Last week, the school was a hive of mathematical activity when the children took part in the nationwide NSPCC Number Day and raised £259 for the charity that helps young people have better, safer lives.
In the morning, year groups led their own fairground themed activities in their classrooms and then shared what they had done in a whole school assembly.
Reception: played a variety of fairground games and added up their scores whilst doing so. They also used shapes to make clown faces.
Year 1: practiced numbers to 100 using a large 100 square and measured the height of clowns using rulers.
Year 6: played maths board games and designed and built rollercoaster marble runs on which they timed how long it took the marble to reach the end.


Four people have been seriously injured after a Welsh tour bus crashed on a motorway pile-up in Switzerland.
The Edwards tour bus was among vehicles on the A2 in Lucerne when it collided with four lorries, leaving more than 40 people injured shortly after noon on Friday.
Four of those hurt have been left with serious injuries, according to local police, with an air ambulance scrambled to take them to hospital.
A fleet of 20 ambulances were also called to the scene, with traffic stretching for 5km.
Police say the crash was caused when one of the lorries drove into the back of another as it attempted to turn into a construction site.
Kurt Graf of Lucerne Police said: 'A truck loaded with tar wanted to pull into the construction site and was rear-ended by a post lorry, which caused it in turn to crash into the coach.
Friday's incident was the fourth accident on the motorway this week.
Damage was estimated in the hundreds of thousands of pounds and a criminal probe has been opened by prosecutors.
A spokesman for Edwards, based in Pontypridd, said the family-run business was aware of the crash but could not give further comment.


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A well-acted, if slightly derivative tale of one young man's struggle with drug addiction.
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This play about drug addiction focuses on the struggles single mother Miss Warden faces in getting her addict son Ryan appropriate treatment. However, conflicts between Ryan, Miss Warden and his nurse Clive, threaten to end his rehabilitation. Present-day scenes involving Miss Warden, Ryan and Clive are intercut with flashbacks showing Ryan's descent into addiction as a result of being introduced to drugs by his best friend, Simon.
The overall performances from the cast are strong, with the actors portraying Ryan and Miss Warden particularly strong in conveying the internal and external struggles that both characters undergo in their arguments regarding Ryan's rehabilitation. Likewise, the actor playing Simon impresses with his emotive performance, especially when the character opens up about his mother's own addictions. The only weak spot in the cast is the actor playing Clive, whose slightly rushed and wooden delivery somewhat undermines the effectiveness of his character.
The script tells a straightforward narrative about Ryan's spiral into addiction and his mother's fears for him, the only unique aspect being the dialogue sequences between Ryan and Simon whilst the former is in rehab, following a narrative revelation about Simon.
The dialogue convincingly portrays Mrs Warden's concerns about Ryan and Ryan's initial teenage naivety which turns to anger and resentment towards his mother and Clive. Some of Mrs Warden's dialogue about Ryan's growing drug use, however, comes across as overly didactic about the dangers of drug addiction and bears greater resemblance to a public service announcement than realistic dialogue for the character.
Despite this criticism, Crack/ed is a well-acted drama about the effects of drug addiction on a mother and son that although has a slightly derivative plot also manages to convey the struggles of the addict, family members and rehab clinics in dealing with addiction.

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Market FOH Holdings Inc, the parent company of Frederick's of Hollywood Inc and Movie Star Inc announced that they have entered into a merger agreement.
To the extent that Movie Star's shareholders do not purchase their pro rata percentage of Movie Star common stock in the rights offering, TTG Apparel, LLC and its affiliates, including Tokarz Investments, LLC, and funds affiliated with Fursa Alternative Strategies LLC (formerly known as Mellon HBV Alternative Strategies LLC) have agreed to purchase, on an equal basis, any such shortfall.
TTG Apparel, LLC currently owns 22.4% of Movie Star's outstanding common stock and is Movie Star's largest shareholder.
Frederick's new store designs and talented personnel are expected to drive top line growth, while Movie Star's well-developed sourcing capabilities are expected to help increase gross margins and improve operational efficiencies.
With its strong balance sheet, the combined company will embark on an accelerated growth plan, including the opening of approximately 50 new Frederick's of Hollywood store locations within the next 36 months, and will continue to expand and enhance Frederick's successful online and catalog businesses.
Frederick's will continue to operate from its executive offices in Hollywood, CA with a distribution center in Phoenix, AZ and Movie Star will continue to operate from its executive offices in New York City with a distribution center in Poplarville, MS. Both companies will retain their seasoned leadership teams, with Linda LoRe, CEO of Frederick's, and Melvyn Knigin, CEO of Movie Star, continuing to lead their respective businesses and reporting to the combined company's Board of Directors.
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A  é uma península localizada na província de Kanagawa no Japão. A península situa-se a sul de Yokohama e de Tóquio e separa a baía de Tóquio, a este, da baía de Sagami, a oeste. Na península de Miura encontramos diversas cidades, Yokosuka, Miura, Zushi e Kamakura.

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Although still abundant at Cocos Island and other relatively pristine sites, grey reef sharks are susceptible to localized depletion due to their slow reproductive rate, specific habitat requirements, and tendency to stay within a certain area. The IUCN has assessed the grey reef shark as Near Threatened; this shark is taken by multispecies fisheries in many parts of its range and used for various products such as shark fin soup and fishmeal.[2] Another threat is the continuing degradation of coral reefs from human development. There is evidence of substantial declines in some populations. Anderson et al. (1998) reported, in the Chagos Archipelago, grey reef shark numbers in 1996 had fallen to 14% of 1970s levels.[30] Robbins et al. (2006) found grey reef shark populations in Great Barrier Reef fishing zones had declined by 97% compared to no-entry zones (boats are not allowed). In addition, no-take zones (boats are allowed but fishing is prohibited) had the same levels of depletion as fishing zones, illustrating the severe effect of poaching. Projections suggested the shark population would fall to 0.1% of pre-exploitation levels within 20 years without additional conservation measures.[31] One possible avenue for conservation is ecotourism, as grey reef sharks are suitable for shark-watching ventures, and profitable diving sites now enjoy protection in many countries, such as the Maldives.[6]
Social aggregation is well documented in grey reef sharks. In the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, large numbers of pregnant adult females have been observed slowly swimming in circles in shallow water, occasionally exposing their dorsal fins or backs. These groups last from 11:00 to 15:00, corresponding to peak daylight hours.[28] Similarly, at Sand Island off Johnston Atoll, females form aggregations in shallow water from March to June. The number of sharks per group differs from year to year. Each day, the sharks begin arriving at the aggregation area at 09:00, reaching a peak in numbers during the hottest part of the day in the afternoon, and dispersing by 19:00. Individual sharks return to the aggregation site every one to six days. These female sharks are speculated to be taking advantage of the warmer water to speed their growth or that of their embryos. The shallow waters may also enable them to avoid unwanted attention by males.[10]
Based on morphological similarities, Jack Garrick in 1982 grouped this species with the bignose shark (C. altimus) and the sandbar shark (C. plumbeus), while Leonard Compagno in 1988 placed it as the sister species of the grey reef shark (C. amblyrhynchos). A phylogenetic analysis based on allozyme data, published by Gavin Naylor in 1992, indicated that the Caribbean reef shark is the sister taxon to a clade formed by the Galapagos shark (C. galapagensis), dusky shark (C. obscurus), oceanic whitetip shark (C. longimanus), and the blue shark (Prionace glauca). However, more work is required to fully resolve the interrelationships within Carcharhinus.[3]
In older literature, the scientific name of this species was often given as C. menisorrah.[5] The blacktail reef shark (C. wheeleri), native to the western Indian Ocean, is now regarded as the same species as the grey reef shark by most authors. It was originally distinguished from the grey reef shark by a white tip on the first dorsal fin, a shorter snout, and one fewer upper tooth row on each side.[6] Based on morphological characters, vertebral counts, and tooth shapes, Garrick (1982) concluded the grey reef shark is most closely related to the silvertip shark (C. albimarginatus).[7] This interpretation was supported by a 1992 allozyme phylogenetic analysis by Lavery.[8]
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The Caribbean Reef Shark, also called the Carcharhinus Perezi in the scientific community, is a member of the requiem shark species. They are mostly found on the East coast of America (Atlantic coast) and southwards. The structure of this shark is streamlined and robust and can be easily confused with other sharks in its family. When you look up close, they have an extra rear tip on the second dorsal fin. The first dorsal fin is slightly angled or curved and the gills slits are also longer than most other varieties of sharks.
Despite sharks being portrayed as notorious aggressive animals, very few incidents have involved blacktip reef sharks, none being fatal. Still the importance of an apex predator is vital to a balanced and healthy ecosystem. Unfortunately, this species is very susceptible to reef gill netting. And sharks all around continue to be threatened by fishing pressure resulting in a decrease in many shark populations.
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The Caribbean reef shark was originally described from off the coast of Cuba as Platypodon perezi by Poey in 1876. Bigelow and Schroeder later described the same species as Carcharhinus springeri in 1944 and the reef shark appears in much literature under this scientific name. The genus name Carcharhinus is derived from the Greek "karcharos" = sharpen and "rhinos" = nose. The currently accepted valid name is C. perezi (Poey 1876).
The grey reef shark has a streamlined, moderately stout body with a long, blunt snout and large, round eyes. The upper and lower jaws each have 13 or 14 teeth (usually 14 in the upper and 13 in the lower). The upper teeth are triangular with slanted cusps, while the bottom teeth have narrower, erect cusps. The tooth serrations are larger in the upper jaw than in the lower. The first dorsal fin is medium-sized, and there is no ridge running between it and the second dorsal fin. The pectoral fins are narrow and falcate (sickle-shaped).[4]
The Black-tip Shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) is a species of shark of the family Carcharhinidae, easily identified by the black tips of its fins, especially on the first dorsal fin and the caudal fin. It is one of the most abundant sharks in the tropical coral reefs of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. This species prefers shallow coastal waters and frequently exposes its first dorsal fin in these areas. Most Black-tipped Sharks live on reef margins and sandy bottoms, but they are also known to support brackish or freshwater environments. This species generally reaches a length of 1.6 m. Black-tip Sharks are sedentary and live in very small areas and may remain in the same area for several years. They are active predators of small bone fish, cephalopods and crustaceans, and are also known to feed on marine snakes and seabirds. The data collected concerning the life cycle of the Black-tip Shark are sometimes contradictory and there appear to be significant differences depending on the geographical location within the range of the species. Like other members of its family, this shark is viviparous and females give birth to between two and five young babies every two years, every year or sometimes twice a year. Indeed, according to its habitat the gestation period of this shark can be 7-9 months, 10-11 months or 16 months. Newborns live in coastal waters and in shallower waters than adults, often forming large groups in areas flooded by high tides. Shy and capricious, the Black-tip Shark is difficult to approach and rarely represents a danger to humans, unless it is excited by food. However, bathers in shallow waters can sometimes have their legs bitten by mistake. This shark is fished for its meat, fins and liver oil, but is not considered to be a commercially important species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature assessed the near threatened species. Although the species as a whole remains widespread and relatively common, overfishing of this shark and its slow rate of reproduction has led to its decline in a number of localities.
Grey reef sharks are prey for larger sharks, such as the silvertip shark.[9] At Rangiroa Atoll in French Polynesia, great hammerheads (Sphyrna mokarran) feed opportunistically on grey reef sharks that are exhausted from pursuing mates.[15] Known parasites of this species include the nematode Huffmanela lata and several copepod species that attach to the sharks' skin,[16][17] and juvenile stages of the isopods Gnathia trimaculata and G. grandilaris that attach to the gill filaments and septa (the dividers between each gill).[18][19]
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During mating, the male grey reef shark will bite at the female's body or fins to hold onto her for copulation.[13] Like other requiem sharks, it is viviparous: once the developing embryos exhaust their supply of yolk, the yolk sac develops into a placental connection that sustains them to term. Each female has a single functional ovary (on the right side) and two functional uteruses. One to four pups (six in Hawaii) are born every other year; the number of young increases with female size. Estimates of the gestation period range from 9 to 14 months. Parturition is thought to take place from July to August in the Southern Hemisphere and from March to July in the Northern Hemisphere. However, females with "full-term embryos" have also been reported in the fall off Enewetak. The newborns measure 45–60 cm (18–24 in) long. Sexual maturation occurs at around seven years of age, when the males are 1.3–1.5 m (4.3–4.9 ft) long and females are 1.2–1.4 m (3.9–4.6 ft) long. Females on the Great Barrier Reef mature at 11 years of age, later than at other locations, and at a slightly larger size. The lifespan is at least 25 years.[4][20][24]
The Caribbean reef shark feeds on a wide variety of reef-dwelling bony fishes and cephalopods, as well as some elasmobranchs such as eagle rays (Aetobatus narinari) and yellow stingrays (Urobatis jamaicensis).[1] It is attracted to low-frequency sounds, which are indicative of struggling fish.[4] In one observation of a 2 m (6.6 ft) long male Caribbean reef shark hunting a yellowtail snapper (Lutjanus crysurus), the shark languidly circled and made several seemingly "half-hearted" turns towards its prey, before suddenly accelerating and swinging its head sideways to capture the snapper at the corner of its jaws.[8] Young sharks feed on small fishes, shrimps, and crabs.[8] Caribbean reef sharks are capable of everting their stomachs, which likely serves to cleanse indigestible particles, parasites, and mucus from the stomach lining.[11]
A reef is a bar of rock, sand, coral or similar material, lying beneath the surface of water. Many reefs result from abiotic processes (i.e. deposition of sand, wave erosion planing down rock outcrops, and other natural processes), but the best known reefs are the coral reefs of tropical waters developed through biotic processes dominated by corals and coralline algae.


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A fantasy novel featuring wizard Richard Cypher and his betrothed companion, Kahlan Amnell, as they battle an evil emperor who is using magic to spread a plague. But must they, as they are told, really renounce their love to win the fight?


I'm working hard these days to digest the advice I frequently dispense to my girls. The holidays took quite a toll on me. Nothing I care to go into here, but come December 31st, I was spent, and ready to wipe the slate clean with a new year, new goals. What I would tell my girls is that every day should be met with the optimism of a new year. I try my best to stay focused on the good moments for them; to remind them that hope exists even when you have to dig deeper than you'd like to find it.
Just as my mind was thick into my malaise on Monday, I came across a recipe that shook me from my slumber. It's from an extraordinary writer, and recipe developer across the pond. I'd like to say Rachel and I are friends, but we've never actually met. Like so many relationships these days, it's one through a screen. I'm always taken with her kitchen sink photos, and stories from Rome, where she lives. I've no doubt that if we lived closer, we'd be pals, indeed.
Rachel shared a recipe in her Guardian column for a seemingly simple soup. Nothing special-looking on the surface—pasta and potatoes. Two foods, as she notes, most of us might think an odd coupling. The moment I saw the photo, and read her article, I knew this soup was my destiny. It's a soup of sustenance; the ingredients humble, unfussy, and reminded me of something my nana would've made to stretch her paycheck to feed four kids back in their railroad apartment in the 1950s. Surely, she wouldn't have been able to afford a good quality olive oil, and who even knows if it would've been available to her back in Brooklyn. I have faint memories of my mom adding potatoes and pasta to her chicken soup when I was a kid, but I could be wrong. I think it's the chicken soup from Caputo's that tethers me to Rachel's soup. The recipe, based off of the owner, Frank's, mom's recipe includes potatoes and thick strands of fettuccine. Time has a way of etching in the memories we long for, erasing the experiences as they really happened.
A quick stop at the grocery store after dropping the kids at school, and just an hour after reading Rachel's story, my own pot of pasta and potato soup was bubbling away on the stove. I'd taken out turkey stock a few days earlier to make hot pots, so decided to use that in place of water for my soup. As I poured in the turkey stock, quite thick from having slow roasted in the oven Thanksgiving night, memories from that day settled around my shoulders like a comforting cloak.
Forgive my somewhat blurry photo above. I rushed to snap it before the cheese melted into the soup, and was eager to eat before running out to catch an afternoon movie. Decadent, yes, and I enjoyed seeing Youth. It was a bit peculiar, and I'm still digesting it, but glad I snuck away in the middle of the day to see it.
When I ate the soup for lunch, a generous grating of aged Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese was fine, but left me longing for the salty, assertive kick I knew Pecorino would add. One more stop at the grocery store after school pick-up, and my Pecorino dreams were fulfilled in the bowl I slurped down for dinner. So, thank you Rachel for sharing your soup with me. It was exactly the recipe my scattered mind and heart needed to feel grounded, and find comfort.
p.s. that window down below there is a little experiment I'm trying out. You know how authors have audio books? Well, I thought it would be nice to hear my voice in this post. Let know what you think, and if this something you'd like to hear more of in the future.
View the original recipe as printed in the Guardian here.
Rachel mentions in her recipe that it's more a guideline than strict instructions. I would say the same for what I'm sharing here, though I thought it would be helpful to list more details on the ingredients (and how I prepped some of them), so you could see my interpretation. For instance, her recipe mentions 2 potatoes, weighing 600 grams. I'd been eyeing some local Yukon golds recently, and felt like they would be perfect in this soup, more for their color, than flavor. I find them a rather boring tasting potato on their own, but they soak up the flavors of the other ingredients, and the chunks dot the soup like bursts of sunshine.
With just water, I think this soup would be a fine, benefitting from a blizzard of pecorino to boost the flavor. Using stock is a real gamer changer, adding more depth to the overall soup. Oddly enough a few people commented on the Guardian website that this seemed like a meager amount for four people. I'd strongly disagree. Not only should we be more conscious of portion sizes, but it is quite a filling bowlful (no surprise since it's a combination of pasta AND potatoes). Some call this a first course, but it's totally a main for my appetite (also, I might confess that it's hard to stop at just one bowl).
One last note, and it's an important one. We all know soup is one of those meals that is often better when heated the next day, right? Well, if that's your plan, or you won't consume all the soup once it's ready, then don't add the pasta to the pot, or else you're in for a very different experience. Instead, ladle the amount you want into a separate small pot, add the appropriate amount of pasta, and finish as directed. Experienced soup makers, and chefs, might want to even cook the pasta separately and add it to the soup when ready to serve—I don't suggest doing this, really. The soup benefits greatly from cooking the pasta in it. The broken spaghetti bits, which are what I used, thicken the soup, and absorb the liquid as it cooks (that means flavorful pasta!).
Heat the olive oil in a heavy-bottomed pot or deep pan over medium-low heat. Add the onion, carrot and celery. Season with the salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and translucent. Add the bay leaf and the potatoes. Continue cooking, stirring to coat the potatoes with the oil, for 2 to 3 more minutes.
Add the stock, and more salt, if necessary (remember you're adding cheese at the end, too, which will add more salt, so less might be just right at this point). Bring to boil, then reduce flame just enough so the soup is at a vigorous simmer, with bubbles popping to the top. Simmer for 15 minutes, until the potato is very soft—easily smashed with a fork. Add the pasta, and cook for another 10 minutes, or until the pasta is cooked to your liking. Add more stock if the soup seems to be thickening too much (or water, if used all of the stock in the beginning). Adjust salt, keeping in mind the cheese factor, again. Ladle into deep bowl. Finish with a swirl of olive oil, few grinds of black pepper, and as much cheese as you like before serving.
I've made this several times from her blog. I added a little lemon zest to it. Delicious. Happy New Year.
Lemon zest sounds like a lovely addition, Leigh. I'll have to give that a try next time.
I have everything needed to make this! Thanks!
It's been bitterly cold up here in Toronto lately and this soup sounds like the perfect remedy to warm my perpetually chilly bones!
We had this this past weekend since everyone seems to be getting over or battling colds. It fed three heartily. I didn't have any homemade stock, and felt it needed a little something because I hadn't used pancetta – a little Better than Bouillon worked wonderfully. It bumped it up just enough. My mom always makes her chicken soup with potatoes and finishes with pecorino so it was like a quicker version of that without the chicken pieces that somehow offend my two year old.
Thanks so much for the feedback, Cathy!
The second one of my kiddos sneeze, I'm all like "I don't like how that sounds; I'm making soup for dinner!", so hope the soup made you all feel a little better. I'm with you, too, regarding this being like a chicken soup without the chicken. In fact, I always pick the chicken out of my soup.
Since I feel like I "know" you, it was very nice to hear you audio! Soup sounds delicious!


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HI Paulina, great how you've been working on with chalkboard paint!
It all seems so beautiful.
Super packaging design. Is true when you're paying attention, you see so many beautiful packaging.


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"We're not happy sitting sixth, we believe we can be higher" – Williams on the 'Nix campaign
Posted On February 5, 2019 February 6, 2019 By Nick D'Urbano
After a strong start to the campaign, Wellington Phoenix forward, David Williams believes his side can go to another level as they look to make a return to the finals for the first time in three years.
The 30-year-old said the side are not entirely content with their opening half to the season and thinks the side need to 'dare to dream' in order to close the gap on the top sides in the A-League.
"I think we have just got fitter as the season has gone on," Williams said on Evenings on FNR.
"We are not happy sitting sixth, we believe we can be higher,
"We are only sixth but we dare to dream and we think we can finish higher."
Wellington are fresh off a defeat to the Perth Glory last Saturday night and Williams was adamant the loss was a case of poor mistakes costing them and not being befuddled by the extreme away trip.
"It is a tough ask, but it is no different to travelling on another away trip," Williams said.
"It just didn't work out on the night, we played hard, we could have done a lot better and there were a few mistakes here and there,"
"Luckily for us we have a short turnaround on Thursday and we can just try and forget about the Perth game."
Back in 2006, Williams' former coach, Miron Bleiberg at the then Queensland Roar labelled the forward the best young prospect since Harry Kewell.
Almost thirteen years later, Williams is unsure where his former coach got his claim from but also went on to discuss his need to move away from the A-League in order to gain valuable experience.
"I don't know where he was getting that confidence from," Williams said.
"It is definitely a lot of pressure but he says a lot of stuff and people don't really know what he is saying,"
"I didn't have any complaints about him saying that but I didn't think about it too much,"
"In that system, I had to get away and go join a youth system overseas because we didn't have one back then."
Williams also believes there is still a problem with the youth set-up in Australia as he made it clear that more young players will get opportunities as the league continues to expand.
"The problem in Australia is there are not enough teams for younger players to develop," Williams said.
"You have the youth teams here but youth are playing against youth, they have to be training with more experienced players,"
"I think with at least four more teams, you're going to have a better national set-up because once they get older, they are playing week in, week out,"
"But right now, it is falling apart at the moment."
Wellington take on the Newcastle Jets on Thursday night.
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Podcast | Season 1 | Episode 12: Social, Emotional and Mental Health Needs in Children and Young People
Listen to Steve Baker's insightful presentation on how brain development influences behaviours and learning, and what educators need to consider when they interact with children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs.
Supporting Children and Young People with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties
How the brain develops over time and what influence this has on behaviours and learning
The impact of threat on our behaviours and the importance of positive relationships
How to use non-confrontational approaches to modify behaviour over the long term
Steve Baker, Executive Headteacher, Kilgarth School
This session was recorded live on 14th November 2019 in the SEND Theatre of the Schools & Academies Show at the NEC in Birmingham.
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If you come to listen to me talk about SEMH, good, you're in the right place. What I'm going to do is I'm going to try and do a whistlestop tour of the way that my schools work. If you're asking me a question, we don't have to wait for Q&A at the end if you want to challenge me about any the, the scientific validity behind our approaches that you know, I'm gonna come and talk to you. Is that okay? Fantastic. So my name is Steve. I am currently the Executive Head of two SEMH schools up in Merseyside and I have a secondary school and I was asked to go and take over a primary school was in a spot about I was under threat of closure. Using the approach I'm going to talk about the secondary school is just to be outstanding in all areas the primary school as well as being under threat of closure within two years we got that back to outstanding in all areas as well. We don't use punishment in the secondary school. We don't think it works, particularly for the cohort of young people that we use. And I do a lot of research for people like Goldsmith's and and the University of Liverpool into clinical psychology and, and the development of violence and aggression. So that makes sense. Don't judge me, I used to be an Ofsted inspector as well. But I'm quite a nice guy again now.
So this is what we're going to talk about. I'm going to talk about brain plasticity, neurobiology and how the brain develops over time and how we can use that to our advantage in terms of supporting kids with SEMH. My secondary school is 11 to 16 boys only. My primary school is CoEd. Okay, I'm going to talk about the impact of threat on behavior. So why we need to reduce threat within the classroom and developing positive relationships. with young people, I'm going to talk about the non confrontational approaches to behavior modification. I don't talk about behavior management, my staff don't. Because I can manage behavior in my schools by going in and screaming at the little kids in the primary school. That is all about effective management in the short term. We're interested in long term modification of behavior, so children will make better choices. Yeah. Does anyone ever come across McLean's Triune Brain Theory? So I'm going to give you a quick precis of this. It was a theory that came about in the 1970s by a psychologist by called Paul McLean. And what he said was over time, our brain is actually made up of three distinct areas. Now, before I go into detail, I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty of neuroscience. However, what McLean said there are some holes in his theory, like any scientific theory, it can be challenged, there are some holes in it, but the basic premise stands true. Okay, so he said there are three distinct areas in our brain all interconnected, but they all have their own agenda. And in response to any threat, whether it's a real threat, the perception of a threat, or the memory of a threat, our reptilian brain, as he termed it, takes over to keep us alive in terms of evolutionary psychology. So we only started developing cities about 10,000 years ago. And since then we've we've come to the forefront of developments. We have things like the Sistine Chapel and Britain's Got Talent. So we're at the pinnacle of human development, but our brain hasn't caught up with that. That's what it looks like. So McLean, hypothesised that we have this reptilian complex, which keeps us alive, so to deal with unconscious stuff with breathing. Surrounding that is the limbic system, which has to do with our emotional and our emotional well being. And finally, what distinguishes us from the other animals is our neocortex, which gives us our reasoning. Is that okay? Run with me so far.
In real life, that's what it looks like. So, if I was going to give one of you a Christmas present, I am more likely to give you a puppy. Because a puppy has got emotions, it's happy, it will cuddle you, you can nurture it, you can become its best friend, it can become your best friend. It's more than likely going to reduce your blood pressure, it will lower your heart rate and it will be good for your wellbeing. I am not going to give you a Komodo dragon. Because a Komodo dragon is basically a reptilian complex on legs. It's only going to be interested in survival, aggression, preeding or breeding. By Boxing Day it's going to do a bit of basking in the heat, it's going to do a bit of lurking, follow around the house and bite you and watch you die slowly then eat you so that's not what I'm going to give you. I obviously can't give you Nelson Mandela, but his his neocortex. The outside the wrinkly about the brain is very, very developed. He's a human being that deals with things like language, complex thinking, planning and motor commands. Now the difficulty with our reptilian complex is it's 500 million years old. And so if we see any threat or a perceived threat or the memory of a threat, it takes over to keep us alive.
With me so far, it goes that incredibly quickly now you've all heard of the fight or flight response yet, you've probably all heard that the amygdala the part of your brain that switches off the rest. So your reptilian complex suppresses what's going on in the rest of your brain, just to keep you alive. It is incredibly fast, it's spontaneous. Basically, it will raise your levels of aggression. It will and it will make you fail to effectively use your remote, mines kicking off at the moment because want to scream at them to just keep it down a little bit. It will basically upset you and you don't really think about what you're doing. When it's so fast, that it releases loads of adrenaline into your system, adrenaline lasts about 45 minutes in your system at half life is around there. And then it starts to slowly fade away. So if any of you've dealt with a young person who was really upset, and the jaw sticks out and the rise of popping out and the fists clenched, it's no good talking to them until they've calmed down and calming down can take a significant amount of time. The stress hormone cortisol stays in your system for one to two hours. The Happy hormone dopamine stays in your system for one to two minutes. Now just to give you an idea of how long you can be upset for my schools are asking me so we have to do restrictive physical intervention. Occasionally we try to de escalate behaviors, 95% of the time it works the 5% it doesn't. We have to intervene. We have to restrain young people unfortunately, I hate to but we do. We practice on each other as adults, on inset days. Now one day, I said to Mick who was on the most articulate intelligent people who I know. And some on the front row met him and he's fantastic. He's the head of my secondary school I said to make pretend to be a child and crisis, do whatever you want go crazy. You can swear you can scream, do anything. You are only allowed to calm down if someone de escalates you using these words, or if it's a male or if it's a female or someone with a beard because some of our kids don't like me because I've got a beard. Some of them don't like me because I've got a scouse accent so I just said to him go wild. He went absolutely nuts for 25 minutes, he created a table. On top of the table. He had a mountain of chairs and he sat on the top telling everyone to... he was screaming at the staff, and he wouldn't come down for half an hour. Now on a serious note, how long just turn to the person next to you and tell them how long do you think it took for him to calm down? So don't want to just shout out an answer. Three hours, two days. Remember what I said about the memory of a threat? So every time he thought about it, he was made okay? He got to tell us stuff he doesn't really like anyway, to eff off, and he started to wind himself up, your adrenal glands start to release more adrenaline, and he started to getting primed for fight or flight. It is absolutely instantaneous. And they can prove that by showing you this picture. What's going on there? What's everyone doing? That? I love this because I'm having fun. That is the cop. Don't judge me. That is the kop. Everything I say is just theoretical. I will throw a chair right? Yeah, that is the kop absolutely gutted. When Michael Owen has missed an open go. Now thinking back to evolutionary psychology terms. What they're doing is they're communicating with each other that there is a threat, something bad has happened. It's like, back in the day if a sabre tooth tiger, walked through the jungle, and I'm walking along with my mate Johnny, and I hear something and I run off. I'm going to survive and pass my gene pool on. Johnny goes, Oh, I wonder what that was and he gets eaten. He's dead. So that's what happens. We are primed to notice bad things. So everyone there has put their hands on their heads to warn each other. We are social creatures to warn each other. There is a threat, something bad's happened. Another example of threat overtaking our reptilian complex and it suppresses our normal thinking is in 2010, England got beat 4-1 by Germany in the World Cup. What rate turn to the person next to you, say hello if you don't know them, what rate you think domestic violence increased in this country that night, after we got beat 4-1 because we were upset? anyone?
It wasn't that high. Someone said 70%, that's really catastrophic. It's really depressing. To be honest, it was 29% but like just just back away from the humor element. 29% increase in domestic violence because people are upset because something that happened in South Africa that doesn't really affect those anyway. The same is replicated all the time when the home football team gets beat. Domestic Violence often increases in that area. It's shocking. Let's think about threat within the classroom. School is threatening no matter what you think for all children all the time, it's threatening, not just for the kids for us. I'll be honest with you, I had two Ofsted inspections within six days, six months ago, and I'm not going to be negative. I nearly walked away from the profession because my mental health took such a hit. And I run outstanding schools. It was horrendous. So we're all on the threat of don't get it. It's too loud. It's too hard. I can't read properly. How many of those kids do we see all the time. And you might think I've got no mates. That's not really a threat. There was a piece of research by the marshmallow professor who did the marshmallow test. His name is Professor Walter Michelle. And he showed that the effect of social isolation works on the same neural networks as physical pain. So there has been some research into the theory that taking paracetamol can solve or cure a broken heart. So it's a real threat that we're seeing. And let's be honest, forgive me for saying this. If we're looking at these percentages, free school meal versus non free school meal boys. 12% of free school meal boys and key stage two, with a reading level below in the old level 10s below level three. What that means is they can't read the front page of a tabloid newspaper. They're under threat all the time. Yet at the same time when Ofsted come and see us with the new education inspection framework. We are expected our peoples will read widely and often with fluency and comprehension appropriate to their age, were under threat all the time as well.
Piece of research that the DfE did was about all the stresses that affect children. It's not just in the classroom, it's outside the classroom, what's affecting them so we need to remove this threat for them to learn effectively and I'll show you why in a second. You will be able to get the slides by the way. What I want you to do. By the way, this is true. This is a real headline. You can Google it later and it wasn't a soft top. Someone was under that much threat he took a chunk out of a metal roof car. You Because she was on the threat. Let's let's be honest, you can get the Everton theme coming through ex Liverpool Luis Suarez he probably gets paid about £200,000 pounds a week. When he's under threat. He bites people. It just shows we don't think rationally. Does anyone want to have a burning desire to share a time when they were under threat? They may have acted irrationally. I know you've all done it. You've all given someone a finger when you're driving down the M6. I've seen people on the threat all the time. This lady it seems daft she bit a chunk out of a car. She had lost her partner. He drowned off the North Wales Coast in the sea. And it was just after the funeral she was really upset. The other thing that suppresses our neocortex and stops us thinking rationally is drinking alcohol. Not only was she upset she was socially isolated. She was emotional a rattling complexes all over the place. Your body's probably full of adrenaline. She was drunk. She went across the street in a car pulled in front of her and she gave him the finger and started screaming didn't know what to do and better chunk out for car. So we've got to realise that threat does affect us in a massive, massive way.
I'm going to start talking about learning, and emotions now and link it all to do with threat. So this is what human brain development looks like. So our brains are really fascinating things. When we're born, we've got big heads, not because our brains are fairly big as human beings, they, they become about 90% full size by the time of six, where you can see initially when we're born, and when we're in second third trimester, we initially develop our, our sensory pathways, then we have this window for developing our language skills. So if you learn a language before the age of 12, you can you can continue to learn things. The old adage you can't teach an old dog new tricks is simply not true. I'm going to talk about neuroplasticity in a moment. But there are windows of opportunity where it's more effective. Early intervention is better than remedial action, so if you learn the language before you're 12, you will probably have a perfect or near perfect accent. If you learn French afterwards, like me, you'll sound like Joey Barton went through his Marseille phase, which is a scouse French thing going on. Then your high cognitive function develops. Now for those who are in secondary settings, it all started again, from the age of 12 to 25. Basically, your brain starts to redevelop and it starts from the back to the front. So the reptilian complex, the brainstem that develops initially, it doesn't get bigger, it just gets more wirery you, you get the laying down of new neuronal connections, and a little fatty substance called myelin on your axons, and it makes it 100 times more efficient. So for those of you remember Harry Enfield and and Kevin, the teenager he was a lovely kid, that when it was his 13th birthday, excuse me, turned into a turd and it's basically to the premise is true, because when you reach the age of 12 to 25, your brainstem starts to redevelop. And remember I said, it's all about aggression, preening breeding, impressing your peers. And that's because in terms of evolution, you're more likely to respond to what your peers are doing. You're not interested in teachers, because simply you can't have sex with them. You can't procreate and pass on your gene pool. So that's why you're interested in your peer group. So any of you towards the bottom set year nine, you probably all have everything that I'm saying is resonating with you.
If you don't use certain elements of your brain, you simply lose them because they will be used for other things. Okay, so your brain. When you're when you're young, you make about 700 new neuronal connections every single second, like a piece of brain the size of a grain of sand has got about 100,000 nerve cells, and a million neuronal connections or sign lapses, that's how intense it is. Constantly laying them down. If you keep using them, they become stronger. It's called heavy in theory you create instead of having one network of neuronal cells, you create a superhighway, so they all start to connect each other. Okay? There's a piece of research Forgive me for quoting this, it's quite horrendous is a piece of research in Oxford in the 60s where they took a kitten and blindfolded it from bith and left it for a couple of months, and they took the blindfold off and it and it stayed blind. And that's because of this, use it or lose it process. So the kitten remain blind because it wasn't using its its visual cortex. So that's a waste of blood. It's a waste of oxygen, it's a waste of glucose. So all the areas of the brain took over that cortex. So probably the oldest cortex was far more effective. So the kitten probably have better hearing. Okay, so you need to keep using your brain or otherwise your use, you will lose it. That's it. Really nice picture of neuronal architecture. I just wanted to put that as an example of, of how it's not one simple laying down of neurons firing against each other. It's about a massive connection. And the reason why I'm telling you this is because your emotions are not just linked to how you behave, they're linked to learning as well. That's why we need to think about emotions when we're in the classroom for effective progress to be made.
I mentioned it's called heavy in theory. Now, I'm going to simplify it, but there are two basic areas in the brain that are that are used to create memories. So the first area is called your corpus striatum. And that's effective in creating habitual memories, or unconscious memories. That's what you do unconsciously. That's how you behave. So I'm going to ask you to think now you don't have to discuss this think now about how you have a shower in the morning. Okay, I bet you you do everything in exactly the Same or that every day because it's unconscious. So you may or may not have noticed I've got no hair. So every day I shaved my head, I start on that side, I then do the back, I then do that side, I then do the front, and then I put my razor down, I'm done. If I ever try and do it in a different order, it just freaks me out a little bit. Another example, please give it a go, you've probably done something similar. But another example of your corpus striatum and habitual memories and unconscious action is just put your hands out. Put them up. Now I want you keeping your palms up to try and fold your arms The other way that you usually do it, but get your foot palms up. So it feels a little bit weird. Now if I asked you to do that every day for five minutes for the next two months, you would just do it naturally because you will create a new pathway in your brain that now you will be able to cope with unconsciously. So that makes sense. There was a piece of research I found is fascinating. I love it. It's not worked for me. And I'll explain why in a minute piece of research in America in Cleveland, and it's been replicated all over the world, where they took some took a control group and a group of people, and, and they gave them weights to do on their finger. Now, the control group didn't do any weights on their index finger, they just imagine doing it. And they had to imagine doing it over time, every single day, the strengthen their index fingers increased by up to 35%, just by imagining because you get a much more effective neuronal connection in your brain. I've been trying it with a six pack for the last 12 years and it's not working unfortunately. The final thing is episodic memory, and that in your hippocampus, that's what we need to know about for learning effectively in the classroom. So can anyone tell me what the capital of France is? Please anyone. Thank you very much Paris. There's no prize. We work in the public sector. So it is Paris. That's an episodic memory. It's something you have to think about. I want you to have a think about what you had for breakfast this morning. Okay, so episodic memory, we have to think about it. Now, I said emotions are really important in learning. And that's because of the use of a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Okay, dopamine is released. I've got time to go into this. I tend to do like a half a day session on it. I've got like 10 minutes left. But dopamine is used in the reward system. And the way it works with emotions is if you are stressed, I'm not talking about being under pressure. You know, we all know the research shows that if you're under pressure, you work more effectively. I'm talking chronic debilitating stress. If you're under stress, dopamine floods your brain. Yeah, absolutely floods your brain. It's like a short circuit. And, and that's what people think happens in depression and chronic fatigue syndrome, you get too much don't mean your brain doesn't work effectively. The other thing that happens is if you get too much stress, you release lots and lots of adrenalin for your fight or flight response that burns memories into corporate striatum, your unconscious part of your brain. So there's research going on at the moment. I think that's what happens with PTSD. So you don't know why. You can't consciously recall something. But all of a sudden, something will trigger you and an unconscious memory will come back I in a weird way, I before I was a teacher, I was a war crimes investigator. So I was exhuming bodies over in the Bosnian Genocide and doing autopsies, and occasionally, something will trigger me, memories will come back to me. So that's PTSD. The other thing that happens is, you release steroids when you're stressed and they actively destroy your hippocampus. Your hippocampus is the bit your brain you need to learn in school. So why would you want to destroy the bit of your brain where you need to learn The only effective way that we get dopamine released is through rewards, or the ancestor the patient of rewards.
Now, I said both my schools are outstanding in all areas. And we use rewards based system to develop our our people's choices. When I say rewards, obviously special schools are funded on our local mechanisms that the national funding formula makes no difference towards my schools get half of benchmark. So we are chronically underfunded with a deficit budget. When I'm talking about rewards, I'm talking about things like a pat on the back, or a smile or a well done or a phone call home. That's all I'm talking about, because we literally can't afford anything else. The research also shows punishment doesn't work, particularly those with SMG or callous unemotional traits that which is the precursor to adult psychopathy. Those are social communication difficulties, ADHD, SMH. The thing that punishment does is it causes secondary behaviors. So when we used to give people detentions, we would often see, if someone got a detention on Monday morning that would ruin the rest of their day, they would turn tables there would be screaming, they would be shouting, then, quite often, it would ultimately end in exclusion. It also impacts on our wellbeing. So let me know punishment doesn't work because of the criminal justice system. So the prisons are full SMH schools have full pupil referral units or for AP are full, everything's full. If punishment worked and excluding pupils worked, my schools wouldn't be full. So we need to think a little bit differently. The prisoners Education Trust in 2016 show that 88% of the people in the in the youth system have been excluded from school, high levels of Speech Language communication needs, high levels of dyslexia, lots of learning disabilities, lots of issues around working memory, and understanding what's going on. So we're currently doing some research around alexithymia in my schools, which is actually do children understand their emotions. And if they do, can they verbalise them as well, because we see that behavior as a form of communication, and we're trying to address an unmet need. So that's what we're moving from management's of behavior, as I mentioned earlier, which is basically for efficiency. And it's very short term, it's very impersonal, it's operational into modification, which is designed to to affect permanent change.
I'm not going to stay long on Maslow, we all know about Maslow. We know the bottom elements of the the pyramid before you can move to self actualisation, or actually about having your basic physiological needs met or also your social needs met. So the way that we've done this is we've gone by gone about having positive relationships with young people. I mentioned prisons last year, in March 2018. Her Majesty's Inspectorate Prisons like prisons Ofsted, they released a thematic report looking at behavior in prisons, and the very first finding says, positive relationships between staff and those in their care underpin all effective behavior management systems, we need to have really I'm not saying be their mate. I'm saying be friendly and be professional about it, develop a relationship, get to know them. If we can understand the person in front of us, we will develop their self esteem, if we develop their self esteem will develop their sense of self worth. If someone's saying, I thought you're waving at me, I've got five minutes left. We develop their self worth, they are more likely to engage and engagement is the platform for education. The issue is not going away. It's getting bigger. Blackburn Spencer Ried talked about disability in the 21st century actually be a confluence of intergenerational poverty. We know poverty breeds SEND, intergenerational poverty, our modern medical progress. So preterm birth extremely preterm birth, issues with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder disorder, which affects the parietal lobe and mathematical ability.
So, I wanted to talk about SEMH and support. And then I do a lot of work with a friend of mine, Alice Jones, who's who's the head fo one of the psychology department at Goldsmiths. And she's the, she's the editor of the educational Journal of educational psychology and, she did a lot of work with us as we removed our, our, our sanctions. And she says, from a meta analysis point of view, looking at lots and lots of studies, the key pieces of behavior management or social skills, training, relationships, are about having system wide behavioral interventions, doing it effectively, and making sure you do it consistently, whatever you do, and modifying the curriculum to make sure that we can engage our young people.
Basically, we need to positively reinforce peer to peer, peer to teacher and teacher to teacher interactions. My wife says happy wife happy life. I say happy staff, happy kids better outcomes. Now we all know that too, don't we? No one's ever done a piece of research to linking all three. I put a bid in to try and get some funding from a charity to do that. And we, unfortunately weren't successful. But I went to advise the DfE in the summer, and I summed it up is that just treat people humanely. Let's be honest, we don't see enough of that within education, sometimes not from a school point of view, from the powers that be by won't be political because we're PURDAH. So we need to promote positive mental health in schools, be non confrontational, and break down barriers for pupils with additional needs. For those of you wanted to look at it from an individual cluster class basis. There are some strategies on there. I'm going to have to sum up, so I'm going to sum up because I like this slide. So no one ever come across that story. Kyrie and Brielle Jackson, so this is two they were born extremely preterm. They were less than two pounds in weight in America. And basically, I always forget the names. Brielle was dying. So after three weeks been under two pounds, he started to die. They're in separate cots. Kangaroo care, which is what is done globally wasn't done in America at the time the nurse thought I'm gonna let the sister say goodbye to each other. She picked up Kyrie, put her in Brielle's cot, someone happened to have a camera and took this photo. This is absolutely true. Kyrie immediately put her arm around Brielle and this reinforces the idea positive relationships immediately her vital signs stabilised and she has gone on to live a normal, fulfilling happy life. What I'm not saying is just go out and huig children but actually in a way I am because we are doing some research with a guy called Professor Francis McGlone is a world leader in terms of social touch. And if we don't have social touch, areas of your brain simply don't develop and it causes emotional and social issues. We know it from the 60s when Harvey Harlow, a psychologist did work with baby monkeys. He took them away from mummy monkey and some he put in a cage with a bottle of milk and a wire. Mommy thought they couldn't cuddle. And they had massive social issues, behavioral issues, and they didn't survive. The others who he put with a soft stuffed toy with the milk. They did relatively well. If you're interested in in an early intervention, I would recommend looking at the Hackman equation. He's a Nobel Prize winning economist from the state who talks about early intervention isn't reception. It's not nursery. It's second and third trimester when we start to educate people about the importance of effective parenting. Okay, so what Francis McGlone says is he says, there are certain fibers and neuronal fibers in our body called afferent c-fibres. And if you stimulate them at the rate of five centimeters per second, you develop social brain architecture. Now if I translate that into lay terms, you go like this. Not rocket science. We do that when our kids are in bed taking their SATs at year six. We even do it with some of the older lads in the GCSE. There was a great article in the TES a couple of months ago about social panic about touching children. I'm not saying go out and talk to children, but we need to have relationships with each other. And the last thing I'd say is, a lot of the work started from a lady called Sonja Lyubomirsky, who did research on I just like the word on spiderlings, their baby spiders. And she showed that the spiderlings who were relatively touched more often by mummy spider, we're more likely to go and investigate novel areas and environments. So basically, we need to have positive relationships to develop people. Now. I'm running out of time, I haven't got time to talk about our reward system effectively. But if any of you are interested in finding out any more, we have loads of people. I do lots of work with the Ministry of Justice in prisons. I have prisoner Governors visit. You're always, not all at once, but you're very welcome to come and visit. There's me. There's my Twitter handle. If you've enjoyed, let me know if you've got any questions, fire away and thank you for being so attentive.
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Ben & Jerry's Brings Back Election-Themed Justice ReMix'd Ice Cream
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Ben & Jerry's is doubling down on its fight against systemic racism by bringing back Justice ReMix'd, a flavor and campaign designed to inspire radical change. This time the spicy combination of cinnamon and chocolate ice creams, gobs of cinnamon bun dough, and fudge brownies is being deployed with a new, urgent message to young people: use your power and vote.
"Young people have the ability to determine the outcome of this election," said Chris Miller, Head of Global Activism Strategy for Ben & Jerry's. "They represent 37% of US voters, the single largest group of eligible voters, and everything they care about is on the ballot—racial justice, access to healthcare, climate change, the economy, LGBTQ rights. There is so much at stake, and it's not just at the top of the ticket. We're working hard to encourage young people to make their vote their voice this November."
As part of their larger get-out-the-vote campaign, Ben & Jerry's is sweetening the deal by offering free waffle cones to people who pledge to vote for justice. In participating Ben & Jerry's Scoop Shops nationwide, fans can check their voter registration status, register online, and get local election information. Fans who pledge to vote can get a free upgrade to a freshly baked waffle cone, no matter the size of their original ice cream order.
The relaunch of the Limited Batch Justice ReMix'd is also part of Ben & Jerry's overarching effort to create change using democracy's most powerful, non-violent tools. The company issued a strongly worded warning that We Must Dismantle White Supremacy after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officers in May, and launched a podcast about the history of racism in America in September. Ben & Jerry's continues to work with activists and non-profit partners like Advancement Project National Office and Color of Change to support those on the frontlines of the struggle for justice.
More recently, the company installed an exhibit at its Waterbury ice cream factory honoring the life and legacy of voting rights champion, the late Congressman John Lewis. On October 10th, Ben & Jerry's will sponsor the first-ever broadcast performance on Adult Swim by hip-hop powerhouse, Run The Jewels, with a strong call to action to young people to turn out and vote in record numbers in this election.
And for the first time in the company's 42-year history, Ben & Jerry's will close all of its company-owned and operated facilities in the US, including its corporate headquarters and ice cream factories, on Election Day to encourage its employees to vote. The company supports the idea of making Election Day a national holiday.
"The number one reason people give for not voting is not having enough time," said Miller. "People should not have to choose between their job and their civic duty, especially this year. This election is just too important."
Justice ReMix'd is available again as a Limited Batch flavor at Scoop Shops and on store shelves nationwide, with a suggested MSRP of $4.99. To learn more about Ben & Jerry's, visit: benjerry.com
About Ben & Jerry's
As an aspiring social justice company, Ben & Jerry's believes in a greater calling than simply making a profit for selling its goods. The company produces a wide variety of super-premium ice cream, yogurt and sorbet using high-quality ingredients. Ben & Jerry's incorporates its vision of Linked Prosperity into its business practices in a number of ways including a focus on values-led sourcing. In 2015 the company completed its transition to using entirely non-GMO (genetically modified organisms) ingredients by source as well as to fully source Fairtrade-certified ingredients wherever possible, which benefits farmers in developing countries. Ben & Jerry's products are distributed in 35 countries in supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience stores, franchise Ben & Jerry's Scoop Shops, restaurants and other venues. Ben & Jerry's, a Vermont corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Unilever, operates its business on a three-part Mission Statement emphasizing product quality, economic reward and a commitment to the community. Ben & Jerry's became a certified B Corp in 2012. The Ben & Jerry's Foundation's employee-led grant programs totaled $3MM in 2019 to support grassroots organizing for social and environmental justice around the country.
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I did my first session nearly a full week ago now, and am gearing up for the second one tomorrow night. Week one was great, but tough. I was so excited to get stuck into this and enjoyed the first session. I said last week that I need to take more of an active role in tackling our infertility issues head on. I think a large part of that is just being equipped with the right information and then making a clear plan about what we're going to do from this point onwards.
Looking at some of the research around stress and infertility has been really helpful. I've always had a nagging feeling that my incredible propensity for stress and anxiety has something to do with our problem conceiving, but to see it spelled out makes it more 'real' and – even though I know that there are other things contributing to my infertility – makes me feel a little vindicated in a funny kind of way. I think it's mostly because part of the challenge for me is trying to overcome the overwhelming sense of hopelessness that things might never change... that we'll be stuck in a never-ending cycle of anticipation and disappointment. On the other hand, knowing that there are other everyday things we can do to greatly improve our changes makes me feel much more in control again. Now, I've just got to find the willpower to stick to the plan!
I think I've done pretty well this week. I've been trying to practice the things I learned in the first session and have found my stress levels have, at times, been a bit better. But then life sometimes throws you curveballs and this week I'm still guilty of doing things I never thought I would do.
I'm of that age where lots of people around me are conceiving and bringing beautiful little babies into the world. This week I found out that another relative has just fallen pregnant. I am, of course, incredibly happy for them but there's also a strong feeling of jealousy deep down that I just can't shake. I'm totally ashamed that I would feel like this, but I find it very difficult to control; it makes it very hard to spend time around others. Sometimes I feel like I'd be happy to just stay home and not have to talk to anyone for fear of them announcing another pregnancy, or (God forbid) asking when we're going to start thinking about children and offering up well-intentioned but unwitting advice: "You don't want to leave it too long, you know?" Yes, I know! But I of course nod politely and try to change the subject.
One of the things that really stuck in my mind from last week's session was that I should try to treat myself like I would treat my best friend. It's so true and yet something I'm so terrible at.
I have always been incredibly hard on myself, so when I feel jealous or angry at someone else's exciting baby news, it's usually followed by a deep sense of guilt and anger at myself. My internal monologue is usually littered with things I would never say to another person and certainly not my best friend! This week I've been consciously trying to change that and reassure myself it's okay to feel these emotions… that it's normal and not something I need to be ashamed of.
Although this advice is ringing in my ears every time my mind goes to a bad place, it's going to take time for me to really accept and feel okay about these sorts of emotions. It's tough to accept a part of yourself that you're not particularly fond of. But then again, it always takes time to change ingrained habits and I know that the first step is recognising that I'm not the only one feeling this way; that it doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
All in all, I've found it a bit tough this week and have felt a bit down, but I also feel a nascent sense of optimism. My mind isn't in a good place yet, but that's exactly why I'm here. I know that if I stick this out, things might just get better.


TFA has already supported two postgraduate training courses in speech therapy (2010-2014), in partnership with the University of Pham Ngoc Thach in HCMC.
There are now 33 Vietnamese-trained speech therapists working in hospitals, health centres and schools, in HCMC, Hue and Hanoi – and we want to help them continue to learn and grow.
We are committed to those graduates' continuing professional development (CPD): the learning and professional growth they all need to sustain and further their knowledge and skills in speech therapy.
A comprehensive plan of action for professional development in speech therapy and clinical practice is being rolled out that includes mentoring, expert workshops, master classes, seminars, journal clubs and even national tours by visiting speech therapy specialists.
As you can imagine we need many volunteers to fill these roles. Would you – could you? – offer to help this program of continuing professional development. You could travel to Vietnam as a volunteer and give of your own expertise, nominate someone you know who can help, or even raise funds to support this work. Find out how you can volunteer.


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Adam Schiff Obtains Journalist's Phone Records — and from the Left: Silence
Surge Summary: Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff has snagged phone call records of an investigative reporter, his sources and even a fellow Congressman (Republican). Where is the widespread outrage of the sacredness of the journalistic process?
We have been gravely tutored consistently, for years, by the media and Left that source relationships are central to effective journalism. That the relationship between source and journalist is sacrosanct — so much so that reporters are willing to go to jail to preserve it.
The Blaze's Rob Eno, though, points out a dangerous precedent which has turned up: suddenly, when it comes to the impeachment of President Donald Trump? Radio silence on protecting journalism. Those same press members aren't raising a stink about Rep. Adam Schiff's (D-Calif.) obtaining records of calls between one of their own — investigative reporter John Solomon — and his sources regarding Ukrainian corruption.
CNN reported, "The phone records, which are labeled in the report's endnotes as coming from AT&T, show a web of communications between Solomon, Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, Ukrainian American businessman Lev Parnas, Nunes and the White House's budget office."
Now follow the bouncing ball: the Trump-obsessed Schiff not only obtained a journalist's call records, but additionally the call records of his committee's ranking member, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.).
"Which is particularly rich coming from Schiff," reminds Eno, "who is alleged to be a serial leaker."
Instead of expressing dismay that a journalist's call logs were obtained by a congressional investigator, media types are piling on Solomon, calling into question his reporting, which was extensively sourced with primary documents from Ukraine and other sources.
On Nov. 18, Politico media reporter Michael Calderone wrote about how The Hill, which published Solomon's reporting on Ukraine, has opened an investigation into that reporting and vows to correct it, if necessary.
CNN media critic/cheerleader Brian Stelter tweeted Monday that "the Hill's editor emphasizes that Solomon's work is being examined." He also retweeted a tweet from Politico reporter Kyle Cheney regarding the phone call records obtained. So Stelter knew about the phone records as the primary means of bringing Solomon's name into the record.
The media and leftist elites' actual beef with Solomon is that he dared investigate fully a narrative counter to theirs – and it seems to be true. That's a no-no in America's capital city, where the elite version of things is the only one given any weight.
On top of the above, Schiff has crossed the Rubicon with this line of inquiry, setting a disturbing precedent. Eno writes we shouldn't be surprised if Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) procures call records of Schiff and other media sources. Also, prepare yourself for people like Brian Stelter to abruptly rediscover their principles and commence carping once again about abuse of power.
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EASY KNOWLEDGE
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1. Easy Knowledge (J.Worth/D.Payne)
2. There's A War Going On (J.Worth/D.Payne)
3. Hanging Out at the 7-Eleven (J.Worth)
4. Watching Watching (Worth/Nicholson)
5. Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White (Cobb)
6. We're So Cool (J.Worth)
7. It's A Crime (J.Worth/P.DiPuccio)
8. Downtown (Johansen/Thunders)
9. Local Hero [Bonus Track]
10. Souvenir [Bonus Track]
11. You Beat Me To The Punch [Bonus Track]
12. Beat The Devil [Unreleased Version - Bonus Track]
Robert Christgau's rave review in the Voice...
Six out of eight songs on this half-hour-plus "EP" get to the heart of smart teen disillusion, which is as much as I ever expect of the L.A.-spawned nuevo-Nuggets approach. The Standells cover sounds like Dylan and states Blow-Up's credo, which in the great smart-teen tradition comes perilously close to making a fashion statement about not conforming to style. A MINUS
LA Herald-Examiner - June 23, 1984 by Mikal Gilmore
Back in the mid-70s, in that restive, uncertain time between the eventful (if at-odds) insights of David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen. and the explosiveness of the Ramones and Sex Pistols, this was the sort of music that worked as a sustaining touchstone for many rock 'n' roll diehards: raw, basic, fervid (and fun) fare, illuminated by a temper borrowed essentially from Highway 61 Revisited, and a sad-eyed aggressiveness learned from December's Children and the first Velvet Underground album. Now, in the mid-'80s, after punk's insurgency has turned into another version of upward-bound, commercial savvy, this same manner of youthful, garage-derived sensibility seems, if anything, even more illuminating and promising.
The trouble is, I can't really tell you much about this local five-piece, except that songwriter and lead vocalist Jody Taylor Worth sings and composes much like Elliott Murphy and David Johansen in their come-and-go primes (also a bit like Jim Carroll in a prime he's never had), and is the son of film producer Marvin Worth ("Unfaithfully Yours" and "Lenny"). who once also managed Lenny Bruce. That last bit of info doesn't really bear upon the music, though it might help account for the uncommon innate intelligence and verve that permeate Worth's songwriting. In any event, this is one of the most thoroughly enjoyable and encouraging LPs I've heard all year. I play it just about as much as I play the Bruce Springsteen and Lou Reed albums, and for much the same reason: It strives for transcendence in the face of mundane fortune, and it finds much to celebrate and affirm in that quest. If I were a record biz cat I'd sign these kids in a flash. They're pretty amazing.
Jody Worth: Vocals, guitar
Pat DiPuccio: Guitar, harmonica
Christian Super: Piano, organ
Michael Rummans: Bass
Ed Cirino: Drums
with Steve Hunter (12 string guitar), Greg Oakland (bass), Kenny Ray Padilla (saxophone, bass), Devin Payne (bass, vocals, saxophone), Steve Polto (drums), Jimmy Johnson (bass), Gary Ferguson (drums), Gabriel Katona (organ), Randy Kerber (synthesizer)
Produced by Devin Payne and Blow-Up
Engineered and Mixed by Larry Brown.
Local Hero EP Engineered and Mixed by Duane Baron.
Additional Engineers: David DeVore, Bruce Ablin, Rusty Cusick & Ethan James.
Recorded "all over Los Angeles" at Present Time Recorders, Preferred Sound, Salty Dog Studios, Wireworks & the Pasha Music House. "Downtown" recorded live at the Roxy Theatre March 5, 1983.
From the "Local Hero" EP:
Local Hero (J. Worth)
Souvenir (J.Worth/B. Nicholson)
You Beat Me to the Punch (W.Robinson/R.White)
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Beat the Devil (Remake) (J.Worth/B.Nicholson)
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Cala Pi és una cala situada al municipi de Llucmajor, Mallorca, i és la més important de les poques cales del migjorn d'aquesta illa. Té un entrant d'aigua d'uns 400 m entre penya-segats d'uns 30 m d'alçada. Al fons de la cala hi ha una platja de sorra fina d'uns 50 m d'amplada i molt llarga, al voltant dels 150 m.

La cala es troba tan encaixonada car és la desembocadura del torrent de Cala Pi; aquest mateix torrent crea una petita albufera, a la part interior de la cala, on hom hi ha trobat llises. La cala és un lloc habitual per resguardar-hi embarcacions, existeix un nucli d'escars i també moltes embarcacions hi fondegen, ja que és un dels únics resguards naturals que existeix en el litoral des del cap Enderrocat fins a s'Estanyol de Migjorn.

Encara que sembla que el nom «cala Pi» fa referència a un gran pi que hi pogués haver a la cala, no hi ha cap constància documental. A més l'existència de pins a les cales de Mallorca és un fet generalitzat. Sembla més encertat que el nom prové d'un antropònim, igual que la propera cala Beltran, ja que durant l'edat mitjana hi ha documents que indiquen que hi havia un bon nombre de pobladors de Llucmajor que duien el nom "Pi".

A la part del llevant, tanca la cala l'anomenada punta de Cala Pi, sobre la qual hi ha construïda una torre de guaita, la torre de Cala Pi, del , emprada com a defensa de l'entrada de la cala. A la mateixa part hi ha una urbanització residencial, anomenada també Cala Pi, que data dels anys seixanta del . En el torrent, prop de la cala, hi ha restes arqueològiques prehistòriques, com ara la Cova de Cala Pi, emprada com a lloc d'enterrament, i a la part del ponent hi ha restes de construccions talaiòtiques, la qual cosa demostra que aquest indret fou habitat des d'antic.

Escars

Els escars foren construïts l'any 1954. Sis d'ells tenen refugis d'obra de dues plantes, realitzats amb marès amb coberta plana, també de marès, suportada per bigues de fusta, d'on surten un fumeral per refugi. L'accés a cinc d'ells es realitza mitjançant uns grans portells de fusta de dues fulles, i sols un per mitjà d'una barrera metàl·lica. A la segona planta, quatre dels escars, els situats més al sud, disposen d'una finestra gran a la part superior, mentre que els dos situats més cap al nord, no disposen d'ella. Enfront del conjunt dels escars hi ha la rampa feta de ciment per on es pugen i baixen les embarcacions. El conjunt dels sis escars amb refugi d'obra es complementa amb dos grups d'escars que només disposen de la rampa i petits porxos de refugi.

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You Are Here: RWTH Spin-Off Company Makes It Possible to Replace Bovine Serum
RWTH Spin-Off Company Makes It Possible to Replace Bovine Serum
You Are Here:RWTH Spin-Off Company Makes It Possible to Replace Bovine Serum
In collaboration wtih RWTH biologists a new start-up is developing an alternative cell medium for regenerative therapies. Human stem cells from blood banks are being used instead of fetal bovine serum.
Copyright: Peter Winandy Executive Manager Hatim Hemeda with colleague Alina Ostrowska from the RWTH start-up PL BioScience.
"During my postdoc I worked with mesenchymal stem cells and cultivated them in fetal bovine serum. I then discovered that a humane alternative product was much better suited. I wanted to test it out but I couldn't purchase it anywhere," explained biologist and former RWTH scientist Hatim Hemeda. Together with a team from the Division of Stem Cell Biology and Cellular Engineering, headed by Professor Wolfgang Wagner, he ended up producing the new cell culture medium himself.
On the lab scale the effort and workload was manageable. The result, even better. The new medium a lysate from human blood platelets lead to more than twice as much healthy cell growth. "We use stem cells to study human aging," said Hemeda. Mesenchymal stem cells are also used in regenerative therapies. Here, damaged bone marrow, bones, or fat tissue can be replaced, for example – while simultaneously avoiding the ethically dubious use of fetal bovine serum.
Support from RWTH Founders' College
The team acquired the concentrates from blood platelets as a raw material from the University Hospital's blood bank. Due to passed expiration dates the platelets could no longer be used for medical purposes. However, they could still be used for research. Manufacturing the medium, the so called lysate, which is a cell disruption on the blood platelets, is relatively easy: freezing and thawing multiple times is feasible on a modest scale. Yet Hemeda wanted other scientists to profit from the new cell culture medium: as a result he founded PL BioScience GmbH in 2015 – with support from Christian Wilkes. He was already executive manager of a diagnotics laboratory and possessed the necessary business know-how.
The duo received support from the RWTH Founders' College and Professor Wagner : "The product is an excellent development. We exclusively cultivate our cells with platelet lysate." This is also the starting substance for a 3D matrix, in which cells are much more comfortable than on the hard surface of cell culture plastic bottles – a discovery made by Wagner's working group that has been registered as patent by RWTH.
Aside from the liquid medium PLSOLUTION, which is distributed in two qualities, PLMATRIX is the spin-off's second product – in-licensed by RWTH. The company now aquires the raw material for the product from numerous suppliers throughout Germany. More than 250 blood platelet donations are used for one production unit.
Still Exceptions Throughout Europe
Hemeda is convinced that platelet lysate can replace fetal bovine serum in virtually all applications. However the use of fetal bovine serum has been the standard for decades. "There have always been negative reports, such as about a mafia that distributes adulterated bovine serum."
PL BioScience is not the only supplier of human blood platelet lysate. There are also competitors here and there in Europe. In 2010, Mill Creek in the USA was the first company to put platelet lysate on the market for clinical use in accordance with good manufacturing practice. This doesn't worry the young entrepreneurs: "It's in our best interest that as many companies and scientific working groups convert to platelet lysate. Our matrix is an exclusive product and we have further product ideas in development," emphasized Hemeda.
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