Win your way to wellness with SEVEN!
As a free program for all Illinois State students, faculty, and staff, the SEVEN program encourages individuals to engage in all seven dimensions of wellness: emotional, environmental, intellectual, physical, social, spiritual, and vocational.
These seven dimensions are key factors to achieving a balanced, healthy, and happy life. By recording activities which fall under the seven dimensions, individuals not only continually benefit their personal wellness but acquire points for the chance to win various prizes as well.
Wellness can be interpreted in a variety of ways, containing a multitude of different ideas, beliefs, and activities. It's common that we overlook the ways in which we can benefit our personal wellness and fall into the habit of prioritizing ourselves last among the accumulation of our daily responsibilities. However, SEVEN participants find that tracking activities in the name of a little friendly competition can go a long way.
That said, we introduce and celebrate our 2017–2018 SEVEN winners who made personal wellness a priority in their quests for health as they share their insightful stories for you to read.
Megan Hildebrandt found herself participating in SEVEN for the first time while in graduate school. With a packed workload, Hildebrandt used SEVEN to evaluate the level of wellness balance in her life.
When asked why wellness was important to her, Hildebrandt expressed "Wellness is about taking care of all aspects of your life. Everything goes more smoothly when I have a good balance. With this, Hildebrandt told us her favorite aspect about SEVEN is how it emphasizes more than just physical wellness. SEVEN's many dimensions of wellness is a great reminder of the different ways you can engage in taking care of yourself. The more you engage, the more benefits you can experience!
Hildebrandt's favorite wellness activity was incorporating activities she could do with friends.
"I liked inviting my friends to go for long walks so we could move and chat," she said.
Her example is a smart and enjoyable idea by combining physical and social activities together benefiting both her friends and herself. Attaching community is always beneficial toward sustainability of engaging in wellness activities.
A challenge we often face as an academic campus is making time for wellness.
"I make time by multi-tasking and actually placing time into my calendar that is just for me, even if something else has to wait. I treat time for me just like any other appointment to be kept," Hildebrandt said.
She also found some of her daily routines and things she did often count toward her wellness dimensions, underscoring the holistic nature of wellness through SEVEN.
Concurring with Hildebrandt, the ISU campus is rich with resources, events, and wellness-oriented opportunities. Additionally, our surrounding community has a great deal to offer.
SEVEN provided a venue for Megan to seek more balance, explore different dimensions of wellness opportunities, and to bring her friends into the mix. Megan treated SEVEN as a new adventure to support her well-being. Like Megan, SEVEN is there for you to create your wellness adventure!
Caldwell describes the human body as a "temple" to be respected and cared for, inspiring her to take care of herself. SEVEN has helped Caldwell not be focused on her daily work to the point where she puts her own wellbeing aside.
"I tend to get hyper-focused on a project, so having SEVEN helps me review daily to be sure I stay balanced," she said.
Being focused only on work and daily living tasks is a reality that many people face. SEVEN provides the gentle reminder to pause and spend time investing in your wellness.
When asked what her favorite SEVEN activity was, she clearly resonated with the spiritual dimension. Caldwell's faith is strong, spending daily morning devotional time as a foundational pillar to her functioning throughout the day. Engaging in the spiritual dimension of SEVEN can not only be devotional prayer time, but also mindfulness and meditation practice, reflection, journaling, being in nature, listening to music or doing activities that bring an inner peace and calm to you.
A significant piece of SEVEN is its holistic approach with the goal of helping its participants gain a broader sense of wellness.
You might wonder is it the caffeine responsible for recharging? Caffeine does give us a pick me up, but not as much as an emotionally satisfying experience of coffee or tea with good friends. Spending time with people we enjoy can be a bridge to our emotional and physical wellbeing, by restoring us and lowering our stress cortisol levels.
Caldwell is a busy woman between her professional life, taking care of her mother, and being with her grandchildren. With so much on her plate, sometimes it is hard to strike as much balance as she would like. She works with what she is given, rising earlier to have time to take care of herself. Asking Caldwell what advice she can share with others on their wellness journey, she is realistic.
SEVEN's program has anchored Caldwell, helping her stay accountable to her commitment of being healthy and mobile throughout her life. Her realistic approach to SEVEN is affirming for many of us who also lead busy lives, but also want to take care of ourselves.
Congratulations to Megan and Janet for their commitment to SEVEN, and more importantly themselves! Their personal journeys with SEVEN serve as an inspiration for others in the campus community.
Challenge yourself to make YOU a priority! SEVEN is a free program from Health Promotion and Wellness for students, faculty, and staff that focuses on the importance of the seven dimensions of wellness: emotional, environmental, intellectual, physical, social, spiritual, and vocational. Seven runs from September to the end of April, and you can join at any time. Participants log wellness activities to earn points toward monthly prize drawings and compete towards the end of the year overall point totals. Participants also receive the Seven e-newsletter and information on campus wellness events.
For additional details and to sign up, visit Wellness.IllinoisState.edu/Seven.
Health Promotion and Wellness provide wellness information, services, and programming to students, faculty, staff, and the Illinois State community. People living, learning, and working in a healthy environment are more likely to reach their highest potential. For more information, visit Wellness.IllinoisState.edu or stop by 187 McCormick Hall.


Yes, the relationship between musicians and the world of music is a complicated one. What began as a simple passion soon develops into long hours of practice, audition stress, constant criticism and long hours of travel, all for the love of the concert performance and the applause of the audience.
Despite these frustrations, and maybe even because of them, we singers and pianists keep on making music together. Are we crazy? Obsessed? Or is it just because music itself is so brilliantly beautiful that we cannot help ourselves?
Whatever the reason, this illness is somehow universal. "I hate music" celebrates this tumultuous relationship with music; this complicated, frustrating and often irritating passion that keeps all true musicians constantly striving for perfection. In five languages, Russian, French, English, Italian and Spanish, some of the most expressive, humorous and beautiful art songs about love in all its diversity are explored, celebrated, and dedicated to whoever will listen. Through "I Hate Music" we remind ourselves, as well as our audience, what fun it can be to do what we, musicians, love to do.


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MET - Michigan English Test
The 5 W's of the MET (Michigan English Test)
WHO • WHY • WHAT • WHERE • WHEN
English Language Exams
Who takes the MET test?
The Michigan English Test (otherwise known as the MET exam) is an intermediate-level English proficiency exam administered by the University of Michigan's English Language Institute. Although the MET exam technically assesses English proficiency over a number of levels (ranging from upper beginner to lower advanced), in practice it is intended for candidates with a secondary level of education who want to certify their general English language proficiency in social, educational, and workplace contexts. Accordingly, while the MET is frequently used by applicants for English immersion schools and by those applying for a job that requires a working knowledge of the English language, it is not useful as an admissions test for English-language higher education programs.
Why should you take the MET exam?
While the MET test is calibrated to certify applicants with English speaking abilities as diverse as A2 to C1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, in practice it emphasizes the intermediate level – B1 and B2 – levels of proficiency. More to the point, it emphasizes fluency (or in the words of the ELI, "communicative ability") over accuracy. This means it primarily assesses a student's ability to use English to express ideas rather than their formal knowledge of grammatical rules. Thus it is ideal for students and professionals who are able – and wish to demonstrate their ability – to perform in the functional tasks in English. Importantly, like other English Language Institute exams, the MET exam uses the conventions of American English. This means that the spelling, grammar, and pronunciation used throughout the exam with be of the American English style, resulting in a clear advantage for candidates who have studied and/or plan to use English in the United States.
What exactly is the MET test like and what can I expect to see on it?
The MET is a paper-and-pencil test comprised of 135 questions over two sections.
Listening 45 minutes
The first section of the MET exam, also known as the Listening section, is 60 multiple choice questions and 45 minutes long. These 60 questions are subdivided into three parts that are used to assess candidates to understand spoken English in using excerpts from short conversations, longer conversations, and discussions.
Reading and Grammar 90 minutes
The second section of the MET, also known as the Reading and Grammar section, is 75 questions and 90 minutes long. These 75 questions are subdivided into two parts, one emphasizing reading comprehension and another emphasizing grammatical correctness. The reading comprehension section is based on 50 multiple choice questions and the remaining balance of 25 questions is used to assess students' knowledge of a variety of grammatical structures.
Importantly, while there is no formal "Vocabulary section," a wide knowledge of English vocabulary is necessary to understand and answer the questions in the English-only listening and reading sections.
The MET exam does not have a pass score. Applicants are instead measured on a scale with a maximum of score of 80 for sections I and II, and a final average derived from the total of the two sections. Thus measured out of 80 and 160, clearly none of the scores are meant to be interpreted as percentages – or even as an indication of how many questions test takers answer correctly – but instead indicate where the test taker belongs on the language ability scale.
Where and When can you take the MET exam?
The MET test is offered once monthly (except for December) at test centers authorized by the University of Michigan . Because of regional differences, the exact date and cost of the exam is announced locally.

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from the Newsletter of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
MAPS - Volume 6 Number 3 Summer 1996
Why Marijuana Smoke Harm Reduction?
Marijuana Water Pipe and Vaporizer Study
Dale Gieringer, Ph.D.
California NORML, 2215-R Market St. Suite 278
San Francisco CA 94114 tel: (415) 563-5858
E-mail: canorml@igc.apc.org
The Struggle to Do Medical Marijuana Research
Medical Cannabis Potency Testing Project
The waterpipe study was undertaken as a first step toward marijuana harm reduction. It was motivated by concerns that, like tobacco, marijuana smoking poses hazards to respiratory health, such as increased risks of bronchitis, lung infection, and throat and neck cancers. These hazards are not caused by the psychoactive ingredients in marijuana, but by noxious vapors and solid particles, or tars, in the smoke produced by leaf combustion. In practice, these hazards can be eliminated by oral ingestion. However, smoking remains the most popular mode of consumption on account of its faster action, greater convenience, and easier adjustability of dosage. Surveys indicate that some two or three million Americans are daily marijuana smokers. Thousands of other Americans are currently smoking marijuana for medical purposes in the treatment of cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, and chronic pain and spasticity. To the extent that their health is already compromised, such patients may be especially vulnerable to respiratory infections caused by marijuana smoking.
There accordingly appears to be a need for technology to reduce the respiratory hazards of marijuana. The most obvious fix is some form of smoke filtration device to reduce, suppress, or otherwise separate noxious by-products from the cannabinoids in the smokestream. Among the vast variety of pipes, bongs, chillums, hookahs and other marijuana smoking devices available, three basic technologies are in use: water filtration, cigarette filters and vaporizers. The first two of these have been shown to be of some value for tobacco. However, there has been virtually no published research on any devices when used with marijuana. We accordingly undertook the present study to find out which if any currently available technologies were effective, and which offered most promise for further development. Our research was guided by the philosophy of harm reduction, a concept popularized by advocates of needle exchange, methadone maintenance, and similar drug treatment measures. Harm reductionists hold that drug use is to some degree inevitable, so it is better to mitigate the harmfulness of drugs than to aggravate it through harsh and futile law enforcement efforts. So far, harm reductionists have focused on hard drugs, the major source of drug abuse problems. However, there is no reason harm reduction efforts should not also be applied to marijuana.
Unfortunately, research in marijuana harm reduction has been stifled by prohibitionist policymakers, who mistrust efforts to mitigate the adverse effects of drugs on the grounds they make illicit drug use acceptable. Not surprisingly, it proved impossible for us to interest the National Institute on Drug Abuse in supporting our project. They reminded us that the tobacco industry had spent billions developing a smokeless cigarette, only to withdraw it in the face of consumer distaste and active hostility from the anti-tobacco lobby. Sadly, the reduction of smoking-related harm is viewed as a threat by many anti-drug zealots, insofar as it undermines their rationale for prohibiting drugs in the first place. Thus the anti-drug lobby has actively impeded the development of marijuana harm reduction technology by lobbying for anti-paraphernalia laws, which outlaw the manufacture of devices for smoking controlled substances.
Harm reduction has equally little appeal to those marijuana enthusiasts who naively believe that marijuana, alone of all drugs, is a perfectly harmless herb. This delusion is quickly refuted by a review of the medical literature, which reveals extensive evidence of possible adverse effects of marijuana. From a physiological standpoint, these effects are mostly mild or of marginal significance, such as temporarily elevated heartbeat, slight and subtle impacts on immune cells, alleged changes in endocrine functioning; disputed and marginal influences on newborns, and so forth. Of considerably more consequence are the alleged psychological effects, including increased risk of accidents, impaired school and job performance, amotivation, heightened risk of drug abuse and sundry other social pathologies. Nevertheless, from the standpoint of physical health, the single best established hazard of marijuana use appears to be an increased risk of lung disease from smoking. According to Dr. Lester Grinspoon, "After carefully monitoring the literature for more than two decades, we have concluded that the only well- confirmed deleterious physical effect of marihuana is harm to the pulmonary system."1 This should come as no surprise to any naive non-smoker who has exploded in a paroxysm of coughing after inhaling his or her first toke of marijuana. Chemically, marijuana and tobacco smoke are quite similar, aside from their psychoactive ingredients: both arise from the combustion of leafy material, which produces a host of noxious gases and solid particulates, or tars, that are known to be hazardous to respiratory health.2 Dating back to the British Indian Hemp Drugs Commission a century ago, observers have noted a high rate of bronchitis and other respiratory diseases among chronic ganja smokers in India, Jamaica and elsewhere;3 however, interpretation of the data has been clouded by the subjects' high rate of tobacco use, making it impossible to determine whether cannabis itself was responsible. This issue has been resolved thanks to modern clinical research by Dr. Donald Tashkin at UCLA, who has followed separate cohorts of marijuana-only, tobacco-only, marijuana-and-tobacco, and non-smoking subjects. Dr. Tashkin's work indicates that heavy daily marijuana smokers are more susceptible than non-marijuana smokers to respiratory disorders such as coughing, bronchitis, impaired lung immune function, and potentially precancerous cell changes.4
Epidemiological Research
In the last couple of years, there has also emerged epidemiological evidence of marijuana's respiratory hazards. A prospective study of 902 subjects by the Kaiser Permanente Center found that daily marijuana-only smokers had a 19% higher rate of respiratory complaints than non-smokers.5 They also found a 30% higher rate of injuries, perhaps reflecting an increased risk of accidents. Surprisingly, those subjects who had used marijuana for the longest time (>15 years) showed no increase in respiratory illness but a higher risk of injuries, while those who had used marijuana for less than 15 years suffered more respiratory complaints, but not injuries! The Kaiser study was not large enough to detect changes in mortality, but a larger study is in progress.
In the meantime, an important, unsettled concern is that of lung cancer. Despite the fact that epidemiosmoking increases the risk of cancer, especially in the throat and upper respiratory tract.6 To begin with, the tars from marijuana contain most of the same carcinogens as tobacco, to a greater or lesser extent.7 It has been argued that marijuana is even more carcinogenic than tobacco because it contains some 50% more of the highly potent carcinogens known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, by-products of incomplete combustion which are thought to be a prime culprit in lung cancer. In reply, hempsters contend that tobacco is more dangerous because it contains far more radioactive carcinogens, particularly polonium-210.8 However, this point seems moot in the light of experiments by the Leuchtenbergers and others, showing that marijuana tars, like those of tobacco, produce carcinogenic changes when applied to both animal and human lung tissue cultures.9
The most compelling evidence of marijuana's potential carcinogenicity comes from recent clinical reports of throat and neck cancer in young marijuana-using males. This was first discovered by oncologist Dr. Paul Donald at the University of California at Davis, who in examining six patients who had contracted throat and neck cancer at the unusually early age of under 40, found that every one had a history of marijuana use.10 Although most of the patients also had other risk factors such as tobacco smoking or heavy drinking, marijuana use was the only one common to them all. Subsequent investigations by Dr. Donald and other oncologists have continued to find suspiciously high rates of marijuana use among younger throat, neck and tongue cancer patients, suggesting the possibility of a significant upsurge in upper respiratory tract cancers in coming years as the sixties generation ages.11 The link between marijuana and throat cancer seems especially compelling in light of Dr. Tashkin's work, which indicates that cannabis smoke tends to concentrate in the larger, upper passages of the respiratory tract.12 In contrast, cigarette smoke is more likely to penetrate to the smaller, lower air passageways, where most tobacco-related lung cancers originate. It is still unclear whether marijuana plays a significant role in cancer of the lower lungs. However, Dr. Tashkin warns that the total tissue area in the upper respiratory passages is much smaller than that in the lower passages, so that marijuana smokers may well be exposing their throats to a proportionately much greater concentration of carcinogens. It is therefore possible that marijuana is a greater risk to the throat than cigarettes to the lungs. On the other hand, marijuana appears to be a much lesser factor in emphysema, which originates in the lower lungs.
Marijuana Smoke vs. Tobacco Smoke
It is tempting to try to compare marijuana and cigarette smoking. An exact comparison is hard to make, given that marijuana and tobacco affect different parts of the respiratory system differently. Anti-marijuana propagandists like to say that one joint per day is equivalent to one pack a day of cigarettes. This myth misrepresents a study by Dr. Tashkin, which found that one-joint-per-day marijuana smokers experienced a "mild but significant" increase in airflow resistance in the large airways greater than that seen in persons smoking 16 cigarettes today. However, the same study found that marijuana smokers did much better in other measures of respiratory health. A more accurate comparison based on studies by Dr. Tashkin's group is that marijuana smokers absorb four times as much tar in their lungs than cigarette smokers per weight smoked.13 Given that a typical joint weighs about .4 - .5 grams, one-half as much as a tobacco cigarette, a rough equivalence is 2 cigarettes = 1 joint. With this information in mind, we undertook to explore various ways of filtering marijuana smoke. Waterpipes were the most obvious candidate, being widely available in head shops and popular with many users on account of the apparent mildness of their smoke. We were especially encouraged by research showing that waterpipes could be highly effective in filtering tobacco;14 unfortunately, we were to discover that these results did not hold up for marijuana. A second candidate technology that would likewise prove disappointing was cigarette filters, which are widely available and can be easily adapted to marijuana by means of a simple homemade filter holder. We did not consider the more advanced "smokeless cigarette" developed by RJ Reynolds, due to the fact that it is not actually a smoke filtration device, but rather an inhaler for artificially flavored nicotine, which is of no use for marijuana. Instead, we turned our attention to vaporizers, which have been touted as a possible ideal solution to the cannabis smoking problem. Unfortunately, because vaporizers can't be used with tobacco, they are prohibited under US paraphernalia laws, and users must accordingly resort to homemade designs. We obtained one such device from the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club. Another was obtained from a Canadian supplier, who is selling them on that country's newly emerged, illegal but tolerated "gray market" in Vancouver. Although neither device performed close to the smokeless ideal, our study left reasonable hope that substantial improvement is possible. Given the evident need to reduce the health risks of marijuana smoking, vaporization merits further research and development.
Lester Grinspoon & James Bakalar, Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine (Yale University, 1993), pp.151-2. One important issue that has not been settled is whether there are significant differences in chemistry between the government-supplied marijuana leaf used in laboratory studies and the sinsemilla bud that has become popular in recent decades.
Helen C Jones & Paul Lovinger, The Marijuana Question (Dodd Mead & Co., New York 1985), pp. 16-21.
Donald Tashkin et al., "Effects of Habitual Use of Marijuana and/or Cocaine on the Lung," in Research Findings on Smoking of Abused Substances, NIDA Research Monograph 99 (1990).
Michael R Polen et al., "Health Care Use by Frequent Marijuana Smokers Who Do Not Smoke Tobacco," Western Journal of Medicine 158 #6: 596-601 (June 1993).
Donald Tashkin, "Is Frequent Marijuana Smoking Hazardous To Health?" Western Journal of Medicine 158 #6: 635-7 (June 1993).
National Academy of Sciences, "Marijuana and Health," (Report by a Committee of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press 1982), pp. 14-7.
Jack Herer, The Emperor Wears No Clothes, 1991 Edition, pp. 81, 114-5. "The difference in radioactivity between cannabis and tobacco may have less to do with plant genetics than with differences in the soil and fertilizer used for the two crops."
Cecile and Rudolf Leuchtenberger, "Cytological and cytochemical studies of the effects of fresh marihuana cigarette smoke on growth and DNA metabolism of animal and human lung cultures," in MC Braude and S Szara, ed: The Pharmacology of Marihuana (Raven Press, New York 1976).
Paul Donald, "Marijuana smoking - Possible cause of head and neck carcinoma in young patients," Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery; Vol 94: 517-21 (April 1986).
Frank M Taylor, "Marijuana as a potential respiratory tract carcinogen: A retrospective analysis of a community hospital population," Southern Medical Journal 81:1231-6 (1988); Gideon Caplan and Brian Brigham, "Marijuana smoking and carcinoma of the tongue: Is there an association?" Cancer 66:1005-6 (1990); PJ Donald, "Advanced malignancy in the young marijuana smoker," Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 288: 33-56 (1991).
Donald Tashkin et al., "Effects of Habitual Use of Marijuana and/or Cocaine on the Lung," loc. cit.
T-C Wu, DP Tashkin, B Djahed and JE Rose, "Pulmonary hazards of smoking marijuana as compared with tobacco," New England Journal of Medicine 318: 347-51 (1988).
D Hoffmann, G Rathkamp and E Wynder, "Comparison of the yields of several selected components in the smoke from different tobacco products," Journal of the National Cancer Institute 31#1-6: 627-35 (Jul-Dec 1963).
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CANORML@igc.apc.org


Can a Single Football Season Cause Brain Damage?
Researchers continue to explore the connection between "minor" repeat brain contact and long-term injury. It seems that every day comes with new studies and test results being released which shed more light on the ways that previously ignored incidents can have lasting effects on head health.
For example, it is only in recent years that the serious damage caused by a lifetime of playing contact sports was publicized. Many were shocked to learn about the serious brain injuries affecting former NFL players, including a few whose suicides have been linked to playing-day connected brain damage. That eventually took the form of a large lawsuit filed by thousands of former players against the NFL with allegations that the league was negligent in allowing the injuries to continue and failing to warn athletes of the danger. As most know, there was a settlement in one of those large cases earlier this year.
However, one problem with the focus on NFL concussions is that some younger athletes (and their families) may be lulled into the mistaken belief that only a lifetime of contact can cause serious harm. After all, only a slim minority of players will ever reach the college athlete ranks, let alone the professionals. Are players in Pee-wee or high school football also at risk of harm from minor head injuries inherent in the game? What about those who only play one season?
According to some new researchers the answer is Yes.
An LA Times story this week touched on new research which found measurable brain damage even between a single season of football playing. The college football players and hockey players examined in the study had brain scans before a season and then after. Alarmingly, the players showed clear brain damage between the tests–even those that did not suffer any identifiable concussion during the year. These results were unique to those athletes, as subject in different sports (track and field, cross country skiing, etc.) did not show the damage over that same season.
The results are set to be published in the next edition of the Neurology journal and should be understood by all athletes and their families. It remains to be seen if the damage somehow heals itself between seasons or if players are affected for a longer period of time. At the very least, researchers note that the findings are a reminder that monitoring for concussions alone is likely insufficient. Even athletes that never appear to take a hit which would suggest a concussion are still at risk of damage from the many smaller knocks they take in games and practices.
As a legal matter, all of this research should weigh into the basic brain injury prevention protocols followed by those involved in these games, including league officials, administrators, coaches, trainers, and more. No longer is it acceptable to allow any sign of brain injury go without treatment. When an athlete may have been hurt, they must always be given time to rest and be tested for injury. The "shake it off" mentality must be corrected to ensure athletes do not have their lives permanently affected.


Are You Forcing Your Employees to Be Unethical?
Pressure to make more money faster, and to pit one employee against another in forced ranking systems, has always seemed like a recipe for unethical behavior. When employees in companies that pressure them in these ways act unethically or illegally to meet financial benchmarks, or act cruelly toward fellow employees, I'm never surprised.
Are your employees under-resourced? What does under-resourced mean in your organization? In the business I'm in, editing and journalism, practitioners have gotten into trouble in recent years for failing to note everyone who contributed to reporting on a story, or taking credit for another writer's work. That kind of unethical behavior could just be due to laziness, or it could be that in a hyper-competitive environment, in which they don't have the time and true team they need to do work, they feel pressured to give themselves as much credit and attention as possible.
Does your company provide resources, in the form of individual recognition and morale, so employees don't feel the need to undercut one another in a push to stand apart from the crowd?
Another reason in my business that writers and reporters sometimes take unethical shortcuts is time pressure. They're faced with such tight deadlines that it's easier to take another person's work and pass it off as your own than it is to come up with original work. Or they don't adequately fact-check because of lack of time, and end up with a story full of inaccuracies.
It's easy to stand under the protective shield of the unethical manager who asked you to do whatever it was that ended up being unethical. But the "just following orders" argument doesn't usually protect the individual who acted unethically, or the company. The manager is likely to deny he or she ever asked the employee to do any such thing, and whoever's idea it was, it happened, and now the company is responsible for the fallout. When an employee who has been found to have acted unethically tells executives and Human Resources he was just following his manager's orders, what is the next step the company should take? What's the protocol at your company when this situation arises?
It seems the only protocol is to make it company policy that every employee is responsible for his or her own actions, and upholding company ethics policies, even if the unethical behavior was instructed by a manager. The employee would be responsible for reporting the manager's unethical directive to the department head or another executive. The challenge is it's frightening to report on your boss. Is there a way to make this feel safe for employees? What happens when the executive goes back to the manager and the manager denies ever making the request?
Sometimes a well-intentioned directive from the top of an organization—such as telling all employees they are responsible for reaching a particular goal, like becoming a leader in all the categories of products the company sells—can have unintended consequences, especially if substantial financial rewards are attached to the directive. On the one hand, generous bonuses for reaching company goals can be a great thing, pushing employees to work harder and more effectively. But, on the other hand, it could spur employees to do whatever it takes—ethically or not—to make the goals and get the extra money. One solution is to make sure all employees have adequate base pay, so the base pay is fair and livable enough not to create a sense of financial desperation.
There are many reasons people act unethically, and often it is no one's fault but the person him or herself. But sometimes a person, who might not otherwise have acted unethically, is put into a situation in which he or she feels there is no other choice. How do you teach employees they always have a choice? And how do you ensure you're not asking the impossible? When you ask the impossible, employees may do everything—including violating ethics—to make it possible.


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Louis Garner (born 31 October 1994) is an English footballer. He is a midfielder who made three substitute appearances in Football League One for Coventry City in 2013–14. He was released by the club at the end of that season.

Career
Garner made his professional debut as a substitute on 5 October 2013 in a 1-0 Football League One win over Stevenage, coming on to replace the injured Cyrus Christie after 87 minutes.

Career statistics
Stats according to Soccerbase

References

External links
Louis Garner player profile at ccfc.co.uk

1994 births
Living people
English footballers
Footballers from Manchester
Association football midfielders
Coventry City F.C. players
English Football League players

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Cylindera mongolica  — вид жуков-жужелиц из подсемейства скакунов. Субаридный центрально-палеарктический вид.
Россия (юг Средней Сибири, Забайкалье); Монголия, Северный Китай. Длина тела имаго около 1 см. В Бурятии обитает на колосняковых лугах и осоково-злаковой степи с участием кустарников спиреи.

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Cylindera
Насекомые Азии
Животные, описанные в 1835 году


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Surgeon says 4-year-old shot in face lucky to be alive
Krystal Brown recovering after drive-by shooting
Updated: 9:20 PM EDT Jun 13, 2012
Erin Guy
Krystal Brown was shot in the face while watching "Sesame Street" at her grandfather's house.
Krystal Brown, 4, is recovering after being hit by a bullet in a drive-by shooting.Brown was struck by a bullet at her grandparents' home while watching "Sesame Street" on Windsor Avenue in West Palm Beach.MUG SHOTS: Who Got Arrested In South Florida?She was released from the hospital Monday, and her surgeon is optimistic.Dr. Andrew Slavin said God was watching over Brown."Three inches in any direction and she wouldn't be here," said Slavin.Slavin said the bullet went through her mouth and hit her front teeth."It hit her right under the nose, shot off her upper jaw bone on the side with all of the baby teeth and then the bullet came out the cheek," said Slavin.Brown's mother, Tawana Smith-Black, said when she got the call she was hysterical."I was screaming at the top of my lungs," said Smith-Black. "I was immediately praying to God for him to save my daughter."Slavin is optimistic about Brown's future."All that it really affected was the baby teeth," said Slavin. "It didn't affect the permanent tooth buds."Smith-Black said her daughter is showing emotional problems from the shooting and she plans on getting her counseling."She is afraid of loud noises. She's always wanting us to stay with her and hold her when she goes to bed," said Smith-Black. "She doesn't want to go to bed by herself."A man in a park was running away from gunshots when the girl was struck by a stray bullet, police spokesman Allan Ortman told WPBF 25 News.Ortman said witnesses are not cooperating with investigators.A man who police identified as the intended target was kept behind crime scene tape for hours. He ran from a WPBF 25 News crew attempting to interview him about his close call.
Krystal Brown, 4, is recovering after being hit by a bullet in a drive-by shooting.
Brown was struck by a bullet at her grandparents' home while watching "Sesame Street" on Windsor Avenue in West Palm Beach.
MUG SHOTS: Who Got Arrested In South Florida?
She was released from the hospital Monday, and her surgeon is optimistic.
Dr. Andrew Slavin said God was watching over Brown.
"Three inches in any direction and she wouldn't be here," said Slavin.
Slavin said the bullet went through her mouth and hit her front teeth.
"It hit her right under the nose, shot off her upper jaw bone on the side with all of the baby teeth and then the bullet came out the cheek," said Slavin.
Brown's mother, Tawana Smith-Black, said when she got the call she was hysterical.
"I was screaming at the top of my lungs," said Smith-Black. "I was immediately praying to God for him to save my daughter."
Slavin is optimistic about Brown's future.
"All that it really affected was the baby teeth," said Slavin. "It didn't affect the permanent tooth buds."
Smith-Black said her daughter is showing emotional problems from the shooting and she plans on getting her counseling.
"She is afraid of loud noises. She's always wanting us to stay with her and hold her when she goes to bed," said Smith-Black. "She doesn't want to go to bed by herself."
A man in a park was running away from gunshots when the girl was struck by a stray bullet, police spokesman Allan Ortman told WPBF 25 News.
Ortman said witnesses are not cooperating with investigators.
A man who police identified as the intended target was kept behind crime scene tape for hours. He ran from a WPBF 25 News crew attempting to interview him about his close call.


According to RU MARKS, a company that specializes in trademark registration in Russia, Moscow's Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal recently ruled against Holmrook Limited, a company based in the British Virgin Islands, which registered the rado.ru domain, identical to a word mark owned by Rado, a Swiss luxury watchmaker. The Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal has thus upheld the 2011 ruling of the Moscow Arbitration Court of Appeal.
On September 9, 2011, the Moscow Arbitration Court of Appeal requested the cancellation of rado.ru domain registration and ordered the defendant to pay EUR 1,280 (USD 1,570) for the unauthorized use of the trademark 'rado', which has the priority date of May 14, 1987 with respect to goods in Class 14 of the Nice Classification (precious metals, goods made of precious metals not included in other classes, jewelry, clocks and watches).
The court ruled the domain, registered in 1999, was confusingly similar to the plaintiff's trademark, in spite of the fact that Holmrook Limited is not Rado's competitor in the field of watch manufacturing.
The court ruled that the plaintiff's trademarks were entitled to protection within Article 10bis of the Paris Convention for Protection of Industrial Property, according to which "all the actions that can cause by any means confusion in respect of companies, products, industrial or trading activities of a competitor are subject to prohibition".
RU MARKS notes that Holmrook Limited also used to be the owner of the domain names tissot.ru and longines.ru, identical to word marks owned by Tissot and Longines, also luxury Swiss watchmakers. The Russian court ruled against Holmrook in both cases and ordered the defendant to pay EUR 1,280 (USD 1,570) in damages to each company.


Total Athletic Therapy: Does the IT Band Really Stretch?
Does the IT Band Really Stretch?
The IT band and IT band friction syndrome is a source of a lot of frustration for both patients and clinicians alike. Grounded in the chronic injury world is the idea that your IT band gets tight. The syndrome that comes out of this is IT band friction syndrome. The symptoms of this problem generally involves pain at the lateral side of the knee especially with landing during running and especially with going down hill. The patient may have pain along the lateral upper leg which is where people believe the 'tightness' comes from.
NOT a muscle, therefore most traditional soft tissue work doesn't have the same effect on it as it would in a muscle belly. The IT band originates from the tensor fascia latae (TFL), the iliac crest and the glute max. These muscle are important to keep in mind when we talk about the soft tissue work you will want to focus on.
When we talk about how strong the IT band is, we mean really strong. It is strong to the point that with maximum force put on it (before failure) the IT band can stretch about 0.2%. For an example you can hang the weight of a Volkswagen from the IT band before it'll snap. That is strong. That leads us to think that going at the IT band with different tools and stretching probably isn't going to result in promising or lasting results.
What is could really be going on with you pain? I personally think most of the problems with your IT band are underlying. If we were to put your leg in a relaxed position and did some digging around we would find a lot of latent (and you might already know of some active) trigger points in your lateral quad, up into your TFL and your glute max. When we look at pain referral patterns of trigger points pioneered by Travell and Simmons the common trigger point areas of the lateral leg can settle their referred pain to the lateral knee. The common location of pain when it comes to the IT band.
Targeted and effective soft tissue work for the lateral quad, TFL and glute max. Focusing on these areas can help reduce pain and tightness along the lateral side of your upper leg. This can help reduce the 'tightness' and pain you feel at the lateral portion of your know.
Strengthening the lateral hip musculature for general stability is also extremely important to help stabilize your hips and put your knee and foot in the best position to connect efficiently with the ground. Running is something we learn to do innately as we grow up but we tend to change a lot unintentionally and then never return to it. Treat your running form as a skill much like you would shooting a basketball or swinging a golf club and you'll reduce your risk of injury period.


Yolanda Abreu, MA, ATR graduated from Drexel University in 2015 with her Master's in Art Therapy and counseling. Yolanda is a Registered Art Therapist and is currently completing qualifications to become a Licensed Professional Counselor. She has enjoyed making all types of art throughout her life including dabbling in woodworking and metal sculpture though is more comfortable in two dimensions. Yolanda is currently focusing on watercolor painting for her own self-expression but utilizes a variety of materials and techniques in art therapy work. As an art therapist, Yolanda has worked with a variety of age groups and populations including older adults, children and teens with autism, and trauma survivors of all ages. Yolanda is excited to be a part of the Arts Therapy program at Settlement Music School and is looking forward to developing relationships with the students and staff.


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La Mission Church est une église construite en 1829 et située sur l'île Mackinac dans l'État du Michigan aux États-Unis. Il s'agit de la plus vieille église toujours existante du Michigan. Elle fait partie d'un complexe composé également de la Mission House et qui avait pour but à l'origine d'accueillir une mission calviniste. L'église fait partie du parc d'État de Mackinac Island et est classée dans le Registre national des lieux historiques.

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 Site du parc d'État de Mackinac
 Registre national des sites historiques

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Église inscrite au Registre national des lieux historiques au Michigan
Registre national des lieux historiques en 1971
Île Mackinac


Hidden Gem Stories from Mahabharat – Sunda and Upsunda (Part II) – Tilottama – The Mahabharata World!
Soon as those festivities came to an end, the brothers Sunda and Upasunda, desirous of the Sovereignty of the three worlds, took counsel and commanded their forces to be arranged. Obtaining the assent of their friends and relatives, of the elders of the Daitya race and of their ministers of state, and performing the preliminary rites of departure, the brothers set out with a large Daitya force clad in mail and armed with maces and axes and lances and clubs. Furious in war, the Daitya brothers, capable of going everywhere at will, ascended the skies and went to the region of the celestials. The celestials knowing they were coming and acquainted also with the boons granted unto them by the Supreme Deity left heaven and sought refuge in the region of Brahma.
Ordering their soldiers thus, they marched on entertaining such a cruel resolution. Having reach earth, the Asura brothers and the army set out in all directions. Those that were performing sacrifices and the Brahmanas that were assisting at those sacrifices, were instantly killed, whilst their soldiers threw into the water the sacrificial fires, extinguishing them. The rishis/munis/ascetics hurled many curses at the Asura brothers but were rendered abortive by the boons granted (by Brahma). When the Brahmanas saw that their curses produced not the slightest effect like shafts shot at stones they fled in all directions, forsaking their rites and vows. Even those Rishis on earth that were crowned with ascetic success, and had their passions under complete control and were wholly engrossed in meditation of the Deity, from fear of the Asura brothers, fled like snakes at the approach of an eagle.
The sacred asylums were all trodden down and broken. The sacrificial jars and vessels being broken, their (sacred) contents were scattered over the ground. The brothers continued to hunt the hidden ascetics and killing them at will upon finding them. Sacrifice and study ceased, as the good kings and Brahmanas were exterminated. The earth became utterly destitute of sacrifices and festivals. Bereft of the good and the holy, crime and untruth reigned, the Earth became listless, rains disappeared and desert-like conditions started forming everywhere.
The Sun and the Moon, the Planets and Stars, and Constellations, and the other dwellers in the firmament, witnessing these acts of Sunda and Upasunda, grieved deeply. Subjugating all the points of heaven by means of such cruel acts, the Asura brothers took up their abode in Kurukshetra, without a single rival.
Alarmed by the state of events, the celestial, rishins/ascetics and all the high-souled people possessing the attributes of tranquillity and self-restraint, went to the abode of the Grandsire. All of them prayed to the mighty Lord, represented unto him all the acts of Sunda and Upasunda, and begged him to find a way to end the reign of terror. The Grandsire, hearing everything they said, reflected for a moment and settled in his mind what he should do.
Bowing down unto the Grandsire and receiving his command with reverence, the great artificer of the universe created a celestial maiden with careful attention. Viswakarma first collected all best of the best features from all the objects in the universe – living and non-living – the amount of one til (seasame seed) from each. He manifested these qualities and features into the body of the damsel he created. Indeed, the celestial maiden that he created was almost a mass of gems. And created with great care by Viswakarma, the damsel, in beauty, became unrivalled among the women of the three worlds. There was not even a minute part of her body which by its wealth of beauty could not attract the gaze of beholders.
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Waterway Constructions were approached by the RTA to provide urgent assistance to re-support the substructure of the Cooks River Bridge after it was found that the existing concrete piles had deteriorated beyond their design capacity. Waterway Constructions responded by establishing site operations and mobilisation of heavy plant and equipment in less than one week. The piling works were completed dur-ing the night, averaging one pile per night, by closing 4 lanes of the very busy Princes Highway. Once piling works were complete fabrication of the steel support beams were fast-tracked and installed to enable the RTA to remove the 25t load limit imposed on the bridge.


Like you, the 2018 Tiguan is so many things. An energetic go-getter with power to spare. A tech head, wired with all the latest gear. A sophisticated style maverick. And super flexible, making it easy to switch things up for a new adventure every time. The newest Tiguan has advanced in leaps and bounds. It's longer, roomier, techier, more stylish, and more refined than ever. There's only one thing that hasn't changed: it's still the most spirited, versatile, and downright lovable SUV in its class.
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Graduate College Career Outcomes
The following is an overview of career outcomes for Illinois Tech students who received advanced degrees (primarily Masters) from a variety of programs of study within their first six months of graduation. Data is viewable and filtered for the classes of 2017, 2018, and 2019. Career Services tracks career outcomes on an annual basis through a survey known as First Destination.
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Armour College of Engineering has been educating world-class engineers since the university's founding in 1890. As a twenty-first-century engineering student, you'll learn the principles of your profession and work in an interdisciplinary environment that emphasizes hands-on learning, teamwork, and leadership, all through the lens our four engineering themes—water, health, energy, and security—that highlight issues vital today and in the future. At Armour College you will be prepared to apply what you've learned in the classroom to complex problems facing today's global society.
The College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology builds on a legacy of disciplined experimentation in materials and technologies to educate and inspire the next generation of architects and landscape architects. From its landmark campus and home at S. R. Crown Hall, IIT Architecture champions an interdisciplinary approach to education and research that is simultaneously local and global in its impact. IIT Architecture students are educated to address complex, contemporary challenges of designing and constructing across all scales. Both faculty and students enjoy a longstanding relationship with professional practice in Chicago, a city with a vibrant history of innovation in architecture, design, landscape architecture, and urbanism.
Illinois Tech's College of Science is home to five research-oriented departments in science and mathematics. Our programs are grounded in rigor and relevance, providing students special preparation to succeed in fields that require exceptional application of knowledge.
The college's faculty and students engage in a wide variety of research-oriented programs. Both undergraduate and graduate students can find opportunities to conduct research on campus with a professor, or at nearby laboratories including Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab.
Lewis College of Human Sciences is a college rich with both passion and innovative solutions around the issues humans face in our rapidly advancing technological world. Uniquely positioned at Chicago's only tech-focused university, our departments of humanities, psychology, and social sciences are leaders in forward-thinking scholarship at the intersection of humanity and technology.
As the only business school in Chicago that is within a tech-focused university, Stuart School of Business has put its distinctive mark on business education.
You'll find challenging business and management programs taught from an applied perspective and attuned to leading-edge industry practices. Courses emphasize hands-on problem-solving and mastery of the quantitative, analytical, and technological skills that employers seek.
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Within six months of graduation, the vast majority of our graduates were employed full-time in their intended fields. Other graduates decided to continue their education or pursue volunteer and service-related opportunities.
Every year, Illinois Tech students self report their success to Career Services. Our graduates obtain positions at companies and organizations of all sizes including start up's, early-stage companies, and Fortune 500 corporations.
The salary information listed below is based on student-reported starting salaries and data from Optional Practical Training (OPT). Please note that these are starting salaries and do not include monetary benefits such as health insurance, tuition reimbursement etc. The geographic region is also a factor in starting salary.
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While more than half of graduates work in Illinois, many choose to start their careers in different regions of the United States.
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HETEROPOLITICS
'Heteropolitics': Refiguring the Common and the Political
About Ηeteropolitics
Glimpses from the field
The research team consists of the PI and the following members:
Alexandros Kioupkiolis, PI, Assistant Professor in Contemporary Political Theory, School of Political Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Four post-doctoral researchers
Antonio Vesco, post-doctoral research fellow at AUTH
Aimilia Voulvouli, post-doctoral research fellow at AUTH
Manuela Zechner, post-doctoral research fellow at AUTH
Giorgos Dafermos, post-doctoral research fellow at AUTH
Four senior collaborators from the following institutions:
University of Thessaly, Greece
Yiannis Pechtelidis, Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Education, Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Thessaly
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Paolo Dini, Associate Professorial Research Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science
Nethood, Switzerland
Panayiotis Antoniadis, Founder & Researcher
P2P Lab, Greece
Vasilis Kostakis, Professor of P2P Governance at TalTech, Faculty Associate at Harvard University, Visiting Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Vasilis is the founder of the P2P Lab and core member of the P2P Foundation
Heteropolitics has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme No 724693
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Waitress extends run in London's West End to January 2020
Posted July 23, 2019 02:54 by Rachel Wise
Waitress has extended its run in London's West End until the start of next year.
With a Tony and Grammy nominated score by Sara Bareilles, a book by Jessie Nelson and direction by Paulus, Waitress features a ground-breaking, all-female lead creative team.
It tells the story of Jenna a waitress and expert pie-maker who dreams of a way out of her small town and rocky marriage.
Originally opening in February, the musical has extended its booking period until January 4, 2020 with new tickets now on sale.
Book Waitress The Musical tickets here
The extension comes following the recent introduction of a new cast who started performances last month.
Lucie Jones is currently appearing in the lead role as Jenna while Pussycat Doll and Strictly Come Dancing star Roberts plays the role of Dawn.
Meanwhile, The Inbetweeners star Blake Harrison joins in the role of Ogie.
Other cast include Marisha Wallace as Becky with Peter Hannah as Earl, David Hunter as Dr. Pomatter and Shaun Prendergast as diner owner Old Joe.
Completing the current cast are Kelly Agbowu, Piers Bate, Nicole Raquel Dennis, Michael Hamway, Peter Hannah, Stephen Leask, Chris McGuigan, Olivia Moore, Nathaniel Morrison, Sarah O'Connor, Leanne Pinder and Charlotte Riby and Mark Willshire.
The performance schedule is Monday to Saturday at 7:30pm with Wednesday & Saturday matinees at 2:30pm.
The cost of standard and premium tickets range from £24 to £150.
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Home > Decisions > FOI 172 -
FOI 172 - Appointment of new Chief Constable
FOI Request
Please disclose the following information by way of the Freedom of Information Act, 2000.
1. In what publications was the post of chief constable advertised following the departure of Iain Spital.
2. A copy of the advertisement.
3. What was the cost of the advertising.
4. How many applications were received?
5. Of those applicants how many were shortlisted?
6. Whom comprised the interviewing panel?
7. Was the existence of two IPCC (now IOPC) misconduct/gross misconduct complaints against Mr Veale disclosed to the panel? Either (i) in writing (ii) verbally.
8. If the answer to Q7 is yes, were any enquiries made by the panel (or an appointed delegate) of (i) the IPCC (as they were then) and (i) Wiltshire OPCC as to the merits and likely outcome of the complaints?
9. Was the decision of the panel to apppoint Mr Veale as chief constable unanimous?
10. Was the existence of the complaints against Mr Veale disclosed to the Police and Crime Scrutiny Panel (PCP) at the confirmation hearing?
11. If the answer to Q10 is yes, was the disclosure either (a) in the working papers submitted to the PCP (b) verbally during closed session?
Supplementary Questions
Further to my earlier post on this What Do They Know thread. From this report in the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette the Cleveland PCC claims that he knew of the misconduct allegations against Mr Veale and the IPCC investigation.
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/cleveland-police-knew-allegation-against-14206780
Accordingly, I wish to amend my information request as follows:
Existing question 8 becomes 8 (a)
New questions:
8(b) On what date did the PCC become aware of the misconduct allegations against Mr Veale?
8 (c) On what date did he seek legal advice and from whom?
8(c) On what date was the relevant legal advice provided to the PCC?
Revised question:
10. Was the existence of the complaints against Mr Veale, and the substance of the legal advice he had received concerning those complaints, disclosed to the Police and Crime Scrutiny Panel (PCP) at the confirmation hearing?
PCC Response
I can confirm that the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Cleveland does hold some of this information. I will respond in order.
1. I am refusing this element of your request by reference to the exemption under s21 of the Act - this information is reasonably accessible by other means, namely it can be found at the following web link:
http://www.egenda.stockton.gov.uk/aksstockton/images/att32728.doc
2. The advert was previously on the OPCC website, a copy of which is in the following web link:
http://www.cleveland.pcc.police.uk//Your-PCC/Vacancy-for-Chief-Constable-of-Cleveland-Police.aspx
The information and link to the advert placed in Police Professional can be viewed in the following web link:
http://www.policeprofessional.com/news.aspx?id=31008
The advert itself can be found in this PDF.
3. The total cost for advertising with Police Professional was £2495. The role was also advertised with the National Police Chiefs Council, the Association of Police Crime Commissioners and the College of Policing, all at nil cost.
4. I am refusing this element of your request by reference to the exemption under s21 of the Act - this information is reasonablyaccessible by other means, namely it can be found at the following web link:
7. I am refusing this element of your request by reference to the exemption under s22 (1) (a) of the Act - because at the time that your request was made it was intended for future publication. It has since been published at the following web link:
8. There is no recorded information held by the OPCC.
8b. I am refusing this element of your request by reference to the exemption under s22 (1) (a) of the Act - because at the time that your request was made it was intended for future publication. It has since been published at the following link:
8c. I am refusing this element of your request by reference to the exemption under s22 (1) (a) of the Act - because at the time that your request was made it was intended for future publication. It has since been published at the following link:
9. The OPCC understands that there was one abstention. s16 of the Act provides that public authorities have a duty to provide advice and assistance to individuals making requests for information under the Act. To that end the recorded information you seek is likely to be held by the Cleveland Police and Crime Panel and should you wish, I am happy to transfer this element of your request to them for their attention. In the meantime I have attached a press release issued by the Police and Crime Panel on 31st January 2018 for your perusal, which may be of interest.
10. I am refusing this element of your request by reference to the exemption under s22 (1) (a) of the Act - because at the time that your request was made it was intended for future publication. It has since been published at the following link:
11.I am refusing this element of your request by reference to the exemption under s22 (1) (a) of the Act - because at the time that your request was made it was intended for future publication. It has since been published at the following link:


The Nation magazine is of stern left-wing views and is brimful of disdain for the profit motives of capitalist civilization. Its editors no doubt feel deep pain because they must (this sad world enforces moral compromise) put a price on their product rather than give it away at newsstands, to each according to need.
But being an uncompromising critic of bourgeois values, The Nation never bends its knee to the totem of private property. With the pleasure that comes when ideological and commercial considerations converge, The Nation expropriated Gerald Ford's memoirs, for profit and, of course, for terribly high principle. The result was litigation and now a Supreme Court ruling more entertaining than historic, but entertaining because it illustrates the American left's knack for mashing its thumb with its own hammer.
In 1979 Time magazine was poised to publish a 7,500-word extract from Ford's forthcoming memoirs. Time had already paid $12,500 and was to pay another $12,500 upon publication. But shortly before Time's publication date, an undisclosed source provided The Nation with a manuscript of the memoirs.
The Nation rushed into print a 2,250 word article based on, and quoting 300 words from, the portion of the memoirs Time especially had wanted, dealing with Ford's pardon of Nixon. Exclusivity having been lost, Time canceled publication plans and the second payment. Harper & Row, Ford's publisher and holder of the copyright, sued The Nation for copyright infringement.
A district court held for Harper & Row, but an appeals court reversed. It held that authors can copyright their "expression" but not facts and ideas, least of all "politically significant" facts and ideas such as those The Nation reported as news. The appeals court said copyright law should not "impede the harvest of knowledge" or "kill the activities of the press."
But the Supreme Court, divided 6 to 3, has reversed the appeals court's reversal, holding that to treat as acceptable what The Nation did would defeat the intent of copyright laws. That intent is to promote knowledge by guaranteeing a fair return to those who augment knowledge. The interest of book publishers and authors have here prevailed over the interests of those who publish journalism.
The Nation's editor, cloaking his professional and commercial interests in the cloth of public-spiritedness, and dressing up his defeat as a blow to the public weal, says the court's decision allows public officials "to withhold public information, the news, for private profit," and this "undermines the public's right to know."
Note how in the hands of an editor with magazines to sell, the First Amendment becomes, in the name of freedom, an instrument of coercion. According to The Nation's editor, the First Amendment licenses him to determine that a person -- at least a public person -- must speak, and when.
Writing for the court's majority, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor notes that the fundamental purpose of the First Amendment is to prevent improper restrictions on voluntary public expression of ideas. It protects the individual's right to speak when others want him to be quiet. But there is a concomitant freedom to refrain from expressing oneself until one wants to do so. The Nation denied that freedom to Ford, at a financial cost to him.
Justice William Brennan, joined by Justices Byron White and Thurgood Marshall, dissented, arguing that the court's construction of copyright law will "stifle the broad dissemination of ideas and information that copyright is intended to nurture."
Actually, the decision was of narrow scope, turning, in part, on The Nation's use of verbatim quotations, which were not essential to The Nation's reporting of facts. But the decision constitutes a modest enhancement of a property right and a corresponding modest restriction on the right of news organizations to publish newsworthy material as quickly as they get it. Friends of property rights should send thank you notes to The Nation.
For nearly two decades life has been like that for the American left. The left's principal accomplishment is the ascendancy, political and intellectual, of the right, which grew in reaction to the excesses of the left.


Monday 23rd May saw the culmination of the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau's (SLTPB) three city roadshow extravaganza, with many of delegates, Wholesalers, Travel agents and Media attending the last leg of the three city road show.
The Sydney finale attracted over 60 Australian agents including behemoth agencies Flight Centre and Helloworld in attendance. Other companies represented included Adventure World, Excite Holidays and Qantas Holidays, specialist operators that focused on wildlife, heritage and cultural enlightenment. Representatives from 11 trade and consumer media outlets were also on hand to cover the event.
Addressing the delegation, which also included representatives from 29 Sri Lankan based tourism suppliers, SLTPB's Director of Marketing, Mrs Madubhani Perera reiterated the importance of Australian tourism arrivals into Sri Lanka and highlighted a strong growth rate of 9% last year. First quarter arrivals suggested that the SLTPB were well on target to achieve the goal of 70,000 Australian arrivals in 2016.
The event, held at the five-star Hilton Hotel in Sydney's central business district, commenced with a traditional oil lamp lighting ceremony, followed by a keynote address from Mr Lal Raj Wickramatunge, Consul General for Sri Lanka in Sydney, who was joined at the head table by Chami Lanka Gasnawage, Assistant Director Marketing for Australia.
A comprehensive two hour networking and B2B sessions preceded a dinner, before over a dozen lucky Sydney attendees won a range of fully hosted fact finding trips to Sri Lanka as well as an assortment of Sri Lankan sapphires, courtesy of Pledge Holidays, Golden Isle, Cinnamon Air, Singapore Airlines, Air India, Bernard Tours, Airwings Tours, Hawk Travel and Green Holiday. "The large number of agencies at the B2B sessions is an indication of interest and a sign of Sri Lanka as a great destination for Australian tourists" said Chami Lanka Gasnawage, Assistant Director Marketing for Australia.


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Denis Shmygal: To NATO – after Georgia
Georgia: Divisions over NATO membership bid
Jens Stoltenberg noted that NATO's doors are open for Ukraine: the more efficiently the country implements reforms, the closer it is to NATO
KIEV – Ukraine's goal – NATO membership and the country's government is ready to do everything possible to achieve this goal. This was stated on February 9 during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal.
«An important and effective instrument for implementing reforms is the Annual National Program, which is a roadmap for the implementation of Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic aspirations. Preparation of the program for 2021 is at the final stage», – noted the Prime Minister, according to the Government portal of the executive authorities of Ukraine.
The Alliance website emphasizes that the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also welcomed Ukraine's efforts to implement major reforms that support its Euro-Atlantic aspirations. He recalled that Ukraine is a NATO partner country with expanded capabilities.
«All NATO countries are united in condemning the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia and its aggressive actions in eastern Ukraine. We call on Russia to stop supporting militants in eastern Ukraine and withdraw its forces from the territory. We highly appreciate the efforts of Ukraine aimed at achieving a peaceful settlement of the conflict», – he said.
Secretary General noted NATO has donated over forty million euros to trust funds. «It is critical that security sector reforms continue», – NATO Secretary General emphasized.
At a press conference after talks with Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister Denis Shmygal noted that for Ukraine the receipt of the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) – «this is a key, short-term goal».
«We want to keep up with Georgia and [want] to get the MAP together with Georgia. We are actively working on this.», – emphasized Denis Shmygal.
Jens Stoltenberg noted that «NATO's doors remain open. […] The more efficiently Ukraine implements reforms and more effectively implements NATO standards, the closer the country gets to NATO».
The Secretary General also said NATO and Ukraine support each other throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Jens Stoltenberg added that the NATO Pandemic Response Trust Fund will be used to deliver critical medical supplies to Ukraine, including portable oxygen concentrators, mobile X-ray units and personal protective equipment..
About air border monitoring
Ukraine hopes for NATO support in monitoring the air situation along the border with Russia and proposes to use the airspace in the Simferopol region (Crimea) for NATO air operations.
This was announced on February 10 by the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Vladislav Krikliy during talks with NATO Undersecretary General for Defense Policy and Planning Patrick Turner. The meeting took place within the framework of a working visit of a government delegation led by Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal to Brussels.
«[…] we propose to use this part of the airspace for NATO air operations to transport troops, equipment, cargo and the like. We look forward to NATO support in monitoring the air situation along the border with Russia», – noted Vladislav Krikliy, according to the Government portal.
Recall that in a recent interview with the Axios program, released on the HBO platform, President Vladimir Zelensky stressed that the first question in his communication with the US leader would have sounded like this: «Mister President, why are we still not in NATO??»
The President of Ukraine recalled in this interview that at the time of the outbreak of the war in 2014, the country was «no sanctions, no NATO», poorly trained, with not a modernized army, but «we were able to keep the enemy out».
Reforms in society and the army
Managing Partner of the National Anti-Crisis Group Taras Zagorodny notes that NATO membership implies reforms not only of the Armed Forces, but also the introduction of European democratic standards, an active fight against corruption and the stability of the political system.
«And, given that we have these changes in their embryonic state, I'm not sure that we are close to the NATO Membership Action Plan. The issues of sustainability of our borders are not resolved – this is a direct reference to the Fifth Clause of the NATO Charter – an attack on one of the members of the Alliance is considered an attack on all members of the organization» – Taras Zagorodny says to the correspondent of the Russian Service «Voices of America».
He believes that rapprochement with the United States under the program of a US ally outside NATO may be more realistic for Ukraine..
«It is possible to obtain such ally status, which South Korea and Israel, which are not NATO members, but are de facto under US protection, have.», – notes by Taras Zagorodny.
Territorial issues, he said, is one of the reasons why Georgia, which has fulfilled the necessary requirements to apply for the MAP, is not NATO.
«We must not forget that in the Alliance Ukraine can be opposed by countries that, in my opinion, are inclined towards Russia. – Germany, France and Hungary. I don't believe that we can go through formalities to join NATO, but an easier way – access to allied relations with the United States», – notes by Taras Zagorodny.
On the intensity and plans of rapprochement
Political Analyst at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation Vladimir Gorbach believes that the interaction between Ukraine and NATO is clearly visible in the example of international exercises, but in political terms «state order» on the intensity of traffic and convergence – «the pace has seriously dropped».
«We see this in the process of adopting the Annual National Program, which was signed last year in May 2020. Now in the corridors of Ukrainian power there is a wave of the need to obtain NATO membership, President Volodymyr Zelensky would generally like to ask a question to Joseph Biden – why is Ukraine not a NATO member? I think that the Ukrainian government should think about its part of the issue – why is Ukraine not in NATO?» – says Vladimir Gorbach to the correspondent of the Russian Service «Voices of America».
He believes that a new focus on the issue of rapprochement with the North Atlantic Alliance will arise at the next NATO summit.
«This NATO summit will be held with the participation of representatives of the new US administration, everyone will be waiting for initiatives from US President Joseph Biden, he rhetorically spoke more than once about his intention to renew the alliance and partnership, and, of course, first of all, this concerns NATO allies. And plus – NATO is working on its strategic concept for the next ten years, and provisions can be laid there that can contribute to the approach of Ukraine», – emphasizes Vladimir Gorbach.
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I get REALLY excited when I try something that I've never tried before and it works so I'm silently flipping out at the revelation that has accompanied the amalgamation of these flavors. Basically, the beauty lies in Coriander and Coriander – leaf and ground.
Well… that and coconut plus spices and the salmon and you throw a leek in there and booom! Huh?
Well, I made a pancake to parcel up the salmon which I steamed. Alongside the salmon, I also steamed some leeks and asparagus.
1. Mix the ingredients. Cook like a pancake.
2. When ready, I wrapped up the salmon inside the pancake (or parcel, whatever) layering it with some homemade mayo, a couple of skins from the leeks, and coriander leaf!


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The 'It' Perspective
Photographer Fritz Henle seen through the lens of Austin image-maker Matthew Fuller
By Robert Faires, Fri., June 12, 2009
In "Fritz Henle: In Search of Beauty," the Harry Ransom Center has shone a spotlight on a photographer whose work straddled the creative and commercial worlds, who was as likely to be found shooting Texas high school students for Life magazine, Louisiana oil refineries for Cities Service Oil Co., or a swimsuit spread in the Caribbean for Vogue as abstracted urban landscapes or arty nudes. So in looking at the exhibition, which includes 125 images from the photographer's storied 60-year career, it seemed fitting to draw on the expertise of a kindred spirit to Henle. Austin photographer Matthew Fuller has produced images for everything from burger joint ads to museum annual reports, shot it all from architectural interiors to rock star portraits. He's also a respected fine art photographer who has shown locally at Davis Gallery and Flatbed Gallery and in Houston; Santa Fe, N.M.; and Jackson, Miss. Given that he knows intimately what's involved in the composition of a shot, the capturing of a moment in time, the play of light and shadow, the "search for beauty" even in the confines of a commercial assignment, the Chronicle thought Fuller might provide a valuable perspective on the work of this career photographer and the art and business of taking pictures. What follows are excerpts from our hourlong stroll through this expansive and visually sumptuous exhibition.
Austin Chronicle: Did you know Henle's work?
Matthew Fuller: Not really. But there are so many great unsung photographers out there. What I've found in 20 years of photography and 10 years of exhibiting is that the dealers have a pretty tight grip on who gets sold and who gets acknowledged. Mainly because they own a lot of that material, so they're promoting their own material. That's why you hear these names over and over and over, and of course, it's Cartier-Bresson and Avedon and these people, and everybody else gets left out. There's probably 50 names, and there are thousands of great photographers that you never hear of. Sometimes you're familiar with the image and not the person. This image [Nieves, Mexico, 1943] is classic and is on the cover of a 20th century photography collection by the German publisher Taschen.
AC: Do you like seeing other photographers' work?
MF: I love it. In fact, one thing I recommend to people starting out is to see what's out there. It's extremely important to see: Am I reinventing the wheel? Has this been done 50 million times? Seeing stylistic approaches and getting ideas is really important for people starting out. And the [photography] archive here [at the Ransom Center] is one of the best in the world.
MF: Every photographer has tried certain things: foreign city locations, urban landscapes, landscapes, nudes, reportage.
AC: Everyone cuts their teeth on them to some extent.
MF: There are certain subjects that just overwhelm the medium, and the Grand Canyon is certainly one of them. Cowboys and boats are classics. You can shoot 'em any way, and they still have that similarity.
AC: There's that inherent drama that's going to play itself out. At some point, that boat is going to tilt, and that water is going to rush up; the wind will fill the sails. And if you've got horses, horses are gonna run.
MF: [Looking at Cowboys and Oil Derrick, Texas, 1949] And the cowboys' hats and everything, the costume.
AC: And the derricks. You have this nice horizon low in the frame, and the derricks just stick up from the flat land and poke into that big sky.
AC: When you see an image for the first time, is there one thing that jumps out at you?
MF: Composition more than anything, then I see content.
AC: Is this [Policeman in the Rain, Odeons-Platz, Munich, Germany, 1930] an image that would have jumped out at you?
MF: Absolutely. The simplicity of it. It has a really wide range of light and shadow. The form. The line. The lone character in the center. The perspective of the photographer is interesting, too. It's not at street level; it's from a building, from a balcony or something. And it looks like just after a major downpour, and everyone had fled, and this one guy came back out. The light reminds me of that as well. The light from the clearing sky is reflecting on the dark clouds and presenting this reflection onto the wet surface.
AC: If you take the elevated perspective away ...
MF: It's a totally different image. One thing I tell people is that there are a billion ways to approach [creating an image like this]. It could be from the tiny texture of the fabric of his clothes. It could be from underground, in the sewer, looking up. You could move a couple of feet [to the left or right], and it would be a totally different image. So part of the great joy of creating photography is discovering the "it" perspective, the one that works the best. I achieve that by going around and viewing perspectives, seizing on one of interest, and then I look in the viewfinder, and it either tells me that it's right or it's not. I usually don't shoot a bunch of frames of one perspective myself, and I doubt if Henle did either, from looking at this work.
AC: The exhibition text says that Henle usually carried two cameras with him: one with color and one with black-and-white film. Can you see a shot and filter out the color in your mind to see what it will look like as a black and white?
MF: Pretty much. And more than that, when you're using the square-format cameras, everything is backwards, and when you're using large-format cameras, everything is upside-down, so you're composing upside-down. Your mind just adjusts to it. I don't look at contact sheets when I'm judging an image. I look at negatives. Because you're looking at tonal values. Like this image [Fashion Model With Flower Vendor at the Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico, 1945] would have been much more interesting in black and white, because the tonal values are gray and white. Of course, it's for a fashion magazine and they're trying to bring out the sand colors in her outfit, so it had to be in color for purely commercial reasons. But this [On the Beach, Fredericksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, 1948] looks fantastic in black and white.
AC: Do you see in his fashion work some of the same characteristics from his art photography?
MF: Absolutely. Especially in the compositions and scale.
AC: The exhibition shows Henle working through so many styles, areas in which a lot of different photographers specialize. He has a versatility that's kind of astounding to me.
MF: I think in those days it was essential. I don't think photographers specialized much. You were the photographer. You shoot whatever is there. Creative photographers did fashion and reportage for their business and then created images on their own for their personal pleasure. There wasn't a big art dealer scene at that time. So a lot of this kind of material they did when they were on location and had a day off from a shoot or something like that.
MF: This [Coal Miner of the Ruhr Valley, Germany, 1967] stands out. So amazing. Fantastic print. Great subject matter.
AC: There's so much going on there. The white chest hair against the darkened skin. And that incredible balance of the beauty of the image, as it's composed and through the tone and shifts of light to shadow, and the reportage and portraiture. We feel we know everything there is to know about this guy. We know what his life is like.
MF: The glint in this eye and the squint in that one. "It's a tough world, but I'm making it." That's just a hero. A workingman's hero.
"Fritz Henle: In Search of Beauty" runs through Aug. 2 at the Harry Ransom Center, 21st and Guadalupe, on the UT campus. For more information, visit www.hrc.utexas.edu.
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Do you think David Beckham is pathetic?
I think he is.Although he is quite a talented soccer player,he married Victoria and has 3 boys,I feel he is sort of pathetic since no matter how rich or famous he could be,he still cannot lead England to win some really big footbal games,such as world cup or so. You may say that the world cup is not that easy to get,I admit it,but look at what England team gave to us? Actually I used to be a fan of that team, but now I just feel so disappointed,and I worry about it more since there will be no David ever after.For me,there is no hope for my loved England without David!
he's a great player and i don't think he is pathetic.
well, I really don't think so at all.I believe his country has pound of him.After all he is one of the most great player all over the world.
He is a great player and a good human being, a good role model, good father and contributed a lot to his country..there is no way he is pathetic, you are.


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Are you having a tough go at it these days? Pastor Curt encourages us to have hope and take heart. Are you enjoying a "mountaintop" season? He reminds us to be thankful and remain humble. Whichever side of the "ledger" you're on, he challenges us to "out-eat the buffet" today!


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Spirit of Speyside Whisky Awards is an awards like no other. The judging process takes place in two stages. The first round is a blind nosing and tasting of Speyside's finest malts by selected judges.
Following this, two whiskies from each of the four categories are shortlisted to go forward for the Roving Whisky Awards Judging and Tasting, when visitors and locals can cast their vote during the Festival and at many UK and International venues throughout the year. The Spirit of Speyside Whisky Awards are the only whisky awards where the real experts - whisky consumers - have the final vote and have continued to gain in popularity.
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It took one clinical psychologist 40 years and two key questions to change the way people are harnessing hope amidst depression.
After working as a psychologist, Jan Marsh saw a significant information gap when it came to treatment of anxiety and depression.
"I found I was often going over the fundamentals with each client and wanting to give them something to take away and refer to as a reminder," Jan reflects. Beyond that, she aimed to treat depression and anxiety in a holistic matter.
"Most people try to ignore their feelings and press on until they become overwhelmed," Jan explained.
"Then it is common to seek a chemical solution via alcohol - or worse, something illicit - or prescribed medication. For some, a prescription from a doctor is the best treatment to relieve symptoms and regain emotional wellbeing."
However, Jan has a preferred method of healing.
All our best decisions are guided by a wise combination of heart and head Jan says. Therefore, we can't ignore what our feelings are trying to tell us.
Here are Jan's tips to heal the mind, body and spirit.
Focus. Attention is like a flashlight, Jan explains, so choose where you would like your beam to shine, bringing your focus back to the present to the task in hand.
Manage your feelings by understanding them and finding words for them.
Breathe: Good breathing is empowering and can really reduce feelings of anxiety, Jan says. "Have an open, tall posture and let your diaphragm do the work, breathing in gently through your nose," Jan says.
Exercise. "We need to move to feel good in ourselves, so find an activity you love or can grow to love so that you will want to exercise," Jan enthuses. "Understand what motivates you: is it company, competition or peace and quiet? Then work your routine around that.
Be True To You: Become familiar with the values that underpin your life. "Check that the parts of life you value most are getting the most of your time and attention," urges Jan.
Show Compassion. "We're all in this world together. Allow your heart to be moved by the suffering of others and yourself. Suspend judgment and rejoice in others' successes as well as learning to celebrate your own."
Make changes. Start with something small rather than turning your eating habits upside down and be prepared for it to take time, Jan says. "Reducing sugar and increasing vegetables can be a good start as there is sound research which shows that a healthy diet rich in micronutrients - vitamins and minerals - does improve mental health."
Connection with others is a proven antidote to depression, and friends have more influence on our happiness than money. "Depression and anxiety can make us very self-involved and can damage relationships," explains Jan. Make a point of thinking of others and connecting, even if it's simply smiling at someone in the street.
Volunteer if your routine does not have enough contact with people. If volunteering is not your thing, going to a public place such as a library or a cafe, to be among people even if you don't interact, is better than being alone too much.
Have Hope: When fog hides the blue sky, we know that the sky is still there, the fog will pass, Jan points out. "Depression is like the fog and hope tells us there will be blue sky days again."
You can read more of Jan's research in her small book 'Harnessing Hope'.


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Researchers examining fathers, fathering or fatherhood are invited to contribute to the 2019 Australian Fatherhood Research Symposium in Australia to be held at the Melbourne Downtowm campus of Deakin University on May 2nd and 3rd 2019.
The symposium is an annual opportunity for researchers to build and consolidate collaborations with other researchers and practitioners who work with fathers. The event is co-hosted by the Family Action Centre, the University of Newcastle and the Centre for the Social and Early Emotional Development, Deakin University. A range of disciplines are represented.
At the 2017 symposium, the Australian Fatherhood Research Consortium was founded and much progress has been made by consortium working groups in their investigations into their first domain of enquiry, fatherhood and postpartum sleep. The 2019 Australian Fatherhood Research Symposium will follow a new format with a conference style day (Day 1) followed by a day of workshops, networking and policy development (Day 2).
Please note that due to venue limitations we are only able to offer 100 registrations for each of the days. Registrations will close once capacity is reached.
Important note: The Symposium runs over two days. Day 1 is a conference style day. Day 2 is a day of workshops, networking and policy development; prospective AFRC members and students are welcome to attend. If you intend to attend for both days please ensure that you select registrations for both days 1 and 2.
We have endeavoured to keep attendance costs to a minimum, registration includes morning tea and lunch on both days and afternooon tea on day 1.
Delegates are invited to present posters of research, applied programs, or organisation descriptions. Abstracts should be submitted by 5:00pm 4th March via the link on the symposium webpage: http://mappresearch.org/fatherhood-symposium-2019.
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