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Often visually stunning and with intriguing questions about where humanity ends and robotics begins at its heart, it nevertheless devolves into a generic action movie.
At the start, the brain of Major is being transferred from the human body in which she was born to a cyborg body with super-human skills. The people behind it work for Hanka Robotics where Dr. Ouelet (Juliette Binoche), the scientist responsible for Major, feels very protective of her creation.
But she can’t stop Hanka honcho Cutter (Peter Ferdinando) from letting Major be put to work as a fearsome “weapon” for the Section 9 intelligence agency as it goes about its business of uncovering percolating plots and terrorist villainy.
Then the mysterious ultra-hacker Kuze (Michael Pitt) starts picking off Hanka higher-ups, one by one. It’s Major — and her squad of ever-ready soldiers led by Batou (Pilou Asbaek) — to the rescue.
As directed by Rupert Sanders (“Snow White and the Huntsman”), from a screenplay by Jamie Moss and William Wheeler, “Ghost in the Shell” has some well-staged and entertaining action scenes. And, as she showed in “Lucy” and “The Avengers” movies, Johansson can more than hold her own as an action hero.
Also, it’s great to see veteran Japanese actor “Beat” Takeshi Kitano, who plays the head of Hanka with his usual no-nonsense gruffness, getting exposure to a non-art-house audience who may be unfamiliar with him.
It has to be said that “Ghost in the Shell” is ravishingly gorgeous. Kudos to Sanders, cinematographer Jess Hall and production designer Jan Roelfs for their impressive vision.
The soaring nighttime skyline of their Asian megalopolis is a hallucinogenic, fever dream of urban density, aglow with a super-charged LCD and LED-lit street life and large, moving holographic ads. Think of the visuals of “Blade Runner” and “Minority Report” or the cityscape of Las Vegas or Tokyo times 10. Yet, by day, there’s the decaying, rain-sodden feel of a high-rise shantytown, all hinting at a place with a million stories, both fascinating and frightening, to tell.
That city and the legacy of the original manga creation deserve a better story than this beautiful shell where the ghost has long since vanished.
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2019-04-20T20:24:39Z
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https://www.star-telegram.com/entertainment/movies/article141657514.html
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Since Sir Alex retired, who have been our best/worst transfers?
Discussion in 'Manchester United Forum' started by Wumminator, Dec 31, 2017.
I’d say him and if he can fulfil his potential then Martial. Pogba was great but the fee at the time was too much.
I’d say the worst Di Maria and Darmian.
Then you have a lot of average.
None of the players bought since SAF has been an absolute success, kind of depressing. Even Matic is looking very poor lately.
Romero was best value for money.
Victor Valdes has been erased from history.
Why did you add on 5m to Pogba and Lukaku's fees?
Best - Bailly definitely. Martial and Pogba at joint 2nd. Romero's up there too.
Worst- Depay, Falcao, Darmian. All useless.
Worst : most of them. Hard to name.
Best and worst is too simplistic, in my opinion. I really can't think of any that have lived up to expectations.
The same applies to a lot of our players. Maybe we've failed them or they've failed us. The last time we got the best out of a player we signed was RvP 12/13.
Herrera was POTY last year? And you say Zlatan is a positive based on last year?
Zlatan was our real POTY. Herrera had a good season but the only reason he picked up that award was because Zlatan wasn’t in attendance. They thought he was finished at United.
How has Martial been a success exactly? He was rubbish last season and is barely doing any better this season aside from a few goals against tired opposition when we’re 3 or 4 goals up. Complete myth of a player.
Blind and Rojo positives but Martial and Herrera negatives... my word.
Worst: Darmian, Rojo and Schweinsteiger.
I'd be happy to reverse every transfer decision in/out LVG made. Losing Martial would be the only negative.
Based on fee and expectation it's easily Blind, Bailly and Romero.
Some of our better signings like Pogba and Martial were very overpriced at the time and as good as they've been, more is still expected of them.
Saying that, we've wasted a feck tonne of money on bang average players. Even more depressing when you consider most of the dross were paid over £100k pw.
fecking hell, so many to choose from.
I think you're right, no chance was Herrera the player of the year over Ibrahimovic. Take his goals out of last seasons team and I dread to think where we would've ended up.
Pogba, Martial, Lukaku. All three will be a mainstay at United for years to come.
Absolutely spot on inc DDG if we can keep him and Bailly. If we sold the rest tmw, it would be no lose.
Yeah sorry forgot Bailly. We signed DDG in 2011/12 though!
Worst would be Falcao, but if you mean owning not loan then Depay. Best signing Matic. Bailey good value though.
Fellaini as a positive, while Herrera isn't? Our last year's POTY?
Some of the fees being quoted are incorrect. Where did people get 34mil from for Mkhitaryan? His fee has always been quoted as 18mil due to an expiring contract.
But people often miss how much money we got back from missed transfers. So it is positive thing.
This year Fellaini has been a mainstay when fit while Herrera has been a liability when ever he's played. I don't know what happened to Herrera I've never seen a players form drop so badly form one season to the next.
Di Maria is the worst. Hands down. Felliani is probably the best one over all.
Amazing going through the players and everyone is someone I'd replace if given the chance.
Di Maria is the worst. We prepped all preseason to play 352 and shipped out Nani because we didn’t need wingers. Then we sign Di Maria who 100% doesn’t fit in this style because he’s not a wingback, striker or a #10. We broke our transfer record for a player we didn’t know what to do with. Wish we still had him for Jose though.
Best is Bailly, Pogba and Martial. We got Bailly at a reasonable price all things considered abd he’s probably our best defender. Pogba is the best midfielder we could’ve got and at least gave us the perception that this is a good place to be. Martial we got at the right time. Had he stayed 1 more year at Monaco he’d probably cost a hell of a lot more.
Key words - this year. It have been but a few months. The thread isn't about that.
On current form Herrera looks like a flop. Football moves on you can't live on past glory.
Think about how ridiculous that statement would be >6 months ago. May as well have flipped the names.
The season when we signed Falcao, Di Maria, Herrera, Rojo, Blind and Shaw, I honestly thought we were going to take over the world....honestly! The last day signing of Falcao was the last time I went into serious muppet mode! If we had just hung on to some of our other players for one more year too, things could have been so different.
Look how that turned out. With that squad, it really was just baffling!
This season has changed that much though.
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2019-04-20T02:50:45Z
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The school library of today bears little resemblance to the library of ten years ago. Technology has become commonplace and changes are the norm. However, one thing has remained constant: the librarian’s goal to meet the needs of students and teachers. Recent studies (Lance, 1993,99) have confirmed what educators have always known, that academic achievement and success of students are directly related to the quality of the library. Test results showed that students scored higher on norm-referenced tests (such as the Stanford 9) when they attended schools with more books, periodicals, and videos.* The ability to access multiple resources increases student achievement because information is provided in different formats and perspectives. School libraries provide equal access to learning and teaching resources.
Many school divisions have recognized the role of the librarian in the curriculum process and have developed curricula and skills matrices that are directly related to the Virginia Standards of Learning. A close examination of the SOL reveals that many of the skills parallel the information literacy skills adopted by the American Library Association and the Association for Educational Communication and Technology. Together, these skills insure that all students become active participants in the learning process and have the skills necessary to be successful in this information-rich society.
The Office of Instructional Media and Training will sponsor two regional workshops to explore the opportunities for an effective partnership between classroom teachers and librarians. On July 17, 2000, there will be a meeting at Massaponax High School in Spotsylvania County for Superintendents’ Regions 1, 2, 3, and 4 and on July 12, at Hidden Valley Junior High in Roanoke County for Superintendent’s Regions 5, 6, 7, and 8. Each school division is invited to send the key instructional leader and key library contact to a workshop to examine the research regarding school libraries and academic success. Participants will see examples of the benefits that are produced when teachers and librarians work together as partners. This one-day event, "Teachers + Librarians = A Powerful Partnership, Come to the Library where Information is SOL Power" will promote discussions between these two instructional partners. There will be an exchange of ideas and the chance to meet with personnel in other school divisions. Participants will learn how strategic planning of activities will encourage teachers and librarians to cooperate in developing and designing lessons that meet the SOL objectives in the core areas and in technology integration. Participants also will be able to preview a guide that will be sent to all teachers this fall. This guide highlights the unique skills that the librarian brings to instruction and curriculum as part of a powerful partnership with classroom teachers.
Please return the enclosed registration form with the names of those persons who will be attending from your division by June 30, 2000. We encourage all school divisions to attend. For more information contact: Charlie Makela,(mailto:[email protected]), library media and technology specialist at 804-786-9412.
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MiWay's Business Insurance products, launched 18 months ago to cater for unique South African business challenges, are being welcomed by businesses across South Africa.
Morné Stoltz, Head of Business Insurance at MiWay, reports that businesses ranging in size from large enterprises to SMEs are moving to MiWay, thanks to the company's competitive pricing and a focus on service and flexibility in its insurance products.
"Typically, commercial insurance is complex, and difficult to customise to meet individual businesses' needs. This impacts small and micro enterprises in particular, often deterring them from taking the right level of business cover," says Stoltz. This, he notes, is highly risky.
"Without proper business cover in place, SMEs are at risk of losing both assets and critical business tools in the event of theft or damage. They may, for example, insure their privately owned taxi under personal insurance cover, only to have their claim rejected when the insurer discovers the vehicle was in fact used for business. Through not having the right level of insurance cover in place, the small businessman stands to lose his source of income and all the hard work he has put into building his business."
MiWay allows even the smallest business to tailor its level of cover and focus on only those assets that are critical for day-to-day running of the business. For many businesses, this means a focus on vehicle insurance, which are at high risk of accident and theft due to the amount of time they spend on the road. Laptops and cellphones that businesses depend on are also high-risk items for theft and loss, and can be insured as standalone assets or as part of a comprehensive insurance package.
Stoltz notes that many businesses are not fully aware of the potential risks they face in the running of their businesses, therefore MiWay's Business Insurance advisors offer extensive advice on the necessary cover. "Businesses may not have considered covering themselves against liability, losses due to protest action or lawsuits relating to their operations," Stoltz says. "We partner with business clients to ensure that they are aware of all the potential risks and are properly covered against potentially debilitating losses both in South Africa and across our borders."
MiWay Business Insurance covers business vehicles and trailers, goods in transit, and all business risks, including office and contents. MiWay Business Insurance is backed by the same high levels of service and support that have made MiWay personal insurance a leading brand. However, because MiWay understands that even one day without a crucial business van or laptop can have a devastating impact on a business' revenues, MiWay Business Insurance processes claims with even greater urgency than personal insurance claims. The company also works closely with business clients to continually evolve its product portfolio and services, aiming to become a business enabler instead of just a business insurer.
With a diverse insurance product offering, MiWay offers clients convenience and reliability, which, in times of crises, is imperative.
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2019-04-25T10:52:17Z
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http://pressoffice.mg.co.za/miway/PressRelease.php?StoryID=270399
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Looking to buy or sell Pneumatic Power Hand Tools? List your company on Macro Market.
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2019-04-20T08:17:24Z
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Manuel Pellegrini called for further improvement from Felipe Anderson despite the summer signing's double earning West Ham a 2-1 win at Southampton.
Nathan Redmond's scrappy goal gave Southampton the lead at St Mary's on Thursday, but Anderson, who had been quiet for much of the contest on the south coast, burst into life with a quick-fire double to turn the match on its head.
Despite Anderson scoring his seventh and eighth West Ham goals in the league this season, Pellegrini feels there is still improvement to be made in Anderson's game.
"He is a player that in every game does important things" Pellegrini said. "He will continue to improve, he still loses too many balls.
"In every game he makes important plays and that is the best thing he has about him."
The result helped West Ham climb to ninth in the league table, having won five of their last six games - something Pellegrini is pleased with especially after his side's poor start to the season.
"We played a very good game," Pellegrini said. "From the first minute we tried to win the game. We were very balanced the whole game. We defended very well, and played most of the game in their half.
"I am very happy. When you start with zero points from 12 [available at start of the season]. It is very difficult to recover the position in the table.
"We will continue to fight and improve and keep a winning mentality and finish as close to the top of the table as we can."
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2019-04-20T23:06:12Z
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https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11592781/west-ham-boss-manuel-pellegrini-calls-for-further-improvement-from-felipe-anderson-after-win
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'Bible of Love,' the new gospel album curated by the rapper, comes out Friday.
Normally, hearing that a rapper is preparing a 32-track album is cause for concern.
Yet, Snoop Dogg these days is less a rapper than a multichannel entrepreneur and media personality. Just look at how he spent the lead-up week to his new album, Bible of Love (out Friday), his first release on his new gospel record label All the Time Entertainment. His venture capital firm Casa Verde, which focuses on making investments within the cannabis industry, closed its debut round of funding with $45 million. He posed for photos with Elon Musk and voiced his support for London Breed's mayoral run in San Francisco. He teased a new line of shiny gold cleats he collaborated on with Adidas. And, in a development that’s actually related to music, he added new dates to his Mount Kushmore Wellness Retreat tour, including some in April with Migos.
Snoop is a busy guy, which is perhaps why he decided against recording a full-length rap album and opted instead to curate a sprawling collection of gospel tracks, appearing only occasionally to contribute a verse or share some wisdom on a song’s intro.
And, from a fan’s perspective, it's a master-level decision. In his promotions for Bible of Love, Snoop attributes his desire to make a gospel album to his ongoing quest to preach peace and love. That’s the same worldview that inspired the rapper’s ill-advised reggae phase in 2013, where he changed his name to Snoop Lion and clumsily sang his way through his Reincarnated album.
With Bible of Love, Snoop smartly reserves the album’s vocal duties for names including Faith Evans, Tye Tribbett, Rance Allen, B. Slade, Kim Burrell, Charlie Wilson and more. Snoop is more a curator than an artist on Bible of Love, and when he does drop in to sing a few verses, as he does on the album’s closing track, Words Are Few, he smartly defers to the gospel experts to carry the song.
With hip-hop trending toward super-long, overstuffed releases, Snoop smartly uses Bible of Love’s song tracklist to spotlight his army’s worth of gospel stars, making the album’s impressive runtime feel less like an egregious play for streaming numbers than it otherwise would. In reality, the album is 32 songs of spiritual uplift, consistently enjoyable and even moving at times, with Snoop making just enough appearances to remind listeners of his involvement, and doing some soul-baring in the process, like on his spoken-word storytelling on Pain.
"A lot of times, you see me performing for thousands of people, filling their hearts with love and joy, not knowing that I'm going through so much pain," he intones. "But God knows everything, and I mean everything, that I'm going through."
Above all, Bible of Love is another argument in favor of Snoop’s impressive longevity, not just as a TV host cooking alongside Martha Stewart, but as one of the most prolific rappers of his generation. Ceding the spotlight to curate a gospel album may seem like a cop-out for an artist wanting to appear to be productive. But Snoop just released his 15th studio album, Neva Left, in May , a collection of original music that was largely praised by critics.
For Migos and the other members of hip-hop's younger generation joining Snoop on his upcoming tour, the rapper — who, at 46, is hardly a fossil — continues to provide a blueprint for how artists in the genre can continue innovating, and as heard on Bible of Love, can continue thriving.
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2019-04-25T03:55:20Z
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2018/03/15/snoop-dogg-made-gospel-album-and-its-actually-wonderful/425624002/
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This as the impact of neoliberalism within ALL sciences and plugging people, therefore, can hardly be changes that benefit humanity but only be the distraction of a group that is disconnected from the world and their needs as real desires. A group that stands up and spends itself, boasts of possessing a knowledge with an inabordable engerimiento that is only a smokescreen at the service of collective obstruction to knowledge. But the curtain falls, as so many nonsense are falling, precisely because reality is imposed ... piles of useless data, copied, plagiarized, studies that end up on a shelf, "academic tourism", issues that only concern the Researcher and his team to collect a budget and justify it, conferences and seminars boring, and useless to fulfill formalities ... and of course, there is a moment that all that begins to be seen by the runners of the universities, then what is read is for Laughing because people are asking for kilos of articles, then meta copy, and what should be beneficial to humanity because it is the opposite, their results only go to the pocket of some sad researchers in the service of a decadent system.
How we can ask for budget with this frame?
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2019-04-23T04:44:12Z
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Posted by greyhoundsrule in Beading Divas to the Rescue.
Our new blog is up – please check it out as this old address is going down soon.
You can also subscribe to posts so you don’t miss any. We don’t share your email with anyone.
The new site also has a bling gallery, resources, and calendar of pet events. See you there.
Posted by greyhoundsrule in Beading Divas to the Rescue, Fundraising.
It was the middle of Tucson’s sweltering hot summer when one of PACC’s Animal Care Officers went to rescue JoJo, who weighed a whopping 29 pounds, from outside an apartment complex where he had been abandoned.
The obese cat was lethargic, panting and in obvious distress.
The officer brought JoJo back to PACC and right into the ICU. The donations from the Friends of PACC meant that one of the shelter’s veterinarians, Dr. Sarah Rios, could immediately give the overheated feline emergency care. She and her technicians worked to administer IV fluids, give him a cooling shave, and provide watchful, supportive care for several days while JoJo regained his health.
After JoJo health was stable, he went into foster care. He regained strength, lost weight and soon found a loving family.
Monetary donations to the Friends of PACC will be used where the shelter’s pets need them the most. If you wish to make an in-kind gift of supplies to help the pets of Pima Animal Care Center, we suggest you look at the shelter’s Amazon Wish List: . Shelter staffers update the list weekly to reflect the pets’ most pressing needs, and your donations will be shipped right to the shelter’s doors.
The above written by Karen Hollish.
It’s that time a year again when gift giving is at its most. Beading Divas Bracelets make awesome gifts for fashionable females and for animal lovers who want to be reminded (each bracelet comes with a dangling paw charm) of helping animals in need in our community.
Your gift of a bracelet will be well received. 90% of bracelet sales online and at these local venues will be donated to Friends of PACC who provide the extras that PACC cannot provide. It’s a win for the animals. And don’t forget to gift yourself. Bracelets cost $20/no tax.
Soon after she started working for Pima Animal Care Center this summer, Dr. Karyn Carlson came to us with an urgent request. She’d noticed many dogs who were exceptionally stressed in PACC’s old and overcrowded shelter, and she suspected that Trazodone, a gentle anti-anxiety aid that she’d prescribed to dogs in other settings, could help many of them cope.
With support from friends like you, we were able to grant PACC a 3-month supply of the medication, which the county cannot currently buy. Dr. Carlson tells us the gift is helping the shelter save the lives of dozens of dogs who are showing signs of shelter stress like self-injury, attempted biting and storm anxiety.
One such dog is Honey, a young greyhound / pit bull mix whose first family surrendered her to PACC due to their allergies. When we first met Honey, she was cowering in the back of her kennel. Her adoptability seemed low, but after Dr. Carlson put her on a Trazodone regimen, Honey began to come out of her shell.
Honey eventually caught the attention of Linda B., an Oro Valley resident who took Honey home. On her first night home, Linda gave Honey one calming Trazodone dose to help her settle in.
After that, Linda said, Honey didn’t need the medication, as she adjusted perfectly to life outside of the shelter — just as our doctors had predicted.
Today Dr. Carlson said the Medical Team is working with PACC volunteers to identify other dogs who might need a little help weathering shelter stress.
Beading Divas bracelets will also be at the 4th Avenue Street Fair on December 11, 12, 13.
For the month of December, Beading Divas to Rescue is thrilled to be fundraising for Friends of Pima Animal Care Center (PACC).
The Friends of Pima Animal Care Center is a project fund held at the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona. It exists solely to support the work done at the only shelter in Pima County that never turns away a pet in need.
There are many challenges that come with being Pima County’s only open-admission shelter. On an annual basis, PACC cares for more than 20,000 animals, including many who arrive ill, injured or abused. The shelter routinely reaches overflow conditions, and even with a much-needed new shelter approved by voters in November 2014, the needs often outstrip available resources – which is where community support makes a huge difference.
The Friends of PACC fills critical resource shortages that the county can’t fill.
Recent investments include the purchase of a dental x-ray machine, so that PACC’s vets can save the lives of senior pets and pets who suffered oral trauma; the purchase of long-acting pain medications, so that cats who undergo major surgeries recover in the most comfortable way; and the purchase of the most effective compounding de-wormer, so that all baby animals surrendered to PACC have the best chance of staying healthy and finding a forever home.
Stay tuned as we will be sharing stories for how Friends of PACC are helping the animals.
Taz is a very independent young male with a dominant personality and the most gorgeous green eyes. Actor Paul Newman had gorgeous blue eyes. Taz is the Paul Newman of cats with his gorgeous eyes.
He likes to play and talk with his people. He is a lover…loves to rub his face up against your hands and legs. His soft black coat is white underneath.
Did you know black cats are 50% less likely to be adopted than other cats? There is really no difference between a black cat and other cats except black cats have been associated with bad luck and witchcraft, resulting in them being harder to adopt. Help us break this cycle, adopt a black cat and find love. Adopt Taz, razzamaTAZ.
Beading Divas to the Rescue continues the bracelet fundraiser all month for Tucson 2 Tails, a local foster-based cat rescue. Follow T2T on Facebook to find out what kitties are looking for homes.
Check out these fabulous one-of-a-kind handcrafted bracelets with paw charm. Your purchases help to raise funds for these cats.
Willy is looking for his forever home!
For the month of November, Beading Divas to the Rescue is excited to be fundraising for Tucson2Tails.
He even has his own billboard as part of the SavetheSaveable campaign.
Handsome, one-eyed Willy is just hoping that you fall in love with him. Willy is a talker and will tell you what he wants you to know. He was found with a possible eye injury due to trauma and his eye was removed by an ophthalmologist, but that doesn’t stop him. Willy likes to play and is very active so he would do best with a buddy of some sort whether that be another cat, dog, kid, or you. He loves wet food and would love a forever home. Will that be you?
Maybe you cannot adopt a cat now but can you provide a temporary companion until a cat or a kitten finds a forever home? Follow T2T’s Facebook page for a current listing of kitties in need. If you have a spare bedroom, a laundry room, or even a bathroom, you can safely temporarily house a couple of kitties.
Beading Divas to the Rescue makes and sells one-of-a-kind beaded bracelets made with donated beads and a paw charm. Not only are the bracelets beautiful but meaningful for animal lovers because their sale benefits Tucson2Tails during November. Bracelets cost $20 and one size fits most.
You can buy bracelets ONLINE via ETSY or at these cool venues around Tucson that are kind enough to help us help the animals.
Also T2T is at PETCO (22nd/Harrison) every Saturday from 11 A -3 P. Pick out a bracelet with a $20 donation.
Posted by greyhoundsrule in Fundraising.
Founded March 2012, Tucson2Tails (T2T) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foster-based cat rescue providing quality care and attention. Since its inception, T2T has worked with local shelters and animal welfare networks to rescue hundreds of sick, injured, or orphaned cats and kittens at risk of euthanasia.
They currently have 20+ cats looking for homes. You can learn more at their website.
More information coming soon. In the meantime, check out some one-of-a-kind colorful bracelets online. 90% of online sales benefit the cats.
More about In the Arms of Angels and what a wonderful rescue they are Star light, star bright. Which star will I adopt tonight?
Here is Antares dog star – he looks like a Bengal tiger and gets along with other dogs.
Mira is a gentle girl and has great house manners although she aspires to be a couch potato as she longs to be up on the couch. Perhaps she’s your next lap dog?
Rigel, or as his foster moms call him “Mr. Wiggles,” is a happy little guy full of enthusiasim. He loves to play, with other dogs and toys although he may get possessive of his toys around other dogs. He is a little mischievous and always finds a way to entertain himself, whether it’s with a rock or your shoes!
You can find out about all the STARS at In the Arms of Angels and you can help support their efforts by making a direct donation or buying some bracelets.
Que Sera Sera: Adopt Me!
For the month of October, Beading Divas to the Rescue is excited to be fundraising for In the Arms of Angels, a Tucson foster-based rescue for dogs and cats.
Sera is an amazing girl. She has personality for days and can put smile on anyone’s face. Sera is adventurous, she loves hiking. She likes to hike to water and then splash around. She runs superbly next to a bicycle. Sera is so agile she makes playing fetch a treat every time. Garden work? She has that covered too, Sera will gladly play in the hose water to make sure it is safe for the plants!
Sera enjoys the company of male dogs who can handle a little rough play and let her win at tug-of-war. Sera loves to be inside with her family, and can settle down nicely for some popcorn and a movie. Sera is house trained, kennel trained, knows sit, and walks nicely on a leash. If you are looking for a fabulous indoor companion who is able to keep up with you on outdoor adventures, Sera is the girl for you!
You can find out more about this fabulous fun dog here.
And for your convenience, there is a plentiful bracelet selection online via Etsy.
Lilly, at approximately 4 years old, was found on the streets and taken to PACC where she was diagnosed with not only heartworm but ringworm as well.
Her physical condition suggests she was used as a breeder dog and then dumped on the streets when someone decided they no longer needed her.
This sweet girl was given only 24 hours to be rescued because PACC cannot maintain ringworm dogs for long due to ringworm’s propensity to spread in the shelter environment. Both her heartworm and ringworm conditions have been fully treated, and she is now ready for her forever family.
Had her foster mom not stepped up, she would have been put down at the shelter, and we would have never had the opportunity to discover what a happy girl she is and how she loves everyone – dogs, kids, cats, you name it.
She would love to have a lap to call her own. Lilly is crate-trained, house-trained, vaccinated, spayed, microchipped, and ready to go to a home that will spoil her rotten.
This month Bridge Rescue for Dogs is the Beading Divas to the Rescue fundraising recipient. You can find beautiful one-of-a-kind handcrafted bracelets available at these fine stores. All bracelets are $20 and come with a paw charm. Bracelets make great gifts for you and your friends plus they help the dogs!
You can also find a large selection of bracelets online (add $5.50 S&H) via Etsy.
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Preheat oven to 375°. Stir together graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and walnuts. Stir in butter. Press into a 9″ deep dish pie plate. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Cool completely.
Stir together strawberries and raspberries, sprinkle the 1 Tbl sugar over and stir. Refrigerate berries for 30 minutes. With electric mixer, whip cream cheese and powdered sugar. Fold in Cool Whip. Add berries and walnuts, fold gently. Spoon into completely cool crust, refrigerate. Add whipped cream and berries on top if desired. Keep refrigerated.
Apple, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries! Yes, all that in one pie, and so delicious. It is pretty easy, I used a bag of mixed frozen berries. This is a new favorite!
Preheat oven to 375°. Line 9” deep dish pie pan with bottom crust. In large bowl, mix sugar, tapioca, flour, and cinnamon. Add apple and mixed berries, toss gently to coat. Pour into pie pan, place butter pieces over filling, and cover with top crust. Cut slits in top crust for venting. Bake for 50-60 minutes, cover edges if necessary to prevent over-browning.
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When we came back from Christmas break, Buddy refused to go to school. He would kick, scream, and drag his feet. I had been worried that the break from school and altering his routine would be difficult for him. It seemed I was right.
I had to wake up earlier and get him moving earlier. It took longer to wrestle him into clothes. Sometimes, I let him sleep in his clothes, so all I had to do was change his shirt. I had fully expected him to adjust to being back at school after the first week. A month later, we were still unhappy.
If I asked, Buddy would simply state that he was scared, which is his phrase for, “I don’t know how to communicate what is wrong.” Every day after school, he would fall asleep; I couldn’t keep him awake. I asked his teacher if anything had changed, but she said his schedule was the exact same. She had noticed a change in him as well and had been planning on asking me if I had changed anything.
Normally, if I absolutely need Buddy to do something, I will let him play on his DS. This time, not even the promise of that could get him to wake up and get ready for school. Every day, after wrestling him into his clothes, I had to literally carry him onto the bus and help the bus driver buckle him in. Every day, he would come home either asleep or half asleep and collapse onto the couch.
I began to worry that the bus driver was new and could be upsetting him, but he should have adjusted; it was five weeks since he got back from Christmas break. What could be wrong?
In my last post, I detailed my day. Pretty much every minute is accounted for so that I can be there for Buddy, and so he has a steady routine throughout his day, whether or not he is at school. One day, a small change threw the entire day off course, and I finally figured out what was wrong.
Buddy and I were waiting for the bus. I had convinced him to sit on my lap, which meant I was sitting on the hard gravel of my driveway, but at least he was still. He snuggled into me, trying to go back to sleep. The usual morning traffic went by, but the bus didn’t arrive.
Buddy is very on schedule. The moment the bus was late, his internal alarm went off, and he began asking who was driving him into school. I told him that maybe the bus was just slow today and asked him to wait. He curled back up into me, but popped up every few minutes to ask if he could walk to school. No.
The bus arrived 15 minutes late. Buddy was understandably upset; his schedule had been thrown off, and he had already been having trouble going to school. The bus driver was new, which didn’t help. I felt my brain trying to get me to notice something, but the bus drove off and I hurried inside.
15 minutes late! I would have to shorten my workout routine, which meant that I would have to skip lunch later in order to accommodate. (Note: I finally learned from my doctor that my weight issue is due to hypothyroidism, and starting tomorrow, it should not be nearly the same issue it has been!) If I did my full workout, I’d wake Lily up late, which meant she wouldn’t nap until late, and then I’d have to wake her up, and she’d be cranky and would struggle to stay awake until bedtime. Heaven help me if she went to bed early! It would take days to fix her schedule. Maybe I could rush my errands or skip something. I try to be healthy and manage my money, but maybe we could eat fast food just this once to cut back on lunch time.
As I tried to take a fast shower, I grumbled over how someone being 15 minutes late could change my entire day.
They got him yet another bus driver, and he arrives at 7:15. The change in Buddy was instant. He woke up perkier, happier, ready to go to school. He comes home not nearly as tired. His teacher says he is doing better at school as well.
He also remembers my offer to let him play his DS. He wakes up, on his own, gets himself fully dressed (no more repeat pants!) and ready to go, then plays his DS until the bus arrives. He hands it off to me, asks me to charge it, and leaves. That easily. That simply.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Spain, where memories of the military dictatorship of Francisco Franco abide, long resisted the rise of far-right parties seen elsewhere in Europe. Now the nationalist Vox party has won seats in the local assembly of Andalusia, the southern region that has one of Europe's highest unemployment rates and is the entry point for thousands of Africans reaching Spain by sea.
Although Vox only won 12 seats out of 109, this could still make forming a regional government there hard. It is also an electoral setback for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose Socialists have long dominated the region, and raises questions over whether this win will be replicated in subsequent elections to be held across the country.
France's President Emmanuel Macron has ordered his prime minister to hold talks with political leaders and demonstrators to pre-empt further "yellow vest" protests such as those that turned central Paris into a battle zone at the weekend.
Despite the vandalism that has accompanied the protests, public support remains high for demonstrations expressing grievances that resonate for many ordinary French. Macron, already widely perceived as too close to elitist interests and with his own poll ratings low, knows he has to tread carefully.
After pressure from lawmakers, Britain's attorney general is due to make a statement to parliament setting out a summary of the government's legal position on Brexit. That is unlikely to satisfy the opposition Labour party, which has said it would press for contempt proceedings against the government if it fails to produce the legal advice she has on Brexit in full.
With just over a week before the crunch December 11 vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal, Labour also said it would propose a vote of no-confidence in her government if the deal is rejected.
TV naturalist David Attenborough delivers an opening speech at the U.N. climate change conference in the Polish city of Katowice today, before the various participating countries give their "national statements" going into the meeting.
The aim is to produce a rule-book on implementing agreed cuts to carbon emissions, but with climate change sceptics such as Donald Trump and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro in power, expectations of progress are low.
Détente or delay? Global stock markets strengthened first thing Monday after the United States and China agreed to postpone the imposition of further trade barriers for 90 days, while both sides step up talks on finding a breakthrough on a range of issues in simmering trade war. The announcement came after the meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at the G20 in Buenos Aires on Saturday.
The United States will postpone a plan to raise tariffs on more $200 billion of Chinese goods to 25 percent from 10 percent on January 1 in return for Chinese commitments to buy a range of U.S. goods, including food, while the talks go up a gear.
"Technology is becoming the main battle ground. It’s not just a trade war any more. It’s more like a technology war, in which we just found a temporary lull"
The temporary truce was a positive surprise for investors, who had not expected concrete breakthroughs at the summit. MSCI’s all-country stock index was up 0.5 percent, its sixth consecutive daily gain. Shanghai and Hong Kong stocks rallied more than 2 percent each, with Wall Street and European stock futures up almost 2 percent, too.
Tokyo and Seoul equity benchmarks were up more than 1 percent. In currency markets, China’s offshore yuan and Australia’s dollar surged more 1 percent. The dollar was lower, with Japan’s yen underperforming.
The trade news gave emerging markets a lift, with MSCI’s emerging-market equity index up 2 percent to its highest since early October and MSCI’s emerging currency index rising to its highest in almost four months.
As the trade deal help lift some of the gathering gloom on the global economic outlook for next year, Brent crude oil prices jumped back almost 6 percent to just above $62 ahead of Thursday’s OPEC meeting, brushing aside Monday’s news that Qatar plans to leave the group of oil exporting nations.
Within the major stock indices, automakers stood out with expected gains in the major European such as BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen of between 3 and 5 percent. There has been rising concerns that escalation of the trade war would see U.S. auto tariffs rise as soon as this week, but that is likely to be pushed back now in the light of the Trump-Xi agreement. Ten-year U.S. Treasury yields rose above 3 percent.
Investors will now try to work out whether the 90 days of talks is merely a delaying tactic or the beginnings of a more durable breakthrough on the thornier trade issues surrounding technology and intellectual property rights.
But together with signs the U.S. Federal Reserve may be rethinking its 2019 interest rate rise horizon, the lift to global market sentiment is significant. The key event in that regard this week is Thursday’s congressional testimony from Fed Chair Jerome Powell – postponed from Wednesday for state tributes after the death of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush.
Sterling was higher against a softer dollar as the UK enters an intense week of speculation and politicking before December 11’s parliamentary vote on PM May’s Brexit agreement. Italy's government borrowing costs fell to their lowest level in around two months on Monday after two newspapers reported Italy is negotiating with the European Union to reduce its 2019 target for the budget deficit to 2.0 percent of gross domestic product, or even below.
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One more Nested Intervals vs. Adjacency List comparison: the best comparison of Adjacency List, Materialized Path, Nested Set and Nested Interval I’ve found.
Cheap node moves, inserts, and deletes.
Expensive to find level (can store as a computed column), ancestry & descendants (Bridge Table combined with level column can solve), path (Lineage Column can solve).
Use Common Table Expressions in those databases that support them to traverse.
Compared to Adjacency List, moves, inserts, deletes more expensive.
Requires a specific sort order (e.g. created). So sorting all descendants in a different order requires additional work.
Combination of Nested Sets and Materialized Path where left/right columns are floating point decimals instead of integers and encode the path information. In the later development of this idea nested intervals gave rise to matrix encoding.
Stands apart from table it describes.
Can include some nodes in more than one hierarchy.
For complete knowledge of a hierarchy needs to be combined with another option.
A modification of the Adjacency List that adds a Level and Rank (e.g. ordering) column to each record.
Limit to how deep the hierarchy can be.
2008 offers HierarchyId data type appears to help with Lineage Column approach and expand the depth that can be represented.
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The information on this site relates to the public collections held by Worcester City and Worcestershire County.
The researchers are staff of Worcester City & Worcestershire County Joint Museums Service or independent researchers working with the collections.
We welcome your comments about the research and are interested to hear from other researchers who can shed more light upon our collections. All comments are moderated and will only be approved if they relate to the research topic itself.
Images of the collection are included for personal research and should not be reproduced without permission. For any enquiries regarding reproduction or copyright, please contact [email protected].
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Si Satchanalai National Park Si Satchanai National Park is the place of historical located in Thung Saliam district, Sukhothai province. Previously, it was called "Mueang Chaliang". The park has many important historical sites, e.g. Wat Phra Si Mahathat Ratchaworawihan, Wat Nang Phaya, Kaeng Luang and Tao Thuriang which is a sit where Sukhothai celadon were made.
In 1976, it was proclaimed as the historical park because of King Bhumiphon idea for heritage is Thailand outstanding cultural or natural heritage, it became Thailand’s heritage forever.
Later, the Royal Forest Department proclaimed a National Park on the 8th May 1981 as Thailand’s 26th National Park. The total area is about 213.2 sq.km. The park is comprised of rich forest that provide san important watershed for the surrounding agricultural area.
There are two way to get to Si Satchanalai National Park. Starts from Mueang District on national road no. 12 detouring the city about 15 kilometres then turns right to road no. 1113 to Sarachit Junction and turns left to road number 1294 to the national park, approximately 100 kilometres.
Starts from Mueang District on national road no. 101 about 68 kilometres to Sisatchanalai District, turns left pass Sisatchanalai Hospital to road no. 1035 about 11 kilonmeters and turn right to road number 1294 to the national park, approximately about 122 kilometres.
Ramkhamhaeng National Park RamKhamhaeng National Park, within the province of SuKhothai, is surrounded by the districts of Kirimas, Ban Dan Lan Hoi, and the provincial capital of SuKhothai. The park is also Known as Khao Luang by many of the local peoples. It covers an area of about 341 square kilometres, or 213,125 rai. Khao Luang is an important source of water for its’ surrounding areas. The park also contains a lot of natural beauty such as the Khao Luang mountain range, Sai Rung Waterfall, a herbal garden, and the Savannah located in the high country of the Khao Luang range.
1. Travel from Bangkok to the provincial capital of NaKhon Sawan by the Asia Highway, and then travel from NaKhon Sawan to the provincial capital of Kamphaeng Phet-SuKhoThai by Highway1, from there travel to district Kirimas in the province of Sukhothai by Highway 101, at the major 4 way intersection in Kirimas turn left, then follow signs leading to the park headquarters approximately 15 Kilometres from the 4 way intersection.
2. Travel from Bangkok to the provincial capital of Nakhon Sawan by the Asia Highway, and then travel from Nakhon Sawan to the provincial capital of Phitsanulok on Highway 117 (There is also a train that connects Phitsanulok and Bangkok), from there travel to the provincial capital of SuKhothai by Highway 12, and then travel on Highway 101 to the major 4 way intersection of Kirimas, at the intersection turn right and follow signs leading to the park headquarters.
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For the American actor, see Jameson Parker.
Ted Vega, Jarrod Alexander, Joseph Assef, Jon-Michael Herrmann, BJ Lightvoet, Hunter.
JamisonParker were an American emo duo in the early to mid-2000s, consisting of singer/guitarist Jamison Covington and guitarist/bassist/drummer Parker Case. While active, they released an EP titled Notes & Photographs (2003) and an album titled Sleepwalker (2005), and managed to play over 200 concerts across the United States.
Growing up in the small town of Guthrie, Kentucky and working at a Piggly Wiggly supermarket, singer/guitarist Jamison Covington realized he would not be able to find his musical fulfillment within the boundaries of his hometown. In 2002, he moved to Orange County, California, but soon learned that building a career in the music industry from scratch can be a hard and frustrating thing to do. Being a fan of the Orange County based band Astoria, Covington was delighted when, a mere week before his return to Kentucky, he was introduced to their drummer Parker Case through mutual friends. Case and Covington kept in touch, exchanging song ideas via mail for about eight months, until Covington returned to California in early 2003.
On April 25, 2003, the duo went to Skate and Surf 2003 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where they randomly performed so-called "guerilla sets" at merchandise booths and at a nearby hotel. The arising buzz around them was overheard by one of the festival's bookers, who immediately hired them to replace a band that had dropped out at the last minute. Having no time to think of a proper band name, the two combined their first names and played an all-acoustic set as JamisonParker. Their rudimentary but convincing performance quickly gained the attention of several record labels and finally landed them a recording contract with Interscope Records.
In August 2003, JamisonParker went into the studio to record a handful of songs for their debut EP titled Notes & Photographs, which was released on October 28, 2003. The release was supported by the band's first national tour with Straylight Run, followed by stints with Plain White T's, Motion City Soundtrack and Coheed and Cambria. The CD spawned a music video to the third track, "Your Song", which consisted of a collage of self-shot material, in analogy to the Polaroid pictures on the cover artwork for Notes & Photographs. While the buzz quieted down around the duo after January 2004, as they took most of the year off, JamisonParker returned to the stage with newly written songs under their belt in February 2005. In the meantime, they had recorded their first full-length album.
In June 2005, they appeared on the compilation album Punk Goes 80s with a cover version of Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World". However, due to their busy schedule, they did not have the time to rent a proper studio. Instead, they recorded the entire song while on tour – a hotel room became their recording studio, their laptop served as their mixing console and a bathroom closet was turned into a vocal booth.
On July 12, 2005, their album Sleepwalker finally hit music store shelves. It was promoted by various tours and a TV appearance on Fuse's Daily Download on September 12, 2005, where the duo gave an acoustic performance of the album's only single "Best Mistake".
While the popular demand for JamisonParker was at an all time high, the band-internal chemistry decreased steadily, up to an incident where during a concert, Covington walked off the stage in the middle of the band's set, leaving Case behind. From there on, it all went downhill, with a continuous lack of enthusiasm until JamisonParker gave their final performance at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, California on November 5, 2005 and canceled the remainder of their scheduled tour dates with The Juliana Theory.
On November 8, 2005, Covington officially declared the disbandment of JamisonParker. In the announcement posted online, he made it clear that he and Case will not be collaborating again in the future. After the split, Covington formed the shoegazing band E for Explosion. His band's name was changed to Covington but again changed to E For Explosion. A debut EP titled Paper Flowers, was released on October 2, 2007. On May 20, 2008, E for Explosion released their debut album Reinventing the Heartbeat. Case announced that up until the release of his upcoming project I and the Universe's debut record, he will be touring as part of Say Anything. Case has ended up staying with the band since, though, and is counted as the second longest remaining member, behind original member Max Bemis.
^ Fuoco, Christina. "JamisonParker – Artist Biography". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
^ "JamisonParker speaks with Michael Mason". From Out of Nowhere. Retrieved January 15, 2006.
^ "Jamison / Parker". AbsolutePunk.net. Retrieved January 15, 2006.
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Here are the facts: Lance Dutson, a Maine blogger working for the re-election campaign of Sen. Susan Collins, recently placed two political ads on Google on behalf of the Maine Republican. The pro-Collins ads were critical of MoveOn.org’s recent “General Betray Us” insertion in The New York Times and claimed MoveOn.org was targeting Collins for defeat. Shortly thereafter, the ads disappeared, and Dutson was told by a Google representative that they were removed because they violated MoveOn.org’s trademark.
Then last week, The Examiner published an oped by Robert Cox, a member of the newspaper’s blogger board, that questioned why Google would suppress an ad at the apparent request of MoveOn.org, yet allow ads critical of corporations like ExxonMobil, Wal-Mart and Microsoft. The Cox oped was linked to by the Drudge Report, Instapundit, Slashdot and Michelle Malkin among online media, and by Fox News on cable.
Google claims its policy is to stay out of trademark disputes by removing any ad that is judged by the trademark holder to be a violation. Aside from questions about ideological bias or inconsistency in how Google enforces its policy, a more fundamental issue is at stake here — enabling abuse of a commercial trademark as a means of squelching dissident political speech.
On its face, a policy that allows censorship of political speech critical of the trademark holder is a violation of the First Amendment. If Google maintains this policy, it will be handing a powerful tool for crushing dissent not only to political groups like MoveOn.org but to every corporation with a trademarked name.
Read the rest at the link above. They don’t remove ads attacking the “Wal-Mart” trademark, because the mere mention of a trademarked name doesn’t constitute an infringement. Neither did the ads attacking MoveOn.org.
If anything, Wal-Mart and other purely commercial enterprises are more deserving of trademark protection than MoveOn, which is a registered “multi-candidate Political Action Committee.” To claim one cannot even mention the name of a PAC which has inserted itself into the news, claims influence with policymakers and legislators at the highest levels of the Democratic Party, and publicly admits purchasing the ad in question, without their permission, is a laughable position.
Suppose the Republican nominee trademarks his own name. Will Google then refuse any ads which mention him – through the campaign and, if he is elected, throughout his term? Right.
On the bright side, of course, the leftists running Google can count on continuing invitations to the very best cocktail parties.
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https://wizbangblog.com/2007/10/16/googles-selective-censorship/
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The program has a stellar team of ~40 multidisciplinary and highly collaborative mentors. They share the common goal of providing the best training experience to help form the next generation of leaders in genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics research.
Collectively, they offer a wide range of chronic disease research opportunities including cancers, cardiovascular diseases, psychiatric and behavioural disorders, neurological, metabolic and autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies, and normal growth and development.
In addition, all mentors have a track record of successfully training graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and/or post-MD fellows.
Our supervisory teams are made up of mentors from each of the program’s three targeted disciplines.
enrich their knowledge and skill sets in complementary, specialized disciplines required for advanced genetic epidemiologic research.
Mentorship panels, composed of three mentors, will include mentors from each of the program’s three main disciplines contributing to genetic epidemiology research, where at least one mentor belongs to subsections 1.1 and/or 2.1.
@camh.net Statistical genetics, GWAS, psychiatric genetics, methods development.
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The Energy Law Institute of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London is pleased to announce details of its 4th Annual Lecture, sponsored by Clifford Chance.
The economics of the generation, storage and use of energy have been changing very quickly in the past decade. The price for renewable generation from solar and wind, to take an example, has fallen far faster than even the optimists had predicted. Will these trends continue? Is there a Moore’s Law for energy? How close are we to operating at the limits set by the laws of science? The answers to these questions are technology specific, but in several very large sectors, there are real opportunities to do much better.
The lecture and Q&A session will be chaired by Sir David King, former permanent Special Representative for Climate Change.
Please note, this event is invitation only.
To hear about upcoming events and last news from the Energy Law Institute, please subscribe to our mailing list below.
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https://www.qmul.ac.uk/ccls/events/items/4th-annual-lecture-of-the-energy-law-institute.html
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The University of California San Diego softball team ranks 23rd in the 2019 National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division II Top 25 Preseason Poll, which was released on Wednesday morning. The poll was voted on by 16 NCAA Division II head coaches, with two from each of the eight regions.
The Tritons, who finished the 2018 season with a 36-19 record and a trip to the NCAA West 1 Regional, received 60 points from the coaches. They follow closely behind Valdosta State (41-11), who holds the 22nd slot with 61 points. Reigning national champion Southern Indiana (41-23) was picked to finish first, garnering 400 points.
UC San Diego was one of two California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) members to earn a spot in the poll. Chico State (55-6) sits in seventh place with 320 points. On Monday, the two teams were selected to finish in the top two spots of the 2019 CCAA Softball Preseason Coaches’ Poll, with Chico State in first and UC San Diego in second.
The Tritons finished the 2018 season receiving votes in the NFCA Division II Top 25 Poll. Since then, UC San Diego has been gearing up for the 2019 season. The Tritons have returned pitching phenom and CCAA Freshman of the Year Robyn Wampler, who boasted a 1.81 ERA in her first season. On Friday, Wampler was named to the Fastpitch News Preseason All-America Second Team. The Tritons have also retained two of their three batting average leaders, with Sherriah Harrington (.410) and Maddy Lewis (.358) ready for another strong offensive season.
UC San Diego also added seven first-year Tritons, who will be looking to make an impact in 2019. The season is quickly approaching, with the Tritons’ season opener taking place on Friday afternoon. UC San Diego will begin its season at the Desert Stinger Softball Tournament in Las Vegas, facing Concordia University (Ore.) at 4:30 p.m. on Friday.
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2019-04-20T15:14:12Z
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http://www.ucsdtritons.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=29935&SPID=2342&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=211788468&DB_OEM_ID=5800
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A lightbox is a design effect that opens an image in a centered overlay and dims the rest of the page when an image is clicked. Clicking the x in the top corner closes it and returns to the page. Lightboxes are a great way to highlight images by allowing visitors to enlarge them.
You can set images to open in lightboxes in Image Blocks and Grid Gallery Blocks. Some templates' Gallery Pages use lightboxes by default.
Some features aren't compatible or work differently when images are set to open in a lightbox.
Captions - Captions always display when you hover over lightbox images, regardless of which caption display option you choose. On mobile, they display when you tap the dot icon.
Clickthrough URLs - Lightboxes disable clickthrough URLs.
Mobile zoom - Pinch-to-zoom isn't supported for lightbox images on mobile devices.
Gallery Page options vary depending on your template.
Can I change the lightbox background color?
Choose Dark Overlay for a black background color.
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In Gallery Pages set to Grid, you can set lightboxes to Light (white) or Dark (black) in the Gallery Styles section of Site Styles.
Add an Image Block, or double-click an existing Image Block to open the image editor.
Ensure your layout is set to Inline.
Choose your lightbox style with the Lightbox Theme drop-down.
After adding your images to a Grid Gallery Block, click the Design tab and check Lightbox. Set your lightbox slideshow style by choosing Dark Overlay or Light Overlay from the drop-down.
Note: Lightboxes aren't available in Slideshow, Carousel, or Stacked Gallery Blocks.
When a Grid Summary Block is connected to a Gallery Page, the images automatically open in a lightbox slideshow. The Summary Block lightbox color is always Dark. Captions display on hover.
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See the Australian Olympic Swimming Team take shape at the SA Aquatic & Leisure Centre in Adelaide from 15-22 March.
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Selling McDonal’s toys please text 250-329-6887.
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The word Mastek has evolved out of the ‘best of management practices and software technology’. We engage with our clients in delivering strategic IT programs and platforms that enable their business innovation and transformation.. Therefore, it is a matter of pride that Fortune 500 companies are our clients now, and our solutions are poised to create many-a-first in their respective industries.
Our range of enterprise solutions to the Insurance and Government verticals is the foremost proof of this passion. As the Third wave hits the Indian IT industry, Mastek is poised to become a bellwether for Wave 3 companies out of India.
Role And Responsibility : 1) Should have a good functional grasping capability of complex functionality. 2) Should be well versed with Oracle 10gR2, PL/ SQL and OWB 10.2.0.2 at least. 3) Should be conversant with data warehousing methodologies and modelling techniques. 4) Should be able to design complex functionality using the technology mentioned in 2 above, with optimal performance. 5) Should have good communication skills. 6) Should be able to assertive on their communication with Oracle / BO consultants. 7) Should be able to do performance tuning in Oracle and OWB. 8) Should be conversant with the entire SDLC of a project.
Job Requirement : 1) Should have a good functional grasping capability of complex functionality. 2) Should be well versed with Oracle 10gR2, PL/ SQL and OWB 10.2.0.2 at least. 3) Should be conversant with data warehousing methodologies and modelling techniques. 4) Should be able to design complex functionality using the technology mentioned in 2 above, with optimal performance. 5) Should have good communication skills. 6) Should be able to assertive on their communication with Oracle / BO consultants. 7) Should be able to do performance tuning in Oracle and OWB. 8) Should be conversant with the entire SDLC of a project.
Role And Responsibility : • Informatica ETL. • Good Programming Skills • Data Migration or Data Warehousing Experience. • Insurance Domain knowledge would be an added advantage. • Should be able to understand Client’s requirement and be able to create proper Specs document. • Should have capability to gather requirements.
Job Requirement : • Informatica ETL. • Good Programming Skills • Data Migration or Data Warehousing Experience. • Insurance Domain knowledge would be an added advantage. • Should be able to understand Client’s requirement and be able to create proper Specs document. • Should have capability to gather requirements.
Role And Responsibility : Key Responsibilities: 1) To design and implement the compensation system for the organization by: ? Evaluating and defining clear bands and compensation structure ? Undertaking compensation and reward benchmarking studies in line with the business and reward strategy ? Reviewing the compensation structure of the organization and suggesting improvements from time to time ? Assisting in formulating the increment and reward strategy for the company and implementing the same 2) To monitor and arrest attrition and ensure smooth exit in the company through: ? Timely MIS of attrition and resignation trends on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis ? Proactively working with the Unit HR to arrest attrition wherever possible ? Ensure smooth and hassle free exit procedure and settlement of dues 3) To review and upgrade existing policies and frame new policies 4) To assist in the automation of HR systems to enhance overall efficiency and service effectiveness.
• Discretion and confidentiality are essential attributes of a successful secretary.
• Candidate is often responsible for specific projects, as well as coordinating and implementing office procedures.
• Welcoming and looking after visitors.
• Dealing with incoming email, faxes and post.
• Dealing with correspondence and writing letters, and taking dictation and minutes.
• Producing documents, briefing papers, reports and presentations.
• Organizing meetings, and ensuring the manager is well-prepared for meetings.
• Organizing and storing paperwork, documents and computer-based information.
• Arranging travel and accommodation for the staff in the region.
• Liaising with members of staff in other departments or external contacts.
• Ordering and maintaining stationery and equipment supplies.
• Arranging both in-house and external events.
Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor of Art, Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Science , Bachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Computer Application , Bachelor of Engineering/Technology, Master of Art , Master of Commerce , Master of Computer Application/Computer Science or Master of Science in Others or equivalent.
Preferably Managers specializing in Secretarial/Executive & Personal Assistant or equivalent.
Developing and maintaining relationships with MNC clients and large corporates.
Competencies Required: Should have good knowledge on various corporate banking, trade and treasury products.
Should have good credit and analytical skills.
Should have excellent relationship skills and prior experience in handling corporate customers.
Should be target origented and willing to take responsibilities.
Every little step taken today is geared to help take flight, and stay true to your dreams. We have lived by our commitment to be a solutions provider, a world-class one at that, enabling businesses to apply technology to create business transformation.
Mastek has a global footprint with 19 offices located at major markets. If you are based in the US, Europe, Japan or the Asia Pacific region, we headquarter in your country.
Founded in 1998, Hostway Corporation is a global leader in providing services over the Internet. Headquartered in Chicago, Hostway employs over 450 people globally, and operates offices in Amsterdam, Austin, Belgium, Chicago, Frankfurt, Hannover, Korea, London, Mumbai, Paris, Poland, Romania, Sydney, Tampa, and Vancouver.
Hostway’s services include Domain name registration, Email, Web hosting, Ecommerce, Dedicated servers, Online Advertising and Colocation. Hostway also manages the .pro registry, offers VoIP solutions, online backup and several other internet-based services. The entire gamut of services are offered under 12 distinct brands – Hostway, NetNation, Domain People, Easy Host, Dedicated Central, IntaServe, PowerMedium, Server-Service, BroadXchange, DialBug, and Registry Pro.
As one of the largest web hosting companies worldwide, Hostway manages over 400,000 customers. Hostway operates 11 Tier-1 data centers providing 400,000 sq ft of state-of-the-art datacenter space. Some of Hostway’s famous clients include Wikipedia, Sony Music, JVC, Coca Cola, Pepsi Co., McGraw-Hill, Bank of Montreal, Tribune Co., Hershey’s, Campbell Food, Wrigley’s, Disney, Infinity Broadcasting and Fox News.
Only candidates residing in MUMBAI need apply.
Hostway is seeking technocrats who are eager, energetic and highly motivated for a Software Engineer- DB position with our Engineering Group, located in Mumbai.
Willing to work on a large scale database.
Strong understanding of RDBMS concepts.
Knowledge of Linux, Apache, MySQL is preferred.
Good knowledge of SQL query language.
Good knowledge of stored procedures, triggers and functions.
Good knowledge DDL and DML statements.
Familiarity with other RDBMS systems such as Oracle, DB2, MS SQL server et cetera would be an added advantage.
A major plus would be a good understanding of Linux internals and file system.
Strong programming, analysis and design skills.
Good knowledge of both Linux and Windows in a software development setting.
BE/BSc/Diploma in any stream, preferably Computer Science, Information Technology or any other related field.
Must be a good team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Founded in 1998, Hostway Corporation is a global leader in providing services over the Internet. Headquartered in Chicago, Hostway employs over 600 people globally, and operates offices in Amsterdam, Austin, Belgium, Chicago, Frankfurt, Ft. Lauderdale, Hannover, Korea, London, Miami, Mumbai, Paris, Poland, Romania, Sydney, Tampa, Vietnam and Vancouver.
Hostway’s services include Domain registration, Email, Web hosting, Web Design, Advanced Communications, Ecommerce, Dedicated servers, Online Advertising and Colocation. Hostway also manages the .pro registry, offers VoIP solutions, online backup and several other internet-based business applications (SaaS). The entire gamut of services are offered through 15 distinct brands – Hostway, Affinity, ValueWeb, Gate.com, NetNation, Domain People, Easy Host, IntaServe, PowerMedium, Server-Service, BroadXchange, DialBug, and Registry Pro.
As one of the top 3 web hosting/web service providers worldwide, Hostway manages over 600,000 customers. Hostway operates 11 Tier-1 data centers providing 400,000 sq ft of state-of-the-art datacenter space. Some of Hostway’s famous clients include Wikipedia, Sony Music, JVC, Coca Cola, Pepsi Co., McGraw-Hill, Bank of Montreal, Tribune Co., Hershey’s, Campbell Food, Wrigley’s, Disney, Infinity Broadcasting and Fox News.
Working knowledge of both Unix and Windows in a software development setting. Prefer strength in Unix (all flavors) environment.
Must be a good team player with excellent written and verbal communications skills.
Founded in 1998, Hostway Corporation is a global leader in providing services over the Internet. Headquartered in Chicago, Hostway employs over 500 people globally, and operates offices in Amsterdam, Austin, Belgium, Chicago, Frankfurt, Hannover, Korea, London, Mumbai, Paris, Poland, Romania, Sydney, Tampa, and Vancouver.
Hostway is one of the largest web hosting companies worldwide, and manages over 400,000 customers. Hostway operates 11 Tier-1 data centers providing 400,000 sq ft of state-of-the-art datacenter space. Some of Hostway’s famous clients include Wikipedia, Sony Music, JVC, Coca Cola, Pepsi Co., McGraw-Hill, Bank of Montreal, Tribune Co., Hershey’s, Campbell Food, Wrigley’s, Disney, Infinity Broadcasting and Fox News.
Purchase related work including import and customs duty Payments.
Excise and services tax related matters.
2 – 5 years of experience in the related field.
Responsible for servicing of Plastic joining machines and precision cleaning machines.
0 to 2 years of experience in servicing Plastic Processing Machines or Capital Equipment.
Candidates working in maintenance department of a plastic mould shop can be considered.
• The Team Lead Assurant (Non-voice) is responsible for ensuring that their team meets and exceeds the client standards for production and accuracy on a consistent basis.
• To monitor workflow and delegate work accordingly in order to meet the compliance requirements of the client.
• To be able to co-ordinate effectively with the floor leads for management of the overall team quality.
• To identify and mentor/coach non-performers in the team.
• To be able to ‘Pitch in’ to the team’s production as per situational demand.
• To take regular team huddle/meet to identify any communication gap/ process update requirements.
• To ensure that quality audits are reviewed and discussed with the team to ensure that the errors are not repeated.
• To formulate plans/ practices that enable the team to maximize their output in terms of productivity and accuracy.
• Analytical skills to track the process for workflow, tracking team performance, deployment of resources and capacity planning.
• Communication skills and team building capabilities.
• Good communication skills (oral & written).
• Should be a people’s person with the ability to get the job done.
• Should be proficient with MS Office applications.
• Should be able to analyze basic data/reports and provide synopsis/summary of performance.
Intelenet Global Services is a leading global third party BPO Company that that delivers Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services to Fortune 500 companies in the UK, USA, Australia and India. Intelenet’s focus is on providing solutions to global organizations seeking to reduce costs while consistently maintaining superior service levels.
Our solutions extend across all strata of BPO, technology and consulting and can be applied to organizations in industries as diverse as banking & finance, insurance, retail, telecom, information technology, travel and hospitality.
Job Description: To effectively and efficiently respond to calls from Customers, reply to their queries and resolve issues, if any, and to ensure the quality of output and accuracy of information is maintained.
Candidate profile: Graduates/undergraduates (Any stream), Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English, Prior Banking or Call Center work experience preferred, Good working knowledge of MS Office, Windows, and Internet, Strong desire and commitment to provide excellent customer service, Strong time management skills.
In the late ’80s, two practising chartered accountants identified the need for an accounting software that offered great functionality and incredible simplicity. And this marked the creation of Wings Accounting software. The software has been sold ever since the first version was launched in 1988.
Over the years, Wings software has evolved through 16 major versions, innumerable upgrades and expansions. But what’s remarkable is that the essence of Wings has remained unchanged.
The company has grown by leaps and bounds and has a vibrant team of about 250 professionals today. And won over 35,000 satisfied users worldwide.
Software products from the house of Wings are the finest in features, functionality and ease of use. The products are rigorously field-tested and have proved to be extremely stable and robust.
Profile: Sales Managers sell Wings Solutions to corporates. The Solutions are in Accounting, Sales & Distribution, SCM, Retail and ERP. The work involves selling the concept to the prospective client, demonstrating the software, negotiating and closing orders. Sales Managers may be asked to lead a team of Executives.
Skills: A Commerce Graduate with, preferably, a Management Degree. Prior sales experience essential. Preferred (not essential): prior management experience, selling to companies, selling of business software.
Professional environment, excellent remuneration and extraordinary growth on offer.
If you are interested, send your resume to [email protected]. Only local candidates will be called for interviews.
It would be great if you could give some reference for this. We would reward you with nice referral bonus for this.
Valuewing is a moderate & innovative service group in the service sector and it provides fully integrated services to clients in India as well in overseas especially in US, UK, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, Denmark, Australia across different industries based on their business needs.
We currently have Oracle, PL/SQL requirements (Associate Consultants – for our Mumbai office) and would like to know if you will be interested in exploring the opportunities with us.
Having Min. 4 year of Experince in C/C++ Development.
We would like to bring to your notice that there is an urgent job opening with our client. The details of the job opening are mentioned below for your perusal.
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When Nancy Pinkston’s melanoma crept back, taking up residence in lymph nodes under her right arm, she and her oncologist in Dallas discussed her options.
Surgery is standard of care for her stage III melanoma. About 70% of patients who have surgery for that stage end up having a relapse.
Within days, Nancy was in Houston meeting Tawbi and her surgeon, Jennifer Wargo, M.D. Nancy enrolled in a novel immunotherapy trial, which studies pre-surgical treatment with a drug that’s currently approved for stage IV metastatic melanoma.
The trial, co-led by Wargo and Rodabe Amaria, M.D., involves pre- and post-surgical treatment with a form of immunotherapy called immune checkpoint blockade, which frees the immune system to attack cancer, rather than attacking cancer directly.
For Nancy, surgery followed four rounds of treatment with nivolumab (Opdivo).
Clinical trial participants like Nancy are helping Wargo and her colleagues address a vital question: Why do these immunotherapy drugs work well for some patients, like Nancy, and briefly or not at all for others?
Nancy agreed to repeat biopsies during her melanoma treatment, beyond the usual pretreatment biopsy. Wargo is a leader of an effort to employ deep molecular and immune analysis of tumors before, during and after treatment to understand who benefits, who doesn’t and what to do next after any treatment fails.
“We should be incorporating this sort of biopsy and blood sample analysis into clinical trials, and ultimately we may even incorporate this into treatment with standard of care therapy. This effort is critical to guiding patient care in this era of precision medicine,” Wargo says.
Nancy’s clinical trial is part of MD Anderson’s Adaptive Patient-Oriented Longitudinal Learning and Optimization (APOLLO) platform, one of our 10 Moon Shot™ platforms established to develop new treatment options for cancer patients. It’s designed to help us understand exactly how advanced cancers survive and help researchers understand which treatments will work best.
In the next two years, APOLLO is scheduled to conduct such analyses in 2,100 patients enrolled in 28 high-priority clinical trials for melanoma; multiple myeloma; glioblastoma; lymphoma; lung, breast, colorectal, pancreas and ovarian cancers; sarcoma; and cancers caused by the human papillomavirus.
A solid tumor pilot study using the APOLLO approach led by Wargo found analyzing biopsies taken early during treatment with a similar immunotherapy drug predicted which patients would respond. Before-treatment biopsies didn’t find predictive genomic or immune biomarkers.
“Certainly, finding predictive biomarkers in pretreatment biopsies is the Holy Grail, but pretreatment and early on-treatment biopsies might be a winning combination,” says Andrew Futreal, Ph.D., co-leader of APOLLO and of MD Anderson’s Moon Shots Program™, which was designed in 2012 to save more lives by accelerating the development of new approaches based on scientific discoveries.
Wargo’s earlier study results, if confirmed by larger studies, could guide treatment.
“We could start by treating with an immunotherapy agent, do an early on-treatment biopsy and, based on that, either continue or add another agent,” Wargo says.
Cancer in its advanced stages survives by changing in response to treatment.
“If you don’t get a biopsy after treatment, you aren’t going to learn about how tumors evolve and resist treatment,” says Ignacio Wistuba, M.D., APOLLO co-leader and chair of Translational Molecular Pathology.
A cancer patient generally undergoes a biopsy before starting treatment. After that, we typically track the tumor’s progression using CT or MRI scans for size and volume and PET scans for metabolic activity.
Biopsies may be taken surgically, or via endoscopy or with radiologically guided core needles or fine needles that extract small samples from less accessible tumors.
Patients enrolled in clinical trials under the APOLLO protocol are asked to consent to repeat biopsies and multiple blood draws. They also may choose to refuse to have biopsies at any time during the study.
A longer version of this story originally appeared in Messenger, MD Anderson’s quarterly publication for employees, volunteers, retirees and their families.
This effort is critical to guiding patient care in this era of precision medicine.
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https://www.mdanderson.org/publications/cancerwise/apollo-immunotherapy-clinical-trial-takes-aim-at-cancer-secrets.h00-159143667.html
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A class project for one of psychology graduate student Elizabeth Majka’s seminars on social connectedness led to a group “laugh-in” in the Social Sciences Quadrangle.
“I asked those students to conduct a literature review related to the course theme and then design an activity that would improve social connectedness on campus. It turns out that in India, groups of people get together every morning for laughter clubs and just laugh together,” she says.
Some of the students did research on that (and, more generally on the physical and psychological benefits of social laughter) and organized a similar event in which they invited people to join them in laughter during the week before final exams.
One group surveyed Chicago Public Schools teachers and looked at how teachers perceive and foster a sense of social connection in their classrooms. Another group looked at how participating in Greek life effects social identity and academic outcomes.
In addition to the seminar on social connectedness and lab courses for research assistants in her psychology lab, Majka has taught introductory psychology, statistics, and research methods. She also has pursued the certificate in university teaching through the Center for Teaching and Learning.
“I try to think very carefully about my course objectives—and then every component of the course flows from those objectives. It’s not just about “covering material. In terms of how I structure my classes, I always incorporate some kind of final project, but it is preceded by frequent, low-risk assignments to scaffold students’ learning and provide them with feedback.
“We can’t assume that our students—even brilliant U of C undergrads—know the basic 'tools of the trade' when they walk into our classrooms. In most of my classes, for example, students practice generating theoretically derived hypotheses, graphing their predicted results, and articulating the underlying mechanisms. These are skills they need to develop by practicing and receiving feedback,” she explained.
Majka has worked with undergraduates as a preceptor for the Department of Psychology and as the graduate student adviser for Psi Chi, the UChicago psychology club. She also mentors research assistants and helps advise honors theses. Many of her students have presented research at undergraduate and professional conferences.
A bachelor’s graduate of Beloit College and a master’s graduate of the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences at UChicago, she hopes to find a teaching/research position at a liberal arts college after earning her PhD.
“I really thrived in the learning atmosphere of a small liberal arts college, and I look forward to teaching and mentoring students in that tradition. It just feels like home,” she says.
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Sarah (our Head of Biology) has a strong background in Psychology, as well as in Science teaching, which means that she has integrated principles from CogSci into her practice for a while now. I’m sharing some of her ideas here.
Why did you answer the question that way?
On reflection, was it the best way? Why?
This post outlines a few ways that I use student voice to help me support my students, to inform my planning, and to help shape the curriculum.
Ok, so I’m biased, but like the rest of us I also want things that will make by job easier and better. Here are the three Google Doc things I use the most.
When I started my PGCE in 2006, mini whiteboards seemed to be everywhere (although I got the feeling it was only recently that they had become so ubiquitous), and I was encouraged to use them regularly.
But I never really warmed to them, if I’m honest. I found them a bit of a faff, and I tended to assess learning in other ways.
Having said that, I do use mini whiteboards, and I do still use them regularly (if not frequently).
May 5, 2017 in How I use, Teaching and Learning.
I have been using metacognition in my lessons to get students to reflect on their understanding in terms of exam technique and knowledge, so I thought it would be interesting to turn my ideas into something that could work for the masses (ie. not just History students) and specifically in terms of revision. All the students in the group were “High Prior Achievers”, so I felt I could use some more complex techniques with them, and encourage them to move away from “fail safe” methods, such as highlighting, reading over previous work, and producing flashcards, which students often rely upon in times of exam pressure.
April 21, 2017 in Teaching and Learning.
I wanted to identify threshold concepts, which can be described as “portals” to greater understanding. I’ve also seen them described as “bottlenecks”, and I think this is a helpful description. It’s a concept that holds you up, and prevents you from developing a deeper understanding.
I compiled a list of tricky concepts using a variety of misconception sources, but I would describe most of these as “hurdles” rather than bottlenecks. Hurdles need to be cleared, but they don’t hold you up in the same way that bottlenecks do.
March 30, 2017 in Teaching and Learning.
Harkness may not be the newest idea in the teaching world, but I feel it is one that has been unfairly overlooked.
It’s an idea taken from Edward Harkness, an early 20th century philanthropist and educational reformer, and the concept is based on Harkness’ own education. He felt that the traditional approach of sitting in rows whilst the teacher taught from the front created a hierarchy which did not support those who had less confidence or needed more support. Harkness came to favour a ‘conference’ pedagogy where students engaged in conversation on a topic they had prepared before coming to lesson, rather than answering specific, narrow questions directed at the few from the front. Harkness ‘gifted’ this idea to Phillips Exeter Academy in the United States, where they developed it and adapted it into a workable educational approach, and now use it as their sole teaching method.
March 19, 2017 in Teaching and Learning.
Sitting in the growth mindset training at the beginning of term, I realised that this ‘new’ initiative had been taking place in PE for many years; we just call it “coaching”.
In each lesson, we give pupils the opportunity to show resilience, to learn something completely new and even to fail. Our pupils receive instant feedback that they can act upon straight away.
February 18, 2017 in Teaching and Learning.
In our most recent meeting, we read a paper about nutrient deposition in the Atlantic Ocean, and one of the authors came along to the session. I thought it might be helpful if I shared the paper we read, along with some background information, and the questions I wrote to go with it. Please feel free to use any of the resources linked to here.
February 15, 2017 in Journal Club, Uncategorized.
February 9, 2017 in Teaching and Learning, wellbeing.
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"That S*it Will Never Sell!"
I recently finished writing a book about my working life. Though I tried as hard as I could, I wasn’t able to persuade a publisher to take it on. So I had to publish it myself.
Having completed the text, I scoured the internet over a few months looking for someone to design the cover. I either ran into nameless, faceless dirt cheap designers from places like Mangalore or Manila, who would do me a dozen covers for £30. Or there were (allegedly) global outfits who had done everything from Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn and would show me a good time for a five-digit fee.
In my brand development life we got little joy from large design outfits. The presentations were flash, the suits were impressive – but we never met the individuals who did the designing. We only met front men who were great at talking the talk. But in reality, all our successful designs came from small outfits where we met the people who did the drawing and were able to inspire them with our enthusiasm. This was my book, my project and I wanted a one-man band.
Then I came across Jamie Keenan. I saw his designs on the internet and I thought they were wonderfully imaginative. And he’d done everyone from Richard Dawkins to Kazuo Ishiguro so I figured he’d do for me. I called him up.
“How big is your company?” I asked. “I’m it.” He replied. He worked in a small studio in Dalston in North London. “What’s your book about?” he asked. “It’s about inventing new brands mainly in the drinks business,” I replied. He asked if he could read it. I asked, in exchange, if we could meet. (I don’t imagine he met Dawkins or Ishiguro.) He asked me to give him a couple of weeks to read the book and I did.
We met one lunch time. I wanted to chat and find out about him and his approach to design. We talked. He kept looking at his bag. He said he had been quite intimidated by the thesis in my book that I didn’t like designers who presented a raft of options in response to a brief. I liked people who came with a single idea, who really believed they had solved the problem. That’s how I had worked. No Plan B.
He said, gingerly “I have a design for you.” I hadn’t expected it. It was a single thought. Here it is. I thought it was inspired and I bought it on the spot. It made me think that if there was a lesson in my book, Jamie had applied it. He saw what I was getting at in asking for a single solution. It would have been easy for him to have done a dozen designs and left the decision to me. But he didn’t. He put his reputation on the line. And it worked.
"That S*it Will Never Sell!" provides entry into the creator’s head and describes the moments when ideas happened. It also offers would-be innovators with valuable clues on how to go about their business.
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Several factors were considered by Credit Suisse before it upgraded Apple's rating from "neutral" to "outperform" Tuesday, according to an analyst.
The first reason Apple's stock was upgraded is because of its excessive cash levels, which suggest a $200 billion return program is due soon, Kulbinder Garcha, managing director of Credit Suisse, told CNBC's "Squawk Alley" on Tuesday. "Apple first implemented its cash return program in 2012, and at that time they had roughly $110 billion of net cash," he said. "By our estimates, they're going to have $143 billion come this April."
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks in Laguna Beach, Calif.
Garcha added the second reason the stock was upgraded is because of its free cash flow. "Their free cash flow is higher than in 2012 at $50 billion per year," he said. "I think the Street is not currently factoring these in."
Another reason why Apple's stock was upgraded is because Credit Suisse expects iPhone sales to continue growing. "Based on our proprietary segmentation analysis, we show that iPhone's gross profit can grow by 42 percent or $18 billion over 2015," Garcha said.
Garcha also said that Apple Watch sales will help the company's stock, despite the uncertainty surrounding the new product. "I think the uses for this device are somewhat unknown, and the applications that exist on the fitness and health sides could be tremendous."
Garcha added that the downside to buying Apple's stock moving forward is minimal. "The near-term outlook for this company, based on all the supply-chain noise coming out of Asia in the past two months, looked very supportive," he said. "I just don't see significant downside."
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Beautiful LIKE NEW home in Prosper ISD! Soaring entry with iron spindle staircase, open floor plan, tuxedo cabinets and granite counter-tops in kitchen, wood like floors throughout downstairs, living area with gas fireplace, game room up with two walk-in storage closets, master bath with garden tub and free standing shower in master, epoxy garage floor, covered patio and much more. Close to major freeways, shopping, restaurants and award winning schools.
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I have just read Jamesey's views on the game I think he really hates Benteke as in my view his work rate was more in the Man City game than Batshuayi in all the time he has played for us .
I listened to the game on radio london and they only praised him, good work by benteke, nice touch benteke, good defencive header from corner , a goal would have been great but shows he was doing his bit in other areas!
Win , but usually Direct them to opposition. Every game his back passing ends up With non-Palace player - in short, cut the losses and let go!!!
Benteke did well last time out but don’t expect goals just now.
End of the day he needs to play to get into some kind of form to be remotely useful to us or worth any money on the market.
Our main problem seems to stem from committing players to attack when we do have the ball. We have no clear attacking shape.
Are our full backs attacking? They seem to get forward all the time and get caught out - particularly PVA. However, surely our wingers should be the ones providing attacking width. Yet they are not on the wings bombing forward when we have the ball. They are often tracking back and not backing up the attack. This would be addressed by making our back four a straight flat back four. Our full backs would attack less and our wingers would be in attack when we win the ball. In this way Benteke could be in the box ready for a cross.
The same problem arises in our center midfield. Surely one of our centre midfielders should have an attacking role? One of them should always be ready to get forward at every opportunity. Yet, who is this? None of our midfielders seem to provide this - it looks like Jimmy Mac is trying to do this but is also being asked to defend. Surely two CMs can provide adequate defensive cover - which ours seem to be pretty good at? I guess one solution is to use either Meyer or Kouyate as attacking midfielders. I reckon MacArthur is more of a holding midfielder and seems to tire in games these days.
Another possibility is putting Shlupp or Sako as attacking midfielder and Jimmy Mac and Milo as holding midfielders.
Playing like this we would have 6 outfield players essentially performing the defensive duties and 4 players really getting forward and staying forward. I believe this would help Benteke and our home form considerably.
I was at the game Benteke did alright but was frightfull when in possesion inour own half, often giving the ball to city in the form of a backpass that inevitably set them up for a dangerous attack.
I posted a while ago that through roys system benteke will never score what he is capable of.
The wingers dont put the ball in fast enough.
CB is on the edge of the last defender when we are going forward but the ball doesnt come in.
It could be delivered from the by line or 30 yards out.
This is his strength as he will find the ball.
Roys cautious approach has kicked CBs ability to bits.
When he goes and is played properly we will see that.
Anyone who has played at a decent level or has any kind of football brain can see Benteke is out of his depth.He might have been half decent once but for whatever reason he is done .We got turned over by Liverpool. There is no off the ball movement ,as we saw Sunday some straightforward touches go amiss. He can’t even close down the opposing defenders well .And some might say it was one of his best games recently. Well for 30 Mil great . Get rid in summer ,cut our losses.
He was totally isolated on Sunday and won much in the air but there was zero players within 20 yards of him. He did well in the air from Citeh corners etc. but he isn't going to score from there. I would like to see us set up deliberately around him in a few games this season to give him a chance to see what he may be able to do. However as others have stated I cannot see how he can work with any other attacking player in the team at the moment.
Correct, Klopp put one over on Parish who is clearly out of his depth and competence level in PL!
Haha. Always love it when people make statements like that. I've played at a decent level, am currently in the middle of coaching courses (so you'd hope my football brain's on point) and I disagree with you.
He's not out of his depth. If that 'depth' is PL level, he's shown both with Villa and us that he's absolutely in his depth.....the issue is our system doesn't suit him. Agree we need to either tweak things to get balls in the box quicker and play to his strengths, or he needs to move on.
That's quite different to being out of your depth though.
How can anyone still defend Our main striker after top the missing chances chart in PL?
3 goals in 2 Seasons, something like that for Tekkers. Not to compare, but when Messi netted two vs United yesteray - it was his 45th goal in 42 games this season!!!!
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2019-04-18T23:08:49Z
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https://www.holmesdale.net/page.php?id=106&tid=170085&page=163
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Affirmative Action & Immigration Linda visited the California delegation this morning to talk with some of the delegates about immigration issues and affirmative action. California Governor Pete Wilson signed an executive order yesterday directing all state agencies and state supported colleges to halt benefits to illegal immigrants. These delegates said they dislike illegal border crossing, but those who are already in this country and in need must have services provided to them, especially children. They say the Republicans are playing on people's fears with 30-second sound bytes. Many of these delegates are minority members, and say that affirmative action is a opportunity, not a quota system -- it's an open door to allow people to prove themselves.
Linda visited the California delegation this morning to talk with some of the delegates about immigration issues and affirmative action. California Governor Pete Wilson signed an executive order yesterday directing all state agencies and state supported colleges to halt benefits to illegal immigrants. These delegates said they dislike illegal border crossing, but those who are already in this country and in need must have services provided to them, especially children. They say the Republicans are playing on people's fears with 30-second sound bytes. Many of these delegates are minority members, and say that affirmative action is a opportunity, not a quota system — it's an open door to allow people to prove themselves.
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2019-04-20T05:22:17Z
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https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1044665
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There was plenty of action-packed drama in this BBC SSO concert which started in the splendour of Vienna’s ballrooms and finished with a grotesque funeral.
Taking the initial pulse of the double basses and bassoons, the orchestra and conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier breathed life into Ravel’s La Valse. They captured the sumptuousness of the waltz in all its guises; from the romantic swirls of strings and harps to a more militaristic brass-powered form.
But it was the subtle dance between the orchestra and soloist Steven Osborne in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major that most beguiled. The transparency of Osborne’s pellucid tones added a mysterious modernism to his dream-like interpretation, a contrast to the orchestra’s more strident declarations. In the first movement Osborne seemed to be offering them a challenge as he tossed them his finely woven phrases. Only in the slow movement did the two forces unite in a gorgeous hushed passage before launching into the playful and triumphant finale.
The boundaries between art, life and reality blur in Berlioz’s disturbing opium-fuelled nightmare, Symphonie fantastique. This bizarre five movement ‘dramatic symphony’ for extra large orchestra is a long, slow burn.
Evoking a pastoral idyll, the plangent strains of the cor anglais stir the artist’s passions. Then the frenzied strings and blazing horns transport him to his own funeral in March to the Scaffold. As the strings conjured cackling witches, bells tolled ominously offstage as the orchestra drove their vivid account of this nightmare to its chilling conclusion.
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2019-04-21T18:20:23Z
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https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/music/music-review-bbc-scottish-symphony-orchestra-1-4723911
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If you’re new to venturing outdoors to have a bit of fun, then you may think that an outdoor specific pair of trousers is well down the list of essentials. And then you’ll head out on an eight-mile hike in your supermarket jeans, quickly get cold, wet, and sore where the seams rub your legs until they glow red. Then you’ll hobble into your local outdoor shop to buy the pair of trousers we recommended you did in the first place.
If you’re after a pair of go-anywhere, do-anything winter walking trousers that mix style and effective design, then the Kiwi Pro Winter-Lined trousers from Craghoppers have to have a place in your kit-bag. The Yorkshire-based company have been producing quality outdoor gear for over 50 years now, after founders Brian Gaskin and Roy Holmes climbed Mount Everest and wanted some appropriately hardy outdoor clothing for the job. As such, it’s no surprise that the pro edition of these Kiwi winter trousers (or pants, if you insist) are absolute belters.
The Kiwi are Craghoppers’ flagship walking trouser, much loved and respected by those that know the outdoor life well. The Kiwi Pro Winter-Lined version ramp up that heritage to make a truly special trouser. At just 525g, they’re a good, light weight, which you’ll really appreciate when you’re half way up the Howgill Fells in Cumbria.
But don’t be fooled into thinking that the Kiwi’s diminutive mass means they’re lightweight on the performance front. These smart strides have a comfortably snug layer of brushed lining inside that offers reliable insulation for those brisk winter days, and the tightly woven softshell outer will keep out any chill from the wind as well.
The Kiwi Pro Winter-Lined Trousers from Craghoppers are optimised for those chilly conditions . Photo: Chris Johnson.
SolarShield technology which affords you UV40+ protection, should the sun make an appearance this winter. Photo: Chris Johnson.
The Kiwi Pro Winter-Lined Trousers are treated with a water repellent SmartDry finish. Photo: Chris Johnson.
The zip pocket on the thigh is an ideal size for a map. Photo: Chris Johnson.
Treated with a water repellent SmartDry finish, you know that the Kiwi Pro Winter Lined trousers can take a fair soaking from a good old winter rain storm and still keep you dry. And should you be lucky enough to encounter some sun while you’re walking this winter, the Kiwi Pro’s also have SolarShield technology which affords you UV40+ protection, which as we learn more about the damage the sun can do to people who spend a lot of time outdoors, is really indispensable.
Throw in four zip fastening pockets, Wash and Wear technology that makes upkeep simple, and a design that promotes free movement when you’ve got them on, it’s not hard to see why the Craghoppers Kiwi Pro Winter Lined Trousers are a safe bet for winter hiking.
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2019-04-22T10:55:23Z
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https://mpora.com/hiking-and-trail-running/craghoppers-kiwi-pro-winter-lined-trousers-review
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China's amended Environment Protection Law fails to vindicate procedural and substantive environmental rights.
In April this year, the Chinese legislature amended significantly the Environmental Protection Law adopted in 1989. This post seeks to predict the amendment’s implications on Chinese citizens’ substantive and procedural environmental rights.
Substantive environmental rights refer to economic and social rights to which individuals are entitled, prescribing the level below which environmental standards must not fall. Procedural environmental rights denote civil and political rights such as information rights, access to justice and remedies.
The first goal of the amendment is to consolidate existing environmental regimes. The revised law (1) reinforces the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Law (articles 19, 44, 56, 61 & 63), (2) standardizes (a) the total emission control quota system for key pollutants (article 44), (b) the pollutant discharge permit system (article 45) and (c) the risk and emergency control system (article 47).
However, only a tiny portion of all construction projects are subject to the obligation to prepare EIA reports, leaving the rest without any professional or scientific assessment. There is little supervision for compliance after approval of these projects. Also, the Local People’s Governments (LPGs) may encourage cursory EIA evaluation for investments conducive to local GDP targets although the relevant standards have not been met.
The second objective of the revised law is to strengthen environmental governance. The revised law requires public authorities to: (1) solicit opinions from experts and relevant stakeholders (article 14), (2) set up (a) environmental quality monitoring stations, (b) information sharing systems (article 17), (c) an inter-jurisdictional joint coordination mechanism (article 20), (3) eliminate pollution-intensive techniques (article 46). Enhanced enforcement measures include imposing daily fines (article 59), the power to seal up and detain facilities (article 25) and administrative detention (article 63).
Nevertheless, some local Environmental Protection Bureaus (EPBs) which are responsible for enforcement may suffer from lack of funding, resources and motivations. Despite the rigorous enforcement measures, business operators in some localities may still find it more cost-effective to break the law than to comply with it. More importantly, there is no distinct right to a healthy environment which would allow a victim to seek judicial redress when the pollution level has increased because a particular project exceeds the permissible standard. The victim must wait until significant injury manifests itself and then prove the violation of other indirect rights pursuant to China’s civil law, property law and tort law.
The third theme of the revised law is to facilitate public participation in environmental decision-making. The revised law provides for: (1) the role of the news media in supervising violations (article 9), (2) citizens’ right to: (a) obtain environmental information (article 53), (b) obtain pollutant-discharging information (article 55), (c) lodge confidential complaints (article 57), (3) the obligation to disclose (a) accident assessment results (article 47), (b) national environmental quality, (c) key pollutant monitoring data (d) administrative actions taken (article 54), and above all, (4) public participation in the EIA process (article 56).
While the revised law enhances the adequacy and accuracy of construction project information available to the public, it does not make those rights enforceable by an independent tribunal. As a corollary, there is no check over the legality of agency behavior and affected citizens are left without any redress. Moreover, only a fraction of projects are subject to the compulsory public participation requirement. The project proponents and EIA institutions’ great discretion over the public consultation process may sometimes result in a biased reflection.
The fourth aspect of the revised law is to stipulate the right of access to justice by registered environmental NGOs which have specialized in relevant public interest activities for five years (article 58).
The restrictive regulations concerning social organizations’ registration promote the monopoly of government-sponsored environmental NGOs. Specifically, the high thresholds relating to human and capital resources as well as an approved body willing to supervise its operation threaten the survival of most environmental NGOs which are not established, funded or staffed by the government. Also, the registration of more than one social organization with a similar function within a region is disallowed. The standing requirement virtually bars members of the public and civic environmental NGOs from seeking judicial review.
The foregoing institutional deficiencies hinder the revised law from advancing from legal rhetoric to a milestone in vindicating citizens’ substantive and procedural environmental rights.
Ken Ip completed his LLB (Hons) at the City University of Hong Kong and BCL at the University of Oxford. Ken is interested in playing a role in advocating fair administration of justice and equality under law in China.
Ken Ip, “Chinese Environmental Protection Law – The Illusion of Enhanced Human Rights Safeguards”, (OxHRH Blog, 30 June 2014) <http://humanrights.dev3.oneltd.eu/?p=11549> [date of access].
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2019-04-26T06:12:31Z
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https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/chinese-environmental-protection-law-the-illusion-of-enhanced-human-rights-safeguards/
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This short essay briefly traces the evolution of trade law enforcement from the the GATT to the WTO regime. The WTO's Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) is widely viewed as a major innovation from the GATT regime in that it subordinates unilateral enforcement of trade law to a rule-based system of multilateral enforcement. I recognize the successes of the WTO regime but the institution effective permits (if not encourages) the unilateral enforcement of trade law outside of the DSU framework Specifically, I examine how the DSU system only provides a prospective remedy - that is, the DSU permits retaliation only for injuries that take place after the WTO litigation is concluded. The DSU thus immunizes violations of WTO trade law from retaliatory sanctioning so long as the offending measures are withdrawn at the end of the litigation process, which is often several years later. This immunity, which I refer to as the "stall-and-withdraw" loophole, leaves injured governments with no immediate remedy for WTO violations under the DSU system, regardless of how great the trade effects of the violation are. I suggest that the institutional design of the DSU effectively creates a need for the unilateral enforcement of trade rules and, oddly, provides legal protection for unilateral sanctions. I conclude by attempting to provide a view of the DSU that acknowledges its advances from its origins in the GATT regime but acknowledge its inability to completely control unilateral retaliation.
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2019-04-21T19:05:34Z
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https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/2645/
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Here’s one of my first attempts at the cover Yoda.
Also, sorry for not really posting at all recently. I’ve been busy.
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2019-04-19T08:21:57Z
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https://sfweaver.wordpress.com/tag/paper/
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Will iJournal support Scrapbook one daY?
Right now, no plans for Scrapbook. Not all Livejournal servers (deadjournal, etc) support the scrapbook options.
But in other news, a new release is pending a few last bug fixes, and is (FAT) universal binary.
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2019-04-24T13:47:37Z
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https://ijournal.livejournal.com/122244.html
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I campaigned to remain part of the European Union but I completely respect the decision to leave. The time has now come to make Brexit a success. So, I welcome the Prime Minister’s decision to seek a personal mandate in a General Election to help her negotiate the best possible result for our Duchy and country.
We also have local elections on 4th May and it is important to elect a council that will work with the government to secure our economic future and our vital public services. Cornwall Council, like the government, must spend public funds wisely.
I have always supported Cornwall’s culture, but the LibDem/Independent Cornwall Council is wrong to spend up to £536,000 over the next 2 years on a bid to be the European Union’s Capital of Culture in 2023. It is a competition promoted by the European Commission as part of the process of ‘ever closer union’ in the EU. That is clearly not going to happen.
Last Friday, Cornwall Council’s Audit Committee were told that the legacy of over £300m of debt inherited from the LibDem led County Council (some of this debt will be around until 2069) means that the Council’s accounts are still under investigation by the National Audit Office. The auditors are seeking to establish if the debt was incurred so unreasonably as to be illegal.
With an increased borrowing requirement of £1 billion, the Council should not pretend that its debt is likely to go down over the next few years. Nor should it think that spending £200,000 a year extra on PR experts will alter the facts.
It has been the greatest honour and privilege to serve as your MP for the last seven years. I hope with your support on 8th June to continue to do so.
First published in the West Briton 26/04/17.
May has always been a special month for me, as towards the end of the month, I celebrate the anniversary of my marriage at St Budock Church. While its almost impossible to say when Cornwall looks at its best, weather depending, I think May might just achieve that accolade. Thanks to the great efforts of hundreds of local people both Falmouth and Penryn are looking good after the various ‘Spring Clean’ activities. I believe anyone living here is more aware than most of the natural environment, as a source of inspiration, wellbeing and employment.
Elections play a big part in my life and this May, like most years, brings elections. I am proud of one of our most important manifesto commitments: to work hard to ensure that we leave our natural environment in better shape than when we took office in 2010. Being custodians of the environment for our children and generations to come involves making difficult choices.
While each of us has a responsibility to think about the choices we make and their impact on our environment, elected representatives have particular responsibilities. So one of our important choices is deciding who to vote for in elections.
Balancing the need to grow more of our own food, generate more of our own energy and build more homes and work spaces for a growing local population while protecting our environment is challenging. Ensuring the necessary infrastructure investment is secured is essential too.
The planning system has been reformed by the Government to enable smarter and more local decisions to made about how we use our land and work with our natural environment. Through the Local Plan, people have been enabled to have more control over shaping communities. The LibDems lead Cornwall Council with ‘Independents’ and they have developed a Local Plan that is currently operating.
The next Council, that will be elected this month, will have the vitally important job of evaluating the Local Plan and updating it. Making sure it is delivering for local communities, particularly genuinely affordable homes for local people. The evolution of the Local Plan should take account of the aspirations of the local community as reflected in the Neighbourhood Plans being developed in both Falmouth and Penryn.
With such important opportunities to shape our communities, protect and enhance our precious natural environment and also support the local economy, we need to elect councillors who have the motivation, skills and ability to make the best decisions for Falmouth and Penryn.
Cornwall faces many challenges and significant opportunities. We will soon be marking the anniversary of the date the majority of people in our country decided our future lay outside the European Union. Whatever our feelings about that milestone in our history, I am confident that we can make a success of what lies ahead. We are a strong country with great values including, freedom, tolerance, compassion, respect for the rule of law and characteristics such as creativity and enterprise; all have served us well and I believe will for centuries to come.
We are leaving the EU not Europe and I am determined to ensure we remain an outward facing global nation with excellent relationships with our neighbours and allies across Europe.
Right now, I believe Cornwall needs all its elected representatives looking confidently to the future, not lamenting the decision to leave the EU. People with a positive attitude to work constructively with the Government, united in a shared ambition to get the best possible outcome for our Duchy and our country. It’s really important that you vote not only for the person that you think will be a strong local champion for the immediate area where you live but also someone who is part of a team of people from across Cornwall who have a positive, shared vision for the common good. People who are able to deliver the changes we need to see in Cornwall, particularly working more effectively in partnership to tackle the challenges facing our local NHS.
As a result of devolution of power from Westminster to Cornwall Council, these local elections really matter to you so please do vote. I want to see a double devolution of power from Cornwall Councillors to local councillors so please make sure you vote in both elections. The next few years will shape the destiny of our Duchy and country for years to come, your vote really does count and will make a real difference.
I thoroughly enjoyed a spectacular Easter Sunday with my family. Cooking delicious locally produced food was a welcome break from a very busy week meeting lots of local people and local businesses, urging them to make use of the significant levels of EU support for growth.
The Government is honouring its commitments and delivering the EU funding that Cornwall would have received if the country had voted to remain.
Local businesses can access this funding and other sources of support to help them flourish, grow jobs and boost the Cornish economy.
EU funding programmes are open for applications and tens of millions of pounds has already been allocated.
The Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Growth Programme is the European economic regeneration programme for the region.
Running until 2020, it is helping to deliver smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.
So far it has committed £170million European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) funding, with £103million unallocated and available.
Further funding will be made available to support businesses later this year, as well as funding for community-led local development programmes using European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD).
New figures show that more than 20,000 people in Cornwall are in work since 2010. This is good news for them and the Cornish economy but more needs to be done to improve access to skills training and increase wages.
There is a significant skills gap in the workforce in Cornwall and the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Growth Hub is the one stop location for all advice and information for businesses in Cornwall, including information on access to skills training.
There is great employment support for people with a wide range of abilities and ages. Don’t forget that there is no upper age limit on apprenticeships. Please contact me for information about employment support opportunities.
Last week’s front page headline “Council bail-out to save stadium?” poses an important question. It is good news that Truro City Football Club and the Pirates want to work together and share one stadium. Many of us have been pushing for this for some time. Truro & Penwith College’s loyal support is commendable too.
I believe a Stadium for Cornwall could be a real boost not only for these two sports but for others too.
The questions are where it should be located and how to pay for it. Developers asserted that the new facilities could be paid for from some of the profits made from building and selling homes and retail businesses. However supermarkets and other out of town retailers are pulling back their investments so this is not a viable option.
In less than a month, on 4th May the people of Cornwall will elect their parish and Cornwall councillors. It is vital that you vote for representatives who you believe will not only be an effective local champion but also a member of a party or group with a shared plan for delivering your priorities for Cornwall.
I believe that the new Cornwall councillors should consider the new scheme for delivering a Stadium for Cornwall alongside all the priorities they were elected to deliver. Consideration of this new scheme should not be hurried and made solely by officers of the Council and a few Cabinet Members without the proper scrutiny of all of Cornwall’s councillors.
A scheme of such significance needs to be considered openly and thoroughly, not only by the Cornwall councillors but with the residents of Cornwall too.
All of Cornwall’s MPs have offered support to enable a Stadium for Cornwall. We stand ready to work with the new Cornwall Council to deliver it.
It’s really important to me that mental and physical illnesses are treated equally. So I am delighted that after years of hard work the Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has secured the funding for a new child and adolescent mental health unit that will be built in Cornwall following an announcement made by NHS England last week.
This news means that for the first time, children and young people in Cornwall will have access to specialist mental health beds in county. The new 12 bed unit will accommodate young people up to the age of 18. Previously children from Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly had to travel out of county for this kind of service. The ability to regularly see family and friends while in hospital is a key element in people’s recovery, and especially in the case of children.
The Trust will build the new unit on land adjacent to Bodmin Hospital where it will benefit from close links to the Trust’s other specialist mental and physical health services. It is hoped that building work will begin in Spring 2018.
I am also delighted that NHS England is funding new mental health facilities for local mums suffering post natal mental illness. While the location has yet to be decided, it will be much closer to home than current specialist services. This builds on the new service introduced into Cornwall in 2013, following the campaigning and support of the Angela Harrison Foundation.
NHS England has also offered RCHT funding for a fully-staffed team operating 24/7 in hospital, offering a one-hour response to emergency mental health referrals in A&E.
Ensuring all young people have good mental health is important. I am determined that all parents and schools have good links to advice and services.
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2019-04-26T16:27:55Z
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https://sarahnewtonmp.wordpress.com/2017/04/
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In this Aug. 17, 2011, file photo, correctional officers keep watch on inmates on the recreation yard at Pelican Bay State Prison near Crescent City, Calif. The price for each inmate has doubled since 2005, even as court orders related to overcrowding have reduced the population by about one-quarter. Salaries and benefits for prison guards and medical providers drove much of the increase.
The 5 percent raise was so unjustified the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office had to speak up.
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2019-04-19T00:23:12Z
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https://www.ocregister.com/2018/07/03/democrats-and-republicans-unite-in-sacramento-to-give-prison-guards-a-large-raise/
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This entry was posted on Monday, July 30th, 2012 at 6:57 am and is filed under preggie. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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2019-04-19T10:21:01Z
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https://clubfritch.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/15-weeks-pp/
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Brilliant! We'll have a listen to your song and if it's really good we might even award it the coveted "Song of the Month" award. Thanks for taking the time to improve the world's music.
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2019-04-25T22:31:39Z
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http://madlucas.tripod.com/cgi-bin/song.pl
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The end of the rainbow isn’t in sight.
The end of the rainbow isn't in sight.
The hybrid dessert by French pastry chef Francois Payard debuted Sunday at all five locations and sold out instantly by mid afternoon. It features a bright pink, strawberry flavored fried dough bottom that's topped with strawberry cream and a thin macaron shell covered in rainbow sprinkles.
The flashy food trend has been spiraling out of control ever since the Bagel Store in Williamsburg — now closed — Instagramed a photo of its multi-colored bagel which drew wrap around lines. Then earlier this month, Moe's Doughs Donut Shop in Greenpoint launched a rainbow donut; a cakey layered food coloring frenzy. And last week, Montreal-style bagel shop Black Seed Bagels started churning out homemade rainbow cookies.
Payard's macarons will be available again this Sunday for $5 each at all five bakery locations.
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2019-04-23T20:50:23Z
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https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/macaron-donut-francois-payard-latest-rainbow-food-article-1.2571622
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KO on the end of Habeas Corpus.
This entry was posted in Law, Politcal News by Tim Stanley. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-19T09:32:00Z
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http://blogs.harvard.edu/justia/2006/10/19/keith-olbermann-on-end-of-habeas-corpus/
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This past weekend I had the opportunity to go to an enormous yard sale. There were a lot of different people set up selling all sorts of things. It was quite fun to look through all the various pieces of jewelry, house wares, and funky stuff that people were trying to get rid of.
I am somewhat in the market for a few pieces of furniture, but I ended up with great frames. They’re in a little bit of rough shape, but I figure that I can clean them and paint them for a lot less than it would cost to buy new frames. For $4 I got four frames, including this awesome oval one, and a horse figurine that I intend to make into an ornament.
I have a couple of upcoming projects that I need frames for, including the salon-style wall that I’d like to set up in my living room above my couch.
Stay tuned for projects from my yard sale finds!
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2019-04-19T06:16:00Z
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https://thethriftyginger.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/yard-saling-for-frames/
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Shari Petrie is a Neighbor Who Cares.
Petrie, 42, of Latonia, takes ordinary plastic bags and crochets them into sleeping mats for the homeless in Northern Kentucky. She donates them to various organizations.
Petrie also visits local schools and libraries to teach others how to crochet the sleeping mats. She makes waterproof pillows, too.
Recently she started making leashes for animal rescues to sell to raise funds and she makes tote bags to donate to various organizations.
Petrie’s friend, Kellie Aulick of Florence, nominated her as a Neighbor Who Cares because she is impressed and inspired by Petrie’s gift to make something out of nothing.
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2019-04-26T11:40:52Z
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https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/local/kentoncounty/2016/12/27/bag-lady/95679438/
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Former Supreme Court Justice and father of controversial musician Charly Boy, Chukwudifu Oputa J.S.C, is dead. He died today, the 4th day of May 2014, aged 96.
Justice Chukwudifu Oputa (of blessed memory) was a renowned Justice – a favourite of many Law students and lawyers for his legendary understanding of the law and pristine judgements.
He would also be fondly remembered for his appointment as Chairman of the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission, the Oputa Panel, whose duties were to investigate abuses that occurred during the 15 (fifteen) years of military rule, which ended when President Olusegun Obasanjo was elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 29 May, 1999.
The Oputa panel aka Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission was created to establish the causes, nature, and extent of human rights violations – in particular the assassinations and attempted killings – between January 15, 1966 and May 28, 1999, to identify perpetrators (individuals or institutions), determine the role of the state in the violations, and to recommend means to pursue justice and prevent future abuses.
After reviewing the evidence before it, the Panel concluded that the Nigerian military was responsible for gross human rights violations, and recommended a drastic reduction of the armed forces, a review of security forces’ internal disciplinary procedures, and reform of the military intelligence, police and academic institutions. The Panel also recommended increased human rights education and creation of a Ministry of Women Affairs, as well as creation of more states and local governments to avoid corruption and the fragmentation of the political system.
Justice Chukwudifu Oputa (of blessed memory) will always be remembered with love, admiration and respect in Nigeria’s history, and whenever human rights are being discussed in Nigeria. Adieu My Lord!
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2019-04-21T02:48:34Z
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https://cutedollars.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/rest-in-peace-chukwudifu-oputa-j-s-c/
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Bard College, "Bardian, Vol. 2, No. 7, New Series (March 12, 1946)" (1946). The Bardian, 1934 - 1961. 92.
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2019-04-23T20:43:05Z
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https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/bardian/92/
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San Francisco's RedEnvelope broke a long drought of dot-com initial public offerings Thursday, premiering with 2.2 million shares at $14 each on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
But the sale was not an exact replica of the Internet IPOs of the late 1990s, as investors approached the new stock cautiously. Shares closed at $14. 55, a 4 percent increase. RedEnvelope, which lost $1.2 million in the quarter that ended June 29, sells high-end gifts such as pre-embargo Cuban cigars and fancy fruit baskets.
The offering was underwritten by San Francisco investment bank WR Hambrecht and Co., using its OpenIPO system, an electronic auction that allows would-be buyers to set the IPO price.
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2019-04-24T18:16:51Z
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https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/DAILY-DIGEST-RedEnvelope-stock-premieres-on-2585792.php
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The international team of scientists say their results could help to refine predictions about how today's warming climate will impact polar ice and sea-level rise over longer timescales - over thousands of years.
Since the end of the last Ice Age around 15,000 years ago, the earth has been warming, the seas rising and the ice sheets generally getting smaller. The current study found that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrank more than anyone suspected with its leading edge retreating 200km further inland than where it is today. Since retreating, the findings show it managed to re-grow.
The team used ice-penetrating radar to see deep inside the ice and carried out radiocarbon analysis of sediment from beneath the ice to tease out evidence for the smaller-than-present ice sheet. A new series of computer models helped to shed further light on the reason for their unexpected findings.
The modelling revealed that the rebound, or uplift, of the land beneath the shrinking ice sheet is the process responsible for halting the runaway ice loss. As an ice sheet melts its weight decreases, and the land beneath rises up. This allows the floating parts of the ice sheet - the ice shelves - to 're-ground'. The extra friction slows the flow of the whole ice sheet, triggering re-growth.
It is not yet clear how common this rebound process is. The team found evidence for it in two sectors of Antarctica's western ice sheet but simulations suggest that re-growth has not happened in the rapidly melting Thwaites Glacier.
The researchers stress that this rebound process cannot be relied on as a solution for modern-day rising sea levels as it won't help re-grow the ice sheet until long after coastal cities have felt the effects of sea-level rise.
Co-author Dr Pippa Whitehouse said: "What we don't currently know is the speed of the rebound process, and hence the time at which any future re-growth could kick in.
"To get a better handle on this, we have GPS instruments deployed across Antarctica measuring the rebound that is being triggered by current melting".
Professor Jonathan Kingslake from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory commented: "If you pile up a bunch of ice on the earth's crust, it bends down. Remove it and it pops back up. We think that over thousands of years, as the ice sheet shrank, the crust in this area popped back up and the grounding line moved back out.
"The hopeful news of the study is that when the ice sheet retreated at the end of the last Ice Age it pulled back beyond the current configuration, yet did not reach the point of unstoppable collapse, meaning that there may be time before that tipping point is reached".
The West Antarctica Ice Sheet is of particular interest to scientists studying climate change as it is the last ice sheet on the planet resting in a deep marine basin and is the most likely player in any future, rapid sea-level rise.
The team stumbled upon a key part of the discovery by accident during a trip to Antarctica studying ancient ice flows whilst towing a radar device over the ice near the Weddell Sea. Just before they headed back to camp, the radar spotted something strange hundreds of metres below where the ice sheet meets solid ground. Further in-depth analysis by the team led to the findings published today.
The team includes researchers from Columbia University (US), Northern Illinois University (US), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany), University of California Santa Cruz (US) and Durham University (UK).
The research is funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and NSF Wissard.
In other research, also involving Dr Pippa Whitehouse, a team of international scientists found that ice losses from Antarctica have increased global sea levels by 7.6 mm since 1992, with two fifths of this rise (3.0mm) coming in the last five years alone.
The findings are from a major climate assessment known as the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE).
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2019-04-22T20:28:18Z
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https://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/news/news_archive/?itemno=35054
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It’s as if some mythical cinema professor has assigned a test to the most ambitious filmmakers: produce a movie with only one on-screen character. Sandra Bullock spends most of Gravity wandering solo above Earth, and in All Is Lost Robert Redford battled the elements in his disabled yacht. Space, the sea — what’s left but a car? Writer-director Steven Knight has built a car with a Locke: Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy), facing several crises as he motors alone on England’s M40. Hardy, the English actor who put his ferocious physicality to thrilling use as the monster Bane to Christian Bale’s Batman in The Dark Knight Rises, must play the whole piece sitting down behind the wheel of his BMW.
For fun, add another degree of difficulty, as J.C. Chandor did in All Is Lost by giving the Redford figure no name, family or emotional backstory. In Locke — a well-executed trick performed by one of the most powerful and protean actors in movies — the story plays out in just over 80 mins., or about the time it takes Ivan to drive from Birmingham to London.
Actually, Knight cheats a bit. To make the 100-mi. trip, Locke would have to be driving a consistent 80 mph; and with cars frequently passing him, he looks to be doing about 40. But only the bored would be holding a stopwatch against the movie, which hands Ivan, a construction foreman, three monumental tasks that might exhaust Hercules. We soon learn that Locke cheats a bit too: he is making the trip in order to be with Bethan (voiced by Olivia Colman, who played Margaret Thatcher’s daughter in The Iron Lady), a lonely woman and, for Locke, a one-night stand, who is about to give birth to his child.
So as he tools down to London, he must calm Bethan’s pre-partum anxieties. He has to inform his wife Katrina (Ruth Wilson, Colin Farrell’s wife in Saving M. Banks) of his infidelity and shoulder the consequences. And he must try supervising, by remote control, the pouring of concrete for a huge building project, which he was to handle in person early the next morning. Plus he has a cold. The tissues and a bottle of medicine are the only props, apart from the steering wheel, that Hardy has to work with.
Ivan is literally and metaphorically isolated, but not lacking for conversation. His dashboard Bluetooth transmits dozens of phone calls, to and from Katrina and their young sons, Bethan and the hospital staff and Ivan’s construction aide Donal (Andrew Scott, who plays Jim Moriarty on BBC’s Sherlock series). Although Locke’s bosses fire him, furious that he has gone AWOL on the eve of “the biggest pour in Europe,” he feels morally obliged to oversee every detail, including a few on-the-spot disasters, from his car phone. The same with Bethan, a woman who is “quite old, 43 or something,” unattractive and with no purchase on his heart: he refuses to tell her he loves her, because he doesn’t, and Locke is one fearless truth-teller — except to his wife, on the little matter of the affair and pregnancy.
One person alone on the phone: Jean Cocteau did that with his one-act play The Human Voice, which gave the Italian diva Anna Magnani a splendid role in the 1948 film version directed by Roberto Rossellini. This is a stunt, no question, and the main fascination with Locke is how it will keep viewers intrigued once they figure out the very restrictive ground rules. Visually, the film is pedestrian. It appraises Hardy, mostly in medium closeup, from five angles, 45 degrees apart, around the front seat. When Ivan gets a call we see the Bluetooth in front of him; when other cars throw vague lights against the windshield, he looks like a ghost in the machine. Whereas All Is Lost gave no hint of its protagonist’s life before he got on screen, Locke covers all of Ivan’s life, from his angry youth as the son of a man who ignored him (and whom Ivan invokes as an invisible passenger in the back seat) to his sons’ obsession with a soccer match being televised while he drives.
Knight, who wrote the excellent screenplays for Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things and David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises, both dealing with the London crime scene, wants us to see Ivan as an icon of probity, and perhaps a tragic hero. In his 15 years of marriage, he has strayed only this once, a victim of circumstance (his solitude, some liquor) and pity for Bethan. He works to give his sons the love and attention his father never lavished on him. Though he won’t speak warm words to the woman who is bearing his child, he resolves to give that child his name.
And everyone in the business says he’s a hell of a builder. He refers to the 55-story tower as “my building,” even as the child is to be his baby; and his wife, who’s ready to throw him out, says, “You’re more in love with your buildings anyway. Why don’t you go live in one of them, right at the top?” Ivan might be a modern descendant of Halvard Solness in Henrik Ibsen’s play The Master Builder, who strives to reconcile work and family even after he meets a woman he made sexual advances upon long ago. “I will do what I must,” Ivan says, “if they hate me or love me.” That’s the rule he lives by — the key to Locke’s myth.
Knight sometimes moseys toward the edge of plausibility in this one-man show, but since Hardy is the one man, Locke never lacks rooting interest. A virtuoso of rage in other movies, he reigns it in here: just a few shouted obscenities when something goes dreadfully wrong. And though Ivan is penitent in most of his phone chats, Hardy speaks in the soothing, almost musical tones of a Midlands confessor. The third-act tears he sheds, as son Eddie (Tom Holland, the lost boy in The Impossible) rhapsodizes about the hometown football victory, are easy to see coming but nonetheless affecting.
You could say that Hardy’s performance is also a trick: confining himself to the middle range of emotions as he sits in a car with no other actors’ faces to play to. But it’s the reason you’d see Locke, and the reason you may remember it fondly, long after the ride ends.
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2019-04-22T22:21:00Z
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http://time.com/77116/locke-movie-review-tom-hardy/
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Local Kimberley musicians are coming together this weekend to celebrate the work of one of the first Aboriginal music groups from the Kimberley, the Benning Brothers.
Glenys Benning still remembers the old wind up gramophone her family had in the 1950's, and the music they used to listen to.
"The likes of Slim Dusty, Buddy Williams. John Denver was one of my Dad's favourites.
We grew up basically listening to his music, my Dad's music, and that was all country."
The influence was strong on older brothers Frank Senior and Roy Stanley, who ended up forming one of the first Aboriginal music groups in the Kimberley in the late 1950's.
The Benning Brothers Band are now legends in the Kimberley music scene, but sister Glenys recalls the hard work they did in the early years to get a recording deal.
"They used my house on my front verandah to do the demo tape, plus he (Barry Benning) had to get support letters of people who knew our family band.
Before we knew it they were packing and heading down to Canberra to do their first recording!"
Glenys remembers her brothers being asked to play for mine workers on Koolan and Cockatoo Islands, and the travel they did through the Kimberley and Northern Territory for concerts.
A tribute concert in Derby this weekend will feature younger generations of the Benning family, as well as other local bands.
Glenys says she is proud to see the music continue through the years, and credits the Derby community for their support.
"I'm very proud being a part of the Derby community... all that support there when you want it."
The Barry Benning Tribute Concert is a part of the Derby Boab Festival. Glenys Benning spoke to Hilary Smale for ABC Kimberley.
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2019-04-22T06:39:51Z
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http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2014/07/04/4039223.htm?site=kimberley
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Editor's Note: CNNMoney has spent months digging into a little-known Canadian company named PacNet Services, Ltd., which is now one of the targets of this unprecedented government crackdown on international mail frail fraud. Through our reporting, we expose PacNet's key role in the shadowy world of global mail fraud -- introducing you to nefarious scammers that have relied on PacNet for years and the countless victims who have been left in its wake. Read our full investigation here.
The government's blacklist of the most deadly and criminal enterprises in the world is being joined by an unlikely member.
On Thursday, the U.S. Treasury Department is announcing that PacNet Services, Ltd., an obscure payment processor based in a nondescript highrise in downtown Vancouver, has been deemed a "significant transnational criminal organization."
According to the government, this designation is given to an organization that "engages in an ongoing pattern of serious criminal activity" and "threatens the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States."
And this little-known payment processor joins a terrifying cast of characters: The deadly Los Zetas drug cartel, the Japanese crime syndicate known as the Yakuza, and one of the world's most dangerous gangs, the MS-13.
Unlike many of these criminal enterprises, PacNet hasn't killed anyone or smuggled drugs across international borders. Instead, it's on the list for an entirely different reason.
The Treasury Department said PacNet "has a lengthy history of money laundering by knowingly processing payments on behalf of a wide range of mail fraud schemes."
"Despite PacNet's prior acknowledgment and the many notifications it has received regarding the fraudulent activity of its clients, PacNet continues to knowingly process checks on behalf of numerous companies that are actively involved in widespread mail fraud campaigns," the Treasury Department said in a statement.
We spent months investigating this company, publishing an investigation Thursday that exposes how PacNet has profited from global mail fraud for decades -- processing payments for an alarming number of scams preying on the sick and elderly.
PacNet's attorney has previously been adamant that PacNet has never knowingly processed payments for scams.
The government, however, alleges that PacNet has not only cashed the checks for fraudsters but that the company and its executives have actively helped its clients hide illicit activities by routing transaction through obscure bank accounts, mislabeling custom forms when shipping currencies and "knowingly misrepresent[ing] to financial institutions the nature of the business of PacNet clients."
Part of a massive government crackdown on an international global mail fraud network, the Treasury Department's action is unprecedented -- attempting to shut fraudsters out of the financial system altogether.
As a result of the action, all U.S. banks, businesses and citizens are immediately prohibited from doing business with PacNet and all of its U.S. based assets have been frozen. In a coordinated action, the U.S. government is also seizing PacNet funds held at a U.S. bank, alleging that PacNet used the account to "facilitate money laundering" for illegal schemes -- noting that "a staggering quantity of mass mailing fraud has gone through PacNet accounts."
"PacNet has knowingly facilitated the fraudulent activities of its customers for many years," John E. Smith, Acting Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control, said in a statement on Thursday. "Today's designations are aimed at shielding Americans and the nation's financial system from the large-scale, illicit money flows that are generated by these scams against vulnerable individuals."
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2019-04-19T12:33:19Z
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https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/22/news/companies/treasury-pacnet/index.html
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Hey Colorado kiters snowkite season is here for winter 2015! Please post conditions at your spots and spread the word.
In the San Juan's we had an abrupt switch from sunny fall to cold white winter. We scored a better-than-expected day on McMillan Peak up Red Mountain Pass at 12k feet. 2 feet of fresh and just enough wind slabbing made for great skiing and soft landings. I was still glad to have rock skis but can't complain for mid November.
We checked out Lizard Head pass yesterday and found at least 18" of punchy no base powder. Just enough wind to cruise through the deep.
I got out Sunday to find pretty hard wind slab up high on RMP. Really south cross-slope winds made things challenging.
Also, Crystal Lake (our little beginner/ lumch break spot) in Ironton is frozen solid with a nice soft powder surface. Go track it up!
What else is shaping up around Colorado? I have to head to Buena Vista next week for work. Any recommendations from the Gunny contingent?
After what feels like 40 days and 40 nights of wind and snow drought, we'll finally be getting some weather this weekend There should be freshies by Sunday morning. The San Juan Airheads are rallying to Snow Mesa above Lake City to take advantage. Join us if you can!
What is the approach like now?
Ooohhh, what are the major areas for kiting in Colorado? I am going to be up there for like a month in late Jan/early Feb and plan on taking my kites with me in the event of no fresh snow (resorts get tracked up FAST). No need for secret spots, Ill be completely new to snow kiting this year, would prefer just knowing where the main spots are.
Day 2 was a distinct contrast. From the same rest area at the top of Spring Creek Pass, we headed west to Jarosa Mesa and found blue skies, steady light winds and soft deep inviting powder. Just what we came for! Up went the big kites and we worked up to a knoll with the best aspect and exposure. Soon we were whooping and hollering slashing up the goods and boosting big floaty jumps. This was the day to try any new trick you wanted due to the forgiving landing. Not to mention all the inspiration from the 360 degree views. I'm so stoked that winter is full-on in the San Juans!
This screenshot shows Jarosa Mesa in front, Spring Creek Pass on Highway 149, and Snow Mesa beyond. Roadside riding lower down at Rito Hondo Reservoir is also barely visible on the right.
The approaches are all in great condition now with more snow this week.
Dracop, if you're on the FRange or Summit County, your best bet is likely Dillon Reservoir. You can get a water-to-snow lesson from Anton at Colorado Kiteforce that could help with a few snow-specific skills.
We even got snow in Salida! I haven't ridden once this year and it's killing me. Matt, do you think Rito Hundo area would have enough coverage for riding? I'm just a lowly, snowboarder without a sled and probably can't make it up to any of the epic spots that you guys ride down there. Had some of my best sessions in that valley and have been jonesing to check it this year.
May keep it local if I don't hear anything. Good luck out there!
I finally decided to join the forum.
Chris, Taylor Reservoir is looking pretty good for Wednesday if you want to join us. Rito Hondo might be a little scratchy but would probably work. Will let you know next time I head to Snow Mesa.
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2019-04-20T08:54:15Z
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https://kiteforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2387028
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20%80°59°Night - Clear. Winds from W to WNW. The overnight low will be 60 °F (15.6 °C).Sunny with a high of 81 °F (27.2 °C). Winds variable at 3 to 11 mph (4.8 to 17.7 kph).
10%75°56°Thunderstorms today with a high of 75 °F (23.9 °C) and a low of 56 °F (13.3 °C).
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45%68°60°Thunderstorms today with a high of 68 °F (20.0 °C) and a low of 60 °F (15.6 °C). There is a 45% chance of precipitation.
Tonight - Clear. Winds from W to WNW. The overnight low will be 60 °F (15.6 °C).
Today - Sunny with a high of 81 °F (27.2 °C). Winds variable at 3 to 11 mph (4.8 to 17.7 kph).
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2019-04-24T17:08:35Z
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/china/yunnan/luoping-12687518
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It’s an election year. Lucky us. 350 million people get to pick the one person to be the leader of the free world. Most of those people will not participate in the process. Many can’t due to being under the voting age or being too old to get to the polls. But the majority of non-participants think that their voice will not be heard and their vote doesn’t really count. And they may be right. I have written about this previously. Almost 2500 years ago, Aristotle said that Democracy is the lowest form of government – to paraphrase his reasoning, it’s the inmates running the asylum.
I woke up at 2AM with most of this banging around between my ears….
From the din of ideological voices.
As a leader in whom the whole world rejoices?
According to the racing form, it’s a longshot at best!
Excellent limerick! It expresses my feelings to a tee!! As you so profunctly stated…Oy vay!!
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2019-04-24T09:48:45Z
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https://poetscornerblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/a-presidential-election-limerick/
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Delicious dumplings – homemade jiaozi and guotie.
Jasmine Tea & Jiaozi is two years old this month! – zhe ge yue wo de boke liang sui!!
Cheering from China – God Save the Queen!
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2019-04-23T02:37:54Z
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says uncertainty over Ander Herrera’s future might explain why the midfielder has been unavailable for the team in recent matches.
Herrera is out of contract at the end of the season and has been linked with a move to Paris Saint-Germain.
Solskjaer says Herrera is currently out because of a “muscle injury” sustained in training but expects him to be available for matches against Manchester City and Chelsea at the end of April.
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2019-04-21T14:58:39Z
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https://www.foxsports.com/soccer/story/solskjaer-says-transfer-rumors-could-explain-herrera-absence-041219
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Fill your coin purses and come on out for a day at the market with the Battle Bards! This week, Syp, Syl and I look at marketplace-related music in MMOs or the tunes that bring to mind a market atmosphere — whether that means a bustling town, a busy harbor with ships being unloaded by dock hands, or merchants selling their wares. This episode just might make you want to go out and go shopping!
This week we welcome a special guest to our show, Composer Tracy W. Bush! His resume includes World of Warcraft, DCUO, Dungeon Runners, Tabula Rasa, Free Realms, and City of Heroes and his vast experience in the MMO industry makes him a wealth of information about the musical creative process. He’s also known for his Murloc voice (yep, he’s the man behind the iconic “mrglmrglmrglmrgl!!!!”) and you just might hear Tracy do a demonstration. Unfortunately, I was out of town during the week of recording so I wasn’t able to join in the fun, but Syp and Syl do a good job holding the fort!
You are currently browsing the MMO Gamer Chick blog archives for October, 2014.
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Robert Earnshaw's penalty miss deprived Nottingham Forest of the chance to claim the scalp of Premier League Birmingham City as they fought out an FA Cup third round stalemate at the City Ground.
Earnshaw wasted the chance to give Billy Davies' promotion-chasing Forest a victory they deserved when he lifted his 61st-minute spot-kick over the top after Gregory Vignal fouled Paul Anderson.
Wales striker Earnshaw was denied again seconds later by the outstanding Joe Hart as Birmingham's on-loan keeper pressed his England claims with a faultless display.
Luke Chambers also headed against the crossbar for Forest in the first half as they demonstrated the growing maturity that has made them such a threat in the Championship, while Hart saved superbly from Chris Cohen early in the second half.
Birmingham - who lost Stuart Parnaby and Lee Carsley to injury - were on the back foot for much of the game, but finally posed a serious threat after Earnshaw's penalty miss, with Kevin Phillips hitting a post and also losing out when he ran through with only Forest keeper Lee Camp to beat.
In the end, two in-form sides must do battle again, perhaps no surprise as Forest entered the game on the back of a 16-match unbeaten run since they lost to Blackburn Rovers in the Carling Cup in September while Alex McLeish's side are now undefeated in 12 matches.
As expected, both managers made changes as Forest tried to keep fresh legs for their Championship promotion push and Birmingham attempted to consolidate an outstanding Premier League campaign so far.
Forest boss Davies regarded this tie as a measure of the development of his side - and the Scot will have been encouraged by the manner in which they went about their work.
Dexter Blackstock almost gave an expectant City Ground gallery the start they wanted after two minutes when he drove deep into the Birmingham area but shot into the side-netting.
Birmingham's early rhythm was disrupted by the departure of injured Parnaby, who was replaced by Gary McSheffrey, who had a spell on loan at Forest last season. They also lost Carsley before half-time when he injured his knee slipping as he made a challenge. He was carried off with Lee Bowyer entering the fray.
McLeish's side posed only occasional threats in the first half, with Cameron Jerome having a shot palmed away by Forest keeper Camp and pulling another effort wide. Phillips also tested Camp, who was again equal to the task.
Forest, with a composed and ordered approach, were the more dangerous side and Chambers almost gave them a lead their territorial possession deserved just before the interval, when he headed Cohen's corner against the bar.
Birmingham showed greater attacking intent in the opening moments after the break, with Camp pushing Vignal's shot to safety - but Forest responded instantly and should have broken the deadlock.
Blackstock pounced on Birmingham's carelessness in possession and set up Cohen inside the area, but Hart came to his side's rescue with a crucial save.
Forest were well on top, but wasted the perfect opportunity to finally make their pressure pay after 61 minutes when referee Steve Bennett pointed to the spot as Anderson was fouled by Vignal.
Earnshaw appeared to over-complicate his run-up and ballooned his spot-kick hopelessly over the bar, much to the City Ground's frustration.
And he was thwarted again seconds later as he raced clear, only for the excellent Hart to get the slightest of touches to send the ball agonisingly wide.
Suddenly the game opened up and Phillips twice came close to giving Birmingham an advantage that would have been harsh in the extreme, given Forest's supremacy.
He glanced the outside of an upright with a long-range effort before Camp raced from his goal to save as Phillips ran through on to the sort of opportunity he normally converts with relish.
Birmingham had finally managed to exert their authority, and Camp was forced into action once more as he touched Barry Ferguson's header around the post.
It was the last threat of an entertaining FA Cup tie watched by almost 21,000 fans - although both managers may regard a replay as an unwanted intrusion into an already crowded calendar.
"In the first 45 minutes we were dominant, we should have come in at half-time two or three up. There was only one side in it.
"We missed a penalty at a crucial time and that gave them a boost.
"Very proud of the players, and there is no doubt that we should have won the match."
Birmingham manager Alex McLeish on his use of fringe players: "(The changes) were enforced. Maybe it could be seen as a calculated risk to keep the momentum going if it was a Premier League game.
"But I feel we have enough experience and ability in reserve to come in and they slotted in very well.
"I would have liked to have won it, but Forest had a lot to say about that.
"They had their chances and we also had our chances, but we'll take the draw. We're still in the Cup."
90:00+3:07 The match has reached full-time.
90:00+2:41 Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Barry Ferguson by Dele Adebola. Lee Bowyer takes the indirect free kick.
90:00+1:46 Chris Cohen challenges Cameron Jerome unfairly and gives away a free kick. Free kick taken by Joe Hart.
88:39 The ball is delivered by Radoslaw Majewski, Barry Ferguson manages to make a clearance.
86:57 The ball is sent over by Gary McSheffrey.
85:43 Unfair challenge on Radoslaw Majewski by Gary McSheffrey results in a free kick. Radoslaw Majewski takes the free kick.
84:15 Substitution Dexter Blackstock leaves the field to be replaced by Dele Adebola.
84:15 Substitution (Birmingham) makes a substitution, with Christian Benitez coming on for Kevin Phillips.
82:00 Inswinging corner taken by Gary McSheffrey. Corner taken by Lee Bowyer played to the near post, Wes Morgan manages to make a clearance.
81:40 Damien Johnson crosses the ball, Barry Ferguson takes a shot. Save by Lee Camp.
80:10 Corner from the right by-line taken by Gary McSheffrey, clearance made by Luke Chambers.
77:30 Free kick taken by Lee Camp.
77:30 Substitution (Nottm Forest) makes a substitution, with Garath McCleary coming on for Robert Earnshaw.
77:30 Unfair challenge on Luke Chambers by Cameron Jerome results in a free kick.
76:35 Effort from 25 yards by Kevin Phillips. Save made by Lee Camp.
75:06 Inswinging corner taken by Gary McSheffrey from the right by-line, Unfair challenge on Luke Chambers by Roger Johnson results in a free kick. Lee Camp restarts play with the free kick.
74:30 Corner taken right-footed by Keith Fahey from the left by-line, Luke Chambers manages to make a clearance.
72:21 Kevin Phillips takes a shot. Brilliant save by Lee Camp.
69:58 Gary McSheffrey fouled by Chris Gunter, the ref awards a free kick. Free kick taken by Gary McSheffrey.
68:15 Corner from the right by-line taken by Chris Cohen, Luke Chambers gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Liam Ridgewell. Joe Hart restarts play with the free kick.
67:16 Substitution (Nottm Forest) makes a substitution, with Nathan Tyson coming on for Paul Anderson.
66:21 Kevin Phillips has an effort at goal from a long way out hitting the post.
64:50 Chris Cohen takes the inswinging corner, Luke Chambers takes a shot. Comfortable save by Joe Hart.
64:38 Robert Earnshaw takes a shot. Joe Hart makes a save.
61:19 Placed penalty missed by Robert Earnshaw.
61:19 Penalty awarded for an unfair challenge on Paul Anderson by Gregory Vignal.
60:15 Damien Johnson takes the free kick.
60:15 Booking Booking for Chris Gunter for unsporting behaviour.
60:10 Keith Fahey fouled by Chris Gunter, the ref awards a free kick.
58:35 Barry Ferguson is adjudged to have handled the ball. Indirect free kick taken by Lee Camp.
57:26 Inswinging corner taken left-footed by Chris Cohen.
56:44 Damien Johnson challenges Chris Gunter unfairly and gives away a free kick. Free kick crossed by Radoslaw Majewski, Cameron Jerome makes a clearance.
53:44 The assistant referee signals for offside against Kevin Phillips. Lee Camp takes the free kick.
53:02 Shot from outside the box by Paul Anderson goes wide right of the target.
Correction - 51:19 Chris Cohen takes a shot. Brilliant save by Joe Hart.
51:19 Chris Cohen takes a shot. Save made by Joe Hart.
50:45 The ball is crossed by Paul Anderson.
49:46 Lee Bowyer sends in a cross.
45:00+2:10 The match has reached half-time.
45:00+0:49 A cross is delivered by Chris Cohen, save by Joe Hart.
42:53 Radoslaw Majewski takes a inswinging corner from the left by-line to the near post, Luke Chambers takes a shot.
42:19 Cameron Jerome challenges Wes Morgan unfairly and gives away a free kick. Lee Camp takes the free kick.
41:47 Shot by Radoslaw Majewski. Comfortable save by Joe Hart.
39:35 Centre by Radoslaw Majewski, Dexter Blackstock concedes a free kick for a foul on Liam Ridgewell. Indirect free kick taken by Joe Hart.
38:38 Substitution Lee Carsley leaves the field to be replaced by Lee Bowyer.
36:34 Booking Joe Hart booked.
35:48 Unfair challenge on Gregory Vignal by Dexter Blackstock results in a free kick. Joe Hart restarts play with the free kick.
34:01 Chris Cohen takes a short corner.
32:29 Cameron Jerome has an effort at goal from just inside the box that misses to the right of the goal.
31:12 Shot by Kevin Phillips. Save by Lee Camp.
29:33 The ball is delivered by Chris Gunter, Joe Hart makes a save.
28:33 The assistant referee flags for offside against Robert Earnshaw. Joe Hart takes the indirect free kick.
27:08 The referee blows for offside against Dexter Blackstock. Free kick taken by Joe Hart.
22:25 Robert Earnshaw has an effort at goal. Save by Joe Hart.
20:27 Substitution Gary McSheffrey joins the action as a substitute, replacing Stuart Parnaby.
19:56 Shot from 30 yards by Cameron Jerome. Save by Lee Camp.
19:43 The ball is crossed by Chris Cohen, clearance made by Stuart Parnaby.
18:43 Free kick awarded for a foul by Cameron Jerome on Wes Morgan. Free kick taken by Wes Morgan.
12:55 Radoslaw Majewski has an effort at goal from 35 yards and went wide left of the goal.
10:33 Short corner taken by Keith Fahey.
10:27 Keith Fahey produces a cross, blocked by Paul McKenna.
10:17 Lee Carsley has an effort at goal from 20 yards. Blocked by Luke Chambers.
9:51 Corner taken by Keith Fahey.
9:44 Damien Johnson crosses the ball, clearance made by Luke Chambers.
8:38 Robert Earnshaw takes a shot. Save by Joe Hart.
7:01 Outswinging corner taken by Chris Cohen from the left by-line played to the near post.
6:52 Effort on goal by Robert Earnshaw from 25 yards. Lee Carsley gets a block in.
3:25 Free kick awarded for a foul by Dexter Blackstock on Gregory Vignal. Joe Hart restarts play with the free kick.
1:47 Effort on goal by Dexter Blackstock from deep inside the penalty area misses to the right of the goal.
Correction - 0:48 Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Chris Cohen by Lee Carsley. Free kick taken by Wes Morgan.
0:48 Lee Carsley challenges Chris Cohen unfairly and gives away a free kick. Wes Morgan restarts play with the free kick.
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Jurgen Klopp thinks Liverpool could need 105 points to win the Premier League title this season.
Liverpool moved four points clear at the top of the table with a 2-0 win over Wolves on Friday Night Football.
They are on 48 points after 18 games, but Klopp thinks they might need to maintain their current pace to have a chance of challenging for the title.
"So far it looks like a really special season, 48 points before Christmas is crazy," the Liverpool manager told Sky Sports.
"But there are other teams. Chelsea, Manchester City, Tottenham, Arsenal, will probably win, so then they have 40-something points, nobody is dropping points down to fifth or sixth. You will probably need 105 to be champions at the end of the season, you don't know.
"We know we are good and are in a good moment but we have to respect the others are good so we can't start a party or plan a party for the summer now.
"For the moment it's really nice and now we have to make sure we have fresh legs as quick as possible and get ready for Newcastle."
Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk scored the goals to secure victory for Liverpool at Molineux.
Van Dijk was also named man of the match after a commanding display at centre-back.
Asked whether Van Dijk is even better than Klopp thought he would be when he joined in January, the Liverpool manager said: "Yeah, together with all the other boys around he is much better.
"He had to improve, he is still improving, but he is an outstanding player. He helps so much, but you also see how we do it around him. Virg is the player we saw in him, so that's cool."
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For all of you card-carrying members of the ‘Trump is owned by the Jews brigade’, if you still don’t ‘get it’ after this, then you never will.
At heated closed Likud meeting, prime minister describes Trump presidency as ‘historic opportunity,’ but says Israel should know its limits.
Assuming that all the information contained in this piece is accurate (and yes coming from any Judaic source, that is always a big question) there are lots of important inferences here.
Note that the Likud meeting was described as ‘heated’. This isn’t between rival parties, but rather amongst people who ideologically are on the same page, and what Nutty Netty is telling them is serious enough that it has now devolved into shouting matches.
‘Not as simple as you think’–Netanyahu’s is in effect telling them that Trump’s posturing to Jewish interests, complete with parading his ‘Jewish’ daughter and her Jewish husband, to his professed ‘love’ for Israel and his saber rattling against Israel’s enemies does not necessarily translate into what has been interpreted by certain members within Likud. In other words, what Netanyahu is basically telling them is that Trump understands the ‘by way of deception, we shall make war’ paradigm just as much as the Jews do and that below the surface of his nice words and smiles that a differing reality exists, and especially with regards to the settlements.
Yours truly invited by the Parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran to attend the conference dedicated to the Palestinian Intifada. More importantly, the various discussions I had with certain ‘movers and shakers’ there vis a vis the Presidency of Donald Trump and what it portends for the future of the Middle East.
Ed note–But remember, it’s not Judaism that’s the problem, but Zionism, and its not the Old Testament (Torah) which condones this behavior, but rather the Talmud, and before there was Zionism and Talmudism there was no such thing as ‘the Jewish problem’ and everything surrounding these people was–as they would say– ‘Kosher’.
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Here’s my best attempt at reproducing the outstanding Harvest Salad, a seasonal specialty at Dewey’s Pizza in Cincinnati.
I was in Cincinnati for a few weeks and ate one of these every other day! (They make terrific pizza as well).
*Rather than go with the sliced figs in the original salad, I just added 2 Tbsp of fig butter (from Trader Joe’s) to the vinaigrette, since I happened to have some. I thought it was as good, if not better. If you happen to have fig jam, you could use that too, though I would use less honey as the fig jam has more sugar than the fig butter.
Home-made vinaigrettes are so much better than even the best store bought ones that it seems silly not to make them yourself. Especially when they’re this easy.
All of the following vinaigrettes have about the same proportions: 1 part vinegar to 3-4 parts oil. I usually go with 1/4 cup vinegar to 3/4 cup oil. They all get salt, pepper, and maybe a pinch of sugar or honey if you like them with a little less bite. Just whisk together in a bowl and you’re done.
I like extra virgin olive oil, but in some recipes you don’t want a strong olive taste. You can blend olive and canola to taste, depending on how strong flavored your olive oil is.
Any of the first three vinaigrettes (Dijon, balsamic, walnut) are good on just about anything. Good for mesclun kitchen sink salads with fruits and nuts etc.
Baby spinach with a fresh lemon and peanut dressing, topped with Feta cheese, bacon bits, and crispy shallots.
Romaine lettuce tossed in a balsamic pesto vinaigrette, with sliced Granny Smith apples, toasted pecans, red bell peppers, blue cheese and croutons.
1. Rinse chicken and marinate in ¼ cup of pesto dressing. Chicken should be at room temperature before cooking.
2. Cut off stems and remove outer leaves of romaine lettuce. Tear into chunks and place in a bowl or container in the refrigerator with a damp paper towel or dishtowel over the top.
3. Preheat large frying pan. Remove chicken from marinade and pat as dry as possible with paper towels or a clean dishtowel.
4. Add a thin layer of olive oil to coat bottom of pan. Add chicken breasts, leaving space between them so they don’t steam. Cook on high until cooked a little more than half way through.
Lower heat if the oil starts to smoke. If there is liquid in the pan, keep heat high and keep pan uncovered to evaporate. If pan is dry, add a little more olive oil.
Note: Don’t move the chicken around in the pan. When it is done cooking on a side, it should release from the pan without sticking.
5. If it has cooked a little more than half way through, add a little more oil to pan and flip chicken over onto oiled surface. Depending on how thick it is, it should only need to cook a few more minutes on the other side.
6. When chicken is still a tiny bit pink in the middle, remove chicken from pan and place on a plate. If using a meat thermometer, take the chicken out of the pan when the internal temperature reaches 160 degrees. Cover with foil and let rest for about 5 min.
7. While chicken is resting, take romaine lettuce out of fridge, add apples, pecans, pepper strips and blue cheese, and toss in pesto dressing. Add salt and pepper to taste.
8. Cut chicken breasts into strips. Serve salad, top with chicken strips and croutons.
Perfectly seared sliced steak served with crispy iceberg lettuce and homemade ranch dressing, with bacon, blue cheese, red onion and croutons.
This traditional Greek Salad is a nice change of pace from your everyday side salad, while being just as easy. Start with my simple Greek Vinaigrette.
The vinaigrette already has plenty of lemon, garlic and oregano.
You can also skip the lettuce and go with larger slices of tomato and cucumber. Just let them marinate for a few minutes in the vinaigrette.
My Lemon Peanut Vinaigrette is specifically made for this non-traditional spinach salad.
I have tried frying the shallots myself, but pre-fried onions are much easier.
This is a nice light salad, but if you feel the urge to add cooked bacon bits, go for it.
I used to like eating the leftover vegetables that sat at the bottom of the salad bowl after dinner. After marinating in salad dressing, these vegetables were salty, crunchy and delicious. Later I decided to just skip the original salad and just make a huge bowl of marinated vegetables. Yum.
Ideally you want all the vegetables to be crunchy but not totally raw after a half an hour of marinating. Some vegetables could do with a quick blanching in boiling salt water. Some, like green beans, should be actually cooked. If you slice harder vegetables like carrots thinner, and softer vegetables like zucchini thicker, they’ll all come out about the same.
Any basic vinaigrette works for this salad, but I particularly like it with Walnut Sherry Vinaigrette.
Combine veggies and vinaigrette, except for avocado and lettuce, and let marinate for 20 min or more. Toss greens in dressing. Top with vegetables. Toss avocado in dressing and place on top.
You can do just about anything with this salad. You could add fresh mozzarella, artichoke hearts, grilled asparagus, roasted beets, kidney beans or even cooked shrimp. But I just like to grab whatever I have around and make myself a big bowl of crunchy goodness.
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Online fashion retailer Jabong, which is reportedly on the block for sale, said it expects to clock 20-30% growth in sales this year as it charts a turnaround in business.
Stating that he is "still with the company", Jabong CEO Sanjeev Mohanty said the Global Fashion Group (GFG) firm is tracking a good pace of growth.
"We have seen small growth. We are tracking about 20-30% growth," he told .
Jabong narrowed down its gross loss to Rs 46.7 crore for 2015 on the back of lower level of discounts from Rs 159.5 crore in 2014. Its net revenue rose 7.1% to Rs 869.1 crore in 2015 compared with Rs 811.4 crore in 2014.
The GMV (gross merchandise value) in 2015 increased to Rs 1,502.9 crore compared with Rs 1,320.6 crore in 2014.
When asked about reports that he had put in his papers, Mohanty answered in the negative.
"I am very much here. I have spoken to the team too and assured them that I am still with the company," he said.
Jabong had brought in Mohanty, who has over 20 years of experience, on board last year to steer Jabong that has been facing strong competition from the likes of Myntra (owned by Flipkart) and Amazon.
On a possible sale of equity, Mohanty said the company is exploring multiple options, including getting new investors on board or a complete sellout.
"We have always said that we are looking at all options. I can't give you a timeline as these things take time. It could be 4 weeks or 6 or 8 weeks," he said adding that Jabong has multiple options available.
According to sources, Jabong is in discussions with players like e-commerce major Snapdeal, Aditya Birla Group and Kishore Biyani's Future Group for a possible sell out.
The deal, which has been in the works for some time, is floundering as many "suitors have backed out", sources added.
Another source close to the discussions said a "distress sale" is more likely now with the withering away of the team and potential investors.
While Jabong investors are seeking a valuation of about USD 100-150 million, the deal, if it goes through, may close at a much lower valuation of around USD 50 million, they said.
When contacted, Snapdeal and Aditya Birla Online Fashion (Abof.com) declined to comment, while Future Group did not respond to emailed queries.
Jabong was founded in 2012. In September 2014, its investor, Rocket Internet merged Jabong with four other online fashion retailers in Latin America, Russia, the Middle East, South-east Asia and Australia to create Global Fashion Group (GFG).
Swedish investment firm Kinnevik also owns a large stake in Jabong's parent Global Fashion Group.
While Jabong has managed to reduce losses by reducing discounts, both AB Kinnevik and Rocket Internet seem unwilling to infuse fresh capital and are believed to be keen to exit.
In April this year, GFG raised fresh funding from existing investors at a lower valuation, raising 300 million euros from Rocket Internet and Kinnevik.
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2019-04-22T14:29:18Z
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https://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/business-of-brands/jabong-expects-20-30-sales-growth-this-year-ceo-sanjeev-mohanty/53166940
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As we walk in the walk waiting for the return of our Mashiach we forget sometimes how we found the way to the Hebrew Roots we know today. News of how YHWH is moving His people come to us every day. Yesterday we found out that the Sea Merchants are double booking their ships amid the amount of people leaving the USA. He has called us to move out of Babylon first and then He will give us instructions on what to do next. Few months back we studied Jeremiah 16:16 and we could see how the fishers were telling us what was coming. Now we hear of hunters coming. YHWH wants us back but if we do not listen to the fishers we will be hunted. Verse 14 to 16 will be the basis of this post.
Jeremiah 16:14-16 "Therefore see, the days are coming," declares YHWH, "when is no longer said, YHWH lives who brought up the children of Y'israel from the land of Mitsrayim,' 15 but, YHWH lives who brought up the children of Y'israel from the land of the north and from the land where He has driven them.' For I shall bring them back into the land I gave to their fathers. 16 " See, I am sending for many fishermen" declares YHWH', "and they shall fish them. And they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
Praise YHWH for He is in control. We have to walk and then He will answer. Our destination is in Jerusalem! We can not stop moving towards it or the Hunters will come and hunt us.
"It is the time of the great crossing over, so wait no longer. Arise and go forth. Go to the habitation of your inheritance. Move with haste, My people, and move with all speed, run and don't walk. You've been walking through the wilderness, but now you will run to the promise. Run through the land; run with faith. Rise up on wings of eagles and you shall not be weary. For I, the Lord of glory, have come to carry you. I have come to provide the wind that will propel you, and I have come to bring the rain of My anointing upon you. For when these things come to you and when they overtake you, indeed you shall have a shout; indeed you shall declare the victory; you shall say I did not know it but the Lord, My God, was with me the whole journey. Now my eyes can see; now my heart can believe; now I shall go from victory to victory. "
Our family is also seeing how YHWH is opening the hearts and eyes of His people every single day! It's exciting!
We are praying for you, our family in Messiah Yahshua!
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2019-04-22T21:53:38Z
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There will be a new women's professional cycling team launched for the 2019 season under the same management as the men's WorldTour Trek-Segafredo program, and set to sign former world champion Lizzie Deignan, according to a report in CyclingWeekly on Thursday.
The women's team will apparently be named Trek Factory Racing, which already exists with off-road teams in mountain biking, enduro and cyclo-cross and includes stars such as Katie Compton, Evie Richards and Emily Batty.
The American bike manufacture already co-titles the UCI women's team Trek-Drops, which is run by Tom Varney. Drops launched the team in 2013, and became a UCI-registered outfit in 2016, while Trek only recently took over as co-sponsor at the start of this season.
The new Trek Factory Racing team has reportedly signed 2015 world champion Deignan, who is currently on leave as she is expecting her first baby. The new contract would bring to an end her five-year term with Danny Stam's Boels-Dolmans team.
CyclingWeekly also reported that the team is set to sign Sunweb's Ellen Van Dijk, along Wiggle High5 riders Elisa Longo Borghini and Audrey Cordon-Ragot after the team has been rumoured to come to a close at the end of the 2018 season - all are currently racing at the Giro Rosa.
Trek-Segafredo is expected to make a formal announcement from the Tour de France on the first rest day in Annecy on Monday.
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2019-04-24T19:14:23Z
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http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lizzie-deignan-set-to-sign-with-new-trek-segafredo-womens-team-in-2019/
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as we discussed in my last thesis update, at the heart of my thesis is the issue of flexibility in architecture. as part of an exploration into what this means i spent some time breaking it down into flexible typologies (from here i will begin to distill out the most appropriate types of flexibility for my project). i more than welcome any thoughts you may have on the issue (diagrams i sketched apply to the category immediately following).
adaptable. adaptable structures features repositionable partitions or are changeable per user/occupant (case studies: rietveld schroeder house, japanese housing).
universal. what typifies a universally flexible building is its ease of adaptation per use. these buildings are often characterized by open floor plans and typology free design (case studies: s.r. crown hall, eames house).
movable. movable flexible buildings consist of relocatable or repositionable structures or buildings capable of being torn down and reassembled in another location (case studies: nomadic tents, airstream trailers).
transformable. characterized by modular design (capable of adding or removing units or components) transformable structures can also open and close, change form, or change color (case studies: plug-in city, university of phoenix stadium).
responsive. responsive buildings can respond to a number of external stimuli, including, but not limited to, energy/environment, interaction, usage, or occupation (case studies: allianz arena, institut du monde arab).
i just stumbled across your website and found your thesis interesting. i have been quite interested in flexible building…but wondered how you had thought about issues of style, fashion, branding, and our consumer culture. while flexiblity is a great a noble pursuit, you can not ignore the obvious pitfall…disposability.
i think you’ve hit on a great point raj. there is a fine line somewhere in there between flexibility and disposability. i suppose the hope is that if designed smartly and successfully the flexible building isn’t disposable but can adapt and evolve to meet the new demands. but the bigger question is “is disposable bad?” sure on the surface anyone would seemingly argue of course, but i think there is more going on in that question than what’s at the surface. for starter’s we no longer live the way we used to. our lives and livelihoods have changed. we move constantly, change jobs, all part of a global culture and economy of impermanence. should anything be permanent for that matter? of course there’s always the environmental issue when one brings up the idea of disposability. maybe it’s not so much disposability as it’s responsible growth? isn’t is possible that these buildings/units/etc could be relocated where they are needed as they are needed, not actually “disposed?” i’m not sure about a lot of this myself. but the point you raise is poignant and certainly something i am exploring in my thesis. as i progress i will be sure to post more in relation to this idea. thanks for your comment!
Your thesis topic is very interesting, it is actually one of my objectives to identify known concepts of flexibility in architecture and apply it to my design. I would just like to know how did you identify these concepts? And would like to ask for permission to use your article. Hoping for your reply, thank you.
raghu i would be more then happy to you out in any way i could. feel free to email question to: waywelive[at]gmail[dot]com or post them here. i’m sure i could point you to some great research and case studies as well. i know i’ve been absent around here for a while but rest assured it is a function of me finishing my own thesis which is due here in about a week, after which i plan on being back full time!
It is not clear in your thesis whether flexibility is an “end” or a “means” (to something else). You assume that it is an “end” and it may not be.
dear geoff, would you like to send me an email about your thesis. same with shah, i’m interested on this topic. thank’s before.
hi geoff. My name is André Vergueiro. I’m a Portuguese architecture student and I came across with your blog while working on my master’s dissertation. I was wondering if you could give me your name since I cannot find any information about you, so I can write your name in my bibliography. It would be important since I’ll “use” your synthesis about flexible typologies, emphasizing on the adaptable feature.
I find your work very pertinent regarding a chapter i’m currently writing about space appropriation. I believe flexibility is a useful tool so the space can change with us, since we are currently transforming ourselves in our life. I also agree with you about the thin ice layer between flexibility and disposability.
hey Andre… I am Aishwarya, studying architecture in India. I am doing a dissertation on Flexible Architecture and would like to learn more from your research. We could share resources on the same.
Hello! My name is anna timmermans. Im an architecture student (from belgium), working on my endthesis. My thesis is about flexible façades. It is hard to find good information about this subject. This blog is then interesting to read about. It makes me curious also to your thesis. Do you have any good tips for books, articles, on-line lectures,… that would help a lot! thanks!
Hi Geoff.. My name is Aishwarya. I study architecture in India and am currently working on a dissertation based on the subject of Flexible Architecture. I came across your blog and found the pictorial depiction of different categories of ‘flexibility’ very interesting. I want to adapt a similar form of presentation in my dissertation and would like your details or even a link to your completed thesis for my bibliography and study.
Also, there is a very valuable book on the subject titled Flexible Architecture by Robert Kronenburg which you might like to look up.
Please get in touch with me at the earliest.
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hi, i m hiren,i m study in architecture in India. i just find how to flexibility of building and identity of building for my housing studio, i found your blog. and i intresting in deeply going in your thesis.. so please send ur thesis or disucus with me when u r free.
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Hello dear friend. I am M.A student of Architecture and i work on adaptable and flexible architecture. i would be so much thankful if you send your thesis to me.
hello, i really enjoy yout explanation about flexible architecture because i took flexible architecture as the subject of my last task, i would be thankful if you send your thesis to be my references to [email protected] 🙂 thankyou very much!
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2019-04-26T10:37:17Z
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The skin disease acne starts when hair follicles (the shafts that hairs grow in) become clogged with dead skin cells, bacteria, and a mixture of oils known as sebum. This backed-up material cannot escape through the pores (the openings at the top of the follicles), and blemishes appear.
Alternative treatments work to strengthen the body's own defenses to prevent acne flare-ups in the first place, as well as to reduce the inflammation and scarring associated with the disease. Conventional medicine believes that dietary factors have little impact on acne, but many alternative practitioners disagree.
Nutritional therapy holds that some foods may trigger the overproduction of oils in the skin and should, therefore, be avoided. Topping the list are refined carbohydrates (sugars) and foods loaded with saturated fat. Yes, that includes chocolate. Milk's fat and hormone content can also be a problem for some people. You should also avoid foods high in iodine, such as seafood and iodized salt. A diet of whole grains, raw or steamed vegetables, fruits, and beans promotes healthier skin.
A mineral or vitamin deficiency could also be putting the body in a weakened state, leaving it unable to fight off the factors, such as stress, that lead to acne flare-ups. But vitamin supplementation in acne treatment is not usually used to combat a deficiency. Rather, single nutrients are used for their therapeutic effect, such as their effect on hormone levels.
Several studies conducted in the United States and Europe have reported a zinc deficiency in people who have acne and other skin disorders. In one French trial, acne patients were given daily doses of either elemental zinc or a placebo. After two months, those who took the zinc had significantly fewer and significantly less severe pimples and cysts. Zinc is thought to have an anti-inflammatory effect, which would reduce the skin's reaction.
Whenever zinc supplementation is prescribed for an extended period, copper supplementation is also necessary because the two minerals compete in the body for absorption; when there is an abundance of zinc, the copper is less likely to be absorbed. Zinc used alone can cause a copper deficiency.
Herbal medicine relies on certain plants that can eliminate the bacteria that contribute to acne flare-ups. These plants are also used to cleanse the body, righting its internal balance to prevent future flare-ups.
Tea tree oil, made from a shrub that grows mainly in eastern Australia, is used for its antibacterial properties. A group of Australian researchers showed that a gel made from five percent tea tree oil is just as effective in clearing up acne as five percent benzoyl peroxide lotion. The study volunteers found the tea tree oil took longer than the benzoyl peroxide to produce results, but the oil was significantly gentler on the face.
The herb calendula, more commonly known as marigold, can be used for its antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. The dried flowers are often steeped in hot water like tea and then used directly on the skin, after cooling, as a facial wash.
The herbs burdock and cleavers may be used in tincture form (prepared in an alcohol and water solution) for their cleansing action.
Several studies point to the effectiveness of vitex (chasteberry) for acne, especially in women. The herb seems to work internally by normalizing hormone levels.
Scan the aisles of your health food store, and you'll find tea tree oil sold in many forms, including as an essential oil, shampoo, body lotion, lip balm, and even laundry detergent. Not all the forms necessarily contain enough tea tree oil to have antibacterial power, but because the herb is very potent, look for a form that has already been diluted for use as a body lotion or soap.
Aromatherapy for Acne -- The essential oils of bergamot, chamomile, juniper, or lavender can be diluted with warm water and applied as a wash or spray.
Detoxification, Fasting, and Colon Therapy for Acne -- Because acne can be a sign that the body's ability to eliminate waste and toxins has been compromised, detoxification treatments can be helpful.
Homeopathy for Acne -- Specific remedies must be tailored to the individual, but common prescriptions include kali bromatum, hepar sulphuris calcareum, and sulphur.
Hydrotherapy for Acne -- Possible remedies include applying ice to skin sores, soaking in ocean water, and quickly rubbing the body (not the face) with a cold, damp washcloth.
Meditation for Acne -- Regular meditation sessions can be effective for acne triggered by stress or nervous tension.
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Since this is my first post here, I will share to you some facts about the creator of this blog.
My real name is Joyce Fretz. I’m 90’s kid. I have only 1 brother. No sister. My mother told me that my first word is tata, should be tatay (father). A graduate of BSBA major in Business Economics but working in Construction Company in Middle East. My first work was in logistics, as customer service agent. Wife, not yet a mother. I got married at age of 24.
I like any shade of blue and pink. I love music – – Taylor Swift, MYMP, country and old songs – 80’s or 90’s songs. I spend most of my money in books. Started to collect books last July 2014. Book-hoarder. 80% of my collected books are to-be-read. The first book I read is Heaven by V. C. Andrews. I’m not that good in English. When I’m bored, I play Sudoku.
I’m not a morning person. I don’t drink coffee or tea.. just water and juice. Love Chinese and Korean foods. Siomai, kimchi, sushi and any dumplings are my favorites. Like to collect souvenirs and paper bills from other countries. I want to go in other Asian countries. Thailand, Vietnam, China, Japan and Singapore… Also, Europe, UK and US. I don’t wear jewelries and make-ups (just lipstick)… so uncomfortable… even heels!
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Background: Non-verbal human communication (NHC) contributes to transport safety by helping road users understand each other’s intentions. As an example, pedestrians may make eye-contact with drivers to make sure they have the right of way, before they cross an intersection. Gestures are equally important to communicate intentions in traffic and are so effective that their abuse may be fatal. With the introduction of automated driving, driver-passengers will no longer provide NHC but automated vehicles will still need to communicate their intention to other road users (vulnerable road users and drivers of non-automated vehicles).
The goal of this project is to combine expertise from Chalmers (CH) and Göteborg University (GU) to define how technology and human sciences can leverage on each other to 1) understand NHC in traffic, 2) make NHC understandable to machines, and 3) use technology to replace NHC in an increasingly-automated traffic environment.
The long-term aim of this project is to contribute to the safety and acceptance of automated driving by helping automated vehicle communicate their intentions to humans.
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For other uses of "Border Patrol", see Border Patrol (disambiguation).
With 19,437 agents, the Border Patrol is one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the United States. For fiscal year 2017, Congress enacted a budget of $3,805,253,000 for the Border Patrol.
The current chief of the Border Patrol is Carla Provost.
Mounted watchmen of the United States Department of Commerce and Labor patrolled the border in an effort to prevent illegal crossings as early as 1904, but their efforts were irregular and undertaken only when resources permitted. The inspectors, usually called "mounted guards", operated out of El Paso, Texas. Though they never totaled more than 75, they patrolled as far west as California trying to restrict the flow of illegal Chinese immigration.
In March 1917, Congress authorized a separate group of mounted guards, often referred to as "mounted inspectors". Most rode on horseback, but a few operated automobiles, motorcycles and boats. Although these inspectors had broader arrest authority, they still largely pursued Chinese immigrants trying to avoid the National Origins Act and Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. These patrolmen were Immigration Inspectors, assigned to inspection stations, and could not watch the border at all times. U.S. Army soldiers along the southwest border performed intermittent border patrolling, but this was secondary to "the more serious work of military training." Immigrants encountered illegally in the U.S. by the Army were directed to the immigration inspection stations. Texas Rangers were also sporadically assigned to patrol duties by the state, and their efforts were noted as "singularly effective".
During the 1940 Border Patrol expansion, four newly hired agents from the northeastern states drove this new pursuit vehicle from the Ford factory in Detroit to El Paso where they would receive training.
A Border Patrol Agent practice firing a Thompson submachine gun near El Paso in 1940.
The National Origins Act authorized the formation of the U.S. Border Patrol on May 26, 1924. Two days later, the Labor Appropriation Act of 1924 established the Border Patrol as an agency of the U.S. Department of Labor assigned to prevent illegal entries—primarily along the Mexico–United States border, as well as the Canada–U.S. border. The first Border Patrol station began operations in Detroit, Michigan in June 1924. A second station in El Paso, Texas began operations in July 1924. In 1925, coastal patrols began as well. Operations were established along the Gulf Coast in 1927 to ensure that foreign crewmen departed on the same ship on which they arrived. In 1932, the Border Patrol was divided into two offices. Mexican border operations were directed from El Paso, Texas and Canadian border operations were directed from Detroit, Michigan. The Canadian border operations from Detroit employed more men than the El Paso operations along the Mexican border because of a focus on the prevention of liquor smuggling during prohibition. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Executive Order 6166 formed the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in 1933 by consolidation of the Bureau of Immigration and the Bureau of Naturalization. Following the outbreak of World War II in Europe, Border Patrol staffing doubled to 1,500 in 1940, and the INS was moved from the Department of Labor to the U.S. Department of Justice. Additional stations were temporarily added along the Gulf Coast, Florida and the Eastern Seaboard during the 1960s after Fidel Castro triumphed in the Cuban Revolution and that was followed by the Cuban Missile Crisis. INS was decommissioned in March 2003 when its operations were divided between CBP, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In the wake of the attacks of September 11, the Border Patrol was placed under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security, and preventing terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States was added to its mission. The Border Patrol's traditional mission continued: deterring, detecting and apprehending illegal immigrants and individuals involved in the illegal drug trade who generally entered the United States at places other than through designated ports of entry. The Border Patrol also erected[when?] 33 permanent interior checkpoints near the southern border of the United States.
For fiscal year 2017, the nationwide total of Border Patrol agents was 19,437, with 16,605 patrolling the southern border. Agents primarily patrol the Mexico–United States border, where they control drug trafficking and illegal immigration.
The majority of Border Patrol agents are minorities. According to 2016 data, Latinos comprise slightly more than 50% of the Border Patrol.
The Border Patrol's priorities have changed over the years. In 1986, the Immigration Reform and Control Act placed renewed emphasis on controlling illegal immigration by going after the employers that hire illegal aliens. The belief was that jobs were the magnet that attracted most illegal aliens to come to the United States. The Border Patrol increased interior enforcement and Form I-9 audits of businesses through an inspection program known as "employer sanctions". Several agents were assigned to interior stations, such as within the Livermore Sector in Northern California.
Employer sanctions never became the effective tool it was expected to be by Congress. Illegal immigration continued to swell after the 1986 amnesty despite employer sanctions. By 1993, Californians passed Proposition 187, denying benefits to illegal aliens and criminalizing illegal aliens in possession of forged green cards, identification cards, and Social Security numbers. It also authorized police officers to question non-nationals as to their immigration status and required police and sheriff departments to cooperate and report illegal aliens to the INS. Proposition 187 drew nationwide attention to illegal immigration.
United States Border Patrol Interior Checkpoints are inspection stations operated by the USBP within 100 miles (160 km) of an international border (with Mexico or Canada) or any U.S. coastline, or in the Florida Keys.
El Paso Sector Chief Patrol Agent Silvestre Reyes started a program called "Operation Hold the Line". In this program, Border Patrol agents would no longer react to illegal entries resulting in apprehensions, but would instead be forward deployed to the border, immediately detecting any attempted entries or deterring crossing at a more remote location. The idea was that it would be easier to capture illegal entrants in the wide open deserts than through the urban alleyways. Chief Reyes deployed his agents along the Rio Grande, within eyesight of other agents. The program significantly reduced illegal entries in the urban part of El Paso, however, the operation merely shifted the illegal entries to other areas.
Congressman Duncan Hunter became a major proponent of border fencing in the San Diego sector; surplus military landing mats were obtained to use as an initial border fence. Stadium lighting, ground sensors and infra-red cameras were also placed in the area. Eventually the primitive landing mat fence was replaced with a modern triple fence line that begins over one hundred yards into the Pacific Ocean at Imperial Beach, CA and ends more than 13 miles (19 km) inland on Otay Mesa where the mountains begin.
An agent armed with an M14 rifle tracking someone in harsh winter conditions on the northern border.
Through agency whistleblowers, Agent Mark Hall and Agent Robert Lindemann, it was revealed that in 2001, the Border Patrol had approximately 324 agents assigned along the Canada–United States border. Northern border staffing had been increased by 1,128 agents to 1,470 agents by the end of fiscal year 2008, and is projected to expand to 1,845 by the end of fiscal year 2009, a sixfold increase. Resources that support Border Patrol agents include the use of new technology and a more focused application of air and marine assets.
The northern border sectors are (west to east): Blaine (Washington), Spokane (Washington), Havre (Montana), Grand Forks (North Dakota), Detroit (Selfridge ANGB, Michigan), Buffalo (New York), Swanton (Vermont), and Houlton (Maine).
Cameras add "Smart Border" surveillance.
The United States border is a barely discernible line in uninhabited deserts, canyons, or mountains. The Border Patrol utilizes a variety of equipment and methods, such as electronic sensors placed at strategic locations along the border, to detect people or vehicles entering the country illegally. Video monitors and night vision scopes are also used to detect illegal entries. Agents patrol the border in vehicles, boats, aircraft, and afoot. In some areas, the Border Patrol employs horses, all-terrain motorcycles, bicycles, and snowmobiles. Air surveillance capabilities are provided by unmanned aerial vehicles.
The primary activity of a Border Patrol Agent is "Line Watch". Line Watch involves the detection, prevention, and apprehension of terrorists, illegal aliens and smugglers of aliens at or near the land border by maintaining surveillance from a covert position; following up on leads; responding to electronic sensor, television systems and aircraft sightings; and interpreting and following tracks, marks, and other physical evidence. Major activities include traffic check, traffic observation, city patrol, transportation check, administrative, intelligence, and anti-smuggling activities.
Traffic checks are conducted on major highways leading away from the border to detect and apprehend illegal aliens attempting to travel further into the interior of the United States after evading detection at the border, and to detect illegal narcotics.
Transportation checks are inspections of interior-bound conveyances, which include buses, commercial aircraft, passenger and freight trains, and marine craft.
Marine Patrols are conducted along the coastal waterways of the United States, primarily along the Pacific coast, the Caribbean, the tip of Florida, and Puerto Rico and interior waterways common to the United States and Canada. Border Patrol conducts border control activities from 130 marine craft of various sizes. The Border Patrol maintains watercraft ranging from blue-water craft to inflatable-hull craft, in 16 sectors, in addition to headquarters special operations components.
Horse and bike patrols are used to augment regular vehicle and foot patrols. Horse units patrol remote areas along the international boundary that are inaccessible to standard all-terrain vehicles. Bike patrol aids city patrol and is used over rough terrain to support linewatch. Snowmobiles are used to patrol remote areas along the northern border in the winter.
U.S. Border Patrol Agents at the Greyhound bus station in Detroit, Michigan in February 2011. Immigration checks on trains, buses, and highways within 100 miles of the northern border have become more common.
In 1992, the United States Border Patrol had approximately 4,139 Patrol Agents on the job. Attrition in the Border Patrol was normally at 5%. From 1995–2001 annual attrition rose to above 10%, which was a period when the Border Patrol was undergoing massive hiring. In 2002 the attrition rate climbed to 18%. The 18% attrition was largely attributed to agents transferring to the Federal Air Marshals after 9/11. Since that time the attrition rate has decreased. Congress increased journeyman Border Patrol Agent pay from a GS-9 rate to a GS-11 rate in 2002. The Border Patrol Marine Position was created in 2009 (BPA-M).
The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (signed by President Bush on December 17, 2004) authorized hiring an additional 10,000 agents, "subject to appropriation". This authorization nearly doubled the Border Patrol manpower from 11,000 to 20,000 agents by 2010. As of 2016, roughly half of the agents are Latino Americans.
The Secure Fence Act, signed by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2006, has met with much opposition. In October 2007, environmental groups and concerned citizens filed a restraining order hoping to halt the construction of the fence, set to be built between the United States and Mexico. The act mandates that the fence be built by December 2008. Ultimately, the United States seeks to put fencing around the 1,945-mile (3,130 km) border, but the act requires only 700 miles (1,100 km) of fencing. DHS secretary Michael Chertoff has bypassed environmental and other oppositions with a waiver that was granted to him by Congress in Section 102 of the act, which allows DHS to avoid any conflicts that would prevent a speedy assembly of the fence.
This action has led many environment groups and landowners to speak out against the impending construction of the fence. Environment and wildlife groups fear that the plans to clear brush, construct fences, install bright lights, motion sensors, and cameras will scare wildlife and endanger the indigenous species of the area. Environmentalists claim that the ecosystem could be affected because a border fence would restrict movement of all animal species, which in turn would keep them from water and food sources on one side or another. Desert plants would also feel the impact, as they would be uprooted in many areas where the fence is set to occupy.
Property owners in these areas fear a loss of land. Landowners would have to give some of their land over to the government for the fence. Citizens also fear that communities will be split. Many students travel over the border every day to attend classes at the University of Texas at Brownsville. Brownsville mayor Pat Ahumada favors alternative options to a border fence. He suggests that the Rio Grande be widened and deepened to provide for a natural barrier to hinder illegal aliens and drug smugglers.
In 2007, the U.S. Border Patrol created the Special Operations Group (SOG) headquartered in El Paso, TX to coordinate the special operations units of the agency.
The U.S. Border Patrol has a number of other specialized programs and details. Marine Patrol – In the riverine environments of the northern and southwestern borders of the continental United States, the Border Patrol conducts border control activities from the decks of marine craft of various sizes. Since 2006, the U.S. Border Patrol has relinquished its littoral law enforcement missions in the Great Lakes and territorial seas to the Office of Air and Marine. The U.S. Border Patrol maintains over 130 vessels, ranging from blue-water craft to inflatable-hull craft, in 16 sectors, in addition to Headquarters special operations components.
K9 Units, Mounted Patrol, Bike patrol, Sign-cutting (tracking), Snowmobile unit, Infrared scope unit, Intelligence, Anti-smuggling Investigations Unit (ASU/DISRUPT, Border Criminal Alien Program, Multi-agency Anti-Gang Task Forces (regional & local units), Honor Guard, Pipes and Drums, Chaplain, Peer Support, Mobile Surveillance Unit.
This rescue beacon states in English and Spanish: "Attention: You Cannot Walk To Safety From This Point! You Are In Danger of Dying If You Do Not Summon Help! If You Need Help, Push Red Button, U.S. Border Patrol Will Arrive in One Hour, Do Not Leave This Location"
"Operation Gatekeeper" was launched in 1994 to stop migrants from crossing illegally into the United States. The strategy included increased enforcement and extensive fencing near border cities, with the twofold purpose of deflecting migrants to remote areas where they could more easily be detected and apprehended, as well as using the formidable mountains, deserts, and Rio Grande as a deterrent to easy passage. The newly erected Mexico–United States barrier—which at some remote locations is no more than a fence—has also forced migrants and human traffickers to seek out remote desert locations in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas where they may attempt crossing. The "funnel effect" created by both these strategies has contributed to the deaths of thousands of migrants, whose remains are often found in the hot desert or freezing mountains.
As early as 1998, the former Immigration and Naturalization Service implemented the Border Safety Initiative in response to concerns about the number of migrants injured or killed while attempting to cross the border. It was noted that Border Patrol agents routinely supplied water, food, and medical care to migrants. That same year, Border Patrol, Search, Trauma and Rescue (BORSTAR), a specialized unit trained in emergency search and rescue, was established with the purpose of assisting injured or stranded migrants at remote locations.
In 2002, the first "rescue beacons" were installed in desert areas considered especially dangerous. The beacons are solar powered and highly visible, and have a button which alerts Border Patrol agents by radio signal, after which a helicopter or ground unit is dispatched. U.S. Senator Bill Frist commented in 2006: "these beacons, I believe, are an absolutely vital link in our border security system... We know that beacons work: CBP has already saved dozens of people based entirely on beacon alerts." The Border Patrol frequently publishes reports about stranded and injured individuals rescued at beacon locations.
During a 12-month period in 2011–12, Border Patrol agents made 1,312 rescues along the Mexico-United States border, nearly half occurring in the Tucson Sector.
There are 20 Border Patrol sectors, each headed by a Sector Chief Patrol Agent.
All Border Patrol agents spend a minimum of 26 weeks at the Border Patrol Academy in Artesia, New Mexico, which is a component of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). Border Patrol Agent Trainees are instructed in courses including; Spanish, criminal law, nationality law, and administrative immigration law, police sciences, self-defense and arrest techniques, firearms training with pistol, shotgun and rifle, police vehicle driving, and other Border Patrol / federal law enforcement subjects.
Once they arrive back at their duty station, Trainees then must graduate from the Field Training Officer (FTO) program, an on-the-job training program, which varies in length from a minimum of 12 weeks to a maximum of over 16 weeks long, depending on the practical demands of the duty station and local management. They must also successfully complete the Post Academy Training Program, an extension of the Border Patrol Academy where Trainees complete additional classroom-based training over the course of their first nine months back at their duty station.
The marksmanship skills of Border Patrol agents ranks among the best in the United States. At the National Police Shooting Championships in 2012, Border Patrol agents placed first, second or third in each of the 29 shooting matches.
A color guard composed of CBP officers and USBP agents at a Washington, D.C. ceremony in May 2007.
Summer Dress uniform – The summer dress uniform consists of a short-sleeve, olive-green dress shirt (which may or may not have blue shoulder straps), brass nameplate, badge, olive-green slacks with a blue stripe running the length of the seam, and black dress shoes or dress boots. A green, straw campaign hat is worn with this uniform.
Winter Dress uniform – The winter dress uniform consists of a long-sleeve, olive green dress shirt, navy-blue clip-on tie with a brass tie tack, olive-green ike jacket with blue accents (shoulder straps and cuffs), brass nameplate, badge, olive-green slacks with a blue stripe running the length of the seam, and black dress shoes or dress boots. a green, felt campaign hat with a black, leather hat band is worn with this uniform.
Ceremonial Dress uniform – Worn primarily by border patrol honor guard agents, the ceremonial dress uniform is roughly identical to the winter dress uniform, with the exception that a tunic is worn with this uniform, rather than an ike jacket. White, cloth gloves are also worn with this uniform.
Rough duty uniform – The rough duty uniform consists of a green, long-sleeve or short-sleeve work shirt, green cargo pants, and black work boots. a green baseball cap is typically worn with this uniform.
There are also specialized rough duty uniforms for marine patrol (riverine), northern border cold weather, horse patrol and bike patrol agents.
Highland Uniform – Worn by members of the United States Border Patrol Pipes and Drums in the performance of their official duties, this uniform includes a kilt made of the official Border Patrol Tartan, custom made ceremonial coat, glengarry, sporran and spats.
The CBP patch is worn on the right sleeves of the uniform. It contains the DHS seal against a black background with a "keystone" shape. A "keystone" is the central, wedge-shaped stone in an arch, which holds all the other stones in place.
The Border Patrol uniform is getting its first makeover since the 1950s to appear more like military fatigues and less like a police officer's duty garb. Leather belts with brass buckles are being replaced by nylon belts with quick-release plastic buckles, slacks are being replaced by lightweight cargo pants, and shiny badges and nameplates are being replaced by cloth patches.
The Border Patrol's highest honor is the Newton-Azrak Award for Heroism. This Award is bestowed to Border Patrol Agents for extraordinary actions, service; accomplishments reflecting unusual courage or bravery in the line of duty; or an extraordinarily heroic or humane act committed during times of extreme stress or in an emergency.
This award is named for Border Patrol Inspectors Theodore Newton and George Azrak, who were murdered by two drug smugglers in San Diego County in 1967.
A Border Patrol Honor Guard Agent carrying an M14 rifle.
Border Patrol agents are issued the H&K P2000 double action LEM (Law Enforcement Modification) pistol in .40 S&W caliber. It can contain as many as 13 rounds of ammunition (12 in the magazine and one in the chamber). Up until 1994 the Border Patrol issued its Patrol Agents a .357 Magnum revolver as their duty sidearm, a Smith & Wesson or Ruger model large frame, six shot revolver. The Border Patrol preferred this weapon because it did not jam in harsh conditions, like those of the southwestern border, and also because of the strong "stopping" power of the .357 Magnum cartridge. Although up until 1994 Patrol Agents could purchase a weapon from the agency list of approved authorized personal weapons for duty carry. This list included the Glock Models 17 and 19 pistols in 9mm, the SIG Sauer P220 pistol in .45 ACP caliber, the Colt Python .357 Magnum revolver, and the Smith & Wesson Model 19/66 .357 Magnum revolver. The Border Patrol adopted the Beretta Model 96D, a .40 S&W caliber semi-automatic pistol (modified for Double-Action Only) (with 11-round capacity magazines) as its duty issue sidearm in 1995. The .40 S&W caliber jacketed hollow-point cartridge was adopted because of its excellent "stopping" power and its superior ballistic characteristics over the 9mm cartridge. In late 2006 the H&K P2000 pistol was adopted as the Border Patrol's primary duty sidearm. The H&K Model USP Compact pistol, H&K Model P2000SK (sub-compact) and Beretta M96D .40 S&W caliber pistols are authorized as secondary sidearms.
On April 9, 2019, CBP announced that the U.S. Border Patrol would transition from the .40 caliber H&K P2000 to an unnamed 9-millimeter Glock pistol by the end of fiscal year 2021.
Patrolling a tunnel in Nogales, Arizona.
Like many other law enforcement agencies, the 12 gauge Remington Model 870 is the standard pump-action shotgun. The Border Patrol issue Model 870 has been modified by Scattergun Technologies to Border Patrol specifications including: a 14-inch barrel, a five-shot capacity magazine, a composite stock with pistol grip, and night sights with a tactical "ghost-ring" rear sight. The old Border Patrol "anti-bandit" units used to use a 12-gauge, semi-automatic shotgun with a sawed-off barrel. This weapon had the designated name of a "Sidewinder." The USBP anti-bandit units were decommissioned in the late 1980s.
Border Patrol agents also commonly carry the .223 caliber Colt M4 Carbine (M4A1) and the H&K UMP .40 caliber submachine gun. The .308 caliber M14 rifle is used for ceremonial purposes and by agents who are qualified with the rifle and BORTAC.
As less than lethal options, the Border Patrol uses the FN 303 Launcher. The FN 303 fires plastic pellet balls containing OC (Oleoresin Capsicum) Pepper dust. The plastic pellet balls burst on impact spraying the suspect with OC Pepper dust and also act as an impact projectile. The Border Patrol also issues its agents OC Pepper spray canisters, tasers and a collapsible/telescopic (or telescoping) steel police baton.
Patrolling the Rio Grande in an airboat at Laredo, Texas, 2013.
A USBP Horse Patrol in southern Texas.
Unlike in many other law enforcement agencies in the United States, the Border Patrol operates over 10,000 SUVs and pickup trucks, which are known for their capabilities to move around in any sort of terrain. These vehicles may have individual revolving lights (strobes or LEDs) and/or light bars and sirens and/or have their bumpers removed or have off-road suspension and tires. An extensive modernization drive has ensured that these vehicles are equipped with wireless sets in communication with a central control room. Border Patrol vehicles may also have equipment such as emergency first aid kits. Some sectors make use of sedans like the Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor or the Dodge Charger as patrol cars or high speed "interceptors" on highways. The border patrol has approx 2,000 sedans. The Border Patrol also operates all-terrain vehicles, motorcycles, snowmobiles, and small boats in riverine environments.
In 2005, all Border Patrol and ICE aircraft operations were combined under CBP's Office of Air and Marine. All CBP vessel operations within the Customs Waters and on the high seas are conducted by Marine Interdiction Agents of the Office of Air and Marine.
Color schemes of Border Patrol vehicles are either a long green stripe running the length of the vehicle (older vehicles) or a broad green diagonal stripe (newer vehicles) on the door. Most Border Patrol vehicles are painted predominantly white. During the 1960s to mid-1980s Border Patrol vehicles were painted a light green.
The Border Patrol also extensively uses horses for remote area patrols. As of 2005[update], the U.S. Border Patrol has 205 horses. Most are employed along the Mexico–United States border. In Arizona, these animals are fed special processed feed pellets so that their wastes do not spread non-native plants in the national parks and wildlife areas they patrol.
Since 1904, the Border Patrol has lost 123 officers in the line of duty, more than any other federal law enforcement agency during that time period.
On August 7, 2008, Mexican troops crossed the border into Arizona and held a U.S. Border Patrol Agent at gunpoint. Agents stationed at Ajo, Arizona said that the Mexican soldiers crossed the border into an isolated area southwest of Tucson and pointed rifles at the agent, who has not been identified. The Mexicans withdrew after other U.S. agents arrived on the scene.
On March 14, 2000, 16 Mexican soldiers in two humvees chased a Border Patrol agent near Santa Teresa, New Mexico, while another agent came under gunfire. Backup arrived and the soldiers were detained. The Mexican government said the soldiers got lost. The U.S. State Department ordered them sent back to Mexico along with their weapons.
Testifying in front of the United States Senate, Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan said that the Border Patrol is the one of the most assaulted law enforcement agencies; since 2006, over seven thousand agents of the Border Patrol were attacked. On numerous occasions USBP agents have been fired upon from the Mexican side of the international border. Intelligence gathering has discovered bounties being placed on Patrol Agents to be paid by criminal smuggling organizations upon the confirmed murder or kidnapping of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent. In 2008, intelligence learned of a two-million-dollar contract for the murder of a Border Patrol Agent. In 2009 Border Patrol Agent Rosas was murdered in an ambush while on patrol; a bounty may have been paid to the assassins.
In February 2005, Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were involved in an incident while pursuing a van in Fabens, Texas. The driver, later identified as Aldrete Davila, was shot by Agent Ramos during a scuffle. Davila escaped back into Mexico, and the agents discovered that the van contained a million dollars worth of marijuana (about 750 pounds). None of the agents at the scene orally reported the shooting, including two supervisors: Robert Arnold, first-line Supervisor and Jonathan Richards, a higher ranking Field Operations Supervisor. Ramos and Compean were charged with multiple crimes. Ramos was convicted of causing serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, and a civil rights violation. Compeán was found guilty on 11 counts, including discharging a firearm during the commission of a violent crime, which by itself carries a federally mandated 10-year minimum sentence. Without that charge, both agents involved would have received far shorter sentences. Ramos was sentenced to 11 years and a day in prison and Compean to 12 years. Jonathan Richards was promoted to the Patrol Agent in Charge of the Santa Teresa, New Mexico Border Patrol Station soon after the incident. On January 19, 2009, President Bush commuted the sentences of both Ramos and Compean, effectively ending their prison term on March 20, 2009, and they were released on February 17, 2009. The case generated widely differing opinion among various commentators and advocacy groups: civil libertarians asserted the agents used illegal and excessive force, while advocates of tighter border control defended the agents actions.
Sergio Adrian Hernandez was a teenager who was shot once and killed on June 7, 2010 by Border Patrol agents under a bridge crossing between El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico.
Border Patrol agents claimed that there was a mob that was throwing stones at them. They also claimed that Hernandez was trying to cross the U.S. border and that he had already tried to do so in the past. For his involvement in the incident, Border Patrol agent Jesus Mesa, Jr. invoked qualified official immunity in his defense.
On June 10 the Mexican president Felipe Calderón called on the United States to launch a "thorough, impartial" probe into the deaths of two Mexican nationals, including the 14-year-old Hernandez, at the hands of U.S. border police: "I demand the United States government conduct a thorough, impartial ... investigation, concluding with an establishment of the facts and punishment of the culprits."
On June 12, 2010 the television network Univision aired cellphone video footage of the incident, after which Mexican legislators called for the extradition of the officer accused of the shooting.
On May 30, 2010 Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas died of a heart attack while in the custody of United States Border Patrol (USBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and agents and officers at the San Diego–Tijuana border He was beaten and then shocked by Tasers on at the San Diego–Tijuana border within view of many bystanders with cameras on the busy pedestrian bridge at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Although the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation concluded on November 6, 2015 that Hernández Rojas died of a heart attack, an offer of a million-dollar settlement was made to his family. None of the agents or officers involved were fired or disciplined for excessive use of force. In February 2017, his common-law wife and five children accepted the settlement. Hernández-Rojas's death was profiled in a 2012 PBS report called Crossing the Line, in Nonny de la Peña's, 2013 five-minute-long virtual reality called Use of Force and in a 2014 American Civil Liberties Union report.
As the Washington Office on Latin America's Border Fact Check site points out, a similar incident occurred in October 2012 when 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez was killed in downtown Nogales, Mexico when a Border Patrol Agent, Lonnie Swartz, opened fire at a group of people allegedly throwing rocks at him; Rodriguez was shot seven times in the back. WOLA and other human rights organizations assert that "...[L]aw enforcement experience offers a series of non-lethal responses to rock throwing incidents along the U.S.-Mexico border," such as pepper ball launchers. In September 2015, Swartz was indicted on the charge of second-degree murder.
On November 25, 2013, the San Diego Tribune reported that 100 migrants who tried to cross the border illegally near the San Ysidro port were pepper-sprayed and tear-gassed after throwing bottles and rocks at border patrol agents. A similar incident was reported in November 2018.
Between 2010 and 2011 alleged excessive use of force by Border Patrol and Field Operations agents led to the death of six Mexican citizens. A PBS report, Crossing the Line, released in July 2012, profiled the case of Hernández-Rojas who died after being beaten and while in custody of the USBP, ICE, and CBP in May 2010. In 2012, in a letter to President Obama posted on the website of the Washington Office on Latin America, 118 civil society organizations criticized the Border Patrol for failing to thoroughly investigate the incident and stated that the Border Patrol "is operating with very little transparency and virtual impunity, especially in the southern border region where Border Patrol and other CBP agents regularly violate the human and civil rights of those who call the border region home."
From 2008–2011, the Arizona organization No More Deaths interviewed nearly 13,000 migrants who had been in Border Patrol custody, in the Arizona border towns of Naco, Nogales, and Agua Prieta. Their report, A Culture of Cruelty, documents alleged abuses including denial of or insufficient water and food; failure to provide medical treatment; verbal, physical and psychological abuse; separation of family members and dangerous repatriation practices. In February 2012, Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher stated in congressional testimony that the Border Patrol takes allegations of abuse seriously. However, No More Deaths testified before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights in March 2012 and stated that in spite of raising their concerns for several years, "the agency has taken the position that such abuses simply do not occur."
There are allegations of abuse by the United States Border Patrol such as the ones reported by Jesus A. Trevino, that concludes in an article published in the Houston Journal of International Law (2006) with a request to create an independent review commission to oversee the actions of the Border Patrol, and that creating such review board will make the American public aware of the "serious problem of abuse that exists at the border by making this review process public" and that "illegal immigrants deserve the same constitutionally-mandated humane treatment of citizens and legal residents".
In 1998, Amnesty International investigated allegations of ill-treatment and brutality by officers of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and particularly the Border Patrol. Their report said they found indications of human rights violations during 1996, 1997 and early 1998.
An article in Social Justice by Michael Huspek, Leticia Jimenez, Roberto Martinez (1998) cites that in December 1997, John Case, head of the INS Office of Internal Audit, announced at a press conference that public complaints to the INS had risen 29% from 1996, with the "vast majority" of complaints emanating from the southwest border region, but that of the 2,300 cases, the 243 cases of serious allegations of abuse were down in 1997. These serious cases are considered to be distinct from less serious complaints, such as "verbal abuse, discrimination, extended detention without cause."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection gave Accenture Federal Services a $297 million contract in 2017 to hire 7,500 people over five years. An audit by the Department of Homeland Security found that, as of Oct. 1, 2018, Accenture had already been paid $13.6 million but had only hired two people.
Pablo Sergio Barry, an agent charged with one count of harboring an illegal alien (8 U.S.C. § 1324), three counts of false statements, and two counts of making a false document. He pleaded guilty.
Christopher E. Bernis, an agent indicted on a charge of harboring an illegal alien for nine months while employed as a U.S. Border Patrol Agent.
Jose De Jesus Ruiz, an agent whose girlfriend was an illegal alien. He was put on administrative leave pending an investigation.
Oscar Antonio Ortiz, an illegal alien who used a fake birth certificate to get into the Border Patrol. He admitted to smuggling more than 100 illegal aliens into the U.S., some of them in his government truck. He was charged with conspiring with another agent to smuggle aliens.
An unidentified patrol agent who was recorded on a wiretap stating that he helped to smuggle 30 to 50 aliens at a time.
National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) is the labor union which represents over 17,000 Border Patrol agents and support staff. The NBPC was founded on November 1, 1965, and its parent organization is the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO. The NBPC's executive committee is staffed by current and retired Border Patrol agents and, along with its constituent locals, employs a staff of a dozen attorneys and field representatives. The NBPC is associated with the Peace Officer Research Association of California Legal Defense Fund|California's Legal Defense Fund.
The Border Patrol Foundation was founded in 2009 to assist the survivors of agents killed in the line of duty. The foundation provides financial support to immediate family members, peer family support, and a scholarship to eligible children. The foundation recognizes community leaders who have supported the families of fallen agents, and supports programs to improve awareness of the risks faced by agents.
Border Patrol, by Alvin Edward Moore.
The Border Patrol, by Deborah Wells Salter.
EWI: Entry Without Inspection, by Fortuna Testarona Valiente.
Tracks in the Sand: A Tale of the Border Patrol, by Kent E Lundgren.
On The Line: Inside the U.S. Border Patrol, by Alex Pacheco and Erich Krauss.
Patrolling Chaos: The U.S. Border Patrol in Deep South Texas, by Robert Lee Maril.
The U.S. Border Patrol: Guarding the Nation, by Connie Collwell Miller.
My Border Patrol Diary: Laredo, Texas, by Dale Squint.
Holding the Line: War Stories of the U.S. Border Patrol, by Gerald Schumacher.
The Border Patrol Ate My Dust, by Alicia Alarcon, Ethriam Cash Brammer, and Ethriam Cash Brammer de Gonzales.
The Border: Exploring the U.S.-Mexican Divide, by David J. Danelo.
Beat The Border: An Insider's Guide to How the U.S. Border Works and How to Beat It, by Ned Beaumont.
West of the Moon: A Border Patrol Agent's Tale, by D.B. Prehoda.
The Journey: U.S. Border Patrol & the Solution to the Illegal Alien Problem, by Donald R. Coppock.
Border Patrol: With the U.S. Immigration Service on the Mexican boundary, 1910–54, by Clifford Alan Perkins.
Border Patrol: How U.S. Agents Protect Our Borders from Illegal Entry, by Carroll B. Colby.
In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security, by Tom Tancredo.
Border Songs, by Jim Lynch.
Crossing the Wire, by Will Hobbs.
Border Patrolman, a 1936 film in which Border Patrolman Bob Wallace, played by George O'Brien, resigns in protest after being humiliated by the spoiled granddaughter of a millionaire.
Border Patrol, a 1943 film starring William C. Boyd, Andy Clyde, George Reeves, and Robert Mitchum.
Borderline, a 1950 film noir starring Fred MacMurray about drug smuggling across the Mexico-U.S. border.
Border Patrol, a 1959 television series starring Richard Webb as the fictitious deputy chief of the U.S. Border Patrol.
Borderline, a 1980 movie starring Charles Bronson about a Border Patrol Agent in charge of a station located in the hills southeast of San Diego, near the Mexico-U.S. border. Bronson's character and the agents under his command pursue and apprehend a violent human trafficker/smuggler played by Ed Harris who murdered a veteran patrol agent, portrayed by Wilford Brimley, who had intercepted the smuggler one evening bringing in a shipment of illegal aliens across the border. Their investigation leads to the breaking up of the vicious smuggling operation run by Harris's character.
Border Cop, a 1980 film starring Telly Savalas.
The Border, a 1982 film starring Jack Nicholson as a patrol agent working on the Mexico-U.S. border.
El Norte, a 1983 film about the plight of Central American Indian peasants traveling to the Mexico-U.S. border.
The 1983 movie Lone Wolf McQuade deals with smuggling and criminals in various parts of Texas including the Mexico-U.S. border.
Flashpoint, a 1984 film starring Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams, Rip Torn, and Kurtwood Smith.
Last Man Standing, a 1996 film starring Bruce Willis as a professional gunman and Ken Jenkins as Texas Ranger Captain Tom Pickett who is investigating the murder of an unnamed patrol inspector (played by Larry Holt) in the town where Willis's character is working.
Men in Black, a 1997 science fiction comedy action film starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith and Vincent D'Onofrio. The Border Patrol is portrayed as Immigration Inspectors in an unflattering portrayal.
The Gatekeeper, a 2002 film by John Carlos Frey about the struggles of migrants at the Mexico-U.S. border.
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, a 2005 film by Tommy Lee Jones about the accidental killing of an illegal Mexican alien by a Border Patrol Agent.
The Shepherd: Border Patrol, a 2007 film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Linewatch, a 2008 film starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., as a Border Patrol agent defending his family from a group of Los Angeles gang members involved in narcotics importation.
Hunt to Kill, A 2010 film starring Stone Cold Steve Austin and Eric Roberts as U.S. Border Patrol Agents.
Border Patrol: American's Gatekeepers, by A&E Network with former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno.
Investigative Reports: Border Patrol: America's Gatekeepers, by A+E Networks Investigates.
History the Enforcers: Border Patrol, by the History Channel.
Border Wars, a "reality" television program produced by the National Geographic Channel.
Run For Your Life, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary about the dangers faced by young Hondurans aboard a freight train headed to the Mexico-U.S. border, where they will seek illegal entry.
Under Siege: America's Northern Border by Discovery Channel. A 2013 documentary about the efforts and difficulties of agents to prevent illegal cross-border activities in the Detroit, Michigan area.
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The data compiled in this report suggest that law enforcement in the southwest region of the United States may be verging on lawlessness. This statement receives fuller support from announcements emanating from the INS. In December 1997, John Chase, head of the INS Office of Internal Audit, announced at a press conference that public complaints to the INS had risen 29% from 1996, with the "vast majority" of complaints emanating from the southwest border region. Over 2,300 complaints were filed in 1997 as opposed to the 1,813 complaints filed in 1996. Another 400 reports of "minor misconduct" were placed in a new category. Chase was quick to emphasize, however, that the 243 "serious" allegations of abuse and use of excessive force that could warrant criminal prosecution were down in 1997, as compared with the 328 in 1996. These "serious" cases are considered to be distinct from less serious complaints, such as "verbal abuse, discrimination, extended detention without cause.
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I’ve been on vacation with the family for a few days. Just me, my brother, my parents and grandparents in a little summerhouse on the countryside. I tell you – I was so nice getting away from all the stress. In steed of worrying about school and homework I’ve been walking on the beach, relaxing on the couch and eating a whole lot of my grandmothers delicious food. It’s impossible to eat 100% clean while living in the same house as my grandmother! Haha! And you know what? It’s okay to treat your self once in a while – as long as you get back on track afterwards! Yeaah, so that’s what I’ll do know – get back on track with this lovely salad! Enjoy!
How to: Cut your vegetables into coarse pieces and arrange them in a (pretty) dish. Top the salad with thin onion rings and feta cheese.
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Returning North Queensland Toyota Cowboys winger Antonio Winterstein is relishing once again taking on the league’s best as he looks to contain Sydney Roosters giant Blake Ferguson in Saturday night’s Round 21 blockbuster at Allianz Stadium.
The durable veteran, 29, will return to action on Saturday night after missing the team’s Round 20 win over the New Zealand Warriors with a calf strain.
It will the third time this season that Winterstein has been wounded – he missed the opening match of the season versus Canberra with an ankle injury picked up in a pre-season trial; and he broke his arm in his return match versus the Broncos, keeping him on the sidelines for a further five matches.
But declaring himself right to go on Saturday night, the softly spoken Samoan skipper said he was ready to take on Ferguson – who has crossed for nine tries in 14 matches in 2017 – on the Cowboys’ left-edge.
“That’s what you play for, to test yourself against the best in the league, and Blake’s one of the best in his position,” Winterstein said.
Winterstein’s left-edge combination with long-time centre partner Kane Linnett will be crucial on Saturday night as the pair look to stifle Ferguson and centre Joseph Manu.
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Scissett is a village in West Yorkshire, England. It is 14 km (8 mi) south east of Huddersfield and 16 km (10 mi) north west of Barnsley. According to the 2001 census, the village had a population of 1,324. Scissett is halfway between the villages of Clayton West, Skelmanthorpe and Denby Dale on the A636 road to Wakefield.
River Dearne runs through the village, which was affected by the 2007 United Kingdom floods.
Scissett grew up around the woollen industry in the 19th century as mill owners built houses in the area for their workers. The nearby coalfields also provided employment. These industries are now gone and some of the mills are now retail units.
The Scissett Baths (and leisure centre) is one of the main attractions for the surrounding area.
Scissett has first and middle schools to provide education for children ages 4 to 13.
Scissett Youth Band began life in the village in 1978 but moved to Shelley Methodist Hall in 1991.
Scissett is home to two sports clubs, Scissett Football Club and Nortonthorpe Cricket Club. Both play at Nortonthorpe sports club which was donated by the Norton family who owned the local mills at the time. When George Norton left the family home (Bagden Hall) to live in Nortonthorpe Hall he chose to outline a deed of trust, which specified that the seven and a half acres of land, which currently form the cricket and football pitch, could only be used for the recreational purposes of the community. This is largely the reason behind the cricket club being called Nortonthorpe instead of Scissett.
The etymology is doubtful, although some sources suggest it may be from Old English side "hillside, talus, slope" (related to Old Norse siða, of similar meaning), but nothing is confirmed. The first element is uncertain. However, another source claims a completely different etymology, that it was named after "Scissett Wood", itself named after a woman.
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between a Swainson's thrush and a Bobolink.
illustrations in Sibley. The bill is distinctly bicolored.
seeds. I investigated only to find every lead led to a scarlet grosbeak.
quite detect the squishing of berries; good thing the bird called.
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2019-04-25T01:50:22Z
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https://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0210&L=FLORIDABIRDS-L&P=121358
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This application allows you to turn any photograph to a ready to paint printable canvas.
Once printed on a real canvas, you just have to paint the numbered areas with the matching colors in your palette.
- To edit the palette.
- To access to the advanced parameters.
- To manage several projects.
- To export the result in a SVG file (in order to edit it).
Touch the top left button and select "Open a new image".
The image is analyzed and should appear with the numbered areas.
To check the result, you can zoom with two fingers or pan with one.
To print the result, touch the top left button and select "Export to PDF".
It is recommended to choose images with less detail as possible. Increasing the blur power helps to reduce the details.
You can also use the application with a mouse.
Android device version 4.0 or later.
Copyright (c) Regis COSNIER, all rights reserved.
Do you have a version for windows 7?
Page size about 11517 octets. Server generation in 0.021 seconds. Client load in seconds.
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2019-04-21T22:36:00Z
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http://regis.cosnier.free.fr/index.php?page=androidPaintByNumbers
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Today marks the 142nd birthday of photographer Bayard Wootten. Born 17 December 1875, Wootten began her photographic career in 1905 in New Bern. The photograph above depicts Wooting blowing out candles on one of her many birthday cakes, probably around 1940. She died on 6 April 1959 in her 83rd year.
In 1998 the University of North Carolina Press published Jerry Cotten’s biography of Wootten, which received the Mary Ellen LoPresti Award from the southeast chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America. In October of this year on the eve of the books twentieth anniversary, UNC Press reissued the biography as a paperback edition featuring photographs reproduced from Wootten’s original negatives using twenty-first digital imaging technology. The results are photographs reproduced with even more richness, both subtle and dramatic, than the first printing.
When you get your new 2018 calendar, circle March 27th. On that evening, Jerry Cotten and I will each give a presentation during a program titled, “Bayard Wootten: Then and Now.” Jerry will talk about Wootten and her accomplishments as featured in the biography, and I will discuss what we have learned about Wootten during the twenty years since the book’s initial publication. The presentations will follow a brief opening reception for a new exhibition in The Pleasants Family Assembly Room in Wilson Library, and a book signing will follow the presentations.
So very sorry I missed your joint presentation earlier this year. I believe my mother,Francis Joyce Kimbel,worked at the Bayard-Moulton Studio/Chapel Hill in the mid 1940’s as a retoucher. Piecing together events and actions in retrospect is difficult but I believe my mother met Miss Wootten years earlier while visiting and working around Brookgreen Plantation/Gardens in South Carolina. The link between neighboring Wachesaw Plantation,where my mother lived,Sandy Island,and the Huntingtons,seems more than just coincidental, considering how I never understood how and why my mother transitioned from Wachesaw to Bayard Wootten’s Studio in Chapel Hill. These are just the musing of a son trying to retrace the life of a mother who died nearly 50 years ago and,I must say,Miss Wootten”s photographs of the people and places of this area resonate with me on a level that is reminiscent of when I was a child living, breathing,and interacting with the people and land, there. I want to believe my mother felt the same about Miss Wootten’s sight and insight.
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2019-04-19T13:32:35Z
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https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/ncm/index.php/2017/12/17/happy-birthday-dear-bayard/
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Breath support is foundational to speech production, but little is known in terms of speech breathing development in infants, especially those in the first year of life. This study explored speech-related breathing in infants in the middle of the first year of life. Speech output and breathing behaviors were collected on a small cohort of typically developing infants under ten months. Independent coders used the audio and breathing signals to (a) identify utterances and the breath cycles associated with them and (b) describe the relationships between the two sets of signals. The findings will be related to physiological development and typical speech-language milestones. A better understanding of speech-related breathing might lead to identification of infants at risk for communicative impairments. Two limitations also will be discussed: the negative influence of (a) body movement on breathing signals and (b) small samples on the interpretation of speech output.
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2019-04-19T11:12:39Z
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https://soar.wichita.edu/handle/10057/13300
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Academic excellence is the hallmark of College of Forestry programs at Oregon State University. Ranked as one of the premier forestry schools in the world, students find a variety of programs that offer broad education, rigorous depth and professional focus. Caring faculty work with students to provide advising, mentoring, research experiences, study abroad opportunities, field labs, exposure to real-world practice and the latest scientific findings. Active student clubs enrich student life through social interaction, links to professional organizations and leadership opportunities.
This is a great place to study, and an OSU College of Forestry degree is sound preparation for the future and an ever-expanding variety of jobs and careers. We’d love to discuss your college plans with you and show how our programs might fit your needs - come visit!
Our mission, as part of Oregon's Land, Sea and Space Grant University, is to educate and engage the next generation of scholars, practitioners and users of the world's forest resources, to conduct distinctive problem-solving and fundamental research on the nature and use of forests and related resources, and to share our discoveries and knowledge with others.
Develops, communicates, and teaches the science and engineering necessary for sustainable management of forest, land, and water resources to achieve economic, environmental, and social objectives.
Brings together students, staff and faculty with interest and expertise in forest biology and social science to tackle some of the most pressing environmental challenges facing us today.
A multidisciplinary department focused on the science, technology, engineering and business practices that help society sustainably meet our needs.
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2019-04-20T17:20:48Z
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https://www.forestry.oregonstate.edu/about
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The first loss is history, but now the University of Cincinnati football team is busy trying to prevent another defeat. "Play angry" is how coach Luke Fickell put it Tuesday, at his weekly press conference at UC.
"We didn't find a way to finish the game," UC coach Luke Fickell said, referring to last Saturday's 24-17 overtime loss at Temple. "Our guys came back in on Sunday not sure exactly how they were gonna feel, how the coaches were gonna respond. I was honest, very upbeat, but we've got a long way to go."
UC (6-1, 2-1 American Athletic Conference East) next plays at SMU (3-4, 2-1 AAC West) on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. SMU comes off a 27-23 win at Tulane on Saturday and has won three of its last four games. UC is listed as a 9 ½-point favorite.
"What it comes down to now is the ability to kind of play angry, to kind of be angry about how we didn't finish and take care of business," Fickell said. "Not just save that for Saturday, but to do that today at practice. Kind of have that mindset that, hey, that hurt and that's a pit in our stomach. The way to get rid of it is go back to work."
UC ousted basketball coach Larry Davis over federal assault case in N.C.
UC senior defensive end Kimoni Fitz said the team knows its schedule will continue to get more difficult. The remaining UC opponents have a combined record of 21-14, including No. 10 UCF and No. 21 USF both being 7-0.
"Definitely the schedule gets tougher, but coach Fick and the coaches always preach about playing our best football at the end of the year," Fitz said. "Coming off the first loss, we're OK. No heads down. I feel like it will make us stronger at the end of the year, and we'll grow from that."
Scouting SMU: SMU has lost to three ranked teams, including 45-20 to now-No. 5 Michigan.
"You can pop on the film against Michigan, it's 7-7 with about a minute to go in the first half and Michigan hasn't run the ball an inch," Fickell said. "You've seen them, the last few weeks, kind of settle into who they are offensively and defensively. They have the leading receiver in the league (James Proche, 49 catches). They're going a good job spreading the field offensively. Defensively, they're aggressive."
The SMU defense had three takeaways against Tulane, the third time in the last four games that the Mustangs had at least three takeaways.
Quarterback Ben Hicks is back in the starting lineup after William Brown started the three previous games. Last year, Hicks threw for 3,569 yards and 33 touchdowns (12 interceptions). Hicks, SMU's career passing leader, has thrown for 997 yards and nine TDs (three interceptions) this year.
SMU is led by first-year coach Sonny Dykes, who has a reputation as an Air Raid offensive guru. Dykes formerly was head coach at Louisiana Tech and California, with a 44-50 career record. Dykes replaced Chad Morris, who went to Arkansas after SMU last year reached its first bowl game in five years.
Dykes is the son of the late former Texas Tech coach Spike Dykes.
UC notes: Sophomore punter James Smith launched a 72-yard punt against Temple, tied for the fourth-longest punt in UC history. The record is 78 yards by Mike Connell in 1976.
UC leads the AAC in net punting (44.5) and punt return defense (2.9 yards per return), with UC ranking No. 2 nationally in net punting.
Smith ranks No. 2 in the AAC and No. 7 in the Football Bowl Subdivision in gross punting average at 46.3 yards per punt, with nine kicks of 50 yards or more, 14 punts inside the 20-yard line and only one touchback.
- Running back Michael Warren II this week will try to become the first Bearcat with five consecutive 100-yard rushing games since David Small in 1993. Warren has rushed for 796 yards and 12 TDs, with his touchdown total surpassing the entire team rushing TD total (11) from last year. Warren is on pace to be UC's first 1,000-yard rusher since George Winn in 2012.
- UC ranks in the Top 20 in FBS in 10 categories, including net punting (2), team passing efficiency defense (3), total defense (5), fourth-down conversion percentage defense (7), scoring defense (8), first downs defense (8), third-down conversion percentage defense (8), passing yards allowed (9), punt return defense (9) and rushing offense (12).
- With the No. 3 pass efficiency defense, No. 5 total defense and No. 8 scoring defense, UC has vastly improved from last year's totals at this time (No. 118, 93 and 105, respectively).
- LB Perry Young leads the team with 38 tackles, including eight or more in UC's last three games.
- DT Cortez Broughton ranks No. 3 in the AAC in sacks (0.71 per game) and No. 3 in tackles for loss (1.86 per game).
- The Bearcats have 10 takeaways in 2018 (seven interceptions, three fumble recoveries) after having only 11 in 2017. UC has forced a turnover in all seven games this year.
- The UC-SMU matchup is only the fourth between the schools, with UC holding a 2-1 lead. The 2017 matchup saw a 31-28 SMU overtime win at Nippert Stadium.
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2019-04-22T18:36:29Z
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https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/college/university-of-cincinnati/2018/10/23/uc-coach-fickell-looks-ahead-upbeat-but-weve-got-long-way-go/1737651002/
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SMC’s Early Childhood and Education program builds on collaborations with community partners, through coursework, fieldwork, and professional development. The new Santa Monica Early Childhood Lab School, to be operated by Growing Place, will serve the unique needs of Santa Monica families and workforce.
Santa Monica College (SMC) and the City of Santa Monica are pleased to announce the selection of Santa Monica-based nonprofit child development organization Growing Place as operator of the Santa Monica Early Childhood Lab School.
The Santa Monica Early Childhood Lab School is a unique partnership between SMC and the City of Santa Monica, and planning for the School’s construction and development is being led by a workgroup comprised of representatives from SMC and its Early Childhood Education program, the City, RAND Corporation and the Santa Monica Childcare and Early Education Task Force.
The Early Childhood Lab School – to be built on the corner of 4th Street and Civic Center Drive in Santa Monica – is slated for a 2019 opening. It will function as a childcare center for up to 110 children, and as a setting where SMC students preparing to become teachers in the early childhood development field will get practical experience and explore new approaches in working with pre-kindergarten children, including infants. Santa Monica residents and employees will have priority consideration for available spaces in the center; the goal of the City and the College is that a minimum of 30 percent of the enrollment is reserved for Santa Monica residents and a minimum of 15 percent for families in the low-income bracket.
Growing Place was selected after a Request for Proposal (RFP) process approved by both SMC and City of Santa Monica staff. An operator was selected ahead of the opening to allow for thorough planning of a model that is unique and innovative at both the state and national level.
“This is a real opportunity for Santa Monica to spotlight high-quality early education and its benefits to our society,” said Pauline McPeake, Executive Director of Growing Place. “Growing Place is guided by a strong image of the child and a belief in the role of education in constructing a better world. This partnership underscores SMC’s commitment to the development of cutting-edge practices and research.” McPeake added that the collaboration would allow both institutions to combine resources and reach a much broader audience.
Past collaboration between Growing Place – which operates two locations in Santa Monica – and SMC includes new Early Childhood Education courses in Reggio-inspired practices designed for the college by Growing Place founder and SMC instructor Ellen Khokha; several teachers at Growing Place also serve as part-time instructors at the college, in addition to mentoring SMC practicum students.
The earliest discussions by the Santa Monica City Council about the construction of a childcare center in the civic center area go as far back as 1989; the idea gained momentum after 2001 when the Civic Center Working Group identified the provision of a child development facility as a priority based on a resident survey. In 2004, the City Council identified the benefits of incorporating SMC’s proposed lab school into the civic center project. Formal approval of the plan occurred in 2012, as the SMC Board of Trustees and the City Council approved a proposed agreement between the two agencies, which would allow for the construction of the Santa Monica Early Childhood Lab School within the Civic Auditorium campus. The RAND Corporation committed one-time funds via their Development Agreement with the City of Santa Monica, which will assist with program startup and tuition subsidies for low-income people.
The Santa Monica Early Childhood Lab School thus fulfills the City of Santa Monica’s Civic Center Specific Plan, which set forth a new vision for the Civic Center, and included the provision of quality childcare with priority given to residents and employees of the area. It is also part of the City’s Cradle to Career initiative and its strategic goal to invest in projects that help everyone in the community Learn + Thrive.
The design of the 20,000 square foot building, which is projected to cost roughly $13.2 million, is by Carde Ten Architects. The project is funded partially by SMC’s 2004 voter-approved bond Measure S, and general fund monies from the City of Santa Monica.
The facility is planned as an innovative “lab school” for SMC’s rigorous Early Childhood Education program – also known as the SMC Teacher Academy – where students will observe and document child development as they put their knowledge into practice, helping families availing of the Early Childhood Lab School’s services promote their children’s success and well-being.
SMC offers associate degrees and certificates in Early Childhood Education-Career and Early Intervention Assistant which prepare students to work with young children who have disabilities and other special needs as well as those at risk of developmental delays and challenges. The college also offers a department certificate in ECE, which equips students to obtain an Associate Teacher permit; and an Associate in Science for Transfer degree in ECE which satisfies lower-division requirements for a four-year ECE degree at a California State University (CSU) campus, and gives students the opportunity to get priority admission into many CSU campuses.
In addition to providing students a range of career and education options – including preparing for the state’s Children’s Center Permit, fulfillment of post-certificate professional development, and completion of advanced California Career Ladder courses – the SMC Teacher Academy prepares students for transfer to the University of California. Santa Monica College holds an unbroken 26-year record as California’s number one transfer institution to the UC.
For more information about the Santa Monica Early Childhood Lab School, visit www2.smc.edu/planning/labschool.
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2019-04-21T12:11:50Z
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http://www.smc.edu/NewsRoom/Pages/Growing-Place.aspx
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The second annual IC Physics Festival will be held on Friday, April 12, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Bruner Fitness and Recreation Center located on the Illinois College campus.
The free event is open to the public and designed for students of all ages, especially those in middle school and high school, and will introduce various scientific concepts in physics.
More than 40 interactive scientific demonstrations and activities will be presented by Illinois College students, displaying magnetic levitation, tesla coils, sound visualization, floating bowling balls, catapults and more.
Dr. Pratheesh Jakkala, assistant professor of physics, said the event is meant to reduce fear of physics among students and encourage an interest in scientific concepts among young students. He said the inaugural event last year was a success with more than 400 students from the region in attendance and he expects even more to attend the growing festival this year.
“We had an overwhelmingly positive reaction to the festival last year. Kids were really amazed by the experience. Sometimes learning science can be intimidating, but the way we have set up this event allows students to relax and have fun while learning,” said Dr. Jakkala, who expects this year to provide the same type of experience with even more opportunities for learning and participation.
Demonstrations will be set up in King Fieldhouse and Sherman Gym in Bruner Fitness and Recreation Center and on Green Athletic Field at IC’s England Stadium (weather permitting). Parking for attendees is available in the Campus Services lot across Park Street. Buses can drop off at the main entrance of Bruner located on Edgehill Road. A map of the IC campus is available here.
For more information about the event and to make arrangements for your school or class to attend, contact Dr. Pratheesh Jakkala at 217.245.3468 or [email protected].
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2019-04-24T07:52:33Z
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https://www.ic.edu/news/04-2-2019/ic-physics-festival-fun-and-educational-experience-planned-area-students
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) stands with his wife Betty Price before being sworn in as the new Health and Human Services Secretary, on February 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. Yesterday Price was confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
A Georgia lawmaker who is married to former U.S. health and human services secretary Tom Price drew backlash after she inquired if HIV patients could be “legally” quarantined to stop the spread of the virus.
“What are we legally able to do? I don’t want to say the quarantine word, but I guess I just said it,” State Rep. Betty Price (R -Roswell) asked Tuesday during a study committee meeting on barriers to adequate health care, which was live streamed online.
Price worked as a anesthesiologist for 20 years and has served on the boards of multiple medical associations in Atlanta and the state of Georgia, according to her legislative biography.
“Is there an ability, since I would guess that public dollars are expended heavily in prophylaxis and treatment of this condition, so we have a public interest in curtailing the spread,” Price went on. “Are there any methods, legally, that we could do that would curtail the spread?
“It seems to me it’s almost frightening the number of people who are living that are potentially carriers, well they are carriers, with the potential to spread, whereas in the past they died more readily and then at that point they are not posing a risk, Price added.
The lawmaker’s comments prompted criticism online.
“Outrageous is an understatement,” former first daughter Chelsea Clinton tweeted.
Jeff Graham, executive director of Georgia Equality, told Stat News that Price’s comments were “incredibly disturbing” and shows that HIV can still have a stigma similar to the fear surrounding the disease during its initial outbreak in the 1980s.
“It’s very troubling to hear comments like that,” Graham said. “It shows the amount of work that still needs to happen to educate elected officials on the reality of the lives of people living with HIV.
“I’m hoping Rep. Price would be open to sitting down, meeting with folks, hearing how those comments sound, and recognizing that’s not the direction we need to go in,” he added.
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2019-04-20T11:04:48Z
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http://time.com/4992333/betty-price-tom-price-hiv-quarantine/
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The Master of Professional Kinesiology (MPK) program is designed to prepare students as professional Kinesiologists with an advanced understanding of the latest evidence-based research to improve function, health, and wellness in all populations. The MPK program will provide innovative course work combined with experiential education in practicum courses to provide students with the clinical and scholarly competencies that are required to safely practice the profession. The MPK program will provide the opportunity for students to gain practical, hands on experience by working directly with a variety of populations and individuals in diverse settings, increasing their professional confidence and competence. Students will also be prepared to pursue the wide variety of career possibilities as health care professionals.
Successful completion of four year Bachelor's degree, or equivalent, in Kinesiology (or equivalent), with an average of no less than 78% (B+). The Graduate Admissions Committee will review all applications and recommend admission for a limited number of suitable candidates. Admission to part-time study is not normally available. Individuals interested in part-time study should consult with the Graduate Program Director.
Basic degree requirements include the successful completion of ten half-course credits. Requirements include: AHSC 5P51, 5P62, 5P63, 5P64, 5P67, 5P65, 5P66, MBAB 5P23, and two AHSC elective courses (number 5(alpha)00 or above) from the following courses: AHSC 5P68, AHSC 5P69, and/or AHSC 5P11, AHSC 5P18, AHSC 5P81, AHSC 5P85, AHSC 5P91, AHSC 5P93, AHSC 5P94, AHSC 5P95, AHSC 5P98, AHSC 5P99, AHSC 7P10, AHSC 7P92, and/or AHSC 7P97 Students are expected to complete their degree requirements within three academic terms (12 months).
2. Students require current Standard First Aid and CPR (BCLS or Level C) certification that is in accordance with and approved by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), and must be valid during the time of study.
3. Proof of immunizations may be required prior to commencement of practicum courses. Immunization screening required for: Measles, Mumps, Rubella; Hepatitis B; Tuberculosis; Tetanus/Diptheria/Pertussis.
4. Police Vulnerable Sector Check (PVSC) may be required by practicum agencies. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure the process is complete – at their own expense. In some cases, students may not be allowed to attend practicum is these requirements are not met.
All program costs associated with required documentation or equipment are the sole responsibility of the student. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure the process is complete prior to commencement of the program.
The Faculty has eighteen research labs, four behavioural/observation labs, seven "dry" biophysical labs, five "wet" biophysical labs, and two teaching labs that can be used for research during periods of "down-time" from academic instruction. The graduate student computer labs have twenty-seven Optiplex 990 computers connected to the network for use by FAHS graduate students. In addition, some faculty members have computer stations in the labs, which can be used by graduate students. Students have access to a variety of software programs, including Microsoft Office Suite 2010; SPSS, SAS, and discipline-specific software that students access via site licenses through their supervisors. Also available is a large format printer for printing posters, and various scanners, cameras, and devices for digital analysis.
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2019-04-24T11:52:26Z
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https://brocku.ca/webcal/2018/graduate/pkin.html
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Health
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radionz
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The Samoa women's cricket team is putting in the practice hours in preparation for their first 50-over match in six years.
The East Asia Pacific Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier begins in Apia on Friday, with the hosts vying with Papua New Guinea and Japan for a berth at next year's final qualifying stage.
PNG won the last EAP Trophy event in 2014 but suffered their first defeat against Samoa in last year's Pacific Games final in Port Moresby.
Captain Regina Lili'I said that breakthrough performance has been a huge boost to the squad.
"That was the first time we ever beat PNG and to do it in their home ground and in the final of the Pacific Games it was really something I will remember for a lifetime. I think then all the girls just really showed a lot of heart and so that's kind of what we're trying to bring into this tournament - a lot of girls are hungry to do that again and just try and keep doing the basics and take momentum from that tournament into this tournament."
Regina Lili'I said one of the challenges the home side is trying to address is the fact they haven't played a 50-over match since 2010.
"So we've had a couple of practice games this week. and the girls based in New Zealand are really familiar with the 50 over game. The girls based in Samoa have played a bit of 50 over cricket in their preparation so we've just been trying to break the 50 overs down into small targets. If you look at 50 overs it seem very very long, especially when you're batting, so we're just trying to break it down into small targets, small goals and things like that."
Queensland-based Brad Murphy has taken over the coaching reins and said they've been doing all the can to get comfortable in the longer format.
"We've just tried to get the girls batting 50 overs. We had a practice game yesterday (and) almost made it - they batted 45 and we're doing batting drills now, just talking about the importance of partnerships and we've addressed all different sorts of subjects to try to get them to last, bat session to session. All the old clichés mate - we're just trying to concentrate on that."
10 of the players that won gold at the Pacific Games have returned to this year's Samoan squad, with Faamitai Anitoni, Velder Levaula and Filimaua Malo poised to make their international debut and Letelesa Autagavia returning to the team for the first time since 2012.
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2019-04-24T08:23:31Z
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https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/308489/sport-new-found-confidence,-format-for-samoa-cricketers
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In the Indian culture the custom of wearing nose rings began in the 16th century. It was originated in the Middle East countries and later it became popular in India as well. Left side of the nose is generally regarded as the ideal position for nose rings.
Nose piercing in India has a great religious significance too. According to the Hindu religion, piercing of nose is considered as a way of honoring Parvathi, the Hindu Goddess of marriage.
Nose rings is considered as one of the sign of marriage, and is an integral part of traditional bridal jewellery. Now-a-days the unmarried girls have also started wearing nose rings as a fashion accessory.
Nose ring is a type of jewellery which never goes unnoticed. Traditsiya introduces a collection of royal and ethnic nose rings for the first time ever. We have a wide variety of nose rings of different types and kinds. The variety ranges from American Diamond to Kundan to Polki and so on.
Brides can team up nose rings with other bridal jewellery and spread their charm. Bridesmaids as well can look glamorous by wearing nose rings.
Believe it or not, but to women, their wedding day is the biggest day of their lives. The bride feels, what can only be termed as, sheer unadulterated joy. They go beyond their limits to make it a perfect day, overcoming the roller coaster of events and emotions. Trying to look their best ever, the brides drape themselves in expensive yet exquisite attires and don their best hairstyle and make up. But no bridal makeup is complete without her jewels.
Dazzled and inspirited by the varied heritage and tradition of our country, Traditsiya proudly presents its appealing range of bridal sets. We aim at magnifying the bride’s beauty and adding flamboyance to her attire. With a varied range of bridal sets, brides-to-be can find accessories which suit them and that which exemplifies her élan. To look their best, is not an option for the brides. And at Traditsiya, we never compromise with our clientele’s needs.
Our exquisite range of eight to eleven piece bridal kundan sets caters to the contemporary fashion needs while still retaining its heritage. Its remarkable design and elegance makes it simply irresistible. It comes in various combinations of colors ranging from blue and pink to red and silver, to green and purple. Our bridal sets complete the wedding look by coordinating with the bridal dress perfectly.
The eight piece combo is a highly sought-after blend of choker, necklace, long pendant, long pendant chain necklace, and heavy earrings, two bracelets attached with rings, maang tika and bridal nathni. And the only thing better than this is the eleven piece combo that houses an addition of baju band and two payals(anklets).
Designed and crafted exclusively to amplify the bride’s beauty, the bridal sets in Traditsiya shimmer with colourful and sparkling diamante stones and beads. We transform tradition to design that suits the wedding sensibility. Our bridal sets are traditional yet timeless. We lay emphasis on the minutest details meticulously. With our bridal sets, we offer brides panache and elegance, along with authenticity.
We are dedicated to continuing to deliver to our brides-to-be with jewelry that goes beyond being merely spectacular. At Traditsiya, you will find uncompromisingly beautiful bridal sets, with varied, unique and desirable choices and blends. Our bridal sets, no matter which one, adds an extra flair of style and sophistication giving the bride the look she aspires. To shop for these exquisite bridal sets, click here- http://www.mirraw.com/traditsiya.
It’s Diwali. Yayy!! The day to rejoice, celebrate and spread happiness. Diwali holds with it infinite meanings. The three most celebrated implications of the festival of lights includes the long awaited and magnificent return of Lord Rama to his Kingdom of Ayodhya after his fourteen year long banwas, exile, in the forests. The second meaning comes from Lord Krishna’s admired victory over the demon Narakaasura who had abducted and terrified the gopis of Vrindavan. The third one is the much-celebrated marriage of Bhagwan Vishnu with Maha Laxmi with unmatched elation and festivity.
At the core of it, Diwali literally means ‘Row of Lights’. Need we say anything more? As mentioned above, all the three main reasons for celebrating Diwali reinstates the triumph of good over evil, of virtue of deceit, and above all, of bright lights over darkness. Lets spread this joy, instead of just dressing up for Diwali and celebrating with family, relatives and friends, take a step ahead. Spend sometime with the children in an orphanage, or maybe with some elders in an old age home. The bliss, the exultation that this act will bless you with, no dinner or get together can make you feel that way.
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2019-04-18T12:46:05Z
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https://traditsiya.wordpress.com/category/celebrating-indianness/
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Shopping
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BATON ROUGE – ExxonMobil presented a check for $1.3 million to the LSU Foundation this semester as part of the ExxonMobil Foundation’s 2015 Educational Matching Gift Program and its departmental grant program.
The gift represents donations of $358,452 made by 173 employees, retirees and surviving spouses, along with the ExxonMobil Foundation 3-to-1 match to LSU. The gift also includes $57,000 from the ExxonMobil departmental grant program to support students in the E. J. Ourso College of Business, the College of Engineering, the College of Science and the Olinde Career Center.
ExxonMobil is among the most generous corporate donors to LSU, having invested nearly $5.6 million over the past five years through departmental grants, faculty-sponsored research and its educational matching program. This continued investment demonstrates ExxonMobil’s commitment to LSU’s mission of educating the world’s future leaders especially in the areas of engineering, business, and science.
The ExxonMobil Foundation Educational Matching Gift Program has provided more than $600 million to higher education since 1962. Under the program, the ExxonMobil Foundation provides three-to-one unrestricted, matching funds for donations to U.S. colleges and universities with whom employees or retirees are affiliated. LSU has consistently been one of the program’s top beneficiaries.
In addition to the ExxonMobil Foundation employee matching gift program and the departmental grant program, local ExxonMobil refinery employees lend their expertise to LSU by serving as mentors and volunteers through the Engineering Diversity Scholars Program and other volunteer opportunities. To date, the company has committed $750,000 to the ExxonMobil Scholars Program, a mentorship-centered approach to scholarship that provides students from underrepresented groups access to a network of industry professionals who are committed to ensuring their time at LSU is a success. Other areas supported by ExxonMobil include the LSU Gordon A. Cain Center for Scientific, Technological, Engineering and Mathematical Literacy; and, the GeauxTeach Math/Science teacher preparation program offered through the College of Science.
The ExxonMobil Foundation is the primary philanthropic arm of Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) in the United States. The foundation and corporation engage in a range of philanthropic activities that advance education, promote women as catalysts for economic development and combat malaria. In the United States, ExxonMobil supports initiatives to improve math and science education at the K-12 and higher education levels. In 2015, the ExxonMobil Foundation together with Exxon Mobil Corporation, its divisions and affiliates along with employees and retirees, provided $268 million in contributions worldwide. exxonmobil.com/community.
As the flagship institution of the state of Louisiana, the vision of LSU is to be a leading research-extensive university, challenging undergraduate and graduate students to achieve the highest levels of intellectual and personal development. Designated as a land-, sea-, and space-grant institution, the mission of LSU is the generation, preservation, dissemination, and application of knowledge and cultivation of the arts.
For more information, visit the university's home page.
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2019-04-19T09:32:51Z
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https://www.lsu.edu/business/newsevents/2016/10/exxonmobil-recognized-for-long-standing-investment-in-lsu2016.php
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latimes
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A THAAD missile is launched during a 2009 test.
WASHINGTON—The Pentagon said Wednesday that it is sending a mobile missile defense system to Guam as a "precautionary move," as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said North Korea posed a "real and clear danger" to the U.S. military base on the western Pacific island, as well as to allies and other U.S. territory.
The decision to send a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system to Guam comes after Pentagon officials were questioned in recent days about whether the island -- which is a U.S. territory -- has been covered by the U.S. missile defense system. The system includes ground based interceptors in Alaska and California, as well as warships capable of shooting down missiles.
North Korea has "ratcheted up their bellicose, dangerous rhetoric and some of the actions they've taken over the last few weeks present a real and clear danger and threat," Hagel said in a speech at the National Defense University on Wednesday.
Areas at risk include South Korea and Japan, as well as Guam, Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States, he said. "We have to take those threats seriously."
Despite the concerns, North Korea has not demonstrated that its missiles have the range to hit Guam or Hawaii, much less the U.S. mainland. Nor is it known to have a nuclear warhead small enough to be carried on its missiles. But U.S. officials said its missile capabilities have expanded in recent years more rapidly than predicted.
Asked about Guam this month, Undersecretary of Defense James Miller said the U.S. missile defense system "provides coverage of not just the continental United States, but all the United States." But some analysts note that the U.S. military’s own maps of the geographic reach of the ground-based interceptor shows Guam uncovered.
Defense officials said that Guam was still covered by missile-carrying U.S. warships in the Pacific equipped to shoot down ballistic missiles. Sending the ground-based system to Guam beefs up the U.S. defense. The so-called THAAD system, which the Pentagon said would arrive in Guam "in coming weeks," includes a truck-mounted launcher, interceptor missiles, a tracking radar and a fire-control computer system.
It shoots interceptors designed to hit ballistic missiles in the final phase of their flight as they descend toward their targets.
"I hope the North will ratchet this very dangerous rhetoric down," Hagel said. "There is a pathway that's responsible for the North to get on a path to peace." But, he added, "you don't achieve that responsibility and peace and prosperity by making nuclear threats and taking very provocative actions."
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2019-04-18T18:59:47Z
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https://www.latimes.com/world/la-xpm-2013-apr-03-la-fg-wn-us-korea-guam-20130403-story.html
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Superstition Springs is an oasis golf course set amid the Superstition Mountain Range. This Greg Nash tropical design presents water hazards on 11 out of 18 holes. Expansive bunkers lie on each side of the greens adding to the range of course difficulty. Fairways are wide and lined with Willows and Palm Trees, which add natural beauty to the golf course. Initially, Superstition Springs Golf Club seems easy but as you play though, you’ll notice that is not the case. Trouble lies in the bunker placement and water hazards combined. The views will dazzle you, the course will challenge you. Multiple tee boxes allow for any level of player to enjoy Superstition Springs Golf Club to its full potential.
From Phoenix Sky Harbor: Follow the airport signs to the Loop 202 E. towards Tempe. Merge onto Loop 202 E. and continue 3.7 miles. Merge onto Loop 101 S. and continue 2 miles. Merge onto US 60 toward Globe via exit # 55 and continue 12 miles. Exit Power Rd. via exit # 188. Turn right onto Power Rd. Turn right onto Baseline Rd. and follow signs to course.
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2019-04-26T04:33:49Z
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http://www.phoenixscottsdalegolf.com/phoenix-scottsdale-golf-courses/superstition-springs-golf-club.htm
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chron
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Houston pastor Ruth Allen Ollison will be inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists' Hall of Fame for her work in broadcasting, which included starting the news department at an NBC affiliate in Tyler.
After two decades in television as a reporter, anchor and manager, Ollison left the industry and landed in Houston, where she bought a crack house near downtown and started a ministry while earning her master's degree in divinity and doctorate of ministry. She is pastor of Beulah Land Community Church.
Ollison will be honored in January along with PBS journalist Gwen Ifill and retired TV One executive Johnathan Rodgers.
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2019-04-19T22:42:54Z
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https://www.chron.com/life/article/Black-journalist-group-honors-Houston-pastor-2196091.php
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irishtimes
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With strong economic growth and a general election in the mid-distance fuelling expectations around the Cabinet table, as well as among interest groups and the public generally, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe faces a more trying budget season than usual.
At yesterday’s launch of the Government’s mid-year expenditure report, Donohoe laid out the numbers pretty clearly. His budget package will be €3.4 billion, returning a deficit of 0.1 per cent of GDP for next year – an almost balanced budget. Of that €3.4 billion, some €2.6 billion is already allocated, through capital spending plans, carryover costs from measures in last year’s budget, public sector pay increases (€400 million) already promised and the cost of demographic pressures (more children, more older people).
That leaves him €800 million for new spending and tax cuts. Anything further will have to be paid for on budget day through new taxes.
That wouldn’t be a surprise – Donohoe did it last year with a hike in stamp duty on commercial property transactions. But even if he generates some more resources, the numbers will be tight.
That’s why the control of expenditure is being given such a priority. It’s also why the Government now routinely publishes its reports on aspects of its spending reviews.
The purpose is two-fold – to strengthen the hand of central government when it comes to keeping a lid on expenditure, but also to give Donohoe ammunition when he sits down with Ministers demanding more money for their departments. Budget-making comes down at some point to face-to-face negotiations.
The reports show a catalogue of expenditure concerns throughout the public service – but also an institutional pressure to control them in the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure, where much of the power in Government resides.
The chief concern, as ever, is overspending in the health budget. While the expenditure report says health spending is €168 million ahead of target at mid-year, the real fear in Government is that it is on course to bust the budget by more than €600 million by the end of the year.
Donohoe concedes that he will have to ask the Dáil to approve additional cash for health later this year to meet the bill; the only question is the size of the overshoot.
One consequence of this is that the prospect of a special allocation of resources to the Department of Health for the proposed Sláintecare reforms has been torpedoed in recent weeks. The message has been: don’t ask for more money when you’re already asking for more money.
There won’t be cuts to services, Donohoe insisted. He will find extra money to fill the gap.
But the report makes pointed comments about increased levels of accountability for expenditure by senior HSE management. Government sources say that a new board and chief executive later this year will ensure this accountability.
But they don’t say it with much confidence.
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2019-04-19T20:20:19Z
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https://www.irishtimes.com/business/budget-2018/donohoe-seeks-to-keep-a-lid-on-expenditure-ahead-of-tight-budget-1.3570530
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dulwichcc
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A fantastic innings of 97 by Simon May couldn’t quite push Dulwich past Reigate Priory’s stiff target in an important game towards the lower end of the 2nd XI Premier Division table.
Dulwich, going into the day third bottom and only two points above the drop zone, were seeking an important win as the league games reverted back to the straight 50/50 win-lose format after several weeks of toss-losing induced misery in the split 100 overs format.
Dulwich skipper Reid won/lost the toss (depending on at what stage during the day’s proceedings he was asked about it) and the Doggies chose/were asked to bowl first.
Reigate batted well to post a decent-looking target of 251 on an above-par Dulwich pitch. After Bobby Iftikhar (1-28) had made an early breakthrough – courtesy of the first of three good catches from the league’s self-proclaimed best slipper Gareth Cornick – Dulwich had to stay patient as two sizeable partnerships, comprising of 88 for the 2nd wicket and then 105 for the 3rd, saw Reigate reach 217/2 in the 42nd over. Dulwich did not do much wrong; but the odd catch went down, a few more wides than would have been expected were bowled and Reigate – especially their number three Irving – successfully cashed in against the four balls that were occasionally offered up. Even James Bridgland, in his new role as first change/Chris Harris-esque stock bowler, went for over five-and-a-half an over.
But, despite looking set to really unleash towards the end of the innings, Reigate were kept to just 34 in the final eight overs as Dulwich nabbed seven late wickets. First Mizra nibbled the again-unretired Allen Blackford’s off spin (1-57) through to keeper Reid for 57 and then Irving departed for a very good 99; the second of Cornick’s catches at first slip, this time off the bowling of Zakir Rostami. It was Rostami who really stemmed the Reigate advance in the final overs, picking up 4-38 off nine overs, showing excellent control to bowl full and fast at the death. Two run outs also indicated Dulwich’s fielders were staying committed to the last, despite a hard slog in the field, and Reigate ended up registering 251-9 in their 50 overs.
Chasing five an over and benefiting from local knowledge that dictates the new ball is often the most dangerous period of an innings at Burbage Road, Dulwich saw fit to work their way through the opening overs circumspectly. They reached 30 in the tenth over for the loss of just Andy Cornick (15) who had nibbled through to the keeper. A fantastic partnership then ensued between Stephen Hale and Simon May as the rate was upped slightly before Hale, who was starting to look very good, was snaffled at long-on for 37. At 101-2 in the 25th drinks were taken and vice-captain Gareth Cornick joined May. May’s innings was a spectacle of steady of accumulation interspersed with some hefty cutting and pulling and he was looking well in command of the Reigate attack. He and Cornick, who started slowly but soon found his range, put on a steady 102 run partnership as Dulwich, nearly matching Reigate run-for-run, took themselves to 203/2 in the 43rd.
With 49 required off the final seven, Dulwich were decent favourites. But the state of the game was changed dramatically in the 44th over as three quick wickets savage the Dulwich charge. First Cornick tried to guide one to third man, but didn’t steer wide enough of the keeper, and was caught for 38. Two balls later Oliver Steward (2) was a victim of the pitch as he was caught on the crease by a skidder and then, crucially, off the final delivery May chipped to mid off three short of what would have been a magnificent – and most likely match-winning – hundred. Two overs later and Dulwich were further in the mire when Rostimi (4) was bowled.
Having surrendered four wickets for just nine runs the pressure had hugely increased on the home team’s batsmen as Blackford and Reid tried to rescue the situation with some positive batting and running between the wickets. As the clock pushed past 8pm in the evening it was now becoming very dark. 229 was reached when Blackford was bowled trying to angle to third man. Bridgland joined Reid and a further 11 were accrued through some darkness-defying swinging and Dulwich were left needing 11 from the final over to nab the win.
A swing and a miss first ball made things difficult and, when Reid (11) was bowled next ball, the situation was looking lost. Zabeh Mohammed joined Bridgland and picked up two and then a single off the next pair of deliveries to leave eight needed off of two. Bridgland (11*), in the dark and miserable drizzle, heaved the next ball to the boundary for four to give brief hope, but the final delivery could only be squirted for two and Dulwich fell dramatically and disappointingly two short.
Failure to win here makes the trip to bottom-placed Banstead next week a must-win.
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2019-04-22T16:28:32Z
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http://www.dulwichcc.com/?p=4479
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EBSCO has provided Lincoln University with trial access to PrepSTEP through November 22, 2018.
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2019-04-24T02:50:09Z
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http://libguides.lincoln.edu/prepstep
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The famous RETE algorithm was invented by Dr. Charles Forgy more than 30 years ago and it still remains the foundation for most implementations of inferential rule engines. Recently Carole-Ann asked the question: why after all these years there were no practical alternatives to RETE?
Of course, there are many non-inferential (sequential) rule engines that simply rely on explicitly specified sequencing of rules and rule sets. Sequential engines are quite successful because in many practical applications manual rules sequencing is a sufficient (and frequently preferred) mode. However, until recently real inferential rule engines were based on RETE only. Why?
Business users who create rules-based decision models have no idea about a working memory and fact assertion/retraction.
These requirements bring real-world incentives for new implementations of inferential (non-sequential) rule engines. One of them just became publicly available.
Using a constraint-based rule engine.
Rule Solver User Manual contains examples of Excel-based decision models that do not use any rule language and utilize classic decision tables. The same decision model may be executed by either standard OpenRules sequential engine or by Rule Solver. Contrary to the sequential engine, Rule Solver automatically resolves rule ordering problems inside one decision table and between multiple decision tables.
Rule Solver automatically validates if Excel-based decision models contain conflicts and points to possible inconsistencies in business rules. Especially valuable is its ability to diagnose conflicts between rules defined in different decision tables; frequently is very difficult or even impossible to find such conflicts manually. Additionally, Rule Solver can infer decisions even in situations when business rules only partially define a problem – it essentially minimizes the total number of rules needed to model the decision problem.
Rule Solver helps users to define and solve complex constraint satisfaction problems that are usually out of reach for traditional rule engines (including RETE-based). You may look at examples of scheduling and resource allocation problems in my previous post.
While this is only an initial implementation, Rule Solver is already capable to address many real-world decision management problems. You may download Rule Solver as a part of the complete OpenRules installation from http://openrules.com/download.htm and try it for your own problems. Your comments and suggestions are very welcome.
I find fascinating how some use cases sound very intuitive — like scheduling telephone installations, rules can be used to figure out how what needs to happen and a solver can optimize the resources (engineers or technicians) that perform the non-automated tasks. But some other use cases are quite tricky. Each technology can bring value, so the choice is not so clear cut.
My experience is that Solvers really shine when there are lots of constraints that make only very few paths (out of the many) actual solutions. The more dead-ends, the more effective the solver will be.
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2019-04-25T22:02:41Z
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https://openrules.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/rule-engines-rete-and-alternatives/
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sbc
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Sep 26th, 2017 by Rachel P.
Promise me you won’t believe a word.
n’t quite convinced either. Through a doubtful narrator, (which we can see mirrored in ourselves) Link is able to try and convince us of the bag’s magical properties while Zofia is convincing Genevieve. Her matter of fact manner and copious amounts of knowledge of this place none of us (or Genevieve) have heard of, make it more believable. The situation also becomes more believable at the appearance of Rustan, who we assume to be Zofia’s husband who makes occasional sorties from the handbag before retreating once again. It comes to a head when Jake vanishes into the handbag, which sets off a series of disasters for Genevieve including Zofia’s death and the loss of the handbag. Through this whole story we have seen the narrator believe in the handbag more and more, and we ourselves have become convinced, but the end of that last paragraph acknowledges our disbelief of such a fanciful thing and charges us, as Zofia once said to Genevieve, not to believe a word.
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2019-04-21T20:57:40Z
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http://fif2.blog.sbc.edu/2017/09/26/kelly-links-the-faery-handbag/
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2019-04-26T12:30:58Z
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Bulldogs drop first weekend series of season.
Louisiana Tech head baseball coach Lane Burroughs hopes his team rallies after dropping two games v. Charlotte Saturday at home.
RUSTON – The No. 25 Louisiana Tech baseball team fell 9-1 and 6-4 in a Saturday doubleheader against the visiting Charlotte 49ers on Saturday from J.C. Love Field.
The Bulldogs (24-13, 9-5 C-USA) dropped their first weekend series of the season, while Charlotte (18-16, 7-7 C-USA) claimed its first Conference-USA series triumph since March 23-25 at Middle Tennessee.
The 49ers outhit Tech 24-14 in the two-game set, and sent Tech to its first three-game losing streak of 2018.
In the first game of the series, Tech raced out to an early lead in the bottom of the first inning. The top of the lineup continued to jumpstart the early offense, as Hunter Wells walked to lead things off. Mason Mallard then singled through the left side, and then both Wells and Mallard moved into scoring position via a passed ball. Tech third baseman Tanner Huddleston then lofted a fly ball to intermediate center field, deep enough to score Mallard on the sacrifice.
With a 1-0 lead, Tech starting pitcher Matt Miller (3-2, 5.1 IP, 6 H, 5 ER, 4 BB, 3 BB) worked scoreless second and third frames before running into trouble in the fourth, as Charlotte catcher Zack Smith singled up the middle, scoring Harris Yett, and tying the game at one.
Charlotte would then tack on two more runs in the fifth and the sixth, chasing Miller, as Tech went to left-hander Quinton Logan. The southpaw went 2 2-3 innings, allowing two runs (both earned), while striking out a pair.
Leading 5-1, the 49ers used a two-run home run from Jackson Mims (3-for-5, 3 RBI) en route to a four-run ninth, putting the game out of reach.
Charlotte starter Josh Maciejewski (5-2, 7.0 IP, 4 H, 5 K, 1 BB) stymied the Tech offense, limiting the ‘Dogs to just four hits across his seven innings pitched.
Mason Robinson paced the Tech offense, going 2-for-3.
In the second leg of the doubleheader, the Tech offense came out firing on all cylinders, striking for a four-run first inning off 49ers’ starter Matt Brooks.
Wells once again led off the game with a walk, bringing up Dalton Skelton, who put a charge into a 3-1 fastball, depositing his fifth home run of the season over the wall in left-center field. Then, with a 2-0 lead, Mason Mallard singled up the middle and stole second. Mallard’s swipe was his 17th of the season, and the speedy left fielder remains perfect in stolen-base attempts this season. Parker Bates then singled up the middle, scoring Mallard, and putting Tech ahead 3-0. With two outs, and Bates at second, Logan Bailey pulled a ground-rule double over the wall in right field, scoring Bates, and putting a four spot in the first.
However, as in game one, the Tech offense would be unable to put anything together the rest of the evening, as Matt Brooks, Colby Bruce, Matt Horkey and Jonah Patten would hold the ‘Dogs scoreless over the final eight innings.
Tech starter Logan Robbins was sharp through the first six innings, allowing just one run in the fifth. However, in the seventh, Charlotte struck for five runs (three charged to Robbins), highlighted by a three-run blast from Drew Ober off Tyler Follis (3-2). Tech committed two errors in the inning, paving the way for the go-ahead blast.
Tech and Charlotte will return to action in the series finale Sunday at 1 p.m. Left-hander Logan Bailey is set to start for the ‘Dogs, while the 49ers will counter with fellow southpaw Joey Cooner.
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2019-04-26T02:31:06Z
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https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/sports/college/2018/04/14/charlotte-sweeps-la-tech-doubleheader/518321002/
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