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GM, UAW Contract Similar To Local Teachers Agreement
The tentative agreement between General Motors and the United Auto Workers sounds a lot like a labor contract settled by local teachers last year.
GM agreed to move its unfunded retiree health care costs into an independent trust run by the UAW. That's similar to a settlement reached last December.
The Sacramento County Office of Education agreed to transfer control over retiree health benefits to a trust fund to which employees and the teacher's union contribute.
The county's Superintendent of Schools Dave Gordon says it's an unusual but smart arrangement.
"I think it's pretty rare because it takes the employees having the foresight to say 'if this is a benefit we want, we're going to have to put money in to pay for it into the future' much like a pension. That was the case we made to them."
Gordon says retirees now have guaranteed health benefits for life. He says there will always be money to pay for the benefits independent of funds needed to run the agency.
Monday, October 1, 2007 3:00 AM


I was sent a postcard from Florida nearly thirty years ago with this recipe for Key Lime Pie by a friend who knew I would much prefer a recipe on a postcard to a postcard of an alligator.
I've made the recipe many times, sometimes with lemons and sometimes with limes.
Crush the biscuits. I've finally worked out the best way to do this and it involves a plastic bag with a seal and a rolling pin.
Mix the butter into a bowl with the crushed biscuits, then press into a pie tin and refrigerate.
Stir the sweetened condensed milk and lime juice together. Fold in the sour cream, lime rind and food colouring.
Pour into the pie crust and refrigerate. Serve with whipped cream.


You will learn through first hand experience using a range of materials such as wood, plastic, ingredients and textiles. Your teacher will make sure your work is exciting and cross-curricular. When planning your design you will be encouraged to discuss and share your ideas with your peers and adapt and modify these as you go along. You will be supported in developing your technical competence when measuring and using tools. You will be offered guidance to overcome barriers with areas for your design. Through evaluation of your original plan you will be preparing yourself to begin your next D&T project with a deeper understanding enabling you to consider the skills and components you might choose.
Wherever possible, your activities will take place in the Outdoor Learning Area, where you will be able to use the natural environment to enhance your studies.
Your teacher will encourage you to take great pride in your work and completed projects will be celebrated both in class and assemblies then displayed for other children to admire.
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Two Lives (Zwei Leben) è un film del 2012 diretto da Georg Maas e Judith Kaufmann.

Trama
Norvegia. Nella vita tranquilla e felice di Katrine, ormai nonna, piomba un giornalista che, insieme ad un tribunale, vuole accusare la Germania di aver sottratto bambini a madri tedesche esule e di averli riportati in patria in orfanotrofi per poi riutilizzarli nel Progetto Lebensborn. Katrine, essendo una di questi, decide anche se riluttante di aderire alla causa, ma poi emerge il suo burrascoso passato: il suo vero nome è Vera, era una spia della Stasi ed è finita in Norvegia al posto della vera Katrine per catturarla perché fuggita dalla Germania Est. Ma Katrine/Vera si è creata una famiglia anche perché non l'aveva mai avuta e alla fine i suoi capi faranno in modo che non nuocia più.

Collegamenti esterni

Film ambientati in Norvegia
Film drammatici

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Hollywood set for Oscars picks with no big surprises
Monday, 23 January 2017 , 9:28 pm
LOS ANGELES : All eyes will be on Hollywood Tuesday as the list of nominees for this year's Oscars is unveiled with critical darlings "La La Land," "Moonlight" and "Manchester by the Sea" set to fare well.
But beyond the suspense surrounding the batch of nominees, the announcement is also expected to address the long-running #OscarsSoWhite controversy that cast a shadow over last year's awards ceremony because of its lack of diversity.
The nominated films, actors and filmmakers will be unveiled at a pre-dawn announcement which for the first time will be streamed online.
Industry watchers are predicting that Damien Chazelle's whimsical, romantic musical "La La Land" — buoyed by a record seven Golden Globe awards earlier this month — will also triumph at the February 26 Oscars bash with possible golden statuettes for best movie, best actor and for several other categories.
But the movie starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling is facing stiff competition from "Moonlight" — the coming-of-age tale of a black man in Miami — and "Manchester by the Sea," about a depressive loner played by Casey Affleck.
Both films also received nods at the Golden Globes, though far fewer than the seven to "La La Land."
Other frontrunners for best picture are Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi thriller "Arrival"; Mel Gibson's bloody WWII movie "Hacksaw Ridge"; Garth Davis's family drama "Lion"; and Theodore Melfi's biographical comedy-drama "Hidden Figures."
In the lead actor category, Affleck, Gosling and Denzel Washington, who plays an African-American father trying to raise his family in the screen adaptation of the Broadway hit "Fences," are leading the pack.
Other contenders are Andrew Garfield, who plays an army medic in "Hacksaw Ridge" and Viggo Mortensen who plays a father trying to raise his six kids in "Captain Fantastic."
The field is also crowded in the best actress race, where Stone is expected to vie for an Oscar opposite Natalie Portman, who plays a grieving JFK widow in "Jackie"; Isabelle Huppert, for her performance in the rape-revenge thriller "Elle"; Amy Adams, who plays a linguist able to communicate with aliens in "Arrival"; and Meryl Streep, who stars in the comedy biopic "Florence Foster Jenkins."
Huppert — often described as France's equivalent of Streep — scooped the best actress award at the Golden Globes for her staggering performance in "Elle," which also won for best foreign film.
Industry pundits say the 63-year-old could very well walk away with an Oscar next month, becoming one of the rare actresses to win for a foreign language performance.
"After a very surprising Golden Globe win earlier this month, we not only expect Isabelle Huppert to receive an Oscar nomination on Tuesday but to be a strong contender to even win in February," said Chris Beachum, managing director of awards prediction website Gold Derby.
French actress Marion Cotillard won the award in 2008 for her performance in "La Vie en Rose," a biopic about the life of legendary singer Edith Piaf.
– 'Oscars Not So White?' –
As for diversity, the word on everyone's mind ahead of this year's Oscars, Beachum said he expects the upcoming nominations to reflect efforts by the 6,000 plus members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be more inclusive.
Last year the Academy came under scathing criticism for its overwhelming bias toward white nominees — and vowed afterwards to double by the year 2020 the number of women and people from minority backgrounds among its voting members.
"With films like 'Fences,' 'Hidden Figures,' 'Lion,' 'Moonlight' all set for major nominations, it seems like diversity will thankfully win the day for this year's Oscar nominations," Beachum said.
But the woman behind the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag, April Reign, said although Hollywood has made progress, it was still too early to cancel the hashtag.
"One year does not fix a problem that has been going on for over 80," she told National Public Radio in a recent interview. "There has been an increase in the number of films that reflect the black experience."
"However with respect to people of color overall, with respect to marginalized communities — which is what #OscarsSoWhite is all about — it's still been a relatively poor year."
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Q: What is the difference between sample and outcome? (plus events and observations) I was sure that these are the same things but I do not get the difference reading about mass probability function

Suppose that $X: S → A (A \subseteq R)$ is a discrete random variable
  defined on a sample space S. Then the probability mass function $f_X: A → [0, 1]$ for X is defined as
$$f_X(x) = \Pr(X = x) = \Pr(\{s \in S: X(s) = x\})$$
Thinking of probability as mass helps to avoid mistakes since the
  physical mass is conserved as is the total probability for all
  hypothetical outcomes ''x'': $\sum_{x\in A} f_X(x) = 1$

Well, I just do not get this

The sample space of an experiment is the set of all
  possible outcomes of that experiment

Sample set, the set of samples is the same as set of outcomes, so we can also call it outcome set. I just do not get why to denote it by two different letters A and S above if these are the same things and why does the function maps the samples to outcomes if it is the same thing?
Is outcome a value of the sample? What is the value of the sample then? The functions map values to values. I need a value (of sample) so that function (aka random variable) could produce the value of outcome.

Edit1 I would like to thank who started to elaborate my question. It is not answered, however. I cannot accept it unless the following is resolved.
I did not get how events/observations are different from samples/outcomes. Also, I see that you identify samples with any type whereas outcomes are values (you wanted to say num types instead since any type also has values and variables). We, programmers, write functions in terms of arguments/variables. For readability and reliability, we constrain every variable to some type. The values/arguments are placeholders that take concrete values during realization at runtime. The types simply constrain the domain of the variables (types are the domains/set of available values for that variable/argument). I think that it is sorta the same in math, you just skip the name of variable when define function like $f: Int \rightarrow Real$. So, by 'anything', you mean 'value of any, not necessarily numerical, type'.
It remains unclear however what is the point of introducing the S domain (aka separating samples and outcomes). You take heads/tails and convert it into a number. Why not to sample real numbers right away (identify S with A, why heads/tails, how introducing S improves our understanding of mass probability function) or why not to make the conversion chain even longer introducing $S_{interm}$ for instance, so that you could sample and use a series of random variables to turn the sample into A, e.g. $S \xrightarrow {randomvar_1} S_{interm} \xrightarrow {randomvar_2} A$? Why not to say that I have 3 pennies and 1 dime and sample A={1,10} right away? Why play around with heads/tails instead?
It is also not clear why 'random variables' appear in the S -> A stage rather than in the sampling, to obtain values of S? Does it mean that generation of heads/tails is deterministic whereas mapping them to real domain, {1,10}, is random?
Back to the sample=outcome. I see that Wikipedia says
similarly

A random variable is a real-valued function defined on a set of
  possible outcomes, the sample space Ω.

So, how can it be that random variable maps samples to outcomes if the outcomes are the domain rather than range of random variables? I think that all this confusion deserves clarification.

A: The word "sample" causes at least two different instances of confusion.
A (what the OP asks about)
The tag "Sample" here on CV starts by "A sample is a subset of a population": all possible elements included in any possible subset of a population can only be an event that is possible: hence the set of all possible events, can be called the "Sample Space" (the "Population Subsets Space"), because it is from that Space that the elements of any population subset can come.
Where does that leave us regarding the relation with the concept "outcomes"?
The population and its subsets do not consist of the numerical values that the elements of these subsets may take: these numerical values are assigned by the random variable that we have defined according to our needs.
To consider the trivial example, a series of coin-flips can be thought as a population of heads and tails. We define a real-valued random variable by, say, linking "Heads" with the number $5$ and "Tails" with the number "$17$". So the Sample Space will be "{Heads, Tails}", which will be the domain of the random variable, while the "outcome space", its range, will be  $\{5,17\}$.
In other words, it is not necessary that "the function maps values to values" as the OP states. It can map anything to values.
And strictly speaking, a "sample" of, say size $3$ will be a set like "{Heads, Heads, Tails}", and not the set $\{5,5,17\}$. This latter set is produced by a specific random variable.  Obviously, we could use another random variable and obtain a different numerical representation for the same sample.
In all, the Sample Space can be non-numerical while the "set of outcomes" of a real-valued random variable should be real-valued. To each realized sample from a population we can map infinitely many numerical sets.
It is by no accident that the latter are properly called "a sample of realizations of a random variable", and not just "a sample from a population".
Assume now that we have a coin where on the one side it reads "$1$" while on the other it reads "$2$". So the Sample Space here has a numerical nature. Still we can define a random variable by mapping $1$ to $5$ and $2$ to $17$. Here too, the Sample Space $\{1,2\}$ will be different than the "Outcome Space" $\{5,17\}$.
Our sample of size $3$ (understood as a subset of the population) will here be the set $\{1,1,2\}$, while the "sample of realizations of the (specific) random variable" will be $\{5,5,17\}$.
B: Sample and Observation
In fields like medicine or biology, when we say "let's take a sample of blood", we mean "let's take blood once". If we wanted to put this in general statistical terminology, we would have one observation... because in general statistical terminology a "sample" is a set containing usually more than one observation (although it can contain only one).
So when somebody from these fields will say "I have available $n$ samples" - he just might mean, in general terminology, "I have available $n$ observations" or "I have available one sample of $n$ observations" -but someone else that is used in the more standard terminology, by the expression "I have available $n$ samples", she will understand "I have available $n$ sets each containing $m$ observations" -and usually $m\geq 1$. One can find this sort of confused communication in various posts here on CV.
ADDENDUM
Responding to the OP's edit in the question:
"Why not sample real numbers right away"? Because the world is not made by numbers. Actual data collection that describes the world is in many cases of qualitative nature. So, "separating samples and outcomes" follows the nature of things. Moreover, the act of mapping them to numerical values is a separate step, and as I have already mentioned, it is not a unique mapping. So it requires decisions to be made. And whenever decisions are involved, they better be clear and transparent so that they can be judged, assessed, and criticized. These "decisions" are, to begin with, the choice of the random variable we will use.
"Heads and Tails" exist irrespective of whether we want to study them. The "random variable" is a mathematical concept/tool which we project onto the real-world data in order to analyze and study them. So, samples, they exist. Random variables, they transform samples into something that we can handle using quantitative methods.
As to whether "samples are deterministic", nobody has ever decisively argued of whether there exists anything inherently stochastic in nature, or whether all our stochastic approaches are just a reflection of our ignorance, and/or of the limits of our measuring devices.

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Cycle Quest
Local cycling in the Pandemic
Up until yesterday I have savored cycling around town, mostly alone, seeing first hand what the shut-down looks like. Truth is, it's cyclist heaven out there: few cars, no blasting exhaust, nice fresh air and fresh skies; everything lush and green after ample rains; spring in full swing. And it's out-of-the-house!!
It's been so amazing to travel all the old familiar places and see them empty and closed. If I'd been dropped from the sky to this scene, I'd guess that some kind of a neutron bomb had gone off…leaving all the property intact, all the flora and fauna intact, but erasing a huge percentage of the human population. The remaining people I see from my roving saddle, seem to be calm and deliberate…no obvious trauma from whatever event had taken away all the others. The presence of face masks is the only clue readily noticeable.
Yesterday I cycled to the station and caught the Coaster (commuter train) downtown in the morning. I shared the train car with three others who got off in quick succession and left the whole car to me for the rest of the trip. I am riding my touring bike with a handlebar bag, a rear pannier and a safety triangle. I don't appear to be a recreational rider on this machine with fenders, and racks front and rear, more like and old guy going to the pharmacy for his medications!
There was a steady drizzle, and somewhere to shelter became the immediate priority, no easy task in a pandemic. I settled in to a parking garage and kicked back against a pillar to write some field notes; but security had a different idea. Noodling over to Balboa Park, I took cover under a giant Oak. The official-types manning a key entrance to the park close by kept giving me stink-eye glances, but they didn't chase me away.
Since my almost daily rides for the last sixteen days, I have seen the lock-down become tighter and tighter. Today there are people manning key locations to keep people away or shoo them along. Nobody is lingering anywhere, everyone moving. I packed a lunch but damn if I could even find a place to sit down and eat! In a very remote corner of Mission Bay, a table had my name on it, and I spent a couple hours eating and writing letters.
But the ever-tightening closure is not looking as interesting now; it's starting to feel creepy. I wanted to get home and stop venturing out on the bike any more.
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Hello God?
Me: Hello God?
God: Always here ya know! Please, call me Shekinah. (Goddess)
Me: OK Shekinah. I have a few pandemic questions. Do you have a minute?
Shekinah: Oh. Maybe you should talk to Adonai. He has a lot of experience with plagues, knows 'em inside and out.
Me: Can I just ask you since you're here? And besides, I'm a little afraid of Adonai, seems like his temper is over the top sometimes.
Shekinah: Ha! Well maybe you haven't appreciated his great sense of humor, and he is quite loving in the end. But I understand, he can sometimes come off as a scorched-earth-badass!
Me: So I'm just wondering what's the plan with this pandemic? Can you give me an idea of where we are headed? Lots of people are suffering terribly you know.
Shekinah: Well Joseph wasn't a happy camper in the slave-trader's pit. But how else could he get to be Pharaohs right hand man, and save the starving Jews?!
Me: So there's going to be a good outcome? What can we expect?
Shekinah: The outcome is up to you. We're co-creators remember! You've been given a chance to stop, consider, and make new choices. Hurdling off a climate cliff is not cool.
Me: Climate Cliff??
Shekinah: Of course. Covid is only to help you deal with the climate crisis. How else could the whole world be made to stop, consider options, and make changes? Humankind hasn't been able to stop the train-wreck on its own, ya know. A little intercession became the only option.
Me: …So you sent us Covid!
Shekinah: Well Covid, however terrible, is not the real enemy! The real enemy does not come from the outside, but from within. The enemy is not the virus….but your response to the virus.
Me: And America is the poster child for bungling the response!
Shekinah: Indeed. How have you been doing in America caring for the needs of the most vulnerable in your midst. That's your job you know.
Me: Well Covid is making most of us vulnerable, even the wealthy.
Shekinah: Let the President and his friends protect the wealthy, the least vulnerable. You protect the poor, the sick, the homeless, the refugees.
Me: Oy vey, tall order.
Shekinah: Humankind will either have to accept a world of division and scarcity…or…imagine a world of oneness, justice, compassion and love.
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Covid and Climate Crisis
If we are 'all in this together' for Covid, we must be 'all in this together' for the climate crisis! Covid will eventually pass away; the climate crisis is at or beyond several tipping points, feedback loops that scientist say will spiral out of control. Imagine if the medical personnel in NYC decided to stand down in the battle against Covid because they noticed that other areas were not doing as much. "Why should we have to suffer the personal hardships that are required to fight here, while you are lax over there, and will undoubtedly spread more virus to us later as a result!"
That translates to, "Why should we curb fossil fuels in America when they are building coal plants over there? Why should our economy suffer? Everyone's carbon is pouring into the same air, land and sea that comprises the blue planet where we all live. Some would point to a leak in our planetary lifeboat, and dismiss it because it's at the other end of the boat. But Covid is teaching us that we must work together…or sink. If Covid is an "all hands on deck" moment for the world, how much more so should it be for climate change? The stakes are far greater when talking about the climate crisis.
The great pandemic "pause" (to use Governor Andrew Cuomo's terminology) may be a blessing in disguise. Rabbi calls it the Great Shabbat. Seems like everything is up for consideration now. I am holding out for a shift in human consciousness…one that will allow us to create governments and businesses and systems and communities that will serve everyone best. As Bernie Sanders said yesterday announcing his non-candidacy, his core beliefs are healthcare justice, economic justice, racial justice, environmental justice…and the understanding that we are all in this together. None of that happens without a shift in collective human consciousness. Covid is providing the opportunity to "reset" many of our institutions and systems, an opportunity that won't come along again soon. Maybe they'll reset for better; maybe they'll reset for worse. I'm acting as though it will be the former! Tikkun Olam!
cyclequestusa	Uncategorized	Leave a comment April 9, 2020
Teaching the 10 plagues when we're in one. Passover and Pandemic Milestones.
Quiet out on the coast highway
Last night was the first day of Passover. This year many seder services normally held at home were conducted via internet. For the grandchildren…and us adults…its quite a moment to learn about the ten plagues while in the midst of one! Of course, the most significant teaching from Passover is the transition from slavery to freedom. Seldom talked about though, are the slaves who stayed in Egypt, fearful of joining those leaving into the unknown. Yes they were slaves, but at least it seemed like a secure "job". I think we have more than a few like this today. CovidWorld is creating new choices to be free.
A month ago pandemic awareness really began to ramp up in the USA among the general population. In the last three weeks sixteen million Americans have applied for unemployment benefits. The economy is contracting dramatically. Meanwhile, essential services like medical care, food, medications and transportation continue to operate, with accommodations.
Unemployment numbers aside, two other events mark this point in the pandemic as it unfolds: Bernie Sanders dropped out presidential contention and John Prine died of complications from Covid.
John Prine (1947 – 2020)
John Prine has been described as the Mark Twain of American singer/songwriters. I agree. Blue collar, rooted in Kentucky and suburban Chicago, army veteran and mailman, his songs cut right through any layers of social strata to speak to deeper truths within us all. We saw him perform a couple times with Bonnie Raitt.
I've listened to his last album, "Tree of Forgiveness" regularly over the last couple years, but yesterday I listened with "new ears" knowing he's just died. WOW. Every song delivered a fresh punch. Some were downright prophetic. Perhaps he set us up, putting out songs that would play like messages from the other side once he crossed over. ("When I Get to Heaven", "God Only Knows", and "Summer's End" with its plaintive refrain, "…just come on home.")
The album title is from the song When I Get to Heaven in which Prine describes getting back into show business once he reaches heaven, and opening a club called, "The Tree of Forgiveness". He invites a "few choice critics, those syphilitic parasitics", and offers them a beer. Yes, he could turn a phrase. I think he's hit upon the thing that the world is silently crying out for; the thing we need to gain higher consciousness, the thing that squeezes the heart and sticks in the throat: forgiveness. We need a big "truth & reconciliation" process, followed by forgiveness. RIP John Prine. Please open that club…and send some invitations our way. Amen.
https://youtu.be/OaDGYFNmt
"What Mean 'WE' Kimosabe?" ( Tonto to the Lone Ranger with Indians on the left, right, front and back.)
The catchphrase being thrown around everywhere these days is, "We are all in this together!" It's true and always has been. When potable water comes out of the tap, when the electric light turns on, when food shows up at the store…our complete dependency on one another is obvious. But CovidWorld has taken this to a new level. I am responsible for your health and you are responsible for my health. Our connectedness and vulnerability to one another is clear and becoming more apparent every day.
But I can't help but wonder about the people who ask the tough questions:
Are we all in this together when you claim healthcare is not a human right? Are we all in this together as you (federal government executive branch) are in court right now trying to have the Affordable Care Act entirely scrapped? Are we together, waiting six hours in line to vote? Have we all been in this together since 2009 when the minimum wage was last adjusted? Have we all been in this together as we imprison people (mostly minorities) at ten times the rate of any other countries? Have we all been in this together watching vast numbers of our children living in poverty? Are we all together drinking toxic water and breathing polluted air? Are we all in this together when the income gap grows and homelessness abounds? Will CovidWorld change our thinking about any of these issues?
"We're all in this together," during the bad times. In "good times"…not so much.
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On the bike ride, approaching Colorado and enduring Kansas (least-liked of the ten states we traversed), Mom had a stroke and was hospitalized. Her right side was paralyzed, and I began considering how I might leave the ride and fly home. At ninety-five years old, I figured this would be the start of a quick decline and probable death. She had been living at home with a daytime caregiver; now everything was up in the air.
Mom had been receiving postcards from the road on a quasi-daily basis, and we talked by phone several times a week. I could create a postcard on my smartphone with a photo and short message and it would be printed and sent by Postagram. On a phone call before the stroke I shared my anticipation to reach the great Rocky Mountains very soon after more than forty days on the road. She suddenly sounded wistful and said, "Do you remember that song, 'When It's Springtime in the Rockies' ?" She had a little singsong in her voice like maybe she fell in love listening to this song once upon a time.
Later I googled the song and learned it had been popularized by Gene Autry, the "singing cowboy". Really hokey listening. The version that I came to love, the version that I put on my phone and played for days on end, the version played directly to my hearing aids as I pedaled away the hours, was one in the Smithsonian archives. It was an interview with "Leadbelly". He told about how he learned of the song and then broke into his rendition. Something about the raw naked simplicity of his plunky guitar springing to life under his hand, something about his transition from speaking to singing, something about the soulful voice seasoned by a lifetime, and the lyrical image of coming home just shot like an arrow right to my heart. Tears flowed easily while drinking in the awesome beauty of "Springtime in the Rockies" playing out before my eyes…and ears!
LeadBelly recording…
https://music.apple.com/us/album/springtime-in-the-rockies/951247083?i=951247248
I thought about Mom and started composing her eulogy. Mom stabilized and came home; I abandoned the eulogy and continued on to Wyoming, the most beautiful state of the trip. Mom turned 97 in November.
The whole mishpucha celebrated Clarie's 97th birthday. Mariachi's sang Happy Birthday and Mom is shown talking to her niece, Susan.
I just got off the phone with Mom. She's at a new level of weakness today, not able to walk but can shuffle around with the aid of a caregiver on each side. The three days spent at the hospital last week with aspiration pneumonia and sepsis took its toll. Hoag Hospital did not allow any visitation while she was there and now back at home, doctor's orders say no visitation whatsoever! Yette, her devoted primary caregiver, told me in so many words that the isolation is an emotional drag on Mom. She's losing her will to persevere as she has done for the last 22 months since the stroke. She gamely did her PT, she gamely did her OT, she gamely started using her left hand! And she would still get nicely dressed with hair/makeup/earrings for the rotating visits from her three sons and occasional others. Now she might be right at the stage of becoming bedridden. And no visitation.
The immediate family shared a Zoom call with Mom yesterday afternoon, not her peak time but it was what we could all manage. To my hospice-eye, Mom seemed to be in early transition to "active dying". The unspoken understanding on the session was that this could be a final conversation. This is certainly not the way I ever imagined it would be after more than a decade of hospice volunteering and after hosting a dozen "Death Cafes". The pandemic has meant people dying alone, no final goodbyes and no chance for family and friends to grieve together. Our practices surrounding death and dying have been shredded. Stricken without warning. Surely one of the learnings from CovidWorld will be a re-examination of our relationship to death and dying. It's painful and it's long overdue but our humanity will be greatly enhanced by the process. Love will grow.
PANDEMIC ~ APRIL, 2020 ~ CALIFORNIA
I have not posted in this blog since August of 2018 when my TransAm bike ride ended in Oregon after 4200 miles of pedaling. After letting the experience marinate for the better part of two years, and with the sudden rise of the CovidWorld, it's time!
What was learned from riding coast-to-coast is just now coming into focus. It was not for nothing that I took a ride of such length and scope, having never done any self-contained bike touring before. Yes, I put myself through this experience…an experience I called a "quest"; but the lessons weren't readily apparent at the end. There was only the idea that I had taken on a big challenge and ended up doing it. The more profound underlying lessons have taken time to emerge. And perhaps the pandemic has served to focus the mind. Please join me as I document the unfolding pandemic and integrate my learning from the ride in the posts that will follow.
Where do I start? It's the great pandemic of 2020. Twenty-four days ago Barbara and I drove to a timeshare in Napa with plans to visit friends and family in nearby San Francisco. We had heard about Covid-19 of course, but we felt like we'd be low risk to catch it since we were not getting on a plane or using public transportation.
Quarryhill Botanical Gardens, Sonoma County
In Napa everything was wide open, no closures, wineries and restaurants filled, lots of people walking the downtown streets at night. We joined them. So much for delusions of "low risk". Napa was beautiful in the early spring, lush and green from plentiful rains and the rolling vineyards pruned bare. I'd arrived with a cough that I'd had for weeks but it suddenly worsened.
One by one our planned visits got cancelled as a result of creeping Covid and my uncontrolled coughing. Barbara suggested we head home and see a doctor. We left the San Francisco Bay the same day a cruise ship with 24 Covid-positive passengers docked in Oakland after negotiating with authorities for days. This is the ship Trump famously wanted to reject so they wouldn't make his numbers look bad.
My doctor had just switched to telephone visits due to Covid precautions, so I had a phone appointment while driving home and started antibiotics the next day. A few days later I was diagnosed with pneumonia, presumably the good ole-fashioned bacterial kind. They DID test me for Covid-19 however, and it came back negative after five days.
The severity of the pandemic dawned on us in stages. Six counties in San Francisco issued "shelter-in-place" orders just as we left. Within days, additional Bay area counties started issuing similar orders and a couple days after that the governor made the policy state wide. Suddenly we were "sheltering in place" but taking liberties such as seeing the children and grandchildren. Then the parks were closed, the trails were closed, the beaches were closed. The WHO declared an official "pandemic" and the wild ride of CovidWorld suddenly began.
On cable TV, the hapless president was desperately trying everything in his playbook to deal with the pandemic: denial, spin, blame-shift, deflect, attack the media, roll out a conspiracy theory, bluster and bombast, alternative facts…everything that has worked for him throughout his life. But Covid is having none of it. The president stands naked, exposed as a malignant narcissist, unable to summon up genuine empathy, seemingly unable to connect with his heart, alone with nobody he can trust, and so fearful. And totally incompetent as a crisis manager.
If CovidWorld becomes overwhelming, maybe there's a chance the president will have a "come to Jesus" moment and be struck by the light of love. Maybe we will witness the Scrooge storyline play out, with a tiny virus serving as Trump's ghost. Maybe he will appear on TV in tears, repenting, asking forgiveness, offering amends…a profoundly changed man. Or maybe not.
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The president is only a bit player in CovidWorld. Covid has brought the whole world to it's knees. Rabbi asks,
"To what question is the coronavirus the answer? The implication, of course, is that the virus has something to teach us — collectively and individually." Indeed.
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The video! 2018 TransAm
Here is a link to a 22 minute video produced by Robert Kissinger
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Sisters, Oregon
Seven volcanic peaks of the Cascade Range usually stunningly snow-capped in the view from this tourist resort town are obscured by hazy skies. Smoke from various fires, twenty- three burning in Oregon according to the cook at the cafe this morning.
We have ridden hard and long in the West. And it's been hot. It's been a full-time job to take care of camp set-up and take-down every day, get hydrated, get calories, shower and do laundry and…oh yeah…get a good nights sleep. It takes a very focused effort to go day after day.
I'm looking back at the photos that never made it to this blog as we traversed Montana and Idaho. Here are ones you might enjoy.
This is Earthquake Lake just north of the town of West Yellowstone. It was formed over the course of a few weeks in 1959 after a massive Earthquake caused a landslide that blocked the Madison River….overnight.
The maps don't always tell the whole story. Here's our intrepid leader Wally emerging from a "unexpected road collapse" we encountered on the route.
Waiting for our cooks to finish shopping and divvy up the food to carry to camp, Steven grabs a nap. He can go to sleep anywhere!
Shoe tree next to the road. No explanation!
Marijuana farm in eastern Oregon. Saw two that day.
Fire area under repair from fire a year ago near the Mackenzie Pass.
Lava fields at the top of the Mackenzie Pass as seen from atop the "observatory" built by the CCC during the depression.
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At its recent AGM , Chairperson Pat Lennon welcomed new Non Executive board member, Sean Staunton.
North & East Housing Association has been involved in social housing provision for some 25 years and currently own/manage over 450 properties in the North and Eastern regions of the country. We are committed to the delivery of high quality housing management services. We now have an opportunity for an experienced Manager to join our existing team within our Dublin office. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in the development of a Tenant Engagement Strategy, the implementation of our new Housing Management system and the delivery of high quality housing services.
The children from Ardmore, Bettystown & An Chearnog in Dundalk came out in great numbers for our Easter events.
Spring has finally arrived, the evenings are getting longer and lots of events are coming up in North & East communities beginning with An Chearnóg in Dundalk.


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The Lumber Yard is going to need some work, from the simple stuff like the fence and foundations all the way up to the safety equipment.
That means a four stage standard build and one upgrade stage that's used for each tree.
As usual we'll see a mix of requests, crafting and homestead drops. Some items are repeated later so keep an eye ahead so you migth be able to pick up some extras!


James Van Der Beek shares powerful message about miscarriages. Watch the report on Action News at 4:30 p.m. on September 10, 2018.
Van Der Beek and his wife welcomed their fifth baby over the summer. But he says over the past three years they've also lost three babies.
He says the word "miscarriage" in an insidious way suggests fault for the mother, as if she dropped something or failed to "carry," and that we need to remove the idea of blame.
Many can relate as, he says, this is a pain - it will tear you open like nothing else on levels deeper than you may have ever experienced.
And he says when it comes to judging, parents often do this to themselves during this time of grief.
He says we need a new word, a new name for this life-altering experience that is more common than we often hear about.
In fact, one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage.


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Contrary to popular opinion, there is no populist upsurge in Britain
Taken how often we use the term, we need to be more accurate in who/what we call populist, writes Luke March. In this analysis he defines the term and explains why, despite what is often said, there is no populist upsurge in the UK.
It has become a standard cliché that populism, like communism before it, is the 'spectre' haunting Europe. There is allegedly a populist Zeitgeist, and politicians of right and left, of fringe and mainstream, from Le Pen to Macron and Mélenchon, Trump to Sanders, appear to evidence a populist surge. Britain also appears at the forefront of this surge, with the rise of UKIP and its role in Brexit, and new forms of 'left populism', from the Greens to Ed Miliband and now Jeremy Corbyn. Apparently, we are all populists.
But is populism really so ubiquitous? Does it really unite politicians across the political spectrum? While analysts have noted that populism is 'chameleonic' and adaptable, they have also noted a tendency for the term to be bandied about indiscriminately. If the concept is so promiscuous, is it still in any way useful?
My recent study shows that, providing we use accurate definitions and measurement techniques, populism remains a revealing and useful term. However, at least in the British case, populism is far less omnipresent than often assumed: it exists on the fringes of the party system for sure, but its use by mainstream parties is at best fleeting, and generally seems to exhibit demoticism (closeness to the ordinary people), which is necessary but not sufficient for populism. Many observers who find populism are arguably seeing demoticism instead.
In this study, I analysed the manifestos of key left- and right-wing parties in Westminster and Scottish elections from 1999-2015, comparing the mainstream (Labour and the Conservatives) and the allegedly populist parties (Respect and the Scottish Socialist Party [SSP], UKIP and the British National Party [BNP]). The Scottish focus was chosen to maximise data, because the SSP was (once, before an acrimonious and tawdry split), one of Europe's better performing populist radical left parties.
A profusion of techniques for measuring populism have emerged in recent years. These can be criticised for replicating the problem they claim to solve, i.e. instead of helping accurately identify populism, they end up arguing that populism is a matter of degree, and because they provide only an aggregate populism score, they don't sufficiently focus on how populism and mainstream parties differ.
In order to obviate such criticisms, I adapted one of the most robust content analysis schemes originated by Matthijs Rooduijn and Teun Pauwels. I made it more fine-grained and discerning, by focussing on sentences, not paragraphs, and added a category (popular sovereignty), so that three populist sub-components were examined (people-centrism, anti-elitism, and popular sovereignty). This makes my schema match more closely one of the most influential definitions of populism in the literature: 'a thin-centered ideology that considers society to be ultimately separated into two homogeneous and antagonistic groups, 'the pure people' and 'the corrupt elite', and which argues that politics should be an expression of the volonté générale (general will) of the people'. I also examined the party manifestos in-depth, to avoid relying simply on numerical data for questions requiring nuanced interpretation.
The analysis results (Figure 1) show the utility of breaking populism into components rather than relying on aggregate populism scores, as do many other scales. So doing is not especially revealing, and even misleading – after all, the overall scores of some populist and mainstream parties are little different. The table clearly shows that the populist parties score consistently and (mostly) equally across each of the three core populist components, whereas the mainstream parties scores load very heavily on the people-centrism scale, with low popular sovereignty scores and negligible anti-elitism scores.
The scale proves accurate in showing that only the supposedly populist parties truly fulfil the full ideological definition of populism. Focussing on the results over time further indicates that there is no real upsurge of populism – the only consistent increase is in the people-centrism scores of the mainstream parties. All in all, evidence for a British populist Zeitgeist is meagre, although demotic rhetoric is increasingly evident.
A more detailed focus on the manifestos reinforces this. It indicates that: 1) only the allegedly populist parties have a detailed, coherent populist critique which consistently attacks a range of elites (political, economic, international) and focuses on measures designed to empower a broad homogeneous people; and 2) left and right populisms are not substantially similar, but are clearly distinguishable by the nature of their core ideology. That is, they attack different elites (economic vs. cultural), have different conceptions of the people (more inclusive and pluralist for the left, more exclusive [against immigrants] and monocultural for the right). In other words, their populism has little substantive content separate from the parties' core ideological positions.
In contrast, the mainstream parties' focus on popular sovereignty and (in particular) anti-elitism is very fleeting, vague, and tokenistic (e.g. providing more accessible public services, or attacking 'remote politicians'). But their people-centrism is ubiquitous – they repeatedly speak in the name of the people to emphasise common projects (the 2010 Conservative claim that 'we are all in this together' is typical).
This indicates that, in the UK, apart from the obvious electoral rise of UKIP (until its dramatic collapse in the 2017 elections), there is no real populist upsurge. There are populist parties to the left and right of the party system, but their fundamental programmatic differences make them hardly examples of the same phenomenon. The 'populism' of the mainstream parties exists only in a handful of vague phrases, but for the most part, such parties are demotic, which is arguably mainly a product of catch-all parties operating in a majoritarian party system than any consistent mainstream populism.
At first glance, such findings seem counterintuitive given the Brexit referendum. Focussing on party manifestos certainly doesn't exclude that populism is a major feature of some of the British press or that it is used periodically by individual politicians (e.g. Michael Gove's attack on experts, or Theresa May's post-Brexit insistence on fulfilling the 'will of the people'). Yet, it does show how the UK party system acts to confine genuine populism to the fringes. In this respect, the populism associated with Brexit is arguably far more a product of the referendum campaign than anything whose prior rise made the referendum inevitable.
Certainly, the 2017 election campaign shows more continuity than change, not least because of the demise of UKIP and the Conservatives' un-populist (and unpopular) campaign. Although Jeremy Corbyn is often portrayed as a left-wing populist, the 2017 Labour Manifesto contains only a handful of invocations against the 'rigged system', and its central slogan ('For the Many not the Few') is authentically Blairite. So seeing Corbyn as a populist is, at best, a half-truth.
As a consequence, we clearly need to be more accurate and judicious in who/what we call populist, especially by noting substantial left/right differences, and distinguishing populism from demoticism. Manifestly, populism works as a general category, but like the similar term 'Euroscepticism', it is not always particularly revealing. To define, observe, clarify, and delimit populism further does not necessarily mean that it is an unimportant term; it is merely to note that it is often the most observable, but not necessarily the most significant, of several concurrent phenomena. For instance, the central campaign slogan of the victorious Leave campaign, 'Take Back Control' was evidently populist (seizing control from remote EU elites) but equally, and perhaps even more importantly, it was demotic (emphasising individual, community and national empowerment and sovereignty). This explains why it was so effective at the time. Certainly, subsuming all such elements beneath the catch-all label of populism threatens to oversimplify and obscure, rather than illuminate.
Luke March is Professor of Post-Soviet and Comparative Politics and Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Centre at the University of Edinburgh.
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Ian Deloford says:
I have taken a look at a couple of definitions of populism, and have my own ideas of what it means. A common mistake, I believe is to forget people are somewhat flawed and therefore the ideal political system needs to take this into account. For me populism is denying that. I believe populism is exhibited by those who without giving a full explanation, say, "The political system is bad. Vote against it. Therefore you will be better off." And when the electorate believe that they are responding in a populist way. Some of those human flaws exhibited by voters include responding more to emotions than reason and evidence. Another flaw is to be bored by detail. The democratic process can be hijacked by skilful use of these weaknesses, as illustrated by Trump and brexit.
I had to do a double-take. Jeremy Corbyn -Blairite??? Labour not 'populist'? Surely, the foundation of the Labour party is exactly, and proudly, 'populist'? 19th-century Britain had a two-party system that represented inherited wealth on the one side and a philosophy of free trade on the other. Neither was seen as having any legitimacy for the bulk of the recently enfranchised population, who founded and funded their own – the Labour party. With the exception of the Blairite project, the ethos that founded the party has sustained it throughout the following century: it is distrustful of the vested interests of elite minorities, it sees itself as representing the 'real' people of the country, and it believes that the legitimacy of government lies in its popular mandate.
On the right, UKIP may have SEEN itself as populist, but the collapse of its vote after the Conservatives declared Brexit 'irreversible' could, more properly, be interpreted as evidence that the public's support was for that one issue, and not for any comprehensive 'populist' agenda.
Dipper says:
"ideology that considers society to be ultimately separated into two homogeneous and antagonistic groups, 'the pure people' and 'the corrupt elite'"
This is very clearly the stated view of Corbyn and his main supporters such as McDonnell, and also of supporting newspapers such as the Guardian. Corbyn makes statements that people should be punished, hence assuming the roles of prosecutor, judge, and jury. In this aspect he is very Trump-like in his politics.
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Davinder Singh was removed from Pulwama 2 months before the attack: J&K police officers after the Congressional charge
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New Delhi: Amid a war of words between Congress and the BJP about the alleged role of Jammu and Kashmir DSP Davinder Singh in the Pulwama terrorist attack, authorities have clarified that Singh moved out of Pulwama a couple of months before the attack in February in the CRPF convoy.
Police sources in the Valley told CNN-News18 that Singh was transferred to the anti-kidnapping unit and sent to Srinagar airport at the end of 2018. "It was the DSP of the armed guards of the Pulwama DAR district. It was not part of the Special Operations Group. At the end of 2018, he was transferred from Pulwama to the airport, "an official said. The Special Operations Group is the counterinsurgency unit of the Jammu and Kashmir Police.
Congress leader in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary, questioned the role of the DSP in the Pulwama attack and claimed that "the crack in the armor is exposed in the Valley."
"If #DavindarSingh had been Davindar khan by default, the reaction of the RSS troll regiment would have been more strident and vociferous. The enemies of our country should be condemned regardless of Color, Creed and Religion (sic), "he tweeted.
He also told CNN-News18 that a "new look" was needed in the suicide attack in Pulwama in which 44 Central Reserve Police (CRPF) personnel died in Jammu and Kashmir when a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle which carried more than 100 kg of explosives. In his bus.
"A full investigation is needed and, if necessary, Singh's name should be added to the list of the defendants," Chowdhary told CNN-News18.
Government sources, however, dismissed the accusations. Senior officials said the Pulwama attack was carried out by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed, while Davinder was transporting Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists.
"There is nothing to suggest any insider information in the Pulwama case. Pulwama's attack was carried out by JEM and was accepted by Mufti Asgar (the team's launch commander) in his speech," a source said.
"After Pulwama, India gave evidence to Pakistan and the international community. It was because of Indian evidence that Pakistan was forced to close some of its training centers and is struggling to exit the FATF, "said an official, referring to Pakistan being included in the gray list of terrorist financing surveillance.
Officials added that it was "the success of the security apparatus that a Dy SP on duty was arrested and charged with terrorism."
Singh was arrested on Saturday after police intercepted his vehicle and found two militants, Naveed Babu aka Babar Azam, a Nazneenpora resident in the Shopian district of South Kashmir and his associate Asif Ahmad, to Chandigarh for providing them with accommodation there during a couple of month.
Five grenades were seized from the vehicle and raids in the police house later led to the recovery of an AK-47 rifle, two guns and two grenades, in addition to thousands of rupees.
Naveed Babu was wanted by police for the murder of 11 civilians, including migrant workers, truck drivers and fruit merchants, after the repeal of article 370 of the Constitution in August.
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Temporary residence permits in Kosovo extended
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has issued a decision easing the administrative requirements for foreign residents in Kosovo to extend their residence permits in the country, citing complications in the application process caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Foreigners living in Kosovo whose residence permits expired after 24 March will be able to extend their legal residence through simplified procedures, Shaban Guda, the Director of the Border Department of the Kosovo Police has told BIRN.
For those who have been unable to reapply for their temporary residence permit as a result of the closure of public institutions in March, said Guda, their residence cards will continue to be valid.
According to the decision which was taken from previous Kurti led government, those with ID cards that expired after 24 March will be able to cross Kosovo borders provided they present identity documents necessary for border crossings, such as a passport or ID card. However, it is still necessary for individuals whose permits have expired to apply for continued residence if they wish to re-enter Kosovo.
Provided they can present a certificate issued by the MIA evidencing the fact that they have applied for an extension to their residence permit, they will be able to re-enter the country after crossing the border. This rule will apply until the government takes a follow-up decision, Guda stated.
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I'm planning to get as much use as I can out of the Gripping Beast plastic Arabs I painted for Ayton, which means using them for colonial games too. Yes, there are a few too many bows in evidence, but I'm not really bothered. That said, I'm adding some musket-armed figures to bring them a bit more up to date!
These are from First Corps' SYW in India range. They're a bit shiny despite 2 coasts of varnish but hey. I've used the same colour scheme as the medieval types and they should fit together OK.
I've painted, but yet to base, a further 6 plastic guys with spears, which takes me to 44 figures. I think I need another half pack from First Corps to get me to 48 (and increase the musket count), which will make a healthy total of 4 Sharp Practice groups of Wallahs.
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One of my great joys as a father is the annual tradition of playing Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. After the Christmas story is read, after the hot cider is gone, and after the last child is finally tucked away in bed, my wife and I spend a couple of hours scurrying throughout the house, producing presents from closets, from drawers, from under beds, and from places far too secret to mention here, lest my children find out.
Having performed this pleasant ritual for several years now, I have encountered more than once the maddening discovery that a special gift to one of my children lacks a part or a battery or some other accessory, something absolutely necessary for its proper functioning on Christmas morning. Sometimes I am able to make a last-minute save so the present will be complete, just the way Santa would have presented it. But I don't know if I could perform the feat of heroism that my father did one Christmas Eve when I was four years old.
That crisp Texas night, sometime after the Christmas story was read, after the hot cider was gone, and after the last child was finally tucked away in bed, my father got out his tools, began to insert bolt "A" into washer "B" and proceeded to assemble a shiny new green pedal car. The present was to be my first pre-tricycle venture onto wheels. He knew I would be excited...no more than excited. He knew I would be delirious when I climbed into the car, grabbed the steering wheel and pedaled it across our small living room on Christmas morning. The assembly job proceeded well, until he discovered the dreaded "Father's Christmas Eve Nightmare." To his horror, one of the car's wheels was missing.
I am sure that most fathers, including myself, after mumbling rude things about the kiddie car manufacturer and the store that sold it to them, would spend a few minutes rehearsing an apology to tell their children on Christmas morning and simply go to bed. The really creative ones might manufacture a "letter" from Santa promising a new wheel just as soon as he could ship it from his North Pole workshop. But few fathers would do what my dad did that Christmas Eve.
He must have been very frustrated or very caring. He was certainly very determined. Since he never drank a drop of alcohol, he was without a doubt very sober too. But sometime in the pre-dawn hours of Christmas Day, he climbed into his Studebaker sedan and drove the 10 miles to Leonard Brothers department store in downtown Fort Worth where he had bought the deficient vehicle. What he was thinking I cannot speculate, but I promise that what follows is absolutely true.
After parking on the street in front of the store, my father began to walk around the dark building, knocking on its plate glass windows and doors. After several minutes of this, and most likely risking arrest in the process, my father attracted the attention of a security guard. The guard opened a door and asked his weary visitor what he wanted. My father explained the problem. Perhaps because of my father's sincerity or his urgency, or perhaps because the guard had small children himself, the man did an amazing thing. He let my father come inside the store. Accompanying him to the toy department, the guard watched as my father rummaged around until he found a wheel that would fit the pedal car. Triumphantly returning home, my father finished assembling the miniature roadster before his children awoke.
When I think about this incident, I am amazed. I'm amazed because in our modern world where cynicism and mistrust are counted as wisdom, in our day when crime knows no holiday, a security guard nowadays would never take the chance that one had, especially in the downtown of a major city. I'm amazed that my father went to such extremes. But one thing that amazes me even more than how times have changed or how determined my father was, is that my father never told me. When he died nine years after this took place, he took his secret with him. My mother didn't tell me about it until more than twenty years after the fact. Most dads, and I include myself, wouldn't be able to resist bragging to their kids about how they "saved Christmas." But not him. He didn't need the praise; he didn't want the applause. And he had already earned the respect of his children in other ways. Apparently the only reward he sought and the only one he required was my blissful and ecstatic smile on Christmas morning when I found my new car under the tree, its green paint glimmering in the multi-colored tree lights, with every single piece in place.
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MST – Problem Sexual Behaviour
We are looking for an enthusiastic, flexible professional who wants to work in a specialist nationally unique community service for adolescents with problem sexual behaviour and their families
MST PSB (Multi-Systemic Therapy for Problem Sexual Behaviour) is a clinical adaptation of MST that has been specifically designed and developed to treat young people aged 10-17 with problem or harmful sexual behaviour, that puts them at risk of an out-of-home placement. The model represents a state-of-the-art, evidence based practice to address the multiple determinants underlying problem sexual behaviour in young people. The programme provides intensive home-based family interventions and also draws on models of parent training, cognitive behavioural therapy and social skills building to focus on the aspects of the young person's ecology that are related to the harmful sexual behaviour.
We welcome applications from clinical psychologists, registered mental health nurses, social workers and family therapists to join our team as a MST-PSB Therapist. Applicants should have significant experience in working directly with young people and families, using a range of evidence-based models, including systemic, CBT and behavioural approaches. The service takes referrals from within Cambridgeshire, and neighbouring local authorities, and appointments take place in family's own homes; as such, being a car driver is an essential component of the post. The service also offers a 24/7 on-call service to families, and you would be expected to contribute to this. You will be enrolled on a five-day training course for MST, plus additional training related to the PSB role.
The service within Cambridgeshire has been running for over six years, and the team has extensive experience in working with this client group. You can expect to develop your therapeutic skills in working with families, and in applying interventions that target the multiple drivers to harmful sexual behaviour, under the guidance of your supervisor and MST consultant. You will be part of an energetic team, who are committed to achieving positive life outcomes for the young people that we work with.
Family Psychology Mutual. Two MST teams have spun out from the Local Authority to become a non-profit social enterprise which is owned by the staff, who are all shareholders. We have an initial 3-year contract that funds the MST PSB team, with spot-purchasing from other neighbouring authorities. The post holder will be employed by Family Psychology Mutual. Access to the NHS pension scheme is being negotiated for eligible applicants. This is an exciting time of development with new opportunities for the company to expand to other Evidence Based Practices, and we have already set up a Functional Family Therapy Team in London. There will be some contractual meetings with relevant commissioners. The team is based in a newly acquired office building in Huntingdon.
Enquiries should be directed to Shonagh Slattery, MST PSB Supervisor, on 07914 670262 or Sarah Reeves, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, MST Programme Manager on 07914 670260.
Please see our website for a full job description and application form. http://fpmcic.com/workforus.php
Closing date: Midday 30th July
Interview dates: 9th August 2018
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