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Gordon Ramsay at Claridge was a restaurant owned by Gordon Ramsay and located with Claridge's hotel in Mayfair, London. Blackstone Group had enquired about Ramsay's availability to open a restaurant after he was awarded three Michelin Stars at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay. It marked the first of a number of restaurants that Ramsay would open at hotels owned by Blackstone. It opened in 2001, and by the fourth year was making a profit of £2 million a year. Mark Sargeant was the chef de cuisine of the restaurant until 2008, during which time the restaurant was awarded a Michelin star.

The initial contract was for ten years, and after it was extended for three further short periods, Ramsay withdrew from negotiations with the new owners of the hotel and closed the restaurant at the end of the lease on 30 June 2013. It was positively reviewed by critics upon its launch, although work was required by staff to reduce the numbers of complaints it received from diners. Whilst some restaurant guides such as Zagat gave the restaurant positive reviews, Harden's did not. Both Sargeant and his successor Steve Allen won awards for cheffing when they worked at the restaurant.

History

Following the awarding of a third Michelin star to Gordon Ramsay for Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, he was contacted by Blackstone Group who had recently acquired the Claridge's hotel in London. The negotiations for the lease of the restaurant were held between Ramsay's father-in-law, Chris Hutchinson, and John Ceriale from Blackstone. Ramsay was not the first choice for the restaurant, and Blackstone had been requiring whoever took on the restaurant to serve breakfast. All previous applicants had refused, but Hutchinson agreed without checking with Ramsay. This decision was something that Ramsay was later pleased with as the cooperative working between Gordon Ramsay Holdings and Blackstone Group resulted in over £1 million of takings in the following years for Ramsay's restaurants in hotels owned by the group. Ceriale and colleagues were invited to the Restaurant Gordon Ramsay at Royal Hospital Road to meet Ramsay for the first time, and noticed a member of staff who had previously been working at Claridge's. Ramsay managed to smooth over the incident and an arrangement was reached. Blackstone agreed to fund the refit of the restaurant in return for 11% of the turnover as rent.

Ramsay and his team were allowed to lead on the redesign of the kitchen. It had previously been broken into multiple small rooms for staff use, which were opened up into larger rooms. A chef's table was installed, where diners could sit within the kitchen itself. This was the first time one had been installed in one of Ramsay's restaurants. That table earned over £500,000 a year alone. The opening was delayed by three months due to the ongoing building works, which gave additional time for the refit of the restaurant itself and for the transfer of 80 staff from the previous operation to go forward under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006. Thierry Despont was hired to design the interior of the restaurant.

Mark Sargeant was chosen to be chef de cuisine. Sargeant had previously worked with Ramsay since being employed at Aubergine in 1998, and went on to work at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay. The restaurant hosted a red carpet-style opening party for 500 guests, with horse-driven Hackney carriages hired to sit outside the hotel to make it seem like when Claridge's was originally built. During the first two years, the profits were limited to £600,000, but rose to £2 million after the fourth year. The profits were increased by looking at purchasing ingredients on a seasonal basis and changing the menu to suit rather than buying more expensive products off season and having a static menu.

Ian Waddle joined the restaurant as a demi chef de partie after being spotted by Ramsay during the production of his television show Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. But he quit after three weeks after being dissatisfied with the long hours required. The restaurant was used to host a prepared segment for the final episode of season three of Ramsay's Channel 4 British television series The F Word. In 2009, Sargeant quit to become creative director for intellectual property for Gordon Ramsay Holdings. He quit the company later that year to become the creative director of the Swan Collection, whose properties included The Swan at the Globe Theatre.

After being open in the location for over 10 years, the contract with the hotel came up for renegotiation in 2011. The contract negotiation was lengthy, causing Ramsay to withdraw. He had already been given two six-month and one nine-month extensions to the contract. The contract between Gordon Ramsay and Claridge's ended on 30 June 2013. There was a list of statistics published by Gordon Ramsay Holdings which showed the quantities of food served over the lifetime of the restaurant. Lobster ravioli was served more than 198,000 times, while Beef wellington was the most popular main course, having been served over 300,000 times. The most expensive bill at the restaurant was £48,000, and the most expensive wine was a 1900 vintage of Château Lafite Rothschild which sold for £10,000.

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A voluntary donation of £1 was added to each bill during November and December for a London-based charity called StreetSmart. The success of the scheme resulted in Ramsay rolling it out to five further restaurants, resulting in around £23,000 a year being collected. Bluefin tuna had been served at the restaurant, but was removed from the menu in 2007 and replaced with Yellowfin tuna due to concerns about overfishing and the depletion of fish stocks.

Reception
During the early years of operation, the restaurant was known for being heavily booked. Waits for tables could be up to six weeks. However, a spot check for availability by The Daily Telegraph in 2009 showed that there were multiple tables on three days during the following week. However, they were receiving around 16 letters of complaint a week during the first year. A weekly meeting was set up amongst the restaurant's staff to discuss the issues raised, and slowly the complaints reduced.

Jan Moir, writing for The Daily Telegraph shortly after the restaurant opened, loved the interior and described the pigeon carpaccio as "amazing". She enjoyed her other courses, and praised the service. She described it overall as "a good-hearted operation; one which is also generous, opulent and comes with grown-up cooking and supremely delicious food." Fay Maschler also visited the restaurant in 2001, and reviewed it for the Evening Standard. She described a squash soup with ceps as "exquisite", and said that a main course of sea bass was "fabulous". She was happy at the low prices set during the opening, but expected that they wouldn't last.

In 2007, Harper's Bazaar described the restaurant as "Gordon's most appealing showcase". The review from Time Out in 2012 gave the restaurant three out of five, praising an "accomplished service team" and said that the "kitchen produces food with confidence and flair". Tatler described the service of the restaurant as "duff" in 2008. During the same year, it was voted as the 35th best restaurant in Britain by Eat Out magazine.

The Zagat restaurant guide gave the restaurant a score of 26 out of 30 for each category of food, decor and service. Comments included a description of the restaurant as a "brilliant culinary experience" and although the cost was said to be "exorbitant", the fixed price menu was called a bargain. In 2010, the guide ranked Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's as the third most popular. The restaurant regularly received negative reviews from Harden's restaurant guide. During a 2003 review, the restaurant was said to be "still living off Ramsay's reputation" and referred to it as a "glorified chain". In 2011, it was named the restaurant with the most disappointing food in London, and second in that category during the following year. The final review was published in 2012, with the review praising that there was "an end in sight to this awful 'mediocrity' when GR's tenure expires".

Whilst at the restaurant, Sargeant was named the National Chef of the Year in 2002. The restaurant was awarded a Michelin star, but it was withdrawn in 2010, a year after Sargeant left. Sargeant had expected the restaurant to regain the star after it was lost, but it remained without a Michelin star. Allen was named the best chef for fish at the 2008 National Chef of the Year competition.

Controversy
The restaurant received a warning from Westminster City Council due to health and safety issues in 2006, as a sink used to wash dishes was too close to the food preparation area. Three years later, it was reported in the media that Noelie Klineberg had suffered from food poisoning and found cling film in her main course. Her local paper reported it to Westminster Council, who launched an investigation.

On 15 May 2007, as part of a protest against Janet Street-Porter's investigation into the consumption of horse meat in Ramsay's The F Word series, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) dumped  of horse manure in a trailer outside the restaurant.

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Back in October 2017, Applied Influence Group held our inaugural influence evening seminar. During one of the evening's observations, the topic of conversation moved towards influencing teams. The thread then moved towards a familiar theme in terms of leadership; the theme being, that as the leader you will never know everything and that it is essential to learn from the people you have the privilege to lead. I am paraphrasing here as it was more eloquently delivered than my words above, but the sentiment is there; get your team to teach you as they can provide you with the answers. However, when I heard this, I opted for a more literal observation of the sentiment on offer.
At Applied Influence Group, we aim to highlight to our clients, the importance of understanding the people, or groups of people you want to influence. When I listened to the delivery of the observation above I thought, 'what a great way of understanding somebody, quickly'. My reasoning was based around the fact that if you had access to somebody to ask them a single question and you wanted to try and begin to understand them at a deeper psychological level, getting them to teach you something would provide a hugely valuable insight.
Applies pressure as it's an awkward / unexpected / vague question which generates a level of uncertainty for the candidate to deal with. In my former military positions this was a critical skill set I wanted to assess.
Forces the recipient to default to something that they actually know, or know well enough to teach you.
Whatever it is they choose to teach you, provides a window into what is important to the individual.
The answer will increase the level of understanding you have of that individual and can lead to some interesting follow up questions.
You may actually learn something new.
If you run assessment centres or interview people on a regular basis you may already do something like this, but the use of this kind of question isn't restricted to that environment alone. I think back to the times that I lead teams and how valuable gaining an insight into the individuals that made up that team was. Asking a question of this nature at a credible point, can help you to enhance the level of understanding you have of the key people you interact with or potentially want to employ.


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Long Service Award presentations were made to four members of the Town Council's Civic Team at the Council meeting on Monday 28 January 2019.
Roderick Thomason, Mace Bearer, has completed 25 years' service in the Town Hall Newbury. He received an engraved clock, certificate and 25 years' service medal.
Brian Sylvester, Town Crier, and Dave Stubbs, Town Marshal, have both completed 20 years' service and received an engraved clock, certificate and 20 years' service medals.
Finally, Ian Campbell, Mayor's Attendant, has completed 10 years' service and received a mace brooch and a certificate.
The Mayor of Newbury, Councillor Margo Payne, said that, together with the 27 years' service of the Civic Manager, Joyce Lewis, this is over 100 years' service from an extremely dedicated team: "The Civic Team plays a key role in upholding the traditions and heritage of the Council and also provide valuable support at events organised by the Council, whether in the Town Hall or other locations around the Town.


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ARS Home » Pacific West Area » Boise, Idaho » Northwest Watershed Research Center » Research » Publications at this Location » Publication #83527
Title: MICROCOMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DAILY WEATHER SIMULATION IN THE CONTIGUOUS U.S.
Hanson, Clayton
CUMMING, KIRK
WOOLHISER, D.
RICHARDSON, C.
Submitted to: Microcomputer Program for Daily Weather Simulation in the Contiguous United
Publication Type: Government Publication
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/31/1994
Publication Date: N/A
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Interpretive Summary: There are a limited number of climate stations in the U.S., particularly in the Western United States, that have the necessary daily weather records for use in natural resource model development and validation or for utilizing models at field locations. Many applications of resource models require long records of daily precipitation, maximum and minimum temperature and solar radiation which can be used to simulate a weather record for any site in the contiguous United States by knowing the latitude and longitude of the site. Other applications of USCLIMAT.BAS include generation of daily precipitation to estimate daily runoff and erosion. Also, sequences of daily weather data can be used as input for estimating plant growth, developing farm and ranch management plans, and helping to improve knowledge of the climatology of the United States.
Technical Abstract: The microcomputer program USCLIMAT.BAS provides precipitation probabilities or simulates daily precipitation, maximum temperature, minimum temperature and solar radiation for an n-year period at a given location within the contiguous United States. The model is designed to preserve the dependence in time, the internal correlation, and the seasonal characteristics that exist in actual weather data. Daily maximum temperature, and solar radiation are simulated using a weekly stationary generating process conditioned on the precipitation process which is described by a Markov chain-mixed exponential model. Parameters for a specific station within a region can be accessed directly, or they can be estimated for points between stations. The seasonal variations of parameters are described by Fourier series.

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Capone the Wonder Dog has been with our family a little over a week now. We've discovered some of the things our puppy does are very cool. Some not so much.1. Waking up 3:30 am?Not cool, puppy.2. Having the morning wiggles so bad it's nearly impossible to get your collar on?Not cool, puppy. I cannot wrestle a frantic puppy before coffee. I just can't.3. Managing not to wee on the kitchen floor in spite of the morning wiggles?Cool, puppy.4. Going back to sleep in your crate until a more decent hour?Cool, puppy.5. Licking my feet in greeting with a level of adoration usually reserved for goddesses or other ancient deities?Cool, puppy.6. Working your way up to lave my calves as well?A little awkward, but still cool, puppy.7. Pulling me down a steep hill on our morning walk?Not cool, puppy.8. Pulling me back up that same hill with the intensity of an Alaskan sled dog?
Cool, puppy.9. Nipping at everything that dangles, including shoelaces, hoodie strings, my coat, and any scarf I dare to put on?Not cool, puppy.10. Eating your kibble so fast you barf?
Not cool, puppy.11. "Cleaning" your throw up all by yourself?Not cool, puppy, although I do appreciate the effort.12. Falling in love at first sight with the neighbor's dog, Daisy?Cool, puppy. And kind of adorable in a Lady and the Trampish sort of way.13. Knocking Daisy over when you try to show your affection because she is roughly the size of your head?Not cool, puppy.14. Trying to nibble on the brick fireplace?Not cool, puppy. I don't even understand that one.15. Taking a flying leap at my friend right after I serve her a giant cup of hot coffee, spilling it all over her shirt?Not cool, puppy.16. Sitting by her feet and staring up at her apologetically for the rest of the visit?
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Row Over Photos Of Topless Kate Lands In French Courts
Published September 17, 2012 at 5:12 AM PDT
Buckingham Palace is following up its promise to bring a civil suit against the French magazine that published photos of a topless Duchess of Cambridge (Kate Middleton) with a criminal complaint that's also been filed in a French court.
According to the BBC:
"Paris correspondent Christian Fraser said there was no name listed in the criminal complaint. He says most lawyers seem to agree that under strict French law the pictures represent an undisputed breach of privacy — an open-and-shut case. An injunction, if granted, would lead to the magazine [Closer] being withdrawn from shelves immediately but the tribunal's judgement will only relate to the distribution of the photos in France."
The legal steps, however, aren't stopping the photos from spreading. An Irish tabloid has also published some of them.
And The Guardian says Italy's Chi gossip magazine today "published 18 photographs spread over 19 pages of the royal couple sunbathing at a villa in southern France after the editor, Alfonso Signorini, tweeted over the weekend that 'not even a direct call from the Queen' would stop him."
The duchess is, you'll recall, married to Prince William — son of Prince Charles and the late Diana and the man who someday may be king of England.


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Obituary: Kent Tesch
Kent Tesch
Kent W. Tesch, 70, Fessenden, N.D., passed away Saturday, July 30, 2022, at Trinity Hospital, Minot, N.D.
Funeral services were held at 11:00 a.m., on Friday, August 5 at First Lutheran Church, Fessenden, N.D., with Pastor Shirley Teske officiating. Burial was at Lakeview Cemetery, Cathay, N.D.
Visitation was from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., on Thursday, August 4 at Nelson Funeral Home, Fessenden, and one hour prior to services at the church. The service was live streamed on the First Lutheran Facebook Page.
Kent "Woody" William Tesch, was born on November 19, 1951, in Kensal, N.D. to Germaine Tesch (Petrek) and Woodrow Tesch.
Kent attended school in Cathay, N.D., where he excelled at basketball and other sports. He graduated from Cathay High School in 1969. After graduation, he attended college to play basketball.
He returned home after college where he worked for Wells County and in 1975, he was married to Cheryl Janssen. They had three children together, Travis, Misty, and Tanner.
In 1976, he began working for N.D. DOT and worked there until his retirement in 2014.
He married Rita Peterson-Wobbema in December, 2002, where he gained two bonus children, Jackie and Vickie. They remained married until his passing.
Kent had many passions in life, which included golfing, gardening, and sports, especially his favorite team, the Green Bay Packers, but most of all, he enjoyed spending time with his family and friends.
He is survived by his wife, Rita Tesch; his three children, Travis (Jennifer) Tesch, Garrison, N.D., and their children, Jaxson, Ty, and John; Misty (Brett) Cronin, New Rockford, N.D., and their children, Connor, Landon, and BJ. Tanner (Tiffani) Tesch of Fessenden, N.D., and three children, Myka, Eryn, and Penelope; Jacki (Brian) Lovgren and their children, Shaylee, Kalyn, Graden, Kali and Kody; Vicki Wobbema and her children, Brandon and Ladon; brothers, Kermit (Jean) of S.D. and Joe (Jane) of Bismarck, N.D.; sisters, Karen Renner of Chisholm, Minn., and Karla Sondag of Fargo, N.D.; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
He is preceded in death by his mother and father.
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The figure
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Gayarre Collection
Roncal, Pamplona and Madrid are the main places where the figure of Julián Gayarre is permanently honoured with some type of monument or sculpture. Without any doubt at all, Mariano Benlliure and Fructuoso Orduna (the disciple of the first and a Roncal native like Gayarre) were the sculptors of tenor Julián Gayarre. Mariano Benlliure is the author of the mausoleum covering the Gayarres remains -a specific area has been created for him at this website- as well as the author of a bust held at the National Theatre Museum in Almagro. Besides taking over the mausoleum maintenance work from Mariano Benlliure, Fructuoso Orduna left a reflection of his admiration for the man born in his same village in the streets of Madrid, Pamplona and Roncal. Navarran sculptor Antonio Loperena also carved a bust for a café in Tudela named after Gayarre.
ALMAGRO (CIUDAD REAL) – Bust
The National Theatre Museum in Almagro (Ciudad Real) conserves a bust of Gayarre, the work of Valencian sculptor Mariano Benlliure. This bust from the Royal Theatre is exhibited along with other objects related to Gayarre including the tenors funeral mask in a display case under Anselmis heart. The final photograph taken by Gayarre as well as a plaster model of the mausoleum in Roncal, also made by Benlliure, can also be seen along with the bust. Another model shows the inside of the Royal Theatre where you can see Julián Gayarre on stage interpreting The Pearl Fishers. There are a few copies of this Gayarre bust such as the one exhibited at the Historic House Museum in Roncal.
MADRID – Monument
A bronze sheet relief made in 1923 by Roncal-born sculptor Fructuoso Orduna. This sculpted relief had been stored for unknown reasons until the author wrote a letter in 1953 in the newspaper ABC telling how this stone had been created - just as occurs with the one on the facade at Gayarres birth home in Roncal - to be placed on the facade of the home where the Roncal-born tenor had died, no. 6 Plaza de Oriente in Madrid and how it could not be installed because of the building owners refusal. In his letter, Fructuoso Orduna requested collaboration from the City Council of Madrid which finally installed it at the front of the house on a stone base.
PAMPLONA – Monument
Located in Taconera park. The sculpture part is the work of Roncal-born sculptor Fructuoso Orduna. Its made of white marble. The monument design is the work of architect Víctor Eusa who used Almorqui stone for its construction. The monument is 10 metres in diameter and 11 metres tall.
It was inaugurated on 5 July 1950 in the presence of the Vice-President of the Foral Government of Navarre, the Mayor of Pamplona and the mayors of the valleys of Roncal and Aezkoa, among other important figures. Participating in the events were dance groups from the City of Pamplona, the Valley of Salazar, Muthiko Alaiak and Baile de la Era de Estella and dancers from Ochagavía as well as a small group of Roncal natives dressed in traditional valley clothing, the Pamplona Choir and the Santa Cecilia Orchestra.
The inauguration ceremony began on 3 July in Gayarre Theatre with an opera cycle (3rd, 4th and 5th) with performances of Puccinis Madame Butterfly, La Bohème and Tosca.
Organised by the cultural association La Ondarra, the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of this monument was commemorated on 1 July 2000. During the days leading up to the event, the City of Pamplona cleaned the monument extremely well and beautified the entire area around it.
On 1 July, the streets of Pamplona were the stage for a lovely parade led by the mayors of the seven Roncal villages with their respective flags, the mayor and city council members of Pamplona, the municipal police dressed in gala uniforms, the Lumbier giant puppet troupe, dancers from Ochagavía and San Lorenzo (Pamplona), municipal bag-pipers and dozens of people dressed in traditional Roncalese clothing including members of the Julián Gayarre Choir and the Pamplona Roncal Centre.
RONCAL – Monument
A bronze bust on a stone pedestal initially located at the Roncal Basque petanque court. The sculpture is the work of Roncal native Fructuoso Orduna Lafuente who had already addressed the village town council from Madrid in December 1916, offering to build a marble column and a bronze bust for free to perpetuate the tenors memory.
The monument was inaugurated on 22 July 1917, in the presence of several provincial deputies, the Secretary of the Foral Government, local authorities, the tenors family and representatives of the Choir. A metal box containing a document recording the first stone-laying ceremony, period coins and a birth certificate for Julián Gayarre was placed under the monument.
In 1952, Fructuoso Orduna replaced the deteriorated stone bust with a similar one made of bronze. This new monument, with a new and stronger base, was inaugurated on 15 August 1953, and is the one known today. In July 2001, a plaque was placed on this monument with the reason, author and date of installation as part of the events organised by the Town Council of Roncal in honour of Fructuoso Orduna.
The 2007 recovery of the original state of the Basque petanque court ordered built by Julián Gayarre forced the transfer of this monument to the current site: the gardens next to the Historic House Museum.
RONCAL – Relief
The Julián Gayarre Historic House Museum building features a headstone sculpture on the facade by Fructuoso Orduna which was placed there by the Tertulia Navarra of Madrid group in homage to Julián Gayarre on 14 July 1924. The headstone was initially to be installed in Madrid on the facade of the home where the tenor lived and died, but the building owners refusal forced a modification of the text and it was finally placed on Gayarres birth home. The headstone was paid for by the people and the laying ceremony was attended by a number of Navarran authorities.
This sculptured relief was exhibited by Orduna at the Modern Art Museum of Madrid in December 1923, at an individual exhibit along with another five of this works of art. The press in Madrid highly complimented this piece.
In 2001, a small plaque was placed on the facade indicating it was the work of Fructuoso Orduna during a ceremony in his honour organised by the Town Council of Roncal.
TUDELA – Bust
The work of Navarran sculptor Antonio Loperena. Installed in 1999 in the Gayarre 2 café, it is on the corner of Gayarre Street and Herrerías Street in this Navarran town.
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Politics makes for heated debates and sometimes is the value-driven glue that binds us together. My guest today Angela Vithoulkas has a solid history as a small business advocate, commentator and advisor. Then Angela she decided to become a politician, elected as an independent Councillor for the City of Sydney in 2012, where she was subsequently appointed as Deputy Chairperson of the City of Sydney Economic Development and Business Sub-committee throughout that term.
In 2016 Angela formed the Sydney Matters Independent team and successfully secured a second term on Council. As well as her civic duties, she also established a small business podcasting platform, Eagle Waves Radio and co-owns a Sydney café. Last year, Angela was named as one of Australia's top nine influential female entrepreneurs. Now, she has also started her own political party The Small Business Party. Angela is here to discuss The Politics of Campaigning.
Do men and women campaign differently, are women perhaps judged harder and why or why not does that matter in 2018?
As founder of a new state political party, The Small Business Party, what platform will you be campaigning on?
Last advice: What are your top three tips for anyone wanting to succeed in The Politics of Campaigning?


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International Women's Air and Space Museum is a treasure
By Harriet Baskas →
In Cleveland, most visitors make a beeline for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum. But those in search of a truly far out experience need only walk a short distance from the Rock Hall to Burke Lakefront Airport, where the International Women's Air & Space Museum stretching along the airport lobby is a treasure trove of memorabilia and artifacts documenting the history and modern-day contributions of women in aviation and space.
Thoughtfully laid-out exhibits tell the personal and professional stories of pioneering aviatrixes such as Harriet Quimby (the first woman issued a pilot's license in the US), Bessie Coleman (first African-American woman pilot in the US), world record-setters Ruth Nichols and Jackie Cochran (director of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP) and, of course, Amelia Earhart.
Amelia Earhart photo courtesy of IWASM
Some Earhart items, including photographs and bits of airplanes are on display, but a gray nursing uniform, a flight suit, a lei presented to her in Hawaii and a cache of other rare items are tucked away in the museum's excellent archives.
Original Amelia Earhart flight suit in the collection of the IWASM. Photo by Harriet Baskas.
Orville and Wilbur's Wright's sister, Katherine, gets a full exhibit case devoted to her life and to her overlooked role as sounding board, social secretary, business and marketing manager and ambassador for her brothers. In addition to newspaper clippings, letters, photographs and personal items from her home, the museum displays the white cotton and lace dress Katherine wore to accompany her brothers at a reception held in their honor at a White House in 1909.
Katharine Wright's dress – worn to a reception for the Wright Brothers at the White House. Photo courtesy of IWASM.
Along one wall, artifacts, letters and photographs tell the story of the thirteen women pilots who underwent secret astronaut testing in 1961 in hopes of becoming some of the country's first women astronauts.
The First Lady Astronaut Trainees (FLATS), also known as the "Mercury 13," passed many of the same physical tests completed by the men who would become the first American astronauts (the Mercury 7), however, NASA and a series of congressional hearings shut down the unofficial FLATS program.
It took until 1983 for Sally Ride because the first American woman to go into space. (The first woman in space was Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, in 1963).
The Wall of Fame at the International Women's Air & Space Museum includes photos and flight information about every woman astronaut – and cosmonaut – who has flown in space. And it's encouraging to note that there are now so many women who have been to space – or who are qualified and/or scheduled to go there – that the IWASM has run out of space to add new portraits on the original wall.
No problem: the Wall of Fame now snakes into another area of the museum.
One NASA astronaut whose portrait is on the Wall of Fame is Ohio-born Sunita Williams, who holds the record for total cumulative spacewalk time by a woman astronaut.
Flown in Space: NASA astronaut Sunita Williams wore this shirt while Commander of the International Space Station on Expedition 33 in 2012. Photo courtesy of IWASM.
Williams served as a flight engineer for Expeditions 14, 15 and 32 to the International Space Station and served as commander on Expedition 33. A shirt Williams wore in space on that last expedition is now on display at IWASM in a special exhibit marking the 50th anniversary of the first spacewalks, which took place in 1965.
If you go:
The International Women's Air & Space Museum is in the lobby of Burke Lakefront Airport, 1501 North Marginal Road, Cleveland, Ohio and is open daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Admission: free. (Phone: 216-623-1111). Be sure to visit the gift shop (open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays) which offers very reasonably priced books about women in aviation history, as well as space-themed gifts and snacks.
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June 13, 2015 at 12:06 am -
Nice article! I hope to visit as I love learning the fascinating stories about forgotten women in aviation. I tell many of their stories in my programs (described at nobodyownsthesky.wordpress.com) and am happy to share my Youtube recordings: tinyurl.com/pioneeraviatrices and tinyurl.com/awasptakeswing .
-Carol Simon Levin


Everyone in the education service plays a part in keeping children and young people safe. Creating a safe learning environment, identifying pupils who are suffering or at risk of harm and then taking appropriate action are vital to ensuring children are safe at home and at school.
You can find out more about child protection procedures in schools by following the link below to 'Guidance for schools on protecting children from abuse'.
Your child's school must carry out certain checks on the background and criminal records of all staff who have contact with children.
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 introduced a new vetting and barring scheme to strengthen the procedures for checking staff and volunteers who work with children or vulnerable adults frequently (for example once a month) or intensively (on three days in a 30 day period).
The vetting and barring scheme is scheduled to operate from October 2009. You can get more details and some background information on the scheme by following the link below.
If you suspect that a child is being abused, you should report it to police or local social services. If you work in a school, you should tell the staff member responsible for child protection. They will take the appropriate action based on procedures set out by the local authority and local safeguarding children board – notifying the authorities where it is required.
Once the authorities are notified, they will decide the best way to proceed. The school's role from then on is limited. School staff will not take part in an investigation, though they may be called on to supply information. They may also be asked to provide additional support for the child or young person.
Sexual relationships with under 16s are against the law, but it's also an offence for an adult to have a sexual relationship with someone under 18 if the adult occupies a 'position of trust' in relation to that young person.
This covers, for example, relationships between members of school or college staff and students. It applies as long as the young person is under 18, even if they are over the age of legal consent – though there are some defences which can apply in limited circumstances.


Benue State University, Makuurdi, has allegedly issued a warning to all male students in the institution over growing of beards.
According to a photo posted by a Twitter user, @OteneSam, the Benue State University has allegedly issued a warning to all male students of the institution over growing of beards.
The notice against the growing of facial hairs by the male students, was allegedly posted in the school's premises by the security unit of the office of the vice chancellor of the the university.
The male students are also expected to always leave their faces clean shaven without any kind of option.


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JSTOR currently provides several tools that leverage data & data connections to help researchers discover and analyze the scholarly literature in the JSTOR digital library. This webinar will demonstrate the ways Data for Research, Text Analyzer, and the Understanding Series support research in meaningful ways.
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We help companies who really want to live the priorities of the triple bottom line (TBL): purpose, people, and profit. It's possible! Research even says all stakeholders benefit when the TBL is lived—even investors! We're obsessed with conscious capitalism and love working with leaders who are too. We can help you bring your purpose and vision to life!
With TBL in mind, Voyage Consulting Group was founded in 2016 to make high-end consulting resources based on the Coasts accessible to small and mid-sized companies in the Midwest. Our founder, Kelly Tyler Byrnes, had worked with some of the big firms as a client throughout her career, and she saw the waste and disruption those firms caused without regard to people. She knew there had to be another way to bring valuable resources to companies eager for results and keen on caring for people.
She's right. Voyage Consulting Group is the other way.
Kelly and our team of executive-level consultants help leaders plan their journeys and steer their ships, so they reach their destinations. We help leaders navigate the waters so growth of their company and people is not just possible but inevitable.
I apply my knowledge of the purpose of my life every day. It's the single most useful thing I've ever learned. I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered at HBS. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life. Clarity about their purpose will trump knowledge of activity-based costing, balanced scorecards, core competence, disruptive innovation, the four Ps, and the five forces.
Voyage Consulting Group exists so company leaders don't sail off without a rudder, get buffeted in life's rough seas, and ruin life's journey. Kelly started this company to help leaders live their purpose, navigate rough seas, and make their life's journey magnificent. She believes when leaders' bring their true selves to their companies, they will impact people in positive ways beyond financial.
Kelly Tyler Byrnes brings to Voyage Consulting Group a diverse career in human resources, marketing, strategic planning, and operations large and mid-sized companies in telecom, advertising and marketing, financial services, and scientific research. Kelly's unique business background enables her to understand the needs of companies and executives in all functional areas, not just human resources.
Kelly is an adjunct professor in the MBA program for Rockhurst University, a member of Forbes Coaches Council, an author, and professional speaker. She holds the SPHR and SHRM-SCP certifications.
Kelly's undergraduate work in history and business at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame and her graduate work (MBA) at Rockhurst University laid the groundwork for her diverse career path and sparked her interest in leadership behaviors in business.
On a personal note, Kelly is married to Bob, an Air Force veteran and retired fire captain. They live in Kansas City with their dog, Bebe. They enjoy spending time with their daughter in Montana, gathering with family in Kansas City and Pittsburgh, and cheering for Notre Dame football, Pittsburgh Penguins hockey, and Kansas City's Royals and Chiefs. Kelly's volunteer activities center around children, education, women, and dogs.


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A DIGITAL HOUSE OF LORDS
April 24, 2006 andrewkeen
How often does Kevin Kelly, the former editor of Wired magazine and Silicon Valley utopian technophile par excellence, get quoted in the British House of Lords?
It happened on April 20, 2006, in a provocative Lords speech by Baroness Susan Greenfield, professor of pharmacology at Oxford university and expert on the physiology of the brain. In questioning the multi-tasking, screen centric culture of contemporary British youths, Greenfield quotes Kelly's observations about screen culture:
"Screen culture is a world of constant flux, of endless sound bites, quick cuts and half-baked ideas. It is a flow of gossip tidbits, news headlines and floating first impressions. Notions don't stand alone but are massively interlinked to everything else; truth is not delivered by authors and authorities but is assembled by the audience".
My guess is that Kelly wrote these words in praise of the flattened "democratic" nature of digital culture. But Baroness Greenfield uses Kelly's remarks much more critically. For her, the "constant flux" of digital culture has the potential to become an educational catastrophe. She told the Lords that most English kids simply aren't prepared for the onslaught of digital imagery, that they don't possess the "robust conceptual framework" to cope with the intense sensory content of a multimedia presentation.
Greenfield is not a luddite and doesn't suggest that we should dismiss or ban technology. But she is calling for a more thoughtful government policy toward the place of technology in the 21st century school. She wants the classroom to "fit" the child rather than "the growing trend for technology to be used to make the 21st century child fit the classroom."
She tells us that "the human brain is exquisitely sensitive to any and every event." Greenfield is warning us of the impact of sensory imagery upon the brain of the child. If most kids don't have the "conceptual framework" to cope with this multimedia culture, she tells us, then we risk either a "monotonously homogeneous world" or a "society of techno haves increasingly divergent from the techno have-nots."
Baroness Greenfield is one more distinguished voice -- to add to Zizek and Habermas and American thinkers like Hubert Dreyfus, Christine Rosen and Albert Borgmann -- questioning the cultural, political and social benefits of digital technology. The real digital divide of the 21st century will be between these technosceptics and techno-utopians like Kevin Kelly, Thomas Friedman and Chris Anderson. This massively important debate may turn out to be the new left/right division of our age.
For more on Greenfield's speech, see Jackie Ashley's column in yesterday's online Guardian.
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Successful Brits in Toronto: Stewart and Emma Langham
Stewart and Emma Langham master the art of the selfie stick using just their double-jointed toes
Emma Langham always wanted to do some travelling, so left Cambridge, UK in September 2014 and coaxed along Stewart too. Unfortunately they had to leave behind their two gerbils.
The good news, though, is that they have a travelling companion … a brown bear called Boris. That leads us nicely into the fact that these travelling threesome have set up a blog called Brown Bear Travels where their friends and family — and now you, complete British strangers — can follow their fun adventures around Canada!
We asked Emma to spill the beans on life in Toronto …
What made you decide to choose Toronto as a city of choice? Did you plan a permanent move, or wanted to "try it for a while and see how it goes" and it turned out to be longer than planned?
We didn't initially choose Toronto. It was just meant to be the place we spent a few days on our initial trip across Canada to Vancouver, where we planned to set up home.
In the end we didn't love Vancouver as much as we thought we would and when Stewart was offered a second interview for a job in Toronto we didn't hesitate to fly across the country for it.
We've not looked back!
What steps did you take to land your first Toronto job? Did the infamous "Canadian experience" hinder you in any way?
Stewart and I have had very different experiences …
Stewart applied for a job just before we left, didn't hear back for three months and then just days after we had activated our work permits he got a call offering him an interview. So whilst he got the first job he applied for, it took me nine months to get a job related to my career.
I think the main hindrance has been the sheer number of job hunters in Toronto at the moment — you really need something that makes you stand out.
What's the best/worst aspects of living in Toronto?
The best thing is the diversity and the sheer size of the city means there is always something to do. I love that we can sample food from across the world, go paddling on the lake or relax on a beach without leaving the city.
The one thing that annoys me is how much everyone moans about the TTC. True, it might not be up to London standards in terms of subway coverage but good luck getting anywhere in London for the equivalent of $3!
Do you make an effort to connect with other Brits in the city, or just meet them when chance allows it? Any recommended pubs/eateries/other places for homesick Brits to meet each other and network?
Not really, although we did run into a couple who were from the same home town as me which was pretty exciting — normally no one has a clue where it is. They told us about the Toronto Brit Meetup Group on meetup.com who host regular pub quizzes with British food as prizes so we plan to check that out at some point.
Open question/comment: feel free to write anything here/advice/tips on a Brit living in, or moving to, Toronto.
Volunteering is a great way to keep up your skills, network and get some Canadian experience, especially if you're struggling to find work.
Otherwise, get out and enjoy it! Toronto is an amazing city!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged brits in toronto, emma and stewart langham, successful brits in toronto on July 23, 2015 by britsintoronto.
Before you arrive in Canada
"Weeeeeee! I love my commute to work now! Weeeeeee!"
Here's a handy video from Citizenship and Immigration Canada aimed at yet-to-arrive immigrants that gives valuable tips to ease the process of settling down in Canada.
Being equipped with English or French language skills, carrying education, marriage, adoption and other documents, inquiring to check whether one's profession is regulated or not, getting international education and experience assessed to check if it meets Canadian standards and taking steps to build Canadian qualifications are included.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged brits in toronto, canadian citizenship, citizenship and immigration canada on July 16, 2015 by britsintoronto.
Successful Brits in Toronto: Julian Richings
You may have seen him in films and television shows, but not in pubs where the servers wear kilts
We love Death. Not the kind where you kick the bucket, pop your clogs, shuffle off this mortal coil, snuff it, croak or sleep with the fishes.
No, silly! Brits in Toronto loves Death, the character in Supernatural, as played by the versatile Julian Richings.
He's also appeared in over 50 films and TV shows such as Orphan Black, Hannibal, Man of Steel, X-Men: The Last Stand, Cube and The Colony.
Julian was born in Oxford, England and moved to Toronto in 1984 … which is perfect for us and this blog post entitled Successful Brits in Toronto.
So, what's life like around this fair city? We called the Winchester Brothers for back-up and asked him …
I toured with a British theatre company in 1980. We slept on couches and floors and relied on the hospitality of other artists. It was a frugal existence but we gained a hands-on insight into the daily struggle of other performers. We had gigs in Toronto, Chicago and New York.
I fell in love with Toronto. Its vigour, its lack of pretension and its clear sense of an emerging voice.
It has remained an exciting and challenging place for me, and on a personal level, I fell in love with a gal from the city. We've been married for 30 years and raised two children here.
My first gig was at the (then) Burton auditorium at York University. Staff at Theatre Passe Muraille saw it and invited us to perform downtown in their space before returning to the UK.
From there we were invited back to a Toronto theatre festival the following year.
The worst? Not the winter. [First person that's said that! ~ Editor.]
I like all the seasons except high summer. The humidity in August is pretty dire, coupled with the over-compensating air conditioning in shops and cinemas. You wilt then you freeze.
I don't make a special effort. Sometimes I get categorized together with other Brits in casting sessions, where we all have a natter and talk about football and other important topics.
We tell each other to "break a leg" then go on our merry way.
I steer clear of pubs with faux British names or where servers wear kilts. And I like cold beer!
Enjoy. Explore. It's a truly magnificent city.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged brits in toronto, julian richings, successful brits in toronto on July 11, 2015 by britsintoronto.
Who's going to the 4th Annual Brilliant British BBQ Bash?
Bowler hat not a necessity but would make for some great Facebook photos after the fact
The lovely chaps and chapesses over at The British Canadian Chamber of Trade and Commerce are organizing their 4th Annual Brilliant British BBQ Bash.
That's quite a mouthful … of hot dogs and burgers! (Thank you.)
July 21, 2015 from 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. at MuvBox Patio, Brookfield Place, Toronto. Tickets = $65 and include Brill BBQ Buffet, one British drink and raffle ticket.
Full details here.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged brilliant british bbq bash, british canadian chamber of trade and commerce, brits in toronto on July 4, 2015 by britsintoronto.
Local British football supporters clubs needed to Rock the Pitch for charity!
Come and kick some leather around for a good cause
Ross from Opera Bob's Public House got in touch with us to help spread the word about Rock the Pitch, a charity football tournament taking place on August 30, 2015 at Crescent School.
Opera Bob's is also the Toronto HQ of the Manchester City Supporters Club who are taking over the organization of this year's tournament — now in its seventh year.
They are looking for as many local British football supporters clubs as possible to take part this year, to raise funds and awareness for such a great initiative and have a fun day out on the pitch.
More details on the official Rock the Pitch website, flyer and Sportsnet article.
So, pass it around (just like you do on the pitch) to anyone who thinks they have what it takes!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged brits in toronto, football, rock the pitch on July 2, 2015 by britsintoronto.
Magnet: Connecting immigrants to employment opportunities
Mark Patterson talks about connecting newcomers to Canada with jobs
New Canadians features an interview with Mark Patterson, Executive Director, Magnet who talks about the new online tool that helps bring down barriers to employment for new immigrants to Canada.
"We have over 2,900 employers that are looking to use the system," he says. "And a lot of our employers are very interested in connecting in a targeted way to newcomers to Canada and are committed to trying to help people transition more quickly."
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged brits in toronto, jobs, magnet, mark patterson, new canadians on July 2, 2015 by britsintoronto.


Gia Milinovich describes herself as a comedy lover, science groupie and professional dork. Her interests range from Ancient Egypt to the Apollo Moon landings, from cult films of the 70s and 80s to soft circuits. In her toy story, Gia discovers that despite being a skeptic, she still believes in the magic of toys.
Some of my earliest memories are of sitting on the turquoise shag pile carpet on the floor in the family room of my maternal grandparents' house playing with a Fisher Price House and Barn. The car in the garage. The moveable staircase. The sponge mattresses on the yellow beds. The chickens behind the sliding doors of the hayloft at the top of the barn. The 'ding' of the doorbell when you flicked the button down at the front door of the house. The 'moo' when you opened the barn door. The black and white dog's bent ears. The skinny black legs of the sheep.
Over the years my younger sister and I had loads of Fisher Price toys for Christmas or our birthdays, they were our very favourite toys: the School, the A-Frame House, the Camper Van, the Circus Train, the Chatter Phone, the Airplane, the Parking Garage, the Medical Kit, the Music Box Record Player, the School Days Desk. Hours upon hours upon hours were spent playing with these toys.
I grew up. Moved away from home. My parents got rid of the toys at some point. I didn't think of them again for many years – until I had my own kids.
The evocative 'moo' when I opened the door wasn't enough for me to hold onto it. I brought it to the charity shop the next day.
I went back to eBay and found a School. I had loved my School. I scrutinised this eBay one much more than I had the Farm. It had all the chairs, desks, playground equipment and the letter trays. Bid. Won. Good.
Professor Bruce Hood's book Supersense is all about how most of us have supernatural beliefs. I remember reading it and thinking "Ha! You're not going to catch me out. I'm an atheist, a skeptic! I don't buy into any of that nonsense!" And then he talked about collecting things and I realised he'd got me. *shakes fist* Damn you, Hood!
Collectors- of film props, autographs, motor cycles speedway badges, space flown artifacts, toys, whatever…- only want originals. Reproductions will not do. Only originals have the 'magic' collectors are looking for.
The experiences I had playing with Fisher Price toys as a child were very different from the feelings I have when I think about them now as an adult. When I was 7, 8, 9, 10 I wasn't playing with them filled with nostalgia for an uncomplicated, safe, responsibility-free time in my life; I was playing, being, living in the moment, using the toys to create stories, to fuel my imagination, to have fun.
I realised how nearly 40 years on with my (son's) secondhand Fisher Price toys I was trying to find some kind of "magic" in them. Something that would tell me "This was mine. This was the thing that was with me when I was a kid. There is comfort in this." and because they weren't exactly as I remembered mine to be, I couldn't find that magic.
If Fisher Price decided to re-issue some modern vintage toys using all the same moulds for the chairs and desks and beds and cars, made the Little People out of wood, used the same inks in exactly the same colours and sold them in boxes identical to the ones they were in originally without any hint that they were re-releases – in short, if I could find a Fisher Price School that was in every possible way the same as the Fisher Price School I received for Christmas all those years ago, I still wouldn't find the magic… because they wouldn't be originals. They still wouldn't be 'mine'.
I have several of my original toys- Muppets, Barbie and Ken, my first Teddy Bear- just seeing them on my shelves takes me back to my childhood. Imagine though if someone took my Bear today and created an exact replica with the prickly fur, the loose threads on the nose and the chest, the strange squeaky mooing sound he makes when you turn him over. Identical, even down to an atomic level. Then they took my Bear and the fake-but-identical-Bear, mixed them up and finally destroyed one randomly. Would I be able to find the 'magic' in that Bear knowing there was a 50/50 chance he wasn't the one with me when I was a kid?
I am an unbeliever. God? Not real. Aliens? Never visited Earth. Astrology? Homeopathy? Prayer? Ghosts? Psychic connections? Absolute nonsense.
I do believe in the magic of toys though.
You can follow Gia on Twitter, and read more about her adventures on her blog. If you would like to share your toy story, let me know @stuartwitts.


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It's like a cookie exchange, but far more practical!
Instead of trying to do it all, focus on the things that leave the biggest impression.
A few strategic decisions can greatly reduce the environmental impact of your Big Day.
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Roy Oswalt retired from baseball on Tuesday after winning 163 games and making three All-Star teams in 13 major league seasons. The pitchers agent, Bob Garber, confirmed the decision and said Oswalt would go to work for his agency, RMG Baseball. Oswalt will be vice-president of baseball operations. "Roy is now going to be representing players with me," Garber said Tuesday night. "Hes now an agent." The 36-year-old right-hander had a 163-102 career record with a 3.36 ERA. Oswalt won 20 games in consecutive seasons (2004-05) with the Houston Astros and was the 2005 NL championship series MVP. He pitched more than 200 innings seven times but was hampered by injuries in recent years. "He was a tremendous competitor," Giants right-hander Matt Cain said. "He was one of the guys I always loved to watch pitch. I remember facing him for the first time and I knew if I gave up more than a couple runs that it wasnt going to be a good day for us. He went about his business every fifth day like a true pro." Oswalt got hurt with Houston on June 11, 2003, when he and five other pitchers combined to no-hit the New York Yankees in an 8-0 victory in the Bronx. It was the only six-pitcher no-hitter until Seattle did the same thing against the Dodgers on June 8, 2012. Oswalt strained his right groin and left in the second. He looked toward catcher Brad Ausmus after his second pitch of the inning, his 23rd of the game, and immediately was replaced. The Yankees had gone 6,980 games -- the longest streak in major league history -- without being no-hit, since Hoyt Wilhelms 1-0 victory for Baltimore on Sept. 20, 1958. Oswalt was 0-6 with an 8.63 ERA in nine outings and six starts for Colorado last year. He signed a minor league deal with the Rockies in May 2013 and missed time with a strained left hamstring. Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington was thrilled to acquire Oswalt in the middle of the 2012 season, when he went 4-3 with a 5.80 ERA in 17 appearances with nine starts. He joined the Rangers on June 22, 2012, but didnt know if the team just planned to trade him away. Washington often said Oswalt "has been a pro" in handling a tough, unclear situation that called for him to be used primarily out of the bullpen. That was after Oswalt spent two stints on the disabled list during 2011 with Philadelphia because of lower back inflammation. He went 9-10 with a 3.69 ERA in 23 starts for the Phillies that year, and his 139 innings were his fewest since 2003. He didnt go more than 59 innings in his last two years. A 23rd-round pick by Houston in the 1996 amateur draft, Oswalt pitched his first nine-plus seasons for the Astros (2001-10) and then played for Philadelphia (2010-11), Texas (2012) and the Rockies (2013). 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Only fitting, since Ligety was a big fan of von Gruenigen growing up in Utah.To have the same amount of World Cup wins as him is surreal, Ligety said. Its really cool.In fourth place after the opening run, Ligety found speed where others couldnt on a steadily deteriorating course. He finished in a combined time of 2 minutes, 34.07 seconds. Alexis Pinturault of France was second, 0.18 seconds behind, and Austrias Marcel Hirscher ended up third.Ligety had four metal screws inserted into his left wrist after an accident during training Nov 22. He didnt take any time off after surgery, though. Instead, he trained without a pole for a little bit, since he couldnt hang on to it. Ligety said that actually helped him develop more balance going around gates.Hirscher joked that it really didnt matter if Ligety raced with one pole — or even one ski — he would still be fast.Ted is definitely one of the best, no, Im sure, the best GS skier in the world, Hirscher said. It impresses me a lot. It is really great for all young skiers that they can watch him and see. It doesnt matter if he skis with one pole, two poles, one ski or no skis, he just does it.Benjamin Raich of Austria led after the first run, but it was a tightly bunched field, with eight racers all within a second.Ligety hammered down a course he knows so well, staying out of the grooves in the soft snow due to the warm weather and building more and more speed. He even dragged that surgically repaired wrist on the snow around several turns, because its something hes always done and he wasnt going to let the injury get in the way of his performance.When he crossed the finish line in the lead, the crowd erupted. Ligety pumped his ski pole, knoowing his time would be difficult to match.dddddddddddd.Next up was Hirscher, who made several mistakes.Then Pinturault, who wasnt as clean up top as Ligety.And finally, Raich, the final skier of the day, who lost his lead early and struggled as he slipped to fourth.It was Ligetys fifth giant slalom win in Beaver Creek. It also drew him closer to Hirscher and Pinturault in the overall GS race. Ligety has won the discipline four of the last five seasons.Hirscher and Pinturault, those guys are amazing skiers for sure, said the 30-year-old Ligety, who won gold at the Sochi Games in the GS. Those guys are guys I love to watch ski. To get in front of them is always nice, especially being the old guy.Hirscher leads the GS standings and is second in the overall race to Norways Kjetil Jansrud, who won the downhill on the Birds of Prey course Friday and was runner-up in the super-G Saturday.If I want to have a chance against Kjetil, I have to be better than today, said Hirscher, who trails Jansrud by 172 points. I have to win more races than Kjetil. Right now, hes the man to beat. Im not in position.This was certainly a solid weekend for Pinturault, who also finished third in the super-G.Im really happy, Pinturault said before leaving to catch a plane.American Tim Jitloff had a solid showing as he wound up ninth, while David Chodounsky finished 17th. Bode Miller didnt race this weekend as he recovers from back surgery. 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Breaking the Barriers of Bullying Part 1: Bullying victims not seeking help
by Amie Sparrow, writer at Counselling Directory
As part of Counselling Directory's Breaking the Barriers of Bullying campaign, in support of National Anti-Bullying Week, members of the public and professional counsellors were surveyed about their experiences with bullying. This three-part series sheds light on a few areas of this very complex issue, from the perspective of victims, professional counsellors and from bullies themselves. Editors, note that articles and accompanying media are available for reprint upon request.
Victims of bullying are not seeking help and support, resulting in low self-esteem, depression and social anxiety, according to a recent survey by Counselling Directory. More than half of 1,300 adults surveyed said they had been bullied at some point in their lives. Of those bullied, 70% admitted they did not seek help or support after being bullied – not from family, friends or professionals.
Long-distance runner Ben Smith, who ran 401 marathons in 401 days to raise money and awareness for anti-bullying charities Kidscape and Stonewall was one of those people who kept quiet. "For me, it was the shame, the fear of making it worse as a child. No matter how many times people say you should tell someone – the advice people give is to talk about it – but most of the time kids are terrified to talk about it, they don't want to make it worse", he said.
The stigma around telling others is often far worse than actually doing so, Counselling Director member Karen Jones said. "That being said, the amount of children/young people and even adults that come to therapy as a result of being bullied feels to be on the increase. Either the stigma is lifting or counselling is more accepted so therefore people have an opportunity to discuss bullying", Karen said.
There is no legal definition of bullying, but it is often defined as repeated behaviour with intent to hurt another person, physically or emotionally. It can take many forms, including verbal threats, physical assault, calling names, gossiping and online bullying (cyberbullying).
These are just a few examples of the different ways a person can be bullied. Any repeated behaviour that makes someone feel unhappy, isolated and bad about themselves can be considered bullying. Bullying can make a person feel very alone. It can make the victim miserable, breaking down their confidence and self-esteem. A person being bullied may feel like everyone is against them, or that nobody cares enough to stand up for them. The effects on victims of bullying are many, and sometimes lead to severe outcomes such as self-harm and suicide.
Karen has worked with children who were being bullied at the time they were in counselling, and found that the children typically struggled with school work, wanting to be alone and other negative outcomes. "I have been working with a client for a while who was bullied as a child. The bullying was so severe, she has tried to take her own life on more than one occasion and she struggles to make or keep friends as it takes her a long time to trust people as her bully was once a friend from school", Karen said.
According to the survey, 90% of those were bullied at school, compared to at work, university, or at home. Counselling Directory spoke with bullying prevention charity Kidscape about this issue.
"Generally, between the times of 9:00 and 4:00, schools provide an environment where children learn, play and, more crucially, develop their role amongst their peers. The school environment is an important landscape in which to grow up. Part of discovering the role which they play is through the relationships students form, the confidence they display and the power struggles they have to understand and find their place", Kidscape Director of Services Peter Bradley, who is a Psychodynamic Counsellor and Psychotherapist said.
"It is important that teachers are able to recognise the signs and symptoms of bullying and have effective policies and procedures in place to ensure all bullying incidents are taken seriously and acted upon in a timely manner. It is important that information is shared between the teacher and the parent and both parties have a responsibility to agree a strategy for reducing and stopping the bullying and ensuring the bully and their target are provided with the appropriate sanctions and support. Parents should become acquainted with the school's anti-bullying policy and know which member of staff to speak to for bullying incidents", Peter said.
Whether you are currently being bullied, have been bullied in the past or are affected by bullying another way, many people find counselling for bullying helpful. Contacting a counsellor can help you talk about what you are going through, in private and without judgement. If you are going through a hard time, you can discuss what is happening, how it makes you feel and what options you have. Whoever you are, bullying can change your life. It doesn't matter what age, race, gender or religion you are, most of us will be affected by bullying at some point in our lives. It is important we know what options are available and who to turn to.
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