The 2018 Connecting Coaches conference - Coaching youth athletes in a changing world.
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The Otago Academy of Sport is delighted to announce that the Otago Community Trust is offering 25 Scholarships to assist rural Otago coaches to attend the 2018 Connecting Coaches Conference in Dunedin.
The scholarships are valued at $200 and will cover the registration cost associated with attending the 2018 Connecting Coaches Conference. Attendance will allow you to meet coaches from a variety of different sports and collaborate on how to be a better coach.
The Otago Academy of Sport acknowledges the support of the Otago Community Trust in making the 2018 conference possible and for offering these 25 scholarships to deserving rural Otago coaches.
These social movements are changing our world and in response we need to change how we think and work.
How can you, as Special Agents of Change, understand the drivers for change and harness these to be more effective as coaches?
How will your coaching principles and practices adapt so that you continue to build the competence, confidence, connection and character of young people?
This presentation draws on insights I've gained working on sector development projects across a range of sports contexts. These include the NZ Rugby Respect and Responsibility Review, Puna – New Zealand's Sport and Recreation Leadership Framework, Sport NZ's Disability Active Recreation and Sport Strategy, the Shift Foundation's work with young women, the New Zealand Olympic Committee's Women in Sport Leadership Academy, and insights into the OECD Living Standards Framework reflected in a wellbeing focus for New Zealand.
In the world of sports, we are all aware of how important fitness, skill acquisition and technical knowledge is to our performance. There are many sources of information we can access to upskill in these areas. However, when it comes to the impact of emotional control on performance, even though the importance is generally acknowledged, it is an area many struggle to understand HOW to develop.
This workshop will unpack the neuroscience of the emotional brain. We will get a generalised yet effective understanding of the neurological activation, and how and why that generates a physiological activation. You will leave with a more scientific understanding of how the emotional brain activation can affect athletic performance.
The workshop will support you to develop your own individualised understanding of this complex subject. This individualisation is important, because all athletes (and indeed coaches) have unique and varied needs and abilities.
A better understanding in this area will assist you to increase emotional control in yourself and those you support. It will be delivered in easy to understand language and will allow you to immediately implement this information into practice. An essential workshop for anyone wanting to increase their own performance and the performance of others.
Alex McKenzie: What is Effective Coaching?
Whenever the term 'Coaching ' is used in sporting contexts, there is an assumption that everyone knows what it means, when in reality there are often varying beliefs around what coaching actually entails. Drawing from his experiences in developing and leading High Performance New Zealand's Coach Accelerator Programme for the past ten years, Alex will explore the concept of coaching in more depth, and discuss a number of factors that inform coaching practice, coach development and coaching effectiveness. The lessons learned from observing and interacting with over 70 of New Zealand's best high performance coaches over this time will be integrated with the shared knowledge and experiences from various domestic and international coaches, researchers and workshop presenters who have contributed to the Coach Accelerator Programme.
Gordon Walker: What's in a word?
Most of you could have written my presentation here today. There are no new words. In fact, most of them are very simple.
What I would like to offer you is some insight into what these words mean in my context. Some insight into how these have changed and evolved over the years. And finally, some insight into how I live these on a day-to-day basis.
Words like trust, goals, relationships, change, perfection, feedback, listening, family. None of those are new words and we'll have our own version of what they mean to us. All of these words lived purely and deeply will create a rich life and it's my meaning of each of these which I would like to share with you today.
The idea that we live in a changing world is not new, as evident by the claim made over 2000 years ago that 'change is the only constant in life' (Heraclitus, 500 BCE). Yet we often do not understand the changes that occur around us. By being knowledgeable about what, and why, changes occur can inform our practices when working with people of all ages. Some important factors associated with social change are: environmental, demographic, cultural, ideational, economic and political. In this presentation I draw on contemporary coaching practices and issues, including: using 'character' as a criterion in talent identification; player 'power', and; sport academies, as the context for making a case that when coaches are mindful of the factors associated with social change they are better equipped to understand their athlete and therefore to develop the athlete's competence, confidence and connection.
The New Zealand Skill Learning Framework is the culmination of a two year project between academics and practitioners to provide substance behind the understanding of how athletes and coaches learn and refine skill in their sport. The framework will assist coaches in how to get the best out of their training sessions using an evidence based approach to how athletes learn, how they move and how they adapt their skills to the current environment. Taking this approach is similar to evolution where those that adapt best, survive – the athletes that perform best in their sport are the ones that adapt the best to their environment. Coaches who set up training sessions to help athletes adapt, using modern approaches to skill learning, lead to better outcomes in both enjoyment and performance in the athletes.
Lars draws on his coaching experiences from his original backyard in Dunedin and working in performance sport in the UK and Ireland and raises several questions. Can we take the best coaching practices from around the world and package them to create the best coaching programme in the world and base it in NZ – Dunedin?
What do we have in common with other nations in the world and what can we do better?
What is better? – More international medals or more kids participating in sport and leading healthier lifestyles?
What do coaches get measured on? – And who decides?
In a world focused on instant results and programmes like X Factor is performance swimming (& sport) a dying art or perhaps the most useful tool to help young people learn and understand lifestyle values like commitment, perseverance, attention to detail, skill mastery, deliberate practice and adding value to the team.
If so, what does coaching look like to support these athletes to enjoy and optimise the journey?
In a year that celebrated 125 years since women won the right to vote, New Zealand rugby has also celebrated achievements of girls and women in rugby. The participation of females as players in rugby at all levels continues to grow (14.5% increase since 2017); a growing team of NZR and provincial staff are dedicated to developing pathways for girls and women to play rugby; the Black Ferns 15s and 7s teams can now earn a living from playing rugby and have been successful on and off the field, and; a recent rugby's women in governance conference attracted more than 40 women involved in provincial, regional and national rugby governance roles.
There are, however, ongoing challenges for girls and women to engage in sport at all levels. The NZ Health Survey (2015/16) shows that young females spend an hour less time participating in physical activity and recreation per week than young males, and adult females spend half an hour less time participating per week than adult males. This is not due to a lack of desire to be active, as on average, females of all ages are more likely than males to want to participate more (2017 Active NZ Survey). This suggests that barriers to participation are significantly higher for females compared to males and coaching could play a key role in removing some of these barriers.
The gender gap doesn't only exist at the participation level. Women are under-represented in decision-making roles within sport and recreation organisations with governance, leadership and high-performance roles all being male skewed (2017 Sport and Recreation Paid Workforce Survey). In NZ Sport and Recreation Organisations for instance, 30% of High Performance Coaches are female.
So what is happening in the rugby space? What is it like as a male coaching an elite women's team? What are some of the strategies and initiatives NZ Rugby are implementing to increase the quantity and quality of coaches in rugby in general and for girls and women in particular? Farah Palmer and Wesley Clarke will share their experiences in relation to competence, confidence, connection and character to address some of these questions. Farah has transitioned from player to club coach to board member while Wesley has transitioned from player to coach in 7s, 15s and has had experience coaching both boys/men and girls/women.
Erin Baker was the first athlete coached by John Hellemans. It was a simple coaching model consisting of a partnership between the athlete and the coach with no others involved in the coaching process. In 1996 the IOC announced that triathlon was included in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. To qualify for funding, the then called Sports Foundation required Olympic sports to embrace the multidisciplinary coaching model. John founded the New Zealand Triathlon Academy, a decentralised programme, based on this multidisciplinary model. The Academy provided aspiring triathletes and their coaches with a pathway towards international success with support from regional experts in the areas of sports medicine, nutrition, psychology and physiology. Triathlon flourished under this model and the years between 2000 and 2012 is now considered the golden era for Triathlon New Zealand.
In 2010 John was appointed head coach for the Dutch national high performance triathlon programme which was based on a centralised model. Two young female athletes from the programme went on to compete at the 2012 London Olympics.
John returned to Christchurch in 2014 where he helped to set up the Canterbury Triathlon Academy, a programme which provides young Christchurch triathletes with a pathway to national and international success. Now, 4 years later, at the recent world championships held at the Gold Coast, half of the New Zealand junior elite squad of six consisted of athletes from the Canterbury Triathon Academy.
Based on his considerable experience John will discuss a pathway for junior athletes as they work towards national and international success and the strength of coaches working together.
The 2018 Winter Olympics was the most successful for New Zealand, from a results perspective, since Annelise Coberger won silver in 1992. In 2018 two New Zealand athletes won bronze medals with another two athletes gaining 4th and 5th place finishes. All these athletes achieved Personal Best performances. Tom Willmott is the Head Coach of Snowsports New Zealand's (SSNZ) 'Park & Pipe' high performance programme and in this presentation he will highlight the philosophy of the SSNZ Coaching team and provide an overview of some of the athlete focussed coaching practices developed over the past 12 years that influenced these performances. Tom will explain how understanding performance, painstaking PLANNING, involving the athlete in OWNERSHIP of their plan, and COLLABORATION in coaching were key themes of the 2018 Winter Olympic success story.
Robyn has more than 25 years' experience working as a consultant researcher, strategist, facilitator and educator. She is the Director of Lumin working with a team of people in the arts, recreation, arts, sport, education and health sectors.
She works at national, local and community levels with organisations and individuals, and uses creative, people centred approaches. Past clients include local authorities, DHBs, the New Zealand Olympic Committee, NZ Women in Leadership, Creative New Zealand, Sport NZ, Skills Active, New Zealand Recreation Association, Outdoors NZ, Sports Trusts, Dance Aotearoa New Zealand, Entertainment Venues Association of New Zealand, New Zealand Rugby Union and Victoria University of Wellington.
Robyn recently supported NZ Rugby's Respect and Responsibility Review as a researcher and writer and has been leading the development of Sport NZ's Disability Active Recreation and Sport Strategy.
Dr Farah Rangikoepa Palmer (Waikato; Ngāti Maniapoto) is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, Massey Business School, Massey University and became the first female Director on the New Zealand Rugby Board in December 2016 as well as the Chair of the New Zealand Māori Rugby Board. Her teaching and research interests are in sport sociology and leadership as they relate to Māori and women. She has helped facilitate a Young Women in Leadership Programme at Massey for Year 12 female students, a Māori Mentoring & Leadership Programme in the Massey Business School, and; is a member of the New Zealand Women in Leadership Steering Group which provides development for women pursuing leadership roles in the tertiary sector.
Farah was a member of the New Zealand women's rugby team (Black Ferns) from 1995 to 2006, and captained the team to three World Cup wins (1998, 2002, and 2006). Her work in sport and women's rugby was acknowledged in 2007 when she became an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) and she was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2014. After retiring from rugby in 2006 she has worked as a sport columnist, in television, for a government agency, and as a Professional Development Manager mentoring professional rugby players. She was a member of the Ministerial Forum on Alcohol Advertising and Sponsorship in 2014, and a member of the Māori Advisory Group for Sport NZ on the Leadership Development Programme in 2017.
At a community level, she is a member of the Aho ki Rangi Trust which supports alternative sport/education programmes and is an ambassador for the Kind Hearts Movement Manawatū. Farah resides in Palmerston North with her husband Wesley (a qualified rugby coach and coach developer) and two children and is adamant that bringing up two children is much harder than winning three World Cups! She is passionate about sharing the knowledge she has gained due to her sporting, leadership and academic experiences. She advocates for gender equity and diversity in sport/academia and continues to strive for that elusive balance between work, leisure and family life.
Kathryn Berkett is recognised internationally, delivering neuroscience information to a variety of audiences. Her engaging presentation style ensures you not only hear this essential message, but you have some fun along the way!
Neuroscience is a field that increases our understanding of the brain and body, and how they interconnect. In such a changing world, we need up-to-date and relevant information if we are to adapt and respond appropriately. Kathryn's expertise in this area will help coaches increase their effectiveness when interacting and motivating young athletes.
Kathryn has her Masters in Educational Psychology and is also a certified practitioner of the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics. She has been working in the area of neuroscience, trauma andbehaviour for over sixteen years. In her time, she has trained an incredible number and range of organisations, including NZ Police; Military; MSD; Schools; and NZRugby. Her work also involves directly supporting those who work with children and adolescents who have experienced trauma.
Alex has been involved in high performance sport for over 25 years in numerous capacities. After graduating from the University of Otago with degrees in Physical Education and Anthropology, Alex went on to complete a master's degree and PhD in Sport Psychology from the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Upon returning to New Zealand he spent ten years as a lecturer in sport psychology at Otago University, during which time he worked with numerous high-performance athletes and teams as a mental skills consultant, as well as coaching rugby at age-group, premier and representative level. He was an inaugural board member for the New Zealand Academy of Sport and went on to work as a Professional Development Manager for the Highlanders and Hurricanes Rugby Franchises.
In 2008 Alex was asked to lead the development of the newly established Coach Accelerator Programme and was the Manager of that programme until April 2018. During that time he has overseen the professional development of some of New Zealand's finest high-performance coaches. Over 70 coaches from over 20 sports have participated in the Coach Accelerator Programme since its inception, and these coaches have coached athletes and teams to win numerous Olympic, Commonwealth Games, and World Championship titles. Many of the coaches have won national and international coaching awards, with Steve Hansen (All Blacks Head Coach) and Gordon Walker (Kayak Coach) named as Halberg Coach of the Year on four occasions.
Lars is the Head Coach of Swim Dunedin, a programme growing 200 young people who enjoy competitive swimming and range from community level through to international. He has recently returned to Dunedin after working with British and Irish Swimming for the past 19 years. During this time Lars has worked with Paralympians and Olympians as well as developing strong club and university programmes.
Originally raised in the Mr Laing swimming stable, Lars pursued a career in coaching and served his apprenticeship with Mr Laing. Since then he has travelled the world extensively through work, personal development and the occasional holiday. Visiting many different sports programmes, from small communities to internationally renowned.
Lars has performed various roles in 40 years of coaching, Assistant Coach roles, Head Coach roles, High Performance Centre Coach and National Head Coach. He has also had a broad range of experiences including Surf Life Saving, working as a Ski Patroller, rugby and manging Moana Pool.
The greatest asset acquired over many years is a strong network of coaches, scientists and former athletes who provide a sounding board and stability to Lars's coaching in this changing world.
Tom Willmott is Head Coach of Snowsport New Zealand's Park & Pipe programme. In his evolving role at SSNZ over the past 12 years, he has led the New Zealand Snowboard and Freeski teams at 4 Winter Olympics from Torino 2006 to PyeongChang 2018.
In 2012 Tom graduated from HPSNZ's inaugural Coach Accelerator Programme. Recently Tom completed a Professional Doctorate in Elite Performance from the University of Central Lancashire, to add to his master's degree in Physical Education from the University of Otago, and a Bachelors degree in Sports Coaching from the University of Wales.
He has published work in various academic journals on coaching, action sports and skill acquisition. Tom spends half the year living in Wanaka, and the other half of the year travelling around mountains of the northern hemisphere, coaching young athletes and leading coaches in a changing world.
When he is not coaching, Tom enjoys moonlighting as a Heliski Guide and spending time on and off the snow with his young family.
John Hellemans is a coach and sports medicine practitioner based in Christchurch. He has been a triathlon coach and athlete for more than 30 years.
John has won 6 New Zealand titles in the 1980s and 1990s and represented New Zealand at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games. He is an 8X age group world champion. He has coached 6 Olympians and 6 world champions including Erin Baker, Jenny Rose, Andrea Hewitt, Kris Gemmell and Craig Watson. He is still coaching actively at the Canterbury Triathlon Academy.
Over the years John has received many national and regional coaching awards. Recently he has published his memoir titled 'Never Ever Give Up?".
Tania's current involvement in sport is varied. She is a provincial representative hockey player; a social lawn bowler; President of a local bowls club; on the governing boards of Football South and Otago Academy of Sport, and; on advisory committees to NZ Football and Hockey NZ.
In a professional capacity, she is an Associate Professor in the School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Otago as well as a Visiting Professor at the University College Cork, Ireland. Her area of research interest is sport pedagogy, specifically coach and athlete development. She is the lead author of Understanding Sports Coaching: The Pedagogical, Social and Cultural Foundations of Coaching Practice (Routledge, 2004, 2009, 2016) and has written articles that focus on coaches' 'learnings', player dispensation, the 'small town' effect on youth athletic development, and secondary school sports academies.
In the Women's game Wesley Clarke started his coaching career with the Auckland Marist women's rugby team in 2002 and went on to coach both the Auckland Storm (2016) and the Manawatū Cyclones (2009 and 2013). He also coached the Manawatū Women's 7' team to a National 7's title after reaching their second consecutive final (2015-2016). Wesley joined the Black Ferns coaching team in 2015 and was an integral part of their 5th Women's Rugby World Cup win in 2017 as their lineout, defence and forwards play specialist coach.
In 2018, Wesley was employed as assistant coach/Talent Identification Manager for the Black Ferns, and coached the team to beat Australia in a 2 test series in August to retain the Laurie O'Reilly Trophy. In the Men's game Wesley coached Feilding High school to 2 consecutive National Co-ed finals, winning the National Co-ed title in 2016. He also coached the team to the final of the National Condor 7's tournament. He was the Assistant coach for the Manawatū Turbos (2011-2013) when they reached the Championship final of the Mitre 10 Cup, and prior to that was a Regional Coach Development Manager for New Zealand Rugby. Wesley's commitment and excellence in coaching was acknowledged when he won the Manawatū Coach of the Year 2 years in a row (2016-2017).
Gordon Walker is Head Coach of Canoe Racing NZ's Women's Programme responsible for overseeing the K4, K2, K1 elite and U23 campaigns. He coached Lisa Carrington to her gold medal in London in 2012, and gold and bronze medals at the Rio 2016 Olympics as well as multiple wins and podium finishes at world championships.
Gordon has a background in multisport and is a 3-time winner of the Coast to Coast. He has coached in a variety of sports including cycling, running, swimming, triathlon, and multisport as well as kayaking. He joined Canoe Racing New Zealand in the role of intern coach in early 2010 and has been a key member of its high performance programme staff ever since.
Graeme Robson has been involved in High Performance sport for over 35 years – first as an athlete and then an exercise physiologist before moving (from the dark side) into coaching as Badminton New Zealand's Development Coach and then National Coach for 7 years. He then managed the former North Island Academy of Sport's Coach Support Programme before moving into Performance Planning and Performance Systems at High PerformanceSport New Zealand. His interest in Skill Learning came from his time in his Coach Support role and he still works in this area for HPSNZ.
Team coaching NZ swimmers at Commonwealth Games, FINA World Champs and Oceania Champs. Since 2015, Luciana has been working in Sport Southland, leading the coaching and young people areas and currently as Community Sport Manager, while still connected with Synchro at a governance and coach developer level.
Richard Pithey has been involved in the sports sectorfor 27 years – as a physical education teacher in South Africa and the United Kingdom, Director of Sport at Lancing College - UK, CEO/Coach with Mid Canterbury Cricket, Development Manager with Canterbury Cricket. Experience coaching at many levels from beginners to high performance, mainly in cricket but also hockey, football and athletics. A teaching background and coaching experience has enabled Richard to move into his current role as Community Coach Manager with New Zealand Cricket which includes a coach developer role. Richard is also on the SNZ Trainer programme.
Originally from Taranaki Ray has worked extensively with young people for over 30 years, initially through the education system as a teacher, as a He Oranga Poutama co ordinator for the Hillary Commission, his work in crime prevention with MSD and his current role as coaching lead for Sport Gisborne Tairawhiti. Ray has been involved in sport as a coach for 30 years at all levels spanning four codes. He played national league basketball and softball and is still involved as a player in those sports regionally. Ray is passionate about using sport as a vehicle to provide opportunities to improve health and well being for deprived communities. Ray is also on the SNZ Trainer programme.
Steven is the current National Coach Development Manager at New Zealand Football, based in Auckland. Steven has a BA (Hons) Football Studies Degree from Southampton Solent University as well as Confederation awarded coaching licences. Steven has helped to create and evolve the systems and structures within Coaching, Coach Developers and Trainers as well the wider aspects that support the development and education of the close to 20,000 registered football coaches across New Zealand.
Pat has always worked in the sport sector – as a Physical Educator, Development Officer with NZ and Canterbury Hockey, General Manager of Hockey Southland, and 12 years with Sport Canterbury as Coaching Advisor and then Performance Coach Lead A strong competition and coaching background at all levels, mainly in hockey, enabled Pat to move confidently into more Coach Developer and Mentoring roles. She has recently retired from formal work but active in supporting sports with their coaching plans and strategic development, is still coaching, and is chairperson of her lifelong local Hockey Club.
Mark is Sport Waikato's Regional Coaching Manager, a role where he supports the education and development of coaches across all sports and leads the Performance Coach Advance programme in the Waikato. Having played and coached a number of sports at Junior through to adult representative and even national level, Mark also spent time on the boards of both a National Sporting Organisation and an International Sporting Organisation where he gained a great depth of knowledge at all levels of sport. Mark is passionate about ensuring that athletes have the opportunity to experience quality coaching.
Luke leads the Coaching & Talent Development and Sector Development Teams at Aktive - Auckland Sport & Recreation and has an academic background in physical education, adapted physical activity, sport development and business management. He has a background of work in National Sport Organisations, where he has been the Coaching & Development Director at Squash New Zealand and the all-encompassing Director at Boccia New Zealand. Luke has experience coaching basketball and swimming at the community level and has attended three Paralympic Games (Athens, Beijing and London) as a spectator, coach-assistant and event manager.
Tania grew up on the east coast, Ahuriri – Napier, every day was sun, beaches and sport. Surrounded by legendary sporting role models it seemed natural to be running a martial arts karate club at the age of 16, a career in physical education and recreation and sport tertiary level, along with over 30 years of coaching. More recently I have been privileged to be working alongside coach developers and coaches from community to high performance for Netball New Zealand. It's about "opening doors" for others. I am driven by providing opportunities for people to find themselves and optimise who they are and who they want to become.
Graeme has been coaching Lawn Bowls for the last 20 years. Coached the NZ team at World and Commonwealth Games in 2008/2010.
Although still coaching NZ Development and Canterbury Rep teams he plays a pivotal role in the Coach Development space. Involved in upskilling Coaches throughout the South Island and recently running a National Coach Development Workshop. Works fulltime for MYOB and leads a team of Credit Controllers.
He is presently the Bowls NZ National Development Officer.
Geni's passion to work with people from various cultures progressed to a long serving career with the Department of Corrections, where she worked as a Practice Leader to build the competency and capability of professional practitioners. This passion to support staff through their professional development pathway has generated a similar desire within netball, which saw Geni pursue her love of the sport by taking up the Coach Lead/Development Manager role at Netball Mainland. In early 2018, Geni was promoted to the position of Community Netball Manager and is the main contact for all community netball within the Zone. Immersed in netball from a very early age, Geni has played, mentored coaches and coached netball for many years.
and 4 Commonwealth Games working with 9 World Champions and 8 CWG medallists at Senior, Junior and Masters levels. He is passionate about helping others to learn, grow as human beings and achieve their potential.
Mike has been coaching athletics for over 40 years and specialises in middle and long-distance running. In Britain he was a PE teacher and community educator and for the last 15 years has been at Sport Otago initially as athletics development officer then as Sport Manager responsible for generic coach education and is the Regional Programme Leader for Performance Coach Advance. He goes fly fishing as often as possible.
Mark has over 30 years of experience in the sports coaching environment both as a Coach and Coach Developer. Mark's particular interest area is in the development of pathways and systems associated to coaching and talent development. Mark currently works for Sport Wellington as the Senior Advisor for the performance hub that focuses on coach, athlete and systems development at the performance level. Mark's main sport is flatwater kayak racing and is the current Canoe Racing New Zealand U23 and U18 National Coach.
Kelly Curr has been fortunate enough to have worked in the sports sector for the past 16 years, and in particular in coach development. Kelly is the Community Coach Advisor at Sport Wellington and is on secondment to Sport NZ as a Regional Sport Development Consultant. She has spent time working in Netball and Touch at the community level through to her role as High Performance Manager for Netball Central and as a Regional Talent Coach for England Netball. Kelly strongly believes in the role coaches play in shaping experiences of athletes and enjoys being in a position to support sports to develop a well-trained and supported coaching network.
Bill Wigglesworth is the Head of Engagement and Participation leading all of the programs within Community Rugby in the North Harbour Rugby region. He is currently growing the North Harbour Rugby strategy on Junior and Teenage rugby which ensures the "Kids are at the centre of their Rugby experience".
Bill's passion is Coach Development built on a foundation of Coaching many Rugby teams both male and female over the past 18 years. Bill brings a wealth of practical experience to his Trainer and Coach Educator roles for Sport NZ, World Rugby, and New Zealand Rugby.
This conference is proudly presented by Otago Academy of Sport, in association with Sport New Zealand.


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why is bailey so tired?
rest up, little one. you've had a busy day.
bailey had to stay in her playpen while i gave hubby a haircut and she just wasn't having it. she wanted out and she wanted out, now! check out the video. she was like that the whole time i was cutting his hair. she sure did tucker herself out. but check her out. she's doing pretty well, don't you think? she's still wobbly but her balance is improving. POTP rocks!
It's hard to see her struggle, but it might be good to not give her every wish as it forces her to use her legs and kind of do her own physical therapy. Keep on going, Bailey!
I cannot believe how good she's doing after what she went through. I agree with Emma; it is a kind of physical therapy. You, go girl, Bailey!
--Wags (and purrs) from Life with Dogs and Cats.
Paws crossed that she continues to feel better each day.
Oh it is good to see that little tail wag! POTP and the excellent care she got from your vet (I read the post where you had to decide between the ER or your own vet).
Oh you little stinker! One of these days you'll be climbing right out of that jail and making a break for it!
Looking good, Bailey! Getting stronger every day!
Go Bailey, you're looking good little one!
She still has a way to go but she has come so far in such a short time. Well done little girl!
Wow, that is progress. I know she has a long way to go but that is still good to see.
Keep working Bailey girl. I am praying for a full recovery.
Sendin' more POTP!!! You keep on, gettin' on!
Wow Bailey you look AMAZING!! We are so excited to see you are recovering so well!! We will keep sending all the good thoughts and prayers for a full recovery your way!
I keep saying my prayers for you!
is bailey on santa's naughty list?
bee shops at kibbles place, do you?


Dillons are Intermediate league champions following an impressive victory over Tracton. Having gone through the entire league unbeaten, it's no more than we deserve. It was the overall team performance that impressed most. Our hooking and blocking, our work rate and our discipline was top class and to do so in Castle Road in a league final is very gratifying particularly when we were well below par in the semis against Enniskeane. Sinead put over our first point from a free before Shauna scored two points one of which was pure class. Claire and Jane chipped in with a point each before Caoimhe scored her customary goal. That put us a point ahead at H.T 1-5 to 1-4. In the second half Sinead put over two more points, one from a free and a 45. Then Caoimhe and Lauren got a point each. Caroline came on for Emer and Orla replaced Jane who took one for the team picking up a fractured finger. In reply Tracton scored one point. F.T score 1-9 to 1-5. To restrict Tracton to just one point from play was a great effort. We know what it's like to come away empty handed from Castle Road in league finals and it was never going to happen this time. Our attitude was spot on right from the start, the cup was coming north side. So many positives from this game. Captain Caroline was commanding in goal with impressive puck outs. Niamh is back to her best. Ali in the corner was excellent and of course Emer used her physicality well. Our half backs Amanda, Emma and Essie are formidable against any opposition. Shauna in midfield is playing out of her skin partnered with the experienced Susan. The Dooley's stepped up when we needed them most. Sinead was effective as usual and Lauren looks dangerous every time she's in possession. Caoimhe was brilliant scoring 1-1 and then there was Ruth. She was tasked to do a specific job at centre forward and didn't let us down. A traditional celebration in the club on Friday night was great craic.........I'm told. Now It's a couple of weeks rest for the team while it's rehab for Jane. Then it's back to hard training to completely focus on the championship. Apologies for the late match report and thanks to Karen for the stats.


East Lothian Yacht Club were the hosts for the 2006 National 12 Scottish Championships, raced for on 26-27 August, and provided the fleet with a great weekend of sailing and socialising.
Saturday's first race was postponed for half an hour due to lack of wind, with the Race Officer knowing his sailing water well and hanging on for the breeze to kick in, which it did right on cue. Bernard Clark/Sue Jones took an early lead and held it to the end, although Mark and Emma Simpson showed increasing speed to push hard for the finishing line. Roger Brisley and James Gibbons took 3rd place.
The wind continued to strengthen for the next two races, which seemed to really the Simpsons, who had blistering speed and claimed line honours in both of them. Clark and Jones pushed them hard to take second place in each race, with Brisley and Gibbons hard on their heels. With the wind now gusting 35mph the fleet were glad to get safely back ashore. The evening was spent 'Caribbean' style in the Clubhouse with some fantastic cocktails, a superb supper and some brain-teasing quizzes.
Sunday morning saw the wind blowing stronger than it had on Saturday and the Race Officer left it to the fleet to decide if they wanted to race. With all to play for Clark and Simpson were keen to go but it soon became evident that the conditions were too wild for safe racing and various members of the fleet got to taste the water as the increasingly large waves pitch-polled the boats. The fleet sailed home and after a lunch of pie and beans the Simpsons were 'crowned' Scottish Champions again. Brisley and Gibbons were worthy winners of the Mariner Mug for the first Admiral's Cup boat.


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Old- media being irrelevant...
Never rains but it pours... et tu Mail on Sunday!
This article just out after the journalists chased about in order to create a mammoth storm in a tiny teacup... its about a video using a clip from Schindler's List dubbed over with John Tootill and my voices... neither John nor I were aware of our voices being used but the recordings are in the public domain so anyone is able to do this or have it done to them... not much to be done about that.
The Mail on Sunday has decided to write lots and lots of misleading text concerning the video's setting in history and how it offends etc. and referencing me as if I was involved - before finally getting to the bloody point where I am finally given the chance to tell the truth and have the film maker confirm it:
[Ms Rothery, who stood as the Green candidate against former Chancellor George Osborne in Tatton for the 2015 General Election, confirmed yesterday that a recording of her voice had been used. But the campaigner, whose supporters include actress Emma Thompson and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, said she had not been aware of the film until it appeared on the Frack- Free York Facebook page and had nothing to do with making it.
The 54-year-old grandmother, who is standing for the Greens in Fylde, refused to criticise those behind the film, but said: 'It is not something I would do in a million years. I wouldn't refer to something as important in our history as the events of the Holocaust in the light of anything else.
'I think that there are no comparisons to what happened there. I respect that the police have a job to play in society. What I don't respect is the role they are being forced to play in Lancashire where they are being used to escort trucks into a community that has said no to fracking.'
Dave Marris, who commented on the social media site: 'I made this because I am disgusted with the police tactics being used against the peaceful people trying to protest at Cuadrilla's Preston New Road site.']
ARTICLE HERE
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Prospective Parliamentary Candidate #Fylde
Honoured this evening to have accepted our local Blackpool & Fylde Green Party party nomination to run in the election for the Fylde constituency... challenging the current Conservative MP Mark Menzies who has let down our community and left us vulnerable not only to fracking but is a compliant member of this government that as Caroline Lucas pointed out in The Guardian yesterday:
"...is a government hellbent on some of the most extreme policies in a generation: a crumbling NHS, a jilted generation of young people being let down and the pursuit of a hardline extreme Brexit. For us, proportional representation must be central to this project, because our hugely undemocratic electoral system is so stacked in the establishment's favour that the Tories can win a majority on just 24% of the eligible vote. It's abundantly clear that to crack open our politics we must hack the system – and respect the fact that no single party has a monopoly on wisdom."
We stand a strong chance in Fylde of presenting a good challenge to Menzies who won with 22,000 votes in 2015 - but a further 21,000 votes were cast for all the other candidates; so IF the choices of those running against Menzies are limited by other parties *not running or agreeing to work toward shared goals... then this could be the change the Fylde urgently needs. (*some parties are focusing attention on key winnable seats and not wasting energy and money where there is little chance of success or where it would split the vote and guarantee Tory victory).
This government is dangerous and reckless and needs to be out of office or we will be stuck for a further five years and the damage will be immeasurable. With this key requirement in mind, we will be looking to ensure that this election meets the express message of our party:
[On election day we'll be urging people to vote for us because ours is the only policy platform that offers the bold changes so desperately needed to transform this country for the better. But to beat the Tories, and to increase the chances of mending our broken politics, we need to be realistic about what's needed to form a progressive government. That's why, in just a handful of places, if we see reciprocal action from the other parties, our members will consider brave decisions for the common good.
Greens will be standing for election across this country and putting across our unique vision. Where we disagree with any party we will not hold back in making our feelings known. We'll never sign up to the Lib Dems' laissez-faire attitude on our economy, nor forgive some of their decisions in the coalition, neither do we back Labour's attitude(s) to Europe or its commitment to Trident, Heathrow and Hinkley.]
I'll make some changes to the Green Party candidate 2015: Tina Louise Rothery page to reflect the new situation and update there. Busy times ahead but every reason to seize the opportunity and do the best we can to ensure that we do not have to suffer at the hands of an undemocratic Conservative Party after 8 June 2017.
Day 75 in the Cuadrilla House...
Day 75 in the Cuadrilla House… and the good people were in short supply, unlike (as we've come to expect) the policing which comes packaged tightly in multiple dark vehicles that litter Preston New Road – fly-tipped from the over-reactive mind of someone, somewhere 'higher up' who has fears beyond the reality. One of the dark vehicles hurtled at speed under blue lights today, making a fuss… for all of a few yards; seems drama is a key ingredient to policing this road. Certainly there was no cause as a single lane was (yet again) closed in order to enable a convoy of seemingly precious trucks to thunder into the frack site; ample dozens of glowing police had already herded the pensioners, disabled, peaceful few Protectors into a cosy huddle and NOTHING looked remotely threatening. Today was different as all days are different but the one thing that is currently to be relied on for predictability – is that the policing is massive, over-reactive and ill-informed about what's really going on. Lots of trucks in on this day where we were light on Protectors but impossible now to keep tallies as the pattern of days has changed.
So when my sister and I left to get back to grandma duties this afternoon, it happened to be at the time of another truck arrival – causing more wild panic on the road with the on-edge policing. Another dark carrier raced to catch us up (we were pretty slow as pulling a PA system and carrying signs and other paraphernalia) …as the door of the vehicle opened, out poured a good 9+ officers – sort of laughably for a minute looking like parachuters do before they jump. They dramatically forced a line between us two grandmas who were walking away quietly – and an oncoming truck on the other side of the road. Well, words fail me (which is pretty rare). I said we were clearly headed home and asked what on earth they thought we were going to do. An officer said "well you never know do you, people lie" – this is apparently one of my tender points as it set off a roar in me. We're treated every day as if we're vicious criminals (NO violence EVER comes from Protectors – only police) and now he judges me as a potential liar too. I raged and it was pointless of course, but it cleared my anger at least for a moment.
What ARE they briefed before they come on duty? To expect what? Rabid, raging animals ffs?! We are deeply concerned UK residents seeking to protect ourselves, families, communities from a real and provable threat to our health along with the quality of the essentials to ALL life – air and water. Yet we find ourselves here on the seemingly 'wrong side of the law' each day.
I did this word-cloud (my first) from my ongoing (though terribly unreliable now) blog about PNR… the image doesn't surprise me – all those words and thoughts that rush around as in this height of dilemma – answers are sought. It's so sad though isn't it? I know I'm not the only one stuck in a reel of thoughts and constant seeking that has evicted all the former thoughts… hard to recall what I filled my head with before this but I bet it would have been a prettier word cloud with more frivolity, joy and hope. Such a ridiculous way for humans to spend our days. That we have to do this in the absence of a responsible government, speaks volumes about what our 'democracy' and systems of checks and balances has come to.
I wonder what the police think is going to happen? They keep claiming to seek only the safety of all and yet despite the complete non-violence of all Protectors – each day violence is applied to us; they man-handle us far more brutally than this situation could possibly warrant. We are in the way, we are trying to be disruptive and we are angered… the police want us to peacefully co-operate and we want to have an impact and there lies the crux of the problem.
We claim articles 10 & 11 of the Human Rights Act is what empowers our actions to protest this industry. Slow walking has been recognised as acceptable use of right to protest – yet the police tell us it just can't be done on this road as it's too fast. Advisory notices to reduce speed are in place and should soon become compulsory – so surely then we ask, it would be our right to slow-walk. They are evasive on this. They can't imagine surely that waving banners and getting road user support – is what protest looks like? We KNOW this industry brings harm to our children and will work to stall, delay, stop this site being allowed to develop to production. Pretty soon we're all going to have to work out what this is heading to and what we can do for or about the various potential outcomes. Thankfully PNR isn't the only arena where fracking is being challenges… Pop up Protests at suppliers, work in political circles, Councillors, NGOs, environmental groups and more are all part of the mix too and although the roadside can be upsetting, the supplier pull outs have been uplifting – it's swings and roundabouts.
In the end, this will not be stopped by direct action at the roadside alone – and there are many working in all sorts of places to help. Numbers though make a difference and your presence is always very much valued if you can make it. Despite the policing, it is safe enough (what a crazy sentence to type) and there is always the best of company to get you through. See you at the roadside?♥
A New Occupation...
At Preston New Road Rolling Roadside Protest, like so many other protest sites in the past 6 years... people come fresh to activism each day and it's bittersweet to be part of. Each time we are forced to act 'against' the state/industry, we're slow-walking away from the life that each once had. Becoming an 'Activist' may turn out to be an essential decision in the long run - but in the immediate aftermath, it's about pain and loss.
The pain of seeing stark truths that show the lies of this 'system of democracy', the 'integrity of academia', the 'impartiality of media', the confusing purpose of things.,, and pain at the realisation that you can't let yourself be soothed by imagining things will be OK anymore; in opening your eyes to one wrong - so many more wrongs become apparent by clear association and collusion.
And the loss... of normality, familiarity, comfort once derived from lies of state/industry... loss of former hopes and dreams, loss of friends who don't yet 'get it' (no fault of theirs - we are so misled and it takes a bit to get to truth and the day before any of us was an activist... we weren't too) and loss of faith in solutions by any formally trusted bodies.
I feel overjoyed that we grow but so sad that we have to - especially when I see the stress, sadness, pain and loss in the faces of more recent Activists. It doesn't get easier but it does get more familiar and the company for the most part... is inspiring. Other humans who found their inner-Activist too and can't go home anymore to the same type of life. We sometimes have what feels like huge ups and downs in this intensely diverse tribe of Activists... but these are nothing in the face of what comes if industry/state go unopposed and unchallenged. So we plough through the bad bits, knowing there's no way out anyway.
Normality for me ceased the day I literally got an Occupation; 15 Oct 2011 outside the London Stock Exchange. Was just reading back over the testimonies of those who were part of Occupy London and realising how many I still encounter - because they're still here too. The link below goes to a site where the reasons and impacts of our Occupation are explored:
Why Occupy?
[I recognised the struggle within my own interpretation of the world I was living in; the one where education and health were seen to be market commodities rather that logically beneficial and essential; the one where too many in government, entertained lobbyists from industry and later ended up on their boards of directors and we were supposed to pretend that no favours were done; the one where bailing out bankers went hand in hand with cutting disability benefits; the one where the arms trade emanating out of my own country, meant that from my taxes, I paid to kill people and in none of the wars we started or armed, was there an ounce of honourable purpose… and then there was the deadly foolishness of keeping alive industries that should long ago have died but were clinging to us in a death spiral of fossilised pollution and waste that was overflowing into the bodies of our young,
Those tools Occupy gave me meant that rather than tell anyone how to do their activism, we delivered what I call 'The Unwelcome Gift of Truth' to communities and then asked only that they please act individually and together to find out more and respond. I didn't want to say 'save the planet', that was too big an ask, nor did I want to tell them that along the way, all their original beliefs would come crashing down and that before it got clear and the self-empowerment kicked in – it would be a bit awful, isolating and crushingly real. There was no need to say though because I knew that once they started tackling this ONE issue, they would discover that the media lies (and come to ask themselves, what was ever true?), their MPs serve their party not the people, their Councillors are ill-informed and mostly powerless, lobbyists from industries as big as the energy sector, have the power to change our politics and laws and that THIS is NOT what democracy looks like.]
About yesterday... a little late but hey ho. Headed up to Preston New Road Rolling Roadside Protest shortly <3 span="">
Day 71 in the Cuadrilla House… and the good people got the worst news, that the judicial reviews had failed to get this site development stopped. One honourable Protector had been atop a delivery truck for 18 hours when the news came – he'd said he wasn't releasing the vehicle until the ruling came. As the ruling was clearly wrong (really, do read the piece on Drill Or Drop? to see the strength of our points of law – and Judge Dove's absurd excuses for refusing to accept their validity) … he did not come down. Later at the 24 hour mark, he would be delivered by police, along with the truck right into the Cuadrilla site (more on that later). The mood of us all was impossible to define as it went from rage, upset and jaded... to defiant, determined and resolute. What NO-ONE thought was "Oh well that's it then".
So it's been a rollercoaster of a ride at the roadside these too many days, with deep lows and massive highs depending on the moments… I remember reading somewhere once that because usual everyday life is usually full of common sights and routines… that much of what we think we are seeing, is actually just like the 'cache' on a computer – where the 'usual' things are sort-of assumed by our minds to save re-looking too much at the stuff that's always there; like the pattern on wall-paper or words on office doors etc. (maybe why we notice the slightest slight fringe trim on a familiar face sort of thing?) Every day of activism defies this fact… every moment of every day we are experiencing a new thing that can't be predicted or presumed… or really steered either. We are a tribe by virtue of our shared locations and aim (stop fracking) – but without deep knowledge of each other – so everything including ourselves is impossible to predict. We're a movement that looks a lot like a murmuration of birds – we surge, cluster, separate and act independently… together. My head hurts trying to figure how we take the mass of us and apply it to the truth of the problem… the system of government that yesterday forced the risks of fracking, onto the children of Lancashire.
These blogs I try to maintain when time, mind and clarity permit… started out as a way of noting number of deliveries, mood of Protectors, breeches of planning etc. but this became impossible as the wonderful PuPs (Pop up Protests) meant there were more fronts to report on and the actions at the roadside itself, spread to different parts of Preston New Road. My view will only ever be a fragment seen from one spot; there are so many other places to stand and things to see. Livestreams from a variety of Protectors are coming into their own for fuller views but mostly only on Facebook Live which can limit our reach to those not using the platform… and considering the nature and rapidity of change that can happen one moment to the next – a full clear view is not likely! Which makes me ponder longer at the way any news story is covered and which aspects of a 'story' old media chooses to shine a light on and how they choose what to exclude… but that's for another blog.
Thankfully Miranda Cox has added her perspective on the day to follow my bit – so for now I'll update on what happened that I was witness to that appalled me… the delivery of a Protector, to the very place he is working against and where the people we oppose, are gathered in number. My sister and I arrived at PNR around 10am just after hearing the outcome of the judicial reviews and at this point the Protector was atop the truck outside Maple Farm (just down from the site on PNR) and had been there 18 hours. Some local media was milling about at this point. Later in the day when time atop truck reached 24 hours … I was nearby when I heard screams. We'd previously been spending time with others up at the land owner's area, site and various points along the road – when we got to where the truck had been, it was just moving off with three helmeted police on the back and on top of the Protector (this was a gravel truck full of sharp stone). A police officer was driving.
The truck went at quite a pace and we got the car to head up and see where they were taking him. We reached the fracking site entrance and saw that the truck, the helmeted police and the Protector had been delivered right INTO the site and the gates closed behind. Quite simply WTF?! I asked police what on earth was happening, why the Protector had not been taken to a police station and what they thought he would be going through being delivered into the place we've stood and opposed for 70 days. He went off to find an excuse that would do and was told to say:
There was nowhere the truck could go that was suitable and the police station in Kirkham could not accommodate an HGV… the site was the 'safe' alternative. (*safe for who??)
I challenged that it was the least safe for the Protector and that there were huge carparks nearby that would easily have sufficed. I should have recalled the HGV testing station but didn't – surprised the police didn't think of it either as it is just down the road from their station in Kirkham! My Facebook Livestreams are public and the exchange is here: https://www.facebook.com/tinalouiseuk/videos/vb.885330257/10158496449635258/
Lots else happened… but it always does. You really need to be here :)Much planning is happening but early stages as we'd tried to hold out hope that further actions might not be needed if justice had its way … sadly justice too has been ignored by government and now just lives in our hearts as a forlorn hope rather than in the law books. o back to the roadside but everything is different again and moreso – now we KNOW there is nothing for us to call on from this 'democracy' or the legal system. We KNOW we the people are working separate and in opposition from the government and that changes our mindset… but we're not going home. We can't. See you at the roadside?
View from Miranda:
[Bloody angry about today...I'm actually fizzing. We have one planet. This has been my main thought all day. We have no back up plan. We have our land, we have each other, we have our air and our water. We can look after our planet or we can destroy it. It's that simple. While world Governments pursue wealth for the few over quality of life for all, while they continue to push economy over the environment, they are not protecting humanity. We are reaching a tipping point, socially and environmentally. Its now time for us to push for change, to demand environmental agendas instead, to protect the planet rather than business.
The news that the two separate appeals had failed did not come as a huge surprise, but it did feel like the knock out blow at the end of a huge fight. There's that feeling of disempowerment, and abandonment which takes the air from your lungs and leaves you clenching and unclenching jaw muscles. Then there's the rise of anger, that feeling if you shout loudly things will be different. This was then followed by a desperate need to reach out to fellow protectors. Arriving on PNR I was struck by the calmness, the sense of resilience from everyone. The solidarity in knowledge that yes we had received a blow, but nothing had changed. We will not go away or be silent. Our obligation is too great.
We were appalled to witness removal of a protector in a way that was unsafe and intimidatory. We are getting used to this, but it doesn't mean we accept it or deserve it. Years of government peddling the idea that protest is illegitimate, that those who stand up are outsiders has rendered many people fearful of taking a stand. While populations are neutered big business will take advantage. All I could think about today was if our lawmakers, law enforcers and regulatory authorities cannot or will not protect us, the only choice is we do it.
They may try and alienate us, divide us and hurt us, but if anyone, including those perpetrating environmental destruction have any future we have to stand up.]
Day 70 & we're not OK...
So today is Day 70 and I will try to update in words this evening (I'll get to roadside this afternoon) - my daily blog has been hindered by too much demand on time and energy to always get round to it... I had thought that with so many livestreaming and image gathering that it was pretty well covered now anyway (in the early days of Jan/Feb... we were still finding our ways to get our story out and gather others to help us and I blogged more then)... but others on Twitter and elsewhere who do not keep up with Facebook have messaged to say that if they're not on Facebook, they aren't uninformed so I'll try to resume & put on the blog and Twitter too :)
It's hard to face any of this some days but impossible to walk away - those who have hit low points or encountered difficulties with the harsher sides of being an activist, have had to drag ourselves to be at roadside or sometimes even just opted out when it got too much. Now though we can't... no-one can - if we're to stand any chance of stopping this.
Nothing is normal about anything at Preston New Road Rolling Roadside Protest - nothing. To get up and KNOW that your day will involve conflict is horrid and to then go anyway.. feels absurd. But... to get up and KNOW that if you and a whole lot more other people DON'T face it... then we damn our children to ill-health and worse. Whatever we feel about facing the conflict - we are needed.
In the early days when the road traffic management was in place and just a single-lane operated... it was possible to find our sense of community and each other's warmth as we grew our numbers - now though as the very busy road has opened back up and the site is progressing (3 months behind schedule though - drilling originally in planning for March - now not till June)... and worst of all, the policing has become over-reactive and hugely intense and intimidating, the mood and tone is indeed much darker. But the odds were I suppose that it was always going to be this way.... sadly the tragic, emotional witnessing of it all - leads some to turn to each other and lay blame.
Fellow Protectors look at each other for better answers, more hours, better tactics, more effective actions, the way to stop what's happening ... we question ourselves (and some accuse others) about if what we've done was good enough, would others have done it better, was the task of stopping this site helped or hindered as a result of actions and so on. We need to stop this, we're only bloody human and the FACT of us being there and doing the best we can, should be enough to earn us reprieve from accusation... plus it serves only to divide and weaken us; which is of course what is desired by any industry manipulators.
I posted an article earlier about a PR company and the dirty deeds it does for clients and if you want to research along these lines - you'll find exposes on how protesters are disrupted, infiltrated and movements squashed by what they refer to as 'the dark arts'. Not a conspiracy, just a fact of what big business does to protect itself from loss of profit. When we first met the frackers here in Lancashire in 2011... a firm called PPS was the PR Agency fronting the story for Cuadrilla - a Channel 4 Dispatches programme from a few years before shows the levels they stoop to including infiltration, listening-in and disruption with activist groups. We are challenging the energy sector - the biggest industry there is (is the arms trade bigger? I'm not sure) - and when you consider that it is just you and me opposing them and we've done well for 6 years of stopping them... they are going to respond with all they can.
Lovely others have asked if we're doing ok... we're not. We're watching the build happening and every day this causes pain and fear. Of course we're not ok. Taking a break though is NOT an option right now and we need to be at the roadside, in our Councillor's and MP's offices, at planning meetings, with our groups,on the phones, sharing online and reaching out to suppliers or protesting them if they fail to understand... what we can't do it stop.
Please don't sit this one out - even if it pains you to get involved... what we leave behind if we fail, is far worse than any harms to us as individuals now.
On the plus side... the best part of ourselves as part of humanity is what is working when we are Protectors... there is no greater beauty in any of us than this bit <3 span="">
ps... best action you can take at any time is to simply turn up - it is our numbers that makes all the difference to our impact and each other x
The State of Divide...
The State of Divide…
There's a state emerging,
New destination slow-birthing,
So big it is named
'The Divide'
It existed first only in waves of intent;
When unable to make a home in the hearts of others,
Those who would come to claim 'The Divide'
Broke away from the states of Humanity
To seize the spaces between.
Like dark matter permeating,
Or diseases replicating
They found the cracks and weak points
Entered through the pain
Journeyed on the tears
Made glorious the anguish
And took hostage the vulnerable
Traps were laid at the doors of Divide
So passers-by could be caught,
Brought away from the State of Humanity
And into this world of confusions, mistrust and anxiety.
The sameness that united Humanity was crushed,
When entering the dark confusion of Divide.
Hopes, dreams, wisdom, kindness and love
Slashed by brutes with sharpened tongues.
Harm comes this way, it feels at home here
Breeds and festers in its work.
Bruised and battered by words, thoughts and deeds
Divide had no need to lay a hand
The damning alone, did the work of forty fists
This conflict in our heads...
Needs no body blows
The State of Humanity splintered
Fractured pockets of life clinging on
In a world where Divide's borders grew
So damned wide
We struggled to see across the distant we'd become
...Even when looking in each other's eyes.
If Humanity hopes to survive...
Humanity needs to Unite <3 span="">


The Draggable widget initializes correctly, but as soon as the element is dragged *one time*, the widget destroy()s itself!
The issue disappears when jQuery 1.4.4 is used. I traced the flow of events, but am unable to find what has changed in jQuery 1.5 to trigger this problem.
The problem starts with the Draggable remove() method, which is called to remove the _temporary_ helper-element. However this is handled as if the _original_ element is being removed from the DOM, and so the Draggable destroy() method is called to unbind all event handlers.
This is a major bug that breaks ANY widget or code that uses the helper:clone option.
This issue has broken my widget, which is used on hundreds of websites. Therefore all these websites are unable to upgrade to jQuery 1.5, so it is generating a lot of complaints. Normally I'd provide a patched version of UI for users until an updated version is released, but this time I am unable to trace the root problem due to the long, complex sequence of calls back and forth between the jQuery and UI libraries.
I hope this very serious bug will get prompt attention. If it's really a bug in jQuery 1.5 - and not a logic bug in UI that 1.5 has 'exposed' - please let me know ASAP so I can post it as a jQuery bug instead.
Actually this is NOT a duplicate of the other bug #6922. This post discusses a different widget and the bug causes a completely different problem than described in #6922! However the same error in the jQuery clone() method does cause both problems, so the patch to address the Sortable issue 'fixes' the Draggable issue at the same time.
Just clarifying this for anyone who finds this post and is confused why these 2 different bugs have been grouped together.
Yeah, I changed the summary of the original ticket to be very generic because I anticipated a lot of similar tickets.


As Teacher Appreciation Week comes to a close, everyone from kindergarten students to President Obama is showing some love to their favorite educators. But Smarter Schools contributor Kerry Gallagher wants to remind teachers to take the time to thank one another as well – and as she puts it, "the best way to demonstrate gratitude is to offer to collaborate." That's why in honor of this week, Gallagher has a few tips for how teachers can work together, and how technology can help them join forces across classrooms.
Gallagher breaks down her suggestions into four different sections. Teachers can Co-Plan and Co-Write by designing lessons or projects together, and tech tools like Google Docs (or even texting!) can help them share ideas and inspire one another. Co-Teaching helps students to make the most of tech, since one teacher can focus on troubleshooting or keep an eye on laptop screens while the other gives instruction. And last but not least, Gallagher encourages her fellow teachers to consider Co-Presenting. Whether at a big conference or an ordinary school day, digital tools like Prezi or Weebly can help teachers collaborate to build something creative and engaging for their audience, whoever it may be.


The RPOA provides certified EPA Renovation, Repair & Painting (RRP) training for landlords and contractors. Any landlord, painting contractor, electrician, plumber, etc. that remodels or repairs residential property involving or disturbing painted surfaces greater than 6 sq. ft. inside or 20 sq. ft. outside of a home built before 1978 must be certified as both an EPA Certified Renovator and EPA Certified Firm to do the work and avoid fines of up to $37,500 per incident. The RPOA has provided this training for over 770 contractors and landlords.


This easy load-and-go crock pot recipe is a great dinner to make with your kids. Let the kids stir the sauce while you rub the ribs, then just let the slow cooker do the rest of the …... So when Baby Back ribs went on special, my first thought was to go rig our BBQ for low & slow and soak some wood chips. But it was too hot. My second thought was cook them in the oven, but noooo way was I going to have the oven on for hours.
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The 5th March saw the first of 5 football tournaments that will be taking place weekly. First up were our Reception and Year 1 pupils, and then our Year 2's. All the children taking part have had great fun.
On 26th March our Year 5 girls played their tournament as a Federation team. They all played brilliantly with true team spirit and we came a fabulous 3rd!
We will add more photos for you to look at as the tournament continues.
These three running superstars took part in the West Yorkshire School Games Cross Country at Temple Newsome, Leeds on Wednesday and all three gave a brilliant performance.
In the Year 4 race there were 157 children competing. Evan came 12th and Felix came 16th! There were 154 children in the Year 3 race and Sam came 8th!
There were 5 districts taking part so there were about 30 children from each district. Out of the Kirklees runners, Evan came 2nd and Felix came 3rd in their race, and Sam came 2nd in his!
Absolutely excellent performances form these boys. Bring on Neilley races!
Some of our pupils took part in a sporting event at Shelley College on Tuesday afternoon and proved what Sporting Superstars they really are!
We have had an amazing week enjoying lots of different activities as a whole school.
We have learnt to dance in a Zumba class and about personal space and safety with Karate Colin. The children have enjoyed musical theatre and have performed a dance from different films. We have focused on relaxation too through yoga, mindfulnmess and peer massage.
The children have learnt about health and fitness, enjoying lots of physical activity and cooking.
We have focused on mental health too with art, music and various play sessions to relax both body and mind.
We finished our week with a walk around our local area enjoying nature at its best.
What a fabulous effort by some of our Year 1 and 2 children at the Shelley Pyramid Cross Country event on Tuesday 12th February.
After a fun-packed day of Zumba and Karate, these children still managed to run 1 mile and all come in the top 20 in their races with 148 children taking part in total!
All the children received a medal for their efforts, with Meredith Thomas being the 1st girl in the Year 2 race and Charlie Earnshaw being the 3rd boy back.
Well done to all of you. We are very proud of the effort and determination you all put in!
Shelley College would like to thank all parents and friends who donated at the event to Cancer Research.
A team from our federation played in a football competition organised by Huddersfield Town this week. The event took place at Soccer City at Waterloo and was a day long session of games played against other local school teams.
A group of 9 girls from classes 2/3 and 4/5 performed their dance routine 'Shake It Off' at the recent Dance Festival hosted by Shelley College.
"A brilliant performance by some of our Year 2 and Year 4 girls at the Dance Festival at Shelley College last night. The Year 4s had choreographed the dance themselves and taught it to the rest of the girls during their playtime dance group. A truly brilliant effort! Well done to all involved."
A brilliant performance by some of our Year 4/5 children at the School Games KS2 Sports Hall Athletics Competition, achieving 3rd place!
We saw brilliant performances by all of our Year 4/5 team at the #School Games Yr 4/5 Cross Country Competition on Tuesday 11th September.
Well done to all who took part – you showed true grit and enthusiasm and we are very proud of you.
The Year 4 Boys team came 1st and individuals who made it through to the next round, which took place at Newsome High School on Monday 24th September, were Evan R (1st place), Felix E (2nd place), Annabel B (5th place), Marni R (4th place) ** 5th place.
There was a huge turnout at the #School games Yr 2/3 Cross Country Competition at Shepley First School on Tuesday 18th September and the Thurstonland team did not disappoint. All the children showed a great deal of enthusiasm and determination and completed very tough courses.
Well done to all of the children who took part – we are very proud of you all.
What fantastic results from our runners who made it through to the next round of the Cross country championships which were held at Newsome High School on Monday 24th September. All our runners came in the top 10 in all races out of more than 250 runners!
Well done again to all of these children. We are very proud of you all.
Sam, Felix and Evan have made it through to the Kirklees Final which will take place at Leeds Road playing fields on Tuesday 9th October.
We are delighted to announce that we, Thurstonland Endowed (VC) First School, have achieved the Schools Games Gold Mark Award for the 2017/18 academic year.
With lots of young people competing in local inter-school competitions this year, we are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sports, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible.
As part of our application, we were asked to fulfill criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.


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Ready Player One is a fine movie spoiled by a terrible final line
Ready Player One is both better and worse than expected
By Chris Plante@plante Apr 2, 2018, 1:38pm EDT
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Ready Player One hit theaters this weekend, and now we can all exhale.
The film adaptation doesn't get nearly as lost within toxic fan culture as its source text. In fact, it appears, for a moment, to be barreling toward a potent critique of the book and the broader culture of the privileged, young white millionaire men of Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, it stumbles at the finish line.
[Warning: What follows touches on the final scene of the film — as the headline suggests.]
The film improves upon the book
Ready Player One, for people who've evaded the existential panic attack it's caused throughout film and nerd Twitter, tells the story of people who escape a pseudo-dystopian, not-so-distant-future Earth through a virtual reality universe in which anything is possible. In the book, the space, called Oasis, is dominated by nerd culture touchstones from author Ernie Cline's childhood, but the movie is more expansive, looping in nostalgia for cartoons, movies and video games as recent as this decade. Fitting. In the age of memes and binge streaming, culture moves fast enough that it's perfectly reasonable to feel nostalgic for Vine or the vanilla release of Destiny. This is to say, the movie (co-written by Cline) has been changed in ways that, consciously or not, make Cline's work more accessible.
Similarly to the book, the movie is about saving and preserving the Oasis from those who'd do it harm. The heroes, through a series of flashy set pieces, hunt for an Easter egg hidden within the Oasis by its deceased creator. Recovery of the egg will reward them control of the virtual universe and its parent company, the biggest in the world. We understand these kids are good, because they want to prevent control of the Oasis from passing to an evil corporation that intends to cover it in ads in some form of futuristic net neutrality repeal. However beyond that immediate goal, their motivations — and greater plans for the world — are opaque.
What of the real world? It becomes clear early on that the fate of Oasis and Earth are connected. The evil corporation runs a scam that turns players into debtors into something approaching slave labor; simply stopping this company, the second biggest in the world, from becoming the first is good on its own. But the victory only slightly upgrades the status quo.
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The most reparative change from book to film is a sense, diffused throughout the entire story, that escapism — both within virtual reality and our own nostalgia — isn't necessarily good for the people of this future or our present. Sure, the Oasis is great, but eventually people unplug and return to their trailer stacked atop a half-dozen other trailers in smoggy Ohio. The real world and all of its problems don't disappear when we binge The Simpsons reruns or buy a scale Lego replica of the Millennium Falcon.
After the film's hero, Wade, and his friends find the Easter egg and win control of the company, it appears the film will have the obvious conclusion: Wade, now the wealthiest person on the planet, will say he's seen literally everything there is to see in the virtual world, and he will henceforth use his money and power to begin restoring the tangible world. But that's not what happens. Instead, we get the performance of doing the right thing.
Ready Player One builds to a strong ending, then abruptly turns in the wrong direction
As Wade and his girlfriend make out in his ritzy apartment, his voiceover explains that, under his ownership, the Oasis will be shut down on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Wait, what? The Oasis is a massive economy unto itself. People work inside the Oasis; they make a living there. Even those who don't rely on the Oasis for their income rely on it for relief from a world with no clear path to betterment. Does Wade see himself as patriarch, deciding what's best for the public, even when he clearly doesn't know? It's hard to say because that's where the movie ends.
When credits roll in Ready Player One, the film's world isn't better than how we found it. It might actually be worse now that, for two days a week, its residents have fewer opportunities to make a buck, and more time stuck on a planet that's been all-but written off. For most of its run-time, the movie seems to be clearing its throat to make a statement about the danger of escaping into our shared fantasies. But in the last second, Ready Player One says more about the wealthy men, not unlike Spielberg and Cline, who may have good intentions, but inevitably mistake the opulent world they live in for the world in which the rest of us live.
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The European Medicines Research Training Network EMTRAIN establishes a sustainable, pan-European platform for education and training (E&T) covering the whole life-cycle of medicines research, from basic science through clinical development to pharmacovigilance.
This is achieved by integrating the strengths and competencies of the ESFRI- Biological and Medical Sciences Infrastructures, the EFPIA companies, the current and future IMI E&T programmes as well as other scientific projects.
INFRAFRONTIER partners Helmholtz Zentrum München and Institute Clinique de la Souris significantly contribute to the EMTRAIN Master and PhD programmes - WP5 and WP6, respectively. Both work packages intent to strengthen the link between the academia and the biomedical industry, by means of analysing and intensifying the public-private partnerships PhD programmes, stimulating academia-industry mobility and providing training both in drug development and business awareness.
Both workpackges are co-led by the Institute Clinique de la Souris.
EMTRAIN has received support from the Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking under grant agreement n° 115015.


The Spanish artist behind Kaytranada's 99.9% cover shares his own illustrated musical diary.
Ricardo Cavolo has earned international acclaim in recent years for his vivid, mind-altering illustrations and murals. The Salamanca-born, Barcelona-based artist's work often draws from traditional folk art and folklore, while maintaining a distinct and otherworldly approach to the portraiture and the human form.
Earlier this year, Cavolo designed the cover for Kaytranada's debut studio album 99.9%, and in September, he shared a musical diary of his own entitled 101 Artists To Listen To before You Die. The book combines original illustrations with clever descriptions and features a wide range of artists from Kanye West to Johnny Cash.
"This is not a list of the best bands in history," Cavalo explained to The FADER over email. "I chose the 101 artists I listen to the most, and then you can figure who I am. I explain why I listen to each artist, when, and what I feel when I'm listening it. It is the original soundtrack of my life in some ways."
The illustrated descriptions that accompany each portrait provide a further window into Cavolo's personal connection to their music, and, as he says, "you won't find Wikipedia information." He continued, "It is pretty much a personal diary of how I feel the music. This is important to me, because I've been listening to music since I was born, and most hours each day. So it is a big deal for me."
See more pictures from Ricardo Cavolo's 101 Artists To Listen To Before You Die below. The book is available to purchase in Spanish and English via Amazon.


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To estimate prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 2012, we performed microbiologic testing on acid-fast bacilli smear-positive sputum samples from patients previously treated for TB. Twenty (24%) of 84 specimens were consistent with MDR TB. A national drug-resistance survey is needed to determine MDR TB prevalence in Zimbabwe.