By Marci Narum
Photography: Photos by Jacy
Everyone is vulnerable to pain. No human escapes life without being broken, whether physically, emotionally, or spiritually. Dr. Lea Berentson says what a woman chooses to do with life’s heartaches can determine her personal legacy.
Lea has an intimate relationship with pain and brokenness; the threat of death has even rudely invaded her personal space more than once. But she declares these will not be her legacy. Lea made a choice to find meaning in her pain and says everyone has the freedom to make this choice. Lea helps women, especially new mothers, claim their own legacies in the pain, brokenness, and circumstances of their lives.
It’s all because of her personal life story…
Lea is a clinical psychologist in Bismarck. She has an outpatient clinical practice, but her primary focus is working with women struggling with pregnancy issues — infertility, pregnancy loss, an infant in the NICU, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, or postpartum depression.
It’s a specialized setting currently not found in other hospitals or clinics in the region: a mental health provider working directly next door to an OB-GYN.
“One of the privileges of my work is to be there with the mom; it’s such an intimate journey,” Lea says. “There are so many secrets, so many good things and not so good things we hold for that person. I really want to focus more in this area because hopefully it will help me be more proactive in preventing mental health issues in the long run.”
The reason Lea became a clinical psychologist can be traced back through a series of life circumstances involving fear, pain, and brokenness.
Lea and her husband, Dusty, have two girls — two little miracles by Lea’s estimation. She thought having children would never be possible. Lea can’t contain her joy when she talks about being a mother to Meadow Elle, 4, and Willow Sunshine, 18 months.
“They’re awesome, they’re everything,” Lea says through a wide, beaming smile. “Meadow is quirky, funny, strong-willed. She’s just goofy and loves to pretend. Willow is a little ray of light.”
But, Lea had to journey through some rather dark times to reach motherhood. Both pregnancies were high-risk and her babies came by emergency C-section. She had the most serious complications with Willow. At 29 weeks, Lea’s heart went into Afib and had to be shocked back into normal rhythm. Then, after Willow was born, Lea had been home with her new baby only one day when she needed to go back to the hospital.
“I noticed my whole body was filling up with fluid. I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t lie down. I couldn’t breath. I thought I was having panic attacks and anxiety, but it just felt different,” Lea says.
The hospital physician diagnosed her with swelling. Lea wasn’t satisfied, though; she knew something wasn’t right and followed up with a cardiologist. An echocardiogram showed Lea had peripartum cardiomyopathy — pregnancy-related heart failure. Had she not persisted to get answers for her symptoms, Lea could have died.
She says there is no good reason her heart started to fail; she didn’t have the common risk factors. Lea did, however, have a history of chemotherapy treatments when she was 9, and she wonders if it could be connected to what happened.
Lea was born in North Dakota, but when she was in the second grade, her dad got a job in Arizona, and moved the family — Lea, her brother, Joe, and their mom — to Sedona. She has fond memories of playing t-ball, catching lizards, and having fun with her cousin McKenzie. With another radiant smile, Lea recalls, “Mom would cut our sandwiches into perfect triangles and would drop off treats at school for my classroom.”
But, an accident on the school playground set things into motion for a pivotal change in Lea’s life.
“I was in third grade and I remember I was playing soccer on the playground at recess. I tripped over my friend Jesse. I couldn’t get up.”
Lea had broken her femur. She was airlifted to Phoenix Children’s Hospital, where an X-ray revealed more than a broken leg.
“They had to do a biopsy of the bone, and that’s how they learned there was a tumor. I had osteogenic sarcoma (OGS), and that’s why my leg broke so easily.”
Lea had two rounds of chemotherapy with no positive results. In a short time, the cancer spread and her doctors told her there was only one option. To save her life, they would have to amputate her leg.
“My oncologist told me, ‘Lea, we’re going to have to take your leg,’ and I said, ‘Where are you going to take it?’ I was just a kid,” Lea says, smiling.
Lea says OGS usually spreads and is not survivable. The outlook was typically grim for kids diagnosed with it. She counts herself lucky to have survived, and the amputation didn’t bother her.
“There were bullies and kids called me names. I’m sure there were moments when it was hard but those weren’t the things that bothered me. I had a lot of anxiety about using my prosthesis — that was my internal struggle. I was still climbing trees and skateboarding.
“I always found ways to be involved and I think back and the support from my family and friends and the community was crucial when other traumatic things started happening, too.”
Lea attended Camp Rainbow in northern Arizona every summer. The camp is a partner with Phoenix Children’s Hospital; it hosts kids who have or have had cancer or chronic blood disorders.
“I always looked forward to it,” Lea recalls. “My mom would make this shopping list and we would go to the store and get everything we needed. She was an amazing mom when she was there.”
Then Lea’s mom wasn’t there.
“I was 12. I remember her dropping me off at camp and she was crying like she was never going to see me again and I thought, ‘I’ll see you in a week, what’s the big deal?’ So, I go to camp and it was a great week.”
On the day parents arrive at camp to pick up their kids to go home, Lea’s mom didn’t show up. Lea waited several hours.
“Eventually, my dad and uncle picked me up. They said Mom had left. It’s kind of foggy. That was the beginning of my mom not being in my life.”
Everything spiraled from there. Lea learned her mom was using meth and living with some dangerous people. She slept with a butcher knife under her bed. Her dad received death threats and their home was burglarized.
What a series of potentially wreck-a-girl’s-life circumstances. A broken leg, cancer, amputation, maternal abandonment, and nearly dying after giving birth. But none of that destroyed Lea’s life.
“People who experience a lot of trauma, we get angry at God, we get angry at science, it’s part of the process. I believe in impermanence. I believe pain is part of life but we have a choice to suffer. I try to pass that on to the people I work with. We have to be comfortable with things being temporary because we all lose things in life. It’s a choice to suffer and there are lots of ways to do that, or there’s the choice to endure the pain and find ways to get through the pain.” Lea grins as she remembers getting through the pain when she was 9 and lying in her hospital bed.
“I would fantasize about my friends and me winning a talent show singing Wilson Phillips and lip syncing. It was a way for me to cope, thinking there are all these good things that can still happen.”
Lea says searching for answers is a common coping mechanism when bad things happen. It’s one way she handled her diagnosis of peripartum cardiomyopathy.
“When people experience loss or tragedy, we want to know why, but we also need to know when to stop asking that question and just accept that it is what it is. You’re not going to figure this out 100 percent. It happened, now we have to find a way to move forward.”
To get past the pain she experienced being abandoned by her mother, Lea is creating a new legacy.
“I hope I’ve broken a cycle. I could never fathom leaving my children. I want them to know if I have any control over it, I’m going to be in their world as their mother — always. I see the broken attachments from my mother’s side of the family; I’ve already changed that and I intend to keep it that way.”
“That’s why I’m passionate about (my work). It’s not just about identifying and treating postpartum depression; it goes beyond that. We’re building healthier relationships between parents, whether it’s a mother or father, whoever the primary caregiver is, and their children. That relationship is so important moving forward for the rest of your life.
“I see a lot of moms “especially” who do not have great relationships with their own parents or maybe they have histories of trauma in their family of origin and maybe they don’t know what it’s like to have a nurturing relationship with a parental figure. But, they get to create that on their own. They get to create a new legacy.”


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The best music from an invisible scene, Jazz is a vital collection of new and progressive sounds coming out of the Long Beach/Los Angeles area. Five groups contributed 2-4 songs each, from the eccentric and highly melodic pop of Sidecar, produced by Ubiquity recording artist Nobody, leading of the album to the slick and thick fusion/funk of The Slippers. CrankCase (a recent 12” with Ugly Duckling’s Andy Cooper has given them international attention) provides three piece stripped down jamsof pure funk with Ramones aesthetic with the lumbering echoes of the aptly titled ;strong>Dub Kinetics. Winding up with perhaps the strangest affair of the album, three tracks from the avant-garde free-jazz, world-thrash of Create (!).
Initially released on CD and 12” vinyl only for local listening and consumption Pete Records and Sounds Are Active teamed up to put out an album of real music regardless of genre and style, Jazz is all music and no scene or pretense.
Jazz has been released on both CD and vinyl. The CD contains 71 minutes of music. Vol. 1 on vinyl contains non-CD tracks from CrankCase, The Slippers and Dub Kinetics, and clocks in at around 37 minutes.
Produced by Pete Deeble and Chris Schlarb
Mastered by Nick Burgh
Additional editing and mastering by Accident
Cover artwork done by Joel Heflin
CD and vinyl label art by Tim McMullen
Layout and design done by Catherine Nguyen
01. Sidecar- Man From Manchester
02. Sidecar- Quadrant 7
03. The Slippers- Oui
04. The Slippers- 2490
05. CrankCase- Keedo [mp3]
06. CrankCase- Spy No.8
07. CrankCase- OFR Superlative
08. Dub Kinetics- Return of the Congo
09. Dub Kinetics- Rougher Version Pt.2
10. Dub Kinetics- Ital Dub
11. Create(!)- Age of Entanglement [mp3]
12. Create(!)- Create(!) vs. Technology
13. Create(!)- Angry Elephant and the Silly Circus
“This is one of the dopest records ever.”- Below The Surface
“…people need to be freaked out every now and then, grabbed by the neck and jerked around until they’re made aware there are aural alternatives to what they’re hearing on the radio and seeing in clubs. And that, ultimately, is what Jazz is all about.”- OC WEEKLY

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The City of Ririe held a public hearing on new impact fees, capacity fees, water and sewer connection, and sewer fees.
Ririe Planning and Zoning Administrator Sharon Parry stated that what the city council recessed and did not hold a vote on any fees, they’re being extremely thoughtful and deliberate in the process before implementing anything.
“It went very well and those that spoke understood the need for the fees,” Parry said. “They’re concern is more on the final numbers for what fees will be and not the implementation of fees.”
According to Parry, comments were made by John J.T. Anderson, Ryan Webster, Jeremiah Bigelow and Jared May. Anderson is a builder that works with Bigelow, Webster is a realtor and May is a possible developer from Farmington, Utah.
There were no members of the community or developers that spoke against implementing new fees.
“They’re [the council] trying to decide which fees to do and how much to set them at – they’re really making sure they have all the information before just jumping into an action item,” Parry said.
Anderson stated that for him as a developer, he recognizes the need for responsible growth and the need for impact fees.
“I’ve dealt with impact fees before but the when the city gets exorbitant costs for fees, it’s difficult to find that middle ground,” Anderson said. “We aren’t Jackson Hole or Sun Valley. We’re trying to build affordable houses for people that want to live in Ririe”
Bigelow stated previously in an email sent to The Jefferson Star that the city was discussing anywhere between $15,000 to $20,000 which would stop any growth from happening in the city.
“We’ve got to find something that works for both,” Anderson said. “There’s good people out here with tough decisions. I don’t envy them.”
Ririe first created an Impact Fee Advisory Committee in Nov. of 2020 to look at impact fees for the city, as the city engineer calculated the water capacity fee to be $9,905 and a sewer capacity fee of $5,918, with the studies having taken place over the last year.
Parry previously said that Ririe could double in size over the next ten years with the number of applications that have been received to build in the area.


Fortunately for many people who stay up late or are ‘workaholic’, hair loss caused by lack of sleep is not permanent and can be overcome. Once the cortisol levels are restored to the normal level, the body exits the survival mode, then normal body functions and hair growth cycle return.
Does lack of sleep cause permanent hair loss?
Insufficient amounts of sleep have been shown to have significant negative consequences on the body, which can lead directly and indirectly to conditions of hair loss and thinning hair. The lack of sleep can result in higher levels of stress which is shown to cause hair loss.
Will hair grow back from lack of sleep?
Hair loss caused by a lack of sleep is rarely permanent, however, regrowth can depend upon the type of hair loss condition. Sleep deprivation is a form of stress and stress is known to affect hair loss.
Can you reverse Losing hair?
Can Alopecia Be Reversed? Whether your hair loss is caused by hormones or an autoimmune disorder, regrowing your hair by using new medications and modifying your diet can be possible as long as you start treatment early.
How long does it take to reverse hair thinning?
While the process of thinning hair can be concerning at first, it’s likely treatable. According to the AAD, treatments can take six to nine months. However, if you continue to experience hair loss, it may be time to talk to your healthcare provider. This is especially true if you start developing bald spots.
How long it will take to regrow hair?
After about a month, real hair will begin to grow back at its normal rate of 6 inches per year. Your new hair may grow back a different texture or color than before. In rare instances, hair loss from many years of strong chemotherapy can be permanent.
Is hair loss from stress reversible?
The good news with stress-related hair loss is that it’s often reversible. “Stress and hair loss don’t have to be permanent,” Gonzalez says. “If you get your stress under control, your hair might grow back.
Is 5 hours of sleep enough?
Sometimes life calls and we don’t get enough sleep. But five hours of sleep out of a 24-hour day isn’t enough, especially in the long term. According to a 2018 study of more than 10,000 people, the body’s ability to function declines if sleep isn’t in the seven- to eight-hour range.
Is 7 hours of sleep enough?
While sleep requirements vary slightly from person to person, most healthy adults need seven to nine hours of sleep per night to function at their best. Children and teens need even more. And despite the notion that our sleep needs decrease with age, most older people still need at least seven hours of sleep.
How do you wake up hair follicles?
How to Wake Up Dormant Follicles
- Natural Remedy: Massage your scalp with a mixture of almond oil and rosemary and peppermint essential oils. …
- Medication: Rogaine (minoxidil) is available for men and women in spray form.
Can hair loss be reversed naturally?
A diet rich in protein and Omega-3 fatty acids helps in growth of new hair and strengthens the hair follicles. Apart from adding eggs to your daily diet, preparing simple hair masks with eggs can also help in stopping hair fall.
How do I know if my hair loss is permanent?
Hair loss can be permanent or temporary. It’s impossible to count the amount of hair lost on a given day. You may be losing more hair than is normal if you notice a large amount of hair in the drain after washing your hair or clumps of hair in your brush. You might also notice thinning patches of hair or baldness.
Does hair grow back after falling out from roots?
Pulling out hair by your root may damage your follicle temporarily, but a new bulb will eventually form, and new hair will grow again through that follicle. According to the TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors, it may take a few months or more than a year in some cases.
Can thin hair become thick again?
Whilst thinning hair caused by Male Pattern Baldness will not ‘get thicker’ again of its own accord, where Telogen Effluvium is the only issue, normal hair growth can resume without intervention so the hair should return to its previous density within approximately six months.
How can I reactivate my hair follicles?
Minoxidil. One very good medication to reactivate dormant hair follicles is minoxidil. Applied regularly to the scalp, minoxidil can re-grow hair that has completely stopped growing. The only caveat is that once you start taking it, you’ll have to keep taking it indefinitely.
Why has my hair gone so thin?
Thinning hair can be caused by many factors, including genes, diet, stress, and illness, says Lisa Salmon. … Reasons for thinning hair can range from simple and temporary – such as a vitamin deficiency – to much more complex underlying health problems.


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Highlands rallies for equitable, adequate school funding in state
Highlands School Board President Carrie Fox drew inspiration from a high school sophomore's essay for her remarks at a rally Wednesday to celebrate public education.
“He wrote: ‘I value public education because it gives everyone an opportunity to work hard and be rewarded, but also requires hard work in order to succeed and accomplish one's goals,' ” said Fox, who said she read the essay at a Pennsylvania School Boards Association conference. “I thought that was a pretty powerful statement from a 10th-grader.”
Highlands School District and its teachers' union held a rally in front of Highlands Middle School in Natrona Heights to bring attention to why they are proud be a part of public education, and to talk about how state cuts and the funding formula for charter schools are hurting school districts. About 50 people attended.
“I don't think anybody is looking for tons of money to come our way, or is saying that money is the answer to fix everything,” said Megan Keener, a learning-support teacher at Highlands Middle School. “But it definitely helps with staffing, technology and programs. It's hard to reach your fullest potential without (those things).”
Highlands Education Association President Randy Rybak talked about the many ways that Highlands and other public schools provide a well-rounded education.
“Inside these brick-and-mortar schools, we afford our students the opportunity to learn to communicate effectively, excel to their highest potential academically and to grow emotionally and socially,” he said.
But he worries that inadequate, inequitable funding could hurt the progress districts have made in improving educational programs.
Gov. Tom Corbett's 2013-14 budget provides $9.55 billion for public school education in grades kindergarten through 12th grade. The basic education subsidy, which is considered the backbone of public education funding, is proposed at $5.5 billion — about 1.7 percent more than the current school year's budget.
Special education would get the same amount of state money for the sixth straight year.
“It's really time we stop hijacking the public school's funding and allow us to move forward with our mission to educate kids for the future,” said Highlands Superintendent Michael Bjalobok.
He and several speakers referred to the $1 billion in education funding cuts in the 2011-12 state budget — a result of the end of federal stimulus money that was used to make up the difference when the state reduced its share.
Corbett's administration says the cut was because federal stimulus dollars dried up and not because the state cut the amount it provides for education.
State Rep. Frank Dermody, D-Oakmont, said he doesn't buy it.
“It is not true,” he said. “Some was; the majority of it was not.”
Dermody said he plans to “rail against” the proposed budget and fight for more funding for traditional public education.
“I need to carry the message back to Harrisburg that says: ‘Step up for our teachers, our school district and fund public education. Fund it so that our children can get the education they deserve. It's serious when class sizes increase.' ”
Dermody said he also will push for legislation to make charter and cyber-charter schools, where classes are conducted via the Internet, just as accountable as traditional public schools.
Charter schools are funded by traditional public schools through tuition payments for each student from the district who attends the charter, but aren't held to the same scrutiny for how they spend their money or the same educational standards on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment test.
Highlands sends about $1 million to charter schools for the 100 students who attend them.
“There is a place for charter schools … but they are public schools with a different set of rules,” Bjalobok said. “We've been asking for fairness and equity for years; everybody knows that it doesn't cost what they're getting to run a cyber-charter.”
Jodi Weigand is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 724-226-4702 or email@example.com.
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Critic Consensus: No consensus yet.
Critic Reviews for Augustus
Audience Reviews for Augustus
An excellent retelling of the life of Augustus, if a bit on an encomium . . . with Peter O'Toole as the emperor himself. Owned on DVD.
Writing and most of the acting is embarrassingly bad. It was painful for me to watch, despite my great interest in the subject. HBO's "Rome", on the other hand is outstanding.
The political machinations and intrigues rampant during Roman times continue to fascinate me. With the exception of Charlotte Rampling, the film itself is mediocre. This depiction cries for further exploration of this fascinating time period.
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Coral ReKindling Venus is a colony of artworks using digital platforms to connect people to the world’s coral reefs and the ecological urgency of climate change. Devised by immersive installation artist Lynette Wallworth, Coral ReKindling Venus also includes a full-dome feature film for planetariums – screenings of which began with the Transit of Venus on 5 June 2012.
As a companion piece to the feature film Film Art Media is proud to release a set of six compelling poster images designed by Lynette which trigger an Augmented Reality experience via mobile phones. These exquisite art posters, printed in full-colour to the highest production standards are works of enormous beauty. Each unique large-sized image (700mm x 1000mm) makes a striking addition to company boardrooms, libraries, universities and schools or in the home or business. On top of this fabulous visual appeal each image unlocks a whole hidden world of augmented reality when scanned by a mobile phone or other similar device. The resulting effect will enable you to experience a virtual porthole to coral reefs around the world. Friends and family will be struck by the power of these delightful posters but wait till they see the 3D augmented reality imagery that virtually bursts off the wall through your mobile phone.
Simply download the FREE App Coral RKV from iPhone App Store or Android Marketplace and install on your phone. Compatible with iPhone 4, 5 using iOS 5, iOS 6 and Android phones.
If you would like to experience the augmented reality features of these extraordinary artworks but don’t wish to purchase the full size posters Film Art Media is pleased to offer free downloads of each poster to a high resolution suitable for printing on colour laser jet printers to A4 and A3.
Take a look at how it works…..


Anti-torpedo netting installed at Bell Island
Photo: Gerald Milne Moses; Boom Defence, Bell Island; June 2, 1943
Library and Archives Canada, Dept. of National Defence fonds, PA-183546
This photos shows the anti-torpedo netting installed in 1943 to protect ships loading iron ore at the Dominion and Scotia piers on Bell Island from submarine attack. This was called the boom defence. Also visible in the lower left is the damage to the Scotia pier caused by the torpedo fired by U-518 on November 2, 1942.


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Swissotel Quito is a top five-star luxury hotel, conveniently located in the Floresta neighborhood of Quito – both a commercial and residential area, only 25 minutes from Mariscal Sucre International Airport. Swissotel Quito's central location near the old town means that guests are never far from great shopping, fascinating museums as well as architectural and cultural gems of the city.
Each of Swissotel Quito's 232 elegant guest rooms and 43 executive apartments are air-conditioned and contains luxurious amenities such as state-of-the-art technology and free internet connection. Executive rooms and the Swiss Executive Club lounge provide additional luxury and exclusivity.
Five excellent restaurants offer a wide variety of international cuisine: Japanese, Swiss, Mediterranean and Ecuadorian: a menu to suit every palate. A sumptuous breakfast buffet offers a wide range of choices to energize your day.
The Amrita spa offers revitalising treatments, a fully equipped gym and a wellness area in which to relax after a busy day.
InterContinental Melbourne The Rialto is a luxury hotel boasting contemporary accommodations that blend comfort and luxury with Melbourne heritage. A unique combination of historic opulence and cutting edge Melbourne style, the hotel incorporates 253 exquisite guest rooms and suites. Ideally located in Melbourne CBD's bustling financial district on Collins Street, the iconic Melbourne hotel is conveniently situated for both business and leisure guests. A range of stylish and flexible function rooms make InterContinental Melbourne The Rialto ideal for meetings and events.
The Melbourne hotel features an impressive light filled atrium serving high tea and high coffee, at night Market Lane Bar transforms into a seductive lounge, complemented by a large whiskey selection. Enjoy a sumptuous buffet breakfast, lunch or dinner at Alluvial Restaurant with a menu showcasing Victorian produce, located under the hotel's glass atrium. Relax and savor some of Australia's wines complemented by tapas or a selection from the substantial bar menu at Bluestone Wine Lounge. Experience Melbourne’s fine dining at Vue de Monde and Guy Grossi's Merchant, also located within the Rialto precinct.
Situated in the heart of the historic centre, Hotel Navona Roma enjoys a privileged position only a few steps from Piazza Navona, the Pantheon, Campo de’ Fiori and the other main tourist attractions in the Eternal City, all within walking distance. Stay at Hotel Navona and immerse yourself in history. This historic 15th century building stands on the site of the Baths of Agrippa,, the first bath complex in the city, which was built by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and opened in 12 BC. The hotel has been completely refurbished, while retaining aspects that reflect the glorious past of the Eternal City. Several rooms feature frescoed ceilings, and ancient Roman bricks are still visible in the communal areas. The hotel provides different types of room with Economy, Standard, Superior and Family Rooms. Each elegantly decorated room features a private bathroom, air conditioning, free Wi-Fi (excluding group ), mini-bar and satellite TV. Hotel Navona provides a full buffet breakfast served between 7.30 am and 10.00 am, for you to start your tour of the city bursting with energy. Breakfast is not included in the room rate, and is charged at 10 euros per person..
Honjin Hiranoya Kachoan is a traditional hotel in the historic center of Takayama, just steps from the morning market of Takayama, offering personalized attention, thermal baths and Japanese cuisine with carefully prepared Hida beef. There is free pickup in Takayama JR station is a 3-minute drive, and free WiFi throughout the hotel. The establishment has been awarded the TripAdvisor's Travellers' Choice award Japan Top 25 in 2015. Rooms have a classic Japanese style and offer a relaxed atmosphere. They also have flat-screen TV, electric kettle, safe and private bathroom with shower and toiletries. Guests can choose from 800 yukata robes, for a fee. Kachoan Hiranoya Ryokan is located along the Miya River and 15 minutes by bus from the traditional village of Hida No Sato.Covered thermal baths offer cold water and toiletries for men and women. The property also offers bike rental service, free parking and souvenir shop. The establishment serves authentic Japanese cuisine for breakfast and dinner in the dining room or in the rooms.

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Police Scotland’s largest ever intake of new officers has today (Friday 8 September 2017) officially joined the ranks.
213 recruits, who began training in June, took to the Parade Square at the Scottish Police College, Tulliallan, this morning in the presence of Deputy Chief Constable Johnny Gwynne QPM, other senior officers, invited guests as well as family and friends.
Our new recruits being inspected.
The record breaking class is also the most ethnically diverse group to pass through SPC Tulliallan in Police Scotland’s history. Included in the intake were the first group of black and minority ethnic (BME) recruits to complete the recently launched Introduction to Policing course, led by the Police Scotland Positive Action Team in January and February 2017.
The four-week programme offered potential applicants an insight into day-to-day life as a police officer and an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the application and selection process as well as provide peer support to each other during the process via a closed Facebook group.
The second course has resulted in an increased number of applications to join Police Scotland, with more BME applicants due to start their initial training at Scottish Police College, Tulliallan, later this month. A third course is currently underway in Aberdeen.
Deputy Chief Constable Johnny Gwynne QPM & Chief Superintendent Gillian MacDonald inspect the parade.
Deputy Chief Constable Johnny Gwynne QPM said: “I am extremely encouraged to see so many people willing to serve as police officers, helping to keep Scotland’s communities safe. They have all put in a great deal of personal commitment and hard work to reach this milestone in their training, which I know will continue as they embark on their public service across the country.”
He continued: “Policing in Scotland is carried out by consent, and one of the best ways to achieve this is to have a police service which reflects the communities we serve. A diverse workforce benefits the whole country and officers who have something in common with their communities can find it easier to understand cultural differences, enabling them to build trust and confidence.
Pipe band from Glasgow play as the new recruits are inspected.
“Through the Introduction to Policing project we are working hard to ensure any perceived barriers to applying to Police Scotland are dispelled or removed and by highlighting to people from all social, economic, cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds that policing is an employer of choice for BME communities.”
All of the newly qualified constables will now move onto local training for a week before hitting the beat in policing divisions across the country for their two year probationary period.
Of the new officers passing out today, 37% are women. This is one of the highest ever percentages of women in a class at the Scottish Police College, Tulliallan.
Police Scotland remains keen to receive applications from people interested in joining the service across Scotland, and in particular women and people from under-represented groups including the BME communities
More information about joining Police Scotland as an officer can be found on the Recruitment page.


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Irish women poets are rising up en masse against their repeated exclusion from literary history, signing a pledge of refusal to participate in anthologies, conferences and festivals in which the gender balance is skewed.
The pledge was conceived after the publication of the Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets in 2017. Covering Irish poetry from the 17th century to the present, it features essays on four women poets and 26 men, with just four female contributors. According to the 250 poets, academics and writers who have now signed the pledge, the book “repeats the minimisation or obliteration of women’s poetry by previous anthologies and surveys” and “leads to a distorted impression of our national literature and to a simplification of women’s roles within it”.
The Cambridge guide is by no means the first time women writers have been left out. Research from Irish publisher Lagan found in December that women are underrepresented in a host of Irish anthologies: last year’s A Treasury of Irish Literature featured only five female authors in a total of 32; An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry featured 10 women out of 53 poets; and Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology contained 22 female poets among 177.
“The Companion is part of a larger process by which the significance of works by women is attenuated as they become inaccessible or obscured, simply by virtue of their absence from canonical textbooks,” says the preamble to the pledge, going on to name a panoply of Irish women writers who could have been included in the Cambridge anthology: 19th-century poet Emily Lawless, 18th-century poet Laetitia Pilkington, 20th-century author Katharine Tynan and modernists Freda Laughton and Maighread Medbh, among others.
Poets including Christine Murray, Ailbhe D’Arcy and Mary O’Donnell worked together to come up with the pledge, which they have dubbed Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon. “Our pledge is short and simple. It commits us to asking questions about gender representation early on in collaborative projects such as edited collections, conferences and festivals. It commits us to withdrawing our participation when, in our opinion, insufficient effort is made to render representation fair,” they write. “In many cases implicit bias will have been involved in women being less famous, so editors and organisers should make an effort to include some slightly less famous female names.”
The issue is not confined to Ireland, or to poetry: the first volume of the Penguin Book of the British Short Story is 75% male, while the second is 64% male; and in both the Oxford Book of American Poetry and in A Glimpse of Truth, the 100 Finest Short Stories, more than two thirds of the writers selected are men.
O’Donnell, a novelist and poet, said: “I really hope it can make a difference. The Cambridge anthology has, once and for all, brought about a convergence of women, responding after decades of exclusion … This isn’t personal against the editor of the anthology – the anthology is a tipping point. We have had a whole history of exclusion.”
O’Donnell called for high-profile writers to come on board and support the pledge – both men and women. “As long as ‘good men’ aren’t getting political about this, nothing will change,” she said. “The literary patriarchal door keeps slamming in our faces.”
Booker prize-winning Irish novelist Anne Enright is one of the biggest names to sign up. The author, who has previously called out sexism in the literary scene in the London Review of Books, spoke of a festival she was invited to attend two years ago in order to redress the gender balance of a male-heavy line-up – and to speak about gender imbalances. “I had a book which was No 1 on the bestseller list, and longlisted for the Booker, and I still hadn’t been invited to talk about it. I was invited to restore the gender balance. There are multiple double-binds in that exclusion – even when you’re included, you’re excluded. It is maddening in the extreme,” said Enright.
In 1991, the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing famously drew heavy criticism for its male-heavy focus. “It comes in cycles – every generation does it again. It’s like they really can’t receive the memo. There’s an absolute aversion to having the conversation on the Irish scene. It’s unbelievable – here we go again,” said Enright.
Enright, comparing the situation to the #MeToo movement, said that no one was willing to stand up and be counted over gender bias. “Prejudice against women is a universal crime with zero perpetrators. Irish men are lovely, Irish poets are especially lovely – what on earth could be the problem? There is an amazing series of defences between men and this conversation,” she said. “With the #MeToo movement, the fact there are misdemeanours and crimes involved, and sexual activity, means everyone can point fingers and individuals can be identified, and they can stand in for a whole culture of harassment. When there is no physical content, when it’s about aversion, when it’s about exclusion, it is extremely hard to identify and call out.”
The pledge points to studies that “have suggested that both men and women tend to evaluate women more negatively than men in professional contexts”, so “women may need to do a lot more to be considered successful than men do”.
Academics also feature on the list of signatories to the pledge. “To be clear, I studied zero female poets in college. I envy US students who have Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Susan Howe, et al. We literally have huge gaps there and the narrative states that women poets emerged in the 1970s. Nope! They were ignored until the 1970s,” said Murray.
Responding to the controversy, Cambridge University Press said in a statement that it was “committed to publishing fairly and without bias. The Press publishes many significant works about Irish literature and history. The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets is one part of this ongoing and ambitious programme, which in 2018 will include titles such as A History of Modern Irish Women’s Literature, A History of Irish Women’s Poetry and A History of Working-Class Literature.”


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High unemployment, low-interest rates and the rental market unpredictable – Is now the time to enter the Australian housing market?...
High unemployment, low-interest rates and the rental market unpredictable – Is now the time to enter the Australian housing market?
Australia’s Reserve Bank chief has predicted low interest rates and low inflation are likely to be with us “for years” warning while the vaccine rollout is vital, an end to the pandemic is not assured.
Speaking at the National Press Club, Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe predicted interest rates could remain at record lows until the middle of the decade.
“So the message is this: interest rates are going to be low for quite a while yet,’’ he said.
“It is difficult to determine exactly when this condition might be met but we do not expect it to be before 2024 and it is possible that it will be later than this,” he said.
And while the COVID-19 vaccine was promising, he said international air travel was likely to remain highly restricted until the end of the year.
“As was the case last year, much depends upon the path of the pandemic. The development of vaccines in record time is clearly good news,’’ he said.
“And it’s reduced one of the big uncertainties, and it could provide the foundation for a vigorous and robust sustainable recovery in the global economy.
“But this outcome is not assured. The global rollout of the vaccines faces very significant challenges. I’m sure we all hope for the best here. But we also need to be prepared for further setbacks.”
The RBA’s latest forecasts, to be released shortly, assumed a rollout of the vaccines in line with the current government guidance.
“We assumed that international travel remains highly restricted for Australians for the rest of this year,’’ Mr Lowe said.
“Our central scenario is that the upswing in the Australian economy continues with above trend growth over the next couple of years as you can see in this chart. GDP is expected to increase by 3.5 per cent both this year and next.
“Given this outlook, including the high unemployment rate, we’re expecting wages growth and inflation to remain subdued.”
The RBA said Australian’s passion for online shopping was also helping to prop the economy up.
“When the virus first came to our shores, many people understandably hunkered down,’’ Mr Lowe said.
“But as the days wore on, we adjusted, and we changed what we did and how we did it. This resilience has helped keep the economy going and has kept many people in jobs.
“Many firms changed their business models, they moved online. Households have adjusted too with spending patterns changing very significantly.
“These changes in our spending patterns have been challenging for many businesses but the ability and the willingness of Australians to keep spending has helped the overall economy and it kept people in jobs.”


Gurugram MP Rao Inderjit Singh flagged off 42 tasks price greater than Rs 191 crore right here in Gurugram on Wednesday.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar just about attended the occasion from Hisar.
During the occasion, 13 tasks accomplished at a price of about Rs 31.5 crore had been inaugurated and the inspiration stone of 29 tasks to be accomplished at a price of about Rs 160 crore was laid.
Rao Inderjit Singh mentioned that the Haryana authorities led by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has been fashioned within the state, and since then each space of the state has been transferring on the trail of progress.
“In these nine and half years of Haryana Government, despite the Corona period, unprecedented development work has been done in all areas of the state, ” he mentioned.
Deputy Commissioner Gurugram, Nishant Kumar Yadav mentioned, these tasks give attention to schooling, public well being, roads, and water administration in Gurugram.


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He's got an election and he's trailing badly in the polls. How badly? Hoover is the last incumbent to trail by such a large margin. Trump has to turn things around and wants to look like he's addressing the economy before Friday's numbers come in.
Friday we will learn how many jobs were destroyed in the last month. It will be millions, dwarfing any previous month on record. The talking points for every politician and reporter will be, "Is this virus costing us too many jobs?" You watch. The fact that Trump shifted to reopening will actually make his poll numbers go up a couple of points.
But of course the virus could care less about his poll numbers. It will simply exploit more opportunities to spread as the country re-opens. Meanwhile, it will be tough to get people to shop, dine out, and mingle like they did in 2019 while the number dying is actually accelerating. Trump loves PR but hates actual executive responsibility. The PR boost he'll get for pushing to re-open the economy will fall as people realize that his impatience has given us the worst of both worlds: high death rates AND economic contraction. No healthy economy is going to emerge atop rampant spread of and fears of illness.


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Companion Care in New York
If you need help from a caregiver or know a loved one that would benefit from some level of companionship, companion care may be the answer you are looking for. Companion care is a service that Parent Care provides to New Yorkers that are medically stable, but could use a little extra help around the home. This service is designed for individuals who wish to remain in their home safely. Companion care results in a happy and healthy patient that can continue to live their lives as they’ve become accustomed to in their own homes. Parent Care offers companion care services to help individuals continue living life to its fullest.
What Is Companion Care
Companion care is a valuable resource that many qualify for in New York. The service provides many benefits and when used early in the aging process, can prevent older adults from needing higher levels of nursing care later on. Is companion care right for you?
- Companion care is an in-home health service that provides older adults emotional support and socialization.
- Companion care can include playing cards, going for walks, or help with household chores.
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- To find out if Companion Care may be right for you or a loved one, contact the Parent Care offices for more information.
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- VDC (Veterans Directed Care) Program – This program provides the option to receive their care in their home instead of a facility
- Long Term Care Insurance – If you have long term care insurance and your policy meets certain requirements, family members may be able to be paid for their home health care services provided. You will need to check your policy specifically.
- PFLBL (Paid Family Leave Benefits Law) – New York is only one of 5 states that offers this law that allows family members to request time off work to care for their loved ones and get paid a portion of their salary to do so. Although the family member is not paid directly for their services, they receive compensation from their employer while providing home nursing care to a relative.
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The staff at Parent Care are devoted caregivers throughout New York, including the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens areas, that view their services as much more than a job. They have a passion for helping others and strive to help older adults maintain their dignity as they age. At Parent Care, we understand that although family members may be the patient’s first choice, they cannot always be there to provide the care their loved ones need due to work schedules or other obligations. The exceptional care performed by our home health aide and home nurse staff is guaranteed to be the next best thing. Our personal approach to caregiving is unlike any other home health care agencies you have experienced.
Contact Parent Care Today for More Information about Companion Care
Companion Care may be the answer you are looking for to receive the emotional support and assistance needed during the aging process. Reach out to Parent Care today for more information about this program, to determine eligibility status, and to meet our compassionate staff. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has built a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter Inc, a regulatory filing showed on Monday, potentially making him the biggest stakeholder in the micro-blogging site.
Twitter shares soared 26 percent in premarket trading after the filing, which comes close on the heels of Musk tweeting that he was giving “serious thought” to building a new social media platform.
Shares of other social media firms, including Meta Platforms and Snapchat owner Snap Inc, were also trading higher.
Musk owns 73.5 million Twitter shares, valuing his passive stake in the company at up to $2.9 billion based on the stock's Friday close. The shares are held by the Elon Musk Revocable Trust.
Musk, a prolific user of Twitter, has over 80 million followers on the site since joining in 2009 and has used the platform to make several announcements, including teasing a go-private deal for Tesla that landed him in regulatory scrutiny.
He, however, has been critical of the social media platform and its policies of late and has said the company is undermining democracy by failing to adhere to free speech principles.
Meanwhile, Musk and Twitter’s billionaire co-founder, Jack Dorsey, have had some common ground in terms of dismissing the so-called Web3, a vague term for a utopian version of the internet that is decentralized.
Musk is also the founder and CEO of SpaceX, and leads brain-chip startup Neuralink and infrastructure firm The Boring Company.
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Nikki Lamberg discusses the challenges moms face in finding and keeping friends.
For a mom, sitting down with a long-time friend becomes as rare but priceless as a full night’s sleep in the early years of infant and toddler parenting. You long to catch up and you promise to do so, but the days turn into weeks, and the weeks to months, and before you know it, it’s been two years since you’ve last seen each other. Sure, you can keep up with each other on social media, send a text message, or make the occasional phone call, but it isn’t the same as that personal connection.
Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with a long-time friend of mine. It wasn’t a picture-perfect setting where our kids were perfect little humans, we each had a glass of wine, and we could thoroughly hear and enjoy what each other had to say. In fact, it was almost the exact opposite. In our household, it was the rush of two full-time working parents rushing home to exchange kids for dinner and baseball practice, barely saying a hello and goodbye to each other like ships passing in the night. A quick left-over meal for the two younger ones, just in time for the long overdue visit that I had been looking forward to all day. The house was a mess because there wasn’t time to pick up, the dinner dishes sat out, the basket of laundry was folded but still sitting on the dining room table, and daycare and work bags were still sitting on the floor in the kitchen.
As my friend and her two children walked in, I found myself apologizing for the way my house looked. I wasn’t ashamed really, I knew we were doing the best we could in this season of life, but I also knew I didn’t actually need to apologize. You see this friend didn’t care about the way my house looked, or that I was finishing helping my daughter eat her last two bites of dinner when they walked in. She is one of those rarities that if you’re lucky enough to find, you pray you never lose. She unapologetically regales about the good times and the every day hardships as a mom with me. Those stories that in the moment we thought were terrible but knew that someday we might laugh about. And even though much time had passed between us, our conversation remains raw, truthful, and heartfelt. Friendships like these are hard to find in life, but when we do, they are priceless.
I think sometimes as moms we get caught up in the every-day tough moments and we lose sight of who we are and our purpose. We start to feel like we are losing the identity of who WE are. And I think it becomes easy to dwell on the past, including those friendships when we had more time to nurture and grow them. It’s hard not to get caught up in seeing a social media post about a group of friends, and feeling left out as you put your child to bed for the 45th time in the last 15 minutes. I see you Momma, I’ve been there too and I get it. But the change of seasons in motherhood brings about different people that God knows you need during that time. So, while losing a friendship can feel like mourning a loss of a loved one, we can rest and find peace in knowing that God put them there for a reason, whether it’s for a season or for life.
So, my advice to you, sweet momma, is to give yourself some grace and hold on to the friendships who make you feel like the best YOU. The ones you know you could go two years without seeing and pick up right where you left off. The ones you know you can tell your deepest secret to with the understanding that the words “please don’t share this with anyone” never have to be uttered because it’s a mutual understanding between the two of you and already implied.
Pray and seek the friends that you have prayed for, and that God has put in your path. Love on the ones that are here to stay and give those who’s season has come to a close back to Him. He will give us clues to the change of those seasons if we are paying attention, much like He gives us the sign that Fall is coming when the leaves start changing. God sees you, my friend, He hears your prayers whether you say them out loud of they are in your heart.
It has been my experience that being a mom is one of the greatest joys and blessings God could give to me. And while being a mom may the greatest and most important part of my ministry to Him, He knows there are other pieces of me there too.
So, when you find yourself wishing you could be a part of that circle of friends who seem to have it all, don’t forget that God has a hand in it, and in your life too. He puts people in your life for a reason; it is up to us to pray about it. And while you may find some seasons harder than others, remember that Jesus is your friend too, and He will ALWAYS be there for you, to listen, to guide, and to love you every step of the way.
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Nikki Lamberg is a born and raised Catholic, full-time working, wife and mom of three young children. It brings her great joy to read, write and help others as she can, especially when it comes to infertility and raising young children.

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Folks have been asking me about a new study showing a strong link between homeownership and unemployment. The study finds a long-term of elasticity of the unemployment rate with respect to homeownership close to 1. This means that if the homeownership rate in a state doubles then we should expect its unemployment rate to double. For the country as a whole, since the homeownership rate has risen by roughly 20 percent from its 1950 level we should expect the unemployment rate to be roughly 20 percent higher, after controlling for other factors.
These are striking results, but even as a critic of the cult of homeownership, I am not buying. The paper does include many tests for robustness, so there is no simple story of cherry-picking the data. But there are important questions of reverse causation. Suppose that states have weak economies so that many people leave for states with more job opportunities.
In this story the state losing people is likely to have a higher homeownership rate (homeowners are less likely to move) and the state getting people is likely to have a lower homeownership rate since the new arrivals are less likely to be homeowners. The study tries to control for this issue by having lags of up to 5 years, but it is certainly possible that trends in economic growth and stagnation are longer than this. It might have been useful to try lags of 10 years.
It is also striking that the states with the largest increase in homeownership are all in the south. If there was a rise in unemployment in these states was this a regional effect or due to homeownership? Including a regional variable might be helpful to see how it affects the results. In the same vein, immigrants are likely to be associated with both a lower unemployment rate (immigrants go to areas with jobs) and a lower rate of homeownership (recent immigrants don't own homes). I may have missed it, but it doesn't look like immigrant status is one of the control variables in the regressions.
One finding that may have a simple explanation is their finding that in the years 2000-2010 there was a strong tie between commute times and homeownership. I'll be a bit of a cynic here. Areas like Los Vegas and Phoenix were booming in the bubble years, these states saw substantial increases in homeownership. This was probably associated with an increase in commute times. The bust and drop in homeownership was especially pronounced in these areas. My guess is that they also saw a drop in average commute times. I don't know if this is really the story, but at first glance that would be my guess.
Anyhow, I can believe that homeownership has some negative impact on employment. There is the story of reducing mobility. This can be exaggerated (people do rent out homes and couples separate for work), but surely it is not zero. Also, policies that favor homeownership, like the mortgage interest deduction, undoubtedly pull capital away from productive investment. However, the relationships found in this paper seem too large to be plausible.
So chalk me up as a skeptic on this one, but it is an interesting paper that deserves serious consideration.
It is interesting to see that the union density variable in these regressions is always negative and sometimes significant. This would suggest that higher union density is associated with lower unemployment rates. Much as I might like to say this is the case, my guess is that something else is at work.
States like Michigan and Ohio saw the percentage of workers in unions fall at the same time they lost hundreds of thousands of jobs in the auto and related industries. This could give the sort of correlation found in these regressions. This is the same sort of reverse causation that I suspect we see with homeownership and unemployment rates.
Danny Blanchflower, a co-author of the paper, notified me that he ran a regression that included a variable for the southern states to pick up any regional effect. He said that this actually made the results stronger, so clearly their findings are not driven by some peculiarity of the south that led to both higher rates of homeownership and higher rates of unemployment in the region.


End-year CPI inflation expectations dropped to 7.31% in December from 7.71% in November, the Central Bank of Turkey’s monthly survey showed on Friday.
12-month ahead inflation expectations remained unchanged at 6.74% but 24-month ahead inflation forecast rose to 6.37% from 6.28%.
Consumer prices are expected to increase 0.42% m/m in November, according to the survey. November inflation expectation was a lower 0.36% m/m in the previous survey. January 2014 CPI inflation is seen at 0.68% m/m.
Consumer prices rose 0.01% m/m in November, bringing annual CPI inflation rate to 7.32% from 7.71% in October. The official inflation target for 2013 is 5%. In October, the Central Bank raised its end-2013 inflation forecast to 6.8% from a previous 6.2% and end-2014 forecast to 5.3% from a previous 5% due to exchange rate developments and oil prices.
Participants of the Central Bank’s survey revised their end-year current account (CA) deficit expectations to USD 59.8bn from USD 59.1bn in the previous survey. CA deficit expectations for 2014 were raised to USD 60.2bn from USD 60.1bn.
CA deficit widened 145% y/y to USD 2.89bn in October (market consensus forecast: USD 2.9bn) but fell from the CA shortfall of USD 3.4bn a month ago.
GDP growth forecast for 2013 rose to 3.7% in December from 3.5% in the previous survey. Participants of the survey also raised their GDP growth forecasts for 2014 to 3.9% from 3.8%. The government cut its 2013 GDP growth estimate to 3.6% from 4% and revised down its growth forecast for next year to 4% from 5%.
The Turkish economy grew 4.4% y/y in Q3 (market consensus forecast: 4.05%) after expanding 4.5% y/y in the previous quarter. On a seasonally & calendar adjusted basis, GDP grew 0.9% q/q in the third quarter. Turkey’s GDP, which grew 2.2% last year, expanded 4% y/y in the first nine months of the year.
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