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“[The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative] is supporting Public Rights Project’s work to bring balance to the justice system, leveraging a greater breadth of legal tools to help communities where they need it most.”
Today, the nonpartisan Public Rights Project announced that it is launching its fellowship program in Oakland. The program will place a full-time legal fellow in the City Attorney’s Office to help with lawsuits to safeguard the rights of Oakland’s diverse communities, including communities of color, women, immigrants and low-income residents.
In the end, it’s the cities and states that will pick and win the important fights against the exclusionary policies represented by this administration.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey's Office will be one of two inaugural participants in Public Rights Project's newly launched Fellowship program.
In this episode of the podcast We Love Schools, host Joel Gagne speaks with Jill Habig, founder and President of the Public Rights Project, a not-for-profit that helps public institutions protect the civil rights of their communities. Habig, a lawyer by training and involved in local and state government for most of the past decade, discusses civil rights in schools, as well as chronic absence and the school-to-prison pipeline.
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Magistrate Judge Nanette Raduenz has granted several motions to allow attorneys from outside the state to be heard in the case, which includes attorneys from the Georgetown Law Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and the Oakland-based Public Rights Project, organizations that recently filed motions defending Gary's ordinance.
Public Rights Project President & Founder Jill Habig is a recipient of the 2018 Open Society Foundations’ Leadership in Government Fellowship, an initiative supporting seasoned public servants chosen from the senior ranks of federal, state and local government who have advanced economic and social justice.
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ANA Holdings, parent of Vanilla Air, and Cebu Pacific, parent of Cebgo, have joined technology provider Air Black Box Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. as shareholders.
Both carriers will adopt the Air Black Box solution, a software vehicle that allows diverse airlines to connect and cooperate. The platform is credited with making Asia’s Value Alliance possible.
“Following the launch of the Value Alliance earlier this year, I am pleased to welcome ANA Holdings and Cebu Pacific as new shareholders into the community and to have their representatives join the Air Black Box Asia Pacific’s board of directors,” said company chairman, William Liu.
Air Black Box Asia Pacific will continue expanding its footprint as its Value Alliance members and third-party Asia-Pacific airline customers adopt the technology.
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Rock Band Smash Mouth performed Sunday night at Hard Rock Cafe. The live performance was part of the HDNet concert series. Smash Mouth is best known for their songs "Walking on the Sun" and "All Star." Shown above: lead singer Steve Harwell. (Photos courtesy of Erik Kabik/ Retna/ erikkabik.com).
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Cromer Norfolk antique print. This antique print, published in 1845, is from ‘Curiosities of Great Britain. England and Wales Delineated. Historical, Entertaining & Commercial, Alphabetically Arranged by Thomas Dugdale, Antiquarian. Assisted by William Burnett.’ (Dugdale was a professional artist, whilst Burnett was a civil engineer by profession.) Together they produced a series of steel engraved prints of English and Welsh architectural and topographical features, together with County Maps.
Cromer is a coastal town and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk. It is 23 miles (37 km) north of the county town of Norwich and 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Sheringham on the North Sea coastline. The town is notable as a traditional tourist resort and for the Cromer crab, which forms the major source of income for local fishermen. The motto Gem of the Norfolk Coast is highlighted on the town’s road signs. The town is not mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. The place-name ‘Cromer’ is first found in a will of 1262 and could mean ‘Crows’ mere or lake’. There are other contenders for the derivation, a north country word ‘cromer’ meaning ‘a gap in the cliffs’ or less likely a direct transfer from a Danish placename.

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In a recent video, Anthony Fantano (a.k.a theneedledrop) addressed the question regarding music and image. While music and image have always gone together to some degree, it is pretty much agreeable that if the image eclipses the art, then the music will have a short lived shelf life. There have been musicians who have let their antics outshine their talent (i.e. Kanye West), as well as those who strictly live for the spotlight (ummm…Miley Cyrus?). However, in the midst of all the pandemonium, there are artists that use their music, along with a strong visual concept, to weave together a memorable narrative.
Janelle Monae, with the release of The Electric Lady, continues to expand upon the eccentricity displayed on The ArchAndroid. The result is one of the most ambitious R&B/pop albums this year, one that mixes rock, soul, funk and dance fusion all together for something truly grandiose.
Monae is not scared to tell a story, which is apparent from the opening track “Suite IV Electric Overture, a continuation from her previous album. Right off of the bat, we can see that The Electric Lady is set to have a variety of sounds, with guitars shreds that are akin to a 1960’s James Bond soundtrack. This is the perfect precursor and transition into the second track on the album, “Givin Em What They Love which features Prince, a clear influence on Monae and a more than appropriate collaborator. The song expands on the opener before exploding into the catchy-as-hell chorus (GIVIN WHAT CHA LOOOOOVE), with both Monae and Prince shining beautifully in terms of both vocals and performance.
Throughout the rest of the LP, Monae continues to take the audience on a whirlwind of a journey through space and time. On songs such as “Primetime featuring Miguel, Monae stays along a more contemporary route, right before dipping back into retro territory on songs like “We Were Rock and Roll. Highlights on the album, such as “It’s Code and “Can’t Live Without Your Love, shows that Monae can display variety in terms of being reclusive and laid back while still maintaining that retro future sound. If there are any complaints about the album though, it may seem too derivative for some people and/or it may be too spontaneous. While all of the songs presented here are appropriate for the confines of the theme of the LP, the tracklisting at some points may not make for a cohesive listen.
To tell the truth, I did not expect to enjoy this album as much as I did. It is good to know that this late in the year, there are still great albums being released by artists from all different walks of life. The Electric Lady is a rollercoaster that delivers on all accounts from subject manner, to production, songwriting and performance. Don’t stop listening to this thing. Sha-bang (a-lang, a-lang).
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Democracy, as we all know, is a Greek word. Literally, it means “rule of the people.” To a proponent of democracy, then, it is not unfair to ask, “How have the people been ruling themselves?” In these days of election fever (or exhaustion), it is amusing, if not illustrative to remember that one prominent American openly proclaimed that the people stink and that democracy is a joke. I’m thinking, of course, of H.L. Mencken. Surveying the teeming hordes of American citizens, Mencken called them the “booboisie.” The booboisie is composed of idiots and mental children. “Ideas,” Mencken noted, “leave them unscathed; they are responsive only to emotions, and their emotions are all elemental — the emotions, indeed, of tabby-cats rather than of men.”
Mencken wrote these thoughts down in 1926’s Notes on Democracy (recently published in a new edition through Dissident Books with an introduction by Mencken biographer Marion Elizabeth Rodgers). Fear, Mencken thought, is the essential force driving human beings. The vast majority of us look simply to quell the terror in our hearts with basic comforts. Give us sweet things to eat and some light pornography and we crawl back to our domiciles awaiting further instruction. Rarely, a human being will be able to conquer that basic fear and take a stab at truth or beauty. Rarely.
It follows that, for Mencken, a democratic politics that must pander for the votes of the booboisie will inevitably be a politics that exploits fear. “Politics under democracy,” Mencken writes, “consists almost wholly of the discovery, chase and scotching of bugaboos. The statesman becomes, in the last analysis, a mere witch-hunter, a glorified smeller and snooper, eternally chanting ‘Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum’!”
Notes on Democracy sustains itself, as Mencken sustained himself in life, with the hard sustenance of such ideas. Some hit harder than others. But Mencken never claimed that his arguments were airtight. He was more interested in ripping his way through the American psyche in search of illusions to tarnish. He does his damage with a sawed-off shotgun, leaving the sniper’s rifle to the college boys.
The real pleasure of Notes on Democracy comes in the ride, the trip that Mencken takes through all the lies and the scams, and the infinite patience by which the general populace allows itself to be exploited. The conclusion is not long in coming: “The American people, true enough, are sheep. Worse, they are donkeys. Yet worse, to borrow from their own dialect, they are goats.”
Near its crescendo, Mencken’s spirited tirade turns to his central philosophical inspiration, Nietzsche. There are reasons to think (namely, the wrongheaded book Mencken wrote on Nietzsche) that Mencken lacked some of the necessary tools to fully understand Nietzsche’s philosophy. But he sure had the gist of it, and he ran with Nietzsche’s idea that Christianity is a religion for resentful slaves as if he was out to win a rhetorical marathon. Mencken wanted to do Nietzsche one better in outright disgust for the common man. At the beginning of the “Democracy and Liberty” section of the book, Mencken goes so far as to accuse Nietzsche of being a little soft. He thinks Nietzsche was wrong to posit a universal “will to power.” More universal than that, Mencken thinks, is a will to peace, a cowardly longing for “the simplest and most ignominious sort of peace—the peace of a trust in a well-managed penitentiary.” I have to think Mencken was rather proud of himself there. Few have dared to take Nietzsche on for his meekness in the face of the herd.
Mencken’s Nietzschean metaphysics runs against the American grain. He simply does not think that there are any answers. He refuses to romp into the glorious future. Looking backward, he notes with satisfaction that whatever the ills of medieval society, at least they recognized that “the evils of the world were incurable.” Musing for a moment on the final Day of Judgment that he never actually believed in, Mencken thinks that “the last joke upon man may be that he never learned how to govern himself in a rational and competent manner.”
Thus, the final secret of Notes on Democracy. It is not actually an attack against democracy as such, but against an Americanism that constantly pats itself on the back and manically proclaims its own unique virtue. Mencken was not excited by the “shining city on the hill” metaphor most recently associated with Ronald Reagan and now repeated ad nauseam from every compass point on the political dial. Mencken suggests, instead, that the American experience — one he was always happy to chronicle — is as pathetic as all the rest. We are rascals, individually and en masse. If we were only willing to accept that basic truth, then Mencken would be happy to lighten up a little. “In the long run,” he says, “it may turn out that rascality is necessary to human government, and even to civilization itself — that civilization, at bottom, is nothing but a colossal swindle.”
So, bring on the swindle. Seeing civilization as the “glorious farce” constantly amuses and delights Mencken. That is his secret joy. Though he wrote about politics during the entirety of his long career, Mencken was never actually interested in politics per se. He was a thinker of ethics, interested in the question of how man should live. His pessimism about the human capacity for self-improvement was an extended slap in the face to the inherently aspirational nature of American thinking. He wanted to inject a fatalism into the American mind and he was willing to inject with force. The saving grace of that fatalism is that, in an explicitly Nietzschean vein, it is a fatalism that says “Yes.” It is a fatalism that wants to participate in the ongoing follies.
Nietzsche called it the eternal return. He hypothesized that the eternity of time mixed with the finitude of matter meant the necessary replication of all things and events. For Nietzsche, this is the most horrible of all thoughts. It is the idea that life goes nowhere but in an infinite circle. Nietzsche’s twist was to challenge human beings to accept this fact and further, to revel in it. “Let us not only endure the inevitable,” says Nietzsche, “and still less bide it from ourselves: Let us love it.” Mencken was smitten with this idea. It was what allowed him to take pleasure in the glorious farce.
Not surprisingly, it never really caught on in America. Americans kept on being their optimistic American selves. I wonder, though, if that old rascality isn’t becoming apparent again. So far, the 21st century has handed out a lot of disappointment. There are wars, shenanigans by the fat cats that imperil the financial system, bumbling politicians, and general global chaos. Mencken would not have been surprised, but he would have been amused. • 31 October 2008

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The PCB has hired an Australian rugby trainer as part of the support staff for Geoff Lawson. David Dwyer will join Lawson, who is due to arrive in Pakistan next week as coach, in time for next month's Twenty20 World Cup.
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text: This quarter, I am embracing Population-Based Nursing 410. This term requires us nursing students to step out into the community and take a look around at health disparities and the like. As I think about this course, and as I anticipate it greatly (especially because of my prior community health education degree), I have to share a unique opportunity female nursing students and nurses have to participate in something greater than themselves. The Nurses’ Health Studies, is “the largest, longest running investigations of women’s health. Started in 1976 and expanded in 1989, the information provided by its 238,000 dedicated nurse-participants has allowed NHS to produce key advances in literally hundreds of important topics–altering medical practice and changing national dietary guidelines.” It requires a mere 30 minute survey regarding women’s health issues/history, and helps researchers from Harvard, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA reveal nurses’ diverse backgrounds, specifically on topics such as lifestyle, fertility/pregnancy, environment, and nursing exposures. If you can spare 30 minutes of your time, and are a female nursing student, I would highly recommend filling out this survey. I believe the majority of us nursing students spend 30 minutes sometime during the week on Facebook, right? Here’s the link if you want to take the survey and be a part of a national research study: http://www.nhs3.org/index.php/joinpage.

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Welcome, we are MWM, a different kind of financial advisory firm dedicated to serving the needs of Millennials. Our comprehensive financial planning service is unique in the investment industry, as it is a true partnership between the firm and our clients. No two client relationships look the same when working with us, because let's face it, nobody is in the same financial position with the same goals and life circumstances. If you want a cookie cutter approach and a new product sold to you at every turn, then we are not for you. If you want personal attention with true understanding of your current financial situation and a plan to reach your future goals, then give us a try. Our promise to you is to always put your interests first, which we committed to when we took the fiduciary oath.
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We grew up in an age where financial literacy was not taught in school. So, if our parents didn't teach us about money then we were left to figure it out on our own. Our Mission at MWM is to change the lives of Millennials and their families through financial planning. We understand the importance of partnership and taking the time to educate our clients through the financial planning process. It's important that our clients know why we are recommending certain strategies or why we utilize certain investment vehicles. At MWM, our goal is Growth, both personally and financially. We hope to work with you soon!
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A team of Maxwell School faculty led by Jennifer Karas Montez and Shannon Monnat have been awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to support their research on geographic disparities in midlife mortality. Montez, University…
Newhouse Student Selected for BuzzFeed/Instagram VerticalU Video Workshop
“I realized that shooting television vertically could be the next big step in the industry and I wanted to have the opportunity to make my mark in this new platform,” Grafstein says.
Last summer, Instagram announced Instagram TV (IGTV), an app made to deliver long-form, vertical video content designed to be viewed on phones. Through the VerticalU program, content creators travel to Los Angeles to train with industry professionals and work with a BuzzFeed mentor to develop a vertical video series. The program funds the shooting of the projects, which premiere in New York and on IGTV in March. Grafstein learned of the opportunity when Maycie Timpone, director of social media for BuzzFeed, visited Professor Jennifer Grygiel’s BuzzFeed: Future Media Skills class, which Grafstein took last semester.
“In a way, it almost [felt like] more of an internship [than a course],” Grafstein says. “We had the opportunity to speak with staff from all different parts of the company and write as contributors for BuzzFeed Community.”
After having such a fantastic experience in the class, Grafstein didn’t hesitate to develop an idea for her application to VerticalU. Grafstein’s winning proposal, ReCollections, is a series about extreme collectors, all shot in vertical format and intended to be viewed on a phone. Grafstein went to Los Angeles for the kickoff course, an intensive five-day workshop taught by experts at BuzzFeed and Instagram, and filmed the episodes while at home in New York.
“Being at BuzzFeed for the week was amazing because we truly were treated like employees and not just visitors,” Grafstein says. “We attended training sessions on how to create vertical video and worked with Instagram to develop our social media skills and online presence.”
Grafstein, who is studying abroad London this semester, will work remotely with her mentor, a BuzzFeed producer in Los Angeles, to finish the series before the premiere in March.
“I truly believe that this opportunity would have not been possible without the unique courses and amazing professors that Newhouse offers,” Grafstein says. “Being thrown into a professional environment can be intimidating for some, but I feel that Newhouse has prepared me to conquer anything.”


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One of the world’s richest people could lose a substantial portion of his multibillion-dollar fortune in what has been predicted to be the most expensive divorce in history. According to CNN, Oklahoma oil tycoon Harold Hamm’s net worth is just over $20.2 billion, but nearly half of that could go to his soon-to-be former spouse, Sue Ann, to whom he was married for 26 years.
It’s not yet clear just how much Sue Ann will receive in the settlement, but the current record is $4.5 billion involved in the divorce of Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev earlier this year.
According to legal experts, Hamm’s case will rest on two key factors, the first of which is the date the court will establish as the time Harold and Sue Ann officially separated. Hamm’s company, Continental Resources, has grown considerably over the past couple of years, and so the earlier the separation date, the less the payout will be. The other factor is how much Sue Ann Hamm contributed to the growth of Continental Resources, both in terms of the business itself and in her support of Harold Hamm as he focused his attention on the company. One strategy Harold Hamm’s attorneys have attempted is to argue that their client was not very instrumental in the company’s growth, thereby reducing the impact that Mrs. Hamm could have had, as well.
Although the Hamms’ divorce undoubtedly involves much higher sums of money than most, their case reflects the challenges many high-income and high-asset couples face when they dissolve their marriages, especially when there is a business involved. It’s difficult to determine how much each spouse contributed to a company, and therefore the stake each should have in it. When you’re going through a divorce in Connecticut, it’s important to work with a skilled lawyer who you can trust to protect your rights and best interests — particularly when it comes to dividing marital assets and property.


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2001 proved tough for investors with economies in recession and global markets contracting
The official start to the millennium saw plenty of volatility in world markets with the emphasis on the downs rather than the ups.
While much of the back half of the year has focused on the terrorist acts perpetrated on the US on 11 September and the subsequent war, economists had been saying since the start of 2001 that global markets were contracting.
The bear market has led to variances in fund performance over the course of the year with UK Income funds regaining some of their previous popularity and bond funds returning to the fore. Still, investment houses have not stayed their progress in further developing products, with a number of funds launched over the past 12 months.
The year started as 2000 ended with a flurry of fund managers switching firms and aggressive focused equity funds being launched.
US manager Margaret Roddan left Invesco Perpetual, and Jupiter's Europe fund manager Richard Pease departed for New Star. Paul Kleiser and Stuart O'Gorman left Aegon Technology for Hendersons.
Gartmore planned five best ideas funds and Credit Suisse a global TMT fund, saying markets presented a buying opportunity.
Artemis announced plans to expand its range with UK Special Situations and European Growth funds.
Investment Week learnt that an Autif sector re-jig would split out, technology and Latin American funds. James Abate, once of Credit Suisse TransAtlantic, joined GAM.
Schroders retail CIO David Gasparro, tasked to turn around flagging retail funds, put ex-M&G Tom Carroll at the helm of its £943m UK Enterprise fund.
The Save & Prosper name was dropped to be replaced with JP Morgan Fleming branding. On one year losses, the average technology fund needed to return around 200% in the coming year to bring investors' capital back to its original value.
Fund of funds managers played musical chairs throughout the year, moving from Lazards to Jupiter, Rothschild to Credit Suisse, Singer & Friedlander to ABN Amro and Friends Ivory & Sime to Rothschild.
In April, Investment Week reported Jupiter was to launch three fund of funds products.
Despite 6 April Pep and Isa alignment, the inability of many managers to do in-specie transfers was costing consolidating Isa and Pep investors up to 5% to 6% of their capital.
With fund manager contract worries at Newton and Invesco Perpetual unresolved, Investment Week reported Jupiter fund managers had begun signing new remuneration packages.
In a story first flagged by Investment Week three years ago, tax worries beset income bond investors. Eurolife told its High Income Bond holders that their return of original capital would be cut by 4.75% in case it had to be handed to the Revenue in tax.
Investec announced plans to Oeic, a process which would ultimately lead to the death of the Guinness Flight name.
Hendersons revamped its ailing UK equity capacity, hiring Patrick Harrington from M&G as head of UK equity income. Earlier, Richard Prew joined from Norwich Union as head of UK growth.
Framlington parted company with NetNet fund manager Chris Bell.
The Britannic split cap investment trust launched with a 100% capital guaranteed income share class which was massively over-subscribed, angering many brokers who were unable to buy into it.
Rothschild's £1bn fund of funds division, now headed up by ex-Friends Ivory & Sime manager Bambos Hambi, attempted to force unit trust groups it dealt with to discount their annual fees by up to 1%.
Fidelity won Investment Week's Fund Management Group of the Year award at its annual unit trust award dinner at the Royal Albert Hall. Credit Suisse launched a fund of boutique funds for Gary Potter and Rob Burdett.
Cazenove warned that barbell style split caps could face systemic collapse due to cross-holdings and high levels of gearing.
Norwich Union planned for a range of aggressively managed 30-stock portfolios. BWD Rensburg sought FSA approval for its own UK Aggressive Growth fund.
ABN Amro entered negotiations with Singer & Friedlander for the acquisition of its portfolio management service, a deal finally resolved in December.
Friends Ivory & Sime rebranded its retail business Isis and US giant MFS announced plans to launch an Oeic including a no-load share class.
Jupiter started paying renewal commission on non-Pep and Isa business and UK fund managers were turning bearish as the FTSE 100 hit a four-year low, dropping to an index level of just over 5,000 on 7 September, and then the World Trade Center was brought down.
Aberdeen signed up with Thomas the Tank Engine in the month Railtrack shares were suspended.
New Star planned its UK Aggressive Fund for Tim Steer, Framlington manager Antony Milford would head a new Biotech fund and Invesco Perpetual overhauled risk systems after heavy falls in the Invesco Perpetual European Growth portfolio.
Redundancies were high at several groups as Prudential, Edinburgh, Hendersons, Old Mutual, Invesco Perpetual and Govett all cut staff.
Online fund supermarket Selestia launched in competition to Skandia.
Hugh Priestley, CIO at Rathbones, stepped down as manager from three of his five retail funds. Derek Lygo, new UK equities head at First State announced the group would launch an aggressive mid cap portfolio.
The planned £42m New Star takeover of Artemis fell through.
In early December, Old Mutual Asset Management announced it was to merge with Gerrard, the ex-Capel Cure Sharp fund management arm.
Star UK manager Adrian Frost returned to the industry, signing with Artemis.
Swip finally revealed its intermediary plans for a range of 12 to 14 concentrated portfolios, mostly ex-Hill Samuel funds.
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Square Mile’s series of informal interviews
Fallout from Haywood suspension
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Betsy Mead is a family member. She is the daughter of Denise Van Outen and Lee Mead. Her mother is an actress, dancer, and singer.
|Full Name||Betsy Mead|
|Age||9 Years Old|
|Parents||Denise Van Outen And Lee Mead|
Betsy father Lee is a television and musical theatre actor.
10 Facts on Betsy Mead
- Betsy Mead is the daughter of actress Denise Van. She was born in the year 2010. She is nine years of age. However, her exact date of birth is not known.
- Betsy is a very adorable child. Her exact height and weight are not known. Furthermore, she is in her development phase.
- Betsy is a child, so she does not have a net worth. However, her mother has an estimated approximate net worth of around $3 million, according to networthbuzz.com.
- Betsy is the daughter of actress Denise Van Outen. Her father’s name is Lee Mead. The couples got married in the year 2009 and Betsy was born after the year in 2010. However, things didn’t go right between the couples and separated in 2013.
- Betsy is the single child of her parents and does not have any other siblings yet. She seems to live with her mother. Her family includes two members her mom and herself. She is the granddaughter of Ted and Kathleen Outen and Stephen Mead and Joan Horning.
- Currently, Betsy is in her schooling. Details about her studies are not known. However, according to hellomagazine.com, Betsy has difficulties in learning.
- Betsy was born and raised in Britain.
- Betsy’s mother is an actress. In addition to this, she is also a singer, dancer, and presenter. She is best known for her work in The Big Breakfast.
- Betsy’s father Lee is also an actor. He is mostly known as a musical theatre actor. He is famous for his work in Any Dream Will Do.
- Betsy does not have an account on Twitter and Instagram.

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Most likely, you were searching for gardening lesson plan for preschool when you came across this article.
Let’s get Started!
Do you know how plants grow up?
Here are some great suggestions for growing plants in Gardening lesson plan for preschool! Children will enjoy joining in the wonderful process when they see the small seed begin to grow as a result of their passion project.
For performing this process you need to following these steps::
- A few of seeds
- A transparent plastic cup
- Toilet paper
- Spray bottle for spraying or a watering container
After placing the tiny seeds gently inside the transparent plastic cup, cover them with wet paper towels. After putting the paper towels in the cup, you can always wet them. Watch the seeds as they start to grow by spraying them with a little water each day.
Who knew it could be so easy to grow a garden? Even getting your hands dirty is not necessary. Enjoy your journey.
Gardening lesson plan for preschool in 2022
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|About seeds||The optimum seed spacing for garden planting will be taught to the students.||February|
|Garden irrigation||Students will discover that plants require water just as much as people and animals do. They will study both dry and wet dirt and be able to distinguish between them. The function of a rain gauge will be explained to them.||February|
|Group Research||Students will develop “garden tips” in groups that will educate and encourage proper gardening practice. Students will research and discover the world around them using their senses.||March|
|Changings seasons||Inform kids about the seasons and how the seasons change. Students make a leaf spinner and keep track of the temperature every day.||March|
|Sense of gardening||Inform student that when planting a summer garden, students decide what to grow, how to grow it.||April|
|Seed Spacing||The proper seed spacing for garden planting will be taught to the students.||April|
|Kitchen Plant Growing from foods||Inform student that Many vegetables, such as onions and garlic, will continue to grow if they are cut and placed in water. Just cut the vegetable’s roots off from an inch or so distance. The vegetable will keep growing if the roots are put in a cup of water.||May|
|Plants life cycle||Teach students about plants life cycle.||June|
|Observing insects||Introduce the features of the insects and other animals the kids will find in the garden.||June|
|Soil research||Students will discover the characteristics of soil and why it is important for plants through garden exploration.||July|
|Messages of Love to Nature||Students will send a letter to the plant or animal they are most worried of in the garden.||July|
|Temperature of the dirt||The temperature of the soil will be measured by the students using thermometers, and they will use the results to determine if the soil is warm enough to support plant growth.||July|
|Garden Poetry||By creating poems that have a connection to the garden, students’ creative writing abilities will be developed.||August|
|Seed Beginning||Students will watch how various kinds of seeds grow and learn how to place seedlings in the garden.||August|
Garden-theme Lesson plan for preschoolers :
If you don’t have access to a garden, there are some inventive ways to teach preschoolers about gardening in these gardening lesson plan for preschool. Every activity in these lesson plans can be completed at home, making them suitable for classroom use as well.
Take a Walk: Vegetable gardens aren’t the only type of gardening. Take your preschoolers on a walk around the area and discuss any flower you may find in gardens.
Planting Anything: A true garden doesn’t have to be set up on a large property or in orderly planter boxes. Learn how to grow sunflowers (or any other plant) with preschoolers by reading the articles. Sunflowers are particularly enjoyable because they grow both fast and tall.
Drawing lines: The most enjoyable way to practice writing is by drawing lines in different “writing trays” Make a writing tray for a garden this week by adding some dirt into a baking tray, then use a stick to write names or create shapes with a line. For more, let your preschooler mark where to plant things in the actual garden.
Planting Seeds Notes: Use a set of note cards to write the alphabet. After that, have your preschooler form the letters by covering the lines with dry beans. If you don’t have dry beans on hand, you may replace any little item, such as stones or little erasers, instead of dried beans.
Some of the simplest way to grow up your plants:
One of the simplest plant activities is to grow seed in jar! We loved seeing our seeds move through each stage of development.
Eggshells can also be used to grow seeds. We examined our seeds at various stages of development. Another enjoyable dirt sensory activity.
Kids can easily produce grass from seeds. Create these delightful grass heads in a cup, then when they get too tall, trim them.
As a result of this course, students will be able to identify edible and non-edible plants, as well as how these concepts relate to the garden’s items and features.
A field trip to the garden and the use of charts and discussion questions will help students learn more about edible and non-edible plants and the ecosystem of the garden.
During class, students will work together to design “garden tips” that will help students learn and practice proper gardening techniques. To learn about the world around them, students will employ all of their senses.
Teach your students about the seasons and the beauty of the changing foliage. Daily temperature readings are kept on a leaf spinner, which the students make and decorate.
We might end by saying that gardening is a really positive and useful hobby. Additionally, it fosters a person’s appreciation of nature and connection to the surrounding vegetation. In addition, most people associate their best childhood experiences with the Gardening lesson plan.
I hope article will be helpful at the Gardeing platform.

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The Report, Thursday 2 April 2009, 8pm, BBC Radio 4
“Simon Cox asks what it really means when a Briton commits suicide in Switzerland and probes the myths and reality of the Dignitas organisation. Simon reveals how Swiss right-to-die organisations have extended their services to yet more controversial areas: helping the mentally ill, or those in pain or depressed, to die. He examines the process in detail and asks what safeguards exist.”
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- ItemOpen AccessCluster analysis of disorders characterized by impulsivity in patients with methamphetamine use disorder(2019) Rall, Edrich; Lochner, Christine; Temmingh, HenkBackground Individuals with methamphetamine use disorder (MUD) frequently present with psychiatric comorbidities with impulsive features. Little research has been conducted on comorbidity with impulsive features in MUD. Therefore, this cross-sectional study aimed to delineate comorbid disorders with impulsivity in adult patients with a primary diagnosis of MUD. Methods Participants with lifetime MUD were included. Well established measures screened for comorbid psychiatric disorders with impulsive features. Illness severity was measured by the Yale Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale – adapted for drug use. The UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale was used to assess impulsivity levels. A cluster analysis (CA) of lifetime comorbid disorders with impulsive features was performed. Demographic and clinical correlates of each identified cluster were identified. Results Sixty five (n = 65) adults with a primary diagnosis of MUD took part in the study. They were predominantly female (44 females; 21 males), with ages ranging between 18 and 44 years (mean = 30 years; SD = 6.53). The CA rendered 4 groups. Cases (n=12) in the “alcohol cluster” presented with AUD as their only impulsive disorder other than MUD. Cases (n=19) in the “healthy cluster” had no comorbidity. Cases (n=15) in the “antisocial cluster” all had comorbid antisocial personality disorder as well as polysubstance use disorders. Cases (n=19) in the “borderline cluster” had borderline personality disorder and polysubstance use disorders. Illness severity (Y-BOCS-du: p=0.03) and impulsivity levels (UPPS-P: p=0.01) differed significantly between the clusters. The “alcohol cluster” had the highest illness severity and the “antisocial cluster reported the highest levels of impulsivity. Conclusion The findings of this contribute to the paucity data on impulsivity in MUD and may have implications for treatment. Understanding how these conditions cluster in MUD, and remaining cognizant of the demographic and clinical correlates of each cluster in MUD, could potentially enable clinicians to identify patients who are at higher risk for engaging in risky behaviors rendering them more vulnerable to treatment non-adherence or relapse
- ItemOpen AccessMethamphetamine use and HIV risk among severely mentally ill inpatients(2013) Moodley, Aneshree; Temmingh, HenkSub-Saharan Africa accounts for 69% of the global HIV burden. Due to a variety of social, economic and behavioural factors, mentally ill patients are more likely to engage in high risk sexual behaviours. In turn, co-morbid substance use which is present in up to 75% of mentally ill patients is a leading risk factor for sexual risk behaviours. Worldwide methamphetamines are the most commonly used illicit stimulant. Both injectable and noninjectable methamphetamines have evidenced associations with high risk sexual behaviours. Smoking and inhalation of crystal methamphetamine is the predominant mode of use in South Africa. The use of crystal methamphetamine amongst mentally ill persons in Cape Town has escalated over the last decade. We aimed to determine the occurrence of methamphetamine use and risky sexual practices amongst mentally ill patients. In addition we aimed to explore the associations between methamphetamine use and HIV sexual risk behaviours in a sample of mentally ill inpatients in Cape Town, South Africa.
- ItemOpen AccessPrevalence and correlates of anxiety disorders in psychotic illness(2017) Reid, Kirsten; Milligan, Peter D; Temmingh, HenkBackground: Comorbid anxiety disorders in psychotic illness are reported in the international literature as highly prevalent and have a significant negative impact on patient outcomes. Local literature describing such comorbidity in the South African population is limited and clinically, anxiety symptoms are seldom recognised or treated in patients with psychotic disorders. More data on prevalence rates across psychotic disorder diagnoses, as well as sociodemographic correlates would aid recognition, diagnosis, and treatment, and potentially improve clinical outcomes in this population. Method: We performed a secondary analysis of an existing database which comprised data from participants of three previous studies. The sample was made up of patients from Valkenberg Hospital and healthcare facilities in its catchment area. All patients had a diagnosis of a psychotic disorder. Socio-demographic information was collected using a structured questionnaire. Clinical information and diagnosis was determined using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM (SCID-I). Rates of comorbid anxiety disorders were compared across various sociodemographic categories. Results: The overall prevalence of any anxiety disorder in the entire sample (N=226) was 14.6% (n=33), 95% CI [10.27-19.89%]. The most common anxiety disorder comorbidities were, in descending order, panic disorder (n=12, 5.31%; 95% CI [2.77-9.09%]), PTSD (n=9, 3.98%; 95% CI [1.84-7.42%]), specific phobia (n=7, 3.10%; 95% CI [1.25-6.28%]), anxiety disorder not otherwise specified (n=7, 3.10%; 95% CI [1.25-6.28%]), social phobia (n=4, 1.77%; 95% CI [0.48%-4.47%]), generalised anxiety disorder (n=4, 1.77%; 95% CI [0.48-4.47%]), substance-induced anxiety disorder (n=4, 1.77%; 95% CI [0.48-4.47%]) and obsessive compulsive disorder (n=2, 0.88%; 95% CI [0.11-3.16%]). There was a significant association between diagnosis and the presence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with the schizoaffective disorder group having a higher rate of PTSD (13.3% vs. 3.3% in schizophrenia, 3.2% in substance-induced mood/psychotic disorder and 0% in bipolar I disorder) (Fisher's exact test, p=0.039). In turn, there was a trend level association between diagnosis and the presence of panic disorder (PD), with schizoaffective disorder patients having higher rates of PD (16.6% vs. 4.1% in schizophrenia spectrum, 3.2% in substance-induced mood/psychotic disorder and 2.2% in bipolar I disorder) (Fisher's exact test, p=0.052). A significant association was found between level of education and the presence of PTSD, with higher rates of PTSD in patients with seven or less years of education (8.8%) compared to lower rates in those with 8-12 years of education (5.3%) and > 12years of education (0%) (Fisher's exact test, p=0.020). Conclusion: The overall prevalence of anxiety disorders in psychotic illness was lower than what has been described in previous literature. Prevalence rates of individual anxiety disorders were also lower than previously published literature. Possible reasons for this include use of the SCID which utilises a strict diagnostic hierarchy, that the majority of the sample were in-patients, no use of self-report questionnaires or other anxiety-specific diagnostic instruments, or possible geographical and/or ethnic differences in South African patients. The most frequent comorbid anxiety disorders in our study were panic disorder and PTSD. This is out of keeping with other literature which has mostly found obsessive compulsive disorder and social anxiety disorder to be the most common anxiety comorbidities in psychotic illness. Further research into comorbid anxiety in psychotic disorders is needed, particularly amongst South African populations.
- ItemOpen AccessThe prevalence of and factors associated with antipsychotic polypharmacy in patients with serious mental illness: Findings from a cross-sectional study in a low-middle income country(2017) Armstrong, Kerryn; Temmingh, HenkRationale: Antipsychotic polypharmacy (APP) appears to be a common practice worldwide despite treatment guidelines advising against the practice for most patients in view of lack of evidence and possible risk of harm. Our study aimed to address deficiencies in local and international research by examining the current prevalence of APP in a South African context and investigating a broad range of patient, illness and treatment characteristics that may be associated with the practice. In doing so, we aimed to provide an indication of possible areas to be addressed in order to improve local mental health care practice. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of discharge records using Valkenberg Hospital's electronic patient database. We collected data on patient, illness and treatment characteristics for patients discharged on one or more antipsychotic agent from January to June 2014. Hierarchical multivariable logistic regression analysis was conducted to assess the relationship between APP and demographic and clinical variables and prescription patterns were analysed. Results: Discharge records of 565 patients were examined. The prevalence of APP in our study population was 29.03% (95% CI= 25.31%-32.96%). Analysis of demographic and clinical characteristics revealed that age>29, male sex, diagnosis of schizophrenia compared to bipolar and substance-induced disorders, co-morbid intellectual disability, co-morbid substance use, greater number of hospital admissions and high-dose prescribing were significantly associated with APP. While highest rates of APP in patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders occurred, APP was also observed in a number of patients with bipolar and substance-induced disorders. Prescription patterns demonstrated the prominent use of first-generation antipsychotics and long acting injectables in APP combinations. Patients receiving APP were significantly more likely to have anticholinergic agents and sodium valproate co-prescribed in their treatment regimen. Discussion: The prevalence of APP found in our study is fairly high in comparison with international rates. Antipsychotic prescription patterns reflect a complex interplay among patient, illness and treatment characteristics of our population. Our findings indicate that patients receiving APP may be those with greater illness severity, complexity, chronicity and treatment resistance, with complicating factors including co-morbid substance use involved. While APP is most common in patients with schizophrenia, antipsychotics may also be used in combination to manage mood and psychotic symptoms in patients with schizoaffective, bipolar and substance-induced disorders. The frequent use of long acting injectables in combinations may suggest concern over compliance in our population. The positive associations of APP with high-dose prescribing and co-prescription of anticholinergic medication contributes to concern over the safety of APP. Conclusion Our study suggests concern over current local practice in that combination antipsychotic agents were prescribed for a number of patients with a range of psychiatric diagnoses without sufficient evidence for efficacy of this practice and at possible cost of increased adverse effects. Additional research is needed examining the practice of APP across diagnoses, focusing on the multiple aspects affecting local practice and various contributing factors that could be targeted for intervention. This would be a positive step towards improving the quality of our service and providing optimal patient management in a resource-limited setting.
- ItemOpen AccessSchneiderian first-rank symptoms in schizophrenia and methamphetamine psychosis: a comparative study(2015) Shelly, James Bradly; Temmingh, HenkObjective: To determine the occurrence and associations of Schneiderian first-rank symptoms in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and methamphetamine psychosis using structured clinical interviews for DSM-IV (SCID-I). Method: Data from SCID-I interviews collected on two samples of patients, diagnosed with schizophrenia and with methamphetamine psychosis, as part of two separate research projects, was retrieved from the respective databases and compared. The two groups were compared on the presence of any one first rank symptom, those who had two first-rank symptoms, and those who had more than two first-rank symptoms. We calculated the prevalence of different first-rank symptoms in schizophrenia and methamphetamine psychosis. We further performed a logistic regression and calculated adjusted and unadjusted odds ratios for the association between first-rank symptoms and diagnosis. Results: One hundred and two patients fulfilled inclusion criteria for the study, 33 from the methamphetamine psychosis sample, and 69 from the schizophrenia sample. Prevalence of one, two, and more than two first-rank symptoms in the methamphetamine psychosis and schizophrenia groups was calculated as 69.6% and 69.7%, 21.2% and 20.3 %, and 27.3% and 27.5% respectively. After adjusting for covariates, thought broadcasting occurred significantly more often in patients with schizophrenia compared to those with methamphetamine psychosis (Odds ratio=3.61; 95% CI: 1.26-10.33; p<0.05). In turn, the odds of having auditory hallucinations in the form of voices conversing was significantly lower in patients with schizophrenia compared to those with methamphetamine psychosis (Odds ratio=0.27; 95% CI: 0.1-0.75; p<0.05). We found no significant association between any other first-rank symptoms as measured by the SCID-I and a diagnosis of schizophrenia or methamphetamine psychosis. Conclusion: The symptom of thought broadcasting was significantly more likely to occur in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia than in patients diagnosed with methamphetamine psychosis. Auditory hallucinations of voices heard conversing was significantly less likely to occur in patients with schizophrenia than in those with methamphetamine psychosis. Overall, there was a significant overlap of first-rank symptoms and a diagnosis of either schizophrenia or methamphetamine psychosis, but this study did not show that patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia are more likely to have first-rank symptoms when compared to those with methamphetamine psychosis.
- ItemOpen AccessService users' perceptions of the relationships between cigarette use and recovery from substance use disorders(2022) Chiseya, Lorraine Samba; Myers, Bronwyn; Temmingh, HenkIntroduction Information on the relationship between cigarette use and recovery from substance use disorders (SUDs) is contradictory and limited to studies conducted in high-income countries characterised by a predominance of injection drug use. In South Africa, a low-and-middleincome country where drugs are mainly smoked, there is an absence of research examining the relationship between smoking and SUD treatment outcomes. This study seeks to bridge this gap by exploring service users' perceptions of smoking and how cigarette use affects their recovery from SUDs. Methods This exploratory study employed a qualitative research design. Twenty participants were recruited from six Matrix Outpatient SUD treatment programmes in the greater Cape Town region for in-depth interviews. A semi-structured interview guide structured the interviews. Interviews were audio-recorded before being transcribed verbatim. Qualitative data were analysed using the framework approach. Results Three main findings emerged from the data. First, powerful socio-cultural and contextual factors seem to underpin participants early initiation and maintenance of cigarette use. Participants identified socio-cultural processes that strongly influenced their perceptions of smoking and the social and emotional functions it served, which contributed to continued cigarette use. Second, participants described the intertwining of cigarettes and other substances, with shared modes of administration and mixing of substances - they thought this made it very challenging to maintain recovery from substances while continuing to smoke tobacco. Third, although service users perceive benefits to tobacco cessation for health and recovery from SUDs, most participants using tobacco expressed ambivalence about quitting and seem to lack confidence in their ability to stop smoking and maintain their abstinence from other substances. Conclusion The current study suggests that SUD service users view cigarette use as potentially detrimental to their SUD treatment and recovery. As such, this study provides support, from a service user perspective, for (i) the introduction of interventions to prevent tobacco initiation among young people as part of SUD prevention and (ii) the integration of tobacco cessation interventions into SUD treatment programming to improve the likelihood of successful treatment outcomes for people who smoke tobacco. More specifically, findings highlight the potential value of a client-centred approach in screening service users for tobacco use as they enter SUD treatment, educating them about the potential impacts of continued smoking on SUD recovery, and integrating evidence-based smoking cessation programmes into SUD treatment.
- ItemOpen AccessTextbook of Psychiatry First Edition, Draft 2(Wikibooks, 2014-09-18) Stein, Dan; Maud, Catherine; van der Merwe, Nicolina; Tasman, Allan; Fountoulakis, Konstantinos; Pies, Ronald; Simonsen, Erik; Summergrad, Paul; McDermott, Bruce; Ansari, Arash; Milev, Roumen; Kohn, Robert; Arboleda-Florez, Julio; Osser, David; Temmingh, Henk; Thomas, Stuart; Ojserkis, Rachel; Attia, Evelyn; Allgulander, Christer; Preda, Adrian; Page, Lisa; Spiegel, David; Chopra, Kapil; Jaffa, Tony; Bestha, Durga Prasad; Madeen, Vishal; Wilson, DanielThis multi-authored collaborative textbook on psychiatry, originally created on Wikibooks, discusses a range of psychiatric disorders, including psychotic, mood and and anxiety disorders, amongst many others. It covers other aspects of psychiatric care such as diagnosis, neurobiology, psychopharmacology, treatment methods, and dealing with agitated or violent patients.
- ItemOpen AccessThe occurrence of childhood trauma in patients with severe mental illness with and without co-occurring substance disorders(2022) Hector, Marc; Temmingh, HenkBackground Childhood trauma (CT) has been associated with development of substance use disorders (SUDs) and severe mental illness (SMI) in community cohorts. There is a paucity of data on correlates of CT in dually diagnosed clinical populations in South Africa. We investigated the association among mono-substance use, polysubstance use and CT. Additionally, we explored demographic and clinical correlates of CT. Study aims We investigated associations between CT and SUD in patients with SMI. Setting Participants included patients aged 18–59 years with psychotic disorders attending specialist psychiatric hospital. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted and the structured clinical interview for DSM-IV, (SCID – I) to determine SUD and SMI, and the childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ) to measure CT were administered. Results Of the 74 patients, the mean age was 29 years (SD = 8.6) and 64% were male; 64% had schizophrenia-spectrum diagnoses, 23% had BMD-I and 14% had SIPD. Of the patients, 41% were taking no drugs, 22% were mono-drug users and 38% were poly-drug users. There was no significant difference between substance use groups in terms of age or level of education. However, those with no SUDs were significantly more likely to be female, whereas those with mono- or-poly-substance use were significantly more likely to be male. Patients with poly-SUD were significantly less likely to have been married and significantly more likely to have had a diagnosis of SIPD. There were no significant differences in CTQ scores by SUD groups. In this sample of patients with SMI, we found no significant association between CT and SUDs. Conclusion More research is needed into the effects CT has on dual diagnoses to inform treatment approaches to explore traumatic experiences.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Validity of the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test in Patients with Psychotic Disorders(2022) Adlard, Rosalind; Temmingh, Henk; Roos, TessaBackground Given the high prevalence of substance use disorders among patients with persistent mental illnesses, with resultant negative health consequences, a brief and easily administered screening test is needed in this population to identify those at risk in order to intervene appropriately. The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) was developed by the World Health Organisation as a screening instrument. It has been validated in a variety of settings, including in primary care and treatment settings and in first episode psychosis. Aim To determine the validity and reliability of the ASSIST in detecting substance use disorders in patients with multi-episode psychotic disorders. Setting Western Cape, South Africa. Methods The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders was used as the gold standard for detecting DSM-IV substance abuse and dependence. Cronbach's alpha was used to determine the internal consistency of the ASSIST, and receiver operating characteristic analysis was used to evaluate its screening properties. Optimal cut off scores were calculated to maximize sensitivity and specificity. Results A total substance involvement lifetime score of 13 was found to have both sensitivity and specificity of just over 74%. A specific substance involvement score of 4 for alcohol and 3 for cannabis, methamphetamine and ‘other drugs' was found to have optimal balance between sensitivity and specificity. Conclusion The ASSIST is a psychometrically valid screening test for substance use disorders in general, as well as for alcohol, cannabis and methamphetamine use disorders, in patients with multi-episode psychotic disorders.

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Isuzu introduces the D-MAX 3.0 TD Double Cab X-Rider Auto
The Isuzu D-Max X-Rider has already established itself as a very popular model among bakkie lovers. So, it comes as a surprise that Isuzu has decided to take things up a notch by introducing the special edition D-MAX 3.0 TD Double CAB X-Rider Automatic.
The X-Rider nameplate was first introduced in South Africa in 2016 as a limited-edition model. In fact, until now the X-rider was only available with a 100KW 2.5-litre turbodiesel engine. This however will be changing as Isuzu introduces a 130KW 3.0-liter turbodiesel engine to the X-Rider nameplate, making many bakkie enthusiasts excited.
The D-Max 3.0 X-Rider comes with a 4-cylinder 130KW 3.0-litre turbodiesel engine that is matched with a 6-speed automatic gearbox. Its max power output reaching at a low 3 600 rpm, with a max torque of 380 Nm between 1800 and 2800 rpm.
The D-Max 3.0 X-Rider Automatic comes with black roof rails, a black sports bar with the Red X-Rider logo, black running boards, an eight-inch AX2 Radio with a multifunction color touchscreen, black tailgate handle with a rearview camera, and a 3.5-ton tow bar. Isuzu is also offering the 3.0 TD X-Rider in three colors, all with names that sound like it was taken out a comic book, theses colors are Summit White, Switchblade Silver, and Pull Me Over Red.
If you wondering what the D-Max X-Rider is riding on, it comes with its standard 18-inch diamond-cut alloy wheels on all-terrain tyres. Customers will also have options to the 18icnch all-black alloy wheels at free of cost.
3.0 TD Double Cab X-Rider Automatic – R551 100
2.5 TD Double Cab X-Rider Automatic – R484 200
2.5 TD Double Cab X-Rider 4x4 – R519 200
2.5 TD Double Cab X-Rider Manual – R466 500


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At Amnesty International, we have focused our work on national gun reform and preventing gun violence by campaigning for regulations on the use and possession of firearms. State laws also vary regarding the carrying of concealed weapons by people who have obtained a license from another state. Stricter state laws restrict the carrying of concealed weapons to people who have obtained a permit from that state. Other states restrict transportation to people with permits from states that have similar requirements for their permits. States with weaker laws allow transportation by persons licensed by any state that recognizes that state’s license, or by persons licensed by any state.
Participants praised the importance of early prevention at the family level and suggested that parents should be helped to access the social services needed to strengthen protective factors, build resilience, help their children regulate their emotions, develop coping skills and provide physical and psychological safety. Whether or not your state requires hidden carrying training, all firearm owners must learn how to carry weapons legally, safely and responsibly. That is why Amnesty International calls on states to comply with their obligations to implement and implement strict laws and regulations to prevent gun violence. States also have a duty to adopt measures that they can use to intervene at the community level to reduce and prevent armed violence in people’s daily lives.
Failure by a State to exercise sufficient control over the possession and use of firearms in the face of sustained armed force may amount to a violation of its obligations under international human rights law. Restrictions are imposed on places where the carrying of concealed weapons is permitted, prohibiting the carrying of concealed weapons in sensitive areas such as schools, courts, hospitals, mental health institutions and public sporting events. Guns carried in public pose a danger to public safety, and lax hidden carrying laws increase the risk of violent clashes. We will not rest until every state has strong gun safety laws and every community is free from the fear of gun violence.
Gun violence should be viewed as a public health problem, not a political problem, an epidemic that needs to be addressed with evidence-based research and strategies that can reduce morbidity and mortality. These doctors, who witness the significant impact that gun-related violence has on the health of their patients, families and communities, have the power to help improve the safety and well-being of those groups. Although 24 states do not require a person to obtain a license to carry concealed weapons in public, a person may choose to obtain a permit for certain other purposes, including carrying concealed weapons across state lines. States must require a person to complete safety training before purchasing a gun or carrying a gun in public.
While the lack of research makes it difficult to develop evidence-based strategies to prevent mass shootings, even small changes, such as banning modification devices, such as crash stocks and high-capacity chargers, can reduce the number of injuries and deaths. In the wake of the deadly shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, 2018, there is an understandable focus on school safety. We strongly support the broad commitment of community members, including youth and other survivors of gun violence, policymakers and others, to insist that schools are safe. We must also insist on that same level of safety for our places of worship, shopping malls, cinemas, concert halls, nightclubs, workplaces, neighbourhoods and homes. Part of our healing must be the belief that we will do everything in our power to prevent these tragedies in a country that is still facing a pandemic of gun violence.
As a parent, you may not realize what a serious risk a gun at home is, especially for children. And the reality is that having firearms in the home increases the risk of unintentional shootings, suicide and murder. In addition, 26 states and the District of Columbia require applicants for concealed carrying permits to prove that they have received some form of firearms training, either in a formal course or through another environment, such as through gun safety training military service. See our analysis of hidden carrying laws for more information on the variation in the state’s implementation of hidden carrying laws. Firearm training may include topics such as the operation of firearms and how to handle the weapon safely. It can include the science and dynamics of a firearm, safety procedures for cleaning and maintenance, laws and regulations, and best practices for keeping guns away from children and others.
Parents tend to be more receptive when discussing firearms in the same way as poisons and household medications, as dangers that should be kept away from children. Kimberly J. Lombard, injury prevention coordinator at the trauma center on campus at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., agrees that gun safety can be an uncomfortable topic for doctors, but that many parents may appreciate it if handled appropriately. In addition, first responders are exceptionally qualified to have such conversations, and their words are likely to carry more weight, as they actually see and treat gun injuries. The most important thing, Lombard says, is to have the conversation before something happens, not after it. Gun homicide was the leading cause of death among black men and boys in 2017, and they were more than 10 times more likely to die from gun homicide than white men and boys in the same age group. Failure to address systemic discrimination; not to keep firearms out of the hands of those most likely to misuse them; and the lack of investment in gun violence prevention programmes is contributing to this crisis.Tags: safety, weapons

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Out of consideration for my patients, I commit to assure them a total discretion of their private life and not show any before/after aesthetic treatment picture.
Dr Nelly Gauthier is an aesthetic doctor in Paris specialised in non-surgical rejuvenation through Botox and Hyaluronic Acid injections.
My Facebook page could bother some people and some of my colleagues. I must therefore explain my reasons for creating this page.
All of this “misinformation” leads to errors, which are sometimes dramatic...
I love my profession, however, too often, respect is not given to the identity of my patients and, for me, it is crucial that it is respected because the social consequences are serious.
So, I said to myself that I needed to use images to explain how we age, what can be done through medical-surgical aesthetics and, above all, what cannot be done.
MY GOAL IS TO INFORM.
We all need to be able to identify with people, and that’s the main function of celebrities. And, we also need to clearly identify what we don’t want to happen to us... and it’s through the physical evolution of celebrities that we can understand this.
I think that the images I regularly publish show the dangers and also the possibilities for improvement available, whether through pure aesthetic surgery, pure aesthetic medicine or a combination of the two.
It is a lot of work for me to show all of these angles but, as no one else was doing it, I decided to :-)
Dr Nelly Gauthier


text: When an individual is convicted of a felony, he or she loses his right to lawfully possess firearms. If an individual is convicted of a felony drug offense or other felony, he is barred by federal law from possessing guns. The recent Supreme Court case Henderson v. United States involved the question of whether or not convicted felons are allowed to dictate where their firearms go after their conviction. Can a felon sell his or her previously seized firearms, or does the felon's gift or sale of those firearms constitute the possession that is prohibited by federal law? The Court ruled that a convicted felon can tell federal agencies to transfer his guns to third parties unless this transfer would allow the felon to later control or direct the use of those firearms.


Importance of Electronic Media to The Democratic Development of Ghana.
The branches of government in a democracy are as follows: the Executive branch, the Legislative branch and the Judiciary. Even though the electronic media is not a direct institutional branch it forms part and parcel of any successful political set up that can be described as a good democracy. The media is the interface or the intermediary between the three main branches of the democratic system and the people or rather citizens that these branches are expected to serve. Thereby, a complex system of checks and balances and transparency is established creating an environment of government accountability to the citizens of the state. In the absence of the media therefore, democracies will not empower citizens the way they are expected to.
Over the years however, the media has taken several shapes and forms. Since Johannes Gutenberg’s 15th Century discovery of the printing machine, mankind has found new and innovative ways to disseminate information. From the talking drums of our ancestors to the World Wide Web which makes internet communication possible, the methods of spreading information have improved substantially making the electronic media a more vital feature in democracies. It is the belief of several political pundits that, the success of the National Patriotic Party in the 2000 Presidential elections was heavily influenced by the free media in Ghana.
Will the media however always play a positive role in Ghana’s democracy? How can the media which, is expected to be an instrument of freedom corrupt the country’s democratic system? It must be noted that, the positive role of a free electronic media in a vibrant and dynamic democracy such as what is currently being practised in Ghana can be abused. So instead of the media playing a positive role in the organization of general elections for instance it could even destabilize the social as well as political harmony prevailing in the country at the moment. This usually happens, when politicians are able to infiltrate the ranks of media practitioners in the country. So political reportage can become propaganda machinery designed to endorse government policy and advance the agenda of political parties. The media’s role can also be undermined by the commercialization of news agencies in Ghana whereby reporters seek or endeavour to sensationalise stories and events for popularity and ratings.
The war in Iraq spearheaded by the Bush administration enjoyed public support in America but it is believed that the majority of the supporters of the war which was described as illegal by the then Secretary-General of the United Nations Mr Kofi Annan, were convinced that Iraq and its former leader the late Saddam Hussein were involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York city and Washington DC. The war at one point was termed as a “Rush Limbaugh/Fox News War — based on the premise that in our current media environment if you tell a lie forcefully and frequently enough, the lie will triumph”. The Fox news network was therefore used as an outlet for misinformation and misdirection thereby securing support for an illegitimate war that threatened international peace and stability and cost billions of dollars that contributed to a decline in the US economy. A free media can therefore be an instrument of deception if not utilised properly.
It is also widely believed that radio stations were used to incite the very tragic genocide of Rwanda in 1994. Radio presenters and journalists analyzed normal political and social events in a tribal context creating the impression that social chaos was imminent unless certain members of the society were eliminated. The outcome was the massacre of nearly one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Most of the killings were carried out by civilian Hutus against their Tutsi neighbours and has been described as one of the worst tragedies in the history of mankind.
These are a few examples of how the wrong use of a liberalized electronic media system can ultimately destroy or defeat the essence of democracies and engineer a national atmosphere of deceit, hostility and mayhem.
A free media must therefore have its limits, if it is going to be constructive in Ghana. Even though, the criminal libel law has been repealed the ambience of free expression that has been created must not be exploited to print false articles and publications about politicians and public figures.
In 1973 two prominent American journalists namely, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein exposed a political scandal that came to be known as the Watergate scandal. They successfully exposed campaign malpractices in the Presidential campaign of Richard Nixon resulting in the resignation of the former American President after he had been successfully inaugurated. The actions of the two journalists significantly changed the political landscape of America and has garnered exemplary behaviour from Presidential aspirants in the US ever since. The landmark case of Watergate therefore, marked a triumph in American political history and showcased the very important role that the media generally plays in democracies.
Prospective journalists training at schools of journalism in Ghana must familiarise themselves with cases such as the Watergate scandal so that they can be conversant with the merits or relevance of political neutralism to a free national media. Outfits such as the National Media Commission (NMC) must ensure that there is integrity among Ghanaian journalists and regulate their activities in such a way that political reportage in the country will be fair, accurate and balanced.
The electronic media therefore has a very important role to play in Ghana’s democracy. If properly practised and executed, the liberalised press can guarantee the freedoms of Ghanaians by ensuring that politicians or elected officials account to the people of Ghana. If the tenets of good governance such as transparency and the implementation of good Human Rights policy are going to be realised the electronic media must be perceived as the fourth and arguably the most important branch of government.


The Halo community was given a boost last weekend with the Singapore E-Sports League’s Halo Reach 2v2 team tournament.
Jason ‘EveYekke’ Chan will be representing Singapore at the International e-Sports Federation StarCraft II World Championship in South Korea this October.
Gaming peripherals brand Armaggeddon’s inaugural CounterStrike: Global Offensive competition concluded yesterday with Team Bovines taking first place.
Team Eehan is one of the newer teams that have recently popped up on the local StarCraft II radar. While they haven’t won any offline tournaments yet, they certainly have been making a name for themselves online.
A trailer has been released from Valve’s upcoming DotA 2 documentary, which details the struggles of professional DotA players, notably Benedict ‘hyhy’ Lim from Singapore.
The Singapore E-Sports League (SEL) kicks off on Sept 1 & 2 at the Singapore Toy, Game, and Comic Convention (STGCC).
Ryan ‘Flash.Kyzer’ Low makes up one-third of Flash eSports’s newly acquired trinity of StarCraft II players. Quiet, not naturally disposed to speaking, Flash.Kyzer would be hard to pick out from a crowd if not for his talent in the game.