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FAQ about Policy/Program Memorandum No.131
Where can I read the full text of Policy/Program Memorandum No.131 (PPM 131)?
It can be viewed on the Ministry of Education web site:
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/extra/eng/ppm/131.html
What is the legal status of Policy/Program Memorandum 131?
The purpose of a Policy/Program Memorandum (PPM) is to provide clarification to legislation. In this case, PPM131 is intended to clarify and provide direction to School Boards and parents regarding sections of the Education Act. A PPM is not law and one cannot be prosecuted for not following the policy.
In support of the assertion that a policy is not legally enforceable, we refer you to the following documents:
1) On the Government of Canada Regulation website, there was a (now removed) pamphlet of the Department of Justice called "What Tools: The Panoply of Rules," presented at the Justice Instrument Choice Conference, March 26-27, 2002, by John Mark Keyes. Here is the relevant quote:
How are rules enforced?
- statutes: general application, legal sanctions / courts
- delegated legislation: general application, legal sanctions / courts
- contracts / agreements: application to parties, legal sanctions / courts
- voluntary codes: application within voluntary associations, internal sanctions
- standards: various
- policy directives: internal application, disciplinary sanctions [emphasis added]
Notice that he does not mention legal sanctions and courts as means for enforcement for policies.
2) On the website of the Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation (CLEAR), there was a paper on Administrative Rulemaking by Richard Steinecke, presented at CLEAR's 23rd Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, September, 2003. Here are the relevant quotes:
Policies, Guidelines and Informal Standards
- Have no legal authority [emphasis added] [...]
. Disadvantages:
-- Not legally enforceable [emphasis added] [...]
as compared to Regulations:
. Advantages:
-- Clear authorization in enabling statute
-- Legally enforceable [...]
It says that this memorandum replaces the Johnson Memorandum of 1981. What did the Johnson Memorandum say and how is this better than the Johnson Memorandum?
Requirements suggested in the Johnson Memorandum
A. RELATING TO PROCESS
1. Availability of a written plan for instructing the pupil "at home or elsewhere" showing how the program is to be organized, scheduled and evaluated.
2. Availability in the "home or elsewhere" of texts and other learning materials appropriate to the developmental growth of the child.
3. Availability of samples of the pupil's work, of a quantity and quality to indicate a regular suitable program of instruction.
B. RELATING TO ACHIEVEMENT
1. Supervisory Officer's assessment of educational growth of the pupil based on discussion with the child and examination of the written work of the pupil
2. Scores on Standardized Achievement tests in language and mathematics compared with the norms of pupils of similar age and background.
C. RELATING TO SUPERVISION OF THE PROGRAM
The supervisory officer should assess the program "at home or elsewhere" at least three times a year to ensure that the pupil is continuing to receive "satisfactory instruction". This expectation is congruent with the evaluation a pupil would receive in a classroom situation.
There are two essential differences between the Johnson Memo and the PPM #131.
PPM131 contains the following:
- 1. the assumption of satisfactory instruction occurring if a parent sends in written notification to their school board, unless evidence arises to the contrary.
- 2. the reminder to school boards conducting an investigation that the "methodology, schedules, and assessment techniques used by parents who provide homeschooling may differ from those used by educators in the school system", in other words, do not expect to find "school-at-home."
Appendix A of the PPM lists sections of the Education Act that are relevant to it. Where can I read the Education Act online or get a copy in print?
E-Laws is maintained by the Government of Ontario to provide access to the consolidated laws of Ontario. Their goal is to be up to date within 14 days of a change in the law. You can read the Ontario Education Act online or purchase copies through Publications Ontario.
It is also available for reference use in public libraries.
What happens after I send in the letter of intent?
The Board is directed by PPM131 to assume that satisfactory instruction is taking place, send you a letter of acknowledgement, and otherwise make no further contact with you unless there is compelling evidence to suggest that satisfactory instruction is not taking place.
What happens if I choose not to send the letter of intent?
If you are not known to the board, nothing will happen.
If they become aware of you, they may make contact and request that you send the letter of intent.
Because this is a policy rather than a law, you are not breaking the law if you do not send a letter of intent or fill out their form (see Legal Status of PPM131). However, once you have been contacted and have let them know your child is not truant but is being homeschooled, it makes sense to confirm that in writing. A written response is not only what they request when they themselves follow the policy, it also serves to document your response for your own records (- keep a copy).
It is up to you whether to provide your written confirmation in the form of a letter or by filling out a basic form, but if the school has its own Letter of Intent form they wish you to fill out instead of just supplying a letter, it would demonstrate that you are reasonable and cooperative if you agree to fill it out even if you've already sent your own letter, whereas refusing to do so could be construed as unnecessarily uncooperative and adversarial and possible grounds for an investigation.
If they request you fill out more forms than the basic Letter of Intent form, however, this amounts to conducting a school board investigation. PPM131 directs school boards to accept a letter of intent as sufficient evidence of satisfactory instruction, and not to investigate further under normal circumstances (there must be "reasonable grounds" to suspect that satisfactory instruction is not being provided).
Even when there are grounds to suspect that there is a problem about "satisfactory instruction," the Education Act (which is the law and not policy) does not prescribe for a school board to be the one to investigate. On the contrary, it specifically states that inquiry officers must be "persons who are not employees of the board operating the school that the child has the right to attend." [Section 24(2)]
What happens if I don't fill out the school board's forms and send in the requested information?
The school board representative will document every effort they make to have you comply with their request to supply further information. They must keep a record of their efforts of communication (phone calls, registered letters, etc.) as proof that they have done this. We suggest that families do the same. Document, for your records, all contacts you have with your board. (Keep a copy of all letters sent and received. Make a list of phone calls, logging whom you spoke with and the main topic of conversation.) The PPM outlines the procedures for the boards to follow if they decide (a) to further investigate by asking you to fill out the forms and you do not comply with their requests, or (b) if after an investigation the school board representatives believe they have been unable to determine if satisfactory instruction is taking place in the home. Any actions they take must be in accordance with subsection 24(2) and/or section 30 of the Education Act.
What are the legal requirements and my options if I am home educating a child who has never been recorded by the school board?
There is no legal requirement to inform the school board of your intentions to home educate if your child has never been enrolled in the Ontario school system (see Legal Status of PPM131). Children between the ages of 6 (on the first day of school in September) and 18 (as per the 'Learning to 18' changes introduced by Bill 52, 2006) are required by law to attend school unless excused under Section 21 of the Education Act.
If your child has never had any dealings with the school board, you have a few options:
1) continue to homeschool knowing that, even though you have chosen not to send in a notification, you may become known by your local board.
If this happens, the school board will likely forward a form for you to complete, describing the names, ages and gender of your school aged children as well as a place on the form for you to sign, indicating you are responsible for the education of your children. The decision to comply with this request rests with the individual family, since this is not a legal requirement, but since you would be in the position of having to confirm your homeschooling status anyway, it makes sense to do so in writing if only for documenting your actions, and the most cooperative way to do that is by filling out the Notification of Intent form they send (- keep a copy for your records).
2) continue to homeschool and voluntarily send the letter off to your local school board without being asked, even if you don't need a letter of acknowledgement from them.
3) continue to homeschool and voluntarily send the letter of intent to your local school board because you need a letter of acknowledgement from them in order to access other government services such as School Health Support Services (SHSS). You may want to specifiy in your letter of intent that you need the letter of acknowledgement for government services, since not all school boards automatically reply with one.
What can I expect to happen if I do not comply and do not fill out the requested form?
In this case your local school board would have the following options:
- take no action
- inform you of the requirement to send written notification and ask you to send in a letter of intent or fill out their notification form
- start an investigation
- send your name off to the Provincial School Attendance Counsellor (PSAC) for a potential inquiry
The school board should not charge a homeschooling family with truancy unless there has been a provincial inquiry resulting in a PSAC order for a child to attend school and the parents disobey that order. However, it does still sometimes happen that a school board disregards the legal procedures they should follow (section 24(2) of the Education Act) before resorting to truancy charges. If you find yourself being threatened with truancy charges without having received an order from the PSAC, the OFTP may be able to intervene before it goes to court. If it is too late and the truancy charges proceed, the fact that you consider your child excused under section 21(2)(a) means that section 30(7) will apply, whereby the judge will refer the matter to the PSAC but will reserve the authority to make the final order about whether the child must attend school or is excused from attendance.
The PPM states that "refusal of a parent to notify the board in writing of the intent to provide home schooling" is grounds to conduct an investigation into the education I am providing for my child. I have never contacted the school board about our home schooling and I don't wish to be investigated. What does the Education Act say about this?
Nowhere in the Education Act is there any legal requirement to inform the school board of your intentions to home educate if your child has never been enrolled in the Ontario school system. The local school board has the option of conducting a census of children within its jurisdiction to ascertain what form of education is being provided to them. There are 3 different sections in the Act that refer to either a) census, b) reporting by the principal, c) or duties of boards:
Section 27. Census
A board may make or obtain a complete census of all persons in the area in which the board has jurisdiction who have not attained the age of twenty-one years. R.S.O. 1990,c.E.2,s.27.
Section 28. Reports and information
(1) The principal of every elementary and secondary school shall,
(a) report to the appropriate school attendance counsellor and supervisory officer the names, ages and residences of all pupils of compulsory school age who have not attended school as required;
(b) furnish the school attendance counsellor with such other information as the counsellor requires for the enforcement of compulsory school attendance; and
(c) report in writing to the school attendance counsellor every case of expulsion and readmission of a pupil.
Section 170. Duties of boards
Every board shall report children not enrolled
15. ascertain and report to the Ministry at least once in each year in the manner required by the Minister the names and ages of all children of compulsory school age within its jurisdiction who are not enrolled in any school or private school and the reasons therefor.
What is an example of a "credible report of concern by a third party" that would result in a school board conducting an investigation into the education I am providing for my child?
We hope that school boards will be cautious in following this section as we have seen instances where disgruntled family members or separated couples have made complaints to school boards out of spite or ignorance of the facts. Home education is a new concept to many people and some may be prone to prejudices that look at home education in an unfavourable light.
It says that "a history of absenteeism by the child prior to the parent's notifying the board of the intent to provide homeschooling" may result in an investigation of my homeschooling. I have had repeated difficulties with the school regarding the social environment there and the bullying of my child which has resulted in many days when I allowed my child to stay at home. I have talked to my child's teacher and to the principal on several occasions and they know how I feel about what is going on. Is it fair that I should be investigated when it is obvious why my child has not been at school?
What needs to happen in this case is a dialogue between the parents and the school officials to sort out the history of the difficulties and the real reasons for the absenteeism. Sometimes doctor's reports or other documentation can illustrate why the parents have chosen to remove their child from the school system and home school them. If an OFTP volunteer is available to be of assistance in helping resolve this matter, we will do so.
When I look at the list of questions that the school board is supposed to ask when they do an investigation, I would be hard pressed to give a satisfactory answer because all of their questions presuppose that I am educating my child in a manner similar to what is done at school. I am an unschooler. What hope is there that they will understand my philosophy of education?
The form (Appendix D) is meant to provide a guideline to the Board, so a family which describes themselves as using an 'unschooling' philosophy may choose to provide the board with their own written description of the learning that takes place in their home rather than fill out the form provided. The PPM also reminds boards not to expect that the learning taking place in the home look like 'school at home'. As well, OFTP will continue to educate officials regarding 'unschooling.'
When it says that "a member of a recognized support group for parents who provide home schooling" may be present, is OFTP willing to be there for me when I meet with the school board?
OFTP will make every effort possible to assist its members in any way that it can.
It needs to be remembered that all OFTP members who do volunteer work for the organization do so out of concern for home education and a desire to help others in need. No volunteer gets any financial remuneration for time or expenses incurred in this support work. In other words, if an informed OFTP member has the time and is willing to be present, OFTP will have a representative there.
What are the requirements for my child to access courses from the Independent Learning Center (ILC)?
The Independent Learning Centre (ILC) provides a wide range of distance education courses that allow individuals to earn secondary school diploma credits, upgrade basic skills or study for personal development. You can obtain services directly from ILC or from one of the access sites in your area.
Visit www.ilc.org for more information.
Will the ILC be accepting homeschooled students younger than 16? If so, will there be an age limit on access to ILC courses? Can well prepared younger students 12 or 13 years old take grade 9 courses as well?
The ILC rules about age seem to change over time, so it's best to check with them directly. For example, in the summer of 2005, all elementary level grades were available. The minimum age limit was 6. While the elementary level correspondence courses are no longer available, the ILC does still have elementary level curriculum materials for sale. In 2005, students could sign up for secondary level courses one at a time even if they were under age 16. There is currently no information on their website to indicate whether or not that is still the case. We recommend you contact the ILC for the most current information.
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GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian stocks tense for Fed tapering news
* Asian stock markets : https://tmsnrt.rs/2zpUAr4
* Asia quiet with Japan, China and South Korea off
* Fed leads a host of central bank meeting this week
* Market wary on Fed tapering, dot plots on hikes
* Elections, Evergrande add extra uncertainty
By Wayne Cole
SYDNEY, Sept 20 (Reuters) – Asian shares eased and the dollar held firm on Monday ahead of a week graced with no less than a dozen central bank meetings, highlighted by the Federal Reserve which is likely to take another step toward tapering.
Holidays in Japan, China and South Korea made for a thin start, and politics adds extra uncertainty with elections in Canada and Germany bookending the week.
The fate of Chinese property giant Evergrande, and its $300 billion in liabilities, is also in the balance with a bond interest payment due on Thursday.
Concerns about the health of China's economy and Beijing's crackdown on tech firms continues to haunt the region with stocks in Hong Kong especially hard hit last week.
Early Monday, MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dipped another 0.2%, after shedding 2.5% last week.
Japan's Nikkei was shut and could do with consolidating after surging to 30-year highs on hopes a new Prime Minister will bring more stimulus and policy change.
Nasdaq futures eased 0.1% and S&P 500 futures unchanged, with Wall Street ending last week on a soft note after disappointing U.S. consumer confidence data.
The Fed is still expected to lay the groundwork for a tapering at its policy meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday, though the consensus is for an actual announcement to be delayed until the November or December meetings.
Yields on 10-year Treasuries touched a two-month top and the curve flattened ahead of the meeting.
"A flatter yield curve suggests some fears the Fed may overdo the eventual hiking cycle," cautioned Tapas Strickland, a director of economics at NAB.
He noted only 2-3 FOMC members would need to shift their "dot plot" forecasts for a hike in 2022 to make it the median, given seven of 18 had already tipped a move next year.
"The Fed will also have dots for 2024 which will give an indication of the steepness of the potential hiking cycle."
The market consensus is for two hikes in 2023 and four in 2024 with the longer-run fed funds rate seen at 2.125%.
Central banks in the EU, Japan, UK, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan , Brazil, South Africa, Turkey and Hungary all have meetings this week.
The Norges Bank is expected to be the first in the G10 to raise interest rates.
Higher U.S. yields has combined with general risk aversion to benefit the dollar which was up near a one-month high at 93.232 on a basket of currencies.
It was range bound on the yen at 109.96, while the euro was near its lowest in three weeks at $1.1728 in part on uncertainty ahead of Germany's election this weekend.
Canada goes to the polls on Monday with the race too close to call.
The firmer dollar weighed on gold, which was pinned at $1,753 an ounce after losing 1.9% last week.
Oil prices eased as energy companies in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico restarted production after back-to-back hurricanes in the region shut output.
Brent fell 21 cents to $75.13 a barrel, while U.S. crude lost 24 cents to $71.73.
(Editing by Shri Navaratnam)

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In the upcoming "Mafia 3" from publisher 2K Games and development studio Hangar 13, players will take on the role of Lincoln Clay, who in a quest for revenge will attempt to set up a criminal cartel of his own in order to try to take down the Italian Mafia of 1960s New Bordeaux, a fictionalized version of New Orleans.
TheWrap has exclusively obtained two of Harlin's tracks from "Mafia 3," and you can listen to them below.
Harlin's original score goes on sale on its own August 22. The $150 collector's edition of the "Mafia 3" game, out October 7, will include a vinyl copy of the score.
The PS4 has hundreds of games of every kind you can imagine. We've assembled a well- rounded group of the best this system has to offer.
Though not as good as its predecessor, "Black Ops 3" manages to take the blockbuster franchise into some really heady waters, diving deep into discussions of identity and what really is going on in our heads. Plus it's generally awesome, and your character has robot arms.
It's soccer, but with cars. And it might just be the best sports game ever made, at least in terms of sheer fun and playability. Whereas stuff like "Madden" and "NBA 2K" go deeper as a simulation of the sports they depict, "Rocket League" is all about pick up and play. It's also a great party game.
Whereas "Rocket League" is the sports game for people who don't like sports games, "NBA 2K16" is the sports game for sports game obsessives. "NBA 2K" is annually the best in sports video games and "2K16" adds Spike Lee to really up the ante.
The long-running "Hitman" franchise is one of those video game things known for being totally inaccessible to most gamers. But IO interactive completely changed that with its new episodic model. The 2016 edition of "Hitman" puts you in a big open setting, gives you a target and lets you loose -- it's the sort of experience that's a blast to just play around in.
Capcom's recent attempts to to craft "Resident Evil" stories that come from multiple perspectives running in parallel have been, ah, a revelation, and "Revelations 2" is the pinnacle thus far. So long as that approach to video game storytelling remains an outlier, "Revelations 2" will be one of the best games out there.
One of Sony's earliest attempts at publishing smaller scale and low-cost art games, "flower" remains a brilliant work. You are a flower petal, drifting on the wind helping other flowers to blossom in an otherwise empty world -- it's a statement on urban decay. Games typically explore their themes by having characters explain them out loud, so "flower" feels like a profound step forward for the medium even now.
It's a slasher movie, drawn out to the length of a video game, in which you decide how it plays out, either intentionally or by making mistakes. It's hardly perfect, but its novelty value is through the roof. "Until Dawn" is the sort of thing that sticks in your head after it's over just because you never played anything quite like it before that was actually any good.
A commonly underappreciated aspect of gaming is discord and bad luck -- things "Helldivers" has in spades. It's a game about teaming up with your friends to take down alien bugs, but it's also a game about accidentally murdering your friends in the chaos of battle. To care about winning in "Helldivers" is to miss the point. This is a game about drunken madness.
In "Talos," a robot is put through a series of intelligence tests to see whether it has what it takes to be a person. These tasks are handed down by a voice in the sky that refers to itself as Elohim, and the hook is that you're one of many robots being put through the paces -- because this world is in a computer built by the last living humans, and these tests are intended to create a successor race.
"Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection"
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Too often games are concerned only with fun and ignore that having some meaning behind that fun is also a draw. "Klaus" doesn't make that mistake. Coming from the mind of a Venezuelan man who was trying to express his irritation with the mundanity of his office job, "Klaus" exists to tell you something personal through its inventive and subversive brand of puzzle platforming.
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"Killzone" gets a bad rap simply because it was a game that launched alongside the PlayStation 4 that didn't totally blow our minds. But that doesn't mean it isn't very good anyway. "Shadow Fall" tells the story of a cold war. Nations that are mortal foes are separated only by a wall, and you're caught in the middle trying to prevent the sort of escalation that ends worlds. It's a compelling cast of characters on a ride well worth taking.


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Khao Sok National Park to become ASEAN Heritage Park
Good story!!! Recently, Mr. Damras Pho Prasit Director of National Park Bureau Said after the presentation meeting 'Khao Sok National Park', Surat Thani Province It is the ASEAN Heritage Park.
The Cabinet passed a resolution on June 30, 2020, to approve the presentation of the Khao Sok National Park: Suratthani and Tham Luang-Khun Nam Nang Non National Park: Chiang Rai Province to be an area of ASEAN Heritage Park.
It must be evaluated by an expert panel of the ASEAN Center for Biodiversity (ABC).
ASEAN Heritage Park It is a pilot program of 10 ASEAN member countries to manage the protected areas of the country and its networks.
To achieve the conservation of the protected areas of the country and the network conserve and maintain together to represent the ecosystems of the ASEAN climate.
This meeting was held for officials of the National Park Service, the National Park Bureau understands and listens to the opinions of all stakeholders in the event.
The advantage of Khao Sok National Park is the ASEAN Heritage Park, which is currently in the process of presenting it as an ASEAN Heritage Park.
Khao Sok National Park It is one of the most strikingly beautiful parks. It is the tourist center of the Gulf of Thailand and Andaman.
Each year, there are more than three hundred thousand tourists, both Thai and foreign, and tend to increase every year.
Also, the forest is fertile, there are beautiful tourist attractions, especially 'Ratchaprapa Dam' until it was ranked as one of the 8 most beautiful national parks in the world by Vogue (Vogue), a world-renowned magazine.
Which presented the Khao Sok National Park as an ASEAN Heritage Park, It is an important step forward for Thailand and ASEAN because there will be an area of more than 738.74 square kilometers.
To be protected and maintained to maintain a complete naturalness helping the population of Thailand ASEAN region and the world.
The criteria for consideration to present the Khao Sok National Park as an ASEAN Heritage Park consists of 10 criteria as follows:
1) Ecological integrity
2) Regional representation
3) Naturalness
4) It is highly important to conservation
5) The areas protected by law
6) An approved management plan
7) Characteristics of cross-border connections\
8) Uniqueness
9) The essential link between class, city, and ecosystem
10) The importance of the diversity of precious, rare, and endangered species
Currently, 49 ASEAN Heritage Parks are belonging to Thailand in the ASEAN region, 6 of which are as follows.
1) Khao Yai National Park
2) Tarutao National Park
3) Surin Islands National Park - Similan Islands - Phang Nga Bay
4) Kaeng Krachan Forest Group
5) Angthong National Marine Park
6) Hat Chao Mai National Park - Non-hunting Area, Libong Islands
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Aden old and a religious name. Name of Aden is located in the Koran and the Torah. Aden, means garden of Heaven. Adam and Eve lived here before eating the forbidden fruit according to Islam and Judaism. Aden, a city in Yemen today. But it should not be confused with the Kingdom of Aden.
Aden is governed by an absolute monarchy. King Kutay, founder and currently the absolute ruler of the country. The Constitution is being prepared. Constitution when completed, will be declared constitutional monarchy.


Saturation of internal demand in the wake of the post-War reconstructions suggests exports as a possible outlet, but the small Italian manufacturers are in no position to tackle this on their own. A trade fair that would attract foreign interest seemed a viable opportunity. At the time there was still Mariano Comense's standard-setting furniture Biennial, the selective Cantù Furniture Exhibition, the Pesaro Furniture Fair and the Permanent Exhibition of the Veneto Furniture Manufacturers' Consortium in Padua, but these were all on very much a local scale. Milan, the financial capital of Italy, was identified as the most suitable location, and it had been playing host to the La Campionaria Fair since 1920.
A Northern Italian delegation from the Italian Federation of Wood and Cork Industries, spearheaded by Tito Armellini approaches the 13 leading Italian furniture companies of the time, and thus the Italian Furniture Fair Promotion Committee is set up: Michele Barovero, Alessandro Besana, Franco Cassina, Piero Dal Vera, Vittorio Dassi, Angelo De Baggis, Mario Dosi, Aldo Falcioni, Angelo Marelli, Angelo Molteni, Silvano Montina, Mario Roncoroni and Vittorio Villa. The official press launch is held on 25th February 1961. The Promoting Committee has, in the meantime, appointed Alessandro Colli, then President of the Federation, as its Chairman. On 24th September that same year, the first edition of the Salone is launched in Pavilions 28 and 34 at the old La Campionaria Fair.
The Salone del Mobile soon became synonymous with enduring success and assurance, a global benchmark for the Home Furnishing Sector. An invaluable tool for the industry as well as an on-going, quite extraordinary promotional vehicle.
1965 marked a year of change: the leading furniture sector companies such as Anonima Castelli, Arflex, Bernini, Boffi, Cantieri Carugati, Cassina, Cinova, Elam, Kartell, Mim, Molteni (just beginning to venture into modern furniture), Pierantonio Bonacina, Poltrona Frau, Poltronova, Rossi di Albizzate, Saporiti, Sormani, Stildomus and Tecno, are all featured together in Pavilion 30/3, creating a uniform commercial exhibition space, thanks to the forward thinking of Manlio Armellini, who takes over from his father Tito as Secretary General in 1974, and later as CEO until 2009.
1965 is also the year in which exhibitors begin to bring a great deal of attention to bear on the installations and Domus devotes its leader to the Salone. It is also the year in which the first Salone collateral event is held – a retrospective exhibition documenting furniture design in Italy.
The Fair really takes off during the first 4 years, both in terms of visitor numbers and in terms of participation from Italian and foreign operators, achieving an immediate commercial response, establishing it not just as an observatory and showcase for the sector but also and especially as a driving force. Exports shoot up from 5,837,000,000 Lire in 1960 to almost 16,000,000,000 in 1964.
1967 and 1968 are boom time for the Salone, because of greater public interest and a burgeoning sense of homepride. Meanwhile, companies are busily engaged in technological research, especially in the fields of application of new materials.
The Salone del Mobile very quickly proves to be an ideal marketing tool for what is a fairly pulverised sector (over 13 thousand firms with 205 thousand employees; a national distribution system hinging on 20 thousand outlets) with no other tools through which to channel its own overall potential.
the undisputed showcase for the furnishing world.
the years another 6 exhibitions become strategically attached to it, extending and enhancing the specialist nature of the goods already on exhibit at the Salone itself, under the FederlegnoArredo system umbrella.
especially in the design and contract sectors, and respond to the steadily growing affinity between the worlds of work and lighting. The International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition is launched in 1989, rounding off the exhibitions devoted to domestic furnishing. Then in 1998, SaloneSatellite, the acclaimed launchpad for young creative talent and a benchmark for companies scouting for the trendsetters of the future, joins he ranks of exhibitions. Last but not least, in 2006 – the year in which the Salone leaves the old Fiera Campionaria exhibition centre (now known as Fiera Milano City) to move to the cutting edge Milan Fairgrounds at Rho, designed by Massimiliano Fuksas, the Salone Internazionale del Bagno (the International Bathroom Exhibition) makes its propitious debut on a biennial basis. It is now held in even years in tandem with EuroCucina, thus activating a total synergy in the sphere of technical issues and product development.
The "Salone del Mobile.Milano" – is the umbrella name for all these events – therefore constitute a specialist yet heterogeneous trade fair, symbolising an all-encompassing way of working and interpreting modern industry. It is an exhibition system in its own right, in which large and small companies showcase their latest products, and it also provides an exceptional communication opportunity for all those operating within the sector. A single philosophy shared by organisers, exhibitors and visitors alike.
The growth and success of the Salone, unlike many other international trade fairs, is bucking the trend as its waiting list continues to grow and its range of showcased goods continues to expand, in particular.
The internationalisation process that first took the Milan Salone to New York and Moscow in 2005 with the Saloni WorldWide and in 2016 to Shanghai.
In addition to the commercial fair, the Salone has featured collateral events, an international platform enjoying the "privilege of actuality," that take stock of the state of art and the culture of design. The story begins in 1965, when – to underscore the presence of the new 30/3 Pavilion devoted to the most cutting edge design companies, which has proven one of the aces in the pack of the strictly trade event – the "Retrospective Exhibition on Furniture Design in Italy from 1945 to the Present" is held. A great many exhibitions since then have attempted to relate the genesis of the Italian productive identity and highlight its various aspects, telling the history of the great design Masters, or exploring the cross-cutting ties between marriages of design, art, fashion and food.


A lot of people avoid visiting German concentration camps because the very thought of being in a place where such misery, torture and murder took place is unpleasant. Even so, 700,000 people still visit this camp every year, walking around the grounds with audio guide and map.
Dachau Camp will give you a deeper understanding of what Hitler's Fascist state was all about. The inhuman depths the Nazis went to in order to control the population become clear here.
Visitors will walk through the iron gates where the infamous "Arbeicht Macht Frei" sign still stands to enter the large museum. A comprehensive, chronologically sequenced series of hundreds of reader boards, signed in German and English, tell the history of the camp. Dachau was the first such camp in Germany and therefore became a model for the dozens that followed.
Other reader boards give prisoner's biographies, the terror and resistance, death in the camps, slave labor for the armaments industry, experiments on humans (shocking, so be forewarned), the liberation of the camp by American forces and the post-war trials. An excellent 22-minute film alternating in English and German tells this history of the camp.
Next to the main museum building is "the bunker" where special prisoners were kept, tortured and interrogated; executions were carried out in the courtyard. Outside at the barracks, reconstructed bunks show where the prisoners were crowded three to a single berth. The tour continues along the center of the camp past the foundations of the barracks to the religious memorials.
The Torture sculpture near the main entrance symbolizes the depravation and deaths that occured at Dachau.
The Christian and Jewish religious memorials are deeply emotive. The crematorium, still in original condition, is the next stop. Looking up at the long wooden beam that stands in front of the cremation ovens are rope eyelets for the hanging ropes. Exiting the crematorium grounds, visitors will see a Russian Orthodox Church near the bridge.
It's a wonder how all this could be allowed to happen.
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site (KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau, Alte Römerstraße 75, D – 85221 Dachau; phone +49 (0) 8131 / 66 99 70; www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de) can be reached by car or public transportation (20 minutes by train ride from Munich to the Dachau station plus 10 minutes by bus to the memorial site).
The site is open daily, except for Mondays, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to the site, the film showings and the various exhibitions on the grounds are free of charge. Allow at least two hours.


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Person wounded in shooting on Wash. Univ. Danforth Campus
by: Kevin S. Held, Kelley Hoskins, Erika Tallan, Joe Millitzer
ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – One person is injured after a shooting Wednesday near Washington University's campus. The campus was put on lockdown and students were put on alert.
School officials first alerted students about a person with a weapon on campus just after 1:30pm. The University told students and staff to take shelter where they felt safe until further notice.
The shooting happened on the Danforth Campus near Forsyth. The Clayton Police Department is investigating the shooting along with the Washington University Police Department
A woman was hit by a bullet in the arm and was taken to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries. It is not clear what led to the shooting. The gunman remains at large.
Students say this is the third gunman reported on or near the campus in the last month.
The school was placed on lock down for more than an hour. The all clear was given just before 3pm. The investigation is on-going as police continue to look for the gunman.
Clayton Police are trying to find the person responsible for the shooting. Chief Kevin Murphy says their investigation is showing this was not a random incident. It may have been an act of road rage.
Investigators say a man driving a black SUV fired shots at a silver vehicle. The vehicle took off traveling east on Forsyth toward Skinker. Police are reviewing surveillance video from the area to help find a suspect.
There will be extra patrols in the area tonight.
"We are doing what we always do we are ensuring the safety and security of our citizens and whatever that requires we will be sure to do that." said Clayton Police Chief Kevin Murphy.
Police are asking that if anyone has information in this incident , call them at 314-290-8425
ALERT Person with a weapon has been reported on the Danforth Campus. Go to a place that you feel safe and remain there until further notice.
— Washington University in St. Louis (@WUSTL) April 20, 2016
ALERT: A person was injured in a shooting on the Danforth Campus at Forsyth near Mallinckrodt Ctr. Continue to shelter in place.


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Dillon Gee pitched well enough to win. Unfortunately, so did Kyle Lohse. The two righthanders engaged in a poor man's pitchers' duel, and it became a battle of the bullpens. Whenever that is the case, the Mets seem to be on the wrong side. This time it was Jon Rauch who shat the bed. Hey, it happens.
Rauch, by the way, now has a tender elbow. Watching his mechanics going back to spring training, he seems to have a flaw that is similar to that of Johan Santana, in that he leads with his elbow and as a result doesn't use much shoulder rotation to throw the baseball. What that means is he puts significant strain on the elbow to do the work while also tightening the shoulder during the arm action. In other words, both the elbow and the shoulder can be injured as a result.
Mets pinch-hitters accounted for 1/3 of the Mets hits and half of their runs.
Ike Davis continues to struggle mightily, and it's most noticeable when the Mets don't score many runs. He is looking downright ugly, and it's no longer just his mechanics but his body language is showing resignation. A MLB team HAS TO get production from 1B; even bad teams get some kind of offense from the first base position.
As Gary Cohen noted during the SNY broadcast, the Mets have now gone three consecutive games without a no-hitter.
I find it funny that whenever Daniel Murphy drops to his knees / feet to field a grounder, the SNY team praises him for his improvement defensively. They did so on a 4th-inning grounder that would have been handled routinely by any other MLB second baseman.
Seems to me that as long as their starters can throw 8-9 innings every start, the Mets have a shot at the playoffs. If this were the 1970s, that would be a plausible concept.
The Mets travel to the nation's capital to face the Nationals. Game one begins at 7:05 p.m. and pits Chris Young against Jordan Zimmerman.
I'm hoping that Mejia and Beato will be brought up and that will help the pen!
The guy is having his first full year as a 2nd baseman. The idea he had a shot at doing the job was ridiculed by some people. Now he is doing it rather ordinarily and praising him for being a quick learner is being criticized.
Gee hurt himself with an error but this is the second time the pen blew the game he started. That's not the way to win ball games though this time around 3/4 will do the trick.
What is the plus/minus for the number of starts Young will pitch this year?
The constant gushing over Murphy makes me sick. Every time the guy farts Gary Cohen wets his pants. Murphy is terrible at 2B, and no amount of praise from the announcers watching through rose colored glasses will make me believe otherwise. Who cares if it's his first year at 2B? This is the majors and if you can't play the position you shouldn't be out there. Excuses like that are for little leaguers.


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Powers S2E6 "Requiem" review
Sean Timm
For all the ways that the second season of Powers has improved over the first (and there are many), it still suffers from one underlying problem. Events simply aren't given the weight and consequence necessary for them to feel impactful. Despite some excellent episodes earlier in the season, it's a problem that has now returned in full force in Requiem.
In many respects, the rapid-fire nature of this week's and last week's episodes might fit in with other streamed shows from the likes of Netflix and Amazon. But Powers is different. Even as a PlayStation Originals show, streamed through the PlayStation Store, it still releases week-to-week. And that comes with the added necessity of having especially poignant story beats to keep the audience's attention over months, apposed to a binged number of hours or days.
Beginning the second half of the season, Requiem is overall a good episode. It delivers multiple massive shocks that personally left my eyes wide and mouth agape, while also managing scenes that are hilarious and delightfully weird. While any scene in which Walker and Tricia Helfer's Agent Lange are on screen together continues to be a highlight, it's Wil Wheaton's Conrad that steals the show this time.
Powers has always been hesitant to show Walker as his former-superhero alter ego Diamond. Though likely due to budgetary concerns, seeing Walker soar through the air and beat up bad guys also just wouldn't really fit with the point of the show. As a result, it's been hard to ever get a full grasp of Walker's past. Seeing Conrad and Walker together quickly rectifies all of that though.
To say Conrad is a fan is a slight understatement. But watching his fan-boy level reaction to his favorite superhero is both unexpected and just the right amount oddity to stand out amongst the darker backdrop of the episode.
Wil Wheaton makes the most of his eccentric toy maker character, effortlessly flipping between an impressive range of emotions. Smiling one moment, scowling the next, Conrad comes off as much more of the manic unknown that he was likely meant to seem since the beginning.
Beyond that, the episode continues to build on Pilgrim's character. We get a bit more of her and Kutter, but the episode also hands her a few jokes to deliver. While not all land as well as others, the effort to round out her character is noticeable and welcome nonetheless. In the comics, Deena Pilgrim is sassy and outspoken almost to a fault. The show's representation of that still isn't right on, but its getting closer with each episode.
Despite all of this however, Requiem is still held back by its own fast pace. The second season of Powers started off magnificently. When Retro Girl died, it sent Los Angles into a three-episode long downward spiral that not only felt impactful to watch but honestly felt important to the characters in the show.
Clearly the aftermath and consequences of every death, twist, or shocking event can't, and shouldn't, be given as much screen time. But following the whirlwind that's characterized the past two episodes, giving a little space and reverence to dealing with those consequences wouldn't be amiss.
While the end of last week's Shaking the Tree saw a character killed off, not a single person mentions it in all of Requiem. Instead, we're handed even more shocking events. Compare this to the building collapse earlier in the season, which then warranted half the next episode to deal with it. Simply including one shock after another, without the chance for the story to develop in a meaningful way alongside, leaves the audience desensitized.
Ultimately, the central plotline isn't what's suffering the most. As Powers has charged forward in the past two episodes, the side story of Triphammer, Zora, and Martinez is essentially playing catch-up. As sudden as Triphammer's decision to train a new generation of heroes was, it's nothing in comparison to the immediate, close-knit bond Requiem attempts to showcases between the three of them. It comes off as forced, and it sadly compromises what could otherwise be a legitimately engaging, multi-episode long subplot.
And that finally brings us to the real star of Requiem: Heavy. Ever since seeing him bring down a building and then gleefully dance down the street, Heavy's been a weird, almost more terrifying, boogeyman. As the mysterious power steps into the spotlight though, a lot of that fascination is lost.
Though there is a bit of jumping around and dancing, not only is Heavy's voice modulated to be deep and almost robotic, he spends much of his time trying to be big and imposing. The original reveal's tease of a whimsical, carefree force of wanton destruction was simply scarier and more interesting. With plenty of set-up for next week however, it will be interesting to see if Powers can work more of that jolly terror back into the character.
Overall, Powers does continue to hit a few bumps along the road. But it does so at a point where the show's production value has never been higher and its central characters and general plotline have never been more interesting. Given the ending of Requiem, there are many interesting paths the show could take from here, all of them a complete surprise. Following the past two episodes however, hopefully Powers can take a breadth before diving into the end of the season.
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File Under Disturbing: Students Caught Masturbating In Class While Watching Porn
By Shawna Cohen | June 15, 2012
It's not exactly shocking that a group of 7th-grade boys would be interested in pornography. And it's certainly not surprising that they've discovered masturbation. That said, what on earth were nine boys thinking when they decided to watch porn on their cell phones – and masturbate – in the middle of class?! The even bigger question is: What the hell was their teaching doing sitting at his desk, letting it all happen?
First, the details: The alleged incident happened at Bell Middle School in Paradise Hills, San Diego. The nine students, all in seventh grade, were part of a 22-person, all-boys English class (they've since been suspended, while the teacher remains). According to written statements by the students, several of them raised their hands to report the behavior, but nothing was done. In fact, the teacher said he'd send the students to the office if he caught them, but then continued reading at his desk (Teacher of the Year!). One student claimed that everything was in plain view – had the teacher bothered to glance in the direction of the activity.
"They weren't even trying to hide it at all," said one student. "It really made me and the other students mad that he wouldn't do anything about the things happening in the class and it was affecting our education and it was nasty, also." (Yeah, I'd say.)
Of course, this is just one side of the story. District officials are investigating and, for now, they're not revealing very many details. "We cannot tell you the reasons for the suspensions, or whether further action is being taken with respect to any particular suspension. With respect to [teacher] Mr. Ed Johnson, all we can tell you is that he is employed by the District and remains assigned to Bell Middle School. His schedule has not changed," said deputy general counsel for the district Andra Donovan.
Meanwhile, one of the school's teachers, Hale Maher, said the issue is dividing faculty members. "Our job is to protect children… Many of us are outraged yet we keep silent," he said.
It'll be interesting to see what happens to the teacher and how something like this could be allowed (or at least ignored) in the classroom. Though, with cell phones being such a major issue at most schools, I guess anything is possible. And this particular story is certainly a sign of the times.
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My Piece of the Pie
by Nick Schager
Chauvinistic capitalist scum must suffer in My Piece of the Pie, a feeble stab at topicality from that master of overripe Gallic melodrama, Cédric Klapisch (L'Auberge Espagnole). The proletariat heroine charged with doling out working-class justice goes by the oh-so-subtle name of France (Karin Viard), a single mother who—when the plant that employs much of her Dunkirk hometown closes—becomes a maid in Paris for Steve (Gilles Lellouche), a stock-trading boor who cares for nothing except his own profit and pleasure. Steve's evil is cartoonish: He acts overtly offended when a model he has wined and dined refuses to repay his generosity with sex (a strategy that, amazingly, convinces her to sleep with him), and he flees parental responsibility by hiring France as a nanny when he's saddled for a month with his young son. Shooting with a blandness to match his story's middlebrow mushiness, Klapisch has France and Steve gradually grow closer, though intimations that Steve will sprout a heart are mere red herrings designed to mask the film's uncomplicated class-warfare viewpoint. Through it all, Klapisch feigns interest in credible characters and emotions while offering only schematic and clichéd scenarios, right down to a simpleminded power-to-the-people finale.
This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on December 7, 2011
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This morning we're headed to breakfast on our Town Square followed by a parade. I'm a total sucker for our town's totally small-time holiday parades. Here are my posts from 2013, 2012, and 2011.
Rather than a typical "Five on Friday" post - today I'm sharing "Four on the Fourth"!
We brought out all our Legos and prepared for a fun morning with friends.
While the boys played, I got lunch ready. I thought it would be fun for them to get to assemble their own little red, white and blue desserts. I diced up a Sarah Lee pound cake (yuuummmmmm!!!), and put out strawberries, blueberries and cool whip.
I made the boys the rocket dogs that Erika talked about and they turned out so cute!
That's a sweet group of boys right there, friends!
... and lots of playing.
They were WAY quieter than I thought they would be.
Red, White and Blue LOVE!
I have loved seeing y'alls sweet Fourth of July crafts!!! Thanks so much for sharing - keep 'em coming!!!
If you missed it, you can find my canvas tutorial HERE and the original flag post HERE and tutorial HERE.
I have this halogen scarf in a different color scheme, but I am TOTALLY digging all of these new combos! And the pom poms!!! Give me all the pom poms!!!
This blue/gold combo is on my short list since those are MCA colors.
This orange/peach/pink combo is so fun and bright!
I think this one is really pretty for now, but the colors could EASILY transition into Fall as well.
Smith had the VERY best time!!! He told me all about his lunch, about making is own dessert, and about playing with that pirate ship. Thank you so much!! And PS: the comparison picture of Mason and the cat made me laugh out loud :).
Their rocket dogs and patriotic pound cake desserts are awesome!!
I'm just impressed with how organized all your Legos were all lined up against the wall! Happy 4th lady! Have a blast celebrating the holiday!!!!
Love a scarf with pom poms!!! Happy 4th!!!!
Loved your dessert idea so much!
I need to send mine to you!!! I made a chevron one though! So cute!
You are such a fun and creative mom! Love those dogs and dessert cups!


Second National Saker Falcon Workshop was held on February 21st, in Central Laboratory of General Ecology - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The event is part of research and conservation project "Saker Falcon in Bulgaria and Southeast Europe – research and conservation", which started in the beginning of 2006.
The Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) is globally threatened species that needs urgent conservation measures to be taken in order to be saved. For second consequent year the CLGE-BAS coordinates the research and conservation activities for Saker Falcon in Southeast Europe in the frame of Southeast European Saker Network (SESN) – a network of researchers and organizations working on the field of Saker Falcon investigation and protection.
Following the First National Saker Falcon Workshop that was held in the autumn of 2006 the present event is the Second National forum on the Saker Falcon problems. The results of the research and conservation activities for the Saker implemented in Bulgaria in 2007 were presented. The necessary measures for the species in Bulgaria in the next years were discussed.