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5 things to talk about on the course: David Letterman, Riley Curry, and the Spin Doctors
By Alex Myers
From sports to TV to politics (OK, so mostly the first two), we offer five hot topics that are sure to liven up your round of golf:
1. David Letterman: Nearly 14 million viewers watched Dave's final time hosting "The Late Show," giving the program it's biggest TV audience since February 28, 1994. And I actually remember that show -- which will finish as Letterman's most-watched ever -- very well. Why? Because I was in sixth grade and I was allowed to stay up late to watch my favorite band, the Spin Doctors, perform.
Paul and Curry are already in State Farm commercials together, but when are Lil Chris and Riley going to team up? It's too bad they didn't appear on Letterman together. Throw in the Spin Doctors and that show could have really gotten some good ratings.
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The church's school is all geared up for the opening of classes on June 14. School staff and teachers are all busy sprucing up the whole school. I decided to revamp the pastor's office so it would blend in well with the rest of the school. I decided to paint the office in dark olive green, ecru and a shade close to avocado green. I also asked our pastor to bring out some his certificates and plaques to hang on one of the walls. I have to go back tomorrow. There are still a thousand-and-one-things to do.


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MRC, AIM Try to Discredit Media Bias Survey They Don't Agree With
Topic: Media Research Center
A Oct. 17 survey by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism found that in September, negative assessments of President Obama in the media "outweighed positive by a ratio of almost 4-1." That finding runs counter ro the right-wing meme that the "liberal media" is in the tank for Obama. So the top right-wing media watchdogs have tried to discredit it.
The Media Research Center's Rich Noyes devoted a lengthy article to countering Pew's claims, asserting there are "three major problems":
First, they didn't study what most people would consider "the media." Second, their definition of "positive" and "negative" press doesn't match what media experts consider "favorable" or "unfavorable" coverage.
And, third, the researchers didn't really even look at the stories — they let a computer (using an algorithm dubbed "Crimson Hexagon") churn through the words and determine whether an assertion was pro- or anti-Obama (or Perry, or Romney, etc.).
Noyes complains that the Pew survey, which examined "coverage and commentary on more than 11,500 news outlets. This is a bad thing, apparently:
So for a study to include 11,500 news outlets (English-language only, the report says), the researchers have cast their net so widely that their study necessarily includes a huge number of insignificant or derivative news outlets — hundreds of iterations of the same AP story on the Web sites of local TV stations, for example. Such a study design makes it impossible to discover how the candidates were covered by the relatively small number of news media outlets that reach hundreds of thousands or millions of people each day.
[Pew also separately looked at "hundreds of thousands" of blogs, which again means that the few dozen top-ranked influential blogs are buried in a mass of data that includes vast numbers of low-trafficked and irrelevant sites.]
To study the news media's effect on the campaign, researchers need to isolate the news media sources that are having the most profound effect — either at reaching the most viewers (like the big networks) or most influential at establishing a national narrative (like the New York Times or Politico). Throwing thousands of sources into one big pot — some with audiences in the millions, others reaching only a few hundred a day — just confuses the role that journalists actually have in setting the agenda and crafting a candidate's image.
Of course, this runs counter to the MRC's "research" methods, which focus almost exclusively on the three major broadcast networks and deliberately precludes any examination of Fox News, even though it's the highest-rated cable news network. But then, the MRC doesn't really care about research; it cares only about advancing a political agenda.
Noyes then complains about Pew's methodology of identifying stories as ""positive," "negative," or "neutral" because they include "horse race" assessments:
Careful researchers would avoid blurring such "horse race" statements into an overall measure of good press/bad press. Back in August, both Rick Perry's strongest supporters and his staunchest foes would agree that he was on top of the GOP preference polls — it's not "the media" pushing a biased editorial line to say so. Standard measures of "good" and "bad" press include: assessments of a candidate's personal integrity, ethics and job competence; evaluations of their policy proposals; and their capabilities as a candidate — in other words, those attributes that can make someone more or less likely to support their candidacy.
Including "horse race" assessments undoubtedly skewed the numbers in favor of Perry (who led most surveys until late September) and hurt President Obama, whose job approval ratings were on the decline. Plus, tallying overt "assertions" would also minimize the effect of daily news coverage (where the bias is usually more subtle), while boosting the effect of editorials and commentary with obvious opinions.
Our own work this campaign season shows that the national media consistently framed the debt story in a way that played to Obama's agenda, and hit Republican candidates with mainly hostile questions premised on liberal policy assumptions. In an election context, those are big favors to the Democrats that cannot be tallied on a simple "positive" or "negative" scorecard.
Again, the MRC's "research" pales in comparison to Pew's. As we've noted, the MRC's attempt to judge questions at Republican presidential debates as "conservative" or "liberal" included no definition of what those words meant in terms of methodology, no complete list of the questions and how they were categorized, and deliberately excluded questions atdebates sponsored by Fox News.
Finally, Noyes complains that Pew used a computer algorithm because "it's impossible that human researchers could cross-check even a tiny fraction of the coverage. Nearly all of the "anti-Obama" or "pro-Perry" stories were never reviewed by an actual researcher to check the context and meaning of the keywords the computer was trained to spot."
But mostly, Noyes is angry that Pew is trying to detroy the MRC's reason for existence:
The point of studying the media for potential bias is to make sure that journalists are not skewing the news before it reaches voters, so that the real decisions are in the hands of the people, not the media elites. For liberal journalists to hear that their profession is somehow skewed against President Obama can only encourage them to attempt to tilt the scales in the other direction. That's a step away from the fair and balanced journalism that we need.
Actually, the MRC cares nothing about "fair and balanced journalism"; if it did, CNSNews.com wouldn't have such a pronounced right-wing bias. Its real goal is to try and discredit the media and create openings for organizations that will uncritically promote a right-wing agenda, like Fox News.
Accuracy in Media didn't like Pew's survey either. In an Oct. 18 blog post, AIM chief Don Irvine rehashed the same objections Noyes did -- too many media outlets examined, faulty computer algorithm. Irvine concluded:
If Pew was really looking for an accurate study of how the media have covered the presidential candidates then they should have used a more focused group of the top newspapers based on circulation, news sites based on web visitors and the broadcast and cable networks, which combined are far more representative of the mainstream media than the extremely broad definition they used. But that probably would have given them far different results and defeated their intended goal of making it look like the media have been far more favorable to Republicans – even to the point of being anti-Obama — which would only serve to help the President explain his low poll numbers and other struggles as he seeks reelection.
Nice try Pew, but this report smells of liberal bias.
Of course. If Irvine doesn't agree, it must be liberal bias, right?

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'Halloween horror can get students hooked on books'
Students love horror, writes Andrew Otty. Tapping into this fixation with the fearsome can spark a love of literature
Andrew Otty
27th October 2018 at 10:02am
Autumn term is a marathon for teachers. Many of us in colleges have been back since mid-August and the height of summer, yet will finish only just in time to drive through winter-dark drizzle and fight supermarket crowds for the last remaining Christmas dinner constituents. This quick breather of the half-term break allows us to look back at how much we've already achieved and to look ahead to a further eight weeks where our late-afternoon lessons will feel increasingly like the middle of the night. Nevertheless, this is my favourite term.
The way we approach the English GCSE curriculum for our resit learners is to focus entirely on fiction for this term, so the reading and telling of stories. The stuff that made us want to be English teachers in the first place. The rhythm of autumn also provides some great opportunities for bringing joy to the classroom: the honeymoon period and getting to know your new students in September; the orange-and-black Halloween-themed Powerpoints that nobody can read in October; and then the inexorable winding up to Christmas.
I try to extend Halloween to last from day one of October to somewhere in mid-November. It's not even that I'm especially into costumes or sweeties, but I do love horror. I think it's the genre with the widest appeal because it taps into something primal. If you use fantasy, science fiction, or crime texts in your classroom, you always run the risk of alienating some students, but horror seems to be universal. Even those who claim to dislike it mostly just mean that it does too good a job on them. The archetypes and conventions are so simple and well understood that they are unfailingly amusing to spot and to use yourself.
Ghoulish glee
I had a laugh recently, basing some lessons around the classic Point Horror novel Trick or Treat, which scared the bejesus out of me in the early '90s. It's quite naive and dated now; certainly not likely to send the Jigsaw-hardened students of 2018 home with nightmares. But it's still great fun, thanks to successful tropes such as the first night in a spooky, old house, doors opening and closing on their own, and the midnight, croaky, phone call. Learners know these conventions well and it doesn't take too much to get them using them effectively in their own writing.
One of my colleagues had the hilarious idea of creating sensory mystery bags as creative-writing prompts. It's amazing how terrifying a bag of peeled grapes becomes if you ham up your request for a volunteer who has no allergies and no phobias. I might have got slightly carried away, raiding the local pound shop for slime and rubber spiders, sending one of my groups into a state of excitement akin to hyperactive Year 7 pupils on a snow day. For another, lower-confidence group though, the activity provided a breakthrough: smiles where I had only seen anxious frowns before, and laughing descriptions where there had only been an awkward silence.
Having then progressed onto a passage from Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House that had even the adult me quaking not too long ago, I was very excited that the timing would coincide with the release of a glossy, new, 10-episode, TV adaptation by Netflix. I couldn't resist having students compare the trailer for the new series to what they now know of the novel. They came up with some convincing explanations for the multitude of differences too: Having the story focus on a family, rather than four strangers, would "give it more emotional depth" suggested a health and social care learner, whereas an outdoor-ed student explained that child characters had been added because "Kids are creepy. You expect them in horror. Like in The Shining."
Terribly terrifying
Personally, I was disappointed by the series. Despite my students' generous justifications for the changes, I felt that abandoning the winning, high-concept formula of the novel added nothing and left the show reliant on predictable jump scares. On the Monday morning after the weekend it aired, I was saying something similar to a fellow English-resit teacher as we waited for our travel and tourism learners to arrive.
One of his students suddenly burst through the classroom door. "I watched it all!" she announced in loud and infectious triumph. She was talking about the Netflix series.
Over the next week, I encountered many other students who had similarly binged it. I know that as an English teacher, my fantasy should be that they went away and read the whole of Shirley Jackson's novel, but it made me pretty happy that owing to something they'd talked about in English, they'd spent 10 hours of their weekend engaging with something that they were then speaking to their friends about, critically and enthusiastically. Talking about stories is what English is all about. So I'll relish another long, half term of it.
Andrew Otty leads 16-19 English in an FE college. He is an ambassador for education charity SHINE
Andrew Otty leads 16-19 English in a college in the South West
Ex head who found the mistake in the transcription for a Year 1 lesson asks why the DfE funded online provider did not conduct more checks
NEU calls for investigation into its 'shocking' new figures that suggest school staff are at greater risk of Covid-19


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Fairhaven Singers to perform James MacMillan's St Luke Passion at St John's College Chapel in Cambridge
James MacMillan's St Luke Passion will be performed at St John's College Chapel in Cambridge on Saturday March 18. PHOTO: Supplied.
James MacMillan's St Luke Passion will be performed at St John's College Chapel in Cambridge on Saturday March 18.
James MacMillan's St Luke Passion will be performed at St John's College Chapel in Cambridge on Saturday March 18. PHOTO: Supplied.
Fairhaven Singers, conducted by Ralph Woodward, will lead the concert with the East Anglia Chamber Orchestra, Stephen Perse Foundation Chamber Choir and St Catharine's College Girls' Choir.
"The majestic chapel of St John's College is the perfect venue for this collaboration with the East Anglia Chamber Orchestra and two superb local girls' choirs. Come and hear St Luke's narration of the Passion story clothed in music of unforgettable drama and searing intensity," said Liesbeth Blom-Smith, of the Fairhaven Singers.
Tickets; £5 to £25, available from www.fairhavensingers.org.uk
Starts 7.30pm.


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Q: Carbon timezone function is incorrect I have the following code:
// $this->date_from = '11/01/2017';
// $this->date_to = '11/30/2017';

$this->where_date_from = Carbon::parse($this->date_from)->tz('America/Toronto')->startOfDay()->timestamp;
$this->where_date_to = Carbon::parse($this->date_to)->tz('America/Toronto')->endOfDay()->timestamp;

This produces completely innacturate timestamps. It seems to be actually subtracting double the offset from UTC.
However, when I use the following:
date_default_timezone_set('America/Toronto');
$this->where_date_from = strtotime($this->date_from.' 00:00:00');
$this->where_date_to = strtotime($this->date_to.' 23:59:59');

It works perfectly.
Why is this happening? I want to use Carbon to achieve this so I don't have to mess around with date_default_timezone_set.

A: The problem here is running tz. In  fact it won't make your date will be parsed assuming given timezone but it will convert date from current timezone to timezone you gave. Assuming you have timezone set in UTC in app.php file (what is default), you are doing now:
$this->where_date_from = Carbon::parse($this->date_from, 'UTC')->tz('America/Toronto')->startOfDay()->timestamp;

So you assume the date is in UTC timezone and then you will convert it into America/Toronto what is obviously not what you want.
What you should do is passing timezone when parsing date like so:
$this->where_date_from = Carbon::parse($this->date_from, 'America/Toronto')->startOfDay()->timestamp;
$this->where_date_to = Carbon::parse($this->date_to, 'America/Toronto')->endOfDay()->timestamp;

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Axel Gottlieb Bergström, född 27 juni 1786 i Stockholm, död 10 september 1853 i Sankt Nikolai församling, Stockholm, var en svensk bokhållare.

Biografi
Axel Gottlieb Bergström föddes 1786 i Stockholm. Bergström, som var bokhållare i Sveriges riksbank, var en av stiftarna av det gamla Harmoniska Sällskapet. Han var en synnerlig gynnare och befordrare av tonkonsten och bland andra Andreas Gehrman och Ludvig Norman erhöll understöd och uppmuntran av honom. Bergström invaldes som ledamot av Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien 1848. Bergström avled 10 september 1853 i Sankt Nikolai församling, Stockholm.

Familj
Bergström var gift med Christina Gustafva Hjort (född 1793). De fick tillsammans barnen Theresia Brynilda (född 1817), Svea Alarik (född 1821), Hedvig Walfrid Gunnila (född 1825) och Uno Skoglar (född 1823).

Referenser
Stockholms rådhusrätt 1:a avdelning (A, AB) F1A:561 (1853) Sida: 174

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Personer inom svenskt bankväsen
Ledamöter av Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien
Svenska ämbetsmän under 1800-talet
Födda 1786
Avlidna 1853
Män
Ämbetsmän från Stockholm

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If you are the owner of a growing business, you probably have happily embraced technology in order to increase production and smooth out internal processes. However, the technology needs of your business can grow to the point that it is no longer manageable. Maintaining your technology infrastructure can become quite costly in terms of time and resources. To solve this problem, you can either add IT professionals to your staff or outsource your IT to a local provider.
Is hiring a business IT services company right your business? Read on to find out.
If your company is struggling to pay for the costs of IT support, then business IT services might be right your organization. You may have looked into bringing on additional staff but realized that the costs would be too much. Oversight, training, benefits and employment taxes are just not in the cards for you right now.
Meeting your IT needs may also be costing too much in terms of time. With no dedicated IT personnel, your employees may be pulling double duty, taking away from their performance in other areas. Working with a provider of business IT services would reduce the costs of IT support as well as cut back on lost time.
If your business is expanding at a rapid pace (or could do so in the near future), then a business IT service provider might be a better option than hiring internal IT professionals. The reason for this is that with rapid growth comes unforeseen tech needs. A single IT tech or small team may not be able to provide all the solutions that you will need. On the other hand, an IT service provider will have a range of experts and services available to match your needs. For example, a single IT company can provide services and infrastructure such as networks, phone systems, printers, servers, cloud services and data storage and protection.
When you first started your business, IT service was likely the furthest thing from mind. Your staff simply focused on the product and services of the company. As the company grew, a lot of other solutions and systems were needed (like IT). It can be frustrating having to deal with non-core business functions. If you want more time and energy to focus on the important aspects of your business, then working with an IT service provider can bring some relief. You can have peace of mind knowing that your tech infrastructure can be maintained and upgraded whenever you need it. Other than that, you and your staff are free to focus on what you do best.
Still aren't sure if business IT services are right for your business? The best course of action would be to contact an IT service provider to see what kind of plans and services they provide. If it's within budget and the services are what you need, it might be time to go for it.


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Swiss sensor manufacturer Sensirion AG has announced the launch of the new liquid flow series LPP10 and LPG10 in an unsurpassed small size. The new technology is based on planar microfluidic substrates and the sensors are available with a glass (LPG10) or a plastic (LPP10) packaging. Both versions have a footprint of a mere 10 x 10 mm. The glass version is extremely durable, while the plastic version is more suitable for disposable applications and is very cost-effective in high volume. Both versions are ideal for various medical and biomedical applications. The sensors have no moving parts and no obstacles in the flow path of the fluid.
Innovative packaging enables Sensirion's highly sensitive thermal flow sensor microchips to measure non-invasively through the wall of a flow channel inside a microfluidic planar substrate. This design provides unique sensitivity for liquid flow measurement and bubble detection in the range of 0 to 1000 microlitres per minute. The sensors are particularly suitable for monitoring flow rates and improving system performances in biomedical and life science applications.
Non-invasive flow sensing is possible thanks to the high sensitivity achieved with CMOSens® Technology. A small digital CMOSens® microchip (2.2 x 3.5 mm) is bonded to the microfluidic channel substrate. In addition to the sensor element, it houses the complete digital intelligence and the memory necessary for signal linearisation, temperature compensation and self-test algorithms. The chip provides a fully digital I²C interface. Electrical contact is made via metallisation above the microfluidic substrate. Fluidic ports below facilitate easy integration of discrete sensors into numerous designs. The sensor boasts a short flow sensing response time of 30 ms, and sensor resolutions down to 0.5 nl/min are feasible. A digital microsensor chip provides a fully calibrated digital output, eliminating the need for additional signal conditioning.
This significant simplification of liquid flow sensing technology enables extremely small and efficient sensor solutions. Customised solutions based on this technology can also be developed for various applications; standard versions are available immediately.


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Оксана Лісовська — українська співачка, композиторка і журналістка, заслужена працівниця культури України.

Життєпис
Оксана Лісовська народилася 22 січня 1973 року в місті Калуш Івано-Франківської області. Батьки — Омелян Лісовський та Галина Лісовська (Гончарук). Мати Оксани Лісовської походить із репресованої родини, деякі її родичі були членами ОУН-УПА. Син — Остап Українець.

Навчалася в калуських загальноосвітніх школах № 3 (1980—1987) та № 10 (1987—1988).

Закінчивши вісім років шкільного навчання, вступила до Івано-Франківського музичного училища імені Дениса Січинського у клас фортепіано. Окрім навчання за фахом, брала активну участь у фольклорному гурті «Калинова сопілка», яким керувала фольклористка-музикознавиця Олександра Мар'янівна Турянська, та драматичному гуртку, яким керувала Діана Іванівна Симчич. Чимало постановок гуртка ініціювала саме Оксана Лісовська.

Ще в часі навчання в училищі Оксана Лісовська пише пісні на слова Олеся Бердника, Лесі Українки та авторські. У 1994-му починає записувати до них музичний супровід та виносити свою пісенну творчість на широкий загал. Бере участь у популярних тоді конкурсах «Червона рута», «Перлини сезону» та інших, активно концертує. У той час записано аудіоальбом «Мелодії до».

Згодом Оксана Лісовська поступово відходить від концертної діяльности і лише долучається до телепроєктів як студійна співачка. Провадить низку різдвяних та новорічних програм на ОТБ «Галичина», виконує роль Ділової Пані в музичному фільмі «Казка гірських вітрів», спільно працює з гуртом «5-й Океан». Ще в часі активної концертної діяльности розпочинається співпраця з телеканалом «Галичина», де Оксана Лісовська спільно з Володимиром Кукурузою та під його керівництвом і режисурою втілює свій задум «народних пісень по-новому», який став проєктом «Репетиція майбутнього». Вдалося зняти тільки дві програми: «Колискова» та «Бо люблю».

Культурна діяльність
З 2001 року Оксана Лісовська працює на телебаченні «Галичина», де послідовно втілює ряд музичних проєктів: «Поговоримо про музику», «Наш хіт», «Спробуй наживо», «Звуковий вимір», знімає кілька дитячих музичних телефільмів.

Паралельно з 2000 року вона адмініструє дитячу вокальну студію «Ліра», пише тексти і музику, які становлять основу репертуару студії. Серед випускниць студії: лідерка гурту «Torban» Марійка Михайлик, співачка Ілона Опікула, співачка Соломія Жекало, а також співачка, учасниця Дитячого пісенного конкурсу «Євробачення» та вокального талант-шоу «Голос. Діти», вокалістка гуртів «Різак» і «NORDFLØW» Христина Дутчак.

Сьогодні Лісовська продюсує підлітковий гурт народного співу «Ґаздиньки», який за останні роки став лавреатом численних пісенних премій. 2015 року Оксану Лісовську за її діяльність у галузі культури відзначили званням «Заслужений працівник культури України»

Примітки

Українські співачки
Українські піснярі
Уродженці Калуша
Персоналії:Івано-Франківськ
Заслужені працівники культури України
Українські журналістки


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Q: Problems with iptables and the access to Postgresql I am trying to configure my PostgreSQL server to have remote access, but it was impossible to make, and when I try to allow the access on Iptables result that I can't restart the iptables.
Look the configuration on pg_hba.conf
"local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all         all                               ident sameuser

IPv4 local connections:
host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          ident sameuser
host    all         all         184.172.135.142/24    trust

IPv6 local connections:
host    all         all         ::1/128               ident sameuser
host    all         all         184.172.135.142/24    trust

The configuration on the postgresql.conf is the normal
listen_address='*'

and the line opening the port on the iptables is this:
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state NEW -m tcp -p tcp –dport 5432 -j ACCEPT

and the error on the iptables is this:
Flushing firewall rules:                                   [  OK  ]
Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: mangle filter             [  OK  ]
Unloading iptables modules:                                [  OK  ]
'pplying iptables firewall rules: iptables-restore v1.3.5: iptables-restore: unable to initialize table 'mangle

Error occurred at line: 2
Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more information.
                                                           [FAILED]

I am using a centos, vps server

A: It seems that you have typo/error in your iptables rules config. You can check what rules you have using iptables-save or iptables --line-numbers -n -L, and fix the broken rule. Usually, they are stored in /etc/sysconfig/iptables.


Come in, find your cup and begin the process of refilling it. This is a space of self care, of taking the time, energy, effort, and honesty needed to show self love in action. You can book a massage, private, small group or special event yoga, book a Self Care Retreat or maybe even find some inspiration in the vast expressions of my creativity. I hope, at the very least Caramya can remind you that you are worth it, you are loved, and you are not alone. At the most, I hope you will join me on this journey of self love, for I truly believe it leads to universal love.


Plans for a new Catholic high school and eventual church are brewing in the Archdiocese of Denver, north of the city. The archdiocese has given its official backing for the project, which was initiated by two lay people, reported the Northern Colorado Business Report.
Dr. Richard Kemme, a retired orthopedic surgeon, is one of the two who initiated the project, and he is working on having a 46-acre plot rezoned. The 500-student high school would be located among the towns of Fort Collins, Loveland and Greeley, an area that has seen growth in recent years.
The archdiocese has 39 elementary schools in Northern Colorado; but all of its six high schools are in the city of Denver.
"We have the blessing of the archdiocese on the site," said Kemme, a member of St. Mary Parish in nearby Greeley.
The archdiocese's school superintendent, Richard Thompson, and the church district's chief financial officer were taken for a tour of the site. They also met with parish and town officials.
Fundraising for the new school will begin if the $650,000 land deal closes as planned in December.
Denver architect Ron Falaede, who won two national awards for his design of St. Mary's Parish school in Greeley, was hired to do a preliminary land plan for the site and building designs.


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As I type this about 40 other explorers/photographers are wading thru their own photographs of the very same day - it was busy, but the place is that big it didn't matter.
Visited with the Judderman, who took his seat at the driving wheel for our early start down to Derby, a most pleasant journey I should add for which I can't thank him enough.
The hospital having closed in sections over the years has a small section that remains open, sealed off from the main area of the site.
First off this place is simply huge, aside from the main hospital it has accommodation blocks, offices, a swimming pool, nursery, lecture theatres - I could go on.
The main hospital is old, older and not so old, it has maze like qualities with many floors. Sadly with door after door of NHS sameness it is kind of easy to lose yourself in the long corridors of derp.
and more and more and more - take a picnic, its going to be a long day.
I could go on, but here is a few to round off the post.
Thanks for looking, plenty more on my Flickr.


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Digital Health Adoption Is Our Biggest Challenge Globally - Interview with Cameron Carter from Bright Health
Business Healthtech
Patrycja Paterska
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We sat down (virtually) with Bright Health's Cameron Carter to talk all things digital health. The telehealth potential, the gaps of today's healthcare, and the future.
About Bright Health
An innovative and highly digitalized insurance company from the US, striving to rebuild American healthcare and making it less about the system, and more about the people. Digital tools (including a self-service portal & a telehealth platform) help Bright Health make healthcare more affordable, inclusive, and a fully personalized experience. They have secured $500 million in Series E funding.
Through partnerships with leading health systems in local communities, they are reshaping people's and doctors' approach to healthcare in the US.
Cameron Carter is the Manager of Health Plan Product Development at Bright Health. He and his team ensure products are designed, developed, implemented, branded, and managed as part of a cohesive strategy in partnership with Bright Health Plan Line of Business and Finance teams. He's responsible for implementing strategy, product roadmap design, and feature definitions for differentiated products and services that improve the member experience.
Digital Health Adoption is Our Biggest Challenge Globally - An Interview with Bright Health's Cameron Carter
Patrycja Paterska: What were Bright Health's first actions after COVID-19 hit the US, team-wise and then in the services you offer?
Cameron Carter: We monitored the US and global situation with regard to COVID and the stress it put on the local healthcare system. As a business, we were not impacted significantly, as we have experience with distributed workforces. But our priorities have changed: we went from simply running the business to protecting our employees. Most of the offices have been closed, and we've gone virtual.
Beyond the workplace experience, a top focus for our then 165,000 members was prioritizing telemedicine not just as a valued feature but as a functional care delivery solution. It needed to be something we offer as a core part of our business and on a national scale.
We made transitions to ensure that virtual care was accessible to all and affordable to as many as possible. We wanted to make sure that people are aware of it nationally, so we really pivoted our marketing and engagement strategies.
How Bright Health plans changed due to COVID-19?
Apart from waiving the cost for COVID-19 tests and free screenings on our virtual care platform, we also offered unlimited transportation trips to and from in-network providers. Almost all public transportation had shut down in certain communities. It became difficult to get dialysis, oncology treatment, chemotherapy, and some of the major healthcare services that you just can't go without, waiting one or two weeks. We allowed early prescription refills for people, so they did not have to go to the drugstore themselves. We have a call center to help people navigate their plans and benefits or simply ask questions. Everything to enable people to have the best care navigation possible.
You mentioned Bright Health prioritized telehealth. You have your own telemedicine platform, and you extended plans for all people to use it as of now. I guess the rise of users this high produces a lot of data and insights about telehealth and its potential.
In one sentence: there are a lot of specialists who are not on telemedicine. This is a significant missed opportunity for care delivery.
Our telehealth platform has acute care physicians, general PCPs (primary care physicians). We even included behavioral health care on the platform, so members can see either psychiatrists or psychologists. However, it would be meaningful if we had Nephrologists, Dermatologists, caregiver support, and other clinical support for members and their families.
For those high-need members, there's the biggest gap. We need specialists on telemedicine platforms to enhance continuity of care and better care coordination. Telemedicine is a real perk to support people when they have asthma, a cold, or need a medication refill. But those visits are sporadic at best. If I'm someone who really needs convenient high-quality care, there is a gap.
With COVID-19, I personally saw a gap in physical therapy, speech pathology, occupational therapy. With a lot of those services, members would call in and ask, "I want this [service] too, it's easier to see a physician this way, but those physicians are not on the platform. Why?" That's the piece COVID-19 put in the spotlight. It's a huge opportunity.
At this moment, I would say telemedicine's adoption is limited only by the services delivered through the platform.
This puts a lot of light on the digitalization of healthcare and digital health in a wider lens as well.
A lot of qualified doctors were not deeply trained to utilize digital solutions to deliver care to members prior to the pandemic. There are many articles that outline the education gap of delivering care virtually. Many physicians learned on the fly, which is fine but not necessarily scalable. That said, digital health is here. Leaning into the topic is needed from a majority of US providers. Digital health will not only democratize access to care, it will begin to remove systemic barriers to care, which will increase equity across the US and global population. At the end of the day, the digitization of healthcare is both good for the patient and good for the business of healthcare.
So the adoption of digital health, on both ends, is our biggest challenge now?
Yeah, the real technological challenge is adoption and access. We're already in the fourth industrial revolution. The tech is there. We just need more people to adopt it, leverage it, utilize it.
The reason why it's so important for physicians to adopt it first is because patients listen to physicians. If an insurance company tells you to do "5 things to determine if you have diabetes", members historically are not that interested. But if their doctor says it, it is a much different story. If I say, use this technology to take better care of your health, you're not likely to do it, but if your doctor encourages it, that's a completely different story. This is the real gap in America. New solutions and tools are not being adopted on a wide scale by physicians, and patients who need them are not accessing them. As the author Willian Gibson puts it, "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."
Every revolution causes disruption. What do you think will happen next?
What COVID-19 showed is that digital technologies improve access to care immediately. Digital healthcare truly allows someone at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder to have access to the best doctor and pay the same amount of money as someone who is wealthy. This is huge. I don't think people truly understand how important that is. The US has a history of excluding marginalized groups from high quality of care; technology will dismantle that history.
The one key piece from Bright Health's perspective is that we've learned how much further we have to go as a company and as an industry. I believe it is more motivating for people than it is discouraging. The last key piece from a macro perspective is that we are going to start seeing a lot more cross-functional lessons and understanding built into industries post-pandemic.
The case studies, medical literature, selfless acts, etc., are going to shape a future I'm eager to contribute to.
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Side event: Public health as a basis for drug policy in Portugal
Side event organised by Portugal
Pedro Moitinho de Almeida Permanent Representative of Portugal. The Portuguese case no longer an experience, a success. Portugal is fully committed to the UNGASS. Drugs ranked at top of concern of Portuguese society in the last decade. It is now no longer the case because of the policies now implemented. The government had the courage to adopt a policy that shifted from law enforcement to healthcare, within the framework of the 3 UN drug conventions.
Wolfgang Gotz, EMCDDA, Director. The EU is moving to increased emphasis on public health when dealing with drug approach. There is the criminal justice approach and the public health approach. Changes that have taken place in EU countries illustrate the two. The criminal justice approach was institutionalised in 1988 convention, which clearly requests states parties to establish possession for personal use as a criminal offence, believing that this would reduce supply. Since then we have seen a contraction in the criminal justice approach as European countries reviewed their laws related to drug abuse, reducing maximum prison sentences. Finland, Greece and the Czech republic made changes to close a minor case. Austria and Poland moved to depenalisation. Changes were made to modify the status of drug use from criminal to non- criminal offences, this was the case in Portugal (others) and most recently Malta.
There is a denial of legalisation in Europe, or any removal of sanctions to allow for non-medical use. Options to alternatives to punishment include treatment, rehabilitation, and aftercare. Alternatives to prison in Europe implied an emphasis on public health but it was not clearly stated. From 2000 on, Europe saw the development of diversion towards treatment at different stages of the criminal justice system: using the police, prosecution, and at court level. Prosecution may be suspended upon completion of treatment — this is the case in 11 European countries. In 10 countries, the system may convict users, and then suspend sentence. In five countries, rehabilitation can be the sentence. Most are arrested for property crimes to get money to purchase drugs. Even those arrested for theft or similar offences may still be diverted to treatment if appropriate. Do these approaches work?
In the redesign of these approaches, it is important to be consistent and realistic. Policymakers are caught between a public health approach and the need to be "tough" on drugs. Diversion may only be possible for those with no criminal conviction. If treatment is only offered after penalty carried out, users have no incentive to enter the programme. If diversion only takes place at sentencing stage, you lose valuable time to process offenders. It should be upstream to reduce court backlogs. One size does not fit all. The offender should be matched to his/her specific needs. Quality standards for demand reduction have been newly adopted.
Non-problematic cannabis users should not be sent to heroin treatment, it is counterproductive. European monitoring centers must produce evidence. We still don't have high quality scientific evidence on different options around Europe. In many countries there is no Monitoring & Evaluation of effectiveness. And it is only due to evaluation that some problems came to light and that a system can be improved. A public health approach is more effective than criminal justice in reducing recidivism, and we are heartened to see that work preceding UNGASS working in this direction.
We need to strengthen monitoring and evaluation worldwide and regionally in order to constantly improve our approach. Monitoring activity confirms that many European countries are trying to rebalance their drug policies towards a public health approach.
Joao Goulao. National Coordinator for Drug Problems, Portugal. We have adopted a comprehensive set of policies, decriminalisation is just a part of it. Available indicators and results are positive around the implementation of this complete set of policies. The idea is to be more coherent in addressing the drug problem as a health and social issue rather than a criminal one. This approach started much later than the criminal one. During the authoritarian regime we had no problems with drugs. Suddenly we saw the onset of problems after dictatorship, even if the prevalence of total drug use remained below the European average, we had one of the biggest amounts of problematic users. We had to find new ways to address these issues. Historically, there have been 2 different contradictory approaches. One was to consider drug use as a crime — the other considers addiction as a chronic health and behavioral issue that needs to be addressed through treatment and support.
Joao Goulao, presenting the case of Portugal
We addressed the issue in the context of the community. Drug addicts needed access to care, housing, etc. All sectors of society got involved. Our policy was based on five pillars including treatment, dissuasion, reintegration, harm reduction, etc. This new paradigm was approved by the parliament, and a new legal framework, Law 30/2000, was adopted. At the time, there was good social acceptance, and a huge public debate on the issue. We also needed to liberate resources from supply reduction to fight against large scale trafficking. We recognised that the imprisonment of users has a counterproductive effect. The new law entered into force on July 1, 2001.
The World Drug Report 2009 was no longer critical (as was the case at the beginning). The INCB itself says that decriminalisation falls within the spirit of the conventions. In our case, sanctions fall under administrative law, not criminal law, and drug possession is still prohibited.
We have adopted a dissuasion model, where possession is an administrative offence. The approach does not privilege a drug courts approach. The law allows a dose for up to a maximum of ten days as personal possession. The established limit was very important to avoid an arbitrary police intervention. This is based on a preventive intervention — the "yellow card". The objective is to prevents or reduce use and abuse of drugs. It ensures health protection for users and and the community.
Composition of the Commissions — there are 18 commissions + 2 in the autonomous regions. They are composed of a lawyer, a psychologist, a social worker, and a technical support team. The approach must include a complete network to address the myriad of identified needs of people. We try to evaluate and intervene upstream to interrupt or prevent problematic use. The Commissions take the decision and can impose sanctions including: provisional process suspension, periodic presentation to drug addiction dissuasion commissions, etc.
Some results: this is a complete set of policy, not only decriminalisation. There is no direct causal link between decriminalisation and the results. In 2014, we had 8, 800 clients, only 801 addicts. 742 were treated. Out of the others, 1,161 were referred to motivational intervention only, and 2,747 were referred to motivational intervention and support structures. There was a very impressive drop in new HIV infections among people who inject drugs. Trends since 2001: a small decrease in reported illicit drug use among adults, reduction in opiate related deaths and infectious diseases, increased efficiency of police and customs, increased amounts seized, reductions in retail prices, reduced stigmatisation of drug users.
There is now a scientific consensus that criminal sanctions are ineffective and counterproductive. They do nothing to address drug use consequences. Nowhere do the international drug conventions require that personal use be criminalised. Drug policies should be based on health, not on punishment.
Werner Sipp. INCB President. On behalf of INCB, we thank the organisers. Joao showed the Portuguese case to me many years ago. He explained its framework. The decriminalisation approach in Portugal is innovative but not unique. Many other countries have decriminalised, in Europe as well as in Latin America. The development of alternative measures for small amounts of drugs has been favoured by most European systems. What is unique in Portugal is the dissuasion commissions which provide support for users. Others limit themselves to reducing or eliminating punishment. The Portuguese model is not a window to legalisation. The INCB pronounced itself on the Portuguese approach on several occasions. In 2004, the INCB visited Portugal and considered the implementation of the law. In June 2012, the INCB visited Portugal again and acknowledged importance of the dissuasion commissions. Primary prevention was strengthened, and Portugal continued its committment to the drug conventions, the Board concluded.
Legal Perspective: the basic obligation under the treaties is to limit the possession of drugs exclusively to medical and scientific purposes. Possession shall not be permitted except under legal authority. Limitations to the obligation to establishment of "punishable offence" include constitutional limitations of states parties. For possession for personal consumption, states can provide alternatives to conviction or punishment, something that all the conventions allow. Within the legal framework of Portugal, acquisition and possession are still deemed an offence and are sanctioned by administrative rather than criminal sanctions. Within Article 4 of SC, ten days' use are allowed. The whole procedure can be considered as an alternative measure of education, treatment, aftercare, etc. in full compliance with the three drug conventions.
It is difficult to evaluate success. The introduction of health and social policy reforms is absolutely key and is based on the principle of proportionality and respect for human rights. Portugal may be a useful best practice model for other countries considering transition in lead up to UNGASS. Dependence manifests itself in different ways in different countries. It depends on the legal system, policy priorities, cultural factors, etc. One model cannot simply be transposed to another, but this can serve as best practice.
Side event: Swedish side event on user participation
Side event: The EU Common Position on the UNGASS


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An Introduction to Brit Grit
Lee Horsley, Lancaster University
Mid-century Background: from the Serious Thriller to the Mushroom Jungle
After the Golden Age of classic detective fiction, British writers continued to produce variations on the traditional formula. Other kinds of crime writing, however, also began to emerge, often closely allied to the noir thrillers of American hard-boiled writers. Amongst the more distinctive contributions to British crime fiction were the 'serious thrillers' of the 1930s and early 1940s. At a time when the main threat of violence seemed to come from the rise of aggressive continental political ideologies, writers like Eric Ambler and Graham Greene created novels (e.g., Ambler's Dark Frontier and Journey into Fear; Greene's Gun for Sale, Confidential Agent and Ministry of Fear) which tended to cast the armed gangster in the role of fascist thug and to represent the victim-protagonist as a man who hesitates to act against fascist violence for fear of losing his own humanity.
In the immediately postwar decades, a considerably less serious strain appeared in British crime writing. Most of the hundreds of crime paperbacks published in Britain in the late '40s and the '50s were primarily imitations of American tough guy and gangster pulps – rapidly produced, pseudonymous novels put out by the numerous small 'mushroom' publishers that sprang up to feed the growing British paperback market (a phenomenon documented by Steve Holland in The Mushroom Jungle). The appetite for American hard-boiled crime thrillers had started to grow in the forties.
Encouraged by the huge success of James Hadley Chase's No Orchids for Miss Blandish, which sold over a million copies between 1939 and 1944, writers like Frank Dubrez Fawcett, Harold Kelly and Stephen Frances (writing under the names, respectively, of Ben Sarto, Darcy Glinto and Hank Janson, but under other names as well) had by the mid-forties started to produce an astonishing array of short, low-priced crime paperbacks, written at speed, printed on rationed paper, and unashamedly aimed at the mass market.
Brit Grit: the 1970s Revival of the British Noir Thriller
Ted Lewis was one of the key figures in the 1970s revival of British noir. Between 1970 and 1980 he published seven novels, the first of which, Jack's Return Home (1970), is a harder, meaner version of the 'can't return home' plot recurrently found in post-World War Two American thrillers. What gives Lewis' novel (filmed as Get Carter) its power is its terse, unflinching style (unlike many earlier British thrillers, it is hard-boiled as well as noir), its tight plot and its gritty northern settings. Lewis is regarded by many as the finest of British hard-boiled writers – 'one of the few British writers to achieve in his books the kind of sparse existentialism achieved by the great American creators of violent and amoral anti-heroes. Jack Carter and the protagonist of Lewis's gangland classicGBH are authentic outsiders and the books memorably evoke the shadowy world of pool halls and gambling dens on the borderland between crime and respectability' (Rennison and Shephard, Waterstone's Guide to Crime Fiction).
Filming Get Carter
Mike Hodges was offered a script, and Jack's Return Home was very quickly turned into a film (1971). Hodges, who had previously worked on World in Action, said in a National Film Theatre interview that he was chosen to direct because 'I had seen a certain element of truth which Britain was trying to keep hidden. It was as corrupt as every other country. It was as bleak as every other country – and it was worse, in a sense, because it pretended it was something else. So then I was offeredGet Carter and…[I decided] I would make it as honestly as I possibly could…Carter's not all that different from what actually transpired to be true in Newcastle…I began to smell the corruption in the city. The story that I added on to Ted Lewis's novel was based on a true story…'
British New Wave crime writing
Since the late 1980s, Britain has seen the growth of a distinctively British kind of neo-noir, encouraged particularly by Maxim Jakubowski's publication of two crime imprints, Black Box thrillers and Blue Murder. These introduced a new readership to the classics of American hard-boiled crime fiction – to writers like Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Cornell Woolrich. Jakubowski also opened his Charing Cross Road bookshop, Murder One, and has played a key role in publishing the work of the current generation of British crime writers.
As at the time of Greene and Ambler, contemporary British writers have effectively assimilated thriller conventions with the serious treatment of wider historical conflicts (e.g., Ian McEwan's The Innocent, Colin Bateman's Cycle of Violence, Iain Banks' Complicity). British literary noir has in recent years emerged as a much more distinctive phenomenon, with successive 'new waves' of writers creating novels that address contemporary issues and that are capable of appealing to a much wider audience.
By the mid-1990s, after fifteen years of Conservative hegemony, British thriller writers were increasingly constructing narratives that aimed to expose what Will Hutton, in his bestselling 1995 critique, called 'the state we're in', the result of failed Thatcherite efforts to bring Britain closer to the market-oriented financial system of the United States, with its economic deregulation and promotion of consumption.
The New Wave British crime novelists of the nineties have been strongly influenced by American writers, and they share many of the themes of their American counterparts of the eighties and nineties. These are novels, however, that are distinctively British in tone, style and setting. There are still British thrillers set in the United States (and written in an appropriate style) but, in contrast to the gangster pulps of the fifties, they are very far from being rapid mass-market imitations.
More commonly, contemporary British thrillers have been set in Walthamstow (Jeremy Cameron), Manchester (Nicholas Blincoe) or Meadow Road near the Oval Cricket Ground (Ken Bruen) and written in styles recognisably regional: '"Vinnie my son," I goes, "you come off second best mate…"' (Cameron, Vinnie Got Blown Away). They are generally, as Ken Bruen's narrator says of one of his favourite words, 'Hip, Contemporary. Sassy' (Her Last Call). In contrast to the 'Brit grit' writing of earlier decades (Ted Lewis and others) they offer a much greater admixture of surreal and comic elements, whether they are writing stories of 'London's new outlaw underclass' or of company take-overs played out in London's yuppie flats and wine bars. But in spite of their lightness of tone, they offer serious criticism of British society and politics. Even writers who don't link their plotting to actual political goings-on provide some sharply satiric pictures of a society in which material success, desirable goods and attractive surfaces are all founded on crime of one sort or another.
Nicholas Blincoe ('The same mean streets seen from a fresh angle', in The Times, 18 April 1998) sums up these developments in the following way: 'Telling hard-hitting stories from specific locales, and doing it with dark humour, has always been part of crime fiction. In the Forties and Fifties it was a style refined by writers such as Jim Thompson, Chester Himes and Charles Willeford. These are perhaps the writers most influential on the New Wave of crime writers in Britain…They were serious novelists and proved their seriousness by writing heady, cheap novels that preserved the dark pulp core of literature. This has always struck me as incredibly brave, a willingness to risk their reputations to broaden and enrich contemporary literature…Taken together, the similarities between the New Wave British crime writers add up to a movement, whether it is the humour or the hard edges, or the thrill of pushing ordinary language into extreme situations. But there are also differences. The writers come from all over Britain and, in this diversity, there is a small chance that they might wake the British novel from its long, insular sleep – or destroy its reputation for good.'
Copyright © 2002 Lee Horsley


St Catherine of Alexandria, Patron Saint of Educators.
I was a graduate law student, but the marvellous thing about studying in Korea is that you do not have to work in a bar or as a cleaner to supplement your living while studying; you can tutor, something which all students – including Korean students – do. I am a qualified ESL teacher (something I did just after graduating from my first degree) which means that I have an amazing fall-back in the fact that I am, inter alia, a real teacher.
Teaching pays considerably more than bar work (and I don't have the figure for the kind of bar work that pays really well), or any of the other truly terrible student jobs I have had in my life. I image that I will be using my qualifications in English Teaching for many years to come, and of course, the teaching skills are cross-transferable. If you can teach English to resistant, rebellious teenagers, you can teach law to people who actually want to learn it.
I'm posting my "all-purpose" game and worksheet templates here for visiting students and teachers (many of you work in Korea) to download. They are "all-purpose" because they can be adapted for any target language, and any ability level. I have also included here some printable play-money for market, currency exchange and negotiation games. You assemble the bills or the coins by cutting a front and a back out together, and folding in half. Then you laminate for durability (trust me, you want to do this, kids tend to bend them).
You can print these for class use but you can't sell them or pass them off as your own work. The play money looks like the real thing (in order to get the students used to handling different currencies) but of course they are not the same size, colour, and they have been "altered" electronically. Laminate them, though, because if they find their way into your wallet on a dark night you'll get a pretty angry taxi driver :D.
If you download a worksheet or game and use it, please write a note at the bottom of this page and tell me what you did with it and how the game went in class: that's my "fee" if you like.
These worksheets are good in East Asia where students are accustomed to dull repetition, chanting, and rote memorisation, and as a result switch their brains off in class. It's a good primer for a discussion on experiential learning.
Is he a person or a robot? (Long Version) [pdf].
Is he a person or a robot? (Short Version) [pdf].
I use mental maps a lot for vocabulary and concept building to prepare students for speaking, listening or reading. Below you can find a blank Mind Map and ones specifically for well known heros and superheros.
Map of the World: Laminate several of these and use them for guessing games, nationalities and adjectives.
Happy Face – Sad Face Cards: For use to vary the responses to questions from positive to negative.
Assemble the Snake: Students assemble a sentence in the correct order.
Blank Chinese Checkers Board: aim to get all their counters from one side of the board to the other. Your choice of target vocabulary.
Finally, a word on how to create your own. All these teaching materials were created with Open Office – the English Version that I downloaded on my works computer and various PC Bangs in South Korea. It's extremely intuative, totally free, and much better than MS Office. For an English-Speaking professional in a country where the computers – and their installed software – are in another language, this has been an indispensible tool. I especially like the "export as pdf" function in the file menu. They get the"Big Button" award for being an excellent product.
OK, all the play money should be added now. Let me know if there are any problems.
I'd love to print out the comic strips but the website won't let me click on it. Please help.
Sorry – MA Thesis due in. Check back on Tuesday and I should have uploaded everything by then.
Hi, I homeschool in Australia, and have just printed off your Australian play money to start teaching my son the different notes.
Thanks, and well done for Home Schooling!
Thanks for these fun resources. I will use some with my primary school class.
Hey, thanks for the Australian play money print out. I will be using it to help a refugee family get used to Australian currency. I have created my own coins (including 5c, 10c, 20c & 50c) and will use my daughters toy cash register to make a 'play' situation where they can practise paying for their shopping. Once again thank you for making this so much easier for me!
Thanks! Used the play money for a pet shop during my placement.
Thanks for the blank comic strips – brilliant idea!
What a superstar. As teachers we are always seeking to pinch resources from others – but very few are as generous as yourself, putting your own work out there for others benefit. Many many thanks.
Thanks for your comments. If you have worksheets or games you have made yourself and want to share, send it to me in .doc or .odt (or pdf) format at scottishboomerangSPAMBLOCK@gmail.com (take out the capitalised letters when you write) l'll put it into PDF format and post it up here.
Your $5 in the Australian Currency is incorrect. It actually has the Queen and Parliment house on it.
Thanks for this, these resources were made a while ago and coinage does change over time. I'm no longer teaching children, but if you make your own $5 resources, why not send me a copy in MS Word format, I'll whack it into a pdf file, and upload it here.
i do family day care and have some preschool kids who love playing shops. the play money will be a great addition to our shop area. thanks.
Thankyou for the play money. I've printed off the £10 to help teach my class decimals. We have plenty of coins in school, but alas no paper specimens.
Thanks for sharing this resource. I am planning to use it in a game with my students who are completing some AOD units at tafe.
Thanks so much for your comments. I will be putting up some new currencies shortly.
Thanks very much! I'm going to use the Euro notes when I deliver an enterprise activity called Eurogateau in primary schools.
Hi – I'm a fourth year Bed (ECE) students and I am about to 'set up shop' for my final practicum. Thanks for the resource – it was just what I was looking for.


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When you think of cycling, the first thought might be the cobbles, but the peloton has no shortage of options for a workout, writes Jonathan Millman.
Peloton lose Weight, Lose Weight asap article Peloon's team has been training at the Tour de France since March and the team has made some progress, but still have some major gaps in their training schedule.
They have lost weight, lost weight as a team and are already riding with an additional rider.
They also have the opportunity to gain a new rider in the form of a young French rider, but there are also a number of other challenges ahead for them.
One of those is gaining an extra rider.
As a team, Peloton have been training two riders to add to the team.
This means that their total rider count has dropped to six riders and only one of them is on the roster for the Tour.
The other four riders will be racing for the cobbled classics, so the team's total rider load has dropped from seven riders to six.
"It's definitely a little bit of a concern," said one of the riders, Jurgen van der Lijke, as he discussed the team at the press conference.
It's really important that they can train at the same time and stay on top of the team as much as possible, which means working with them. "
And when you think about it, we don't have another rider who's on the same level as the best rider in that team, so we're also trying to keep them on their toes.
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The Fetish and the Commune
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Marx makes significant edits to Capital between the first German edition in 1867 and the second in 1873 – edits that begin to be articulated in his revisions for the serialised French publication of Capital between 1872 and 1875. Revisions are particularly heavy in Capital's opening chapter – where the concept of the fetish character of the commodity is massively expanded and gains its own section. When interpreting the dramatic structure of the first chapter, as I've done on this blog off and on for the past few years, I've followed the text as it stands after the revisions of the second German edition. I would have done this even if I had regarded these revisions as fundamentally altering the meaning and structure of the first edition but, as it happens, there is textual evidence from the first edition that Marx understood the dramatic structure of that original edition to be very similar to what I find in the edition familiar to us: a text that enacts three different perspectives on the wealth of capitalist societies, and then destabilises even the final perspective by suggesting that it is still not fully adequate to express the characteristics of that wealth. In Marx's words (using Hans Ehrbar's extremely useful side-by-side German-English version of the first edition) these are the final sentences of the equivalent to our current opening chapter:
The commodity is immediate unity of use-value and exchange-value, i.e. of two opposite moments. It is, therefore, an immediate contradiction. This contradiction must develop as soon as the commodity is not, as it has been so far, analytically considered once under the angle of use-value, once under the angle of exchange-value [by which, in this edition, Marx means what will be called "value" from the second edition], but as soon as it is placed as a whole into an actual relation with other commodities. The actual relation of commodities with each other, however, is their exchange process [which is what Marx will explore in the following section]. (cf. Ehrbar 148)
So: three voices, the first two of which do not have the capacity to show how the contradictions in the commodity can be developed in practice – the third of which does potentially lead in a more promising direction, but not in the form in which it has been presented in this opening chapter. The revisions for the second edition, on my reading, bring out the distinctions between these voices more clearly – at which point Marx, in a typical move, excises the little bit of stage direction I have quoted above, ending the chapter instead on the Dogberry and Seacoal exchange that, in the first edition, takes place in the paragraph prior. The edits to the chapter – which include a much clearer terminological distinction between exchange-value and value, as well as the expansion of the discussion of the fetish character of the commodity – each seem, on my reading, ways of cashing out more clearly the claims of its original concluding sentence.
Particularly in Marxist Humanist readings of Capital, it is common to argue that the revisions to the first edition were provoked by Marx's experience of the Paris Commune, which, it is suggested, for the first time give him a sense of the standpoint from which the fetish character of the commodity can be penetrated: the standpoint of freely-associated labourers.
Peter Hudis, for example (159-60), argues:
Remarkably, there is no section on commodity fetishism in the 1867 (first) edition of Volume 1 of Capital. It was only between 1872 and 1875, in revising Capital for the French edition, that Marx created a section entitled 'The Fetishism of Commodities and Its Secret'. Marx introduced certain crucial changes to his discussion of commodity fetishism in the French edition, which he said 'had a scientific value independent of the original'. One of the most important changes concerned his effort to answer the question of 'whence arises this enigmatic character of the product of labour, once it assumes the form of a commodity'. It is only with the French edition that Marx answered this to his satisfaction, by stating, 'Clearly from this form itself'. With this change, Marx makes it clear that what explains the fetish is the very form assumed by the product of labour, the very nature of the 'peculiar social character of the labour' which produces commodities. This new formulation, as well as the new section on commodity fetishism as a whole, explicitly posed the abolition of fetishism as centring on the abolition of value-producing labour.
What intervened between the first German edition in 1867 and the French edition of 1872-5 which explains Marx's reworking of the section on commodity fetishism? The Paris Commune. The changes introduced in the French edition reflect its impact…
The activity of the Communards thereby allowed for a new leap in thought. Commodity fetishism cannot be penetrated by enlightened critique which assumes a privileged standpoint outside the value-form; nor can it be stripped away by pointing to a hidden essence obscured by the 'illusion' of fetishism. Instead, 'The whole mystery of commodities, all the magic and necromancy that surround the products of labour on the basis of commodity production, vanishes as soon as we come to other forms of production.' The emergence of a new form of association pointing to the transcendence of the value-form in 1871 provided the vantage point for penetrating the secret of the fetish. Marx's reworking of the section on commodity fetishism after the Paris Commune reveals the impact of the workers' revolts on the creation of his central value-theoretic categories.
Hudis' argument subtly displaces the form in which Marx presents his discussion of the free association of labourers. In Marx's text, the sentence on how the mystery of commodities vanishes when we confront other forms of production, does not immediately lead into the discussion of freely-associated labourers. Instead, that passage describes the hypothetical Robinson on his island, then moves to a discussion of medieval serfdom, then to a discussion of labour in common within a patriarchal household – and only then to a discussion of freely associated labourers. Moreover, when this more emancipatory example is introduced, the text makes clear that the point is not specifically to put forward a model for future social development, but rather to come up with an example that closely parallels the component aspects of commodity production that have been put forward earlier in this chapter. By omitting all of the other examples Marx considers, and juxtaposing the example of freely-associated labour directly with Marx's claim to reveal the "magic and necromancy" that surrounds commodities, Hudis makes it sound as though the discovery of the possibility for freely-associated labour is what allows Marx to penetrate the mystery of the commodity form.
Hudis seems unaware that the first edition of Capital – published in 1867, prior to the Commune – already includes the passage on freely-associated labourers (cf. Ehrbar 2009: 120-22). It immediately follows a discussion of Robinson on his island. In other words, the first edition of Capital already contains the nucleus of the passage Hudis presents as new to the French edition – and that nucleus already contains the central insight Hudis argues is pivotal to Marx's post-Commune critique of the fetish.
What is new with the later edition is that the two earlier examples – Robinson on his island, and freely-associated labour – are now joined by two further, historical examples. What Marx changes, in other words, is a passage from the original edition that included only hypothetical examples: he beefs up the passage by adding a couple of real-world examples from actual historical cases. The nature of this change suggests that Marx might have been worried that, without real-world examples, it would seem utopian to suggest that the fetish-character of the commodity was not in some sense inherent. Not to put too fine a point on the matter, but the logic of this revision does not suggest that, when he speaks of an association of free labourers in this context, he has the very real-world example of the Commune in mind. This point should not be too surprising, however, given that the text expressly says that this more emancipatory example has been chosen for the parallels it offers to commodity production, rather than as a recommended model for future social development.
I have written elsewhere on the function these examples serve within the architechtonic of Marx's argument: they allow him to demonstrate that you can take some of the same component practices that – in their present configuration – help to reproduce capital, and reconfigure them into new forms in which they can be shown no longer to generate this unintentional aggregate result. If I am right about what Marx is trying to show, revising the passage to add historical examples would make sense: otherwise it could appear that Marx is unable to show – other than by ungrounded hypotheticals – that it should be possible to transform social relations in such a way that the fetish character would no longer exist. For this purpose, Robinson on his island – or a hypothetical future society of freely associated labourers – are useful thought experiments, but could leave a nagging doubt about the practical reality of Marx's claims. The historical examples thus bolster the argument by identifying actual examples of social relations that, while by no means ideal, nevertheless help illustrate that the fetish character of social relations is not an inevitable result of material production – or even of class domination. This strategic goal, I suggest, drives these particular revisions.
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The ongoing trend of downsizing and forced induction is necessary for newer engines to be compliant with the ever more rigorous emissions regulations, and some brands like Volvo, hybridize, turbocharge and supercharge their engines.
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The incredible efficiency of this engine is a double-edged sword because, in some instances like in really cold climates, the 1.5L has an issue reaching optimal operating temperatures on idle or on shorter journeys. But in general, the 1.5L Honda turbo 4 is a sturdy engine, and after about 5-6 years into production, it seems like longer-term reliability is also great.
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