I will never forget the first time I saw one of those black hooded figures. I think I was about 14 or so, I would see these shadow forms from the corner of my eye. A loud image would follow in my mind almost immediately, of a human shaped being in a hooded cloak.
They always felt evil but luckily would never cross that barrier that I must have created in the hallway, right before my bedroom door. They felt old and mostly resided in the basement away from everyone, only coming up to the top floor when I was home alone.
By the time I was 15 I was finally allowed to stay home by myself but I never wanted to, so I would stay at my neighbors until my parents came home. It was just to frightening otherwise.
For awhile I thought I could just be imagining things, that I was allowing my fear to get the better of me. This would be quickly dispelled however when I had three different spiritually oriented individuals come to our house, who felt the same thing, before I ever told them what I had saw.
There were multiple times that we actually cleared the house energetically/ spiritually. The first time was due to my Ouija board use or rather Ouija board making.
Foolishly I thought nothing of these boards. As far as my teenage self was aware, it was just a talking board capable of talking to whatever spirit might be in the room. I never considered it being a portal or doorway that would allow for something more sinister to come through. I remember my friend and I both had our hands on the planchette and it began to move in an almost figure eight. I remember feeling very sleepy and cold, at one point it was almost like I woke up, that was when my friends parents where there to get her however. So we got up, said our goodbyes and I returned to my room to just throw everything away, thinking nothing more of what we had just been doing. The following weeks would show me however just how wrong I was.
It was fall by this time and a couple days had passed since my friend had been over. I had started to notice that each night I was becoming a little more unsettled. Honestly as embarrassing as this is to admit I had to sleep with a nightlight on and to be even more honest sometimes, to this day, I still do.
I began to feel like there was a presence in the room with me, as if I was being watched. This was new for me and had not happened as I had always felt there was a barrier before that kept anything spooky, out. This feeling slowly grew over a period of three days. It was on the fourth night when, I had went to brush my teeth, I heard a voice whisper directly in my ear "Jennifer". Frightened I quickly ran and jumped in bed. That night was the most difficult night of all.
I laid there for most of the night motionless, terrified and barely breathing as this heavy energy grew. Something was next to my bed and an actual hand grabbed my right leg, holding it there. I felt pinned and at some point actually fell asleep, how I even managed to do that, I still don't know.
The next morning I decided to tell my parents what I had done with the Ouija board and what I had been experiencing at night. We decided to bring someone from the church to bless the grounds and I actually went to a youth group meeting at a church down the street before going home after school that next day. Now I will clarify here that I am spiritual and later on in this blog I will also be mentioning other ways to practice house cleansing and sharing a cleansing I performed on a friends house 5 years after this happened.
When I got into bed that night, the air was breathable once more and I was able to lay comfortably in my bed. The safe feeling had returned that I once new, so I snuggled in my bed and rolled over to face my window. My bed sat in the middle of the room, my door on my right side, my window on my left. I had a tv in my room directly in front of me and my nightlight was next to my door on the right side of my room.
So as I lay, facing my window on the left side of my room, blinds completely shut I began to see a whiteish-blue light pulsating on my wall. I didn't think anything of it immediately but it did dawn on me that it was getting kind of bright, I wondered if the light from my dads television down the hall, in the living room could be causing this pulsating of light in my room. So I sat up and began to turn, to face the right side of my room, when there at the foot of my bed was the most blinding ball of white light. I was stunned and frozen but somehow was able to break this sense of hypnotism and reached out toward this pulsating light. However, as soon as I moved it disappeared like it was never there in the first place. All I was left with, was this over whelming sense of peace that I have never felt before or since that night.
Just in case your wondering as well, nothing ever came in my room again after that.
I started reading Poe when I was around twelve and was able to recite The Raven and Tell Tale Heart by the time I was fifteen. I always felt different since I was very small, as my world was vastly different from many others.
The world I have come to know, is full of monsters and things that most would consider fantasy or the workings of an over active imagination. However, it is those who bravely stand beside me, that come to learn the truth, that these things, are very, very real.
I had just moved from my crib to my big girl bed, I remember how vastly different it felt. Large and less...safe. I remember for many years laying in my bed looking out into the hallway after my parents had gone to sleep. I would hear footsteps and sometimes see a ghostly hand gripping the corner of the wall. Luckily this is where it would stop, it was as if I was able to create some type of barrier that allowed me to stay safe in my room.
It is late though and in my regular fashion I don't normally sleep at night, maybe I am part vampire haha. However, I don't want to share to much at this hour, I am not up for late night visitors, but I thought I would give you all a smallish introduction.


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Edward Snowden (L) during an interview in December 2013 in Moscow, Russia and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (L) at Milk Studios on April 5, 2014 in Hollywood, California. (Barton Gellman/Michael Buckner/Getty Images)
Five Myths About Edward Snowden The Movie Reinforces
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
Last week I watched "Snowden." Before I share my thoughts, I should admit: I don't particularly like Edward Snowden. I find treason and stolen valor to be major turn-offs.
Now, I like to bring attention to men and women who are exceptionally spirited in pursuit of the good and at great sacrifice to themselves. It's right for societies to pile praise on those who demonstrate courage and self-sacrifice, especially when we catch folks doing this who clearly did not set out to do it with the expectation of being praised.
Snowden's infamous thieving of highly classified intelligence and subsequent cowering in the bosom of authoritarian Russia while seeking international fame is the opposite of this. He has demonstrated a long history of lying, exaggerating, cheating, quitting, and self-promoting, and it culminated in the crime he is now known for in which he sacrificed the good (and almost certainly lives) for the sake of personal glory. Hollywood is eager to give it to him.
After I saw the "Snowden" trailer, I didn't shy from passing judgment on the whole film. It's clear from the trailer that Oliver Stone created a movie to try to earn Snowden favor from the public, possibly with the goal of helping him win clemency. But, out of curiosity, I decided to watch the film.
This Could At Least Present the Best Case for Snowden
Besides, it could still be entertaining, right? Even if it's not accurate and leaves out the most critical details, it could be exciting, have sympathetic, interesting characters, and maybe even get us thinking about some of the complexities related to government's role in protecting the country and honoring privacy protections.
After all, Attorney General Eric Holder did say, "We can certainly argue about the way in which Snowden did what he did, but I think that he actually performed a public service by raising the debate that we engaged in and by the changes that we made." I disagree this is what Snowden did, but thought maybe this movie, in an entertaining, artistic way, could make this case in as persuasive a way as only a $50 million budget can.
But no, it did not. The movie is stuffed full of overt attempts to force the viewer to see Snowden as benevolent, patriotic, brilliant, humble … you get the point. It's over the top, literally unbelievable, and its lefty "America stinks" moralizing gets annoying. (One lesson preached to us in a particular scene is that our intelligence community employees should probably do some introspection after reflecting on the Nuremburg trials. Nuremburg? Come on, Stone.)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Edward Snowden) plays an awkward fellow who laughs at jokes told at his expense and demurs when his photography-obsessed girlfriend (played by Shailene Woodley) weirdly insists on taking close-ups of him while they stroll. She's mostly obsessed with taking and displaying nude or revealing photos of herself. I don't know much about the real Lindsay Mills, but for her sake, let's hope this was a severely underdeveloped character.
The movie hits hard on Snowden's military "service," and I wish I had counted the number of times the word "access" was used to describe how much trust the National Security Agency leadership had in Snowden, or the number of times Snowden name-dropped senior officials he had spoken to. (We get it, Ed. You had a photo op with former NSA head Michael Hayden. This means nothing.)
Add the silly dramatic camera angles, including one in which the villain, Snowden's NSA mentor played by Rhys Ifans, is on a giant computer screen, face really close to the camera, talking down to the comparatively little, innocent, bright-eyed Ed Snowden. The result was a hokey, eye-roll-inducing, predictably leftist public relations film for the real Ed, complete with a melodramatic cameo from the habitual quitter and serial liar himself.
Having established that the movie is an entertainment dud, let's move on to five myths it peddles, and then I'll say one nice thing about it to end on a positive note.
Myth One: Snowden was super extra careful about the kind of intelligence he stole and exercised Solomonic wisdom in how and to whom he released it to.
In the movie, Snowden is portrayed as one who, although willing to "blow the whistle" on the less popular aspects of NSA surveillance, was really judicious about handling intelligence. For example, in the movie he was extra careful about protecting his passwords from the journalists he gives the stolen classified data to, and, after sharing a massive amount of intelligence with them, he dramatically "deletes" what he stole, claiming he no longer possesses it.
In reality, the government believes Snowden stole 1.77 million NSA files, and of that, he gave about 200,000 files related to surveillance and the metadata program most people associate with Snowden to reporters Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. The rest of the data had to do with a variety of the most highly sensitive military technologies and military and cyber operations. According to reports, both Russia and China obtained those files, and one doesn't have to speculate too hard about how.
Myth Two: Snowden is a paragon of loyalty and stick-to-it-iveness.
The movie would have you believe Snowden became disenchanted with the expansive powers of the intelligence world, but he was so sucked in and the NSA needed him so badly, he just couldn't leave. Actually, a quick scan of Snowden's resume suggests he had the attention span of a gnat and is perfectly happy calling it quits.
I have a hard time imagining someone hiring him at Staples. The only thing consistent is his inability to finish anything. He didn't finish high school, he didn't finish community college, tried his hand at the Army Reserves and washed out after four months of training, tried community college again and quit. A year after that he scored a job as a security guard at the University of Maryland's Center for Advanced Study of Language.
Evidently the center has connections to the intel world, and after a micro-second of a stint there he parlayed that gig into an information-technology job with the Central Intelligence Agency. He was able to hold on to this job until his employer suspected him of trying to break into classified files. From there he hopped over to private contractors. While with Dell he was a subcontractor in an NSA office. He was only there a very short time before moving over to Booz Allen, another NSA subcontracting gig, until he fled the country three months later after copying all those NSA files.
Myth Three: Snowden cares so very much about civil liberties.
Throughout the movie, we see the Snowden character "evolve" from a patriotic guy uninterested in dissing President Bush or the wars in Iraq to an "enlightened" liberal whose heart aches for innocent Americans (and non-Americans being spied on overseas) who have not consented to having the NSA scoop up their metadata. In one scene his girlfriend cheers on his "inner liberal."
If Snowden really cared about civil liberties, fleeing to China and then Russia, two countries directly undermining the United States and with no "civil liberty" protections to speak of, is a pretty bizarre way to prove it. For a great defender of government criticism, Russia is especially an interesting place to call home now—you know, the country where dissidents and outspoken critics of the government die violently, mysteriously, and young.
Also, as already covered, Snowden didn't just reveal the domestic metadata program. He stole files that have nothing to do with questions of U.S. civil liberties.
Myth Four: Snowden was a very special, beloved, senior employee of the National Security Agency.
The movie hits the "access" theme hard and would have you believe Snowden was a very senior, indispensable, and well-liked NSA employee. In fact, Snowden was a low-level employee of NSA subcontractors, and it sure seems like he didn't know about the programs he had sought to reveal.
In fact, Snowden was a low-level employee of NSA subcontractors. According to the bipartisan congressional report on his security breach, "It is also not clear Snowden understood the numerous privacy protections that govern the activities of the IC. He failed basic annual training for NSA employees on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and complained the training was rigged to be overly difficult. This training included explanations of the privacy protections related to the PRISM program that Snowden would later disclose."
Moreover, in refuting Snowden's claims that he tried to report abuse of the law, the same report revealed "his only contact to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Inspector General (IG) revolved around his disagreements with his managers about training and retention of information technology specialists." Sounds like he had some disharmony with human resources.
Myth Five: Snowden's Army "service" is something to write home about.
Snowden was "in the Army" for four months. He acquired shin splints during his initial training, which is at least partly why he washed out. The movie plays his Army "service" up pretty hard, even portraying him as a good marksman—a skill he acquired from the U.S. Army. Considering his penchant for quitting everything he started, it's not unfair to assume the Army just didn't hold Snowden's tiny attention span. Also, boot camp is hard. Oh, and it demands respect for authority, so not really Ed's cup of tea.
One nice thing about the film, as promised: at one point towards the end of the movie Snowden waxes poetic about what he perceives as America's wickedness. He laments that rather than merely playing defense against those countries currently trying to harm the United States, it was as if the NSA's goal was maintaining "American supremacy."
In doing so, the movie cuts to the chase. There isn't a particular NSA program, narrow in scope but vast in its security violations, that keeps Oliver Stone's Snowden up at night. It's the NSA's very mission: maintaining global superiority for the United States. It's what all Americans should and for the most part do expect out of our government. This little nugget is the gem of the film.
Edward Snowden is no courageous, sacrificial champion for the little guy, civil liberties, or freedom. Rather, he's a threat to them. Hollywood's best attempt just can't convincingly make him a hero.
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Ghana Receives Budget Support 4/26/2007
The Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Hon. Anthony Akoto Osei has revealed that Ghana has for the past four years received close to 1,148.93 billion cedis from donor agencies. Hon Akoto Osei said that these monies came from bilateral and multilateral development partners.
These included Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan and the US, among others. He added that the monies were targeted at key sectors of the Ghanaian economy. To ensure that the monies were used for their intended purposes a Multi Donor Budget Support conducts periodic evaluation. The evaluations are done by Oversees Development Institute and Centre for Democratic Development.
He again stated that about 40 percent of the donor support came with conditions regarding the acceleration of growth in key areas of the economy, these included education, health and legislature among others. Akoto Osei emphasized that the development partners have for the past four years shown their commitment towards government's agenda by contributing 249.9 million dollars in 2004; 281.88 million dollars in 2005; 312.12 million dollars in 2006 and 112 million dollars.
He was of the view that the country is on course to attract more development partners to help develop other sectors of the economy.
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Wayzata High School student critical with COVID-19
Her family is detailing her battle with coronavirus and urging people to follow public health guidelines to prevent the spread of the virus.
Melissa Turtinen
Credit: Go Fund Me
A Wayzata High School student is hospitalized in critical care with COVID-19.
According to a GoFundMe page, 17-year-old Ella Winston tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 30 and was admitted to Children's Hospital in Minneapolis on Nov. 1.
The next day, she was moved to the intensive-care unit (ICU) "due to major complications with COVID."
Ella, a member of the Wayzata Trojets dance team, went to the hospital with several symptoms, including severe cough, sore throat, full-body rash, chest pain, and a temperature of 104.5, the page says. It was determined she had kidney failure, dangerously low blood pressure, a UTI and a staph infection.
In the past eight days, Ella has been sedated a few times for examinations and has been placed on oxygen and several medications to help with her pain, low blood pressure, staph infection, and UTI. She was also placed on Remdesivir to try to treat the coronavirus.
"Unfortunately COVID has turned on Ella, which is causing more serious problems for her than they normally see in children," Ella's mom, Sarah Winston, said in an update that was posted to the page on Nov. 5. "Which has caused the pneumonia, kidney failure, liver distress, and heart failure. It's a lot. On top of all that the bacterial staph infection has caused havoc on her poor body."
By Sunday, her eighth day in the hospital, Ella was moved out of the ICU and placed in a critical care room.
In Sunday's update, Winston said Ella was put on a heart medication that she'll be on for the next six months and she'll have to follow-up with a cardiologist in the future.
"Who knew getting COVID, you'd end up with a cardiologist?," Winston said in Sunday's update. "Well, who knew my very healthy teenage daughter would end up in the ICU from COVID either? Certainly, not me."
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Winston is also using her daughter's experience with COVID-19 to urge others to follow public health guidance.
"Please, please I can't stress this enough ... stay home if you are sick," Winston wrote. "Quarantine for two weeks if you were exposed to someone who tests positive for Covid. This means even without symptoms and/or a negative COVID test. This is so important. Please do the right thing."
Winston's message echos what state public health officials have been stressing for weeks as Minnesota sees COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge across the state.
Last week, state health officials called Minnesota's COVID-19 situation dire, noting too few are taking the proper precautions to stop the spread of the virus. The state has said it's hoping to avoid another lockdown, but they need people to follow public health guidance, such as washing your hands, wearing a mask, social distancing and avoiding large groups.
"If Minnesotans were following the guidance that currently exists, we wouldn't need further dialbacks, but just given the fact we've not seen those behavior changes, we just need to keep getting that message out," Kris Ehresmann, the state's director of infectious diseases, said Friday.
On Sunday, the state of Minnesota reported nearly 6,000 new cases of COVID-19, breaking the state's record for single-day case numbers – a record that has been broken several times in the past week. Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 180,862 lab-confirmed cases in Minnesota and 2,656 deaths.
COVID-19 at Wayzata schools
The Wayzata Public Schools District, which is currently using hybrid learning, has seen 73 positive COVID-19 cases among all students and staff in the district since Sept. 14, according to Wayzata Public School's COVID-19 dashboard, which is updated on Wednesdays. That includes 25 new COVID-19 cases in the district in the week ending on Nov. 4 – the highest since the district started reporting case numbers.
The district is only reporting which schools have cases if there have been five or more cases in a seven-day period. Only one school in the district has reached that threshold – Sunset Hill Elementary School in Plymouth, which had six people test positive the week ending Nov. 4.
Meanwhile, 214 students and staff in the district were quarantining as of Nov. 4, including 15 people at Wayzata High School.
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Туров Нисан (, Несвиж — 29 марта 1953, Нью-Йорк) — израильский педагог, литератор и журналист. Первый редактор газеты «Га-Арец», основатель и первый директор Педагогического колледжа Левинского в Тель-Авиве, директор учительского колледжа в Бостоне и профессор Еврейского теологического института в Нью-Йорке.

Биография
Туров Нисан родился в Несвиже в купеческой семье. Родители:  Шмуэль-Лейба Туров и Зисл-Лея Меклер. Получил традиционное еврейское образование, русский язык осваивал с частным учителем. В 12 лет переехал с родителями в Москву, где посещал художественную школу (будучи в ней единственным учеником-евреем вплоть до 1890 года, когда евреи были выселены из Москвы). После окончания еврейского педагогического училища в Вильне был назначен директором и учителем в школе для еврейских детей в городе Высоко-Литовск. Продолжил учёбу в Европе — изучал педагогику и экспериментальную психологию в Лейпцигском университете, также проходил курсы в школе при Йенском университете. В 1906 году окончил Лозаннский университет, получив степень доктора литературы.

В 1907 году эмигрировал в Палестину. Был директором женской школы в Яффе. В 1912 году Туров стал одним из основателей женского педагогического училища в Яффе (позже Педагогический колледж Левинского). Во время 1-й мировой войны продолжал преподавать в педагогическом училище и добился его повторного открытия после того, как его закрыли турецкие власти; он также возглавлял в Палестине Комитет просвещения. Издавал педагогический журнал «Га-Хинух» (с 1912 года) и ежедневную газету «Га-Арец». С 1919 года Туров проживал в США, работал в издательстве «Стайбел паблишинг компани». Один из основателей Еврейского учительского колледжа в Бостоне (1921) и его первый ректор. В 1926—1932 годах профессор еврейской литературы в Еврейском институте религии  в Нью-Йорке. В конце 1930-х годов был приглашён Менахемом Усышкиным в качестве профессора на педагогический факультет Еврейского университета в Иерусалиме, но менее чем через год вернулся в Нью-Йорк.

Скончался в марте 1953 года в Нью-Йорке. Похоронен на Старом кладбище Тель-Авива.

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Педагоги Израиля
Похороненные на кладбище Трумпельдор

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Q: Python pySerial on Raspberry Pi Zero W: detecting a disconnected serial device In my project, there's a Raspberry Pi Zero W, linked with Arduino Pro Micro over the serial TX/RX lines (through 5 - 3.3V logic level converter). At power-on, the Arduino starts sending "are you there" command over the serial, until Pi has finished booting and launched a python program that listens on serial port, and it replies with "yes". Then Arduino proceeds with sending regular updates with sensor data.
For some reason not yet understood, the Arduino can disconnect and reboot, while the Pi is still running. And, for some reason, the connection on the Python end is severed in a way that does not raise exception if connection.in_waiting is read.
import serial
import time
ser = serial.Serial('/dev/serial0')
ser.baudrate = 9600
cmd = b''
while True:
  time.sleep(1)
  print(ser.is_open)
  while ser.in_waiting:
    ch = ser.read()
    if ch == b'\n':
      print('New command:', cmd)
      cmd = b''
      ser.write(b'OK\n')
      continue
    else:
      cmd = cmd + ch

I have tested with this simple code, but in my tests, if I disconnect the Arduino and connect it back, the ser.is_open never is False, and the old connection works just fine also with reconnected Arduino. So, unfortunately I can not exactly replicate the loss of connection scenario when the data stop coming after disconnection. However, in order to investigate further, I'd like to add some monitoring code that would log serial disconnection incidents in file. But is there a way? If connection.is_open is always true, even without Arduino connected, then how one can detect if there is no connection?

A: The port remains open if there's a disconnection so your example code will loop continuously.
import serial

def connect(port):
    return serial.Serial(port, baudrate=9600, timeout=1)

ser = connect('/dev/serial0')
buf = bytearray()
while True:
    i = buf.find(b'\n')
    if i >= 0:
        buf = buf[i + 1:]
        ser.write('OK\n')

    num_bytes = max(1, min(1024, ser.in_waiting))
    data = ser.read(num_bytes)
    if data:
        buf.extend(data)
    else:
        # no data to read aka disconnection has occurred
        ser = connect('/dev/serial0')
        if ser.isOpen():
            continue
        else:
            # could not reconnect
            break

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Child stars Mara Wilson and Dylan Sprouse speak out about hazards of child fame
Two child stars, in the era of Bynes and Bieber, break their silence on why they quit the game
By Daniel D'Addario
May 29, 2013 10:18PM (UTC)
Mara Wilson (Facebook/Ari Scott Photography)
Though the names are different, former child stars are once again dominating the news cycle; plus ça change. The former-Disney-girls-gone-wild milieu of "Spring Breakers" earlier in the season, Justin Bieber's ongoing decompensation in the public eye, and the sad legal saga of Amanda Bynes have replaced late-2000s crises of varying magnitude like Britney Spears' paparazzi chases to nowhere and Miley Cyrus' Vanity Fair spread as topics of conversation.
Today, though, two different former child stars have spoken out about why they walked away from the spotlight.
Mara Wilson, who appeared in films including "Matilda" and "Mrs. Doubtfire" in the 1990s, wrote an essay about the "7 Reasons Child Stars Go Crazy" for Cracked; Wilson has left acting, attended NYU, and is pursuing a writing career. Wilson recalls incidents like a red carpet reporter asking her, at 7 years old, about Hugh Grant's prostitution arrest, and finding her own image on a foot fetish website. "If you ever need to convince someone not to get their kid into show business, inform them that it's still legal in several places to Photoshop a child's head onto a nude adult body. Sexual exploitation is just part of the package," writes Wilson.
It's a chilling read, though Wilson evidently got out of child fame with a fair amount of perspective. She cites her time at NYU -- comparable to other former child stars' time at Yale (Claire Danes) or Harvard (Natalie Portman) -- as granting her a real life; compare this to Bynes' recent allegation that her parents had used her as a piggy bank.
Meanwhile, via Gawker, Dylan Sprouse, one of two brothers who starred in the Disney Channel's "Suite Life of Zack and Cody," explained his decision to depart the lucrative series -- for which they'd hoped to film one year with some creative control, and then allow the crew to continue working with a new star. Disney executives "came back to us and they're like, 'Well, we said no to your idea, let us pitch you our idea that we came up with for the next season.' [...] 'Zack goes to work in Miami with Cody, they go to this hotel, and Selena Gomez is there and there's this kid who has a single dad and you guys raise him up like he's this prodigy of yours. You don't get producer credits.'
"They pitched us our idea, in Miami, with Selena Gomez."
Sprouse and his twin brother, Cole, having blown off the Disney Corp.'s attempt to keep tight control over its stars, are now also studying at NYU. Gomez, on the other hand, recently declared her independence in the bikinis-and-machine-guns "Spring Breakers." "Disney is a machine, and I'm grateful for it, but I feel like being part of that environment made me crave the reaction from other projects even more. Creatively this is where I wanted to go," said Gomez upon the film's release.
What's a child star -- forced into situations without any creative control and into adult situations (the essayist Dan Savage has remarked upon the advanced-placement sexuality of "Zack and Cody") -- to do?
"If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan," wrote Wilson, "I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something."
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Setleis Syndrome
Setleis Syndrome. In: Bissonnette B, Luginbuehl I, Engelhardt T. Bissonnette B, & Luginbuehl I, & Engelhardt T(Eds.),Eds. Bruno Bissonnette, et al.eds. Syndromes: Rapid Recognition and Perioperative Implications, 2e. McGraw-Hill; Accessed January 18, 2021. https://accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2674&sectionid=220544635
Setleis syndrome. Bissonnette B, Luginbuehl I, Engelhardt T. Bissonnette B, & Luginbuehl I, & Engelhardt T(Eds.),Eds. Bruno Bissonnette, et al. (2019). Syndromes: Rapid Recognition and Perioperative Implications, 2e. McGraw-Hill. https://accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2674&sectionid=220544635
"Setleis Syndrome." Syndromes: Rapid Recognition and Perioperative Implications, 2e Bissonnette B, Luginbuehl I, Engelhardt T. Bissonnette B, & Luginbuehl I, & Engelhardt T(Eds.),Eds. Bruno Bissonnette, et al. McGraw-Hill, 2019, https://accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2674&sectionid=220544635.
Focal facial dermal dysplasia with bitemporal lesions, periauricular or periorbital scar-like depressions of the skin with absent or multiple rows of eyelashes.
Focal Facial Dermal Dysplasia Type III; Bitemporal Forceps Marks Syndrome; FFDD Type III.
Extremely rare, first described in eight patients from Puerto Rico. Later reported also from other countries.
Autosomal recessive.
Homozygous TWIST2 frameshift mutation histological analysis of the skin lesions demonstrates mesodermal dysplasia, characterized by loss of subcutaneous fat and almost complete continuity between the epidermis and underlying skeletal muscle. Areas of skin puckering are caused by hypoplasia of the corium and subcutaneous fat.
Clinical features and skin biopsy.
Setleis Syndrome is characterized by an aged, leonine facial appearance, puckered skin around the eyes with periorbital fullness, and absent or multiple rows of eyelashes. Flat nasal bridge, bulbous nasal tip, and big lips. Redundant facial soft tissue. These patients also show characteristic bitemporal skin marks (original description noted similarity to obstetric "forceps marks"). An association of Setleis Syndrome has been suggested with imperforate anus, megaureter, bifid scrotum, and supernumerary nipples has been reported. Initially, these patients were reported to have normal mental development, but now several reports about learning difficulties and epilepsy in these patients exist.
Reports suggest that the epidermis overlying the lesions may be more susceptible to injury following trauma. Careful padding of the affected regions against pressure and trauma during anesthesia is therefore recommended.
There are no known pharmacological implications with this condition.
☞Brauer Syndrome: The main finding in this autosomal dominant inherited syndrome is a wrinkling or puckering of the skin at the temples. In addition, some patients had guttate areas on the lateral aspects of their forehead and chin. It seems to be more common than Setleis Syndrome (FFDD III), existing in three large kindreds (in Australia, Germany, and England).
☞Adams-Oliver Syndrome: Very rare inherited disorder characterized by defects of the scalp associated with multiple scarred and hairless areas that usually have dilated blood vessel directly under the skin. Scalp defects are already present at birth. The extremities are either short (hypoplastic fingers and toes) or characterized by absent hands and lower legs. Congenital heart defect must be ruled out.
☞Aplasia Cutis Congenita: Most often inherited disorder with circumscribed or more extensive skin lesions, which may also involve underlying tissues. Neurological and cardiac anomalies have also been described in these patients.
☞Cutis Marmorata Telangiectatica Congenita: Congenital cutaneous disorder with persistent cutis marmorata, telangiectasia, and phlebectasia. Often reported in ...


Broadchurch: What did DI Alec Hardy's NHS letter say?
I am writing to you on behalf of South Wessex NHS Trust regarding your fast approaching procedure. I am pleased to confirm your test results came back positive so we are able to continue this process. As you are already aware this is a very important issue which we believe needs to be addressed now to stop the condition from getting worse. We deal with each case individually and try to accommodate your personal needs as best we can. Appointments can be changed however in your case we recommend the procedure go ahead as soon as possible.
A follow-up letter will be sent shortly to discuss what happens next. If you need to speak to a doctor please call the number at the top of this letter to receive confidential advice on the phone. Our office hours are 10am – 4:30pm Monday to Friday. We also have more information on our website about NHS Trust Procedures.
Anything that is asked or talked about is always confidential.
So, Hardy is suffering from "a very important issue which… needs to be addressed now to stop the condition from getting worse". His doctor even reiterates that "we recommend the procedure go ahead as soon as possible".
It's clearly an acute problem which could threaten his health in the near future but the fact that there is an operation that can help sounds like a positive, depending on how serious the procedure itself is. It still raises plenty of questions, though.
How soon will Hardy be forced to have the operation? Will it take place during Joe Miller's trial, and therefore during the series? If so, how long will Hardy be out of action? Or will he jeopardise his health further by postponing the op until he's solved Sandbrook, the case that still haunts him?


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Paddling still common outside metro Atlanta
By Shannon Mccaffrey
School districts in Georgia reported more than 16,000 incidents of paddling last year. More than a quarter of the incidents occurred in four school districts, with Laurens County topping the list at about 1,500 and Coffee County in fourth with about 800 incidents. The districts were:
1. Laurens County Schools, Dublin area
2. Muscogee County School District, Columbus area
3. Grady County Schools, Cairo area
4. Coffee County School District, Douglas area
Corporal punishment is still going strong in some rural Georgia schools, where educators paddled students more than 16,000 times last year.
No traditional public school in Atlanta and nine nearby school districts has paddled a child since at least 2007, but corporal punishment is used in more than half of the state's 180 school districts, according to discipline data analyzed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Corporal punishment makes up only a fraction of other disciplinary measures used, such as in-school and out of school suspension.
Atlantans may consider thick wooden paddles wielded by educators to be an anachronism, but numbers obtained from the Georgia Department of Education show that 97 school districts last year adhered to that axiom about sparing the rod and spoiling the child.
The conflicting views about paddling would seem to highlight opposing notions of child-rearing and discipline: On one side are those who believe it's important to show kids who's boss; on the other are parents who prefer to talk it out.
However, interviews by the AJC indicate another factor in the acceptance, or rejection, of corporal punishment in schools: some parents who said they oppose paddling in school are fine with spanking their own children at home. They just don't want a stranger doing it. In some parts of the state, teachers and principals are not considered strangers.
"They can't abuse your child because you're going to see them at Wal-Mart," said Chantelle Pace, a parent in Coffee County. Her child's school, Westside Elementary, reported 53 paddlings last year. Pace moved from Washington, D.C. several years ago and said she would have opted out of corporal punishment in that big-city school system. She said she's okay with paddling in Coffee County, though, because of the close communication between teachers and parents.
A 2007 poll by ABC News found similar nuanced views toward physical punishment. Respondents, by a 2-1 margin, approved of spanking children, but 72 percent disapproved of corporal punishment in schools.
A growing body of research suggests hitting kids is ineffective and even counterproductive.
Katherine Raczynski, the director of the Safe and Welcoming Schools project at the University of Georgia, said the literature indicates that corporal punishment is no more effective than other forms of discipline yet detracts from learning. It is associated with aggression, depression and lower cognitive performance, she said.
Most of the country has banned corporal punishment in schools. Georgia is among 19 states, most of them in the South, that still allow it, according to the Center for Effective Discipline in Ohio. The organization promotes alternatives to paddling, and maintains that corporal punishment contradicts classroom lessons about non-violence. Program director Deborah Sendek said she also worries about the risk of physical harm to children.
"How do you know how to paddle?" Sendek said. "How hard do you hit? How far back do you bring the paddle? How do you make sure you get it on the bottom? Do you know about your weight and strength? That's a lot of risk to take."
Proponents, though, say paddling is essential for discipline and order in the classroom.
Jim Buntin, a former superintendent of the Muscogee County School District, in the Columbus area south of Atlanta, said he saw the benefits of paddling during his three-decade education career. It changed behavior faster than any other punishment, he said.
"People say you're abusing children. That's not the case," Buntin said. "I am not here to abuse you. I am here to educate you."
Muscogee County was, until recently, one of the last places an unruly kid would want to attend school: since 2011, the district has had the second-highest incidence of paddling in Georgia, outranked only by Laurens County, also south of Atlanta. (Grady County ranked third, just ahead of Coffee County.)
But the tide overtaking the country swept over Muscogee earlier this year, when the district banned corporal punishment.
The prohibition came after a parent complained to police about bruising suffered by her daughter, allegedly due to paddling by a school administrator.
The district has not said the change was in reaction to that widely-publicized incident, but Tremaine Reese, who works for a group that pushed for an end to paddling in Muscogee, said it might have been a catalyst. He said the reasons behind the about-face were manifold.
Reese, who is a deputy director with Georgia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, an advocacy group for low-income Georgians, said the school administration seemed to be influenced by the national trend away from corporal punishment, by research presented by groups like his and by "an outcry from the public."
Interviews with parents in Muscogee showed a mix of opinions about corporal punishment. Some, such as Kemescha Carter, were fine with it. She said she spanked her son and warned his friends' parents that she'd spank their kids, too, if they misbehaved in her home. She said the alternative to corporal punishment was chaos.
"It causes a disruption in the classroom, and everybody else can't learn," she said. "My mom spanked me. I came out alright."
Others though, adamantly opposed corporal punishment.
Haley Hays said she was paddled in school and it didn't change her behavior.
"Let the parent handle it. There are other ways," Hays said. "As they're getting older, you can hurt them worse by taking the computer."
That hands-off approach is gradually winning out in Georgia, with schools turning to other disciplinary methods. (One near downtown Atlanta relies on breathing techniques to calm misbehaving children.) The incidence of corporal punishment has dropped more than 50 percent since 2007, when there were more than 37,000 cases, according to the state numbers.
Georgia law leaves it up to school boards to prohibit or allow corporal punishment, though it imposes requirements, like an official witness and transparency with parents. Students must be informed in advance that specific actions can lead to paddling or they have to have done something "so antisocial or disruptive in nature as to shock the conscience." Also, it's illegal to paddle a child who goes to school with a doctor's statement that corporal punishment would be "detrimental to the child's mental or emotional stability."
One clause in the law may explain the gradual decline of paddling in Georgia schools: Principals and teachers are protected from criminal and civil liability only if the blows they administer are not deemed "excessive or unduly severe."
Educators fear lawsuits over corporal punishment, and for good reason. Earlier this year, the parents of a Tennessee boy who was paddled eight times for throwing crayons and rocks filed a lawsuit seeking $1.7 million. The parents of the boy, 5 at the time, say the paddling was excessive and that he sustained bruises.
Such lessons aren't lost on districts such as DeKalb County. The state discipline data show no incidents of paddling there in the last seven years, yet Ron Ramsey, the school district's chief legal officer, said the school board didn't ban corporal punishment until about a year ago.
"We now no longer allow it, but for years we never used it because of concern for litigation," Ramsey said. "Some parents just don't want anyone to touch their kids."
Parents like Keith Miller.
He grew up in the 1970s, and still remembers the wooden paddle that connected with his buttocks: it was thick, with drilled holes. Miller said he has spanked his son but prefers other forms of punishment, like taking away freedoms. "I like being able to talk with him and have a relationship with him," he said.
Like other parents who were waiting to pick up their kids at Henderson Middle School in DeKalb on a recent afternoon, Miller was surprised to learn that paddling is still legal — and widely practiced — in Georgia.
It shouldn't be, he said. That kind of discipline "worked for us, but in this day and time it would probably be seen as abuse." He thought about it a second, then added: "It was probably abuse back then."
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These are the adorable cards we made at our Memory Keepers Class this month!!
This simple card starts with a Sahara Sand card base, then we added that cute, gingham paper to the card. The gingham paper is one of the cards (trimmed down to 4 x 5 1/4") found in the Little Moments Project Life Card Collection. This card collection is on the retiring list - it's 50% off now and only available while supplies last!!
Next, we stamped "hello you" from the Regarding Dahlias stamp set in Sahara Sand ink on one of our smaller cards from our Little Moments Project Life Card Collection. This stamp set is also on the retiring list. This is one of my favorite stamp sets (check out that dahlia!) - I'm sad to see it go!!
This particular card collection has a "baby" feel to it, but it can certainly be used for lots of other purposes (as seen on the card above!). Most of the cards in the collection have one side that is more generic than the other, so that you can customize it as needed!
Next, we added a strip of Sahara Sand Lace Trim to the card (isn't it gorgeous??), along with a Pistachio Pudding flower punched with the Flower Medallion Punch.
We also punched a Whisper White 1 1/4" Scallop Circle punch and a 1" Sahara Sand Circle Punch and adhered them to the center of the flower.
Finally, we added a Neutrals Collection Button (in Whisper White) tied with one of the strands from the White Jute Ribbon. Check out the technique for making the strands of ribbon here.
Our next card starts with a Pumpkin Pie card base, then we add another card from our Little Moments Project Life Card Collection (also trimmed down to 4 x 5 1/4").
We also added a bow tied with the super-soft Painted Blooms Cotton Twine around the card, along with that cute "precious" tag from the Little Moments Project Life Accessory Pack.
This Accessory Pack comes with: embossed specialty cards, 8 vellum stickers, 2 die-cut elements sheets (including the "precious" tag), 12 wooden elements (see the cute diaper safety pin on the next below!), 20 candy dots, 30 sequins and washi tape! This Accessory Pack is on the retiring list and is on sale for only $4.98 - it's only available while supplies last!!
This "precious" tag is mounted on a Sahara Sand 1" Circle, which is mounted on a Wild Wasabi 1 1/4" Scallop Circle - too cute!!
Finally, we punched a Sahara Sand Elegant Butterfly and a Wild Wasabi Bitty Butterfly and added them to the top of the card. A little Pistachio Pudding candy dot from the Accessory Pack is the finishing touch!
Our last card starts with a So Saffron Card Base, then we added those cute rubber duckies (from one of the cards in the Little Moments Card Collection).
We also cut a Sahara Sand piece to layer behind the "hello little one" card, just to make it stand out a bit against the rubber duckies!
Next, we tied some more of the strands of White Jute Ribbon through the diaper safety pin and added it to the card with Glue Dots. Finally, we added 3 mini candy dots to the card for our finishing touch!! These mini candy dots can be found in the Little Moments Project Life Accessory Pack.
I hope you enjoyed these cards!! Thanks so much to Ronda Wade for her inspiration on these cards!!
If you'd like to join us at our next Memory Keepers Class, we meet the 2nd to last Thursday of every month from 6-9pm. Check out all the details on this great class here!
The next class meets on Thursday, May 21!!
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Q: Mellanox Drivers Need Contract? I have a small Mellanox SAN for an ESXi lab. I've been running ESXi 5.1 on it, so I decided to experiment with 5.5 and 6.0 to get experience. When I went to the drivers at http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=36 it said:

NOTE: To obtain the driver for ESXi 5.X v1.8.2.4, please contact
  support@mellanox.com.

So, I contacted support, and got this reply:

According to our records, we could not locate any valid contract for
  you.

How does one get the drivers legitimately without a support contract for noncommercial purposes?

A: I contacted Mellanox support and told them that I needed the drivers for my lab and noncommercial use. They were kind enough to provide me with a download link.


Been working on a clock feature for PT5's major chapters. There may not be any more PXT updates for a while because I want to get PT5 done and released before I start spending most of my (game-developing) time working on that.
Every chapter in-game lasts 24 hours. An in-game minute passes every fifth of a second, and therefore an hour passes every twelve seconds. This means a chapter lasts 288 seconds, or just under five minutes (4.8 minutes to be exact), to complete (assuming Jawlock, APPARITION, Nursina or whoever haven't killed you yet).
My main issue is the minutes section. Since Stencyl won't allow me to place a zero in front of a single-digit number, the clock may read something like "12:7pm" or "3:4am". I'm going to fix this, but I need to keep waiting to make sure the game switches scenes after reaching midnight a second time (as each chapter starts at midnight).
The concept of a clock is good.
Why is stencyl not allowing you to place a zero?
The "clock" is just written, showing the player the time, which will allow them to figure out how long they still need to progress.
It's a weird thing about number attributes. This can be fixed in the drawing event by checking whether the Minute attribute is lower than ten, and if so drawing a colon and a zero in front of a minute instead of just a colon e.g. "Hour & :0 & Minute & AM/PM".
Hour and Minute are my two number attributes for this, AM/PM is text.
Here are some images of Jawlock when he searches for you.
1) In Campbell's Office, looking at the player.
2) In the Main Hall, looking at the door to the North Room.
3) In the North Room, looking at the entrance to the Left Hall.
After some Pixeltail work, I now have jumpscare animations for Poppytail and Easter Bunny (both are 20+ frames), Alex can now walk diagonally (after messing with a modified version of the 8 Way Movement behaviour), and I have now about twenty new sprites done (probably more).
I'm working on Poppytail 5 now, and I've nearly finished making the images for all of the empty rooms. With this and a lot more programming on the map, the process will of creating the main game's chapters should be much easier and less time consuming. I hope to have (this may be a little unrealistic, but I'll try) Chapter 1 finished by the end of the month.
When I say the process is sped up, that excludes the creation of 3D character models (which can sometimes take at least two hours, as basic and blocky as my models are). Since I have not heard from JackAttackGames about the process of the Shyyon and Vehicle Dummy models, Chapter 2 may take a while. As much as I like the idea of using 3D models to construct 2D images for a 2D game, it does take up a lot of time. Still, I don't want to rush anything in case I end up with a bad and rushed-looking game (just take a look at some of my earliest images for the game back when Nursina was light green and Exister was entirely opaque).
Since I am on a holiday and there is no wi-fi here (I am using mobile data to post on these forums), I cannot make more 3D models on Autodesk Fusion 360 because the files are stored in the cloud. When I get home, I'll try to get a few done if I have time (which may be unlikely).
In the meantime, thank you to those people who still read this thread!
Here is a devlog post I put on GameJolt. If you have a GJ account, please submit your response to the poll. The message from the post is below.
Poppytail 5 has taken multiple attempts to get… "acceptable". If you look at the Stencyl forum thread you can see that some early images I had for this project were of quite poor quality. Now I have figured out how to make everything I wanted to work properly.
The game is now working how I wanted it to, and most of my work on it has been building the map (since the mini map idea was scrapped), creating the images and the player's ability to turn around. Pretty much I'm simulating a 3D environment in a first person perspective, while the game is technically in 2D.
Still finishing up Chapter 1's code. My goal is to have a Flash version released on the Stencyl website and here on Game Jolt by the end of April. After that, it's just adding more characters each chapter. I won't release every chapter when it's finished, but the occasional demo just to show that I'm making progress whenever I become quiet on Game Jolt.
Once again, if you want any news on how any game in the canon series is going, the link to the Stencyl forum thread (which I try to post to every few days) is below.
P.S. The poll below is my question to you all of what you think I should do with my current projects. Please take the time to select one of the options.
Today is one year since I began working on the first Poppytail game (24/04/17)! Although I'm not counting this as a one year anniversary (which will be when the first game was released). On that date my goals is to have Pixeltail done.
It's good to see that I haven't given up on the series after this amount of time (like the fate of the Elecreatures series, however it's not entirely dead because of my plans for TPT Part 1). Hopefully I won't abandon this game series for another year.
Excellent news: Poppytail 5 is literally making my heart race every time I test it. So, it's working. It's even worse than PT4, and that combined with the randomised mechanics and repetitive music made me jump all the time during its creation. Everyone but APPARITION worked the way I wanted them to (however this was a matter of moving an if statement from a Created to an Updating event). I still need to program the tunnel system, however.
It's working, however everyone is faster than I am, and then they kill me. I just need to keep tweaking my behaviour attributes to slow down everyone's reaction times and speed.
Mostly just audio editing that needs doing. Nearly done Chapter 1. That'll get done tomorrow. Today I just had to get rid of some duplicate animations, free up some storage in Stencyl, create the tunnel system, and then debug it. Some more debugging is necessary but I'll also do that tomorrow.
Also I 3D modelled the tunnels, and then another enemy (although that one won't be seen in-game until the tenth and final chapter). An image of the model is included (and yes, it is a walking birthday cake, which is fitting since tomorrow is the birthday of Pirate, my dog who was the inspiration for the character Poppytail's design).
Edit: I was talking about Poppytail 4: Special Edition.
Making a Flash version of PT4, then I'll do the Special Edition. There will be a few things removed because Flash can't use shaders or close the game, plus the game is no longer in full screen. I'm still testing and fixing PT4, so hopefully that won't take too long.
-Shaders no longer appear in minigames accessed during Custom Chapter mode or Minigames Mode.
-Error Ending no longer closes game, instead transitions to menu.
Attempting to upload to Stencyl Arcade... Success!
Click here to play Poppytail 4.
Made these same changes to Poppytail 4: Special Edition.
Attempting to upload to Stencyl Arcade... Game too large.
Unused files cleaned up. Re-attempting Stencyl Arcade upload... Failure again.
Trying again... Failed again. Oh well, it doesn't matter that much if I already have the normal version up and running.
Poppytail 5 Chapter 1's nearly done. There has been some procrastination as I have been tired some days but now I've been bogged down with other work, but this won't stop me from continuing to make this.
Audio editing's done, and I hope that in the next few days I'll have something to show!
One thing that's been bothering me is a bug where Jawlock, Nursina or Exister (although for some reason this does not happen so much with Exister and not at all with APPARITION) try to kill you, the kill noise plays and the screen shakes (as normal), but the animation loops.
I used to be able to make this happen at will by entering the tunnel system during a jumpscare animation, since the way I've programmed it expects me to not be able to move (as during these animations it is impossible to turn around or go through a door), and that certain jumpscare animations will only occur in the rooms they're supposed to. Since it's playing an animation for a jumpscare that's meant to happen in one room while the player's location is the tunnel system, the game doesn't know what to do except loop the animation and wait until the 24 hours for the chapter are over. I've made it impossible to enter the tunnel system during these animations now, but this still happens sometimes. I have a theory as to why this is happening, but it's getting late and I want to go to sleep.
Thank you to anyone still reading this!
I've fixed an issue I was having when implementing a sound effect.
Left Arrow- Turn 90 degrees to the left.
Right Arrow- Turn 90 degrees to the right.
Down Arrow- Enter the tunnel system.
W Key- Go through the door directly in front of you.
A Key- Go through a door on the left of your screen.
D Key- Go through a door on the right of the screen.
The A and D keys are only really needed for entering the Main Hall for the Left and Right Halls, but I think the rest will be easier than using a touchpad to play the game (like I have been this whole time).
I think I only need to fix some animations that loop when they're not supposed to, program some sort of winning screen, add a sound effect for going through doors and crawling through tunnels, and then some more for ambience I guess. Maybe I should add subtitles for the audio recordings and enemy voice lines?
Since I've modelled the Chapter 1 enemies and JackAttackGames is nearly done with Chapter 2's enemies, I've started learning some more Autodesk Fusion 360 to create Chapter 3's models (Dingo Cool, Bad Bunny and Cinder). Here is what I have so far (note: I still have some work to do, and the metallic texture is Fusion 360's default texture).
I've changed the colour themes for some of the game pages to match their logos using Game Jolt's new option to change pages' colour themes.
Autodesk Fusion 360 generates an error whenever I try to open it, the file for Poppytail 5 on Stencyl is corrupted and Stencyl only makes a .zip with two blank text files when I try to generate logs.
I have a recent back-up, luckily, but this may slow down my progress.


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Healthy Kids of Seinäjoki
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Cooperation label
The cooperation label is awarded to organisations applying for it who promote the well-being and health of children, young people and families with children through their own activities.
Promoting the well-being of children, young people and families with children is a joint task. The operations of companies, organisations and other associations play a major role in promoting and maintaining the well-being of the city's residents. That's why various organisations are an important part of Healthy Kids of Seinäjoki (HKS), as well.
Companies, organisations and other associations can apply for the Healthy Kids of Seinäjoki cooperation label. The label says that through their operations, the company or organisation promotes the well-being of children, young people and families.
The cooperation label is managed by the City of Seinäjoki and granted by the HKS Steering Group set up by the City of Seinäjoki. The steering group consists of actors from various sectors in the city, as well as from the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences SeAMK, Into Seinäjoki, Sedu and the health care district. The organisations in the steering group are represented by the Mannerheim League for Child Welfare.
The application process consists of two steps. The applicant fills in an electronic application form asking for grounds for applying for the label. After completing and submitting the application form, the HKS Steering Group evaluates the application and invites the applicant for an interview. Based on the application and the interview, the steering group makes its decision on the granting of the cooperation label.
In order to have access to the cooperation label, the applicant must meet the following criteria:
Through their operations, the applicant promotes the well-being of children, young people and families.
The applicant commits to act in accordance with the values of Healthy Kids of Seinäjoki (in Finnish).
The applicant commits to the rules of the Healthy Kids of Seinäjoki society (in Finnish).
After the Healthy Kids of Seinäjoki cooperation label has been awarded, the applicant is granted access to the label until further notice. For example, you can use the label in your brochures or on your website. The access to the cooperation labels is organisation-specific. The responsible use of the label is monitored by regular contacts and meetings. More detailed instructions on the use of the cooperation label are described in the rules of the Healthy Kids of Seinäjoki society.
Apply for the cooperation label (in Finnish)
The rules of the Healthy Kids of Seinäjoki society (in Finnish)
The values of Healthy Kids of Seinäjoki (in Finnish)
City of Seinäjoki
P.O. Box 215, 60101 Seinäjoki
healthykidsofseinajoki@seinajoki.fi
In cooperation
| © Healthy Kids of Seinäjoki 2022


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Jeanette Marquez, Policy Fellow
Lauren Appelbaum Sep 26, 2017 Bio – Fellow – Past Fellows 0 comments
Nation Leadership Program, Fall 2017
Jeanette Marquez
Jeanette Marquez is a 2017 Public Policy and Employment Fellow in RespectAbility's National Leadership Program.Marquez is committed to the inclusion of people with disabilities.
Since she was a little girl, Marquez has lived with people with disabilities—three deaf siblings. She knows they also have dreams and goals in life and that it is important that society should be inclusive. For that reason, she has decided to be an advocate for the rights of people with disabilities.
Before joining RespectAbility,Marquez attended the seminar "Building Public and Political Leadership of Civil Society." For her outstanding participation in this seminar, The Washington Center chose her for an internship in Washington D.C. with RespectAbility.
She earned a bachelor's degree in communication sciences in 2013 from The Universidad del Valle de Atemajac in Mexico. In 2015,Marquez participated in an academic exchange in Business Administration at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain. And she recently completed her master's degree in Organizational and Human Development at the Universidad del Valle de Atemajac in Mexico.
Marquez wants to be a speaker to raise public awareness about equality and inclusion and create a organization that prepares people with disabilities to operate their own businesses. Her interest is in developing entrepreneurship skills for people with disabilities.
RespectAbility is a nonprofit organization fighting stigmas and advancing opportunities for and with people with disabilities. Learn more about the National Leadership Program and apply for the next cohort! Contact BenS@RespectAbility.org for more information.
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Fixmart supplied the electrical contractor doing the install on the 43-storey tower block for Berkerley Homes plc at Saffron Square Croydon. Formerly Wellesley Square this development is part of a big regeneration project and will be the tallest tower in Croydon providing 414 apartments offering modern living facilities. Croydon with its fantastic transport links is London's fourth largest retail centre, attracting £1 billion in revenue every year.
Over 17,000 sq ft of mixed-use retail, leisure and commercial space located at the foot of the central Tower.
Five-star lobby and concierge, available 24hrs a day.
Secure underground parking as well as bicycle storage and green vehicle electric charging points.
Poetry wall quoting some of England's greatest poets.
Floor-to-ceiling glazing offer residents stunning views across Croydon to Central. The apartments interiors feature a high-specification with contemporary fittings all designed to provide a top quality finish, which had to be reflected in the materials supplied.


United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit a resettlement site in Jaffna in Northern Province of Sri Lanka and meet President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe during his trip to the island nation later this month.
Ban will leave for Singapore later this week, on the first leg of the trip that includes visits to to Myanmar and Sri Lanka for official visits, to China for the G20 Summit and the Lao People's Democratic Republic for the annual ASEAN-UN Summit.
On August 31st, he will travel to Colombo to meet Sirisena and Wickremesinghe as well as other members of the Lankan government and Parliament.
Ban will also deliver a keynote speech at a public event on the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular Goal 16, dedicated to the promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development.
"While in Sri Lanka, the Secretary General will also visit a resettlement site in Jaffna in north of the country and participate in an event on the role of youth in reconciliation and coexistence in Galle, in the south of the island," Ban's spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters here yesterday.
In Singapore, the UN chief is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, as well as other government officials.
He will be conferred an Honorary Doctorate by Singapore President Tony Tan Keng Yam at the National University of Singapore.
In Myanmar, Ban will meet President U Htin Kyaw and Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces Senior General Min Aung Hlaing as well as other political and civil society leaders. He will also meet State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
On September 3, he will be in Hangzhou in China for the G20 Summit, which will also be attended by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama.
For the concluding visit if his trip, Ban will travel Vientiane in Laos, for the eighth ASEAN-UN Summit meeting on September 7 and the 11th East Asia Summit on Spetember 7.
This will be Moon's second visit to Sri Lanka.
He toured the island in May 2009 immediately after the Sri Lankan troops defeated the LTTE ending the three decades old civil war.
Since that visit, Lanka came under close UN scrutiny for its war crimes accountability during the war with the LTTE.
The UN Human Rights Council have passed three resolutions since 2012 to urge accountability for war crimes blamed on both the government troops and the LTTE.


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Q: Expected value of the number of green balls chosen
Let $X$ be the random variable representing the number of green balls
  chosen, after choosing two balls uniformly at random without
  replacement from a bag containing exactly three green balls and two
  red balls. Find $E[X]$.

This was my thought process:

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*$X$ can only be $0$, $1$ or $2$

*Find out the probability of X being each, and then calculate $0\cdot\Pr(X = 0) + 1\cdot\Pr(X = 1) + 2\cdot\Pr(X = 2)$, which equals $E[X]$
Probability $X = 0$:
$(2/5) \cdot (1/4) = (1/10)$
Probability $X = 1$:
$(3/5) \cdot (2/4) = (3/10)$
or
$(2/5) \cdot (3/4) = (3/10)$
Sum these two possible outcomes to get that $\Pr(X = 1) = 3/5$
Probability $X = 2$:
$(3/5) \cdot (2/4) = (3/10)$
E[X]
$E[X] = 0\cdot(1/10) + 1\cdot(3/5) + 2\cdot(3/10) = 1.2$
Is this process correct? Is there an easier way to solve this problem?

A: Yes, it is correct.
This is known as hypergeometric distribution,
$$E[X]=\frac{nK}{N}=\frac{2(3)}{5}=1.2$$
The formula can be understood as linearity of expectation.


A couple of weeks ago I posted an article about Pinterst and how to use it. But what do you do now that you're a Pinning wiz?
Well, I'll tell ya! It's time for a Pinta-party!
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