to make sense of language or to understand how to communicate effectively and appropriately with others. Children and young people with an Autistic Spectrum Condition are likely to have particular difficulties with social interaction.
Where children and young people learn at a slower pace than others their age, they may: have difficulty in understanding parts of the curriculum, have difficulties with organisation and memory skills or have a specific difficulty affecting one particular part of their learning such as in literacy or numeracy.
The term 'learning difficulties' covers a wide range of needs, including moderate learning difficulties (MLD), severe learning difficulties (SLD) and profound and multiple difficulties (PMLD). Specific learning difficulties (SpLD) such as dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia come under this term.
Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties
Children and young people may experience a wide range of social and emotional difficulties which present themselves in many ways. They may have difficulty in managing their relationships with other people, be withdrawn or behave in ways that may hinder their and other children's learning or that have an impact on their health and wellbeing. This broad area includes attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or attachment disorder. It also includes behaviours that may reflect underlying mental health difficulties such as anxiety or depression.
Physical and/or Sensory Needs
Where children and young people have visual and/or hearing impairments, or a physical need that means they must have additional on-going support
These areas allow schools to gain an overview of their students' range of needs. The 0-25 SEND Code (2015) emphasises:
'The purpose of identification is to work out what action the school needs to take, not to fit a pupil into a category. In practice, individual children or young people often have needs that cut across all these areas and their needs may change over time... A detailed assessment of need should ensure that the full range of an individual's needs is identified, not simply the primary need.' (Section 6.27)
As a school we are committed to providing the very best education for all our students, no matter their needs and we work to adjust our own practice to enable them all to have access to an education within a mainstream setting.
All teachers at Ursuline College are teachers of SEND and thus all staff are involved in the identification and support of students with additional needs in their mainstream classroom. Great priority is placed on Quality First Teaching for all students. Staff are encouraged to register any concerns about students and develop links with members of the SEN Department (known as Insieme) if there are concerns.
All SEND information and diagnoses is shared with staff so that they are aware of all needs. Alongside this we share Quality First Teaching practices and strategies that teachers will use in class with individual students.
Our team is committed to supporting the individual needs of our students and Teaching Assistants (TAs) and Lead Teaching Assistants (LTAs) are allocated on an individual needs basis to support individuals or groups of learners as allowed by resources. Staff work closely with them to ensure maximum effectiveness. Our TAs and LTAs have a wide range of skills to offer in supporting students directly and indirectly, assisting staff and working with parents/carers.
We are also committed to making sure that all statutory duties and expectations within EHCPs are met and we work with external agencies and professionals to ensure joined up thinking, enabling students to work towards their stretching, yet achievable outcomes.
The use of external professionals and referrals
Where appropriate the school will consult with external professionals to carry out assessments on students that will help with support that is provided by the school. Parents/Carers will always be informed of such assessments, and it would require their approval to carry out any such assessments.
When a referral is put in to the ASD/ADHD Pathway, consultation and approval of Parents/Carers will always be sought before any paperwork is completed and submitted, we would also require information from the parents/carers to complete any referral.
Insieme Staff Team:
Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator (SENCo): Mrs Jo Callingham
SEN Administrator: Mrs J Musgrove
Lead Teaching Assistants
Communication & Interaction Lead: Mrs M Parr
Cognition & Learning Lead: Miss Amelia Bell
Social, Emotional and Mental Health Lead: Mrs Kerry Sansome
English as Additional Language Lead: Mrs R Everson
Mrs R Cole
Mrs S Dudley
Miss L Gower
Mrs S Moore
Miss S Crawford
For any concerns or queries please contact the SEND team via email or phone:
SENAdmin@ursuline.kent.sch.uk
Ursuline College – SEND Policy and Annual Information Report can be found here: https://www.ursuline.kent.sch.uk/policies/
Information on Kent LEA Local Offer - SEND Information Hub can be found here: https://www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children/special-educational-needs
The KCC SEND Strategy can be found here: https://www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children/special-educational-needs/send-strategy/strategy-for-children-with-special-educational-needs-and-disabilities
The Mainstream Core Standards (guide for parents/carers) applicable to Kent schools can be accessed here: https://www.kelsi.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/117257/Special-educational-needs-mainstream-core-standards-guide-for-parents.pdf


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Protests rock Myanmar for fifth day, West condemns security response
Reuters , Wednesday 10 Feb 2021
Thousands of people joined demonstrations in the main city of Yangon. In the capital, Naypyitaw, hundreds of government workers marched in support of a growing civil disobedience campaign
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Protesters took to the streets of Myanmar for a fifth day on Wednesday, vowing to keep up demonstrations against last week's military coup even after a woman was shot and critically wounded during clashes the previous day.
The United States and United Nations condemned Tuesday's use of force against the protesters who are demanding the reversal of the Feb. 1 coup and the release of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD).
"We cannot stay quiet," youth leader Esther Ze Naw told Reuters. "If there is blood shed during our peaceful protests, then there will be more if we let them take over the country."
Thousands of people joined demonstrations in the main city of Yangon. In the capital, Naypyitaw, hundreds of government workers marched in support of a growing civil disobedience campaign.
A group of police in Kayah state in the east joined the protesters and marched in uniform with a sign that said "We don't want dictatorship", according to pictures published in media.
There were no reports of violence on Wednesday but soldiers took over a clinic that had been treating wounded protesters in Naypyitaw on Tuesday, a doctor there said.
Another doctor said a woman protester was expected to die from a gunshot wound to the head sustained during a Tuesday confrontation with police in Naypyitaw.
She was wounded when police fired, mostly into the air, to clear the protesters. Three other people were being treated for wounds from suspected rubber bullets, doctors said.
Protesters were also hurt in Mandalay and other cities, where security forces used water cannon and arrested dozens.
Four policemen were injured on Tuesday as they tried to disperse protesters, some of whom threw stones and bricks, the military said.
The military has imposed restrictions on gatherings and a night curfew in the biggest cities.
'DISPROPORTIONATE'
The protests are the largest in Myanmar in more than a decade, reviving memories of almost half a century of direct army rule and spasms of bloody uprisings until the military began relinquishing some power in 2011.
The military justified its takeover on the grounds of fraud in a Nov. 8 election that Suu Kyi's NLD party won by a landslide, as expected. The electoral commission dismissed the army's complaints.
Western countries have condemned the coup but taken little concrete action to press for the restoration of democracy.
The U.S. State Department said it was reviewing assistance to Myanmar to ensure those responsible for the coup faced "significant consequences".
"We repeat our calls for the military to relinquish power, restore democratically elected government, release those detained and lift all telecommunication restrictions and to refrain from violence," spokesman Ned Price said in Washington.
The United Nations called on Myanmar's security forces to respect people's right to protest peacefully.
"The use of disproportionate force against demonstrators is unacceptable," Ola Almgren, the U.N. representative in Myanmar, said.
Avinash Paliwal, a senior lecturer in international relations at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies, said Myanmar will not be as isolated now as it was in the past, with China, India, Southeast Asian neighbours and Japan unlikely to cut ties.
"The country is too important geo-strategically for that to happen. The U.S. and other Western countries will put sanctions - but this coup and its ramifications will be an Asian story, not a Western one," Paliwal said.
'BRUTAL ACTION'
A doctor in Naypyitaw said the woman who was shot in the head was in a critical condition and not expected to survive. Social media video verified by Reuters showed her with other protesters some distance from a row of riot police as a water cannon sprayed and several shots could be heard.
The woman, wearing a motorcycle helmet, suddenly collapsed. Pictures of her helmet showed what appeared to be a bullet hole.
"Now we see the military takes brutal action against us," said Htet Shar Ko, an interpreter. "But we young people will keep fighting against the regime under our motto - military dictatorship must fail."
Alongside the protests, a civil disobedience movement has affected hospitals, schools and government offices.
Veteran activist Min Ko Naing called in a Facebook post on all government workers to join the disobedience campaign and for people to take note of those who didn't.
Protesters are also seeking the abolition of a 2008 constitution drawn up under military supervision that gave the generals a veto in parliament and control of several ministries, and for a federal system in ethnically diverse Myanmar.
Suu Kyi, 75, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for campaigning for democracy and spent nearly 15 years under house arrest. She faces charges of illegally importing six walkie-talkies and her lawyer said he has not been allowed to see her.
Suu Kyi remains hugely popular at home despite damage to her international reputation over the plight of the Muslim Rohingya minority.
Myanmar's Protests
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