Free Arts and Crafts Festival on June 20 and 21 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Seaford Railroad Station, Sunrise Hwy., Seaford. Presented by the Seaford Chamber of Commerce. The event will take place outdoors and will feature arts and crafts exhibitors, gift items, food and more. Come browse and shop the fine selection of merchandise. Free admission. Free parking. Call Showtiques 631-724-5966. Rain or shine.
The Eve Eskin Brown Foundation is hosting a bowling fundraiser at Levittown South Lanes at 7 p.m. A $30 donation includes three games of bowling under the direction of an emcee, shoes, a hot and cold buffet, coffee and cake. Raffles will be sold to help ensure that most everyone goes home with a wonderful gift. Corporate sponsorship of lanes is once again available at the cost of $150 per lane. These sponsorships will be recognized through the use of overhead monitors as well as a prominently displayed list of all participating companies. Companies that donate goods or services for our raffles will also be recognized. All sponsorships and donations are tax deductible. For more information contact Jay Eskin at 293-1457.
Sponsored by the Bellmore Lions Club from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Bellmore LIRR station at Bedford Ave. and Sunrise Hwy., Bellmore. To be a vendor call 785-0222. Also on July 5 and July 19.
The fundraiser will be held at Creative Corner, 305 Bedford Ave., Bellmore Village 7 to 9 p.m. The cost is $10 and the cost of the project you select. There will be some snacks and drink and plenty of raffles. Come for for a night of fun and help eradicate this dreaded disease. Any questions please call Marilyn at 603-7053. To learn more about the Avon Breast Cancer walk visit http://walk.avonfoundation.org/site/PageServer?pagename=walk_homepage.
The 4th Annual Bowl-a-Thon fundraiser benefiting the programs of Easter Seals New York and hosted by the Century 21 Laffey Associates. Get ready for all-inclusive events for kids and adults alike: video game challenges, a chance to win great prizes like a 22" LCD Flat Screen TV, and the bowling extravaganza. 3 to 9 p.m. at Dave and Busters of Westbury. Help create a brighter tomorrow for all the children and adults who receive Easter Seals services. Visit www.laffey.com and click on the Bowl-a-Thon banner for more information.
A chapter of Sweet Adelines International is hosting Open House rehearsal at 7:30 p.m. during at the Farmingdale-Wantagh Jewish Center, 3710 Woodbine Ave., Wantagh. To register and for further information call Bobbi 983-2128 or Susan at 729-8323]. Visit www.twincounty.org for more information.
Will be held at the Knights Of Columbus in Seaford. For info, contact George O'Malley 537-3883 or Classmates.com.
On Tuesday evenings you can fun with your family at a special bingo designed just for kids. At Temple Beth-El of Bellmore, 1373 Bellmore Rd., N. Bellmore, you can play bingo for prizes (not cash) on June 30, July 7, July 21, Aug. 4 and Aug. 18. Doors open at 6 p.m. and games begin at 6:30 p.m. Admission is $5 per player. An adult must accompany the children. Adult play is optional. Bring a marker or purchase one at the event. The snack bar will be open at 6 p.m. and will serve a variety of reasonably priced items. No food can be brought with you into the temple because strict kosher food laws are observed.
The Midshore Mothers' Center invites you to take part in the 11th Annual Summer Fun Program. You can register for six-week summer programs, Daddy and Me T-Ball and Mommy and Me in the Park or take advantage of the lower group rates at venues such as amusement parks, museums, aquariums and zoos. Preregistration, which is in progress, required for all events. Download the Summer Fun booklet by visiting www.midshoremotherscenter.org. For further information call the center 679-4641. Registration is now being taken for the summer Mommy and Me program. This is a weekly outdoor program for preschoolers at least eighteen months old, accompanied by a parent, which includes free play, snack and story time, crafts and music. The six-week session begins today.
The Guardian Brain Foundation Support Group for survivors and their family members will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. at the North Bellmore Library, 1551 Newbridge Rd., N. Bellmore. Facilitator Donna Vignola, MSW, LCSW. Call 631-271-3292. Go to www.guardianbrain.org. Also on Aug. 6, Sept. 3, Oct. 14, Nov. 5, Dec. 3.
Levittown Community Council has put out a call for bands to audition to perform at the 12th Annual Lazy Days of Summer Picnic on July 11. The event is held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the East Village Green in Levittown. Lazy Days of Summer is a family event and all bands that audition will be considered to perform, but selection of the bands rests with the Levittown Community Council Board of Directors, whose decision is final. The opportunity is open to school, community and private bands. All bands must audition or send a CD of their music with complete contact information to Levittown Community Council, PO Box 294, Levittown, NY 11756 no later than June 20. To schedule an audition or for additional information, call Anita 796-9426 or Ginny 796-0099.
The Wantagh Memorial Congregational Church, 1845 Wantagh Ave., Wantagh, will be holding its annual July 4 Chicken BBQ on July 4 at noon on the lawn behind the church. Fixings include: potato salad, coleslaw, potato chips, cranberry sauce, rolls, etc., and all sorts of desserts. The price is $12 for a quarter of a chicken and $14 for a half of a chicken. For tickets or info call 785-1829. After June 24 leave a message and your call will be returned. The food is great and there will be games for the kids.
• Kidsfest '09, a fun-filled day for families on June 20 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Inflatables, craft vendors, refreshments, pony rides, Hannah Montana Karaoke Contest and Guitar Hero Contest with prizes. Registration with parent for contests at 10 a.m. Free puppet, magician and interactive shows. Spiderbytes from Dayjams will be performing. Vendors selling children-related products only are needed. Call 491- 2192.
The 2nd Battalion, 25th Marines Association will host its third Annual Golf Outing at Eisenhower Park on Aug. 3 to raise funds for the support of local Marine Reservists and their families. Play will take place on the Red and White Courses with a shotgun start at 1 p.m. Check in begins at 10 a.m., followed by a barbeque lunch. Play will be followed by a buffet dinner at the Carltun. Proceeds will help the nonprofit organization provide comfort and support to family members of deployed Marines; care packages for those on the frontlines of the War on Terror; and if need be, funds will be used to assist wounded Marines or provide for the survivors of any killed in the line of duty. There are several openings available for foursomes. To register for the event, or learn how you can help, visit the 2nd Battalion, 25th Marines Association online at www.225marines.org. Sponsorship opportunities are still available and donations of merchandise for raffle will be greatly appreciated. Call 718-309-3986 for more information.
The competition will be for solo vocal talent only. One hundred and twenty contestants will be chosen on a first-come, first-served basis from applications received. Applications must be postmarked by June 24. Auditions will be held on July 15, by appointment only. There will be no open call. All contestants must be at least 13 but no older than 19 years of age on the day of the finals, Aug. 8. All applications must be accompanied by copies of proofs of age and Nassau County residency as well as photo ID. Originals of all proofs must be presented at audition. A $25 application fee will apply. Applications may be obtained at any Nassau County Park or museum, and all Nassau County libraries. Auditions and finals will be held at the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre, Eisenhower Park, East Meadow. Call 572-0396 or visiting the website at www.nassaucountyny.gov/parks.
Long Island Crisis Center (LICC), the oldest 24-hour, seven-day-a-week crisis intervention and suicide prevention hotline, is looking for volunteers for the upcoming Volunteer Counselor Training Program. Those interested in becoming a volunteer telephone crisis intervention counselor with LICC must first call 826-0244 to schedule an interview. No experience is necessary and the hours are flexible to fit an individual's needs. All counselors must begin with orientation training. The free comprehensive orientation training program takes place over three evenings in LICC's office in Bellmore. The next training sessions will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. on July 9, 16 and 23. Call to schedule an interview. Make a difference in someone's life.
The 12th Annual Lazy Days of Summer Picnic will be held by the Levittown Community Council on July 11 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Jerusalem Avenue Park and Pool, East Village Green, Jerusalem Ave. No admission fee. Free day of family entertainment. Music and entertainment, face painting, caricature artist, games for all ages, pony rides and petting zoo. Open to all residents of Levittown and Island Trees communities. Call Ginny Isola 796-0099 or Anita Thompson 796-9426. Sponsorship opportunities are available for businesses in the area to sponsor activities. Call Louise or Mauro Cassano 735-5901 for information. Exhibits limited to Levittown Community Council organization members only.
The Mill Neck Foundation for Deaf Ministry Sign Language Camp for Hearing Kids invites children ages 8 to 16 to learn a new language and have fun. Held on the campus of Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf, the camp teaches beginning sign language in an enjoyable and unique way. In two sessions (July 13 through 17 and July 20 through 24), campers are divided by age (ages 8 to 12 and 13 to 16). Through activities, games and arts and crafts, campers are taught the sign language alphabet and numbers as well as signs for animals, foods, colors and much more. Campers in session one will have basic conversations in sign by the end of the camp and those with a prior knowledge of the language in session two will build on their current skills and focus on conversational sign. At the end of each week, a special presentation will be held for friends and family about what the students learned. Campers eat lunch daily with deaf students and interact with Mill Neck students during games, storytelling and swimming sessions. Classes are led by deaf instructors with hearing teacher assistance. Camp is held from 8:30 am to 3:30 p.m. daily and costs $230 per child (includes lunch and a book, arts and crafts, a notebook, a bag and more). Enrollment is limited. The deadline for enrollment is June 26. Contact Nicole Romano 351-3844 or nromano@millneck.org for more information and/or to enroll your child in camp.


Our New Year's plans may not share much in common with the average celebrity's—I've yet to find myself uttering the words Cabo or St. Bart's when someone asks me what I'm doing on December 31. But that doesn't mean we can't borrow a little something from the stars. We rounded up some of our favorite celebrity looks from recent weeks for inspiration for the last big night of the year.
Keira Knightley's charcoal shadow and beige lips. While there's nothing new about the smoky eyes/pale lips combo, Knightley's gray-brown shadow and caramel lipstick seems completely fresh. Start by lining your top and bottom lashes with a sharp black pencil and smudge. Then, brush on a gray-brown shadow, like M.A.C. Eye Shadow in Copperplate, up to your crease and down under your bottom lashes, and finish with mascara. Swipe on a taupe lipstick (my favorite is Estée Lauder Pure Color Lipstick in either Beige or Café Chic), and warm up your cheeks with a sparkly neutral blush, like Chanel Joues Contraste in Tempting Beige.
Chanel Iman's all over rose gold. Iman sparkled at the launch of DKNY's new perfume, Gilded Delicious. Shimmery gold is visible on her eyes, cheeks, and lips, and she anchored the look with black liner traced along the inner rims of her eyes and then smudged on the outer corners. To recreate this monochromatic look we suggest: Your favorite black eye liner pencil, Bare Escentuals High Shine Eyecolor in Rose Gold, NYX Tango with Bronzing Stick in Merengue Flush, and Laura Mercier Golden Glaze Lip Plumper.
__Rooney Mara's feathery lashes and red lips.__Give the classic black liner-red lips pairing a twist by substituting lots and lots of mascara—and a few falsies if you're up to it. First, even out your skin with foundation and concealer as needed. Then brush up your brows with a spoolie brush and fill them in with a pencil one shade lighter than your natural coloring (or go one shade darker if you're blonde). Curl your lashes, and with a volumizing mascara—I'm currently obsessed with Benefit They're Real mascara—coat them thoroughly, wiggling the wand into the roots of your lashes for fullness. If you want a little extra length, add a few individual lashes throughout before you apply your mascara; makeup artists swear by Ardell's. Finish the look with your favorite red—Mara is wearing a berry shade (Avon Ultra Color Rich Lipstick in Berry, Berry Nice is a good match) or go for our favorite fiery red of the year, Best of Beauty Winner Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Pure Couture in 01.
Emma Stone's pearly eyes and pink lips. Stone shows us the most sophisticated and subdued way to wear shimmer with pearly cream shadow and a pearlescent pink blush and lipstick. Start by lining your top and bottom lashes with black pencil, rubbing the bottom line with a Q-tip to add a smoky smudge. Then, take a shimmery white cream shadow (Chanel Illusion D'Ombre in Fantasme is the perfect texture for this look, or try the white side of CoverGirl SmokyShadowBlast in Onyx/Smoke) and spread it from your lid to your brow bone. On the apples of your cheeks use a blush that has a very fine shimmer to it—no huge chunks of glitter. Cream or powder formulas are both fine, but I love the blendability of Nars The Multiple in Riviera, which you can throw in your clutch for the night and tap on both cheeks and lips.


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Syria's Deir ez-Zor Forerunner of Victory Over Daesh
© Sputnik / Mikhail Alayeddin
For the second consecutive day, red lights emanating from tracer ammunition sparkle in the sky over Deir ez-Zor in celebration of the Syrian government forces' significant breakthrough in the fight against terrorists.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A Sputnik correspondent was among the few reporters to be at the front line with the Syrian army troops when the blockade of the airbase in eastern Deir ez-Zor was broken.
VICTORY SECURES VICTORY
Syria's Deir ez-Zor province was the largest hotbed of the most combat-ready units of the Daesh terrorist organization (banned in Russia). Terrorists of the so-called caliphate initially had the priority goal to take over the northern province of Syria and its administrative center.
After Deir ez-Zor Victory, Syrian Army Faces Challenge of 'Working With Iraqis'
Deir ez-Zor was not a random choice. There are large oil and gas deposits in the province, as well as a significant number of state-owned factories. Now, Deir ez-Zor is attracting the remaining terrorist forces from all over Syria, mainly from Daesh's self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa.
The major part of the province is still occupied by militants. However, the terrorists failed to crush the resistance of Deir ez-Zor defenders.
"With the support of Saudi Arabia and the West, Daesh fighters attempted to seize the city. But thanks to our strong will for freedom and victory, you can see now that all their plots and plans are falling apart like a house of cards," an officer from the Syrian army says over a cup of herbal tea as he points out the forces' positions on the map.
Commanders of the assault troops are coordinating the airfield offensive at headquarters while terrorists' shells explode 100 meters (328 feet) away.
Fighters of the republican guard, led by Gen. Issam Zakhreddine, are advancing the attack along the city's southern border leading to the airbase. The elite Tiger Forces are in the middle of a fierce battle with Daesh at two areas further to the east.
"Terrorists did not expect such a confident offensive. They are used to our lack of ammunition. But today we have everything we need and our fellow fighters are with us," the guard officer says at the operation's headquarters.
The headquarters, which is outside a university dormitory, looks like an ordinary checkpoint, but it has sought-after, cold, drinking water. At 42 degrees Celsius (107.6 degrees Fahrenheit) water tastes sweet. If you walk through the trenches, it will only take a half hour to get from the headquarters to the combat field.
© Photo : Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
Russian Armed Forces' Mine Action Center Experts Sent to Deir ez-Zor
We approach the fighters at the bottom of the Alloush hill, the bargaining chip in this battle. The militants, laying in an ambush above us, want to keep the strategic position as well.
But the task was given, and Gen. Suheil's soldiers, along with the republican guard, decide to storm the hill before sunset.
The ammunition delivery is right on time. Less than two hours later, the injured commander reports with a smile that the dominant hill is retaken.
During a staff meeting at night, the general announces that during the first day of the operation to unblock the airfield, three officers were killed and seven more were injured.
ON THE WAY TO THE AIRBASE
The assault operation continued in the morning. Gen. Zakhreddine left us at the headquarters and led the assault troops straight to the airfield gate. Over the years of the siege and fighting against Daesh, the troops have discovered all the hidden trails that would allow them to avoid landmines.
© Sputnik / Michael Alaeddin
Deir ez-Zor: Syrian, Russian Forces Inflict Biggest Defeat on Daesh in 3 Years
The airbase camp, which holds over one thousand people, has been under siege since January. The personnel had to ward off terrorists' attacks almost daily, hoping that the day will come when they can see their families again.
The airbase troops did not sit up in shelters and set out to meet the republican guard forces. The terrorists were taken aback by this turn of events and were forced to flee, be it was already too late. After purging the remaining hills at the entrance to the airbase, the republican guard troops joined the airfield fighters at the checkpoint.
"We are reunited, mission accomplished. But there is no road yet. We went through a minefield. Bomb technicians are on the way," the general reported on the radio as triumphant tracers shot up in the sky over the city.
BURNING CLOTHES
Deir ez-Zor celebrated throughout the night. Civilians who received first humanitarian aid congratulated each other and shared food.
"Today we are expecting the fifth convoy from the southern road. I hope that soon my wife will be able to cook me something other than beans, if she can still remember how," one of the commanders at the headquarters said.
Under siege for more than three years, Deir ez-Zor civilians have been receiving food by air. It was only possible to supply the minimum required for residents to survive. White beans were the main ingredient of all meals.
However, according to a soldier, boiled beans were still a luxury in Deir ez-Zor, because cooking required gas, fuel or firewood. The first two were very expensive. A can of household gas cost at least $200. One liter of fuel cost about $6.
Hunger and need, especially in winter, forced the locals to cut all of the already small number of trees in the area. When the last roots turned to ashes, doors and furniture followed. During the last months of the blockade, the people had to burn clothes to cook food.
"What the Leningrad Siege was for you during World War II, the Deir ez-Zor blockade became for us," an officer describes their life in the besieged city.
SOUTHERN BREAKTHROUGH
Despite the blockade having been broken through in the west, on September 5 the city residents and the military waited for the arrival of troops from the south through the main southern gates. Unblocking of the main road would mean opening the shortest route to Damascus and therefore allow for faster deliveries.
Deir Ez-Zor Residents Celebrate Third Major Victory Within Week
Only yesterday, the main gates were controlled by Daesh and the road mined. The fifth corps' column is standing several hundred meters away but cannot come closer yet. Mine clearance specialists continue to clear the area.
Syrian television installed their satellite dishes and began a live broadcast of the historic event. Soldiers raise their guns and send their regards to their families via phone calls.
"Do not film me, I have no family left. These beasts killed everybody. I have nobody to send a hello to," a tanned soldier covered in grime says.
A wearying hour goes by until an offroader belonging to the fifth corps' commander appears on the horizon. Generals of the Deir ez-Zor defense walk toward him and the soldiers meet halfway to triumphant cheering. In that moment, forgetting about danger, the soldiers run toward each other with tears in their eyes, giving each other congratulatory embraces.
"These are tears of joy. I am from Deir ez-Zor and I swore that I would come back to my city down this very road on my own feet, not in a helicopter or a plane," Abu-Mahdi, an older soldier, said, wiping sweat and tears from his tanned face.
© AFP 2019 /
WATCH: Syrian Army Drives Daesh Terrorists From Deir ez-Zor Province (VIDEO)
The happy moment is darkened by an explosion several meters from the road. Two offroaders bypassing the main road struck a roadside mine right in front of the others. The shock wave hurled the soldiers out of the open carriage into a ditch.
A minute later, it's revealed that one soldier was killed. Another one gets out of the car without a leg. The world stands still for a moment ringing in my ears.
The newly-arrived convoy is soon dispersed at the stations in the city. Commanders gather for a meeting.
In the next few days, chronicles of victories will continue in Deir ez-Zor. The government troops have to liberate the rest of the city, clear the airbase perimeter and continue liberating the provinces up to the last village at the border with Iraq.
Four Influential Daesh Warlords Annihilated by Russian Strike Near Deir ez-Zor
Deir ez-Zor Blockade Lifting Praised as 'Turning Point' in War on Daesh - Source
US-Led Coalition Kills Daesh Drone Trainer, Top Weapons Researcher in Syria
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Do we talk and write about men more than women?
Posted on April 9, 2014 by Nic Subtirelu — 4 Comments
As I've been researching the gendered nature of bossy, I've gotten a lot of important feedback from fellow linguists, who have helped to strengthen the argument in favor of viewing bossy as a word that is applied to women and girls more than men and boys.
One particularly interesting point was raised by Lesley Jeffries (Professor of English Language at the University of Huddersfield). She commented that "One argument that you didn't even use is that women are usually less mentioned in corpora than men". I did not mention this, and if I could have provided evidence of it at the time, it would have impacted how I presented my findings on bossy. Specifically, it would mean that women were called bossy more than men were even though men were given more attention by speakers and writers in the corpus (suggesting bossy is even more gendered than I found originally).
Beyond that though the other implication that is staggering is this: If women are less frequently mentioned in corpora, which attempt to represent (to the best of our ability) language use in some domain, then that would reflect the idea that, we systematically pay less attention to one group of human beings than another. Now I don't say this like that because I think I'm the first person to come up with this idea. The list of people who have made this very claim (including Jeffries on this very blog) sometimes using other types of data (e.g., number of women featured in Hollywood films) would stretch on for miles.
Nonetheless, when I went looking for a thorough study to confirm Jeffries' point and my own assumption at the time that she was correct, I couldn't find one, so I thought I'd go ahead and do my own for three purposes: (1) to illustrate the under-representation of women and girls in our discourse, (2) to provide a resource for researchers (especially linguists) who might be looking for some reasonably thorough data to support this point, and (3) to attempt to tease apart a couple of issues related to male forms being used as 'generics' and the impact of this on over-representation of men/boys in corpora (if you find that confusing, I explain it more thoroughly below).
So without further ado, the table that illustrates what most of my readers probably already knew, and what all of us probably wish wasn't true.
Now allow me to provide a little bit more explanation of what you see in the table. If you're interested in the full data set, I've made it available for download here.
First of all, looking at the left most column you will see a list of categories of references to men/boys and women/boys. Pronouns include things like he and she. Human ref includes words like man, female, and girl. Informal ref includes a small sample of words for referring to people informally like guy, dude, and chick. Titles/respect markers include titles like Mr. and Mrs. as well as markers of respect such as ma'am. Relationships includes gendered words for referring to familial and personal relationships like brother, wife, girlfriend, and fathers. Royalty refers to the gendered terms used for referencing royalty such as king and princesses. –man/-woman includes compound nouns made with these endings like spokesman and congresswoman. Similarly, –boy/-girl includes compound nouns with these endings like schoolgirl and cowboys. If you would like to see the full list of words I actually used, which are not necessarily comprehensive but are intended to provide a principled sample of language, download the full dataset. In each category, I have tried to include a balance of male and female equivalents. However, this is not always as simple as it might seem. Take, for example, the words man and woman. While, in many instances, the two terms are used for equivalent purposes, man has usages that may be represented in the corpus but that diverge from its meaning as "opposite of woman". Below, I explore one of these usages, man as a generic term for humans (or 'mankind'). Man is also used as an expression of exasperation or excitement, as in "Oh man, this blog post is really beating a dead horse".
Across the top, you will see 4 abbreviations (COCA, GloWbE, BNC-Men, and BNC-Women). These refer to the four corpora that I used. COCA, or the Corpus of Contemporary American English, is a corpus that contains transcriptions from television shows, newspaper articles, magazine articles, fiction, and academic publications from the 1990s up until today all from the United States. GloWbE, or the Corpus of Global Web-based English, contains web-based writing collected from writers from 20 different English-speaking countries. BNC-Men and BNC-Women refer to sub-parts of the BNC64, which is itself a small section from the British National Corpus. The BNC64 contains the conversational speech of 32 men and 32 women who are all from the United Kingdom and are all closely matched for other demographic characteristics.
Women are mentioned less frequently than men in all four corpora. The ratio is about 2:1 in GloWbE, COCA, and BNC-Men. Although women talk about women/girls more than men talk about women/girls, women still talk about men/boys slightly more than women/girls as demonstrated by the results of the BNC-Women findings. Thus, much of the over-representation of men and boys likely has to do with men being over-represented as speakers and writers in COCA and GloWbE as well.
If there's any category where women may have any advantage over men in terms of frequency of mention, it's familial and interpersonal relationships, suggesting that women are more likely to be talked about in their roles as wives, girlfriends, sisters, and mothers than men are to be talked about in their respective roles. Compare this to the fact that women are mentioned far less frequently using the usually professional terms created by compounds with -man or -woman (for example, salesman, congressman, spokesman). This comparison suggests the lingering effects of very traditional gender roles noted also by Douglas Biber (Regents' Professor of English at Northern Arizona University) and his colleagues in the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (see pp. 312-314), who report a ratio of 31:2 for words ending in –man and -woman in their corpus. When women and girls are mentioned frequently, it is in roles not ascribed with societal power. Of course there's nothing inherently wrong with being a sister or a mother, but this does suggest that women are being ascribed a particular 'place' in society that is not equal in status to men's.
What about generic use?
Another way in which men are more frequently represented than women includes the fact that men are used generically for both women and men in English (and in many other languages). One example of this is the marking of certain professions with the suffix –ess such as waitress, poetess, and actress. Since the male terms here are also often applied to women, I did not include them in the comparison.
However, there are a few terms included in my comparison that are sometimes used in this unigendered fashion (that is as if they applied to both genders): he, his, him and man, all of which are quite common in the corpus. Compare the unigendered usage of these words to the male-gendered:
Unigendered:
Every teacher should be thankful that he gets the opportunity to teach.
If someone knocks at the door, let him in.
Every employee should respect his supervisor.
Man has long dreamed of travelling through space.
Male-gendered:
Mr. Johnson should be thankful that he gets the opportunity to teach.
If a young man knocks at the door, let him in.
Josh should respect his supervisor.
That man over there has long dreamed of travelling through space
We might want to know (as Sarah Shulist, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at MacEwan University, asked me on Twitter) to what extent the findings are a result of the (somewhat old-fashioned and often prescriptive) use of certain terms as unigendered, which would suggest that rather than talking about men more we use a linguistic form that simply has multiple meanings. Although I need to point out here that the idea that the unigendered use of man, his, him, and he as referencing both genders equally has long been disputed by psyhcolinguistic evidence, showing that even if a unigendered meaning is intended we tend to interpret such uses as referring to someone who is male. As Shulist pointed out, this doesn't mean unigendered use is not a problem, it's just a different type of problem. Specifically, if we use male-gendered terms when we intend to reference both men and women or girls and boys, then we erase women/girls from our discourse, even if that's not necessarily our intention.
In order to get an estimate of how many instances of man, his, him, and he were unigendered, I took a random sample of 100 instances of these four terms in COCA. I chose COCA because it contains a variety of different types of language such as academic writing and television speech, because I suspect that there are differences across different contexts, especially as a result of things like conscious efforts to reduce sexist speech in academic writing (such as the Linguistic Society of America's guidelines on nonsexist language). What I found is presented in Table 2 below (and the raw data for each term is available for inspection here: he, him, his, and man).
These findings suggest that unigendered usage of prototypically masculine terms is infrequent. As a result, it's probably safe to assume that the findings above which showed that men/boys were more frequently referred to than women/girls are primarily the result of speakers and writers referring to men/boys more frequently. In other words, the influence of unigendered usage is negligible. What's really driving the greater use of male-gendered words is more frequent mention of men and boys.
Even though I hope to have provided a reasonably good sample, there are of course many other terms that refer to men/boys and women/girls. I'll give a few examples here, but there are more.
One notable place where I have not included things is the informal references category, where terms like broad, doll, baby, and other things (mostly references to women/girls) are not included because they have too much overlap with non-human references. In other words, doll used as a noun can be a woman or it can be a plaything; there's no way for a computer to tell the difference really, and hence it's not included in my analysis.
Another unfortunate absence is homosexual men and women. Although there is a clear non-pejorative term for female homosexuals, lesbian, the same is not really true for men, other than possibly the phrase gay men, but this is often used in the phrase gay men and women. Homophobia has bestowed upon us plenty of disgusting slurs for gay men and women, but without a frequently used counterpart for lesbian I chose not to include references to homosexual men and women in the analysis.
Another major absence is first names, which quite often clearly specify someone of a particular gender. Unfortunately, as I discovered in my attempts to include these in my analysis, there are a number of problems. First, reflecting patriarchal structures of family naming, men's first names often happen to be last names too (e.g., James), so searching for them is made complicated by this. Second, in the United States at least, in the best available data I could find, men seem to have less diversity of first names than women do, as the most popular names for men account for a much greater percentage of the male population than is true for women. Even if an acceptable sample of names could be pieced together, it is difficult to know what data source to use. Even if a comprehensive list of first names of people living in the US at the time of text production were available, it would not be necessarily representative of the language in these corpora (even COCA, which is drawn from the US) since many now dead figures would feature prominently (for example, a name like Adolf might be frequent in the corpus but not in the US Census for obvious reasons) and we can't necessarily assume that fictional characters are named following the same tendencies of real people. It would be nice to know if reference to male or female first names is more common, but I'm unaware of any way to do this in a principled fashion. Perhaps a reader can point me to a good tool for this.
Overall, I think it's hard to refute the fact that men and boys are mentioned more frequently than women and girls in our discourse, particularly in the types of public discourse found in newspapers, magazines, fiction, as well as internet and academic writing but also in our informal conversations. There are two strong reasons for this. The first is that regardless of who is speaking or writing, we tend to talk about men and boys more. However, this tendency is even more pronounced when the speaker is male. Male speakers are less likely than female speakers to talk about women and girls. This leads to our second reason, which is that men are over-represented as speakers and writers in the production of media and thus their stronger tendency to talk more about men and boys is also over-represented in public discourse. Another less frequent occurrence is reference to people in general using what are typically male-gendered terms like man (As in "Man has long dreamed of travelling through space"). This usage is certainly still present, but it can only explain a small section of the more frequent use of terms for men and boys.
The answer to the question in the title then is: Yes! Unfortunately, our discourse contains far more mentions of men and boys than of women and girls (not a terribly novel or surprising finding for many readers I'm sure), and sometimes we even talk about people in general as if they were all male. This both creates and sustains a world in which men maintain positions of power and prominence, while women when they are mentioned at all are cast in roles as sisters, wives, mothers, and girlfriends. I guess the important question now is: what are we going to do about it?
UPDATE (24 May 2014): I stumbled upon a paper by Paul Baker (Professor, Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University), which provides a thorough description of the under-representation of women in four British corpora over time (starting in 1931). Baker finds some increase in the relative representation of women but still finds they are under-represented and described in stereotypical ways.
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Tea_Talks says:
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Lesley Jeffries (@lesley_jeffries) says:
Thanks Nic – great work! I wish every throwaway remark I made produced a nicely controlled and clear piece of research like this without me having to lift a finger;) I will certainly be pointing students towards your study as an exemplar in rigour and clarity which they would do well to emulate!
Alon Lischinsky says:
@Nick:
Note for example that the word woman contains man suggesting it is some type of deviation from the generic man (note the same for male and female).
Not really, although I am sure that many speakers come to the same folk-etymological conclusion you do. In Old English, mann was a gender-neutral term (like the modern German or Swedish pronoun man), and the marked term for 'male' was wer. But, most importantly, male (< OFr maslle < L masculus) and female (< OFr femelle < VL femella, diminutive of classical L femina) are etymologically unrelated. The resemblance is coincidental.
Nic Subtirelu says:
Lesley, thanks for your original comment and your kind words here.
Alon, thanks for the reality check, particularly concerning male / female, which I totally botched here. However, I think woman is a bit more murky, although perhaps my original statement needs more refinement if it is to be made into an accurate claim. The OED suggests that man has long carried the implication that it was referring primarily to male humans. For example, the OED states that "Man was considered until the 20th cent. to include women by implication, though referring primarily to males." In addition, they estimate the death of wer to have occurred by the end of the 13th century, suggesting man would have had to take over as primary means of referencing males. Looking over the OED examples, I see a male specific reference as far back as 1225. Even if we assume that the morphological formation of woman from wife and man predates all notion of man referencing males exclusively, I think we can still view the subsequent take over of man to mean male human as a way of placing males in the sort of default human position (which would make females deviations from them by logical extension).
Nonetheless, I've deleted the sentence you quoted from the post just to avoid as many questionable claims as I can.


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Whether you're planning to hit up the Detroit Tigers' opening day with kids or any of the home team's home games this season, make the most of your Comerica Park trip with these tips.
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The days are getting longer and the weather is getting warmer, which can only mean one thing: It's baseball season in the D.
America's pastime is a huge deal around metro Detroit, and hitting up Comerica Park with the kids is a total must-do spring/summertime activity.
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Comerica Park offers oodles of family-friendly fun throughout the season to keep your kiddos occupied before the first pitch, during the seventh inning stretch and even after the runs are tallied – because let's face it, nine innings of sitting still can be a real chore when you're 4.
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If you plan to hit the 2019 Detroit Tigers opening day game against the Kansas City Royals, which is scheduled for April 4.
Get there early and expect a crowd for opening day parties at bars and restaurants in the area, which start as early as 7 a.m. There's even a few for families, including the Opening Day Tailgate for Families at Beacon Park.
After hitting these festivities, ticketed fans can get into the park one-and-a-half hours before the game, Ellen Hill Zeringue, vice president of marketing for Comerica Park, says (and this holds true for any home game).
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"There you can find a list of things you can or can't bring into the ballpark," she says.
Diaper bags and strollers are welcome in the park, for example, but with a few conditions. Diaper bags must be no larger than 16-by-16-by-8 inches with soft sides, and strollers should be able to fold up and fit under your seat. Carriers or strollers that "inhibit general guest movement" are prohibited.
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Once you're in the park, if it's your child's first time there, Hill Zeringue recommends stopping by guest services to get them a first game certificate.
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Truth of the matter is, hospitals have had wireless networks for some time now, even some form of BYOD (at least for patients and visitors). I can distinctly remember benefiting from a wireless network at Wellstar Cobb Hospital in 2008 when our son was born at the facility just west of Atlanta, GA. Logging on to the hospital wireless network with my personal laptop allowed me the opportunity to provide live blog updates about the delivery to family and friends following along in Florida. There was a "splash page" (captive portal) and I had to agree to the terms of service (whatever those are, does anyone really read them top to bottom?) Outside of that I was logged in to complete general browsing and posting to my blog.
Now, instead of the $2,200 Apple MacBook Pro laptop, people are bringing smaller, lower-powered wireless devices like iPads and Chromebooks to the hospital wireless networks. Those "people" might include doctors, nurses or other hospital support staff which may or may not access the hospital wireless network, depending on any current BYOD policy at their facility.
Now, in 2008 we were not using Skype for a live video feed of our son's delivery, but it begs the question, would you allow an application like that to run on your hospital wireless network under a BYOD policy? That was almost 5 years ago, and think of all the advances in technology since that time.
Applications can now be filtered, restricted, denied or allowed while a wireless device is connected to a hospital wireless network. Some of these advanced features would require an in-depth look at what pieces of infrastructure are already in place. The good news is that in most cases, a healthcare organization that is interested in implementing some type of BYOD policy can do so at lower costs than they might believe.
One key ingredient to look for in a wireless network solution if a healthcare system is planning to implement a BYOD policy, components that integrate well with your existing infrastructure. Cost is always a factor in any purchasing decision, so be careful of solutions that require additional purchases to make the wireless network fully operational or accessible. Recurring costs are hard to offset, especially if they are critical to the operation of the hospital wireless network.
Another question to ask, depending on the size of the facility and the number of staff on-site, how many layers of security features are really necessary? Some elements of BYOD can be implemented with wireless network solutions right out of the box. Generally speaking, the larger the facility, the more layers of protection needed. However, some of the smaller facilities might benefit from simple integration of the wireless network with active directory to validate employee credentials and allow for safe operation of BYOD. That might not be enough to make senior administrators sleep easy at night, so additional components and appliances might have to be considered to make the network fully secured and further mitigate risk.
Seattle Children's Hospital has implemented BYOD with desktop virtualization software that includes an application can be downloaded onto employees personal devices. Under this option, hospital administrators can mitigate risk because the software does not allow for documents to be downloaded onto the employee's personal wireless devices.
That is a nice feature of that particular software, but in order for the application to be downloaded onto the devices, it would require the hospital wireless network have the proper infrastructure in place. There isn't an easy answer for secure BYOD, especially in a hospital environment, but BYOD in healthcare is gaining popularity daily. Expect that trend to continue.
The time to prepare for BYOD is now. If your healthcare facility is considering a BYOD solution for your hospital we are here to help. The team here at SecurEdge has worked with many hospitals and we're experts in working with large wireless networks systems. You may contact us here with any questions or for a free BYOD Readiness Consultation. We are always happy to help!


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There was a widespread belief that once Donald Trump was president, his mode of communication would change. He would think first, speak later. And if he could not bring himself to do that, his wiser aides (or his son-in-law) would ensure that whatever device he used for his quickfire utterances was safely locked up.
Like most forecasts about Trump, this was wrong. Whereas George W Bush – probably the first US politician to reach the presidency in the mobile phone age – was told in no uncertain terms to give it up, and his email habit, too, Trump has either not been so advised, or has treated the warnings with the same disdain he treats so much else. He has carried on with his tweets and gaffes, and in doing so he has earned almost universal disapproval from the political and especially the diplomatic establishments, which regard such heedless commentary as, first, ill-advised in the extreme and, second, plain crass.
It is certainly risky. Trump is not a private individual now, if he ever was, and the words of a president have in the past been assumed to carry weight, even if they sometimes used language only the cognoscenti would understand. But is saying what you mean and meaning what you say really such a bad thing? Might there be merit to communicating unmediated, not just with your domestic public but with the world?
The Lithuanian president, Dalia Grybauskaitė, – no mean user of social media herself – may have been flippant when she rejected Theresa May's offer to be a "bridge" between the EU and the new US president, saying :"I don't think there is a necessity for a bridge. We communicate with the Americans on Twitter." But she was not wrong.
It could be argued that in this age of instant communication, when everyone is free to "like" something or not, most politicians have missed a trick. Their reluctance to venture very far into the Twittersphere, other than for routine diary items, may have saved them and their countries needless trouble. But has it left them perhaps more detached from the real world than is wise?
Diplomacy itself might benefit from more straight talking. The harsh words Trump and the Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, exchanged during their first, curtailed, phone call, could well have pre-empted misunderstanding further down the line. Time, if not temper, was saved.
The UK sometimes takes a perverse pride in being known as "perfidious Albion", while Sir Henry Wotton's famed quip about an ambassador being "an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country" only reinforces the notion of diplomacy as a dark art. But what has this image achieved, other than to foster suspicion?
Even today the British are renowned for their "drafting" skills. But this can come back to bite you. The UN security council resolution 1441 on Iraq may or may not have given the green light for war; its deliberate ambiguity is how it avoided a veto. But it precipitated a whole new dispute about the need for a "second resolution". Why not have the disagreement first time around?
And already, despite all the criticism, it is possible to observe a Trump effect rubbing off on international discourse. We are hearing a new immediacy and outspokenness that used to be exclusive to the likes of Nigel Farage. The tropes of social media are suddenly apparent on the world stage, not least in the image of the Swedish deputy prime minister showing herself surrounded by seven female colleagues as she signed a climate bill. This apparently mocked the image of Trump surrounded by seven men as he signed the Mexico City policy on reproductive rights.
Some of the EU discussion about Brexit has also been what would once have been termed only "free and frank". The bill authorising the UK government to invoke article 50 is just 137 words long. But why waste words, on legislation or anything else?
We may be witnessing the end of spin. If so, I will cheerfully deploy the new directness to say good riddance. Spin, and the degradation of language it entailed, is a large part of the reason people distrust politicians. They do not like politicians using words in ways ordinary people would not use them. Perhaps it takes the recklessness of Trump to yank language, politics and people back on to the same page, opening the way for a plain-speaking in public life that is less risky and rude than his is, but equally direct.


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Q: Laravel 4 - Validator - File Size Just a query about Laravels' validator. Users' of my site are going to be uploading files at times that are possibly going to be around the 100MB Mark.
I've looked at : http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/validation
My controller code is as follows :
$rules = array(
 'file' => 'max:102400'
);

Is 102400 the equivalent of 100MB, I don't feel the docs are clear enough on this?

A: As described in the docs:

max:value
The field under validation must be less than or equal to a maximum
  value. Strings, numerics, and files are evaluated in the same fashion
  as the size rule

So we go to the Size rule:

size:value
The field under validation must have a size matching the given value.
  For string data, value corresponds to the number of characters. For
  numeric data, value corresponds to a given integer value. For files,
  size corresponds to the file size in kilobytes.

So the 102400 is Kilobytes.
Yes that is 100 MB.

A: I believe the best way to find out would be to check the source at Github.
Specifically:
return $value->getSize() / 1024;

According to Wikipedia, a kilobyte "refers to either 1000 bytes or 1024 bytes, depending on usage and context", therefore the documentation seems to be a bit ambiguous.

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Discussion in 'Sports Card Chat' started by CamaroDMD, Aug 22, 2016.
So, I have long been interested in creating custom cards of my own...the goal being to create a card for someone who never really had one and maybe using it for a TTM autograph.
A while back, I decided I wanted to give it a try. Plus, it seemed like a good way to learn photoshop...which I have always wanted to do. So, first I had to decide exactly what I wanted it to look like. I kicked around the idea of creating my own design...but I ultimately decided to try and re-create a classic design. My favorite card set of all-time is 1967 Topps football...I just love the design. So, I decided that would be the design I would re-create.
So, the first thing I did was search through my '67 Topps set and look for the right colors. In an attempt to make it as authentic looking as possible, I wanted to use real cards as a template. I decided that the boarder around the photo should be the green used on the Miami Dolphins cards (pictured below) and the box around the name and yellow font should be the yellow from the Chiefs cards (not pictured). So, I made scans of several cards to use as shape templates as well as source of color (here is an example of the authentic card scans I used).
My goal was to make the fronts as original to the 1967 Topps design as possible. On the backs, I wanted an "authentic feel" but I took some artistic liberties as well. For one, I wanted to include a full career set of stats...not just one year and a career. This plus a bio left no room for the cartoon...so I don't have the cartoon on mine.
Once I had created my design...which took some time, I decided to create my first card. My goal this whole time was to create a card of a specific player. That player is former Oregon QB Danny O'Neil. He was the Ducks QB when I was a kid and outside of 3 Oregon team issues (all of which I have and are oversized cards)...he never had a card produced. I wanted a standard sized card for my autograph book. So, I created the design...and I thought it looked fantastic. I was extremely proud of what I had done.
Once the design was finished...I realized I really liked it and it had been fun. I also realized that with the way I had designed the card...it could easily be used as a template to make other players. I decided I should make a whole Oregon set. It sounded like a ton of fun. So, I set out to do just that.
I gave it some thought and I decided to create an Oregon set of players that I remember. I was born in 1985...and the earliest memories of Oregon football I have is from around 1989/90. This is actually perfect because 1989 is when Oregon made the transition from a terrible program and begin to win (1989 was their first bowl appearance in 26 years...they have only missed bowl games 4 times since). So, I decided the set would include players from 1989-present.
I decided to assemble the set somewhat randomly so the different uniforms really stand out. It has been a fun project. I am currently working on the 17th card.
I am currently in the process of testing the printing process. I have spoken with several people online about different techniques and materials. But, the next step is to go from digital designs to actual printed cards. I hoping I will get all the testing and scaling done over the next few weeks and start printing soon.
I will post the cards here as I create them...I will start with 3 today. I decided to take my original Danny O'Neil card and re-number it the #3 card in the set. I wanted cards #1, and #2 to be bigger name players in Oregon history. I felt the players I choose are the biggest two names of this era.
The Danny O'Neil below is identical to my original prototype design except the card number was changed from 16 (his uniform number) to 3.
All the cards listed below were designed and created by me. Do not post them elsewhere or use them in anyway without my permission.
This card design is extra special because I took the photo!
I will post more later.
#5 Tony Graziani (Quarterback 1992-1996) - My Favorite Duck!
Joey was a Duck? ... how the heck did we end up with that loser Stafford?
Yeah, he was one of the all time greats. He was known for leading 4th quarter comebacks and as a senior led us to a 11-1 record and a #2 final ranking. In fact going into the bowls, Oregon was ranked #2 in both major polls but the BCS had us as #4. They sent non-Big XII champ Nebraska to the national title as #2.
Oregon played Colorado in the Fiesta Bowl and won 38-16 (and pulled their starters late in the 3rd). Miami obliterated Nebraska in the Rose Bowl and won the national title. I honestly doubt the Ducks could have beaten Miami...but I have always felt like we should have had the chance. We were the next best team in the nation.
So, I haven't posted any of the Oregon cards in a while...so here is a big thread to get it all caught up.
I will post more as I make more.
So, here's a fun update. I sent one of my custom's to former Oregon QB (and current Raiders OC) Bill Musgrave and he signed it for me. I also sent an 8x10 photo which he kindly signed as well. Not a bad day!
Well, I haven't been designing for a few weeks because I have been recovering from a horrible flu...just don't have the extra energy. But, a fun card came in the mail yesterday. My third custom Oregon signed card.
Great job, this is a sweet looking set.
Here are a couple others that have come back signed recently. The Mariota might be an autopen...there is a rumor he uses one but it doesn't match the examples I've seen exactly. So...I'm not sure. Still a fun return.
not sure about the "auto pen".. looks different than most of his autographs.
either way.. great add to the collection!
unkilldoo and ranbethscards like this.
Tommy Thompson... barefooted kicker... one of a kind!
How many toes did you break?


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Home > News > UK Medical and Sporting Organisations Call for Best Practice Consensus on Concussion
UK Medical and Sporting Organisations Call for Best Practice Consensus on Concussion
The Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (FSEM) UK has hosted a meeting to discuss the need for consensus in the prevention, assessment and management of concussion in the UK. Concussion is common and can have major implications on quality of life if not recognised early.
Key influencers and brain injury experts attended the meeting, including representatives from the Medical Royal Colleges and National Governing Bodies of sport.
The overwhelming view of delegates present at the meeting was a common desire to progress the development of consensus as to how sport, health and education bodies in the UK can deliver best practice.
Delegates recognised the work currently being done by multiple governments and key agencies in this area, but felt that greater formal collaboration between the Medical Royal Colleges would facilitate the process.
The following work streams were identified as priority areas:
An updated consensus statement on the prevention, assessment and management of concussion in the United Kingdom
The development and dissemination of generic concussion guidance for sports and the education sector, in collaboration with groups and agencies currently working in this area
The development of dissemination of appropriate guidance and educational resources for the primary care physician and NHS Emergency Department practitioners
Input into the planning of care pathways for concussion and mild traumatic brain injury
Consideration of a Cochrane review
The group would like to see consistent best practice, recognition, management guidelines and care pathways adopted from ground level up, across all sectors and by all health and allied professional groups, where concussion is encountered. They also recognised the need for a NICE guideline specifically on concussion.
Dr Roderick Jaques, President of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine, comments: "Concussion is recognised to be one of the most challenging of injuries to diagnose assess and manage. Care pathways from concussion to return to play, school, work and every day life are not always easily accessible or understood in the UK.
"I am pleased to say that a broad consensus was established between all the participants of the meeting on the key issues of a medically complex area and we are in a position to take forward the development of a much needed consensus on the management of concussion."
Dr Simon Kemp, Hon. Secretary of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine and Chief Medical Officer for the RFU, comments: "Individual sporting bodies recognise the work that they need to do on concussion, however we need to move towards a cross-sports consensus on the recognition and management of concussion with consistency across all sporting bodies and in conjunction with education and healthcare systems."
Dr Christine Haseler, representing the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), comments: "The RCGP is interested in developing a consensus on the recognition and management of concussion with the group. Out of which, we would like to see a concussion education resource for GPs, which can be applied to the general public as well as those participating in sport."
Dr Clifford Mann, President of the College of Emergency Medicine (CEM), comments: "One emergency department alone can see upwards of a dozen cases of concussion a week, most of whom are adolescents. There currently exists a large number of differing guidelines out there. Common guidelines, which can be applied across both healthcare and education sectors, are much needed. I am pleased to see that there is already consensus on the need for common guidelines from the meeting attendees and, as this gains momentum, we hope that other key organisations will sign-up."
Dr Anna-Louise Mackinnon, Jockeys Medical Adviser to the Professional Jockeys Association and Injured Jockeys Fund, comments: "In racing we see more episodes of concussion than in most other sports and we would welcome generic concussion guidelines for UK sport to be used alongside the current British Horseracing Authority Concussion Management Protocol. Consistent advice across all sports, both recreational and professional, is vital to the optimal management of concussion. The development of educational resources available to all those working at the grass roots level will be of great benefit."
Dr Ian Beasley, Chair of the FA's Medical Committee and Doctor to the England Men's Senior Football Team, comments: "The advice of medical professionals is key when it comes to the recognition and management of concussion. Whilst sporting bodies have developed processes to deal with many types of injury, including concussion, this is an area that is in need of a set of common guidelines which can be applied across a broad range of sports. All managers, leaders, teachers, players and clubs need to understand the risks associated with head injuries and be equipped with the correct knowledge."
Read our statement on the launch of Scottish Sport Concussion Guidelines here
Representatives from the following organisations attended the meeting:
The Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK
The Royal College of General Practitioners
The Royal College of Physicians of London
National Institute for Health Research Brain Injury Healthcare Technology Co-operative
John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford
Royal College of Surgeons of England
The College of Emergency Medicine
The Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care
Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre
Football Association (FA)
The Rugby Football Union (RFU)
St Helen's Rugby League and Rugby League World Cup
Professional Jockeys Association
England and GB Hockey
The Lawn Tennis Association
The Faculty's work on concussion and the need for a consensus is also fully supported by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
The meeting took place at BMA House, London on the 4th June 2014
The Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK) was launched in 2006 and is an intercollegiate faculty of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
The Faculty represents the emerging specialty of Sport and Exercise Medicine and has over 550 Members and Fellows, not including medical students
There are 83 Sport and Exercise Medicine Doctors on the GMC specialist register
The FSEM not only sets standards in SEM but oversees research, training, curriculum and assessment of SEM Doctors, including providing revalidation services
Sport and Exercise Medicine involves the medical care of injury and illness in sport, exercise and the work place. It requires accurate diagnoses, careful clinical examination, experience and knowledge of sport and exercise specific movement patterns. SEM practitioners work in a variety of settings across primary, secondary and tertiary care. The specialty has a large scale application in improving the health of the general public through exercise advice and prescription. Further information about the specialty can be found in the Media & Resources section at www.fsem.co.uk
Follow FSEM on Twitter @FSEM_UK Linkedin and Facebook Web: www.fsem.co.uk
For further information contact Beth Cameron, PR & Communications for the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine:
Email: b.cameron@fsem.ac.uk, Tel: 0131 527 3498, Mobile: 07551903702
RT @UKCCIIS: @BJSM_BMJ with collaboration from ESMRN @docandrewmurray Is medical training adequate to promote health and give patients wh…


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Tamworth LitFest
Tamworth's own literary festival – UK
LitFest 2020
Programme of Author Talks
Poster – March 2015
7 July, 2015 tamlitfest
An Evening With Jo McMillan
By Tina Williams
Local author Jo McMillan addressed a packed Tamworth Town Hall on Monday evening, at the launch of her debut novel Motherland.
Jo, interviewed by LitFest Secretary Philip Hall, beguiled the audience, which included the Mayor of Tamworth, with her poignant, informative and often humorous recollections which inspired her to pen the partly autobiographical novel Motherland, which she touchingly described as 'a love letter to my mum.'
Jo's reminiscences drew on her experiences as the 'only young communist in Tamworth', her visits to East Germany whilst accompanying her mother, a passionate Communist Party member, and the profound personal impact the fall of the Berlin Wall had on her marriage, her relationship with her mother and her political beliefs.
As the novel is partly autobiographical part of Jo's address focused on her own life experiences (the characters of Jess, the young girl in the novel and Jess' mother Eleanor are based very much on Jo' s own reminiscences). Moving to Tamworth from Hemel Hempstead with her mother in the 1970's, Jo explained that she very much felt the outsider. She not only had to come to terms with a whole different vocabulary – 'cobs' instead of 'rolls' and 'pumps' instead of 'plimsolls', but more fundamentally had to contend with living where she was the only young communist in town.
School history lessons were particularly challenging, the version of the Cold War she was taught being at odds with the one championed by her beloved Communist Party. Whilst other girls in her year group entertained themselves by singing along to the latest hits from Top of the Pops, Jo regaled the audience with how she herself sang along to Communist Party songs from Nazi concentration camps and focused on how she might die heroically for the Revolutionary cause.
Jo McMillan – image courtesy of Rob Morgan
Keen to find kindred spirits, Jo explained how, through the pages of the Morning Star, she secured a number of pen pals from East Germany, one of whom she modelled the character of Martina on in Motherland (although as characters invariably do, Martina soon developed a will of her own as the plot unfolded).
Jo explained that Communism was in her family's blood and that she joined the Young Communist League at a very young age, immediately being made Minute Secretary. She also attended the Communist Party Branch meetings in Tamworth, ran by her mother, meetings which were often so poorly supported that her own attendance was crucial in deeming them quorate.
Jo described her visits to East Germany, accompanying her mother who, at special invitation from the Ministry of Education, attended summer camps to teach German English teachers English. She remarked upon the beautiful surroundings of Potsdam and eating ice cream – to her, as a teenager Socialism seemed to have it all!
The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 was a profound shock to Jo and her mum and represented a major turning point in her life. Jo explained how it brought both her dreams of a career as a party official and her marriage to a Party member to an abrupt end. It also drove a wedge between her and her mum: whilst her mum stayed in Berlin, in denial at the collapse of Communism, a disillusioned Jo remained in London, embracing all that Capitalism had to offer. Jo stated that she drew on her experiences of disillusionment with the Communist ideology in Motherland, through the character of Jess, but that in the book this disenchantment and Jess' own rift with her mother Eleanor occurred before the fall of Communism in 1989.
Feeling that she had been sold a false promise, Jo ignored politics for a couple of decades. It was not until 2009 (the year after the financial crash indicating perhaps that Capitalism too was not a perfect ideology), when Jo broached the subject of her past with her mother, a past which Jo describes as feeling 'almost dreamlike', that the rift between mother and daughter began to heal. Jo explained that she recorded these discussions and when she read the transcripts the story that was to become the novel Motherland took shape. The pain of the past dissipated and the distance between mother and daughter was breached, the book being poignantly described by Jo as 'a love letter to my mum.'
Jo delivered three separate readings to the audience: the first where Jess is tasked by the Young Communist League to think about who are the peasants and workers in Tamworth; the second where Peter, a Party member visiting the UK from the East, is given a guided tour of Tamworth by Eleanor, Jess's mum and the third where Jess's mum moves out of Tamworth and does her final sale of Morning Star newspapers
There were a number of questions from the audience which gave rise to a lively discussion on the following themes:
Jo's experiences of visiting Berlin after the fall of Communism:
Jo explained that in 2009, when she first visited Berlin to research Motherland, she initially found it extremely difficult to cross into the East, as her past was so tied up in what it represented. Once there, Jo explained how she was able to 'become' Jess and tried to think and believe as a teenager would when entering Communist East Berlin. Jo stressed that she had to try to ignore the fact that Capitalism had replaced the Communist ideology and the physical changes this had brought, so that she could immerse herself in the character. Jo sated that after travelling back and forth to Berlin, she now lives there.
The integration between the West and East Berliners:
Jo stated that she was not there when Communism fell but that her mother's reaction was to immerse herself ever more fully in life in the East. The impression that Jo gained from others was that whereas many of the young embraced the fall of the Wall and Capitalism, celebrating the opportunities it gave them, the older citizens felt a great sense of loss. Jo stated that her mother remained in East Germany until the end of the 1990's, when it became clear that Communism there had gone, she returned to the UK.
What Jo is currently working on:
Apart from publicising Motherland, which Jo informed the audience is to be translated into German and launched there in 2016, Jo stated that she has plans for another book, with a similar protagonist to Jess from Motherland, which draws on her experience of living in China.
Images from the evening:
Jo McMillan chatting with audience members (Image: Rob Morgan)
Jo with the Mayor of Tamworth and LitFest's Philip Hall (Image: Rob Morgan)
Waterstones Sutton Coldfield (Image: Rob Morgan)
Jo McMillan reading (Image: Rob Morgan)
Jo McMillan signing a copy of her book (Image: Rob Morgan)
Jo McMillan reading an extract from Motherland (Image: Rob Morgan)
Audience relaxing after the reading (Image: Rob Morgan)
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