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*Amde W.K, Marchal B, Sanders D and Lehmann U.(2019). Determinants of effective organisational capacity training: lessons from a training programme on health workforce development with participants from three African countries. BMC Public Health, 19(1), p.1557.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7883-x
*Assegaai T, Schneider H. (2019). National guidance and district-level practices in the supervision of community health workers in South Africa: a qualitative study. Human Resources for Health, 17. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1609313
*Assegaai T, Schneider H.(2019). The supervisory relationships of community health workers in primary health care: 9social network analysis of ward-based outreach teams in Ngaka Modiri Molema District, South Africa. BMJ Global Health, 4(6).http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001839
Beran D, Laing R.O, Kaplan W, Knox R, Sharma A, Wirtz V.J, Frye J, Ewen M.(2019). A perspective on global access to insulin: a descriptive study of the market, trade flows and prices. Diabetic Medicine, 36(6), 726-733.https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.13947
Boydell V, Schaaf M, George A, Brinkerhoff D.W, Van Belle S. and Khosla R. (2019). Building a transformative agenda for accountability in SRHR: lessons learned from SRHR and accountability literatures. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 27(2), pp.64-75. https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/zrhm21
Boyes M.E, Cluver L.D, Meinck F, Casale M, Newnham E. (2019). Mental health in South African adolescents living with HIV: correlates of internalising and externalising symptoms. AIDS Care, 31(1), pp.95-104.https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2018.1524121
Brady L, De Vries S, Gallow R, George A, Gilson L, Louw M, Martin A.W, Shamis, Stuart T. (2019). Paramedics, poetry, and film: health policy and systems research at the intersection of theory, art, and practice. Human Resources for Health, 17(1), p.64.
*Cailhol J, Gilson L. and Lehmann U. (2019). A decade of aid coordination in post-conflict Burundi's health sector. Globalization and health, 15(1), p.25.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-019-0464-z
De Jong M, Collins A and Plüg S. (2019). "To be healthy to me is to be free": how discourses of freedom are used to construct healthiness among young South African adults. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 14(1), p.1603518. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2019.1603518
George A.S, Amin A, GarcÍa-Moreno C, Sen G. ( 2019). Gender equality and health: laying the foundations for change. The Lancet, 393(10189), pp.2369-2371.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30987-0
George A, LeFevre A.E, *Jacobs T, *Kinney M, Buse K, Chopra M, Daelmans B, Haakenstad A, Huicho L, Khosla R, Rasanathan K, Sanders D, Singh N.S, Tiffin N, Ved R, Zaidi SA, Schneider H.(2019). Lenses and levels: the why, what and how of measuring health system drivers of women's, children's and adolescents' health with a governance focus. BMJ Global Health, 4(Suppl 4), p.e001316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001316
George A, Olivier J, Glandon D, Kapilashrami A and Gilson L. (2019). Health systems for all in the SDG era: key reflections based on the Liverpool statement for the fifth global symposium on health systems research. Health policy and planning, 34(Supplement_2), pp.ii135-ii138. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czz115
Hanson K, Rasanathan K and George A. (2019). The State of Health Policy and Systems Research: Reflections From the 2018 5th Global Symposium.Health Policy and Planning, 34(Supp 2), p.ii1-ii3. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czz113
*Lehmann U, Twum-Danso N.A. and Nyoni, J.(2019). Towards universal health coverage: what are the system requirements for effective large-scale community health worker programmes?. BMJ Global Health, 4(Suppl 9), p.e001046.http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001046
*Moyo S.A. and Schaay N. (2019). Fathers perceptions and personal experiences of Complementary feeding of children 6 to 23 months in south-western Zimbabwe. World Nutrition, 10(3), pp.51-66. https://www.worldnutritionjournal.org/index.php/wn/article/view/645#.XbasPMXwJEM.facebook
Mpanza NM, Bradley H, Laing R. (2019). Reasons why insured consumers co-pay for medicines at retail pharmacies in Pretoria, South Africa. African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 11(1), a1878. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v11i1.1878
*Mukinda F.K, Van Belle S, George A, Schneider H. (2019). The crowded space of local accountability for maternal, newborn and child health: a case study of the South African health system. Health Policy and Planning. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czz162
Maleka E.N, Currie P, Schneider H. (2019). Research collaboration on community health worker programmes in low-income countries: an analysis of authorship teams and networks. Global Health Action, 12(1), p.1606570.https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1606570
*Nandi S, Schneider H. (2019). When state-funded health insurance schemes fail to provide financial protection: An in-depth exploration of the experiences of patients from urban slums of Chhattisgarh, India. Global Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2019.1651369
*Neethling I, Groenewald P, Schneider H, Bradshaw D. (2019). Trends and inequities in amenable mortality between 1997 and 2012 in South Africa. South African Medical Journal, 109(8), pp.597-604. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2019.v109i8.13796
Nkwanyana N.M, Voce A.S, Mnqayi S.O, Sartorius B, Schneider H. (2019). A health system framework for perinatal care in South African district hospitals: a Delphi technique. BMC Health Services Research, 19(1), p.402. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4200-4
Scott K, George A.S, Ved R.R. (2019). Taking stock of 10 years of published research on the ASHA programme: examining India's national community health worker programme from a health systems perspective. Health Research Policy and Systems, 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-019-0427-0
Schneider, H. (2019). The Governance of National Community Health Worker Programmes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Empirically Based Framework of Governance Principles, Purposes and Tasks. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 8(1), 18-27. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2018.92
Schneider H, George A, *Mukinda F and Tabana H. (2019). District governance and improved maternal, neonatal and child health in South Africa: pathways of change. Health Systems & Reform, DOI: 10.1080/23288604.2019.1669943
Schneider H, van der Merwe M, Marutla B, Cupido J, Kauchali S. (2019). The whole is more than the sum of the parts: establishing an enabling health system environment for reducing acute child malnutrition in a rural South African district. Health Policy and Planning, 34(6), pp 430–439, doi:10.1093/heapol/czz060
Schneider H, Zulu J.M, Mathias K, Cloete K, Hurtig A.K. (2019). The governance of local health systems in the era of Sustainable Development Goals: reflections on collaborative action to address complex health needs in four country contexts. BMJ Global Health, 4(3), p.e001645.doi: 10.1136/ bmjgh-2019-001645
Shelley K.D, Frumence G, Mpembeni R, Mwinnyaa G, Joachim J, Killewo J, George A.S. (2019). ''Because even the person living with HIV/AIDS might need to make babies.'' Perspectives on drivers of feasibility and acceptability of an integrated community health worker program in Iringa, Tanzania. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 8(9), pp 538-549. https://doi. org/10.15171/ijhpm.
Teddy, G, Lembani, M, Hwabamungu, B, & Molosiwa, D. (2019). Policy and implementation gap: A multi-country perspective. International Journal of Advanced Research, 7(12), 678-704
Tiffin N, George A, LeFevre A.E. (2019). How to use relevant data for maximal benefit with minimal risk: digital health data governance to protect vulnerable populations in low-income and middle-income countries. BMJ Global Health, 4(2), p.e001395.doi: 10.1136/ bmjgh-2019-001395
Tumusiime P, Nabyonga-Orem J, Karamagi H, Lehmann U, Elongo T, Nikiema J.B, Kabaniha G and Okeibunor J. (2019). Resilient health systems for attaining universal health coverage. BMJ Global Health, 4(9). http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-002006
Ved R, Scott K, Gupta G, Ummer O, Singh S, Srivastava A, George AS. (2019). How are gender inequalities facing India's one million ASHAs being addressed? Policy origins and adaptations for the world's largest all-female community health worker programme.Human Resources for Health, 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-018-0338-0
Zulu, JM, Kinsman J, Hurtig A, Michelo C, George A, Schneider, H. (2019). Integrating community health assistant-driven sexual and reproductive health services in the community health system in Nyimba district in Zambia: mapping key actors, points of integration, and conditions shaping the process. Reproductive Health. 16:122. 10.1186/s12978-019-0788-4.
The outputs listed here were produced during the first phase of CHESAI's work (2012-2016).
Kabir Sheikh, Helen Schneider, Irene Agyepong, Uta Lehmann and Lucy Gilson. 2016. Boundary-spanning: reflections on the practices and principles of Global Health. BMJ Global Health, 2(2):112-118. http://gh.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000058
Ermin Erasmus, Uta Lehmann, Irene Agyepong, John Alwar, Don de Savigny, Peter Kamuzora, Tolib Mirzoev, Nonhlanhla Nxumalo, Göran Tomson, Benjamin Uzochukwu and Lucy Gilson. 2016. Strengthening post-graduate educational capacity for health policy and systems research and analysis: the strategy of the Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa. Health Research Policy and Systems, 14(1). https://health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12961-016-0097-0
Dickson R O Okello and Lucy Gilson. 2015. Exploring the influence of trust relationships on motivation in the health sector: a systematic review. Human Resources for Health 13(16). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-015-0007-5
Vera Scott, Ntombomzi Dinginto and Zethu Xapile. 2015. Operational health service management: Understanding the role of information in decision-making. South African Health Review 2014/15. http://www.hst.org.za/sites/default/files/11_Information.pdf
Susan Cleary, Nikki Schaay, Elizabeth Botes, Ntombizanele Figlan, Uta Lehmann and Lucy Gilson. 2015. Re-imagining community participation at the district level: Lessons from the DIALHS collaboration. South African Health Review 2014/15. http://www.hst.org.za/sites/default/files/12_Community_Part.pdf
Helen Schneider, Rene English, Hanani Tabana, Thesandree Padayachee and Marsha Orgill. 2014. Whole-system change: case study of factors facilitating early implementation of a primary health care reform in a South African province. BMC Health Services Research 14(609) http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/14/609
Judith Daire and Lucy Gilson. 2014. Does identity shape leadership and management practice? Experiences of PHC facility managers in Cape Town, South Africa. Health Policy and Planning (29):ii82–ii97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czu075
Uta Lehmann and Lucy Gilson. 2014. Action learning for health system governance: the reward and challenge of co-production. Health Policy and Planning: 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czu097
Vera Scott, Nikki Schaay, Patti Olckers, Nomsa Nqana, Uta Lehmann and Lucy Gilson. 2014. Exploring the nature of governance at the level of implementation for health systems strengthening: the DIALHS experience. Health Policy and Planning 29(Suppl2):ii59–ii70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093%2Fheapol%2Fczu073
Woldekidan Kifle Made, David Sanders and Uta Lehmann. 2014. Building capacity to develop an African teaching platform on health workforce development: A collaborative initiative of universities from four sub Saharan countries. Human Resources for Health 12(31) http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-4491-12-31
Johann Cailhol, Isabel Craveiro, Tavares Madede, Elsie Makoa, Thubelihle Mathole, Ann Neo Parsons, Luc Van Leemput, Regien Biesma, Ruairi Brugha, Baltazar Chilundo, Uta Lehmann, Gilles Dussault, Wim Van Damme and David Sanders. 2013. Analysis of human resources for health strategies and policies in 5 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, in response to GFATM and PEPFAR-funded HIV-activities. Globalization and Health 9(52) http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/9/1/52
Maylene Shung-King, Marsha Orgill, and Wiedaad Slemming. 2013. School health in South Africa: reflections on the past and prospects for the future. SAHR 14. http://www.health-e.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/South-African-Health-Review-2013-14.pdf
Marsha Orgill, Nonhlanhla Nxumalo, Woldekidan Amde, Ermin Erasmus, Uta Lehmann, Jane Goudge and Lucy Gilson. 2012. Health Policy and Systems Research: Needs, challenges and opportunities in South Africa – a university perspective. SAHR 13. http://www.health-e.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/South-African-Health-Review-2013-14.pdf
For the most recent outputs produced by CHESAI members we suggest you visit the main partner's websites: The Health Policy and Systems Division, School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town and the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape.
CHESAI Outputs (2012 – 2016)
"Health policies and systems are complex social and political phenomena, constructed by human action rather than naturally occurring. Relativist social science perspectives are, therefore, of particular relevance to HPSR as they recognise that all phenomena are in essence constructed through human behaviour and interpretation." - Gilson et al 2011. PLoS Med 8(8)
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De Stationsput is een vijver en gemeentelijk groendomein in Eernegem, een deelgemeente van de Belgische gemeente Ichtegem.

Geschiedenis
In 1865 werd de spoorlijn van Torhout naar Oostende aangelegd. De spoorlijn 62, nu gekend als fietsroute onder de naam Groene 62, is ontstaan door het opkomende kusttoerisme in het midden van de 19e eeuw. De stoomtreinen (stoomlocomotief) die in die tijd op "de ijzeren weg" van Oostende naar Torhout reden hadden water nodig. Hiervoor werd in de zomer van 1887 deze Stationsput gegraven. Aannemer Cambier-Duvet uit Marcinelle kreeg de opdracht. Op vraag van het Eernegemse gemeentebestuur, dat vaststelde dat er in dat jaar veel werkloosheid onder de arbeiders was, wierf hij daarvoor arbeiders uit het dorp aan. Tegelijkertijd werd er een leiding gelegd die aansloot op de bestaande waterleiding in Snaaskerke, waar men voordien blijkbaar het water voor de stoomlocomotieven vandaan haalde.

Bij de oorspronkelijke plannen zou de spoorlijn niet in het dorp van Eernegem passeren. Het valt dan ook op dat de spoorlijn niet recht van Torhout naar Oostende loopt, maar ze maakt in Eernegem een wijde bocht naar de dorpskern. De oorzaak van deze merkwaardige bocht is de 19de-eeuwse vriendjespolitiek.

Al op 28 september 1863 was het traject van deze spoorlijn een bron van discussie in de Eernegemse gemeenteraad. Het was burgemeester Gustave van Sieleghem die het probleem ter sprake bracht. In het oorspronkelijk plan zou de stationsplaats op 2 km van de dorpsplaats aangelegd worden. De burgemeester van Eernegem ging hierover onderhandelen met de minister van openbare werken.

Bij Eernegem station werd de 6 ha grote en 3 m diepe stationsput aangelegd. Via een 16 km lange gietijzeren leiding werd het water van Eernegem naar het eindstation Oostende getransporteerd. Het water in Oostende was zout water, wat de treinen aantastte. Het water in de stationsput van Eernegem was zoet water, was bovendien zeer kalkarm en hierdoor veel geschikter om te gebruiken voor de treinen.

In 1912 besloot men om de stationsput te vergroten. De onderhandelingen voor deze vergroting werden echter stopgezet door Eerste Wereldoorlog. In 1923 kon men de put toch uitbreiden. De werken duurden tot 1925.

In 1961 werd de treinverbinding Oostende-Torhout afgeschaft. Tien jaar later werd het ondertussen vervallen stationsgebouw door de gemeente aangekocht en afgebroken. Bij het verdwijnen van de spoorlijn 62 was er geen water meer nodig en de put werd dus niet meer gebruikt. In 1986 werd de 16 km lange buis opgegraven en afgevoerd.  De stationsput kreeg vanaf dan een nieuwe functie als recreatieoord.

Ichtegem
Recreatie in België
Oppervlaktewater in West-Vlaanderen

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Loving that black and white one piece! How original!
These are really cute! I love that green one!
I love that hat!! the first picture is beautiful!
omg for me please that sailor style bikini with the little anchor! so fabulous!
I love the blue bikini one and the one with the anchor! Great picks!
pretty choices! i love them all but that nautical bikini is my fave here.


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Jeff Whitten
Except some of the people I've talked to aren't going anywhere, despite the mandatory evacuation order issued late Sunday night by the state's highest elected officer, Gov. Brian Kemp.
"This is America, it's still a free country and we have the right to be stupid," said Bunny Anderson, an instantly likeable sort who lives down in McIntosh but was up in Richmond Hill on Labor Day morning filling up propane tanks.
She said she wasn't going anywhere because she has chickens and goats and her husband doesn't want to take them along. That, and it's too hard to get back home after it's over. Bunny Anderson reminded me of a hippy, for some reason, and I like hippies as a rule.
In front of her in line at Royal Ace Hardware was the irrepressible Freida Sikes, who along with her husband J.M. lives off Bodaford Road near the new Richmond Hill Middle School. They make good local honey, pure and raw, as the label says.
They aren't evacuating either, she said, noting her husband, in his 70s, has lived here down near the water all his life and hasn't evacuated once.
In front of them was Johnny Bittle, one of those naturally able, gifted men who knows who to run generators and machinery and do things that matter.
He lives down on Yellow Bluff and is supposed to fly to Texas on a job but has been told his flight is cancelled, so it looks like he might go to Hinesville, which is west of I-95 and therefore not subject to the evacuation order.
I get it. To each his own. Besides, I live west of I-95 by about seven miles. I don't have to go anywhere. And I'll be working.
There's a flip side to that, of course, and that's if this thing gets really bad you can't start hollering for help in the middle of the storm. You were told to leave.
I haven't evacuated since Hurricane Floyd in 1999, and then it was only because I had to for work.
When the evacuation order was issued, I was up in Macon covering the trial of one Dexter Palmer, who was convicted in rather short order of shooting and killing six people — five in a Walthourville apartment and then the sixth when he killed the guy who helped him kill the other five.
Palmer was so bad and reputed to be so dangerous that during the trial they brought in a rugby side of burly firefighters and cops in Macon and sat them in chairs not far from the defendant's table in the courtroom so they could keep an eye on him, and he them.
It was an interesting dynamic, and after the trial was over for the day I'd go down to the Crown Plaza hotel bar and shoot the breeze with Tom Durden, the longtime Atlantic Judicial Circuit DA who was trying the case.
There were reminders, however, of what we were away from, with the TV on the bar turned to CNN and showing satellite images of Floyd as it spun north and looked like it was about to blow Savannah off the map, and the rest of Coastal Georgia with it.
And in the meantime, everybody was stuck in traffic. You heard the horror stories of it taking 13 hours to get from Midway to Statesboro on back roads and saw the images of I-16 turned into a parking lot, and I was glad it wasn't me.
And then Floyd changed his mind and missed us, and we had years and years of nothing, and got to feeling a bit cocky about things.
That changed some in 2016 with Hurricane Matthew, which blew down a lot of trees and caused a lot of stress and damage and hurt some people, then the next year Irma went inland and got people who had run from the coast and dropped a good bit of rain and flooded our house in the process.
We were lucky, really. You only have to see what's happening in the Bahamas to know how truly bad a hurricane can be.
And now, an evacuation order ahead of a terrible storm wreaking havoc in the Bahamas before it heads our way.
Will it hit us? Who knows. I sure hope not. But I also believe it's better to err on the side of caution, and as my dad likes to say, too much is better than not enough. That goes for just about anything I can think of.
I also know that it's easier to second guess decisions when you're not the one having to make them.
And I know that the heroes in these stories are many -- from the cops and firefighters and EMS folks who put everything aside to take care of the public to those folks who work around the clock in rough conditions to get the lights back on or the people who rush to bring in aid to those impacted by the storm. They have families, too.
Be safe.

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The regulars in this place include noted authors, programmers, journalists, activists and other creative people who swap info, test their convictions and banter with one another in wide-ranging conversations.
The WELL, originally the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, provides a literate watering hole for some articulate and unpretentious thinkers."
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Water resources sustainability has a key role in the existence and durability of irrigated farming systems and strongly depends on the crop planning. The decision process is complex due to a number of constraints and the desire to secure crop diversification and the involvement of affected various parameters. The objective of the present study was to develop a comprehensive multi-criteria model for selecting adequate cropping pattern in an irrigation district under water scarcity condition. Eleven and nine attribute decisions were considered in ranking the type of crop and determination of the percentage of crop cultivation area as an optimal irrigated crop planning system, respectively. The results indicate that the proposed multi-attribute preference approach can synthesize various sets of criteria in the preference elicitation of the crop type and cultivated area. The predictive validity analysis shows that the preferences acquired by the proposed model are evidently in reasonable accordance with those of the conjunctive water use model. Consequently, the model may be used to aggregate preferences in order to obtain a group decision, improve understanding of the choice problem, accommodate multiple objectives and increase transparency and credibility in decision making by actively involving relevant criteria in the crop planning.
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Sunday I lived my fun day of driving down Malibu Canyon in Los Angeles, alone, to walk the beach. I get there as often as I can which is an advantage to being an empty nester. No soccer practice or birthday parties!
The road was pretty empty at nine am. It was a warm and clear day when unexpectedly a white speckled deer leaped in front of my car.
I looked in my rear view mirror window and pointed, mouthing, "Did you see that?" to the car behind me. The deer was light, silent, and huge. Deer and I were fine.
Then I started crying. I thought about how this beautiful deer was in her neighborhood simply crossing the road and could have lost her life. I was in awe to see "nature" like this in Los Angeles. I miss being in nature.
Alert and perceptive, loving, accepts people as they are, compassionate, in balance. I had seen a herd of white deer when I was alone walking before sunset in Northern California.
With the New Year, I decided this was a "sign" of my new totem animal for 2010. I also know deer can buck and be ferocious.
One "sign" I got from this experience was wonderment. I decided to look back in 2009 at times I felt wonderment. In 2010 I will honor wonderment. I see it in the photography I shoot and in people. Beauty is top on my life list. I feel refreshed and invigorated with beauty.
Wishing you moments of Wonderment in 2010.


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Creature to Creature
Posted on March 17, 2014 by barczablog
Talisker Players' program themed around the animal kingdom titled "Creature to Creature" was better than expected.
I should explain, because I love Talisker. Why lower expectations? Classical programs using music about animals usually condescend. Such compositions –however excellent—are relegated to playing comic relief, are infantilized, elicit mugging in the usually repressed world of classical concerts. Or they are shuffled into a category sometimes known as "light music".
That's not what Talisker did, and thank goodness. Only the closing set—by Flanders and Swann –caved in to the usual kind of broad comedy, and of course these songs earned the biggest applause of the afternoon.
And the featured creatures at the heart of Talisker's matinee were "archy and mehitabel", Alexander Rapoport's adaptation of some of Don Marquis' best known pieces for two singers, flute clarinet & string trio. It's a great choice of text even if it's been done before. But as we've seen with films of Shakespeare or Austen, a good text inevitably generates multiple adaptations.
I can't deny I was resistant. There's an ambiguity on the page that disappears in performance, so any adaptation of a favourite book or poem must collide with preconceptions. For example, I wouldn't have given a cat who says "toujours gai" an American accent: or at least that's not how I read it when I first encountered it years ago. But Norine Burgess persuaded me, making a compelling case for Rapoport's intriguing combination of styles in "the song of mehitabel", using a voice that was sometimes decidedly feline, usually American, yet with the injured dignity of reincarnated royalty. Geoffrey Sirett was every bit her match, although I think I wasn't resisting his performance quite so much, as he sounded very much the way I would have expected archy to sound.
Composer Alexander Rapoport
I hope Rapoport's composition gets further hearings, either in this kind of concert setting or perhaps with a fuller staging. Coming the day after a matinee performance of Puppetmongers' March Break show, I couldn't help thinking that "archy & mehitabel" could work wonderfully with puppets (and please don't accuse me of condescension or infantilizing in that formulation, because I don't see puppets as something only for children. They should be part of a director's toolkit, and something I've used in opera stagings on more than one occasion), or perhaps as a soundtrack for animation.
Rapoport's songs give me hope, considering how original music sometimes vanishes without a trace after a single hearing. The one place I had a tiny concern –and it's minor—is that the last song had a somewhat pretentious & academic sound that struck me as a mismatch with the text, even if it was still catchy. But overall his use of instrumental colour showed off the Talisker ensemble to great effect, while the texts were wonderfully lucid and among the most intelligible phrases sung all afternoon. I'll be hoping to hear these songs again someday, whether live or in a recording. They deserve to be heard.
There were no weak spots in the concert, displaying Talisker's usual combination of sung texts and readings by actor Ross Manson, juxtaposing different styles & periods:
"La Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée" by Francis Poulenc, setting poems by Apollinaire
"Creature to Creature" by Miriam Gideon, setting poems by Nancy Cardozo
"archy and mehitabel" by Alexander Rapoport, text by Don Marquis with supplementary text by the composer
"Duetto buffo di due Gatti" by Rossini
"Rainforest" by Lee Hoiby, setting poems by Elizabeth Bishop
"Songs from The Bestiary" by Donald Swann (arranged by Laura Jones), text by Michael Flanders
Mezzo-soprano Norine Burgess (photo credit: Johannes Ifkovits)
The most intense music-making of the afternoon followed the intermission, first in a splendidly convicted and deadpan reading of the well-known Rossini duet, followed by three Hoiby songs that are new to me. I can't help wondering about the vicissitudes of programming, the choices by artists to sing a particular composer while ignoring another. Hoiby (as well as his mentor Menotti) and their tonal approach appeals to me very much, even if it was a Tempest by English composer Adès rather than American Hoiby that premiered at the Met last season. I suppose it's a matter of who will champion you –singers championing composers, and perhaps vice versa—as a new generation of directors favour their own composers. Burgess sounds wonderful singing Hoiby. The three inter-connected songs of "Rainforest" meander about in tonal language that shows Hoiby's usual sensitivity to the text. Where composers of previous generations get caught up in introductory rhetoric, these songs are very direct, wonderfully expressive in their pulsing rhythms and bold use of instrumental timbres.
Talisker Players, Burgess, Sirett and Manson will be back at the Trinity St. Paul's Centre for the Arts at 427 Bloor St West Tuesday March 18th.
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By Dan Tracer July 16, 2014 at 2:07pm
Reverend Sally Hitchiner already knew she was making waves by appearing on BBC 5 to promote her particular brand of religion — that is, one in which women can be priests and can live full, complete lives without the conventional moral shackles of organized religion.
Except then host Matt Barbet threw her a curve ball.
He mentioned to the live audience that on top of everything, Sally is an "out vicar," despite the information never having been made public.
Sally took it in stride, owning up to the news without backing away. After the interview she was quoted saying, "I suppose it was bound to come out eventually. My parents know. It's not as if anyone who loves me will be shocked."
Barbet insists he thought the information was public based on his research for the interview — an unlikely excuse given the fact that just seven months ago Sally was described by The Daily Mail as having "no children and doesn't talk about her private life."
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but the problems is that the varaiable name is too long and there are about 100 dataframe variables.
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of course, it won't work. I just want to explain what I wanna do. Anyone has idea how to concat about 100 dataframe all at oonce in python?

A: You can use python's list for it:
import pandas as pd

a = []
for i in range(download_num):
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concatenated_df = pd.concat(a)

If you have a list of filenames already:
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concatenated_df = pd.concat(a)

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Biografia
Il 23 agosto 1909 nasce a San Cosma di Monselice, frazione di Monselice, da Pietro e Teresa Girotto. Frequenta le scuole elementari a Monselice e desidera proseguire gli studi al seminario, ma deve rinunciarvi perché la sua famiglia è troppo povera.
Il parroco del suo paese natale, don Domenico Favaro, interviene istruendolo personalmente e presentandolo privatamente all'esame di ammissione al seminario di Padova dove viene promosso.

Il 6 novembre 1923 entra nel Seminario Minore di Thiene (VI).

Il 5 novembre 1925 entra nel Seminario Maggiore di Padova.

Il 7 novembre 1928 è ammesso alla facoltà teologica .

Il 3 luglio 1932 diventa Suddiacono e l'8 dicembre, sempre del 1932, diventa Diacono.

Il 2 luglio 1933, presso il Seminario Maggiore di Padova, viene consacrato sacerdote dal Vescovo Agostini.

A fine luglio di quello stesso anno viene destinato, dal Vescovo, alla parrocchia padovana di nuova istituzione di Cristo Re in Sant'Osvaldo e qui si prodiga, in qualità di cappellano, alla creazione del patronato maschile.

Il 2 giugno 1935 viene trasferito alla parrocchia Santa Tecla ad Este (PD) dove arriva il 14 giugno.

Il 7 gennaio 1938 arriva, come Vicario Economo, alla parrocchia di Terranegra in Padova.

Il 9 gennaio 1938 il parroco di Terranegra, don Angelo Dal Zotto, lascia il suo incarico e don Giovanni lo sostituisce alla guida della parrocchia dopo aver sostenuto gli esami appropriati il 26 febbraio 1938.

Viene nominato parroco di Terranegra in Padova il 31 marzo 1938.

La sua prima grande azione, su indicazione del vescovo, è quella di far partire il progetto per la costruzione di una nuova grande chiesa che sostituisca la precedente divenuta ormai non più funzionale per la popolazione cresciuta molto in quegli anni.

La prima pietra viene posata il 9 novembre 1941 e i lavori avrebbero dovuto completarsi entro il 7 agosto 1947 in tempo per festeggiare i quattrocento anni dalla morte di San Gaetano patrono locale.

Oltre all'edificazione della chiesa don Giovanni si prodiga molto nell'assistenza ai malati e nel potenziamento delle confraternite locali nonché dell'Azione cattolica.

Il 5 dicembre 1943, su preghiera di don Antonio Varotto parroco di una parrocchia vicina, accoglie, sfama e nasconde nella propria parrocchia dodici prigionieri inglesi in fuga con il compito di consegnarli dopo alcuni giorni ad un gruppo di partigiani veneziani.

Don Giovanni viene a sapere che questo gruppo partigiano fa il doppio gioco, si rifiuta di consegnare i prigionieri e a seguito di questa sua netta posizione viene arrestato, il 14 dicembre 1943, con altre diciannove persone.

In carcere a Venezia viene interrogato e a seguito del suo rifiuto di rivelare i nascondigli degli altri fuggitivi viene accusato di alto tradimento verso la patria e condannato a morte a mezzo fucilazione.

L'esecuzione, che doveva avvenire il 15 dicembre 1943, viene sospesa e i condannati vengono trasferiti al carcere di Santa Maria Maggiore a Venezia.

Rimane in cella sino al 25 febbraio 1944 quando viene trasferito al carcere di Verona da dove riparte, con altri prigionieri, per il campo di concentramento di Dachau.

Rimane in prigionia fino a metà giugno 1945 e il 24 giugno 1945 torna a casa accolto festosamente dalla popolazione.

Nei giorni successivi ritorna alla vita normale occupandosi delle varie attività parrocchiali e cercando di lenire i dolori e i lutti che la guerra aveva lasciato.

Fa ripartire anche i lavori per la costruzione della nuova chiesa, ma in ricordo dei tanti italiani morti in prigionia o nella deportazione propone, alla popolazione e al vescovo, che il nuovo tempio sia dedicato a San Gaetano e al ricordo di tutte le vittime della guerra.

L'idea viene accolta favorevolmente e i lavori ripartono. Il nuovo luogo di culto viene consacrato il 3 settembre 1955.

Il 20 giugno 1964 viene insignito della medaglia d'oro per il suo operato a favore di quanti, senza distinzioni, persero la vita per gli orrori della guerra.

Negli anni successivi si occupa senza riserve dell'attività pastorale.

Il 3 luglio 1983 festeggia tra i suoi parrocchiani il 50º anniversario di sacerdozio e, contestualmente, i 45 anni a capo della comunità di Terranegra in Padova.

Il 23 agosto 1984 a causa delle sue pessime condizioni di salute rassegna le dimissioni con una lettera al vescovo Filippo Franceschi.

Il 16 settembre 1985, alle ore 11.00, muore.

Alle sue esequie, celebrate nel Tempio dell'internato ignoto da lui tanto voluto, partecipano una folla immensa, tutte le autorità civili della città di Padova, settanta sacerdoti e monsignor Carlo Manziana ex vescovo di Crema nonché compagno di prigionia a Dachau.

Il 23 aprile 2009 la salma di monsignor Giovanni Fortin viene traslata al Tempio dell'internato ignoto e qui inumata.

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Ерик Хомбургер Ериксон () е германски психолог и психоаналитик от еврейски произход, известен с теорията си за социалното развитие на човешките същества.

Биография
Роден е на 15 юни 1902 година във Франкфурт на Майн, Германия, в семейство на датчани. Води бохемски начин на живот, който в един момент го докарва във Виена, където се запознава с Фройд.

Първоначално Ериксон е учител по рисуване, но по-късно завършва Виенския психоаналитичен институт. През 1930 се жени за танцьорката и художничката Джоен Моват Серсон, а през 1933 емигрира от Виена в САЩ.

През 1950 г. известният психоаналитик става жертва на преследването на марксизма в САЩ, тъй като бива заподозрян като симпатизант на комунистите.

Умира на 12 май 1994 година в Харуич, щата Масачузетс на 91-годишна възраст.

Теория
Ериксон описва жизнения цикъл на личността като съвкупност от стадии на развитие. Четири от тях напълно съвпадат с фазите на детската сексуалност, описани от Фройд. Обаче за разлика от Фройд, който разделя психическото развитие на 5 етапа, то Ериксон разделя своята схема на 8 етапа. Той преименува т.нар. "генитален стадий" в "юношество" и добавя още няколко стадия при възрастното състояние. Акцентира се върху това, че развитието на личността е постепенно и свързано с преодоляване на кризите на идентичността.

Теорията му обяснява различните процеси по време на развитието на човешката психика:
 Първият период е наречен младенчество и приключва около 12-месечна възраст. Дали нуждите на детето ще бъдат удовлетворявани винаги и навреме (да бъде нахранено, приспано или подсушено) предопределя дали възрастният индивид ще бъде оптимист, песимист или реалист, защото периодът е от изключителна важност за изграждане на доверие.
 Яслената възраст (от 1 до 3 години) е период, в който детето трябва да се научи да бъде сравнително самостоятелно. Ако не успее, то трябва да преглътне унижението и срама.
 Третият период продължава приблизително до шестата година на детето. Ако то успее да се справи с игрите и заниманията в детската градина или у дома и да бъде достатъчно инициативно, детето ще е преминало през етапа успешно. В противен случай ще се чувства непълноценно.
 Съща е задачата му и през училищната възраст (7 до 12 години), когато то трябва да се научи на труд.
 Юношеството (13 – 19 години) е ключовият период в теорията на Ериксон. То продължава от тринадесетата до деветнадесетата година от живота на човека. В този период младият индивид търси себе си, опитва се да определи кой е, да се разграничи от другите и да се възприеме като отделен, уникален индивид. Важен елемент от този експеримент е юношеската любов. Ако юношата не успее да опознае себе си, той се губи в другите (дифузия).
 Ранната зрялост (20 – 40 години) Ериксон нарича периода между двадесетата и четиридесетата година от живота на човека. Това е период, в който основната задача е намирането на партньор или спътник в живота. Въпросът, който трябва да бъде решен, е дали човек ще успее да постигне интимност с друг индивид или ще остане в изолация.
 Зрелостта също продължава двадесет години (40 – 60 години). Това е времето, в което човек вече е създал семейство и сега на него се пада отговорността да отгледа следващото поколение.
 Последният етап според теорията е старостта (след шестдесетата година). Тогава човек вече е изпълнил своята задача и гледа смъртта право в очите. Въпросът е дали ще успее да погледне назад към живота си и ще бъде доволен от постигнатото или ще намери за какво да съжалява. Ако не успее да стигне до мъдростта за преходността на живота, човек се отчайва. В този период човек би трябвало да престане да се страхува от смъртта, той просто я приема.

Теорията на Ериксън получава широко разпространение в много държави и се ползва с успех не само сред психоаналитиците, но и в сферата на педагогиката.

Вижте също
 Теория за социално развитие

Произведения
 Einsicht und Verantwortung; Frankfurt a.M. (1964) 1971
 Identität und Lebenszyklus. Drei Aufsätze; Frankfurt a.M. 1966; 2. Aufl. 1973
 Der junge Mann Luther. Eine psychoanalytische und historische Studie. 1975
 Gandhis Wahrheit. Über die Ursprünge der militanten Gewaltlosigkeit. 1978.
 Jugend und Krise; Stuttgart 1980
 Der vollständige Lebenszyklus; Frankfurt a.M. 1988; 2. Aufl. 1992
 Kindheit und Gesellschaft

Външни препратки
 Manfred Rosenbach, Entwicklung der Persönlichkeit – eine Abfolge "psycho-sozialer Krisen"
 C. George Boeree,  Persönlichkeitstheorien: Erik Erikson

Германски психолози
Германски психоаналитици
Анализанти на Ана Фройд
Изследователи на развитието на детето
Родени във Франкфурт на Майн


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The assertion by American officials that biofuels have contributed only 2-3 percent to the rise in food prices is consistent with estimates of the impact on food prices in the United States, where most foods are processed and the value of the crop in the final retail product is a tiny fraction. In poor countries, where minimally-processed staple grains make up a much larger share of calories consumed, the impact of recent food prices is much larger.
Nor is it true, as asserted by congressional defenders of ethanol subsidies, that corn-based ethanol cannot have a large effect on food prices because it uses feed corn, which people do not eat. That is true, but people do eat poultry, eggs, and dairy products from animals fed on corn; increased production of corn also means reduced production of other crops, thus raising their prices, and high corn prices lead people to substitute other food products, again putting upward pressure on other crop prices.
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Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth
Sasha Lilley
Eddie Yuen
James Davis
foreword: Doug Henwood
authors: Sasha Lilley, David McNally, Eddie Yuen, and James Davis
We live in catastrophic times. The world is reeling from the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression, with the threat of further meltdowns ever-looming. Global warming and myriad dire ecological disasters worsen—with little if any action to halt them—their effects rippling across the planet in the shape of almost Biblical floods, fires, droughts, and hurricanes. Governments warn that there is no alternative to the bitter medicine they prescribe—or risk devastating financial or social collapse. The right, whether religious or secular, views the present as catastrophic and wants to turn the clock back. The left fears for the worst, but hopes some good will emerge from the rubble. Visions of the apocalypse and predictions of impending doom abound. Across the political spectrum, a culture of fear reigns. Catastrophism explores the politics of apocalypse—on the left and right, in the environmental movement—and examines why the lens of catastrophe can distort our understanding of the dynamics at the heart of these numerous disasters—and fatally impede our ability to transform the world. Lilley, McNally, Yuen, and Davis probe the reasons why catastrophic thinking is so prevalent, and challenge the belief that it is only out of the ashes that a better society may be born. The authors argue that those who care about social justice and the environment should jettison doomsaying—even as it relates to indisputably apocalyptic climate change. Far from calling people to arms, they suggest, catastrophic fear often results in passivity and paralysis—and, at worst, reactionary politics.
"Catastrophism comes at the right moment: 2012, the year of The End proclaimed across the political spectrum from deep ecologists to the Mayan Calendarists. Instead of concentrating on the merits of the claims of the various apocalypticians, Jim Davis, Sasha Lilley, David McNally, and Eddie Yuen examine the political function of these claims and find them to be deeply reactionary. This is a controversial book that challenges many of the unexamined assumptions on the left (as well as on the right). It is a warning not to abandon everyday anti-capitalist politics for a politics of absolute fear that inevitably leads to inaction." —Silvia Federici, author of Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle "Bravo! This is the book that has been sorely needed for so long to reveal the dead-end that a politics founded on catastrophic predictions must lead to in terms of either preventing them or actually changing the world. Essential reading for all those on the left who are concerned with the question of strategy today." —Leo Panitch, coauthor of The Making of Global Capitalism "I cannot overstate how critically important this volume is. Catastrophism captures a problem that few have seriously grappled with. Anyone who wishes, as I do, for a new kind of (occupied) politics will have to face this formidable array of theoretically-inspired reflections on the politics of apocalypse." —Andrej Grubacic, co-author of Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History "In an age when even Mayan prophecies of the end of the long cycle are turned into prophecies of doom and destruction, this book offers a reasoned and lucid alternative understanding. Definitive and momentous, this book should be mandatory reading for everyone who wishes to comprehend the world we live in and change it for the better."—George Katsiaficas, author of Asia's Unknown Uprisings "This important book aims to end the politics of The End. The authors of Catastrophism claim that apocalyptic politics, though promising to motivate revolutionary transformation, all too often leads to a fear-induced paralysis and cynicism. This book provides a badly needed boost to our political immunity systems against the apocalyptic claims bombarding us in this purported terminal year for our planet." —George Caffentzis author of In Letters of Blood and Fire "This groundbreaking book examines a deep current—on both the left and right—of apocalyptical thought and action. The authors explore the origins, uses, and consequences of the idea that collapse might usher in a better world. Catastrophism is a crucial guide to understanding our tumultuous times, while steering us away from the pitfalls of the past." —Barbara Epstein, author of Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s
Sasha Lilley is a writer and radio broadcaster. She is the co-founder and host of the critically acclaimed program of radical ideas, Against the Grain. Sasha Lilley is the author of Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult and series editor of PM Press' political economy imprint, Spectre. David McNally is Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto. He is the author of six previous books, including Against the Market; Another World is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism; and Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance. Eddie Yuen teaches in the Urban Studies Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. He is the co-editor, with George Katsiaficas and Daniel Burton-Rose, of Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement. James Davis is an Irish documentary filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His works include "Safety Orange" and "Meeting Room." Doug Henwood is publisher and editor of Left Business Observer. Among other books, he is the author of After the New Economy and Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom. He is a contributing editor to The Nation magazine.
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Potential treatment on trial in UK
A potential treatment for coronavirus using plasma from recovered patients is to be trialled by doctors at London's Guy's and St Thomas' hospital.
The first donations of the plasma have been collected and transfusions will begin in "the coming weeks", the hospital's Biomedical Research Centre said in a statement.
It is hoped the potential treatment, known as convalescent plasma, will help patients whose bodies are not producing sufficient antibodies to fight the virus.
The hospital says if the trials prove the treatment to be effective, NHS Blood and Transplant will begin a national programme to deliver up to 10,000 units of convalescent plasma per week to the NHS, enough to treat 5,000 patients each week.
The trial is co-led by Dr Manu Shankar-Hari, a consultant in intensive care medicine at the hospital, along with experts from NHS Blood and Transplant and the University of Cambridge.
"As a new disease, there are no proven drugs to treat critically ill patients with Covid-19. Providing critically ill patients with plasma from patients who have recovered… could improve their chances of recovery," said Dr Shankar-Hari.
The health secretary, Matt Hancock, said: "This global pandemic is the biggest public health emergency this generation has faced and we are doing absolutely everything we can to beat it.
"The UK has world-leading life sciences and research sectors and I have every hope this treatment will be a major milestone in our fight against this disease.
"Hundreds of people are participating in national trials already for potential treatments and the scaling up of convalescent plasma collection means thousands could potentially benefit from it in the future."
The BBC reported there was currently enough plasma to transfuse to 143 patients.
The 42-year-old accused allegedly stabbed his older brother with a spade before fleeing. Community members apprehended him and handed him over to the police.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Air travel to Israel has come to a near standstill due to coronavirus restrictions, but one type of voyage still endures: the final journey of Jews wishing to be buried in…


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Release Date for Dark Souls Remastered on Nintendo Switch Announced
Dark Souls Remastered / Aug. 14, 2018
Praise the Sun! The delayed Nintendo Switch version will arrive on October 19, 2018.
By Adam Bankhurst
From Software's Dark Souls Remastered will be arriving on the Nintendo Switch on October 19, 2018.
Announced on Twitter, From Software has confirmed that the delayed Nintendo Switch version of Dark Souls Remastered will be arriving in just a couple months.
Bandai Namco US also announced that a network test will be scheduled before release and that the Solaire of Astora amiibo will be launching day-and-date with the Nintendo Switch version.
Dark Souls Remastered released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on May 25 and our review of the remaster of 2011's Dark Souls said that it "delivers that same exhilarating experience and all its DLC, while offering noticeably sharper performance and a number of graphical enhancements."
In April, we compiled a list of the major changes and differences between the original and this new remaster that said Dark Souls Remastered on the Nintendo Switch will run at 1080p at 30fps when docked and at 720p and 30fps when in handheld mode.
Dark Souls Remastered will launch for the Nintendo Switch on October 19, 2018, will include the Artorias of the Abyss DLC, but won't support cross-platform play for its multiplayer.
Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN and his first "Dark Souls" game was Bloodborne and he can't wait to jump back into this version and do all he can vanquish all evil in that world. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst.
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The first step in managing debt is to understand credit and credit scores.
The credit score is a predictive tool on how a consumer will manage their debt in the future based on how that consumer has managed their debt in the past. There are many factors that go into a credit score, but the main factors are: payment history, capacity (how much credit is available), length of credit, accumulation of debt, and credit mix.Each of these factors has a weight and together these different weighted factors give a numerical score. A credit score ranges from 380 to 830. The higher the score the less "risky" the borrower is. The following is a brief definition of the factors that predict your credit score.
Payment history makes up approximately 35% of the credit score. One common theme in understanding credit scoring is that time has healing power. Because of the higher weight of payment history, making consistent on-time payments monthly is extremely important to maintaining a strong credit score. Keep in mind that delinquencies stay on your credit record for seven years. The longer it has been since a negative incident has occurred, the less it will affect your score. So, if you made a payment late five years ago it will have much less impact than a payment that was late last month. The dollar amount of late payment has no impact on the score. For example, a $10 department store late payment and a $2500 mortgage late payment have the exact same impact.
Capacity represents the ability a consumer has to borrow and it makes up 30% of the credit score. If you have $50000.00 in credit limits and the balance is $49000.00 the capacity is 2%. If you have $50000.00 in credit limits but the current balance is zero the capacity is 100%. The lower the capacity the lower the credit score. A low capacity means the consumer is using all of the credit available to them and could be a riskier borrower.
What Doesn't Impact Your Score?
The length of time that a consumer has had credit makes up 15% of their score. Length of credit is important to a lender. For instance, if a member has a high credit score but has only had credit for 6 months, there is no proven ability to maintain that high score. Time has a significant impact on your score. It is extremely important for a consumer to keep open the oldest account they have. If the oldest account the consumer has is closed, there can be significant impact on the credit score.
An important factor used in calculating a credit score is accumulation of debt in recent months. The more you "shop" for credit, the lower your score may drop. The more a consumer searches for credit may be an indication that he is struggling and therefore may be a riskier borrower. There are some exceptions to this rule: The credit reporting agencies give some leverage with both mortgage and auto purchases. If a consumer has several "like" inquiries within a few days or a few weeks, these do not have a significant impact.
Credit "Mix" means the different types of debt a consumer might have. Installment or closed end loans raise a score. Installment loans include mortgages, auto loans, home equity loans or closed end debt consolidation loans. Revolving loans that are used or have a balance lower a score. Revolving loans include credit cards and open-end lines of credit. The number of finance companies that appear on a credit report also lower the score because finance companies tend to lend to higher risk consumers. These might be referred to as "lenders of last resort".


There will be no jazz band rehearsal Tomorrow (Thursday) morning.
The Muscatine Community YMCA will be hosting afternoon activities over Winter Break from 1-4pm. The activities are free and open to all 5th-8th graders. Join the Y on the 26th for a Movie Day complete with popcorn and hot chocolate, the 27th for 3 on 3 Basketball, the 28th for Nerf Wars, and Jan. 2nd for Dodgeball. The Y will also be holding a Super Sitters Class for 11-14 year olds on the 27th and 28th from 9am-3pm, $20 for members and $40 for nonmembers, registration is required. For more information, contact Amy Hessel at the Y, 263.9996.
Musical- Do you like to Act? Do you like to Sing? Then doing a musical is just for you! The Central/West musical auditions will take place on January 3rd and 4th at Central Middle School and January 7th and 8th at West Middle School. Students can try out at any location. Auditions will consist of students singing a song of their choice and doing a reading. The reading will be given to students the night of the auditions. Auditions are open to any 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade student. A student only needs to come to one of the nights to audition. Audition times will be posted on Tuesday by the Choir Rooms. Auditions will last approximately 10-15 minutes. You must sign up for an audition time to guarantee an audition spot. Auditions will be after school. More information will be coming soon!