text:
Quercetti Fantacolor Junior Basic
With Junior Basic will be fun to fill in the gaps of the transparent tablet with big colorful buttons! The surprising result will be a beautiful colorful design of the compound with the help of the cards that are placed on the back before you start playing.
It's a terrific game basic education, which effectively stimulates the creative skills, hand-eye coordination, as well as develop the dexterity and fine manipulation.
Content: 48 Buttons 32mm in 4 different colors 16 Cards 1 tablet transparent 2 Feet of support Dim(cm) 36x28x6
|No. of Pages||-|
|No. of Issues||-|
All refund requests shall be evaluated on case to case basis, subject to our prevailing terms and conditions.


text:
"He's a character who is continually disorientated and that's exactly how I felt filming this."
Imagine a world where everyone has a superpower... except you. That's the premise for Disney+'s brand new comedy Extraordinary, which has been written by debut screenwriter Emma Moran, and is about being young and finding your feet in a confusing world when all you’ll ever be is ‘ordinary’.
10 years ago, everyone over the age of 18 got their superpower. But Jen, played by Máiréad Tyers, at 25 is still waiting to get hers. She’d take anything at this point. Adrift in a big, confusing world and armed with nothing but a bit of hope, a lot of desperation and her flatmates, Jen begins her journey to find her maybe-superpower. But in doing so, she might discover the joy of being just kind of OK.
Starring alongside Máiréad Tyers as Jen, Sofia Oxenham as Carrie and Bilal Hasna as Kash is comedian Luke Rollason who plays their unexpected new flatmate Jizzlord, in what is his first major television role.
I recently caught up with Luke to find out why his background as a clown has helped with his performance, the challenges of shooting scenes in the nude as well as the superpowers he'd possess if the world of Extraordinary was real and more!
How did you feel when you first read the script for Extraordinary and found out more about the character you were potentially going to play?
I've done a fair amount of auditions over the past few years and because my background is in comedy, I've gone up for a lot of sitcoms and it probably feels cliché to say, but I couldn't believe this thing. It felt so unlike anything else I'd got to read. And so much fun to read.
I had to do loads of it (for the audition) as well, it was scenes, upon scenes, upon scenes, upon scenes and it can feel quite scary and dangerous as an actor when you audition for something that you believe you might be ideal for. I feel like I should be able to do this.
Normally, I audition for stuff and I think well if the person they were looking for is to play a professional footballer, sure, I'm not going to get this. So to suddenly read something where in terms of the part, the first comedy show I did years ago was a show where I did a one-man nature documentary, and I played a cat so I thought it was too cruel.
I haven't done a load of screen acting, a few roles here and there on TV, so it didn't really feel like I was going to get this role. It felt cruel to be reading this fucking amazing script. What I immediately loved about it, is that it works like a normal sitcom, but whatever is going on between the characters in the scene, the powers are always used to heighten those relationships or heighten those conflicts. It felt like playing a game on stage really, but on screen.
The really obvious example of this is the dentist scene where you think "What would make this worse?" It never feels like it's about showing off powers, it's always about making the comedy in the problems from the characters' problems with themselves and each other, sing more.
I think it was probably the first thing that I auditioned for where the script made me laugh out loud. What's so gorgeous about working on this show is that the scripts change. So you get one draft and then it changes. Usually due to budgets. So today that character has lobster claws and tomorrow they have something which is more conceptually funny but isn't as insane to try and pull off. You get a little memo every time something changes and one day we got this memo that just said the bartender no longer has lobster claws. I framed that and put it in my dressing room!
How would you describe Extraordinary and the character you play?
The show is set in a world very much like our own, where everyone has a superpower except for our lead character. But it's still a completely ordinary world. And people have very much gotten used to powers just being part of everyday life.
But our main character, Jen, still feels like an outsider and they still feel like someone who will never have their life together. Or as together as everyone else around them and doesn't have as much of an identity as everyone else around them. And that serves as a kind of metaphor for how she feels like her life's a bit of a disappointment.
My character who's called Jizzlord, which isn't a name he gives himself, is someone who, like Jen, feels like an outsider because of something to do with their power, which means that because of a consequence of their power almost misfiring, they also are in a situation where they don't know anything about themselves, quite literally in Jizzlord's case. And they're also starting again or starting from the bottom.
So I think his character and Jen's character are drawn together really because he's probably the only person who's as clueless as she is. And for him, she knows everything.
For a large part of the series, especially at the beginning, Jizzlord spends a lot of his screen time naked. How did you feel about those scenes? And what was the approach you took?
The production company were Sid Gentle, it's a really kind team and we all got to know the producer and the director really early on from the audition process and the rehearsal process. They were around lots.
Charlie Palmer, who's the producer, came into rehearsals a lot and came to talk to me about it. And I believe we had a conversation where he was like "It'll only be side bum" and I was like, "That's such a pity!"
My background is in live comedy performance and something that was quite big for me was about learning to be confident in my body. I've always felt like I had quite an unusual body. I'm very slender and quite boney looking. And I think performing on stage helped me feel a lot more confident about my body, in ways that now feel like very second nature to me.
I remember in 2017 I did a naked charity cabaret and I remember saying yes because I was like "That sounds really scary" and I was trying to do this mime bit, which is a terrible idea! Don't do something where the focus is on your hands! That was in Brighton. I've done that a few times now, and I really, really love it.
For me now, performing naked is something that feels not second nature, but for sure like a lot less scary. I was always very upfront about how comfortable I was with it. The thing that's funny about doing those scenes is I'm wearing this little kind of modesty pouch. Which is like this beige thing.
I used to call it the Dignity Diaper, but I've since looked that up and that's a very different thing. It was like a pouch and it would have this tab that would be taped up coming my crack. I feel so sorry for Ivan, who was the amazing costume assistant who was responsible for glueing it onto me. It took us a long time to work out how it actually fitted on. I always felt very secure, but in some of the longer takes, especially if I had to do a lot of squatting or standing up or a lot of movement, you could feel it going.
And you also knew that there's a reset time on it. Maybe it takes around 10 minutes to reset and you're so aware filming, not from other people putting pressure on you, but just you putting pressure on yourself, being like, all these people are working so hard. I've got like one simple job to do. I know that if this takes a 10-minute reset, that probably means one less take on a closeup for another actor.
So you find yourself in the situation where you're holding this thing on just by tensing your butt crack and everyone's like "Do you need a reset?" and you're like, "No!".
I'm pretty certain the scene where Jen meets me for the first time, there's a take, which I can see where I know that in that moment I'm holding it on.
It's a very physical role. Because of your clown background, is that something you enjoyed?
Yeah, definitely. This really felt for many reasons, like a very natural role for me to get to play. I've always approached making work, either as an actor, but primarily as a comedian, with physicality first. Being embodied or being in a situation will give you the answers for everything else you have to do.
So I really enjoyed those early scenes where I'm kind of staggering around. I don't need to work out psychologically what Jizzlord is understanding about where he's at in this scene. There's enough physical difficulties. including the pouch, to reckon with. For me to just try and be in the moment as much as possible.
And that's something that I think is obviously true for any acting role, but really specifically for this one, because I've got nothing else to go on. He doesn't remember anything about his past. From before... let's just call it "the incident". He doesn't have any real idea about who he is or where he's come from. It was a role where the only things I had to work with were the situations I was in.
I couldn't do any of the preparation which we normally associate with being an actor of research, or character backgrounds, or relationship work. All of that stuff's completely out the window and it just means purely you are having to work off your curiosity.
My background's in clown, I went to clown school, I never went to drama school. I've got no real toolset for analysing a script or thinking about motivations, et cetera. But I do think I have a good toolkit for trying to remain live in performance. And trying to keep my attention outwards.
There's a sequence at the beginning of episode three where I'm trying to open a can of tuna and I think pretty much for that sequence, they just let the cameras roll and let me do what I wanted.
It's weird though with the physical stuff, I think there was this rumour that spread around set that because I'd gone to clown school, that meant that I had a circus background. So there's this beautiful stunt man who was so kind and such a sweet guy, because all they're dealing with is safety. It's like a stunt coordinator.
It'd be simple stuff like jumping off a chair and they'll put a crashmat down because they really don't want anyone to hurt themselves. Every time he would approach me really embarrassed being like "Obviously I know you've done backflips and stuff in your circus training, you've probably been up and down trapezes" and no matter how many times I explained it, no one could quite understand that I'm not an acrobat.
Really, I'm very physically unskilled. I'm very unskilled physically. For an actor, I guess I have maybe slightly more of a physical background, but for anyone with an actual physical background? I'm as britle as a twig.
What were some of your favourite scenes to film?
The whole sequence at the strip club with the dog was, I think, one of the most fun days on set and what I really. love about this show is that the situations are so bizarre and ridiculous, it was very hard to get complacent as an actor.
Goes back to what I was saying earlier about how the powers work as an absurd prompt almost for the characters. But Strip Club Dog Day was absolutely incredible. I mean, the weirdest thing, because a lot of shots in that are continuous, you'd have these strange moments of choreography where the dog's got to keep its dog trainer in its eye the whole time.
So the camera sweeps down, past these pole dancers and then as soon as it's off the pole dancers, this old woman in a gilet, jumps onto the stage and starts clicking to get the dog's attention so that the dog was looking at the strippers. And then the pole dancers are still doing pole dancing around this old lady. It's moments like that where you're like "I have this bizarre job that's really exciting."
In a world like the one in Extraordinary, what would you want your superpower to be?
I think teleporting would be great. I'm often afraid of being late for stuff and I often end up spending way too much time planning how to be as time efficient as possible in a way that I'm not sure is a good use of my time. I think if I start doing this at the same time as this... ooh, maybe multitasking? No. That's not. I mean, that's something people can do.
So teleporting. Or, I'd like to be able to turn any stretch of floor into a travelator. You know that feeling when you're walking on a travelator and you're like, I just walk better than other people. Then you step off it and I think that for me is the perfect feeling of extraordinary. Stepping off a travelator and realising the distance between your idea of yourself and who you are. So if I has a superpower, I would never have to step off that travelator again.
Your character is a shapeshifter. If you too were a shapeshifter, what would you like to shapeshift into?
Nothing too small because actually insects really freak me out and I think if insects relative to my size were big, I'd hate that. That'd be fucking awful. But similarly, I am terrified of heights. Which is good as I didn't do any flying in this show. I never got to go on the wires in the green screen studio. I'm super aware that I would've had a terrible time.
I think some of those sequences were filmed after the wrap party, which means some people are very hungover when they're on those wires, which I quite like knowing!
It would be absolutely great to be something with four legs. I think that would be a surprisingly great experience. I was going to say. flightless bird, but that feels really sad. A pheasant. The saddest bird out there. I'm going to say deer. I'd quite like to be a deer.
How do you think the world as it is now would cope with a world in which everyone has a superpower?
This is the thing that I think the show deals with so beautifully. It's like that thing about human beings basically having a base level of happiness that just doesn't change that much depending on your situation. And I think this is really what this show is about. People are always gonna end up being people.
If you're someone who's convinced that your life sucks, no amount of change in your circumstances is going to change that. Your circumstances aren't what needs to change. And I guess to extrapolate that, I basically think that if everyone had superpowers, things would be really out of control for like 10 years and then... it's the same with Covid, right?
We're very adaptable as a species and we're very ready to accept new circumstances and that becomes your new base level. I remember for ages during the lockdowns thinking "Oh my god, I can't wait to do this again or do that again" and now we kind of can do those things again, it's a bit like "Oh.". Your base level of happiness hasn't really changed.
No one runs around filled with gratitude. We still have the same 24 hours in a day and I spend quite a lot of it in bed. So, I genuinely don't think it would throw the world that far out of balance. I guess what you would find is maybe differing levels of status for what powers people have. Which is something I think the show explores a little bit. But I don't know if that's so different to other ways in which we accord status in society.
The thing that I love so much about the show is just how mundane it is for people. You can have a world where you can fly or be super strength, but it still matters to Jen's mother, Mary, whether or not her daughter's got into a Conservatoire.
There are other people who can literally play the violin with their mind, but that doesn't matter because that's not status.
Extraordinary is going out in America on Hulu and worldwide on Disney+. Outside of the UK, how do you think audiences are going to take to the show?
Weirdly, we're really doing the numbers in Hungary. If you see the Hungarian dubbed trailer, that is really doing the numbers.
I think this show is extremely visual and extremely visually engaging and again as someone whose background is in visual comedy, that was really appealing to me. I think it's something that helps make the show immediately appealing to people, even if they're not speaking the same language.
The same things are kind of ridiculous everywhere. Also, it's set in an area of London that is so multicultural. I don't feel like, even though that juxtaposition between the humour and the mundanity and the extreme and the absurd, feels like a very eccentric form of British humour, I do feel like the setting feels very universal.
One of the strangest things for me with this show was doing press and hearing journalists from around the world being like "I really loved this show." That I think was the first moment where I was going "Oh my god, this is like actually happening!"
This is your first major television role. How do you feel about this going out not just here in the UK, but worldwide also?
The whole thing of it being my first TV role on this kind of scale, was really helpful to play this part because he's a character who is continually disorientated and that's exactly how I felt filming this. Again, it just felt like such a gift of a role in terms of the easiest you can make it for someone who has no idea what they're doing.
It's hard to talk about this show and not mention the ending. Without giving any spoilers because it's a wonderful surprise when what happens, happens. But can you remember your reaction to the ending? And how do you think audiences will react?
It still gave me goosebumps watching it. I love that that particular scene, and I think Extraordinary does this quite beautifully, where some of the scenes right after the credits are a return of a really beloved character, or side character. Those post-credit scenes are the ones that seemed to change quite a lot in the scripts as well.
I remember in one version of the script, a character was just killed off. I won't say who. But it was one of the vigilantes and they were just dead! Then it was written out and changed. Phew!
My first appearance is in a post-credit scene. That revelation at the end of the series is part of a post-credit scene. I think the series does quite a beautiful job of a slightness of hand. I don't think it's what you'd ever expect for that character. I want it to give you goosebumps. I love that. I love that shot.
Audiences can binge it or save it and watch at their own pace. What would you prefer?
I mean, I'd suggest watching it with the other three leads of Extraordinary which is how I watched it. And to me, something I really like about this show is that it isn't a sitcom. It isn't this thing where there are no consequences per episode.
I really love that the characters really develop and there are some big irreversible changes that mean you can be a lot braver with the characters than you might in a totally conventional sitcom. I think this show is about real life rather than a fantasy wish-fulfilment version of the world where superpowers do everything for you. Or that you can't do irreparable damage to people, because you can.
I really love the plotlines in the last episode for this reason, especially for Bilal's character Kash, that's a really interesting way to explore how powers might give you the tools to ruin your own life.
In terms of how I'd recommend people watch it. I'm not a big binger myself, I have to admit. But I do feel like this show encourages you to try and watch one more. I think I would watch them in pairs. I would pair them up.
Whatever you do, please don't skip the credits or you won't have a clue as to what's going on.
Finally, what's next for you? More live comedy?
Yeah, I'm going to be doing my Edinburgh show from last year's Fringe at the Soho Theatre in July. I'm really excited to do it again. Obviously, TV releases are quite complicated beasts, they work on very different timescales, so I was trying to work out when this show was going to be released.
With a live show, you book in the dates and then with TV you're like "So when's it being released?" and they're like "You will never know that because there are so many other people who need to make a decision about that. You'll be the last person to know."
So anyway, I decided to wait to bring that show back to London after doing it in Edinburgh, but I had such a fun time doing that in Edinburgh and it feels very exciting to do TV work, which hopefully will bring a new audience to the kind of work that I create myself.
I do think there's a lot that those things have in common. One of the things that really drew me to Emma's scripts is the beauty of the writing, how inventive it is and how visually imaginative it is, which is always the work that I'm drawn to. I'm not very drawn to series where the relationships are true or very recognisable in conventional terms.
I hope that if I do more of this kind of work, it will give me the confidence to continue to experiment more in my live work with the confidence that there'll be an audience for something like that.
Live work is so important for me cause it's kind of like the coalface of my creativity. When I do gigs, it's never really been to make money, it's always been to develop new ideas. The format of an hour-long show has always been what excited me the most.
This show, Bowerbird, is made of material that I've been playing with for a few years before Covid and then arranging that in a form that finally made sense. So I'm really excited to go back to it and maybe tour it in a little bit.
Extraordinary launches Wednesday on Disney+

domain: artistic


text:
Spiralized Broccoli and Chicken Cheesy Marinara Bake
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 pound boneless skinless chicken breast, chopped into cubes
- salt and pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 large head of broccoli stem spiralized with Blade D, florets chopped
- 1/4 cup chicken broth low sodium
- 1/3 cup jarred marinara sauce
- 1/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- parmesan cheese to garnish (optional)
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Heat the oil in a medium oven-safe skillet over medium-high heat. Once oil is shimmering, add in the chicken and season with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Cook for 7 minutes or until no longer pink on the inside and lightly browned. Remove the chicken from the skillet and set aside on a plate. Add in the broccoli and broccoli noodles, season with salt and pepper, and toss. Add in the chicken broth, toss, and cook for 5 minutes or until broccoli is tender.
Add back the cooked chicken and remove from the heat and pour over the marinara sauce and stir to combine.
Place the mixture into a small casserole dish or keep it in the skillet and top with the cheese and bake in the oven for 5 minutes or until cheese melts.

domain: food


text:
I am a rising junior computer science student that will be attending Northwestern University in the fall, with experience as a TA at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
In addition to pursuing my studies, I'm in the process of searching for a software development internship position for summer 2019. If you are looking for an intern with a solid foundation in computer science concepts (as well as a healthy passion for programming), I'd love to hear from you.
I have started attending my first hackathons in fall 2017 by attending MHacks X and Boilermake V back-to-back. In spring 2018, I attended HackIllinois. I spent my time there developing my first RESTful API for a chrome extension. You can find specific details about the things I helped make at my Devpost profile., as well as the Projects section on this website.
For my choice of programming languages, I am most experienced (and comfortable) with Python. I also have experience writing programs in Java and C, though I can adapt to new imperative languages relatively quickly. I also have a small amount of experience with functional programming, though I have not been completely able to adjust to the functional paradigm yet.
I also have classroom experience with SQL (Oracle SQL and PostgreSQL) -- so I'm able to do work with databases.
I use both Windows and Linux as operating systems of choice, depending on the task at hand -- if I'm doing a lot of programming work, I'll boot Ubuntu. If I want to take advantage of Microsoft's technologies (primarily for gaming), I'll switch to Windows.
I sometimes joke to myself that I was born with a keyboard in my hands. Since I was very little, computers have always fascinated me. The sheer complexity that goes into these machines is captivating -- if you have seen the schematics for any processor (such as the Intel 8008), you know what I mean.
In my free time, I enjoy PC gaming. Some old favorite titles of mine include Team Fortress 2, the Mass Effect series, and Simcity 4.
Recently, I've also started to enjoy cooking -- it's somewhat similar to programming in that when you do either of these things, you start with a simple collection of entities (ingredients in cooking, language syntax and keywords in programming) that you put together to form a complex, rich final product.

domain: hobby


text:
New Yorktown AD, football coach ready to get going
June 28, 2013 at 1:28 a.m.
Ty Robinson is doing his best to make up for lost time.
Robinson was named athletic director and head football coach at Yorktown at a meeting of the school district's board of trustees on Thursday.
He met with some of his players Friday, and plans to start work Monday.
"I need to learn a little about them," Robinson said, "and they need to learn a little about me."
Robinson got the job a week after the Yorktown trustees hired Alan Umholtz, as the district's superintendent.
Robinson previously worked with Umholtz as the athletic director and head football coach at Overton in 2008 and 2009 and had a record of 7-13.
Robinson comes to Yorktown from Palestine where he was the defensive coordinator for the past three seasons.
He was also a defensive coordinator at Jasper and Carthage.
Robinson was an assistant at Odessa Permian and worked at Agua Dulce in 2002 and 2003, where he became familiar with Yorktown.
"I coached against them when I was at Agua Dulce," he said. "I always thought they had a good mix of kids."
Robinson will replace Trey Alexander, who had been the athletic director and head football coach for two seasons, and the high school principal for five years before resigning from all three positions earlier this month.
Robinson said he was commuting 70 miles to work in Palestine, and his family is looking forward to moving to a smaller community.
The move will also bring Robinson closer to his brother, Bo, who is the athletic director and head football coach at La Vernia.
Yorktown had an overall record of 6-4 last season. The Wildcats were 1-3 in District 15-1A, Division I and finished fourth behind Shiner, Three Rivers and Ganado.
"We can't worry about what we can't control," Robinson said. "We can only take care of what we do ourselves. We're going to work hard to get better."

domain: news


text: I give my older cat Mollie Rose kitty grass. I buy it at the pet store, it's called Cosmic Cat Grass. All you do is follow the directions and within 5 days you've got grass. Kitty grass helps with their digestive system. It also helps them if their stomach is upset. I don't give it to her on a regular basis, though. Also, beware of one type of grass that's sold. It comes in a square plastic container. You peel back the top and add water to it (the grass seeds are in some sort of gel mixed in with the soil). I tried it once and Mollie actually ate the gel and she got real sick. It irritated her throat and made her miserable. Personally, the best way (if you're not lazy like I am) to grow grass is to buy the Cosmic Kitty Grass Seeds, potting soil and plant it yourself. Put it in a nice sunny window and VOILA!! You have kitty grass. Every once in a while, cut it back and it will grow fuller (like the lawn you hate to mow). If you grow it yourself, there are less problems.

domain: agronomy


We're sorry, this item is not
available in the selected combination.
Please select again.
The Unger Pro 20 ft. Telescopic Pole makes it easy to clean in high places. The aluminum pole features a 3-sectioned design that allows it to extend from a collapsed length of 90 in. to a fully extended length of 20 ft. The pole is part of the Connect and Clean System.
|Assembled Depth (in.)||90 in||Assembled Height (in.)||2 in|
|Assembled Width (in.)||2 in||Product Length (in.)||240|
|Attachment type||Tool or Accessory||Cleaning Tool Type||Handle|
|Color||Blue/Alum||Commercial / Residential||Commercial / Residential|
|Material||Aluminum||Product Weight (lb.)||3.65 lb|
|Manufacturer Warranty||Satisfaction Guaranteed, Return to store with Receipt|
Standard Shipping includes delivery by small parcel service. Processing time varies by product.
Orders for this item may be expedited for an additional fee.
Other Delivery Options:
Express and Expedited shipping options are also available. Estimated arrival times are available in checkout.
If product is eligible for shipping to AK, HI and US Territories additional transit time and remote surcharges may apply.
Express Delivery from Store is available for items currently in stock at a The Home Depot store within a delivery ZIP code. A driver from a local store will deliver the item(s).
Outside Delivery: Service includes delivery to area outside the house which is accessible by delivery equipment.
Threshold Delivery: Service includes delivery across your first doorway or threshold (ie. garage, backyard, deck, first room of the home).


text:
Have you guys ever had an egg cream? It’s kind of a funny thing because it’s basically a chocolate soda that doesn’t have eggs OR cream in it. Chocolate syrup, milk, soda water, whisked together, and voila–it’s delicious, not quite as naughty as a chocolate milk shake, totally taking me back to my childhood at The Bluebird in Logan with my dad.
I’m not calling this an egg cream because people feel VERY strongly about their regional foods (this one hails from Brooklyn), and people seem to have very strong feelings about EVERYTHING during the weeks leading up to Christmas. I’m not making this with Fox’s U-Bet Chocolate Syrup and I’m adding peppermint (yes, I do realize that Sara and I have a serious chocolate/peppermint thing going on) and it’s that time of the year, so I’m just calling this a chocolate soda. But it’s pretty much an egg cream. [Dodging the flaming arrows right now.]
You’re going to need very cold soda water (like club soda, seltzer, or sparkling water), peppermint syrup (try World Market, Amazon, or your favorite coffee shop), chocolate syrup (I used Torani dark chocolate syrup, which I just picked up at a regular grocery store, and whole milk.
In a 16-ounce glass, add 1 1/2 tablespoons (3 pumps) of peppermint syrup, 3 tablespoons of chocolate syrup,
and 1/4 cup of milk.
Peppermint Old-Fashioned Chocolate Soda
Recipe adapted from Ina Garten
1 1/2 tablespoons peppermint syrup
3 tablespoons chocolate syrup
1/4 cup very cold whole milk
Very cold club soda, seltzer, or sparkling water
In a 16-ounce glass, whisk together the peppermint syrup, chocolate syrup, and milk. While whisking, add the soda water to fill the glass. Serve immediately with a straw. Makes 1 serving.


Resler withdraws from Christina School Board race
After initially filing for reelection last month, Christina School Board member David Resler withdrew his candidacy last week and decided not to seek a third term.
Resler’s withdrawal cedes his District F seat to his wouldbe-challenger Meg Mason, a former Maclary Elementary School principal, and Resler is just fine with that.
“I think the primary reason [I withdrew] is that we have another candidate in this district that is very capable, competent and has the ability to learn the board roles,” he said. “That gives me peace of mind that it’s time to exit.”
Resler has served on the Christina board for almost 10 years but said his job as an account executive at CPower Corporation, a position he took two years ago, has made it increasingly difficult to balance his work and board member responsibilities. Still, he filed for re-election about a week and a half before the March 4 deadline because it looked like no one else was going to step up and he didn’t want the seat to be vacant.
But when Mason filed about three days after him, Resler be- gan to reconsider his candidacy. Mason had approached Resler about running for school board a few years ago, after she retired from Maclary, so Resler said he knew her interest was real.
“I think the make-up of the board is going to be fine,” he said. “And I know she has a genuine interest in the seat.”
The large number of upcoming election forums — nine are scheduled between now and the May 10 election — didn’t play a role in his decision to drop out, though Resler admitted it would have been a little difficult to get to all of those. But it would have only been a minor inconvenience, and Resler applauded all the interest in the primary and the voters’ desire to learn more about the candidates.
With Resler’s withdrawal, the only contested race in Christina is for the District F seat in which Boys & Girls Club staff member Desiree Brady is challenging incumbent Elizabeth Paige.
While the school board is comprised of one member from each of the seven electoral areas in the school district, anyone who lives in the district can vote in the May 10 election, even if they don’t live in the electoral areas with open seats.
Mason and the winner of the District F seat will begin their five-year terms on July 1.
David Resler has decided not to run for reelection to the Christina School District Board of Education.


text:
Portadown ~ Landing Place of the Ferry
Portadown derives its name from the Irish 'Port an Dunain' which means 'landing place of the ferry'. The town has its beginnings in 1610 when James I granted 2,000 acres of land at Ballyworran (Ballyoran) to William Powell of Staffordshire. In 1611 Powell sold the land to the Reverend Richard Rolleston who then sold it to Richard Cope of Loughgall. Cope divided the land with Michael Obins who secured the land, which runs down to the west bank of the Bann.
By 1619 Obins had built a house of brick and lime along with a bawn or fortress and by 1622 had settled 30 scattered English families'. He died in 1629 and was succeeded by his son John who with his mother Prudence, secured a patent for fairs and markets in the town in 1632. Markets were then held every Saturday with a fair held on All Saints' Day and another at Pentecost, later another fair was held on Easter Monday. The opportunity for trade offered by these together with the building of the first bridge over the River Bann opened the way for commerce and prosperity in the town.
During the civil war in 1641 Portadown was pillaged by Captain Toole McCann under the command of Sir Phelim O'Neill. O'Neill was later tried and sentenced to death for the massacre of 196 settlers who drowned when thrown off the Bann bridge into the river below, those who didn't drown were killed as they reached the shore. Civil disturbances continued for several years until a garrison of Cromwellian soldiers arrived to take control of the town in October 1646.
The manufacture of linen played a major part in the economic prosperity of Portadown. In 1762 Michael Obins petitioned the House of Commons in Dublin to establish a linen market. This market laid the foundation for Portadown's reputation as a major linen manufacturing and trade centre. Factories such as Watson Armstrong and Co, J & J Acheson and Co and Castleisland Linen Company provided employment for many local people in the weaving industry. The hemstitching industry in such factories as Hamilton Robb, Spence Bryson & Co, Moneypenny and Watson, Thomas Dawson, John Gilbert, Samuel Wilson and Andrew J Lutton & Son, increased greatly and provided further employment for the area.
When Portadown began to grow at the beginning of the nineteenth century, thirteen town-lands were separated from Drumcree, to form the parish of Portadown. The townlands are: Annagh Artabrackagh Ballyworkan Baltylum Clounagh Corcrain Drumnakelly Drumnasoo Garvaghy Kilmoriaty Mahon Mullantine Tavenagh The Curate of Drumcree, Robert Henry was appointed Curate in Charge.
Portadown especially made its name in the area of fine linen or Cambric and factories such as those of Hamilton Robb, Spence Bryson & Co and the Portadown Weaving Company flourished. At the top end of the linen trade was damask manufacture and again Portadown had its share of the market with goods produced by Castelisland Weaving Co, Achesons Ltd, Tavanagh Weaving Factory and Watson Armstrong.
In the 1830s the town of Portadown had a population of around one thousand and work other than weaving was centred on the town quay and shipping from the Canal and the Lough. The scene would have been a busy one with perhaps half a dozen lighters being loaded and unloaded along with a couple of barges or schooners. The cargoes would have consisted of grain, imported timber, iron, English and Scotch coal, slates, Irish coal, flour, and oatmeal. A small schooner from Scotland or Liverpool awaits a berth to unload slates, imported timber and potash. Salt also came in direct from England.
Lighters were used on the canal, while barges which were larger worked on the river and the lough as they were too wide for the canal. Barges really came into their own with the advent of steam when they were driven by engines. The scenes at the quay would have been noisy with carters shouting and belabouring their horses, while carts rattled over the rough stones on the road, some carting grain into the Distillery, others bringing in native timber and farm produce. It was to be another 50-60 years before the roads were tarmacadamed. A long line of carts waited at the quayside to collect the cargoes. Barley was collected for the distillery across the road. Up to 3000 tons of barley was used annually by the distillery. The distillery later became Calvin's Mill.
At Shillington's Quay two lighters unload, one with coal, the other building materials. Across the river can be seen a new barge being built in Bright's Boat Yard with the resultant sounds of hammering. Later this yard was to build iron barges for clients all around the Lough. Beside Shillington's Coal Yard another lighter is being winched up the repair shop slipway for repairs. Back at the town quay, a group of people await as the flyboat "The Grand Junction" sails in to discharge her passengers and pickup those awaiting, en route for Ballyronan and Newport trench, on the west shore of the Lough. Another one is seen coming up the river carrying passengers from Belturbet. Horse drawn omnibuses, brakes and side cars stand waiting to collect passengers from the flyboat, some for an Inn or Hostelry, others to await a stage coach for distant parts. The Quay is stacked with all sorts of cargo awaiting collection or loading onto lighter or barges.
The Schooner has finished off loading and is about to take on board her outward cargo .of barrels of apples, webs of linen and webs of bag cloth. Bag cloth was used for flour and other fine powder produce and was woven with less care than linen. A raft of timber arrives at Shillington's Quay from Newry, indeed it may have come from Liverpool. Timber was, and to a lesser extent still is, tied together in a large raft, the size of which depends on the depth of water it is to float in. Three feet seemed to be suitable for the canal. In the canal the raft was pulled by a horse and poled from the Point of Whitecoat. Passing upstream is a lighter laden with sand from Coalisland bound for Newry.
The river in winter annually overflows and from September to April the Bann Meadows become a lake. Lighters would have to rely on sail to get to the Point of Whitecoat as horses obviously could not have worked. No conclusive evidence exists proving that horses did pull lighters up the river to the Point of Whitecoat other than the fact that a causeway existed at the mouth of the Cusher River. Local anglers can remember fishing from it. Another man can remember diving from it as a boy when swimming. The Department of Agriculture Drainage Division demolished it in the early sixties to improve the flow - it would have been lying disused from the introduction of the steam tug in the eighteen twenties.
The first steam boat to sail on Lough Neagh was the "Marchioness of Donegall" in 1821, a paddle steamer. She sailed, or rather worked out of Ellis's Cut but her operation proved expensive to run and she was laid up circa 1845. The first steam boats to sail out of Portadown were the "Grand Junction" and the "Countess of Caledon". They were flyboats operating services from Portadown to and from Ballyronan on the west shore of the Lough and to Enniskillen and Belturbet. They were scrapped in 1851, presumably because the trains outmoded them.
By the eighteen eighties there were six quays and two slipways in the town, with a further five smaller ones between Robbs ferry, Derrybroughas, and Moyallon. Some were small private quays like the one at Carrickblacker House, which had its own small canal from the river Bann to a landing stage at the bottom of the slope leading to the big house. It was used for deliveries of coal and turf.
In 1888 George Henry Bassett wrote his History of Portadown in which he writes:
Portadown is pleasantly situated on the Bann, 87 and one quarter miles north by west from Dublin, 25 miles south by west from Belfast, 10 and a half miles north-east from Armagh, and 5 miles south-west from Lurgan. Estimated population, 10,000 in 1888. It is an important junction in the system of the Great Northern Railway, embracing the counties of Armagh, Antrim, Down, Monaghan and Tyrone, and at the chief port on the canal between Newry and Lough Neagh. The ground rises high enough at both sides of the river to afford a great many beautiful sites for villas, and the wealthy residents, in recent years, have taken advantage of them to such an extent, as to greatly enrich the picturesque features of the outskirts.
From the manufacturing point of view Portadown comes next to Lurgan. In its weaving and hem-stitching factories, and spinning mills, employment is given to over 3,000 people, and it is the centre of a district in which there are upward of 2,500 cottage-weavers. As a market for general produce it ranks with the foremost towns in the North of Ireland. The great market is held every Saturday, and although several inclosed places are specially provided for conducting transactions incident to sale and purchase, there is an overflow of odds-and-ends that has a fascination for the country people, the effect of which is quite amusing. A prominent figure in the overflow is the vendor of second-hand clothing. In style, manner and get-up he is intensely dramatic, and with every article offered, goes through a form sustained by speech and gesture to a most artistic climax. Travelling shooting-galleries, shows on wheels, dancing maidens, and venerable acrobats, in a modest way, second the efforts of the clothing artist. The warehouse windows, and the side-walks in front, on such occasions are dressed in bright colours. Indeed, nothing seems to be left undone in order to make the day one of genuine pleasure as well as of business.
The residents of Portadown have considerable taste. This fact soon becomes manifest to the stranger in going through the streets. Most of the building are well constructed and sightly, and the places of worship, in architectural outlines and internal decoration, are very much above the average. Societies for mental and physical culture exist in proportion to the requirements of the population, and there is a public park, purchased and laid out by subscription, in which the people are familiarized with the beauties of nature.
In every direction from Portadown the formation of the country is favourable to agricultural operation. The land is generally good. Potatoes, oats and flax are the principal crops. Dairying is not carried on as largely as it was ten years ago, but it still receives attention. A great many of the farmers find fruit-growing a valuable aid to income. Apple-orchards are abundant, especially toward the west, facing Loughgall. In the season it is not uncommon to find 200 loads of apples on one Saturday in Portadown.
Before the power of England became supreme in the County Armagh, the district of Portadown was in possession of the McCanns. They were subordinate to the O'Neills and had a stronghold which commanded the passage of the Bann, and gave name to the place, Port-ne-dun, port of the dun or fortress. In those days the wealth of chieftains was measured by the number of cattle in their herds. Payments of consequence, such as tribute to the kings, ransomes, etc., were made in cattle. Cattle were also used as a means of barter. The country of the M'Canns was well adapted for grazing purposes, and no doubt was largely used in this way. At the time of the Plantation of Ulster, 1609, James 1, granted an extensive "portion" of land here to William Powell. In 1625 this was confirmed to Prudence Obins and John Obins. They formed a settlement with 14 English families, and built a fine mansion in the Elizabethan style, with turreted corners. It was called a castle and its chief approach was by way of the thoroughfare now known as Castle Street. The People's Park was a part of the demesne, and the nursery of Messrs. Samuel McGredy & Son, Woodside, was the site of at least a portion of the mansion. A few years ago, during the progress of an excavation in the grounds devoted to rose cultivation, a vaulted passage was discovered. It runs into the People's Park, and is 6 feet high and 4 feet wide. A few green oaks mark the parts known as the Castle Gardens. One at the gate entering the Park, a short distance below the nursery, is in a wonderful state of preservation, and really worth seeing, especially by those interested in arboriculture. The Yeomanry Barrack stood at the opposite side of the road from the nursery, now the residence of Mr.Seth Robb.
During the war of 1641, directed by the Confederate Parliament at Kilkenny, terrible scenes were enacted at Portadown Bridge. Captives taken by Sir Phelim O'Neill were brought from various parts of the country, and drowned in the river, those escaping the water being killed as they reached the shore. After Col. Owen Roe O'Neill had assumed command of the "Catholic Army of the North," he took prompt measures to put a stop to the horrors which had been sanctioned by his predecessor. Imprisoned families were released, and the strife conducted more in accordance with ideas of chivalry. At the trial of Sir Phelim in Dublin, 1652, a supernatural element was introduced. One of the witnesses, wife of Captain Price, testified that she was present at Portadown Bridge, when the form of a woman rose out of the water, and cried, "Revenge, revenge, revenge". Col. Owen Roe O'Neill was also here, and by his directions a Catholic priest questioned the apparation in English and Latin without eliciting a reply. A Protestant clergyman from the English army, specially sent for, addressed it on another occasion, and the words, "Revenge, revenge, revenge", were repeated. It was said that for some time the heads and forms of men and women were frequently seen at the same place. The trial ended ing the conviction of Sir Phelim O'Neill, and he was put to death.
Portadown is owned by the Duke of Manchester. From the time of the Obins settlement progress was slow until the introduction of the linen industry at the beginning of the century. In 1819 the population numbered 900. In 1831 it had increased to 1,591 and in 1881 to 7,850 At present it cannot be far from 10,000. Portadown is a district parish, and was confined to the barony of O'Neilland West, on the western side of the Bann, until 1840. Its boundary was then extended to the parish of Seagoe. The principal thoroughfare of the town is united to Edenderry by a fine stone bridge. A few of the factories, the gas works, railway station, and many of the handsome private residences are on the same side.
Soon after the passing of the Act to provide for the lighting, cleansing, and watching of town, 1829, Portadown took advantage of it. The inhabitants lost no time in petitioning the Lord Lieutenant to be brought within the scope of the Towns Improvement Act of 1854. On the 8th January, 1885, the Commissioners elected under it held their first meeting. They were : John Obins Woodhouse, chairman, Thomas Averell Shillington, William Langtry, William Paul, Thomas Harden Carlton, John Wilson, David Thornton, David Wilson Irwin, John Watson, John James Marley, James O'Hanlon, William Montgomery, David Ferguson, and William John Dawson.
Of the entire number three only survive ; Messrs. James O'Hanlon, David Thornton, and William Montgomery. No change has been made in the town boundary since 1840. It includes the whole townland of Tavanagh, Corcrain, from Tavanagh and Clounagh to Pound Lane, thence to a point next to Corcrain Bridge, to the Dungannon Road, the Ballybay River, to the drain passing under Castle Island Bridge, continuing by the drain across the Bann, taking in Edenderry to the Lurgan Road, "and by the ditch outside Mr. Carlton's garden to the bogs, and from the end of said ditch, in a straight line, to the River Bann, at the point where the mearing between Edenderry and Levaghery meets at the river."
This year, 1888 the Local Government Board has been asked to sanction a further extension of the boundary from "Lurgan Road to Seagoe Turns, and from Quarry's Turns to end of Quarry's property on Killicomain Road, and from Annagh Bridge, on Tandragee Road, to south end of James Totten's property on same road". This would bring in that portion of the townland of Edenderry not included in the boundary of 1840, and the whole townland of Annagh. The object is to get jurisdiction over a district in which new villas and other dwellings have been erected, so that the occupiers, by contributing to the taxes levied by the Commissioners, may share in the benefits of public lighting, cleansing and sewerage.
The town was brought under the provisions of the Sanitary Act of 1874, and continued under the Amended Act of 1878. In 1857 the valuation of property within the boundary was £5,210.10s. and the rate for general purposes 1s. in the £. In 1862 the valuation was £7,066.5s. and the general purposes rate 1s.
The progress of the town between 1862 and 1870 is marked by an increase in the valuation to £14,163.15s., more than double, while the rate for general purposes continued the same. In 1876 the valuation was £15,162.5s., and the rate for general purposes that year was only 11d. in the £. The valuation in 1886 was £17,510.15s., and the rate for general purposes 1s. In 1887 the valuation was £17,679.10s., and the rate for general purposes is 1s.
Our thanks to George Robinson and George Henry Bassett.

domain: geography


US Supreme Court won’t rule again on arbitrability
The US Supreme Court will not issue a second ruling in a case based on whether arbitrators can decide the issue of arbitrability.
To read more
Subscribe to Global Arbitration Review
Subscribe to unlock unlimited access
Get news, unique commentary, expert analysis and essential resources from the Global Arbitration Review experts.


XSM is a professional Mobile Crushing Station ( Used Coal Mine Mobile Crushing Plant) manufacturer, Used Coal Mine Mobile Crushing Plant Manufacturing from XSM,and in many places a practical application.
If you want to buy the product, asking price or have any questions, you are free to contact our customer service.
Used Coal Mine Mobile Crushing Plant
Coal Mining Methods
So far, lots of consumers have inquired about our coal mining machinery. Currently, XSM can offer you varied coal mining equipment for our global clients. Right here we focus on the two styles of coal mining machinery, taking the coal crusher and conveying procedure as an example. Then let us get a mindful search at the two forms of coal mining machinery respectively.
Open Pit Mining Methods
When coal seams are close to the surface, it might be economical to extract the coal employing open reduce (also known as open cast, open pit, or strip) mining strategies. Open cast coal mining recovers a greater proportion from the coal deposit than underground methods, as much more in the coal seams during the strata might be exploited. Big Open Cast mines can cover an place of quite a few square kilometers and use very substantial pieces of gear. XSM supplies finish variety of open pit coal mining and quarry crusher plant for sale.
Underground Mining Methods
Most coal seams are too deep underground for opencast mining and demand underground mining, a strategy that at this time accounts for about 60 % of globe coal production. In deep mining, the room and pillar or board and pillar system progresses along the seam, even though pillars and timber are left standing to support the mine roof.
Technological advancements have created coal mining nowadays additional productive than it has ever been. To maintain up with engineering and also to extract coal as efficiently as is possible modern-day mining personnel need to be highly experienced and well educated in the utilization of complicated, state-of-the-art instruments and tools.
Coal ore mining equipment
XSM coal mining technology is a world leader. Our technology and services covered by the finish of the array, from feasibility research, plant design and product manufacturing task implementation and the establishment of methods plants. With the understanding of technological innovation, we have developed a coal ore mining machine full range of sales, such as coal mining equipment, coal crusher, coal crusher, screening plants, washing machines, coal management products, coal planning plant and so on.


text:
Is Time up for ‘The Big Lie’?
Over the past five years the Tories and their Lib Dem supporters have lied on an epic scale. Orwellian double-think and newspeak has nothing on them. They damn Labour for borrowing, whilst borrowing more than Labour has done, not only during the previous Labour administration but in history; boast of growth whilst overseeing the slowest economic recovery since the South Sea Bubble 300 years ago; and a rate of growth that still doesn’t match the one they inherited – and let no-one mention that the national debt Labour was bequeathed in 1997 (as a % of GDP) was larger than was passed on to the Tories in 2010.
The Tories know this perfectly well. But the credit crunch was a Tory wet dream, offering undreamed-of opportunities to implement a huge shift of wealth away from the public to a tiny ruling elite. It is no coincidence that the U.K. now has the largest number of billionaires per head of population than any other country. When the Tories ask where the money has gone – referencing ‘that’ note – the answer is clear.
From the privatisation of the Royal Mail for £1bn less than its market value – at a conservative estimate – to the handing out of NHS contracts to the private sector, the evidence of how this asset-stripping is playing out is there for all to see.
But what is in plain sight is not always what is most visible.
I give you, for your distraction, the ever-changing galaxy of scapegoats presented by our friends in the media and their Tory chums: foreigners; gay men and women; black people; asylum-seekers; refugees; gypsies; benefit scroungers; and, the current favourite – Muslims. There are many, many more, of course.
The crowding around the political centre ground left many working class people feeling abandoned, disenfranchised, bemused by what has happened and angry at the impact the undermining of their lives, homes and jobs has had upon them. UKIP, the ultra-Tories, have simply taken the next step, exploiting those fears to argue, for example, that raising the Minimum Wage would attract more lazy foreigners to the country, to take our jobs whilst living on benefits – let’s not dwell on that contradiction too long. The lie remains, only it’s even larger and even more dangerous.
Yes, only an idiot would argue that strategy hasn’t worked to an extent. A bigger idiot, though, would argue that everyone attracted by UKIP’s rhetoric is, therefore, racist, a hopeless, mindless bigot to be dismissed. Of course they’re not.
In their private lives when people go through the ups and downs of life they often grasp at small, almost insignificant issues and obsess about them. An argument about a partner not remembering to do the shopping, to put the bin out, to sort the gas bill, all these become mountainous problems because they feel themselves to still have an element of control over them – the ‘small stuff’. The underlying problems are too big, too difficult to face and are put to one side but forgetting to hang out the washing, now that sums up what’s wrong with your life…..
As in private, so it follows that the big public issues of the day can seem unfathomable, so far beyond their control that they don’t bear thinking about, let alone understanding, because there is no point. An earnest discussion of globalisation, the free movement of capital but not labour or the operation of City trading houses will leave many people completely cold. So, back to the ‘small stuff’: now, that bloke at no. 26 who’s never done a day’s work in his life, who claims benefits…., he’s the one. He is what is wrong with society. And those they read about in the press, now if we sort them….
And, returning to the theme, why would anyone tell such blatant lies about Romanians, Muslims, etc.? There must be some truth in it because they wouldn’t print such stuff if it wasn’t basically true, give or take the odd exaggeration…. Surely. Surely, people don’t tell such outrageous lies….
The last General Election saw an unpopular Labour Government, dealing with the biggest financial crisis in modern times, still suffering from the hangover of ‘New Labour’ – just how toxic that had become – and it hit rock bottom. But the Tories didn’t win. Despite everything, they had to be propped up by the Lib Dems (when ‘propping up’ was fine – it’s a crime now, it seems.). Was this the first sign of the weakening of the ‘Big Lie’? People were clearly fed up with Labour but not enough bought into the Tory message.
Cameron and Osborne have perfected their straight faces whilst telling the biggest lies possible but still not enough people have fallen for them. And as the election has approached, the lies have gotten larger and, abandoning all pretence of reporting news, their allies in the traditional media have joined in making a huge noise about how a man eats a bacon sarnie. There can never have been a worse, more negative, down-right vicious campaign in modern British political history.
But the louder they shout, the clearer it is becoming that not enough people are listening to them. Today’s headlines [6th May 2015] go beyond hysterical. The plebs, it seems, aren’t paying enough attention.
Younger people have tended to vote differently to the older sections in society but is that gap widening? Some of the polls suggest there is a growing and significant difference between the levels of support for UKIP by age-group. Society has changed and UKIP focuses upon older people, relying on a twisted version of nostalgia to spread its appeal, so that’s understandable. But what else is going on? At the same time the amount of time spent by people reading print news media is seemingly in terminal decline, likewise the time spent watching network TV news is suffering too. By contrast, the numbers accessing their information from the internet, and social media, has grown and grown. And internet polls are now beginning to highlight different outcomes to those carried out by telephone. (But that’s all Russell Brand’s fault, isn’t it?)
There is always the issue of causation against correlation but is the increasing use of the internet with the access it provides to a bewildering array of information (yes, not all good), information that is not controlled by peddlers of the ‘Big Lie’ changing how people think? If the messages given to people by the Tories can’t rely upon their massive reinforcement by the Murdochs and Mails of this world, is it the beginning of the end for the very tool that has been so useful to them up to now?
Well, probably not. Not yet. But, to paraphrase Winston Churchill – a man who knew the power of words if nothing else – whilst this isn’t the end; it isn’t even the beginning of the end; but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning for the growing challenge to the ‘Big Lie’.
And aren’t they terrified of that?
Welcome to Breadline Britain
from Gracie Samuels
With all the furore over energy prices and now water bills, it’s about time someone mentioned those who are forced to buy their energy through prepayment metering by the energy companies.
Often it is the weakest, the poorest and the most vulnerable in our society who are forced to purchase their energy like this. For example: The low-waged; the disabled; the elderly; the unemployed and single parents, those forced to live on benefits and also those “hardworking people” the prime minister talks so glibly about who are struggling with the soaring cost of living. These are the people who are existentially being hit by these price hikes much harder than people who pay directly by direct debit.
As these people have been placed on prepayment plans by their energy providers they will end paying more than the price hike for their domestic fuel bills. Prepayment means they will be asked to pay for their gas and electricity before they actually use it.
Those consumers who have been placed on prepayment metering have usually been placed on them because they cannot afford their energy bills or may have been late paying their bills on a few occasions. These consumers often have no choice and and the metre[s] will be installed by their energy providers whether the consumer wants them or not.
The energy companies take the view that they will not terminate supply for non-payment but will install a prepayment metre. Often the rate of gas or electricity consumption is set on an estimation of how much the consumer is likely to use, plus the metre is also set to recoup any debt owed to the company. So if the consumer buys £15 of electricity or gas on their card/key to top up their prepayment metre and they owe the energy company for a previous bill, the energy company will automatically take half of that payment to recover any arrears and for standing charges. The consumer may be left with as little as £7.50 for gas or electricity out of their original £15.00. This process will continue until the debt is cleared. So if the debt is around £100 it may take at least around 16 weeks to clear. That is 16 weeks of often the poorest, the disabled, the low waged, the unemployed and often some of our most vulnerable consumers of gas and electricity who are already experiencing fuel poverty being forced into even more fuel poverty while the debt is collected. Unfortunately the energy companies do not usually make adjustments for seasonal collections of debt, so the arrears could be being collected through the deepest of our winter months, exposing people to the risk of hypothermia!
Many of these metres are placed outside in awkward to reach places or inside in awkward to reach places making it very difficult for the elderly or disabled to reach. This also has hidden problems and dangers if the consumers does run out of gas for any reason it will mean relighting pilot lights on gas boilers before normal supply can be fed through to their heating systems, often people, especially the elderly and the disabled have great problems reigniting these pilot lights especially if they have back boilers as this means laying on the floor to reach the pilot light and this means they will be forced to sit in freezing cold conditions until someone can come and help them. (if indeed they have anyone that can help!)
This is not all, because these vulnerable people are on prepayment plans and metres, the energy companies say it costs more to collect their bills so people will usually pay more for their energy. if they cannot afford to buy tokens or re charge their card or keys then they will not have any energy. Also during the coldest months when people need to buy more gas and electricity to keep warm, then the more energy they purchase, the more of their money will be taken off of them to pay off their arrears.
There are also hidden costs, the nearest charging point may not be near and consumers will be faced with the additional cost of getting to their nearest charging point. If people are on both gas and electricity prepayment plans then the charging points for gas and electricity may even be located in separate locations adding to the problems.
What is the government doing about this very serious problem? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! As usual David Cameron is standing by and allowing his friends the in the energy companies to make even more money out of our most vulnerable people.
Not only is Cameron and this hideous government doing nothing to help these people, they are actually making their situations worse by cutting their benefits, even though many of these people will actually be IN WORK!
Iain Duncan Smith at the Department for Work and Pensions has made these peoples lives intolerable in many different ways will be making it impossible for these struggling people not only to feed and clothe their families and themselves this winter, but to pay something as basic as their fuel bills will also prove impossible.The hidden costs of the Tories and Liberal Democrats welfare reforms are many and varied.
Bedroom Tax – thousands of people are now being forced to pay between £14 and £24 per week or between £56 and £96 extra per month out of their low wages or benefits for extra bedrooms if they are deemed not to be needed by the DWP. Many of these people are working on low pay or are disabled and need their bedrooms and thus far it has not created one single situation where it has actually helped anyone, there are no smaller properties for people to move into. It is one of the nastiest ill thought out, ill conceived pieces of legislation in the entire history of the British parliament. Yet still this government will not admit they have got it wrong and get rid of this ludicrous policy. (If the Labour party win the next election they have promised to repeal the bedroom tax) 96% of people affected by the Tories bedroom tax have nowhere to go, in effect they are trapped and are now falling into arrears with council for non payment of bedroom tax as well as falling into arrears with domestic fuel bills.
Housing Benefit Caps – Starting in July 2013 and earlier in some pilot areas, the government introduced a cap on the amount of housing benefit you can receive. At first, the benefit Cap will only affect those in receipt of Housing Benefit, however later, it could also affect those who are in receipt of Universal Credit. if the cap affects you then your benefit will go down. Again this not only affects those who are entirely in receipt of benefits, it also affects those on low wages who receive help with their rent and council tax.
Working Families Tax Credit Cuts – Due to government changes the new rules on working tax credits from April 2013 will hit around 212,000 low income families according to information published in the House of Commons Library. This will reduce income on average by around £2,600 per year. This affects ALL those “hard working people” that David Cameron keeps talking about. Up until now providing one partner works at least 16 hours per week, they would be eligible for tax credits, but now couples will need to work at least 24 hours between them to apply, with one partner working at least 16 hours. It means that “hardworking families” will see their incomes fall by around 30%.
Council Tax benefit cuts – Are forcing people to stay on the side of the law or to break it in order to feed, liable for charges between 10% and 30% of the full bill. Again many of these people are IN work earning low pay and have been forced into this position by this government. How much money are councils losing in non payment and in chasing people for payment? how much money is taking all of these people to country costing the country? How are people already struggling to live going to manage having to pay higher fuel bills and some are paying the bedroom tax and some are also now being charge council tax on top of everything else.
|People Queuing outside Peterborough Magistrates Court
Answering Summonses for non payment of council tax.
It’s not they won’t pay it is because they CAN’T pay!
How will they manage to clothe their families and heat and light their homes? More than a 100,000 people have been issued with court summonses for non payment of council tax. Many people whom have never been in council tax arrears in their lives before now suddenly find themselves in debt owing large amounts and hundreds are turning up on council office doorsteps to protest, or are being forced to form queues outside Magistrates courts where they will be tried and fined EXTRA money for non payment of council tax bills. Most of the people who are being fined do NOT have the money to pay the bill in the first place which is why they are now being forced to court. An estimated 1.9 million who did not have to pay council tax before the changes now find themselves deeply in debt with their incomes cut and no way of paying for soaring food prices and soaring energy prices.
As you can see some of David Cameron’s and the Tories and Liberal Democrat government’s “hardworking families” can be clobbered at least 4 times each and the total effect on their weekly incomes will be absolutely devastating, can anyone in this absolutely ludicrous insane narcissistic government please explain how on top of all these cust, people are going to be able to pay to keep their homes warm and lit? How will all those on prepayment metres cope with the soaring costs of energy on top of all of these cuts?
Why isn’t someone doing something about the energy companies charging vulnerable people MORE per unit of energy ABOVE the price everyone else pays?
The devastating verdict is in just one year this Tory led Coalition Government has pushed a million people into absolute poverty and all the progress the previous Labour government made in tackling relative child poverty has ground to a halt. In their first year this Government have pushed a million people into poverty and it is getting worse.
Now more than 5 million people in Britain are being paid less than the minimum wage, thanks to the Tory and Lib Dem Coalition Government’s naked attack on peoples living standards and their deliberate driving down of wages.
How are these people going to afford to heat and light their homes?
A recent Oxfam report says that austerity will drive more than one million children into poverty. The Oxfam report says George Osborne’s cuts and tax rises are “massively increasing” inequality in the UK and the Government’s austerity policies will push a further 800,000 children into poverty. Oxfam warns that by 2020 there will be an additional 800,000 children – up from 2.3 million at present – and 1.9m more adults living below the breadline.
How are these people going to afford to heat and light their homes?
Food Banks – Over 350,000 people received emergency help from the Trussell Trust food banks between April and September 2013. Inquiries for help at foodbanks has tripled this past year. The level of poverty and deprivation in the country is not acceptable, it is scandalous. Michael Gove should hang his head in shame for accusing people of not managing their money properly, they have no money to manage he and his government have seen to that! And his wife filling her fridge and cupboards with junk foods throughout the summer and writing about it is just callous and shows how out of touch this hideous government is.
The Trussell Trust has also reported that people have been giving back items that need cooking because they cannot afford the gas or electricity to cook them, this is an absolute abomination, we are the 7th richest country in the world and we are forcing the poor, unemployed, the elderly, the disabled and the vulnerable to pay for the greed of the bankers.
And what is George Osborne’s answer to this while Ed Miliband is fighting the Government and the energy conglomerates to try and get a better deal for people? George Osborne is away with the fucking fairies in the EU taking them to court to safeguard bankers mega bonuses and just to add insult to injury, Osborne is forcing the taxpayer to pay over a million pounds in bankers legal fees!
The government is grabbing money from poor people hand over fist at the same time as they have given a huge tax concessions to millionaires handing them at least a £100,000 cheque tax cut. I bet they do not have to worry about turning the heating on, or worry about having enough power to cook the food a food bank gave them!
Today it is reported that cabinet ministers have been claiming thousands of pounds for energy costs, while Tories are all in it together!
|Nadhim Zahawi laughing with the PM
after the millionaire claimed £5882
back in energy costs
Our poor and vulnerable are freezing cold and cannot cook their food, and one millionaire Tory Nadhim Zahawi claimed £5882 off of the taxpayer in just 12 months, more than four times the average household bill! Yep those –
I am so glad they think the situation they have caused in this country to be so funny, they laugh while millions struggle in despair and the winter hasn’t even started properly yet!
Someone needs to do something and do it fast, if they do not then people are going to die of starvation and hypothermia this winter.
And why are the energy conglomerates charging people with prepayments metres MORE for their energy? It is a bloody disgrace!
114 year Workers’ Rights Scrapped by Coalition Government.
So, it’s official – workers today have less entitlement to be safe at work than those in Victorian Times. That the Government supports those who work and strive to support families is a nonsense. Consistently, we witness the Coalition continuously and callously attack ordinary working people. David Cameron rejoices at a return to the Victorian “Golden Age”. (1)
I recall a death certificate which I acquired from genealogical research. Metal polishing in Birmingham’s jewellery quarter in Victorian Times meant working with toxic metals, and one woman met her death when her crinoline became trapped in a lathe. These workers lived in poverty in insanitary back-to-back-housing, in poor health due to poor diet. Elsewhere, children were working in cotton mills and on the land, with little or no education and with dangerous machinery. I had imagined this was history – not the future.
The Institute for Employment Rights reports:
Last week, on the 25th April 2013, the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill was granted royal assent, bringing into law the government’s widely unpopular proposals to scrap employers’ 114-year-old liability for their staff’s health and safety in the workplace.
This means that the burden of proof now falls on the employee to show that the employer had been negligent in their duties towards them, rather than the employer being asked to prove they were following regulations correctly, as has been the case since the Victorian era. This is likely to result in injured workers, and the families of the deceased, being unable to claim compensation for their losses due to accidents at the workplace, seeing as the evidence needed to prove negligence is held by the employer rather than the employee – and employers guilty of negligence are unlikely to willingly hand over the proof. (2)
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill ERRB was amended at the very last minute by the government, by insertion of 61 clause which will mean that a worker can be injured due to an employer’s breach of a statutory duty within health and safety at work regulations but the worker will be prevented from enforcing that breach.
At present a civil claim for personal injury can be brought for negligence and/or breach of statutory duty. A breach of statutory duty would occur, for instance, if an employer failed to comply with regulations under the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA), such as failure to guard a machine or keep a gangway clear of obstructions. (3)
Employers will no longer be liable in the civil courts for the criminal offence of a breach of the HSWA regulations. In every case, rather than be able to rely on the breach of the regulations, the worker will have to prove the employer was negligent.
With the removal of legal aid, non unionised workers would be unable to challenge. Workers vulnerability to exploitative employers has been set back more than a century. Rights achieved by solidarity of working people by the Labour Movement have been ripped away. Labour opposed the ERRB Bill and must ensure a reversal when returned to government.
The ERRB motion was passed before some voters went to the polls in Local Elections last week , and without mention on the BBC and little in mainstream news.
On 16th April the government abolished the Agricultural Workers Wages Board, (AWWB) without even a debate (4) in the Commons. This will result in poverty and could lead to exploitation of children.
Next – the minimum wage is to be targeted. Introduced by the Labour Party, this lifted many from abject poverty. The Telegraph (5) reports that the minimum wage is at risk, and it could be frozen, or cut. This will put millions at risk of poverty. We are living in a divided society, where women and children are being hit hardest. People are going into debt to eat and we are seeing a resurgence of scurvy. How can this be even contemplated?
Labour List on Minimum Wage Cut
Before it was introduced millions were working for terrifyingly small salaries as low as £1 an hour. The minimum wage made work pay and released millions from the most abject poverty. Despite the scare-mongering from the right, it didn’t cost jobs. It set a legal floor below which we as a society said we would not allow – or force – people to go. (6)
We are seeing so many of Labour’s achievements in government being rolled back, the NHS, welfare state, free school meals and improved access to education. Add to that Legal Aid, the Open University, and women’s rights. In recent years, Surestart and the Minimum Wage. Equality for Women is threatened as the Government attacks Maternity Rights, and ChildCare Support. The Tories say they want “work to pay” … but it’s certainly not the workers who will benefit, it’s employers and big business.
The Conservative Party have not won a General Election in 21 years , yet the Liberal Democrats continue to keep this extreme, reactionary government in power, allowing total destruction of the Welfare State, stripping assets built and earned by working people and actively pursue policies which erode Workers’ Rights. Will Liberal Democrats look to their consciences and walk?
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
- Guardian: Conservative Nostalgia for Victorian Times is Dangerous
- Employment Rights: Victorian Era Workers’ Rights Scrapped By Coalition:
- RMT -Transport Union: Return of the Dark Satanic Mills: The End of Civil Liability in Health and Safety
- MPs abolish Farm Wages Board Farmers Weekly
- Telegraph: Minimum Wage could be Frozen or Cut, Government Suggests
- Labour List: They’re coming after the Minimum Wage – Get Angry!
- Maternity Action : Policy and Research
- Think Left: Remember the Real Divide – it is Rich and Poor
- GMB: Government taking Workforce back to Victorian Times
- Morning Star: UKIP MEP blasted after Maternity Rights Rant
- Guardian: One is Seven Women made Redundant after Maternity Leave
- BBC: Many are borrowing for food
I agree with Zoe Williams when she writes about the Tories:
… the true division of the Conservative party – the ones who are mistaken versus those who are wrong deliberately.
Some of them are simply out of their depth, do not understand the benefits system or a government’s realistic prospects of controlling the economy…Others take the Fox News approach: if you can just get enough misinformation out there, enough people who were only half-listening might half-believe you. Competing claims don’t need to relate to facts, their validity will be judged on the manner in which they’re delivered. You may have to retract later, but what does that matter? Does it even count as humiliation when the only people talking about it are the ones who disagreed with you anyway?
This is politics at its most cynical, its most rebarbative; this is politics pursued purely for personal advancement and for the game, in defiance of the public interest and the long term. I have a feeling that the first type of Tory would despise this second type even more than I do. The trick now is to tell them apart. (1)
It is open to debate as to which camp Iain Duncan Smith belongs, given his latest pronouncements on benefits:
‘from factcheck analysing IDS’s claimed figures which were inflated massively as you can see here
He claimed Labour spending was up 58% when it was 8%!
He claimed massive amounts of public monies being lost to fraud – the fraud rate was 0.7%!
He said tax credits rose by 20% in the last two years under Labour – It was 8.8%
However regardless of motivation, as George Eaton writes:
‘… even if we accept Duncan Smith’s baseline, his logic is profoundly flawed. The fact that benefits have risen faster than wages is an argument for increasing wages (for instance, by ensuring greater payment of the living wage), not for cutting benefits.’ (3)
Henry Ford would certainly have agreed with George about the flawed logic of allowing wages to decline in real terms :
I have learned through the years a good deal about wages. I believe in the first place that, all other considerations aside, our own sales depend in a measure upon the wages we pay. If we can distribute high wages, then that money is going to be spent and it will serve to make storekeepers and distributors and manufacturers and workers in other lines more prosperous and their prosperity will be reflected in our sales.
In other words, Henry Ford understood ‘Keynes’ Paradox of Thrift’ and IDS et al either do not know it, or do not choose to know it.
Fundamental to macroeconomics is a very simple formula which this government seems to completely ignore:
Spending equals income equals output which creates employment.
If IDS and the Tory/LD government really wanted to get people off benefits and into work, they would raise the minimum wage and increase benefits. That would increase spending because unlike the rich, the poor have to spend all their income on surviving.
The increased spending would create employment which would get people off benefits and into work. Of course, this would be even more effective if government actively invested in job creation.
And as an incidental, the resulting increased tax revenue would also close the structural deficit that they’re always banging on about.
‘… if you are obsessed with reducing deficits, the best way is to engender growth. The dumbest thing a government can do if it wants a lower deficit is to impose fiscal austerity. There are a lot of dumb governments out there. The problem is they are aided and abetted by criminal types who know full well it is dumb to cut net public spending but pressure governments to do so as long as the space for spending on them expands.’
As Zoe Williams says:
‘.. this is politics pursued purely for personal advancement and for the game, in defiance of the public interest and the long term. I have a feeling that the first type of Tory would despise this second type even more than I do. The trick now is to tell them apart. (1)
I look forward to her first type of Tory coming out to demonstrate against the cynical political ploys of this government.

domain: finance


text:
Twenty-seven residents have been informed that The Court Care Home in Ballymoney where they live will be closing, and in a highly unusual move, Northern Ireland’s health regulator has issued the home with a notice of the decision to deregister.
The RQIA has put a 28-day closure notice on the home with the 11th of October being the final day.
RQIA has said it is cancelling the home’s registration after it uncovered a series of concerns, in particular “the financial viability of the home going forward”.
The care home was sold to The Court Care Home (Ireland) Ltd by struggling healthcare giant Four Seasons Health Care (FSHC) last October.
This evening, we understand that five residents have already moved to other homes and 40 jobs are at risk.
In a statement to Causeway Coast Community Alan Perry, GMB Regional Organiser, said:
"News of the closure of Ballymoney The Court Care Home comes as a blow to the residents and their families who now face the prospect of securing a new safe haven for the care of their loved ones.
"The Staff of the Court will share in this worry as they have built up relationships with these residents over many years.
"For more than 18 months, the staff have cared for and supported the residents under extremely challenging times and their priority has been to ensure their safety and comfort.
"For many months, they were the only contact those residents had with the outside world and our members acutely felt that responsibility. They now face the prospect losing their livelihoods.
"The care provided by the operator of The Court Care Home has been recognised by the RQIA, the Northern Trust and residents families to be of a high standard. GMB also pays tribute to the hard work of the all the staff in the home who have ensured those standards are delivered.
"Unfortunately, closures of this nature have occurred before and will do so again as we leave the care of some of the most vulnerable in our society to a system that relies on private profit.
"A strategy to overhaul our Social Care provision has been promised and is long overdue.
"GMB represents many workers in the private care sector, and we would call on Minister Swann to ensure that this process is hastened and that the voice of those working in the industry is fully represented through proper engagement with their trade unions.
"GMB remains hopeful that a new care provider can be found with talks ongoing."

domain: sociology


text:
Processes Here some of the face-to-face processes of the Almanac of the Future are covered. These are spaces for debate, analysis and collective construction towards transitions, approaching a future - motivation in the direction of utopias.
The Circles of Sustainability fi gure used throughout this book provides a relatively simple view of the sustainability of a particular city, urban settlement, or region. The circular fi gure is divided into four domains: ecology, economics, politics and culture. Each of these domains is divided in seven subdomains, with the names of each of […]
At the request of the Amazonian Regional Articulation (ARA), Brazilian research scientist Antônio Donato Nobre of the Brazilian National Space Research Institute’s Terrestrial System Science Centre conducted The Future Climate of Amazonia report. The report demonstrates the uniqueness and importance of the Amazon Rainforest and why it is crucial for us to combat its deforestation. […]
A decade after the “Save the Rainforest” movement captured the world’s imagination, Cargill and other food giants are pushing deeper into the wilderness. Read the article


The local Purdue Extension office plans to move into a new building this fall after a rezoning request was approved by the Columbus Plan Commission.
Rick Trimpe, director of maintenance for Bartholomew County, appeared on behalf of the Bartholomew County Commissioners as part of a request to rezone 1.72 acres from heavy industrial to light industrial at 785 S. Marr Road. County officials purchased the two buildings at the location last year from Premier Ag-Co-op for $700,000, paid with monies from its Telecommunications Fund.
Premier Ag had announced a merger with Jackson-Jennings Co-op in February and had indicated it would be moving operations to Seymour this summer. The Plan Commission gave a favorable recommendation to Columbus City Council to rezone the property in a 10-0 vote.
The light industrial designation could be used for a company operating an assembly line, but also allows for some commercial and office space use such as what Bartholomew County is planning, said Jeff Bergman, city-county planning director.
Trimpe said the local Purdue Extension office, currently located at 965 Repp Drive, plans to occupy the building by mid-October. Other county offices also could moved to the site, he said.
City Council members will consider the rezoning request during its 6 p.m. meeting Sept. 5 at Columbus City Hall.


text:
I'm trying to think what else should I do? I'm 35 and husband is 37. We had a miscarriage last may and been trying to get pregnant with the help of a specialist . We've tried clomid with IUI, femara with IUI (intrauterine insemination) and now Injectables with IUI. No fertility issues according to test results. My husband has had good sperm count so far. it's been 7 cycles and I'm emotionally tired. I don't know if I should change doctor, take a break, go with natural meds
can you please give me your opinion?

domain: health


text:
Abbasian, M; baneshi, A and shirazi fard, M(2015). The Role of Basic Beliefs and Life-Management Strategies in Students' Subjective Well-Being. Journal of applied psychological research. 6(3): 87-100. [in persion].
Allan, N. P., Lonigan, C. J., & Phillips, B. M. (2015). Examining the factor structure and structural invariance of the PANAS across children, adolescents, and young adults. Journal of personality assessment, 97(6), 616-625.
Bodner, E., & Bensimon, M. (2016). The impact of disfavoured music on affect complexity in young adults. Psychology of Music, 44(4), 864-879.
Bakhshipoyr, abas and dejkam, Mahmoud(1384).Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Positive and Negative Affect Scale. Journal of psychology. 9(4): 351-365. [in persion].
Bodner, E., Palgi, Y., & Kaveh, D. (2012). Does the relationships between affect complexity and self-esteem change in the young-old and old-old? Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 68(5), 665–673.
Brose, A., Voelkle, M. C., Lövdén, M., Lindenberger, U., & Schmiedek, F. (2015). Differences in the between‐person and within‐person structures of affect are a matter of degree. European Journal of Personality, 29(1), 55-71
Brown KW, Ryan RM. (2003). The benefits of being present: mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being. Journal of personality and social psychology
Byron, N. (2006). Mindfulness Skills. Clinical Psychologist, Australia.
Chang, V. Y., Palesh, O., Caldwell, R., Glasgow, N., Abramson, M., Luskin, F., ...Koopman, C. (2004). The effects of a mindfulness-based stress reduction programon stress, mindfulness self-efficacy, and positive states of mind. Stress and Health,20(3), 141–147.
Chiesa, A., Calati, R., &Serretti, A. (2011). Does mindfulness training improve cognitive abilities? A systematic review of neuropsychological findings. Clinical PsychologyReview, 31, 449–464.
Emanuel, A. S., Updegraff, J. A., Kalmbach, D. A., & Ciesla, J. A. (2010). The role of mindfulness facets in affective forecasting. Personality and Individual Differences, 49(7), 815-818.
Esmaeili, S; tabatabaei, S.M and Afrouz, GH(2015). Effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral therapy on cognitive - emotion regulation and attentional control among addicted individuals. Journal of applied psychological research. 6(3): 133-143.[in persion].
Fjorback, L. O., Arendt, M., Ørnbøl, E., Fink, P., &Walach, H. (2011). Mindfulness‐Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness‐Based Cognitive Therapy–a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. ActaPsychiatricaScandinavica, 124(2), 102-119.
Fredrickson, B. L., Cohn, M. A., Coffey, K. A., Pek, J., & Finkel, S. M. (2008).Open hearts build lives: Positive emotions, induced through loving-kindness meditation, build consequential personal resources. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95(5), 1045.
Geschwind, N., Peeters, F., Drukker, M., van Os, J., &Wichers, M. (2011). Mindfulnesstraining increases momentary positive emotions and reward experience in adults vulnerableto depression: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 79(5), 618–628
Gill. P, Bos. H, Wit. C and Jong, P(2017). The association between PA and NA at the inter and intra-individual level. Personality and individual difference. (105)-252-256.
Hamaker, E. (2012). Why researchers should think ‘within-person’: A paradigmatic rationale.In M. R. Mehl, & T. S. Conner (Eds.), Handbook of research methods for study in daily life. New York: Guilford Press.
Hayes, A. M., & Feldman, G. (2004). Clarifying the construct of mindfulness in the context of emotion regulation and the process of change in therapy. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 11(3), 255–262.
Hu, J., & Gruber, K. J. (2008). Positive and negative affect and health functioning indicators among older adults with chronic illnesses. Issues in mental health nursing, 29(8), 895-911.
Kabat-Zinn, J. (1994). Where you go, there you are: Mindfulness meditation in everyday life. New York, NY: Hyperion.
Larsen, J. McGraw, A. Cacioppo, J.(2001). Can people feel happy and sad at the same time? Journal of personality and social psychology. 81(4), 684-696.
Lucas, R. E., & Diener, E. (2015). Personality and subjective well-being: Current issues and controversies.
Momeni, F; Shahidi, Sh; Moutabi, F and Heydari, M(2017). Comparison of the effectiveness between cognitive behavior therapy and mindfulness based cognitive therapy in mediator variables of generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of applied psychological research. 8(1): 49-66. [in persion].
Morone, N. E. Lynch, Ch. S. Greco, C. M. Tindle, H. A. Weiner, D. K. (2008), "I Felt Like a New Person, The effects of mindfulness Meditation on older adults with chronic pain: Qualitative Narrative Analysis of diary entries, The Journal of pain, ,9(9):841-848.
Ong, A. D., & Bergeman, C. S. (2004). The complexity of emotions in later life. The Journals of Gerontology Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 59, 117–122
Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., Spalter, T., Kavé, G., &Shmotkin, D. (2014). Age-related and death-related differences in emotional complexity. Psychology and aging, 29(2), 284.
Potek, R. (2012). Mindfulness as a school- based prevention program and its effect on adolescent stress, anxiety and emotion regulation: New York University.
Ready, R. E., Anna, M., Åkerstedt, A. M., & Mroczek, D. K. (2012). Emotional complexity and emotional well-being in older adults: Risks of high neuroticism. Aging and Mental Health, 16, 17–26.
Reich, J. W., Zautra, A. J., & Davis, M. (2003). Dimensions of affect relationships: Models and their integrative implications. Review of General Psychology,7(1),66–83.
Schutte, N. S., & Malouff, J. M. (2011). Emotional intelligence mediates the relation ship between mindfulness and subjective well-being. Personality and Individual differences, 5,1116-1119
Scott, S. Sliwinski, M. Mogle, J and Almedia ,D. (2014). Age, Stress and emotional complexity: Results from two studies of daily experience. Psychology and Aging. 29(3). 577-587.
Siegel, R. D. (2010), The mindfulness Solution (every day practices for everyday problems, New York: Guilford
Singh, N. N., Lancioni. E, G., Winton, S. V. Alan, Curtis, W. John, Wahler, G., Robert, S., Mohamed, S. J & Kristen. M. A. (2005). Mindful Staff in crease Learninig reduce aggression in adults with developmental disabilities. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 14, 18-28.
Tugade, M. M., Fredrickson, B. L., & Feldman Barrett, L. (2004). Psychological resilience and positive emotional granularity: Examining the benefits of positive emotions on coping and health. Journal of personality, 72(6), 1161-1190.
Watson, D., & Tellegen, A. (1985). Toward a consensual structure of mood. Psychological bulletin, 98(2), 219.
Watson, D., Clark,L.A.,& Tellegen,A.(1988). Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect:The PANAS scale. Journal of personality


ðŸššFREE Shipping on orders over $60 ï»¿- ðŸ“Sizing: run a little small, recommend size up –
Turn any day into a chic day with the MsDressly® Retro Cotton Linen Solid Pleated Half Sleeve Mini Dress! Ligheweight fabric shapes this dress a round neck and half sleeves.
- Gender: Women
- Type: Dresses
- Feature: Retro,Solid, Pleate
- Material: 80% Cotton, 20% Linen
- Care: Hand Wash Cold. Do Not Bleach. Line Dry. Iron Low Heat
- Style: Casual/Fashion
- Color: Navy_ Blue, Orange, Army_ Green
- Size: S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL, 4XL
- Please Note: All Dimensions Are Measured Manually With A Deviation Of 1 To 3cm.