6.45 Halogens and Noble Gases
7.10 Corrosion Prevention on Oil Rigs
7.35 Images: The Surface of Mars
8.00 Images and Innovation
8.25 Mathematics: Winding Number
Floella Benjamin says Hallo Again.
Musician ALLAN ROGERS
Series producer CHRISTINE HEWITT Editor CYNTHIA FELGATE (R)
with Bryan Murray and Lynne Kieran Director CELlA THOMSON Producer JUDY MERRY
Today: Pink Paradise Sacre Bleu Cross
Congeradulations It's Pink Theme tune by HENRY MANCINI (R)
Roland and Rattfink in Robin Goodhood and War and Pieces
A musical cartoon narrated by Rich Little and featuring the voices of Rita Coolidge and Leo Sayer
Producer/director KEVIN GILLIS (R)
Dan the Forest Ranger:
Sung Eucharist from Canterbury Cathedral As the Lambeth Conference draws to a close,
Rosemary Hartill joins the delegates for a celebration of Holy Communion. The president is the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie. The nave floor is the site for the dedication of a newly laid compass rose, symbol of the world-wide Anglican communion.
Preacher The Most Rev
Edmond Browning , Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the USA.
Music director Dr Allan Wicks Service: Alternative Service Book. Rite A; Setting: The Canterbury Service (Philip Moore )
Readings: Ephesians 4, vv 1-10; John 17, vv 6a, 15-20 Hymns: Praise to the holiest; St
Patrick's Breastplate; Go forth for God Sound PAUL CUNLIFFE
Lighting PETER GREENYER Director STEVE BENSON
Producer HELEN ALEXANDER
David Blackburn 's 's Landscape Vision
Artist David Blackburn spent much of his time working in Australia. He's now back in his native
Yorkshire, rediscovering the landscape he once rejected. Producer MIKE MURRAY Director ROGER KEECH BBC Leeds (R)
A magazine programme for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. This week a special report from the third International Congress for the Hard-of-Hearing in Montreux. Presented by Maureen Denmark
Interpreter John Lee
Produced by EDDIE MONTAGUE (e)
In the week of 'The Glorious 12th', the start of the grouse shooting season,
Chris Baines visits Scotland and Hampshire to look at the ironic fact that field sports enthusiasts are some of the countryside's most successful conservationists. Also, from the forests north of Inverness, Anne Brown joins the fire-fighters of the Highlands and Islands Brigade, who are using helicopters to minimise the devastation of forest fires.
Plus at 12.55 the week's most comprehensive weather forecast for the countryside, with Bernard Davey. Producer MIKE DERBY
Editor MICHAEL FITZGERALD BBC Pebble Mill
with Moira Stuart
starring and Queen High
Little Joe and Candy mix business with pleasure. Written by MICHAEL FESSIER Directed by LEON BENSON (R)
Cat's Me Ouch
The Year of the Mouse
by John Lewis and Michael Robartes.
"I want you to whisper a few words about Dennis Watts."
Robert Wagner Terry Moore
Mike Petrakis and his young son, Tony return to Tarpon Springs, Florida, with a poor collection. However, fabulous hauls of the valuable sponges are to be found in the dangerous 12-Mile Reef.
This underwater adventure was filmed on location in Florida and in the Gulf of Mexico.
Screenplay by A. I. BEZZERIDES Produced by ROBERT BASSLER Directed by ROBERT D. WEBB
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starring Howard Hesseman as Charlie. Moore The Write Stuff
Oh no, Charlie's had another brainwave - how about publishing a literary magazine he says? It will look on the pupils' resume. But who's going to edit it?
Written by LISA ROSENTHAL Directed by ART DIELHENN
Barney Bear in Impossible Possum, Betty Boop 's Trial and Porky Pig and Daffy
Duck in Boobs in the Wood Producer DAVID PLATT
A Portrait of the Earth
A series of 12 programmes by David Attenborough
: The Margins of the LandDavid Attenborough wades through the sticky mud in an English estuary in search of the creatures that live there and the birds that feed on them. Life is more abundant in the mangrove forests of the tropics, including fish that hunt out of water and the world's largest reptile. Film editor DAVID BARRETT Producer ANDREW NEAL
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with Moira Stuart
Weather MICHAEL FISH
... Boards the Wesley Express St Pancras Station, 21 May. Cliff Michelmore , Roger Royle and Sally Magnusson board three special pilgrim trains at the start of a memorable two days in which Methodists from all over the world followed in the footsteps of the great travelling preacher and founder of Methodism, John Wesley.
They were celebrating the 250th anniversary of his conversion and local
Methodists were out in force around the country to welcome the trains and join in the celebrations.
0 for a thousand tongues to sing
(Lyngham); Jesus. lover of my soul (Aberystwyth); My heart is full of Christ, and longs (Worsley); Father. in whom we live (Ridge); Father, whose everlasting love (Melcombe); Perfect picture; Come, sinners to the gospel feast (Elim, Hesperus); And are we yet alive (Falcon Street); Jesus, if still the same thou art
(Carey's); 0 thou who earnest from above (Hereford)
Directors STEVE BENSON ROGER HUTCHINGS
Producer CHRISTOPHER MANN Editor STEPHEN WHITTLE
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Tom O'Connor once again poses the questions in tonight's edition of the family showbiz quiz. Regular team captains Ken Dodd and Larry Grayson are joined by Jim Bowen ,
Sandra Dickinson , Loyd Grossman and Pete Murray
Produced and directed by JOHN ROONEY
Executive producer ALAN WALSH BBC North West
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Sidney Sheldon's bestseller in three parts starring Dyan Cannon
Kate wants her son Tony to run Kruger-Brent. He wants to be an artist.
Written by ALVIN BORETZ
Directed by KEVIN CONNOR and HARVEY HART (R)
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South African Prime Minister:
with Moira Stuart Weather
Last in the three-part series Introduced by Bishop Richard Holloway Back to Reality?
This Sunday saw the end of the 1988 Lambeth
Conference. After three weeks together sharing food, worship and discussion on the wind-swept campus of the University of Kent, the bishops and archbishops are on their way back to their dioceses - back to reality.
Bishop Holloway asks the Most Rev Desmond Tutu , Archbishop of Cape Town, and the Most Rev
John Habgood , Archbishop of York, among others, to look back on the conference: has anything been achieved? Back in their dioceses, the delegates and their congregations face many hard human problems: extreme poverty and political conflict in the Third World; inner-city decay, drug abuse and social inequality in the so-called 'developed' countries of the West. Do the deliberations of the Anglican Communion have any bearing on such realities? Research REBECCA JENKINS Director STEVE MORRIS
Series producer JAMES MURRAY
Lady Victoria Leatham continues her tour of some of the great stately homes of eastern England by calling on the Duke and Duchess of Rutland. She hears why his Grace ended up in the dog house, and shows how his ancestors solved the problems of keeping a castle home on a hill stocked up with food and fuel. Antiques expert John Bly makes another discovery, and a collection of muskets is evidence for historian
Brian McNerney of the days when the English aristocracy feared revolution.
Photography MARK KUXINGBACK Videotape editor TERRY WOOLLER Produced by BRIAN FAWCETT
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Maureen sings some of your favourite songs, old and new. She is joined by John Anderson , the Harlandic Male Voice Choir and the City of Belfast Youth Light Orchestra.
Designer JOHN ARMSTRONG Producer IAN HAMILTON BBC Northern Ireland


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We were struck by how striking patterns and bright colours (think orange at Decorex) punctuated the displays at last year’s autumn home interiors shows, as the movers and shakers in the industry put their markers down for this year’s hot trends and hues.
And it doesn’t take long to see where the world of soft furnishings takes its inspiration from. Indeed the Fashion Report 2013 in this month’s issue of Elle Decoration leads with the headline “how the catwalk influences the way we live”.
So what is the world of fashion predicting for 2013, and how has this translated into the world of soft furnishings?
From the catwalk to the living room…
A stunning feature in this month’s issue of Harpers Bazaar (above, top) highlights how fashion designers are showcasing a blazing spectrum of colours for 2013 – from hot orange, red, yellow amber and pink tones, to cool serene hues of the ocean.
HUE DARES WINS! and the tabloids (see You magazine above) have translated this theme to everyday life by showing how these hues have hit the high street.
And the science behind this year’s colours – a wonderful balancing of colour…
We’ve put together some pins on our Pinterest page to give you a general overview of how the Spring/Summer colours feature in this year’s soft furnishings.
The Pantone Colour Institute explain why these colours are so important and why they instill the sense of balance that the Institute feel is the theme for 2013 Spring/ Summer. “We’re always seeking balance in our lives but we don’t often think about colour as an expression of balance” says executive director Leatrice Eiseman.
So here’s their run down of the key colours for Spring /Summer 2013, with our take on how these colours have translated into this year’s soft furnishings schemes:
Dusk blue – we don’t think about blue as neutral but in nature, blue is a background to almost everything and works seemlessly with the foreground colours. Calm and serenity are the catch words here (below, our embroidered motif linen union Signature Range).
Grayed Jade – has a strong grey undertone and functions perfectly as a neutral colour because of the strong grey undertone.
Linen – a “nude” like colour with a quality that gives it a light, diapherous airy feeling, enabling it to function effortlessly as a neutral (below, our embroidered corn ear and dragonfly motifs on a nude/pink linen union background).
Balancing light and bright
Emerald – a brighter, vivid colour with a sense of clarity – a beautiful spring colour that gives a marvellous grounding for other colours in the palette.
African violet – a floral colour as the name implies – an attachment to the exotic that combines wonderfully with our other Spring/ Summer 2013 colours. Swaffer have captured this with their Whitworth Linen (Gallery Range) – below.
Nectarine – the answer to where orange has been for last few years. A warm coral touch.
Poppy Red – Spring time has to have some fun shades of red. A wonderful colour for combining and for creating that Spring time sense of exhuberance.
Lemon Zest – makes us smile, stop and think sunshine, and is a wonderful balancing colour to use with some of our neutral colours.
Tender Shoots – a third green showing us the importance of greens in Spring/ Summer 2013. An exhuberant, fun attention getter that bounces off our other 2013 palette colours beautifully.
Monaco Blue – the anchor of the entire group. Not the typical navy blue we often think of, but hightened to provide a little extra cheer whilst still being a wonderful, calm, anchoring colour to every other colour in the palette.
Colour and fabric as a means of self expression
So this year, it’s all about achieving a sense of balance in our soft furnishings. The Spring/ Summer palette colours that first surfaced on the catwalk now pervade the world of soft furnishings and work effortlessly together, enabling us to combine calming neutrals with more vivid exuberant colours for a perfectly balanced scheme.
But it’s not just about colour. Many of the major fabric suppliers heavily feature floral designs in this year’s collections (see African Violet above). Meanwhile the fashion world is once again gripped by the monochrome trend, and this has translated into bold, graphic patterns in the home.

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I have showed some of my non traditional reindeer cards earlier, today I'll give you ornament cards (all size 4"x8"):
|Background paper: Basic Grey. Bulb paper: unknown.|
Laces: Prima. Doilie: SEI. Bow: Freckled Fawn
Ribbon & Pearl: unknown
At the YouDo blog they are running Crazy Christmas challenges. One of them is to use non traditional colors on Christmas cards. Here is a few other cards without green and red:
|Background paper: unknown. Bulbe paper: Sassafras Lass|
Lace: Prima & Websters Pages. Bow: Freckled Fawn
Ribbon & bling: unknown
|Black/Brown background paper: Echo Park. B/W striped paper:|
Heidi Swapp. Bow: Freckled Fawn. Trim: Prima
|Background paper: October Afternoon. Bulbe paper: MME|
Bow: Freckled Fawn. Trim, bling & twine: unknown
|Background corrugated paper: Fancy Pants. Bulbe paper, burlap |
& patterned paper: unkown. Alpha: Studio Calico
I have used a ornament die (Lifestyle Crafts) for all the bulbs, but you could use a circle cutter for the same purpose. I also use smaller dies if I want multiple ornaments on my card - they give me more flexibility when it comes to the design. As you see, I have pretty much repeated myself design vise on the cards above.
What do you think: is it a good idea to use non seasonal papers for Christmas cards?

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By Chris King • 08 November 2021 • 3:10
Two euthanasia patients in Spain donated their organs.
image: Creative Commons
The National Euthanasia Law was approved by the Plenary of the Consell on June 18. By June 25, both professionals and citizens of the Valencian Community had all the information on the requirements, procedures, and documentation necessary to be able to exercise the right to the controversial provision of medical help to die.
In just over four months, the Ministry of Health has received four requests for health personnel to help patients die. Two of them have already been authorised and carried out, one in the province of Valencia, and the other in Alicante.
Dr. Julio Tudela, director of the Bioethics Observatory of the Catholic University of Valencia San Vicente Martir, believes that the approval of the Euthanasia Law in Spain incorporates “all the ethically reprehensible terms of other similar laws in the world: make homicide legal, propose it, assist it and pay for it. But also in the Spanish case, there is more contempt for human rights, specifically the right to life”.
He points out that the rule was processed in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, “without making the pertinent consultations with legal bodies, bioethics committees, medical, or other health associations, or other groups of experts, professors, academics and related professional associations”.
He adds that he regrets that the State’s obligation to provide adequate assistance to the suffering patients “continues to be unattended in the form of sufficient and quality palliative care”. In France, not only has euthanasia not been approved, but the extension of palliative care to the entire population that requires it is being promoted. “The example could spread”, added Dr Tudela.
He also believes that “the disabled are discriminated against, including the mentally ill. In some cases with dubious ability to make autonomous and responsible decisions, who are also included in the euthanasia process”.
Tudela assured that the rule “intends to create lists of objectors, those professionals who, in the exercise of good practice, are used to cure, alleviate, accompany or prevent. Euthanasia is not a medical act but is typical of executioners. No health care provider should be proposed, as such, the execution of a non-medical act, or better, an act contrary to the practice of medicine”.
Finally, the specialist predicts that the legalisation of euthanasia “inaugurates the dreaded slippery slope observed in all the countries in which it has been carried out: more and more euthanasia, to non-terminal patients, children, the mentally ill, or the elderly, or simply people tired of living. Euthanasia is not progressive, nor does it defend freedom or respect human dignity,” summarised the director of the observatory, as reported by lasprovincias.es.
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Jean-François Houle says that as a coach you have to love Rafael Harvey-Pinard because of his work ethic.
The Laval Rocket head coach, who is running the Canadiens rookie camp this week, noted that Harvey-Pinard is always the first in line to do a drill at practice and gives everything he has all the time.
It’s that work ethic that led the Canadiens to select Harvey-Pinard in the seventh round (201st overall) at the 2019 NHL Draft.
Harvey-Pinard said he learned about the importance of work ethic by watching former Canadiens forward Steve Bégin in action.
“My first year in the QMJHL (with the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies) I remember (coach) Gilles Bouchard talking to me about Steve Bégin,” Harvey-Pinard recalled after the Canadiens rookie camp practice Friday at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard. “He had skills, but he was also working very hard. I was just looking at him, I watched some clips of him, too, and I wanted to work as hard as him. That’s what I did in the QMJHL and that’s what I want to do in the professional (leagues) too.”
Another player the 22-year-old Harvey-Pinard looks up to is the Canadiens’ Jake Evans , who was also a seventh-round draft pick (207th overall) by the Canadiens in 2014 and played 47 games with them last season, posting 3-10-13 totals.
“For sure, he’s a good example for me,” Harvey-Pinard said. “I remember my first camp in Montreal I was in the same room as him and since then I’ve always watched him on the TV. This year he played very well. So he’s a good example. He has a good work ethic, too, so I want to play the same kind of game as him and follow his path.”
Harvey-Pinard, a left-winger, played 36 games last season with the AHL’s Laval Rocket, posting 9-11-20 totals. He spent the off-season working on his speed and strength. The Jonquière native is listed on the rookie-camp roster as being 5-foot-9 and 173 pounds, but said he now weighs between 182 and 184 pounds.
“The hockey today is very fast, so I want to be faster and faster,” Harvey-Pinard said. “The other thing, I tried to put some pounds on my body and I succeeded. It was important to me to get a little bit bigger, to get stronger in front of the net and the one-on-one, too. So that’s the two things that I worked on.”
Harvey-Pinard was asked for his first impression of Houle as a coach following two days on the ice at rookie camp.
“For sure, they are all good coaches,” he said about the Rocket staff that is running the rookie camp, including new assistant coaches Martin Laperrière and Kelly Buchberger. “We can easily see it off the ice and on the ice, too. I think they have a good mentality, kind of same as last year with (head coach) Joël Bouchard (and assistants) Daniel Jacob, Alex Burrows. They put good emphasis on details and I think that’s very important on the ice and they are very good communicators, too. So it helps us to know them and to be more ready on the ice, too.”
The Canadiens rookies will play their first game Saturday in Ottawa against the Senators rookies. The game, which starts at 4 p.m., can be watched on the Senators YouTube channel.
“We had a little video session about style of play that we want with the Montreal Canadiens and those are the things that we’re going to focus on,” Houle said about the game. “We don’t want to cram their brains with too many system things. We just want them to be themselves, but the work ethic needs to be there, the intensity, execution, and we want to try to see some consistency in their game. So shift-by-shift being consistent, taking short shifts. But we don’t want to give them too much. We just want to go out there and play and be free-minded.”
The Canadiens will play the Senators rookies again at 4 p.m. Monday at the Bell Sports Complex before wrapping up the rookie camp with a game against a team of Quebec university all-stars at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Brossard. The rookie camp is not open to the public because of COVID-19 restrictions.
The Canadiens main training camp will open next Tuesday in Brossard with players having physical and medical exams before hitting the ice the next day.
Rafael-Pinard isn’t the only seventh-round draft pick at this rookie camp.
Goalie Joe Vrebetic was selected in the seventh round (214th overall) of the 2021 draft.
Vrebetic didn’t play last season since the OHL was shut down because of COVID-19. In 2019-20, the 6-foot-6, 190-pounder had a 14-25-1 record with a 4.23 goals-against average and a .881 save percentage on a bad Brampton Battalion team that finished with a 17-41-4 record.
“I like his size,” Houle said about Vrebetic. “We worked on playing the puck a little bit today. Those are always things that young goalies always need to improve and work on. But he’s got good size and he reads the play fairly well. It will be nice to see him in a game coming up.”
The Canadiens selected goalie Cayden Primeau in the seventh-round (199th overall) of the 2017 draft and last season he had an 11-4-0 record with a 2.10 GAA and a .909 save percentage with the Rocket. Primeau struggled in four games with the Canadiens last season, posting a 1-2-1 record with a 4.16 GAA and a .849 save percentage.
Defenceman Kaiden Guhle was the Canadiens’ first-round pick (16th overall) at the 2020 NHL Draft, but he hasn’t let it go to his head and spoke Friday about the importance of staying humble.
“You see a lot of players nowadays are more like that,” the 19-year-old said. “You got Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid, Shea Weber, they’re all very grounded, humble guys and don’t talk about themselves a lot. They do a lot for the team.”
Guhle’s brother, Brendan, was selected by the Buffalo Sabres in the second round of the 2015 draft and is now with the Anaheim Ducks.
“I think a lot of that stems from how I was brought up,” Guhle said about staying humble. “I was always told to always just stay humble and have a good attitude about everything. My brother’s a big part of that. My mom and my dad they’re both very, very strict on us being humble. So that’s just how we were both brought up in that way and then you see those high-end players like that in the media or whatever like that, so you want to be like them. Again, just how I was brought up and you see those great players doing that.”
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On Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, Fairmont State University and Pierpont Community & Technical College will host the 2012 Student Career Conference to teach students how to “Break Into Today’s Job Market.” Sponsored by the Office of Career Services, the conference is designed for current college students to explore topics surrounding job searching.
Registration is free and available online by clicking here. Students should register by Friday, Nov. 16.
Events on Friday, Nov. 30, will begin at 6 p.m. and will focus on learning and practicing networking. Saturday, Dec. 1, events will begin at 8:30 a.m. with acclaimed author Don Asher as the keynote speaker, followed by concurrent workshops and a free dining etiquette luncheon. Workshop topics include using social media for job searching, interviewing in different situations, a small business owners panel and more. Events will be held in the Colebank Hall Gym on the shared main campus.
Donald Asher is an internationally recognized author and speaker on the topics of careers and higher education. In America he is known as “America’s Job Search Guru” and is well known for having written “The Overnight Resume,” “How to Get Any Job,” “Who Gets Promoted” (named business book of the year 2008) and the best-selling guide to getting into graduate school, “Graduate Admissions Essays.” He is the author of 12 books, available in English, Chinese, Korean and Portuguese. He is co-author of a new book on elite scholarships, “The Best Scholarships for the Best Students,” and author of the forthcoming “Cracking the Hidden Job Market.” Asher holds a master’s degree in human resources and organization development from the University of San Francisco and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy-religion from Reed College. He is a featured speaker over 150 times per year, including recent lecture tours in Canada, Mexico, India, China, South Korea and Germany, where he spoke about international career trends and the borderless career.
“This event is a great opportunity for our students to get ready for life after college and start planning for the job search process. Our speakers will share important and relevant information that will benefit students as they transition to working professionals,” said Program Manager and Career Counselor Amy Drvar.
For more information, contact Amy Drvar at (304) 367-4644 or firstname.lastname@example.org.


Providing every student with a pathway to a successful future
Providing every student with a pathway to a successful future
During the year, we supported schools to achieve positive learning outcomes for students. We set expectations that all students:
- be provided with high quality development and learning experiences
- have opportunities and support to create the building blocks for their future success
- are supported in ways that have a positive impact on their mental health and emotional wellbeing.
Student achievement and attendance
- Public school Year 12 student performance and achievement
- Public school student literacy and numeracy performance
- Student attendance
The Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) achievement rate of full‑time Year 12 students (one of our key performance indicators) was 80.7% in 2022 (81.1% in 2021). This was our third highest rate (and equal with 2019) since the WACE requirements changed in 2016. The WACE achievement rate of Aboriginal full‑time Year 12 students was 41.5% in 2022 (42.7% in 2021).
To achieve a WACE, students must demonstrate a minimum standard of literacy (reading and writing) and numeracy. These standards were achieved by 85.6% of Year 12 full‑time students (85.4% in 2021). For Year 12 Aboriginal full‑time students, 50.5% demonstrated the literacy and numeracy standard (50.5% in 2021).
Details of Year 12 student achievement and responses to the Year 12 student intentions and satisfaction survey are in Appendix 3.
In 2022, public school students received 1,609 School Curriculum and Standards Authority awards (1,592 in 2020). Jessica Doan from Perth Modern School won the Beazley Medal: WACE, and Ashton Fowler from Harrisdale Senior High School won the Beazley Medal: Vocational Education and Training (VET).
The 2022 Rob Riley Memorial Prizes for the top Year 12 Aboriginal students from public schools were awarded to Archer Key from Duncraig Senior High School (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank, ATAR) and Isla Smith from Comet Bay College (Vocational Education and Training, VET).
In 2023, we assessed almost 25,000 Pre‑primary students in the On‑entry Assessment Program, giving teachers important information about the foundation literacy and numeracy knowledge and skills of their students in the first year of full‑time school. Following a number of years of relatively stable results, the 2023 average results for public schools were marginally lower than all 2022 assessments. It is noted that COVID‑19 impacted the preschool experiences of this cohort.
We commenced the implementation of the Phonics Initiative to support the development of student literacy skills from an early age, ensuring targeted intervention where required. From 2023, principals are required to confirm by mid‑year that Year 1 students at their school have undergone a phonics assessment, which identifies their progress against the Department’s expected proficiency.
More than 92,000 Western Australian public school students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 were assessed in aspects of literacy and numeracy as part of the 2022 National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN).
In the lead‑up to the NAPLAN assessment window and during the testing, Western Australia was heavily impacted by COVID‑19. It was anticipated that the ongoing disruptions relating to COVID‑19 would have some impact on the NAPLAN results. Participation rates were a little lower across all year levels and domains, with a more pronounced drop in the secondary years.
The Department’s NAPLAN key effectiveness indicators relate to the percentage of students achieving proficiency in Reading and Numeracy. Proficiency indicates students are on track to meet the curriculum expectations for the year level and assessment area.
The 2022 percentages of students achieving proficiency were relatively high. In comparison with 2021, proficiency improved by more than 2 percentage points in Year 7 Reading, improved marginally in Years 3 and 5 Reading and decreased marginally in Year 9 Reading and across all years in Numeracy. Three of the 8 NAPLAN key effectiveness indicator targets, Years 3, 5 and 7 Reading, were achieved.
For further information on students achieving proficiency, refer to Key performance indicators.
Highest ever mean scores were achieved in 2022 for 6 of the 20 assessments: Reading in Years 3 and 5, Writing in Year 9, and Spelling in Years 3, 5 and 7. Improvements are noted for Writing in the means across all year levels.
From 2023, changes to NAPLAN came into effect, including bringing forward the testing from May to March. New NAPLAN scales and a new time series will begin from 2023, noting that NAPLAN results reported on the new scales will not be comparable with results from 2008 to 2022. Proficiency standards with 4 levels of achievement for each year group (Exceeding, Strong, Developing and Needs additional support) came into effect, replacing the previous 10‑band structure. Future annual reporting will reflect these changes.
The 2022 Semester 1 attendance rate was 84.4%, down from 88.4% in 2021. The attendance rate was affected by a peak in the number of COVID‑19 cases following the opening of the Western Australian border and continuing public health advice that children with cold and flu‑like symptoms should not attend school.
The attendance rate for Aboriginal students was 64.6%, down from the rate of 71.3% in 2021. For details of attendance rates, refer to Appendix 3.
Restoring attendance to levels prior to COVID‑19 continued to be our priority, recognising that students who are not attending school regularly are more likely to be at risk than those who do. In 2022, a number of focus schools were identified as requiring additional support to restore attendance, with these schools remaining a priority in working toward this goal. A range of initiatives have been implemented across each of our 8 education regions and the schools within them. This has enabled local place‑based approaches determined by analysis of individual school attendance data and engagement with the local school communities.
We continued to work in partnership with schools, families and communities, as well as other agencies, to implement the Every day matters: 10‑point plan to improve attendance. The plan is aligned with 3 pillars:
- community‑led action
- support for schools, families and communities
- system action and accountability.
The plan resulted in Community action to improve attendance: A guide for schools to co‑design with communities and a co‑design resource hub to support schools in applying the guide. The resource hub also enables community‑led attendance action groups to increase their understanding of authentic co‑design. The guide and resource hub are being piloted with identified schools in 2023. Participants within each school and community will provide feedback on the guide and the resource hub to maximise its effectiveness and usability.
We continued to work with other agencies and organisations to locate students whose whereabouts were unknown and reduce the number not participating in education or approved options. As at 30 June 2023, the whereabouts of 851 students of compulsory school age were unknown (868 in June 2022).
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Providing support and pathways that meet students' needs
- Creating culturally responsive schools that build on the strengths of Aboriginal students
- High quality learning environments that meet the needs of students
- Support for students with specific educational and engagement needs
We are committed to creating culturally responsive classrooms that build on the strengths of Aboriginal students, engage them in learning and enable them to thrive academically and socially.
The Aboriginal cultural standards framework continued to drive our work to strengthen the wellbeing, engagement and achievement of Aboriginal students and to build strong partnerships between families and schools. In 2022–23, we delivered 72 professional learning workshops to 3,853 principals, teachers, Aboriginal and Islander education officers, and graduate school psychologists, to support the creation of culturally responsive schools. Professional learning about culturally responsive pedagogies was completed online by 353 staff in Semester 1, 2023. We also delivered workshops to external stakeholders.
We continued to work in partnership with Aboriginal Elders and senior community members to strengthen the cultural responsiveness of the organisation. In 2022–23, we continued to engage senior staff in truth‑telling events and professional learning to support the development of our vision for reconciliation.
Our reconciliation statement and accompanying implementation plan is being developed to deliver on our commitment to building and supporting cultural responsiveness and to commit to the enactment of reconciliation.
In 2022, the Director General hosted ‘Education Conversations’, which included a series of conversations with Aboriginal families across our 8 education regions. The forums aimed to provide a culturally safe space for Aboriginal parents and community members to share their views on public education and provide advice on public school directions for Aboriginal students. Each education region continued the Aboriginal school community engagement forums in 2023. The sharing of knowledge with local communities has provided an opportunity for schools to include community voices in school decision‑making and continue to build mutually respectful relationships with Aboriginal families.
In 2022, there were 24 Aboriginal languages being taught in 92 Western Australian public schools (68 in 2021). Within these schools, 12,795 students in Kindergarten to Year 12 studied an Aboriginal language (9,617 in 2021).
In 2022, we implemented the co‑designed Culturally Responsive School Leadership program for principals, which was developed in partnership with Danjoo Koorliny Elders and community leaders, and the Centre for Social Impact. The program was completed by 14 principals in June 2023.
In 2023, there were 56 KindiLink programs operating in our schools. The play‑and‑learn sessions were designed for Aboriginal children and their parents, and were also available to non‑Aboriginal children at some sites. KindiLink supports children’s learning before starting school, forges positive partnerships between home and school, and builds the confidence and capability of parents as their children’s first educators.
In 2022, the Follow the Dream program, in partnership with the Polly Farmer Foundation, was delivered to 2,240 Aboriginal secondary students (1,947 in 2021) across 101 public schools throughout Western Australia. WACE was achieved by 176 of the 263 Year 12 students in the program in 2022.
The Clontarf Foundation academies operated in 40 schools in Semester 1, 2023, supporting male Aboriginal students through school and into post‑school destinations.
In Semester 1, 2023, a range of programs designed to strengthen the wellbeing and engagement of Aboriginal girls and young women in Years 7 to 12 were delivered in 49 public schools. A further 9 schools were in discussion about implementing an engagement program.
The state government’s Aboriginal Empowerment Strategy 2021–2029 continues to guide our approach to whole‑of‑government priority areas including implementation of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap (the National Agreement) and native title agreement making. Our progress against Closing the Gap targets and outcomes are built around the priority reform areas of the National Agreement and continue to guide progress in building a culturally responsive public education system.
We are establishing a system‑level Aboriginal Advisory Body to strengthen our relationship and shared decision‑making with Aboriginal people and deliver on key commitments under the National Agreement and the state government’s Aboriginal Empowerment Strategy 2021–2029. The Aboriginal Advisory Body will be an independent Aboriginal voice to the Department and the Minister.
Mr Ian Trust AO, Elder in Residence since 2017, provided strategic advice to the Minister and senior staff on whole‑of‑government priorities and strengthening the cultural responsiveness of our agency. Mr Trust ceased service as an Elder with the Department at the end of 2022. We thank Mr Trust for his contribution and service as Elder in Residence.
Kevin O’Keefe OAM, Principal Advisor, Student Achievement, continued as a member of Corporate Executive, to provide advice and guidance drawn from his extensive experience in Aboriginal education in school and system contexts. Kevin is a recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to Indigenous education.
In 2023, 2,043 students (1,907 in 2022) in Years 5 and 6 were eligible to participate in courses through the Primary Extension and Challenge (PEAC) program.
Gifted and Talented Secondary Selective Entrance programs were delivered by 24 secondary schools in 2023 with 1,074 Year 7 offers of placement accepted in selective academic, arts and languages programs. The academic program was also available online for selected students in Western Australia’s rural and remote regions.
We received 4,848 applications (4,967 in 2022) for Year 7 secondary places commencing in 2024. We also received a further 1,554 applications (1,538 in 2022) from students applying for entry to Years 9, 10 and 11 in 2024.
We continued to fund the Purposeful Academic Classes for Excelling Students program. The program invites identified high performing senior secondary students to participate in specifically designed tutorial sessions that aim to maximise their academic achievement. In 2022, a total of 204 students participated in the program.
Across WA in 2022, our School of Isolated and Distance Education (SIDE) provided education to more than 3,600 Kindergarten to Year 12 students unable to access regular schools or specific subjects. It delivered more than 5,400 virtual lessons each month and provided over 320 web‑based courses.
SIDE‑enrolled students at 18 regional schools were supported by independent learning coordinators (ILCs) in 2022, with 18 schools funded for an ILC in 2023. These coordinators also worked closely with a team of 8 regional learning specialist teachers who supported Year 11 and 12 ATAR students across country WA.
As at the Semester 1, 2023 student census, we were providing boarding facilities to 448 students through 8 country residential colleges and 1 metropolitan residential college. Of these students, 113 were attending non‑government schools. For student numbers over the last 5 years at each residential college, refer to Appendix 1.
We supported WA families with the Boarding Away from Home Allowance (BAHA). In 2022, we supported:
- 1,200 public and non‑government school students through the BAHA for Isolated Children at a cost of $1.6 million (1,334 at a cost of $2.0 million in 2021)
- 294 students through the BAHA Agricultural College Special Subsidy at a cost of $378,706 (298 at a cost of $418,148 in 2021). This allowance supports boarders at Western Australian Colleges of Agriculture and Edmund Rice College.
- 37 public school students with the BAHA Gifted and Talented payment at a cost of $44,550 (34 at a cost of $47,264 in 2021). This allowance supports students enrolled in the Department’s Gifted and Talented Secondary Selective Entrance programs in public schools and residing in our residential colleges.
We supported low‑income families with children at public and non‑government schools through the Secondary Assistance Scheme. In 2022, 27,735 students in Years 7 to 12 received support through the scheme (31,558 in 2021):
- $6.5 million under the Education Program Allowance ($7.4 million in 2021)
- $3.2 million under the Clothing Allowance ($3.6 million in 2021).
In June 2023, a review of senior secondary school pathways was launched in a bid to help all Western Australian students reach their full potential through their post‑school study, training, or employment pursuits. The Pathways to Post‑School Success review is being led by the Department in partnership with Catholic Education Western Australia and the Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia.
The review will explore whether current pathway options are effectively preparing students for the full range of further study, training, and work options available to them. A key outcome will be to investigate whether current certification and university entry requirements assist students to make the best study choices, as well as to identify the barriers to students being able to access equitable pathways. The review is scheduled to conclude in early 2024.
In February 2023, the state government announced it had appointed an expert panel to conduct an independent review of Western Australia’s public university sector. The review panel will report to the Minister and be provided with secretariat support from the Department. The review will explore whether structural change will deliver improved performance and financial sustainability for Western Australia’s public university sector. A final report outlining review findings and recommendations is expected in the second half of 2023.
In 2023, Intensive English Centres at 14 metropolitan public schools provided targeted programs to 1,149 primary and secondary newly arrived students for whom English is an additional language or dialect. Funding is provided for students to attend a centre for 12 months, with an additional year of funding available for humanitarian entrant students with a limited schooling background. In 2023, the centres received a base allocation of $6.1 million and a total of $10.6 million in per student funding.
Mainstream schools in 2023 had 39,457 English as an additional language or dialect (EALD) students. Of these, 15,547 were eligible for EALD funding allocation of $44.1 million through our student‑centred funding model, including 2,024 Aboriginal students. The most common language spoken by students other than English was identified as Aboriginal English, with 6,781 identified speakers.
As at 30 June 2023, 2,831 (90%) of the 3,146 children in the care of the Chief Executive Officer of the Department of Communities, and enrolled in our schools, had documented plans.
Our Schools of Special Educational Needs (Behaviour and Engagement, Disability, Medical and Mental Health, and Sensory) continued to provide a range of services, some of which were available to staff and students from non‑government schools.
In 2022, the School of Special Educational Needs: Behaviour and Engagement managed 752 cases of direct and indirect support for students with extreme, complex and challenging behaviours.
The School of Special Educational Needs: Disability provided support to 2,599 students with a diagnosed or imputed disability in 2022. This support was provided through a consulting teacher service to 348 schools across the disability specialist areas of autism, physical and intellectual disability, specific learning disorders, and augmentative and alternative communication. Professional learning was provided to 8,881 educators across the state to build their capacity to support students with disability.
The School of Special Educational Needs: Medical and Mental Health provided education support across more than 40 health settings for students whose medical or mental health prevented them from participating in their enrolled school program. In response to COVID‑19 restrictions in hospitals and health settings, a school‑wide blended learning approach was adopted from 3 March to 4 November 2022. Teaching and liaison support was provided to 4,651 public and non‑government school students and their enrolled schools in 2022.
Our School of Special Educational Needs: Sensory provided teaching and consultative support in 2022 to 2,395 public and non‑government school students, including early intervention for 123 children aged zero to 4 years old with hearing loss, vision impairment or both.
Our 5 metropolitan language development centres provided intensive language intervention programs in 2023 for 1,365 students in the early years of schooling with a diagnosed developmental language disorder. The centres, with additional funding, staff and resources, deliver our Statewide Speech and Language Outreach Service, providing support to early years teachers of young students who have speech and language difficulties and do not attend a centre.
Our Specialised Learning Programs are a targeted initiative developed to support the individual needs of students with autism spectrum disorder from Kindergarten to Year 12 in mainstream schools. By the end of 2022, 16 programs were established. On 12 May 2022, the state government announced a further $18.2 million investment over 5 years for expansion of the programs into 8 additional schools (2 in 2023, 4 in 2024 and 2 in 2025).
As at 30 June 2023, we were supporting 15,902 students through the student‑centred funding model individual disability allocation to public schools (14,783 in June 2022).
In 2022, we provided teaching and learning adjustments to 21.6% of public school Pre‑primary to Year 12 students with disability, as reported through the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability. The adjustments are intended to enable these students to participate in education on the same basis as their peers.
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In 2022, an average of 412.7 full‑time equivalent (FTE) school psychologists (376.7 FTE in 2021) supported schools:
- to plan and implement effective, evidence‑based whole school approaches to mental health promotion
- in prevention and early intervention to improve mental health for cohorts of students
- to support individual students who are experiencing mental health difficulties.
The number of school psychologists increased in 2022, following a state government election commitment, with mental health and wellbeing as a priority area.
As part of our pastoral care for students in 2022, 689 schools accessed chaplaincy services through in‑school chaplaincy programs, school chaplaincy support and pastoral critical incident response services (674 in 2021).
School engagement is a powerful protective factor for student wellbeing, and meeting the needs of vulnerable students is a complex challenge for the public school system. We remain committed to addressing student mental health and wellbeing, and ensuring public schools are supported to advance the wellbeing of students. The Student Wellbeing and Care Taskforce, established in March 2022, worked toward setting clear expectations of the role of schools in supporting and addressing student mental health, as well as considering how support for schools to embed effective approaches to student wellbeing and care can be further strengthened.
With funding from the Mental Health Commission, we delivered Gatekeeper Suicide Prevention training to 1,035 public and non‑government school staff and other community members in 2022. The Teen Mental Health First Aid program was delivered to 3,711 public and non‑government school secondary students. Youth Mental Health First Aid training was provided to 702 public school staff and other community members who work with young people.
For the 2022 school year, 100% of schools were surveyed on protective behaviours education. All except 4 schools fully or partially implemented protective behaviours. The 4 schools were provided additional support and are meeting the requirements. All schools will continue to be supported to maintain full implementation of protective behaviours education.
On 6 September 2022, 38 students in Years 10 and 11, representing all 8 education regions, were appointed to form the inaugural Western Australian Student Council. Since then, the councillors have attended ministerial meetings, liaised with schools and students in their regions, attended student leadership activities, and provided feedback to the Department on various initiatives. In May 2023, the council recruited 10 students from Year 10 to replace the outgoing Year 11 students.
In June 2022, we launched the WA Schools Anti‑Vaping Toolkit which aims to educate students, parents and school staff about the health risks associated with vaping. The toolkit is part of our suite of online resources, made available to all schools, including information on e‑cigarettes and vaping, professional learning for staff, and a teaching and learning resource aligned to the Western Australian curriculum.
Early in 2023, we provided free period products to all Western Australian public schools with students in Years 7 to 12. As part of the initiative, students have access to a range of period products accessible via dispensers. The initiative aims to:
- provide students with the confidence that there will always be sanitary items available at school
- relieve students of the stigma, anxiety and discomfort that can be associated with menstrual hygiene management so they can focus on their studies
- ease the cost of living for students’ families.
Since the launch in late 2018 of Let’s take a stand together, the state government’s plan to address violence in schools, the numbers of students suspended and excluded have increased.
In 2022, 19,289 students (5.8% of total enrolments throughout the year) were suspended compared to 18,068 in 2021 (5.5%).
There were 104 students excluded in 2022. In 2021, 76 students were excluded, 72 in 2020 and 65 in 2019 compared to 24 in 2018 and 8 in each of 2017 and 2016.
The Alternative Learning Settings (ALS) program provides alternative facilities and targeted support programs to WA school students who have been excluded or are at high risk of being excluded for complex and challenging behaviours. The ALS program pilot operated from 2019 to 2021 with 4 sites. In 2022, the program was consolidated into the School of Alternative Learning Settings and expanded to 11 sites, with 12 sites operational at the beginning of 2023, across all 8 education regions. One hundred and seventy students participated in the ALS program in 2022.
In 2022–23, we reviewed our student exclusion process and associated resources, and commenced the work to streamline the process for schools, education regional offices and families.
The revised Student Behaviour in Public Schools policy and procedures were published for familiarisation in February 2023, prior to implementation in schools from Semester 2, 2023. Changes to the policy emphasise the importance of creating safe, orderly, inclusive, supportive, and culturally responsive environments to enable students to fulfil their learning potential. The revised policy recognises that this is a responsibility shared by all members of the public schooling system and each school community, and that positive student behaviour is essential to promote engagement in learning and maximise the impact of classroom teaching.
In 2022, more than 2,750 school staff completed training in de‑escalation and positive handling. This included 734 graduates who received mandatory training on how to de‑escalate and manage aggressive behaviour as part of their induction program. As this course requires physical contact between participants, COVID‑19 restrictions affected course delivery in the early part of 2022, resuming with usual delivery, including face‑to‑face, in August 2022.
In Semester 2, 2022, 5,255 participants attended the Classroom Management Strategies and Western Australian Positive Behaviour Support training programs. Training continued to be available online in Semester 1, 2022, with staff unable to conduct the programs after being deployed to support schools due to COVID‑19.
In 2022–23, a series of enhancements were implemented to strengthen the multi‑agency protocol for education options for young people charged with harmful sexual behaviours, established in 2017. We:
- continued support for schools, education regional offices and central services
- delivered training for senior officers and lead school psychologists
- developed student support plans for identified students who have experienced or been affected by harmful sexual behaviours and their families
- updated our risk assessment and management plan process and templates.
We gathered planning guidelines and resources and utilised Sexual Assault Resource Centre resources to develop and implement student support plans for situations of sexual assault or abuse in public and non‑government schools.


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The objective of this study is to examine the influence of control and uncontrol blast parameters on the blast-induced ground vibration. The blast-induced ground vibration can be measured in the form of peak particle velocity and peak vector sum. In this paper, the effect of control blast parameter, such as charge per hole was considered, on the blast induced ground vibration was studied. This study showed the proportional relation with blast-induced ground vibration. It was observed that the PPV value was higher in the longitudinal direction as compared to the other two directions at the time of the variation in charge per hole. Further, the effect of rock strength on the blast-induced ground vibration was also examined which showed that the higher strength rock produces more ground vibration at the time of blasting.


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Most dad and mom know or suspect when their little one smokes, however they’re much extra prone to be at the hours of darkness if the kid vapes or makes use of different tobacco merchandise, in keeping with a big nationwide research by researchers at UC San Francisco.
The research, which tracked greater than 23,000 individuals aged 12 to 17 years outdated, discovered that folks or guardians had been considerably much less prone to report realizing or suspecting that their little one had used tobacco if the kid used solely e-cigarettes, non-cigarette flamable merchandise or smokeless tobacco, in comparison with smoking cigarettes or utilizing a number of tobacco merchandise.
The researchers additionally discovered that when dad and mom set robust family guidelines about not utilizing tobacco — making use of to all residents — their kids had been much less prone to begin tobacco use. Simply speaking to children about not smoking was far much less efficient. The research publishes at 9:01 p.m. PT, Oct. 4, 2020, in Pediatrics.
“We all know that tobacco-free properties are a key device to assist stop smoking by children,” stated corresponding and senior writer Benjamin Chaffee, DDS, MPH, PhD, an affiliate professor on the UCSF Faculty of Dentistry. “What research have not examined is how tobacco-free properties stack up towards different approaches and the way a lot tobacco-free residence guidelines would possibly assist with different tobacco merchandise past smoking.
“Tobacco use by kids is troubling, and dentists, like all healthcare suppliers, ought to be involved about stopping youth tobacco use,” Chaffee stated.
During the last decade, the smoking panorama has dramatically modified, particularly amongst youth, for whom cigarette smoking has declined whereas use of digital cigarettes soared. Final 12 months, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention reported that greater than 1 in 4 highschool college students was vaping.
The brand new research used knowledge from the Inhabitants Evaluation of Tobacco and Well being (PATH) Examine to research parental consciousness of youth tobacco use and the position of family tobacco guidelines in stopping smoking. Along with cigarettes and e-cigarettes, the research checked out non-cigarette flamable merchandise (together with cigars, pipes, hookahs, and bidis), and smokeless tobacco (together with snuff, chewing tobacco, snus, and dissolvable tobacco).
It discovered that folks had been extra prone to know or suspect that their little one was utilizing a tobacco or nicotine product if the kid was older, male, recognized as white, and lived with a tobacco person, in addition to if the dad and mom had been much less educated. Moms had been singled out as extra conscious than fathers.
The researchers additionally discovered that teenagers and tweens dwelling in properties with the strictest guidelines prohibiting tobacco use had been 20-26 p.c much less prone to begin utilizing tobacco, in comparison with youth dwelling in essentially the most permissive properties.
The investigators recommend that folks:
- Do not smoke;
- Create tobacco-free residence environments that embrace all components of the house;
- Set up strict guidelines towards all tobacco use that apply to all members of the family;
- Have high-quality, clear communication with youth about not utilizing tobacco.
“Low parental consciousness of e-cigarette use belies rising public consideration to youth vaping,” stated co-author Tsu-Shuan Wu, a pupil on the UCSF Faculty of Dentistry. “Youth tobacco use is a substantial public well being concern, whatever the tobacco product used, and fogeys play a vital position in tobacco prevention.
“Creating tobacco-free residence environments is one strategy dad and mom can use to set norms and expectations about tobacco use,” she stated. “And for healthcare suppliers, elevating parental consciousness ought to be a part of general steering and tobacco-prevention assist.”
Help was offered by the Nationwide Institutes of Well being grant quantity U54HL147127 and the Delta Dental Neighborhood Care Basis.

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On show will be 20-25 paintings and a selection of monotypes. Although mainly figurative in presentation, many of the works show underlying systems and abstractions of design, harking back to Jacklin's earlier style which focused on the structures within natural orders. In his work there is a coexistence of representation and abstraction, provoking a tension which results in an augmented viewing experience. The artist seeks to avoid stylistic categorisation, stating 'I choose not to define myself to working in just one way'.
Jacklin came to prominence in the 1960s in London as an abstract artist producing works made of grids and dots. Despite his success, Jacklin felt impelled to return to figuration, and since moving to Manhattan in 1985 has painted numerous scenes of the pulsating energy of crowds in Times Square and the concourse of Grand Central Station. For this exhibition, Jacklin has created 'The Singer in the Square' series, focusing on the concentric movement of crowds, and has continued to paint pedestrians crossing the street. Time spent sketching in the Piazza della Repubblica in Florence, Italy also yielded this sense of flux and flow, observing accidental meetings or individuals simply going about their business. Jacklin is fascinated by states of transition and finding systems of geometry in his painting to depict this constant movement. This is evident in his Triptych painting 'The Feast', which the artist has been working on since 2004, shows a seated group eating in a Venetian square whilst a crowd passes around them.
Moving away from urban landscapes to more pastoral scenes, this interest in transformative states manifests in the artist's depiction of nature and the weather. In a new series of storm paintings, the storm morphs into the knitted shapes of the clouds which shed their representational character and become moving forms devoid of a pictorial setting. A collection of paintings called 'The Dance of the Clouds and Breezes' are set by the coast, influenced by the artist's move out of New York to Rhode Island. One shows a trio of female figures dancing, reminiscent of the artist's earlier painting of the Three Graces; another canvas depicts small figures watching the movement of the clouds and the sea from the beach. Recent monotypes focus on the stars and the sea by night, without the bright lights of the city. Regardless of whether a figure is portrayed, Jacklin always paints about being present in the space, evoking existential feelings via subjects such as a field at night or a road winding through the landscape.
Jacklin was born in London in 1943 and studied graphics at Walthamstow School of Art, London (1960-61) before attending the Painting School at the Royal College of Art (1964-67). He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1991. His works are represented in collections worldwide including: British Museum (London); Tate (London); Victoria & Albert Museum (London); MoMA (New York); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); and Brooklyn Museum (New York). Museum of Modern Art Oxford held a retrospective of Jacklin’s work in 1992, and in 2016 the Royal Academy (London) held a survey show of Jacklin’s graphics from 1963-2016. He has participated in numerous exhibitions including at The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 1971), Musee d'Art Moderne (Paris, 1973) and Tate Gallery (London, 1981).


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Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in American women, claiming 400,000 lives a year – more than all cancers combined. Yet nearly half of women – 44 percent according to a recent survey by the American Heart Association – are unaware that it’s the number one threat to their health.
To raise awareness of the topic, the December edition of Physician Focus, Women and Heart Disease, examines why cardiovascular disease is such a threat to women. This program is presented in collaboration with the MMS Committee on Women in Medicine.
Guests are Malissa Wood, M.D. (center, photo) and Nandita Scott, M.D., (right) Co-Directors of the Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. Hosting this edition is family physician Mavis Jaworski, M.D. (left).
Among the topics of discussion are how cardiovascular disease can affect pregnancy, the danger signs of stroke, why high blood pressure is so dangerous, what women should do to screen for heart disease, and preventive steps to take to reduce the risk.
Physician Focus, now in its 11th consecutive year of production, is available for viewing on public access television stations throughout Massachusetts. The December program is available online at www.physicianfocus.org, www.massmed.org/physicianfocus, and on YouTube.


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Ray Griffith (sitting) in How Stars Are Made (1916)
January 23, 1895|
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
|Died||November 25, 1957
Los Angeles, California, United States
|Cause of death||Asphyxia due to partially masticated food|
|Spouse(s)||Bertha Mann (1928-1957) (his death) 2 Children|
Raymond Griffith (January 23, 1895 – November 25, 1957) was a silent movie comedian. Later in his career, he worked behind the camera as writer and producer.
Griffith was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He lost his voice at an early age, causing him to speak for the rest of his life in a hoarse whisper. Griffith claimed that it was the result of his having to scream at the top of his lungs every night in a stage melodrama as a child actor—others have stated that a childhood disease was more likely the cause.
Although a few comedy films of his are considered classics he is almost totally forgotten today. His film debut was for the L-KO Kompany. Many of his starring feature films have long since been lost, but probably the best known of his films today is Hands Up! (1926), a Civil War comedy feature directed by Clarence G. Badger, and co-starring Mack Swain, which was entered into the National Film Registry in 2005. Also considered a classic is Badger's Paths to Paradise, a caper film that is in all circulating prints missing its final reel. Like many silent comedians, he had a traditional costume; his was a top hat, white tie and tails, often augmented by a cape and/or walking stick.
The coming of sound ended Griffith's acting career, but he did have one memorable role in a motion picture before retiring from the screen, playing a French soldier killed by Lew Ayres in the 1930 Lewis Milestone film All Quiet on the Western Front. He then segued into a writing/producing career at Twentieth Century Fox.
- Down on the Farm (1920) (*writer)
- Minnie (1922)
- White Tiger (1923)
- The Yankee Consul (1924)
- Poisoned Paradise: The Forbidden Story of Monte Carlo (1924)
- Lily of the Dust (1924)
- Open All Night (1924)
- Miss Bluebeard (1925)
- Paths to Paradise (1925)
- Hands Up! (1926)
- You'd Be Surprised (1926)
- Trent's Last Case (1929)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- Ladies They Talk About (1933)
- Broadway Through a Keyhole (1933) co-producer
- Private Number (1936)
- Hotel for Women (1939)
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The signs of a wholesome relationship are not often obvious towards the casual observer. However , right now there are generally certain procedures that are shared by cheerful couples. Most couples exhibit these signs of a healthy marriage at some point throughout their relationships. One of the most common signs include becoming on time with one another and being able to communicate without difficulty with one another. There are a few more that a majority of people usually are familiar with, but are very important.
Mental Intimacy An effective relationship is dependent on deep emotions between partners. If you have profound emotional closeness with your partner, they will likely feel the same way about who you are. Being able to share feelings is important. You should also be able to understand and know what your lover is sense any kind of time given moment in time. The lack of interaction can be a problem in some interactions. However , in case you two talk about this sort of connection, it can be much easier to stay emotionally connected the whole day.
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Spend some time Together It is important that you spend time together as a couple. You need to be able to method activities that take place while you are with one another. This may include going out to dinner or perhaps taking a walk. This allows one to get to know your spouse deeper. You may even find that you convey more fun as you spend time with each other because you get to spend time with the other person and build better relationships due to it.
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As spring nears, days become longer, and our Texas temperatures begin to warm, outdoor activities become increasingly popular. As each year passes we are bombarded with new articles informing us about what we should or shouldn’t be doing to protect ourselves from our sworn enemy, the sun; whether it is “in” or “out” to be tan; and whether the sun is good or bad this season. The truth of the matter is the sun can be good, bad, and sometimes ugly if we let it by not taking care of our skin.
When you look around in nature, plants and trees even the need the sun to grow- for photosynthesis. The sun does have good benefits for our bodies. Studies have shown that ten to fifteen minutes of daily exposure combined with a healthy balanced diet should produce the average adult with all the Vitamin D they need. Vitamin D boosts the body’s immune system, promotes calcium absorption, contributes to strong bones, and supports a healthy nervous system while flushing out toxins. The spring season, and therefore longer exposure to the sun, can improve your mood chemically and even prevent depression. Sunlight also stimulates the pineal gland which produces certain types of chemicals called ‘tryptamines.’ One type of tryptamine, melatonin, keeps our body clock aware of night and day and the changing seasons. As with most anything sun exposure in moderation is beneficial, too much is harmful.
Up to ninety percent (90%) of the visible skin changes commonly attributed to aging are caused by the sun. Photo-aging is often the first sign that your skin has been damaged when it is tanned or burned. Repeated exposure and damage can lead to skin cancer. Generally the body will rid itself of damaged cells, however the ultraviolet light in the sunrays lowers the body’s immune system, making it difficult to destroy and eliminate damaged cells. It is these damaged cells that can slowly grow to produce a cancerous tumor. Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States . There are over one million new cases of skin cancer diagnosed in the United States each year, outnumbering all other cancers combined. While once a popular myth that the use of tanning beds would decrease the risk of skin cancer, people who use tanning beds are 2.5 times more likely to develop squamous cell carcinoma, 1.5 times more likely to develop basal cell carcinoma, and increases melanoma risk by 75 percent. And regardless if you are in a tanning bed or outdoors, a person’s risk for skin cancer doubles if he or she has had five or more sunburns.
Mother Nature will take her toll on everyone’s skin, even the best of us. The sun causes hyper pigmentation of the skin, accelerated aging (photo-aging), and slower healing. Luckily, many treatments for photo-aging not only restore the skin’s youthful appearance; they also reduce your risk for developing pre-cancers and/or skin-cancer. New clinical treatments can virtually give you overnight results.
Turning Back the Hands of Time
Lasers such as Fraxel and Pixel are used to vaporize the skin’s sun-damaged top layer, exposing a softer, smoother skin surface. As a result, there is softening of lines and wrinkles, fading of some scars, removal of hyper pigmentation, and stimulation of new collagen growth quickly. With their pinpoint accuracy, lasers are ideal for sensitive skin areas such as around the eyes and are effective treatment of actinic keratoses, as well.
IPL (intense pulsed light) is a non-skin-removing technique (“non-ablative”) that offers patients a softening of lines, removal of broken capillaries, and stimulation of new collagen growth. Usually several sessions are needed for optimal results.
For mild to moderate photo-aging, microdermabrasion or chemical peels can be used to rejuvenate the skin.
Prescription skincare products, such as retinoids and hydroquinone, can substantially reverse sun-damage over a period of time.
Simple Prevention and Planning Tips
The best way to combat The Bad is through prevention. Apply sunscreen or sun block with an SPF of 15 or higher (especially to areas vulnerable to photo-aging). For those who do not like to wear sunscreen, look for unscented formulas or try a sport sunscreen. They are designed to absorb quickly without leaving a greasy or sticky residue. When applying your sun-protection do not forget your ears, nose, lips, neck, hands, and toes. Wear sunglasses with UV protection. The sun can also cause damage to your eyes, such as cataracts or permanent damage.

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The Erasmus Mundus EDEN project funds scholarships for students registered at European universities who want to study abroad at a partner university in Isreal. Undergraduates and graduates recieve a monthly allowance of 1000€ and doctorates receive 1.500€ per month. The scholarship covers also insurance costs of up to 75€ per month and travel and visa costs of up to 2.500€. Interested students should check the eligibility criteria on the website of the EDEN programme to make sure that they are eligible for a scholarship
Candidates must be nationals of one o the eligible European countries. Applicants have to be registered at a European partner university when applying for the programme. Students cannot benefit from another project within the same Erasmus Mundus project.

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BHAKKAR/MULTAN: At least 18 people – including six from one family – were killed and 35 others injured in a deadly road crash in the northern Punjab district of Mianwali on Wednesday.
A racing bus, which was en route to Layyah from Mianwali, slammed into a tractor-trolley on MM Road in Chakk 19 ML near Harnoli, according to police.
Deadly accident: Five students killed, 13 injured in roof collapse
Officials and survivors said the bus driver lost control of his vehicle after it broke tie-rod in the middle of the two-way road. The bus veered off the lane coming in the way of a tractor-trolley, they added. Assistant Commissioner Rana Shahid Hussain corroborated the account.
The impact was so strong that the bus turned into a heap of mangled metal. Police and rescuers had to cut through the body of the bus to pull out the injured who were subsequently driven to Mianwali’s District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ).
In all, 35 people were wounded, 16 critically. Most of them had brain and spinal cord injuries, according to Dr Hafeezullah. Since the DHQ faces a shortage of neurosurgeons, 16 of the injured were shifted to Multan’s Nishtar Hospital.
Bus-trawler head-on collision claims 18 lives in Mianwali
Mianwali’s DPO Sadiq Khan confirmed the fatalities. “Twelve people were killed on the spot; three succumbed to their injuries en route to hospital; another three died at the DHQ Mianwali and Nishtar Hospital,” he told The Express Tribune.
Relatives of the injured protested outside of DHQ against shortage of doctors. Protester Zubaida said her brother might have survived if he was treated on time for his brain injuries. The protesters dispersed only after the assistant commissioner assured them that neurosurgeons were being called from Multan to treat the injured.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 7th, 2016.
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Have you ever bought a product without any visual appeal? The answer is definitely No. We never buy something which is not pleasant or soothing to our eyes. Visual communication is one of the most important part of any advertisement and this job can only be done with the help of a good graphic designer. This is one of the reasons behind the increasing demand of graphic designing everywhere. Thus, the demand for graphic designing in Kolkata has risen in the recent times.
Graphic designing is all about converting your imagination into a visual message with the help of images, words, typography etc. in order to attract more audiences. By creating a communicative website or an attractive logo, a good graphic designer plays a vital role in the development of a company’s product and image.
Whether you own a big company or you have just started a small business, you cannot reach the target audience, without a good graphic designer. Graphic designing is an art of bridging the gap between the company and its customers. If you cannot build a good relationship with your customers, then you cannot survive in this competitive world. You should hire a good and competent graphic designer, who can create a link with your customers through visual messages.
Growing demand of graphic designing in Kolkata has opened the door for graphic designers in various fields as well. You can work as an art director, publication designer, illustrator, website designer etc. in a company after completing the graphic designing course.
In fact, there are various graphic designing companies present in Kolkata, which provide a good job with attractive remuneration. Graphic designing is very helpful. They help entrepreneurs in developing their website, build their brand and also in the packaging of the products, which helps them to grow their business.
The increase in demand and importance of graphic designing has also changed the career graphs of students pursuing graphic designing courses. In fact, the number of institutes for graphic designing has also increased in Kolkata. Thus, if you have decided your career as a graphic designer, then look out for an institute which provides advanced and high quality of graphic designing courses with a job guarantee.
Hi-Tech Animation is one of the leading institutes in Kolkata, when it comes to graphic designing courses. It teaches latest techniques and all the practical works are done using the latest software. Hi-Tech has its own production house, where you can learn the latest techniques during your practical works. Experienced mentors from relevant fields are there to help you in learning the techniques of graphic designing.


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