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Islamic Thought Crime in the EU
Why should we care about the plight of Austrian Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, when we have a Deep State patsy arrested for sending dud pipe bombs to a slew of America haters (George Soros, senior and junior), Eric "kick 'em" Holder, Maxine Waters, Maxine Waters, the Clintons, Barack Obama) and other choice denizens of the Left (but, who actually assembled and delivered the bombs? It appears that Cesar Sayoc was barely able tie his shoe laces) let alone manufacture real or fake explosive devices), or the "caravan" of delusional Central Americans walking, or marching, or riding their way to the U.S. – Mexican border with the intention of rushing over it en masse to claim "asylum" and all the welfare state goodies that can be found here…
What about Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff? The Daily Sabah wrote on October 10:
The Daily Sabah reported that:"
Defaming the Prophet Muhammad exceeds the permissible limits of freedom of expression, ruled the European Court of Human Rights, upholding an Austrian court's decision.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled Thursday that an Austrian woman's criminal conviction and fine for her statements accusing the Prophet Muhammad of pedophilia did not breach her right to free speech.
Sabaditsch-Wolff was convicted in 2011 by an Austrian court for offending the "dignity" of Muslims by repeating the oft repeated tale what was to be found in the hadith that Mohammad had married six-year-old Aisha, and consummated the marriage with her when she was nine-years-old.
Sabaditsch-Wolff said this made him a pedophile. That was her "crime." Spencer wrote:
The problem that the Austrian courts overlooked here was that Muhammad is held up in Islam as the perfect example of conduct for Muslims (cf. Qur'an 33:21). Accordingly, his example does lead to pedophilia, and in any case the distinction between pedophilia and child marriage can be very fine. In Afghanistan virtually all girls above third-grade age are married, and because of Muhammad, but the Austrian court would have us believe either that there is no pedophilia in these child marriages, or that they have nothing to do with Muhammad, both of which could be proven false readily.
Stating that the court had found that "the applicant's statements had been likely to arouse justified indignation in Muslims" and "amounted to a generalization without factual basis", the ECtHR said that the woman's comments could not be covered by the freedom of expression.
What about that "factual basis"? Spencer has published a great book that casts doubt on the historicity of Mohammad (Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam's Obscure Origins).
My own view of all of Islam's "sacred" texts is that they have been works-in-progress for 1,400 years, especially the hadith, and have as much substance and credibility as Charlie Brown's The Great Pumpkin. Islamic "scholars" have been refining, editing and adumerating the character and content of Islamic texts for centuries, adding and removing dictats and stories about "the Prophet" when it suited them. The Koran and the Hadith read like awful, perverse fairy tales about the adventures, sayings, and habits of Islam's "ideal" man, a person, who, today, would earn himself 99+ years in a maximum security prison for what he did, if not the death sentence, a person no rational parents would uphold for their children as someone to admire and emulate. One may as well "Idealize" one of the thugs of Antifa.
Soren Kern of Gatestone provides a wide, detailed description of Sabaditsch-Wolff's "crime":
Sabaditsch-Wolff's legal problems began in November 2009, when she presented a three-part seminar about Islam to the Freedom Education Institute, a political academy linked to the Austrian Freedom Party — which today forms part of the Austrian government. A left-leaning weekly magazine, News, planted a journalist in the audience to secretly record the lectures. Lawyers for the publication then handed the transcripts over to the Viennese public prosecutor's office as evidence of hate speech against Islam, according to Section 283 of the Austrian Criminal Code (Strafgesetzbuch, StGB).
The offending speech was an offhand comment by Sabaditsch-Wolff that Mohammed was a pedophile because he married his wife Aisha when she was just six or seven years old. Sabaditsch-Wolff's actual words were, "A 56-year-old and a six-year-old? What do we call it, if it is not pedophilia?"
Indeed, most hadiths (collections of traditions containing the words and actions of Mohammed) confirm that Aisha was prepubescent when Mohammed married her and was only nine years old when the marriage was consummated. Mohammed's actions would today be unlawful in Austria, so Sabaditsch-Wolff's comments were factually, if not politically, correct.
Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge noted:
The Strasbourg-based ECHR ruled that the woman's "right to freedom of expression with the right of others to have their religious feelings protected, and served the legitimate aim of preserving religious peace in Austria."
The ECHR engaged in what is now an all-too-familiar effort to deny its obvious denial of free speech by saying that freedom of religion did not protect religions from criticism but they upheld the punishment of someone for doing precisely that. It simply declared that the woman's comments "could only be understood as having been aimed at demonstrating that Muhammad was not worthy of worship."
And that offended Muslims; it allegedly hurt their "feelings" and robbed them of "dignity." The EU court decided that those feelings and pilfered dignity were more important than anyone's freedom of speech. So, in the name of "religious peace," Sabaditsch-Wolff's mouth must be duct taped and she must pay for the tape, too. The feelings must be assuaged and the dignity restored by punishing Sabaditsch-Wolff for identifying a reality the EU judges refuse to acknowledge.
But, was it Muhammad or Allah – an imaginary man, or a ghost in the sky – who was not worthy of worship? The EU seems to have its Sharia masters confused.
Louis Farrakhan is noted for his anti-Semitic hate speech, as is Linda Sarsour, the pro-Sharia, anti-Israel "activist." Neither of them has been duct-taped or fined.
As an atheist, no religious icon or deity is worthy of worship, respect, deference, or adulation.
Why should we be concerned about Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff's fate? Because it could very well be our own, given the war on conservative speech being waged by the big tech companie: Google, Twitter, Facebook, and others.
Few people, except, perhaps, Melania Trump or Greta Garbo, deserve anyone's respect, deference, or adulation.
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Migrants for Sale
Lemmings and criminals on the march
I refrained from commenting on the migrant "caravan" as long as I could so I could work in peace without interruption or distraction on my next novel, Flute. But the strings to say something about the poor, poor migrants pull hard, and here I am
So, here we are. Some 7,000 or more Central Americans are "walking" up to the U.S. border to demand entry and a piece of the welfare state pie. The U.S. should apologize to them for being so fascist and cruel, said an Objectivist intellectual, Harry Binswanger, in a Forbes article.
Oh, yes. The Hondurans are going to show us how it's done. They're going to boost the economy 500% with their advanced job skills. They're going to discover the cures for cancer and the common cold. They're going to send a rover to Pluto, and shame the accomplishments of the Mars rovers and the Huygens Titan probe and those snotty Japanese who've managed to land probes on a mere asteroid! They've got the ambition and the expertise and the unmatched talent, and the U.S. would benefit if only they'd let the Hondurans, and Guatemalans, Salvadorans, and Mexicans come in and not ask them any awkward questions or establish criteria! They can soak up the housing market, and buy houses and estates in Newport Beach and Laguna. To call them parasites and leeches is insulting, as insulting as calling Muslim women "brood mares." As offensive as calling Muslim men "dead heads." And it's "racist" to point out that Somali Muslim women are uniformly fat and ugly and a visual blot on the landscape.
They can save the California economy and add billions of dollars to the state budget so the state can finish the super train and fund its civil service pension program. They're going to replace the U.S. flag with the Mexican and Honduran ones and demand that white Americans learn Spanish as a mandatory first language, and that companies make "speak English" the last number to press to talk to banks and businesses or their doctors (no. 9). The U.S. flag is "racist," they say, and must be burned and gotten rid of. Refugees no more! Full citizenship, and to hell with the fools who applied for it and took civics lessons and waited for years! When they could just as well walked across the border and claimed "asylum."
Satire aside: What have the closely packed migrants who are falling off of packed trucks or collapsing from exhaustion during the trek to offer the U.S.? Not much – except to become a greater weight on the welfare system, sustained also by stipends from their various Soros and NGO beneficaries. It's the powers behind the alleged "caravan" that stand to gain the most. For one, George Soros, who through his multiple connections or subsidies of "humanitarian" charities, aided and encouraged by the State Department, in turn fund every collectivist cause imaginable, including "caravans" of the poverty stricken migrants, "yearning to be free." Or taken care of by the state and taxpayers and the damned gringos. Soros and the Dems intend to do to America what what's been done to Europe: cripple it and dissolve it.
Migrant waving new American flag
Are they coming to the U.S. to seek asylum? No. They're looking for jobs. They say. They may be telling the truth. Still, they are ignorant pawns of the elitists who seek to bring the U.S. down to the level of any Islamized country in Europe, for example, the U.K.
Gatestone reports:
More than 100,000 British Muslims sympathize with suicide bombers and people who commit other terrorist acts, according to a 615-page survey. Only one in three British Muslims (34%) would contact the police if they believed that somebody close to them had become involved with radical Islam. In addition, 23% of British Muslims said Islamic Sharia law should replace British law in areas with large Muslim populations.
So, the U.K. Is being inundated with hostile Muslims. The U.S. has been "settled" or "colonized" by hostile Muslims, and it is intended that it will be inundated by equally ignorant and hostile Central Americans. It's Obama "transforming" our country. If that takes "caravans" or invasion armies, so be it. There will be "collateral damage," too.
Politifact quoted Obama n February:
"Now, Mizzou, I just have two words for you tonight: five days. Five days. After decades of broken politics in Washington, and eight years of failed policies from George W. Bush, and 21 months of a campaign that's taken us from the rocky coast of Maine to the sunshine of California, we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
"In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In five days, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor."
Migrants burning old American flag
This is all Obama's usual yadda yadda. He's never been interested in "creating" anything except federally subsidized boondoggles, such as Solyndra. By "transform" he means changing America into a nation of submissive, non-questioning, obedient serfs who abide by the social justice warrior's bidding.
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I remember the days when I could go to a restaurant or a coffee shop for lunch, and have a smoke after my meal. I remember being able to smoke on the job. I remember flying and asking reservations for a smoking seat. And in a restaurant where I planned to spend more time than usual, asking for the smoking section.
Then, in 1988 Northwest Airlines ran an ad on TV in which the voice over announced that there would be no more smoking on its flights.
Following that, the hammer began to drop, all over the country. Airline after airline abolished smoking sections. State after state began to ban smoking in offices, restaurants, coffee shops, theaters, and even in pool halls. And then outside of buildings where smokers congregated but were banned because passersby might drop dead or have a crashing headache from the second-hand smoke. Before you knew it, many restaurants and other "public places" began to close; I remember so many places in Williamsburg and Newport News where I could repair for lunch or a meal and a smoke. But they've all disappeared or knuckled under the no-smoking laws. Ashtrays on tables and counters vanished.
One of my favorite places was the bar of The Polo Club on Jamestown Road. I went by there after out-going governor Tim Kaine (Hillary's running mate) signed a law banning all such smoking in Virginia in a spate of virtue-signaling. I saw patrons standing outside because they could no longer smoke in the bar. The last time I checked the place had been gutted to a bare floor; a sign on the window said that an exercise salon was going to take the restaurant's place.
The smoking bans effectively, and in fact, seized private property to benefit one group and prohibited what it deemed to be "public health" practices. What for? For an influential group and lobby that wanted smoking banned so that it could go wherever it wanted, so that "sensitive" non-smokers could avail themselves of private property that already existed, instead of having to start their own non-smoking venues.
It was a continuation of the Progressive campaign to force everyone to conform to the "public good" in terms of health concerns. It was the authoritarian desire to rob people of something they enjoyed. It is a manifestation of hatchet-wielding Carry Nation and the Women's Christian Temperance Union and their violent campaigns against bars and alcohol.
One reader's comment on Reddit noted:
American tobacco companies put up to 599 extra ingredients into their cigarettes. So instead of burning just tobacco, paper and a burning agent (in the paper,) you are combusting a huge variety of chemicals, many of which are not approved for ingestion after combustion. Here are just the first several additives off of Wikipedia list of all 599: Acetanisole, Acetic acid, Acetoin, Acetophenone, 6-Acetoxydihydrotheaspirane, 2-Acetyl-3-Ethylpyrazine, 2-Acetyl, 5-Methylfuran, Acetylpyrazine, 2-Acetylpyridine, 3-Acetylpyridine, 2-Acetylthiazole, etc.
American Spirit cigarettes have 0 added ingredients. It's just tobacco, paper and a burning agent in the paper.
….I also notice when I see a cigarette in a movie, 9 times out of 10 it is an American Spirit. My guess is they have actors smoke that brand for the same reason: so it does not provoke a negative reaction in the film crew. Of course, I have no proof of this. It's just a guess.
Anti-smokers, who are, as a rule, against Columbus Day and claim that North American Indians were peace-loving people "victimized" by the European "invasion" of the continent, tend to overlook the fact that American Indians (the vaunted "indigenous peoples) introduced Europeans to smoking and tobacco. In England, King James, however, as rabid an anti-tobacco zealot as was Adolf Hitler, collected lots of revenue from the Virginia tobacco trade. Hitler also collected personal revenue from the trade in Germany, as well as from sales of Mein Kampf, and had cigarettes sold on the streets.
In fact, during the French and Indian War, Britain had a special arrangement with France, to export tobacco uninterrupted to France, which also benefited from the sales revenue. Tobacco from the colonies, especially from Virginia, had to "land" in Britain before going anywhere else. Mandatory shipment of all colonial produce to Britain was a fetter that tied the colonies to mercantilism, which was a contributing factor to the American Revolution.
The 17th century saw the organization of the tobacco trade and the implementation of new laws regulating the sale of tobacco. In 1614 Spain proclaimed Seville the tobacco capital of the world. All tobacco produced for sale in New Spain had to first go through Seville before moving on to the rest of Europe. France and England passed analogous laws. King James I of England was the first to tax tobacco while King Louis XIV was the first to make its distribution and sale a state run monopoly. Laws restricting the cultivation of tobacco to the Americas were passed during the second half of the 1600's in an effort to insure a steady high quality supply. During this time period the Tionontati, an Indian tribe located in what is today south-eastern Canada, produced tobacco for sale in Europe and were known by the French as the tobacco people.
From Sparrowhawk, Book Three, p. 5 on the tobacco trade during the French and Indian War: (1754-1763):
Neither did the war affect Virginians much in the purse. The colony's chief export, and the basis of its prosperity, was tobacco. While French and British navies and privateers preyed on each other's sea commerce, British merchantmen were able to sail regularly, under a flag of truce, to French ports with cargoes of tobacco bought by the Farmers General of the Revenue, the French state tobacco monopoly, and the largest single buyer on the world market. Both Crowns needed the revenue generated by that trade in order to prosecute the war. The same concordia discors had been in effect during King George's war, or the War of the Austrian Succession.
The rationale behind banning smoking in "public places" is that they are open to the public and anyone may enter them with the right to not encounter smoke or even second-hand smoke, as it may give them headaches or detract from the enjoyment of his meal. The subject of "public places" is dealt with in the second half of Sparrowhawk, Book Two, when members of the Society of the Pippin, a group of "freethinkers," are arrested in a "public place" in London, and put on trial for uttering "blasphemous" words against the King during a private meeting. The judge trying them, Sir Bevil Grainger, delivers his finding (pp. 353-4):
"Gentlemen of the jury: I recommend that the accused, named Robert Meservey, Beverly Brashears, Peter Brompton, Daniel Sweeney, and Jacob Mendoza, members of a private club styled the Society of the Pippin, be on this day indicted for fractious and odious calumnies against His Majesty, George Rex the Third, our king and sovereign of his dominions, against our most perfect Church, and against the general and tranquil civil order of His Majesty's dominions, calumnies uttered in a public place known as the Fruit Wench in this city of London, or the county of Middlesex, on any and all dates noted in their own recorded proceedings together with those noted in affidavits assembled by agents of the Crown."
Grainger paused to catch his breath, then continued "—assailing and aspersing the veracity of Christianity and the Scriptures, the moral foundation of the nation, in such a quantity of statements, and in such evil terms, that to read them in this court would simply be to repeat the offense; and inadvertently, by the accused's hands, or by the hand of an unknown party – it matters not which – making known these libels and blasphemies to the public by their utterance in a public place and by dissemination of them on posters put up in public places, consequently tending and intending to incite public dissatisfaction and a breach of the public peace."
Little did I foresee, when I wrote Grainger's deliberations at the turn of the century, that years later people could be sued, charged, and punished or censored for uttering "blasphemous" words on private venues against Islam. While censoring, or punishing people for "defaming" Islam is not the same as banning smoking on private property, the two actions share the same common root: a desire to control people's actions by the state and to impose an arbitrary, unquestioning uniformity, by force or by crook. Americans have become inured to the bans, conditioned to them, so to speak, and think little of them now. Islam frowns on smoking and wages the same kind of propaganda war against it as the federal government wages.
ThoughtCo notes:
In more recent times, as the dangers of tobacco use have been proven beyond any doubt, Islamic scholars have become unanimous in pronouncing that tobacco use is clearly haram (forbidden) to believers. They now use the strongest possible terms to condemn this habit. Here is a clear example:
In view of the harm caused by tobacco, growing, trading in and smoking of tobacco are judged to be haram (forbidden). The Prophet, peace be upon him, is reported to have said, 'Do not harm yourselves or others.' Furthermore, tobacco is unwholesome, and God says in the Qur'an that the Prophet, peace be upon him, 'enjoins upon them that which is good and pure, and forbids them that which is unwholesome. (Permanent Committee of Academic Research and Fatwa, Saudi Arabia). (Ayah a-A 'raf 715)
The reasons Islamic scholars give to argue against smoking do not differ in substance from those offered by the government or by secularists. "Proven beyond a doubt"? Islam is not famous for its medical advice; i.e., female genital mutilation and drinking camel urine. Smoking is a private pleasure, and a private pleasure is discouraged by Islam because it does not wholly please Allah; one lives for Allah's happiness and pleasure, and for nothing else.
All the heroes of my novels smoke.
I was not too surprised to read the short warning in the credits at the end of my DVD of The Darkest Hour that the film was not an endorsement of smoking (Churchill smoked his cigar virtually through the whole movie). I was not surprised either when the cigarette was air brushed from Humphrey Bogart's stamp.
On the other hand – Peace be upon the State?
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Some nights we love to sit and share a cocktail in the parlor. The glow of the tree, mantle garland, and staircase garland signal that the holidays are here.
Enjoy the lights of the season throughout my home.
I love the white lights at night. So beautiful. Are those candles or lights on the fire logs? Just curious because I just bought new gas fire logs, so I noticed them in your pictures.
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Honoring a standout sister in Norwood
Posted on 20 October 2010. Tags: Bronx, Norwood, religion
by Elisabeth Anderson
Sr. Catherine, left, poses with a friend. Photo: courtesy Sr. Anne Queenan
Dressed in a purple skirt suit and printed blouse, Sister Catherine Naughton squeezed hands, shared hugs, and greeted approximately 200 guests outside St. Brendan Catholic Church in the Norwood section of the Bronx. The small 68-year-old nun paused to embrace a more robust Claire McCabe, 80, who hugged back – hard.
"If Sister Catherine left, our leisure club would fall apart," McCabe said, of the church's group for senior outings, activities, and exercise.
Naughton is revered for her ministry to seniors, and luckily for McCabe, she has no plans to retire. The guests who came on an autumn Saturday to honor her 50 years of Catholic life at a Golden Jubilee mass included her family and her Dominican sisters from Sparkill, N.Y., where her order is based.
A dynamic community activist, Naughton is one of a shrinking group of women in religious life. According to the Index of Leading Catholic Indicators, there were 180,000 sisters in 1965. By 2020 there will be just 40,000.
Naughton began her calling when Norwood was still full of McCabes. Today, the neighborhood is half Hispanic.
In a changing community, Naughton has been a constant source of strength for many. "Sister really has been an inspiration to me personally," said the Rev. George Stewart, 42, pastor of St. Brendan and officiant at Naughton's mass. "As a man, as a priest, and as a pastor."
For the past eight years, Naughton has run St. Brendan's senior outreach program for more than 100 regular participants; it includes a leisure club, exercise classes, and a lunch program. The 102-year-old parish boasts between 1,700 and 2,000 congregants, approximately 25 percent of whom are over age 65.
Naughton has also made a mark ministering to the parish's sick. "When Paul was in the hospital, she was at his bedside, bringing meals," said Jeanne Hveem, 64, speaking of her husband, a deacon at St. Brendan, who recently suffered a heart attack.
Stewart stressed the importance of Naughton's leadership role. "She's often my eyes and ears to what's going on," said Stewart. "Who is sick, who is in the hospital, even who has passed." After a short commute from her home in Riverdale, she spends hours at a time in nursing homes and hospitals.
She started that committed approach to ministry 50 years ago on Sept. 8, when she and 57 other young women became Dominican sisters at Sparkill. St. Dominic founded the Dominican Order in the 13th century with an emphasis on active service; hundreds of years ago, its friars traveled rather than live sequestered in monasteries. In 1876, Alice Mary Thorpe founded the Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of the Rosary. The sisters came to St. Brendan in 1912 to start a religious education program at the new parish school.
Naughton came to St. Brendan in 2002. Born in Washington Heights and a self-professed "city girl," she was glad to be back in the Bronx, where she had worked 45 years ago. Naughton had been looking for a new place to minister to seniors, and she sent letters to many parishes and to Rev. Patrick Hennessey, St. Brendan's now-deceased former pastor, who hired her and put her in charge of senior outreach.
But Naughton hasn't always worked with seniors. Early in her career, sisters were not allowed to choose their own ministry, and she trained to be a teacher. She said that when the policy changed in the aftermath of Vatican II, it was a defining moment for her. "We've received the freedom to follow where our gifts are," she said. She tried her hand as a teacher, a hospital chaplain, and a senior housing worker, among other roles.
"I'm a Gemini," she joked. "So we kind of dabble!" Her senior housing work led her to senior outreach, and she has not looked back.
At Naughton's mass, Stewart presented her with a plaque and bouquet in appreciation. "Why don't you move to the center," he asked from the altar, "so we can embarrass you some more."
The vision in purple didn't skip a beat as she walked up to embrace Stewart, to great applause. "It's a blessed event," she said. "I'm very honored."


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Kohler earns national award for excellence in mentoring
Published: January 7th, 2011
Naomi Chen visited the UAB School of Public Health in 2007 as a prospective master's student. She didn't know what to expect or whom she might meet.
Connie Kohler, Dr.P.H., professor of health behavior and director of graduate studies for the department, was the person to engage Chen and enlighten her on the virtues of a UAB public health master's degree. Kohler familiarized Chen with the department and showed her research initiatives to the prospective student. But it was the way Kohler delivered the message that really struck a chord with Chen. She was warm, encouraging and passionate.
Connie Kohler enjoys teaching students one-on-one like Mike Taylor, an advanced doctoral student in health education and promotion. Kohler serves a mentor to Taylor — and he is grateful for her guidance.
"I immediately felt at home," Chen says. "Dr. Kohler's friendliness and accessibility were key factors in my decision to attend UAB."
And Kohler's guidance as a mentor led to Chen nominating her for awards, including the Graduate School's Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentorship — an award Kohler earned in 2010. Since Chen put together the book of letters nominating Kohler for that award, she figured she should send it to the American Public Health Association (APHA), too. Because of that, Kohler recently was named a recipient of the APHA Student Assembly Excellence in Mentoring Award. The award is given annually to senior public health academics or practitioners who take an active role in mentoring students and young professionals through regular contact, professional development, research support or joint publications.
"Dr. Kohler is more than an innovative researcher," Chen says. "She shares freely of herself and takes a genuine interest in her students. When people ask how I am enjoying graduate school, I tell them that I am getting what I came for — and more — and that I owe my success in large part to Dr. Kohler."
Engaging students
Kohler is not one to seek attention and recognition for her work, but she enjoys what she does and relishes the opportunity to engage students.
"I like teaching in the classroom," says Kohler, who teaches two courses a year in health communication. "I have my good days and bad days at it, but I just discovered along the way that working with students one-on-one is a lot of fun."
Kohler, a 27-year UAB employee, has mentored students extensively for the past 15 years, and she does admit to possessing an affinity for explaining things to other people.
"If somebody doesn't know something, I like to explain it to them," she says. "I just find that really rewarding. Even when I was a little kid I wanted to play school and be the teacher. It's kind of showing off in a way I guess — I know something you don't know, and here let me tell it to you — but it's also a social thing. I like getting to know the students. I probably spend more time than a lot of people getting to know them personally — not that that is the best way to do it; it's just the way I am."
Students admire the high academic standards Kohler sets for herself and them and how her teaching strategies often draw them into thoughtful and engaging conversations on health communications theory. And they are especially appreciative that she shows a willingness to engage them personally and get to know them.
That personal relationship was key to Angela Warren Baumann continuing on her path in school. Baumann, a fourth-year doctoral student in health behavior, was an excellent and diligent student. She also was a mom-to-be in spring 2008 and was going to miss time while on maternity leave. Kohler worked with Baumann and enabled her to complete the requirements of a course during her leave so she could maintain her progress in the program.
"She was kind and compassionate in balancing the need to complete assignments in her course and realizing that I needed time to recuperate after just having a baby," Baumann says. "I gained even more respect for Dr. Kohler during this semester because I realized she respected me as a whole person — one with responsibilities to school and family."
Kohler believes helping students navigate issues like Baumann's are essential.
"As a mentor, you have to help students navigate more than just the professional aspects of things," Kohler says.
Learning from others
Kohler says she has been the beneficiary of a mentor as well. In fact, she says Bill Bailey, M.D., professor of medicine in pulmonary, allergy and critical care, often crosses her mind.
"I worked in the Lung Health Center for several years early in my doctoral career, and I learned a lot from Bill Bailey in terms of research and how to treat people," Kohler says. "He was a wonderful mentor."
And because of that, Bailey was among those she thanked in Denver during the 2010 annual meeting of the American Public Health Association where she received the Student Assembly award. In fact, Kohler thanked Bailey and every student she has mentored in her career in a rhyme.
"I had to give a three-minute acceptance speech, and I didn't know what to do," Kohler says.
"I wound up naming them in rhyme in order to thank them. And I didn't miss anybody."
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Q: i cant get the input to define Y (as yes) to upper i get a traceback call This is for an assignment

when it gets to the Question about pregnant if pregnant = Y if not is N
it throws me back Y is not defined ? because its case-sensitive.
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>NameError
>Traceback (most recent call last)
><ipython-input-1-8e4818ff5970> in <module>
>     16 elif Age > 18 and Sex == "F":
>     17     pregnant = input("Are you pregnant (Y)es or (N): ").upper()
>---> 18     if pregnant == Y.upper():
>     19         print("You need a physician's note that you can fly: ")
>
>
>NameError: name 'Y' is not defined

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I've tried the following

>pregnant = input("Are you pregnant (Y)es or (N): ")
>pregnant = input.upper("Are you pregnant (Y)es or (N): "))
>pregnant = input("Are you pregnant (Y)es or (N): ").upper()
>pregnant = pregnant.upper()

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The question is to determine whether the traveler is good to go as is or needs extra documentation --- by taking in input to a question of yes or no and return either an OK you are good to go, or need more info  and documents

A: The problem with your line no.18 is that "pregnant" holds either "Y" or "N" in Character format . Therefore you need to say pregnant == 'Y'.upper()
So, when you're comparing the input in the if condition should look something like this :
pregnant = input("Are you pregnant (Y)es or (N)o: ").upper()
if pregnant == 'Y'.upper():
    print("You need a physician's note that you can fly: ")

I've tested it and it works fine:
Are you pregnant (Y)es or (N): Y
You need a physician's note that you can fly:

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UNIVERSAL ORLANDO RESORT REVEALS THE ALL-NEW SCARE ZONES INVADING THE STREETS OF HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS 2019
by Dawn Sabato on August 13, 2019
Guests will Encounter Five Scare Zones Based on Twisted Original Stories, Sony Pictures' upcoming "Zombieland: Double Tap" and the Heavy Metal Frights of Horror Icon Rob Zombie
ORLANDO, Fla. (August 12, 2019) – Bloodthirsty zombies, otherworldly beings, chainsaw-wielding slashers and more will take over the streets of Universal Studios Florida in all-new scare zones at Halloween Horror Nights 2019 – the world's premier Halloween event.
Guests will navigate five scare zones filled with menacing scare-actors that will stalk their every move: they'll become prey to zombies as they enter the world of Zombieland, based-on Sony Pictures' 2009 cult classic hit and its upcoming sequel out on October 18; try to escape horrifying creatures inspired by the popular music of horror icon Rob Zombie; and find themselves in three original nightmares created by the twisted minds of Universal Orlando's Entertainment team – Anarch-cade, Vanity Ball and Vikings Undead.
Zombieland: Double Tap: As guests enter the streets of New York, they'll be thrown into the world of Zombieland where they must escape bloodthirsty zombies or become a midnight snack.
Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe: Inspired by the heavy metal horror music of Rob Zombie, guests will be surrounded by otherworldly beings, brutal maniacs and menacing machines all while they scream along to Zombie's haunting lyrics on the streets of San Francisco.
Anarch-cade: On Avenue of the Stars, guests will enter a sinister 80s-inspired arcade where they only get one life. Their fear will level up as they try to flee a band of neon slashers, highlighted in black lights, with chainsaws.
Vikings Undead: Brutal, horn-helmeted warriors will rise from the grave and seize Central Park. Guests will become victims of these skeletal fighters and draugr, reanimated corpses who have channeled their vindictive rage into an endless onslaught of gore.
Vanity Ball: On the streets of Hollywood, guests will quickly discover beauty is pain as they watch artists turn willing participants into horrific living works of art.
Halloween Horror Nights 2019 will also feature 10 elaborately-themed haunted houses based on everything from the biggest names in horror and cinematic greats to crazed cult favorites and original abominations. And when they need a break from the screams, guests can enjoy live entertainment, including the new Academy of Villains: Altered States, featuring a killer mix of dance and theatrics in the Fear Factor Live venue, and a brand-new show that will debut for the first time ever at Halloween Horror Nights. Stay tuned - additional information about the new show will be revealed soon.
Halloween Horror Nights 2019 runs select nights Sept. 6 through Nov. 2. For more information, visit www.halloweenhorrornights.com/orlando.
About Universal Orlando Resort
Universal Orlando Resort is a unique vacation destination that is part of the NBCUniversal Comcast family. For more than 25 years, Universal Orlando has been creating epic vacations for the entire family – incredible experiences that place guests in the heart of powerful stories and adventures.
Universal Orlando's three theme parks, Universal Studios Florida, Universal's Islands of Adventure and Universal's Volcano Bay, are home to some of the world's most exciting and innovative theme park experiences – including The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Hogsmeade and The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley. Universal Orlando's hotels are destinations unto themselves and include Loews Portofino Bay Hotel, the Hard Rock Hotel, Loews Royal Pacific Resort, Loews Sapphire Falls Resort, Universal's Cabana Bay Beach Resort, Universal's Aventura Hotel and Universal's Endless Summer Resort – Surfside Inn and Suites. Its entertainment complex, Universal CityWalk, offers immersive dining and entertainment for every member of the family.
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About Sony Pictures' Zombieland: Double Tap
A decade after Zombieland became a hit film and a cult classic, the lead cast (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone) have reunited with director Ruben Fleischer (Venom) and the original writers Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick (Deadpool) for Zombieland: Double Tap. In the sequel, written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick and Dave Callaham, through comic mayhem that stretches from the White House and through the heartland, these four slayers must face off against the many new kinds of zombies that have evolved since the first movie, as well as some new human survivors. But most of all, they have to face the growing pains of their own snarky, makeshift family.
Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick and Dave Callaham. Produced by Gavin Polone. Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese, Rebecca Rivo, Ruben Fleischer and David Bernad serve as executive producers. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Rosario Dawson, Zoey Deutch and Luke Wilson.
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Why the metaverse could be a breakthrough in privacy-compliant digital marketing
Through cookie alternatives and lessons learned from past digital marketing efforts, brands can hit reset on privacy in the metaverse.
Asa Hiken Associate Editor
Courtesy of Together Labs
The metaverse is currently one of the buzziest areas in marketing, yet questions remain as to how privacy — an increasingly important value for consumers — will be considered in the burgeoning space. A lack of technical knowledge about augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), historically slow-to-move policy regulations and consumer skepticism create an uphill battle for marketers, who will need to take privacy seriously if the metaverse ever reaches the level of public interest for which companies hope.
Despite these challenges, or perhaps as a result of them, the metaverse presents an opportunity to be a breakthrough in privacy-compliant digital marketing. Brands have the benefit of taking lessons learned from previous digital marketing efforts, such as the importance of consent or the necessity of listening to a user community, and applying them to the development of their metaverse platforms. And with the impending deprecation of third-party cookies, the space could be a fresh start built on more privacy-forward tracking alternatives.
"For brands, [the metaverse] will be a bit like the Wild Wild West, so what would be ideal is that they take the frameworks and the learnings from the internet and start to understand how those can be applied proactively to the work that they're doing," said Rachel Noonan, director of strategy at agency Jam3, which recently merged with Media.Monks.
The metaverse's development could mirror the web's development in significant ways, including the key role that advertisers will play in influencing consumers on new platforms. Brands should therefore take the lead on the privacy conversation, Noonan said.
But history has a way of repeating itself: Meta, formerly Facebook, is angling for control in the metaverse similarly to how it did on social media. If brands stay passive and the company — or other walled garden giants — draws the same level of consumer distrust it has on the current web, the fruit of the metaverse could be spoiled for everyone.
"How does a brand come out in front of this and own that and set an example and nudge behavior of other brands?" asked Noonan.
No cookies, no problem
A significant opportunity for the metaverse to be privacy-compliant comes with the impending deprecation of cookies. Google now plans to phase out the tracking mechanism by 2023, a time that will likely coincide with fundamental development of the metaverse given the technology is still years away from fruition.
What this means for brands is that the metaverse could be an incubator for safer tracking methods, such as contextual marketing, because cookies will no longer exist as an option.
"The rise of [the] metaverse and the way there is so much talk going on about it is because it's a logical fallout of the deprecation of cookies in some form," said Gowthaman Ragothaman, CEO of martech company Aqilliz and former global client lead at WPP.
By consciously entering the metaverse for each session, users have to opt-in to that service, which for brands ticks many of the regulatory boxes for a logged-in, direct consumer, Ragothaman said. This process is similar to the idea that underlies Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework — a notable improvement in privacy compliance from the previous assumption that consumers always gave consent.
"Consumers are repeatedly asking for experiences and you can actually every time ask them, 'Can I use your data?'" Ragothaman said.
The push-pull of consumers wanting personalization but not through invasive methods is at the center of a new privacy paradigm, according to Noonan. As the metaverse is created, the onus is on marketers to develop data strategies that are transparent but also simple enough for consumers to understand.
"We're building the house, we have the foundation, and if [brands] build it on wood versus brick ... it's going to be tough to rebuild the house," Noonan said.
Community and consent
Through previous digital marketing efforts, brands have learned that prioritizing the user community in its approach helps to build trust on the platform. On TikTok, for example, brands have seen success through "community-based commerce," which increases engagement via marketing that looks and feels like organic content.
"The rise of [the] metaverse and the way there is so much talk going on about it is because it's a logical fallout of the deprecation of cookies in some form."
Gowthaman Ragothaman
CEO, Aqilliz
In the metaverse, brands should similarly welcome users into their decision-making processes, said Maura Welch, vice president of marketing at Together Labs, a software company that operates the metaversal social networking site IMVU.
"We leave it up to the community to decide what's cool … we actually bring our community into that conversation. And that's the way that brands should approach the metaverse," Welch said.
For a fashion show this spring, for example, IMVU paired a host of designers in the real world with 3D creators on its platform, and together they developed clothing lines purchasable for the IMVU users. The activation also tapped producers from the IMVU community to promote the event.
"It's a very different experience when you're actually interacting with the brand, wearing the items, walking through the spaces that are designed and co-created with people that you respect and know from the platform," Welch said.
Like community, consent is another idea that has become increasingly top-of-mind for brands looking to build trust in digital spaces. With companies like Facebook repeatedly abusing user consent, consumers are both wary of privacy practices and willing to go elsewhere if they feel like they're being mistreated.
"The moment a consumer realizes that his or her data has been exploited ... it snaps. So we have to be very, very careful in breaching the consumer trust [because] it can break very fast," Ragothaman said.
Brands in the metaverse could therefore benefit by keeping a record of what data they have on users, per Ragothaman, similar to a customer relationship management (CRM) system. Such a record could further help brands get a jump start on regulatory policy if and when it catches up to the space. In the EU, for example, using a CRM platform has been a useful way to gain General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance.
Nonfungible tokens (NFTs), which have been one of the more popular mainstream entries into metaversal spaces, illustrate how consent management could be improved in the metaverse. The technology behind blockchain allows for a more secure transaction in the digital world, offering the ability to conduct commerce in a fluid, protected manner, Ragothaman said.
As the metaverse is developed, this same technology that allows for secure NFT wallets could normalize data wallets, Ragothaman noted, such that consumers would be able to fully consent to the bits of data they want to trade for experiences, collectibles or other assets.
"The metaverse provides all these things … instead of exploiting, you can leverage consumer data in a much better fashion," Ragothaman said.
Decentralized versus centralized
Another lesson brands can apply to the metaverse is that walled gardens are troublesome for nearly every party involved. While a few stalwart companies such as Facebook and Google benefit from centralization on the internet, marketers across the board face obstacles in learning about their consumers, while the consumers themselves will inevitably interact with less relevant ads. For these reasons, the metaverse could be an opportunity for brands to create a more decentralized advertising environment.
"If you put up walls and you put up barriers, it creates tension points and friction points for consumers," Noonan said.
She added that the metaverse ideally will be a place where many different platforms are talking to each other and allowing for consumers to pass through one space and into another. In a centralized environment, such fluidity would be made difficult by stringent rules of one or more powerful gardens.
"We leave it up to the community to decide what's cool … we actually bring our community into that conversation. And that's the way that brands should approach the metaverse."
Maura Welch
Vice president of marketing, Together Labs
Similar to the internet, policy will help to determine how this navigating will work, but in the meantime, marketers should be proactive in their strategies and not wait for the legislation to arrive.
For example, making alliances with intermediary groups who've already done much of the heavy lifting on what is privacy-compliant and what is not could help brands get ahead of the curve, Noonan said.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is one such group that has troves of data useful for brands; it has also written specifically on the privacy issues of metaversal technologies. Other groups Noonan cited were media advocacy organization Harmony Labs and the Pew Research Center, which is already compiling experts' opinions on the future of digital spaces.
Retrofitting an existing product with new regulations is expensive, per Noonan, which is why brands should consider these things now. Moreover, having to go back and restructure a company with jobs and task forces could levy a hit to product development.
Centralization is not the only area threatening an open and connected metaverse. Barriers in consumer trust still abound, from hesitancy of testing out VR platforms to a lack of technical knowledge about the space. But as they move forward, brands are smart to look back at how marketing has evolved through the current iteration of the web, and use those insights to inform their metaverses.
"It would be a shame if we didn't take all those learnings [from the last few years] and set the parameters so that we can bring people what they want, how they want and where they want, but in a place where people feel safe," Noonan said.
Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the details of Jam3's relationship to Media.Monks. The agency merged with the production company earlier this year.
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Tennis fans can expect the new 14,000-seat Louis Armstrong Stadium to be finished in time for the U.S. Open in August.
The $200 million project — part of a five-year, $600 million transformation of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center — is estimated to be 95 percent complete, according to Chief Operating Officer of the National Tennis Center Danny Zausner.
The new two-level stadium will also feature a retractable roof. If it were to rain during the U.S. Open, nearly 40,000 people would be sheltered from the inclement weather under the roofs at Arthur Ashe Stadium and Louis Armstrong Stadium.
"The simple geometry and massing of the stadium allowed us to come up with a roof solution where we can open and close the roof in under five minutes," said Matt Rossetti, CEO and president of Rossetti, the architectural design and planning firm behind the new Louis Armstrong Stadium.
The old Louis Armstrong Stadium could 10,500 people. But with 6,600 reserved seats in the lower bowl and 7,400 general admission in the upper bowl, more fans will be able to experience the matches.
Visitors will enter through two main gates and expansive concourses with escalators and elevators, features the old Louis Armstrong Stadium lacked.
"So the days of seeing 500 people standing in line outside to try to get into the stadium should hopefully go away, because we have that many more seats," Zausner said.
In addition to the retractable roof, the Louis Armstrong Stadium will also be the first naturally ventilated stadium of its kind.
With openings located at the north and south end of the stadium, air will flow throughout the stadium even if the roof is closed.
Concession stands and bathrooms will be four times the size of the original, an update that will improve the fan experience that was overlooked at the old stadium.
"For 40 years we made great use of that stadium," Zausner said. "The magic on court and history and what went on has always been spectacular, but quite frankly the fan experience was maybe subpar at best.
"They were so lost in the action on the court, they never really recognized that those bathrooms were built for the '64 World's Fair," he added.
USTA board chairman Katrina Adams finds it remarkable there were so many different elements added to the center over the last five years.
For the first time, the Louis Armstrong Stadium will feature its own slate of evening play. In turn, more fans will be able to watch live tennis.


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set -o pipefail

PROJECT_NAME=AudioKit
PROJECT_UI_NAME=AudioKitUI
CONFIGURATION=${CONFIGURATION:-"Release"}
STAGING_BRANCH="staging"
BUILD_DIR="$PWD/build"

for parameter in $*; do
    if test $parameter = '-?'; then
        echo "Usage:"
        echo ""
        echo "PLATFORMS=\"iOS\" ./build_frameworks.sh"
        echo "or"
        echo "PLATFORMS=\"macOS\" ./build_frameworks.sh"
        echo "or"
        echo "PLATFORMS=\"tvOS\" ./build_frameworks.sh"
        echo "or"
        echo "PLATFORMS=\"iOS macOS\" ./build_frameworks.sh"
        echo "or"
        echo "./build_frameworks.sh"
        exit 0
    fi
done

if [ ! -f build_frameworks.sh ]; then
    echo "This script needs to be run from the Frameworks folder"
    exit 0
fi

(cd ..; swift package generate-xcodeproj --xcconfig-overrides AudioKit.xcconfig)

VERSION=$(cat ../VERSION)
FRAMEWORKS=$(cat Frameworks.list)
PLATFORMS=${PLATFORMS:-"iOS macOS tvOS"}

if [[ "$TRAVIS" = true ]];
then
	echo "Travis detected, build #$TRAVIS_BUILD_NUMBER"
	if [[ "$TRAVIS_BRANCH" = "$STAGING_BRANCH" ]]; then # Staging build
		ACTIVE_ARCH=NO
		XCSUFFIX=""
		VERSION="${VERSION}.b1"
	elif [[ "$TRAVIS_TAG" != "" ]]; then  # Release build
		ACTIVE_ARCH=NO
		XCSUFFIX=""
	else # Test build
		ACTIVE_ARCH=YES
		XCSUFFIX="-travis"
		SIMULATOR_ONLY=true
		PLATFORMS="iOS macOS" # Skipping tvOS?
	fi
elif [[ "$GITHUB_ACTION" != "" ]]; then
	echo "GitHub Actions Workflow detected, run #$GITHUB_RUN_ID"
	if [[ "$GITHUB_REF" != "refs/heads/staging" ]] && [[ "$GITHUB_REF" != refs/tag/* ]]; then
		ACTIVE_ARCH=YES
		XCSUFFIX="-travis"
		SIMULATOR_ONLY=true
	else
		ACTIVE_ARCH=NO
		XCSUFFIX=""
	fi
else # Regular command-line assumed
	ACTIVE_ARCH=NO
	XCSUFFIX=""
fi

if which xcpretty > /dev/null 2>&1;
then
	XCPRETTY=xcpretty
else
	XCPRETTY=cat
fi

# Provide 3 arguments: platform (iOS or tvOS), simulator os, native os
create_universal_frameworks()
{
	PROJECT="../AudioKit.xcodeproj"
	DIR="AudioKit-$1"
	rm -rf $DIR/*.framework
	mkdir -p "$DIR"
	xcodebuild -project "$PROJECT" -target "AudioKit" -xcconfig simulator${XCSUFFIX}.xcconfig -configuration ${CONFIGURATION} -sdk $2 \
		BUILD_DIR="${BUILD_DIR}" CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION="$VERSION" clean build | tee -a build.log | $XCPRETTY || exit 2
	for f in ${PROJECT_NAME} $FRAMEWORKS; do
		cp -av "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$2/${f}.framework" "$DIR/"
		if test -d  "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$2/${f}.framework.dSYM"; then
			echo "Building dynamic framework for $f"
			DYNAMIC_UI=true
			cp -av "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$2/${f}.framework.dSYM" "$DIR/"
			cp -v fix-framework.sh "${DIR}/${f}.framework/"
		else
			echo "Building static framework for $f"
		fi
	done

	if test "$SIMULATOR_ONLY" = true;
	then # Only build for simulator on Travis CI, unless we're building a release
		for f in ${PROJECT_NAME} $FRAMEWORKS; do
			cp -v "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$2/${f}.framework/${f}" "${DIR}/${f}.framework/"
			if test -d "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$2/${f}.framework/Modules/${f}.swiftmodule/"; then
				cp -av "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$2/${f}.framework/Modules/${f}.swiftmodule/"* "${DIR}/${f}.framework/Modules/${f}.swiftmodule/"
			fi
		done
	else # Build device slices
		xcodebuild -project "$PROJECT" -target "AudioKit" -xcconfig device.xcconfig -configuration ${CONFIGURATION} -sdk $3 \
			BUILD_DIR="${BUILD_DIR}" CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION="$VERSION" clean build | tee -a build.log | $XCPRETTY || exit 3
		for f in ${PROJECT_NAME} $FRAMEWORKS; do
			if test -d "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$3/${f}.framework/Modules/${f}.swiftmodule/"; then
				cp -av "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$3/${f}.framework/Modules/${f}.swiftmodule/"* \
					"${DIR}/${f}.framework/Modules/${f}.swiftmodule/"
			fi
			cp -v "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$3/${f}.framework/Info.plist" "${DIR}/${f}.framework/"
			# Merge the frameworks proper - apparently it's important that device OS is first starting in Xcode 10.2
			lipo -create -output "${DIR}/${f}.framework/${f}" \
				"${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$3/${f}.framework/${f}" \
				"${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$2/${f}.framework/${f}" || exit 4
		done
		if test "$DYNAMIC" = true;
		then
			mkdir -p "${DIR}/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework/BCSymbolMaps"
			# Doesn't seem to have a way to tell which bcsymbolmap belongs to which framework
			cp -av "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$3"/*.bcsymbolmap "${DIR}/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework/BCSymbolMaps/"
			# Merge the dSYM files
			lipo -create -output "${DIR}/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF/${PROJECT_NAME}" \
				"${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$2/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF/${PROJECT_NAME}" \
				"${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$3/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF/${PROJECT_NAME}" || exit 5
		else # Strip debug symbols from static library
			strip -S "${DIR}/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework/${PROJECT_NAME}"
		fi
		if test "$DYNAMIC_UI" = true;
		then
			for f in $FRAMEWORKS; do
				mkdir -p "${DIR}/${f}.framework/BCSymbolMaps"
				# Doesn't seem to have a way to tell which bcsymbolmap belongs to which framework
				UIBC=`fgrep -Hn $f "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$3"/*.bcsymbolmap|awk -F: '{print $1}'|uniq`
				cp -av $UIBC "${DIR}/${f}.framework/BCSymbolMaps/"
				# Merge the dSYM files
				lipo -create -output "${DIR}/${f}.framework.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF/${f}" \
					"${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$2/${f}.framework.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF/${f}" \
					"${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$3/${f}.framework.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF/${f}" || exit 5
			done
		else # Strip debug symbols from static library
			for f in $FRAMEWORKS; do
				strip -S "${DIR}/${f}.framework/${f}"
			done
		fi
		# Swift 5 / Xcode 10.2 bug (!?) - must combine the generated AudioKit-Swift.h headers
		for fw in ${PROJECT_NAME} ${FRAMEWORKS};
		do
			if test -f "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$2/${fw}.framework/Headers/${fw}-Swift.h"; then
				echo '#include <TargetConditionals.h>' > "${DIR}/${fw}.framework/Headers/${fw}-Swift.h"
				echo '#if TARGET_OS_SIMULATOR' >> "${DIR}/${fw}.framework/Headers/${fw}-Swift.h"
				cat "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$2/${fw}.framework/Headers/${fw}-Swift.h" >> "${DIR}/${fw}.framework/Headers/${fw}-Swift.h"
				echo '#else' >> "${DIR}/${fw}.framework/Headers/${fw}-Swift.h"
				cat "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$3/${fw}.framework/Headers/${fw}-Swift.h" >> "${DIR}/${fw}.framework/Headers/${fw}-Swift.h"
				echo '#endif' >> "${DIR}/${fw}.framework/Headers/${fw}-Swift.h"
			fi
		done
	fi
}

# Create individual static platform frameworks (device or simulator) in their own subdirectories
# 2 arguments: platform (iOS or tvOS), platform (iphoneos, iphonesimulator, appletvos, appletvsimulator)
create_framework()
{
	PROJECT="../AudioKit.xcodeproj"
	DIR="AudioKit-$1/$2"
	rm -rf "$DIR/$PROJECT_NAME.framework" "$DIR/$PROJECT_UI_NAME.framework"
	mkdir -p "$DIR"
	if test "$2" = iphonesimulator -o "$2" = appletvsimulator; then
		XCCONFIG=simulator${XCSUFFIX}.xcconfig
	else
		XCCONFIG=device.xcconfig
	fi
	echo "Building static frameworks for $1 / $2"
	xcodebuild -project "$PROJECT" -target "AudioKit" -xcconfig ${XCCONFIG} -configuration ${CONFIGURATION} -sdk $2 \
		BUILD_DIR="${BUILD_DIR}" CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION="$VERSION" clean build | tee -a build.log | $XCPRETTY || exit 2
	for f in ${PROJECT_NAME} $FRAMEWORKS; do
		cp -av "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-$2/${f}.framework" "$DIR/"
		strip -S "${DIR}/${f}.framework/${f}"
	done
}

# Provide 2 arguments: platform (macOS), native os (macosx)
create_macos_frameworks()
{
	PROJECT="../AudioKit.xcodeproj"
	DIR="AudioKit-$1"
	rm -rf ${DIR}/*.framework
	mkdir -p "$DIR"
	xcodebuild -project "$PROJECT" -target "AudioKit" ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=$ACTIVE_ARCH CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED=NO CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY="" DEFINES_MODULE=YES \
		-configuration ${CONFIGURATION} -sdk $2 BUILD_DIR="${BUILD_DIR}" CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION="$VERSION" clean build | tee -a build.log | $XCPRETTY || exit 2
	for f in ${PROJECT_NAME} $FRAMEWORKS; do
		cp -av "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}/${f}.framework" "$DIR/"
		if test -d  "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}/${f}.framework.dSYM";
		then
			cp -av "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}/${f}.framework.dSYM" "$DIR/"
		else
			strip -S "${DIR}/${f}.framework/${f}"
		fi
	done
}

# Make a UIKitforMac version (maccatalyst) from the iOS project, but package with the Mac version
create_catalyst_frameworks()
{
	if test $OSTYPE = darwin19; then
		echo "Building Mac Catalyst framework"
	else
		echo "Skipping Catalyst build, macOS Catalina is required"
		return
	fi
	PROJECT="../AudioKit.xcodeproj"
	DIR="AudioKit-macOS/Catalyst"
	rm -rf ${DIR}/*.framework
	mkdir -p "$DIR"
	xcodebuild archive -project "$PROJECT" -scheme AudioKit-Package ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=$ACTIVE_ARCH SDKROOT=iphoneos \
			CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED=NO CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY="" SKIP_INSTALL=NO DEFINES_MODULE=YES APPLY_RULES_IN_COPY_HEADERS=YES \
			-configuration ${CONFIGURATION} -destination 'platform=macOS,variant=Mac Catalyst' -archivePath "${BUILD_DIR}/Catalyst.xcarchive" \
			BUILD_DIR="${BUILD_DIR}" CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION="$VERSION" | tee -a build.log | $XCPRETTY || exit 2
	for f in ${PROJECT_NAME} $FRAMEWORKS; do
		cp -av "${BUILD_DIR}/Catalyst.xcarchive/Products/Library/Frameworks/${f}.framework" "$DIR/"
		if test -d  "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}/${f}.framework.dSYM";
		then
			cp -av "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}/${f}.framework.dSYM" "$DIR/"
		else
			strip -S "${DIR}/${f}.framework/${f}"
		fi
	done

	# Finally, replace the symlinks created in the build directory by the actual archive, so they can be copied as build artifacts
	if [ -L "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-maccatalyst/${PROJECT_NAME}.framework" ];
	then
		for f in ${PROJECT_NAME} $FRAMEWORKS; do
			LINK=$(readlink "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-maccatalyst/${f}.framework")
			rm "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-maccatalyst/${f}.framework"
			cp -a "$LINK" "${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-maccatalyst/${f}.framework"
		done
	fi
}

echo "Building frameworks for version $VERSION on platforms: $PLATFORMS"
rm -f build.log

for os in $PLATFORMS; do
	if test $os = 'iOS'; then
		#create_universal_frameworks iOS iphonesimulator iphoneos
		create_framework iOS iphoneos
		create_framework iOS iphonesimulator
	elif test $os = 'tvOS'; then
		#create_universal_frameworks tvOS appletvsimulator appletvos
		create_framework tvOS appletvos
		create_framework tvOS appletvsimulator
	elif test $os = 'macOS'; then
		create_macos_frameworks macOS macosx
		create_catalyst_frameworks
	fi
done

if [ -f distribute_built_frameworks.sh ]; then
    ./distribute_built_frameworks.sh
fi

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text:
Seng Fong Holdings Berhad Debuts on Main Market of Bursa Malaysia
Seng Fong Holdings Berhad, a rubber processor producing and trading Standard Malaysia Rubber and premium grade block rubber, made a successful debut on the Main Market of Bursa Securities Malaysia Berhad, opening at RM0.75 per share with an opening volume of 10.8 million shares, which is the same as the initial public offering (IPO) price of RM0.75 sen per share. more info >>
Main Market-Bound Seng Fong Holdings Berhad IPO Shares Oversubscribed by 3.09 Times
Tricor Investor & Issuing House Services Sdn Bhd (TIIH) is pleased to announce that the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of Seng Fong Holdings Berhad is oversubscribed by 3.09 times. more info >>
Seng Fong Holdings Berhad Launches Prospectus for Main Market IPO
Seng Fong Holdings Berhad, a rubber processor producing and trading Standard Malaysia Rubber and premium grade block rubber. Block rubbers produced are sold directly to end-user customers and international rubber traders, majority of which are tyre manufacturers. more info >>
Seng Fong Holdings Berhad Signs Underwriting Agreement with Hong Leong Investment Bank
Seng Fong Holdings Berhad, a rubber processor producing and trading Standard Malaysia Rubber (SMR) and premium grade block rubber, is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into an underwriting agreement with Hong Leong Investment Bank Berhad (HLIB) for its upcoming initial public offering (IPO) on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad. more info >>
Seng Fong Holdings Bhd Obtains SC Approval for Main Market Listing
Seng Fong Holdings Bhd, a rubber processor producing and trading Standard Malaysia Rubber (SMR) and premium grade block rubber, via its subsidiaries, is pleased to announce that the Company has, in the month of April 2022, obtained the approval of the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) to list on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad. more info >>


A review of common treatment for constipation methods and preventative measures including diet, exercise, hydration, medications, laxatives, herbal remedies, improving bowel habits, and colon cleansing.
Stress and constipation often go hand in hand. Learn about the causes and dangers of stress and how stress can lead to constipation. Includes details on fighting stress and reducing your constipation.
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text:
Pannonhalma Abdij Visitor Centre / Roeleveld Sikkes
© Tamás Bujnovszky
https://www.archdaily.com/76614/pannonhalma-abdij-visitor-centre-roeleveld-sikkes
Pannonhalma, Hungary
Architects: Roeleveld Sikkes
Photographs Photographs: Tamás Bujnovszky
Text description provided by the architects. The recent opening of the brand new visitors centre at the renowned Pannonhalma Benedictine monastery introduces a contemporary addition to one of Hungary's most prominent landmarks of cultural heritage. The addition symbolizes the confidence in the future for a cultural legacy in Hungary.
The competition winning design of RS | Roeleveld-Sikkes Architects based in Budapest and The Hague, emphasizes on improving the union between the various buildings of the monastery. The Pannonhalma monastery has been a beacon for culture and crafts for over a thousand years. The monastery grounds of the Benedictine order house the finest examples of religious art, crafts and architecture. It has been inscribed into the Unesco World Heritage List in 1996. Today the monastery is still in use and can be regarded as one of the key touristic features of Hungary, attracting tens of thousands of visitors each year.
In contradiction with some monasteries the Benedictine order embraces these touristic possibilities. In 1996 the order acquired its pre-war vineyards, giving them the opportunity to make wine once again. An architecture competition for the new visitors centre was issued in 2006 in order to offer the visitors an experience other than merely the remarkable historic reference. They now offer the possibility to taste the fine wines and locally grown products.
RS | Roeleveld-Sikkes Architects won the competition by proposing a contemporary building in the continuity of a thousand years of change. Instead of merely building on top of the hill, a greater part of the program, especially the car park, is situated completely underground. The centre is integrated into the traffic circulation plan leading visitors straight to the car park. Through a careful system of stairs and ramps, the visitors reach the visible part of the building housing the restaurants, the terrace and auditoria. The underground car park not only ensures an unprecedented view, it factually restores the landscape. The various functions of the visitors centre, two restaurants, a bar and auditoria are flexible in use. In essence this discrete but present centre offers the visitors of Pannonhalma a comfortable environment to enjoy the cultural richness of the grounds and buildings.
Address:Pannonhalma, Hungary
Roeleveld Sikkes
ProjectsBuilt ProjectsSelected Projectsvisitor centerCultural ArchitectureLearningPannonhalmaCultural CenterCulturalPublic FacilitiesHungary
Cite: "Pannonhalma Abdij Visitor Centre / Roeleveld Sikkes" 07 Sep 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/76614/pannonhalma-abdij-visitor-centre-roeleveld-sikkes> ISSN 0719-8884


text:
The effects of fat-free vs. fat-containing chocolate milk ingestion on muscular strength in female collegiate softball players
Ashley Forsyth1,
Bre Myers1,
Brittany Parker1,
Brittany Gomez1,
Ava Elkins1,
Colin Wilborn2,
Paul La Bounty3 &
Brandon Marcello4
Ingesting a post-workout beverage containing carbohydrate and high quality protein has been shown to favorably improve body composition and exercise performance. Chocolate milk supplies both carbohydrate and high quality proteins (casein and whey). For this reason, chocolate milk has become an increasingly popular sports nutrition beverage. To date, no one has investigated the differences between fat-free and fat-containing chocolate milk on strength performance in collegiate athletes. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to determine the effects of ingesting two forms of chocolate milk (fat free vs. fat containing) immediately after resistance exercise over an 8-week period to determine its effects on muscular strength.
In a double-blinded manner, 16 female collegiate softball players (18.4 ± 0.6 yrs; 167.1 ± 4.4 cm; 69.5 ± 9.4 kg) were randomized according to strength & bodyweight to ingest a fat free (300 kcals, 58g carbohydrate, 16g protein, 0g fat) or a fat-containing (380 kcals, 58g carbohydrate, 16g protein, 10g fat) chocolate milk beverage. The chocolate milk was ingested in a 16-ounce bottle & occurred immediately following all periodized resistance exercise training sessions for a duration of 8-weeks. Dependent variables included 1RM Bench Press and 1RM Leg Press which were assessed at baseline & following 8-weeks of a periodized resistance training program. Dependent variables were assessed as changes (delta scores) from pre- to post-testing in each group via an independent samples t-test using IBM SPSS Statistics (v19).
1RM Bench Press at baseline and post-testing for the fat-free milk group was 87.5 ± 18.7 and 98.1 ± 22.8 lbs (an average improvement of 10.6 ± 8.6 pounds). For the fat-containing milk group, 1RM Bench Press at baseline and post-testing was 77.5 ± 11.0 and 90.6 ± 14 lbs (an average improvement of 13.1 ± 6.5 pounds). There were no significant differences in changes from baseline to post-testing between the two groups (p = 0.524). 1RM Leg Press at baseline and post-testing for the fat-free milk group was 285 ± 68.9 and 316.9 ± 94.5 lbs (an average improvement of 31.9 ± 28.3 pounds). For the fat-containing milk group, 1RM Leg Press at baseline and post-testing was 277.5 ± 51.3 and 303.1 ± 51.3 lbs (an average improvement of 25.6 ± 10.5 pounds). There were no significant differences in changes from baseline to post-testing between the two groups (p = 0.567).
Based on these data, the ingestion of either fat-free chocolate milk or fat-containing chocolate milk will have similar effects in relation to upper and lower body strength changes when ingested immediately following resistance exercise over an 8-week period in collegiate softball players.
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
Bill Campbell, Ashley Forsyth, Bre Myers, Brittany Parker, Brittany Gomez & Ava Elkins
Mary Hardin-Baylor University, Belton, TX, USA
Colin Wilborn
Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Brandon Marcello
Ashley Forsyth
Bre Myers
Brittany Parker
Brittany Gomez
Ava Elkins
Correspondence to Bill Campbell.
Campbell, B., Forsyth, A., Myers, B. et al. The effects of fat-free vs. fat-containing chocolate milk ingestion on muscular strength in female collegiate softball players. J Int Soc Sports Nutr 9 (Suppl 1), P3 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1550-2783-9-S1-P3
Muscular Strength
Average Improvement
Resistance Exercise Training


A Skeptic's review of the study "Lacking Control Increases Illusory Pattern Perception"
Imagine a time in your life when you felt out of control—anything from getting lost to losing a job. Now look at the top illustration on this page. What do you see? Such a scenario was presented to subjects in a 2008 experiment by Jennifer Whitson of the University of Texas at Austin and her colleague Adam Galinsky of Northwestern University. Their study, entitled "Lacking Control Increases Illusory Pattern Perception," was published in Science.
Whitson and Galinsky sat subjects before a computer screen, telling one group they must guess which of two images embodied an underlying concept the computer had selected. For example, they might see a capital A and a lowercase t colored, underlined, or surrounded by a circle or square. Subjects would then guess at an underlying concept, such as "all capital As are red." There was no actual underlying concept—the computer was programmed to tell the subjects randomly that they were either "correct" or "incorrect." Consequently, they developed a sense of lacking control.
Another group did not receive randomized feedback and so felt more in control. In the second part of the experiment subjects were shown 24 "snowy" photographs, half of which contained hidden images such as a hand, horses, a chair or the planet Saturn, whereas the other half just consisted of grainy random dots. Although nearly everyone saw the hidden figures, subjects in the lack-of-control group saw more figures in the photographs that had no embedded images.
In another experiment Whitson and Galinsky had subjects vividly recall an experience in which they either had full control or lacked control over a situation. The subjects then read scenarios in which the characters' success or failure was preceded by unconnected and superstitious behaviors, such as foot stomping before a meeting where the character wanted to have ideas approved. The subjects were then asked whether they thought the characters' behavior was related to the outcome. Those who had recalled an experience in which they lacked control perceived a significantly greater connection between the two unrelated events than did those who recalled an experience in which they had felt control. Interestingly, the low-control subjects who read a story about an employee who failed to receive a promotion tended to believe that a behind-the-scenes conspiracy was the cause.
In their final experiment Whitson and Galinsky created a sense of lacking control in two groups of subjects, then asked one group to contemplate and affirm their most important values in life—a proven technique for reducing learned helplessness. The researchers then presented those same snowy pictures, finding that those who lacked control but had no opportunity for self-affirmation saw more nonexistent patterns than did those in the self-affirmation condition.
In 1976 Harvard psychologist Ellen J. Langer and Judith Rodin, now president of the Rockefeller Foundation, conducted a study in a New England nursing home in which the residents were given plants, but only some had the opportunity to water them. Those residents who were in charge of watering the plants lived longer and healthier lives than the others, even those given plants watered by the staff. The sense of control had the apparent effect on physical health and well-being.
Note: This story was originally printed with the title "Cultivate Your Garden"


I wholeheartedly believe in cooperative learning in the classroom, therefore I place the children in mixed ability pairs for each half term so that they may help each other during the learning process. Research has shown that all students do better when they are allowed to discuss, explain and reinforce their ideas as they learn.
Working with a learning partner is already paying dividends and the children are practising valuable social skills that they will need throughout their lives.
Research has shown that all students make better progress with support from parents and carers so please discuss with them what they have learned in school each day. Please drop in to our half-termly OPEN MORNING to find out more about the exciting things we're learning!
Please ensure your child brings their reading book and record to school every day, as they practise reading 'in their head' and aloud to each other or an adult. The children should read for at least 10-15 minutes every evening and at weekends so you should sign the reading record as evidence.
It is very important that we aim to recall quickly all the times tables to 12 x 12 by the end of Year 4 so please practise your personalised 'Learn Its'!
On our visit to The Barn at Easington, we enjoyed playing the role of World War 2 evacuees. Mrs Green, the farmer, had been widowed during World War 1 and her son was now fighting. She made us feel very welcome at her farm, along with Gunther, a German prisoner of war who had been billeted on the farm to help (and who we also discovered was plotting to escape!). We were kept busy sowing seeds, writing postcards home, collecting coal and sea glass from the beach, and lots more. At the end of the day, we finished with a game and good old sing-song!
Many thanks to the Dodgy Clutch Theatre Company, all at The Barn and everyone who helped. We learned lots about the lives of people during World War 2.
During the spring term, Mr Rudkin from Newcastle Music Service, has been teaching Year 4 children how to play the pocket trumpet. Weekly lessons culminated in a performance in front of the whole school, as well as many parents, when they proudly showed off all the progress they had made during a short concert. Many thanks to Mr Rudkin and everyone who came along.
After closely observing 'Les Parapluies', Year 4 were inspired by how Renoir represents different people. We investigated how to mix the primary colours, plus lots of white, in different proportions to reproduce different skin tones. We will exhibit our discoveries using a similar form to the work of Byron Kim, a Korean-American artist, in his piece called 'Synecdoche'. This is a figure of speech in which a part stands in for a whole, for example, all hands on deck, many mouths to feed, a new set of wheels. Our panels will be ordered alphabetically according to our surnames, making a final abstract group portrait of our class.
The poem 'Roman Wall Blues' by W H Auden, recited by the children of Year 4 during their Roman themed class assembly in March 2017.
We had a wonderful time exploring the lives of ancient Romans during our recent visit to Arbeia. Various artefacts and displays in the fort and museum painted a vivid picture of this part of history. Mrs Dooley led us on a tour of the barracks and excavations and we also met the formidable centurion Maximus, who told us a tale or two as he allowed us to handle and try on a Roman soldier's equipment. He then put us through our paces as new recruits! Please see our photographs and video.
The children are learning how to use GarageBand on the iPads. This week we have been making scary music; turn the lights off and have a listen ... if you dare!
We have very much enjoyed looking at some of the books written by well known author Anne Fine.
Year 4 children sing their version of 'Harvest for the World', a song written by the Isley Beothers and Chris Jasper, which the children sang at our school's Harvest Celebration of 2016.
In science, 'Living things and their habitats', we will be recognising that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways using classification keys. Representatives of the Tyne Rivers Trust will be visiting us to help us take part in the Wild Trout Trust's 'Mayfly in the classroom' project and so we will be exploring the local environment around our school.
We're going on a mayfly hunt!
We will observe flowering plants to make art in the style of American artist, Georgia O'Keeffe.
To celebrate the centenary of his birth, our class novel is Roald Dahl's 'Fantastic Mr Fox'. We will read each chapter as a whole class or in guided groups, with a partner or independently. We will write character profiles and some different non-fiction text types: recounts, including newspapers, reports, instructions and persuasion.
We will compare the book to the brilliant film animation directed by Wes Anderson.
Did you know that Fantastic Mr Fox builds a city underground? In geography, our topic is 'Where would you choose to build a city?' looking at the locations of some major European cities, including Paris.
D & T Challenge – What's the tallest structure you can make from only one sheet of A4 paper?
In maths, we will be practising counting in 1000s, 25s, 6s, 9s and 7s and spotting patterns. We will recognise the place value of each digit in 4-digit numbers (thousands, hundreds, tens and ones Th H T U). We need to understand this well so we can partition/recombine using arrow cards before using formal written methods of column addition/subtraction to solve problems.
Topmarks Speed Challenge We use this website for Early Bird Maths on Monday then aim to improve our score on Friday!
In PSHE, Personal Social Health Economic Education, we are learning about the importance of participation and inclusion in 'Being me in my world'.
We are pleased to appoint Emelie and Raif as our Y4 representatives on our NMPS School Council! We are sure they will do a great job!
On Wednesday afternoons, we will be continuing to learn French with Madame Davies beginning with colours, then we will be computing with Mr Vyle.
We will be doing PE on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Please ensure your child has kit on these days – red or white round-necked T-shirt and dark shorts (NO football strips, NO earrings or jewellery). Jogging bottoms/leggings and gym shoes/trainers will be needed for outdoor games.
Swimming instruction will begin after Christmas for two terms.