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Pacific Beat
with Catherine Graue
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Impact of rising sea levels on Pacific maritime boundaries discussed on sidelines of climate talks
By Catherine Graue on Pacific Beat
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When we talk about the effects of rising sea levels on the Pacific islands, most often we consider that human impact, but experts warn that they could also threaten the size of the waters that Pacific island countries control too.
That's because maritime boundaries are normally pegged to isolated shards of land — islands, atolls, reefs and rocks which barely poke above sea level.
There are worries rising seas could swamp some of these markers.
So the race is now on to determine the area of ocean each Pacific nation controls, and legally fix them in place before climate change wreaks havoc on existing boundaries.
This was discussed as part of a side event at the climate change summit underway in Spain, COP 25, and which has a special focus on oceans this year.
Cameron Diver, the Deputy Director-General at the Pacific Community (SPC) was part of the discussions.
"If we lose those features [islands and atolls], it may lead to a decrease in the maritime zones...it's very important and it's part of the Pacific leader's priorities to say, we want the baselines that are established today, to remain in place, not withstanding the possible future effects of climate change on these geographic features," he told Pacific Beat from Madrid.
"What it really means, is the large ocean states will lose some of the sovereign rights they have over part of that ocean...that's something that's incredibly important given the resources on which Pacific islands rely".
He doesn't expect the issue will be part of this year's COP25 negotiations but he says they held the side event, "to shine a light" on the issue, to influence future negotiations.
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Communications chief leaves Martinez administration
By Dan McKay / Albuquerque Journal
Friday, June 9th, 2017 at 11:35pm
SANTA FE, N.M. — A key figure in crafting Gov. Susana Martinez’s communications strategy is leaving her administration.
Chris Sanchez – who worked for the governor for about 3½ years – stepped down this week as communications director.
His departure is the third announced by the Martinez administration this week among top staffers. Education Secretary Hanna Skandera and Myles Copeland, secretary of Aging and Long-Term Services, are also leaving.
Martinez, a Republican, is well into her second term as governor, and she can’t run again next year because of term limits. The next governor will be elected in November 2018 and take office Jan. 1, 2019.
Sanchez worked on the governor’s 2014 re-election campaign and also served as a spokesman for the Higher Education Department.
Martinez said she is grateful for his help.
“Chris is a gifted communicator who helped me lay out my vision to the people of New Mexico,” the governor said in a written statement. “We’re going to miss his good sense of humor and invaluable insight.”
Larry Behrens, a former spokesman for the Public Education Department, succeeds Sanchez as communications director.
Hiring freeze lifted
The Martinez administration has lifted a hiring freeze aimed at helping the state survive a budget crisis.
Joseph Cueto, a spokesman for the governor, said “prudent fiscal management” by the administration allowed the freeze to be lifted.
The governor froze hiring for most state jobs in late March, when her state personnel director cited “unprecedented budgetary challenges.”
It takes about a month for new hires to actually make it onto the payroll.
Lawsuit over vetoes
Gov. Martinez shook up this year’s legislative session with a spate of unexplained vetoes, and lawmakers are now taking her to court, arguing the vetoes should be invalidated for failing to meet legal requirements.
The fate of the lawsuit should become more clear next week.
State District Judge Sarah Singleton has scheduled an hour-long hearing for Friday in Santa Fe.
Dan McKay: dmckay@abqjournal.com
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PDP Calls For Reversal Of Supreme Court Ruling On Imo
FeaturedPolitics January 16, 2020
Supreme Court judgement on Imo governorship election is groundless and should be reversed, says Uche Secondus, chairman, People Democratic Party The National Working Committee of our great party, after a thorough examination of all the issues relating to the miscarriage of justice by the Supreme Court on the Imo... Read more
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Bayelsa Poll: NGO Warns Of Danger Signals, Threats To Peaceful Polls, Sues For Restraint
FeaturedPolitics November 14, 2019
The Search for Common Ground , an election process advocacy civil society group on Tuesday decried the tense political atmosphere capable of threatening a peaceful governorship elections on Nov. 16, 2019. Ms Joy Baiye, Media Advocacy Cordinator of the Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) made the observation at a press... Read more
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From Dianabasi Effiong Sen. Magnus Abe, former Senator representing Rivers South-East in the National Assembly, has appealed to those calling for the removal of Sen. Godswill Akpabio, the Minister, Niger Delta Affairs (MNDA), to tread with caution. He made the call on Tuesday in Port Harcourt while speaking with... Read more
Atiku Accepts Supreme Court’s Verdict, Says Judgment Is Nail On Coffin Of Nigeria’s Gains Since 1999
FeaturedPolitics October 31, 2019
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Nigeria’s Supreme Court Dismisses PDP, Atiku’s Appeal Against Buhari’s Re-election, To Adduce Reasons Later
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the appeal challenging President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory at the Feb.23 general election. Justice Tanko Mohammad, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), led six other justices to unanimously dismiss the appeal for lacking in merit. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the other... Read more
Supreme Court’s Confirmation: We Expected Victory Because There Was No contestant Says Governor Wike
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Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says that all the candidates disqualified for Bayelsa and Kogi governorship elections were not validly nominated by their political parties. Mr Festus Okoye, Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, INEC said this on Thursday during a “Youth Campus” sensitisation programme organised by the... Read more
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Hon Tonye Isenah, Speaker of Bayelsa House of Assembly on Monday dismissed reports of his impeachment as false and a nullity as he remains the speaker of the house. There was heavy shooting at the Bayelsa House of Assembly during a session of the assembly when hundreds of youths... Read more
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National Cement of Alabama invests $250m in local facility
National Cement of Alabama is to invest $250 million in a facility in St. Clair County, Birmingham.
A report by BizJournals says the company will build a new kiln at its Ragland production plant during the first quarter of 2020.
Spencer Weitman, National Cement of Alabama’s president, says the project will “ensure that our employees and our Ragland facility can continue to be competitive for years to come by upgrading our plant with the latest technology and equipment.”
The Alabama Department of Commerce says daily operations will continue throughout construction, which will be completed in 2020.
The plant ships cement products to customers in areas such as Alabama, North Carolina and Florida.
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Wolverhampton vs Manchester United Prediction & Match Preview
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Wolverhampton vs Manchester United is looking like a key fixture in matchday 2 of the Premier League. Much is expected of these two clubs for very different reasons. Manchester United will be looking to prove that their 4-0 win against Chelsea on the opening weekend was no fluke. After an incredible 2018-2019 campaign, Wolverhampton drew their opening fixture to Leicester City. They will not want to fall too far behind so early. Wolverhampton vs Manchester United has the potential to be an absolutely exhilarating football match.
Monday, August 19 – 15:00 EST – Molineux Stadium
Wolverhampton shocked the Premier League last season, they played fantastic football and earned a 7th place finish. Consequently, they will most likely be playing Europa League football as well this season. We must keep in mind that Wolverhampton achieved these accomplishments as a promotion team last campaign. This may be why we must temper our expectations of them this season. Their squad has depth and quality but it may not be enough to repeat their 7th place finish. They will most likely finish below that this year as Everton and Leicester will be pushing for those 7 and 8th place spots. Leander Dendoncker and Ruben Neves have formed an excellent midfield partnership that will continue to shine on Monday. New signing Cutrone is unlikely to start but he will be looking to add some flare from the bench and impress his new boss.
Manchester United could not have enjoyed a better start to their campaign. They will be looking to make it back into the top 4. Their 4-0 win against Chelsea was an incredible statement of intent. Marcus Rashford was the man to lead the charge. This can be a breakout season for the young England international. He has the potential to establish himself as one of the league’s superstars. New signing Daniel James scored a goal as a substitute and will be looking to continue his positive start at the club. More importantly, United look set to keep Paul Pogba for another season. Rumours of his departure ran rampant during the summer. His performance last week was impressive bagging two assists in the process. This one will be an extremely even matchup. Ultimately, Wolverhampton will look to continue their excellent form against top Premier League clubs.
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Snippet of New Future Song Hits the Web: “I Don’t Know Her Name. But, She Had My Child”
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Future truly belongs to the streets.
The rapper hit peak toxicity levels earlier this week after fellow Atlanta rapper, Big Bank DTE, shared a clip of what could possibly be a forthcoming Hndrxx track.
“I don’t know her name but she had my child,” Future raps.
#PressPlay: #TSRTunez–#Future working on some new heat for y'all! His lyrics talmbout "I don't know her name but she had my child" 😩
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The clip, surfacing around the same time as a resurgence in his baby mama drama with Eliza Seraphin. The self-proclaimed Haitian Goddess and Instagram influencer said she can’t pay her court fees according to court documents obtained by The Blast.
This pregnancy was absolutely the toughest, most humbling, yet beautiful experience of my life. I went through hell and back. Health complications seemingly from day one. Lost friends, money, opportunities, and even some of the little bit of sanity I thought I had 😂. However, this journey taught me to be more understanding, observant, forgiving, and most importantly PATIENT 😩. There were times I felt so alone and would look down at my belly and immediately cheer up, knowing she’s hanging in there with me through all of the stress and drama. She’s truly been my protection and kept me strong and going. There were moments I began to doubt myself, but my spirit wouldn’t stay down, thanks to my beautiful little girl. Her annoying kicks would always be the reassurance I needed to make it through the tough days. Knowing what I know now and after looking back on my experience, I can confidently say she was well worth all the chaos. From the moment I decided to keep her, I promised myself and God that I’d show her unconditional love and teach her to be 3x the woman I am. And that’s a promise that will never be broken. I’m super excited and blessed to get a chance to love and guide this little one. I can’t stop crying tears of joy when I look at her. Thank God we made it ❤️
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The court ruled in her favor, finding her “Indigent”, which waives the majority of fees she would have to pay in her legal battle against Future.
Earlier this year, Seraphin official filed her lawsuit against Future, seeking child support for their child. Future has denied that he is father.
The rapper has a total of 6 kids, including one with singer Ciara.
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Jefferson Award winner, November 2019: Beth Anderson
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FITCHBURG (WKOW) — Beth Anderson has a talent for making people feel beautiful.
She’s spent years giving back to Agrace Hospice patients who need it most.
A salon was donated to Agrace by Cost Cutters 12 years ago and for the past six years Beth has been volunteering there every week.
She helps patients like Diane McCarty, who has been struggling with breast cancer, cervical cancer and lung cancer.
“I come down here and it’s just like a miracle when I leave here,” says Diane.
To Beth, it’s a small thing she can do to make them feel good.
“She is so dedicated to her volunteering here,” says inpatient volunteer coordinator Barb Graham. “We literally could not hold the salon if it weren’t for Beth at this point because she is here every week. She will come through blizzards and it doesn’t matter what the weather is, it doesn’t matter if she has a broken ankle, she will come and she’s going to serve these patients.”
Every Thursday, Beth spends hours washing, cutting, styling and listening.
“I think it helps them to cope with what they’re going through and it also makes them feel like they’re valued,” says Barb.
For Diane, “It means the world and she’s such a special person.”
“It’s something you can’t replicate in any way shape or form,” says Beth. “I get just as much out of it as they do. It’s humbling, it makes you appreciate your health, it makes you appreciate your children’s health. There’s nothing else like it.”
“We are just so fortunate to have someone of her caliber and just her integrity,” says Barb. “She’s just a very caring, compassionate and just a real person. I think patients really just feel that from her.”
“She gives her life to all the people here and can’t take tips and goes into rooms for people who can’t get out,” says Diane. “She walks on water basically, as far as I’m concerned.”
Cost Cutters donates all of the supplies for the salon.
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In 1976, a dedicated group of Western Michigan University alumni and friends foresaw the importance and necessity of private funding for public higher education—and the WMU Foundation was established.
The Foundation is an independent, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation that operates to raise funds for Western Michigan University. It exists as an independent agency to offer greater flexibility in fund management by operating as a private, not-for-profit corporation. The WMU Foundation maintains private fund accounts from one fiscal year to the next, as well as keeping the confidentiality of donor information.
The WMU Foundation's EIN number is 38-2138856.
The mission of the WMU Foundation is to promote and provide donor investments to Western Michigan University. It accomplishes this mission by maintaining and enhancing an endowment fund, the income from which provides supplemental financial assistance for current University demands.
The WMU Foundation also fulfills its mission through:
Cost-effective fund-raising programs, conducted by University Advancement, that seek participation from the WMU family
Prudent and responsible administration of funds entrusted to it by its donors
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The WMU Foundation is administered by the Executive Director/Secretary, who also serves as the Vice President for University Advancement, and a volunteer Board of Directors, who oversee how funds can best be used to address the most urgent campus priorities.
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Tullibody family reunited in time for the holidays
By Ciaran Vance @ciaranmvance
A TULLIBODY man has been reunited with his family in what was a perfect gift for the holidays.
Gordon McCracken moved to the Wee County from South Africa in August after receiving a job offer he could not turn down.
Before leaving South Africa, he ensured that Visas for his wife Celeste and their two children Brady and Taylor were complete and submitted to the Home Office.
However, with months going by with no word from officials, Gordon began to panic over his family's future.
Thankfully, everything was sorted and his family arrived at the beginning of December in time to celebrate Christmas together.
The dad said: "[It's] been a hell of a process to get them here, now we're just trying to settle in."
Gordon was born in South Africa, but moved to Scotland with his parents, who were both born in Scotland.
He lived here until he was a teenager before moving back to South Africa, where he met his wife.
They have been married for 22 years and have two children. This is the first time his family have left South Africa.
When Gordon last spoke to the Advertiser, he hadn't seen his family in two months.
He was unsure whether he would have to return home and his wife did not know whether to enrol their children in school in South Africa or wait until they heard from the Home Office.
Now his family are settling in and his daughter Taylor will attend Abercromby Primary School and his son Brady is going to Lornshill Academy.
Gordon said: "The schools have been fabulous; they invited us in and took us on a tour to meet their teachers, so now the kids are feeling more comfortable about transferring."
Not only is Gordon back together with his family, they're thrilled with the scenery right on their doorstep.
He said: "For my wife to be sitting in the morning, having a cup of coffee looking at the snow caps on the mountains, she's absolutely loving it.
"The kids are saying it's so beautiful."
The family will be having a quiet Christmas and their neighbours have invited them over for a Hogmanay party.
In the meantime, Celeste will be "trying to turn what is currently a house into a home" before she looks for a job.
Despite the setbacks and uncertainty, Gordon and his family can now look forward to a new life in Scotland.
A very happy and relieved Gordon said: "It's great to have my family here."
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FRENCH AT ALL SAINTS PRIMARY SCHOOL
Subject Teacher Madame Delyfer
BIENVENUE À TOUS!
10 REASONS WHY LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IS IMPORTANT!
Learning a language…
1. Improves your grasp of English.
2. Enhances your confidence.
3. Gives you a wider understanding of world affairs.
4. Widens your career / job options.
5. Improves international relations.
6. Makes travelling easier and more enjoyable.
7. Connects the world and promotes peace.
8. Helps you make friends in new countries.
9. Shows you are open minded and tolerant.
10.Boosts brain power.
Don't they all speak English?
Spanish and Chinese are also fast-growing world languages - and "International-English" is not the same as UK-English. In most Western European countries, a majority of people still do not speak English - and if you want to communicate with them effectively, it's better to know something of their own language. Remember the saying, "you can buy from foreigners with English, and if you want to sell to them, you need to speak their language."
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Learning something of any language and culture offers many cross-curricular opportunities in the primary classroom for work in geography, history, art, music - a European dimension, and often a world dimension too.
Spanish and Portuguese are widely spoken in Latin America.
German is spoken in Austria and Switzerland - and is a common second language in Eastern Europe.
French is spoken in many Africa countries, Canada, Polynesia and some West Indian islands.
Holiday & leisure opportunities to speak and listen to other languages?
France, Germany and Spain are less than two hours flying time away, and many of your class will spend family holidays in Europe. Many towns in UK have links with European towns through twinning and exchange programmes. You may have access to satellite and cable TVs that carry French-, German- or Spanish-speaking channels.
Your class may well know the names of several European football teams - there could be a French-, German, or Spanish-speaking player in your local team...
Business links with your local community?
Businesses in your area may have links with French-, German- or Spanish-speaking countries. So there are likely to be native-speakers in your community who might be persuaded to give your children a chance to practice speaking and listening to their language.
Check out your local supermarkets and shopping centres for goods from Europe....
NATIONAL CURRICULUM OBJECTIVES
Within the 4 attainment skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing, pupils should be taught to…
Listen attentively to spoken language and show understanding by joining in and responding.
Explore the patterns and sounds of language through songs and rhymes and link the spelling, sound and meaning of the words.
Engage in conversations; ask and answer questions; express opinions and respond to those of others; seek clarification and help.
Speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary, phrases and basic language structures.
Develop accurate pronunciation and intonation so that others understand when they are reading aloud or using familiar words and phrases.
Present ideas and information orally to a range of audiences.
Read carefully and show understanding of words, phrases and simple writing.
Appreciate stories, songs, poems and rhymes in the language.
Broaden their vocabulary and develop their ability to understand new words that are introduced into familiar written material, including through using a dictionary.
Write phrases from memory, and adapt these to create new sentences, to express ideas clearly.
Describe people, places, things and actions orally and in writing.
Understand basic grammar appropriate to the language being studied, including: feminine, masculine and neuter forms; conjugation of high-frequency verbs in different tenses when applicable; key features and patterns of the language; how to apply these [for instance, to build sentences], and how these differ from or are similar to English.
Development plans for French
There are key areas for the development of French throughout the school. Some of the current initiatives taking place this year include:
Ensuring that there is extention and challenge during each lesson to make sure that children’s learning is being extended.
Ensuring that there is a Big Write session for each topic or cartoon covered providing the children a chance to sum up their learning.
Keeping the 'Stars of the week' UKS2 and LKS2/KS1 display boards updated on a weekly basis.
Planning for the end of year Boulogne trip as a final reward for the year 6 children.
At the end of each lesson (RAG assessment)
Most children will understand and reply to questions, recognise, read and pronounce sounds, words and phrases, say and write short phrases from memory and with some visual and spoken support WITH CONFIDENCE.
Some children will not have made so much progress and will only respond to simple questions WITH SUPPORT from a spoken model or visual clue; discriminate sound and identify meanings when items are repeated several times.
Some children will have progressed further and will say and write short phrases FROM MEMORY WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL SUPPORT, have clear pronunciation; initiate conversations when working with partners; take part in speaking tasks of two or three exchanges; show understanding of a short written text containing familiar language.
PLANNING IN LIGHT OF THE KEY CHANGES IN THE FRAMEWORK FOR LANGUAGES
Will show progression over 6 years in listening, speaking, reading and writing, with a specific focus on grammar and pronunciation.
The specificity of All Saints teaching of a foreign language is the inclusion of French lessons beyond the required KS2 initiative [a foreign language became a statutory subject for KS2 from September 2014].
French at All Saints is timetabled from FS all the way up to end of KS2. This provides ampler flexibility within the programme to tailor it to the needs of each phase and more opportunities to cover the required themes suggested in the Foreign Language Curriculum.
At All Saints Primary School, both reception classes are currently being taught French through songs and games thanks to a singing scheme called ‘CHANTEZ PLUS FORT’ and ‘SINGING FRENCH’.
Chantez Plus Fort! Is a scheme of work containing 20 easy-to-learn French songs written specifically to help children to learn French. They are linked to some of the KS2 Programmes of Study for modern foreign languages but are also relevant for pupils in KS1 and KS2, especially those with special needs.
The songs introduce and reinforce key vocabulary for popular topics, such as:
names and ages
time, days of the week, and months
shapes, colours and sizes
classroom items
Whilst enjoying the songs children will broaden their vocabulary and hone their listening skills and pronunciation.
‘Chantez plus fort’ contains 20 songs sung by French children and mini-dialogues which can be used for listening comprehension and role-plays.
Singing French! is collection of fun songs and chants for practising vocabulary and phrases when learning French. Its catchy songs and chants help pupils memorise the words, and the upbeat backing tracks will appeal to FS as well as KS1 and 2. ‘Singing French’ makes learning easy and achievable through a clever use of repetition, rhythm and melody.
Singing French topics list:
Bonjour : Greetings
Comment t'appelles-tu?: Greetings
Un deux trois: numbers and pets
A douze: numbers from 1 to 12
Ma trousse: stationary
La semaine: days of the week
Onze à vingt: numbers from 11 to 20
L'alphabet; alphabet
Ma famille: family members
Mon monstre: adjectives
Zéro à cent: numbers up to 100
Joyeyx anniversaire; birthdays and months
Où habites-tu?: where do you live
Où est-il?: prepositions
J'ai soif, j'ai faim: food and drinks
A la boulangerie: bakery goods
La météo: weather
Les vacances: holidays
Aller à l'école: transports
Le football: sports
Quelle heure est-il?: time
La machine à laver: items of clothing
KS1 and LKS2
At All Saints Primary School, we are currently using ‘EARLY START 1 SALUT’ for all KS1 and LKS2 pupils.
This scheme of work and its films will help young beginners enjoy their first steps in Primary French and finding out about everyday life in France. The videos bring authentic French voices right into the classroom and provide ample opportunities to converse.
TOPICS COVERED IN EARLY START 1 ‘SALUT’
Saying hello and goodbye
Numbers: 0 to 39
What's the weather like today?
What's the date today?
Do you have a pet?
How many brothers and sisters?
UKS2
Then UKS2 children move up to the EARLY START pack 2
‘OÙ HABITES-TU?
EARLY START 2 ‘Où habites-tu?’ is a continuation scheme of work building on the language children have previously learned. EARLY START 2 helps stretch and extend young learners. They will find out more about everyday life and culture in France.
TOPICS COVERED IN PACK 2
Towns in France
Places in my school
What's the time?
Numbers 40 - 200
Shopping with the EURO
French food, drinks and meals
Choosing icecream flavours
Sports and pastimes - likes and dislikes
School subjects - likes and dislikes
Clothes: describing people
KS1, LKS2 and UKS2
In addition to their topic approach to French through EARLY START lessons, All Saints children are taught French through a narrative approach using the unique resource of HOCUS AND LOTUS.
HOCUS ET LOTUS is a resource designed for young language learners. It consists of a series of stories based on the life of experience of children aged between 4 and 12 years. The stories are presented through a series of cartoons inviting the children to enter the make-believe world of Hocus and Lotus, two adorable Dinocrocs.
Hocus and Lotus cartoons are based on a teaching and learning method known as the ‘narrative format’. French is learned through a context in which we speak, live and act exclusively in the new language. Hocus and Lotus experience fantastic and exciting adventures together with the children.
Each animated cartoon lasts 5 minutes and consists of a mini musical whose main teaching content is repeated in the refrain. In this way, children will learn the songs and vocabulary proposed in the story. It is designed to appeal to children’s desire to hear the same story repeatedly.
At first glance, Hocus and Lotus is a more complex and language rich teaching method, but the moment the teacher starts acting out the story, the narration becomes clearer. The children will be encouraged to learn the actions associated to each phrase learned.
Children will join in at various levels:
Some mostly listen and copy the gestures
Some say singly words
Some are quickly ready to repeat whole sentences
FS children are only introduced to the cartoons to join in the songs, no writing will follow.
THE INTRODUCTION OF A CURRICULUM CHALLENGE FOR FRENCH
In term 5, All Saints children will be encouraged to participate to a curriculum challenge activity designed to push children to achieve in different ways. The activities will vary from one year to the next and will be primarily designed to encourage the children to be creative and to think outside the box.
In Term 6 2017, FS had do sing a French song and record it, KS1 children had to draw different objects, colour them in the colours of the flag and label them correctly. LKS2 children had to create a model of a French landmark building. UKS2 had to design in any shape or form a leaflet describing the town of Boulogne-Sur-Mer.
The challenge each year will be introduced during a French assembly and a prize will be organised for each phase winner.
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Set within partly walled grounds of just over an acre, surrounded by wonderful open countryside and woodland, Alton Parva House is a handsome, characterful, detached country property of good proportions.
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Planning consent was granted on 30 October 2018 (Wiltshire Council Planning Reference 18/08500/FUL) for the addition of a full two-storey extension to the left-hand side of the house which will provide a master bedroom suite, dining room, utility room and ground floor cloakroom. Within the same consent permission has been granted for the erection of a substantial detached triple bay garage block with first-floor accommodation; the computer-generated image (CGI) shows Alton Parva House as it would be if the Planning Consent were
implemented. The floor plan identifies the proposed extension to the house in yellow.
The settlement of Alton Parva lies adjacent to the Wiltshire village of Figheldean and approximately 4 miles to the north of the historic market town of Amesbury which offers a comprehensive range of shopping and leisure facilities together with schooling. Figheldean has an Infant and Junior School and the rural settlement/hamlet of Ablington, adjacent to Figheldean, also has a hugely popular pre-school. The medieval cathedral city of Salisbury, approximately 12 miles to the south, offers a good range of social, cultural and educational amenities including the Salisbury Playhouse, Arts Centre and cinema, historic Charter market, a variety of state and private, primary and secondary schools and mainline railway station serving London (Waterloo) and the West Country. The historic country town of Marlborough lies approximately 16 miles to the north, the attractive village of Pewsey with its railway station lies approximately 10 miles to the north. The A303 with its links to the M3 (London and the West Country) is approximately 3 miles away
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24: Live Another Day 30 day ratings show large increase
By 24 Spoilers , July 4th, 2014 · 40 comments
24: Live Another Day key art
Those who have been following the ratings for 24: Live Another Day know the live overnight figures haven’t been all that stellar. But recently released data from FOX paints a different picture.
The third episode of 24: Live Another Day aired on May 12th and we now have the thirty day multi-platform ratings which count all viewings of the show (live, DVR, encores, video on demand, and streaming) over a 30 day period. We’ll attempt to break down the data below:
Live+SD: The live + same day DVR ratings for the third episode were 8.3 million viewers. These are people who watched between the air time of 9:00pm and 3:00am when the numbers get sent to Nielsen for processing.
Live+7: The Live+7 ratings measure live viewing plus DVR viewing up to seven days later. The total audience for this was 11.7 million meaning another 3.4 million people caught up from their DVR during the first week.
Encores: An additional 2.1 million viewers watched the episode via the encore airing that Friday.
VOD and Streaming: lastly is video on demand and streaming services such as Hulu and Fox.com which added another 1.7 million viewers to the tally.
Altogether it adds up to a much more impressive 15.6 million total viewers which is a massive +87% increase from the initial ratings. This means 24 is the second most popular show on FOX after American Idol (the Idol season finale delivered 17.8 million viewers that week).
For comparison, at the absolute peak of 24‘s popularity, the heavily promoted and critically acclaimed fifth season premiered to 17.01 million viewers and averaged 13.78 million viewers throughout. Back then in early 2006, DVR usage was only an insignificant 1.6% and streaming services like Hulu didn’t even exist.
What this shows is that 24 hasn’t really lost much of its total audience, many just aren’t watching it live on Monday nights.
Unfortunately that is a problem as advertisers typically only care about Live+3 ratings (which measure live viewing plus DVR viewing up to three days later). Most commercials are time sensitive: movie studios want you to see their new film on opening weekend, restaurants want you to try their limited-time specials, etc. There is also the assumption that most DVR viewers skip the advertisements.
So as large as these 30 day ratings might be, the millions of people watching via DVR and online simply don’t matter as much as the earlier figures when it comes to negotiating ad rates. Now if FOX could somehow get these millions of DVR viewers to watch the show live, it’d be a much different story.
Source TV By The Numbers thanks Rob
Related Topics · 24: Live Another Day, 9x03, Ratings
24: Live Another Day Episode 3 Ratings
By 24 Spoilers , May 13th, 2014 · 4 comments
Over at Fox, the second installment “24: Live Another Day” on Fox scored a respectable 4.9/ 7 (#3) from 9-10 p.m., which built from lead-in “Bones” (#3: 4.4/ 7 at 8 p.m.) by 11 percent and year-ago time period occupant “Hell’s Kitchen” (2.9/ 5 on 5/13/13) by 69 percent. Compared to its two-hour week-ago season-opener… View Article
24: Live Another Day sees big ratings increase with DVR playback
By 24 Spoilers , May 19th, 2014 · 10 comments
24: Live Another Day’s latest episode gained a big ratings increase of over 40% with three days of DVR playback.
24: Live Another Day Episode 3 Press Release
A HUNTED JACK BAUER TRIES TO THWART A PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSINATION ON AN ALL-NEW “24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY” MONDAY, MAY 12, ON FOX As the hunt continues for Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), the terror threat is intensifying, much to the chagrin of the CIA and Kate Morgan (Yvonne Strahovski). Across town, President James Heller (William Devane)… View Article
Shaun Clark
So does this mean fox will consider to order a season 10 for next year then? I hope so, this new series has been excellent and want more 24.
Only 2 more episodes to go which is not good :(
Me too more 24 more jack bauer
Chlojack
Thanks for the breakdown there. That’s really good news, and interesting to see how different the television landscape is now compared to 8 years ago.
JackBauerFan1977
I really hope that FOX believes that the live+3 ratings for “24: Live Another Day” have been good enough and then soon decide to order a Season 10 for next year. It’s great to know that 24 is the second most watched show on FOX. For this ninth season of 24, I’ve always tuned into FOX on Monday nights just to watch 24. It’s the only show on FOX that I’m a fan of.
aliniknam
FOX pleeeeeeeease order season 10
Max Pen
They must renew! They MUST! This show is like drugs. And I need my fix.
24fan24
Even though 24 is my all time favorite TV series and will probably forever hold that title, I think that Live Another Day should be the final season of the show because of how everything is wrapping up nicely.
Season 9 is by far a better last season of the show than Season 8 was.
24bauerfan
This. Everything is really coming together for a fantastic series finale. We’ve got the Chinese AND the Russians coming after Jack plus WWIII may have already started. It’s not even a threat anymore. That Chinese carrier has ALREADY been destroyed. Even though I love 24 and always will, I kinda think it’s time to say goodbye. I’m glad it came back (the drone chase scene alone, the first of its kind in TV or cinema, made it worth it) but I think this is a chance to end the show on a more definite note than Season 8’s finale, which I really really liked back in 2010 (goddamn, has it been that long?).
stalyn
SEASON 10!
This just shows how 24 is still a pretty popular show and how TV watching has changed in the past decade. 24 was at the forefront of that change, with its serial storytelling which really started in that 1999-2001 period where The Sopranos, The West Wing and 24 all premiered. It also began the trend of binge watching through DVDs, and no one denies that.
With LAD, I personally waited until 7 episodes had already aired to start watching on the internet. I watched the first 8 in about 10 days. This was planned so that I’d watch the first 8 quickly, but the final 4 on a week by week basis with everyone else (it’s also because I was really busy during the airing of the first few weeks and couldn’t possibly have seen them :)). It worked wonders, I tell you, since the first 5 episodes while good aren’t really comparable quality wise with episodes 6-10 which are really good, sometimes great and have gotten better and better every week.
Advertisers still won’t care though… and that goes for all network shows (most of which are crap).
Personally, I liked Episodes 1 & 2 A LOT and 3 & 4 pretty well. Episode 5 and 6 are probably the worst of the season because it feels like Kate Morgan is the protagonist and not Jack. In Episode 7, the focus is kind of 50/50 between Jack and Kate, and I feel like Episodes 8-10 have, for the most part, been about Jack again.
As I look back at the first ten episodes of this season, I really am more impressed than I was when they first premiered. I have really liked LAD, and my only complaints with the season are as follows:
-The obvious CGI problems, (which I can look past due to the plot of the season)
-The Heller ‘fake-out’ probably shouldn’t have taken place
-I originally didn’t like Navarro as a mole, but I have grown to like his character more and more
-The biggest problem of the season is that Jack Bauer doesn’t feel like the main character all the time, and Kate Morgan has way too much focus
Other than those few issues, I’d consider LAD one of my personal favorite seasons, along with 3, 5, and 7.
I quite like the way they wrote Kate Morgan it gives us another character to feel for.
I don’t feel like she has enough depth as a character, though. She’s too much like Jack, and that’s mainly how we can tell she is the writers’ choice for a new series if they decide to make one.
Well, there is a paradox.
There is basically two ways to give a character more depth in a show like this. One is to give that character more screentime. But you don’t want that…
And the other option is to give that character a lot of emotions in a short period of time, but then you run into another issue: A professional CIA field agent is pr definition emotionally rock solid -as long as we actually want an authentic character. And Kate is one of the most authentic and real characters in 24 history. Very well written with a great balance between strengths and flaws. Personally I much rather see a few complain about Kate ‘lacking depth’ than to have a cartoon figure on screen.
They should make season 10 called 24/7 a seven episode series which is based over one week each episode is based on one day of the week e.g. episode one is Monday, episode two is Tuesday it would give the writers a lot more flexibility with what they can do and it would be cool to see what they do with this advantage.
Phee
This is a brilliant idea! It’d be a way for them to recreate the format but still keep the real time feel, still keep the ticking clock on the screen. The movie talk always made me wary, because I dunno how a full 24 story could be condensed and contained into just two hours, but a 24/7 mini-series would hit the spot between a movie and LAD just right. If they wanted to reinvent the show for Kate, this would be a same-but-different way to achieve that.
i bet if they add a number for pirated episode it’d go up at least half a millie
That’s true but pirated episodes don’t have a single 30 second ad. That makes those views worthless in the advertisers eyes.
rwhiting
For FOX, I suppose it’s a mixed bag. They were probably happy with the initial ratings, and less so with recent weeks. However, they did choose to air LAD over the summer, and FOX’s ratings have been perennially weak in general, so what did they expect?
Still, they have critical acclaim to go on. LAD is by far ’24’s’ most positively-received season in years, per fans and publications; and, likely, the most critically-acclaimed drama FOX has aired in recent times (‘Almost Human’ comes close, I suppose). It even has a “chance” for a few Emmy nods in the miniseries category, especially if it ends strong (“chance” is in quotes because FOX will have to bank on the nominating committee having remembered ’24’ by next year, since LAD missed the window for 2014 by a few episodes). So there’s that, and the good L+30 ratings, which actually mean a lot for a struggling network like FOX. In a year when the CW has been beating FOX some nights in the demo, having a competitive summer show is probably a relief for the network—even if the L+3 ratings are weak.
Right now, I’d say there is a 50-50 chance of FOX ordering another series. Really, I doubt anyone at FOX knows what direction they will take right now, and are waiting for the finale to make that determination. Regardless of whether this is ’24’s’ swan song or not, I think we can all agree that LAD was definitely worth the wait.
I kind of agree with you. But if there’s a 50-50 chance, why not err on the side of renewing a series that has proven it can at least deliver something that’s moderately positive and reliable?
That’s why I have hope for more. If it’s really a decision that has the execs thinking “meh, whatever,” pulling the trigger and going for a tenth season isn’t all that risky.
It’s definitely true that LAD has gotten the critics on its side, which i really really wasn’t expecting. They’re not over the moon for it, but they’re definitely enjoying the thrills and writing good reviews about it (especially these later episodes, which is great).
Meridith Bloom
I feel the public didn’t identify with the Margot Al-Harazi storyline as much as people are now identifying with returning antagonists: I loved Margot as an enemy but Cheng Zhi brought the fans back.
Remove the fucking dreadful commercials and I’ll watch it live instead of PVR… Until that day comes (never…), I will always PVR every single show I watch. Unless, it is a commercial-free TV/movie channel.
Please keep 24 on and please keep jack Bauer the main character no show without him
Pirated episodes do have product placement.
Estoy totalmente de acuerdo con todos uds quiero una SEASON 10!!!!! viva Jack Bauer.
I really like season 9, fanatic from Argentina.
I hope there is season 10!!!
Given this data, I actually think it makes more sense to take 24 away from television and put it on the big screen. If this many people paid for movie tickets, that would translate to roughly $150 million in box office revenue.
There just is no other show on television, with the exception perhaps of Homeland, that I can’t wait to see week after week, and no other show who’s hour flies by so fast. PLEASE bring this series back for good. Its simply the best!
wenny
Now if only they would reorder Lie To Me as well.
I think 24 should go on forever! If Fox is stupid enough to not renew 24 -then the producers should move it to cable. There is nothing like 24 and never will be and it still works magic. Even if Jack were 85 and confined to a wheelchair and on oxygen – I would still watch. Nothing can stop Jack Bauer… not even death. If Jack were to die he can always come back as a Spirit Guide… 24 is eternal!
Glad to see that “24” is still popular, with a 30 day viewing total of over 15 million viewers!
If you are like us, we do not watch the show Monday nights – the 20 minutes worth of ads break the pace of the show. We usually contain ourselves and wait until we can watch 3 shows all at once.
It is far more exciting that way and there are less ads.
Hope for a season 10!
Alan Mochel
“24 Live Another Day” is the only network TV program that I watch. Despite being in it’s 9th season, 24 remains fresh and is well scripted, well acted and the most exciting and entertaining program on television today. I hope the decision is made to make season 10.
We will start watching Season 1 again. Love LAD, we do not watch it live, 20 minutes of commercials is way too much.
Pingston
These numbers also don’t cover the numbers downloaded by bit torrent.
They are huge. many .torrent files are created for each episode, and for each of them tens of thousands of copies are downloaded.
For example, for episode 11, three days after it aired, for one of these torrents on July 10th at 5:20 pm EDT I see 7701 seeds and 8044 peers. This is impressive, considering the file size (246 MB) means downloaders need only stay online for less than 10 minutes to grab the show — and most people don’t stick around to seed.
Within the first show after the show ended, this same .torrent file had over 27,000 seeds and 44,000 peers. If you crunch the numbers for this .torrent file alone, it may well have distributed several million copies of the show.
There are several implications for this data, of course. It shows how under-estimated the official numbers are and how popular the show really is. But it also shows that the producers/FOX have real opportunities to charge more for product placement, which is advertising that isn’t deleted by DVR, etc. watchers It may also give a glimpse into the potential for the big Blu-Ray release.
I just re-watched Day 5 in less than a 24 hour period (I originally watched the entire series from bit torrents in under 3 weeks, a few years back, never having seen it on TV) and maybe it’s just me, but it’s remarkable how the impact isn’t dulled by remembering what I did from the original viewing. It stands up to repeated viewing and is as addictive the second time around (hence Day 5 binge-watch).
I write this as someone who has viewed TV in 7 different decades, although in different quantities, and don’t watch a lot today.
Cher Ann
24 is by far the best show on television. I can’t imagine life after 24. Please consider renewing 24 for as many seasons as possible. Of course, I would love to see Kiefer Sutherland, as Jack Bauer, for all and any upcoming seasons. 24 has become part of my family. Please renew another season of 24.
Your number one fan,
Linda Yielding
24 live again needs to have another season ,there is too many lose ends want him ,cloie and the others that was left hanging love the show on tv netflex or hula plus . Just let the show com back and live again
I watch it on iTunes the day after each new episode shows on Fox. It just fits into my schedule better, and, I can watch it from my computer with headphones maxed to 10. Face it, the old fans have lives these days, but we still watch, so don’t forget us!
And, old TV is boring. We live in a digital age these days, so there’s 100000 ways to watch, and it takes more time to collect the data than an overnight rating that moron reviewers don’t consider and just want the show dead. Luckily, filmmakers including myself look at the overall data. They’ll see the ratings, and there will clearly be another 24.
hitler was right
Tried to get into it- couldn’t. Now if he would go fight the real enemy of the US- Israel and International Jewry- I would watch that.
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And all that without even having a licence! But if you do have one...
Integration with Office 365
Microsoft’s trump card is its ownership of all the regular Office applications you already use, as well as business standards like SharePoint and Power Bi. Because Kaizala is part of the Office 365 stable, it will integrate with these apps natively, making it stand head and shoulders above the competition. Microsoft would point out that no-one else can do this, and they’d be right.
Other features in the paid version
Submit invoices and expenses with ease.
Training – you can use those polls and surveys for personalised training sessions for your teams, focussed on whatever groups of users you choose.
Reporting - gather field insights from built-in analytics for quicker decision making and rich business insights.
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So, if you're already an Office 365 user then you can download the app and connect with your Microsoft account, or if not, you can get the Pro version from US$1.50 per user per month.
Alternatively, use the free version of the app with the minimum features - simply download it from the Android and iOS Appstore
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V2COM Adopts Azul Systems Zulu Embedded for Next-Generation IoT Gateways
Leading IoT and embedded systems OEM will build new products based upon Java SE 11 builds of OpenJDK supported by Azul
V2COM is building products based upon Azul Systems Zulu Embedded builds of Java 11
First Java 11-based V2COM products built using Zulu Embedded planned for Q1 2019
SUNNYVALE, Calif., – Azul Systems, the award-winning leader in Java runtime solutions, today announced that V2COM, a São Paulo-based leading provider of Smart Systems and IoT Solutions with a global presence, has chosen Java 11-based builds of OpenJDK from Azul Systems for its future products based on the Arm processor architecture.
V2COM has achieved extraordinary results using the Java programming language across multiple generations of embedded, M2M and IoT-focused designs. By moving to Java 11, the company expects to take full advantage of the modularity features and language elements that have been added to the Java platform since Java 8, the last major long term support (LTS) release of the Java platform, in its Industrial IoT gateways.
“We’ve been working with Azul Systems for over two years on a number of product designs,” said Guilherme Spina, V2COM CEO. “By aligning with Azul Systems we gain multiple advantages – an experienced Java partner with deep experience in the embedded sector, IP protection for our application code, simple and affordable pricing plans, and the flexibility of a 100% open source platform backed by Azul’s superb support organization.”
“As embedded OEMs, ISVs, and IoT device pioneers like V2COM look to the future, they need a trusted Java partner who can help them navigate the ever-changing Java roadmap and reduce their product costs,” said Scott Sellers, Azul Systems president and CEO. “By teaming with Azul, our embedded partners benefit from working with an experienced team 100% focused on Java, access to the full breadth of Java SE versions with long-term support, and flexible, hassle-free business terms.”
About Zulu Embedded
Zulu Embedded builds of OpenJDK are certified, tested, multiplatform builds of the OpenJDK source that meet the standards for Java SE 11, 8, 7, and 6. Support is available for 32- and 64-bit x86, Arm, and PowerPC processors plus 64-bit SPARC CPUs. Zulu Embedded supports all major versions of Linux plus Windows, macOS, Solaris, QNX, and other embedded operating systems. Ideal for embedded, and IoT-related products, Zulu Embedded offers extended product support lifetimes required for automotive and similar multi-year implementations.
For additional information regarding Zulu Embedded, or to download free eval builds of Azul’s embedded Java platform, visit www.azul.com/zulu-embedded.
Twitter: @azulsystems
Azul Systems, the industry’s only company exclusively focused on Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), builds fully supported, certified standards-compliant Java runtime solutions that bring the power of Java to the enterprise, cloud, and embedded/IoT. Zing is a JVM designed for enterprise Java applications and workloads that require any combination of low latency, high transaction rates, large working memory, and/or consistent response times. Zulu is Azul’s certified, freely available open source build of OpenJDK with a variety of flexible support options, available in configurations for the enterprise, cloud, as well as custom and embedded/IoT devices. For additional information, visit https://www.azul.com.
Azul Systems, the Azul Systems logo, Zulu, Zing, and ReadyNow! are registered trademarks. Java and OpenJDK are trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliated companies in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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V2COM is a leading provider of Smart Systems and IoT Solutions with more than 1 million intelligent connected devices worldwide. Since 2002, developing both hardware and software with an open and modular architecture, V2COM provides integrable solutions to different equipments and legacy systems which allow an easy incorporation into future technological advances.
V2COM’s award-winning platform accelerates project deployments and drives the return on investment for companies with complex processes from different sectors, such as Industry 4.0, Agriculture, Smart Cities, and Utilities.
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Hackers Hit Equifax, Compromising 143 Million Americans' Data
Megan Gates
?Hackers breached a crown jewel of the U.S. financial institution this summer, potentially compromising 143 million Americans� personally identifiable information (PII).�
Consumer credit reporting agency Equifax confirmed in a statement released late Thursday that hackers gained access to its systems and compromised consumer data, including Social Security numbers and driver�s license numbers.�
�Criminals exploited a U.S. website application vulnerability to gain access to certain files,� the statement said. �Based on the company�s investigation, the unauthorized access occurred from mid-May through July 2017. The company has found no evidence of unauthorized activity on Equifax�s core consumer or commercial credit reporting databases.�
Along with consumers� names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, and addresses, the hackers also stole 209,000 consumers� credit card numbers and 128,000 consumers� dispute documents.
�As part of its investigation of this application vulnerability, Equifax also identified unauthorized access to limited personal information for certain UK and Canadian residents,� the statement said. �Equifax will work with UK and Canadian regulators to determine appropriate next steps.�
Equifax became aware of the hackers� intrusion on July 29, acted to stop the intrusion, and hired a cybersecurity firm to conduct a comprehensive forensic review to determine the scope of the intrusion. It also reported the intrusion to law enforcement.�
�This is clearly a disappointing event for our company, and one that strikes at the heart of who we are and what we do,� said Chairman and CEO Richard F. Smith in a statement. �I apologize to consumers and our business customers for their concern and frustration this causes. We pride ourselves on being a leader in managing and protecting data, and we are conducting a thorough review of our overall security operations.�
To help consumers determine if they have been impacted by the breach, Equifax created a website--www.equifaxsecurity2017--to check their status and sign up for credit file monitoring and identity theft protection.
Critics, however, have cautioned consumers about checking their status with Equifax as doing so might waive any rights they have to sue the agency.�
This is because in a disclaimer on the dedicated website includes the following statement: �By consenting to submit Your Claims to arbitration, You will be forfeiting Your right to bring or participate in any class action (whether as a named plaintiff or a class member) or to share in any class action awards, including class claim where a class has not yet been certified, even if the facts and circumstances upon which the Claims are based already occurred or existed.�
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman tweeted that this language is �unacceptable and unenforceable,� and that his staff has contacted Equifax to demand it be removed. He also announced that he�s launching an investigation into how the breach occurred.
�The Equifax breach has potentially exposed sensitive personal information of nearly everyone with a credit report, and my office intends to get to the bottom of how and why this massive hack occurred,�Schneiderman said in a statement. �I encourage all New Yorkers to immediately call Equifax to see if their data was compromised and to consider additional measures to protect themselves.�
While investigators work to determine the cause of the breach and who was responsible, it�s likely to have widespread ramifications given the number of consumers compromised and the data involved.�
In a blog post for cybersecurity firm Digital Shadows, Vice President of Strategy Rick Holland detailed what�s most likely to happen next, including tax return fraud, benefits and medical care fraud, carding, resale of data, and enablement of nation state and hacktivist campaigns.
�There are a wide range of possibilities depending on the goals of the threat actor responsible for the Equifax intrusion,� Holland wrote. �Attribution aside, one thing is certain though, regardless of the motivations of the attackers, this data is perfect for social engineering attacks.�?
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Students at Bob Cook Games
Named after the late Charter President of the Lions’ Club of Chippenham, the Games take place every year on the second Sunday of August at the Athletics Track at Swindon’s County Ground Sports Complex. Students from UWC Atlantic College went along to provide support.
This year the Games had participants from all over the district and beyond. Bang on time, contestants and helpers appeared and took their place and the games were formally opened. The president of Chippenham Lions, Both track and field events were contested strongly with large entries for field events such as the discus, javelin, shot and welly throwing.
Whilst medals were awarded for success in every event, two major trophies are awarded to the lady and the gentleman competitors who were judged to best represent the games’ true sprit of determination against the odds.
The day ended with the departure of the athletes; happy, but tired, and the Lions then set about the task of breaking camp and the dispersing ‘tent city’.
Next years' games will be held on 14 August 2016.
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Bajaj Pulsar 125 India launch soon
9th Jul 2019 4:52 pm
The upcoming entry-level motorcycle - not to be confused with the Pulsar NS 125 sold abroad - is expected to look like the more expensive Pulsar 150 currently on sale in India.
Staff Writer Author
We’ve known for a while now that Bajaj intends to bring a 125cc motorcycle under the Pulsar banner to India. A vast majority of the internet has assumed that this will be the NS 125 that has been sold in international markets for some time now, but we can now confirm that this is not the case. The bike we get will, in fact, come under the Pulsar umbrella.
It is worth bearing in mind that the Pulsar NS 125 is sold in overseas markets where the NS brand has a strong foothold. In India, things are quite different and, here, the Pulsar brand is an absolute giant and that’s why we will be getting a Pulsar 125 and not a Pulsar NS 125.
It would be safe to think that as times progress the market would grow toward larger capacities, but ironically, 18 years after the Pulsar’s inception, Bajaj now sees space for a 125cc version. The reason is quite simple - regulation changes have made things expensive. First came the ABS rule, then the big hike in insurance rates, and now we have the hit from the upgrade to BS6 to contend with. In a period of just about two to three years, a majority of two-wheeler customers are looking at a hike in prices of twenty percent, or higher.
This is exactly where a 125c Pulsar will make sense. It won’t need ABS (although it remains to be seen if Bajaj intends to offer this as an option, at least) and it will therefore be more affordable. We expect to see this motorcycle in similar clothes to the Bajaj Pulsar 150, probably in a similar line as the recently launched Pulsar 150 Neon, which is currently the most affordable motorcycle in the range. If that’s the case, the Pulsar 125 will get a single seat design, a rear drum brake and no fuel tank extensions.
There is no clarity on the underpinnings just yet, but we expect to see something close to what’s under the NS 125. That bike uses a 125cc air-cooled single-cylinder engine with a four valve head and a five-speed gearbox. Power stands at 12hp at 8500rpm and that figure may change slightly for our market, but it does fit well between the Discover 125 (11hp/11Nm) and the Pulsar 150 (14hp/13.4Nm).
We expect to see the Pulsar 125 go on sale in about a month or two. Pricing will be typically competitive and could be in the range of Rs 60-65,000 ex-showroom Delhi, possibly closer to the slow selling Discover 125 (Rs 61,754) than the Pulsar Neon 150 Rs (68250). It is unlikely that there will be a drum-brake version of the Pulsar 125, considering this bike’s sporty identity, but if Bajaj does make that decision, the starting price could go below Rs 60,000. We will update this space when we know more.
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Polyglot workshops
London, 22 May 2019
How can languages professionals address the languages crisis? And what happens when polyglots and artists get together with language teachers and learners to address the issues that face our discipline?
Two polyglot workshops at the Tate Exchange, London, on 22 May 2019, seek to address these issues. The workshops are organised by Open University languages academic Tita Beaven in conjunction with Counterpoint Art as part of the Who Are We project (https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/tate-exchange/workshop/who-are-we-2019)
The first workshop, Language learning, risks and recipes, is aimed at A level students and their teachers. Language enthusiasts from four London schools will join poet Laila Sumpton, artist Natasha Davis and polyglots Richard Simcott, Lindsay Williams and Olly Richards to explore language through group activities in the heart of the Who Are We exhibition at the Tate Exchange. Laila says: ‘We’ll investigate what language learning feels like, what the risks are and what ingredients are needed for the present and future health of language learning. There will be objects, poems, polyglots and sharpies- we look forward to hearing your ideas!‘
The second workshop brings together the same two artists and three polyglots, this time to discuss how to address the language crisis in the UK with language teachers from schools, FE and universities.
We have heard recently in the news that students seem to find language stressful and are asking to be excused from language classes by their GPs (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2019/05/05/children-find-foreign-languages-stressful-signed-gp-headteachers/) and that languages are under threat because students don’t want to take language A levels as they are perceived as being too tough (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/may/11/modern-language-teaching-under-threat-from-tough-exams). And has Brexit engendered a linguaphobia in England that will be difficult to shift in years to come? https://theconversation.com/britain-must-address-its-linguaphobia-now-to-survive-post-brexit-97787
And yet, in parallel to this languages crisis, the last few years have seen the rise of the thriving polyglot community, and plenty of language superlearners are learning multiple languages ‘in the wild’. So why is there a disconnect between the decline in languages at schools and universities and the enthusiasm and dedication of polyglots? What can languages professionals learn from this thriving community? If being plurilingual changes how you see yourself and the world, how can we inspire more people to learn more languages?
The first event is now fully booked, but if you would like to attend the second workshop, which is free, please visit:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/polyglot-workshop-at-the-tate-exchange-tickets-61483172825
Contact Who Are We?
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So, how do you spell the name of that rec center at Wayne Ave. and Logan St.?
When Germantown gadfly Allison Weiss caught wind of the tumultuous NewsWorks campaign to get City Councilwoman Cindy Bass’ named spelled correctly on Germantown Avenue roadwork-project signage, she quickly noted another public typo had gotten stuck in her craw.
Specifically, as she reported the day the Cindy-spelling victory was attained, Weiss asked NewsWorks to remedy the Department of Recreation sign that spells the name of a Wayne Avenue rec center as “Happy Holow” instead of the accurate “Happy Hollow.”
On Wednesday morning, we recorded evidence that backed her claim and emailed it to the Mayor’s Press Office. Within two hours, a city spokeswoman said spellcheck help was on the way.
A quarter-century typo?
Jen Crandall took the photograph provided by NewsWorks to the city’s Parks and Recreation Department for edification.
“Based on the look of the sign,” she said that they said, “it could be 25 years old. It’s been there for a while.”
Voters approved the merger of the city Recreation Department and the Fairmount Park Commission in 2008 and as a result, said Crandall, the resulting city Department of Parks and Recreation is “in the process of rebranding all [playgrounds and facilities] with new signs.”
As such, the “Happy Holow” sign will get “replaced and corrected anyway,” though there’s no exact timetable for that to happen, Crandall said. Then, she added another wrinkle to the saga.
“Because of the age of the sign,” she said, “there’s no way to know whether it was correct at the time.”
Yes there is, counters Weiss
Weiss, who describes herself as an advocate working to draw attention and interest to Happy Hollow, pointed out Thursday morning that it was listed as “Happy Hollow” when it opened on April 29, 1911. (She cited historical records as prosecutorial exhibits.)
Bolstering her case, she said that embedded remnants of old wooden letters replaced with metal ones atop the rec center’s doorway in the 1950s spelled it “Hollow” as well.
“So long ago that I can’t even remember,” Weiss said of when she noticed the public typo at what she deemed the city’s oldest recreation center.
“I’ve mentioned it to anybody who has come there, everybody on my things-to-do list, forever. It’s right there in plain view, but nobody seems to care. And children go there! What are we promoting here?” she asked. “It’s disrespectful!”
NewsWorks intends to monitor the situation and report on it again when that extra “L” arrives in Germantown.
Is there a misspelled city sign that irks you to no end in Northwest Philly? Let us know. NewsWorks will see if we can help you attain peace of mind, but only if you promise not to go back through our stories for typos.
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Home > Articles > Specials > Richard III > Reconstructing Richard III: the man behind the myth
Reconstructing Richard III: the man behind the myth
Carly Hilts
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On Monday 4th February the results of tests on a skeleton found beneath a Leicester carpark were announced to a global media audience. Lead archaeologist Richard Buckley stated ‘our academic conclusion, beyond reasonable doubt, is that the individual exhumed at Greyfriars in September 2012 is indeed Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England.’ Matthew Symonds and Carly Hilts look at what this momentous announcement tells us about Richard, and why the Leicester team are so confident they have got their man.
We now know that it was for want of a helmet, not a horse, that Richard III’s kingdom was lost. Tradition has it that as battle raged across fields near Bosworth on the 22nd August 1485, Richard saw Henry Tudor and his escort detach themselves from the rest of their army. Sensing an opportunity to decide the battle — and secure his throne — Richard charged. Whether it was overconfidence from an impetuous warrior king or a last roll of the dice from a man with nothing left to lose is impossible to say. But whatever provoked this final act of Plantagenet generalship, it proved a gamble too far. Outnumbered and then cut off, England’s last Medieval king went down fighting.
The king is dead
Careful study of Richard’s skeleton by Jo Appleby, an osteologist at the University of Leicester, revealed 10 perimortem wounds — that is, injuries occurring at or around the time of death. Eight were to his head, of which only two had been found when CA last reported on Richard (CA 272). As none of these wounds intersect it is impossible to be certain about the order in which they were sustained. It is unlikely, though, that any occurred while Richard was either wearing his helmet or riding a horse.
There is a strong chance, then, that these injuries provide a window into Richard’s last stand: cut off from his army, fighting on foot, his helmet lost, and his comrades falling around him. Three sword or halberd thrusts found Richard’s unprotected scalp, slicing through the skin to shave slivers of bone off the vault of his skull. A fourth blade successfully punctured the top of his skull. Painful but not fatal, the king appears to have fought on, bleeding profusely.
Taken at face value, Richard’s wounds seem to suggest a horrifying end: surrounded by foes while hacking and stabbing blows from swords and halberds rained down on all sides. Deliverance, when it came, took the form of two blows to the back of Richard’s head. One tore through to the inner surface of his skull a full 10.5cm from its entry point. The other was administered with such force that it cleaved away a chunk of skull and exposed the brain. A portion of the severed bone was left dangling on a flap of skin, carrying it to the Greyfriars grave. Consistent with injuries caused by a powerful halberd strike, if the blade had penetrated 7cm into Richard’s brain death would have been instant. Even if it did not, rapid loss of consciousness would have spared him any more. And there was more to come.
Blades that scored a rib and sliced Richard’s right pelvis should have been turned by his armour during combat. Historical sources, however, indicate the perfect opportunity for such injuries to occur. After death Richard’s corpse was stripped naked and slung over a horse like a saddlebag for its inglorious ride back to Leicester. It suggests that one onlooker took this opportunity to affirm their allegiance to the new royal line in a manner that was as crude as it was unambiguous. Drawing a dagger, they thrust its blade upward into Richard’s right buttock with enough force to penetrate the underlying bone.
Lying in a state
Thanks to the University of Leicester Archaeological Services excavations we now know that following this public spectacle Richard’s remains were delivered to Leicester Greyfriars for burial. Despite occupying a prestigious location in the order’s church choir – as befitted a crowned Christian monarch — Richard’s interment was a far cry from the pomp of a state funeral.
In contrast to the neat grave shafts encountered elsewhere at Greyfriars and in Medieval Leicester, Richard’s was shallow — lying just 0.68m below modern ground level — and roughly cut with sloping sides, a concave base and an irregular shape. Rather than being laid flat, the body appears to have been bundled into the too-short cut legs first, with the head propped up against a corner of the shaft, its mandible lolling vacantly.
An absence of iron nails and copper pins indicates that the deceased was dignified with neither a coffin nor shroud. The position of Richard’s arms does, though, suggest that one accessory accompanied him to the grave. In a Medieval burial the body’s arms normally run neatly parallel to the side, but Richard’s reached untidily across his body, with his hands cupped over the pelvis. Crossed right over left at the wrists, his arms bear all the hallmarks of being bound when he was buried. If so, it seems that his corpse was committed to posterity as the captive Richard refused to be in life.
So what can the Greyfriars skeleton tell us about the man whose life ended so ignominiously? It is now well known that Richard III suffered from severe scoliosis — a sideways curvature of the spine. This condition would have significantly shortened his height while standing. Analysis of the skeleton suggests that Richard’s natural height was around 5’8”. This is above average for the period, but unsurprising given that his brother, Edward IV, was also unusually tall. Measuring 6’4”, Edward still holds the record as England’s tallest monarch. Although it is impossible to be certain how many inches the scoliosis cost Richard, the difference could well have been as much as a foot. His right shoulder would have been raised higher than his left.
Another conspicuous feature of the skeleton is the gracile nature of its bones, indicating that Richard had a slender, feminine build. This matches historical accounts of the king, suggesting that the more lurid allegations colouring the Tudor propaganda are exaggerations flowing from a wellspring of truth, rather than the entirely unfounded lies some suspected. Whether the same is true of his character is for historians, not archaeologists, to divine.
So how can we be sure the remains are those of Richard? While a strong case for the skeleton being the king’s could be made on the strength of its location, its treatment, the curvature of its spine and the clear signs of a battlefield death, further scientific tests were also carried out. Two samples of bone from the ribs were sent to radiocarbon dating labs at the Universities of Oxford and Glasgow. As well as revealing that the individual enjoyed an unusually high protein diet — including large quantities of seafood — for the period, as would befit a prince of the realm, the samples furnished dates that were in close agreement. Once calibrated, and taking into account the tendency for a high seafood diet to return an older radiocarbon date, they indicate a range of AD 1455-1540, entirely consistent with death in 1485.
The project also undertook high profile DNA testing. Turi King, a University of Leicester geneticist, successfully secured a DNA sample from the skeleton’s tooth. This was compared to two direct descendents on the maternal side through Richard’s sister, Anne of York. One was Michel Ibsen, the other was a distant cousin who wished to remain anonymous. Analysis of these three sets of mitochondrial DNA allowed Turi King to conclude that ‘there is a DNA match between the maternal DNA from the family of Richard III and the skeletal remains we found at the Grey Friars dig.’
This is an extract, but the full feature can be seen in CA 277
For more information about the search for Richard III, see our coverage here.
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Bandit Queen (@KAHMANTA)
Excellent and very detailed article. The wounds to Richard’s skull are consistent with the reports that he had indeed lost his helmet which was later found discarded on the battlefield, away from his body. The number of blows to the skull and jaw suggest that he had lost it for some moments before he was finally forced to desperately fight bravely for his life. The team at Leicester have done remarkable work on the bones and with the DNA to identify Richard beyond all doubt. Again, a great article and fantastic achievement. Congratualtions!
Current Archaeology – Richard III to be reburied at Leicester
[…] license had been contested as, after the identity of the skeleton had been confirmed (see CA 277), the Plantagenet Alliance, a group of 15 distant relatives of the king, argued that there should […]
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The Town of Capreol was incorporated April 1, 1918 under the Railway and Municipal Board Order Procedure File 4628. The town was named after the Township of Capreol, which was surveyed by Ontario Land Surveyor James Stewart Laird in 1893.
As an incorporated town, lower tier municipality, the Town of Capreol had a council consisting of an elected Mayor and councilors, varying in number based on the size of the municipality. The Town was responsible for the upkeep of the local road system and the delivery of services including policing, water and sewage. The Town of Capreol controlled the regulation of land and local administration through by-laws. It had the ability to raise money through direct taxation on land and through the use of debentures.
In 1955, the Township of Capreol incorporated. In 1959, all of Lot 9 and part of Lots 10 and 11 in the Sixth Concession were annexed from the Town of Capreol to the Township of Capreol with the consent of the Ontario Municipal Board. In 1973, the Town of Capreol had its borders changed again with the addition of Sellwood and Milnet. The municipality also joined the newly created Regional Municipality of Sudbury.
On January 1, 2001, the Town of Capreol amalgamated with the City of Sudbury, the Town of Nickel Centre, the Town of Onaping Falls, the Town of Rayside-Balfour, the City of Valley East, the Town of Walden and the unincorporated townships of Fraleck, Parkin, Aylmer, Mackelcan, Rathbun, Scadding, Dryden, Cleland and Dillnewly to form the City of Greater Sudbury.
Former Mayors of the Town of Capreol include;
Dr. William Frederick Shaw 1918
William Bell 1919
Henry Clement 1920, 1922-1923
Charles Hart 1921
Walter Jones 1924-1926
Peter Kilgour 1927-1928
Anthony Hall 1929
J. Murray Mills 1930
Percy Robinson 1931
William Gibson 1932-1935, 1944-1946, 1953-1954
James E. Coyne 1936-1943
Alistair MacLean 1947-1952
Harold Prescott 1955-1961, 1964-1968, 1973-1974
John MacLean 1962-1963
Norman Fawcett 1969-1972
Frank Mazzuca 1975-1997
Dave Kilgour 1997-2000
This fonds consists of administrative, financial and judicial records documenting the operation of the Town of Capreol.
The Minutes, Assessment Rolls and Collector's Rolls were transferred to the Archives from the Clerks department of Greater Sudbury.
Series and file lists available.
Further accruals are expected.
The petition for the Corporation of the Town of Capreol was filed by Dr. William Frederick Shaw on January 16, 1918. Further materials were filed on February 6, 1918 and the order for incorporation was issued on February 12, 1918 but did not come into force until April 1, 1918.
To learn more about the Town of Capreol's first mayor Dr. William Frederick Shaw, see https://www.archeion.ca/shaw-william-frederick.
To learn more about James S. Laird (October 1, 1842 – November 21, 1928), see the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors at https://www.aols.org/sites/default/files/Laird-J.S.pdf.
“The following surveys of townships have been carried out this year… the townships of Capreol…, also in the District of Nipissing, have been sub-divided into lots of 320 acres each.” Report of the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the Province of Ontario for the Year 1893, Sessional Papers, Vol. XXVI, Part IV, Fourth Session, Seventh Legislature, of the Province of Ontario, Session 1894, (Toronto: Lud. K. Cameron, Queen’s Printer), 1894, p. viii
“(Appendix No. 21). Township of Capreol. District of Nipissing, Essex, Ontario, December 22nd, 1893. SIR, - I have the honor to submit the following report of the survey of the township of Capreol, in the district of Nipissing, performed under instructions from your department, dated 27th day of June, 1893, together with field notes, plans and account of the same, transmitted herewith, all of which, I trust, will be found satisfactory.” James S. Laird, Ontario Land Surveyor Report to the Honorable A.S. Hardy, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Toronto, Sessional Papers, Vol. XXVI, Part IV, Fourth Session, Seventh Legislature of the Province of Ontario, Session 1894, (Toronto: Lud. K. Cameron, Queen’s Printer), 1894, p. 39 https://books.google.ca/books?id=QChAAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA39&lpg=RA1-PA39&dq=Sessional+Papers+ontario+1894+%22capreol%22&source=bl&ots=HAv16AIdht&sig=ACfU3U29ssGDd0aQzJEHf4N5OE-4MQrunA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjF9cTcqpfmAhWHY98KHfVmAKIQ6AEwAHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=Sessional%20Papers%20ontario%201894%20%22capreol%22&f=false
The Town of Capreol was named after the township. According to "Town of Capreol 60th Anniversary Celebrations 1918-1978," Cyril T. Young laid out the townsite and the township was named after the former Toronto, Lake Simcoe & Lake Huron Union Railway Company Director Frederick Chase Capreol (1803-1886). To learn more about Frederick Capreol, see the Dictionary of Canadian Biography at http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/capreol_frederick_chase_11E.html.
In 1955, the Township of Capreol was incorporated with the effective date of September 26, 1955. On January 1, 1967, the Township of Capreol was annexed to Hanmer to form the Township of Capreol and Hanmer. The following year, Wisner Township was annexed to the Township of Capreol and Hanmer and on January 1, 1969, the Township of Blezard amalgamated with the Township of Capreol and Hanmer to form the Corporation of the Township of Valley East. The Town of Valley East was formed in 1973.
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Date : Tue, 21 May 2013
Meet Slonk Donkerson, the Converse Rubber Tracks' subject for their "Oh Hello" and "Track of the Week" short films. Their name sounds like that of the local dorky dude, right?
In "Oh Hello!" meet Slonk Donkerson, a three-man band who hail from Pound Ridge, N.Y. and recently recorded at Converse Rubber Tracks. Friends since childhood, listen to the trio first recall their first time recording together in college and what it was like now recording at Converse Rubber Tracks.
Watch it below:
The single "Watching Every Channel at Once" by Slonk Donkerson is the latest "Track of the Week." The three members immediately jumped into the recording process as soon as they entered the studio, setting up gear, testing out the instruments and playing around with the sound. Watch the band record their original single "Watching Every Channel at Once" at Converse Rubber Tracks below.
And download the song for free at .facebook.com/converse.
What did you think of Slonk Donkerson?
—Katie Sheehan
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Six Gun Galaxy brings a violent, dreary wild west to Facebook
Brandy Shaul, AOL.com
Jul 23rd 2011 1:28PM
Six Gun Galaxy from KlickNation sees you creating a character in a post-apocalyptic world on Facebook, where you're left to rebuild a town and help other survivors in various towns by completing quests. The storyline is filled with the expected elements from the theme. A war has devastated the planet, leaving military men feeling responsible and outlaws to feel they can ravage what's left. The average citizen needs your help with hunting for food from the wild animals that roam even the cities' streets, and while cash is still a factor, objects like tobacco have been given just as much value in society.
While Six Gun Galaxy contains a theme that's not overly common for Facebook games, the gameplay itself doesn't really revolutionize the city-building or quest-based adventure genres. You'll have your own town to build, starting with nothing but a home and Blacksmith's shop. You can add new items like Laundry Facilities or Gun Shops, and also add decorations and roads to customize the look of your town even more. Buildings payout profits over time, including cash and experience points, along with Iron, which is another form of "currency" used for building additional buildings.
Apart from the game's city-building aspect, an even larger portion of the game is dedicated to traveling from town to town (more locations unlock as you level up) and completing quests for the locals. You'll have to gather and trade supplies at the Market, help chase off wild animals, deliver items to different locations, and so on. Combat comes into play fairly early on, as you'll fight bandits in term-based battles by simply clicking on their avatars on the map. Unfortunately, there doesn't look to be a way to tell exactly how strong an enemy is before entering combat, so you very well may end up on the losing end before you can even pull out your weapon. Luckily, you can turn the tides of battle by having teammates join you along the way (teammates can be purchased with cash), or by upgrading your character with new equipment and weapons.
As you might expect, most every action in the game requires energy, which therefore runs out far more quickly than you might like. You can collect food from wild animals and then spend that food on energy refills, or spend Platinum, the game's premium currency.
Six Gun Galaxy Facebook
While each location in the game has a specific amount of quests available to complete, you can play the game with relative freedom, only undertaking quests when you really feel like it. The rest of the time can be spent tracking down wild animals, goods to trade, building up your own city, and so on, completely outside of pushing the story forward. Of course, that can only last you for so long, so we hope that more quests will continually be added to Six Gun Galaxy in the future to keep us coming back for more.
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Think Electric Cars Are Coming Soon? Read This.
John Rosevear, The Motley Fool, AOL.com
Will the car of the future be electric?
A lot of investors seem to think so, if the strength of stocks such as electric-car maker Tesla Motors (NAS: TSLA) and EV-battery specialistA123 Systems (NAS: AONE) are any indication. Prodded by governments around the world, the major global automakers and their key suppliers are spending billions of dollars on an electrified automotive future. Betting on such a future seems like a pretty good bet.
So why is Toyota (NYS: TM) , of all companies, hedging its own bet on EVs in several big ways?
The world can't wait for a fully electric future
Bertel Schmitt of The Truth About Cars recently scored an interview with Toyota's Satoshi Ogiso. As Toyota's chief engineer and the man in charge of (among other things) the development of the Prius, Ogiso is about as close to a rock star as Toyota executives get, and he's definitely a man with ideas worth taking seriously.
Ogiso's view on the near-term future of the auto -- which is also Toyota's -- is thought-provoking stuff. In a nutshell, while Peak Oil may or may not be here yet, rapidly rising demand for cars and trucks in the developing world means that demand for oil is likely to outstrip supply sometime in the next several years, Ogiso says -- if all those cars and trucks run on gas and diesel.
(To be clear, the details of the timing and size of the gap are disputed, even among sober-minded experts. Toyota is conservatively assuming that a small gap between oil supply and demand has already opened and that it will grow rapidly as the growth of oil production begins to flatten later in this decade. Pulitzer Prize-winning energy expert Daniel Yergin, on the other hand, thinks that oil-production growth could continue until mid-century. I'd bet on Yergin. But I'd also bet on Toyota's key assumption that demand for vehicles will outstrip oil supplies in a significant way pretty soon, even if oil-supply growth continues.)
Toyota sees that gap becoming a big problem in the second half of this decade. Given the long lead times required to develop new vehicles -- nearly three years is average for an "ordinary" new-car program, never mind ones involving advanced new technology -- that means the cars and trucks that will help close this gap need to be in development now.
The world can't wait, in other words, until battery technology and recharging infrastructure are in place to make an all-EV future possible. Other technological paths -- hybrids, natural gas-powered vehicles, hydrogen fuel cells, synthetic fuels, and biofuels -- need to be pursued as well. And, in Toyota's view, all at the same time -- because some technologies will pan out, and some won't. It's an immense challenge, requiring an immense commitment of money and resources.
This challenge, Schmitt writes, keeps Ogosi awake at night. It's a safe bet that it's keeping his peers at the other major automakers awake at night, too. And some of those peers should be very worried.
Some automakers won't survive this challenge
Here's the thing investors should ponder: Toyota is a massive company, the largest automaker in the world by volume last year and the global leader in hybrid technology, and it is straining to do the research and development it thinks is necessary -- simultaneously funding the development of more-advanced hybrids, of EVs, and of hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles -- to meet this looming challenge.
The other automakers that clearly have the scale and resources to do this kind of development are easy to name: General Motors (NYS: GM) and Volkswagen, the only two companies with global sales volumes that rival Toyota's. Ford (NYS: F) , which is close to Toyota in hybrid development (and working with Toyota on a hybrid powertrain for pickups). Hyundai. Nissan, which acquired global scale with its tie-in with France's Renault. Probably Honda (NYS: HMC) , which lacks the global scale of Toyota and the other giants but has been investing in green-car R&D for decades.
After that? I don't know. I don't know how BMW or Daimler or the Fiat-Chrysler mashup or Tata Motors (NYS: TTM) or the emerging Chinese automakers will fare -- none of those automakers have the scale or resources of the giants, though some will leverage partnerships (like Daimler's with Tesla) to acquire the needed technology. But others may not survive. Brands like Chrysler and Jaguar and Volvo may follow Oldsmobile and Saturn to oblivion before the decade is out.
And there are many other questions to ponder, starting with Chinese consumers' reluctance (so far, at least) to adopt hybrids. The Prius is the best-selling car in Japan, and Toyota sold almost 141,000 of them here in the U.S. last year -- but only 60 found buyers in China. China's own BYD managed less than 500 sales of its own F3DM hybrid, despite big government subsidies that covered nearly half the purchase price. How will the world's largest and fastest-growing auto market deal when oil supplies can't keep up?
I'll be taking a deeper look at some of those other questions in coming days. But one thing's clear: While many investors have bought into the "electric cars are coming soon" thesis, the reality of the next several years is likely to be a lot more complicated.
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Can Star Scientific Keep Smokin' in the Second Half?
Dan Caplinger, The Motley Fool, AOL.com
Jul 6th 2012 10:34AM
With half of 2012 in the record books, it's important to take a look at whether the stocks that interest you can live up to their full potential. By making sure you know about a company's future plans and possible challenges, you can make a better decision about whether it's a smart investment for your portfolio.
Today, let's take a look at Star Scientific (NAS: CIGX) . As we saw in our look at Star Scientific last month, the tiny company has largely moved on from its initial attempt to sell alternative tobacco products. But with its dietary supplements starting to gain traction, investors have seen a glimmer of hope in the long-punished shares, which is why the stock has more than doubled so far this year. Let's take a quick look at Star Scientific's prospects for the rest of the year and beyond.
Stats on Star Scientific
2012 EPS Estimate ($0.10)
2012 Sales Growth Estimate 298%
2013 Sales Growth Estimate 52%
CAPS Rating (out of 5) *
Source: S&P Capital IQ.
What will the rest of 2012 bring for Star Scientific?
Traditionally, most investors have lumped Star Scientific into the same category as big tobacco stocks, owing to Star's attempts to create less carcinogenic tobacco. As a result, given the success that Altria (NYS: MO) , Reynolds American (NYS: RAI) , and Philip Morris International (NYS: PM) have had in their shares recently, one might think Star Scientific's rise might be related to that general trend.
But Star Scientific's future prospects all hinge on its dietary supplement business. Revenue for Star's dissolvable tobacco products remains insignificant, but supplement sales have skyrocketed and will contribute nearly all of its growth going forward. With its distribution deal with GNC Holdings (NYS: GNC) , Star Scientific has a real opportunity finally to get on the map in terms of revenue.
In particular, most of the news recently has centered on the company's Anatabloc dietary supplement. Late last month, Star Scientific got a patent for producing anatabine, which is the supplement's active ingredient. At a presentation before a meeting of endocrine medical specialists, the company announced a study that suggests possible thyroid benefits from Anatabloc as well.
Looking forward, Star Scientific's ramp-up in sales could well lead more investors into the stock, even though profitability still seems a long way off. The key to look for is how well Star Scientific does in keeping costs down and preserving its cash rather than having to do dilutive stock offerings to raise capital.
Star Scientific has some upside potential, but if it's riskier than you have the stomach for, there are some other ideas you might like better. Let me invite you to learn about three smart long-term stock plays in the Fool's latest special report. It's yours for the taking and is absolutely free, but don't miss out -- click here and read it today.
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At the time this article was published Fool contributor Dan Caplinger doesn't own shares of the companies mentioned. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Fool has a disclosure policy.
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The new battle at Fort Monmouth
Four years after closing, Fort Monmouth is in the thick of a hunt for jobs and millennials. When will a trickle become a torrent?
The new battle at Fort Monmouth Four years after closing, Fort Monmouth is in the thick of a hunt for jobs and millennials. When will a trickle become a torrent? Check out this story on app.com: http://on.app.com/1HSuNHc
Dan Radel, @DanielRadelAPP Published 1:57 p.m. ET May 29, 2015 | Updated 6:53 p.m. ET May 29, 2015
Vacant barracks on Fort Monmouth, Thursday, May 21, 2015, in Oceanport, NJ.(Photo: Jason Towlen/Staff Photographer)Buy Photo
Four years after the U.S. Army shuttered Fort Monmouth, closing the book on a rich military history and thousands of jobs, a slow-moving economic rebirth is underway.
The question is when and how a trickle might become a torrent.
On the sprawling Charles Wood section, the global technology firm CommVault leads a mixed-use renaissance that includes a golf course and recreation center. It has created 900 jobs so far — equating to nearly a fifth of the number of civilian jobs lost when the fort closed. It is also pumping new revenue into local coffers.
Another company is investing $2.25 million to build a business park to attract small businesses. State and local government employers are breathing new life into the property; some look to expand their footprint.
And at the Main Post, deer still roam once-bustling streets, mimicking some post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie. But all signs point to their sanctuary being temporary.
"There's probably, right now, 25 or more deer on the parade ground because late day that's where they go," said David Nuse, deputy executive director of the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority.
The state agency is tasked with overseeing redevelopment of the fort's 1,127 acres. The authority has until 2028 to complete the task and meet a goal of restoring twice as many jobs as were lost.
When the Army, shrinking in the post-Cold War era, pulled up stakes for good in 2011, the cost was 5,460 jobs at Fort Monmouth, including some 4,600 civilian posts. Even replacing that number will be a heavy lift.
But Nuse sounds an optimistic note. In fact, he anticipates selling off all of the fort's property six years ahead of schedule — by 2022.
"The technology sector is really going to be the targeted industry for Fort Monmouth," Nuse said.
An uphill battle
The former fort was an economic giant
The recent developments hardly remove the sting from losing Fort Monmouth. A 2004 economic-impact report noted that the fort supported 22,000 jobs statewide and produced a total annual economic impact of $2.5 billion.
Fort Monmouth's Avenue of Memories, Thursday, May 21, 2015, in Oceanport, NJ. (Photo: Jason Towlen/Staff Photographer)
But the new jobs and prospects are seen as welcome greenshoots — gains that in many respects put Fort Monmouth at the head of a distinct class.
Four forts, along with Fort Monmouth, closed as a result of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission's 2005 report. Twelve military installations, including the forts, were shuttered in September 2011.
Many struggle to reinvent themselves.
For Nuse's vision to prevail, the Fort Monmouth authority will need to overcome some epic bureaucratic challenges. Its enduring partner is, after all, the U.S. Army.
There has been grumbling over bidding requirements and procedures as the authority, working with private-sector partners and the Army, seeks to dispose of land containing more than a thousand structures.
There also is some impatience among elected officials who share leadership over fort properties. They also find their local governments competing — with the private sector — for some prime fort property.
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Then there is the challenge of ordinary reality. While a 20-year master development plan guides the effort, Fort Monmouth remains buffeted by the same forces that make job-creation a challenge throughout New Jersey, which lags the nation in jobs growth.
The authority planners have their designs on the same high-tech businesses — and the millennials they tend to attract — being sought by development gurus everywhere.
Plans crafted in 2008 have already been changed.
Questions remain as well about access to financial resources as the Army's role further diminishes. Hanging in the balance are the fortunes of three towns — Eatontown, Oceanport and Tinton Falls — within whose boundaries the fort lies.
The Main Post and Charles Wood
Fort Monmouth is divided into two sections: the Main Post, acquired in 1917 to establish a Signal Corps training facility, on land that was being used primarily by a potato farmer; and the Charles Wood section, added in 1941, to meet the expanded need of World War II.
Officers quarters on Fort Monmouth, Thursday, May 21, 2015, in Oceanport, NJ. (Photo: Jason Towlen/Staff Photographer)
The Charles Wood section is anchored by CommVault, a data storage corporation, that has created 900 jobs so far, with plans to add many more. The Suneagles Golf Course is open as well. The Monmouth County Park System has opened the Recreation Center with outdoor swimming pool.
Elsewhere, Oceanport police occupies an Army fire house; the state police has an outpost; the Monmouth County Department of Public Works has a facility; and AcuteCare is renovating the Patterson Army Health Clinic for a new health-care facility. A marina on the Oceanport Creek will open soon with a bar and grill. So much more is hoped for.
There has been plenty of time to consider the next acts at Fort Monmouth.
In 2005, the post was placed on the list of Army bases to be closed by the Base Realignment and Closure Commission. The fort officially closed on Sept. 15, 2011, with most of its Army functions and personnel sent to Aberdeen Proving Ground and other Maryland installations.
RELATED: Learn more about Fort Monmouth's history
The Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority, a state agency now dissolved, crafted the 20-year master plan for reuse of fort property. It sought to capitalize on the fort's legacy as a hub for communications and technology development. The fort is where the first electronic messages were bounced off the moon.
Its plan called for 2 million square feet of office and technology space; 500,000 square feet of retail; 300,000 square feet of nonprofit, civic, government and educational space; 1,585 housing units and 500 acres of open space. (By comparison, Monmouth Mall in Eatontown totals about 1.5 million feet.)
The redevelopment plan also called for two phases: Phase I, including Charles Wood and three parcels on the Main Post; and Phase II, encompassing the remainder of the Main Post.
Less bureaucracy
Cutting ties with the Army
In Phase I of Fort Monmouth's redevelopment, the U.S. Army sold the Charles Wood section and three parcels on the Main Post to the redevelopment authority for $1.
Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority deputy executive director David Nuse speaks about Fort Monmouth's future, Thursday, May 21, 2015, in Oceanport, NJ. (Photo: Jason Towlen/Staff Photographer)
The Army's offer, though, had strings attached. The Army would receive more than 50 percent of the sale price on each parcel sold. At times, the redevelopment group and the Army butted have heads over this arrangement. The Army exercises veto power over sales of its property.
"The Army is motivated primarily by price. FMERA (the redevelopment authority) as a state entity is more concerned with job creation," Nuse said.
Still, the arrangement has its advantages in a state strapped for cash. For one, in Phase I, the authority did not have to put any money up front, with the Army serving as the backstop.
That changes in Phase II, encompassing about half the fort property.
"We'll be taking a different approach to acquiring the property. Rather than getting it for $1, we'll be purchasing it outright from the Army and moving ahead without the Army as a partner," said Nuse.
"We would have liked to stay with the partnership," he said, "but the Army has a mandate to sell all assets as opposed to entering into this long-term relationship."
He believes that severing Army ties will move transactions along more quickly; there will be one less layer of government bureaucracy to go through.
“The Army is motivated primarily by price.”
David Nuse
The transfer of title for the remaining undeveloped tracts is expected to take place at summer's end.
The redevelopment authority will look for funding — how much money is unclear —from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Monmouth County Improvement Authority to make the purchase.
That points to another challenge. Most of the buildings on the property are obsolete. Of the 5.1 million square feet of building space, 3 1/2 million square feet are marked for demolition.
That burden falls on the purchaser because the redevelopment authority doesn't have the money. Les Smith, realtor Cushman & Wakefield's senior director at Fort Monmouth, does not see this as a deal breaker.
"It's all factored into the land price. Whenever you purchase land you take into consideration your land development costs and demolition is part of your land development costs," Smith said. "It seems nowadays companies are going for new construction. Not obsolete old Army barracks."
Selling the fort
Location, transportation and work force
Cushman & Wakefield was hired in 2012, under a three-year contract with two, one-year renewal options. It is marketing the fort to over 3,000 capital investors across the country.
The agency helped broker a deal with AcuteCare Health Systems, which is renovating the 16-acre former Patterson Army Health Clinic parcel, one of few developments at the Main Post. It will bring in 200 jobs.
Both Smith and Nuse, the deputy executive director of the redevelopment authority, see huge potential in the fort's attracting tech firms. They believe the location near the Garden State Parkway, rail service, and the area's highly educated workforce will prove hugely attractive.
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The property is also situated in an area where the potential workforce is highly educated; they hope to draw in the millennial generation — those under 35 — just like everybody else.
"It's a prime location in Monmouth County and offers an excellent quality of life. It's a work, play and live environment," Smith said.
Said Nuse: "We have an opportunity to do something unique here."
Their optimism is being put to the test: There are currently 10 properties out for bid with a variety of proposed uses, including pubs or restaurants, retail, child care, residential and office uses.
Eyeing Russel Hall
Local officials look ahead
The mayors of the three towns on the fort's property all sit on the redevelopment authority's executive board. Each has a vote on the proceedings.
Tinton Falls NJ Marina off Oceanport Ave on the Fort Monmouth property. 052815 Photo: Tom Spader/staff (Photo: /GannettNJ)
For Oceanport Mayor Michael Mahon, progress on his borough's properties seems like it has been taking forever. All of the land about which Mahon cares the most is located on the Main Post, where the deer have been so plentiful. With the exception of AcuteCare and a marina that is being developed on Oceanport Creek, all redevelopment in the borough's fort property comes in Phase II.
Mahon would like to see taxable property created on Fort Monmouth, but his borough has competing needs, like a new Borough Hall, and police and public works facilities. All were inundated by superstorm Sandy.
The police department is subleasing a former fort fire house and public works will soon lease fort property. Mahon would also like to get Fort Monmouth's Russel Hall for the new Borough Hall.
Built in 1917, Russel Hall was the garrison's headquarters. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Oceanport, which has submitted a proposal for the hall, faces competition from at least two potential suitors, a real estate developer and a tech company.
"We needed to keep our options open," Mahon said. "We have as good as chance as anyone else to get it."
CommVault makes a mark
Scrambling for a tax base
Eatontown Mayor Dennis Connelly is also looking forward to seeing vacant lots turned into taxable property. Eatontown has already had one potential developer back out of a purchase, for Howard Commons.
Tinton Falls NJ CommVault on the Fort Monmouth property 052815 Photo: Tom Spader/staff (Photo: /GannettNJ)
Howard Commons was residential living quarters for Army personnel. According to real state executive Smith, the buyer backed off because of concerns the water table was too high.
Connelly wants to see high-tech jobs come to Eatontown's fort property, but he does not sound overly enthused by the prospect: "I would like to see it. But I don't think we are going to get those high-tech jobs," he said.
Smith, from the real estate firm, has another concern: "To bring in office space is very difficult for us. It's a heavy lift. There's a tremendous amount of office space available in Monmouth County right now. It's easier for us to bring in residential and retail developers than it is to bring in office users."
"We have a pretty good relationship with FMERA and I feel like they are definitely listening to us," Connelly said. "We're looking for the development, to turn those vacant lots into taxable ratables."
Tinton Falls, however, is already enjoying the fruits of redevelopment. It became a big winner when CommVault, the data storage company, moved onto Tinton Falls' side of the fort property.
In January 2013, CommVault bought a 55-acre parcel at Charles Wood. At full build-out, the company anticipates up to 650,000 square feet of new high-tech office and research space, and 1,500 jobs.
It illustrates the gradual payoff -- and a pitfall of economic development when so many are chasing the same jobs.
So far, CommVault is leading the way at Fort Monmouth, with 900 jobs. It was wooed -- all the way from nearby Oceanport -- by a money-saving, 18-year payment-in-lieu-of taxes agreement, in addition to other jobs-retention and jobs -creation incentives.
Eatontown NJ Sun Eagles Golf Course on the Fort Monmouth property 052815 Photo: Tom Spader/staff (Photo: /GannettNJ)
Under the PILOT — a "carrot" commonly used to induce companies to relocate, based upon their reaching certain job-creation benchmarks — the first payments to Tinton Falls started this year. The company employed about 500 in Oceanport.
Tinton Falls Mayor Gerald Turning called the initial $189,000 payment an economic shot in the arm. "We started at zero," Turning noted. "There was no revenue coming off Fort Monmouth."
But Oceanport Councilman Joseph Irace has been less enamored with CommVault's new life at Fort Monmouth. He wrote in a 2014 column: "FMERA didn't attract business from outside the area to come to Monmouth County. Instead, it poached a local business from one Fort Monmouth community (Oceanport) and put it in another Fort Monmouth community (Tinton Falls)."
Over the life of the agreement, CommVault's payments will increase to about $800,000 annually, Turing said.
He and his counterparts hope there is much more to come.
Staff writer Russ Zimmer contributed to this story.
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Monmouth University football looking to fill holes after Hunter McHugh’s surgery
Hunter McHugh had surgery on Tuesday, which means Monmouth will need shore up its o-line
Monmouth University football looking to fill holes after Hunter McHugh’s surgery Hunter McHugh had surgery on Tuesday, which means Monmouth will need shore up its o-line Check out this story on app.com: http://on.app.com/1u8E1Ea
Josh Newman, @Joshua_Newman Published 1:31 p.m. ET Sept. 17, 2014
With Hunter McHugh (78) out for Saturday’s game at Duquesne, Monmouth will need to fill that hole on the offensive line. (Photo: PHOTO COURTESY MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY )
WEST LONG BRANCH – Hunter McHugh had successful surgery on Tuesday to repair a fractured left thumb. The Monmouth University football team went about trying to decide on Wednesday how to proceed in his absence.
McHugh has been ruled out for Saturday at Duquesne after injuring his thumb against Wagner. That means the Hawks are now in a position where they have to fill holes on offensive line that was very solid during their 2-0 start. Redshirt freshman Matt Stoneberg and graduate student Stephen Andes are listed as co-starters at right guard, while Andes is also listed as the backup at left guard.
Complicating matters is the fact that fifth-year senior left guard Reece Johnston’s status for Saturday is also up in the air after he injured his shoulder against Wagner. Johnston was the only member of the offensive line with any starting experience coming into the season. The best case scenario here is Johnston playing, albeit with him a little limited thanks to the shoulder, which would alleviate some problems.
No matter what happens before Monmouth takes the trip down to Pittsburgh, Hawks head coach Kevin Callahan has been doing this long enough to know that having backup plans at times like this is crucial.
“We’re making a number of different contingency plans to see because not only do you have to have that first group ready to go, but then what if something happens then? What’s your next move?” the Hawks’ 22nd-year head coach said. “You’re on the road and you’re not going to have your full roster there, so we’re making sure guys are getting enough work in spots so we’ll have all of our bases covered.”
According to NCAA rules, there is no limit on how many players can travel on the road, but number of players who can dress for a road game is capped at 60.
As the learning curves for Andes and Stoneberg get ramped up this week with McHugh and Johnston up in the air, Callahan did not rule out potentially moving a player on the offensive line to a different spot.
Freshman center Alex Thompson, junior right tackle Rotchill Medor and redshirt sophomore left tackle Keith Kluetz started Monmouth’s first two games at this spots. Of those three, Thompson is the safest best to stay right where he is.
Should Stoneberg start at right guard on Saturday, it will be his first career start and only his second career game. He made his collegiate debut on Aug. 30 late in Monmouth’s season-opening 52-21 rout of Delaware State at Kessler Field.
“It’s definitely a lot different than practice, obviously, but it was definitely a good learning experience to get into a game and experience it,” Stoneberg said. “I feel like if I have to go into a game this week, I’ll know what game-speed is like and I’ll know what to expect.”
“He’s trying to make the transition from being a backup to being ‘the guy,’ ” Callahan said. “He’s not overwhelmed, I think it’s something he knows he’s ready for, the mental aspect of it. It’s just a matter of being able to physically do what he needs to do on a consistent basis down after down. He got a lot of reps the last two days and we’re continuing to evaluate and push the pace on that. Our hope is he continues to progress going into the weekend.”
According to Callahan, McHugh will have a doctor’s appointment on Wednesday. Based on how that goes, there is a possibility he could play at Lehigh on Sept. 27.
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Forbidden Romance:The Amazing Shinsengumi
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The year is 1864, at the end of the Edo period. A group of men bravely took action to extinguish a burning house. Those men were part of a group called the Shinsengumi. In order to protect the city of Kyoto, they would rush to any place that needed them. The curtain rises on the crusade of the members of the Shinsengumi, whose hearts burn as passionately as a the flames they fight...
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Dundee Utd 2
QOS 0
League (Championship)
Manager's Notes
Saturday, November 3rd, 2018
Tannadice Park. Att. 5,171
Pavol Šafranko (3)
Michael Doyle (o.g.) (81)
Gary Naysmith
1. Benji Siegrist
33. Fraser Aird
3. Callum Booth
2. Stewart Murdoch
19. Rachid Bouhenna
24. William Edjenguélé
8. Fraser Fyvie
12. Sam Stanton
11. Billy King
7. Paul McMullan
14. Pavol Šafranko
Alan Martin .1
Scott Mercer .2
Michael Doyle .6
Callum Fordyce .4
Jordan Marshall .3
Andy Stirling .7
Kyle Jacobs .8
David Norman .22
Josh Todd .10
Stephen Dobbie .11
Lyndon Dykes .25
34. Matej Rakovan
20. Christoph Rabitsch
5. Adam Barton
16. Matty Smith
10. Nicky Clark
9. Craig Curran
90. Yannick Loemba
Jack Leighfield .20
Callum Semple .12
Gary Harkins .14
Connor Murray .17
Owen Bell .19
Robbie Ivison .26
Daniel Irving .27
Nicky Clark for Fraser Aird (58)
Craig Curran for Pavol Šafranko (76)
Adam Barton for Callum Booth (86)
Callum Semple for Scott Mercer (51)
Gary Harkins for Andy Stirling (73)
Pavol Šafranko (38)
Scott Mercer (35)
Michael Doyle (54)
David Norman (71)
Kyle Jacobs (90)
None. None.
Craig Thomson (Referee)
Photography by DUFC Official
United saw their unbeaten run under new Robbie Neilson stretch to four games by picking up their first home win under the new Head Coach after a 2-0 victory over Queen of the South at Tannadice.
The intention was for the team to be unchanged from the previous week’s victory in Dunfermline, but Frederick Frans pulled up in the pre-match warm up and was replaced in the starting eleven by William Edjenguele. The game kicked off after a minute’s silence following the previous week’s tragic helicopter crash in Leicester.
Confidence was high in the United ranks after making such a good start to Robbie Neilson’s reign, and the home team made the best possible start to this game by taking the lead in the third minute. Fraser Aird floated in a cross from the right hand side and with Queens goalkeeper Alan Martin rooted to his line, Pavol Safranko stole in to head the ball over him for his sixth goal of the season.
United went on to control the bulk of possession in the first half, albeit without being able to increase their lead. In the fifth minute, Fraser Aird did try his luck from distance, but Alan Martin was able to deal with the shot easily. Four minutes after that, United had what they thought was a reasonable claim for a penalty as Paul McMullan looked to be brought down in the box by David Norman, but the referee was uninterested in any appeals and waved play on.
A flurry of chances came and went from the 15-minute mark onwards as United sought to press home their advantage. It all began with a run from Callum Booth and his cross was headed behind by Michael Doyle. From the resultant corner, the ball was just too high for Pavol Safranko and the Queens defence were able to clear. Safranko had an even better chance a minute later when he met a superb Stewart Murdoch cross from the right, but the Slovakian could only head the ball a couple of yards over the bar. Remarkably, Safranko almost had another chance a minute later, this time just missing a cross from the left from Callum Booth.
In the 25th minute of the game, Paul McMullan won a free kick around 20 yards from goal after being fouled by Lyndon Dykes. However, Fraser Fyvie could only hit the set piece into the wall and again Queens were able to clear the danger. A few minutes later the United captain had another long range effort on goal, but this time the ball sailed well over the bar.
It was 33 minutes into the game before the away side had their first chance of the game, although Ben Siegrist was able to smother the ball at the feet of Kyle Jacobs before the Queens player could get a shot away.
The referee was forced to dish out a couple of bookings in the last ten minutes of the half as things got a bit more aggressive. Firstly, Scott Mercer was booked for a bad tackle on Fraser Aird, wiping out the Canadian as he broke down the wing. A couple of minutes later, Pavol Safranko was booked for catching Michael Doyle with an elbow as they both jumped for a header. Although it looked accidental, it was certainly dangerous play and the United striker saw himself deservedly yellow carded.
United had a couple of further chances before half time. Three minutes from the break, Billy King found the ball at his feet at the edge of the penalty area. He twisted and turned to try to engineer some space for a shot, but he could not do so as once he did get his shot away it was blocked by the away defence. Fraser Fyvie had his third long range effort of the half in first half stoppage time, hitting an effort from 25 yards which was on target, although it was straight at Alan Martin and he was able to save comfortably.
Not for the first time this season, United should have been further ahead at half time. There was always going to be a reaction from the Queen of the South players, and they had their first real period of pressure in the early stages of the second half. They had a good chance in the first minute of the half after Lyndon Dykes was played through on goal by a chipped pass from Stephen Dobbie. Ben Siegrist was able to race from his line to the very edge of the penalty area to intercept the ball, and was able to gather eventually despite dropping the ball onto his own foot. Billy King then broke forward and smashed an effort over the bar, before the ball went up the other end and Dobbie smashed the ball over the bar from out wide.
United were able to break forward themselves after that chance, but the break was ended by a crude sliding challenge on Billy King by Michael Doyle, for which the Queens player received a deserved yellow card. From the resultant free kick, the ball dropped to Stewart Murdoch in the box but the right back could not sort his feet out and hit the ball wide. Fraser Aird was then replaced by Nicky Clark with twelve minutes gone in the second half. Clark almost had an immediate impact a couple of minutes after being introduced, turning and hitting a shot from inside the area which was blocked by the away defence, before Pavol Safranko saw a good run through on goal ended by an offside flag.
Midway through the half, Queen of the South squandered a great chance to level the game. Lyndon Dykes saw off a rather half-hearted challenge from Rachid Bouhenna and found himself with just Ben Siegrist to beat, but the United goalkeeper was able to block his shot from 12 yards out and divert the ball wide and into the side netting.
That scare seemed to focus minds in the home players, and once again they got a grip of the game and became the more dominant team. With eighteen minutes left to go Pavol Safranko headed a Paul McMullan cross a yard wide of the post as United chased a second goal.
Dundee United did get a deserved second goal in bizarre circumstances with ten minutes to go. Michael Doyle attempted to play the ball back to his goalkeeper Alan Martin, and although he was under pressure from Paul McMullan it should not have been a difficult pass. However, the Queens defender had apparently not noticed that Alan Martin had raced from his line, and so his attempted passback rolled past the stranded Martin to seal the victory for United.
There were not many incidents in the final ten minutes, although United were forced into a defensive reshuffle with seven minutes left when Callum Booth hobbled off to be replaced by Adam Barton. The change saw Barton forced into an unfamiliar right back role, with previous incumbent Stewart Murdoch going over to left back. There were no late scares for United, and indeed they could have made it 3-0 with two minutes to go when Paul McMullan hit a good effort from the edge of the area which went just past the far post. The game ended with a second consecutive 2-0 victory for United, and saw them consolidate third place in the league, four points behind next opponents Ross County and seven points behind league leaders Ayr United.
Match report written by Derek Keilloh
Squad Statistics (as at November 3rd, 2018)
Benji Siegrist (GK) 26 9 - 9 -
William Edjenguélé 31 5 - 66 2
Fraser Aird 23 14 2 14 2
Stewart Murdoch 28 9 - 75 1
Callum Booth 27 10 - 10 -
Rachid Bouhenna 27 8 - 8 -
Sam Stanton 24 11 1 59 8
Fraser Fyvie 25 8 1 25 4
Billy King 24 9 1 57 9
Paul McMullan 22 15 3 55 12
Pavol Šafranko 23 11 6 11 6
Adam Barton (sub) 27 10 1 10 1
Craig Curran (sub) 29 10 2 10 2
Nicky Clark (sub) 27 11 4 11 4
Team Sheet (Scanned Photo)
League Table (as at November 3rd, 2018)
1. Ayr Utd 12 9 1 2 24 11 +13 28
2. Ross County 12 7 4 1 24 8 +16 25
3. United 12 6 3 3 19 16 +3 21
4. Morton 12 5 4 3 18 19 -1 19
5. Inverness CT 12 3 9 0 15 10 +5 18
6. QOS 12 4 4 4 20 14 +6 16
7. Dunfermline 12 4 3 5 12 18 -6 15
8. Partick Th 12 3 0 9 11 23 -12 9
9. Alloa Athletic 12 1 5 6 7 17 -10 8
10. Falkirk 12 1 1 10 6 20 -14 4
Manager's Programme Notes
I was pleased we took four points from the last two games and there were a lot of pleasing aspects to the performances. Certainly against Inverness Caledonian Thistle, we played very well and I thought we deserved to take more out of the game than a point. I would say it was more of a professional performance because we didn't play as well as well would have liked but managed to get the three points. Nevertheless, we never looked in any real danger throughout the game and we have started to build a bit of momentum as we go into today's match with Queen of the South. It is really important that we try to sustain our run by getting three points at home. I have maintained right from the start and that the team which concedes the least goals will win the league, so the clean-sheet at Dunfermline was very welcome. It is vital that your foundation at the back is built strongly and gives freedom to the guys at the other end of the park. Annoyingly, we still gave Dunfermline one clear-cut chance which is kind of similar to what we did in the games with Inverness and Partick Thistle, so a lot of work still needs to be done in that area.
We certainly cannot be complacent and think we have cracked it because of one clean-sheet, because better finishing by them and they would have scored. And had they done so, 2-1 would have put a different complexion on matters so we are working hard to eradicate such lapses. That said, I am pleased the way things are going and know from having seen Queen of the South a couple of times earlier in the season and watched them in midweek against Morton, I know we have a difficult game on our hands. Obviously, there biggest attribute is their striking department. In Stephen Dobbie, they have probably the top striker in the league, but also Lyndon Dykes works very hard and, if Harkins comes back in - he has been out injured for the last couple of weeks - you have three players there who are very good and of Premiership level. So. we know that we have to take care of that trio if they are all playing. Thankfully we are going into the game with almost a clean bill of health as Paul Watson and Jamie Robson burned training this week meaning only Lewis Toshney is missing and he isn't too far away from returning. I gave an opportunity for the senior players who hadn't been involved recently to get game time because it is important that we keep them as fit as we can for the rest of what will be an arduous campaign. And, hopefully, with your terrific backing behind us, we can continue that with a win this afternoon.
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Tyre Labelling Tyre Labelling
The New EU Tyre Label
What is EU Tyre Labelling About
To reduce the impact tyres have on the environment and to promote road safety, a new EU regulation came into force on 1 November 2012 that is designed to make it easier for motorists to compare different tyres. From this date all new tyres for cars, vans, 4x4 and most trucks have to display a standard format label that indicates three key aspects of a tyre; fuel efficiency, wet grip performance and external rolling noise. Similar in style to energy labels for white goods, these labels provide comparable information about a tyre regardless of the brand or tread pattern. By using clear pictograms, the label allows motorists to make informed choices when buying tyres, ranked on a scale from A (best) to G (worst). Certain types of tyre, such as; T-type temporary use tyres, off-road tyres, racing tyres, vintage car tyres and retread tyres are excluded from this regulation.
Tyre Labelling in More Detail
Tyres are responsible for between 20 and 30% of a vehicle’s fuel consumption. As a tyre rolls it uses energy and so a tyre that has a lower rolling resistance will use less energy and this has a direct impact on fuel efficiency and CO2 emissions. Choosing tyres ranked A (best) over tyres ranked G (worst) can reduce fuel consumption by up to 7.5%. This equates to a typical annual fuel saving of 120 litres or £168 (based on 12000 miles and £1.4/l). Currently D is not used on the scale to provide a clear distinction between higher and less efficient tyres.
Wet Grip Performance
Wet grip performance is one of the most important safety characteristics of a tyre. Tyres with good wet grip have shorter braking distances on wet roads. Two types of test are used to measure a tyres grip when braking from 50mph in wet conditions. Results are combined and ranked from A (best) to G (worst) and, like with fuel efficiency, grade D is not used to help more easily distinguish between tyres with shorter and longer braking distances. Each grade equates to a difference in braking distance of approximately 3 meters. Therefore fitting tyres ranked A over those ranked G can reduce braking distance in the wet by 18 meters, which clearly could help avert a road traffic accident.
External Rolling Noise
The inclusion of external rolling noise as a key aspect of a tyre’s performance is to encourage motorists to buy low noise tyres and thereby reduce noise pollution. A microphone measures the rolling noise of a car travelling at 50mph with the engine turned off and the results, in decibels, are given for each tyre. In addition ‘black sound waves’ are used to indicate quieter tyres (1 black sound wave) in comparison to noisier tyres (3 black sound waves). Currently 3 black sound waves is the legal limit, 2 will be a new lower limit to come into effect sometime by 2016 and 1 black sound wave is 3 decibels below this future lower limit. Three decibels may not seem a lot, but it is effectively halving the noise level.
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Andy Carroll deal 'in hands of Mike Ashley and Liverpool board'
Alan Pardew has revealed Newcastle's attempt to bring Andy Carroll back to Tyneside is in the hands of chairman Mike Ashley and the Liverpool board.
The England forward privately favours a move back to Newcastle, after being surprised by Liverpool's decision to cut their losses on the £35m striker.
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Andriy Shevchenko - £30.8m AC Milan to Chelsea, July 2006
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Newcastle are expected to return with an improved loan offer for Carroll, 23, having seen an initial bid turned down.
"It will be what it will be," Pardew told the Newcastle Evening Chronicle.
"That whole process is a little bit more involved with the chairman and the board at Liverpool.
"We've got a great team here, a great squad, and if Andy Carroll comes it'll only add to us."
Newcastle initially only offered to pay part of Carroll's £80,000-a-week wages. They also wanted to pay £13m if he then signed a permanant deal, although the Reds are understood to want at least £20m.
Liverpool's asking price is likely to put Newcastle's determination to bring Carroll back to the club to the test, with Ashley unable and unwilling to meet that figure. But there remains a strong possibility a compromise will be reached.
The Newcastle hierarchy have retained their admiration for Carroll since he left for Liverpool in 2011.
"It's simple, really. Sometimes transfers are done at corporate level. I'm slightly detached from that," Pardew added.
"It's been said that he's available, and if we're involved then we'll be involved because of the figures, not anything else, because we know he's good enough. I'm slightly detached from it."
Carroll was not with the Liverpool squad as they left for a pre-season tour of North America on Monday having been granted an extended holiday after Euro 2012. The England international is due to join up with the squad on 23 July, alongside other internationals such as captain Steven Gerrard.
Carroll struggled with Liverpool until belatedly finding both form and goals towards the end of last season.
Andy Carroll career stats
Newcastle (2006-11): 91 games, 33 goals
Preston (loan Aug 2007-08): 12 appearances, 1 goal
Liverpool (2011-present): 56 appearances, 11 goals
England (2010-present): 7 appearances, 2 goals
He headed the winner for Liverpool against Blackburn, while also scoring against Everton in a FA Cup semi-final win and the 2-1 loss to Chelsea in the final.
He scored for England at Euro 2012 in the win against Sweden, but appears to have fallen out of favour at Anfield.
Rodgers signed striker Fabio Borini from Roma this week, his first signing since taking over.
Liverpool are also monitoring Swansea midfielder Joe Allen, with Rodgers hopeful he could become available as the summer moves on.
The Liverpool manager has an agreement with his former club that he will not attempt to sign any of their players during the next 12 months. But it is understood Liverpool will be able to bid for Allen if another club has an offer accepted for the 22-year-old.
Rodgers is also planning contract talks to keep Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez at Anfield but has been noncommittal when talking about Carroll's future.
The striker helped the Magpies back into the Premier League with 17 league goals in the 2009-10 Championship season.
Carroll continued his promising form in the top flight in the following campaign and made his senior England debut under Fabio Capello in a 2-1 defeat by France at Wembley.
He scored 11 times in 19 league games before becoming the most expensive British player when ex-Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish took him to Anfield.
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It's a great time to be an aspiring esthetician. If you're interested in a career dedicated to beautifying, maintaining, improving, and treating the skin of people who are willing to pay good money for those services, you'll be joining an industry on the rise. The global skin care sector has grown by tens of billions of dollars in the last few years alone as society focuses more on wellness and self-care, and the industry opens itself to waves of men who are seeking cosmetology services that were long delivered almost exclusively to women. In fact, skin care is now the fastest-growing profession in the beauty arts and sciences.
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An esthetician, frequently referred to as “aesthetician”, is a licensed professional who provides skin care treatments such as facials, hair removal, lash extensions, blemish extractions, and skin conditioning. Though it is perfectly acceptable to use the two spellings interchangeably, there is a slight difference between how these terms are typically utilized throughout the beauty industry.
“Esthetics” commonly refers to work done in salons, spas, or similar settings, where estheticians clean skin, identify problems, and do makeup. Estheticians may also assist customers in choosing the best skin care and makeup products for them personally.
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Regardless of workplace, the skills you need and the work you do will not change too much from place to place. The training programs and licensing procedures described here will prepare you for a career in any of those environments and many more.
Training to be an esthetician is a heavy lift. In order to get a license, you must first demonstrate a thorough understanding of the enormous and complex organ that is the human skin, in addition to how it relates to the body as a whole. Estheticians must be intimately familiar with the chemical composition of the materials they use and the technology that delivers advanced treatments with things like LED light, oxygen, lasers, and ultrasonic waves.
Salary ranges vary by where you live, the specialty you choose, and the setting in which you decide to work.
Perhaps most importantly, the work demands a personality that exudes professionalism, instills confidence, and reassures the people being treated that they’re under the skilled and capable care of a technician who empathizes with their concerns and understands their needs.
Starting Esthetician School
If you've already decided that a career as an esthetician is right for you, make sure you know what you're getting into. Attending an esthetician program is a heavy commitment in time, money, and effort, so it's your responsibility to have everything you need in order, and to make sure you understand the prerequisites, costs, enrollment requirements, and program length before you commit.
Esthetician School Enrollment Requirements
Prerequisites to becoming an esthetician, such as education requirements, vary by state, as do testing, training hours, and other licensing requirements. Costs of schooling also vary widely by state regulations, by school, and by program specialization.
To give you a sense of the range: Some states require only an eighth-grade education, others a high school diploma. Some states grant licenses after just 250 hours of training, while others require 1,000.
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Esthetics School Costs
According to the American Association of Cosmetology Schools (AACS), you should expect to pay between $3,000 and $10,000 for a high-quality esthetician program. Your specific program's price tag depends on factors like program length, required training hours, and location. Registration fees vary by program, as does the initial financial investment of purchasing your own equipment, supplies, textbooks, and other necessary materials. Fortunately, many esthetician programs will likely fall on the low side of that spectrum, and you can also pursue scholarships and other financial aid to help offset costs.
How Long Does It Take to Complete an Esthetics Program?
The national average for required esthetician training hours across states is 650, which can be completed in as little as six months, though most states require only 600 training hours. It's important to note, however, that the six-month time frame assumes you're training full time. Part-time students will take longer to complete their programs, as training hour requirements don't change no matter your enrollment status.
What Do You Learn in Esthetician School?
Esthetics training goes far beyond just learning about skin care. Estheticians must master concepts like sanitation standards, human physiology, and state laws. Special certification and licensing can prepare you for advanced work, but basic esthetician training will qualify you to provide services like hair removal and waxing, cleansing, facials, exfoliation, and makeup application.
Esthetician Courses
While each program offers slightly different courses, you can reasonably expect to learn the following topics in an esthetician program:
Facials, Cleansing, Toning, and Massaging: These essential courses prepare you for treating your clients’ skin in a safe and skilled way.
Makeup Application: In this type of course, you will learn how to apply makeup to your client and enhance their natural beauty.
Hair Removal and Waxing: Learning these topics will provide you with the knowledge needed to remove unwanted hair from your clients’ skin.
Body Treatments, Wraps, Aromatherapy: These courses will teach you how to provide specialty services such as treatments or wraps for your clients.
Skin Conditions and Disorders: Learning about the physiology of the skin will provide you with a foundational knowledge of the composition of your clients’ skin.
Marketing, Sales, and Salon Management: There is more to the job than just facials and seaweed wraps, and this course will prepare you for interpersonal relations and provide you with the best ways to manage your business, especially if you plan on owning your own business someday.
Safety, Sanitation, and Sterilization: Arguably the most important subjects that you will learn, cleanliness and safety should be the foundation upon which you build your esthetician knowledge.
Esthetician Training Hour Requirements
Training hours are focused on hands-on learning. This could include practicing setting up a workstation, prepping clients, sanitizing equipment, or performing treatments on mannequins or live models. Courses may be instructor-led or involve collaborative work with fellow students, so be prepared to work in groups.
The average number of required training hours in an esthetician program is 650, and although that varies by state, the vast majority fall within the 500-750 range. That doesn't, however, mean that your program won't go longer, considering you'll be required to complete supplementary coursework.
Differences Between Esthetician and Cosmetology Programs
Esthetics is a specialty that focuses solely on the skin and its associated components, like hair. A subdivision of cosmetology, it's a broad category that includes skin care and several other concentrations. Cosmetology programs are much more involved, take longer to complete, and are almost always more expensive than esthetician programs. Cosmetology coursework covers skin care, but also things like nail care, makeup, and hair styling. In short, cosmetologists often complete training in esthetics, but an esthetician program will not qualify you to work as a cosmetologist.
As previously stated, estheticians can work in a variety of settings, including spas, resorts, salons, and doctors’ offices. Because of their broader training and varied skill sets, however, cosmetologists have a greater diversity of choices. Many cosmetologists who finish their programs are qualified to work as estheticians, provided their state licensure requirements permit it, but they can also work as hair stylists or color experts, makeup artists, and nail technicians.
How to Pick an Esthetician School
When choosing a school for an esthetician program, make sure that the program:
Prepares you for your state licensing exam: With the exception of Connecticut, you need a license to work in every state in America. Your program must prepare you with both the training and education needed to pass all required exams and enough training hours to satisfy your state's regulations.
Has an excellent reputation: Some schools satisfy state requirements, but don't leave their graduates feeling that they got their money's worth. Be sure to check several sources of online reviews and ask for references from current or former students to make sure the instructors, coursework, materials, and environment are safe, sanitary, welcoming, and professional.
Offers the specialty that interest you: If you know going in that you want to focus on hair removal, waxing, facials, or any other specialty, make sure your program puts a strong emphasis on that kind of training.
Has strong business relationships and career assistance programs: The best schools will have relationships with local salons, spas, and other businesses that hire estheticians where they can refer their best students for possible employment. You should choose a school that offers career assistance and job placement after you complete the program.
Is accredited: All schools must register with the Department of Education in their state, but accreditation is not required. Some schools pursue accreditation so they can offer government-funded financial aid such as student loans or grants, but their programs must first meet a specific hour requirement. Some programs, particularly those in states with shorter hour requirements, don't meet the standards required for their students to receive awards in government-funded financial aid.
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Featured Esthetics Schools
Catherine Hinds Institute (Woburn, MA): A school focused solely on esthetics, the institute offers programs in both core esthetics and master advanced esthetics. The 600-hour core program prepares graduates to work as entry-level estheticians, while the 900-hour master advanced program gives them the expertise they need to work in advanced clinical settings. There are full-time, evening, and part-time options for students, as well as a professional discount program for those with licenses in fields like cosmetology, massage therapy, and even registered nursing.
Student-teacher ratio: 12:1
Cost: $10,500–$15,500
Institute of Advanced Medical Esthetics (Ashland, VA): This school is central Virginia’s sole accredited master esthetician school, and they also have a basic esthetics program. It offers students the advantage of learning from instructors who have written textbooks, developed some of Virginia’s esthetics licensing procedures, and even those who currently work as medical professionals. The basic program provides students with practical experience in skills such as skin analysis, electrical facials, and hair removal procedures. The master program teaches treatments like lymphatic drainage, microdermabrasion, and light therapy. Both programs are 25 hours per week for 24 weeks, with two days spent on campus each week—the rest is online. Upon graduating from the basic program, you can choose to enter the workforce or begin the master program. The basic and master programs have a 93% employment rate within 180 days of graduation.
Student-teacher ratio: 9:1
Avalon School of Cosmetology: Avalon has five locations in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and California. Esthetics programs vary by location, so check out the individual schools to ensure your coursework will help you achieve your career goals. The three-phase program focuses on hands-on instruction and includes coursework related to physiology, spa therapies, and clinical aesthetics. Avalon offers business training for those who are interested in opening their own shop, as well as test preparation to help students pass licensing exams. With scholarships, veterans’ education programs, and payment plans, Avalon aims to ensure that all students can find a way to pay.
Cost: $16,800
Florida Academy of Medical Aesthetics (Pembroke Pines, FL): FAMA has three courses of study—Electrolysis & Laser Hair Removal, Skin Care, and Skincare & Electrolysis—each of which can be completed in six months or fewer. The school helps students pay for their programs by lowering tuition costs, offering payment plans, and allowing students to attend either full- or part-time.
Cost: $3,670–$7,095
School of Botanical & Medical Aesthetics (Denver, CO): This unique, 600-hour program combines both medical and natural techniques. The school is proactive about keeping up with modern techniques such as lash extensions, microneedling, and advanced makeup. Students can take advantage of weekend, evening, weekday morning, and weekday immersion options, allowing them to complete coursework in five weeks to ten months.
Student-teacher ratio: Unpublished, but classes fill up quickly!
How to Become an Esthetician
To become a licensed esthetician, you'll have to complete an esthetics program, complete your necessary training hours, pass the required exams, receive your license, and maintain licensure throughout your career.
Complete an Esthetics Program: As previously mentioned, there are different types of programs, but they all have one thing in common—they're designed to prepare you for a career as a professional esthetician. Courses taught in esthetics school, however, are only one piece of the puzzle. In order to graduate and qualify for licensure, you'll have to complete a designated number of training hours set by your state board.
Pass the Required Esthetics Exams: For most aspiring estheticians, a comprehensive exam will be the final challenge along their journey. Most states require students to pass the National-Interstate Council of State Boards of Cosmetology (NIC) exam, which is a two-part test. The written, or theory exam, tests your knowledge while the hands-on practical examination tests your ability to set up a work station, perform treatments, and other physical, procedural work like the kind you'll do in your career. The states that don't require the NIC exam test students with a comparable exam.
Earn an Esthetician License: With the exception of Connecticut, every state requires you to earn a license before you can work as an esthetician. Licensure won't be granted until you complete the mandated number of training hours, which, along with the other requirements, varies by state. Visit our licensing page for more detailed information.
Maintain Esthetics Licensure: Each state requires estheticians to maintain and renew their licenses to ensure that they are offering safe and professional services. The renewal process in some states requires estheticians to continue their education in the form of additional training hours.
Additional Skin Care Certifications and Training
The phrase "continuing education" refers to estheticians renewing their licenses by participating in extra training hours every so often. That's not to be confused with extra certifications, which teach and enable estheticians to provide specific high-level services not included in basic training programs.
Advanced Esthetics Training and Certification
Some states recognize two tiers of esthetician licensure: standard and master. Master estheticians complete all the standard training along with significant higher-level training that allows them to conduct additional services while giving them the best knowledge and skill set, in addition to keeping current with industry trends. Some estheticians might participate in extra training to obtain a specialized license, which some states require for procedures like microdermabrasion and chemical peels. In other cases, you might pursue more complete supplemental training.
The CIDESCO diploma, for example, bills itself as "the world's most prestigious qualification for aesthetics and beauty therapy which has set international standards since 1957" ("aesthetics" is a common alternate spelling). Diplomas at both the standard and post-graduate level are offered in categories like beauty therapy, media makeup, aromatherapy, spa therapy, makeup artistry, electrical epilation, and beauty and spa management. The National Coalition of Estheticians, Manufacturers/Distributors, and Associations (NCEA) also offers a prestigious credential that is comparable to the standards and education needed to achieve a master esthetician license.
For many licensed estheticians, the learning process never ends. Although all states require estheticians to renew their license periodically, several states – Florida, Texas, and Illinois, for example – require continued education in the form of extra training hours as a condition of renewing your license. The number of hours varies from state to state, although most require less than 10. You should also expect to pay a renewal fee, which, not surprisingly, varies by location.
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"I love it, it's a lot of fun! It makes it easier when it's something you are passionate about."
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What do you love most about beauty school?
The connections. All of the girls are so close, they are great. The teachers are awesome and have so many connections and will help you get your career started.
How do you like beauty school?
I love it, it’s a lot of fun! It makes it easier when it’s something you are passionate about. It’s so fun to go to school and always trying new things. They give you plenty time to do you homework at school too!
Can you describe a typical day?
Arrive at 8am and prep for appointments starting at 8:45.
You could have 4-5 appointments in one day doing facials, makeup, skin treatments, waxing, brows, lash tinting. My favorite part is if you don’t have appointments you can do treatments on each other! We give each other facials, makeup and the nail girls do our nails, etc! It’s so fun and we are never bored!
What’s it like juggling work and school?
I work two jobs. It can be busy but I map out the week and it keeps me out of trouble.
What would you tell someone thinking about enrolling?
Just do it! I was pretty nervous at first. I doubted myself b/c I have never been in a program I felt I could succeed. The support and encouragement of the other ladies in the class and seeing how intelligent the teachers were eased my worries. It’s a fun experience! There weren’t “know it all’s” in the class. Everyone is eager to learn and help each other.
Do you feel confident getting a job after school?
Yes! I feel confident and qualified. The teachers are great and positive. They want to set up you for success.
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The East Side Story of Gender and Feminism
The Hungarian and Czech Cases
Gabriela Dudeková Kováčová
Judith Szapor, Hungarian Women’s Activism in the Wake of the First World War: From Rights to Revanche, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, 207 pp. 102.60 USD (hardback), ISBN 978-1-350-02049-8.
Iveta Jusová and Jiřina Šiklová, eds., Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe, Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2016, 325 pp., no price listed (hardback), ISBN 978-0-25302-189-2.
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Krassimira Daskalova, Maria Bucur, Ivana Pantelić, Biljana Dojčinović, Gabriela Dudeková, Sabina Žnidaršič Žagar, Nina Vodopivec, Şirin Tekeli and Oksana Kis
After publishing a two-part Forum about women’s and gender studies in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) in Aspasia (vols. 4 and 5), this and the next issue of Aspasia will host a Forum about the “state of the art” of women’s and gender history in the same region. Women’s history as we know it as an academic discipline appeared in Western countries in the late 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Many practitioners in this period came from social history and/or were influenced by the overall progressive political climate of the 1960s and 1970s. Another important characteristic of the earlier period is that women’s history was one of the forerunners in women’s studies. But as important as this period was for the formation of our field, in many countries around the world women’s history is much older and was practiced by women and men in many different contexts and different ways, as the work of both Western—Gerda Lerner, Bonnie Smith, Natalie Zemon Davis, to name but a few, and East European historians has shown. Although we do not exclude the earlier developments in the field, the major aim of this Forum is to bring together contributions about the situation of women’s and gender history in CESEE during the past few decades.
Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, Gabriela Dudeková, Philip Mann, Kristen Ghodsee, Susan Zimmermann, Barbara Alpern Engel, Rhonda Semple, Amelia Licheva, Christian Promitzer and Oksana Kis
Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland by Małgorzata Fidelis Barbara Klich-Kluczewska
The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: An Expropriated Voice by Hana Havelková and Libora Oates-Indruchová (eds.) Gabriela Dudeková
Gendered Artistic Positions and Social Voices: Politics, Cinema, and the Visual Arts in State-Socialist and Post-Socialist Hungary by Beata Hock Philip Mann
Staging Socialist Femininity: Gender Politics and Folklore Performance in Serbia by Ana Hofman Kristen Ghodsee
Kohle für Stalin und Hitler: Arbeiten und Leben im Donbass 1929 bis 1953 (Coal for Stalin and Hitler. Working and living in the Donets basin 1929 to 1953) by Tanja Penter Susan Zimmermann
Bytovoe nasilie v istorii rossiiskoi povsednevnosti (XI–XXI vv.) (Domestic violence in the history of Russian everyday life [XI–XXI vv.]) by Marianna G. Muravyeva and Natalia L. Pushkareva, (eds.) Barbara Alpern Engel
Domestic Frontiers: Gender, Reform, and American Interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and the Near East, 1831–1908 by Barbara Reeves-Ellington Rhoda Semple
Zhenite v modernostta (Women in modernity) by Reneta Roshkeva and Nikolai Nenov (eds.) Amelia Licheva
Physical Anthropology, Race and Eugenics in Greece (1880s–1970s) by Sevasti Trubeta Christian Promitzer
Nezvychaini doli zvychainykh zhinok: Usna istoria XX stolittia (The extraordinary lives of ordinary women: Oral history of the twentieth century) by Iroida Wynnytsky (ed.) Oksana Kis
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Void Moon
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Void Moon is the ninth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly. It was released in the UK in 2000 and was Michael Connely's third book which doesn't follow his famous recurring character Harry Bosch. It was also his first (and, as of 2009, only) novel to feature a female protagonist, Cassidy "Cassie" Black, and a protagonist who is a criminal instead of an investigator of criminals.
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Dieting app for kids sparks controversy
(WFLA/CNN) – A new weight loss app aimed at children is facing backlash.
Kurbo is a healthy-eating program that was just launched by Weight Watchers. The program is designed for kids ages 8 through 17.
Kurbo uses what’s described as a traffic light system to promote portion control. Kids can eat whatever they want but veggies and fruits are categorized as green, meat and pasta is yellow and candy and soda is red.
The company says it’s proven to be a safe way for effective weight loss, but critics say it could lead kids to have lifelong problems with food.
Medical professionals at Melrose Center in Minnesota, a center that treats people with eating disorders, say they do not recommend the Kurbo app for kids or teens.
“We know that dieting for children is not healthy,” Clinical Director Heather Gallivan said. “I think it is challenging on how to approach that with children and adolescents. You have to be very careful about how you talk about these things and the messages you’re sending.”
Gallivan says one of the mixed messages she’s talking about is the “success stories” listed on Kurbo’s website. There are before and after pictures of kids, and how much weight they lost on the program.
“It feels so serious for a child to be thinking about that kind of complexity of how you eat, how you exercise, but at the same time it’s necessary,” one parent said.
Kurbo responded to the criticism saying, “Kurbo by Weight Watchers focuses on behavior change for healthier eating and more activity, not dieting or calorie counting.”
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What The Server to Accept Crypto Payments including Bitcoin Diamond
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CRYSTAL RIVER, FL – What The Server, an online web hosting service, has announced that it will accept payments in Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) and five other cryptocurrencies. By accepting BCD and other cryptocurrency payments, What The Server is taking advantage of the rapidly growing role of cryptocurrency in online marketplaces.
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Written by Louise
A film from the archives of the new 'King' of spinning of adult twisted fairy tales Del Toro's early film Cronos doesn't disappoint, and shows all of the imagination, thought and psyche that brought us Pan's Labyrinth and the soon to be (but not soon enough) The Hobbit.
A short introduction shows us an alchemist in the 1500's who invents the key to eternal life; the Cronos device. The story then switches to modern times when Jesus Gris (Luppi) a dealer in antiques accidentally uncovers the Cronos deivce. Gris lives with his younger wife and devoted granddaughter Aurora (Shanath). Gris accidentally activates the Cronos, which changes the course of his life forever, not least because the wealthy De la Guardia (Brook) and his psychotic hench-man and nephew Angel (Perlman) are after the Cronos, and its secrets, as well.
I saw Mark Kermode recently blog about vampire movies, due to the recent Twilight, True Blood and Halloween spate of films, books and television programmes about our blood-sucking friends. He recommended two films, one of which I had seen - Let The Right One In (which is reviewed here) and the other was Cronos, which although I love Del Toros work I had never seen. A fact, of course, you can see I have rectified.
The film is moody and atmospheric; the story is simple, and yet not so simple; there is a rich, powerful, sickly, man who desires eternal life he's read the secrets he knows what he needs to do but he cannot find the Cronos that he needs. On the other hand there is the innocent that stumbles onto the Cronos and accidentally unleashes its power.
Del Toro yet again puts a spin on a familiar story - that of the vampire. Its not sexy, its not desire lead it's a quest for deep thirst done in a controlled and restrained way, and that makes it different from a lot of other genre blood sucking films. Guis is a family man, devoted and loved, confused and yet still in control of himself despite the changes he undertakes. More strikingly for me was the silent brooding and scary Aurora, a girl who accepts, colludes and bares mute witness to all of the horror that surrounds her. She is devoted to her grandfather no matter what - it's a great twist to an accepted story line.
Although defined as low budget, this film doesn't look like it, it is sometimes sparse but it's in keeping with the feel and mood of the movie. Its well worth watching, it gives a different spin on the vampire mythology and although I love the traditional stuff there's always room for something else, especially something of this quality.
Director - Guillermo Del Toro
Federico Luppi - Jesus Gris
Ron Perlman - Angel de la Guardia
Claudio Brook - De la Guardia
Maragarita Isabel - Mercedes
Tamara Shanath - Aurora
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Haagen-Dazs shops are offering free ice cream cones on May 14
It's officially free ice cream season.
Häagen-Dazs shops are having a free cone day on May 14 from 4-8 p.m. Visitors can get one free scoop of ice cream in a sugar cone, cake cone or cup.
There's also another aspect to Häagen-Dazs's free cone day — the company is recognizing honey bees and their contributions to the world by dedicating its free cone day to our buzzing friends.
"We look forward to Free Cone Day every year as an opportunity to thank our loyal fans while simultaneously recognizing the pollinators that make our ice cream possible," Adam Hanson, The Häagen-Dazs Shoppe Company, Inc. president and general manager, said in a statement.
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Journey to Yeni: Dallas Dad Will Count an Additional Blessing this Father’s Day
By Susan Serrano
Sometimes Yeni’s a sassy, outgoing whirlwind eagerly drinking life in through a fire hose. But, like most 2 ½ -year-olds, she also has a gentler side, loving music, squirrels and walks in the park. She instantly captured the hearts of the Crowder family when she arrived from Ethiopia this spring, giving Dallas Dad Petey Crowder another blessing to count as he celebrates this Father’s Day.
“It has been fun to watch her blossom and become part of the family,” he beamed.
The journey that led to Yenenesh—nicknamed “Yeni” by her family—started in the heart of Crowder’s wife, Ashley.
[caption id="attachment_5299" align="alignright" width="200"] Emery and Yeni share a moment together as new sisters.[/caption]
“From an early age, I always knew that I wanted to adopt,” she recalled. “My mother died in a car accident when I was 6 and my younger sister was 4. I remember how several couples from our church surrounded my sister and me with so much love and attention and supported us while we grieved. I believe that prepared me to support Yeni as she grieves her losses, too.”
Early in their marriage, the couple agreed that someday they would adopt a child and they began to informally research their adoption choices shortly after the birth of their daughter Emery, 5.
Their interest intensified its focus after Ashley returned from a mission trip to Ethiopia in 2009. The mission was organized by Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas, where Petey and Ashley direct the young adult ministry program. “I saw the great needs in Ethiopia and I also fell in love with the country and the people,” Ashley said.
The couple ultimately decided to adopt through Dallas-based Buckner Adoption and Maternity Services’ (BAMS) Ethiopia program. Through their affiliation, BAMS and Dillon International offer international adoption programs in Ethiopia, Russia, Honduras, China, Korea, Haiti, India, Hong Kong, Ghana and Colombia.
“There is a great need for adoptive families for children from Ethiopia—a country where UNICEF statistics indicate that more than one child in 10 is orphaned due to poverty and illness,” said Debbie Wynne, director of BAMS and Dillon International’s Texas office.
There is currently an urgent need for families interested in adopting children ages 4 and older, Wynne added.
Petey’s first experience of Ethiopia was on the couple’s journey to adopt Yeni. “There was so much beauty and yet so much sadness: the countryside was absolutely beautiful, but there was such great poverty,” he recalled. “It was good to see the orphanage and see how much the staff love and care for the children.”
Although she’s now happy and outgoing, Yeni was initially frightened when she met her parents and began adjusting to her new surroundings, Petey recalled.
Patience and support from friends and their church family—among them, Highland Park Presbyterian’s All Nations congregation which serves worshippers from different countries, including several African nations—has proven indispensable, Ashley said. “She’ll grow up surrounded by a community that loves her and looks like her.”
The adoption process and the adjustments after Yeni joined their family had some challenging moments, but was very rewarding, Ashley added. “Although we had plenty of preparation and training throughout the process, there was really no way to truly be prepared until we lived it out. Adoption is a beautiful thing and going through the process really brought us closer to the Lord. The experience really taught us to treasure the small moments.”
“The adoption process takes patience,” Petey added. “The wait is hard, but if you are really serious, the timing will be exactly as it should be.”
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“My Gal, the Zombie,” Uses Zombism As A Metaphor For Discrimination
Posted on December 1, 2013 | by Dan Wickline
Dan Conner writes for Bleeding Cool:
Dan Conner’s popular, independent comic, “My Gal, the Zombie,” is unique in an industry saturated with tales of the undead. As acclaimed comic creator, Batton Lash (Supernatural Law) has said, “Dan Conner’s Chelsea is not your usual zombie . . . she’s more into shopping than chomping!” Batton’s description is dead right! Chelsea Checkers, previously featured in Conner’s Heaven Forbid comics series, was turned into a radioactive zombie. But, she doesn’t let that ruin her life… or, rather her after life!
For Conner, this malady represents any struggle which humans go through that not only affects them personally, but also leads to negative treatment by others. In the first MGTZ story, Chelsea is told she cannot enter a restaurant where her mortal boyfriend takes her for a date. While this is due to her being a zombie, her zombism represents anything which leads to rejection. Not taking “no,” for an answer, she finds a sneaky way to dine with her guy, until chaos and hilarity ensue. This scene specifically displays the influence of classic sitcoms such as I Love Lucy and Bewitched. “Through watching I Love Lucy with my daughter,” says Conner, “I found how foundational it had been on my approach to comedy. I had probably seen most of the series with my mother before even starting Kindergarten.” The concept of a supernatural lady being in a relationship with a mortal is also found in Bewitched, especially as Conner has described the series “like Bewitched, except with a zombie instead of a witch,” in his Kickstarter video at www.MyGalTheZombie.com.
“It’s fun to draw a pretty girl with green skin, yellow eyes, and bright red pigtails. But to me, these features stand for anything which leads to stigmatization or bad treatment by others,” describes Conner. “For her, it relates specifically to how she looks and acts. She’s become a zombie and she can’t quite do anything about that. So she decides to move forward and tries to not let it set her back.” Or, as she puts it, “I might be a zombie, but I still want to look good!” on the second page of “Fashion Zombies.”
After selling out of repeated prints of DIY mini comics and smaller print runs, Conner has decided to take his series to Kickstarter. The campaign ends on December 13, 2013, and is not quite 70% funded. The goal is to not only release an over 100 page graphic novel, but to also release an official soundtrack. The graphic novel, “Everyone Loves a Green Skinned Girl,” will collect all of the material form the small print run comics, Conner’s webcomic at www.CrazyGoodComics.com, and other publications such as the online Denver Westword (for which Conner’s strip was an internet winner of their comics contest), and this year’s A Very Zombie Christmas #5 from Antarctic Press. There will also be guest art from Dan Parent (Betty & Veronica), Batton Lash (Archie Meets the Punisher)¸ Stephanie Mided (Scout), Riki Takaoka (Maiden Voyage)¸Chad Blakely (Kidnapping Kevin Smith), Zach Bassett (Grimm Fairy Tales Hunters)¸ Jason Montoya (Abigail), Gerry Mulowayi (Constructs), and Josh Lyman (Voltron United and Drawn). In all, this book, to be released by Lamp Post, Inc., will feature creators from all throughout the industry.
The soundtrack features music which pops right off the page, consisting of zombie and romance songs in a variety of genres, including punk, psychobilly, retro pop, hip hop, and even bluegrass. Featured are tracks which not only debut on this album, but those which are rare and even out of print, even digitally. Bands include Blaster the Rocket Man, Huntingtons, The Ghost Storys, The Jekylls, Soul Daddy, Destroy Nate Allen, Concombre Zombi, Sick City Daggers, The Nobody Elses, Grave Robber, The Tromatons, Cactus Jack and his Band of Outlaws, and Dead By Dawn. It will be released in print and digitally by HairBall8 Records.
Having ran one successful Kickstarter already, (he raised over 150% of his goal for the My Little Bronco t-shirt and comic) Conner knew that it was a great forum to not only raise funds, including advanced royalties for the bands, but also generate interest in his zombie gal. He could not have been happier, furthermore, when he found it had been chosen as a featured staff pick for comics and his area, of Denver, CO. “I thought that it was just displaying my campaign because I was signed in to my account, until I saw that it was listed with the featured campaigns when I logged out!” he expressed.
Beyond that, Conner features many unique backer rewards such as My Gal, the Zombie hot sauce, eye shadow, mirror compacts, and vintage card cases. Everyone who backs at least $20 will also receive a digital art book showcasing 50 pages of rare and unpublished art by Conner. Titled Gals and Monsters, this art book is not or sale and can only be obtained for free through backing the Kickstarter.
On top of everything else, there is a special reward for readers of Bleeding Cool! When you back the My Gal, the Zombie Kickstarter campaign, at www.MyGalTheZombie.com, simply send an e-mail to Dan Conner (who is running the campaign) through Kickstarter. Mention the code word “MyBleedingCoolZombieGal” and you will receive an exclusive, high quality, full color, 5.5×8.5 My Gal, the Zombie print, made specifically for Bleeding Cool. It will be signed and included for free with your Kickstarter rewards!
If at least $250 is backed during the week following the publication of this article, a free download of high resolution My Gal, the Zombie printable paper dolls will be posted online, made available for free, exclusively to backers. Those who provide the codeword will also be e-mailed an exclusive Bleeding Cool MGTZ paper doll outfit, which will not be made available to anyone who does not mention “MyBleedingCoolZombieGal.”
Drawn in a style heavily influenced by Dan DeCarlo (Josie and the Pussycats), My Gal, the Zombie is the intersection between romance, teen humor, and zombie comics. It is decidedly not a “message” comic, but readers may respond to the eternal theme of struggling to find a place in society. As Gina Desmond of Geeking 4 Everyone has correctly observed, “My Gal, the Zombie is about a girl who caught the zombie virus and is trying to live a normal life. Her friends and boyfriend are supportive of her being a zombie, which makes her life a little easier.” Hopefully, readers can enjoy the antics of a rejected undead girl, even as they supportively make their friends lives a little easier (whether they have green skin or not)!
Make sure to receive the exclusive Bleeding Cool My Gal the Zombie print when you back the My Gal, the Zombie Kickstarter today! It is available at www.MyGalTheZombie.com until December 13, 2013.
About Dan Wickline
Has quietly been working at Bleeding Cool for over three years. He has written comics for Image, Top Cow, Shadowline, Avatar, IDW, Dynamite, Moonstone, Humanoids and Zenescope. He is the author of the Lucius Fogg series of novels and a published photographer.
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Vote for your 2016/17 Wanderers Player of the Year
Award sponsored by Franking Sense with the winner to be announced at the club's End of Season's Awards Dinner
Supporters are now able to vote for their Bolton Wanderers Player of the Year for the 2016/17 season, sponsored by Franking Sense.
As per previous campaigns, fans can have their say on the Player of the Year by voting online via the below link, with all players who have turned out for the Whites during the season in contention.
England Under-21s international Rob Holding claimed the award last year.
The winner of the vote will be announced at the club's End of Season Awards Dinner - main event sponsor Franking Sense - at Macron Stadium on Sunday 30 April.
TO VOTE CLICK HERE
PAST PLAYER OF THE SEASON WINNERS
2015/16: Rob Holding
2014/15: Tim Ream
2012/13: Jay Spearing
2011/12: Adam Bogdan
2010/11: Stuart Holden
2009/10: Lee Chung-Yong
2008/09: Kevin Davies
2006/07: Jussi Jaaskelainen
2005/06: Ricardo Gardner
2004/05: Bruno N’Gotty
2002/03: Jay Jay Okocha
2001/02: Simon Charlton
Join the Bolton Wanderers players for an evening of awards and entertainment at the official End Of Season Dinner - main event sponsor Franking Sense - at Macron Stadium on Sunday 30 April.
The action-packed evening will get underway in the Premier Suite from 7pm after Wanderers’ final Sky Bet League One fixture against Peterborough United.
Fans can still book their place at the Over-18s event with tickets available online HERE.
For more information or to book your place for the official End of Season Dinner - main event sponsor Franking Sense - please call 01204 673761 or email sales@bwfc.co.uk.
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Contractor Categories
There are three contractor categories for membership:
General Contractor – A contractor who performs at least one project during the past year as a General Contractor. There are six categories for dues payment that are based on the volume of work performed in the previous year.
Specialty Contractor – A specialty contractor performs work ONLY as a subcontractor.
Non-Home Contractor – A non-home contractor is a general contractor member whose principal affiliation is with another AGC chapter, but who maintains a permanent presence in the subject AGC chapter (CAWP). This does not include a contractor who pursues work within the geographical territory of an adjoining AGC chapter but has not established a permanent office in the second chapter.
CAWP Dues
View CAWP Contractor Dues
Amounts listed include CAWP minimum dues of $500. Members will be billed by January 1st. Dues are pro-rated for half of the calendar year beginning July 1.
CAWP Quarterly Assessments
Quarterly Assessments are billed in June, September, December, and March for all wages paid during the previous calendar quarter as reported by members to the Welfare and Pension funds.
The CAWP Quarterly dues are assessed a rate of .0035 based on the project wages paid for employees who are engaged in the Heavy, Highway, Railroad and Utility work performed in the 33 counties of Western Pennsylvania. The CAWP minimum dues of $500 cover approximately the first $142,000 total gross wages per year. Beyond the minimum dues of $500, the .0035 rate applies to gross wages with a maximum total payment of $5,000 per year.
Associated General Contractors of America (AGC)
CAWP is an AGC Chapter, all CAWP members automatically become members of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). AGC dues are included in the CAWP Dues. For more information on AGC, visit: agc.org.
Associated Pennsylvania Contractors (APC)
All CAWP members who are pre-qualified to perform PennDOT work shall become an Affiliate member of Associated Pennsylvania Contractors (APC). CAWP members who are not pre-qualified to perform PennDOT work are not required to be an APC member but may do so.
APC Membership (Affiliate Members are CAWP Members who join APC)
Dues for Active and Affiliate members are based on the total volume of work contracted during the highest of the preceding two years in accordance with the schedule below. Volume of work contracted includes highway, heavy, airport, and transportation construction contracts or subcontracts for all state, local, and federal agencies.
Minimum dues for Affiliate members are $875, which the contractor will pay $575 directly to APC and CAWP will pay $300 on behalf of the contractor. Dues for Affiliate members are billed at 50% of the Active Membership rates. Maximum dues for Affiliate members are $12,500 (compared to $25,000 for Active members).
APC dues include membership in the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). Membership will remain in effect until cancelled by the member in writing.
Approved by the APC Board of Directors November 15, 2017
APC Direct Member Dues – Volume Dues
VOLUME AFFILIATE DUES
0 – $250,000 $875 (Minimum Dues)
$250,000 – $2.25 million $1,100 + 1/10 of 1% over $250,000 +5%
$2.25 – $20 million $3,100 + 1/20 of 1% over $2.25 million +5%
$20 $7,750
$80 $10,000
$100 $10,750
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Wilderness training may have helped sisters, 5 and 8, survive 44 hours lost in California woods
Posted: Mar 5, 2019 5:09 AM CST
Updated: Mar 5, 2019 4:30 PM CST
Leia Carrico, 8, left, and her sister Caroline Carrico, 5, went missing March 1. By Susannah Cullinane and Cheri Mossburg, CNN
(CNN) -- Wilderness training may have played a role in the survival of two sisters, ages 5 and 8, who were discovered safe after spending 44 hours in California woods, police say.
Caroline Carrico, 5 and Leia Carrico, 8 were found Sunday morning less than two miles from their home in Humboldt County, according to Sheriff William Honsal.
The girls had last been seen at their home Friday afternoon and Honsal described their discovery close to Richardson Grove State Park as "a miracle."
"This was rugged territory, this is an extreme environment and how they were out there for 44 hours is pretty amazing but it shows a resilience of people that actually grew up in this community. These girls definitely have a survival story to tell," he said during a news conference Sunday.
Leia Carrico her little sister went for a walk near their rural Humboldt County home on Friday afternoon, but got lost in the woods and ended up spending the weekend in the elements.
In an interview alongside their parents, the girls recounted the ordeal, from getting lost, to finding shelter under a fallen branch in what Leia described as a huckleberry bush cave. Leia said they drank water from huckleberry leaves and used a rain jacket as a blanket. She admitted to feeling "nervous and a little afraid."
"It felt so cold our hands turned white," Leia said.
The pair had no food. "Our bellies grumbled the whole night," Leia continued.
The Carrico family lives on 80 acres of land in Garberville, a rural town about 200 miles north of San Francisco.
The girls' father, Travis Carrico, explained that the girls spent much of their time outside and he didn't initially panic when they stayed gone. But as time went on, "I spent two days crying my eyes out, looking everywhere we could think of to look," he said.
Mom Misty Carrico credited the 4H program the girls are enrolled in for teaching them wilderness survival skills. She said she isn't sure they would be alive without those skills.
When asked whether the girls would be punished for going off on their own, their mother said, "No. they did the right thing. They saved each other. I'm the proudest mom. I raised superheroes."
Found 'safe and sound'
Honsal said Piercy Fire Chief Delbert Crumley and firefighter Abram Hill located the pair after following tracks in the search area about 1.4 miles south of the girls' home.
The girls were found "in good spirits, not injured," he said. "The initial assessment was that they were dehydrated, they were cold -- but they were well."
Honsal said first responders provided them with fresh warm clothes and water.
Lt. Mike Fridley gave the girls' mother the good news that they had been found. "She melted on the phone, we had to hang up because she couldn't talk," Fridley told reporters.
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After woman begs for thief to return dog inside stolen SUV, yellow lab is found
By Caitlin O'Kane
Updated on: May 7, 2018 / 3:56 PM / CBS News
A Boston woman was reunited with her yellow lab, Chief, Monday after a thief stole her SUV with the beloved dog inside it, CBS Boston reports. No arrests have been made.
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— WBZ | CBS Boston News (@wbz) May 7, 2018
Rosa Nese told the station she left the dog inside her running SUV while she went into a convenience store on Sunday.
Nese said she went into the store at 8:45 a.m. to buy a lottery ticket, and within just a few minutes, the car thief struck.
"At 8:51 I came out and saw my car was missing," she said. "I went hysterical because my dog, Chief, was in it."
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Surveillance cameras showed a man get into the SUV and drive off with Chief in the back seat.
Chief has been Nese's companion for quite some time and was especially helpful through difficult times last year.
"He's basically a lovable yellow lab. Friendly, he loves everybody and everything," Nese said. "He rescued me, actually. A year ago, my mother passed away, and two days later, I had a fire and I lost my home."
Nese said Chief was the constant in her life that comforted her during this time. She was also worried because Chief needed his medication.
Nese's friends and family embarked on a search and set up what amounted to a war room inside her East Boston apartment. The search for the vehicle, a white Hyundai Santa Fe with an Italian flag on the back, ended when the car was found at a cemetery in Everett, just outside Boston, Nese told CBS Boston.
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The vehicle had returned to the same convenience store just after 11 p.m. Sunday. The driver didn't stop after spotting someone else in the parking lot.
Before Chief was found, Nese was less worried about her missing car and was focused on her beloved pet.
"I really don't care about the car," she said. "I just want Chief back. It's been a long day now."
Chief is microchipped and was wearing a collar with tags.
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House Democrats expected to unveil 2 articles of impeachment Tuesday
By Rebecca Kaplan, Ed O'Keefe
December 9, 2019 / 9:41 PM / CBS News
Day 7, Part 7: Democrats question witnesses
House Democrats are moving forward with two articles of impeachment against President Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, multiple Democrats familiar with the proceedings tell CBS News.
Democratic committee chairmen are expected to unveil the articles at a press conference Tuesday morning. The news comes after the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Monday where the counsels from the House Intelligence Committee presented its findings in its impeachment inquiry investigation.
Democrats allege Mr. Trump abused his power by seeking to leverage a White House meeting and nearly $400 million in security assistance for Ukraine to force the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to announce an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and the 2016 election.
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They have also criticized the Trump administration for blocking all subpoenas and documents related to the inquiry across the executive branch, arguing the president is seeking to stonewall legitimate congressional oversight.
Democrats and Republicans clash in hearing as impeachment vote looms
House Republicans remain uniformly opposed to impeachment, arguing that Mr. Trump was merely concerned about corruption in Ukraine and pointing out that the security assistance was eventually released.
Some Democrats wanted to broaden the articles to include obstruction of justice charges stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller's report, which met resistance among Democrats who did not publicly come out in favor of impeachment until the Ukraine scandal broke earlier this fall.
The House Judiciary Committee could consider the articles of impeachment as soon as this week, sending them to the floor of the House for a full vote by next week. The House is expected to leave for the end of the year by Friday, December 20.
Grace Segers contributed to this report.
First published on December 9, 2019 / 9:41 PM
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Rebecca Kaplan covers the 2012 presidential campaign for CBS News and National Journal.
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144. Psalm 144
Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
2My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
3 Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
5Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
7Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
8Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
11Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
12That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
15Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
1. Blessed be Jehovah, my strength 257257 “Ou, mon rocher.” — Fr. marg. “Or, my rock.” It is very evident that David, since he celebrates the favor of God in such high terms, had not only obtained the kingdom, but gained signal victories. When he calls God his strength, he acknowledges that any courage he had was given him from above, not only because he had been made from a country shepherd a mighty warrior, but because the constancy and perseverance he had shown was signally a gift from God. This term answers better than were we to translate it rock; for, by way of explanation, he adds immediately afterwards, that he had been formed under God’s teaching for war. The words certainly imply an acknowledgment, that though of a warlike spirit, he was not born for warlike enterprises but needed to undergo a change. What kind of a commencement, for example, did he show in the case of Goliah? That attempt would have been preposterous on any other supposition than his being upheld by secret divine support, so as to be independent of mere human help. (1 Samuel 17:40.)
2. My goodness, etc. This way of using the word in a passive sense, as in the Hebrew, sounds harsh in Latin; just as elsewhere (Psalm 18:50) he calls himself “God’s king,” not in the sense of his having dominion over God, but being made and appointed king by him. Having experienced God’s kindness in so many ways, he calls him “his goodness,” meaning that whatever good he possessed flowed from him. The accumulation of terms, one upon another, which follows, may appear unnecessary, yet it tends greatly to strengthen faith. We know how unstable men’s minds are, and especially how soon faith wavers, when they are assailed by some trial of more than usual severity. It is not enough, if God would sustain us under such weakness, to promise us his help in individual or single expressions; and, even however many aids he supplies us with, we are subject to very great vacillations, and a forgetfulness of his mercy creeps in upon us which almost overwhelms our minds. We are to remember that it is not merely in token of his gratitude that David heaps together so many terms in declaring the goodness of God, but to fortify God’s people against all attacks of the world, and of the evil one. He had a reason for reckoning it among the chiefest of God’s mercies, that he controlled the people under his government. For עמי, ami, my people, some read, עמים, amim, peoples; 258258 Those who conjecture that עמים, amim, is the correct reading, refer to the parallel passage in Psalm 18:47, where the word is in the plural. They also observe in support of their opinion, that this reading is actually found in a great number of MSS. examined by Kennieott and De Rossi; and they account for עמי, ami, having got into the text by supposing that it was written in the first instance as a contraction for עמים, amim. Rosenmuller supposes, but with less probability, that the original word was עם, and that the letter י, yod, is paragogic, that is, has been annexed to improve the sound; עם, am, being taken collectively. The Masorets have noticed that עם, which the translators of our English Bible took to be עם, with its possessive affix here, in 2 Samuel 22:44, and Lamentations 3:14, and consequently rendered by my people, is to be taken as the plural number of that noun. and it is surprising they should prefer such a forced rendering, as David means simply that the settled state of the kingdom was owing not to any counsel, valor, or authority of his own, but to God’s secret favor. The verb רדד, radad, is used appropriately, signifying to spread out. The idea some have, that by a people spread out is meant a people set down at ease in a prosperous and happy condition, is farfetched. I have as great objections to the idea of others, that he means a people laid prostrate, so as that they may be trodden under foot; for a violent domination like this would not have been desirable over the chosen people, and sacred inheritance of the Lord. When a people yields a cordial and willing obedience to the laws, all subordinating themselves to their own place peaceably, this signally proves the divine blessing. And in such a settlement as this, where there is no turbulence, nor confusion, the people are appropriately represented, according to what we have said above, as being spread out. David accordingly having ascribed the victories he had gained over foreign enemies to God, thanks him at the same time for the settled state of the kingdom. Raised indeed as he was from an obscure station, and exposed to hatred from calumnious charges, it was scarcely to have been believed that he would ever obtain a peaceable reign. The people had suddenly and beyond expectation submitted to him, and so surprising a change was eminently God’s work.
3. O Jehovah! what is man, etc. He amplifies the goodness shown by God by instituting a comparison. Having declared how singularly he had been dealt with, he turns his eyes inward, and asks, “Who am I, that God should show me such condescension? “He speaks of man in general; only the circumstance is noticeable that he commends the mercy of God, by considering his lowly and abject condition. In other places he mentions grounds of humiliation of a more personal or private nature, — here he confines himself to what has reference to our common nature; and though even in discussing the nature of man there are other reasons he might have specified why he is unworthy of the regard and love of God, he briefly adverts to his being like the smoke, and as a shadow. 259259 “Et mesmes combion qu’en espluchant la nature des hommes il eust peu toucher d’autres choses, pour lesquelles ils sont indignes. — neantmoins,” etc. — Fr. We are left to infer that the riches of the divine goodness are extended to objects altogether unworthy in themselves. We are warned, when apt at any time to forget ourselves, and think we are something when we are nothing, that the simple fact of the shortness of our life should put down all arrogance and pride. The Scriptures, in speaking of the frailty of man, comprehend whatever is necessarily connected with it. And, indeed, if our life vanish in a moment, what is there stable about us? We taught this truth also — that we cannot properly estimate the divine goodness, unless we take into consideration what we are as to our condition, as we can only ascribe to God what is due unto him, by acknowledging that his goodness is bestowed upon undeserving creatures. The reader may seek for further information upon this point in the eighth Psalm, where nearly the same truth is insisted upon.
5. O Jehovah! bow thy heavens. After extolling, as was due, the great goodness of God, he requests him to furnish such help for the preservation of the kingdom as was necessary in the present exigency. As formerly we saw that he had gloried in God with a heroical courage, so here he makes use of the same lofty terms in his prayers, That he would bow the heavens — that he would make the mountains to smoke — disturb the air with thunderings — and shoot forth arrows; forms of speech by which, doubtless, he would put away from him all the obstacles which stand between us and a believing apprehension of the omnipotence of God, and from which we find it so difficult to emerge. He employs almost the same phraseology in the eighteenth Psalm, but it is in praising God for help already extended, and to signify that he had been preserved from above in a wonderful and unusual manner. For although such signs as he mentions might not always occur when God interposed in his behalf, he had good ground to celebrate what had happened to him of an unexpected kind, by reference to extraordinary phenomena. In the passage before us his purpose is different. Threatened by destruction of various kinds, which might overwhelm his mind with despair, he would realize the wonderful power of God, before which all obstacles of a worldly kind must necessarily give way. We may be certain at least that he indulged in this figurative phraseology for a good reason, that he might not confine deliverance to human remedies; for nothing could be more preposterous at such a time than to measure divine power by ordinary rules.
7. Send thy hand, etc. In one word we are now made to see what was meant by the figures formerly used — that in the absence of all earthly help, God would put forth his hand from above, the greatness of the exigency making extraordinary help necessary. Accordingly he compares his enemies to great and deep waters. He calls them strangers, not in respect of generic origin, but character and disposition. It were a mistake to refer the term to the uncircumcision, for David rather animadverts upon degenerate Jews who gloried in the flesh; and shortly afterwards he hints that he had to do with internal foes rather than a foreign enemy, who would openly assault him with violence and arms. By the right hand of falsehood some understand rash attempts, which David hoped would be frustrated. Others limit the phrase to the solemn ceremony of taking an oath, as if he said they were perjured; 263263 “In taking an oath the right hand was lifted up. The enemies of David profaned their oaths by violating the covenants into which they entered, and breaking their solemn engagements.” — Walford. while others explain it as meaning that they not only lied with the tongue, but executed wicked devices with the hand. 264264 “The meaning is, the hands with which they confirm their treaties of peace and leagues of friendship are immediately lifted up against the lives and liberties of their allies.” — Warner. But as it was customary in making promises to join hands, as Solomon says, (Proverbs 11:21; Proverbs 16:5,) I have no doubt David’s reference here is to false, treacherous, and perfidious persons. The two things go naturally together in the verse — the lying tongue and the deceitful hand, meaning upon the matter that nothing was to be looked for from any of their promises, since it was only to deceive that they flattered with their mouth and gave the hand.
9. O God! I will sing a new song to thee. He again sets himself, with self-possession, to the exercise of praising God, not doubting but he would continue those mercies which he had once bestowed. I have taken notice in another place that by a new song is meant one of a singular or uncommon kind; and we are left from this to infer that David’s expectations stretched beyond the conclusions of man’s judgment; for, with a view to the greatness of the help to be extended, he promises a song of praise unprecedented in its nature, and distinguished, by the title here applied to it, from ordinary thanksgiving’s. As to the nablum and psaltery, I have elsewhere observed that they formed part of that system of training under the law to which the Church was subjected in its infancy. But the chief thing to be noticed is the subject of his songs that God, who is the preserver of kings, had kept — and even rescued from the sword — David, whom he had made and anointed king by his authoritative decree. As to the idea of there being implied in the term kings an opposition to the commonalty, David meaning that not only the common class of people are indebted to divine preservation, but the more influential, and such as appear to have sufficient and abundant strength of their own, I question whether it be well founded. His meaning seems to me rather to be different from this, That while God preserves all men without exception, his care is peculiarly extended to the maintenance of political order, which is the foundation of the common safety of all. It is in effect as if he called him the guardian and defender of kingdoms; for as the very mention of government is an odious thing, and none willingly obeys another, and nothing is more contrary to natural inclination than servitude, men would seek to throw off the yoke, and subvert the thrones of kings, were these not hedged round by a hidden divine presidency. David, however, distinguishes himself from other kings, as elsewhere he is called “the firstborn of kings,” (Psalm 89:27;) at least he speaks of the goodness of God as having been preeminently shown to him, representing himself as holding the highest place, on account of the holy anointing which had been more eminently bestowed upon him. As a title of distinction, he claims the special name of God’s servant; for although all kings are God’s servants, and Cyrus has the name applied to him by Isaiah emphatically, (Isaiah 45:1,) yet as no heathen prince ever recognized himself as called of God, and David alone of all others in the world was invested with legitimate authority, and had a warrant to reign which faith could rest upon with certainty, it was not without reason that this mark of distinction is applied to him. By the hurtful sword, are doubtless meant all the dangers he had passed through for a series of years, which were such that he might be truly said to have come to the throne by deaths oft, and to have been settled upon the throne in the midst of them.
12. Because our sons, etc. These three concluding verses some consider as being a wish or a prayer. 271271 “Grant that our sons may be as plants,” etc. Such is the view taken by the Translators of the English Bible. Others think that David congratulates himself, and all the people, that through the divine blessing every species of mercy was showered down prosperously upon them. I have no doubt that David commemorates, by way of thanksgiving, the liberality which God had shown to his people. But it consists very well with this, to suppose that he prays at the same time for the continuance or preservation of those divine benefits which must well-nigh be cut off altogether by wicked men and domestic foes, unless God should interpose, in the troubles and confusions which prevailed. The end he has in view therefore is, that God would not suffer the signal blessings with which he had loaded his people to fail and depart. He begins by making mention of the children, comparing the male portion of them, by way of commendation of their excellency, to plants which have grown up in their youth; for trees rarely come to any height if they do not grow large early, and when yet tender. He speaks of the girls as being like corners skillfully and ingeniously cut out, to make the building beautiful; as if he would say that they adorned the house by their comeliness and elegance. It is not surprising that he should reckon a noble and well trained offspring to be the very first of God’s earthly blessings, a point of which I have spoken elsewhere more at large. As David speaks in the name of the whole people, and of his own condition as mixed up with that of the community, we may infer from this that he was not exclusively occupied with his own private interests.
13. Our recesses full, etc. Some read storehouses, 272272 מזוינו, Our garners. This word is to be found in Scripture only once, but it has most probably the same root as זוית, and it may denote primarily our corners, and then our garners; because garners or storehouses were usually at the ends or corners of edifices.” — Phillips and I would not reject this meaning. But as the word comes from the same root with זוה, zavah, which is rendered corner in the previous verse, it seems more agreeable to the etymology to translate the words as I have done — “that the recesses or corners were full.” The participle מפיקים, mephikim, some take transitively, and read producing, but the meaning comes to the same thing, that abundance of every blessing flowed from all the corners, expression מזן אל-זן, mizan el-zan, 273273 Literally, “from kind to kind.” seems to me to denote the variety and manifold nature of the blessings, rather than, as some interpreters think, so abundant a produce as would issue in the different species being mixed, and forming a confused heap owing to the unmanageable plenty. We have no need to have recourse to this strained hyperbole, and the words as they stand evidently do not favor that sense, for had a confused heap been meant, it would have read simply זן זן, zan. The meaning in short is, that there prevailed amongst the people such plenty, not only of wheat, but all kinds of produce, that every corner was filled to sufficiency with every variety.
14. Our oxen, etc. The Hebrew word סבל, sabal, is properly to carry. Accordingly some understand מסובלים, mesubbalim, to mean robust, 274274 מסבלים, burdened, viz. with flesh, according to Pagninus, who has onusti carne. The root is סכל, and the form is the pual participle, which occurs only in this place. Compensis has paraphrased it: santi et ferendis oneribus apti. Perhaps burdened oxen may be a phrase equivalent to our beasts of burden such as are strong and adapted to carry burdens; and here the prayer of the Psalmist is, that they may be eminently fitted for this service.” — Phillips as unless they were strong oxen they would not be fit for carriage, or bearing burdens. Others think they are spoken of as laden with fat. There is no need for insisting upon this point, as it does not affect the main scope of the passage. It may be more important to notice, that God’s fatherly care of his people is celebrated on the account that he condescends to attend to every the smallest matter which concerns their advantage. As in the verse before he had ascribed the fruitfulness of the herds and flocks to God’s goodness, so now the fattening of their oxen, to show that there is nothing relating to us here which he overlooks. As it would signify little to have abundance of everything unless we could enjoy it, he takes notice of it as another part of the Lord’s kindness that the people were peaceable and quiet. By breach I have no doubt that he alludes to hostile incursions, that there was no enemy to break in upon them through demolished gates or walls. By goings out it is surprising that any should understand exile, that the people were not torn away from the bounds of their native country. All he means simply is, in my opinion, that there was no necessity of sallying out to repel an enemy, none offering violence or molestation. To the same effect is the expression, as to any crying in the streets, the effect of a sudden tumult. The meaning is, accordingly, that there was no disturbance in the cities, because God kept enemies at a distance.
15. Happy the people, etc. He thus concludes that the divine favor had been sufficiently shown and manifested to his people. Should any object that it breathed altogether a gross and worldly spirit to estimate man’s happiness by benefits of a transitory description, I would say in reply that we must read the two things in connection, that those are happy who recognize the favor of God in the abundance they enjoy, and have such a sense of it from these transitory blessings as leads them through a persuasion of his fatherly love to aspire after the true inheritance. There is no impropriety in calling those happy whom God blesses in this world, provided they do not show themselves blinded in the improvement and use which they make of their mercies, or foolishly and supinely overlook the author of them. The kind providence of God in not suffering us to want any of the means of life is surely a striking illustration of his wonderful love. What more desirable than to be the objects of God’s care, especially if we have sufficient understanding to conclude from the liberality with which he supports us he is our Father? For everything is to be viewed with a reference to this point. Better it were at once to perish for want than have a mere brute satisfaction, and forget the main thing of all, that they and they only are happy whom God has chosen for his people. We are to observe this, that while God in giving us meat and drink admits us to the enjoyment of a certain measure of happiness, it does not follow that those believers are miserable who struggle through life in want and poverty, for this want, whatever it be, God can counterbalance by better consolations.
257 “Ou, mon rocher.” — Fr. marg. “Or, my rock.”
258 Those who conjecture that עמים, amim, is the correct reading, refer to the parallel passage in Psalm 18:47, where the word is in the plural. They also observe in support of their opinion, that this reading is actually found in a great number of MSS. examined by Kennieott and De Rossi; and they account for עמי, ami, having got into the text by supposing that it was written in the first instance as a contraction for עמים, amim. Rosenmuller supposes, but with less probability, that the original word was עם, and that the letter י, yod, is paragogic, that is, has been annexed to improve the sound; עם, am, being taken collectively. The Masorets have noticed that עם, which the translators of our English Bible took to be עם, with its possessive affix here, in 2 Samuel 22:44, and Lamentations 3:14, and consequently rendered by my people, is to be taken as the plural number of that noun.
259 “Et mesmes combion qu’en espluchant la nature des hommes il eust peu toucher d’autres choses, pour lesquelles ils sont indignes. — neantmoins,” etc. — Fr.
263 “In taking an oath the right hand was lifted up. The enemies of David profaned their oaths by violating the covenants into which they entered, and breaking their solemn engagements.” — Walford.
264 “The meaning is, the hands with which they confirm their treaties of peace and leagues of friendship are immediately lifted up against the lives and liberties of their allies.” — Warner.
271 “Grant that our sons may be as plants,” etc. Such is the view taken by the Translators of the English Bible.
272 מזוינו, Our garners. This word is to be found in Scripture only once, but it has most probably the same root as זוית, and it may denote primarily our corners, and then our garners; because garners or storehouses were usually at the ends or corners of edifices.” — Phillips
273 Literally, “from kind to kind.”
274 מסבלים, burdened, viz. with flesh, according to Pagninus, who has onusti carne. The root is סכל, and the form is the pual participle, which occurs only in this place. Compensis has paraphrased it: santi et ferendis oneribus apti. Perhaps burdened oxen may be a phrase equivalent to our beasts of burden such as are strong and adapted to carry burdens; and here the prayer of the Psalmist is, that they may be eminently fitted for this service.” — Phillips
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Do U care? Nicole Scherzinger & Derek Hough Win DWTS
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This week's episode of "The Walking Dead" gave audiences a backstory for Alpha and Beta.
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HOLLYWOOD—We were teased at the end of last week’s episode that a war is brewing between Alpha and Carol on “The Walking Dead.” This week’s episode, ‘We Are the End of the World’ explained to audiences how Alpha and Beta came to be who they are today. I usually hate these character study episodes, but this was one that I found interesting, because we were still left with plenty of questions.
Now, the constant jumps from past and present annoyed me a bit, but it became clear it was a direct result of tying things directly to the season 10 premiere episode, which was a clever technique. The episode opened with Alpha and a young Lydia on the run from walkers; it looks like death was near for the mother and daughter, but a knight in shining armor, covered in a mask allowed them entry into a building. That person was Beta who refused to allow Alpha and Lydia to see his face, just as in the future, we discovered that the Whisperers were planning to unleash walkers on our protagonists.
We did meet a new character, Gamma (Thora Birch) who was fiercely loyal to her sister, who was grieving the loss of her daughter. Do you recall that baby that was left on the ground back at the Hilltop as Alpha came looking for Lydia? Yeah, this woman was spiraling mentally and almost caused major problems for her group, which Beta explained she would pay for. Alpha made it appear that she killed that woman, but spared her life as she reminded her of Lydia. To be accurate, Alpha was doing all in her power to replace Lydia. Yes, mother and daughter have butted heads, but at the end of the day, Lydia is Alpha’s daughter and the secret Alpha is keeping will have repercussions people.
Returning to the past, Alpha continued to attempt to bond with Beta who kept his distance, but as walkers dawned inside the building, he came to Alpha and Lydia’s aid. It is hear we learned more about Beta and Alpha and why we don’t know their actual names; they don’t want to identify or get too close to others. The biggest issue I had this entire episode was the tease of getting to see Beta’s face only to be left empty-handed. Alpha got a look at this face, but not the audience. Gamma was forced to sacrifice her sister’s life to save Alpha when she went bonkers in the middle of a massive group of walkers.
Like I said, there is still so much about Beta we do not know, including his scratching out the faces in his pictures. What is it about his face that he does not want people to see? I now understand the issue between Lydia and Alpha. Lydia wants to be like her mother, but she is not, and Alpha in some strange way resents her daughter because of it. That fiery satellite in the sky caused a bit of a distraction for the Whisperers and their plans, which exploded as Beta learned that Alpha did not kill Lydia.
Yes, this fearless leader could not take out her daughter, which led to friction with her #2. She begged him to keep her secret, which makes me wonder what will transpire if the truth about Lydia is revealed to the rest of the Whisperers? With all this back and forth, it brought the audience back to where the first episode of the season ended, with Carol and Alpha laying eyes on one another. Learning that her borders had been crossed, Alpha figured it was time to teach our heroes a lesson yet again.
Like I said, a war is brewing and while the Whisperers got the edge last time, I don’t think they’ll be so lucky this time around because Carol and Daryl have fire in them that will change a lot. Until next Sunday “Walking Dead” die-hards!
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If your school's homecoming king had a little too much in common with Henry VIII, would you survive with your head still attached?
You'd think being the new girl in a tiny town would equal one very boring senior year. But if you're me-Annie Marck, alias Cleves-and you accidentally transform into teenage royalty by entering Lancaster High on the arm of the king himself? Life becomes the exact opposite of boring.
Henry has it all: he's the jock, the genius and the brooding bad boy all in one. Which sort of explains why he's on his sixth girlfriend in two years.
What it doesn't explain is why two of them-two of us-are dead.
My best friend thinks it's Henry's fault, which is obviously ridiculous. My nemesis says we shouldn't talk about it, which is straight-up sketchy. But as the resident nosy new girl, I'm determined to find out what really happened to Lancaster's dead queens...ideally before history repeats itself.
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Barn Door Opens on Okie Cult Car
Farmers cause a tempest in a sake cup with their tiny used trucks.
AARON ROBINSON
We’ve devoted part of this month’s issue to intriguing fuel-economy solutions. So, ladies and gents, I give you Oklahoma.
Yes, Oklahoma, Will Rogers’s famously horizontal birthplace and the golden buckle of the wheat belt where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain. In Oklahoma, only the harvest dominates conversation more than God, guns, and diesel pickups. Except that these days, with diesel running more than $4 per, folks are all a-gab about those little used mini-trucks, the ones that get 40 mpg with their itty-bitty three-cylinder engines. Some even have the dang steering wheel shoved over to the right side!
People call them “mini-trucks,” “micro trucks,” “K trucks,” and “ kei trucks” (say “kay trucks”). They’re built by Daihatsu, Mitsubishi, Subaru, and Suzuki, mainly to cart sake barrels and other goods down Japan’s squeezed streets. Several Chinese makers also build them, and a Poteau, Oklahoma, startup called Tiger Truck, LLC, assembles mini-trucks from Chinese blueprints and parts. Hi Ho Silver, meet Hello Kitty.
Federal regulators consider mini-trucks invasive pests from Asia, no better than the long-horned beetle or soybean rust. That’s because mini-trucks don’t come within a good hog call of meeting safety or emissions standards. In a 35-mph offset-barrier test, a mini-truck might just vaporize.
Well, Oklahoma’s farmers don’t mind the odd government subsidy, but they sure don’t want to be told what is and isn’t safe to drive into town, especially when 30 states allow adults on motorcycles without helmets and nobody in Washington says boo. In November, Oklahoma became the 10th state to allow registration and limited operation of mini-trucks on public roads. Arizona and Texas are also considering exceptions. Meanwhile, federal government lawyers are stone grinding their quills, and no one will be surprised if the whole kerfluffle lands in the Supreme Court.
The K is short for kei jidosha, Japanese for “light vehicle” and the name of a special class of minicars and mini-trucks subject to reduced taxation. Current Japanese regs limit the kei class to about 134 inches long and 58 inches wide, with engines no larger than 660cc and no more powerful than 65 horsepower. The heaviest weigh about 2200 pounds. Mini-trucks can come with four-wheel drive and a variety of bed configurations and ag accessories. Unlike comparable ATVs such as the $11,000 Yamaha Rhino, mini-trucks have enclosed cabs with heat and air conditioning. They can trot up to 65 mph, and thanks to Japan’s tax code, which penalizes aging vehicles, the trucks are usually plucked plumb and healthy out of the Honshu rice paddies with fewer than 50,000 miles on them. They are stacked like dominoes into sea containers and within a few weeks are doing the limbo under America’s rigid vehicle-import barrier as used farm equipment. They can be hauling hay in a panhandle horse paddock for as little as $5000 delivered.
Josh Collins lives on a 17.5-acre ranch in Claremore, Oklahoma. Before buying his 1999 Subaru Sambar 4x4 for $7800, he got about 15 mpg on runs into town with his Dodge Ram 3500.
“Despite my Dodge’s 3600-pound payload capacity,” says Collins, “90 percent of the time I rarely haul more than 600 pounds in the bed for these errands into town. A mini-truck’s payload capacity ranges from 775 pounds to 1200 pounds, depending on the brand and model.” Collins also likes that his 1800-pound Subaru (with about 50K miles on it) practically floats across a pasture without leaving ruts. Nowadays, the Dodge only tows horse trailers.
“They’re like those European Smart cars, but Okie style,” says Oklahoma GOP state rep Don Armes, who coauthored the state’s legalization bill. “We’ll always have big pickups, but we don’t need to drive them every day. If I can do what I need to in that little buggy getting 40 mpg, that’s real savings.”
Is it me, or does the planet feel just a tiny bit cooler?
Rae Tyson, a spokesman for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, says mini-trucks are in the agency’s bombsights. “The federal government has the responsibility to make sure that vehicles operated on public roads are safe,” he says. “Currently we have the lowest vehicle fatality rates in history. It would be counterproductive to head in the wrong direction for the sake of a couple of miles per gallon.”
Well, it’s more than a couple, but what’s the difference? Federal regulatory preeminence is threatened. One D.C. bureaucrat told me privately that state governors “may soon get reminded of where their authority ends and begins.”
Are mini-trucks dangerous? No one has statistics. Subject to Canada’s looser import rules, British Columbia produced a 2007 study showing that older right-hand-drive vehicles in Canada are 40 percent more likely to crash compared with similar left-drive vehicles. The study doesn’t break out mini-trucks—Canada is awash in used Japan-market vehicles of all sizes—or say how many crashes produced injuries or just wrinkled fenders. Indeed, no one I spoke with even knows how many mini-trucks are in North America.
Tired of having their pockets picked by high fuel prices, Oklahomans aren’t waiting around for somebody else to fix their wagons. A federal government that sanctions blithering irresponsibility—helmets, remember—seems a trifle ridiculous when trying to save us from the peril of 40-mpg trucklets with seatbelts and, in later models, airbags. Representative Armes says the feds “may whine about it, but my response is, ‘Okay, show me a better idea. Show me something that answers this fuel question.’?”
Sounds OK to me.
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Tiberiu Dianu has published several books and a host of articles in law, politics, and post-communist societies. He currently lives and works in Washington, DC, and can be followed on Medium. https://medium.com/@tdianu
By Tiberiu Dianu
Steny Hamilton Hoyer was born on June 14, 1939, in New York City, New York, and grew up in Mitchellville, Maryland. His father was Danish and a native of Copenhagen, while his mother was an American, with Scottish, German, and English ancestry, and a descendant of John Hart, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Hoyer graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park (B.A. magna cum laude, 1963) and Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC (J.D., 1966).
He is an American attorney and politician serving as US Representative for Maryland’s 5th congressional district since 1981 and as House Majority Leader since 2019. A Democrat, he was first elected in a special election on May 19, 1981, and is currently serving in his 20th term. Since 2003, Hoyer has been the second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives behind Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
He is a two-time House Majority Leader, having previously served in the post from 2007 to 2011 under Speaker Pelosi. As a result of the 2018 midterm elections, in which the Democrats took control of the House, Hoyer was re-elected Majority Leader in January 2019 on the opening of the 116th Congress, remaining the number two House Democrat behind Speaker Pelosi.
Hoyer is a great friend of Romania and frequent visitor over the years. Hoyer chaired Congress’ Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Commission) which fought for human rights and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. After 1989, he was a strong advocate of Romania’s entry into NATO and today of its Strategic Alliance with the United States.
During the annual ALIANŢA/The Alliance Gala in Washington, DC, on October 3, 2019, held at the Conrad Hotel, the House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) received the 2019 Public Service Award. https://alianta.org/
Before his remarks on accepting the award, Representative Hoyer was very gracious and accepted to grant me an exclusive interview.
Steny Hoyer, US House of Representatives Majority Leader
An interview with Steny Hoyer, US House of Representatives Majority Leader
Dianu: Congressman Steny Hoyer, you are the House Majority Leader. You are here to receive this year’s Public Service Award. What does this award mean to you?
Congressman Hoyer: Well, I am very honored to receive this award. I have worked with ambassador Rosapepe, who used to be the [US] Ambassador to Romania. As a matter of fact, I saw him in Bucharest when I was there. And the relationship between our two countries is a very significant and important one. I was pleased to support Romania’s accession to both NATO and to the EU. And I think they [the Romanians] are a very critical partner. I also think their partnership makes them more secure, as Putin and his company tend to be more acquisitive around the world. We saw what happened in Crimea. We need to make sure that doesn’t happen anyplace else. But I am pleased to be here, I am honored to be here.
Dianu: Thank you so much, Congressman. You are a great friend of Romania and a frequent visitor over the years. How do you see the US Romanian cooperation at this point and the role of Romania in Europe, as a partner of the United States?
Congressman Hoyer: Well, as I said earlier, I think Romania is an important partner, strategically located. It’s a democracy. I made a speech the other day about retaining our democracy, making sure we defend against those who would compromise our democratic principles. I think the people of Romania are doing it and I urge them to continue to do so.
Dianu: The last question, Congressman. As a House Majority Leader, how do you see finalized the process of impeachment investigation against president Donald Trump?
Well, we look at all the facts still. We’re going to make a very careful review of the facts here, for witnesses, to review documents. And we will make a decision that is consistent with the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America. This inquiry is ongoing because we believe the president has fallen short and he has betrayed his oath of office. He is responsible in to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the laws of our country, and put at risk not only our national security but also the integrity of our elections. And, if we find those facts to be true, we will act accordingly.
Thank you so much, Congressman.
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Can’t wait for the pod! I looooved this episode. (Therefore I expect most people to not. Lol). One thing I now wonder given Airiam’s whatever it was that happened. Do you suppose someone is after the spore drive from the future and someone else is trying to stop them? I don’t think there is just one player (the Red Angel) at work here. ..... and I still think Jacob is going to play into this somehow. I know it was just one line but he said it with SO much certainty.
Totally loved the Sarek Amanda scene. Ive seen some complaining about her actions but I’m telling you the mothers I know would have done exactly the same thing. Her whole line about I don’t live under your authority was so brilliant. Queen! I love Amanda. And I loved the flashback of young Michael and Spock. Gosh so much more. Can’t wait to hear what you think. I watched drinking my Fredalia Tea. 😂
Ok overall agreed with The pod observations. Although I loved the quiet scenes and in fact found them quite foundational. I really liked Glenn’s ideas on the intro of Spock. For me I thought they were not going to be able to win for losing in the way in which they did it. There was no way it could be “the right way” for everyone so they did it in the way they needed or wanted to for the ongoing story (IMO). And yeah, whew, even in an existential crisis he’s sexy. Frankly the family dynamics story raised this episode for me to probably my favorite of the season.
Re: Georgiou...I don’t know. I think she genuinely has a soft spot for Michael even if the only reason I think she’d really go to the trouble of setting up that get away is because it did also serve her needs. But I thought that even in the scene in the exam room she was kind of trying to eye message Michael to not believe this guy. In fact, she did that “shake off” thing, just like when Ash caught her cooing at the baby when Leland told her to leave the room. So I actually really do believe Georgiou And not Mr. Take a spa Day you deserve it. I really think Leland may be a slick customer because no matter what she’s thrown at him, he’s never denied her claims. No, I also have no idea where that’s going. But I do not truly believe they are going to have a show with all villains.
Ash is definitely being given short shrift in Season two. I almost feel like he needs to be deconstructed again. Unbecoming who you are seems to be a motif in the season, certainly for Culber and Saru. Maybe it’s just wishful thinking that this has been planned for. We’ll see. If it is maybe you are right that Pike is playing him. Which I hope is true because it may go towards that end. I do feel like something needs to get through to him. Will it be a confrontation with Culber? But yeah. *sigh*. If there is one thing that has saddened me this season is this presentation of Ash since joint 31.
Oh, and am I crazy or is Michael doing pretty much the same thing Spock will do 10 years in the future? defying duty to go to Talos IV and save her brother?
Haha, yes! Right now it looks like we're going to end this season with four violations of General Order 7 with zero enforcement of the only death penalty in the Federation. I suppose it will take the drama out of "The Menagerie" for anyone going to TOS after Discovery, but I love the connection.
You have such a great eye for the physical acting! Georgiou is much more complex than the dialog often suggests, and I'm still really interested in her ulterior motives even if Section 31 seems like the Anti-Hero League of the Federation right now.
Do we know exactly when General order 7 went into effect? I kind of thought maybe this will give us a reason for it because the events of The Cage did not seem to be enough to me to install it.
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This is from "The Menagerie." It's a terrible document because it doesn't even have a date, so technically we don't know when the order was issued. In this episode it seems clear that it happened after the visit in 2254 -- but since there's no date on this, it could be from a second visit in 2257.
@Glenn Jeez. I love how they keep identifying Spock as "half Vulcan". They don't say "Full human Captain Pike"! My eyes are rolling. ;D :D :D It's interesting they don't give a reason. I'm pretty sure they don't verbally either really because I always kind of wondered.
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Yes, I got distracted whilst writing and forgot half the things I wanted to say!
I'm going to find some of that tea for the next Kelpien cocktail we invent, obviously.
Also, I think you are completely right about the two sides in some kind of temporal war. Maybe it's about the spore drive, but I'm kind of hoping it's connected to Enterprise ... even though I never really loved that element of the show.
@Glenn The New Mexico Tea Company makes it. They also have Harcourt's Jipper tea, which I hear is very fruity and VERY blue. I still have to get some of that. This one is very delicate and floral with a bit of lemony flavor. Nice.
So question, at what point in The Menagerie does the Commodore become part of the illusion. He had to be real at some point. They DO go get Pike. So when does the illusion start?
I think he's real the entire time they're on the starbase, but an illusion once they're on the shuttle.
Mar 6, 2019 · Edited: Mar 6, 2019
I thought you all might enjoy a look at this essay that came out today. This is very similar to other posts I've seen around twitter regarding the idea that Spock has a kind of dyslexia. (I wanted to add, I do not find it odd at all that Sarek just assumes it was "taken care of" as opposed to him working through it himself. I love Sarek but he is not the most hands on dad ever. I have also in real life seen this difficulty between husbands and wives on a variety of issue that their children have had. One reason I really appreciated this scene. I also think it was set up well in Lethe that Spock *is* held in quite a lot of prejudice by other Vulcans, not just children and I think we've seen it reflected (rightly or wrongly) through most presentations of Vulcans since TNG. In TOS, we only ever saw Spock and Sarek as representing Vulcan's as far as I can remember. They have their own fair share of hubris and no mistake.) (sorry for the double post!)
http://www.womenatwarp.com/spock-learning-disabilities-and-traumatic-education/
Karen, thanks for sharing this! I was on a panel with the author at an SF con last November and was impressed. I also don't find it difficult to believe that two parents might approach their children (or any other problem) differently -- and that the parent who cares about the problem decides to just handle it on his or her own.
@Glenn And honestly it has always sounded like Sarek was *always* away from home. That's actually why I give him slack about his parenting skills.
@Karen Chuplis Yes, absolutely. I suspect that Amanda just smiles and nods politely when he asks about the kids every two or three months.
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I came across an old interview with Leonard Nimoy in which he compared Pike with Kirk.
"Jeffrey Hunter didn't have the style that Bill Shatner brought to the role of the captain. We wouldn't have had the same chemistry with him.
Bill's aggressive energy made it possible for De Kelley and me to play our roles as a kind of comment on what he was doing - to play off of that.
Jeffrey Hunter was much more internalized and thoughtful in his approach to Captain Pike.
It was a combination of good writing and chemistry between the performers."
Fascinating, especially since Anson Mount is playing Pike in a very different way from Jeffrey Hunter, and this cast does have very good chemistry.
I can see this very much. Although we don't know how they would have developed Pike at that time with his renewed sense of purpose at the end of the Cage.
You know, I saw this brilliant poster Laz Marquez did for this episode and for some reason it reminded me how odd I have always thought it was people always referred to "Spock's Computer" fairly frequently in TOS. Given the new layer added....I could buy that Spock constructed his own operating system to see the world how *he* saw it and almost acting as a translator for some things.
That's a nice retcon! "Spock's Computer" is one of my favorite background details of TOS. It's easy, now, to forget there was a world without computers -- a world in which there would only be one person allowed to touch the computer on the entire ship.
@Glenn and yet, Kirk uses the ship computer a lot, but there are several pointed references to "Spock's computer". Granted a lot of those may have been early on. It still always led me to believe that he had his own special one. They mention it I know as late as "Miri". I realize it *is* a retcon but it kind of makes so much more sense this way.
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My project about the surfers of Tynemouth in the North East of England has been published by the BBC. I am interested in the North East’s spirit and sense of place and how this connected to the surfing in the North Sea. I am also interested in the inclusive nature of surfing in the North East, everyone together.
In Commission, London, Winter
Eudon Choi autumn/winter 2019 in February in London.
In awards, Faroe Islands, news, Winter
Really pleased to announce that my article on the Faroe Islands postal workers made the Chartbeat list of Most Engaged Stories 2018.
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Walthamstow marshes in the winter
Walthamstow marshes in winter. This is part of my ongoing series about nature and survival in London.
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The Faroese Postal workers on the BBC
My work on the Faroese postal workers and the important role they play in connecting both the Faroe Islands and it’s people has been published by the BBC today. Here is the link to the piece if you’d like to read it,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/faroe_islands_postal_service
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Whitstable in winter
Winter in Whitstable in Kent. Pirate flags, bucket and spades and oyster shells.
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Ffynnon Llugwy
Out on the hills in North Wales with my mates in winter. Ffynnon Llugwy, looking like a heart, in the Ogwen Valley in Snowdonia in North Wales.
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River crossing school commute
Teenager on the Gravesend to Tilbury ferry on the Thames estuary. I remember he told me he had a really long commute to school, two hours each way. Part of which involved crossing the River Thames.
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River Lea near Edmonton.
I spent some time walking the waterways out of London or on the fringes, especially in winter and was particularly interested in the deep waters around industry and the way trees, birds and fish responded. There is something dark about these places even on the brightest of days. This photograph is included in my series ‘The Current’.
It makes me think of the pike in the river along this stretch and I was thinking then of Ted Hughes’s poem Pike.
Pike, three inches long, perfect
Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold.
Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.
They dance on the surface among the flies.
Or move, stunned by their own grandeur,
Over a bed of emerald, silhouette
Of submarine delicacy and horror.
A hundred feet long in their world.
In ponds, under the heat-struck lily pads-
Gloom of their stillness:
Logged on last year’s black leaves, watching upwards.
Or hung in an amber cavern of weeds
The jaws’ hooked clamp and fangs
Not to be changed at this date:
A life subdued to its instrument;
The gills kneading quietly, and the pectorals.
Three we kept behind glass,
Jungled in weed: three inches, four,
And four and a half: fed fry to them-
Suddenly there were two. Finally one
With a sag belly and the grin it was born with.
And indeed they spare nobody.
Two, six pounds each, over two feet long
High and dry and dead in the willow-herb-
One jammed past its gills down the other’s gullet:
The outside eye stared: as a vice locks-
The same iron in this eye
Though its film shrank in death.
A pond I fished, fifty yards across,
Whose lilies and muscular tench
Had outlasted every visible stone
Of the monastery that planted them-
Stilled legendary depth:
It was as deep as England. It held
Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old
That past nightfall I dared not cast
But silently cast and fished
With the hair frozen on my head
For what might move, for what eye might move.
The still splashes on the dark pond,
Owls hushing the floating woods
Frail on my ear against the dream
Darkness beneath night’s darkness had freed,
That rose slowly toward me, watching.
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A woman from Finland at the docks in Estonia walking her two hounds. It was winter and when she stopped people would gather around the wolfhound.
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Eydun hearding his sheep in the winter in the Faroes.
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Red seaweed in the postman’s home town.
The night before we’d driven along the coast road. I could hear the waves but couldn’t see a thing, all the same I felt like we were near the edge of something. When we arrived at his house there was short run through the rain from our van, a blue postal service issue. Entering through the cellar we took off our shoes and left them damp amongst the wellies, waterproofs and toys left by the grandkids. In the middle of the basement floor lay a the local newspaper, spread out like a blanket, it cradled about 20 purple potatoes, raw and precious like something usually kept form the light.
After dinner, lamb I remember, the old postman wondered off. I thought he’d gone to the living room but after calling his name and then seeing a light on in a small farm building from the kitchen window, his wife said he’d gone to feed the animals. The storm raged, and the rain battered the house on all sides. Though as the night wore on the sky became more clear. I headed out of the house, over a brook and up to the out building were the old man kept some sheep. Inside 5 or so rams shuddered. I was new here. A sink had been plumbed into the front part of the building and a plastic bucket that once held feed was now filled with rams horns sat like mussels waiting to be washed. ‘They’re used for ornaments’ he said before I could ask.
I stepped out into the night sky and looked up at her great body. It was hard to hold a steady viewing position with the wind blowing so hard. I could hear the waves hitting the beach and I knew they were close. That night, fast asleep, I’d walked into the bathroom at the postmans home. I remembered for a split second in the morning between reaching for the toast how I’d stood looking out of a rectangular window in the dark and imagining I was watching a scene playout from backhome, when in fact I was staring into the dark of the sea.
In the morning I could see where we were. It didn’t look so threatening. The storm had blown itself out and I pulled on my waterproof. As I left a young girl from the village arrived at the door. She’d come to have her hair cut by the old postman’s wife and I was shown the salon he’d built for her that linked to the basement near the wellies, the toys and the spuds.
I’d drank a lot of coffee and this heightened the moment I stepped out and felt the sea air on my face. I walked some 200 yards to the beach and was a little worried about standing on its black and beige mixed sand, it still looked charged from the previous night. A tree trunk had been washed up, for some reason part of it had been burnt. It started to rain again. I craned my neck backwards towards land, I wanted to get off the beach and so joined the road out the village. After ten minutes I walked out along a headland, an old lady watched me from the first floor window of her yellow corrugated iron clad house, but when I looked back she’d turned away. Although it was mid morning she sat by her window with the tabel light on. It was winter, but maybe she always did this.
Passing a boatshed I arrived at the small harbour, built to shelter the local fishing boats. The sea was dead calm, the kind which looks as though it is capable of unimaginable strength, in fact more like a kind of torque. The habour was empty of boats and along it’s concrete walls lay bunches of red seaweed thrown from the sea during the storm. All around it lay like an offering, a gift from the sea. At first I thought of flowers thrown but it wasn’t like this, it was more like pollen that had missed its target.
I sat there for a bit, took a photograph. I was told not to go down there when the weather was bad, the waves run right over taking whatever they want back into the sea. It was time to go to the next village. I walked back along the headland to the house and the grey waves rolled past, and the black beach waited to be hit. The house came into view. The postman’s dog sat under a street light in a light rain shower looking out to sea, a light went off in a home and the girl with her new hair drove across the valley to her young children.
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Boats wrapped up in Sweden in autumn.
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Wales in winter
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Crook Primary School
Find out how Crook Primary School rates compared to other primary schools in County Durham with our school ratings
Here Crook Primary School, Croft Avenue, Crook, DL15 8QG, is put into focus to show its scores in relation to other schools in the area.
Croft Avenue, Crook, DL15 8QG
The open date and status above indicate when Crook Primary School opened or when it changed to its most recent incarnation, with a number of schools converting to academies in recent years. Where schools have changed type recently, data for previous years covering their previous incarnation is included below as well - so a school may have a status of New due to converting to an academy but have data for previous years prior to conversion.
What type of school is Crook Primary School?
Overall Score 31.7 37.9 39 46.6
England Rank 14,166 11,800 10,714 8,124
Local Rank 185 156 147 135
How Crook Primary School scores on each indicator.
Crook Primary School has been rated as Good at its most recent Ofsted inspection.
How does Crook Primary School perform on each of the areas inspected by Ofsted? As of September 2012, a score of 3 changed from indicating Satisfactory to Requires Improvement.
In 2019, 43% of pupils at Crook Primary School reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.
How have pupils at Crook Primary School done in assessments at the end of Key Stage 2 and how does it compare to local authority and national averages?
While pupils are generally aiming to be working at the expected level in reading, writing and maths, what proportion of children at Crook Primary School had a high score in reading and maths and were working at greater depth in writing, and how does this compare to performance at local and national level?
How do children at Crook Primary School with different levels of attainment at Key Stage 1 and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds perform in terms of reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths?
How does the % of boys and girls at Crook Primary School achieving the expected standard in reading, writing and maths compare to the national average?
What is the pupil:teacher ratio at Crook Primary School and how does it compare to the national average?
At Crook Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in maths in 2019 that was -4.1 compared to the national average of 0.
At Crook Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in reading in 2019 that was -5.5 compared to the national average of 0.
At Crook Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in writing in 2019 that was -1.6 compared to the national average of 0.
In 2017/18, the most recent full school year, 4% of half-day sessions were missed by pupils at Crook Primary School. Nationally, primary school pupils missed 4% of half-day sessions.
What is the total school spend per pupil at Crook Primary School compared to the local average? (school is in blue)
How much does Crook Primary School spend per pupil on teachers and educational support staff and how does this compare to the average spending across County Durham?
What percentage of the budget at Crook Primary School is spent on supply staff?
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Peter Beardsley
Newcastle United legend Peter Beardsley impressed by teenage striker Tom Heardman
Peter Beardsley sings the praises of Tom Heardman, who is Newcastle's next cab off the rank in the striking department
Lee RyderChief Newcastle United Writer
Tom Heardman in action for Newcastle United against Morpeth Town
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Peter Beardsley has applauded the efforts of young reserve team striker Tom Heardman with the teenager one of the success stories of the season in the second string for Newcastle United this term.
As reported in the Chronicle earlier this week the 19-year-old Gosforth lad could be handed an extension to his contract as United look to build for the future. The 6ft 4in centre-forward has been in good form for the second string this term.
And he has impressed United legend Beardsley, who told the Chronicle: “He has a decent record of scoring goals for us. He’s a very genuine boy.”
United’s youngsters were recently humbled by Morpeth Town in the Northumberland Senior Cup but the bustling striker was one of the few reserve team players who coped with the physical nature of a clash with the Northern League side, netting a tidy strike.
Beardsley scored 119 goals for the Magpies during his illustrious career. He admitted he was impressed by Heardman’s finishing.
Heardman netted a deft chip against Morpeth and Beardsley added: “It was a brilliant finish.
“The keeper got caught in no man’s land but Tom scored a top class finish.”
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Movies vs TV: 3 Reasons Why Movies are Fighting a Losing Battle
Well, did you ever see this coming?
The downfall (or at least steady decline) of the movie industry? With Hollywood’s A-listers falling from grace left right and centre, TV was bound to take centre stage at some point but why? What does TV now have that Hollywood is steadily losing… apart from their actors staying off of the journalistic hit list?
It’s pretty simply really; quality screening.
Round 1: TV Has a Longer Life Span
The first, and most blaringly obvious issue Hollywood is facing is movie time. It’s perfectly acceptable to sit through a 2hr or so long film with a box of popcorn and a good ol’ drink. This short time span, however, isn’t long enough to give a character or a plot the time the deserve to change and grow.
Stand aside movies, TV has this. Long running series have enabled writers to delve into a character and bring them to life in an engaging and heart wrenching way. Just look at Coronation Street or EastEnders!
Round 2: TV is Original
How many times have you seen a movie trailer recently and recognised the story plot, the characters or… well the entire movie? Hollywood seems to have forgotten that spin offs and remakes can only last so long before they ruin a perfectly original story in their quest for more publicity.
Enter TV! Unafraid to face the fans with new, refreshing, original plots and story lines, TV seems to be the only form of on screen entertainment worth sitting down to!
Round 3: TV is Flexible
Whilst the movie industry is focused on creating films set in one particular genre to hit target audiences, TV is far more flexible. Unrestrained by the laws of genre, TV is far more capable of swiftly traversing the genre range. Breaking Bad and Supernatural, for instance, have the capability of flicking between episodes that have you in stitches to episodes that propel you to the edge of your seat. Now how many movies in the past couple years have been able to do that to you?
Quality screening, as you can see, doesn’t just mean the aesthetical appearance of a film, but the contents of it as well. While we can’t guarantee to make your home films Hollywood *ahem* TV famous, we can transfer your stunning 8mm film to DVD. So, while you may lose some faith in the big screen, there’s nothing stopping you from enjoying your own, original and treasured home movies for years to come.
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Reptile invasion: Florida agency encourages killing iguanas
by: CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press
FILE – In this June 24, 2018, file photo, iguanas gather on a seawall in the Three Islands neighborhood of Hallandale Beach, Fla. Non-native iguanas are multiplying so rapidly in South Florida that a state wildlife agency is now encouraging people to kill them. A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission news release says people should exterminate the large green lizards on their properties as well as on 22 public lands areas across South Florida. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Non-native iguanas are multiplying so rapidly in South Florida that a state wildlife agency is now encouraging people to kill them.
A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission news release says people should exterminate the large green lizards on their properties as well as on 22 public land areas across South Florida. It doesn’t say just how civilians should try to kill them.
“Homeowners do not need a permit to kill iguanas on their own property, and the FWC encourages homeowners to kill green iguanas on their own property whenever possible,” the agency says.
Iguanas aren’t dangerous or aggressive to humans, but they damage seawalls, sidewalks, landscape foliage and can dig lengthy tunnels. The males can grow to at least 5 feet (1.5 meters) long and weigh nearly 20 pounds (9 kilograms).
The commission says female iguanas can lay nearly 80 eggs a year and South Florida’s warm climate is perfect for the prehistoric-looking animals. Iguanas are native to Central America, tropical parts of South America and some Caribbean islands.
“Some green iguanas cause damage to infrastructure by digging burrows that erode and collapse sidewalks, foundations, seawalls, berms and canal banks. Green iguanas may also leave droppings on docks, moored boats, seawalls, porches, decks, pool platforms and inside swimming pools,” the wildlife commission says.
They also can carry salmonella bacteria.
Like other non-native species, authorities say iguanas brought to Florida as pets or hitchhiking on ships have begun to flourish in the state. Another invasive species, the Burmese python, is wreaking havoc in the Everglades because the big snakes eat almost anything and have no natural predators in the U.S. save for the occasional alligator.
Iguanas are allowed to be kept as pets in Florida but are not protected by any law except anti-cruelty to animals, according to the commission. They’ve been in South Florida since the 1960s, but their numbers have increased dramatically in recent years.
Some have been reported in northern parts of Florida, but because they do poorly in colder weather their spread is somewhat more limited there, the commission says. During cold snaps, including in South Florida, iguanas will frequently drop from trees and appear dead, but left alone they will revive.
Iguana owners who can no longer care for their pets are encouraged by the wildlife commission to surrender them to the agency under an Exotic Pet Amnesty Program that lines up the animals with people willing to adopt them.
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by EDDIE PELLS, Associated Press / Jan 19, 2020
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Tristram Hunt makes his Great Escape – leaving Stoke-on-Trent Central up for grabs
By Mark Wallace
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The Labour exodus continues, with Tristram Hunt’s decision to quit Parliament to become director of the V&A. As I wrote last year:
“Younger, relatively sensible Labour MPs, who want to do something with the next ten years of their lives other than kowtow to Seumas Milne and pray by their bedside that Momentum don’t deselect them, are looking for ways out of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Some will no doubt have considered a move to the large pay packets and comfortable chairs of boardroom life, but most would prefer something that allows them to maintain a political career..”
Like Jamie Reed before him, Hunt has opted for the boardroom escape tunnel from Stalag Corbyn. While the Copeland MP flees to the safety of nuclear power to escape the toxic environment of the PLP, Stoke-on-Trent Central’s fugitive is swapping the dusty relics of Corbyn’s hard left for the much better-preserved relics of the museum world.
It isn’t hugely surprising – indeed, for months Hunt has been my example of choice when talking about Labour MPs who might see no point in carrying on. It’s not his background that’s the problem (as the clutch of public schoolboys around Corbyn shows), it’s his views – he is one of many Labour MPs who aren’t reconciled to Corbynism, and there’s no prospect of him becoming so. What prospects are there for someone of Hunt’s views to do anything beyond sulk on the backbenches in the modern Labour Party? He evidently feels that he has better things to do than be ignored as part of a failing Opposition, and a by-election is his last chance to demonstrate the flaws in Corbyn’s approach.
However, Hunt’s departure is due to more factors than simply his fundamental disagreement with everything his leader stands for. Other factors will have played a part in his mounting feeling that there is no benefit in continuing as a Labour MP.
The referendum looms large. Hunt was an instinctive Remainer, who made a forlorn cameo appearance in John Harris’s excellent film on the campaign in Stoke, only for his seat to vote 65 per cent Leave (according to Chris Hanretty’s constituency estimates). For an MP who already wasn’t exactly embedded in the heart of the core Labour vote, that was a troubling disagreement. To his credit, he conducted a serious inquiry into exactly why his consituents voted Leave and appears to have concluded that the gulf between them and him would be very hard to bridge.
It’s also important to remember that Stoke’s local Labour politics are bitter to a degree that is unusual even in the modern, disunited Labour Party. His constituency neighbour, Ruth Smeeth, has been the target of much Corbynite loathing since her leader failed to defend her from an anti-semitic attack in his own press conference on anti-semitism. Hunt himself has had to engage in regular internal arguments with his local branch of Momentum.
With his own local party split, his leader charging off in a direction with which he cannot agree and his voters piled up against him in the EU referendum, it’s easy to see why life in charge of the V&A sounded preferable.
The question is now what will happen in the by-election. Hunt’s majority was only 5,179 votes at the last election – a low turnout making his 39 per cent vote share seem larger than it really is. UKIP and the Conservatives were neck and neck for second place, with the purple peril ahead by 33 votes. Either could be in contention with the right candidate and campaign, and both May and Nuttall will see the seat as a testing ground for their new messages. While the Liberal Democrats were in a distant fifth place, on four per cent of the vote, Farron’s positioning might be sufficient to do damage to Labour’s majority by diverting those Remainers who are still upset about the referendum outcome.
Tory and UKIP eyes won’t be the only ones on the result. Other Labour MPs will be considering whether and how to make their own home run escape from the Parliamentary Labour Party. As Matt Hancock tweeted, just about straight-faced, this morning when announcing Hunt’s new job: “Delighted to confirm @TristramHuntMP will take on @V_and_A. There are many roles in British public life for talented people from all sides.”
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The Quiet Man finds his voice and his mission
Robert Halfon: I’ve been told that, if Corbyn wins, the Conservative Party and I will be sued for negligence
WATCH: Cameron – “Is the cause of a modern, compassionate Conservative Party lost? Absolutely not.”
Robert Halfon: Under our new leader, we must prize social justice above social mobility
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Earlier this week Iain Duncan Smith was given the social justice prize at the ConservativeHome awards. He received an overwhelming majority of votes from the ConservativeHome readers who decided the prizewinners.
It is also good to see that people outside of the Conservative Party are now giving Iain the recognition that he deserves. Today’s Times carries an extended interview with the former Tory leader. Helen Rumbelow and Alice Miles give IDS a lot of room to explain his compassionate conservatism and conclude:
"Being
deposed does funny things to a politician: they are bored, many get
depressed, some go mad. Mr Duncan Smith went back to Gallowgate and
Easterhouse, was inspired to found his Centre for Social Justice and
dedicated his life to helping the poorest in Britain."
On 29th June 2004 Ben Brogan, then still at The Telegraph, penned a sketch about IDS’ launch of the CSJ. I found Ben’s words a huge encouragement at the time (Declaration of Interest – I helped Iain found the Centre) and Iain is certainly beginning to show that a "strong idea" is, indeed, more powerful than a concrete monument. This is what Ben wrote:
"Iain Duncan Smith popped up yesterday to unveil a memorial to his brief leadership of the Conservative party. Seven months on from his forced removal, his followers gathered for a ceremony to open what they hope will be a monument to his legacy. It’s a south London thinktank. Former American presidents get lavishly endowed libraries charting every minute of their administration; French presidents build themselves glass pyramids, wonky opera houses and national libraries that leak; in the heart of the African jungle there is an empty cathedral bigger than St Peter’s built by a now-dead dictator. On that basis Mr Duncan Smith might have hoped for a bit more than an office next to Lambeth Tube station… {But] it was his message – that politicians can no longer afford to ignore communities racked by alcohol and drug abuse – that mattered to his audience. They know, as Westminster may be about to discover, that a strong idea coupled with dogged enthusiasm will achieve more than a plaque, a portrait, or a glistening library.”
Related Times link: "David Cameron, most of the Shadow Cabinet and the majority of backbench Conservative MPs are to improve their understanding of social exclusion by spending a week with homeless people, drug addicts, alcoholics, HIV sufferers and victims of sexual abuse." Also see Ed Vaizey’s diary of his time at a homeless shelter.
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Wild turkeys terrorize Florida senior community
By Kim Miller kmiller@palmbeachpost.com
Jul 25, 2019 at 3:37 PM Jul 25, 2019 at 3:37 PM
Wild turkeys terrorized a Central Florida senior community this spring, charging octogenarians using walkers, chasing golf carts and cornering residents in their garages, according to law enforcement reports and resident accounts of the months-long bird assault.
The harassment turned deadly serious in March when a resident of the 120-home Wedgewood Manor neighborhood in Zephyrhills fell and broke his hip after being chased by two turkeys while walking. Slashes from the turkey’s razor-sharp talons caused significant blood loss that, combined with the hip injury, left the man in the hospital and recovery for three months, said Bob Dunkle, vice president of the homeowners association.
“He was laying there 10 minutes or so before someone found him,” Dunkle said. “Turkeys can be scary and some of the people here are in their 90s. Having a turkey run up to you when you are getting out of your car is frightening.”
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers visited the community at least twice, including in late May when Dunkle called to inquire about trapping or killing turkeys that continued to bully residents.
“Residents recounted turkeys in front yards prohibiting people from exiting dwellings, residents having to run to cars or into homes as turkeys approached, turkeys chasing vehicles and golf carts and attacking cars,” an FWC report notes. “A Chihuahua on a nearby street is said to be the only thing the turkeys fear and when he runs after them, turkeys leave the area.”
Zephyrhills is in a hunting zone that allows turkey taking during the fall and winter, according to the FWC’s website.
Dunkle said he was told turkeys couldn’t even be trapped until hunting season.
Instead, he said FWC recommended “hazing” the turkeys. Hazing includes chasing the turkeys, waving your arms, clapping your hands, spraying with a “strong water jet from a hose,” and opening a large umbrella while facing them.
Also recommended is waving or swatting at them with a broom, as long as you don’t touch them, and allowing a “large dog on a leash to bark and scare them.”
“The thing about our residents trying to haze them with an umbrella or garden hose is they can’t just run around the corner to get their hose when they’re using canes and walkers, so it was more difficult for us to deal with,” Dunkle said.
Wedgewood Manor resident Terry Narum said he was disappointed with FWC’s response.
“We are talking about a life or death situation,” Narum said. “My kids raised turkeys for 4H projects. They can be vicious.”
FWC did assign volunteers to haze the turkeys. They visited the community at least five times.
“I felt like they put a lot of effort into helping us,” Dunkle said about FWC.
There is a suspicion someone was feeding the turkeys, which can make them lose their natural fear of people and cause them to act aggressively.
According to FWC, wild turkeys can become a public safety concern because of they have powerful wings, have sharp spurs and can weigh more than 20 pounds. Once aggressive behavior is established, it’s difficult to change, according to FWC.
Dunkle said the aggression from the turkeys has subsided, but that the community is still considering hiring trappers in the fall when season opens.
“I don’t think anyone in our development of 120 houses thinks anything but that this will start up again next year,” Narum said.
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Tragedy Averted at Pipeline
On January 10, 2020 January 10, 2020
After two close calls on North Shore, importance of water safety training couldn’t be more apparent
By Jake Howard
As champagne corks were flying and trophies were being hoisted at the end of a successful season of the WSL Championship Tour, the jubilant atmosphere on the beach at Pipeline quickly morphed into concern, as an emergency rescue was taking place in the water.
Eleven-time world champion Kelly Slater was on stage receiving his Triple Crown trophy when he halted the proceedings.
“We have a rescue going on,” Slater announced into the microphone.
With the Billabong Pipe Masters having just concluded, the ensuing free surf session nearly ended in tragedy as 13-year-old San Clemente surfer Hayden Rodgers suffered a serious wipeout. Reportedly going over the falls and hitting his head on the reef, he was held underwater for two waves.
Hawaiian Water Patrol legends Terry Ahue, Brian Keaulana and his son, Chad, were on the scene, as were city and county lifeguards and a number of young surfers who have recently undergone training by the Big Wave Risk Assessment Group (BWRAG)—a program co-founded by Keaulana that teaches water safety, lifeguard and rescue techniques for situations just like this.
Using hand signals taught in the course, these young surfers were able to help Ahue and Keaulana locate and retrieve Rodgers’ body underwater.
“We had just started heading back and saw that the contest was over, the competition buoys were in. Terry and I are always scanning the shoreline,” Keaulana told the WSL. “I don’t know how many times after Pipe we’ve had the same scenario happen, and it was just that same feeling yesterday . . . driving along, scanning the shoreline and the lineup.”
After Rodgers was brought to the beach, lifeguards immediately assessed his condition. He was reportedly breathing but had suffered lacerations and abrasions to his face. He was then taken to Queen’s Medical Center for treatment. Rodgers is now back home and is expected to make a full recovery.
“There were two kids who probably went to a BWRAG course because we teach this technique: they had one hand straight up and one pointing in the direction of where to go, and that’s what sent me straight to where the kid was,” Keaulana explained. “Everybody played a part. The parts made up the whole.”
Then, less than two weeks later, on New Year’s Eve, tragedy almost struck at Pipeline again when big-wave icon Kohl Christensen went down on a big, second reef wave and suffered a near-fatal head injury.
Just as they had a couple of weeks ago when they saved Rodgers, the North Shore lifeguards responded heroically.
Suffering a fractured skull and serious lacerations to his head, Christensen was rushed to Queen’s, where he underwent emergency surgery. After five days in the hospital, he has been discharged and is expected to make a full recovery.
“Dec. 31, 2019 would have been my departure from the physical world. My last cognitive interaction with my wife, daughters, family, friends and world. If not for the immediate response by my rescuers,” Christensen wrote on Instagram last weekend. “The prayers and love that flooded in the day of the accident and continue to come are the reason I am still here. Thank you. My reflection on all of this begins. An abyss I can barely begin to fathom. I am aware and present. Motor skills intact. Feeling fortunate, blessed and so very grateful. Let the healing process begin.”
When his friend Sion Milosky drowned surfing Maverick’s in 2011, Christensen held a small gathering at his North Shore farm. Recognizing the need for more safety training and precautions as the limits of big-wave surfing were expanding by leaps and bounds, this meeting was the beginning of the Big Wave Risk Assessment Group.
Today, BWRAG is led by Christensen, Keaulana and a handful of others, including San Clemente’s Greg Long. Through their training sessions and summits, BWRAG’s influence is responsible for saving numerous lives.
Over the past couple of years, the Gudauskas brothers’ Positive Vibe Warriors Foundation has been providing scholarship opportunities for BWRAG training to up-and-coming big-wave surfers.
One of the scholarship recipients, who’d been trained in CPR, was able to save his grandfather’s life last year when he suffered a medical emergency.
Both incidents highlight the dangers of surfing Pipeline, as well as the importance of water safety training. When we enter the ocean as surfers, the importance of having the knowledge and ability to save a life should the situation arise cannot be overstated.
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The Partner Bubble: Why An Outdated Channel View Is Hobbling AWS
An outdated channel view is preventing AWS from building the next-generation Web services that could power more business-class customers to move to the Amazon cloud.
By Steven Burke December 12, 2014, 01:45 PM EST
Amazon is missing out on a big chunk of the enterprise-class data center market largely because it has failed to look beyond the narrow confines of the born-in-the-cloud partners that have been built from the ground up to join forces with the Web services giant.
Amazon is stepping up its partnership with those born-in-the-cloud existing partners with its just-launched AWS Managed Service Program. The problem with the program is that it ignores the thousands and thousands of elite enterprise data center partners and MSPs that are driving the next-generation data center strategies at the vast majority of businesses of all sizes.
Ironically, Amazon declared with the launch of the program that it simply does not have enough partners in the ecosystem that really understand and can deliver cloud managed services. "We're really focused on the customer, and they're telling us they need more partners with AWS managed services capability," said Terry Wise, director of the AWS worldwide partner ecosystem, in an interview with CRN. "We need more partners that can deploy SAP effectively on AWS, and partners that know digital marketing and the Internet of Things. So it's really driven by the customer — that's why you're seeing us invest more."
[Related: The Final Cut: Moving Beyond The Managed Service Provider Model]
These kinds of partners are not hard to find; just ask SAP, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco or any number of other vendors with solid channel programs. Cisco launched its first managed services program nearly nine years ago. And if Amazon wants a view of just how powerful the Cisco model is, it should look no further than NWN, No. 81 on the CRN Solution Provider 500 list, which is besting telecom giants with Cisco cloud-based communications managed services offerings.
Amazon has not discovered companies like NWN because of its complete lack of understanding around the managed services/trusted adviser model that has been in place since the start of the 21st century. The company, in fact, seems to look at legacy solution providers as resellers — a view pulled right out of the late 20th century.
Amazon's antiquated channel stance is dooming its managed services program from being anything other than an add-on for born-in-the-cloud providers already working closely with the company. But its myopic view of the channel is not only affecting its partner strategy, it is preventing it from building the next-generation Web services that could power more business-class customers to move to the Amazon cloud.
No one has a deeper knowledge of the complexity of the legacy hardware and software environments of enterprise customers than today's solution providers. They know the pain points — practical and political — that are holding back cloud strategies.
Amazon has been built from the ground up as the swipe-your-credit-card Web services cloud provider. Customers looking for a trusted adviser should beware.
Amazon will allow you to plug into its cloud computing grid if — and only if — you are willing to play by its rules. In other words, you can have it any way you want it as long as it is the Amazon way.
The same rules apply to partners. That's too bad because a more modern view of the channel would benefit Amazon, the channel and customers.
BackTalk: Do you want to get an MSP monkey off your back? Let me know. Contact Steven Burke at sburke@thechannelcompany.com.
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It's so cold in some parts of Canada that records were broken this weekend
Adam Ward CTVNews.ca Producer
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Published Sunday, November 17, 2019 12:58PM EST Last Updated Monday, November 18, 2019 4:25AM EST
TORONTO -- The deep chill that has settled in across parts of Canada has already shattered some cold-weather records – and we’re still more than a month away from the official start of winter.
According to summaries released by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) on Sunday, the community of Moose Creek, Ont., which is located about 71 kilometres east of Ottawa, recorded a temperature of -20.9 C on Sunday.
The dramatic drop in temperature broke the previous record for Nov. 17, which came in at -8.8 C in 2017. It’s worth noting that ECCC has only been keeping records for the community since 2003.
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The Ontario village is not alone in breaking temperature records. The nation’s capital, as reported by CTV News Ottawa, has been breaking records all week. On Sunday, an overnight low of -13.9 C broke the 1980 record for Nov. 17. Similar records were broken on Saturday, Wednesday and Tuesday.
In fact, areas in and around the Ottawa Valley also made it onto Environment and Climate Change Canada’s list of new records on Sunday. This includes the communities of Bancroft, Kemptville, Pembroke and Trenton.
However, the chilly temperatures extend further south and out of the province. Kingston, Peterborough and parts of Muskoka (known to many as Ontario’s cottage country) also broke records for Nov. 17.
Parts of New Brunswick saw cold weather records also broken Saturday. The areas of Grand Manan and Edmunston set new temperature records for Nov. 16.
IS THIS A GLIMPSE OF WHAT’S TO COME?
While Environment and Climate Change Canada has yet to release its winter outlook, U.S.-based AccuWeather did so last month.
Its forecast predicts a chilly future for much of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, stating that the two provinces should expect the strongest surge of arctic air.
British Columbia will see a lack of cold and drier conditions compared to the rest of the country, while Alberta can expect a windy winter, the forecaster predicts.
Here's what the Farmers' Almanac predicted for the winter in August
AccuWeather believes Ontario and Quebec will see the most snow, while Atlantic Canada will see a fairly mild winter due to a southwesterly flow of air.
It’s yet to be seen whether the other major weather forecasters will have similar outlooks for the country, but we won’t have to wait long to find out.
The Weather Network is preparing to release its winter forecast on Monday.
People walk in Chinatown during a cold and windy day in Toronto on Thursday, January 10, 2019. The city declared an extreme cold alert. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Incurable deer-killing disease spreading across North America
Ryan Flanagan CTVNews.ca Published Sunday, February 17, 2019 1:31PM EST
Deer walk in a field near Bismarck, N.D. in an April 19, 2012 file photo. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/APBrian Gehring/Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)
A deadly disease with no known cure is killing deer in dozens of states and multiple provinces.
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) affects the central nervous system of deer and related animals, such as moose and caribou. It is believed to be responsible for population declines among certain deer and elk.
Animals suffering from CWD may develop symptoms including lack of co-ordination, unusual behaviour, excessive production of bodily fluids and severe weight loss. Their bodies continue to deteriorate, and the animals die within weeks or months.
The disease can spread between animals through saliva, feces or urine. In one case, hamsters became infected after consuming plants which grew in CWD-contaminated soil.
No evidence has been found to suggest that affected animals can pass the disease on to humans, although authorities do recommend that humans not consume affected animals as a precaution.
Because of its ability to put deer populations into decline, CWD has been called “one of the biggest issues deer hunters and managers are facing today” by the Quality Deer Management Association.
The magnitude of the threat it represents has led to conservation authorities spending significant time and resources to curtail CWD, despite its slow spread through North America.
The disease was first discovered in 1967 in Colorado. Its presence has grown significantly in the past 15 years. Wild animals have tested positive for the disease in 24 states, as have captive animals. Infection rates in some wild herds have been reported to be as high as one in four.
In Canada, six cases of CWD were found in 2018. Authorities found that the disease had infected three elk herds and one group of deer in Saskatchewan, as well as an elk herd in Alberta.
More concerning was the discovery last September of CWD on a red deer farm in western Quebec, suggesting for the first time that the disease had become a threat to animals in Eastern Canada.
Canadian authorities discover about five infected herds per year, with the vast majority of diagnoses being made in Saskatchewan, where the disease was first spotted in Canadian wildlife in 1996.
Deer populations are tested for the disease in provinces where CWD has yet to be discovered, and some provinces have rules banning the importation of deer carcasses from jurisdictions where CWD is known to occur.
The disease has also been found in Norway, Finland and South Korea.
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"Quantum of Solace" James Bond's Aston Martin DBS
All other cars would feel as sad disappointment, once you drive this beauty
London-based photographer Mark Obstfeld, a friend of our site, shares with us his experience of taking James Bond's latest supercar for a spin.
Aston Martin and James Bond have come a long way together. Here are the worthy predecessors: Aston Martin DB5 from "Goldfinger" and 1986 V8 Vantage Volante from "The Living Daylights" (Bond cars routinely get equipped with missile launchers, rockets, hubcap-concealed laser, retractable tire spikes, dual machine guns, radars, revolving license plates, oil slicks, smoke screens, and of course bullet proof windshields... the only thing they can't do is to serve a shaken martini.)
(images credit: Martin Hidinger and Lennart Guldbrandsson)
"Quantum of Solace" James Bond's Aston Martin DBS V12
Here is the vehicle with the attached camera set-up:
(image credit: MotorTrend)
Mark says: "I was offered the chance to drive James Bond's Aston Martin (minus rocket launchers or ejector seats) - as you know, this car gets trashed in "Quantum of Solace". According to the guy at the Aston Martin headquarters in a place called Gaydon, near Stratford Upon Avon, there were 7 cars - 4 were destroyed during filming, one was auctioned for charity, one belongs to the production company, and the final one belongs to Aston Martin:
The £160,000 car was an absolute beauty on the winding country roads of the Midlands, and we took it up to about 100mph down some little lanes, which was pretty hairy, as you couldn't see what was coming...
I found the clutch biting point and... 0-60mph in 4.2 seconds the publicity blurb says. Not sure I managed that, but I did hit 93 at one point, the engine sounding like a dream. Fifteen minutes of driving heaven left me in love. But love has a tough price - if in the future I ever own a car, it will only ever be a sad disappointment compared to James Bond's Aston Martin DBS"
Is this just our imagination, but the engine on the right looks positively happy (a hint of a smile there?) -
(all photos credit and copyright: Mark Obstfeld)
Price: $293.400
Engine: 6-litre, V12
Max speed: 307 km/h
Fuel consumption: 16.4 lt / 100km
You might not be able to purchase this particular DBS... but you might end up lucky in some other way - like the driver and the humble car in this picture:
(image credit: Paul Nicklen, National Geographic)
Also Read: "Most Sensuous Car Shapes Ever Designed"
Glyn said...
So the guy admits to driving at 90MPH on a country road.... where he couldnt see what was coming???
Where are the speed cameras when you need them??
Lamberto said...
blah blah blah....
envious?
no quite the same, but I did a driving experience in the new Aston Martin V8 Vantage at Thruxton, which was amazing - felt like bond for half a day as least! cehck out the company here www.thruxtonracing.co.uk
why the car has a fake italian plate?
mark o said...
cos in the movie, the chase is set in italy- rent the movie (its out now) and check the license plate- same plates.
and Glyn- what do you think motoring journalists DO when they're given a fast car??? ever heard of Jeremy Clarkson?
Yeah ... But i got put in hospital for 5 weeks with some kids doing the same thing... only difference was it was a BMW, that ran me off the road!!
It's technically amazing, but what a bland-looking car. A watered-down Aston Martin for a watered-down Bond.
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Students charged with shouting racial slurs sue UConn
HARTFORD, CONN. —
Two University of Connecticut students arrested for shouting a racial slur outside a campus apartment complex sued the school Tuesday, citing free speech rights as they fight officials' attempts to remove them from school housing.
Jarred Karal, of Plainville, and Ryan Mucaj, of Granby, both 21, filed the lawsuit in federal court, seeing undisclosed damages and a halt to disciplinary proceedings against them.
The two students say the school is violating their First Amendment rights by bringing disciplinary hearings that have included a recommendation to remove them from student housing for violating a “disruptive behavior” policy. The proceedings remain pending.
They also allege school officials are violating the terms of a 1990 federal consent decree issued in another UConn student free speech case that bars the school from enforcing policies that interfere with First Amendment rights, when the speech doesn't involve violence or the threat of violence.
UConn spokeswoman Stephanie Reitz said the school does not comment on pending litigation.
The students' lawyer, Mario Cerame, also declined to comment.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a group that defends the rights of college students and faculty, agrees with the lawsuit, saying public institutions cannot punish protected speech.
“As the Supreme Court explained long ago, 'the State has no right to cleanse public debate to the point where it is grammatically palatable to the most squeamish among us' — by penalizing the use of particular words directed at nobody in particular,” the group said in a statement.
Police said Karal and Mucaj said the racial slur several times while walking with a third student through the parking lot of UConn’s Charter Oak Apartments complex on Oct. 11. Karal and Mucaj are white. The third student was not charged.
It was recorded on video by a black student and led to campus protests against racism. Free speech advocates said that while the slur is offensive, uttering it is not criminal.
Karal told police the group was playing a game in which they would yell an offensive word, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. The first person who refuses to say the word loses, he said. They decided to change the game to shouting the racial epithet, he said.
Karal and Mucaj were charged with ridicule on account of creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race, a misdemeanor. Karal was granted a probation program that could result in the charge being dismissed. The case against Mucaj is pending.
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HomeNewsNEWS: Touché Amoré begin work on follow-up to ‘Is Survived By’!
NEWS: Touché Amoré begin work on follow-up to ‘Is Survived By’!
February 3, 2016 Zach Redrup News 0
Having announced that they’d go on a break back towards the tail-end of 2014, save for a few shows inbetween, Californian melodic hardcore outfit Touché Amoré have announced that they have began recording material, which will most likely form a follow-up release to their 2013 full-length studio effort, ‘Is Survived By’. The band posted an image online via their official Instagram account confirming this, which you can find posted below:
A photo posted by Touché Amoré (@toucheamore) on Feb 2, 2016 at 12:41pm PST
At this stage, it is unclear whether or not this will form one or two songs, an EP, or a full-length album. More details will be confirmed as and when they develop.
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Though already confirmed to be making an appearance at this year’s 2000 Trees Festival in Cheltenham this July, melodic hardcore unit Touché Amoré have confirmed that they’ll be leading up the festival set with a handful of headline dates across the UK in Portsmouth, London, and Nottingham. Read More
NEWS: Touché Amoré drop new song, ‘Deflector’!
Ahead of their co-headline UK and European tour with Deafheaven, Californian post-hardcore outfit Touché Amoré have dropped a brand new song, ‘Deflector’. Read More
NEWS: Touché Amoré to perform intimate London Barfly show!
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Rising post-hardcore outfit Touché Amoré have announced an intimate headline date in London during their tour across Eurpose supporting Rise Against this February. The date and ticket link for the show are below: Zach RedrupFounder Read More
NEWS: Touché Amoré share re-recorded version of ‘Suckerfish’!
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To celebrate the tenth anniversary of their acclaimed debut album, ‘…To The Beat Of A Dead Horse’, California’s Touché Amoré have re-recorded the LP in its entirety. Read More
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ALBUM: Touché Amoré – Stage Four
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Release Date: September 16th 2016 Label: Epitaph Records Website: www.toucheamore.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/toucheamore Twitter: www.twitter.com/toucheamore Rating: Touché Amoré are, and probably always will be, a band that polarises people. From their sparse and dreamy approach to Read More
NEWS: Jeremy Bolm (Touché Amoré) launches Secret Voice label!
Jeremy Bolm, vocalist for post-hardcore outfit Touché Amoré, has launched his own record label called Secret Voice, which will be manufactured and distributed through Deathwish Inc. Jeremy has made the following statement regarding the idea Read More
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Sullivan | Jones puts on fiery show
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Sullivan | Jones puts on fiery show Follow @timsullivan714 on Twitter. Check out this story on courier-journal.com: http://cjky.it/1C40nyn
Tim Sullivan, @TimSullivan714 Published 9:45 p.m. ET Jan. 25, 2015 | Updated 9:51 p.m. ET Jan. 25, 2015
Louisville's Chris Jones (3) takes a shot against Pittsburgh on Sunday.(Photo: AP)
PITTSBURGH –
Change is a multi-platform proposition with Chris Jones. Slimmed down and speeded up, Louisville's point guard has evolved from a conscience-free scorer to a pass-first playmaker.
His transformation in temperament, though, appears to be more incremental.
"From crazy to a psycho?" was how Rick Pitino put it Sunday afternoon.
He may have been kidding.
Formerly Russ Smith's backcourt sidekick, Jones has inherited Smith's role as his coach's favorite foil. He played 35 productive minutes in Sunday's 80-68 victory at Pitt, scoring 17 points and making nine assists, but he also exasperated his coach by earning a technical foul with his team leading by 16 points and less than seven minutes to play.
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In a matter of moments, a resourceful member of Pitt's student section held up a sign that read: "#3 HAS ANGER PROBLEMS."
Presumably, the sign referenced Jones' number instead of his name because Pitt also has a player named Chris Jones. Undoubtedly, Pitt would trade its Chris Jones for Louisville's Chris Jones and throw in a truckload of Iron City beer.
If Louisville's Chris Jones is prone to emotional explosions (and, formerly, to artless flopping in pursuit of fouls), there's also a lot to recommend his game — and a lot more than there was just a month ago.
Since removed from the starting lineup on Dec. 30 for his clumsy flop against Kentucky, Jones has started the new year resolved to play a more mature game. Sunday's game marked the third time in six conference games that Jones was credited with more assists than he made in any game last season. It was the fourth time in those six games that he was able to temper his natural aggressiveness well enough to avoid careless fouls and play at least 35 minutes.
If Jones is a psycho, there would seem to be some method to his madness.
"What's changed?" he was asked Sunday evening.
"Me," he replied.
"For us to make a run for the national championship, to be a Final Four contender, I've got to change my game," he said. "So I just get my teammates involved. Terry (Rozier) came out on fire and I had to find him. I had to get Montrezl (Harrell) back in his rhythm, so that's what I did.
"... I just balance it out. If I feel it that night, they want me to score. But still, at the same time, I want to find my teammates. There's less pressure on my shoulders. That makes me look better and (means) more time for me not to get tired."
Eight days after a dispiriting loss to Duke, the same Louisville players who had demonstrated such miserable marksmanship at the KFC Yum! Center put on a shooting exhibition worthy of Chris Kyle against Pitt. The Cardinals sank 30 of their 46 shots from the field — a season-high 65.2 percent — after Pitino spent a week tweaking his offense to place more emphasis on dribble penetration and less on perimeter shooting.
Post-Pitt Q&As: Pitino, Harrell and Jones
"We did a lot of good things by getting to the paint with drives," Pitino said. "That was our point of emphasis all week. I thought if we could do that, we'd shoot a high percentage."
Initially, the Cardinals relied largely on getting the ball to Rozier, who sank his first six shots — only one a layup — and finished with 26 points. But Jones dominated the second half with his penetration and his passing. His six field goals included three layups and his nine assists produced five dunks and three layups.
That's pretty much the definition of a distributor. Having trimmed down slightly since last season, Jones has seen a return in his first step. He is driving past more people now, forcing defenses to converge on him at the expense of leaving a Louisville teammate free. This makes for a pretty potent weapon.
"For a guy that size, 7-8 pounds, maybe 9 pounds is a lot," Pitino said. "It enables your quickness. When he lost that weight, he suddenly became a different ballplayer in terms of his speed. He always relied on being a little bulldog and his strength, but now he's got speed."
If other parts of Chris Jones have some catching up to do, he appears to be moving in the right direction.
Tim Sullivan can be reached at (502) 582-4650, by email at tsullivan@courier-journal.com or at @TimSullivan714 on Twitter.
Gallery | Louisville men defeat Pitt 80-68
Pittsburgh's Chris Jones, left, fouls Louisville's Terry Rozier as he shoots in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Keith Srakocic, AP
Louisville's Terry Rozier, right, is fouled by Pittsburgh's Chris Jones, top obscured, as he shoots past Jamel Artis (1) in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Keith Srakocic, AP
Pittsburgh's Michael Young (2) shoots over Louisville's Chinanu Onuaku (32)in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Keith Srakocic, AP
Pittsburgh's Cameron Wright, left, dives for the ball beside Louisville's Terry Rozier (0) in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Keith Srakocic, AP
Pittsburgh's Chris Jones, left, and Louisville's Chris Jones, right, scramble for a loose ball in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Keith Srakocic, AP
Louisville's Chinanu Onuaku, left, and Montrezl Harrell, right, strip the ball from Pittsburgh's Chris Jones (12) as he drives to the hoop in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Keith Srakocic, AP
Louisville's Chris Jones (3) shoots as Pittsburgh's Michael Young (2) defends in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Keith Srakocic, AP
Louisville's Terry Rozier, left, hits a 3-pointer over Pittsburgh's Josh Newkirk, right, in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Keith Srakocic, AP
Pittsburgh's Sheldon Jeter (21) shoots over Louisville's Chinanu Onuaku (32) in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Keith Srakocic, AP
Louisville's Montrezl Harrell, top, misses a dunk after getting around Pittsburgh's Michael Young (2) in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Keith Srakocic, AP
Jan 25, 2015; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Louisville Cardinals guard Chris Jones (3) brings the ball up court against the Pittsburgh Panthers during the first half at the Petersen Events Center. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports Charles LeClaire, Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sport
Jan 25, 2015; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Pittsburgh Panthers guard James Robinson (0) brings the ball up court as Louisville Cardinals guard Chris Jones (3) and guard Terry Rozier (R) chase during the first half at the Petersen Events Center. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports Charles LeClaire, Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sport
Jan 25, 2015; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Louisville Cardinals head coach Rick Pitino gestures on the sidelines against the Pittsburgh Panthers during the first half at the Petersen Events Center. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports Charles LeClaire, Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sport
Jan 25, 2015; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Pittsburgh Panthers forward Michael Young (2) shoots against Louisville Cardinals center Chinanu Onuaku (32) during the first half at the Petersen Events Center. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports Charles LeClaire, Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sport
Jan 25, 2015; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Pittsburgh Panthers guard Josh Newkirk (13) drives to the basket against Louisville Cardinals guard Chris Jones (3) during the first half at the Petersen Events Center. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports Charles LeClaire, Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sport
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Carbon copy crash tragedy
A TEENAGE girl suffered fatal injuries outside her house in the same spot where a previous owner had also died in a crash.
Crewe Chronicle
Now her family are campaigning to reduce the speed limit.
Claire Timmins, 19, died after a Vauxhall Astra crashed into her Suzuki Swift as she was exiting her drive on Rode Lane, a section of the A51 at Tarporley.
Her father, Barry Timmins, told the Chester inquest last Friday: 'This is not the first time a person has died outside the house but we did not know that when we moved there. We would not have gone there if we had known.'
His family are now trying to get a 40mph speed limit introduced.
Mr Timmins said: 'There is difficult access onto the road. We are trying to get it changed but we are having a problem with the council.'
The house's previous owner, charity worker Ursula Stanhope, was killed while crossing the road in December, 2002.
Miss Timmins, a student at Keele University, suffered from serious head injuries during the crash on August 12 last year. She died the next day at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Astra driver Thomas Hale, 20, was travelling at 62 mph when he saw Miss Timmins' car.
Because of poor visibility he swerved and braked too late and the cars collided.
Kylie Davies, a passenger in the Astra, said: 'We had just gone past the roundabout when a blue car pulled out in front of us and we hit it. There was nothing he could do.'
Edwin Mountford, who was driving in the opposite direction, witnessed the accident.
He said: 'I was baffled, I saw this car was coming towards me.
'It came half way over my side of the road, I then realised there was another car involved.
'I got out of the car and ran towards the scene, I saw an arm hanging from the car, stopped and rang 999.'
Cheshire Coroner Nicholas Rheinberg said Miss Timmins had died as a result of brain injuries and recorded.
He recorded a verdict of mis-adventure and is sending a letter to the highways authority, expressing how dangerous the section of road is.
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A Stone in the cosmic soup
Some days pack more punch than others, and Friday, January 25th was certainly one of them for the denizens of Washington, D.C. and for Federal workers, who finally received some respite from a 35-day partial government shutdown.
As for the chief D.C. denizen, Donald Trump, the day literally dawned with his former campaign advisor and long-time associate Roger Stone being arrested in Ft. Lauderdale by a heavily armed FBI squad. The FBI was acting on what had been to that point a sealed, 7-count indictment issued by the Mueller investigation—charges range from lying to Congress, to witness tampering and obstruction of justice. Conspiracy charges were conspicuously absent, but many observers believe that those will follow.
Stone is a colorful, self-described political “dirty trickster” who, if we can believe Netflix’s documentary entitled Get Me Roger Stone, seems to follow Machiavelli’s playbook pretty closely. Winning is all that matters. It’s better to be infamous (or feared) than to not be famous at all. His approach to getting himself out of tight spots is reportedly “deny everything, defend nothing, and attack, attack, attack.”
And, while Stone claims that he takes his dirty tactics just up to the legal line and no further, what he regards as the “line” could be deeply subjective and self-serving. Certainly not in keeping with the statutes the grand jury now says he has violated. For a much closer look at today’s charges against Roger Stone, see here; for the text of the 24-page indictment itself, see here.
One of Roger Stone's many outlandish "looks."
The astrology
I won’t even attempt to unravel all the legal issues at stake in Stone’s arrest—and, unless our system of justice has been fatally wounded by the last two years, he remains not guilty until proven guilty by the facts in a court of law. With that said, we know from his own characterizations (not to mention a long paper trail of texts and emails) that he’s willing to push the limits. This combination makes for an interesting analysis, so we will take a look at his noon chart (no time is known, information from Wikipedia.com) with all this in mind.
But first, let’s briefly consider the arrest chart for just past 6 a.m. this morning. It speaks volumes!
Chart #1: FBI arrests Roger Stone, January 25, 2019, 6:05 a.m. ST, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Tropical Equal Houses, True Node.
Saturn and Pluto rise, straddling the Capricorn Ascendant. What better reflection of the facts on the ground could there have been this morning? The FBI (Saturn-Pluto) showed up at Stone’s doorstep roughly an hour before dawn (note the Sun has yet to reach the horizon), and they weren’t asking him to “pretty please come with us”—they were armed with heavy weapons and prepared for push-back.
In fact, Mars (Aries) squares both Saturn and Pluto, indicating the heavily armed nature of their law enforcement encounter. The shocking nature of it all was also covered in this chart—Uranus (Aries) widely squares Pluto as well as squaring the Pluto/Mercury midpoint and South Node (both at 26°+Capricorn).
The news coverage was swift, heavy, and potentially devastating, from Stone’s (and probably Trump’s) point-of-view. Michael Munkasey cites “breakdowns” in networks and communications and “high security communications and intelligence activities”[1] for the Pluto/Mercury midpoint—aside from the clear connection this has to the FBI arresting Stone, how appropriate is this midpoint on a day in which the other news involved a government shutdown causing airline cancellations and delays!
Trump is no neutral observer in this FBI saga, of course—the growing parade of former campaign officials and advisors under indictment bears witness to that, but it also shows in the fact that his security-conscious natal Saturn-Venus conjunction (23°+-25°+Cancer, chart not shown) ties very snugly into this event chart. So, despite press secretary Sanders’ statement to the contrary, Stone’s legal problems certainly do concern Trump in one way or another. Exactly how is likely to come clear over the next year: both Saturn and Pluto will continue opposing Trump’s Cancer points for the entire year ahead and into 2020.
Considering Trump’s Venus is under pressure here, it’s fair to guess that his finances, friends (Stone?) and other relationships will be heavily scrutinized. In his earlier life he depended very heavily on his father (Saturn) for his financial stature (Venus); now we have to wonder how questionable banking institutions (Venus-Saturn) have picked up where Fred Trump left off, keeping Donald afloat with sketchy loans and possible money laundering activities (hear more about these lines of inquiry here).
Cardinal Grand Cross: Uranus (Aries) opposes Pallas (Libra); this axis squares Pluto-So. Node (Capricorn) opposite No. Node (Cancer). Pallas couldn’t be more clearly situated here: elevated in the chart and shocking the waking world this morning by demanding justice. Later in the day, outside the courtroom where he was arraigned, Stone signaled his defiance by ostentatiously flashing the cynical “Victory” sign that Richard Nixon immortalized when exiting the presidency in 1974: Pallas fell at 27°+Capricorn that day (August 9, 1974), just a degree beyond today’s No. Node. What goes around does appear to be coming around, indeed.
Stone's "dirty trickster" reputation has sound roots.
In fact, if the Trump saga and the role Stone is accused of playing in it remind us of Watergate and Nixon, there’s a reason—not only was Stone there (he apparently sports a Nixon tattoo on his back, as well), but Saturn and Pluto played key roles in their waning 3Q (in cardinal signs) during Nixon's years, too. These potent energies helped reveal and aggressively prosecute the corruption then, and they’re doing so again.
Jupiter conjoins Venus (both Sagittarius) and both trine Mars (Aries); Venus trines Eris (Aries). Jupiter is feeling its oats these days in Sagittarius, and its ambitious goals have the support of a self-assured Venus, as well. The fiery trines with a dignified Aries Mars suggest that all systems were go today for some important priority; Mars also assures that those with helpful connections to these points enjoy intense focus. It’s hard to look at this configuration and not see Madame Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, in fact—her quiet, dignified demeanor often seems to mask some real passion and one-pointedness.
These aspects also reflect a connection between the Stone arrest and Trump’s decision to cave in to Democratic proposals for reopening the government today. Re-opening the government today did crowd the Stone arrest out of the news for awhile, and with all the intense Capricorn energies assailing his Cancer points, Trump may have finally reached his breaking point. He may never admit to feeling the negativity surrounding the shutdown or about today’s high-profile arrest, but his chart says he’s more sensitive than he seems.
So why not take advantage of the nice Sagittarius energies that are moving in on his natal Moon (21°+ Sagittarius; chart not shown)? What an emotional relief they would provide if the stand-off was just over. We may not have seen the last of this shutdown drama, but if the Stone arrest was a catalyst for some relief, we’re making progress!
KTSA.com writes "Roger Stone thinks he's being persecuted."
Stone in the soup
It’s not like Stone’s questionable ethics and tactics have been a mystery—he refers to himself as a “dirty trickster,” and a “provocateur,” while also denying that he ever broke the law. He also seems to have little regard for the law, however—he’s often referred to it and the institutions that define and enforce it as the “Deep State,” a term that’s been bandied about a lot during the Trump campaign and presidency. This term seems designed to paint everything the government does with a corrupt, shady, conspiratorial brush, and this of course becomes a self-serving justification for those who plan to push the legal limits.
This becomes a “Looking Glass” situation that provides what some seem to think is the perfect defense and offense: how could I have violated a law when the law itself is either illegitimate, shady, or corrupt? Remember the Trump mantra, “Drain the Swamp?” Neptune and Pluto are enjoying a chuckle.
It’s difficult to have any sympathy for this “Deep State” cynicism when we’ve just endured 35 days of only partial government services, witnessing thousands of Federal law enforcement and Homeland Security officials work without pay (yes, the FBI officers who arrested Stone before dawn did so while being unpaid). But I digress…this is about Stone and how his arrest in the pre-dawn hours of January 25th played against his natal chart.
Biwheel #1: (inner wheel) Natal, Roger Stone, August 27, 1952, 12:00 p.m. DST (noon chart, no exact time known); (outer wheel) FBI arrest R Stone, January 25, 2019, 6:05 a.m. ST (news cited “just after 6 a.m.”), Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Tropical Equal Houses, True Node.
Interchart Grand cross: Arrest Saturn-ASC-Pluto (Capricorn) oppose Stone Uranus (Cancer); this axis squares Stone Saturn/Neptune (midpoint, Libra) opposite Arrest Mars (Aries). Stone’s immediate reaction to being arrested was to deny any responsibility and to loudly proclaim that he will not testify against Trump, no matter what, because he would have to “bear false witness” to do so. Apart from the gag factor and the sketchy “victimization” claim here, Stone has to know from watching his former colleague Paul Manafort’s case that he can’t take a presidential pardon for granted—he may get a “thank you, hang in there” tweet, but if a pardon can be construed to implicate Trump in any way, it probably won’t happen.
Munkasey characterizes Pluto aspects to the Saturn/Neptune midpoint as “Punishment for those who have allowed decay and decadence to persist; the rejection of responsibility and denial of guilt from responsible people…”[2]
Add another square from Saturn and Pluto, not to mention an opposition from militant Arrest Mars (Aries), and it appears that Stone could be in serious jeopardy. He was arraigned, posted a hefty bail and was released yesterday, but the story is far from over.
Deceptive, delusionary leadership and corrupt practices in businesses and government are all fair game with the Saturn/Neptune midpoint—the fact that Stone’s Uranus is involved suggests that the shock value of his arrest isn’t lost on this “provocateur”—a characterization that’s supported by his natal Uranus-Saturn/Neptune square. The Mueller team apparently requested a totally sealed indictment until after the arrest because they felt Stone would be a flight risk—that’s probably quite true, considering his Uranus placement.
Interchart T-Square: Arrest Neptune (Pisces) opposes Stone Sun/Venus (midpoint, Virgo); this axis squares Arrest Jupiter-Venus (Sagittarius). The midpoint in question here speaks to many things, including a person’s personality traits, values and priorities, however one stands out: “Developing a flawed charisma because you lack honesty and sincerity in your appreciation of others…qualified love.”[3] Stone has built an entire political consultant/lobbyist career on his unique brand of charisma, being outrageous and daring, and never shrinking from controversy as long as those who hired him are elected or otherwise achieve their aims. He apparently thinks it’s enough to simply “deny everything” when he crosses over legal lines, and that delusion has served him well over his 40-some year career.
Neptune’s role by transit here, however, seems to be to dis-illusion Stone—in other words, to erode the armor those delusions have provided over the years. It’s likely that Stone will not agree to be a cooperating witness, if Mueller asks: that would require revealing a life time of “dirty tricks” that may or may not have been strictly legal, so he may be “damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.”
Whatever delusions Stone has been harboring may have been skewered by the exuberant Arrest Jupiter-Venus (Sagittarius) in this configuration. Of course, with his fixed Leo Mercury mindset, Stone isn’t likely to admit as much, and he will have his defenders, too—we can see that in the following.
Interchart Grand Fire Trine: Arrest Mars (Aries) trines Stone Mercury-So. Node-Pluto (all Leo), which trines Arrest Jupiter-Venus trine. It’s fair to say that yesterday’s arrest will set off a pretty volatile chain reaction of events for Stone, however grand trines can also be supportive. Even so, the way the Arrest Mars-Saturn square plays into this doesn’t suggest an easy time for Stone. Stone’s Mercury disposes his Virgo Sun, so he has some powerful “tricks up his sleeve,” which may find some support. This same Sagittarian energy quincunxes his beleaguered Cancer Uranus, however, so his attempts to frame the narrative in his favor may ultimately fall flat. The long arm of the Law (Capricorn Saturn and Pluto) may not be as easily swayed as the social media world is. Personality and “spin” only count for so much.
Of course, Stone does have friends in powerful places (also suggested by the Grand Trine), and even if Trump doesn’t overtly dangle a pardon, he could find other ways to facilitate Stone’s defense (like tearing down or compromising the Justice Dept. at every chance—nothing new). Again, Arrest Mars—which is followed closely by Arrest Eris and Uranus (all Aries) may signal an aggressive, volatile fight: “with friends like that, who needs enemies?”
Arrest Jupiter-Venus also inconjoin his natal Taurus Jupiter here, yet Arrest Saturn and Pluto trine this same point: while he’s undoubtedly a wealthy man, Stone may find his legal expenses become quite damaging. Will he get “help” that could end up compromising his case or steering his testimony in some way? That sort of deal would only happen behind the scenes and may be reflected in Arrest Neptune opposing his natal Venus, which in turn disposes his natal Taurus Jupiter.
Finally, it will be interesting to see what role Stone’s natal Mars (Scorpio) plays as his case begins to take shape in the courts. His Mars may or may not conjoin his Moon (it transited between 17°+Scorpio and 0°+Sagittarius that day), but it is inconjoined by Arrest Uranus here and that’s uncomfortable enough. This has been true for quite some time already, of course—he’s been called into Congress to testify, been called in to talk to the Mueller team—his actions during the 2016 campaign, his history with Trump and possible relationship with Wikileaks have been under scrutiny for most of this past year.
This Mars sports a potentially ruthless, not to mention unscrupulous edge, and it's certainly a “power center” in Stone’s chart, even though it only widely opposes his Jupiter. Again, it’ll be interesting to see how the power playing unfolds in court and beyond.
Stone seems to purposely evoke the Nixon years with this defiant gesture.
Another story lurks behind this one that would help us put Stone’s arrest into a much larger historical context, of course. It’s not every day that an operative who cut his political teeth during the corrupt Nixon administration resurfaces in the way Roger Stone has. Most Nixon administration officials went on to establish careers that helped them move on from that 1970s experience in constructive ways, Stone has remained the “dirty trickster.” Wikipedia documents several examples, but this excerpt is from the Nixon years:
“Stone's political career began in earnest on the 1972 Nixon campaign, with activities such as contributing money to a possible rival of Nixon in the name of the Young Socialist Alliance – then slipping the receipt to the Manchester Union-Leader. He also hired a spy in the Hubert Humphrey campaign who became Humphrey's driver. According to Stone, during the day he was officially a scheduler in the Nixon campaign, but "By night, I'm trafficking in the black arts. Nixon's people were obsessed with intelligence."[40] Stone maintains he never did anything illegal during Watergate.[39]
After Nixon won the 1972 presidential election, Stone worked for the administration in the Office of Economic Opportunity. After Nixon resigned, Stone went to work for Bob Dole, but was later fired after columnist Jack Anderson publicly identified Stone as a Nixon 'dirty trickster'.[41]”
Clearly, Stone has lived up to his potent Scorpio Mars—weaponizing “intelligence” in ways designed to undermine the candidates he decided to target. From his own words it seems that he embraces these “dark” goals—his attacks don’t happen inadvertently, or without intent. Are they truly “legal?” That’s another story—the past couple years have certainly made us choose whether we’re okay with the truth being malleable, if not entirely irrelevant, and I’m glad to see many signs in everyday life that the importance of truth and facts and science has largely won out.
And yes, Stone was correct to label his skill for manipulating the facts for the sake of gain a “dark art;” unfortunately, with Pluto calling the shots, the consequences of doing so can be dire and even life-threatening. So, is his long history of dealing in all this just catching up with him, after all these years? Several planetary cycles are starting fresh between now and December, 2020, so between now and then we will see a lot of old, tired, corrupt energy cleared out. Unfortunately, that tired, outworn stuff has to surface before it can be cleared, so stay tuned!
Raye Robertson is a practicing astrologer, writer and former educator. A graduate of the Faculty of Astrological Studies (U.K.), Raye focuses on mundane, collective-oriented astrology, with a particular interest in current affairs, culture and media, the astrology of generations, and public concerns such as education and health. Several of her articles on these topics have been featured in The Mountain Astrologer, The Astrological Journal, and other publications over the years.
She is also available to read individual charts—for information about chart report options, contact her at: robertsonraye@gmail.com.
© Raye Robertson 2019. All rights reserved.
[1] Michael Munkasey, Midpoints: Unleashing the Power of the Planets, ACS Publications, San Diego, CA, p. 176.
[2] Ibid, p. 293.
[3] Ibid, p. 68.
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Video Microphones
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Sound presents unique challenges to both photographers and videographers alike, especially when working with the limited capabilities of a DSLR’s built-in microphone system. On-camera mics are generally a low-cost, single-channel system that are lacking in professional features like balanced XLR inputs, multiple mic support and manual control over sensitivity and audio levels. Built-in mics are designed to capture the ambient noise of the surrounding environment, and this often includes not only the sound produced by the inner workings of the camera and lens, but also the omnidirectional noise of the surrounding environment. Ironically, the front-positioning of mics on a DSLR even can block incoming audio thanks to camera handling.
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Canon has been busy since last fall, introducing three new prime lenses, a superzoom and an update to one of its most popular pro-series "L" lenses for DSLRs. And don’t forget the EF-M-mount lenses introduced for the new EOS M mirrorless compact camera. The three primes—the EF 24mm, EF 28mm and EF 40mm—are all moderately fast ƒ/2.8 maximum apertures, the wider pair actually offering image stabilization and ultrasonic motors for fast autofocusing.
The low-profile and very affordable PRO 24-CM stereo mini-shotgun mic from Audio-Technica includes a pair of cardioid mics (a forward-facing, heart-shaped pick-up pattern) in an X/Y configuration for rejecting side noise and eliminating any latency between the pickup of each mic. The 4.6-inch mic anchors to a hot-shoe and is lightweight at less than four ounces. Estimated Street Price: $69.
With a length of just less than seven inches and a weight of less than two ounces, Azden’s stereo SMX-10 shotgun mic includes an internal lo-cut filter for reducing ambient noise created by wind and hum. It also includes a windscreen and hot-shoe mount. It powers from a single AAA battery with up to 400 hours of average runtime. Estimated Street Price: $85.
The Q Mini Shotgun PRO includes three levels of gain for setting the best audio "exposure" level between 0, +10 and +20 dB. The Q Mini Shotgun PRO is also available in the Q DSLR-Video PRO Microphone Kit, which includes everything you’ll need for anchoring the mic to a DSLR alongside wind-dampening tools and a custom case. The Q Sniper PRO Microphone Kit comes with these accessories, as well as a mini-boompole for holding the mic off-screen. Uniquely, Que Audio’s Compact Connection System offers a variety of connectors (3.5mm, balanced XLR and wireless transmitter adapters) for using the Q Mini Shotgun PRO with more than just your DSLR. Estimated Street Price: $249 (Que Audio DSLR-Video PRO Microphone Kit); $499 (Que Audio Sniper PRO Microphone Kit).
Sennheiser’s MKE 400 shotgun is a compact mic that includes settable sensitivities for long or short distances. A foam windshield and shock-mount is included for reducing noise, and the microphone powers for more than 300 hours on a single AAA battery. Estimated Street Price: $199.
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Kupp better than before torn ACL? | Shark Bites | Draft Sharks
Kupp better than before torn ACL?
Cooper Kupp, WR LAR
Insider Jay Glazer writes that Rams WR Cooper Kupp might just be better now than before he tore his ACL last November. "All his test scores, coming out of his breaks, agility, quickness, every test timed better than it was before he tore his ACL," according to Glazer. It's another in a long list of glowing reports on Kupp's recovery from that shredded knee. His ADP has climbed to WR21 -- but he's still capable of returning value at that price tag. Kupp ranked 15th among WRs in PPR points per game last year.
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Kupp taking contact
9:08am EDT 8/6/19
Rams WR Cooper Kupp, now almost 9 months removed from his torn ACL, participated in contact practices with the Chargers. "A guy gives you a pop, you roll up, hit the ground and pop back up," Kupp said of taking a hit. "Honestly, I didn't really realize I'd gone down. And it's like, 'Oh, yeah, my first time really being hit and being on the ground.' But it felt great. You get that first one out of the way, and you're good." This is just about the last step in Kupp's rehab. He continues to trend toward being a full-go come Week 1.
Kupp set to practice
Rams HC Sean McVay said Friday that WR Cooper Kupp will be on the field for Saturday's initial training-camp practice. "He's going to be ready to go," McVay told ESPN's Lindsay Thiry. "We've got kind of basically a volume that we have targeted for each day of practice. He can partake in all the activities. We'll monitor him and pick and choose which periods he can be a full participant." Barring a setback with his repaired knee, Kupp should be in consideration for fantasy football drafts. There's no special value in his current WR25 ADP, though.
No PUP for Kupp
Rams WR Cooper Kupp will not be placed on the PUP list to open training camp, NFL Network's Steve Wyche reports. "His workload will be measured," Wyche adds. Kupp is now about 8-and-a-half months removed from his torn ACL. Being cleared to at least take part in some work this early is excellent news and puts him on track to be on the field come Week 1. Kupp ranked 15th among WRs in PPR points per game last year after finishing 25th in total PPR points as a rookie. He's been the 25th WR off the board in Draft.com best balls over the past 2 weeks.
Kupp: Recovery on track
Rams WR Cooper Kupp tells the team website, "I think I'm where I'm supposed to be" in his recovery from the November ACL tear and resulting surgery. Kupp recently got back on the field for running and agility drills, and a member of the training staff echoed his assessment of the process. We'll obviously need to keep an eye on Kupp through the offseason and then training camp, but he seems on track for the beginning of the 2019 season. That said, his current PlayDraft ADP or WR21 in the middle of Round 5 strikes us as a bit high.
Confirmed: Kupp has torn ACL
ESPN's Adam Schefter confirms that Rams WR Cooper Kupp tore his left ACL in Sunday's win over the Seahawks. That ends his season and gives him about 10 months to get ready for the start of the 2019 campaign. Kupp's absence moves Josh Reynolds back into the #3 WR role and puts him on the WR4 radar in fantasy football. He posted 1-19 and 3-42-2 lines while seeing 6 total targets in the 2 games Kupp missed earlier this season. We could also see expanded roles for TEs Gerald Everett and Tyler Higbee -- although neither guy is a reliable fantasy option yet.
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Market Matters Blog/
2019 U.S Spring Wheat and Durum Harvest: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Market Matters Blog
10/7/2019 | 11:48 AM CDT
By Mary Kennedy , DTN Basis Analyst
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As shown in early April, these fields still weren't ready for spring planting in Gentilly Township, Polk County, in northwest Minnesota. This picture also represents the current conditions in western North Dakota, where many mature spring wheat and durum fields have been covered with early snow. (Photo by Tim Dufault)
The 2019 spring wheat and durum planting season was stalled by late-spring snow, along with constant rains in some of the key growing areas of the Northern Plains. Fast forward to September and early October and the same can be said for the harvest that never wants to end.
Keith Brandt, general manager of Plains Grain and Agronomy LLC in Enderlin, North Dakota, said in late June that spring wheat acres in his area were down 10% to 12% from what farmers had intended to plant. "There is a big range in planting dates of April 23 to June 11. Because of the cool and damp conditions, wheat planted by mid-May looks very good and has decent potential. The balance will be 10 to 15 bushels per acre (bpa) less on yield."
Brandt said on Oct. 3 that the 2019 crop was "certainly not the fanciest wheat crop we have ever harvested and we are still not 100% done with 1% to 2% of standing wheat left. We have an average yield of 50-55 bushels per acre, 14.5% protein and grading No. 2NS, average 270 falling numbers and average 2.7 vomitoxin."
Brandt said the crop is tough to market because it's all commingled due to most of the crop coming in wet and having to be dried. "Markets seems to handle falling numbers easier than vomitoxin and we can use the low falling numbers for delivery wheat. A lot of western and northern North Dakota got most of their crop off in good condition before this terrible weather set in. Will be an adequate supply of milling wheat. Just have to find that number where they will sell."
As of Sept. 30, Minnesota Department of Ag is estimating that 3% of Minnesota wheat is still unharvested. "It is hard to describe this year's spring wheat harvest without using four-letter words," said Tim Dufault, of Crookston, Minnesota. "The harvest on our farm lasted 31 days; there were nine days of measurable rain and a stretch of 14 days where it was just cool and damp and unfit to harvest. Yields in northwest Minnesota were averaging over 70 bpa with 60-pound-plus test weights. Proteins varied by variety but much of the crop was over 14%. Then, as the rain events started to take their toll, test weights started to drop, sprout damage showed up and the term 'falling numbers' returned to farmer's vocabulary. Elevators soon stopped buying wheat under 200 falling numbers. The last couple of fields for us averaged about 55 bpa, 58-pound test weight and the falling numbers were down to 66."
Dufault, who is a board member on the Minnesota Wheat Research and Promotion Council, said that people he has visited with are estimating that 25% of the hard red spring crop will be feed wheat. "Wheat yield overall should be a little bit above average. In a nutshell, this year's wheat was poor quality, not worth anything, but there was a lot of it," Dufault added.
Nathan Olsonawski, of Hallock, Minnesota, said, "We had average yield and good quality to start with but as the wet weather set in, quality took a big hit, especially with falling numbers."
"Harvest went well," said Kerry Baldwin, of Hope, North Dakota. "Finished up around the 23rd of August and yields were slightly below average, around the low 50s. Quality was good, falling numbers around 350, test weight was 62 to 64 lbs. Protein was in the 14.5% range on average. We took a dime discount on one quarter section of wheat because the vomitoxin was around 2 parts per million (ppm) while the other quarter section had no discount. We were fortunate to get our wheat harvested when we did. There was a lot of wheat harvested in September and still some left now in October for some people."
"This year's spring wheat crop was a challenge from start to finish," said Tim Luken, manager at Oahe Grain, in Onida, South Dakota. "Planting back in April through May was very slow going due to the early April blizzard dumping 30 inches of snow and then the addition of all the weekly rain events we had. This weather set up the tone for the rest of the growing season."
Sully County usually starts spring wheat harvest the third week of July, but this year Luken said harvest didn't start until Aug. 6 or almost two weeks later. "We finally finished around Sept. 20 and we are usually done by second week of August. Surprisingly, the quality of our spring wheat was good; yes, there was scab present this year (usually don't see it here) and that was due to rain events we had during the flowering of the wheat.
"With all the rain we had this year on a weekly basis from start to finish, I was very pleased with quality. I feel the reason we had good quality is that the planted crop was so spread out in the spring, delaying the ripening of the crop before it could be harvested. When it did rain, it didn't hurt the later crops and the crops that were being harvested were taken off with minimal days of rain, which didn't take a toll on quality. Sprout damage was very isolated in certain areas. Overall, we are very happy because it could have been much worse. At the elevator, we took in 643,000 bushels with protein average around 15% and average test weight was 59.6 lbs."
Jerry Cope, who does the grain marketing for Dakota Mill and Grain Inc. in Rapid City, South Dakota, said that their spring wheat acres were down over 50% mainly due to the late wet spring that prevented planting more acres. "Acreage intentions had been higher than a year ago mainly to keep within rotations," said Cope.
"Wheat that was planted matured early enough to escape most of the damage," said Cope. "Harvested wheat overall has test weights of 59 lbs to 60-plus lbs and quality was good. Vomitoxin was easily under 2.0 ppm, very little damage and falling numbers were above 300. The exception was East River where vomitoxin was more common. Rain did slow harvest and the weed growth created high dockage and in some cases, dropped color from northern to red spring wheat.
"There is frustration among customers with red spring wheat showing no vomitoxin, no sprout and high falling numbers being lumped in the same non-milling category as the sprouted, low falling numbers wheat in North Dakota and Canada. The same severe discounts for a "color only" issue and not a USDA grade factor is hard to explain."
There are three subclasses for U.S. hard red spring (HRS) wheat. U.S. Wheat Associates states that, "subclass is a separate marketing factor based on the number of kernels with a complete, hard and vitreous endosperm." Flour milled from HRS wheat with greater percentages of dark, hard, vitreous (DHV) kernel shows higher water absorption capacity for bread making.
The three classes are: dark northern spring (DNS) consisting of 75% or more dark, hard vitreous kernels; northern spring (NS), between 25 and 74% dark, hard vitreous kernels; and red spring (RS), less than 25% dark, hard, vitreous kernels.
Cope added that, "Movement has been better than the crop size would indicate as growers make room for a big fall crop and sell for cash needs. Expect spring wheat movement to stop once row crop harvest begins."
A farmer in eastern South Dakota said that he finished up harvest on Aug. 30 and yields were average to slightly below average with a lot of lodging, which cost him yield and adversely affected quality. He noted that despite the fact he finished up before the big rains hit in early to mid-September, there was still plenty of rain and many humid nights and mornings after the crop ripened in August, which resulted in some sprouting.
"Test weights started out in the 62- to 63-pound area, but after the rain we lost test weight and most of it will be in the 58-59 range," he said "Falling numbers values are all over the place ranging from the low 200s to low 300s, but I'm afraid most of it is going to be in that 225-275 range. Vomitoxin levels so far have been hovering around 2.0 ppm but have heard reports of 5.0 ppm and higher."
Allan Klain, who farms northwest of Turtle Lake, North Dakota, said that yields and quality were good for the most part early on. "We were hand to mouth with precipitation until late August, but since then have received 12.5 inches of rain. Quality issues with low falling numbers are a real problem with any wheat harvested after Sept. 10.
"We have 10,000 bushels of hailed "junk" wheat that we binned and haven't tested yet. Our hired man went to Canada on Sept. 9 and estimated 70% of the wheat was still out from Minot north. All in all, we were slightly above average yield in the 50s on wheat. We will start beans Oct. 7 ahead of a forecast of 8-plus inches of snow expected in four days. Will be filling trucks on road with cart as it is way too soft in field," said Klain.
As the delays in harvest moved deep into September and quality continued to deteriorate, the cash price increased. The DTN National Hard Red Spring Wheat Index on Sept. 1 was at $4.33 and rose to $5.03 by Oct. 1. The Minneapolis spot basis moved higher in late-September when there were few milling cars showing up for sale, but as more cars came to market recently, the spot basis began to weaken. However, once farmers start soybean and corn harvest, car counts on the spot market will likely decrease.
LATE DURUM CROP IN BAD SHAPE
The recent USDA crop progress report estimated that 78% of the North Dakota durum crop and 55% of the Montana crop had been harvested by the end of September. The North Dakota Wheat Commission said that, "as with spring wheat, it is likely some of the durum crop simply won't be harvested and quality on the remaining crop will be compromised."
North Dakota farmers on social media disagree with the USDA reporting that 78% of durum is harvested. Many said they haven't turned a wheel in more than a week and it might be another week before they get going. One farmer noted that he was only 35% done on durum and knows of other farmers who hadn't even started yet and may end up tilling the crop up.
BJ Wehrman, of Ambrose, North Dakota, said he lives in the heart of durum country and there is more left to combine than has been cut. "If 50% has been cut I would be surprised, and it's not 'backyarditis' because it extends all the way to the South Dakota border and west a couple hundred miles into Montana.
"It's not good up here. Canola is sprouting, wheat is sprouting and starting to lay down. Have even heard of some flax and safflower sprouting also. I haven't turned a wheel in nine days. Started harvest approximately Aug. 21 and I don't think we have had more than three days of work in a row," said Wehrman. "We are in a historically strong durum area, but a lot of guys have moved away from that over the last eight years or so and shifted to spring wheat since quality is easier to maintain, but it's getting tougher and tougher each year to even want to plant much wheat, let alone durum."
Wehrman added that, "This is the first year on our farm in probably 50 years that we had zero acres of durum and man, am I glad we didn't. We pushed hard and got all our spring wheat off with only one small rain on it. If we had durum, it would still be in field, as we normally plant durum last, around May 20, and it wouldn't have been off yet."
Cash durum prices have been climbing and are in the $8.00-plus range (basis delivered Chicago/beyond) and continue to rise. Some mill buyers said that there aren't many offers in the U.S. or even Canada; Canadian durum is in rough or even worse shape.
When I traded durum in the past and there was a quality issue, farmers with good milling quality would "padlock" their durum bins and bide their time until they needed cash.
A few farmers I have talked with the past few weeks have mentioned that they are weighing whether or not to file a crop insurance claim because of the poor quality issues in the wheat crop, but said it's not an easy decision because of how it would affect their actual production history yield (APH) going forward.
This has been a rough year for many farmers and it's going to get worse. DTN Senior Ag Meteorologist Bryce Anderson noted in his Oct. 7 forecast that "a season-ending freeze is indicated for the Northern and western Plains and the northwestern Midwest this week, along with harvest-disrupting rain and snow."
National Weather Service's Bismarck, North Dakota office has indicated widespread, accumulating snow beginning Oct. 9, and possibly continuing through Friday in western and central North Dakota. This will be a knife through the hearts of farmers in those areas.
Luken summed it up well: "This is the longest small grain harvest I have ever seen in the 40 years I have been in this business. I hope Mother Nature gives us a break for the 2020 growing season because we really need one."
Mary Kennedy can be reached at mary.kennedy@dtn.com
Follow her on Twitter @MaryCKenn
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Stunning Ballybough mural of Dublin manager Jim Gavin adds historic five-in-a-row
Gavin will visit the area in the near future to see the mural - but did not want to take the limelight away from his team today
Laura LyneReporter
A stunning mural of Dublin manager Jim Gavin was finished in the capital this morning following the boys in blue historic victory.
And he will visit Ballybough in the near future to pay tribute to the community and spend time visiting the mural dedicated to his role in the first ever five-in-a-row.
The completed design by artist Ruairi O'Byrne of Feature Walls was unveiled in the north inner city this morning by councillor Christy Burke.
Clondalkin man Gavin and his Dublin team did briefly stop at the mural this morning with the Sam Maguire to meet fans as they headed to Crumlin Children's Hospital.
In ever humble form Mr Gavin did not pose for pictures and said he did not want to take the limelight away from the boys following their victory.
Jim Gavin mural in Ballybough
Speaking at the unveiling, councillor Burke said: "[Jim] asked me to convey - because he's a very humble man - he didn't want to take the limelight away from the players here this morning.
"He thanks every single one of you for turning up, they [the Dublin team] are heading to the children's hospital in Crumlin and he will come down on a quieter, more levelled-out day to pay his respects to the people of Ballybough and the surrounding areas as regards [to] the mural.
"He regrets that he couldn't make it, but it's the nature of the man as you all know by now, he does not want the limelight."
Councillor Burke and Ruairi O'Byrne then painted the fifth All-Ireland win in a row onto the mural, which includes the dates 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Councillors Nial Ring and Mary Fitzpatrick also attended the unveiling, and thanked locals for attending and wished the Dublin ladies team the best of luck ahead of their All-Ireland final today.
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Dublin's Diarmuid Connolly before the game (Image: ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne)
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Leinster Senior Club Football Championship Final, O'Moore Park, Co. Laois 11/12/2016 Rhode vs St. Vincent's St. Vincent's Diarmuid Connolly celebrates the final whistle (Image: ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne)
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Leinster Senior Club Football Championship Final, O'Moore Park, Co. Laois 11/12/2016 Rhode vs St. Vincent's St. Vincent's Diarmuid Connolly lifts the trophy (Image: ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne)
"We respect that position, and hopefully everyone does as well. It is an amateur sport, but that said, the door will always be open for Diarmuid, and I know for sure with the club and also the county. Hopefully, we'll see him back playing Gaelic games soon.
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Article: Slow DSL connections could impede FCC’s Lifeline Internet plan
by Bill Callahan | Sep 29, 2016 | Digital Inclusion News
A new article in Pacific Standard points out that the same slow inner-city Internet speeds that recently became an issue for AT&T’s low income discount program could also create a real problem for the Federal Communications Commission’s Lifeline broadband initiative.
In “The Looming Lifeline Internet Subsidy Crisis”, PS‘s Rick Paulus quotes NDIA’s Angela Siefer:
When the FCC announced a tweak to the country’s $9.25 a month Lifeline subsidy to allow it to be used for home Internet service as well as telephone service, they wrote in the same sort of minimum requirements for download speeds. But this time, the minimum speed is 10 Mbps.
“What will happen is that an eligible person will assume they can get Lifeline broadband, and then find they cannot get the subsidized service because AT&T does not offer 10 megs of service at their address,” Siefer says. “Many low-income areas don’t get 10 megs.”
It’s a problem that could reach beyond AT&T, one of many ISPs expected to participate in the Lifeline program. Comcast, CenturyLink, Time Warner, Cox, and every other ISP will be needed to help accomplish the program’s goal of bringing affordable Internet to low-income residents. But the presumed exploitation of this loophole on a national scale may make the entire subsidy essentially meaningless.
“None of the providers have told us what their Lifeline offerings are going to be,” Siefer says. “But it won’t be as useful as we thought it was, because they have such slow speeds in poor neighborhoods.”
Paulus’ use of the word “loophole” here is questionable. Lifeline telephone providers and other ISPs are not required to start offering Lifeline broadband plans, and the FCC certainly knew that its 10 mbps minimum speed for wired (not wireless) Lifeline plans would affect companies’ decisions whether to do so.
But did the FCC Commissioners have any idea that the download speeds offered by telcos like AT&T remain so slow in so many urban neighborhoods, where millions of Lifeline-eligible consumers live, when they adopted the 10 mbps threshold? Judging from the agreement they reached with AT&T in the case of the Access program, it doesn’t seem likely.
Working with the FCC’s newly released Form 477 block data for December 2015, NDIA has found that AT&T’s maximum advertised DSL speed is below 10 mbps for about 33% of Census blocks in the city of Cleveland, and for 35% of blocks in the city of Detroit. Here’s a map showing the third of all Census blocks in Cleveland where households can’t buy 10 mbps AT&T Internet (click on the image to see it full size).
(For a deeper discussion of the underlying issues, take a look at “Cleveland and the Return of Broadband Redlining” by Harold Feld of Public Knowledge.)
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Dismay over psychiatrists’ failure to speak out on ‘abusive’ universal credit project
By John Pring on 7th November 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning
Five grassroots groups of disabled people have asked psychiatrists to explain why they have not spoken out publicly about a scheme that allows work coaches to refer universal credit (UC) claimants for mental health treatment.
Mental Health Resistance Network, Disabled People Against Cuts, WinVisible, Recovery in the Bin and Black Triangle wrote to the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) about the project on 16 October.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) project has been running as a pilot scheme in Cornwall since March 2018, and the department announced a further £100,000 in funding in August, which will extend it in the county until next October.
But the five groups have questioned why RCP has not opposed the project, which allows jobcentre work coaches with no mental health qualifications to bypass GPs and decide themselves whether a UC claimant needs specialist support for his or her mental distress.
The grassroots groups say the project poses serious health risks for claimants, while there is also the risk that those who are well enough to see a job coach will be fast-tracked for treatment, at the expense of those with more complex and serious mental distress.
They say they were “dismayed” that RCP had failed to oppose the project, a scheme which epitomizes a “highly biased political view of mental distress and treatment” that involves “both blaming and punishing individuals who fail to conform to the demands of the free market”, even if those demands could cause harm to the claimant.
They say it is “extraordinary” that RCP is going along with such an ideology, which also leads people to live with the “constant fear of destitution and with actual destitution”, which has led to many deaths from suicide.
The letter to RCP’s president, Professor Wendy Burn (pictured), also compares RCP’s support for this ideology to the psychiatric profession’s past “foray into gay conversion therapy”.
As well as the five groups, the letter was signed by other leading representative groups and individuals, including Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility; Social Work Action Network; Professor Peter Beresford, co-chair of Shaping Our Lives; Psychologists for Social Change; Dr Jay Watts; and Keep Our NHS Public.
The letter also poses a series of questions to RCP about the risks of the Cornish project.
DWP claimed in August that the results of the pilot “prove without a doubt that this approach works”.
But the five organisations warn RCP in the letter: “When the hostile environment for disabled people comes to an end, and we are determined that it will, how long will we have to wait for an apology from the psychiatric profession for the role it has played in enabling DWP abuse of people in mental distress?”
They call on RCP to “recommend most strongly that where a job coach is concerned about the mental health of a Universal Credit claimant that they seek to persuade the claimant to make an urgent visit to their GP”.
And they say RCP should support the right of claimants to receive their full entitlement to benefits, with no risk of sanctions, because of the risk that any cut in benefit could “endanger the claimant’s mental health and even their lives”.
Burn responded to the letter this morning (Thursday) after RCP was asked by Disability News Service this week why she had failed to reply.
In her response to the letter, which fails to mention universal credit, Burn says RCP does not accept the claim that it has been “promoting a highly biased political view of mental distress and treatment, or that it has played a role in enabling the abuse of people in mental distress who are seeking welfare support”.
She says RCP’s social inclusion lead has “continued to raise concerns and provide expert advice about the impact of welfare reform on people with mental illness and those with learning disabilities”.
And she says it is “clear that anyone undertaking a mental health assessment needs to be sufficiently qualified to do so and, as part of the assessment, should engage with clinicians involved in providing care to the person concerned”.
Burn also says RCP believes that a jobcentre would not be “a suitable therapeutic environment to assess and discuss an individual’s mental health”.
She adds: “Having to do so would likely increase the stress and pressure on people with a mental illness when seeking support, and the possibility of them seeing the receipt of benefits as being conditional on them agreeing to mental health treatment.
“In addition, there is a risk that being referred to the wrong type of treatment may reduce the likelihood of seeking help in the future, make their illness worse and increase the likelihood of experiencing a future crisis.”
But Denise McKenna, co-founder of MHRN, said today in response: “The letter does not address many of our issues.
“We really need to have a longer and deeper dialogue with the RCP because the denial that they are ‘promoting a highly biased political view of mental distress and treatment, or that it has played a role in enabling the abuse of people in mental distress who are seeking welfare support’ suggests one of two things.
“Either that the political ideology that is now embedded in the mental health system is an ideology that they agree with and maybe even welcome within psychiatry, or that they lack the political awareness to understand how they are colluding with a contested ideology that is harming people.”
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Masks is New York duo comprised of Max Ravitz aka Patricia (L.I.E.S, Opal Tapes, Ghostly) and Alexis Georgopoulos aka Arp (RVNG Intl, Mexican Summer, DFA, Smalltown Supersound). The aptly titled EP2 is (yes, you guessed it!) their second release, preceded by their Opal Tapes debut Food Plus Drug (II) - which gained support from Legowelt, Mount Kimbie and Boomkat - and a compilation appearance on esteemed Beats In Space 15 year anniversary 3xLP.
On paper, it might strike one as a strange duo. Ravitz's work leans heavily on house and techno, but his recent work has been focused towards emotive melodies of IDM. And Georgopoulos has been busy creating minimalistic classical music for RVNG and most recently made waves with his critically-acclaimed album Zebra, which combined elements of 4th World and cosmic jazz.
All the tracks making up EP2 were made as live performances. No overdubs. Nothing "in the box". Just classic hardware and a strong vibe.
Opener "In This Room" is the sound of a NY summer sunset, pivoting on a hypnotic rotation of orange-hued chords. "Emotional Response" displays a different side of the group. Combining a 909 with a piano tug, it could provide that perfect soundtrack to a cathartic cry on the dancefloor.
On the flip side, "In Another Room" is dreamy techno par excellence, before sliding into an acid chugg for the ages. Bookworms smears the sun of "In This Room" into a 4am whirl, all purple lights and mountains of fog.
The cover artwork features the artwork of Sanou Oumar, a recent emigrant from Burkina Faso, West Africa. He graduated from the University of Ouagadougou in 2007 and moved to the United States to seek asylum in 2015. He currently lives in the Bronx and works in Harlem, New York. In 2018, Oumar had his first two-person exhibition (with Matt Paweski) at Gordon Robichaux in New York, and in 2019 (with Elisabeth Kley) at South Willard in Los Angeles, curated by Matt Connors.
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The Brit David Brewis has released four albums since 2005 with his original formation Field Music and at the same time has accepted commissions as producer (Maximo Park), remixer and silent film composer. Last but not least there is his solo project School Of Language, for whose second album "Old Fears" he was influenced by Justin Timberlake's first two records as well as Michael Jackson's "Bad". On "Old Fears" Brewis remembers the time when he was at the beginning of his career and indulges in his early musical preferences (indie pop, electrofunk). In the instrumental title track you can almost feel the man from Sunderland conjuring up the old fears. In "Suits Us Better", on the other hand, he lets his falsetto voice ascend to heights where Pharrell Williams would otherwise be. Nevertheless "Old Fears" seems to be limited, as several songs use the same recipe (analog synths, funky guitars and airy bass lines). In addition, Brewis simply and poignantly runs out of breath on "So Much Time" and "You Kept Yourself".
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This Centurion University duo's brand new designer pens are made from just paper
The machine made from scratch by the duo Prem Shanker Pandey and MD Ahmad Raza is portable and not too heavy, it can easily be placed on top of a table
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Pens | (Pic: Likhan)
We have all heard about biodegradable pencils, but biodegradable pens? Now, that's new! Prem Shanker Pandey and MD Ahmad Raza, students of Centurion University, have successfully created pens made from paper. "Paper pencils are abundantly available in the market, which is why we wanted to do something different," says Prem. Their teachers at Centurion became their sounding board and helped them throughout their journey to make their idea of paper pens a reality. They aptly call their start-up Likhan.
Prem Shanker Pandey and MD Ahmad Raza | (Pic: Likhan)
So, how did they go about creating this innovative product? They first manufactured a machine the size of a printer that could make these pens. Though the first prototype had a problem with the conveyor system, they eventually nailed it. "I must admit that, at many times, we would wonder why we even took up something like this," laughs Prem. But it all seems to have paid off now as this portable machine can manufacture 200 pens in an hour. The business was booming. Thanks to the university and its many visitors, the company started getting orders even before it could be registered. Till date, they have sold 25,000 pens and have gone international too - with sales in Germany, Australia and Dubai. "We are not really thinking of selling the machine as we have patented it. However, we might lease them out to those who are really seeking a job," mulls Prem, who was born in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, but was at Centurion University to pursue a Diploma in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Their start-up, which makes pens mostly from newspapers, is based out of the university.
The machine made by the duo | (Pic: Likhan)
As students, Prem describes himself and his co-founder as average, but they were motivated to be inventors and job creators. Their first idea, water bubble - an eco-friendly alternative to plastic - did not work out. But they did not give up. "The paper pen is 95 per cent biodegradable not 100 per cent because we are still using refills inside the pen. We are in the process of figuring out how we can make the whole product biodegradable," explains the 22-year-old. They are currently looking to stabilise their company and are also looking for investments.
Worrying stats
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- It was 1.5 million tonnes in 2017 and it grew to 3.5 million tonnes in 2018
- Over 50 per cent of the paper produced from the recovered paper is produced in Western India
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Dumbarton's Lennox Brewery tastes sweet success
Lennox Brewery started making craft beers in 2018
Dumbarton’s own brewery has won a national award.
Lennox Brewery, based in Lime Road, was recognised in the SIBA Scotland Independent Beer Awards.
The annual contest, which receives hundreds of entries from breweries around the country, was held in Dreghorn last week. The brewery was awarded silver for its Cranachan Ale, a unique recipe inspired by the Scottish dessert.
The light ale, flavoured with oats, raspberries and honey from the brewery’s own beehives, picked up the award in the “Bottle/Can Speciality Light Beers” category.
Director Iain McLaren, who is also a local councillor, said:“I’m delighted the Cranachan Ale has been recognised. It was up against some really great competition, but we think it is quite special.”
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The Regional Review Panel hears appeals about:
Rent-geared-to-income (RGI)
Modified housing
Priority on the Durham Access to Social Housing (DASH) wait list
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The Regional Review Panel looks at housing-related decisions and reviews decisions made by:
Social housing providers
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How to request an appeal
To request an appeal, you must write to the person who made the decision that you want reviewed. Tell them that you want to appeal, and the reasons for this. You must do this within 10 days of being told of the decision.
If they are unable to address your concerns, they will forward your request to the Regional Review Panel within 10 days. The panel will contact you by mail to attend a hearing. The hearing normally takes place within the next two weeks. The panel will tell you its decision no more than five days after the hearing.
Apply to be a member of the Regional Review Panel
To join the Regional Review Panel, complete the Membership Application and return it to Housing Services.
To be part of the panel, you must meet one of the following requirements:
Work for the Region of Durham.
Be connected to a social housing provider in Durham (staff, Board member, property management company).
Work for a community agency related to housing in Durham.
We can accept, deny or repeal anyone's membership.
Conduct of the Regional Review Panel
The Regional Review Panel is fully independent. It is an impartial body made of representatives from housing providers, DASH, and Housing Services or the Social Service Department.
Three members make up the panel.
One person from a housing provider or DASH
Two people from Housing Services or the Social Services Department.
The panel does not represent the person who made the decision being reviewed. Panel members do not take part in any Regional Reviews if they:
Helped make the decision
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Are connected to the social housing provider who made the decision, even if they were not involved in the decision.
Members involved with the original decision cannot review the appeal. Panel members do not review decisions of providers that they work with.
Information obtained during a Regional review is confidential and is not shared with anyone outside the review. All members of the Regional Review Panel must sign confidentiality agreements.
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The process of renting a car in Ireland is identical to the processes involved with renting a car in any other part of the world. The main requirements for renting cars in Ireland fall under the following three categories:
Full drivers license without endorsements available for inspection
Driver license must be from your country of residence. Drivers from the UK, US, Canada, Australia and all EU countries do not need an international permit
Holders of Uk photo card driving licenses must bring both parts of their license.
Rental Car in Ireland Age Requirements
Drivers must be at least 25 years of age for groups A, B, C, J and K.
Drivers must be at least 27 years of age for groups H, N, O, P and R.
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By CNN Philippines Staff Published Dec 3, 2019 Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 3) — A lawmaker has filed a bill which seeks to ban the use of electronic gadgets in schools for grades 10 and below. San Jose Del Monte City lone district Rep. Rida Robes has filed House Bill No. 5542 or the “Electronic Gadget-Free...
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Credit for post: Professor Tom Butler and The EM Radiation Research Trust PDF https://www.radiationresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Digital-Technology-in-Education-Working-Paper-2019.pdf “Digital Technology is hardly the benign, neutral presence in education that we are often assured it to be” Selwyn (2015, p. 247) Abstract There is a dearth of scientific evidence and evidence-based practice to justify current levels of digital technology use for...
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Tougher tests for new entrant energy suppliers come into effect
Suppliers must provide proof of sufficient funding for the first year of operation
New energy suppliers entering the market will face stringent tests starting today as part of Ofgem’s efforts to drive up standards and reduce the risk of them going bust.
Under the new tests, suppliers must provide proof of sufficient funding for the first year of operation as well as details of their proposed plans to meet customer service obligations, including compliant handling standards and assisting customers in vulnerable situations.
They also include an “enhanced fit and proper assessment”.
Ofgem’s plan to introduce the tougher tests, confirmed earlier this year, follows a wave of supplier failures over the last two years, many of whom had very poor customer service.
Mary Starks, Executive Director of Consumers and Markets at Ofgem, said: “The new requirements will help us to weed out those that are under-prepared, under-resourced and unfit to hold a licence. This will help reduce the risk of supplier failure and help drive up standards for consumers.
“We will want to continue to encourage competition and innovation, including innovative business models, which benefits consumers, but also to ensure firms have robust business plans. We plan to consult early autumn on the ongoing requirements and exit arrangements for suppliers.”
Energy Ombudsman
The Energy Ombudsman believes there are risks for consumers when new energy suppliers fail to deliver to certain standards and welcomed the stricter controls.
Chief Executive Matthew Vickers added: “We therefore support the introduction of stronger controls from Ofgem to enhance the robustness of the energy market.
“Setting standards for new suppliers from the outset – and introducing consequences of falling short of these – should help to foster greater consistency across the sector and avoid some of the problems we’ve seen recently.
“In addition to these changes for new entrants to the energy market, we look forward to Ofgem’s proposals for ensuring tougher rules extend to existing suppliers. In our role as the Energy Ombudsman, we’re keen to work with all suppliers to help them improve their customer service and complaint handling more generally.”
Natalie Hitchins, Which? Head of Home Products and Services, said: “Energy customers have too often faced a lottery when their supplier goes bust – not knowing if they will face an overnight price increase of hundreds of pounds or potentially have to wait months for credit refunds.
“Energy is an essential service and all consumers bear the costs when firms collapse – so it is vital Ofgem does its job and ensures the market functions properly by fully implementing these stringent tests to root out unfit new suppliers before they take on customers.”
Stephen Forbes, Managing Director of SSE Energy Services, added: “It is great that rules are finally in place to protect customers from rogue energy companies entering the market. We now hope to see the end to costs of supplier failures being passed to customers. Ofgem should encourage responsible behaviour in the market, and for suppliers to pay their own way.”
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Moto focused on slimming down for the Z2 Play
With a smaller battery and lower-res camera, too.
Rob LeFebvre, @roblef
05.05.17 in Mobile
If you liked the original Z Play for its low price and compatibility with Moto Mods, you'll probably dig the pending follow up, Motorola's Z2 Play. They pretty much look the same, minus the shape of one of the buttons. If you expected the original's long battery life, however, the sequel might disappoint you. According to a review of some marketing material by VentureBeat's Evan Blass, the new Moto Z2 Play might be thinner than its predecessor yet more underpowered when it comes to battery life. The original Z Play has a 3510mAh battery in it, while the Z2 could come with a lowly 3000mAh pack, according to VentureBeat.
Still, if thinness is what you want, then this new handset might convince you to upgrade. Blass notes that the Android 7.1.1 Nougat-powered Z2 is set to be 6mm thick and 145 grams, a full millimeter thinner and 20 grams thinner and smaller than the Z Play. It also reportedly has a faster Snapdragon 626 chip with eight cores running at a 2.2GHz clock speed. The graphical processing chip, however, will be the same Adreno 506 unit. The new Z2 Play will have an extra gigabyte of RAM and double the storage capacity as its older sibling, coming in at 4GB and 64GB respectively.
The display itself will remain unchanged, most likely to make sure that all the add ons for Z-series devices will stay useful. In addition to a smaller battery, the camera may actually get a resolution downgrade, even though it may also see a higher image quality with a new 12-megapixel, f/1.7 component. The original Z Play has a 16MP, f/2.0 ratio.
Ultimately, the Moto Z2 Play remains fairly similar to the original device, with a few upgrades. None of this is official information, either, so things could change before the phone releases, perhaps later this summer.
Source: VentureBeat
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Innovate With Existing Products
Looking to innovate on a concept that already exists? Ordinary products get new life when they find the perfect blend of form and function.
Karen E. Spaeder
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This story appears in the May 2006 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
A stapler that staples up to 60 pages with even the lightest touch of a pinkie finger, a transparent tea tin lid that keeps out damaging UV light, a diaper bag that's runway-ready--they all point to one trend: In even the most seemingly ordinary product categories, there's room for extraordinary design innovation.
"I looked at the stapler market and [saw that] there hadn't been any functional changes in over 100 years," says Todd Moses, founder of Newtown, Pennsylvania, office products company Accentra Inc.Moses' core product, the PaperPro, packs the power of a staple gun into an otherwise traditional, nonelectric, sleek-looking line of staplers. The response has been astounding. "We've grabbed 20 percent market share in two years," says Moses, 32, whose "aha!" moment happened when his stapler jammed before an important meeting--and he chucked the stapler against the wall. Founded in 2003, Accentra now sells millions of units per year in more than 100 countries and has sales well into the eight figures. Retailers selling the PaperPro have seen a 30 percent increase in stapler sales.
Accentra's story is proof positive that consumers want function and fashion in everything they buy--right down to their staplers. "Both functionality and aesthetics are necessary to create a successful design solution," says Davin Stowell, founder and CEO of Smart Design, a New York City-based product design firm whose client list includes giants like Corningware, Hewlett-Packard and OXO International. "If it looks good and doesn't function, the consumer will have an unfavorable experience with a product. Likewise, if it functions but doesn't have visual appeal, a product may not attract consumers at retail."
Steve and Catherine Granville found this phenomenon to be true in January 2001 upon the birth of their first child--and they decided to do something about it for the sake of new parents everywhere. "When my wife and I became parents, we entered a parallel universe of really bad brands," says Steve, co-founder of Fleurville, a maker of high-end diaper totes. "People having babies now are very different from what [new parents] used to be. But typically, there's an assumption that the kid is buying the products."
In other words, cartoon characters and fuzzy bunnies might ap-peal to youngsters, but it's adults who have to carry the diaper bags--and the Granvilles had a hunch that something fashionable would be a hit. They were right. Their first product, the MotherShip diaper bag, struck a chord with parents who wanted something stylish--and didn't mind paying $155 for it. "We're the generation that buys a new spatula every three weeks just because we think it's cool," says Steve, whose San Rafael, California, company had sales of $2.5 million in 2005 and projects sales to reach $5 million this year. "Generations X and Y are entering their prime spending years and [are] using modern design as a prime attribute in evaluating a product."
With baby products in particular, the purchasing options can be overwhelming--so the Granvilles, both 37 and now parents of two, have to exceed expectations. Durable yet stylish, the MotherShip and other Fleurville products feature all the essentials parents need, including an insulated bottle holder and an ergonomically designed shoulder strap. Fleurville products are carried at more than 1,000 boutiques and department stores worldwide and have even attracted celebrity moms like Sarah Jessica Parker and Gwyneth Paltrow.
For Michael Cramer, founder of Adagio Teas, making his gourmet tea products stand out comes down to design details such as a bottom-dispensing teapot that simplifies preparation of loose teas; transparent, UV-blocking lids on tea tins to give customers a glimpse of the product prior to purchasing it; and pyramid-shaped tea bags that combine the taste of loose tea with the convenience of a disposable bag. The company--which sells primarily through its website (www.adagio.com)--relies heavily on product design to attract and reel in customers. "There's not much you can do to the product, because it's an organic product from overseas," notes Cramer, 39, who began the Clifton, New Jersey, business in 1999 and now brings in more than $1 million annually. "The only way to differentiate the product is [with] packaging and presentation."
It's a trend that's trickled down to--or perhaps derived from--universities nationwide, with many design students working with small businesses to create innovative design solutions. And according to Craig Vogel, director of the Center for Design, Research and Innovation at the University of Cincinnati, such successful designs are conceived early on, not as afterthoughts. "Get a complete look as early as possible at what a product is going to be," says Vogel, who teaches courses in integrated product development with companies such as Ford and New Balance. "An integrated approach allows you to develop a comprehensive product early and see if it's what consumers really want."
Karen E. Spaeder is a freelance writer in Southern California specializing in small business and education.
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Adnams Brewery makes another move towards industrial ecology
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31-Mar-2011 - Last updated on 06-Apr-2011 at 13:12 GMT
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Adnams Brewery plans to purchase its first two commercial vehicles that will run on biomethane generated from the anaerobic digestion (AD) plant it built at its Suffolk factory in 2010.
The AD plant is fed with spent grains produced during brewing, ullage from the bottom of fermentation vessels and food waste from Adnams's pubs and hotels. The biomethane generated by the AD plant is currently cleaned and fed back into the grid. But this is to change.
"We are going to use the biomethane produced from our waste processes to fuel our commercial vehicle fleet and that will take 30% out of our carbon footprint when we manage to get all of our commercial fleet replaced over the next cycle of four or five years," said Adnams's chief executive Dr Andy Wood.
Adnams also plans to install a 0.5MW solar array that will provide all the electricity required to run the brewery's data centre and the AD plant. It will also feed back some electricity into the National Grid, according to Wood.
"This is the next step on our journey of industrial ecology," he said.
Adnams also plans to provide the 40 farms that supply it with barley for malting with fertiliser produced from the AD's two by-products leachate and digestate.
"There is some legislation at the moment that says you can't put it on the land throughout the year only at certain times. But that is likely to change," said Wood.
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Adnams has also adopted a range of other measures to reduce its environmental impact, including reducing the weight of glass used in some of its bottles. "By far the biggest part of the carbon emitting process is blowing glass," said Wood.
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A sorbet and halal sweets lead our latest photogallery of recent product launches from food and drink manufacturers.
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27-Feb-2017 By James Ridler
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More than 2,000 job cuts have been proposed in the food manufacturing industry since the beginning of this year.
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