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He told the County Gazette: “I would’ve taken either [the game being on or off].
“It’s allowed Sully [Dan Sullivan] and some of the other lads to recover from knocks.
This Saturday sees the Peacocks head to Surrey to take on Walton Casuals (ko 3pm), a team beaten 4-0 at the Viridor Stadium in November.
Dray said: “Matt [Villis] and I went to Poole to watch them on Tuesday night, as teams can change so much in a couple of months.
“I was impressed with both teams.
“It will be tough up there on their 3G surface, as that’s always a game-changer and levels things up.
The Peacocks will be missing defenders Ben Adelsbury and Keith Emmerson, both suspended after their red cards at Salisbury, but with title rivals Metropolitan Police and Weymouth facing each other on Saturday, Dray says a win for his side is essential.
“It’s a huge game for us, and it’s imperative that we get the three points.
“There’s some interesting fixtures in the next few weeks, with Met Police playing both Weymouth and Salisbury, and some tricky midweek games.
As for midfielder Matt Buse and striker Matt Wright, there are no new updates regarding contract extensions.
“We’re still talking to them,” said Dray.
“There’s been no real progress, but we’re in no rush and we don’t want to put pressure on them.
‘The Stags’ are currently in 16th place, just four points clear of the relegation zone, after Tuesday night’s 3-1 loss to play-off contenders Poole Town.
Their last eight league games have yielded just one win, a 4-1 success over basement club Staines Town (who have a mere nine points from 28 games).
Still, this is a season of consolidation for Walton, given they finished sixth in the Isthmian League South Division last season – squeezing into the play-offs on goal difference, then beating Cray Wanderers and Corinthian Casuals to earn promotion.
Manager Anthony Gale has the Stags punching above their weight, as this is their first season in the seventh tier of English football and their best FA Cup performance is reaching the third qualifying round.
Gale (son of ex-Fulham, West Ham and Blackburn player Tony Gale, now chairman of Walton) has experience working with Chelsea Ladies and Millwall, and he is now into his fourth season in the current post.
He will almost certainly instruct his players to mark Taunton captain Matt Wright at corners this time around, righting the wrong which led to them falling behind at the Viridor Stadium in November.
The Peacocks went on to win 4-0, with Pierce Mitchell, Craig Veal and Dan Sullivan rounding off a comfortable win to take their side top of the table.
WELLINGTON hope to resume Toolstation Western League Premier action on Saturday, as they go to Roman Glass St George (ko 3pm).
Although looking free of relegation worries, manager Clive Jones will be keen to have his side established in a mid-table position.
The Tangerines won the reverse fixture 2-1 just three weeks ago, Tom Hawkings and Lewis Tasker scoring.
Jones said: “The week off has given us time to reflect – there’s 13 games to go, so we’ve set new targets to push on to the end of the season.
After the Roman Glass match, Wellington will host Plymouth Parkway on Wednesday, the match having been snowed off last weekend (ko 7.45pm).
In the First Division, Bishops Lydeard still need points to feel safe from the drop.
They are also on the road, away at Corsham Town, who are on the promotion fringes (ko 3pm).
Lydeard can, nonetheless, take heart from their last match, a 1-1 draw at home to league leaders Cheddar.
In the Uhlsport Somerset County League, Division 1 side Staplegrove face a very tough test as they visit Mendip Broadwalk.
The Bristol side sit second behind Bridgwater Reserves, while Staplegrove are seven points above the dropzone.
Approving 1A is not a matter of life and death. However, the consistent neglect to appropriate reserve revenues available for spending and seeking grant money to solve problems like mental health, fire mitigation and child care is detrimental to our community. The authors of 1A knew it would gain a wide range of suppor...
If we add up the ending balances for just general funds at the county, $19.2 million; the school district, $8.8 million; and Breckenridge, $27.9 million for 2018-19 budgets, the sum comes to $55.9 million! This is just general funds or plainly, $55.9 million available to fund these very important issues! I included Bre...
At the commissioners meeting I learned that all the sales tax revenue in Breck, Dillon, Silverthorne and Blue River stays in those towns. What that means in a town like Breckenridge, is that you have a huge revenue source from sales taxes, but only the voters in Breckenridge can say how that money is spent. Breck devot...
Obviously, we should have restricted reserves in our general funds. We can’t always depend on consistent revenues and there could be a serious emergency. However, if the school district, the county and Breckenridge were willing to invest just 20 percent of their general fund reserves, we would have $11 million to fund ...
Rent is too high. Taxes are going up. Register and vote no on 1A!
It has been my civic pleasure in the past 70+ years to have been a human resource executive, a state court-appointed child guardian, a trained internal affairs reviewer and a school resource officer assistant, as well as sitting on five police advisory committees. I now feel compelled and saddened to resign my affiliat...
Two calls were placed to county commissioners and one formal email asking for guidance regarding the mission of our advisory committee. They never responded.
In the past two plus years, the level of openness and sharing exhibited during our more and more infrequent meetings has deteriorated to the point where our remaining members are no longer up to date with the daily operation of the sheriff’s office. We are no longer involved with promotion or hiring boards. We know the...
No elected position holder is perfect. But with the unique lack of reporting responsibility of a Colorado sheriff, it is incumbent that the electorate, the judiciary, the school board, the county government and all others try to be informed regarding the departments activities and policies.
Please do not take this as an endorsement for either candidate.
In honor of 'Jack Reacher's casting of Tom Cruise as the hulking hero, we put together our list of casting choices that didn't just stray from the source, but downright ignored it.
The planned video game adaptation 'Kane & Lynch' has been delayed, as director Patrick Alessandrin has left the project - pushing shooting into 2011.
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A woman from the Cincinnati, Ohio area lost her job and was separated from her children for a week after she was mistakenly jailed by police, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported over the weekend.
Lawyer Michael Cohen's epic fallout with President Donald Trump was triggered by a meeting last June between actor Tom Arnold and the president's trusted fixer, according to The New York Times.
The Department of Homeland Security is considering a proposal to label fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, according to Task & Purpose, a military news outlet.
Bolstering communities amid a birth rate decline, about one in 10 U.S. counties grew last year because of immigration, according to The Wall Street Journal.
One of President Richard Nixon's men arrested at the Watergate complex in 1972, the death two years ago of James W. McCord, was kept entirely out of the press, website Kennedys and King reported.
An impeachment resolution aimed at President Donald Trump following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report will be signed by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
In a scathing opinion piece for The Washington Post, lawyer George Conway charged President Donald Trump is a "cancer" on the office, and Congress should "excise" it.
President Donald Trump claimed to have held back on firing special counsel Robert Mueller during the Russia probe, going off on Twitter on Thursday night.
Despite a "tremendous" tax break promised by President Donald Trump, 68% of Americans say they paid the same amount or more in federal taxes for 2018 as they did the previous year, according to a new Hill-HarrisX survey released Thursday.
By strengthening checks around federally subsidized housing, the Trump administration wants to crack down on illegal immigrants using government services, according to The Washington Post.
Veterans of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign take no comfort in the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Douglas E. Schoen's singular focus throughout his storied career as a pollster, pundit, and writer has been how best to protect, preserve, and promote the unique American experiment.
Special counsel Robert Mueller's report was "more damning" to President Donald Trump than the Watergate report was to former President Richard Nixon, former White House counsel John Dean claimed on CNN on Thursday.
Doctors can assign a risk score that can accurately predict the body mass index, obesity risk, and overall risk of disease using genes, a new study determined, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Democrats still have "fodder" to "continue to hammer" President Donald Trump after the release of the Mueller report, according to GOP political consultant Karl Rove on Thursday.
For more than three years, photographer Ren Shichen has traveled across China taking portraits of the country's left-behind children -- some of the estimated nine million young kids that are currently growing up without Mom or Dad in China.
His goal is to shed light on the psychological costs of China's economic boom -- the ones borne by rural children whose parents have left their villages to work in China's cities, often for years at a time, leaving them in the care of grandparents or other relatives.
"Many parents left home when their kids were one or two years old. When they call home now, the children don't pick up. There's no emotional connection any more," says Ren.
Concern over the plight of these left-behind children and rural poverty resurfaced last month after Chinese Internet users were touched by "Frost Boy." A photo of third grader Wang Fuman, his hair iced over from his three-mile trek to school, went viral on Chinese social media.
Ren estimates he's taken the portraits of more than 100 children who have been left behind by one or both parents, most of them in his home province of Gansu, China's poorest. He gets permission from each child's guardian before taking their picture.
What's mesmerizing about his images is their striking similarity -- each child is posed in a classroom with a message for their absent parents on the blackboard behind them. The kids appear unsmiling, chalk in hand and their school backpack at their feet.
In 2017, Ren won a third place in the Sony World Photography Awards for portraiture.
Ren has heard some heartbreaking stories from the kids he has profiled.
"When I talk to them their words shock my heart," he says. "No one cares about their inner world."
In most cases their grandparents are able to take care of physical needs like clothes and food but their psychological needs are neglected, he said.
In 2015, Ren met a 14-year-old boy, Li Guojun, whose mother had committed suicide. He didn't know where his father was. "Cherish life in afterlife. My mom committed suicide after mom and dad argued. I miss her," he wrote on the blackboard.
When Ren asked another boy what he wanted to say to his mother, the boy said he wanted to kill his mom with a knife because she left his dad while working away from the village but the vast majority of the messages are touching in their simplicity.
Clad in a turquoise coat, Wang Zixuan, 8, from Gaomiao Elementary School, Gansu, wrote: "I miss daddy and mommy. Daddy and mommy went out to work. I haven't seen them for three years."
Official figures from 2016 suggest there are 9.02 million children under the age of 16 living without either of their parents in rural China. Earlier figures, based on a 2010 census, had stated that as many as 60 million children under 18 lived without one or both of their parents.
Research suggests that left-behind children are at higher risk of abuse, suicide and mental health issues and suffer from more behavioral problems than their contemporaries.
In 2016, China released a set of guidelines aimed at protecting children left behind by parents, requiring rural officials to keep track of them, and urging parents to keep in touch via phone and video chat.
Left-behind children, and other unintended consequences of mass migration, are not unique to China, but draconian rules have made the problem worse. China's much-hated hukou system registers families as either rural or urban.
Most migrants can't change their household registration when they move. As such, they struggle to access social services such as public schools in urban areas. This can mean it makes more sense for parents to leave their children at home with grandparents or other relatives.
Ren says he feels that China has made progress in tackling poverty in rural areas and that living standards in the areas he visits are improving. There is also more focus on education for left-behind kids, he said. However, he added that these kids need much better psychological support.
"Even though now there are more ways of communicating -- seeing each other on a computer screen, real love and care are still needed," said Ren.
Ren, 42, grew up poor in Gansu, a dust bowl region that borders the Gobi desert. As a child he had to walk two kilometers (1.2 miles) every day to collect water. His first photography project focused on the plight of people living in three provinces in China where water is particularly scarce -- Gansu, Shaanxi and Ning...
"I like to focus on ordinary people who live in villages, in rural areas," he says. In his day job, he works as a photojournalist for Xibu Business Newspaper in Lanzhou, the provincial capital of Gansu.
Ren has started a blog in 2010, on which he posts pictures about life in rural villages. His blog has been viewed more than 17 million times and left-behind children is one of the most viewed topics.
"I want to use my pictures to tell Chinese stories", he said.
He explained his blog is not only a platform to show the lives of children who have been left behind, but also a mutual channel for left-behind children to reach out to him so that more information can be gathered.
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Bringing a Dickens of a story to Simonstone later this month, Kindred Theatre are staging their production of 'A Haunted Man', a brand new adaptation of a Dickensian classic, as part of Spot On Lancashire’s Autumn season.
A ghostly production which sees four versatile actors take the audience through a world of shadows and candlelight on a journey that moves between the modern day and 1850 and between contemporary reality and the fictional world of Dickens’ original story, A Haunted Man will be at St Peter’s Church Hall in Simonstone on...
Christmas Eve. Jonathan has recently moved into a care home. His mind is deteriorating, but the one memory he wishes to forget stays strong. A present is left for him: a copy of Dickens’ The Haunted Man. The forgotten inscription from Jonathan’s past sparks a ghostly visitation, a phantom offering an irresistible gift ...
In their atmospheric production about love, loss, and the true value of memory, Kindred Theatre offers a blend of candlelight, shadows, puppetry, original music, and theatrical storytelling on what is sure to be a gripping and entertaining evening.
The production is accompanied by an audio exhibition of real life stories from Kindred Theatre’s inter-generational events held in collaboration with Age UK and other community organisations across the UK; glimpses of memories from people aged 16 to 100 which resonate with the themes of the play.
Tickets are available directly from the venue or by calling 01200 428742 while more information about booking online and on the full season programme is available via www.spotonlancashire.co.uk.
ALAMOSA � First Southwest Bank�s community fund recently was awarded $400,000 in 2017 and $100,000 in 2018 by the state Office of Economic Development and International Trade to create a revolving loan fund to issue low-interest loans to startup farms, small and emerging businesses, outdoor recreation. women-owned busi...
Phil Jones believes everyone is taking Manchester United seriously again having been "a bit of a laughing stock" at the start of the season.
United have won 10 of the Norwegian's 11 matches in the hotseat, leading him to break records, become United's first manager of the month since Sir Alex Ferguson and be installed as the bookmakers' favourite to get the job permanently.
Solskjaer's excellent audition continued with a 3-0 win at embattled Fulham on Saturday - a result that moved them into the top four for the first time since the opening weekend of the season.
"It was a big game for us," he said. "We knew we could get into the top four. It's a big statement from where we were, we just need to keep improving and keep picking up points."
Asked if it was a big psychological boost to be in fourth, Jones added: "Yeah, huge. Everyone's got to take us seriously now, you know?
"OK, we might have been a bit of a laughing stock maybe at the start of the season but certainly not now.
"We've proven that in the last 10 or 12 games. We're improving, still getting better."

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