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Since writing his earliest stories, Vonnegut has been called a science fiction writer, a term, he says, that for many people is another word for a bathroom receptacle. Although there are elements of science fiction in his stories, he is more clearly a fantasist—one who creates a believable but purely imaginary world such as one finds in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). He frequently resorts to dystopias (negative views of the future) to comment on modern society.
His style here is straightforward and matter-of-fact, as if he were sharing a story with his fishing buddies. Vonnegut does not interfere with the narration of this story to wink at the reader, implying that it is all a joke. Here, as in other stories and novels, Vonnegut appears to be a serious writer who uses the trappings of a futuristic science fiction world to entertain readers while he “poisons our minds with humanity.”
The story’s narrator never passes judgment on the words or deeds of the characters. Instead, his description of those actions becomes increasingly unbelievable. For example, as Harrison Bergeron and his dance partner dance and leap into the air, they finally manage to kiss the ceiling. Thus Vonnegut shows that Harrison represents someone so alien to his society that he can even defy the laws of gravity by seeming to float as easily as he was able to toss aside his shackles and handicaps.
Vonnegut’s outstanding stylistic trait is his use of black humor—humor that relies on the use of darker, more pessimistic, even depressing views of the absurdities of life. In a century when science and technology have been used to harm rather than help humankind, Vonnegut’s bitter antimachine, antitechnology images clearly reinforce the themes of the story. Instead of improving machines to make life easier, Harrison’s society—and thus ours—relies on outdated, nineteenth century tools to encumber the superior members of his culture to prevent either growth or experimentation. This is Vonnegut’s effort to make readers rethink their comfortable complacency and imagine instead what life would be like in such a world. The irony is that humans already inhabit such a world.
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Setting the story 120 years in the future allows readers to more easily accept some of the more absurd events in ‘‘Harrison Bergeron.’’ The actual physical location of the story does not matter and, therefore, is unknown. One glaring anachronism—a concept or an object not known or invented at the time of the story; or an object that belongs to a previous era—should be noted: the use of a shotgun. Readers might expect that some exotic form of weaponry would have been developed and used that far into the future. Similarly, the idea that 213 Amendments to the Constitution would have been ratified predicts a radical change in American legislation. At the time the story was written, only twenty-four amendments had been passed by the Congress and ratified by the states, the first ten of which (known as the Bill of Rights) became law in 1791. In the 170 years between 1791 and the time the story was written, only fourteen additional amendments had been ratified. Ironically, the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments of the story restrict the civil rights of most people, as opposed to the amendments over the first two hundred years of the nation.
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what George Bergeron is thinking, as when he "was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped.'' The events in "Harrison Bergeron'' are related by an objective narrator. The narrator does not draw conclusions, make decisions, or make judgments about the events. The objectivity of the narrator suggests a distancing from the hostile world of the story.
Satire and Black Humor
The story uses satire and a kind of humor known as black humor. The humor mostly involves George and Hazel, although the appearance of Harrison (red rubber nose, artificially snaggle-toothed, three hundred pounds of handicaps) can be seen as comical. George and Hazel's dialogue at the end of the story alludes to comics George Burns and Gracie Allen, who had a popular television show in the late 1950s and early 1960s. At the end of each show, George and Gracie performed a stand-up routine related to that night's episode. Often, George would say to Gracie, ‘‘You can say that again,’’ and she would reply the same way Hazel replies to George Bergeron: She would literally repeat what she had just said. Gracie Allen's comic persona mirrors Hazel's persona; both seem somewhat scatterbrained. The humorous dialogue between Hazel and George Bergeron could be considered black humor, which has proved difficult to define. Related to both sick humor (making fun of, say, a person's disability) and gallows humor (people laughing in the midst of helplessness), as well as the absurd (so far-fetched as to be nearly implausible), black humor can incorporate all of these characteristics. It can be defined as the juxtaposition of pain and laughter, unusual fact and calmly inadequate reactions, and cruelty and tenderness. The ending dialogue between Hazel and George juxtaposes all three of those pairs, as Hazel and George have just witnessed the killing of their son. Satire, ridiculing a person, place, or idea with the notion of effecting change, always involves morality. Here, Vonnegut satirizes the notion of handicapping people to enforce equality, the failure of rebellion, the apathy engendered in people who watch television, and authoritarian government. As Conrad Festa claims in Vonnegut in America,
Stories such as ‘‘Harrison Bergeron’’ ... fit easily and recognizably into the satiric genre. That is, they (1) sustain a reductive attack on their objects, (2) convey to their intended readers significances at odds with the literal or surface meanings, and (3) are pervaded and dominated by various satiric techniques.
Vonnegut uses several allusions—references to people, historical events, and other literature outside the text—in ‘‘Harrison Bergeron.’’ The month of April, which ‘‘still drove people crazy by not being springtime,’’ is doubly allusive, initially referring to the first line of T. S. Eliot's 1922 poem, "The Waste Land": "April is the cruelest month....’’ The second allusion derived from April stems from the first: the title of the poem also serves in part as the title of a 1961 speech by then Federal Communications Commission Chair Newton Minow, referring to television as "a vast wasteland.'' The abbreviation of the Handicapper-General agents, "H-G men,’’ ironically alludes to the abbreviation ‘‘G-men’’ (for government agents; i.e., Secret Service agents, FBI agents). Generally, these government agents were held in high esteem, unlike the H-G men, until the 1960s and 1970s, when their activities came into legal and ethical question. The allusion of Diana Moon, the Handicapper General's first and middle names, refers to the Roman goddess of the hunt, Diana, who is associated with the moon. Diana was known for her vengeance, which could explain the ruthless killing of Harrison Bergeron in the story. Thor, identified in the story as the god of thunder, was, in Norse mythology, the oldest and most powerful son of Odin, king of the gods. He possessed great strength and skill in fighting. This allusion serves to underscore Harrison's strength without his handicaps. There is an indirect reference to cartoonist Rube Goldberg, which highlights the absurdity of the handicapping technology, especially for such a futuristic story. Rube Goldberg's cartoons generally depicted elaborate schemes to accomplish the simplest tasks. For instance, instead of an alarm clock, Goldberg might construct a chain of events from the sun reflecting light onto a bird, which might then peck at a string, which would then release a bowling ball that would trip a lever, opening a door to a rooster cage, allowing the rooster to emerge and signal an alarm with his crowing. The more complex these mechanisms are, the funnier. Thus, the various handicaps described in the story seem much like Rube Goldberg cartoons, and seem humorous to readers who recognize the allusion. The final allusion is to the comedy team of George Burns and Gracie Allen, and to their television show. The dialogue at the end of the story reflects similar dialogues at the end of the "Burns and Allen’’ television show. Gracie, who played a scatterbrain, would indeed repeat lines when George used the phrase, ‘‘You can say that again,’’ just as Hazel Bergeron does in the story. Television's role in the story is to numb, desensitize, or otherwise occupy the time of citizens, and to prevent sustained thought on the part of those of normal intelligence.
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"I always had trouble ending short stories in ways that would satisfy a general public," Vonnegut notes in Timequake. "In real life . . . people don't change, don't learn anything from their mistakes, and don't apologize. In a short story they have to do at least two out of three of those things, or you might as well throw it away." Vonnegut admits he could handle that much. "But after I had a character change and/or learn something and/or apologize, that left the cast standing around with their thumbs up their asses. That is no way to tell a reader the show is over." In his salad days (youthful indiscretions—heyday), Vonnegut sought the advice of his then literary agent as to how to end stories without killing all the characters, and was told that nothing could be simpler. "The hero mounts his horse and rides off into the sunset." This story, "Harrison Bergeron", is clearly one of the ones where the author was willing to kill off a few characters.
Any cursory study of Vonnegut's fiction will reveal that the author starts and stops his stories in media res, that is, in the middle of things, with little or no attention paid to such literary devices as introductions, denouements, character development, or foreshadowing. This story is no exception. Vonnegut does not show the readers his characters and let the audience learn what they do in their world. Instead, he flat-out tells readers everything up front, in words of one and two syllables whenever possible.
"From the beginning of his professional writing career, Vonnegut demonstrated a strong inclination to write satire," says critic Conrad Festa in Vonnegut in America. "Stories such as 'Harrison Bergeron' [and others] fit easily and recognizably into the satiric genre.... Furthermore, the satiric objects in those works are easily identifiable and familiar, and their satiric significances are obvious. Judged solely on his early fiction, Vonnegut emerges as a somewhat traditional satirist," Festa concludes. "Were he to have continued writing in that way, we all would have joined hands long ago to slam down the lid on his box." While it is difficult to call Vonnegut's later writing more sophisticated, his later use of satire is certainly even less traditional than in this story.
When this story first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, it was Vonnegut's third publication in a science fiction magazine following the drying up of the once-lucrative weekly family magazine market where he had published more than twenty stories between 1950 and 1961. The story received no critical attention, however, until 1968 when it appeared in Vonnegut's collection Welcome to the Monkey House. Initial reviews of the collection were less than favorable, with even the more positive reviewers commenting negatively on the commercial quality of many of the stories.
By the late 1980s, however, "Harrison Bergeron" was being reprinted in high school and college literature anthologies. "Popular aspects of the story include Vonnegut's satire of both enforced equality and the power of the Handicapper General, and the enervating effect television can have on viewers," says Joseph Alvarez. According to him, this futuristic story deals with "universal themes of equality, freedom, power and its abuses, and media influence," and "continues to evoke thoughtful responses about equality and individual freedom in the United States." He also suggests that "Harrison Bergeron" likely draws upon a controversial 1961 speech by then Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton Minow titled "The Vast Wasteland," a reference to a supposed dearth of quality in television programming.
Vonnegut rarely wrote short stories after the 1960s, preferring to write novels which brought him more income. "I still think up short stories from time to time, as though there were money in it. The habit dies hard," Vonnegut commented in Timequake. "All I do with short story ideas now is rough them out, credit them to Kilgore Trout, and put them in a novel."
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The story is set in the year 2081, in a middle-America very understandable by contemporary readers of October 1961, when the story was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, or 1968, when it appeared in the collection Welcome to the Monkey House. In this story there are television shows with stars much like George Burns and Gracie Allen, there is striving for social equality, and there is sufficient leisure time for ordinary working folk to watch television from the comfort of their own homes. But the television shows are populated by dancers and musicians and announcers aggressively equalized by handicaps such as heavy weights, ugly masks, and noise-making hearing aids, as is one of the two viewpoint characters, George.
The frightening extent to which the Handicapper General goes to maintain this crippling version of "equality" makes the story seem at first to be set in a fantasy world, or an alternate reality. But if one is aware that the author is an international traveler who has spent time in American public schools and universities, in the army, and in a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany, and has conversed with Nazis, Biafrans, Communists, and his Cape Cod neighbor, all on their own home turf, the Handicapper General's final solution is possibly the least unrealistic element in the story.
Far more unreal is the way Harrison's parents immediately forget why they are sad, and the sound of a riveting gun in George's ear-radio leads them into a verbal exchange echoing comic lines popularized by comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen, from the closing dialogue of their television show. The simultaneous familiarity and inappropriateness of the dialogue make this story an unsettling experience for the reader.


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Denver, Colorado — The United Methodist Global AIDS Fund (UMGAF) Committee announced they will initiate a one-year focus on preventing transmission of HIV/AIDS from mothers to babies during pregnancy, labor, delivery or breastfeeding as part of their new Just Save One initiative. Just Save One emphasizes how even a small gift can make a big difference to one person living with HIV or AIDS.
According to the World Health Organization, mother to child transmission rates range from 15-45 percent in the absence of any interventions. This rate can be reduced to levels below five percent with effective interventions. Offering pregnant women testing and treatment is an important step towards reducing the incidence of HIV/AIDS by preventing transmission to their babies-at a very low cost.
"Every child has the right to be born free of HIV and AIDS," said Dr. Donald Messer, co-chair of the United Methodist Global AIDS Fund Committee. "United Methodists have an opportunity to be at the forefront of efforts to eliminate mother to child transmission of HIV by 2015. Babies in the United States are rarely born with AIDS. We can help stop the transmission globally."
UNICEF reports that 1,000 babies are born each day with HIV. For World AIDS Day, on December 1, UMGAF has produced an Advent study on HIV/AIDS, as well as resources that bring attention to the issue. The resources are available at umglobalaidsfund.com.
Recently, UMGAF funded a project in Uganda providing education to mothers about HIV and the transmission of AIDS to newborns. The "Sustainable Action for the Rural Sector" (SARS) is a Shalom initiative focusing on community education, testing and counseling. Babies born with HIV comprise 22 percent of all persons infected with HIV in this East African nation. SARS is a registered national local NGO focusing on rural health, education and sustainable livelihoods, focused on women, youth and children in the most vulnerable rural communities.
Meeting in Denver, Colorado earlier this month, the UMGAF Committee also decided to follow a series of successful "Lighten the Burden" conferences with an expanded conference on September 11-13, 2014. Countdown to Zero: Just Save One will include four separate tracks: fundraising training, Native Americans and HIV, Latina women and HIV and general education/advocacy. The conference will take place at the Renaissance Denver Hotel in Denver, Colorado. More information will be available in the coming months.
Additionally, the Committee passed a motion to encourage annual conferences to honor their financial commitments to Imagine No Malaria, which has raised $53 million in donations and pledges to date.
To Just Save One, drop a check in the offering plate. Make it payable to your local church with UMCOR Advance #982345 in the memo line, or send it to P.O. Box 9068, New York, NY 10087. Additionally, consider maximizing your gift by donating to UMGAF on December 3 as part of the national movement #GivingTuesday. On this day, online donations made through The Advance at umcmission.org/give will be matched up to $500,000.

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Today, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in King v. Burwell, affirming the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its provision of tax credits to 6.4 million individuals nationwide to purchase affordable health insurance. The opinion can be found here.
“The Supreme Court was right to recognize that health reform provides tax credits for consumers in all states. In Montana, over 41,000 individuals have gained access to affordable health care insurance through the exchange, and they can now breathe a sigh of relief that their access to affordable coverage will remain intact,” said Heather O’Loughlin, co-director of the Montana Budget and Policy Center.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the majority opinion in the 6-to-3 decision, joined by Justices Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito dissented.
The Court recognized that the various components of the ACA are “closely intertwined,” noting that the coverage requirements of the law “would not work without the tax credits,” to ensure affordable access to coverage.
Quotes from the opinion of Chief Justice Roberts:
“Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not destroy them.”
“The tax credits are among the Act’s key reforms, involving billions of dollars in spending each year and affecting the price of health insurance for millions of people. Whether those credits are available on Federal Exchanges is thus a question of deep ‘economic and political significance’ that is central to this statutory scheme…”
“The combination of no tax credits and an ineffective coverage requirement could well push a State’s individual insurance market into a death spiral.”
“Now we need to turn our attention back to finishing the Medicaid expansion process in Montana,” said O’Loughlin. “We still have 70,000 Montanans waiting for affordable health insurance.”
The Montana Budget and Policy Center (MBPC) is a nonprofit organization providing in-depth research and analysis on budget, tax, and economic issues. Our core focus is publishing credible, timely, and easy-to-understand reports on the fiscal policies that most impact low and moderate income Montanans. Our research and analysis then informs public policy, the media and the broader public. To learn more about MBPC, visit our website www.mbadmin.jaunt.cloud.
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Jean Paul Gaultier's Muse and Model for Womenswear is a Man
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Jean Paul Gaultier's muse for his women couture show was a lanky supermodel with high cheekbones and full lips. If you saw it with your own eyes, you still wouldn't have been able to tell it was really a man.
Gaultier's muse is an androgynous 'femiman', 19-year old Serbian-born Andrej Pejic who lives in Australia. Pejic was discovered by Matthew Anderson of Chadwick Models in Melbourne. Anderson told the Sydney Morning Herald that Pejic's beauty is extraordinary and that he is intelligent and comfortable in his own skin.
And Andrej, who also stars in Gaultier's campaign where he shares a kiss with supermodel Karolina Kurkova, certainly enjoys playing dress up. He told WWD: 'I may as well push it to the limits. 'I wouldn't dress this way if I didn't have fun with it.' It is clear androgyny chic is having a fashion moment.
We are living on the planet earth where human beings face and enjoy the color of every season. As everyone has their own perception regarding their favorite weather, most of the people like spring and winter season. Summer season is the hottest in temperature, and people call it dry weather. Most of the areas in the world face issues like heat stroke, sun burns, sun tan, prickly heat which allows the skin to face dirt and impurities and summer acne, etc. Read more
A wedding should be one of the most exciting days of any life, and as with any exciting day, the pressure is on! The line between perfection and disaster is thin; it only takes one aspect of the event to go wrong, and it could throw everything into disarray. Make sure that your wedding is one to remember for the right reasons by following these simple tips. Read more
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Over half of consumers in the UK (53 percent) are worried that the shift to biometrics to authenticate online payments will dramatically increase the amount of identity fraud, according to new research conducted by Paysafe, a leading global payments provider. The research, found that over three quarters (79 percent) of consumers still favour passwords for making payments online due to concerns about the security of new biometric options. The annual study tracks changing views on … More
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Flipboard warns that hackers gained access to its systems and accessed hashed passwords for nine months.
Google has discovered that it has been storing some G Suite users’ passwords in clear text and is notifying G Suite administrators that it will force a password change if the affected passwords haven’t been changed in the meantime. What happened? Google discovered two separate issues, both of which affect only business users. The first arose in 2005, due to a legacy function that enabled G Suite Domain Admins to view user passwords: The second … More
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There has been a major decline in ransomware and malware attacks, with Ireland having some of the lowest rates globally, according to the latest report released by Microsoft. This is a significant change from 2017, following a prolific series of attacks that targeted supply chains globally. Initial predictions were that these would increase, however, improvements in cybersecurity measures and detection have impacted on the success rates of these attacks. In fact, there has been a … More
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Networks need regular cleaning just like your home, car or garage. Why? The answer is simple – poor security hygiene can lead to major data breaches. If you don’t regularly review your network, potential weaknesses and vulnerabilities will stack up. As we enter into spring cleaning season, now is as good a time as any for IT administrators and security professionals to catch up on yearly security maintenance. Here are several tasks that should be … More
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Online passwords are sensitive data. When they end up in the wrong hands, your private information is at risk. Since cybercriminals are always searching out new ways to break into those online accounts, you need to watch over the passwords to your accounts as if they were your children.
Since we typically access our accounts on a daily basis, using browsers and online apps for our banking and shopping, we need to periodically take some time to manage them, to ensure the security and strength of our passwords.
Here’s few tips to help you do that:
To further strengthen your online accounts, you should also use a password manager. Trend Micro Password Manager helps you manage all your online passwords and makes it easier to change them easily on a regular basis. It delivers your passwords across all your devices—whether they’re PCs, Macs, Android, or iOS devices—generates ultra-secure passwords, and safeguards them with AES 256-bit encryption, to protect them from hackers and crackers.
Used in conjunction with Trend Micro Pay Guard, which is enabled with every installation of Trend Micro Security (which also bundles Trend Micro Password Manager with every subscription of Trend Micro Maximum Security), you’ll be doing your part to protect yourself from the theft of your passwords, particularly on financial and banking websites.
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Over the years, our lives have become more and more digital. Think about it: 20 years ago, no one was using banking apps and social media had just barely begun coming to fruition. Now, many of us are reliant on mobile banking to pay our bills and we check our favorite social media platforms multiple times a day. Our lives exist almost entirely online with our sensitive personal data shielded by password protection — from our financials to our official documentation, personal photos and more. With so much of our personal data relying on the strength of our online passwords, it’s vital that users stay up-to-date on the latest password security practices. As we take the time to recognize World Password Day, it’s important to think about why passwords matter and how you’re safeguarding your personal information online.
Think about all of the online data you have that is password protected: your email, your social media accounts, your online banking profile, your movie and TV streaming service, the list goes on and on. If you aren’t following best practices for password security and just one of your passwords is exposed or breached, this could potentially lead to cybersecurity turmoil. For example, an Android app that helped users find and connect to free Wi-Fi hotspots recently left its database of more than 2 million network passwords exposed. While the app claimed to only share public hotspots, many were found to be home wireless networks thanks to the precise GPS location data that was also stored in the database. Now imagine that one of the victims of this password exposure utilized the same credentials for their online banking profile. If their password ended up in the wrong hands, a cybercriminal could potentially access the user’s financial data, leading to fraudulent charges or even identity theft. As you can see, creating a strong and unique password could mean the difference between keeping your online data safe and being at risk of a cyberattack.
Many people just go through the motions when creating passwords instead of taking the time to consider what exactly their credentials are protecting. World Password Day is the perfect opportunity to be diligent about revamping passwords. Check out the following tips to take your password security to the next level:
- See if your passwords have been exposed. Go to a site such as HaveiBeenPwned to see if your password(s) have been compromised in a breach. Change them if you find that your credentials may have been jeopardized.
- Layer up your passwords. Passwords should always contain a variety of capital and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. Today, many systems enforce password requirements during the account set-up process to ensure password strength.
- Choose unique passwords across all of your accounts. Many consumers utilize the same password, or variations of it, across all of their accounts. This means if a hacker discovers just one password, all personal data is suddenly at risk. Therefore, it is crucial to diversify your passcodes to ensure hackers cannot obtain access to all of your accounts at once, should one password be compromised.
- Use a password manager. Since it can be difficult to remember multiple complex passwords, use a password manager to keep track. With password managers, you’ll only need to remember one master password, in order to access the rest. Many password managers can also generate strong passwords to utilize when creating new logins.
- Enable two or multi-factor authentication. Two or multi-factor authentication provides an extra layer of security, as it requires multiple forms of verification. This reduces the risk of successful impersonation by hackers.
The post Protect Your Digital Life: Why Strong Passwords Matter appeared first on McAfee Blogs.
Passwords may not be the favourite piece of your workday, however, I have a theory – if I could share with you the value of a password and the reality of how simple they can be to create; then passwords may not be the monster you avoid. When you get the “your password expires in […]… Read More


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Honoring diverse teaching styles
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In this era of increasing teacher accountability, helping novice and veteran teachers succeed in the classroom has never been more urgent or more challenging. Honoring Diverse Teaching Styles is essential reading for anyone who wants to help teachers meet today's performance standards while also respecting the unique gifts each teacher brings to the classroom. This concise guide provides the background and creates a system for fostering effective teacher development, and includes: Descriptions and examples of the four basic styles of teaching; Tips for matching your communication style with the teacher's preferred style; Tools for effectively observing classroom practice; Ideas for helping teachers build on their strengths while exploring different ways of teaching. Teachers will broaden their instructional repertoire and develop a stronger professional identity as they discuss effective practice with an experienced teacher. They will become more confident in their decision making and take greater command of the classroom. Educators who are new to providing clinical support will find this a highly readable guide to the wide range of strategies available; experienced educators will discover new ways to strengthen their own practice and rethink their observational methods; and all will gain the satisfaction of helping teachers develop the kind of expertise that truly fosters student achievement. Edward Pajak is a professor and chair of the Department of Teacher Development and Leadership at Johns Hopkins University.

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What Parents Must Know About Sensory Stimulation in Autistic Children
The most common complaint faced by the autistic children is a dysfunctional sensory system. Under this condition, the child’s one or many senses could be over-active or under-active to stimulation. The sensory problems might cause such behaviors in autistic children like hand-flapping, rocking and spinning. Neurologists strongly believe that this trouble stems out from the central nervous system or the brain.
Understanding the sensory system
Sensory integration corresponds to three basic senses namely tactile, vestibular and proprioceptive. All these three sense are interconnected and begin forming much before the child is born. They develop to maturity till the child learns to interact with the surrounding environment. All these three sense s are also interconnected with the brain and hence critical to the survival of the individual. Every human being is able to receive, understand and respond to the different stimuli from the surroundings only through the inter-relationship between these three senses. (Source: https://www.parentune.com)
What- is the problem with autistic children
Most of us have no difficulties in integrating the sensory information we receive from our environment.
Many kids with autism have problems with this aspect. They have troubles in processing the information that their senses receive. In addition to facing problems with the five senses, the autistic children can also struggle with movements and balance.
The main problem with the autistic children is being over-sensitive or under-sensitive to certain sensations. In the former case, they cannot tolerate strong sensory inputs like loud noises or the noise of vacuum in an empty room. In the latter case, it might require a large amount of a particular sensation to stimulate them. A single autistic child can have a mixture of over and under sensitivities to different senses. (Source: http://www.hanen.org)
Sensory stimulation and autistic children
Today there is a huge buzz about sensory stimulation for autistic children. We must therefore understand if this is something the parents of autistic children must give them and find out the right ways of doing it for the autistic child.
Special curriculum for autistic children
Studies show that children suffering from autistic complaints can really benefit from sensory stimulation. Stimulating the senses of these children can facilitate learning as well as contribute to the social as well as emotional growth of the kids. The special curriculum designed for autistic children must contain activities that will challenge all of their five senses. Hence the special educators will have inputs to stimulate the sense of touch, taste, smell, hearing and vision of the autistic kid. (Source: http://www.myaspergerschild.co- m)
Action plan for schools and parents
Schools can introduce a special curriculum with focus on sensory stimulation through reading and basic maths. Special classes in arts, extra-curricular activities and games can be useful in this connection. A major breakthrough in special education targeting autistic children is the idea of a sensory room. Educators can make a creative use of this room or space to provide strong sensory stimulation to autistic children. Here are a few things you can buy for these children as well as make yourself. The main criterion to choose the items for educating an autistic child is to discover what they really enjoy.
Some creative ideas for educating autistic children
•Procure a mini-trampoline to give them enough physical exercise as well as a good amount of sensory input
•Bring in a touch board and stick several materials on it like carpet and sandpaper
•Place tubs with navy beans, sand or other similar materials for these children to play in
•Make the children smell a variety of flavors in room fresheners
•Make them play in swings
•Introduce a variety of music both calm and vigorous to stimulate the child
•Hand blinking serial lights around them
•Facilitate a deep touch with the help of a vibrating massage machine
•Give them play dough to do creative crafts
What can the sensory room do to the autistic child
The prime purpose of this sensory room is to awaken the sense of the autistic child. This room can also facilitate the child get cool when needed. Experts do not advise giving a free entry for the autistic kids into this room. An exclusive schedule can be designed to let the child go through a transition exercise in this room at regular intervals. The entry into this room can also be given as a reward for rising up to the expectations of the educators and parents which can motivate the child.

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Despite herculean efforts to finish harvesting spuds last week, there remained thousands of acres of potatoes left to be gathered as of Oct. 10. Temperatures dipped into the 20s the night of Oct. 9 preventing Upper Valley farmers from culling their crops.
Terry Wilcox reported his Mud Lake farm crews worked until midnight Oct. 9 salvaging potatoes.
“We lit a few bails of straw on fire in a few places. We had a skiff of snow which is pretty good insulation. We didn’t get much damage last night, but it will happen tonight (Oct. 10), I’m afraid,” he said. “Mother Nature has not been good to us this year.”
A late planting season coupled with cold weather, hurt potato farmers chances of successfully harvesting this year, said Wilcox. He recalled similar weather in 1985 when cold weather prevented the harvest.
“A lot of farmers lost their farms within the next year or two. It hasn’t been that bad since then,” he said.
Joseph Sagers, University of Idaho Extension educator for Jefferson and Clark counties, said multiple farmers were affected by the freeze last week. Most, he said, spent the night of Oct. 9 in the fields.
In Fremont County, Lance Ellis said that while Oct. 9 night temperatures proved frosty, potato farmers harvested a majority of their crops. “I think a lot of them got a good chunk of it dug. We won’t know for a few days if there was any damage done to the potatoes,” he said.

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Food of the Northern lands consists of chunks of meat and vegetables marinated in spices and herbs. Their gravies are creamy and robust with flavour. If you love North-Indian food and you really want to dine at the best places then worry not! We’ve narrowed down the best North-Indian food restaurants in Chennai exclusively for the food lover in you!
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Addiction Treatment & Recovery Centers in Holiday, FL
Gulf Coast Jewish Fam and Comm Servs Darlington Residential is an alcohol and drug rehabilitation program found at 3142 Darlington Road in Holiday, Florida.
The program utilizes main approaches to treatment of Individual Drug Counseling, Group Addiction Counseling, Cognitive/Behavioral Therapy. The facility also offers these services in the following settings: Inpatient Treatment Center, Residential Drug Recovery.
Gulf Coast Jewish Fam and Comm Servs Darlington Residential also provides clients with several special programs tailored to the specific requirements of people, such as: Drug and Alcohol Treatment for Persons with Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Disorders. Gulf Coast Jewish Fam and Comm Servs Darlington Residential allows the following types of payment: Private Pay, Insurance Through Medicaid, Medicare Public Insurance.
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Stacey Solomon openly spoke out about the time that her fiancé Joe Swash went to live with Pamela Anderson on today's Loose Women show.
The mum-of-three was quizzed about whether there had been any passion between Joe and the Baywatch bombshell that saw Stacey fire back that she "blooming hoped" he hadn't kissed her.
Joe was once given the opportunity to go and live with his idol Pamela in Los Angeles and she even had the chance to come and stay with his family in Islington too.
Speaking about the experience from Joe's perspective she explained: "This is something that Joe never lets me forget, once he was asked to do a TV programme where he went to live with Pamela Anderson.
"And Pamela came to live with him."
The entire panel erupted with laughter at the thought of cheeky chappy Joe living with the former Playboy star.
The Tap To Tidy creator went on: "He went to LA and Malibu to live with her for a week and then she popped over and lived with him in Islington."
At which pointed Nadia interjected: "Did he ever kiss her?"
Stacey furiously replied: "I blooming hope not."
Bombshell Pamela recently announced that she had married again for the fifth time having found love with her bodyguard Dan Hayhurst during the lockdown.
Hearing the news, the chat show hosts were eager to understand Joe's thoughts.
Stacey casually added that "Joe thought it was the best thing ever" and that "he felt like a teenage boy" after he'd once had her photos plastered all over his bedroom walls.
However, it appears that Pamela may not have found the show as memorable as Joe, because she failed to recognise him a few years later.
Stacey joked: "We have seen her since at Celeb Juice and see was on as well, and Joe was like 'oh look Stace, there's Pam, Pam!'"
She giggled away as she recalled that Pamela didn't actually remember him.
Loose Women airs on weekdays at 12.30pm on ITV.


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Welcome to the Blog Blitz for The Mosaic Collection, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours! Today I am delighted to welcome Johnnie Alexander to the blog to chat about her cornerstone message for her The Mosaic Collection novel, which releases in May 2020.
ABOUT THE COLLECTION
For His glory…
The Mosaic Collection is an international community of women authors who use faith-based fiction to touch hearts with the good news that Christ’s finished work on the cross has made us one family, and to nurture affection for the people God has placed within our circles of influence, so that the grace and glory of God may become visible and personal to everyone we meet.
…and our good
We are sisters, a beautiful mosaic united by the love of God through the blood of Christ. We have experienced the redemptive, restorative power of God’s grace in our marriages and families, and we believe our God is able to heal, restore and redeem our brokenness. His love fills us with the courage to persevere, and to offer others a Christ-like compassion that is full of His wisdom and grace.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Johnnie Alexander creates characters you want to meet and imagines stories you won’t forget. Her award-winning debut novel, Where Treasure Hides (Tyndale), is a CBA bestseller. She writes contemporaries, historicals, and cozy mysteries, serves on the executive boards of Serious Writer, Inc. and the Mid-South Christian Writers Conference, co-hosts an online show called Writers Chat, and interviews inspirational authors for Novelists Unwind. She also teaches at writers conferences and for Serious Writer Academy. Johnnie lives in Oklahoma with Griff, her happy-go-lucky collie, and Rugby, her raccoon-treeing papillon.
My Cornerstone Message From The Collection
One of the first verses I ever claimed as my own was Proverbs 31:25. The translation I love most reads: Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she smiles at the future.
The first part of the verse is almost a mantra, a phrase I repeat to myself when I need courage. Maybe I’m faced with something as simple as a phone call I don’t want to make. Or maybe the situation is much more serious. An ectopic pregnancy. Family tensions. Divorce. A dying parent.
Life takes courage. And at the heart of courage–true courage–is trust. We can smile at the future, no matter what difficult, frightening, horrible situations we face because of God’s steadfast love and His promise of eternal life with Him.
A Deeper Dive into My Cornerstone Message
About a year before my divorce, I visited a gift shop in our small town. As I walked in the door, my eyes were drawn to a ceramic bluebird perched on a shelf. I cradled it in my hand and smiled at the words on its wing: Be brave.
I placed it back on the shelf, not intending to purchase it even though it had touched my heart. But when I set it down, a clear and sweet whisper surrounded me.
It’s for you.
Several years have passed since then, and my life has taken a path I once thought impossible. While I wish divorce wasn’t part of my story, my trust in God’s promises has only gotten stronger. He had prepared the path I was to walk, with all its pits and snares—and all its joys and triumphs—before I ever knew I’d be on it.
“Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!” (1 Chronicles 16:34; ESV).
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(1) winner will receive a $50 Amazon eGift Card & an ebook prize pack*!
Winner will receive an ebook of:
- Where She Belongs
- Pieces of Granite
- Christmas on a Mission
- Other Side of the River
- The Third Grace
- Carolina Grace
- The Benefit Package (a devotional)
- Dance of Grace
- When Love Calls
Full tour schedule linked below. Giveaway will begin at midnight July 10, 2019 and last through 11:59 PM EST on July 24, 2019. Winner will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. Open internationally, but international winner will receive a gift card only *(may be substituted for a Book Depository gift card if winner cannot accept from US Amazon)
Giveaway is subject to the policies found here.
See tour landing page for a complete list of authors & book release dates.
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What about you? What resonates most with you about Johnnie Alexander and her cornerstone message for The Mosaic Collection?

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The Canik TP9SFx comes with industry standard dovetail sight cuts that are compatible with a large variety of aftermarket sights, Warren Tactical sights with red and green fiber optic front sight, a removable Red Dot cover with the rear sight installed in cover to eliminate interference with certain Red Dot sights. Also includes four red dot interface plates, a match grade barrel, improved single action trigger, lightening cuts on the slide, forward slide serrations, reversible ambidextrous cocking lever, and extended ergonomic slide release.
Comes with two 20 round magazines, poly holster, paddle attachment, belt attachment, interchangeable backstraps, cleaning rod, brush and a limited lifetime manufacturer's warranty.
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Netflix lays out plans to crack down on account sharing
The video-streaming giant said members can now easily manage who has access to their account, transfer their profile to a new account and still easily watch Netflix on their personal devices or log into a new TV.
The video-streaming giant, which has estimated that 100 million around the world use a shared account, said members can now easily manage who has access to their account, transfer their profile to a new account and still easily watch Netflix on their personal devices or log into a new TV.
"So over the last year, we've been exploring different approaches to address this issue in Latin America, and we're now ready to roll them out more broadly in the coming months, starting today in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain," the company said in a blogpost.
Members on Netflix's standard or premium plan in many countries can add an extra member sub account for up to two people for an extra C$7.99 a month per person in Canada, NZD$7.99 in New Zealand, 3.99 euros in Portugal, and 5.99 euros in Spain, the company said.
The company lost subscribers in the first half of 2022 amid stiff competition from rivals, prompting it to look more seriously into password sharing and launching an ad-supported plan.
"Later in Q1, we expect to start rolling out paid sharing more broadly. The account sharing seriously impact the company's long-term plans and undermine its ability to invest," the company had earlier said.
Netflix has already launched paid password sharing model in Argentina, Dominican Republic, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, where where it cost $2 or $3 to add a member account for someone outside one’s household.
A big question is how will Netflix limit for users accessing the streaming service on the go through a laptop, tablet, or mobile phone. Netflix had confirmed that members will be able to continue watching content on their account while traveling.


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Nokia Lumia 710
Nokia Lumia 710 is expected to release in February 2012.In December 2011 Nokia announced that he will release his latest mobile 2012 Nokia lumia in first quarter of 2012. Nokia C5-06 is 119 x 62.4 x 12.5 mm, its weight is 125.5 gram. It’s a multi touch phone with gorilla glass support.
Its has internal 8 GB storage with 512 MB RAM and CPU speed is 1.4 GHz Scorpion and operating system is Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. Camera is 5 MP, 2592?1944 pixels, auto focus, LED flash support and it has Wi-Fi , EDGE and GPRS.Nokia Lumia 710 has built in FM Radio and battery backup of this Up to 396 h , Standard battery, Li-Ion 1300 mAh (BP-3L). User review of Nokia LUMIA 710 will be done after the release of this handset. Battery talk time is 7 hour. Price of Nokia Lumia-710 will be range 400~600$.


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Armen Ashotyan is sure - ‘’Anahit’’ Goddess to return homeland
YEREVAN, MARCH 7, ARMENPRESS. A meeting was organized by Armenian Youth Foundation near the Embassy of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on March 7 to return relics of statue of goddess Anahit from British Museum.
Armen Ashotyan, Minister of Education and Science of Armenia along with Karen Avagyan, Coordinator of Board of Trustees of the Foundation, handed the text of the message to return the relics to motherland as well as the signatures of volunteers to Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Armenia Jonathan James Aves and Katherine Jane Leach.
Karen Avagyan told Armenpress ''the initiative belongs to the Minister of Science and Education.''
Reportedly compatriots in Diaspora joined the event. ''The initiative has become pan Armenian'' explained Avagyan and underlined that the choice of day was not accidental. It was dedicated to Women's holidays.
Ashotyan believes the process will be crowned with success if we are persistent. There are few monuments dated Before C hrist, so the return of remains of ''Anahit'' statue is more valuable in this context.
Youth Foundation of Armenia started signature gathering on February 20-27. Twenty thousand young people from regions and capital participated in the initiative.
The copies of the text message and signatures will be sent to British Museum.


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The second Covid Summer hasn’t been as good as the first. Not cold, but overcast, foggy, misty and moist, with the warm and watered greenery doing well enough. Probably, floss has had a good summer.
That’s a word now associated with sheepdog names and delaying dental decay. For a long time it was an important word in Shetland, a name for rushes, Juncus effusus and Juncus conglomeratus. How the name comes about is unclear, although it does appear in Jakobsen’s dictionary of Norn words.
Floss favours the poorly drained land Shetland has no want of. It retreats from the edges of deeply cut drainage ditches, leaving more grass for the sheep. Reseeding and lime too, have improved grazing and cut down on the floss habitat. A useless plant then?
In the pre-gaffer tape economy of the past things were fastened mostly by tying or nailing. Cordage, mostly hand-made, was perpetually short and expensive. Shipwrecks, the Lord’s bounty to the poor, were highly regarded for wood, but were also a bonanza of rope.
Floss could thatch a roof if straw was short though held to be inferior because it was slippery. Thatching is more than straw however, it needs rope to help keep it on. In Shetland the word was simmonds. Again in Jakobsen, Old Norse had a word simi, a rope or a cord. Floss wasn’t the only cordage source – heather was best, and bent (marram grass) can make ropes too. Floss was ubiquitous however, and the other two aren’t. It had another significant use, it was an important component in kishies.
People would gather floss, dry it, and make simmonds during the winter. An image springs to mind of an old man, slowly weaving a rope out of floss baet (a bundle), perhaps learning a young boy at the same time, perhaps a koli (a lamp with a split rush for a wick) giving some light but more likely a blazing open fire, the wind and rain beating on the thatch roof, held on using the simmonds. Women learned the craft too, but their hands were mostly kept busy at their wires. The world of floss.
Making simmonds is laborious, fifty centimetres is a long rush, and it takes a lot of rushes to make a worthwhile length. There are limits to the amount of floss even boggy Shetland can produce. Floss had to be shared out, and sharing wasn’t for everybody. In 1829 the lairds William Bruce of Bigton and John Bruce of Sumburgh charged a few people with cutting floss before the twelfth day of August, the customary date to start cropping it.
In 1771 there was a rammy in the Clift Hills -- SC12/6/1771/3 – if you want to read it in the Shetland Archives. Some men from Burra attempted to cut floss the Cunningsburgh men believed was theirs. It was something of a committed encounter, but contrary to at least one tradition, no-one was murdered. That isn’t to say it wasn’t thought about.
The simmond supply problem was solved in the later nineteenth century. The industrial revolution made all kinds of cordage cheaper in real terms. Shetlanders moved away from thatch roofs and kishies, and their requirements. In 1885 A.J. Leask advertised and effective floss simmond substitute – coir rope made from coconut fibre.
Coir, known in Shetland by the original Malayam term kayar, took off in Shetland. Kayar simmonds were well used, often holding down outdoor hay storage, skroos, stacks, and desses. That phase lasted well into the twentieth century, until it too was replaced by new practices, and artificial fibres. So far, floss hasn’t made a comeback as a natural fibre.


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USC basketball player Ari Stewart, who was arrested in February in Arizona on suspicion of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia, will not be charged and has been offered the opportunity to participate in a drug diversion program, a spokesman for the Maricopa County district attorney’s office said Wednesday.
“This is standard for first-time nonviolent offenses involving possession of marijuana or paraphernalia,” spokesman Jerry Cobb said. “If he successfully completes the drug diversion program his case will be resolved.”
A letter informing Stewart of the offer was drafted and mailed last week, said Cobb, adding that the program consists of education, counseling and screening. Prosecution would ensue if the program is not completed.
Stewart, 21, was arrested by Arizona State University police in Tempe after an incident on Feb. 24. Stewart, a transfer from Wake Forest who redshirted last season, was not traveling with the Trojans, who played at Arizona on Feb. 23 and at Arizona State on Feb. 25.
USC Coach Kevin O’Neill has said that Stewart was disciplined internally and that he would face further discipline.

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Bernie Sanders style. You remember him: the Independent Senator from Vermont, Democratic Party Presidential candidate, avowed Socialist, and as of Monday night’s Democratic Party Town Hall “debate” an avowed Democratic Socialist. In that “debate” (because it really wasn’t a debate; the three candidates appeared sequentially and answered carefully selected questions—and not even the same ones), Sanders assured us, one and all, that he really will raise taxes on us if he’s elected President.
From The Washington Examiner we get a list of just how bad his tax increase will be.
To put that in perspective, the Congressional Budget Office projects that federal revenues over the next 10 years will be a total of $41.6 trillion, meaning that Sanders would raise taxes by 47% over current levels.
Guess what happens when Government takes that much money away from working Americans, removes that much money from the economy?


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Who are the ‘skeptics’? There’s celebrity woo-hunters, like Simon Singh (journalist, physicist), Ben Goldacre (journalist, almost fully qualified psychiatrist) and Brian Cox (TV presenter, physicist). As successful media players, they have a public profile, readers, fans. But their reputation is critically fed by a substantial subgroup of skeptic supporters – groupies? – who follow them around in cyberspace and in the real world. Who are these unsung skeptics?Vodpod videos no longer available.
(should this be all Greek to you, then shut up, Bignose – he means Geek!)
The O.E.D. explains a geek as one “extremely devoted to and knowledgeable about computers or related technology. […] self-designation, not necessarily depreciative” and “obsessively devoted to a particular pursuit”. ‘Science geek’ has not yet earned an entry even in the Urban Dictionary, but give it time: this is a sub-group now (as in much skeptic newspeak, meanings shift – ‘science’ here no longer means science as we knew it but a vague, quasi-Newtonian-post-Darwinist dogma). The word once meant a foolish/offensive/worthless person, which by extension became ‘dupe’ – someone who is easily misled, a fool.
It is worth noting then that the unelected king of the skeptic movement is one James Randi, a conjurer who has often pointed out that making dupes of people is his profession and his pleasure. It’s just his followers, the self-designated geeks, assume he doesn’t mean them… .
A tag cloud created from skeptic twitter biogs: the interest focus, distilled into 30 words, of a wide network of twitter-linked skeptics who share in active efforts to discredit and ridicule the work of complementary practitioners everywhere, by fair means and foul.
Foul? Depends on your point of view: Ben Goldacre prefers to call it “the simple, enduring pleasure of baiting morons”. Like the growing trend to orchestrated mail deluges. One ombudsman-judged mass campaign that was made public was declared officially ‘vexatious’. And how about pretending to be a homeopathy student, stealing postings from a confidential practitioners’ forum, or passing university teaching material to blogger skeptics for ridicule and mis-representation in public? A simple pleasure?
Because there is now a small army of such bandwaggoners, UK skepticism has become more than just a harmless hobby for Mr. Dawkins and friends. There’s almost 6000 people on the so-called badscience forums, more elsewhere. Many engage in the ‘pleasure’ of ‘moron baiting’ activism. Almost all self-define as ‘geeks’.
That tag cloud reflects the aspirational more than the actual – so here, synthesised from the wealth of skeptic online self-expression, is a fine portrait of the would-be hero of rationalism: Average Skeptic Geek.
A bloke, of course (there are girl skeptics. But few). He’s ‘into’ rock music and treasures his vintage Led Zep t-shirt. His science comes from New Scientist. He works at a glass-clad company HQ outside Reading, in IT. He’s 26: still young enough to have all the answers – or trust that someone else does and it’ll only be a question of time until he too has acquired the
Meantime he’s happy to copy what Simon (Singh) Says. “200 studies show that homeopathy has no effect beyond placebo”. Has he read the studies, can he assess the methodologies? No (Even Simon hasn’t read them critically, actually – too risky; he might find out he got it wrong) – he isn’t a medic but a software guy. He likes things in black and white, and his science is rooted in the simple ‘truths’ of the school syllabus, expanded by knowledge-lite ingested from celebrity-fronted TV shows.
Thanks to youth and luck he’s never been seriously ill so has little experience of just how ‘evidence based’ our health service is (not), and his insight into drugs effects is strictly recreational. He applauds the skeptic bloggers who dissect interminably anything they consider ‘woo’, spends hours online in skeptic pursuits. His activities, his consumption, his books by Dawkins, Singh et al, feed a deep need: to feel himself anchored in a reassuringly mechanical universe in which all the cogs click along explicably, and all gaps will fill ‘logically’ in the course of guaranteed progress. Of course he is ‘an atheist’.
His fandom embraces the ‘skeptic’ comedians who make this world view seem so right, so obvious, and easy laughs make him feel at one with the virtual community of bods who seem to have the truth on ‘life’ and the ‘universe’. He doesn’t consider the ‘everything’ too much, that limitless expanse of uncertainty.
Uncertainty is the geek’s great fear. That’s why he lashes out at people who offer a different viewpoint. He has no hope of explaining everything from within the safety of the mechanistic paradigm . So the fearful inexplicable morphs into ‘woo’ – cue the ‘enduring pleasure of moron baiting’. Skeptic forums, skeptic pub meets: occupational therapy for the geeks? Aw, bless ’em.


Israel will have to make "difficult decisions" and will pay a "difficult price" to secure the release of its abducted soldier Gilad Schalit, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said during a Labor Party conference in Dimona on Tuesday. Barak added that it was Israel's moral duty to "carry out every appropriate maneuver possible so that Gilad returns home safe and sound." The defense minister has made periodic calls for Schalit's release, but has so far avoided commenting on the status of Egyptian-mediated negotiations with Hamas aimed at releasing the captive soldier, besides saying that details of the talks should be kept secret. On July 25, senior Hamas member Mahmoud Zahar said no negotiations were taking place to free Schalit. Zahar denied earlier press reports saying that Hamas had given Israel a list of prisoners it wanted freed in exchange for Schalit. Hamas members merely stipulated their conditions verbally to Egyptian mediators, he had said. Schalit was kidnapped by Hamas in June 2006 during a Hamas raid on an IDF outpost on the border with Gaza. The current truce with Hamas should be used to advance the talks to free Schalit, Barak said Tuesday evening. He added that he did not know how long the cease-fire would last, and that the days of relative calm should be used to complete rocket-proof reinforcements to structures and homes in Sderot and other Gaza-border communities. Barak said the NIS 72 million Israel had transferred to Gaza on Tuesday was "not going to Hamas," but rather to the Palestinian Authority, adding that the funds were transferred at the request of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam Fayad. "We have set a stance, according to which we support the Palestinian Authority," Barak said.


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‘It’s all racialised on top’
March 7, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmfree
‘It’s all racialised on top’: Black and racially minoritised girls’ and women’s experiences of public sexual harassment
This event marks the formal launch of the report ‘It’s all racialised on top’: Black and racially minoritised girls’ and women’s experiences of public sexual harassment, written by researchers at the University of York and funded by Plan International UK. This is the first report on this issue in the UK.
The event will highlight the prevalence and forms of sexual harassment experienced by Black and minoritised women, as well as structural, institutional and cultural barriers to disclosure and help-seeking. Trust in the police, in school professionals, and in university systems is low. Stigma within communities makes talking about the impacts of sexual harassment difficult. The research shows that sexual harassment impacts on Black and minoritised girls’ and women’s feelings of safety, their mental health, and freedom to move around in public spaces.
We will be joined by representatives from the police, survivor organisations, activist-survivors, and Plan International to discuss the policy and practice ramifications of this research.
This event will be followed by a drinks reception.


By the time you read this, this 2021 record will have been released in full. At my time of writing this, however, only four tracks are out. But, those four tracks have definitely piqued my interest. Fans of guitar-oriented pop or lo-fi will surely find something to like amongst these songs and, probably the rest of the album. In the meantime, though, one listen to ‘I Wanna Be A Dog’ will have you humming the chorus over and over again. Then, ‘Highway’ changes things up with a slow, almost sinister guitar riff and bass line with half spoken vocals.


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Iowa Central Community College is working hard adding the final touches to the fall theater production, “Falling Awake”. Teresa Jackson, the director, describes the whole process as both exhausting, energizing, and rewarding.
Teresa Jackson and theater students start reading plays beginning in May and have a play chosen by July! They are searching for the play that best fits the students’ talent while also being appropriate for the audience of Fort Dodge. Throughout the rest of the summer, a set is designed, and the audition packet is prepared and sent to students! Teresa also shares her ideas and wants with the students.
During the second day of classes, auditions are held! While reading the script, Teresa imagines how she wants each character to sound, act, and look in the play. During auditions, she keeps this in mind as she listens to each student.
“I’m like an actors-director, I come at it from an actor perspective,” Teresa described when asked how she handles casting. Teresa believes that casting is one of her strengths–casting individuals into the correct parts and pushing them to where they need to be. She knows who is fit for specific roles once she hears their voice.
Rehearsals are happening left and right to help prepare this beautiful and heart-warming production! Everything from costumes to make-up and stage microphones and lights have been in the works since practice began. Teresa’s mind is constantly moving on how to keep improving the play!
Teresa Jackson’s favorite part about being the director is the students and the creativity she witnesses. Each year when students leave, she is sad to see the talent go but each year brings new talent also!
“It is exciting to see them shine” plus I would rather do this than grade papers!
After the conclusion of this play, the crazy busy schedule continues with the start of the spring musical! “The creative process is never-ending,” Teresa concluded.


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The Logan County Health Department confirmed eight cases of COVID-19 in two days.
Four more cases of the virus were reported yesterday and additional four were confirmed this afternoon. A total of six recoveries have been reported since Tuesday
Logan County has 37 active cases, 3,141 recoveries and 90 fatalities for a cumulative total of 3,268 cases of COVID-19.
Eight people are now hospitalized.


openSUSE Project’s Richard Brown has shared some insight into the work that the openSUSE Linux security team is doing to protect users against the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities.
openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed users were among the first to receive the patches against Meltdown and Spectre hardware bugs that put billions of devices at risk of attacks. The first kernel updates were made available early this month for both OpenSuSE Leap 42.2 and 42.3, though the former reached end of life on January 26, 2018.
For openSUSE Tumbleweed, new kernels arrived in the first weeks of January as well to fully patch users against Meltdown attacks, which are easier to fix than Spectre by using the Kernel Page Table Isolation (KPTI) kernel patches. Spectre has two variants, and it’s harder to fix, but at least openSUSE Linux users are patched against the first one.
“The Spectre Variant 1 attack for the Linux kernel is mitigated with various speculative fences added throughout the kernel code. We might add more in case some places have been missed,” explains Richard Brown. “We released QEMU updates for passing through CPU flags for Variant 2 mitigations.”
Spectre variant 2 is partially fixed in openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed
The Spectre variant 2 requires microcode firmware updates for Intel and AMD processors, but Intel borked its microcode update that was supposed to fix this hardware bug and urged the industry to revert to the pre-Spectre microcode version, which forced openSUSE devs to rely on the retpoline (return trampolines) patches to fix it.
The retpoline patches largely remove the need for firmware mitigations, says Richard Brown, who also noted the fact that openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed users received the GCC 4.8 and the latest GCC 7 system compilers supporting retpoline, and they are working on new Linux kernel updates with retpoline support.
These new kernel updates will most probably be based on the recently released Linux 4.15 kernel series and should mitigate Spectre variant 2. In addition, users will receive the latest Xen updates from upstream, which mitigate the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities, so make sure you keep your PCs up-to-date.