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Parents of miracle baby girl with severe heart defects say 'she fights everyday'
'Miracle Margot' has captured the hearts of people all over the country
Phoebe RamDigital News Correspondent
Margot-Valentina Hawkins was born with congenital heart defects.
Parents of a two-week-old baby girl born with multiple rare heart problems have shared her story and praise for the NHS who helped her.
Little Margot-Valentina Hawkins came into the world on February 9 at Leicester Royal Infirmary to mum Hannah Hawkins and dad, Nick Hawkins of Bramcote.
But unlike most newborns, Margot has not yet been able to properly meet her siblings and other relatives due to being born with various heart complications.
The problems were first detected at Hannah's 20-week scan when the family were told Margot's heart may only last 25 to 30 years.
As well as being born with half a heart, there is also a hole within it and other complex issues that will mean she will be monitored for the rest of her life.
"She was born breathing and that was our first relief," Nick, 35 said.
"Then we eventually sat down with the consultants and discussed the first process Margot would need to have known as the Norwood procedure to be carried out at Birmingham Children's hospital.
"The surgery had a 50/50 survival rate which was the most painful thing - she was just four days old."
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After a successful eight-hour surgery, the days that followed were critical for Margot to ensure her body would accept the changes designed to help her heart function.
During this time, Nick said Margot had to go on life support, was prone to 'mini' heart attacks and was left with a large scar down her torso.
"But this little girl, against all odds, she fights every day," Nick added.
"Parents don't put their children to bed wondering if it will be their last day, but that's what it's like.
"It makes you realise what is really important."
Margot-Valentina left, showing her scars from surgery. Right, the first time wearing clothes.
Hannah, 34, said: "It was devastating getting that news during my 20-week scan but then once Margot got here, it was harder than we ever imagined.
"Because of Covid, we can't all be together and it is heart-wrenching to be away from my other children.
"That day of the surgery, we had to say goodbye to her and were just praying our phones wouldn't ring because it would be bad news.
"Nick has been amazing and I don't know what we would have done without each other.
"But I take comfort in holding Margot and seeing her grow - she doesn't look like the same baby now from when she had her surgery.
Margot will continue to be monitored in hospital until she is strong enough to go home, but will have to return for further surgeries in just a few months time.
While Nick and Hannah are having to face time apart from their four sons, and barely seeing each other due to a one-in-one-out system in the hospital, the focus has turned to how they can give back to both the NHS and other parents facing similar challenges.
The couple are currently staying in a Ronald McDonald Charities house, which provides accommodation for families while their loved ones are receiving treatment.
"If we didn't have this hotel, it would have been 100 times harder, it has taken the weight off so we can rest," Hannah said.
Nick said he spent a few nights in the Leicester hospital in a chair, and seeing the services at Birmingham made him realise more could be done for families.
He also said the experience with the NHS and Margot has made him want to celebrate the work they do more and eventually give back.
"It's completely changed me to see what the NHS do, and shows true teamwork no matter what, they are all just here to help save lives.
"I'm going to be in this system for years, but we will all rely on them one day and I just think they are all amazing people that I want to support."
Nick has been raising money through social media and there is a fundraising page to help support hospital wards and charities such as the organisations that have helped Margot and the Hawkins family.
Margot-Valentina with mum, Hannah Hawkins and dad, Nick Hawkins.
He said he will continue to help wherever it is needed, "not for one specific thing", but to spread the gift as far as possible.
"I can't stand the NHS up but I've tried to help the wards and I want to give something back so other parents in my situation don't have to worry.
"It's £5,000 a year to pay for one of the rooms we are in, and I'd love to sponsor one.
"It's been an absolute blessing to us and the NHS is just unreal."
Margot-Valentina's story has earned her the nickname 'M-V' and 'Miracle Margot' and has already spread far and wide with many following her journey.
The hope is now, it might be able to help other families.
Hannah said: "It's amazing to see how many hearts she has touched - Margot's future does have a sort of time limit, or she may need a heart transplant, but then you never know what might happen in the future.
"I just feel lucky to have both our families supporting us and helping with the boys, and we have had so much support from people we don't even know."
To visit Margot's fundraising page, click here.
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For our second participation to the event, we have curated some of the most exclusive and collectible pieces of 20th Century Nordic design.
Børge Mogensen, Hans Wegner, Grete Jalk, Axel Salto, Josef Frank, Hans Olsen, Tapio Wirkkalaa, Poul Henningsen, and Paavo Tynell are some of the Nordic masters we will be showcasing this year.
One of the highlights of our stand will be an extraordinary sculpture by Eva Hild, Sweden's celebrated and world-renowned ceramist. The unique work of art comes from the estate of New York-based venture capitalist and art collector Dr. Pentti Kouri.
Another highlight will be an early Flora cabinet designed in 1937 by Josef Frank for Svenskt Tenn – one the most recognizable and desirable pieces of modern Swedish design.
Our third highlight is a one-of-a-kind vase designed by acclaimed Danish ceramist Axel Salto. Made in the sprouting style in the 1940's for Royal Copenhagen, the vase features an exceptional and highly-valued oxblood glaze.
in 1915. Only two examples were produced at the time - one belongs to the Swedish National Museum collection, and the other one is on display at our stand.
Our centerpiece this year is a dining suite signed by Danish designer Børge Mogensen. The dining table is extendable to up to nearly four meters/13 feet, and is enhanced by a stunning MMF rug placed underneath and designed by Barbro Nilsson in 1952.
We are also especially proud to present a selection of widely sought-after Paavo Tynell lighting: a chandelier, a wall lamp and two floor lamps, each featuring exquisite design details.
It will be a pleasure to welcome you here, so do let us know if you are planning to visit.


Part of the reason I fell in love with journalism in the first place is because of design. As a sophomore, I used to spend hours on end sifting through Pinterest looking for design inspiration or on YouTube learning any new Adobe InDesign shortcuts. Today, I still find myself doing just that because I've always believed how a story is packaged is one of the most important parts of any story.
My design work has received national recognition from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and the National Scholastic Press Association, state recognition from the University Interscholastic League and local recognition from The Dallas Morning News. But by using basic elements of design such as themes, dominance, contrast, eye flow and balance, I'm able to create a dynamic relationship with readers. In a sense, design is a journalist's chance for a first impression with a reader — it's an opportunity to direct the reader to the stories we have so carefully planned for them.
Even the most well-written story will be glossed over if the design gets in the way. That's why you might find me on a computer in my office in the publications suite late after school working on a page, an infographic or a photo illustration. Because I believe visual storytelling and traditional storytelling must go hand-in-hand to give the reader the complete story. And design is at the core of everything The ReMarker and Focus Magazine does.
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When I went Cruelty Free the first thing I noticed was how many fragrances were tested on animals. It broke my heart to part with so many of my favourite scents but I just couldn't continue using them knowing innocent animals were harmed in their making. Fast forward 12 months and I have found some amazing cruelty free alternatives which I am going to share with you in this cruelty free perfume guide.
January 1 2019 marks a year since I made the change to go Cruelty Free! If you have been contemplating making the cruelty free change I encourage you to do it - it isn't as hard as you might think and in this post I share 5 tips to help you get started.
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One of my favourite things to do when I visit America is go makeup shopping! So during my recent visit I hit up Sephora, Ulta and Morphe and shopped up a storm! In this post I share my complete makeup haul.
Priceline is the ultimate beauty destination but as a cruelty free babe have you ever been unsure of which brands you can splurge on while still being kind to our furry friends?
Since going cruelty free it has opened my eyes to all the beauty brands which don't test on animals and to my surprise I had a lot of them in my collection. In this post I share my top 5 CF international makeup brands and my holy grail products.
As of January 1, 2018 I will only be using products which are cruelty free and NOT tested on animals. In this post I also share a list of cruelty free beauty options and why I decided to make this change.


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Fighting climate change with gene editing: Can we slash cows' methane production?
Patrick Whittle | November 12, 2019
What links belching cows and climate change with the modern genetic revolution and a ridiculously long nerve?
The first two are pretty straightforward: Cows emit methane in their burps (both front and rear), and this greenhouse gas is one of the most damaging contributors to the global warming alarm that's currently gripping the headlines. Indeed, food production as a whole generates perhaps 25 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, with the methane-emitting meat and dairy industries adding perhaps a third or more to agriculture's total figure.
This is where modern genetics comes in. Given the growing concern about climate change, modern genetic technology is now being applied to address some of its causes, including the gaseous nature of cows (and other domesticated ruminants, such as sheep). And it is the complexity and ingenuity of these techniques that, in turn, provide the connection to the overly-long nerve mentioned above.
Before touching on this nerve, however, what do we know about cows' (and sheep's) unfortunate tendency to belch climate-changing methane? Actually, it isn't so much the animals themselves that create this unwanted greenhouse gas — rather, it's the fault of certain microorganisms that reside in their rumen, the section of digestive tract that gives 'ruminants' their name. Here, methane is simply an unfortunate byproduct of the enteric fermentation by which these gut microbes break down plant matter — and the host animals' burps are merely a means to relieve the build-up of gas.
Preventing this methane from being produced in the first place therefore seems a sensible way to limit its damaging effects — and geneticists are already addressing this in at least three different ways: by playing with the genes of the gut microbes themselves, the grasses they ferment and the ruminants within which they live.
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The last of these, using genetic know-how to create non-methane emitting cows and sheep, merely puts a more modern twist on the artificial selection of livestock that has been practiced for centuries. Of course, the big difference between traditional selective breeding and today's genetically informed alternative is precision; whereas in the past, farmers could only work with directly observable characteristics (size or weight, say, or behaviour), modern breeders can now target the actual genes that determine particular traits.
In the case of methane-producing cattle, we now know that genetic differences between individual animals influence the considerable variation in these individuals' output of the gas. Given this, farmers can simply select low-emitting cattle for breeding at the expense of their high-emitting bovine brethren (or 'sistren' in the case of cows).
The obvious disadvantage here is time — it has taken years to build up the milk- or meat-production capabilities of modern cattle. Again, though, modern genomics has the potential to quickly revolutionize the age-old techniques of selective breeding, especially by 'cutting and pasting' desired genes into existing cattle lineages. Genetically engineered hornless cattle have already be created, so making them methane-less, too, could be next on the list.
Of course, a simpler idea might be to simply change the animals' diets. Maize-based silage, for example, appears to cause less methane production than grass-based silage, with legumes and linseed or soya oil (and even seaweed) also reducing the amount of greenhouse gases that animals emit.
And while such dietary changes could be affected without attention being paid to genes, modern genetic technology can play a role here too — say, by genetically engineering methane-inhibiting properties into grasses already selected for their desired nutritional traits. This approach is already being taken, for example, to create rye grasses with a suite of beneficial characteristics that improve yields, enhance drought-resistance and inhibit methane production.
What, though, of the guilty gut microorganisms themselves? Here again, targeting the host animals' diet could provide a straightforward means to minimize these microorganisms' methane production — say, by the addition of appropriate methane inhibitors to cattle feed. This method, which is not directly reliant on genetics, could also channel the energy normally lost in methane-producing fermentation to the host animal itself; nevertheless, a longer term solution might be just to remove the particular microbes that are the root cause of the problem.
One scheme being examined here is to genetically screen ruminants' gut contents to identify the main 'methanogens' and hence develop vaccines to target the methane-producing microorganisms. (Appropriately enough, the word 'vaccine' itself comes from vacca, the Latin for 'cow', with the very first vaccinations made of matter from cowpox blisters as a defense against smallpox.) Genetic identification of the culpable methanogenes (all bacteria-like arcachea) is similarly being used in other anti-methanogenic solutions to the problem of greenhouse gas emissions in cattle.
Now, though, having briefly surveyed these various ingenious approaches to tackling climate change, it is time to leave the specifics of genetics and expand the discussion to encompass wider evolutionary theory. Broad Darwinian ideas, it turns out, can cast a critical light on the seemingly intelligent designs discussed thus far — as can be illustrated by the massively long nerve with which this article began.
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The nerve in question is the recurrent laryngeal nerve that links the base of the brain to the larynx (or 'voicebox'). Although these two organs are mere inches apart, the recurrent laryngeal nerve follows an absurdly convoluted pathway between them, traveling down the neck from the brain, looping around the arteries of the heart, then returning all the way back up to the larynx. (In giraffes, it can reach 15ft/4.6m in length.)
This nerve is often presented as a challenge to anti-evolutionary theories of Intelligent Design; that nothing intelligent would create such a preposterous detour. Rather, the recurrent laryngeal nerve is a classic example of the 'unintelligent' processes of natural selection, blindly building on what already exists. (Here, the nerve first arose in a fish-like ancestor as a direct link between the brain and the gills that merely bypassed the heart. The nerve pathway then incrementally lengthened as new species with new body shapes — including us and giraffes — emerged over evolutionary time.)
Yet while this is all well and good for debate against creationists, what on earth has it to do with methane-emitting cows and climate change?
The point is that human culture, institutions and behaviors are themselves mostly the product of the same blind tinkering that has produced the workable but absurd recurrent laryngeal nerve. The way our societies are organized, for example, owes more to ancestral social behavior than to rational planning (think primate alpha male and a dozen modern presidents and dictators will immediately spring to mind).
Or take human meat-eating as another example. Our forest-dwelling and largely vegetarian primate ancestors did not purposefully set out to become expert hunters as they moved into the savanna millions of years ago. Rather, natural selection progressively built on the limited hunting abilities already displayed by our nearest relative, the chimpanzee. Yet as more meat was caught and consumed, the extra calories allowed in turn the development of a larger, energy-hungry brain, which could then feedback into more intelligent hunting (and cooking techniques, such as the use of fire). Ultimately, this led to the large-brained, super-intelligent creatures us humans are today. (But this was neither inevitable nor directed — cats, for example, use the energy from eating meat to spend most of their lives asleep. Who are the smarter species, eh?)
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But let's cut to the chase. Our intelligence (and our meat-eating) now appears to have brought the Earth to the verge of catastrophic climate collapse. At the same time, however — as shown in the genetic examples above — human ingenuity may find a way to avoid this existential crisis.
But, at least in the case of meat-eating, surely a more obvious idea would be to give up the stuff entirely. So why don't we?
Because we're still working with what went before. The modern human economic system — including our agriculture — is built on processes and institutions that would collapse with sudden change. And as the horrors and absurdities of the Soviet Union graphically showed, we cannot simply overturn our established institutions any more than natural selection can simply start again from scratch.
And just as natural selection was stuck with the initial 'design' of the recurrent laryngeal nerve, so too our thinking seems stuck with the systems that already exist.
At the same time, however, natural selection has, however blindly, given us the capacity for foresight and to imagine alternatives beyond what we currently do.
Once such imagined alternative was the dystopia depicted in the movie Solent Green came out. Set in 2022 (fifty years from when it was produced in the early 1770s), the movie foretold the collapse of civilization due to global warming. Like the over-the-top alarmism of much modern climate change rhetoric, Solent Green's predictions were clearly wrong — yet it's lingering impact is over the food that its desperate human characters were forced to eat.
Now it really is almost 2022, and our abilities now extend to making meat in space. Yet most of us are still devouring the flesh of other creatures, much as our animal ancestors did for millions of years.
Perhaps it would be better if we simply stopped — after all, it might just save a planet.
Patrick Whittle has a PhD in philosophy and is a freelance writer with a particular interest in the social and political implications of modern biological science. Follow him on his website patrickmichaelwhittle.com or on Twitter @WhittlePM
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The Sunday instances Bestseller a wonderful perception into Britain over the past one hundred fifty years - its historical past, panorama and other people - from the window of Britain's many and sumptuous railway trips. encouraged via George Bradshaw, a 19th-century cartographer who mapped Britain's railways as they sprung up round him, Charlie Bunce and Michael Portillo take a trip alongside 9 vintage British railway routes and encompass themselves with the heritage, the allure and the folk on the middle of the railways.
Anny Butler is a caretaker, a nurturer, first for her personal brothers and sisters, after which as a director of an employer dedicated to the welfare of youngsters. What she hasn't ever had is a true kin. That adjustments whilst she meets and marries Lewis Aiken, an exuberant health care professional fifteen years older than Anny. once they marry, she reveals her family—not a conventional one, yet a bunch of Charleston youth neighbors who're inseparable, who're one another's surrogate relations.
Agatha Christie is the main greatly released writer of all time, outsold simply by means of the Bible and Shakespeare. Now, during this interesting travelogue of the prolific author's yearlong journey round the British Empire in 1922, Christie presents the clues to the origins of the plots and locales of a few of her bestselling secret novels.
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Even picnics and mountaineering call for the ideal outfit. irrespective of that quite a few Koreans donning relatively the incorrect sneakers and garments for going up Korean mountains will cross you; the genuine gentleman (and woman) can have stable stout sneakers, a formal hat, and a stout stick. back, Koreans will savour it in case you have made the trouble. at least, such gear is smart at the unusually rugged hills of Korea. Low they're, yet effortless they don't seem to be! INTRODUCTIONS whilst brought, you have to bend your higher physique somewhat.
COMMUNICATIONS within the NORTH the image is diverse in North Korea. the clicking, radio, and tv are tightly managed, and are just on hand in Korean. The weekly Pyongyang instances newspaper and the foreign-language types of it include no information regarding what's occurring in North Korea. in its place, readers obtain a flow of propaganda articles that speedy start to pall. For what should be on hand at theaters or the circus, viewers have to ask their courses. even though, foreigners staying in a few inns in Pyongyang this present day can view BBC international carrier tv and a few chinese language channels, together with chinese language valuable Television's English-language channel.
Even supposing few monastic structures from those early classes have survived, statues and different is still testify to the significance of the faith. Buddhism suffered less than the Yi dynasty, with a few of the monasteries being suppressed. below govt strain, the priests have been pressured out of the towns and new monasteries have been inbuilt distant districts; many live to tell the tale to today. yet anti-Buddhist pressures weren't consistent, or even a few kings who persecuted Buddhism at one degree could flip to it in outdated age.
The society's club through the years has integrated lots of the famous names in Korean scholarship, together with many famous Korean students. It publishes an annual quantity of Transactions, that is the oldest magazine on the earth dedicated to Korean reviews. as well as its lecture sequence, that is geared toward the nonexpert, KBRAS has general tours to scenic and historical websites all through South Korea (and these days to China and different neighboring nations as well). those outings, with a professional courses, are with a view to see the more odd points of the rustic and likewise to get to understand either Koreans and the resident overseas group.


I would like to share the experience I had at my placement interview at iGate. In all there were 250 candidates who appeared for the test. Finally, they chose the 10 candidates.
The English section in the paper consisted of questions on Verbal analogies, antonyms, synonyms etc.
Which of the following words have the same relationship as the one in question?


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Models of Distance and 'Blended' Learning 1
Author Simon Paul AtkinsonPublished on September 21, 2014 1 Comment on Models of Distance and 'Blended' Learning
It is always a privilege to be listed with others whose work one admires. I was pointed recently to a page produced by Laura Heap at the London Metropolitan University in May 2014 on their eLearning Matrix pages. On a page where Laura outlines possible answers to the question "What models are there for blended and distance online learning delivery?" she has chosen to include my work here on the SOLE Model alongside some people that I deeply admire.
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Laura lists four different models (references on the London Met webpage) which each, in very different ways, seek to clarify dimensions of the challenge presented by distance and blended learning scenarios (something I have already written about on my personal blog). Professor Terry Anderson at Athabasca University (Canada), alongside Randy Garrison, whilst at the University of Calgary back in the late 1990s and 2000s, developed a "community of inquiry model" as an instructional design model for e-learning. It seeks to acknowledge the impact of the mutual interdependence of student and teacher through three overlapping 'domains' of the social presence, cognitive presence and the teaching presence.
Her second inclusion is the '5 stage model' originated by Professor Gilly Salmon, now at Swinburne University (Australia). This model, from memory, originated from Gilly's PhD work at the Open University Business School in the early 1990s and I have been a critic of its simplistic adoption by many others. The original premise was similar to that of Anderson and Garrison's work that learners needed to be socialised into a learning 'community' in order to operate as effective learners. Originally somewhat limited by the world of CMC (Computer Mediated Conferencing) this model has been extended by others.
Laura Heap's fourth 'model' (I'm third so will come back to that) is by Professor Diana Laurillard, now at the the Institute of Education (London) referred to as the 'Conversational Framework'. This work also dates from Diana's time at the Open University late 1990s and early 2000s and has been adapted and developed by a great many others since. Essentially I would describe it as a reinterpretation of dialogic learning, notably in its form advocated by Mikhail Bakhtin (Bakhtin, 1981) who argued that meaning is a co-construction that results in processes of reflection, dialogue, between people. Laurillard builds a simple model that encourages teachers to structure, and plan, that dialogue into their teaching design.
The inclusion of the SOLE Model is flattering and does fit rather well. I tried to incorporate meta-theory into the development of a toolkit which would support learning designers and teachers to create 'communities of inquiry' whilst recognising the 'social' dimension and the the cultural differences which students live through every day. Borrowing particularly from Professor John Biggs's work on the SOLO taxonomy (Biggs and Collis, 1982). I also sought to encourage , after Bakhatin and Laurillard, to embed a conversation between the learner, learning activity and the learning objectives.
What is clear is that to have a theoretical framework for effective on-line learning design is essential. I may have deviated from Anderson and Garrison's separation from the social and cognitive processes, and from Salmon's stress for human socialisation but the SOLE Model does allow for the personal, communitarian and societal dimension to learning. In fact I see the principle difference is the focus on the student's immediate 'campus' environment and to place a greater stress on the student's real and diverse life 'outside' the control of the learning provider. I also differ from Laurillard's sequenced activity designs that result from the conversational framework into a more 'freeform' learning design at the theoretical level, but the toolkit development will hopefully include further structural aspects in the near future. Learning and teaching online (distance or 'blended') presents unique challenges for teachers and students alike. Personally I advocate transparency to design for the student by sharing the design as an advanced organiser (SOLE Toolkit) in order to express clarity of the learning process (dialogue) and to encourage interaction and feedback leading to enhancement. Whichever way you look at it, it is privilege to find the SOLE Model included in such illustrious company.
SOLE Model at London Met
Bakhtin, M. (1981). The dialogic imagination: Four essays. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Biggs, J., & Collis, K. F. (1982). Evaluating the Quality of Learning: Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome Taxonomy. New York: Academic Press Inc.
Published on September 21, 2014 Categories Academic Practice, Publications and Citations, Staff DevelopmentTags 5 Step, Biggs, Conversational Framwork, Diana Laurillard, Gilly Salmon, Mikhail Bakhtin, SOLO Taxonomy, Terry Anderson1 Comment on Models of Distance and 'Blended' Learning
Faculty Resource: Update
Author Simon Paul AtkinsonPublished on September 20, 2013 July 21, 2018 Leave a comment on Faculty Resource: Update
The following article may prove helpful to Personal Tutors wanting to understand how different students respond to the process of cultural adjustment.
Yakunina, E. S., Weigold, I. K., Weigold, A., Hercegovac, S. and Elsayed, N. (2013), International Students' Personal and Multicultural Strengths: Reducing Acculturative Stress and Promoting Adjustment. Journal of Counseling & Development, 91: 216–223. doi: 10.1002/j.1556-6676.2013.00088.x
This article looks at the cultural disruption faced by students arriving in the United States but many of the lessons are generalisable. International students are often encouraged to cope with acculturative stress by relying on personal and multicultural strengths, the article explores whether a 'positive attitude' has a direct impact on successful acclimatisation. Data from 336 international students does suggest that pre-dispositions have a significant impact on the cultural adjustments necessary for successful study in a country other than ones own. The implications could be that students should be given significant 'cultural orientation' and more insight into multiculturalism prior to arrival in the host country.
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Reflected Glory: Sugata Mitra's SOLE Toolkit
Author Simon Paul AtkinsonPublished on March 3, 2013 Leave a comment on Reflected Glory: Sugata Mitra's SOLE Toolkit
I've been surprised this week to find a sudden increase in my blog visitors. As these peeks happen occasionally I just put this down to some MOOC out there stumbling across my SOLE model and deciding it was worthy of sharing. Always pleasing in itself, but not surprising perhaps. This was a sudden and unexpected peek, so one digs a little deeper into the stats and yes, lots of people seemed to be searching for the 'SOLE Toolkit'. Excellent finally the traction the critical mass, I have been..... ah.
Merely reflected glory it seems, for when I also do the 'SOLE Toolkit' search I find that the remarkable Sugata Mitra, currently at Newcastle University (UK), has been awarded the 2013 TED Prize for his work to 'Build an School in the Cloud' and part of his contribution is something also called the SOLE Toolkit. His 'Self-Organized Learning Environment ' toolkit is an amazing read and well worth getting hold of. I actually think there may be more similarities to these two namesakes than is apparent at first. I contend that any effective environment should allow for each of the nine elements of the 'Student Owned Learning Engagement' model and Mitra's 'SOLE Mindset'.
When I developed the SOLE model in early 2010 I was most concerned with the notion that teaching staff found it difficult to draw the balance between maintaining an instructivist identity, the expert role, and the facilitation of independent and thoughtful self-discovery amongst learners. The Student-Owned Learning Engagement model was envisaged as a professional development instrument primarily, to engage teachers in deconstructing the learning experience and to see their role in the process from a different perspective. It's a privilege to share the name with Mitra's different but similar aspiration.
Published on March 3, 2013 Categories Publications and Citations, ToolkitTags HolieintheWall, School in the Cloud, SOLE Toolkit, Sugata Mitra, TED PrizeLeave a comment on Reflected Glory: Sugata Mitra's SOLE Toolkit
JIME IN 2012
Author Simon Paul AtkinsonPublished on January 3, 2012 July 21, 2018 Leave a comment on JIME IN 2012
Delighted to be joining the International Board of JIME - Journal of Interactive Media in Education
http://jime.open.ac.uk in 2012. Looking forward very much to making a contribution.
JIME was launched in September, 1996. It's aims are:
To foster a multidisciplinary and intellectually rigorous debate on the theoretical and practical aspects of interactive media in education.
To clarify the cognitive, social and cultural issues raised by the use of interactive media in education.
To radically improve teaching and learning through better interactive media.
To publish leading international research on the theories, practices and experiences in the field.
To link scholars and commercial practitioners
Through its innovative use of interactive Net-based media, to be an action research project which explores the changing face of journals, and more broadly, scholarly practice in the age of digital publishing and communication.
Published on January 3, 2012 July 21, 2018 Categories Publications and CitationsTags interactive media, JIME, journalLeave a comment on JIME IN 2012
Journal Article Published
Author Simon Paul AtkinsonPublished on March 1, 2011 Leave a comment on Journal Article Published
The first formal presentation of the SOLE model has been published by IRRODL in February 2011:
Atkinson, S. (2011). Embodied and Embedded Theory in Practice: The Student-Owned Learning-Engagement (SOLE) Model. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 12 (2), pp 1-18
IRRODL Vol 12, issue 2
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In 1985-1991, Andrey Bystritskiy was engaged in research as a Senior Fellow at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. He has been in the media industry since 1991, starting as the Head of the Audience Research Department of the All-Russia State Television and Radio Company (RTR), author and host of radio and television broadcasts. In 1993-1996, Andrey Bystritskiy headed sociological research at the Company. From 1996 to 1997, he was in charge of the "Society" Department at the Itogi (Russian Newsweek) magazine. In 1997-1998, Andrey Bystritskiy was Deputy Director General for Information at TV Tsentr. Between 1998 and 1999, he was the Producer of the Russian news service on BBC. In 1999, he joined the Organizing Committee of the Unofficial Moscow Festival as one of its Co-Chairs, he was also a member of the Editorial Board of the Moscow Alternative newspaper and Chairman of the Mayak State Radio Broadcasting Company (main information radio in Russia). In 2000, Bystritskiy became the Director General of the Vesti State Television Company (an entity of RTR). From 2000 to 2008, he was Deputy Director General of RTR and the Director of the Department of Information Programmes of the Russia TV. In 2000-2013 Bystritskiy was a member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of international broadcasting company Euronews. Between 2005 and 2007, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Apologia monthly magazine. From 2008 to 2014, he was the Chairman of the Voice of Russia State Radio Company (Russian international broadcaster in 44 languages).
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Samuel Warner, F.R.S.A. (American, 1871-1947) noted Roycrofter, book designer, illustrator, painter and art instructor primarily known for his involvement in the early Arts & Crafts movement in America. Warner was born in May, 1871 in Scranton, PA, and although early family records are scant, he was known to be the son of a man long-connected with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroads, and was also the step-son of Charles DeLong. A few sources state incorrectly that Warner was English, most likely because of his training in London and his F.R.S.A. distinction, but the artist was born and raised in Scranton, PA.
Warner studied art at the Scranton School of Art and later graduated in 1891 from the art, drawing and modeling department of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA. He also studied in New York and in London, England where he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (F.R.S.A.). Warner was greatly influenced by the British Arts & Crafts movement and also studied the old missals of the monasteries and the hand-painted work of Florentine illuminators of the Early Renaissance.
By 1894, Warner was working as a commercial artist and resided at 526 E. Market St. in Scranton, PA, but later moved to Quincy, MA around 1897, where he worked as a commercial illustrator and maintained a studio, producing children's book illustrations and cover designs. While in Quincy, Warner received recognition for a medallion woodcut portrait of our 2nd U.S. President John Adams for the 100 year anniversary of his inauguration held on March 4, 1897, which was hung above the door to the old Adams cottage in Quincy. Warner frequented Boston which is where it was said that he first met Elbert Hubbard of the newly formed Roycroft press and Arts & Crafts community located in East Aurora, NY. Warner was said to have been a protégé of Hubbard's close friend William "Old Bill" B. Spear of Quincy, historian and curator of the Quincy Historical Society, who urged Warner to work for Hubbard.
As the story goes, from old newspaper articles and publications, Warner arrived in East Aurora on hard luck, "on his way to nowhere."[0] He had only a tomato can for baggage and only intended to stop over for a day or two, but soon found himself employed as the first art director of the Roycroft shops in 1898. Hubbard affectionately referred to Warner as "Sammy the Artist", and an interesting backstory when he first arrived in East Aurora stated that, "…a ragged, nearly soleless pair of shoes were hung from the rafters at a level of the visitors' eyes with the label, "These are the shoes that Sammy the Artist wore when he came to the Roycroft shops."[1] Elbert Hubbard, known by all as Fra Elbertus, elaborated, "Sammy didn't like that and said they must come down. Sammy is Dutch and has occasional horrible lapses into seriousness. But the shoes stayed, because they tell a better story than any that has ever been bound in the shop, and now Sammy is proud of them."[2] From the old 1900 census record, Warner was a boarder at Hubbard's family home called "The Alberta", located on the east side of S. Grove St. of the Roycroft campus—which Hubbard allowed for certain early artisan workers and visitors for a small fee. By 1905, the "Hubbard House" was partially torn down, and parts of the home including the foundation were incorporated into the new three-story Grand Salon and peristyle, which were eventually joined with the Phalanstery to form the Roycroft Inn which officially opened in May of 1905.
Warner was instrumental in the development of the graphic arts department at the Roycroft. During this time, he worked with fellow Roycrofter William Wallace Denslow (American, 1856-1915), the famed illustrator and designer primarily known illustrating L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, who had been hired shortly before Warner's arrival in 1896 as the Roycroft's first professional artist. Other well-known Roycrofters that heavily influenced the book designs were master printers William Joseph "Dard" Hunter (American, 1883-1966) who joined in 1904 and Charles J. "Cy" Rosen (Swedish-American, 1870-1952 who followed in 1906.
Warner initially worked out of the first Roycroft print shop built in 1897 (now housing the lounge and bar at the Roycroft Inn) located just north of the "Hubbard House". After the medieval-inspired Roycroft Chapel was built in 1899 to house the new printing office, Warner was given the premier second floor studio in the rounded turret of the Chapel, where he worked on designs for Roycroft books and publications. His duties as art director included: book designs, title pages, interior drop-capital letters, decorative borders, ornamental motifs & decorations, headbands, endplates & tailpieces, portrait paintings and illustrations for bookplates, zinc-plate engravings, hand-printed letterpress work, setting the typeface and color schemes. He also trained a number of artists & designers (including Elbert's first wife Bertha) in the book and bindery departments for hand-illumination (with watercolor) of the lettering, ornamental designs, and borders, importing hand-made and watermarked paper from Holland, as well as hand-folding & hand-stitching of the papers and cover finishing. Some of the well-known Roycroft books and publications his designs were featured in included: The Philistine and The Fra monthly periodicals, the Little Journeys series, and many more.
"Samuel Warner, esquire, good Roycroft artist and chief designer of things beautiful around the Roycroft shop, marshals his scores of building artists, leading them upward in the realms of art. Him must the tribe of Philistia thank for the Aurora Borealis of art that sends its rainbow-hued radiance to the four quarters of the globe."[3]
"In a miniature art world of his own, he sits enthroned, and encircled by a score of apt and industrious pupils some day destined to make the Roycroft work even better appreciated than it is today. We pick up sheet after sheet of freshly decorated work, and cannot but exclaim, Beautiful! Beautiful!"[4]
Warner became a stockholder, owning four shares of Roycroft stock when they were incorporated in 1902, worth $25- each at that time (which equals $746- in today's dollar for 2019). Stocks were distributed among workers and only Roycrofters could hold stock. It was agreed upon by all that if anyone should leave the Roycroft, they would sell back their shares to the corporation. That co-operative plan was meant to, "beget a high-degree of personal diligence, a loyalty to the institution, a sentiment of fraternity and a feeling of permanency among the workers that is very beneficial to all concerned."[5]
In addition, Warner taught evening art classes for his fellow Roycrofters and also conducted summer watercolor and charcoal sketch classes as part of the Roycroft School of Applied Art. He even found time to exhibit his own watercolors and charcoal drawings during his time there, and was known for doing landscapes and portraits in oils, as well as drawings in pencil, woodcuts, and stage scenery. His paintings typically feature his printed (non-cursive) signature of 'S. Warner' sometimes followed by a date.
Warner worked for Hubbard as art director for five years from 1898-1902, when he was replaced by the well-known Barbizon painter, Alexis Jean Fournier (American, 1865-1948) in 1902. Warner moved back to Massachusetts around 1903 where he taught art and developed art programs for the local public schools of Scituate, Kingston, Pembroke and Duxbury, MA. He continued to teach and paint for the remainder of his life, but never returned to the Roycroft. Warner died on July 22, 1947 in Duxbury, MA, and is buried in Mayflower Cemetery in Duxbury.
Chronology:
1871- May, Scranton, PA, and was connected with several well-known families. Early family records are scant, but he was known to be the son of a man long-connected with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroads, and was also the step-son of Charles DeLong.
Circa late 1880's- Studied art at the Scranton School of Art, Scranton, PA.
1891- Graduated from the art, drawing and modeling department of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA.
Circa 1891-Circa 1894- Furthered his art studies in New York and in London, England where he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (F.R.S.A.).
By 1894- Was working as an artist and residing at 526 E. Market St. in Scranton, PA.
By 1897- Warner worked as an artist and maintained a studio in Quincy, MA.
1898- Moved to East Aurora, NY and began working for Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft press and Arts & Crafts community, becoming their first art director. He also boarded with the Hubbard's for a few years at their family home "The Alberta" located on S. Grove St. on the Roycroft Campus in East Aurora, NY.
From 1898-1902- Warner worked as the art director at the Roycroft and was replaced by the well known Barbizon painter, Alexis Jean Fournier (American, 1865-1948) in 1902.
1900- Exhibited, group show, "Some Specimens of Art & Handicraft Done by Roycroft Workers", with studies of children as well as original designs for Roycroft publications, East Aurora, NY.
1902- Warner became a shareholder, owning four shares of Roycroft stock when they were incorporated in 1902, worth $25- each at that time (which equals $746- in today's dollar for 2019), East Aurora, NY.
Circa 1903- Moved back to Massachusetts.
Circa 1903-Circa Early 1940's- Taught as an art instructor and became the drawing supervisor in the local public schools in Scituate, Kingston, Pembroke and Duxbury, MA, and also developed their art programs.
1906- Exhibited, group show, Marshfield Agricultural and Horticultural Society, Marshfield, MA.
1912- Exhibited, group show (Prize Premium of $1.25), Marshfield Agricultural and Horticultural Society at the Fair, for B&W drawings, Marshfield, MA.
1947- July 22, Warner died and was buried in Mayflower Cemetery, Duxbury, MA.
1983- March 24-April 7, exhibition, "The Art of Samuel Warner 1872-1947", Soenen/Wilmoth Booksellers, Clearwater, FL.
Memberships/Associations: Roycrofter at Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft Arts & Crafts Community in East Aurora, NY, 1898-1902; and the Boston Art Club, Boston, MA.
Prizes, Awards & Honors: $1.25 Prize Premium for his B&W drawings at the Marshfield Agricultural and Horticultural Society at the Fair, for B&W drawings, Marshfield, MA, 1912.
For additional information on this artist or for other possible examples of his works, please visit the AskArt link.
(Written & compiled by Mark Strong of Meibohm Fine Arts, Inc., meibohmfinearts.com, sources: Too long to list here and are furnished upon request.)
Samuel Warner (American, 1872-1947), Untitled - 'Cranberry Bog, Duxbury, MA'' - 1945, 20 x 24, Oil on canvas, Signed & dated lower left, sold
Samuel Warner (American, 1872-1947), Untitled - 'First Snow' - 1943, 18-3/8 x 22-1/8, Oil on pressboard, Signed & dated lower right, NFS - Private collection
Samuel Warner (American, 1872-1947), 'Samuel Warner (standing) with fellow Roycrofter Carl H. Ahrens (Canadian, 1862-1936) at the Roycroft' - c.1900, , Photograph, Courtesy of Kim Bullock, the youngest great-grandchild of Carl and Madonna Ahrens, carlahrens.com, NFS


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The online retail platform's new feature lets merchants create in-house email marketing campaigns.
Shopify has released its Shopify Email feature early, allowing merchants to manage email marketing campaigns form a single place in their Shopify portal.
Merchants can create, send, and track emails that integrate with their existing design and products.
Email marketing is extremely important for retailers as it is one of the few customer communication channels they can completely own.
56% of consumers say they open at least half of the emails they receive, and 59% of buyers prefer emails from brands over any other channel.
Shopify is making Shopify Email free to merchants until October 1, 2020.
Email is an extremely important resource for retailers to connect with shoppers. Promotions, updates, personalized rewards, and more all come through email, allowing merchants to truly connect with consumers. While social media and other communication channels are important, email reigns supreme in retail.
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Email is important to customers—56% of consumers say they open at least half of the emails they receive, while 59% of buyers prefer emails from brands over any other channel.
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The intermediate phase, when the largest leaves are often formed, links the juvenile and adult phases. Eucalyptus plantation near Viveiro, in Galicia in Northwest Spain. China Koala Bear. Menelik II endorsed its planting around his new capital city of Addis Ababa because of the massive deforestation around the city for firewood. [17] He coined the generic name from the Greek roots eu and calyptos, meaning "well" and "covered" in reference to the operculum of the flower bud which protects the developing flower parts as the flower develops and is shed by the pressure of the emerging stamens at flowering. Antonio Lussich introduced Eucalyptus into Uruguay in approximately 1896, throughout what is now Maldonado Department, and it has spread all over the south-eastern and eastern coast. Most notably, eucalyptus is grown for its potent essential oils, which are commonly derived from the species E. globulus. Due to similar favourable climatic conditions, Eucalyptus plantations have often replaced oak woodlands, for example in California, Spain and Portugal. Forestry replanting of eucalyptus began in the 1930s in deforested mountain areas, and currently there are about 10 species present in the island. The wood is highly valued by the charcoal and pulp and paper industries. [4], The terms "mallet" and "marlock" are only applied to Western Australian eucalypts. Grows as an evergreen, keeping its leaves in all seasons, Mature Height: 6'–8' in a yard, up to 40' in natural habitat, Works well as a container, specimen, or wildlife garden tree, Can be used for a privacy or windbreak screen, Will be delivered in a 1-gallon pot at a height of 1' - 1 1/2', The eucalyptus silver dollar can be expected to grow in Hardiness Zones 8–10. Genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. A few species are native to islands north of Australia and a smaller number are only found outside the continent. niphophila and E. pauciflora subsp. Caffera, R.M., Cespedes, C., Gonzalez, A., Gutierrez, M.O., Panario, D.H., 1991. Particularly noticeable is the rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta), native to Indonesia and the Philippines, whose bark falls off to reveal a trunk that can be green, red, orange, yellow, pink and purple.[108]. In more recent sediments, numerous findings of a dramatic increase in the abundance of Eucalyptus pollen are associated with increased charcoal levels. [70] In some parts of California, eucalypt plantations are being removed and native trees and plants restored. Eucalyptus has historically been planted to replace California's coast live oak population, and the new Eucalyptus is not as hospitable to native flora and fauna as the oaks. Due to continual development and governmental funding, year-on-year growth is consistently being improved. Updated daily. Eucalypts have many uses which have made them economically important trees, and they have become a cash crop in poor areas such as Timbuktu, Mali[48]:22 and the Peruvian Andes,[49] despite concerns that the trees are invasive in some environments like those of South Africa. Also, those bird species that glean insects from foliage, such as warblers and vireos, experience population declines when eucalyptus groves replace oak forest. Currently, the Humid Pampas region has small forests and eucalyptus barriers, some up to 80 years old, about 50 meters high and a maximum of one meter in diameter.[72]. Eucalypt woodland area near Prospect Creek in western Sydney. [9], In all except a few species, the leaves form in pairs on opposite sides of a square stem, consecutive pairs being at right angles to each other (decussate). Eucalypts were introduced from Australia to the rest of the world following the Cook expedition in 1770. [38] Consequently, dense eucalypt plantings may be subject to catastrophic firestorms. They account for 20% of major reforestation plantings. [86] The first scientific publication on soil studies in western zone tree plantations (focused on pulp production) appeared in 2004 and described soil acidification and soil carbon changes,[87] similar to a podzolisation process, and destruction of clay (illite-like minerals), which is the main reservoir of potassium in the soil. [34], Eucalypts draw a tremendous amount of water from the soil through the process of transpiration. Several other species, especially from the high plateau and mountains of central Tasmania such as Eucalyptus coccifera, Eucalyptus subcrenulata and Eucalyptus gunnii,[32] have also produced extreme cold-hardy forms and it is seed procured from these genetically hardy strains that are planted for ornament in colder parts of the world. [66] One way in which the eucalyptus, mainly the blue gum E. globulus, proved valuable in California was in providing windbreaks for highways, orange groves, and farms in the mostly treeless central part of the state. For koalas, these compounds are the most important factor in leaf choice. Eucalyptus gunnii produces rounded, colourful silver-blue new foliage which becomes slightly more elliptical and … Numerous Eucalyptus species have been introduced into South Africa, mainly for timber and firewood but also for ornamental purposes. Only a few eucalyptus species are reliably hardy, and of these Eucalyptus gunnii is the most popular. Birds that thrive in eucalyptus groves in California tend to prefer tall vertical habitat. Outside their natural ranges, eucalypts are both lauded for their beneficial economic impact on poor populations[49][48]:22 and criticised for being "water-guzzling" aliens,[50] leading to controversy over their total impact. With round and silvery leaves that are present year-round, the silver dollar eucalyptus lives up to its name. It has insect-repellent properties,[55] and serves as an active ingredient in some commercial mosquito-repellents. Collected by Sir Joseph Banks, botanist on the expedition, they were subsequently introduced to many parts of the world, notably California, southern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and South America. [26], Despite the prominence of Eucalyptus in modern Australia, estimated to contribute some 75% of the modern vegetation, the fossil record is very scarce throughout much of the Cenozoic, and suggests that this rise to dominance is a geologically more recent phenomenon. They also release a chemical into the surrounding soil which kills native competitors. Fossil leaves also occur in the Miocene of New Zealand, where the genus is not native today, but again have been introduced from Australia. Flower Australian. The trunks and branches of the eucalyptus tree allow the largest known moth, Zelotypia stacyi (the bentwing ghost moth, having a wingspan up to 250 mm) to feed and protect their larva and pupa, respectively. Though resistant to many pests and diseases, there are some diseases that can cause harm to the trees, which can incur huge losses, if grown for commercial purposes. Koala Animal Savage. Google Books. 22 19 0. Dramatic foliage. Height and spread: 12 x 8M. [9], E. globulus bark cells are able to photosynthesize in the absence of foliage, conferring an "increased capacity to re-fix internal CO2 following partial defoliation". Outside of prime eucalyptus territory, you may wish to try your hand at growing the plants if you enjoy experimenting. [25] This shows that the genus had a Gondwanan distribution. [7], Eucalyptus regnans, a forest tree, showing crown dimension, Tasmania, E. camaldulensis, immature woodland trees, showing collective crown habit, Murray River, Tocumwal, New South Wales, E. cretata, juvenile, showing low branching 'mallee' form, Melbourne, Victoria, E. angustissima, showing shrub form, Melbourne, E. platypus, showing 'marlock' form, Melbourne, All eucalypts add a layer of bark every year and the outermost layer dies. 2005. The principal species is Eucalyptus globulus.
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A friend of mine gave me a sample of this after I told her about my negative experience with Teavana's Berry Mint Cassis. I was very hesitant to try another mint tea, but she convinced me that this one was much better (having tried both).
The tea bag smelled of spearmint, specifically the Freedent gum that my grandmother used to chew when I was younger. Once brewed, it smelled more like buttermints with a hint of grass. The flavor was mostly green tea with just a slight mint taste.
This was a good cup, though I do not see myself buying a box of it. It was certainly a nice change from the Berry Mint Cassis and proved to me that mint teas can actually be quite pleasant.
Lifetime student. Lover of books and paper and ink. Kitchen dweller. Aspiring tea fanatic.
I should start by saying that I'm still quite new to this great, big world of tea. Until a couple of years ago, my experience was limited to Twinings Earl Grey and tea lattes at Starbucks. One weekend, my husband and I happened upon a Teavana at our local mall and there discovered loose leaf teas. He jumped in with both feet, but it admittedly took me a while longer before I fully embraced tea the way that he had. Now that I've found Steepster, I'm amazed at the vast variety of teas. It's an exciting place to be and I cannot wait to learn from each of you the ins and outs of this limitless brew.
I enjoy all different types of tea though I admit I haven't tried a great deal. I love flavored black teas most of all, often with cream and always with honey. I prefer to sweeten my tea as it seems to bring out the flavor, much the way salt enhances certain foods. I enjoy floral and fruity teas, as well as flavored or scented ones. I'm not overly fond of mint or white teas, but I've found a few that I enjoy. I would like to branch out and try straight teas at some point as well.
Regarding tasting notes – I'm not always able to complete my reviews the moment I drink a tea (if I'm at work, for example) so I keep a written log in a little Moleskine notebook to be added to Steepster later. This way, I'm able to write a review while the tea is still fresh in my mind and still make note of the exact time I had my cup. If you notice that I've logged a tea without writing a note, I will likely add it later.
After seeing others on Steepster with a rating scale, I thought it would be best to create my own so that others can see how I feel about my personal ratings. It may change at some point, but this is how I've been rating my teas as of late.


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High-ranking priest caught in cocaine-fueled gay orgy in Vatican apartment
'The Vatican is now ground zero for a mass apostasy that is happening right now within the Catholic Church.'
Thu Jul 6, 2017 - 11:59 am EST
Monsignor Luigi Capozzi (left) is secretary to Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio (center) who is a close collaborator with Pope Francis.
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ROME, July 5, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- A high-ranking Vatican monsignor who is a secretary to one of Pope Francis' closest collaborators was arrested by Vatican police after they caught him hosting a cocaine-fueled homosexual orgy in a building right next to St. Peter's Basilica.
Monsignor Luigi Capozzi, 49, was caught by Vatican gendarmerie in a raid some two months ago that took place in the former Palace of the Holy Office.
While the top Vatican officials have been mute about the raid, Italian media broke the story last week after receiving inside information.
Vatican police allegedly caught the monsignor, whom Italian media called an "ardent supporter of Pope Francis," after tenants in the building complained repeatedly about constant comings and goings of visitors to the building during all hours of the night. The building is currently being used by various high-ranking churchmen, including prefects, presidents, and secretaries to the Roman Curia.
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Capozzi, who on his LinkedIn page calls himself an "expert in canon law and dogmatic theology," managed to evade suspicion from Italian police by using a BMW luxury car with license plates of the Holy See, which made him practically immune to stops and searches. This privilege, usually reserved for high-ranking prelates, allowed the monsignor to transport cocaine for his frequent homosexual orgies without being stopped by the Italian police.
Italian news service Il Fato Quotidiano wrote that the building's separate entrance into Vatican City from outside the Vatican walls made it "perfect" for clandestine activity.
"Its main entrance, in fact, opens out directly onto the piazza of the Holy Office that is already Italian territory and is outside of the control of the Swiss Guard and of the Gendarmerie. Anyone, by day and by night, can freely enter into the Vatican by this entry without undergoing any inspection and without, of course, being put on record. A perfect location to enjoy the privileges of extraterritoriality but without having to be subject either to the inspections of the Italian State or to those of Vatican City," the news service wrote.
At the time of the arrest, Capozzi was allegedly so high on cocaine that he was hospitalized for detoxification for a short period in the Pius XI clinic in Rome. He is currently in an undisclosed convent in Italy undergoing a spiritual retreat, Italian media reported.
Msgr. Luigi Capozzi (far left) with Card. Coccopalmerio (far right) in an October, 2011 photo.
"One thinks one is dreaming: in the most deplorable of ways, the Rome of today seems to have fallen lower than the Rome of the Borgias," reported Riposte Catholique.
Capozzi's arrest comes on the verge of him being appointed a bishop on the recommendation of his superior Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, the Vatican's top canonical official.
Coccopalmerio, President of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legal Texts, is one of Pope Francis' closest collaborators and ardent supporters.
Earlier this year, the Vatican's own publishing house released a book by the Cardinal with much fanfare that defended Francis's 2016 Exhortation Amoris Laetitia as allowing civilly-divorced-and-remarried Catholics living in adultery as well as unmarried cohabiting Catholics living in fornication to receive Holy Communion. Coccopalmerio maintained that the book was his own personal reflection on the matter and carried no legislative weight.
The Cardinal later defended his interpretation of Amoris, even though it contradicted perennial Catholic teaching, stating that what he wrote was no different from conversations he had had with the Pope on the subject.
"I spoke with the Pope at other times about these questions, and we always thought the same," he said.
Coccopalmerio's book was later praised by U.S. Cardinal Blase Cupich, who, in a foreword to the English edition of the book, said that it "fully complies with traditional Church teaching on marriage but is also in conformity with accepted standards of a pastoral approach that is positive and constructive."
The fact that it was Coccopalmerio's trusted secretary who was behind the orgies makes the Cardinal's past declarations on the "positive elements" of gay couples take on pressing significance.
In a 2014 interview with Rossoporpora, the Cardinal said that while homosexual relationships are deemed "illicit" by the Church, Catholic leaders, such as himself, must "emphasize" the "positive realities" that he said are present in homosexual relationships.
"If I meet a homosexual couple, I notice immediately that their relationship is illicit: the doctrine says this, which I reaffirm with absolute certainty. However, if I stop at the doctrine, I don't look anymore at the persons. But if I see that the two persons truly love each other, do acts of charity to those in need, for example ... then I can also say that, although the relationship remains illicit, positive elements also emerge in the two persons. Instead of closing our eyes to such positive realities, I emphasize them. It is to be objective and objectively recognize the positive of a certain relationship, of itself illicit," he said at that time.
As of July 4, 2017, Capozzi is still listed as a staff member on the website of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legal Texts.
When the interviewer noted that some attendees at the Synod on the Family were tending in such a direction towards homosexuals, Coccopalmerio agreed. He then immediately went on to criticize those who feared that "valuing the positive elements" of homosexual relationships would be "undermining" the Church's doctrine on marriage and sexuality, saying such a conclusion was "problematic."
Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan highlighted in a talk given in Washinton D.C. last October the moral principle that "heresy" always goes hand-in-hand with an "unchaste life." Where there is heresy, there is also sexual immorality, he said.
Michael Hichborn, president of the U.S.-based Lepanto Institute, said he highly suspects Coccopalmerio knew of the orgies.
"Given the monitoring and whispering that goes on in the Vatican, it is unlikely to the point of absurdity that Cardinal Coccopalmerio was unaware of Msgr. Capozzi's disgusting activities. In fact, when we consider the 300-page document on the homosexual lobby that was handed to Pope Benedict XVI just before he resigned, the probability is that many who work in the Vatican were fully aware of what Capozzi was doing, and that such activities are taking place among other clergy as well," he added.
The 79-year-old Cardinal is well beyond the age of retirement, set at 75. Despite this, Pope Francis has kept him at his post. This fact becomes all the more interesting given Pope Francis' recent removal of the 69-year-old Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, from his post last week. Muller, unlike Coccopalmerio, has taken an orthodox stand from the beginning of Francis' pontificate, opposing a liberal interpretation of Amoris Laetitia favored by Francis-supporters.
LifeSiteNews reached out to the Holy See Press Office for comment on a homosexual orgy happening inside a Vatican building by a high-ranking prelate, but received no reply.
Hichborn said that the homosexual orgy happening right next to St. Peter's reveals a "mass apostasy" that is currently happening within the Catholic Church at the highest levels.
"The Vatican is now ground zero for a mass apostasy that is happening right now within the Catholic Church," he told LifeSiteNews.
It is interesting to note that despite Capozzi's arrest months ago, he is still listed as an active staff member on the website of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legal Texts.
Hichborn said that the Church's enemies are now trying to destroy her from within.
"We know for a fact that Communists and homosexuals were specifically recruited as far back as the 1920's to infiltrate seminaries. It was a concerted effort to destroy the Church from within. What we are seeing is the culmination of nearly 100 years worth of this effort playing itself out," he said.
Hichborn said that faithful Catholics must not abandon their Mother, the Church, in the face of such evil.
"In times such as these, many will be deeply scandalized and tempted to leave the Church. But it is imperative for Catholics to remember that Holy Mother Church is completely blameless, despite the terrible things done by men who represent Her. What Capozzi was caught doing is absolutely vile, but his crime was as much against the Church he claims to serve as it was against the faithful who are affected by his actions," he said.
"But if we remember that our Faith had its beginnings in the Death of Our Lord, then we can look forward to the Glory which follows the Passion of His Mystical Bride, Holy Mother Church," he added.
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Move Over Ethereum, EOS is Coming to Obviate Government?
EOS has the potential to unseat Ethereum as the blockchain that underlies building new contracting systems that don't require government to enforce. And it has the promise of scalability that Ethereum simply doesn't have.
This interview with Daniel Larimer, the creator of Steem and BitShares, is eye-popping. EOS is his latest project. It is a further evolution of the work done on those two systems to generalize the technology as a platform for building and deploying distributed applications similar to Ethereum.
I don't talk about this very much anymore because realpolitik dominates so much of our daily lives, but like Larimer I am an anacho-capitalist. It is fascinating watching people, in their near infinite creativity, march forward creating solutions to problems few people can even frame into words.
For years, I've understood that so much of governments' power derives from its dispute system, known as the courts. It it the main function of government, creating a stable and fair court system for people to resolve disputes of property.
And, even if we get control of the money supply, i.e. through cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, we still aren't solving the big problem, the courts and the law under which all of our activities are subject.
Taxation and inflation (just another form of taxation) are the lifeblood that corrupts government in its most basic function. And we would be willing to put up with all manner of government inefficiencies and abuse if the courts would actually work as they were intended to.
But, they don't. They are, like everything else government touches, a means by which those with money and power, granted to them through government largesse remember, protects that money and power.
Smart contract systems like Ethereum and now EOS are designed to get around all of that. To put contract sovereignty back in the hands of the people who enter into them, not the judges who interpret the law which intervenes between the contracting parties.
Where EOS promises to be better than Ethereum is in its scalability — number of transactions per second it can handle — and governance, which itself is decentralized through its Witness system, similar to that of Steem and BitShares.
Ethereum, as Larimer explains it, at its core, is like Bitcoin, difficult to scale up because of its linearity of blockchain validation. EOS is built on the same Segregated Witness system that now processes more transactions per day on Steemit than Bitcoin and Ethereum combined do.
We talking orders of magnitude here, not ten or twenty percent. Even with SegWit2x, Bitcoin will be incapable of doing the work needed to operate as a currency for the entire financial world.
And yet, what EOS is capable of is still it an order of magnitude smaller than Facebook's current traffic. What this says to me is that there is still plenty of room for both competition and innovation.
So, as Steem was an evolution from BitShares so EOS is to Steem. BitShares was the proof of concept for the type of blockchain it uses. Steem is proof of concept that distributed applications can be built on this type of blockchain. EOS is looking to be the platform for generalized distributed app development, like Ethereum.
The inherent problem with governments is their need to codify everything into law which is difficult if not impossible to change. And the path of change is always towards more centralized control not freedom.
Centralization creates barriers to entry and rent-seeking behavior. Systems like Steem or EOS are subject to the same codification and corruption potential that governments do over time. They won't accumulate at the same rate as the checks and balances are far more powerful in the voluntary market rather than the coercive one.
But, because they are decentralized and ultimately voluntary, they are subject to competitive forces that will mitigate these effects. We see it in technology companies all the time. And I suspect that companies like Twitter and likely even Facebook will fail in the end as they forget that the customer is always right.
The more I delve into the promise of the crypto-space the more I realize that this is the right time to have done so. The changes available are immense and have enormous potential to radically alter the way power is distributed as the current systems fail.
The smart governments are the ones embracing these changes rather than fighting them. This is why Vladimir Putin meeting with Ethereum designer Vitalik Buterin was so important.
Putin realized the potential to not only improve the basic functions of his government, making it more transparent and user-friendly, but also it would help to further insulate Russian society from the effects of a collapse of the West's banking system.
China is moving in a similar direction in backing a digital Yuan based on blockchain technology. Both countries rightly understand that you can swim with the tide and rise with it or you can be King Canute and defy it and be washed away.


Flooring is a major investment in any facility – and with it comes the costs associated with maintaining it. From cleaning products and maintenance equipment to personnel salaries, flooring upkeep can quickly become a substantial operational outlay. In addition, downtime from extensive maintenance regimens can lower employee productivity resulting in lost revenue. Because of this, flooring selection can impact maintenance in a number of ways.
Whether it's a renovation or new construction, flooring directly affects a building's aesthetic appeal. However, specification should be a purpose-driven choice – meaning the use of the building and how the flooring will impact its use should be taken into consideration. If the space sees a great deal of foot traffic or is subject to heavy rolling loads, then flooring material that is easily scuffed or scratched will contribute to losing its "like new" appearance. However, resilient flooring types are less likely to suffer damage from overuse, making them an ideal choice for high-traffic spaces.
Determining the overall objective of the space will help narrow selection. For example, healthcare facilities have strict standards for using aseptic and hypo-allergenic material, while educational spaces often require flooring that improves concentration with enhanced acoustic properties. The activities of the building's occupants should be considered as well. Workers who are on their feet for significant periods of time each day – such as teachers and nurses – will require flooring with greater ergonomic properties.
Cleaning and maintenance regimens can vary greatly depending on the space. Some flooring manufacturers offer training programs to help facility managers customize their maintenance protocols for specific applications. However, cleaning practices can compromise spaces that require maximum uptime. Flooring that can be cleaned both quickly and quietly – without the use of chemicals that release harmful emissions – can help reduce downtime while improving indoor air quality (IAQ). In addition, non-coated flooring that doesn't need stripping or recoating can provide additional cost savings and lower operational downtime even further.
Limited budgets and tight construction schedules often force building owners to find creative ways to take shortcuts. While flooring installation is not an area where they should be cutting corners, there are materials that can greatly reduce labor and material costs. Flooring products that have a pre-applied, solvent-free adhesive layer eliminates the need for a messy, time-consuming, wet adhesive system.
Without the need for subfloor prep, floors can be cleaned or walked on immediately after installation. This helps minimize inconveniences to those working in occupied buildings – especially in busy facilities that operate 24/7. With self-adhesive flooring, facilities can be operational as soon as installation is complete.
Both the composition of flooring as well as its maintenance protocols can have a direct impact on the environment. Harsh cleaning chemicals can compromise the health of maintenance staff as well as building occupants. Maintenance protocols vary among resilient flooring materials, but products such as premium rubber can be easily cleaned using only water and a mop. Flooring that can be maintained naturally results in cleaner air, while lowering operational costs.
Flooring is no longer seen as simply a first cost product. While in the past, facility managers were largely focused on aesthetics and/or the initial cost of flooring, they are now taking a more holistic view and considering the total cost of ownership (TCO) for the expected lifespan of the product.
Because maintenance comprises up to 80 percent of the cost of flooring over its usable life, selecting a flooring system with a low-maintenance protocol can result in significant saving for building owners. Using Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) – which takes into consideration first cost as well as costs associated with installation, maintenance and even disposal – can help facility managers determine which product will provide the lowest TCO.
Flooring maintenance can also enhance a company's brand equity. While it is important to specify a flooring system that aligns with a company point of view, it's equally important to select a material that can maintain its original luster for years to come. When flooring requires a more robust maintenance regime, has a shorter life span and/or fails to meet specific performance requirements, it can result in replacement or other costly modifications to a space.
While flooring materials may be easy to care for, they often fail to pass the sustainability test. Sustainable flooring starts at the source – including how and where the product is manufactured as well as its material composition. However, sustainability can also relate to the durability and resiliency of flooring, which can enhance the product's longevity and TCO. There are two things to look for in resilient flooring that will improve its life span. Flooring that is dimensionally stable won't shrink or expand and eliminates the need for welding. In addition, flooring that doesn't require waxing, stripping or finishing typically has a longer life cycle.
It's important to find the right balance between flooring that meets the needs of the building and its occupants, while being mindful of maintenance protocols that can greatly affect TCO. In addition to healthcare and education, mass transportation has benefited greatly from specifying resilient flooring materials using LCCA and an evidence-based design (EBD) strategy, which relies on credible research to determine product selection. In the case of mass transportation – where ridership continues to rise – the need for durable, sustainable flooring with low-maintenance protocols has become compulsory.
Other market segments, including retail, office buildings, museums and other public spaces, are embracing LCCA and EBD as a way to ensure materials specified for the build environment contribute to an aesthetically appealing environment, while offering a sustainable solution that's durable, resilient and easy to maintain.
Maintenance plays a vital role in a floor's TCO with expenses such as labor, supplies and equipment which are essential for long-term upkeep. Selecting flooring that is easy to maintain, requires minimal cleaning products and never needs to be stripped or recoated can greatly reduce TCO and operational outlay over the lifespan of the product.
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