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Cronnie Wisdom
Crone is "a phase in which you can be more authentic, more capable of making a difference in your family and in the greater world. Life gives you experience, and when you draw from it, that's true wisdom. By the time a woman is in her crone years, she is in an amazing position to be an influence. To change things for the better, to bring what she knows into a situation, to be able to say, 'Enough is enough.' You don't have to just go along with things, which is often a part of the middle years. You're often something of a loose cannon."
Baba Yaga is Needed Today!
In earlier blog posts we have explored the crone as the helper and as the judge, now it is time to address her shadow side – the unpredictable and dangerous witch. Of all the crones found within folktales, perhaps Baba Yaga is the most frightening of all. This is not a grandmother motif who will box your ears as a punishment; but a powerful, crafty woman who wishes to eat you bones and all! While many older women feel invisible, Baba Yaga laughs in the face of those who believe her powerless. Aligning with this archetype makes any woman a force to be reckoned with.
This Slavic folktale begins with Vasilissa, the beautiful. Vasilissa is a Cinderella-type character, and the first part of the story mirrors the ancient tale perfectly. Vasilissa's mother becomes ill, but before dying leaves her with a wooden doll that has magical properties. Vasilissa was told that whenever she was in need, she was to take the doll from her pocket, feed it, and then tell the doll her plight. She was then to follow the doll's guidance. Soon afterwards, her father marries a cold, heartless woman with two daughters. He leaves home on a journey and the trouble begins in earnest. Vasilissa's step-mother begins to send her into the forest on dangerous errands. In truth, she hopes she will run into Baba Yaga (who lives there), but the magical doll protects Vasilissa. Finally, the step-mother and step-sisters concoct a plan in which Vasilissa is sent to the home of the witch, Baba Yaga, to borrow some fire.
Baba Yaga, was a frightening figure to look at and her actions were no better. She rode around in a mortar which she guided with her broom. She lived in a house that walked around on chicken legs and was surrounded by the fiery skulls of humans she had most likely eaten. Vasilissa walks bravely to the house and tells Baba Yaga that she seeks fire for her step-mother. Like Frau Holla of the German folktale, Baba Yaga agrees; but only if the girl will work for her. She must successfully complete several impossible tasks or become Baba Yaga's dinner. We have seen this motif in many other folktales where the innocent girl is given tasks beyond her skill level and is only saved through magical means. In this story there are two tasks. The first was to pick all the black grains and wild peas from a measure of wheat. The second, was to clean the dirt from a half measure of poppy seeds. Baba Yaga knew these tasks were impossible to ordinary humans and after giving her instructions, she flies away. It is only then when Vasilissa pulls out her doll, feeds it and tells her the story. The dolls eyes glow, she tells her to say her prayers and go to sleep. When Vasilissa awakes, the difficult tasks are completed. The doll gives her the final instructions and then reverts to its wooden state. Each time, Baba Yaga returns hoping to find that the girl has failed. But when she discovers she has performed the tasks perfectly, the witch pretends to be happy. She engages in conversation with the girl and allows her to ask some questions (to trick her further). But this time, the girl (even without the help of the doll) is clever and thwarts the test. While it was impossible for Vasilissa to complete the tasks alone, she is proven pure hearted and worthy. Finally, Baba Yaga asks how she completed these tasks. Vasilissa simply says she was blessed by her mother. Outraged, and perhaps even a bit fearful of being in the presence of someone blessed, Baba Yaga throws her out. But before she leaves, Baba Yaga is true to her word. She gives her one of the human skulls with fire burning from its eyes. Vasilissa places it on a stick and makes her way home. She soon discovers that the house is cold and dark. For as soon as Vasilissa left, there was no way to make fire there. She took the spark of life with her. The skull advises Vasilissa to bring it inside and so she set it on the table. When it saw the step-mother and step-sisters, the skull engulfed them in fire and they burned before Vasilissa's eyes.
Now we return to the Cinderella tale, for the next day Vasilissa goes to live with a kind old woman to await her father's return. She becomes bored and asks if she can spin, so the old woman brings her what she needs. Vasilissa spins the most beautiful fabric that she gives to the old woman for her kindness. The old woman brought it to the Czar and through a series of traditional folktale events, the Czar ultimately falls in love with Vasilissa. They all (including her father and the old woman) live happily ever after.
This story contains two crones, one perhaps seen in shadow and the other in light. Both were honorable in their own way and ultimately helpful to Vasilissa. Both found her clever, pure of heart and worthy. Each taught her the value of honesty and hard work. One was evil and frightening, the other served as her "fairy godmother." While the moral of the story is the same, in this folktale we see two sides to the crone. Perhaps the kindly crone was actually Baba Yaga in disguise. As older women living today, both sides of the crone are needed. We are only invisible if we believe we are. For in a world that has lost its moral core, a bit of Baba Yaga might come in handy to scare folks right back into the light. Use this gift wisely.
For more information on the Baba Yaga story check SurLaLune fairytales.com. Illustration of Baba Yaga was depicted by Ivan Bilibin (1899).
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Labels: 2018, Baba Yaga, Folktales
Wise Crone Cottage Podcast
About the Crone's Cottage
Let's pretend you are lost in the woods. (Those of you who love metaphor know exactly what I mean.) You're certainly going to get hungry. You definitely will be thirsty. As the night begins to fall, you might even find yourself feeling lonely and afraid. If this was a fairy tale, just as you are about to lose hope, a cottage appears – right in the middle of the woods. The cottage is the home of the crone, a wise woman, who can appear as friend or foe depending upon your need or worth. If you have found yourself at this blog, know that you are worthy of the quest before you. Listen with an open heart and the crone may yet show you favor and assist you on your journey.
In the world of Jungian psychology, the forest has a strong association with the unconscious mind. It is a place of initiation and rebirth and symbolizes the feminine principle or the Great Mother. J.C. Cooper in An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols writes, "Entering the Dark Forest or the Enchanted Forest is a threshold symbol; the soul entering the perils of the unknown; the realm of death; the secrets of nature, or the spiritual world which man must penetrate to find the meaning."
The Crone's Cottage is a spot where the heart is opened and the spirit renewed. Together we'll explore the ancient world of myth, legend and folklore. We'll also look at contemporary films and stories that continue this tradition of fantasy and we'll discuss the theories of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell.
Know that it is when your journey is difficult and the path dark and unclear, that the Crone offers you a helping hand. She may leave you enriched by your visit; giving you food, shelter and a clue as to how best to proceed. Sometimes she may haunt you with an unanswered question that lead you deeper into the forest of yourself. But this is true only if you choose to accept her help. You must see beyond her visage. You must see beyond the fear of the unknown. For when you do so, you are proven worthy and her magic takes you home.
About the Crone
Kathy Shimpock is a transpersonal practitioner, artist and storyteller. She has an MA in Celtic Studies and teaches the art of storytelling at South Mountain Community College's Storytelling Institute and hypnosis at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts. Kathy has a deep interest in transpersonal studies including personal growth, folktales, mythology and Jungian psychology. Her company, Symbols of Soul, helps clients discover and explore their own health, wellness, creativity and intuition. The tools she uses include: transpersonal hypnotherapy & guided imagery, Reiki and other energy work, spiritual guidance mentoring, depth coaching, storytelling, expressive art, ceremony and ritual. She is also an approved facilitator for SoulCollage and for IONS Conscious Aging.
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Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service
Multi-million pound Toxteth Fire Fit Hub opens
A MULTI-million pound fire station with a built-in community fitness scheme has opened.
Steve Graves
Updated 18:31, 7 MAY 2013
(r-l) Kieran Timmins, Cllr Dave Hanratty, Tony Shenton, Dean Bolton and Sara Lawton,
The Toxteth Fire Fit Hub includes a youth centre with sports facilities, as well as providing a base for Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service in the area.
The youth centre includes a sports hall, martial arts studio, gym and dance studio and four five-a-side football pitches.
Firefighters moved into the new £5.2m building on the corner of Windsor Street and Upper Warwick Street from the station on High Park Street last week, while the sports facilities are set to be opened for a trial run in March. Chairman of Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority Cllr Dave Hanratty said: "This fire station is a fantastic facility for our firefighters and for the local community.
"Along with the other facilities on the site this is a great opportunity for the Toxteth community and people in the surrounding areas."
While the fire station is fully operational, the rest of the site will not be fully opened until later in the year.
A part-opening will take place at the end of March to test the facilities.
Work was provided for eight local apprentices as part of the building project, while a group of young people from Toxteth will play a role in running the centre
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On my way to Perth, to visit Fleur, whom I travelled with in Mexico and Guatemala for 2 weeks in October.
Last stop before Sydney and Europe!
Anyway, I did a Barossa Valley wine tour – yes even if I don't drink wine! I tasted all of them – stopping at the World's Largest Rocking Horse and the amazing Whispering Wall ; again with Groovy Grape agency ; which was pretty good! I learned more with our guide than going to the Tourist Office!
I also really enjoyed staying at Fraser's place – my couchsurfer host – and taking my time for a week, no rush, no stress in this quite city with beautiful Botanic Garden and Library with free internet access Fraser has a disc shop – www.rocktherapy.com.au - Olivier, you would love that, records everywhere in the house - He show me around, cooked for Pippar, one of his friend – with whom I spent a great afternoon around the oldest fresh produce market in the country - and me, brought me to his friend birthday where we had a hilarous evening, brought me to car boot sale - Mum & Claude you would have liked it! - drove me with his energetic Mum Lasca to Hahndorf Hill… I felt like home! I can't wait for him to come to Europe to show him our countries and make him taste a proper mayonnaise!!!
3 days roadtrip from Melbourne to Adelaide – which can also be done from Adelaide to Melbourne – with the tour operator Groovy Grape – www.groovygrape.com.au – all included: guided tour with short walks, national park entry fee, food, hostel… For once I wasn't the holdest one - though on Kiana sailing trip, Gerhard was the oldest one – Brigitte was the one. Another French, retired primary school teacher - you see people can travel at all ages! – 14 people including 2 French, 2 Americans, 2 Swedish, 2 Swiss, 1 English, 1 Finnish and 4 Dutch and our Australian guide-driver. We had really good time with picnic, bbp and amazing sceneries on the way! Of course it would have been nice to have your own car to stop whereever & whenever you want, however this was a good compromise.
Melbourne… I never though I'll enjoy a city so much! What to say… Melbourne is a multicultural, trendy city and - as everywhere else when you get the right information - you can make the most of it!
Transport is really easy going, 1 ticket for everything, which make it really simple, with off pick fare – even cheaper if you take it at the counter after 9am and even free fair for early bird which I got when taking the train at 6am while going to my Great Ocean Road trip pick up point!!! – Frank will never believe that! – we're far from Paris here!
Information Centre can be really helpfull – again when you get the right person - that's where we learn about Melbourne Greeter Service – http://www.thatsmelbourne.com.au – which is a free 2-4 hour orientation of the city for visitors and tourists or the half-price ticket – Half-Tix: http://www.halftixmelbourne.com/ – to go on certain show when pruchasing your site on the day. Aishah, Nick, Frank & I managed to see Fame which was great unless a bit rude sometimes as Nick pointed out. There are also many volunteers all around the city, ready to give you infos at any time.
Free, free, free… Australia is pretty expensive, however, at least in Melbourne, you have a number of free acticities, especialy if you like art. Here I get Laure – I met in Auckland – Art Gallery virus… I surprised myself enjoying going to museums! – Maybe also as it is free and you can go out more freely if you don't like it… – First with Megan - a friend of a friend living in Melbourne who travelled a lot – to see Aboriginal Art at Ian Potter: NGV Australia: the National Gallery of Victoria http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/ ; then on my own to ACMI: Australian Centre for the Moving Image http://www.acmi.net.au/- Mum you would have love it! – or with Aishah to the Koorie Heritage Trust: Aboriginal history – http://www.koorieheritagetrust.com/about_the_trust/welcome – or Frank to the NGV International and all the temporary exhibitions.
On my last day, I met again Frank coming back from NZ, and we head toward St Kilda beach and Chapel Street.
However my stay in Melbourne wouldn't have been so wonderfull without Aishah & Nick – whom I met in Guatemala in October and whom hosted me in there house in Eltham during my Melbourne stay!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I spent the best time ever and I'm looking forward to seeing you in Germany by the end of the year!
As said, my stay in Melbourne wouldn't have been so nice without Aishah & Nick!
On his day off, following a good breakfast he cooked, Nick brought us to Healesville Sanctuary – www.zoo.org.au – to discover & better understand Australian environment such as bush wildlife, native flora or indigenous stories. You can even bring you own picnic and do a bbq inside the park, everything is planned! However, after coming accross emus, koalas, lizards, kangaroos, wallabies, tasmanian devils, bats, parrots ; learning about platypus and dingos ; meeting Kevin the undisciplined cockatoos, we ended up to a great eating place where everything from wine to cakes are homemade: Innocent Bystander - www.innocentbystander.com.au - Unattended children are even welcomed! We had a great lunch trying most of the desserts where I found one of the best chocolate cake I ever hate!!! We also discovered a book about why French hate Australian… Wine you said?!
As Aishah said, I couldn't leave Australia without having a traditional bbq, so before I left, Nick cooked some kangaroos, delicious!
Again, THANK YOU SO MUCH for hosting me so well! I can't wait to have you coming to Europe!
Now in the dynamic and multicultural Melbourne, for a bit more than a week staying with Aishah & Nicholas met in Guatemala in October.
Cairns… I'm so glad I didn't go to Darwin, Cairns was already so hot! I experienced again couchsurfing and again this was a great experience! Sally, a 75 years old dynamic american woman who immigrated from New York to Cairns 24 years ago, picked me up from the bus station and brought me to Caravonica, where she live, at the border of the rainforest! She gave me some tips on what to do around and the next day I took the scenic railway – www.ksr.com.au – from Cairns to Kuranda – www.kuranda.org/ - and came back via the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway - www.skyrail.com.au/. Quite an expensive journey but it was impressive to experience the rainforest this way. As usual, always very well organised between audio-commentary, nice little shops and restaurants in the village, as well as short walks, stop-over on the Skyrail to Red Peak and Barron Falls Station to encounter the rainforest even more closely and learn about this World Heritage listed.
On the evening Sally invites me to join her to go to the Cairns little theatre – www.cairnslittletheatre.com - Maelle & David, I though of you :) – where she played from time to time since more than 20 years, to see the last performance of a romantic comedy by Bernard Slade: Same Time, Next Year, a man and a woman, both married who are meeting during 25 years same time each year!
Airlie Beach, back to the jeep for 2 last nights before heading to Cairns. I finally decided not to go to Darwin which would have been a really long drive & too hot for me – which Marianne & Jérémie confirmed! – and separated from Gerhard who head back to Brisbane.
Anyway, I made it and remembered how much I like to just travel by bus! This might seems silly but I really do! You're just seating, watching the landscape, thinking about everything and anything: all the travel I did, the people I met, what's going to happen next… Still, 10 hours are pretty long, especialy with no food service, just a stop at a petrol station for 30 min, far away from nice lunch in Argentina or Chile! – don't worry Gregoire I planned ahead & had food with me – Just before Cairns, a french girl ended up sitting next to me and we had a nice chat about Australia… Pity I didn't manage to see her again in town, too busy with my couchsurfing experience!
So here we are… The Great Barrier Reef… THE thing I couldn't miss in Australia! One of the best spot in the world for diving! My dear diving friends in Boulogne-sur-Mer: Baptiste, Lulu, Renaud… would have hate me!
As Gerhard is also a diver, we decided for a cruise on a sailing boat offering the first dive for free. What a good idea!
Kiana is a 16,4m lenght boat with maximum 14 passengers on board offering a 3 days-2 nights cruise around the Whitsundays Islands: food, snorkeling & diving gears, bushwalk tour included. 3 days sailing was a nice experience especially as the weather was pretty good – even if some people in the group were sea-seek! – however not good enough to go to the outer reef, as the crew told us. We were only 11: 5 German – 2 from Rostock! - 1 Austrian, 2 Norvegien and 3 French as well as 3 crew member: 2 English and only 1 Australian, the skipper!
The next day I decided not to dive again and only went for snorkeling with Jérémie & Marianne. Anyway, it seems that the visibility wasn't better!
Back from the Whitsunday sailing trip… No comments yet… On my way to Cairns, 10 hours bus which might not be as confortable as South America.


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From the Exam Room to the Classroom
Kids Count PediatricsElkin, N.C.
by Sami Kassel ■ Oct 2018
Dr. Adrienne Classen advocates for children with disabilities to receive the special education services they desperately need, and legally deserve.
All students with disabilities in the United States are legally guaranteed individualized special education services, so that they have the opportunity to learn and succeed, yet many schools fail to properly help these struggling children. Dr. Adrienne Classen of North Carolina steps up to fight for these students' rights.
Imagine a six-year-old boy heading into his pediatrician's office for a basic well visit. The appointment will likely follow a familiar pattern: The patient is weighed and measured, his vitals are checked, vision and hearing tests are performed. Medical staff answer any questions his parents have and help them schedule the next appointment at the checkout window. Then, the doctor follows the boy's parents down to his school, where they meet with teachers, school administrators, and civil rights lawyers to discuss the boy's deteriorating academic performance and come up with a plan to help him access the quality education that he is legally entitled to under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
That last part might sound a little strange to most physicians, but for Dr. Adrienne Classen of Kids Count Pediatrics in North Carolina, that's just a typical day at the office.
A Lifelong Dedication to Special Education
Dr. Classen, whose patients affectionately call her "Dr. A", has spent over a decade fighting for the education rights of students with special needs in her community. Her practice, Kids Count Pediatrics, is based in Elkin, North Carolina, and serves the surrounding Surry, Wilkes, Alleghany and Yadkin counties. Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, this rural area is home to beautiful hiking trails and picturesque vineyards, as well as crippling poverty, underfunded schools, and a vicious cycle of academic underachievement that Dr. Classen hopes to break.
Dr. Classen grew up not far from Elkin, and from an early age was exposed to the struggles of living with disabilities. Her younger sister has a severe learning disability, and didn't learn how to read until she was in the third grade. "She was lucky because my dad was wealthy," Dr. Classen explains. "She always got all the help she needed." Unlike many of Dr. Classen's patients, her parents were in a position to fight for extra services in their daughter's school. Dr. Classen's sister was able to receive special accommodations all the way through college, and is now a successful ecologist with over two hundred published papers. Her accomplishments stand as a testament to the power of special education services.
"I feel like every other kid should have that same opportunity," Dr. Classen says. "If she'd been born into a poor family where she didn't get help, she would've been an eighth- or ninth-grade dropout."
At Kids Count Pediatrics, where Medicaid patients represent 87 percent of her practice, Dr. Classen encounters many children who are living that "what could have been:" struggling students whose parents don't have the resources to fight to get them the assistance they need. The problem is compounded by underfunded and inadequately staffed local school districts. Opportunities and support for children with learning disabilities are scarce. "Kids get stuck in classes where they can't succeed," Dr. Classen says, "and then we wonder why they drop out. It's hard to watch."
Approximately 13 percent of all students in the United States have an individualized education program (IEP), and an additional 1.5 percent are served by a 504 plan.
The situation in North Carolina is starkly contrasted with Dr. Classen's previous job in California's affluent Bay Area. There, many of her patients were the children of high-powered Silicon Valley CEOs, and Dr. Classen admits she rarely diagnosed a learning disorder or felt the need to discuss academics with her patients. If a child was struggling in school, she says, "things just got taken care of."
After several years on the West Coast, she returned to North Carolina, originally planning on scaling back her commitment to pediatrics. She hoped to focus instead on equestrianism; for a while, she'd been moonlighting as a competitive horse rider, and had moved to Elkin in order to dedicate more time to the sport. Instead, she decided to almost completely give up riding when she saw how much children in the area were struggling.
"When I saw what was happening to kids here, I was shocked," she recalls. "I was just blown away." Undoubtedly driven by the memory of her sister's own experience with special education, Dr. Classen committed herself to supporting these struggling students and their families, dedicating her personal time to the fight and sacrificing the profits she could have been making continuing to practice in California. Now, over a decade later, she's more invested than ever.
"I don't understand why we think that it's a good idea to take cute little five-, six-, seven-year-olds, give them failing grades and terrible test scores and tell them they're not good enough – and then give them no help!" Dr. Classen's voice radiates with emotion. "It's not fair. I know life isn't fair, but I hate it when it's not fair. It really pisses me off."
The Twisted Maze of Special Education Law
"I've learned a lot about school law after twelve years," Dr. Classen says, with only a hint of pride in her tone. She's certainly earned the right to boast after becoming an expert in the complex field of special education law. The legislation is built around indefinite definitions, and involves so many acronyms that reports read like alphabet soup. Each state and sometimes even each school district has its own specific regulations, and because each student needs a personalized plan, every case is unique and unprecedented. It's enough to give any overtired parent or underpaid pediatrician a headache.
However, at the core of all the convoluted legislation is a simple mission, which pediatricians will find familiar: caring for our nation's children and giving them aid when they are in need.
Any child in the United States who has a disability that hinders their academic performance is legally entitled to special education services. These benefits are conferred under one of two federal laws: either the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1990, that ensures all students, regardless of disability, have access to an equal education; or the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in any institution which receives federal funding. Students whose special education is regulated under IDEA have an individualized education program (IEP), a legally binding document which describes the services the child will receive and other information pertinent to their education. A 504 plan is a similar legal document that is used for students protected under the Rehabilitation Act. 504 plans include generally the same information as IEPs, and are named for Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which specifically prohibits discrimination in schools.
The assistance these plans provide can range from a little extra time on a test to a dedicated one-on-one aide for the student, and the services they ensure can often mean the difference between success and failure. Approximately 13 percent of all students in the United States have an IEP1 , and an additional 1.5 percent are served by a 504 plan2. In 2015, 80% of students relying on special education services graduated high school with a diploma or an alternative completion certificate3.
For a student to qualify for an IEP, they must have a hearing, speech, visual, or orthopedic impairment, a serious emotional disturbance, a traumatic brain injury, a specific learning disability, deaf-blindness, or an "other health impairment," and this disability must have a direct adverse effect on their education4. After an official request by the child's parent, the school will formally evaluate the child. When it is determined that they meet IEP requirements, an IEP team consisting of educators, school administrators, parents, and sometimes the child's physician, meets to craft an education plan that fulfills the student's unique needs.
The definition of a disability under Section 504 is much broader than the more restrictive terminology in IDEA, so 504 plans are a great alternative for children who don't qualify for an IEP, or who previously had an IEP but progressed out of it. A student can be a candidate for a 504 plan if they have a "physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity"5. This wording gives advocates like Dr. Classen ample leeway to argue that a student needs to be on a 504 plan, but because it includes such a wide swathe of students, 504 plans are typically less elaborate than IEPs. Dr. Classen stresses that 504 plans can still be beneficial for the right students. Children with attention issues such as ADD or ADHD are prime candidates to benefit from a 504 plan in the likely case that their situation doesn't merit an IEP.
"I'm pretty sure it's every child guaranteed an equal education, not children in California guaranteed a better education than the children in North Carolina."
Dr. Adrienne Classen
The Patient Population Factor
IDEA and Section 504 are federal laws that ensure special education services for all children in the United States who need them. Despite some regional specifications, this legislation theoretically applies equally to every school district, in every classroom, and at every desk. In Dr. Classen's experience, this isn't the case.
Once, she recalls, she was talking with a lawyer from the Office of Civil Rights, a legal aid agency within the U.S. Department of Education to which she often refers families. The lawyer told her that she'd been sending them a lot of cases since she'd started practicing in North Carolina, and that they often see this kind of activity when a physician moves from a hub like New York or California to a more rural area. "We start getting all these cases from them," Dr. Classen paraphrases the lawyer, "but you can't expect kids to get the same kind of school there that they would in California." She remembers responding, somewhat sarcastically: "I'm pretty sure it's every child guaranteed an equal education, not children in California guaranteed a better education than the children in North Carolina."
So, why do these two communities handle special education so differently? Dr. Classen doesn't need much prompting to come to an answer. "They don't take care of poor children in the United States."
It is no secret that public education is underfunded across the United States, and in impoverished communities, like those Dr. Classen serves, the lack of resources is even more severe. A very small portion of an already small budget is allocated to special education services. In order to meet these stringent financial requirements, school administrations overlook students' needs for special accommodations, and sometimes actively deter parents from requesting IEP evaluations for their children.
Dr. Classen stresses that it isn't the children's teachers who try to withhold special education from children who need it. More than once she's had a teacher come up to her after an IEP meeting to thank her for advocating for a child. "They say to me, 'I just want to let you know, I agree with everything you said, I just can't say it.' Their hands are tied."
A key facet of the IDEA legislation is the Child Find mandate, which dictates that states and school districts must locate, identify and evaluate all children with disabilities who require educational assistance. In theory, the school would look for students showing signs of a disability, watching for indicators like low End-of-Grade (EOG) test scores, and take the initiative to enroll these students in special education. In reality, Dr. Classen recalls seeing patients who were nearly failing out of their classes and receiving no special assistance at all. She wonders: "What is the point of doing the testing?!"
If the schools overlook these warning signs, a child's parents are left on their own to seek out special education services. In rural North Carolina, Dr. Classen observes that many of her parents, who may be undereducated themselves, don't know what red flags to look for. At appointments, she makes it a point to bring up the children's academic performance and ask specific questions about their grades and EOG scores. If she finds a cause for concern, she encourages the parents to file a formal request with school administration for a disability evaluation.
Dr. Classen believes that the schools she works with will sometimes try to deter the parents from pursuing these requests. They use tactics which prey on the parents' natural fears about their child and their own ability as a caretaker, or exploit the parent's lack of education and financial resources. Dr. Classen finds that parents in low-income communities are especially susceptible to these tactics, and are less likely to advocate for themselves and their child in the face of pressure from a strong institution like a school administration. "They get kicked around everywhere," she says, and they lose the motivation to fight back. Dr. Classen doesn't let them stay down for long. She works hard to encourage their efforts and give them the confidence to stand up to school administrators. She says: "I think of what I do as being a cheerleader."
"What we say as doctors to parents has a lot of power," she notes. "It can be so significant to just tell them: You are right, and you are being a great advocate for your kid, and don't you dare let them make you feel like you're a bad parent! I think a lot of times just telling people that they're doing a good job and supporting them is so important."
In communities like Dr. Classen's, where these parents so rarely hear positive feedback, her encouragement makes a huge difference. Parents praise her personal touch in online reviews. "Thank you for always treating us like we were people," one parent writes, "and not just another case."
Supporting Students and Promoting Education
Students with disabilities and their families face many challenges, and Dr. Classen is committed to helping them in any way she can. She emphasizes that the most important thing she does to help her patients and their families is offer support and encouragement. It's the most direct way she assists them, and she suggests that it's the first thing to do for any pediatrician who wants to get involved in this cause. It's an easy, but meaningful, way to help.
Dr. Classen also will send letters to school administrators on parents' behalf. "I make sure I send it certified mail," she says, "so the school can't say they never got it." Certified mail also marks the date when the letter was sent and received, which is important because IEP evaluations legally have to be done within a certain time frame after the request is made.
She often joins parents at IEP meetings, lending her voice and presence to the student's cause. As a medical professional, she has valuable insight, and can steer the team toward a comprehensive and truly beneficial IEP. As an advocate for her patients, she can help prevent the administrators from bullying parents into accepting an inadequate special education plan.
Dr. Classen also recognizes that, sometimes, the special education assistance a school can or will provide just isn't going to be enough. She's involved with several national organizations that aim to help children learn to read, and she has a mini-library in her waiting room where parents can leave old books and take new ones. She's helped establish scholarships for online therapy programs designed to help with learning disabilities like dyslexia, and gotten computers donated to low-income homes so that they can access these resources.
Dr. Classen works with Reach Out and Read, a national nonprofit that encourages literacy and provides books for children and parents to read together. She is also involved with the organization First Book, which specifically targets low-income families and provides them with affordable books and other educational supplies. Through these programs, Dr. Classen is able to get high quality books at reduced prices and hand them out to her patients when they come to her office. At Kids Count Pediatrics, she says, they make it a mission to give a book to every child at every visit, regardless of age or disability.
"Just getting books into their hands can make a big difference," Dr. Classen says. She sees these programs benefiting not only the children, but also their parents, as she encourages her patients to read together as a family. This is especially important, Dr. Classen stresses, because many of her patients' parents struggle with reading themselves, and likely wouldn't take the initiative to read at home without these programs. In a community where many of the parents are high school dropouts, this can be a significant step towards breaking a cycle of undereducation and academic apathy.
Since 2005, the percentage of students with IEPs graduating with a traditional high school diploma has been steadily increasing.
Why It's All Worth It
Every small step counts when tackling an issue as complex as special education in America, and Dr. Classen is certainly taking giant leaps. But she doesn't deny that there is still so much work to be done.
"We need more really good pediatricians out in areas like this," she says, and encourages all pediatricians to be more involved in the academic sphere of their patients' lives. It isn't easy or financially practical (just like most of pediatrics), but Dr. Classen can personally attest to how rewarding it can be. The benefits she's observed in her patients, their families, and her entire community are significant.
"It's a mess," she admits, "but at least the kids are cute."
To help students in your own community, check out these online resources
Parent advocacy groups in each state: copaa.org and ndrn.org
Online communities where parents can find support and more information: parentcenterhub.org and p2pusa.org
More information for health-care providers about learning disabilities, created by the National Center for Learning Disabilities: ldnavigator.ncld.org
Make a complaint to the Office of Civil Rights: www2.ed.gov and ocrcas.ed.gov
Get in touch with Disability Rights Advocates, a nonprofit legal center that provides free representation to people with disabilities whose civil rights have been violated: dralegal.org
More information about special education law: wrightslaw.com
A sample letter for parents or physicians to send to schools, provided by CHADD
[1] "The Condition of Education – Participation in Education – Elementary/Secondary – Children and Youth With Disabilities – Indicator April (2018)," National Center for Education Statistics, last modified April 2018. nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cgg.asp ↑
[2] "Analysis of Students with Disabilities Served under Section 504," The Advocacy Institute, last modified August 2015. www.advocacyinstitute.org/resources/504analysisCRDC2012.shtml. ↑
[3] "39th Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 2017," United States Department of Education, January 2018, 63–65, www2.ed.gov/about/reports/annual/osep/2017/parts-b-c/39th-arc-for-idea.pdf. ↑
[4] Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. 20 U.S.C. § 1401 (2004). sites.ed.gov/idea/statute-chapter-33/subchapter-I/1401/3/A ↑
[5] "Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Handicap in Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance." 34 C.F.R. 104 (2000). www2.ed.gov/policy/rights/reg/ocr/edlite-34cfr104.html ↑
Sami Kassel is a resident of Boston, Massachusetts. She recently graduated with a B.A. in cultural anthropology from Boston University, and plans to continue her education in a graduate program. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, reading, cooking, and indulging her love for craft beer.
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Through the labyrinths of finding one's true place in life, she has discovered herself and her calling, after a great deal of trial and error.
The community she comes from could never, until recently, fathom, let alone prepare or raise girls to be free-willed, independent thinkers or career women. Which is why (barring a few exceptions), most Sindhi women of her generation, only stumbled upon their creative sides, at much later stages of life…just like Roshni did.
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Q: PL/SQL: Invalid Number error I am creating a procedure for which I collect data by repeatedly running the following query.
SELECT ATTRIBUTE_VALUE,
       COUNT(src1) CNT1,
       COUNT(src2) CNT2
FROM   (
  SELECT a.ATTRIBUTE_VALUE,
         1 src1,
         TO_NUMBER(NULL) src2
  FROM   (
    SELECT DECODE(
             L,
             1, IP_ADDRESS,
             DECODE(
               L,
               2, IP_SUBNET_MASK,
               DECODE(
                 L,
                 3, IP_DEFAULT_GATEWAY
               )
             )
           ) ATTRIBUTE_VALUE
    FROM   ( SELECT LEVEL L FROM DUAL X CONNECT BY LEVEL <= 3 ),
           REUT_LOAD_IP_ADDRESSES
    WHERE  LIP_IPT_NAME = 'CE'
    AND    IP_LNT_ID IN (
             SELECT LNT_ID
             FROM REUT_LOAD_NTN
             WHERE LNT_ID IN (
               SELECT RLPN.LPN_LNT_ID
               FROM REUT_LOAD_PI_NTN RLPN
               WHERE LPN_LPI_ID IN (
                 SELECT RLPI.LPI_ID
                 FROM REUT_LOAD_PAC_INS RLPI
                 WHERE RLPI.LPI_DATE_ADDED IN (
                   SELECT MAX(RLPI2.LPI_DATE_ADDED)
                   FROM REUT_LOAD_PAC_INS RLPI2
                   WHERE RLPI2.PI_JOB_ID = P_ORDER_ID
                 )
               )
             )
             AND IP_CEASE_DATE IS NULL
             AND LNT_SERVICE_INSTANCE = 'PRIMARY'
           )

It is running fine in SQL developer but when executing it as a procedure, I am getting INVALID NUMBER ERROR (ORA-01722: invalid number) at
AND IP_LNT_ID IN (
                        SELECT LNT_ID, in the code.
Can I get any help?

A: The error is pretty clear. You're comparing a number to another type of value.
Example:
SELECT 'x'
  FROM DUAL
 WHERE 1 IN (SELECT 'a'
               FROM DUAL)

This means that IP_LNT_ID, LNT_ID, LPN_LNT_ID and LPI_ID have to be NUMBER. And LPI_DATE_ADDED and LPI_DATE_ADDED should both be date or timestamp.
If this is not possible you could compare everything as char:
SELECT ATTRIBUTE_VALUE, COUNT(src1) CNT1, COUNT(src2) CNT2
        FROM (SELECT a.ATTRIBUTE_VALUE, 1 src1, TO_NUMBER(NULL) src2
            FROM (SELECT
                    DECODE(L,1,IP_ADDRESS,DECODE(L,2,IP_SUBNET_MASK,DECODE(L,3,IP_DEFAULT_GATEWAY) ) ) ATTRIBUTE_VALUE
                    FROM
                    (
                        SELECT LEVEL L FROM DUAL X CONNECT BY LEVEL <= 3
                    ),
                    REUT_LOAD_IP_ADDRESSES
                    WHERE LIP_IPT_NAME = 'CE'
                    AND to_char(IP_LNT_ID) IN (
                        SELECT LNT_ID
                        FROM REUT_LOAD_NTN
                        WHERE to_char(LNT_ID) IN (
                                SELECT RLPN.LPN_LNT_ID
                                FROM REUT_LOAD_PI_NTN RLPN
                                WHERE to_char(LPN_LPI_ID) IN (
                                    SELECT RLPI.LPI_ID
                                    FROM REUT_LOAD_PAC_INS RLPI
                                    WHERE to_char(RLPI.LPI_DATE_ADDED) IN (
                                        SELECT MAX(RLPI2.LPI_DATE_ADDED)
                                        FROM REUT_LOAD_PAC_INS RLPI2
                                        WHERE RLPI2.PI_JOB_ID = P_ORDER_ID
                                    )
                            )
                    )
                    AND IP_CEASE_DATE IS NULL
                    AND LNT_SERVICE_INSTANCE = 'PRIMARY'
            )

But this should be avoided on any cost. Unfortunately some times we have to cheat a little from time to time to work with our existing infrasructure ;-)

A: You need to make sure:
REUT_LOAD_IP_ADDRESSES.IP_LNT_ID

and
REUT_LOAD_NTN.LNT_ID

Have the same data type or cast/convert one or other so that they have the same data type.
There are multiple other issues:

*

*You have aggregated and non-aggregated values:
SELECT ATTRIBUTE_VALUE,
       COUNT(src1) CNT1,
       COUNT(src2) CNT2
FROM   ( ... )

Without a GROUP BY clause.

*src2 is TO_NUMBER(NULL) which is just NULL and COUNT(NULL) will always be 0 so your query is:
SELECT ATTRIBUTE_VALUE,
       COUNT(src1) CNT1,
       0 CNT2
...

*This code:
SELECT DECODE(
         L,
         1, IP_ADDRESS,
         DECODE(
           L,
           2, IP_SUBNET_MASK,
           DECODE(
             L,
             3, IP_DEFAULT_GATEWAY
           )
         )
       ) ATTRIBUTE_VALUE
FROM   ( SELECT LEVEL L FROM DUAL X CONNECT BY LEVEL <= 3 ),
       REUT_LOAD_IP_ADDRESSES

Can be rewritten as:
SELECT DECODE(
         L,
         1, IP_ADDRESS,
         2, IP_SUBNET_MASK,
         3, IP_DEFAULT_GATEWAY
       ) ATTRIBUTE_VALUE
FROM   ( SELECT LEVEL L FROM DUAL X CONNECT BY LEVEL <= 3 ),
       REUT_LOAD_IP_ADDRESSES

Or, without the join as:
SELECT attribute_value
FROM   REUT_LOAD_IP_ADDRESSES
UNPIVOT ( attribute_value FOR L IN (
  IP_ADDRESS         AS 1,
  IP_SUBNET_MASK     AS 2,
  IP_DEFAULT_GATEWAY AS 3
) )

*The innermost query:
SELECT RLPI.LPI_ID
FROM REUT_LOAD_PAC_INS RLPI
WHERE RLPI.LPI_DATE_ADDED IN (
  SELECT MAX(RLPI2.LPI_DATE_ADDED)
  FROM REUT_LOAD_PAC_INS RLPI2
  WHERE RLPI2.PI_JOB_ID = P_ORDER_ID
)

The inner query is restricted to have RLPI2.PI_JOB_ID = P_ORDER_ID but there is no correlation between the outer query so you can retrieve results that do not match P_ORDER_ID but just happen to have the same date as a matching row.

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A few months ago I went up to Northern California (real Northern Cali, not San Francisco or the like), to do some do some Rabbi/Kosher work up there supervising cheese production at a place called Rumiano's. It's a cte little family owned operation that makes some great looking and smelling cheese, but as it wasn't Chalav Yisroel I can't confirm the taste (officially (JK)). The plane landed in Eureka, I rented a cute little Kia Rio and drove up to Crescent City. Being as I landed a bit before noon and I didn't have to check in to the cheese plant until 1 AM, I took the time to do some driving and hiking around. I discovered a whole part of California I did not know existed. I mean, I knew that there were redwoods and they were on the larger side. And I knew that it rained more up north that it did down south. Did you know that it rains over 100 inches a year in what's called "the redwood coast"? 100 inches! Most of that is in the winter, then when the snow starts melting and those cold waters run into te ocean it creates this ridiculously cold and foggy sub-climate that provides these massive trees with over one half of their needed water intake. That mean these trees get the equivilant of over 200 inches of rain a year. Amazing. And I know this because I was bored enough to stop by one of these nifty visitor centers thy have set up and actually watched the 12 minute feature film about the redwoods (I actually left slightly after the six minute mark once the "climate change" angle was brought in. Not my thing.).
I also discovered that these forests are very dark and my camera was having a very difficult time there (especially with the patches of relatively bright sky popping in everywhere).
The beaches up there, besides being very cold (the water doesn't get much above 50 degrees) are very rocky. Or pebbly. I.e. no sand. none. Just a lot of pretty polished pebbles that peps pay big bucks for to stick in their fish tanks.
But the air... mmmmm. I guess it's all that oxygen being produced by those giant trees, it's wonderful. Addictive almost.
That would be mu Kia Rio. A wide angle lens to a dumpy car is like the liquify filter to a double chin. Magic. The car actually looks a lot dopier in real life. And it doesn't really accelerate. Really. It doesn't. But it had air conditioning and a jack to plug in my ipod, so was happy.
Big rock on little rock beach.
And that's that. I wish I went around the actual city taking pics (wasn't as into it yet back then). It's a real interesting city. Very poor, very happy and friendly. Very small, with some cute homes on the beach (more like bluff).


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Jemaine Clement (left) and Bret McKenzie take their plight on the road. (Photo: Getty Images)
Flight of the Conchords Reunite for U.K. and Ireland Tour
By Brigid Brown | 2 years ago
Flight of the Conchords, the New Zealand-based musical comedy duo made up of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, became a powerhouse with the HBO adaptation of their onstage personas in 2008-2009.
More recently, the pair performed in the 2014 Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Tour and toured the U.S. in 2016.
And, now, it's the U.K. and Ireland's turn for a visit.
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The two have also been working individually on projects, like McKenzie starring in 2013's Austenland, opposite Keri Russell, and Clement popping up on in the final three episodes of TBS comedy Wrecked as the deranged Luther.
But, enough about that, because we like the two of them together… and, now, it's time for them to reunite.
Which makes us think of Clement singing "Business Time" in the below clip:
It remains to be seen whether they'll stick to their old classics or add new material.
For those not in the U.K. or Ireland, there's still good news, we can probably rely on the good ol' internet to sneak out some footage from the performances and watch from the comfort of home. Or, hope they hop on a plane and continue the tour worldwide.
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Q: Swift UINavigationBar background color is different from main one The problem is that color that I set for the UINavigationBar is different from the same color, which I have set for the layer. I want it to be the same! :) (see image)
AppDelegate.swift
UINavigationBar.appearance().shadowImage = UIImage()
    UINavigationBar.appearance().setBackgroundImage(UIImage.imageWithColor(primaryColor), forBarMetrics: .Default)
    UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = primaryColor
    UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
    UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFontOfSize(17), NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.whiteColor()]

MyController.swift in viewDidLoad()
view.backgroundColor = primaryColor

Extensions.swift
let primaryColor = UIColor(red: 132/255, green: 205/255, blue: 93/255, alpha: 1)
extension UIImage {
    class func imageWithColor(color: UIColor) -> UIImage {
        let rect = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0)
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size)
        let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()

        CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, color.CGColor)
        CGContextFillRect(context, rect)

        let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

        return image
    }
}

I think the problem is in UIImage extension. Please help me to solve this problem.
Solved
UINavigationBar.appearance().translucent = false

A: Just uncheck the Translucent property of Navigation Bar. It's worked for me.


Import Playbook Assets - Gainsight Inc.
Perform the following steps to import a playbook from Gainsight Vault.
2. Click on the Import from Gainsight Vault icon.
Note: Playbooks with email assist tasks are supported in Vault.
3. Navigate to a level that contains the desired playbook(s).
In Gainsight Vault, Playbooks are categorized at various levels in a hierarchical structure that map to the V3D framework. For example, Manage Customer Risk, where you will find playbooks that address different areas of customer risk.
Note: You can also use the Search field to select the desired playbook. Search is currently limited to the theme that you view or select.
You can click Download that appears when you hover over a playbook, or you can click on the playbook link. The Preview screen appears. In addition, you can use the filter icon to select only playbooks.
Note: You can download only one asset type at a time.
4. The Preview window provides an overview of the various tasks in the playbook. To initiate the import, Click CONFIGURE. The Configure window appears.
5. While the intent is for you to import best practice playbooks as defined by Gainsight, there may be some configuration required. This is because in your Gainsight instance, values of certain fields may be customized and different from what is in the best practice asset you are downloading. For example, the best practice asset may have "High", "Medium", "Low" for the Task priority, where your instance may have customized the values to be "VIP", "Normal," and so on.
In this step, the app displays every value that could be customized, and asks you to map those values. Additionally, you can assign an owner using the Assign Owner search field.
6. Click DOWNLOAD. A confirmation message appears. The playbook is now available in your Gainsight instance.
7. Navigate to Cockpit > Playbooks. The downloaded playbook appears in the left pane.


Judicial review is a means by which the court can scrutinise the decisions and actions of public officials. Decision‑makers are required to act fairly in reaching their decisions, and they must do so in accordance with the law. Where, for example, they introduce a policy that they are not empowered to introduce, their decision is said to be ultra vires (outside their powers). Another ground for challenge might be that their decision or action is unreasonable (this having a limited legal meaning rather than unreasonable in the sense that a member of the public might think of it).
While traditionally judicial review has been used in the public sector, increasingly it has become available to challenge decisions made by or actions taken by private associations, such as clubs and incorporated societies.
If you are a decision‑maker in the public sector or in an association, Brookfields' litigation and public law sector lawyers can help you ensure that your decisions are robust by examining your procedures, your consultation methods, and the scope of your powers. If you want to challenge a decision that has affected you or your business, we can take you through any statutory appeal processes that may be available or look at other means of redressing the situation.
Brookfields has participated in numerous judicial review hearings in the High Court and in appeals through the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court. Our pedigree in this type of proceeding includes successful appearances before the Privy Council. One of the very first successful appeals on a judicial review before the (then) newly created Supreme Court involved Brookfields' litigation and resource management lawyers. We are highly experienced and efficient at managing the judicial review process.


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Although I don't know exactly who came up with the phrase, they may have been referring to their…canine?!?! Yep, contrary to popular belief that dogs sweat through salivating, they actually sweat through their paws!!!
Regardless of how we humans or canines perspire, it's important to keep your sweaty paws or feet nice and dry in the summer heat. Use breathable materials such as cotton socks or mesh top shoes to decrease the amount of sweat during the summer. And, of course, using drying powders or new liquid powders help prevent excessive sweating as well.
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Q: WordPress Plugin Appends ugly url string to index A custom background plugin has started to cause certain browsers (FF, IE8,9, Safari) to reveal an appended url string when viewing the index page: http://dearearth.net - this mostly shows when not visiting the site directly, but rather when going through, for example, google - http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=dear+earth.
This persists in IE 9 even after refresh or page reload, but does not on the other browsers.
Screenshot: http://i55.tinypic.com/2nv9fh3.jpg
I have the following custom permalink structure enabled:/%category%/%postname%/
Thanks for any input!

A: You could try resetting your permalinks, then setting them again, this often clears up permalink issues.
edit
I think you should drop the plugin. Use the body_class() method to identify different pages that use the same template, and attach different backgrounds to different pages in CSS.


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Flying Bison is inviting all active-duty and retired USAF personnel to enjoy discounted pints for the occasion, their way of saying cheers to the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station on their refueling mission with new KC-135 tanker planes. All proceeds from the Crossover Power Ale will go to Hospice Buffalo.


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The Coronado Community Center is equipped with a variety of rental spaces designed to host a range of events from small meetings to large family celebrations. The Coronado Community Center is a premier location set beautifully against Glorietta Bay and is the ideal host site for your next business meeting, special gathering, or wedding.
The Coronado Community Center offers two classrooms designed to host professional gatherings, youth birthday parties, or cooking demonstrations for events up to 45 guests. Tables and chairs are provided and you will find either of these rooms to be inviting to guests and cost-effective.
Our Coral Dance Room offers unobstructed views of Glorietta Bay during your rehearsal or dance practice in front of our floor-to-ceiling mirrors while using wall-mounted ballet bars and our professional audio equipment.
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Cookology have developer this brand new 90cm induction hob with Schott Ceran glass and packed it full of features to really raise the standard of your kitchen.
The 90cm width allows for 5 Induction zones that are generously spaced apart so your pots and pans aren't bashing into eachother, which is ideal if you have a large family or like entertaining - plus the stylish design is sure to impress and will be a stunning focal point in your kitchen especially with one of our Cookology extractors.
You get 5 zones and the two left and right zones can be used as a combined zone for more power and larger pans.
Being an Induction Hob means that the CIT901 uses induction motors instead of traditional elements (like a kettle). All this simply means is that when you place a metal, induction ready pan on the surface of the glass, the induction motor will heat up the metal in the pan directly without wasting the energy & time is takes to heat up a normal hob element and then the glass or plate surface of the hob.
Because the Heat is not trapped in the glass or element, cooking with an Induction Hob is as responsive as cooking with gas! The pan heats up almost instantly and crucially, when you turn the power down, the drop in heat is instant - giving you more finesse and versatility when cooking. The only thing to watch out for is that your pan must be iron based or "Induction compatible" - if a Fridge Magnet sticks to the base of your pan, it should be fine.
The CIT901 is a Touch Control Hob, which means it lies completely flat and can be kept spotlessly clean with a simple wipe or by using a hob scraper. This keeps your kitchen looking organised and hygienic with minimal effort.
Touch Controls also give this Hob a fantastic array of easy to use, intuitive functions that are ergonomically designed to help you take cooking to the next level so you can deliver fantastic, delicious & reliable results in the kitchen to your friends and family.
The slider control makes quickly turning the temperature/power level quick and instant, giving you the control you need when cooking and helping rescue many a dish from over cooking.
The hob timer helps you stay in control when juggling lots of different pots and pans, giving you the confidence to try more adventurous meals - instead of burnt, overcooked or undercooked food that doesn't taste all that great and is potentially dangerous.
You get 9 Power Levels (many Hobs only come with 6), giving you greater control over cooking temperature.
This 90cm induction hob also comes with some great safety features such as a Child Lock, Residual Heat Indicator (showing you if the Hob is hot) and an Automatic Safety Switch Off - making this hob great for young families as well as vunerable people.
The CDD900BK is a Sleek, Cutting Edge Downdraft Extractor, it will only work with electric hobs and cannot be installed next to gas hobs. The ACF905 carbon filter is now available (sold separately), so you now have a choice between venting outside or recirculating the air back into your kitchen.
This hood is sure to impress your guests with its gorgeous design, high quality build and professional performance.
A Downdraft Cooker Hood gets built into your Kitchen counter. When its not being used, all you see is a flat, elegant strip of Black glass with Touch Controls that looks great next to a Black Ceramic or Induction Hob.
When holding your finger for 2 seconds on the touch controls, the Downdraft elegantly rises up, and starts extracting smoke and smells to keep your kitchen smelling fresh and prevent grease and grime from Building up over your units whilst cooking.
The CDD900BK also benefits from the LED Lighting that bathes your cooking area in a cool, white light, adding a touch of class to a modern kitchen - with this Downdraft Island Extractor you can also adjust the intensity of the LED Lights using the touch controls and create the right ambience in your kitchen.
This 90cm Downdraft Hood comes with a cut-off timer, 4 speeds and an aluminium grease filter that is easily removed for cleaning.
The Timer is also programmable, allowing you to select between 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 minutes - when the timer is done, the hood switches off the lights, stops extracting and gently lowers itself into your kitchen counter.
Installation: The positioning of the motor housing can be altered to change the direction of the air outlet. You can also change which side of the Downdraft the motor is attached to.


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Containing hydrating milk extract combined with a variety of delicious ingredients that smell good enough to eat, this face mask range lets you pick a flavor depending on your skin's needs. Choose from moisturizing coconut milk, nourishing banana milk, soothing matcha milk, firming coffee milk, brightening strawberry milk, smoothing chocolate milk, or classic pure milk.


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Supporting museums Art we've helped buy Portrait of Dr John Ash
Sir Joshua Reynolds
University Hospital Birmingham Charities
Dr John Ash (1723 – 1798) was one of the leading philanthropists in Birmingham and is evidence of provincial patronage at the highest level in the 18th century.
Ash was an eminent physician who built up a successful medical practice from his house in Birmingham. He was a co-founder of the Birmingham General Hospital, 'for the relief of the sick and lame'. Ash was personally responsible for the planning of the building in which he served as senior physician in 1779. The portrait was commissioned by the governors of the hospital in honour of Ash's services to the people of Birmingham and is arguably Reynolds' most elaborate and successful full-length institutional work. Produced in the course of 11 sittings, it shows Ash in the gown of a Doctor of Medicine worn over a black velvet suit with a formal cravat and powdered wig of the kind that were already old-fashioned by the late 1780s. Ash holds the ground plan of Birmingham General Hospital in his right hand with the building itself seen in the distance. Behind him a statue representing Benevolence is seen sheltering a child with her robe. This work was acquired with assistance from the Wolfson Foundation.
Commissioned by the General Hospital in 1788 and in their ownership since this date.


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Q: Auto restart IIS Website from console application We have an ASP.Net application used by many customers installed on their own servers. Because it is installed on their end with each having different databases and URL bindings etc I created a console application a while ago that gets a zip file and extracts it to c:\inetpub location to append the latest application changes.  This console app is added to scheduled tasks to create an automated update.
Obviously when anyone accesses the site for the first time after it does this they have to wait a little longer whilst the site rebuilds.  I changed the console application to include a Process.Start(urlofapp) so that it should hopefully do this as part of the update so the next morning that first user doesn't have to wait for the rebuild.
I have tested it ok running myself but not yet released as my concern is that this url process is kept open. Can anyone enlighten me as to whether this would be the case as I don't want this to happen or can give me any ideas as to how to rebuild the site manually as part of the console app.

A: IIS has had an auto-start apps feature for quite some time. You just have to enable it. You can find more info from the Gu, and the IIS site.

A: Safer instead to use a start page which loads everything on the server in the background. If you do this logic in an async method which in turn is called from an MVC controller for example then this can potentially run whilst the main page has finished. Alternatively use a threaded Task and show a start page that is only returned whilst setup is taking place.


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HD 182681 är en ensam stjärna belägen i den mellersta delen av stjärnbilden Skytten. Den har en skenbar magnitud av ca 5,64 och är svagt synlig för blotta ögat där ljusföroreningar ej förekommer. Baserat på parallax enligt Gaia Data Release 2 på ca 14,0 mas, beräknas den befinna sig på ett avstånd på ca 233 ljusår (ca 71 parsek) från solen. Den rör sig bort från solen med en heliocentrisk radialhastighet på ca 1,4 km/s.

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HD 182681 är en blå till vit stjärna i huvudserien av spektralklass B8.5 V, som roterar snabbt med en projicerad rotationshastighet av 277 km/s. Den har en massa som är ca 2,3 solmassor, en radie som är ca 2,8 solradier och har ca 31 gånger solens utstrålning av energi från dess fotosfär vid en effektiv temperatur av ca 10 000 K. Den har ett överskott av infraröd strålning, som anger att en stoftskiva kretsar kring stjärnan i en radie av 47 AE med en medeltemperatur på 90 K.

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Short Stories Currently Available by Title or Genre
"A & P" by John Updike
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"Barn Burning" by William Faulkner
"The Birth Mark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Boys and Girls" by Alice Munro
"Brownies" by Z.Z. Packer
"Cathedral" by Raymond Carver
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway
"Death of a Naturalist" by Seamus Heaney
"Death Constant Beyond Love" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid
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"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"The Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway
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Q: Yii Download File from CGridView I have a form on Yii that allows people to upload a variety of different file formats. When the file is uploaded, I have a Db that adds an entry for that file:
+--------------+---------------+-------------+---------------+
|   id         |     name      |    acc_id   | date_uploaded |
+--------------+---------------+-------------+---------------+
|   1          |     test.png  |  100         | 2014-05-20   |
+--------------+---------------+-------------+---------------+

The files are held on the root folder /files/uploaded and are saved using the id ie 1-test.png.
I can then on an account show the uploaded files, by displaying those that match the account id in a cgridview.
The issue I am having is that I need a download button. I have tried a few things and do not seem to be able to get this to work. The closest I have got is using the following code
array(
        'class'=>'CLinkColumn',
        'header'=>'Download',
        'label'=>'Download',
        //'url' => '/files/uploaded/$data->id',
        'htmlOptions'=>array('width'=>'18'),
    ),

However the $data variable does not seem to be working here, I believe this is to do with the CLinkColumn. If I try UrlExpression for example, it always add index.php and my file is never resolved. Can someone point me in the right direction of how to solve this and also the best method to store and call these files.
Many Thanks

A: You can try this:
<?php $this->widget('ext.CGridView', array(
    'id'=>'grid-id',
    'dataProvider'=>$dataProvider,
    'filter'=>$model,
    'columns'=>array(
            array(
            'name'=>'Download',
            //'header'=>'Download',
            'type'=>'raw',
            'value'=>'CHtml::link($data->FileNameFromModel, array("files/uploaded","id"=>$data->id))',
            //'htmlOptions'=>array('width'=>'10%'),
        ),
    .....
    )
    ));

A: You can add a custom column for it:
'name' => 'name',
'header' => 'Download File',
'type' => 'raw',
'value' => 'CHtml::link("Click!", Yii::app()->createAbsoluteUrl("CONTROLLER/ACTION",array("id"=>$data->id)))'

By above solution, your CGridView will hold a column with Download File header, and for each row it shows Download File with releated link.
Note that, I used CreateAbsoluteUrl to create a URL. You can use your own if you have no controller/action for downloading a file.
It might also be noted that, You must put the code in columns array:
'columns' =>array(
    array(...),
)

A: the same problem had. it didn't help me. I had to download csv-file from protected/csv directory. I made it in another way.
$this->widget('zii.widgets.grid.CGridView', array(
    'id'=>'user-export-grid',
    'dataProvider'=>$model->search(),
    'filter'=>$model,
    'columns'=>array(

     /////////////////////

   array(
            'type'=>'raw',
            'name'=>'link',
            'value'=>'CHtml::link("$data->link", "http://" . $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] . Yii::app()->request->baseUrl . "/" . $data->link)',
        ),

    )));

A: This should allow to download file from Gridview:
array('name'=>'file_name',
      'type'=>'raw',
      'value'=>'CHtml::link($data->file_name, "uploads/materials/{$data->file_name}")',
      'filterHtmlOptions'=>array('style'=>'width: 40%;')),


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