Imagine the joy on that summer day in 1993, when further's debut Griptape landed in my lap courtesy of the music director of the college station that I dj'd at, WBNY. I say joy because by then the Lou Barlow-free Dino Jr just wasn't cutting it for me. As anyone who has experienced further's scattershot first two albums, Griptape and Sometimes Chimes (both released by the micro-indie label, Christmas) it was clear that these saviors of indie-rawk were here to replenish the Barlow-void in the most lo-fi, and feedback friendly-way possible.
The Grimes Golden, or if you wish Golden Grimes ep followed the aforementioned albums in 1994. There was plenty of further singles and extended-players that preceded Grimes, but this one made it's way onto CD, which of course translated into convenience and accessibility. Stating the obvious I suppose, but it wasn't until this ep that further really embraced the whole splice and dice, cut and paste eccentrism of a certain band named seBADoh. This ep was the weirdest offering from the further oeuvre at that time, but along with that weirdness came bona fide melodic sensibilities, manifested in songs like "Quiet Riot Grrrl," and "California Bummer." This nine-song collection, in my opinion, is the most memorable and concise record they ever made.
As for a back story, further prime-movers Darren and Brent Rademaker had a stint in Shadowland, a major label outfit that was long on corporate pandering, and low on credibility.
More info on further can be found here and here. Brent Rademaker and future further member Chris Gunst would later go onto Beachwood Sparks and The Tyde, but nobody in the world is familiar with those bands, right?
BTW does anyone have the further "Surfing Pointers" 7" or any of the other Christmas records singles?
i have just dug out griptape, grimes golden,sometimes chimes and the 10?trak 2 x 7 inch on lissy`s. Oh, yeah. Its all still quite romantic, murky and magical.Gimme indie rock.shauny_66@hotmail.com.
ah, golden grimes. i picked it up after hearing a further song on a comp. it was 1994 and i was a young an impressionable high school sophomore. as soon as the drums kicked in on california bummer, i was hooked. it became my anthem that summer as i drove around imagining i was living in california instead of northern virginia. i go back to that album every spring when the warm air starts to lift my spirits and it takes me back to that glorious summer when i was wearing torn sweaters and washing my hair with soap.
Much obliged for the reup!


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Aktanyshsky District (; , Aktanış rayonı) is an territorial administrative unit and municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russian Federation. The district is located in the north-east of the republic.

The administrative centre of the district is the village of Aktanysh. The district was officially formed in 1930. The district was abolished in 1963 as a result of the consolidation of the administrative units of the TASSR,  and its territories were transferred to the Menzelinsky District. However, by January 12, 1965, the district had been reconstituted. At the beginning of 2020, there were 29,384 people living in the district. The population of the district is composed mainly of rural residents.

The district economy is mainly based on the agricultural sector. Deposits belonging to the Aktanysh oil field have been developed on the territory of the region since 1995. Since 2017, the Aktanysh industrial park with an area of 13 hectares has been in operation.

Geography

The district borders on the Menzelinsky and Muslyumovsky districts of the republic of Bashkortostan (Ilishevsky, Krasnokamsky, Bakalinsky districts, and Agidel districts) as well as the (Karakulinsky District) of Udmurtia.

One of the largest rivers in Europe, the Kama and its tributary the Belaya river flow through the region. The topography of the district is a rolling, gently sloping plain with an elevation range from 62 to 235 m and prevailing heights of 120–140 m. The lowest points in the district are at the surface of the Nizhnekamsk Reservoir, along the flooded floodplains of the Kama, Belaya and Ik. The highest points are located in the southern part of the district. The highest terrain feature in the district marked at 235m is located south of the village of Poisevo.

The region is characterized by a moderate continental climate with warm summers and moderately cold winters. Weather in the region is formed mainly under the influence of the westward movement of air masses. Warm and humid air masses moving from the Atlantic Ocean moderate the local climate. Cold air currents reach the region from the Arctic Ocean and in winter the cold continental air of less temperate latitudes often enters the region. Warmer tropical air currents enter the region from the southwest and south, and in summer coming from the southeast.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms and flag represent the main geographic and economic features of the region. For instance, a rising sun indicates the eastern location of the region, and also symbolizes longevity, activity, strength and hard work; two gulls and a wavy strip show the special role of rivers, lakes and reservoirs for the region, and their silver color is a symbol of purity, perfection, peace and mutual understanding. The basis of the region's economy is agriculture, which is reflected in a sheaf of twelve ears of grain, according to the number of months in a year, which symbolizes the full annual agricultural cycle. The same symbol shows the rural districts that are part of the district. Also, a sheaf is a traditional symbol of fertility, friendship, community of interests, endurance. The golden color symbolizes harvest, wealth, stability, respect; green - a symbol of health, nature, growth in life; blue - honor, nobility, spirituality.

The flag of the Aktanysh region is a rectangular panel which is divided horizontally into three stripes: wide blue, the narrowest white and green.

History

Background

Finnic peoples once lived on these lands. This is evidenced by archaeological materials from the Bronze Age discovered near Pianbor, as well as burial grounds of the villages of Taktalachuk, Chiyalek, Tatarsky Azibey, Semiostrov, Yamaly, Masady, Garay, Ilchebay, Irmyashevo, Aktanysh, Karach and Shabyzovo.

After the forces of Ivan the Terrible conquered the Khanate of Kazan, these lands were reassigned to the Menzelinsky governor of the Kazan order (as the local administrative body was called in the 16th-17th centuries). Since 1708 the territory was  part of the Kazan Governorate, become part of the Ufa province from 1719, and from 1728 belonged to the governor of Kazan. Starting in 1735 the district was part of the Bashkir commission until it ended up in the Orenburg Governorate in 1744, it would remain in the governorate until 1781 when it was subordinated to the Ufa Governorate, in 1796 the district again became part of the Orenburg province until it became part of the Menzelinsky district Ufa province in 1865.

In 1920, the Menzelinsky district became part of the newly formed Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and was renamed the Menzelinsky canton, which, after its dissolution was divided into the Menzelinsky and Aktash districts in 1930. Then the district included 53 selsoviet and 98 settlements, in which 54 813 people lived (of which 52 474 were Tatars, 1494 Russians and 845 from other nationalities). In 1940, the district's area was 1298 km2 and its population was recorded at 41.9 thousand souls living in 27 village councils and 77 settlements. From December 7, 1956, part of the abolished Yamashinsky district became part of the Aktanysh district, after the annexation of part of the abolished Kalininsky district. On October 12, 1959, the area of Aktanyshsky expanded to 2044.5 km2, consisting of 25 village councils and 129 settlements. In 1963, as a result of the enlargement of the administrative units of the TASSR, the district was abolished with the transfer of territories to the Menzelinsky district but already on January 12, 1965, it was restored. The total district's territory was slightly reduced to 2019 km2 while its population at that time was recorded at roughly 52 600 thousand persons living in 25 village councils and 112 settlements.

Contemporary Aktanyshsky District

From 1998 to 2012, the district was headed by Engel Fattakhov. After Fattakhov, Fail Kamaev was appointed acting head of the district, subsequently becoming the district head in 2013 and holding this position until 2017. In September of the same year, Engel Fattakhov was re-elected to the post of head of the Aktanysh region. From the first term Fattakhov managed to work simultaneously as the Minister of Education and Science of Tatarstan and Deputy Prime Minister of the republic. In 2018, the Anti-Corruption Foundation reported an expensive purchase of furniture for his office under the auspices of a state order, which resulted in a public outcry.

Population
The district has the lowest proportion of Russians by share of population in the republic at 0.65% as well as an accordingly high proportion of Tatars. It is also the only region of the republic where the Mari people occupy the second place in terms of numbers.

Municipal-territorial division

There are 86 settlements in the Aktanysh region comprising 26 rural settlements.

Economy

Industry

Several small oil fields have been identified in the sediments of the coal deposits of the region, including Aktanysh, which was discovered in 1960. In 1995, Aznakaevskneft started developing oil production in the district. Since 2009, the Small Oil Company of Tatarstan has been engaged in production. One of the main organizations in the field of construction, production of building materials and oil field support for this industry is "Gazstroyservis".

Industry in the region is mainly oriented towards the agriculture sector which is the main economic engine of the region. Industrial companies in the district are mainly engaged in the processing of agricultural products and the repair of equipment. The following large enterprises operated in the district in 2020: Aktanysh Bakery, Agrosila branch - Aktanysh Grain Reception Enterprise, Aktanysh Aggregate Plant, Aktanysh-Khleb, and the Aktanysh Dairy Plant. From January to September 2020 alone the district produced and exported goods valued at 2.6 billion rubles. By comparison, for the entire 2013 this amount in value of goods produced was 1.4 billion».

The Aktanysh industrial park with a total area of 13 hectares has been operating on the territory of the district since 2017. Its occupancy rate for 2020 was 8%.

Agriculture
Agricultural land occupies 1251.44 km2 of the area of the district. There are 15 limited liability companies and 2 agricultural firms - "Anyak" and "Aktanysh", as well as 67 farms in the region. The main sectors of agricultural activity in the district are grain and livestock farming [46]. Spring wheat, winter rye, barley, oats, peas, potatoes and corn are cultivated in the region. In 2020 the Aktanysh district ranked fifth in Tatarstan in terms of daily milk production at 178 tons per day..

In the first half of 2020, the gross agricultural output of the district amounted to 1.2 billion rubles (for comparison in the whole of 2013 this figure was more than 2 billion rubles).

Investment potential

In the period from 2010 to 2019 the unemployment rate in the region was below the national average, ranging from 0.17% to 0.39% (with the exception of 2011, when the rate fell to 1.49%. In 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment reached a high of the last 8 years of 0.51%, but this is the lowest rate in the entire republic. Between 2010 and 2020, the ratio of the average monthly wage to the minimum consumer budget increased by 0.82 points, from 1.56 to 2.38. At the same time, in 2010 the average salary was about 10 thousand rubles, and by 2012 it had increased to 14.5 thousand.

According to the Federal State Statistics Service of the republic, 1.83 billion rubles of investments were attracted to the Aktanysh region in 2019 (except for budget funds and income from small businesses), which amounted to 0.6% of the regional share of investment in the Republic. In 2018 investment was lower by almost 7 million and only amounted to 1.15 billion rubles. According to the assessment of the Committee for Social and Economic Monitoring of the Republic of Tatarstan, the volume of investment in the fixed assets of the region in the first half of 2020 amounted to more than 1.2 billion rubles, or 0.6% of total investment in Tatarstan, or 426 thousand per capita. This is in contrast to 2010 when this figure was almost 4 times less at 114 thousand per capita. According to the committee, the leaders by share of investment directed to them are the development of agriculture, fishing, hunting (collectively 235 million rubles), mining (209 million), electricity (32 million) and construction (10 million rubles).

Housing fund

Transport

The M-7 (Volga) "Moscow - Kazan - Ufa" motorway runs through the south of the district. Other important highways are: Aktanysh - Poisevo (to Menzelinsk, Naberezhnye Chelny), Aktanysh - Dyurtyuli (to Ufa), Aktanysh - Bakaly - Oktyabrsky, Churakaevo - Muslyumovo - Almetyevsk.

Water transport is well developed on the navigable Belaya River. There is a ferry on the Azyakul - Staroyanzigitovo route (roads to Agidel, Neftekamsk) as well as marinas near the Tatar Yamaly and Azyakul villages.

Ecology

The natural monument Kulyagash is the largest lake-swamp massif in Tatarstan, located in the north-western part of the region. Its covers a total area of about 5000 hectares, with a length from west to east of 17.5 km, and from north to south of 10 km. The largest peat deposit in the republic is located here with total reserves of peat estimated at 5 million tons. The largest lakes within the massif are Lake Kulyagash, which gave its the name to the territory, Atyr, Kinder-Kul, Azybeevskoye and Syulale-Kul. In addition to these features, there are many elongated oxbow lakes and shallow bodies of water. For example, Kustovoe (Iske Idel) near the village of Aktanysh, Sezakkul near the village of Semiostrovo, Sutke-Kul, Usharova and Azyakul.

Regional water bodies have the status of a natural monument. A tributary of the Belaya River, the Syun river, flows along the eastern border of the region for 67.2 km. The left tributary of the Kama is the Ik river. Lake Kopanoe, almost rectangular in shape 100 by 50 meters, located on the left bank of the Xun River near the village of Chishma. Lake Kopanoe derives its name from its origins an artificially excavated body of water.

The Kamsko-Iksky Zakaznik preserve is partially located in the territory of the district. It was formed in 1963 to protect animals such as elk, roe deer, ermine, European mink, muskrat, and waterfowl.

Culture and Society

As of 2019, there were 13 secondary, 20 basic general and 31 primary schools, a cadet boarding school, a humanitarian boarding school for gifted children, a correctional boarding school, 39 kindergartens, the Aktanysh Technological College, a children's art school, and a center for children's creativity in the district. Sports and recreational infrastructure includes the ice palace "Lachin", a children's and youth sports school and physical training club, universal sports hall "Aktanysh" as well as the educational and health camp "Bulyak". The district's cultural infrastructure is represented by 113 different institutions: rural and regional houses of culture and clubs, the Yashlek cultural center, libraries, children's art schools with departments and the Aktanysh regional museum of local lore. Additionally, there are 13 folk art groups and the state ensemble of songs and dances "Agidel" active in the district.

Regional cultural heritage sites
The necropolis near the village of Minnyarovo is a Bronze Age burial site on the left bank of the Xun River. Archaeologists have discovered items there typical of the nomadic tribes who grazed their herds in the fields from the Urals to the Danube.
 The Chishminsky burial ground is a monument of the Bronze Age. The mound was 23 m in diameter and 0.6 m high. The buried man was laid on a bast mat in a continental pit 1.55 m deep on his right side with his head to the east. His bones had a reddish tint, presumably from ocher bedding. They also found traces of a silver disc on the chest. A children's burial with a molded flat-bottomed pot was also cleared within the mound.

 The burial ground near the village of Urazaevo is a group of burials with the crumpled remains of people who were laid with their heads to the east. Nearby, Andronovo dishes were found within which an admixture of crushed shell was revealed in the test. According to the anthropological type, the population at the burial ground is presented as a mixed one, that is, it had both Mongolian and Caucasian features. Archaeologists believe that this group belongs to the Cherkaskul culture of burials and belongs to the period of the XIV century BC.

 House-Museum of Sharip Shaimiev is a small wooden mansion with six windows on the facade. It was built by the first chairman of the first collective farm named after May 1 of the Kalininsky district of the TASSR Sharip Shaimiev, the father of the first president of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev. The museum was opened on July 11, 2005, and since 2011 it has become a branch of the Aktanysh regional museum of local lore.
 House of Sh. Mukhitov in the village of Aktanysh, built in the 19th century for the merchants Mukhitov, it should also include the building of a warehouse, built in the late XIX - early XX centuries for storing skins, however, in 2017 it was demolished.

Famous people

 Alfiya Avzalova — a Soviet and Russian Tatar singer. She was an Honored Artist of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, People's Artist of the Tatar ASSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, soloist of the Tatar Philharmonic Society, and laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Tatarstan.
 Gabdulkhay Akhatov – a Soviet Tatar Linguist, Turkologist and an organizer of science (earning his first Ph.D. in 1954) and then a second doctorate of Philology in 1965
 Mintimer Shaimiev – was the first to hold title of President of Tatarstan, a republic within Russia. He is an ethnic Tatar. He became president on June 12, 1991, and was re-elected three times, on March 24, 1996, on March 25, 2001, and on March 25, 2005
 Aliev, Takiulla Abdulkhannanovich (1894-1957) - Electrical engineer, leader of the Bashkir national movement
Akhatov, Gabdulkhay Huramovich - scientist-Turkologist, linguist, dialectologist of the Tatar language
 Gumerov, Flun Fagimovich - entrepreneur
 Davletov, Bayan Erkeevich - Hero of the Soviet Union
 Imanov, Zufar Mintimirovich - Hero of Socialist Labour
 Mannanov, Ildar Mannanovich - Hero of the Soviet Union
 Mutin, Ildarkhan Ibragimovich - leader of the Bashkirs national movement
 Mutin, Mukhtar Iskhakovich - artist of the Tatar Academic Theater
 Mullagalieva Lilia Abugalievna - Honored Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan
 Rodionov, Anatoly Ivanovich - Soviet naval commander, rear admiral, candidate of naval sciences
 Sultanov, Mansur Islamovich (1875-1919) - flutist, folklorist. The first professional musician from the Bashkirs
 Sultanov, Iskandar Mukhamedyarovich (1872-1920) - leader of the Bashkir national movement, member of Kese Kurultay - Pre-parliament of Bashkortostan
 Fattakhov, Engel Navapovich - Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic, Regional Minister of Education and Science
Rina Zaripova (1941-2008), Tatar journalist, Honored Worker of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan.

References

Sources

External links
 Official website of the district
 Official page of the district in Instagram

Districts of Tatarstan

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Why Primary Care Physicians Aren't Enough to Treat Complex Elderly Patients
USC uses Health Resources and Services Administration grant to build out interprofessional teams to treat seniors.
Marty Stempniak
As the "silver tsunami" arrives at health care's doorstep, one California hospital is taking a different approach to treating this wave of complex elderly patients.
Using the regular primary care tactic to treat geriatric patients likely isn't going to cut it when they're battling multiple chronic conditions and other nonmedical barriers to care. With that in mind, Keck Medicine — the medical enterprise of the University of Southern California — is shifting how it trains students, aiming to build an interdisciplinary workforce to treat the elderly that incorporates everyone from pharmacists to dentists, occupational therapists and social workers.
USC has obtained a $2.5 million federal grant to help build out what it calls the USC–Los Angeles County Training a Workforce in Interprofessional Geriatrics program over the next three years. That will include developing a routine primary care assessment of elderly patients, building new training programs for students to work in teams to treat seniors, and opening a "geriatrics primary care assessment" clinic on its campus, according to an announcement last week.
The rapid aging of the population will result in an "enormous" number of people older than 65 who will be seeking care, and the system is short on having the necessary number of clinicians required to treat them, says Bonnie Olsen, a clinical professor of family medicine at USC, who is leading the team.
"There's this huge sort of bolus of older people emerging — we refer to this in the field of geriatrics as the 'silver tsunami' — and we're ill-equipped to care for them," she says. "This grant is, in large measure, an effort to build up a sufficient workforce, and we will just barely scratch the surface. But at least it's an effort to increase the number of skilled workers in a variety of professions who understand and can treat geriatric patients."
Olsen gives the example of an elderly patient who needs to drink lots of water to help control his condition and stay healthy, but isn't doing so because he's too feeble to stand up and use the bathroom. How is a primary care physician to overcome that hurdle to wellness, Olsen asks, especially when it doesn't surface during a brief doctor's appointment?
Along with aligning disciplines throughout the medical system, USC is also teaming with community partners to find better ways to serve seniors. The Alzheimer's Association, for one, will provide in-depth training to clinicians on behavioral management, and the California-based Center for Health Care Rights will help seniors navigate issues related to access and coverage. "We have all sorts of things that are somewhat new in the state of California, and it's really difficult for families to negotiate and understand what services are covered. It's not always immediately apparent."
Olsen says that while the clinical side of the effort may not be groundbreaking, the interprofessional approach to treating geriatric patients certainly is. It's sometimes challenging to teach students how to work in more of a team-based model, but that type of medicine is so critical in treating such patients. "You can't be a lone ranger," she says.
USC is now in the process of getting the first clinic set up and running at one of the ambulatory clinics in the Keck system the next month or so, with the next to follow on the campus of the Los Angeles County Medical Center. On the horizon, it will train students to work in those new clinical settings in July 2016.
They're also launching a new program that allows teams of medical students to meet with elderly USC alumni and understand more about the particulars of a healthy senior lifestyle. Olsen says it's also important that students meet and interact with seniors who are aging well and not ending up in the hospital.
"When you work in health care, sometimes you get this skewed picture of what any group or cohort looks like, because you're only seeing those who have a disease or disorder," she says. "I think it will help to balance out the perspective for our students of what healthy aging looks like. That's really an important thing."
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Matthewdavid's Brave Journey
Andrew Reilly July 1, 2014
After exploring the outer reaches of his sonic capabilities, L.A.-based producer Matthewdavid has found a familiar (to many), yet foreign (to him) source of inspiration: love.
It may seem too ubiquitous a subject for the Brainfeeder mainstay who's known for his fondness of found sounds and cassettes, but with a renewed creative spirit following the birth of his child, he's making a daring move into pop music territory. We talked to him ahead of his new album, In My World, out today.
In My World feels a lot broader in scope – what brought about that change since Outmind?
This record has always been there. It was just sort of suppressed. I felt like taking on this role in the experimental/lo-fi/collage/whatever scene and coming out with this pop voice. I wanted to have some sort of positivity that was really bold. I didn't want to be ashamed of being more outward. A lot of us don't want to talk about what are deemed as cliché topics.
Happiness, love, etc…
Yeah. I don't know why it's only reserved for soft, crooning, R&B artists, but when they talk about it, it's always directed towards a woman. It's a more universal concept on my record. There's no addressing the female pronoun at all. I was a little annoyed about the current state of Top 40 hip-hop/R&B and, coming from my weirdo, freakish background, I wanted to trick some people into listening to this stuff, too.
Did you know that you were going to go in this direction for your next album?
This was planned. A lot of these songs are old. I've been waiting to build the confidence and for the right timing to present this stuff. Back in 1998 or 1999, I was just writing raps and making beats. I'm trying to come back to that. I was waiting for that right time. Being in L.A. and getting to know people and building relationships with all of my colleagues that support me, I wanted to surprise them.
What gave you the confidence to put this out?
The Low End Theory, beat scene, instrumental, post-Dilla, future beats stuff took a good 5,6,7 years to totally circulate throughout the community. I think that had to run its course to introduce a new style, a new era of production. We had to just marinate on that and decide, now that we're older, what do we do now?
Crossing over into pop territory is fun to experiment with; see if you can bring a new audience in, convert the old audience, and garner some new fans by playing that trickster pop artist role.
Your cover of sorts, "Perpetual Moon Moods," I see as a centerpiece to these themes you're talking about. Why did you decide to do that track?
I got really into Rick James two years ago. I was recording a lot of covers around that time and that one I ended up flushing out. That song is so fun and funky and it has those roots in hip-hop, being sampled by Big Daddy Kane and other old-school folks. I wanted to flip it in a cool, glamorous way. I did some other demos, but that's the one that stuck. I don't know where that stands legally because I definitely don't have that kind of clearance, but I tried to disguise the sample. Everyone knows what it is.
One lyric that really struck me from the song "Artforms" was "I'm feeling all the artforms start to blend together"
I guess what I mean by that, very simply, is that there's connectivity to a singular source. No matter what your discipline is, there's that common ground between everyone. In that song, it's all coming from love. Regardless of what you're portraying, it all fuses as one with love as the center. It's a pretty generalized statement, but I still feel like it carries that weight.
What was it like going into the studio after the birth of your child?
You start to ask yourself these existential questions about your art. It's definitely very beautiful, but it's also more challenging to find the time and space. It's that extra challenge that is so inspiring. When you finally do have that time, everything that has been building up is just released. Subject matter and lyrical content, the stuff I'm sampling and pulling from is now influenced by that experience. I would've never known. We can take psychedelics and do all that other existential shit, but having a kid is super trippy.
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The 1937 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship was the tenth staging of the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1928.

Kilkenny entered the championship as the defending champions.

On 5 September 1937 Cork won the championship following an 8-5 to 0-2 defeat of Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final. This was their second All-Ireland title and their first in nine championship seasons.

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Semi-finals

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Championship statistics

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In his annual address to parliament, Vladimir Putin said Russia would respond to targeting the United States itself and not just the countries where they are deployed
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In his annual address to parliament, Vladimir Putin said Russia would respond to any deployment of new intermediate-range missiles in Europe by targeting the United States itself and not just the countries where they are deployed. https://t.co/NcJbzkctqG pic.twitter.com/Z96UU8S0LO
— CNBC (@CNBC) February 23, 2019
Does anyone else feel like this guy is getting upset?
Vladimir Putin swimming with dolphins
What y'all think ?
By Bebe
President Putin is consider a hero in Christian communitys around the middle East. He's bombing have hindered Isis and other extreme religious groups from raping,killing and destroy hole nation's. Hero or a very bad hombre?
'I Do Not Know Why We Persecute Jehovah's Witnesses,' Putin Says
At a December 11. 2018 meeting with the Council on Civil Society Development and Human Rights, one council member, Ekaterina Shulman, addressed President Putin: "There is a list of organizations, for which there is information that they are involved in terrorism and extremism. There are 489 of them, and 404 of them are Jehovah's Witnesses."
Pressing her luck, she continued: "Here I will take a sinister pause. There could be an abundance of claims against Jehovah's Witnesses—they don't allow blood transfusion, don't send children to hospitals, [ed: not a charge that I have heard before] but they definitely are not calling for violence or committing it."
Putin's response was: "We should treat the representatives of all religions in the same way – this is true, but still, it is also necessary to take into account the country and the society in which we live. True, this does not mean at all that we should include representatives of religious communities in some destructive, or even in terrorist organizations. Of course, this is complete nonsense, you need to carefully deal with it. Here I agree with you."
Later in the meeting, Putin returned to the topic and added: "Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians, too. I don't quite understand why they are persecuted. So this should be looked into. This must be done." The Washington Post and Time picked up on the story the next day, the Post saying that he "has pledged to look into the reported persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses."
Now, what to make of this?
Yaroslav Sivulski, the press secretary for JWs in Russia, stated: "We have noted the president's reaction with surprise. If he knows about the whole situation, then probably his reaction could change something. We hope that he will give instructions to have the matter examined and something may happen. Though, knowing the realities of our country, there is not much optimism." Okay, so they're not breaking out the champagne just yet.
The online community of Jehovah's Witnesses was a cynical bunch, by and large, with many thinking Putin was just being slippery. In fact, since translating from Russian to English poses challenges, one brother understood him to say: "Jehovah's Witnesses are also Christians, for which I do not really understand how to persecute them," as though he was searching for more effective ways to do it.
Hmm. Did he say "I really do not understand how to persecute them" or "I really do not understand how they are persecuted"? It is the six-million-dollar question. It is a little like the Twilight Zone episode in which the earthlings were relieved to find the alien's handbook "To Serve Man." 'Ahh, it means their intentions are good,' and they breathed easily, but at the show's end they discovered to their discomfort that it was a cookbook.
I tend to take President Putin's remarks at face value. There is no reason that he has to say what he does, even expanding it to 'Jehovah's Witness are also Christians.' When his Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, who was also among the officials that Witnesses contacted via a letter campaign launched in hopes of averting the ban, was asked a similar question last year, he could not have answered more harshly than he did. I think Putin is being genuine, at last waking up to something that he has barely paid attention to. Maybe it is like the hinge squeaking in the background somewhere that he has long noticed and it is now driving him nuts. Perhaps he will even pick up his WD-40, go lubricate it himself, and subsequently vent his wrath upon whoever allowed such idiocy to take center stage and paint his country before all the world as a nation of goons--in the spirit of Ahasuerus avenging Haman.
A president is a busy guy. It is popularly sold that anything that goes down in a country will have his fingerprints all over it, but this is seldom so for matters of 'low priority.' Of course, this is not low priority for us, but it can hardly be otherwise for him. At a subsequent news conference, he spoke to the danger of nuclear war, which he hopes the West does not get to cavalier about: "The danger of the situation escalating is being downplayed," he said, adding that the lowering of thresholds for nuclear capability "could really lead us to catastrophe.". If he loses sleep at night, it is not over the travails of a small religion. It is over the thought of the world going up in flames.
Western media excoriates him, but we should not let the propaganda of one king mold our view of the other. I was very careful, in writing the book, Dear Mr. Putin – Jehovah's Witnesses Write Russia, not to do that. In the event it was ever read by anyone that mattered, I did not want to sabotage it by being disrespectful or accusing.
It wasn't that hard to do—for example, by spotlighting the two, likely three, times that Russia, not the United States, saved the world from certain nuclear war. Lieutenant Colonel Petrov spotted an incoming missile from the U.S, judged it a malfunction, and against orders, did not relay the report to the excitable Kremlin. Second-in-command Vasili Arkhipov refused to sign-off with his two fellow officers to launch a nuclear attack during the Cuban missile crisis—the decision had to be unanimous. Nikita Khrushchev arguably brought that crisis to a close with his last-minute telegram to President Kennedy.
However, in refraining from criticizing Putin personally, I was not just being expedient. I honestly came to feel it not likely that he was one of the instigators. I admit that feeling wavered in view of the abuses of the last few months, with Witnesses physically accosted by police, but now it intensifies. Promisingly, he is not cut from the same cloth as many in high government. He was not born to privilege in the ruling class. He started from the ground up, as a regular office worker, and lived with his parents during the early days of his working life. He thus probably retains a feel for the interests of the 'common man' that his co-rulers do not. In the end, it hardly matters, because 'the heart of a king is as streams of water' in Jehovah's hands. But it helps if it is neither ice cubes nor steam to begin with.
He didn't have to say it, is the point. He could have issued some boiler-plate beatitude of how 'the situation is serious and we continue to monitor it closely.' He certainly didn't have to say that Witnesses are Christian too, thus showing that he will not be bullied by ones who insist they are not. His statement makes it much harder for Russia to thumb its nose at any upcoming ECHR verdict, indicating that he has no intention of doing that. How can his words not ease the pressure on Jehovah's Witnesses in that country? After all, if you were a Russian cop, would YOU beat a brother up after what he just said?
Still, he is conscious of the majority. How much freedom of worship will be restored remains to be seen, since he observes that with 90% of the country being of a certain religious orientation, one cannot throw everything overboard so as to please the "sects." It is enough not to persecute them, which he seems inclined not to do. Maybe the brothers will have to tip-toe around for a while, and it will not necessarily be a bad thing for our people to focus on being discreet. That has long been the direction of theocratic training, anyhow. If Putin truly had evil intent, however, he would not have returned to the topic to say that he doesn't really understand why Jehovah's Witnesses are persecuted. Now let's see how well he holds up as the more devious ones labor to remind him. We will see whose resolve prevails. Probably, Brother Sivulsky has it just right: he is surprised and cautiously optimistic.
In some respects, it may prove a replay, with hopefully different outcome, of the situation with Pilate judging Jesus. Pilate knew he was being set up. He knew he was innocent. He worked rather hard to free him—that much is clear by reading any one of the gospel accounts, and the conclusion is inescapable by combining them. But the scoundrels were so insistent, even hinting that to release Jesus would be treasonous, that he eventually caved. After all, it wasn't his prime concern. He had a province to run. He tried to do the right thing. That's how it is with many today. They try to do the right thing, but they only try so hard. When the going gets rough, they opt for expediency.
The Russian Orthodox Church has insisted that it did not instigate the ban and I am inclined to believe them. That is not to say that prominent ones did not squeal with delight, like kids on Christmas morning, or that some instigators did not have Church connections. But the villainy stems from an anti-cult movement, with French connections, that is active in many lands. Conditions in Russia were ripe, that's all, just like they were ripe for Communism 100 years ago, which was also imported from abroad.
Writing Dear Mr. Putin - Jehovah's Witnesses Write Russia took the better part of a year. There were few publicly available online sources that I did not read during this time, save only for those that were repetitive. The most telling report was one by Joshua Gill, a religion writer, revealing
Hello guest! Please register or sign in (it's free) to view the hidden content. . "The Russian Supreme Court's July 17 ban on the Jehovah's Witnesses was the result of a decades long conspiracy funded by the French government, blessed by the Russian Orthodox Church, and sanctioned by the Putin administration…The latest phase of that plan first garnered international attention with Russian authorities' arrest of a Danish citizen." That would be Dennis Christensen, arrested May 25, 2017 for conducting a congregation meeting after the ban had gone into effect, and still in prison at this time of writing, (December 2018) his case only recently coming to trial.
Gill spotlights the role of Alexander Dvorkin, the Russian Ministry's Expert Council for Conducting State Religious-Studies. That Council exists so as "to investigate religions that deviate from Russian Orthodox teaching and to recommend actions against those religions to the state." They have recommended taking strong action on non-majority faiths. Mr. Dvorkin is also vice president of the European Federation of Research and Information Centers on Sectarianism (FECRIS), a French NGO dedicated to identifying as a "sect/cult or a guru the organization or the individual which misuses beliefs and behavioral techniques for his own benefit." It is an organization fully funded by the French government, and it may be remembered that that government tried to eliminate Jehovah's Witnesses by imposing a 60% tax on their activities in 1998. The tax was steadfastly appealed by Jehovah's Witnesses until it was struck down by the European Court of Human Rights fourteen years later.
The Daily Caller article reveals the depth of Dvokin's misinformation and dislike of Jehovah's Witnesses. "Their adepts recruit failed university enrollees, and people on vacation as well; they have a wide range of psychological influence, especially on the unstable minds of adolescents and youths," he says of them and the Hare Krishnas. He has encouraged the public to "take part in the fight against sects, file complaints and collect raw data so that the local authorities can react quickly." In a 2009 documentary called 'Emergency Investigation: Jehovah's Witnesses,' he compared Witnesses to drug dealers. The Journal for the Study of Beliefs and Worldviews attributes instances of public violence against Russian Witness members to that documentary, just as the violence visiting Kingdom Halls in Washington State is similarly stoked by the inflammatory use of the C-word.
It is impossible not to call to mind religious enemies of early times who instigated the violence against the original Christians, as related in Acts. Jehovah's Witnesses, the foremost example among others, are more dangerous than Satanists, Dvorkin says, because they "conceal evil under the guise of good." Counterintuitively, the Satanist Church of Moscow was not among the handful of groups he singled out. It had not been labeled extremist. It had also come out in enthusiastic support of the Witness ban in Russia.
Mine was the minority view among the Witnesses I spoke with. "You are a better Christian than I am," one said. "You always expect the best from people. I don't believe a word a politician says." Note that his distrust is of "a politician," not of Putin specifically, though he hardly sings his praises. One could even say that it is a sign of being "insular"—they are all the same to him. Having said that, there are no end of non-Witnesses who feel the same way about politicians, and they long have, the writer Mark Twain even saying that politicians must be changed as frequently as a diaper—and for the same reason.
It is true that I try to think the best of people. Am I a "better Christian" in this instance? Or just a dumber one? Time will tell.
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Russia is "The King of the North"
By Jack Ryan
According to the latest:
Poisoned Russian Spy and Subsequent Diplomatic Fallout
Vladimir Putin wins Russia's presidential election
Vladimir Putin has his rival arrested
Russian President Vladimir Putin braved the elements by taking a plunge into ice-cold water for Russian Orthodox Epiphany
Putin's New Year Address 2018
Multilingual Putin shows off English skills to audience
A wonderful photo- eight "extremists" and one President
Amazing things happen in the world! The ink on the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to liquidate the juridical person of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia as an extremist organization did not have time to dry up, as the head of state personally handles the "Parental Glory" order to the family of Jehovah's Witnesses from Karelia. A wonderful photo - eight "extremists" and one President.
Here it is worth recalling that one of the most frequent accusations against Jehovah's Witnesses is the destruction of families. And then the Order,
Which is handed to "large parents who set an example in strengthening the institution of the family and raising children,
Form a socially responsible family, lead a healthy lifestyle, ensure a full and harmonious development
Personalities of children, a high level of care for their health, education, physical, spiritual and moral development. "
That's the question. This signal was sent by the President to fighters with Jehovah's Witnesses, for example the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court, that
Extremists worth looking elsewhere? Or just imagined it? Let me remind you that on July 17 the Supreme Court will consider
Appeal of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Russia Bans Jehovah's Witnesses After Religious Right Hailed Putin As Christian Hero
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For years, American Religious Right activists praised Russian president Vladimir Putin as
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Action / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Romance
17 Again Subtitles
At 17 Mike O'Donnell is on top of the world: he's the star of his high school basketball team, is a shoo-in for a college scholarship, and is dating his soul-mate, Scarlet. But at what's supposed to be his big game where a college scout is checking him out, Scarlet reveals that she's pregnant. Mike decides to leave the game and asks Scarlet to marry him, which she does. During their marriage, Mike can only whine about the life he lost because he married her, so she throws him out. When he also loses his job, he returns to the only place he's happy at, his old high school. While looking at his high school photo, a janitor asks him if he wishes he could be 17 again and he says yes. One night while driving he sees the janitor on a bridge ready to jump, and goes after him. When he returns to his friend Ned's house, where he has been staying, he sees that he is 17 again. He decides to take this opportunity to get the life he lost.
Burr Steers
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as Scarlett O'Donnell (Adult)
as Mike O'Donnell (Adult)
Tyler Steelman
as Ned Gold (Teen)
Allison Miller
as Scarlett (Teen)
Michelle Trachtenberg
as Maggie O'Donnell
Reviewed by Smells_Like_Cheese 7 /10
Zac Efron, a good actor? Who knew?!
As we've seen many movies like this before: Big, 13 Going on 30, and Freaky Friday, we always love to see the retelling of the old classic story of the switching age. Since the story has been used so much, a director can only do so much to just do the best they can with, Burr Steers pulls 17 Again out with great laughs and good fun. I'm going to get this out, I am one of the rare girls that just doesn't get the whole Zac Efron heart throb thing, I agree that he's cute, but with mainly High School Musical only being his claim to fame other than Hairspray, he is adorable, but can he act? Surprisingly… he can. I can't believe I'm saying this, he was actually a good strong lead role and a perfect fit, he has charisma, he's funny, charming and makes this story worth your time and money.
In 1989, Michael O'Donnell was a star athlete with a full college scholarship imminent. He seemingly had it all, when, right before the championship game, his girlfriend Scarlett informed him she was pregnant. In that moment, he made the decision to throw everything away and proposed to her. Twenty years later, Mike's life isn't exactly what he expected it to be. Scarlett wants a divorce from him, forcing him to move in with his geeky millionaire best friend Ned, his job is going nowhere, and his kids Maggie and Alex want nothing to do with him. While paying a visit to Hayden High School to reminisce about the life he threw away, he encounters a strange beardy janitor, who I still swear is Bob Haskins. On the way home, is magically transformed back into his 17-year old self. With Ned posing as his father, he re-enrolls in high school, believing he has been given the chance to have his life over again, "but to do it right". However, he then discovers that his daughter is dating the basketball captain Stan, who is bullying his son. He realizes that his real mission is to help his children as well as finding out that maybe his decision wasn't the worst he ever made in his life.
We go a little Back to the Future-esquire when we get on the creepy level of Michelle Trachtenberg having a crush on Zac Efron who is her father, just that she can't recognize him, it's understanding, but still makes you squirm, but the director and actors pulled the scene off pretty well with getting out of that yucky situation. There is one continuity error: if Mike and his girl got pregnant at the age of 17... 20 years later, yet both their kids are still in high school, the oldest child would only be a maximum of 18. A plot hole: seriously, besides the wife, no one at all recognizes Mike? But I'm over thinking the movie too much at this point, it's just a fun movie with decent performances, I just need to let go of silly mistakes. So I would recommend this movie if you get the chance to see it, but I'd say more of a matinée vs. a full price ticket, it has some good laughs and was a great update of the "What if you could go back?" story.
Reviewed by ZoeScrace 7 /10
Pleasantly surprised.....
I went to see this with film with my teenage daughter and really wasn't expecting to enjoy it. I settled down in my seat for the duration and the first few scenes showing Efron as a high school basketball player had me groaning inwardly as I assumed that this was going to be another predictable high school/age swap film of the type that has been done so many times before - and really isn't the sort of film I would choose to see anyway. Not a promising start. However, I was pleasantly surprised by 17 Again. It was witty and well acted and made me laugh out loud - not something I often do even when I appreciate the humour in a film.
This film's appeal is also strengthened by the acting of the supporting characters as well as the main ones - Thomas Lennon's character was particularly well delivered. I found no fault with Zac Efron's acting in this and I enjoyed his performance in Hairspray but it would be interesting to see him in a serious grown up dramatic role.
Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 7 /10
Second Chance in Life
In 1989, the teenager Mike O'Donnell (Zac Efron) is the star of the Hayden High-School. On the day of the final basketball game, Mike will be observed and may win a scholarship in college. However, his girlfriend Scarlett (Allison Miller) tells him that she is pregnant and Mike does not play the game. Twenty years later, Mike (Matthew Perry) is a complete loser that blames Scar for his failures: he is not promoted to sale manager after working sixteen years in the same company; Scarlett (Leslie Mann) is divorcing him; his teenagers son Alex (Sterling Knight) and daughter Maggie (Michelle Trachtenberg) hate him; and he is temporarily living with his best friend, the eccentric and immature millionaire Ned Gold (Thomas Lennon). Mike nostalgically visits Hayden where an old janitor talks to him about second chance in life. During the night, he sees the janitor jumping from a bridge into the river and he unsuccessfully tries to help the man. Mike passes out and when he wakes up, he discovers that he is seventeen again. Further, he discovers that he has a second chance to fix his relationship with his family.
"17 Again" is another good movie about second chance in life. I believe most of people in a certain age question decisions took in the past and would like to have a second chance to re-route his or her life in that milestone. The cinema makes this dream come true and certainly the story is pleasant for most of the people. In addition, the two lead stars (Zac Efron and Matthew Perry) are nice actors and the result is a nice entertainment for whole family. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "17 Outra Vez" ("17 Again")
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Am I missing something really obvious here?

A: You should have seen a compilation error at:
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Q: Audio Recording in C++ I was wondering, what was a good cross-platform utility for doing audio recording/ playback/ seeking in C++? I was thinking going the route of ALUT (OpenAL), but is there a better way? If not, do you guys know of any good tutorials/sample code for ALUT?

A: Qt actually has some audio functions since version 4.6.
Didn't try the input for myself, but if you scroll down a bit in the Qt-Documentation
there is a basic example.
For Input you can work a layer higher with Qt. Here is an example.

A: SFML and SDL have support for playing many different sound formats and are cross plattform. Neither of them provides you with means for recording audio. Then there is PortAudio which looks pretty active but I do have no experience with it at all.


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Q: Seaborn does not generate an image when trying to visualize data I am trying to visualize my data, which I will classify later, (I am using this post as a starting point: https://jmetzen.github.io/2015-01-29/ml_advice.html) using seaborn.
Firstly, I created pandas DataFrame out of my data which has 31 rows (the number of datapoints + the row with features names) and 94 columns (the ids in the first column, class labels in the last, and the rest are features values). Originally my data was sparse, but I densed it as pandas didn't want to make DataFrame out of a sparse matrix (or I didn't figure out how).
So as far as I can see, the data is okay and is not causing the problem. Then I try to plot it using pairplot.
df = DataFrame(np.hstack((frd, nl[:, None])), columns = list(range(frd.shape[1]))+ ["class"]))
sns.pairplot(df, hue="class", size=1.5)

But this code would never finish running. It doesn't throw an error, it just never ends. And no image is generated.
I've seen in some posts that one should use %matplotlib inline. If I pass it in the command line like this ipython --matplotlib inline myscript.py nothing changes. If I put it inside the script
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
from pandas import DataFrame
%matplotlib inline

I get SyntaxEerror: invalid syntax.
I am using ipython.
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Ali Salman the popular dissident, Shiite cleric, and secretary general of Al Wefaq National Islamic Society, the main opposition group in Bahrain, was arrested after a series of speeches he delivered calling for political reform and accountability. It was by no means the first time Sheikh Salman had been imprisoned. After a long career in demanding political reform and human rights for the Bahraini people, Salman was jailed between 1993 and 1994, and was banished from the country in 1995.
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Home NEWS Health experts express growing dread over second wave of coronavirus deaths
Health experts express growing dread over second wave of coronavirus deaths
Health experts are expressing growing dread over what they say is an all-but-certain second wave of deaths and infections that could force governments around the world to clamp back down, just as lockdowns loosen.
"We're risking a backslide that will be intolerable," said Dr Ian Lipkin of Columbia University's Centre for Infection and Immunity.
Around the world, German authorities began drawing up plans in case of a resurgence of the virus.
Experts in Italy urged intensified efforts to identify new victims and trace their contacts.
And France, which has not yet eased its lockdown, has already worked up a "reconfinement plan" in the event of a new wave.
"There will be a second wave, but the problem is to which extent. Is it a small wave or a big wave? It's too early to say," said Olivier Schwartz, head of the virus unit at France's Pasteur Institute.
In the US, with about half of the states easing their shutdowns to get their economies restarted, and mobile phone data showing that people are becoming restless and increasingly leaving home, public health authorities are worried.
Many states have not put in place the robust testing that experts believe is necessary to detect and contain new outbreaks and many governors have pressed ahead before their states met one of the key benchmarks in the Trump administration's guidelines for reopening, a 14-day downward trajectory in new illnesses and infections.
Dr Lipkin said he is most worried about two things: the reopening of bars, where people crowd together and lose their inhibitions, and large gatherings such as sporting events, concerts and plays.
Preventing outbreaks will require aggressive contact tracing powered by armies of public health workers hundreds of thousands of people strong, which the US does not yet have, he said.
Worldwide the virus has infected more than 3.6 million people and killed over a quarter of a million, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Experts agree the figures understate the dimensions of the disaster because of limited testing, differences in counting the dead and concealment by some governments.
The US has recorded more than 70,000 deaths and 1.2 million confirmed infections, while Europe has reported more than 140,000 dead.
….gloves, gowns etc. are now plentiful. The last four Governors teleconference calls have been conclusively strong. Because of this success, the Task Force will continue on indefinitely with its focus on SAFETY & OPENING UP OUR COUNTRY AGAIN. We may add or subtract people ….
This week, the researchers behind a widely cited model from the University of Washington nearly doubled their projection of deaths in the US to about 134,000 through to early August, in large part because of the easing of state stay-at-home restrictions.
President Donald Trump, who has pressed hard to ease the restrictions that have throttled the economy and thrown more than 30 million Americans out of work, retreated on Wednesday over White House plans revealed a day earlier to wind down the coronavirus task force.
He tweeted that the task force will continue meeting indefinitely with a "focus on SAFETY & OPENING UP OUR COUNTRY AGAIN".
Underscoring those economic concerns, the European Union predicted the worst recession in its history.
And the US unemployment rate for April, which comes out on Friday, is expected to hit a staggering 16%, a level last seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
In hard-hit Italy, which has begun easing restrictions, Dr Silvio Brusaferro, president of the Superior Institute of Health, urged "a huge investment" of resources to train medical personnel to monitor possible new cases of the virus, which has killed about 30,000 people nationwide.
He said that contact-tracing apps, which are being built by dozens of countries and companies, are not enough to manage future waves of infection.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after meeting the country's 16 governors that restaurants and other businesses will be allowed to reopen in the coming weeks, but that regional authorities will have to draw up a "restriction concept" for any county that reports 50 new cases for every 100,000 inhabitants within a week.
Lothar Wieler, head of Germany's national disease control centre, said scientists "know with great certainty that there will be a second wave" of infections.


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Morning Time:
School begins at 9.00a.m.
At 8.50am the first bell will sound at which point the school yard will be supervised.
Children, who are in the yard prior to this time, are not the responsibility of the Board of Management.
Parents are asked to drop their children to the school gates at 8.50am.
At 9am the second bell sounds and children will line up in their designated lines.
It is important that the children develop the habit of being punctual for school.
Morning Break Time:
There is a 15 minute break at 10.45 a.m.
Lunch Break:
Lunch break is from 12.30 p.m. to 1.00 p.m.
Infants Home Time:
Junior and Senior Infant Classes are dismissed at 1.45 p.m.
(It is important that parents are on time. Pupils must return to their class teacher if their parent is not present. Parents must not take another child unless the school has been informed).
Home Time:
The pupils from first to sixth classes are dismissed at 2.45 p.m.
(At 2.45 p.m., pupils are expected to leave the school grounds in an orderly fashion and to report home promptly).
Please see the school's Healthy Eating Policy in the policy section of this website.
Pupils remain in school for lunch.
In the interest of hygiene and to reduce the effects of spillage, pupils are requested to eat their lunches off a tea towel.
Fruit Break: Pupils may eat a piece of fruit or vegetable at first break. This piece of fruit/veg should be peeled and of an appropriate.
Foods recommended for Lunches: Fruit, sandwiches (no chocolate, nutella or peanut spreads), Cheese, Yoghurt, Salads, buns (no chocolate), Pancakes, crackers, rice cakes, water, milk, soup, etc.
Foods not to be included: Bars, Biscuits, chocolate of any kind on anything, crisps, nuts, eggs in salads or sandwiches, sweets or fizzy drinks.
Chewing gum is not allowed in the school.
Uniform and Dress Code:
Please see the school's Dress Code policy in the policy section of this website.
The school uniform is worn on all school days other than on days of P.E. classes.
The school uniform is:
Navy Jumper and trousers for boys.
Navy Jumper and skirt or trousers for girls.
Blue blouse or shirt or polo shirt
Navy tie
The school tracksuit is a bespoke tracksuit for Callystown National School and may be ordered through www.schoolwear.ie or on the school fitting day usually on day in May.
(The school tracksuit pants have a yellow piping on the side).
Pupils are required to wear the school tracksuit on P.E. days.
For P.E. classes, runners are compulsory.
(Children should have their names written permanently on their uniforms, coats and other personal property.)
Attendances/Absences:
Please see the school's Attendance policy in the policy section of this website.
Each child is obliged by law to attend school every day on which the school is in operation unless there is a reasonable excuse for not attending. The Board of Management is obliged to inform Tusla when a pupils has been absent for 20 or more days in any given year.
When a pupil has been absent for 15 days, a letter from the school will be sent to the pupil's parents to inform them that if their child reaches 20 absences then Túsla will be informed.
In the event of a pupil being absent through illness or for any other reason, the class teacher should be informed by written note (pupil's journal) on the pupil's return to school or through the use of the Aladdin app. If it is anticipated that the absence will be of a lengthy duration, the school should be contacted by telephone or email.
When it is necessary for a pupil to leave school early, a note must be sent to the class teacher.
(Parents/ guardians are asked to call personally to the office to collect the child).
Health/Safety:
Children who are ill should not be sent to school.
Parents are asked that the school is made aware of any pupils' medical needs.
The school employs a policy on the administration of medicines. Please make an appointment with the Principal if you need to discuss this issue. (Please see the school's policy on the Administration of Medication on the policy section of this website)
Requests to remain indoors at break times should only be made in exceptional circumstances.
Please check your child's hair regularly for head lice. If there is an outbreak of head lice in a class, all parents of pupils in that class are informed by note, and asked to take immediate action to treat the infestation.
Accidents occur despite supervision. Minor accidents are treated at school. Slight cuts and grazes are normally treated by cleaning the cut with an antiseptic wipe and applying a plaster to the wound.
In the event of an accident/child becoming ill, every possible effort will be made to contact the pupil's parents or persons delegated to take responsibility for the pupil.
Please ensure that the school's pupil information form, giving details of home/work phone numbers, is kept up to date. Non co-operation in this matter could result in a delay in having your child attended to medically, should the need arise. Please ensure that an alternative contact person has been nominated and that they live locally.
(There is a facility for parents to take out insurance to cover medical expenses incurred as a result of an accident at school. Details of this scheme are circulated to parents in September.)
Please see the school's policy on General Data Protection Regulations in the policy section of this website.
Frequent communication is of vital importance in developing and nurturing co-operation between home and school.
Aladdin App: The school uses the Aladdin App for schools. Each parent is requested to download the app. The app gives parents access to pupil information, school reports, pupil attendance, standardised test results and much more. The app will also be used to send messages to parents from the school and class teachers.
Website: www.callystownnationalschool.ie
The school uses this website to update parents on school policy, calendar and activities.
Newsletter: The school will send home a newsletter at the end of each term to update the school's community on the events of the school.
Notes Home: From time to time, pupils will be given notes to bring home to inform parents of upcoming events and issues. These notes will also be sent home by email.
Students' Journal: Pupils from First class upwards will receive a school homework journal. Its primary purpose is to inform parents of their child's homework, however it both teachers and parents may use it to communicate with each other.
Parent / Teacher meetings: Parent/Teacher meetings will be held during February for all classes except 6th class, which take place in October.
Individual consultation: This occurs where a parent has asked for an interview with a teacher or has been invited to visit the school to exchange information or to discuss matters of concern. A note to the class teacher or a phone call to the secretary requesting such an appointment is always essential. It is also necessary that the purpose of the visit be stated so that teachers may undertake whatever preparation is necessary with regard to information and records.
Appointment with Principal: Parents should contact the secretary at 041-9822873 if they wish to make an appointment to meet with the Principal.
New Parents meeting: A meeting is held in the first week of September of each year with parents of the new infants.
School Book Rental Scheme:
The school runs a book rental scheme. Pupils will be provided with all their textbooks and workbooks for the school year.
School Supplies Levy: Callystown N.S. collects a school supplies levy. This levy is used to purchase each pupil's homework journal and copies. The levy is also used to fund photocopying, library books, supplementary readers, art materials, class games, computer software, hardware and other classroom and sporting requirements.
(The cost of the Book Rental and School Levy is currently €70. There are reductions for families who 3 or more pupils attending the school).
Parents have a key role to play in the religious formation of their children. They are asked to acquaint themselves with the school's religion programme (Grow in Love).
The pupils receive the Sacraments of Penance and Holy Communion in Second Class, and the sacrament of Confirmation when in Sixth Class. The preparation of the children for sacraments is a shared responsibility between pupils, teachers, parents and parish clergy. On certain occasions throughout the school year, the children may participate in prayer services or a school Masses.
Opt Out: If parents wish to have their child opt out of religious education, parents are required to meet with the school's principal to discuss the issue.
School Environment:
Callystown N.S. is a Green Flag School. To date we have received the Green Flag for Waste, Energy, Water, Travel and Biodiversity. The school is currently in the process of applying for our 'Global Citizenship' flag.
A lot of effort has been put into creating a pleasant environment over the last number of years. Murals have been painted and a large part of the school has been landscaped.
It has been the tradition of the school that each class will get an opportunity to go on at least one school trip. This usually happens in the last term of school. On occasions, when a suitable event occurs, then a tour can be arranged to take advantage of this opportunity. A notification of school tours will be sent to all parents detailing the trip and costs. A permission slip will be attached and will need to be signed in order for children to take part.
After School Activities:
After school activities are run on a termly basis and may vary from time to time. The activities are run with the co-operation of teachers. Activities may include boys and girls football, music, Irish dancing, arts and crafts, Lego club and IT club. Arrangements for each of these activities will be forwarded to parents at the beginning of each term.
Credit Union:
The school promotes the habit of saving. To this end, the school has a savings club with the local Credit Union. Each Monday, from October to the end of the year, those wishing to save can bring money in and it will be lodged through the school to their Credit Union accounts. No withdrawals can be made through the school. In order to open an account, parents will have to make contact with Clogherhead Credit Union to open an account.
Parking and Traffic:
Parents are asked not to park in the teachers' car park.
Parents are asked to drive around the roundabout and to stop at the pedestrian gate when dropping off their children. Under no circumstances should a car stop on the roundabout to drop children off.
As a general rule, every child from Junior Infants to Sixth Class is given homework each weekday night. Parents are asked to ensure that their children complete the homework each night. In the event of the homework not being attempted or not being completed, teachers may insist that the children complete the homework during weekends.
Each child from first class to sixth has a homework journal. It should be signed each night by a parent when the child's homework is completed and inspected.
Where exceptional circumstances prevent the completion of homework, please forward an explanatory note to the teacher.
Parents are asked to refrain from doing their child's homework. Work set for homework will have been prepared in class. Please check your child's homework for neatness and point out any mistakes.
Changes have taken place in the way in which certain areas of Maths are being taught. In helping your child, please adhere to the methods being used in school.
Providing alternative methods may lead to confusion for the child.
Oral work is as important as written work. Please listen to your child's reading, and examine spellings and tables.
As a general rule, homework is not given at the weekends.
Reading: It is primarily in the home that the habit of reading is fostered. Encourage your child to join the library and help him/her to appreciate that reading can be fun and not a chore which is confined to school or homework. Encourage reading in free time and during holidays.
Problems with Reading: Children with reading difficulties may be referred to the Learning Support Teacher. For a support programme to be successful, it will require the encouragement and active co-operation of parents. Specifically, parents are asked to listen to their child reading on a nightly basis. Be positive. The road to good reading may not be smooth, but your child will get there in the end.
School Policies:
The school has a number of policies that inform the management of Callystown National School. These policies are to be found in the school policy section of this website. It is important that parents read these policies and keep up to date with the administration of the school.
Ways to help the School:
We are very appreciative of the support which parents and pupils give to the school's fund raising activities.
We encourage as many parents as possible to take an active part in the Parents' Council.
Remember – When you give time to the school, you help your child! When you give time to your child, you help the school!
If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact the school at 9822873


by Amanda Y Well after that teaser week of summer in Ottawa, it has made me start itching for the real thing so we can go swimming regularly up at the cottage. Since he was 3 (now almost 5) J has regularly been taking swimming lessons through the City of Ottawa. The first round of lessons was really an adjustment period because he refused to participate for the most of the lessons. He would get in the water but not cooperate with the instructor. However, since then he has been quite happy about going, some of the tasks are hit or miss with him, he doesn't love having water in his face or ears, but over time, things have improved. The spring session started last week and I swear, that was a totally different kid in the water! He was dunking his head, happily floating on his back, front float has improved drastically, he will actually put his face in the water, tentatively, but he used to outright refuse! He loves to play the games like "What time is it Mr. Wolf?" and "Red light green light" It's too bad the lessons are only 30 minutes long, I think he would benefit from a longer lesson, even another 15 minutes would be great!
The City of Ottawa's Learn to Swim Program offers the Red Cross swimming levels. They include Parent and Me classes, Preschool classes, and School-Aged program (up to 12 yrs old).
Not only are swimming lessons fun, but swimming is also a very important skill for a child to have. Many people have a fear of water and so having lessons in childhood can help to prevent this. Fear leads to panic and if you panic in the water, the outcome is terrible. Just knowing how to handle yourself in the water can prevent so many accidental drownings. Of course, even the best swimmers can drown, and I highly promote the use of life jackets in boats and on inexperienced swimmers in deep water. Simply knowing how to float and keep your head above water is a critical skill, in my opinion. I am a strong swimmer, my parents insisted we take swimming lessons and I am doing the same for J. It is also the kind of class that grows with the child. They continue to build upon and learn new skills including rescue maneuvers and CPR. Also something to think about: teens who become lifeguards and swimming instructors are paid quite well. They can work at city pools as well as summer camps earning their own money. The benefits just keep adding up.
For information about how your teen could become a lifeguard visit the National Lifesaving Society's website.
Who knows if J will ever go that far, but what's important to me is that he learn to swim and be comfortable around water.


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