Three health and social care agencies have joined forces to provide liaison and diversion services aimed at supporting those going through the criminal justice system who require mental health or learning disability support.
Existing providers mental health and learning disability Trust, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV), alongside new partners, Humankind and Spectrum Community Health CIC, were successful in their bid to provide liaison and diversion services across County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, as well as being awarded a new contract in North Yorkshire.
The all age liaison and diversion services, offer assessment, advice and support for people who have come into contact with the criminal justice system and are experiencing mental health problems or have a learning disability. They also support staff within the criminal justice system with advice and signposting.
The services are commissioned by NHS England and aim to improve health outcomes of individuals going through the criminal justice system, by identifying vulnerabilities early and ensuring the right support is put in place for people. Through appropriate support measures being put in place or people being directed to alternative appropriate services, the new liaison and diversion service also aims to reduce re-offending.
Ted Haughey, Executive Director of Operations North East and North Yorkshire at Humankind, added "Liaison and diversion is a critical service working with some very vulnerable people who have multiple and complex needs.


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The recent Radio 4 revamp involved heavyweight market research to discover audience attitudes to the station. Michele Witthaus looks at the methods used, before and after the launch.
By Marketing Week	 9 Oct 1997 12:00 am
At the end of July, Radio 4 listeners could have been forgiven for looking downcast. "Cheer up, it may never happen," would, however, have been the wrong thing to say. It was indeed going to happen, in April 1998 to be precise – "it" being a massive shake-up in Radio 4's programming.
"Spindoctors take knife to healthy Radio 4," trumpeted The Times when the changes were announced. The Daily Mail stated flatly: "Radio 4 has decided to marginalise – and antagonise – some of its most loyal listeners."
Other media response was less hysterical. The Independent called the new-look Radio 4 "a station for all generations", and The Guardian referred to an "aborted revolution", saying that the changes were "mostly modest and sensible". Even Radio Times praised the attention to detail in the process.
According to James Boyle, controller of Radio 4, the proposed changes do not amount to a relaunch of the station.
"People were led to expect that it was going to result in the dumping of a large number of popular programmes. The changes we are proposing to make are of a different sort altogether. It's about rearrangement and doing things that will improve the dynamics of the station."
The term "dumbing down" was used by opponents of the changes, but Boyle is dismissive of it.
"It was a phrase that was bandied about before we made the announcement. There's no question of anything like that. I don't even use the phrase."
David Bunker, research analyst for Radio 4, implemented various measures to study audience attitudes prior to the station revamp. The main tool was Radio Joint Audience Research (Rajar), administered by RSL (Research Services Limited) on behalf of the whole radio industry to measure radio audiences and listening behaviour.
In addition, Radio 4 used a time use survey called Daily Life, carried out by research company RSGB on behalf of the BBC generally.
Bunker explains: "At this stage, it was purely quantitative. It allowed us to put hypotheses forward such as why some programmes are doing really well while others are not. At news times, for example, Radio 4 gets a very high share of the audience. The problem is that away from these news peaks the audience drops dramatically.
"The period at 9am is an important junction for Radio 4. We found that people were leaving and going to other stations."
Information on the image of Radio 4 was supplied through a tracking study conducted by Norwood Brown which looked at the image of the station among different groups in the population.
Bunker notes: "A worrying thing is that, while among its listeners it has a very high profile, outside the core listenership, people are vague about what Radio 4 actually is. There tend to be misconceptions that it's all about politics or plays. Even among quite keen listeners, some people say it's too much hard work and too snobbish."
While the research was in process, Radio 4 also interviewed small groups of producers and editors throughout the UK. There were also consultations with groups like the National Viewers & Listeners Association, the RNIB, disability groups and the Consumer Council.
Alison Lyon is managing director at Counterpoint, the company Radio 4 used to conduct qualitative studies on the data it sourced. She was commissioned to research each of the day parts: mornings, afternoons, evenings, Saturdays and Sundays. Groups of respondents were selected through a network of market research recruiters to offer a fair reflection of opinion in the various regions.
By helping respondents reconstruct their activities and moods at various times of the day, Counterpoint identified a range of listening types which it defined as planners, addicts, dippers and flickers.
Lyon explains: "The planners don't want any change at all. They are willing to concentrate a lot of effort into radio listening. Trying to make more of the schedule suit younger people's lifestyles was anathema to them. They found it very difficult to accept that the nature of radio listening was changing and felt that research that talked to non-listeners was pretty dodgy.
"The addicts tend to work from home or listen while doing tasks. They love the tone of Radio 4 and it's on all the time. They see it as an intelligent companion with a sense of humour. They were much happier about the changes.
"The biggest group of listeners is the dippers, who love Radio 4, but feel it asks too much of them too often. They loved the idea of the station making itself more modern, so long as the intelligent speech element was maintained.
"Flickers have a very low tolerance: if something is not interesting they just flick channels. Push-button radio has made them very promiscuous."
An additional type consisted of people who seemed to be in awe of Radio 4. Most of them were slightly younger than members of the other groups, and Lyon says that although they said they would like to be Radio 4 listeners, they found the station rather elitist.
Each group interviewed created an ideal schedule for the day part in question, and these ideas were fed into the analysis.
"We identified cornerstone programmes which respondents asked us not to touch. The planners (a minority of Radio 4 listeners overall) were particularly reassured to see those cornerstones still there."
Hypothetical schedule changes were drawn up and tinkered with to meet listener requirements.
A new method of commissioning was also instituted, with five new commissioning editors, each controlling a different part of the day.
By the time the final schedule changes were publicised, Radio 4 was on full alert to cope with audience response. About 20,000 people received listener packs after phoning in for more details.
Bunker remarks: "People are very happy to be kept informed. One of the big criticisms in the past was that Radio 4 would do something and there didn't seem to be any reason for it."
Boyle says an Impacon survey shows that public perception of the changes has been positive.
"When we made the announcements, we knew that we had spoken to the right people and got the right information. We still have a communication exercise to do, however, and we want to make sure people anticipate the changes with pleasure, looking forward to them rather than fearing them."
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Review: A Fantastic Woman was one of the best of the Berlinale
Sebastián Lelio's A Fantastic Woman follows a grieving transgender widow who fights for her right to be respectfully treated as a person in mourning. Read our interview with Lelio about the film.
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Until very recently, transgender characters remained in the margins of mainstream cinema and TV, often depicted as ugly caricatures while relegated to a bit part, best friend character, or grossly insensitive punchline. By contrast, films like Sean Baker's Tangerine (2015) and the TV show Transparent (2014–) have embraced transgender characters as leads. Such instances remain so rare that the choice to tell their stories at all is still perceived as a political act. Nevertheless, the presence of transgender characters in media is more than merely a political statement or something confrontational and transgressive. For true equality, it's important to treat transgender characters as people who aren't entirely defined by their gender.
Read more: Writer-director Sean Baker talks Tangerine >>
This is not, of course, to deny the specificity of their experience. Sebastián Lelio's A Fantastic Woman, a favourite of this year's Berlinale competition, at first seems to be downplaying its lead character's gender identity. It's almost as if the film were attenuating this still rather uncommon trait in a lead character to avoid scaring off skittish audiences. Yet in the end, A Fantastic Woman proves a subtle and poignant statement on what we accept as 'normal'.
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Transgender actress Daniela Vega plays Marina Vidal, a transgender woman who is in a conventional heterosexual relationship. The film opens with a commonplace ritual: Marina and her partner, Orlando (Francisco Reyes), celebrate her birthday with a present, a big cake, and a serenade at a nice restaurant. Orlando and Marina live together in a lovely flat: they are the picture of domestic bliss in the most cliched, archetypal sense.
That Orlando is old enough to be Marina's father does not function as a narrative device only — his death by aneurysm is what sends Marina's life spiraling down and triggers the film's narrative. It is also a nod to changing mores: once a taboo, being with a much younger woman is now relatively destigmatized, even an enviable situation for many aging men. However, that Marina can be both the cliche of the younger girlfriend, and a transgender woman, knocks down the entire house of cards of current cultural mores. Her relationship with Orlando establishes a new 'normal' where one can simultaneously be transgender and in a conventional heterosexual relationship.
Read more: Director Alexandra Therese-Keining talks Girls Lost and gender performance >>
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Marina's gender identity inevitably turns her relationship with Orlando into a powerful statement against oppressive values. Yet this political aspect of their relationship — the way it is defined by the outside world — is not the focus of the film. Instead, Lelio makes a point of letting us experience it as natural, seamless and unstigmatized, from the insider perspective of two people who simply love each other. Rather than focusing on Marina being transgender, the opening of the film is all about showing Orlando's desire and affection for her. A series of close ups continuously highlight the way he longingly looks at her in every scene.
Yet when Orlando dies, Marina's gender identity is suddenly brought to the fore as the film's topic, when others start to treat her like a "freak". Lelio's film follows her as she resists those who try to reduce her to her gender identity and fights for her right to be respectfully treated as a person in mourning.
A FANTASTIC WOMAN reveals how institutions can turn against the people they are meant to protect.Click To Tweet
Scenes of confrontation between Marina and the various transphobic people she meets reveal how institutions can enforce oppressive values and turn against the people they are meant to protect. As soon as her partner dies, doctors imply that Marina was somehow responsible. Taken aback by this transphobic hostility minutes after she has just lost her lover, Marina flees the hospital. Her reaction should not be surprising to anyone with even the slightest conception of the hostility that transgender people are still subjected to. Yet even the police turn against her, having the audacity to claim that they are just following normal procedure when it is painfully obvious that they are gleefully acting on prejudice.
Read more: Francis Lee discusses his Sundance Directing Prize Winner God's Own Country >>
Whether she is forced to endure an unnecessary physical exam to satisfy a doctor's curiosity, or confronted with the open hostility of Orlando's family, Marina remains quiet and dignified. When Orlando's ex-wife tells her that she is a 'chimera', or when Orlando's brother calls her a "faggot", Marina never once replies with the obvious: an explanation about how she feels better that way, and they should respect her choice. She doesn't feel compelled to explain herself to anyone. Yet her silence is not submission, but rather a sign of the respect she has for herself.
Marina has constructed her life around a few havens of peace.Click To Tweet
Instead of wasting her time seeking the acceptance of those who should not need persuading, Marina has constructed her life around a few havens of peace. By simply showing her categorically refusing to engage with transphobic people, even when she really wants to, Lelio subtly hints at a the whole history of his character. This self-control, and the casual way in which she drops by the places of a select group of friends, show just how much time she has spent fine-tuning her survival strategies and finding safe spaces —which can be scarce in the city of Santiago, Chile.
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The scenes where Marina is faced with hateful people are all the more powerful, maddening and unsettling because like them, Marina espouses a decidedly conventional lifestyle. Were these people to accept Marina's choice to transition — to accept her for who she is — they just might find they have quite a lot in common with her. However, the main difference between these two opposing views is not so much physical as it is moral. Unlike Orlando's family, the policewoman, and the hospital staff, Marina knows and accepts that no gender, sexual orientation, or lifestyle is 'normal'. Rather, they are all constructs: aspects of identity which are all as unique as people are, with as many variations to them as there are individual experiences.
Marina refuses to be a victim of transphobia and rejects the role of the mourning widow.Click To Tweet
Marina's adoption of a normal heterosexual lifestyle is not an effort on Lelio's part to make his character more familiar or less 'scary' to a cis-audience. If anything, it makes Marina less likeable to those like Orlando's family. Faced with a person who once had the body of a man yet is now living as a heterosexual woman, they are forced to realise that heterosexual roles are not in fact innate or 'normal', but highly flexible constructs. A sequence that shows Marina in a gay club, giving a blow job to a stranger then dreaming of herself in a sparkly outfit vogueing with the crowd, strongly suggests that she once led a very different life. This did not prevent her from later settling down with Orlando and choosing a lifestyle remarkably similar to those around her.
Marina only sheds a few tears when Orlando dies, a heartbreaking early sign of the strength she has had to develop in the face of unfathomable adversity. It also shows her clear-mindedness and independence. Just as she refuses to be a victim of transphobia, Marina rejects the role of the mourning woman that society expects her to adopt. She is not a tragic character whose existence was entirely defined by a man. She fights to see Orlando one last time not because of some romantic, monogamous notion of being bound forever, but to say goodbye to her partner so that she can move on with her life. Lelio's profoundly sensitive film does not end with Marina's pain, but with Marina trusting herself even more than before, singing opera on stage to an audience for the first time. It is an uplifting ending which foregrounds Marina's journey towards the happiness she deserves rather than the bigotry of the world around her.
Read our interview with Lelio about the film >>
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# Getting started with Cognitive APIs on IBM G-Cloud

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Your application must have authorization credentials to be able to use the Cognitive APIs. Those credentials need to be send in the HTTP header of each request to the API to identify the application and provide access.

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## Prerequisites

To be able to login to the Cognitive APIs Developer Portal a valid IBM ID is required. This should be the same one as you use to login to IBM Bluemix.

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## Create an account on the Developer Portal

Goto the [Cognitive API's Developer Portal](https://cognitive-apis-g-cloud-dev.developer.eu.apiconnect.ibmcloud.com/).

On the top right corner select `Login` to login with your IBM ID.

After your first login with an IBM ID the portal will ask for your Developer Organization's name. This can be your company name, the name of your university or any other name.

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## Obtain authorization credentials

In the Developer Portal select `Apps` from the main menu and then select `Register new App` on the upcoming page.

Enter a title for your application and submit the form.

![Register Application](./images/Screenshot_DevPortal_RegisterApp.png?raw=true)

In the upcoming screen the Developer Portal shows your Client-Key and Client-Secret. Take a note of both keys - The Client Secret which is displayed in the green box in the top will only be shown once to you. You'll need the keys later when requesting the API.

![Client Key & Client Secret](./images/Screenshot_DevPortal_Secrets.png?raw=true)

## Subscribe APIs

After you've created an application you can subscribe it to the [Cognitive APIs](https://cognitive-apis-g-cloud-dev.developer.eu.apiconnect.ibmcloud.com/node/115). To do so, select `API Products` from the Developer Portal's main menu. Then select `gcloud-services 1.0.2` from the list of API products.

Finally subscribe to the `IBM Hackathon 2016 - Hamburg` plan by clicking the 'Subscribe' button and selecting your application in the upcoming popup dialog.

![Subscribe to Plan](./images/Screenshot_DevPortal_Subscribe.png?raw=true)

Your application is now entitled to use the APIs with a maximum of 5 requests/ minute.

See [How to use Cognitive APIs](./howto.md) guide to see how the APIs are used.

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V.Churkin: As you know we at the Security Council have been following the situation in Ukraine very closely and, of course, this is one of the priorities of the Russian Presidency in the Security Council. Over the past two weeks Russia introduced two draft resolutions on the situation in Ukraine focusing on both humanitarian and political aspects of the situation. We are continuing to work actively on trying to produce a resolution that could be supported by the Security Council . In this context we had expert consultations on our second draft and decided to come up with an updated draft, quite extensively revised, in some way combining some components of two drafts and also taking into account the comments which were made by colleagues. Some of them in the course of our discussions said that they needed to have more information about the situation, particularly in the crisis area in Eastern Ukraine. In order to provide that information we invited Ms.Valerie Amos, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Coordination, to brief the Council which she did by teleconference from Geneva. We had a discussion of the humanitarian situation in Eastern Ukraine, but also addressing some political aspects of the situation. To begin with I'll say a few words about the humanitarian aspect of the situation in my national capacity of course.
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Over the last few days a hospital and a maternity ward were hit by artillery in the city of Slavyansk. A nurse was killed. Fortunately the mothers and newborns had already been evacuated.
In Semionovka, three private houses were destroyed by incendiary munitions, a mine hit the Central hospital, in Khimik, apartment buildings were hit. Yesterday, the city of Amvrosievka in the Donetsk region was attacked by the "Grad" rocket system, which resulted in the destruction of 23 houses, a hospital, and a kindergarten. In Gorlovka, the airforce attacked the local self-defense headquarters with cluster munitions. Buses with children evacuated from the war zone are being targeted.
It is of particular concern that Ukrainian forces use unguided munitions and inhumane weapons. There is video footage that shows that incendiary phosphorus-containing ordnance was used by the Ukrainian air force against the town of Semionovka in Donetsk region, which may be qualified as a war crime.
Indiscriminate attacks on civilian facilities take a heavy toll on the population. Over the last few days, hundreds of people, including children, were killed in and around the cities of Lugansk and Slavyansk.
For ten days there is no water supply in the cities of Kramatorsk, Slavyansk and Druzhkovka, and in the villages of the Volnovakha area. Civilian water supply facilities and energy infrastructure are deliberately targeted. According to ICRC, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk urgently need medical assistance.
In a number of cities of Eastern Ukraine, the Kiev authorities have deliberately stopped the payment of social allowances, thus targeting the most vulnerable populations – old-age retirees, persons with disabilities.
Thousands of civilians flee Ukraine to escape indiscriminate use of force by the Ukrainian armed units.
195 temporary shelters have been set up in the territory of the Russian Federation that currently house 7860 Ukrainian citizens. Yesterday alone, 13.5 thousand people crossed the border to the Rostov region of Russia. The total number of refugees who have stayed in Russia at their relatives' homes or in temporary shelters over the last ten days reached 60 thousand people, and more than 100 thousand people crossed the border into Russia. 15 thousand fled Slavyansk alone.
Systematic kidnapping and torture of journalists continues. And not only Russian journalists. The standard practice is to make them kneel, threatening with guns, putting bags on their head, and beating them up. The captors from the "Right Sector" threatened to kill the journalists of TV channel "Zvezda" and demanded a ransom of 200 thousand dollars from their relatives.
Now about the attack on the Russian Embassy in Kiev that took place the day before yesterday. Explosives and smoke grenades were thrown at the building, which endangered Russian diplomats. One group demonstrated the preparation for the assault on the building. The Ukrainian law enforcers did nothing about this outrageous situation. The police have simply left the scene, while the Minister of Interior calmly watched from a safe distance. This is a gross violation of the international obligations of Ukraine.
We are disappointed that the Security Council colleagues have failed to support the statement condemning the attack on the Russian Embassy, notwithstanding the fact that Russia has always expressed its support to colleagues from other countries in similar situations.
Over the past few days, much attention was drawn to the loss of the IL-76 Ukrainian Air Force transport aircraft and the servicemen it carried. The feelings of the bereaved families are understandable. But one must not forget that those men were sent to the epicenter of armed confrontation started by the Kiev authorities themselves. It should be noted that Kiev declared that on that day over 50 members of self-defense forces were killed while no condolences to their families were voiced in Kiev, though all of them are Ukrainian citizens.
We believe that in these circumstances the first thing to do is to put an end to the violence.
I must just add two things. First of all many members of the Security Council expressed regret that the SC did not condemn the attack on the Russian Embassy in Kiev. Secondly, and quite importantly, is that many members of the Council and also V.Amos believed that some political action from the SC was necessary under these circumstances. Not just to further energize the humanitarian operation but also to help move the political process forward. In the spirit of all this, we produced an updated draft and we explained the changes to our colleagues and we will be continuing the work at a rapid pace.
Q: Ambassador, do you have enough support to your draft resolution? And one question on Iraq. The Council is united on Iraq. How it could be translated into action?
V.Churkin: We continue working on the resolution, we will see what consultations tomorrow would show. Obviously, one of the reasons for the changes we have made is to try to get as much support for the text as possible. On Iraq. If there are some initiatives to raise Iraq in the Council, of course we are going to do that.
Q: Mr. Ambassador, two follow-up questions to what you said. Could you give us an idea of a major changes that you have made in the new draft and in terms of what the Council is going to be able to do or wasn't able to do on the attack on the Russian Embassy in Kiev. Could you tell us who is blocking it? You said that there was a lot of Council support, who is blocking this?
V.Churkin: The Statement was blocked by the Lithuanian delegation. As to the draft resolution it's a larger text, longer than the previous ones. We have incorporated a number of wishes by the Council members for reference to international law, a number of changes with regard to the direction of the efforts of OSCE, the interrelationship between what UN Secretary-General could do and OSCE is doing, references to some fundamental principles of international law like sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity. We believe that we did our best in order to make it a balanced text which can attract support from various members of the Security Council.
Q: On the embassy attack, the UN Secretariat hasn't put out a statement. I wondered whether you think that is strange to be that they haven't? Today at the noon briefing they were asked did they have any statement on the Vienna Convention and there has been no statement. I wanted to ask about that. And also, president Poroshenko said he may propose a cease fire but only after the border is secured. What Russia thinks of that?
V.Churkin: One the first one, I'm actually a little bit surprised that the Secretary‑General did not make that statement I hope it was simply because the Secretary-General was travelling. But I will double check, because it is our understanding that whenever we have such a situation the Secretary-General should come on the side of international law and that has been a practice in the past. On Poroshenko, unfortunately a number of statements that first president-elect Poroshenko than president Poroshenko was making were not implemented in practice. There are a number of versions of his initiatives but unfortunately so far the violence continues. We heard a statement yesterday that the Ukrainian forces started counteroffensive I don't know if there was any offensive on the part of the people that are fighting in Luhansk and Donetsk regions. It is a confusing picture of signals. One thing is clear - the military activity continues. Death and destruction also continue.
Q: Is Russia considering to send help to these regions?
V.Churkin: We are helping them. Minister Lavrov addressed this issue when speaking to the Secretary General of the OSCE. People are coming across the border, taking humanitarian assistance and bringing it home. We tried to work it out with Ukrainian authorities; we sent them an official note in late May. They replied negatively in an official note. We found ways and means to deliver the humanitarian assistance to the people in need.
Q: Yesterday France condemned the attack against Russian Embassy. Why the Security Council didn't do it? Did something changed for you when A.Deshchytsia insulted President Putin?
V.Churkin: The Security Council has a rule that the statements must be adopted by consensus. And the Lithuanian delegation said "no". Today the French ambassador said that it was a mistake and the attack should be condemned as it is in their yesterday's statement. Clearly the Lithuanian delegation didn't behave in the best tradition of the Security Council. As to Mr. Deshchytsia – he does not exist for us anymore. Anyway, his only function was to translate American instructions into Ukrainian. So it's not much of a loss…
Q:What did Valery Amos told you about humanitarian situation?
V.Churkin: On the basis of the information that she had V.Amos gave a rather comprehensive assessment of the situation. We've been successful in energizing the participation of various international organizations. The Red Cross is visibly on the ground. We are clearly ready to cooperate with various humanitarian agencies to the extent we can. Much will depend on the Ukrainian Government, on its cooperation. This is certainly not enough in order to visibly and tangibly improve the situation but at least the humanitarian agencies and various actors got to realize the gravity of the situation and the need for them to get in.
Q: You've just mentioned that Russia found ways to bring the humanitarian aid in Ukraine. Do you think that message should be taken by the UN for Syria?
V.Churkin: They could. But the people who could conceivably have done it keep asking questions.
Q: The situation in Iraq is deteriorating rapidly. Is this still on the agenda?
V.Churkin: It is still on the agenda. We now have a completely new dimension of the threat in the Middle East. We have mothly discussion of the situation in the Middle East. The next meeting is planned for the 24th of June. We'll have a briefing from Mr.Serry, UN special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. But we would like to add a briefing of the Secretariat in a closed session. We are used to considering things country by country: Syria, Iraq, Yemen. But some members of theSecurity Council have different attitudes to different terrorists depending on where they are fighting. It seems to be ok in Iraq and is not ok in Syria. But now we see the situation when the same terrorist group ISIL is challenging both Damascus and Bagdad, conducting this unparalleled campaign in Iraq. Clearly there is a flow of terrorists coming into the Middle East. I think we need to get very seriously into this problem and see what we can do as the Security Council, as the international community in order to deal with this threat, because the terrorists apparently they do not have the same kind of logic, they do not recognize borders and they fight governments no matter what the attitude of various countries to them could be.
Q: Mr.Simonovic's report on human rights in Ukraine, is it going to be presented in the Council …?
V.Churkin: We have not decided yet. We will see the report and then will see what needs to be done with it, because actually it was not supposed to be a report to the Security Council, it just came out and then some countries suggested that we should discuss it. We have of course a very clear vested interest in that report, because among other things we were promised that that report would include a clear account of the efforts which have been undertaken by the United Nations to investigate the May 2 massacre in Odessa. We will see what it delivers.
Q: Ambassador, how do you explain all the resistance to your measure here? Today you attempted to get a statement condemning the attack against the embassy in Kiev, why such resistance to what you are trying to achieve? And where do you want to take it from here?
V.Churkin: We are surprised ourselves, because we think what we are trying to do is so positive. But some countries tend to condone everything which is being done by the Kiev authorities and this is very unfortunate – that creates all sorts of problems politically and otherwise.
Q: On Syria, are you getting any closer to a deal on aid access resolution?
V.Churkin: Those are private discussions. I think we are continuing good private discussions in various formats and we are moving on. I personally hope very much that deal can be accomplished. We have come with some interesting suggestions about how it can be done. If people are interested in opening new crossings across the border of Syria and some neighboring countries - it can be done. It remains to be seen whether this interest is genuine or it's something which is aimed at creating a chain of events which we are not going to accept. But pragmatically speaking I think we are making good progress.
Q: Is Saudi Arabia still subscribing to this small influential groups that are operating about Syria?
V.Churkin: I have to be careful about that because our initial impression was that they were prepared to come to the table. But then I don't quite understand what happened, because later we heard from The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) that they were postponing this plan to meet to late August. This kind of a leisurely pace of meetings to me is quite surprising. I don't know what the reason for that might be.
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Knowledge is vital in order to prevent these sorts of mishaps from occurring. In an effort to educate children about the dangers of guns and prevent further accidents from occurring, police officers have begun to incorporate preventative information on the subject into Safety Town sessions and through the National Rifle Association's Eddie Eagle program. They have also reached out to educating adults on responsible gun storage through groups such as Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense.
"Stop, don't touch, leave the area and tell an adult," has become a common phrase being shouted as a response when children attending Safety Town sessions are asked what they should do when they encounter a fire arm somewhere in their home. This message is straight forward and simple enough for young children to understand while providing vital steps for them to follow at the same time.
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National leaders in public transportation and environmental sustainability will gather in Seattle from July 29-31, 2007 as King County Metro and Sound Transit co-host the American Public Transportation Association's third annual Sustainability and Public Transportation Workshop.
The conference is the premier event on best practices in sustainable public transportation. Attendees will gather at Seattle's Grand Hyatt Hotel to attend seminars on how public transportation can lessen environmental impacts; promote sustainable land use strategies; and other topics that show public transportation as an industry leading the fight against global warming.
Scheduled speakers include Sims, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, as well as Sound Transit CEO Joni Earl and Metro Transit General manager Kevin Desmond. U.S. Representative Jay Inslee, (D-Wash.) will be the keynote speaker for the opening reception on Sunday, July 29th at 6p.m.
Opportunities being offered to conference attendees include: touring Sound Transit's Link light rail construction to learn about its sustainable features; riding the Sounder commuter rail; touring King County's new LEED certified Transit Communications and Control Center; riding a Washington State ferry from Seattle to Bainbridge Island; and visiting the Imperial Renewables biodiesel plant.
Seattle is well suited to host this national conference devoted to exploring sustainable public transportation solutions. King County Metro, which provides over 100 million passenger trips a year, is recognized as being one of the greenest transit agencies in North America. It operates the largest vanpool program and articulated hybrid bus fleet in the nation and powers that fleet with a 20 percent blend of biodiesel. It's also the first transit agency in the nation to join the Chicago Climate Exchange, North America's only voluntary carbon reduction and trading system.
Sound Transit has been incorporating sustainable features into its light rail, commuter rail, express bus and HOV improvements throughout the central Puget Sound region. It recently bolstered its commitment to being an environmental leader by launching a comprehensive and ambitious Sustainability Initiative that integrates sustainable business practices throughout the organization. It addresses a broad range of topics from design to operations, including fuel use, energy and water conservation, low-impact development, green purchasing, waste prevention, and more.
APTA has designed the conference with a broad range of topics that can benefit anyone with an interest in sustainability. Transit board members and transit system chief executive officers are encouraged to attend, as well as professionals in planning, operations, engineering and capital construction, individuals who promote sustainable development and livable communities, and suppliers and consultants interested in providing "green" services.
Public registration for the conference is available through the APTA website at http://www.apta.com/conferences_calendar/sustainable/ or by calling the APTA offices in Washington, DC at (202) 496-4800.


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Spain prepares pardons for Catalan separatists
by Nikola Kiš
Brussels (Brussels Morning) Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, is preparing pardons for leaders of the Catalan independence movement, who were jailed in 2017.
According to several government sources, the Spanish Cabinet is to make the move in late June or early July, El País reported on Monday.
The Supreme Court found nine defendants guilty of sedition and sentenced them to up to 13 years in prison. It has been three and half years since the authorities jailed the politicians and activists in question.
Besides working on the pardons, Sánchez has announced plans to restart negotiations with the regional government on the future of Catalonia.
The pardon document should be approved after the Ministry of Justice, the Cabinet and the Deputy Prime Minister's Office ensure that it is legally watertight and that it cannot be struck down by opponents in court.
The Cabinet is preparing arguments focused on public interest, fairness and justice, noting that pardons should help to ease tensions in Catalonia, which is in the general interest of Spain.
Last week, the Supreme Court rejected any pardons for Catalan separatists, which the government saw as an intrusion into the political sphere and claimed overstepped judicial authority.
Legally watertight document
As part of efforts to make the case legally watertight, the government is planning to place limitations on the pardons so that they can be reversed if necessary.
Moreover, the pardons would be conditional since independence leaders are likely to be barred from holding political office. Also, it is probable that their sentences will be reduced so that they can be released from prison.
Opposition and the Supreme Court stress that the Catalan separatists did not express remorse, which is not a legal requirement for pardons, and cite too the fact that they expressed preparedness to do it again.
Former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party indicated the decision to issue pardons "will be understood a lot better within a few months and even more so in a few years".
"These are things that a Prime Minister has to do, whatever the cost," he observed.
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Cheers in Honor of New York's Cocktail Culture King!
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Check out the Paloma at Little Branch.
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DO NOT TOUCH
Jeppe Hein has also felt the pain and has made an art installment meant completely for touching and interacting with called, Please Touch The Art."
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Friday's Featured Cocktail: St Bernardus
Welcome to Vol de Nuit! One of the best Belgian beer bars in the city, although they als serve some wines and champagnes.
August 14, 2015 / Christi Scofield/ /Source
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Get Your Happy Hour Money's Worth!
We all love happy hour, yes? Well, today is all about the best places in the city to find happy hour 2-for-1's!
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Friday's Featured Cocktail: The Yellowbury
As someone who tried this just last night, it looks so refreshing that I would like ten more, please!
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Oh, How Sweet Revenge Can Be...
Ever thought about enjoying a delicious cupcake with a nice glass of wine?
July 28, 2015 / Christi Scofield/ /Source
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Friday's Feature Cocktail: Pale Belgian Amber Ale
PALM Ale! Found at Arts and Crafts Bar , the same one we reviewed this week! What a perfect drink to celebrate National Belgian day with (Well, it was on Tuesday... but shh!)! PALM ale has been one of the top selling beers in Europe for a long, long time. The moment you take your first sip, you'll completely understand why! It's made with English hops, French barley, and Belgian yeast, representing only the best of European beer making traditions. Surprisingly, it's not a heavy beer, which one would assume based off of the color, but it's actually very light. PALM Ale is a great alternative to traditional pilsners and lagers if you're looking to try something new. So finish that stack of paperwork and head out to Arts and Crafts Beer Parlor and have a taste!
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Fridays Featured Cocktail: Kalimotxo
The Kalimotxo- red wine mixed with Coca-Cola or white wine mixed with Sprite. Best served on the rocks. We found this gem in the east village at a Basque inspired Spanish restaurant called Huertas. This drink is very popular in Basque culture. It has a very unique flavor, so if you're feeling adventurous or have to find a wine to drink red wine without it being too dry, this is your best bet.
According to their website, "The name Huertas translates to orchards, or small gardens. These orchards dominate the landscape of northern Spain".
One of the things this restaurant is known best for though, is their hot dogs window. Hot dogs made with chistorra sausage, a variety of pork sausage seasoned with paprika. These things are mouth watering and delicious. So start your weekend right and go check out Huertas, grab a Kalimotxo and a dog and pig out.
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Blind Tiger Ale House: Cask Beer Vs. Regular Beer
The Blind Tiger Ale House is one of the best beers bars we've found in all of NYC with over 50 different bottled beers, 28 beers on tap, and some great wine. However, they're very known for their cask beers, which aren't easy to find in the city. Cask beer AKA 'real ale,' is unfiltered and unpasteurized, brewed from only traditional ingredients and is able to mature naturally, but it still contains live yeast. This is definitely not even close to your average beer. It's served nice and cool while being hand pumped into the glass instead of from a keg. Back to the bar, it's spacious yet has a very cozy feeling. There's great options of drink and food, including the grilled cheese. The bartenders are all very friendly and are willing to help find that perfect tasting beer just for you. Located at 281 Bleeker St, it's open every day from 11:30am to 4am.
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Friday's Featured Cocktail: Hell-Or-High-Watermelon
Hey everyone, TGIF! So this week our featured cocktail is actually a beer, but a very in season one at that. As everyone is still nursing their hangovers from the fourth of July, others would rather choose to take "The Hair of The Dog" path. Well, this refreshing beer is a great way to do so!
Hell-Or-High-Watermelon is a wheat beer that is very light in its looks and its taste. The first sip you take leaves you feeling like you just bit into a fresh piece of watermelon, but without the seeds! Not much to complain about there, right? It's crisp and refreshing while not being as filling as a regular beer, which leaves you plenty of room to drink more!
This beer can be found at The Writing Room on the Upper East Side, The Well in Williamsburg, or even as a six pack at your local bodega.
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Is This Tea or Is This...?
Happy Tipsy Tuesday! Thirsty? Just imagine how the people during the Prohibition felt! They were probably desperate for some libations. So much so that along with the Prohibition came the introduction of Speakeasies. If you've downloaded our app, hopefully you'll understand why we're giving you this little history lesson.
The Tea Room in the village, owned by Henry and June Miller was one of the many speakeasies found in New York City. This one in particular was located in the basement of their home at 106 Perry St. in what is now known as the west village. It opened in September of 1925 but was out of business around December of that same year. Unfortunately, the not-so-happy couple drank all their profits. Seems they were pretty thirsty as well.
Cool, right? Well if you're itching to learn more about tea rooms or have worked up a thirst yourself, download our app from iTunes! We all know that there's tons of stuff to learn about NYC, but learning is always better with a few drinks along the way!
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Friday's Featured Cocktail: Mario Batali's "Red Beer"
March 27, 2015 / Christi Scofield
Today's featured cocktail is one of Mario Batali's favorite "hydration beverages," as he recently described it in the New York Times Magazine. The Red Beer:
Put two ice cubes in a highball glass.
Add 4 shakes of Tabasco, 1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce, and 3 ounces of V8 juice.
Squeeze in half a lime.
Fill the glass with a cold pilsner beer.
Shake some saltinto the foamy head.
Finally, as Mario says, "Commence hydration."
Two more great quotes from Mario:
"Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant." -- Mario Batali
"I really want to be a rock star." -- Mario Batali
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Friday's Featured Cocktail: Gallia Paris
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Brewed in Paris from 1890 until 1968, Parisians mourned when the Gallia brewery closed. After all, Gallia Paris was once the city's ubiquitous brew. It won the gold medal at the Paris World Fair in 1900 and its brewery in the 14th arrondissement was the largest in the capital.
Enter two 20-something entrepreneurs, who, with the backing of the original brewer's family, resurrected Gallia Paris in 2010. Today, Gallia is once again available across Paris, on draft at bars and from retailers like Monoprix, Lafayette Gourmet and LaGrand Épicerie du Bon Marché.
Gallia Paris is a lager-style beer, 5.5% ABV and well-balanced. We look forward to its arrival in the US, but for now we must be content to enjoy it France and the U.K.
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Curiosity & Cocktails at Old Town's Paradiso
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Walking along King Street in Old Town, Alexandria, you might notice a fairly non-descript pizza place called Paradiso. It's one of many restaurants and bars in Old Town. But inside you'll find much more than excellent pizza, a Zagat favorite. Paradiso is not only a pizzeria, but if you look closely at the sign you'll see it's also a birreria, with an amazing selection of hard-to-find brews.
How extensive is Paradiso's selection? On the beer list you'll find over 200 bottles, a traditional British cask ale, and 14 always-changing options on tap.
During our recent visit we tried several options under the guidance of Paradiso's talented beer expert, Matt. We were impressed to see Unibrou Éphémère on the list, too.
The good news is one need not venture to Old Town to enjoy Paradiso's delicious pizzas and incredible beer selection. Paradiso has locations in both Dupont Circle and Georgetown, as well.
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Friday's Featured Cocktail: Moonshine!
Today's featured cocktail comes to us from Wisconsin, where a Cocktails & Curiosities fan spotted Junior Johnson's Midnight Moonshine at a local liquor store. We admit we haven't tasted the 'shine, but we're fascinated nonetheless. We hope a C & C fan who has tried the concoction will send us a review.
Here's what we know from the website:
"Junior Johnson's Midnight Moon follows the Johnson family's moonshine recipe. Every batch is handcrafted in very small batches, made from corn and born in a copper still. Midnight Moon is triple distilled to deliver an ultra-smooth, clean-tasting spirit that is often preferred over the world's best vodkas."
In addition to plain 'shine, the Johnson family also infuses their moonshine with fruit: "Apple Pie, Cherry, Strawberry, Blueberry & Cranberry age in the mason jar for several weeks, to ensure each bottle reaches the peak of all-natural fruit flavor before it leaves the distillery."
If you've sampled Junior Johnson's Midnight Moonshine, please drop us a line. We'd love to hear your opinion. You can comment below or on our Cocktails & Curiosities Facebook page.
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Friday's Featured Cocktail: The Spotted Pig Bitter
February 13, 2015 / Christi Scofield
Made exclusively for the Spotted Pig and the Breslin by the Brooklyn Brewery, the Spotted Pig Bitter is a cask-conditioned ale hand-pumped from the cellar up to the bar. The Spotted Pig Bitter tastes like a classic English bitter, grainy and very drinkable. Because it's a cask ale, its carbonation is very light and natural (unlike keg beer, which is pressurized and forcefully carbonated with CO2).
Cask ales, also known as "real ales," are neither pasteurized nor filtered. They must be served fresh and, therefore, are usually found close to the brewery from which they originate.
Like most all real ales, the Spotted Pig Bitter is best enjoyed at cellar temperature, and it's a perfect complement to the delicious burgers served at both the Breslin and the Spotted Pig in Manhattan, just a few miles from the Brooklyn Brewery.
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Friday's Featured Cocktail: Gulder Lager from Nigeria
January 30, 2015 / Christi Scofield
Gulder at Buka
Today's Friday Featured Cocktail originates in Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, on the east coast. Gulder, a delicious and refreshing lager, was first brewed in 1970 shortly after the government of Nigeria banned the importation of beer. It's 5% ABV and served in 625 ml (big) bottles.
We got a kick out of the honest labeling: Gulder is "made from premium barley, quality hops and clean water ...." Clean water. Good to know.
We tried Gulder at Buka, a Nigerian restaurant & bar in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn. If you live in NYC or plan to visit, and looking for a bit of adventure, then consider lunch or dinner at Buka.
Our group of six tried just about everything on the menu, from the spicy goat to the fish to the fried beef, and with the exception of the unbelievably tough land snails, we truly enjoyed it all. A word of caution to those of delicate constitution: Nigerian cuisine is SPICY. But when you wash it down with Gulder, it's all good!
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The John Daly: Your perfect summer cocktail
We spent the weekend in the Hamptons where we were reminded that the John Daly is the perfect summer cocktail. If you haven't tried it, you'll find the simple recipe HERE.
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Friday's Featured Cocktail: Ram's Gate Wines
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Last week we visited the newRam's Gate Winery in Sonoma. It's an amazing 22,000 sq. ft. space with fantastic winesand even better food & wine pairings. We enjoyed all of the wines we tasted, particularly the Pinot Noir, described as "a textbook example of 'North Coast' Pinot Noir laden with ripe cherry, sarsaparilla & juicy raspberry fruit flavors with subtle stony earth, forest floor and musk characters. The wine's mouth-feel is driven by an abundance of velour-like tannins and richness of alcohol. Backed by forest floor, mushrooms, cedar and earth."
The small plate food pairings are also excellent. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "the food experience is one of the best reasons to visit an already exceptional destination."
Easy to find on Route 121, Ram's Gate is the perfect place to start or end a day of wine tasting in Sonoma.
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Updated AI Procedure
XFins-Artificial Insemination
Artificial insemination (AI) of livebearing fishes is the collection of sperm and its introduction into a fertile female by artificial means. The advantages of using AI are numerous including:
1. Determination of male fertility;
2. Use of lyretail males as breeders;
3. Use of non-aggressive males as breeders;
4. Full time breeding of females; and
5. Interspecies hybridization.
Various procedures for AI are available on the web. My original procedure is published ("Artificial Insemination of Fishes", Livebearers: Bulletin of the ALA, #27, 1976. ). It is obviously quite old and I will try to provide an updated procedure at some point. The most important difference between my methodology and that of others is that I do not anesthetize the male nor the female during the procedure.
AI Images
In my original procedure, I used drawn out Pasteur pipettes to collect and deposit the sperm. I still use a pipet to collect the sperm, but I now deposit the sperm with a manual pipettor. The images shown here were taken in the early 1970's. Please forgive the quality of the images and my dirty fingernails.
A lyretail male is positioned on his back in a wet net.
The gonopodium is rotated several times and will then be positioned toward the front of the body (not shown here).
The abdomen is gently stroked starting from the head and the sperm packets collected.
The sperm packets are deposited on a glass slide.
Active sperm is stored in packets in the male testis. Upon insemination, these packets are stored in the female urogenital tract, often for many months. Following an appropriate signal (e.g. the female giving birth?), a new set of sperm packets release active sperm to fertilize the next set of eggs.
Sperm packets retrieved from the male will also release active sperm when the salt concentration is increased (to 0.7% NaCl). This process can be observed under the microscope, but it also can be seen by the naked eye.
A microscopic image of a sperm packet remaining intact under low salt conditions
A microscopic image of active sperm released from a sperm packet after the addition of salt.
Under low salt conditions the sperm packets can be seen by the naked eye as small, white "specks" on a clear background (not readily apparent here). When salt is added the packets break down, active sperm is released and the solution becomes uniformly cloudy.
The female is positioned on her back in a wet net.
Active sperm is injected into the females urogenital opening located between the anal fin and the anal opening. It is difficult to see here, but the solution in the pipet is not cloudy as it should be.
In my experience, AI is most successful when used within 18 hours of a female giving birth. In most cases, the vast majority of offspring are from the desired male, but this is not always the case. One tank raised wild X. helleri female gave birth to four broods of offspring exclusively derived from stored sperm rather than from the AI-delivered sperm. AI also works with virgin females, but not nearly as well.
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Multiple abstracts accepted for largest European radiotherapy and oncology conference
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A number of abstracts submitted by the radiotherapy physics department at the Royal Surrey County Hospital have bene accepted for presentation at ESTRO 38, Europe's largest radiotherapy conference with almost 5000 delegates in 2017 and has four complete days plus additional teaching workshops and symposiums prior to its official opening. There will be an oral…
Radiotherapy department has number of abstracts accepted for UKs biggest radiation oncology conference
This year abstracts have been accepted from lead authors Gail Distefano, Clara Navarro, Matt Bolt and Victoria Moore who are all members of the radiotherapy department based in St Luke's Cancer Centre at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford. The work has been accepted for presentation at the UK Imaging & Oncology (UKIO) conference. Contributions…
Christmas Jumper Day!
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E-Book Coauthored by a Staff Member in the Radiation Protection Section
An e-book titled "Guidance on the Personal Monitoring Requirements for Personnel Working in Healthcare" co-authored by Thomas Jupp (Principal Physicist in Radiation Protection) is currently available for free download by IPEM members. The authors set out recommendations designed to help radiation protection practitioners and healthcare workers assess exposure levels for personnel and determine monitoring requirements…
Doctoral Fellowship to research new lung cancer treatment
Gail Distefano, Principal Clinical Scientist at Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (RSCH), has been awarded an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship to study at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey. She will be researching a new method to treat lung cancer with radiotherapy which has received…
Royal Surrey receives quality mark for stereotactic radiotherapy
Royal Surrey County Hospital has received an international quality mark for its stereotactic radiotherapy treatment. The Trust is one of just a small number of centres in the UK to be Novalis Certified, which is a recognised standard for radiosurgery. Stereotactic radiotherapy is a cutting edge technique that can be used on inoperable tumours and…
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Royal Surrey takes delivery of 100th new radiotherapy machine
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Health Secretary launches new innovative form of radiotherapy at st lukes cancer centre
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Radiotherapy Physicists present work at UKIO national conference
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Rosetta Lee
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Faculty and Outreach Specialist
Rosetta Lee serves Seattle Girls' School in dual roles. SGS is an innovative school for junior high school girls, aiming to empower women leaders and change agents and dedicating its energies to a diverse community of students and faculty, an anti-bias mission, and an integrated curriculum. As a faculty member, Rosetta teaches science, math, technology, art, ethics, social justice, and more. As a professional outreach specialist, she designs and delivers trainings for all constituencies of the school community, as well as the local and national educational and nonprofit sectors.
Since 2004, Rosetta has been a diversity speaker and trainer on a variety of topics, including cross-cultural communication, identity development, implicit and unconscious bias, gender and sexuality diversity, facilitation skills, and bullying in schools. Rosetta has presented at numerous conferences and nonprofit organizations such as the White Privilege Conference, Junior League, and City Year. She has also worked with over 200 K–12 public and independent schools throughout the country, as well as a number of colleges and universities. She has served several years on the faculty of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) Diversity Leadership Institute, as well as NAIS's diversity think-tank cadre, Call to Action.
Rosetta has served as president on the board of directors of SMARTgirls, a director on the board of the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research (NWABR), chair of the 2006 Seattle Expanding Your Horizons Conference, co-chair of the 2006 NAIS People of Color Conference, think tank member of the 2012 NAIS Annual Conference, and as a trainer/facilitator with the National Coalition Building Institute. Rosetta is the recipient of the 2007 Outstanding Partner in Education Award from the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research and recipient of the 2005 Distinguished Teacher Award for the Washington Federation of Independent Schools.
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I share Davidson's fascination the "failure in the Industrial Age, and the clear relationship between learning failure and Taylorism and all the aspect of scientific labor management of the era." However, while studying the invention of failure and its legacy, we need to also address the fear of failure that millennial students bring to the classroom.
Today's younger students have too often been raised in environments that are overly protective. They have experienced competitive sports in which no score is kept and events where everyone gets a trophy for simply showing up. These students have lived with helicopter parents who solve difficulties for their children instead of letting their children grow into adulthood by learning from their mistakes. Unfortunately, some of these "children" are already their 20s.
Rigorous standards can be threatening to students whom have not been permitted to experience failure. As a student once told my Dean, "I don't want to think. I want Dr. Berg to tell me what he wants." This was a bright student who could have easily met the expectations of the course, but she was too afraid of failure to even risk starting out on the path to success.
If students attend class regularly and do their homework, they are essentially guaranteed a "C" in the course. I explain to students that those who attend class regularly and complete assignments cannot help but get an even higher grade than a "C" and that many (most?) of the class can earn 4.0s.
While the guaranteed 70% is comforting to students who fear failure, high expectations mean that students cannot get a trophy by simply showing up for class. Students must be present and prepared. For example, students who don't complete the required research for tomorrow's class will be permitted to participate in the discussion, but they will not earn any participation points.
Ruth Jeffrey's "Continuity Error" was a homework assignment for which she earned participation points. Statistically, this assignment was worth about 5% of the course grade, but to include such assignments as part of participation makes them less threatening to those students who fear failure.
Because I do not assign topics and instead insist that student projects grow out of broad based research, students can fear failure because they are not handed a rubric defining the specifics of their lightning talks or other major assignments. To help allay their fears, I give students a list of the 14 types of references they will be consulting. It looks like a rubric and fearful students find comfort in being able to check off each step as it is completed.
I refer to this as a false rubric because it provides comfort without providing the specific details the fearful students want; details that would get in the way of quality research.
The first research assignment is for students to look up their broad topic (e.g. the Civil War or contemporary education) in Wikipedia and to do an Internet search concerning their topic. Because Wikipedia and Google are familiar to them, students do not experience a fear of failure. By the time they are asked to consult sources not written in English, they already have a series of successfully completed assignments and have less fear when asked to do the seemingly impossible.
Last year, I launched three websites on which to publish quality student work: College History, Film Studies, and Scholarly Voices. This semester, I have already assigned essays written by previous students to my current students whose first day of class was last week. By assigning the work of previous students such as Brandon Schulz's "Civil War Medicine," current students are able to see the results of a process that they do not yet comprehend. They also learn why some Civil War soldiers glowed in the dark.
Even if they totally bomb an assignment, I assure students that the worst case scenario is that I will help them develop the skills they need to successfully revise the assignment into a successful project. The focus on revision not only lessens the fear of failure but it also supports the concepts of continuous improvement and building on success.
Ironically, as I have taken steps to lessen students' fear of failure, I have actually raised the expectations and rigor of the courses I teach. By breaking the research process into even smaller steps, I require more research than I have previously expected when I taught processes in larger chunks.
Even when classes are designed for success, some students will choose failure over engagement. Others will have events from their personal lives take an unrecoverable toll on their academic lives. Others will make bad decisions that lead to failure and (hopefully) future learning. But, as Davidson argues, we should not design our courses in such a way that guarantee that a certain percentage of our students will fail. Instead, we need to design rigorous courses in which all students could theoretically succeed.
Photo Caption: First failure of the manned Aerodrome, Potomac River, 7 October 1903.
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A colleague of mine presented the acceptance of failure today. This presentation of hers really reached out to me. I began to think, without experiencing failure we are just cutting ourselves short from success. To be successful we need to be aware that it is okay to fail, failing just gets us that much closer to succeeding. Our generation today is so terrified of the thought of failure, so we stay on a path that we know and feel comfortable in. By doing this we do not push ourselves in ways that we should be, such as trying new things. We as people should not settle, we should always be pushing ourselves. We should not fear that there is a possibility of failure; instead we should tell ourselves that it is acceptable to fail as long as we try our absolute best. If we try our best and experience new and different things that we are not used to, that is not failing. When not trying something and just giving up, that is accepting failure. This kind of failure is not acceptable. There is a big difference between giving your all and trying something new and failing; then not trying at all and just accepting failure. I could not agree more with you Dr. Berg, we should not automatically accept failure instead we should raise our standards. This is a topic that really interests me; I am going to look further into this. No one is perfect; if we didn't make mistakes in life then we would not be human. Failing is acceptable to a certain extent; the good kind of failure sets us up for success.
I agree with the false rule bricks, it helps a mind think and expand. Not having the standard rule brick shows how much one can think. The mind can take you many places. I like the concept of just showing up and doing the homework you will pass. It gets a little stress off you shoulders. At first when I was told to pick any topic you usually you think it has to do with something that relates to one thing, not in this case. With having a class set up like this it gives you room to pick anything you want to talk about. In cases with the papers you could have picked anything that you were interested in and or something you knew nothing about but you wanted to learn more. I agree with all of the things you had said in this blog. The trophy part reminds me of how nowadays if a kid is on a sport team and gets a trophy even when they were sitting and not in the game or lost the game. It doesn't give the kids the motivation to do well. It gives them an excuse to just expect good out of everything they do. In this case it can lead them to fail later and life because they were handed it instead of working for it.
In recent past months I had the experience which descirbed above. I must admit, I have been pushed hard before in the past, but in recent learning experiences, I have never been so academically challenged, I wouldn't say that I haven't been challenged like this before, but I would definitely say that I have never been this challenged and learned from it as well as I have. The two are very different but with relating intentions. I agee on the idea of not giving the students full disclosue on the homework assignment. It allows them to think for themselves and makes it so the students need to create the best work that they possible can due to the fact that they dont know what the teacher may be expecting. I call this "Relentless Expectations".


Or: what a difference good lettering makes.
The web is having fits this week because a designer named Craig Royznski decided to make an updated version of Comic Sans called Comic Neue. At this point, hating Comic Sans has become as tiresome as using Comic Sans. I think the new version is an improvement, but even though he has made it available for free, it won't solve the main problem with comic sans- namely, all the less-than-tech-savvy people who see it in a drop down menu in whichever office program came with their computer and pick it simply because it's there.
Anyway, it got me thinking about the original Comic Sans, which was based (rather loosely) on the lettering in the Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen. Curious, I decided to swap the lettering in a random panel from Watchmen, and see how both comic sans, and its newly made-over counterpart stood up to the original.
The difference between the original lettering and comic sans turned out to be more subtle than I expected. Printed small, the cutesy irregularities that make comic sans so bothersome at poster size become less noticeable. Still, you can see how much more tense and lively the original lettering is.
Even though Comic Neue looks much cleaner as a font for fliers and documents, it looks completely lifeless on a comics page. Re-designing comic sans was a PR coup for Mr. Royznski, but it has even less to do with actual comic lettering than the original.
The original lettering has a more distinct slant, which gives it movement that the packaged font lacks. When you layer them on top of each other, you can see just how subtle the difference is.
But those tiny descrepancies in shape are the difference between lettering that feels like a natural part of the story, and lettering that feels like subtitles, pasted on as an afterthought.
So download Comic Neue for your Grandmother, buy your lettering fonts at Blambot, and go read this amazing interview with Dave Gibbons.
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Comic Neue reminds me of the more mechanical-looking lettering from like the 40s & 50s -- might work OK if going for a certain retro look.


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(Sri Lanka)–Sri Lanka and the church-the two have long been reported to be at odds. Even though Christians only make up about eight-percent of the population in this predominantly Buddhist nation, their faith often draws fire from the government. However, Back To The Bible's James Kanaganayagam believes the changes they're seeing are direct answers to prayer. "Now, we're able to get onto the local FM stations to broadcast our Christian programs, which we were unable to do earlier. So, in that sense, there has been an opening over the last couple of years for us to minister greater than we did in the past." Kanaganayagam says they broadcast the Gospel message to 19-million people, but adds that growing persecution increases tensions. "While the government is still a secular government and upholds the right of all religions, there are places where there is growing opposition to the church. Because of the community, very little seems to be done to confront those who are harassing the church."
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What does the optic nerve tract contain?
Where is the optic tract have visual pathways?
in each cerebral hemisphere so it can receive signals from both eyes.
Nerve fibers from both retinae are project where?
structures in both right and left visual pathways.
How does the visual pathways receive signals?
from only one half of the visual field of each eye.
The visual pathway of the left cerebral hemisphere receive signals from where?
the right nasal visual field and vice versa.
What forms an optic nerve?
the axons of retinal ganglion cells.
The optic nerve fibers from each nasal halves of each retina do what?
cross over at the optic chiasm.
The optic nerve fibers from the temporal halves do what?
remain on the same side or ipsilateral.
The nerve fibers from nasal halves combine with fibers from opposite temporal halves of the retinae to form what?
What forms the two optic tracts?
The nerve fibers from nasal halves combine with fibers from opposite temporal halves of the retinae.
Thalamus will transport the signal to where?
What part of the brain does melanopsin perceive light?
What occurs in the occipital lobe?
What is the main role of the superior colliculus?
To react moves eyes without moving head when sounds occur.
What is known as the optic tectum?
Where is the superior colliculus located?
In the dorsal aspect of the midbrain (mesencephalon).
in the central to the two thalami.
Where is the inferior colliculus located?
located posterior to the superior colliculus.
What forms the corpora quadrigemina or tectum?
What does quadrigemina or tectum form?
The dorsal roof of the midbrain.
What causes movements of the eye towards a specific direction?
Unconscious signals transmitted from the retina directly to the superior colliculus.
oculomotor, trochlear, and abducent nerves.
What does the inferior colliculus acts as?
a relay site for neurons in the auditory pathway.
what serves as the relay nuclei?
The lateral geniculate nuclei relay signals in the optic tract to where?
to primary visual cortex (V1) via the optic radiation.
What does the lateral geniculate nuclei control?
the amount of signal transmitted to the visual cortex according to the feedback.
The signal transmitted from the lateral geniculate nuclei causes what?
feedback information from the visual cortex.
feedback information processed by the visual cortex is carried by what?
What do corticofugal fibers do?
regulate (inhibit) the actions of lateral geniculate nuclei.
Signals from the reticular formation of the midbrain inhibit what?
the actions of lateral geniculate nuclei.
What causes the visual system to focus on important signals?
The feedback information from the visual cortex and reticular formation.
The auditory system transmits signals through the lateral geniculate nuclei to do what?
directly focus visual system on source of sound.
Magnocellular M cells of the lateral geniculate nucleus do what?
receive and transmit signals from Y or M retinal ganglion cells.
Magnocellular M cells respond to what?
Rapid changes in visual image.
Magnocellular M cells transmit information about what?
black and white vision only.
Parvocellular P cells of lateral geniculate nucleus are what?
receive and transmit signals from X or P retinal ganglion cells.
The P cells transmits what?
P cells transmit fine details of what?
visual image.... accuracy of image.
What are Koniocellular K cells of lateral geniculate nucleus?
are neurochemically distinct from M and P cells.
The K cells in the two most dorsal of koniocellular layer transmit what?
low visual acuity signals to primary visual cortex.
The K cells in the middle pair layer transmit what?
signals from blue cones to color blobs in primary visual cortex.
The K cells in the ventral layers do what?
Participate in superior colliculus function.
The Y or M retinal ganglion cells precept exclusively to what structure?
to magnocellular layers of lateral geniculate nucleus.
The X or P retinal cells precept exclusively to what structure?
The K retinal ganglion cells project exclusively where?
Do not confuse M,P,or K retinal ganglion cells with what?
M,P, or K neurons of the lateral geniculate nucleus.