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Environmental Management Companies in Mauritania
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based in Sundbyberg, SWEDEN
Grindex is a world leader in electrical submersible pump technology for demanding applications such as construction, mining and heavy industry. The pumps are known for their high reliability, durability and dependability. Thanks to the built-in motor protection and the air valve, the pumps can run unsupervised for longer periods, and even run dry for a length of time. ...
DeskCenter USA Inc.
based in Long Beach, NEW YORK (USA)
Our company is an independent software producer that operates globally in the area of IT Lifecycle Management solutions. This includes the inventory of hard and software data, effective access to management functions to solve system problems, asset management to show the lifecycle of IT systems from purchase to disposal, the central management of work orders and user ...
Edinburgh Instruments Ltd
based in Livingston, UNITED KINGDOM
Edinburgh Sensors are proud to be global providers of high quality Gas Sensor solutions. Our diverse range of gas sensors use the latest technology to enable reliable, accurate and continuous gas detection. Established for over 20 years, Edinburgh Sensors use proven technology to deliver OEM Gas Sensors and Gas Monitors / Indoor Air Quality Monitors that are smart, ...
PKS Schiedam B.V.
based in Schiedam, NETHERLANDS
Since the foundation of the company, PKS (Peter Kerkhof Supplies) has become a specialist in the shipping industry. In the course of the years, a growing number of industrial clients have discovered the advantage of buying its safety end environmental protection products at PKS. Also through the takeover of a number of corporations and autonomous growth, our network has ...
Telkonet Inc.
based in Waukesha, WISCONSIN (USA)
Telkonet Inc. (OTCQB: TKOI), is a publicly traded clean energy company that helps clients decrease operating expenses, reduce carbon footprints and improve sustainability with the green technology EcoSmart intelligent wireless energy management system. Telkonet offers EcoSmart technology to achieve a balance between energy efficiency and occupant comfort. EcoSmart ...
based in St. Petersburg, FLORIDA (USA)
Industrial and Environmental Health and Safety Instrumentation: Air Sampling Pumps, Calibrators, Equipment, and Accessories. Colorimetric Gas Detector Tubes. Point Gas Monitors. Open Path Gas Detection. Sound, Noise, and Vibration Measurement Instruments. Real-time Dust Monitors. Flame Detectors.
Auroras Lighting Solution(Zhuhai) Co.,Ltd
based in Zhuhai, CHINA
Auroras Lighting is a manufacturer focus on high quality solar LED street light,LED flood light,LED tube,LED bulb,LED down light,LED industrial high bay lighting fixture.Quality and service comes first,looking for global distributors world wide.
Filtech Exhibitions Germany
based in Dusseldorf, GERMANY
Filtech - International Conference & Exhibition for Filtration and Separation Technology. FILTECH is the largest and most important filtration event world-wide.
Barrier Systems, LLC
based in Kula, HAWAII (USA)
The SandMaster attachment fills, transports, securely closes and places multiple sandbags at the area of need. Capable of creating and placing 15,000-18,000 sandbags in a 24 hour period. Barrier Systems LLC is the sole source provider of the innovative SandMaster system. Hydraulic technology replaces hand labor for swift and efficient on-site filling and placement of ...
BBA Pumps
based in Doetinchem, NETHERLANDS
BBA Pumps is a leading manufacturer of portable pump equipment. Our pump solutions offer you lowest cost of ownership and unparalleled reliability. Our dedicated team and world-wide partners offer you excellence in both product and support. We offer 4 dedicated pump designs BA series dewatering and high head pumps, PT series wellpoint piston pumps, B series self priming ...


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October 18, 2012
Wilson Field Hockey earns 3-0 Victory
The Wilson Phoenix earned an on the road 3-0 victory Tuesday afternoon, defeating the Mighty Macs of Immaculata University.More
October 5, 2012
Phoenix Defeat the Falcons
The Wilson College field hockey team earned a 5-1 victory over the Falcons of Cedar Crest College yesterday afternoon.More
October 2, 2012
Wilson Softball to be Recognized at Halftime of Soccer Match
During halftime of the Wilson College versus Gallaudet University soccer match Wednesday afternoon, The Wilson College athletic department will be recognizing the Wilson softball team for their achievements during the 2012 season.More
September 27, 2012
Five Different Phoenix Score in Shutout Victory
Five different Phoenix scored in Wilson Soccer's 5-0 victory over Trinity University yesterday afternoon.More
September 26, 2012
The Phoenix Host Successful "Play 4 the Cure" Event
On Sunday, September 23rd, the Wilson College Soccer and Field Hockey teams participated in the "Play 4 the Cure" campaign to raise awareness and support for breast cancer research.More
September 22, 2012
Wilson Soccer Defeats Morrisville St.
The Wilson College Soccer team earned their 1st win of the season, with a 2-0 victory over North Eastern Athletic Conference rival Morrisville St.More
September 19, 2012
Wilson College Athletics Hosts "Play 4 the Cure"
On Sunday, September 23rd, the Wilson College Soccer and Field Hockey teams will be participating in the "Play 4 the Cure" campaign to raise awareness and support for breast cancer research. For the event, The Wilson soccer team will take on Cazenovia College, while the field hockey team will host Washington and Jefferson College. Both games are set for 1:00 p.m. start.More
September 14, 2012
Join Wilson College and the Road Runners Club of America to Celebrate NATIONAL RUN@WORK RUN@SCHOOL Day
Wilson College has partnered with the largest grassroots running organization in the country, the Road Runners Club of America, to promote the seventh Annual RUN@WORK / RUN@SCHOOL Day on September 21st, 2012. Through this partnership, our organizations are working together to promote physical activity and healthy living within our community and around the country.More
September 12, 2012
The Phoenix Clinch 2-1 Victory Over Knights
The Wilson College field hockey team posted a 2-1 victory over the Neumann University Knights yesterday afternoon. The knights were first on the board, when Ellyn Jones scored an unassisted goal eight minutes into the game.More
September 5, 2012
Wilson Fall Sports Start the 2012 Season
The Wilson College field hockey and soccer teams opened their 2012 season at home on Friday, August 31st. The field hockey team started the season with a 3-1 victory over Shenandoah University, while the soccer team was defeated by Mary Baldwin College 3-0.More


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A game unit including an indicator wheel and an award dispenser. In certain embodiments, when players achieve a predetermined result on a game unit, they receive a non-monetary award such as a ticket or token. Preferably, a game unit may take the form of a game with a rotating wheel which displays a result of a game event or status.
1. A wheel indicator with award dispenser comprising:
a wheel-shaped indicator having a surface displaying a plurality of segments radially extending from an axis of rotation and capable of rotating, at least fractionally, in both clockwise and counterclockwise directions;
a motor coupled to said wheel shaped indicator to rotate said wheel shaped indicator around said axis of rotation;
an award dispenser; and
a controller providing signals to said motor and to said award dispenser.
2. A wheel indicator with award dispenser as recited in
3. A wheel indicator with award dispenser as recited in
4. A wheel shaped indicator with award dispenser as recited in
5. A wheel indicator with award dispenser as recited in
6. A wheel indicator with award dispenser as recited in
7. A wheel indicator with award dispenser as recited in
8. A wheel indicator with award dispenser as recited in
9. A wheel shaped indicator with award dispenser as recited in
10. A wheel indicator with award dispenser as recited in
11. A wheel detector with award dispenser as recited in
12. A wheel detector with award dispenser as recited in
13. A wheel detector with award dispenser as recited in
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to games, and more particularly to games having rotary wheel indicators.
2. Background of the Related Art
Roll-down games have been played for many years in arcade environments. These games usually include a ramp and one or more targets at the end of the ramp. A player rolls a ball down the ramp towards a desired target, and a game score is displayed on a scoring display based upon the player's success.
In U.S. Pat. No. 810,299, O. E. Pettee describes a game in which a ball is rolled down a plane towards an upright target pin. When the pin is impacted, a motor activates to spin a dial. When the dial stops spinning, it indicates the player's score.
In U.S. Pat. No. 2,141,580, S. E. White describes a game in which a ball is tossed into holes marked in various time intervals. A spinning dial hand is stopped from rotating by the amount of time indicated by the hole that the ball is tossed into. The object of the game is to make the dial stop at a chosen character or numeral on the dial face.
In U.S. Pat. No. 2,926,915, F. D. Johns describes a skee-ball game in which a ball is rolled towards a scoring drum and in which tickets are dispensed to the player by an electrically operated automatic ticket dispenser.
Games of the prior art, while enjoyable, are rather simple and, as such, often lead to rapid player boredom. This is undesirable in an environment where revenues are directly related to the continuous, repeated use of the games.
The present invention, in certain exemplary embodiments, provides an apparatus and method for progressively scoring contributions from multiple individual game units, and also provides an apparatus and method for an individual game including a spinning wheel. These improvements add excitement and complexity to the game, which tends to prolong player involvement.
A roll-down game unit of the present invention, in an exemplary embodiment set forth by way of example and not limitation, includes a ramp, targets at the end of the ramp, and a wheel associated with the targets. Preferably, the targets are apertures provided near the end of the ramp. If a ball is rolled down the ramp into a certain aperture, that aperture might be predetermined to rotate the wheel a certain distance clockwise. A different aperture might be predetermined to rotate the wheel a specific distance counterclockwise, or not rotate the wheel at all.
In certain embodiments, the score of the game is based upon the wheel's position. If the wheel is rotated and stops at a number displayed on the wheel, the score might increase by that number. The wheel might display a "Bankrupt" position, which would reduce the score to zero. A further variation of an exemplary game would include an award dispenser, which would dispense a non-monetary award once the game was over.
The wheel and award dispenser add complexity and interest to an otherwise simple game. This again increases player involvement with the game and increases the revenue produced by the game.
These and other advantages of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art after reading the following descriptions and studying the various figures of the drawings.
Each individual game unit 16 has the ability to be played on its own, independent of the other game units 16 coupled to progressive bonus apparatus 12. Each individual game unit 16 includes a front panel 18 and a display area 22. A goal for each game unit 16 should be accomplished in a skillful manner; for instance, a ball can be guided into an aperture using hand-eye coordination, or a disc or ball could be skillfully aimed into a target using electrical controls.
An individual game unit 16 further has the ability to dispense a non-monetary award to a player. Such an award might be tickets redeemable for prizes. The award also could be baseball cards or other similar non-monetary prizes. In the preferred embodiment, each individual game unit 16 dispenses one or more tickets to the player from the front panel 18 through an award dispensing slot 24. Ticket dispensing mechanisms are well-known in the prior art.
The process that the multi-station game apparatus 10 uses to receive money and dispense non-monetary awards is illustrated in the block diagram 25 of
The progressive bonus apparatus 12 has an output on a progressive score display 14 (see
The progressive score displayed by the progressive bonus apparatus 12 is accumulated from contributions by the individual game units 16 over the data busses 27 a and 27 b. The contributions can be determined in a variety of ways. In the preferred embodiment, each game unit 16 sends a signal to the progressive bonus apparatus 12 whenever a player deposits a coin or coins into the game unit 16. When the progressive bonus apparatus 12 receives this signal, it increments the progressive score by one, one-half, or another predetermined value. Thus, each game unit 16 that is played will increment the progressive score by this value. Other methods might be used where the game unit 16 sends its increment signal when a player reached a predetermined score. Also, the progressive bonus apparatus 12 could be set to multiply the progressive score by a selected quantity whenever a game unit 16 sends an increment signal.
Each individual game unit 16 has one or more predetermined tasks for the player to accomplish in order for the player to receive a bonus award 30 based on the progressive score displayed by the progressive bonus apparatus 12. All game units 16 that are attached to a single progressive bonus apparatus 12 should require the same predetermined task, so that each player competing for the progressive score has a task of the same duration and level of difficulty. This predetermined task has several possible variations. One variation might be that the player has to achieve a specific game score on his individual game unit 16 in order to win the progressive score. A different variation might be that the player must finish two or more games in a row by accomplishing a specific game result, such as hitting a "jackpot" on the game display 22.
The first player to accomplish the predetermined task is entitled to the non-monetary bonus award 30 based upon the progressive score displayed on the progressive bonus apparatus 12. In the preferred embodiment, this bonus award 30 is manually given to the winning player by the owner or operator of the multi-station game apparatus 10. The bonus award 30 can be a number of normal game unit 16 awards: tickets, cards, or whatever the non-monetary award might be. Such a bonus award 30 might also be dispensed to a player as follows: the progressive bonus apparatus 12 sends the progressive score data over a data bus to the winning game unit 16. The winning game unit 16 then dispenses the bonus award 30 to the player by that game unit's 16 normal award-dispensing means 24. In any case, once the player has won the bonus award 30, his individual game unit 16 is reset and the progressive bonus apparatus 12 is reset.
The microprocessor 32 is preferably an Intel 8031 8-bit microprocessor, which has the range of features adequate for the task, including eight data lines and sixteen address lines. The microprocessor 32 receives data inputs D0-D9 inputs on data bus 33 from individual game units that are connected to the progressive bonus apparatus 12; one data line is required per game unit, so a maximum of ten individual games may be connected to the progressive bonus apparatus in this embodiment. Data latches 31 are used to couple the data busses from each unit (such as data busses 27 a and 27 b) to the data bus 33.
The microprocessor 32 is coupled to ROM 34 by an address/control/data bus 35. The ROM 34 is preferably an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM) that contains the start-up instructions and operating system for the progressive bonus apparatus. Microprocessor 32 is connected to RAM 36 by the bus 35 to permit the use of RAM as scratch-pad memory.
The microprocessor 32 is also coupled to a latch 38 and DIP switches 40 by bus 35. The DIP switches 40 provide selectable functions that the owner or operator of the multi-unit game apparatus 10 may change to his or her liking. These selectable functions include setting the base payout score that the progressive bonus apparatus 12 will display in its starting state, and the increment value that the apparatus will use to increase the progressive score whenever a player achieves the predetermined task. Other selectable functions could also be set by the DIP switches depending on how many selectable game options and features are desired.
The microprocessor 32 is also coupled to a multiplexer 42. The multiplexer 42 receives a clock signal, an enable signal, and a serial LED data signal from the microprocessor 32. The multiplexer then outputs control signals to the segments of the LED display 44 on a bus 43.
The progressive bonus apparatus can also optionally send and receive message signals through a standard RS-232 interface 46. The RS-232 interface allows the control system 13 to be coupled to a computer system or other data processing system to allow the control and analysis of the control system 13.
The control system 13 for the progressive bonus apparatus 12 operates as follows. The microprocessor 32 first reads the low memory from ROM 34 over bus 35 and then sequences through the software instructions stored in ROM. The software from the ROM 34 instructs the microprocessor 32 to read the DIP switches 40, read in the game unit signals on busses 27 a and 27 b from the latches 31, and display or update the score LED display 44 with the information from the game unit signals. If a game unit signal on busses 27 a or 27 b indicates a game is over, the microprocessor 32 modifies the progressive score by the determined amount. When a game unit signal on busses 27 a or 27 b indicates that a game unit 16 has won the progressive bonus award, the microprocessor 32 sends signals to flash the score display and activate lights and sound speakers (not shown) indicating the bonus has been won. The owner or operator of the game units 16 may then present the bonus award to the player who won it. In an alternate embodiment, the microprocessor 32 in progressive bonus apparatus 12 sends the progressive score total to the winning individual game unit 16 over a data bus, and the individual game unit 16 can then dispense the bonus award to the player.
The front panel section comprises a coin deposit slot 50, a ball dispenser 52, a ticket dispenser 54, and a speaker 56. The coin deposit slot 50 may accept standard currency coins or game tokens that are normally available in an arcade environment, and also includes a coin return button and coin return slot. Coin boxes suitable for use in game unit 16 are readily available on the commercial market.
The ball dispenser 52 provides a ball for the player's use. In the preferred embodiment, the balls are rolled by the player down an inclined playing surface 20. Other types of playing pieces can also be used and directed down the playing surface, such as discs, cylinders, or other objects.
The balls are dispensed to the player as shown in
Referring again to
The speaker 56 emits sounds based on game actions and other game states and is controlled by the game unit controller system. The operation of the speaker will be discussed in greater detail subsequently.
The playing surface 20 is shown in
The display section 22 is shown in greater detail in
The game score display 86 is an LED display that indicates current game score to the player. Target displays 88 indicate the value or function of each individual target slot 80 to the player when a ball 70 is received by that target slot 80.
The ball count display 90 shows the status of playing pieces allotted to the player. In the preferred embodiment, this display 90 shows the number of balls remaining for the player to use in the game.
The pointer mechanism 92 is further illustrated in
The microprocessor 110 is preferably an Intel 8031 8-bit microprocessor, which has the range of features adequate for the task, including eight data lines and sixteen address lines. The microprocessor 110 is coupled to ROM 114 by a data/address/control bus 111. The ROM 114 is preferably an erasable, programmable read-only memory (EPROM) that contains the start-up instructions and operating system for the microprocessor 110. Microprocessor 110 is connected to RAM 112 by bus 111 to permit the use of RAM for scratch-pad memory. Methods for coupling ROM 114 and RAM 112 to the microprocessor 110 by bus 111 including enable, address, and control lines are well-known to those skilled in the art.
The microprocessor 110 is also coupled to a latch 116 and switches 118 by the bus 111. The switches 118 provide selectable functions that the owner of the game unit may change to his or her liking. These selectable functions include the values of the targets in terms of score, sound effects, progressive jackpot value (if present), the amount of any award given, the test mode, the type of game, and so on. Other selectable functions could also be set by the switches depending on how many selectable game options and features are desired. The switches 118 also include, in the present embodiment, the switches 74 that are activated when a playing piece 70 rolls into a target slot 80 on the playing surface 20.
The microprocessor 110 is also coupled to another latch 120, which is similar to the latch 116 that connects the switches 118 to the microprocessor 110. The latch 120 receives data from the comparators 122, which are set up in op amp configurations using an LM393 or similar device. These comparators 122 receive data from the position detection mechanism 124 indicating the position of the wheel 84, and output that data to the latch 120 and the microprocessor 110. The position detection mechanism 124 is discussed in greater detail below; see
The microprocessor 110 is also coupled to the drivers 125 and the buffers 126. The buffers 126 receive data from many of the switches 127, including the coin switch 128, which detects if a coin has been inserted into the game unit 16; the test switch 132, which activates a test mode for the game unit 16; the credit switch 134, which, when pushed by a player, starts a game; and the ball release switch 138, which indicates to the microprocessor 110 if a playing piece 70 has actually been dispensed to the player. The drivers 125 activate the remaining switches 127, including the ticket drive 130, which activates the dispensing of the non-monetary award (in this case, tickets) out of the non-monetary award dispenser 54; and the solenoid 136, which pushes a ball 70 into the ball dispenser 52.
The microprocessor 110 is also coupled to the latches 140 which latch data for the lamp drivers 142. The lamp drivers 142 supply power to the lamps 143, which include the lights on the display section 22 of the game unit 16 that are not part of the game score display 86 or other numeric displays.
The microprocessor 110 is also coupled to a sound chip 148. This chip is an OKI Voice Synthesis LSI chip that has eight data input lines coupled to the microprocessor 110 by a latch 149. The sound chip 144 receives its data from ROMs (not shown) and outputs sound data to a low pass filter 146, an audio power amplifier 148, and finally to the output speaker 150, which generates sounds to the player playing the game unit 16.
The microprocessor 110 is also coupled to a separate printed circuit board 152 containing the game score display 86 and the motor controller 156, which controls the motor 154. The bus 111 connecting the microprocessor to the display board 152 are latched by a latch 153. Four of the ten connecting lines go to the game score display 86, which consists of 7-segment LED digit displays. The remaining lines control the motor controller 156. Motor 154 is preferably a stepper motor coupled to a stepper motor controller, as is well-known to those skilled in the art.
The control system 119 operates briefly as follows. The microprocessor 110 first reads the low memory from ROM 114 over bus 111 and sequences through the software instructions stored in ROM. The settings of DIP switches in the switches block 118 are also read into the microprocessor. The software from the ROM 114 then instructs the microprocessor 110 to send and receive data over the bus 111 in order to conduct a game. For example, when the coin switch 128 is activated, indicating a coin has been inserted into the game unit, the microprocessor reads a signal from the buffers 126 from bus 111. The microprocessor then sends a signal to the drivers 125 to activate solenoid 136 in order to dispense a ball 70 to the player. The ball release switch 127 sends a signal through the buffers 126 to the microprocessor, indicating that a ball has been dispensed. The microprocessor then awaits a signal from switches 118 that indicate which switch 74 in target slot 80 the ball 70 activated. The specific switch 118 signal determines what data the microprocessor will send to the motor 154 in order to rotate the wheel 84 a specific amount (see
The number of notches 165 that have passed through optical detector 162 as the position detection wheel 124 rotates can be counted by the microprocessor 110. If the original starting segment 95 of the wheel 84 was known, then the end segment 95 displayed on the wheel 84 can be deduced by counting the number of notches 165 that have passed through the optical detector 162. In this way, the microprocessor 110 knows what end segment 95 the pointing mechanism 92 is pointing to and knows how to affect the game score appropriately.
A wide reference notch R can provide an absolute position indication for the wheel 84. Wide notch detector 167 is an optical detector similar in design and function to detector 162; when the wide notch R is detected, a specific segment 95 on the wheel 84 is known to have rotated by pointing mechanism 92.
An alternate embodiment for wheel position detection is shown in
The operation of the preferred embodiment of the gaming apparatus may be briefly described as follows: A player deposits a coin or token into coin slot 50 of game unit 16 to start the game. The wheel 84 is driven by the motor 154 to spin a random number of revolutions to begin a game. The pointing mechanism 92 keeps track of the end segment 95 at which the wheel 84 stops moving. A ball 70 is deposited to the player in ball dispenser 52. The player directs the ball 70 onto playing surface 20 at the player end 60 through an opening 72 in a cover protecting the playing surface 20. The ball 70 is rolled towards the target end 62 of the playing surface 20 towards the targets 80, which are slots for the ball 70 to roll into. The ball 70 rolls into a slot 80 marked, for example, "3 slots left". The ball 70 activates a switch 74 below the slot 80 as it drops down to rolling surface 75. The ball 70 then rolls down ramp 75 to join a plurality of other balls 70′ that are stored in a storage area 76; a microprocessor 110 signal then activates the solenoid 136 to dispense another ball 70″ to the player if he or she has any playing pieces remaining to be played in his or her game.
Meanwhile, the switch 74 corresponding to the "3 slots left" slot 80 sends a signal to the microprocessor 110 which calculates the direction and the number of segments 95 the wheel 84 must be moved. The motor 154 turns the wheel 84 three segments 95 clockwise. The game then modifies the score or alters game conditions based upon the result displayed by that end segment 95. For example, suppose the end segment 95 displayed "5 tickets". Five points would then be added to the game score, displayed on game score display 86. If the result "Bankrupt" were displayed, then the game score would be reset to zero.
One of the target slot designations might be "Full spin". This would mean that a fast spin with a random result would be imparted on the wheel 84 by the motor 154. In order to keep track of the segment 95 the wheel 84 stops at, the position detection wheel 124 and optical detector 162 keep track of the amount of segments 95 that have rotated by so that the end segment 95 is calculated by the microprocessor 110. Alternatively, in the described alternate embodiment, the resulting segment 95 is read directly from bar code segments 165′.
The player will keep playing in this manner until he or she has used up his or her allotted amount of playing pieces. Once this occurs, the ticket dispenser 54 dispenses an award in relation to the player's final game score. For example, if the final game score is 20, 20 tickets could be dispensed to the player.
An alternate embodiment of the game unit is detailed in
While this invention has been described in terms of several preferred embodiments, it is contemplated that alterations, modifications and permutations thereof will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon a reading of the specification and study of the drawings. For example, the playing surface 20 of the game unit 16 can be situated horizontally. The playing surface 20 can also be angled such that the target end 62 is higher than the player end 60.
It is therefore intended that the following claims include all such alterations, modifications and permutations as fall within the spirit and scope of the present invention.
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Hi, i've got this phone.... tho i like it a lot but it's not available here in philippines... i could not buy accessories for this like the USB... i guess it's useless having this phone...
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- 2007-03-21 15:12
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- nsssn73
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could i know if there is any way to read & write arabic in the VK800. if there are any way or programan plz inform my.
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- 2006-11-13 13:17
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- mk
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Hi... I just bought the phone today...i hope this isnt too late
coz at first i have the same problem as u both...I couldnt connect it to my PC via USB port
i thought its because of my window xp service pack but it isnt....
well when connect the mobile to PC the mobile creen will show "USB connect" text
then press the left soft key button dude!!!!!!!!!!!
it will work!!! window will install the USB driver itself!!!!!!
WEll VK 800 is perfect and so damn cheap lol
Good luck
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- 2006-09-21 12:14
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- starline
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Hey mr moo
I've had the same problem too, when i connect the phone it doesnt do anything. I expected it to be like a normal USB plug in function. Anyway im going to sell this phone, due to the fact it looks like a peanut and is a dud.
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- 2005-10-23 16:35
- Mr Moo
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I am having problems with trying to get it to connect to the PC, the drivers arent even signed to windows and the phone gets detected as an unkown device!! Anyone have this problem and solve it? email me please, sucks having a phone with mp3 capabilities but no way to put them on it
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- 2005-10-23 15:08
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- jen
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i have this phone!! and it is the most perfect phone ever!! it is small, cute and it has everything i need. the only problem is that the battery life is short but luckily it comes with two batteries!!!
I love this phone and i highly recomend it!!
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- 2005-10-06 10:44
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TFT, 256K colors
1.3MP cam
Design like a peanut - nice
79g - light
All this phone needed is a card slot and it would be the best!!
Maybe they could re-design with a card slot, i will definitely buy it :)
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- 2005-06-14 18:43
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Only four starting pitchers in Dodgers history have thrown seven or more scoreless innings in a postseason game and allowed three or fewer hits: Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Orel Hershiser and, most recently, Hyun-Jin Ryu.
Ryu recovered from the worst start of his rookie season with one of the best performances of his 26-year-old life, pitching the Dodgers back into the National League Championship Series by leading them to a 3-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night.
The Dodgers' Game 3 win, played in front of 53,049 towel-waving fans at Dodger Stadium, closed their deficit in the series to two games to one.
BOX SCORE: Dodgers 3, Cardinals 0
After receiving an emotional lift from watching Hanley Ramirez and Andre Ethier return to the lineup in obvious pain, the South Korean left-hander limited the Cardinals to three hits and a walk over seven innings.
"It's definitely a big motivation when you see your star players go out there hurt and putting it on the line for the team," Ryu said through an interpreter.
By beating Adam Wainwright, Ryu added the Cardinals ace to a star-studded list of pitchers whose teams lost when they started in this series. The others: Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers.
Conventional wisdom was that the Dodgers would win Games 1 and 2, and the Cardinals Game 3. The exact opposite happened.
"The great thing about this game of baseball is that you can talk about, 'This is what should happen,' but it never does play out that way," the Dodgers' Adrian Gonzalez said.
Entering the game, there were serious concerns about Ryu, who lasted only three innings in his division-series start against the Atlanta Braves. But he learned something from that.
"It taught me a big lesson that in big games, the first couple of innings are that crucial and important," he said.
Ryu's preference had always been to gradually work his way into a rhythm. That was probably why he gave up first-inning runs in 19 of 31 previous starts. But before this game, pitching coach Rick Honeycutt challenged him to throw at full intensity from the beginning. Ryu was told that if he could pitch only four innings, so be it.
Ryu, who usually throws his fastball in the high 80s to low 90s, was clocked in the first inning at 95 mph.
"He was ready to go," catcher A.J. Ellis said.
And he was ready to last.
With two outs and a man on first base in the seventh inning, Ryu received a visit from Manager Don Mattingly and interpreter Martin Kim. The next batter, Matt Adams, represented the tying run.
Ellis recalled the scene on the mound, saying Mattingly asked Ryu, "Do you have enough for this guy? Can you get this guy?"
Ryu was adamant he could, according to Ellis.
Ryu struck out Adams to end the inning.


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What it is…
Chilling Effects is a collaborative archive created by several law school clinics and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect lawful online activity from legal threats. Its website, Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, allows recipients of cease-and-desist notices to submit them to the site and receive information about their legal rights and responsibilities.
The archive was founded in 2001 by Internet activists who were concerned that the unregulated private practice of sending cease-and-desist letters seemed to be increasing and was having an unstudied but potentially significant "chilling effect" on speech.
The archive got a significant boost when Google began submitting its notices in 2002.
Why it's awesome…
Sadly there are still institutions and countries out there that would seek to stifle free speech and restrict lawful creative expression. The site chillingeffects.org is an attempt to redress the balance.
It is also a place where these issues are explored in detail, providing information that outlines the rights of all parties, including copyright holders.
What it needs…
Unfortunately, we're only talking about US law here, but hopefully the presence of the site is enough to exert influence on corporations and governments who would prefer to use the law as a sledgehammer to pound contrary views or creative expression. Hopefully other countries will move to emulate the site. The recent example of the South Australian Attorney General's attempt to censor anonymous political comment on the internet indicates that even countries such as Australia would benefit from such a site.
Perhaps due to the nature of the subject matter, chillingeffects.org is not the prettiest site around.
Geekapedia Rating.
Three Robots (out of Five)


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ROUECHE v. U.S. Civil Action No. 09-cv-00048-WDM-BNB.
HAL WILLIAM ROUECHE, SR., PAGAN ROUECHE, individually and as legal guardians and next friends of HAL WILLIAM ROUECHE, JR., an incapacitated person, Plaintiffs, v. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant.
United States District Court, D. Colorado.
January 7, 2010.
BOYD N. BOLAND, Magistrate Judge.
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IT IS ORDERED that the Motion is GRANTED to extend until
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the discovery cut-off is extended to and including
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Motion is DENIED in all other respects.
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Here's a sample letter contributed by a PLN participant, Fiona Crees, who used it when involving year ten students in blogging – "in the hope this helps anyone else out there (no use in reinventing the wheel!)".
(Thanks Fiona.)
Dear Parent/Guardian,
As part of English in year ten, a blog has been developed for the express use of 10.2 in order to promote advanced discussion in English based subjects, offering the students the possibility of extra help, or the opportunity to extend their English skills in a safe learning environment.
This blog will be a designated space for the students of 10.2 to:
- Respond to curriculum topics as we study them.
- Post any writing they have recently developed, either inside of school or out (be it creative, persuasive, stream of consciousness, thematical etc.).
- Discuss recently read books and recommendations.
- Discuss current events, and the representation of these in the media (be it a newspaper, cartoon, magazine article, Today Tonight type show, or news broadcast.)
- Practice varied points of view on a topic.
As part of this, an agreement will need to be reached with the students regarding their behaviour on the blog.
For the students:
Terms and Conditions
- I will not use any curse words or inappropriate language.
- I will not use derogatory language.
- I will not use fighting words or provoke anyone.
- I will avoid the use of chat language.
- I will try to spell everything correctly.
- I will only give constructive criticism.
- I will not use my full name, or the name of my classmates.
- I will not plagiarise.
I recognise that breaking any of these rules could have consequences including referral to the administrative school office or legal action.
I understand and will abide by the terms and conditions set out to practice safe blogging on the 10.2 blogging site.
Students Name:________________________________________
Students Signature:_____________________________________
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St Gabriel's RC High School
St Gabriel's RC High School
Bridge Road
Headteacher: Mr S Smith Ba Ma Npqh Lle
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Website: www.st-gabriels.org.uk
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1047 pupils
mixed gender
1045 pupils capacity: 100% full
520 boys 50%
525 girls 50%
Last updated: June 18, 2014
Secondary — Voluntary Aided School
- 105367
- Education phase
- Secondary
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Establishment type
- Voluntary Aided School
- Establishment #
- 4607
- OSGB coordinates
- Easting: 379809, Northing: 410322
- GPS coordinates
- Latitude: 53.589, Longitude: -2.3065
- Accepting pupils
- 11—16 years old
- Census date
- Jan. 16, 2014
- Ofsted last inspection
- Sept. 12, 2011
- Diocese
- Diocese of Salford
- Region › Const. › Ward
- North West › Bury North › Redvales
- Area
- Urban > 10k - less sparse
- Admissions policy
- Comprehensive
- Main specialism
- Science (Operational)
- Free school meals %
- 10.10
- Learning provider ref #
- 10016980
Schools nearby
- 0.2 miles Bury Grammar School Boys BL90HN (577 pupils)
- 0.2 miles Bury Grammar School Girls BL90HH (817 pupils)
- 0.3 miles Bury Church of England High School BL90TS (780 pupils)
- 0.3 miles Milltown House BL90EG (62 pupils)
- 0.4 miles The Derby High School BL99NH (826 pupils)
- 0.4 miles Bury Catholic Preparatory School BL99BH (128 pupils)
- 0.4 miles Bury College BL90BG
- 0.4 miles Holy Cross College BL99BB
- 0.5 miles Alderman Smith Infants' School BL82PU
- 0.5 miles Holy Trinity Primary School BL90SB (217 pupils)
- 0.6 miles Fishpool Infant School BL99AP
- 0.6 miles St Marie's Roman Catholic Primary School, Bury BL90RZ (251 pupils)
- 0.6 miles St Luke's CofE Primary School BL99JQ (481 pupils)
- 0.7 miles St Chad's Church of England Junior School BL99JQ
- 0.7 miles Guardian Angels Roman Catholic Primary School, Bury BL82RH (242 pupils)
- 0.8 miles Elton County Nursery School BL81SB
- 0.8 miles St Peter's Church of England Primary School BL99PW (266 pupils)
- 0.8 miles St Stephen's CofE Junior School BL82DX
- 0.8 miles St Stephen's Church of England Primary School BL82DX (222 pupils)
- 0.9 miles Elton Community Primary School BL81SB (269 pupils)
- 0.9 miles Chantlers Primary School BL82SF (246 pupils)
- 0.9 miles Woodbank Primary School BL81AX (289 pupils)
- 0.9 miles Elton Community Primary School BL81SB
- 1 mile St Thomas Church of England Primary School BL97EY (310 pupils)
Ofsted report: Newer report is now available. Search "105367" on ofsted.gov.uk. latest issued Sept. 12, 2011.
St Gabriel's RC High School
Inspection Report
|Unique Reference Number
|Local Authority
|Inspection number
|Inspection dates
|1–2 October 2008
|Reporting inspector
|Jane Austin HMI
This inspection of the school was carried out under section 5 of the Education Act 2005.
|Type of school
|School category
|Voluntary aided
|Age range of pupils
|Gender of pupils
|Number on roll
|School (total)
|Appropriate authority
|The governing body
|Mr John Costello
|Mr E Robinson
|Date of previous school inspection
|20 September 2005
|School address
|Bridge Road
|Lancashire BL9 0TZ
|Telephone number
|0161 764 3186
|Fax number
|0161 761 3469
|Age group
|Inspection dates
|1–2 October 2008
|Inspection number
Inspection report St Gabriel's RC High School, 1–2 October 2008
© Crown copyright 2008
Website: ofsted.gov.uk
The inspection was carried out by one of Her Majesty's Inspectors and three Additional Inspectors.
Description of the school
St Gabriel's is an average sized secondary school serving the Catholic community in Bury. The majority of pupils are White British; although relatively few in number, pupils of Polish heritage form the largest minority ethnic group. Sixty three pupils are at the early stages of learning English. The proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals is well below average. The percentage with learning difficulties and/or disabilities is a little below average: a much lower than average number have statements of special educational need. The school's specialism is science: it has recently developed a horticulture, environment, nature and enterprise centre. It holds awards for excellence in careers guidance, as a healthy school and, at bronze level, as an eco-school.
Key for inspection grades
|Grade 1
|Grade 2
|Grade 3
|Grade 4
Overall effectiveness of the school
Grade: 2
St Gabriel's is a good school with some outstanding features. Pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is outstanding, as is the care provided for them. Pupils' behaviour and their attitudes to learning are exemplary. Pupils enjoy school life and make an outstanding contribution to their community, for instance, as school councillors, eco-warriors, peer mentors and science ambassadors. Pupils are able to make a difference because staff value and take their views into account. Pupils are proud of the significant role they played in increasing the choice of healthy foods and gaining the healthy schools award. Their attendance is well above the national average.
Pupils achieve well to reach standards that are well above average by the time they leave school. Provisional results for 2008 indicate that there has been an increase on the 71% who gained at least five GCSE passes at grades A*-C in 2007. The sharp increase in 2007 in the proportion of pupils gaining at least five good GCSE passes including English and mathematics has been maintained. Progress across subjects and key stages has been uneven, but effective use of the tracking system is enabling the school to identify where and when pupils' learning is slowing. A range of support has helped pupils catch up and achieve their challenging targets. However, the use of information about pupils' progress by both curriculum and pastoral leaders in setting targets to guide and support pupils to achieve as well as possible is inconsistent: the school recognises this.
Pupils make good progress because, overall, teaching is good. The best lessons move at a fast pace, keep pupils engaged through a range of exciting activities and build learning in carefully planned steps. Pupils rise to teachers' high expectations, relishing the challenge of demanding tasks. Where lessons are comparatively less successful, there are too few opportunities for pupils to participate in learning and planning does not always take full account of the needs and abilities of all pupils.
The curriculum is good. The school has broadened the choices for pupils at Key Stage 4 so that these cater for the needs and aspirations of pupils of all abilities. An imaginative cross-curricular themed programme for Year 7 has been developed. Considerable enrichment across the curriculum has been made possible through the school's specialist resources. Much of this is linked to themes in science, enterprise and the environment broadening pupils' engagement with these areas and contributing well to their personal development. Pupils appreciate the very wide range of opportunities they have for extra-curricular activities; participation rates are high.
Leadership and management are good. The successful introduction of systems for the regular assessment and tracking of pupils' progress, alongside the monitoring of provision by middle managers, are key developments since the previous inspection. Together, these are providing leaders with much better information about pupils' achievement and the quality of the school's work. However, links between pastoral support and academic monitoring are not systematic enough and monitoring lacks sufficient consistency to inform the school's self-evaluation fully. Nonetheless, rising standards, improvements since the last inspection and the wide-ranging benefits of the school's specialist work demonstrate that the school has good capacity to improve. It provides good value for money.
What the school should do to improve further
- Ensure that full use is made of information about pupils' progress by both curriculum and pastoral leaders to guide and support pupils so that they achieve as well as possible.
- Improve the coherence of the school's quality assurance systems and the consistency with which they are implemented.
Achievement and standards
Grade: 2
The standards reached by pupils by the time they join the school in Year 7 are above average. When pupils leave at the end of Year 11 standards are significantly above average. In 2007, the proportion of pupils gaining five or more good GCSE grades was well above the national average. The proportion gaining five or more good grades including both English and mathematics was even further above average. Provisional results for 2008 show that standards are at a similarly high level.
This represents good achievement overall, although it is not equally good throughout the school or across all subjects. For example, achievement dipped in mathematics in Key Stage 3 in the three years up to 2007, due to staffing difficulties which have now been resolved. The provisional Key Stage 3 results for mathematics in 2008 show that almost 70% of pupils have moved up by at least two National Curriculum levels between leaving primary school and the end of Year 9. This is a creditable achievement and much higher than for schools nationally.
Underperformance amongst a small group of girls in Key Stage 4 in the last academic year was tackled successfully through well-considered measures to enhance their self-esteem and raise their aspirations. The school's increasingly effective system for tracking pupils' performance enables the progress of both individual and groups of pupils to be monitored, allowing such underachievement to be detected earlier. Students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities and those learning English as an additional language, are making as much progress as their peers due to the good support they receive and because they are often taught in small groups.
The school has an increasingly good record of meeting its specialist college targets, particularly over the last two years.
Personal development and well-being
Grade: 1
Pupils' personal development and well-being are outstanding. Pupils enjoy school, respond well to challenge and are very keen to learn. This is reflected in their outstanding attendance and behaviour and the enthusiastic way in which they talk about extra-curricular clubs and activities, particularly sports and music. Their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is outstanding. Pupils are courteous, helpful, welcoming and considerate of others. They say that the school values them and their opinions. The proactive school council speaks with pride of the things it has achieved, such as influencing the healthy and eco schools agenda and awards. Pupils have a clear awareness of environmental issues and understand that they can all play some part in addressing them. Pupils of all ages are actively engaged in contributing to the community, for example, by acting as 'ambassadors' for visitors and through extensive, highly successful charitable fund-raising activities, some of which are instigated by the pupils. They develop an increasingly strong sense of responsibility, so that as they mature older pupils thrive on the opportunity to act as trained peer mentors to support the younger pupils. Pupils say that they feel safe around the school; that they know how to respond when problems arise and that they are confident that any concerns will be dealt with quickly and effectively. Pupils are excited by, and respond very well to, all opportunities for work-related learning, which combined with good attainment and well developed social and collaborative skills, ensure that they are well prepared for future life.
Quality of provision
Teaching and learning
Grade: 2
The overall quality of teaching and learning is good. Most lessons observed during the inspection were good or better in both key stages. Very good relationships between teachers and pupils, built upon mutual respect, are a hallmark of lessons. In the best lessons, teachers' enthusiasm and good subject knowledge ensure that the pace is brisk, levels of challenge are appropriate and pupils make at least good progress. Careful planning means that activities are well sequenced so that pupils build very effectively on previous learning. Clear learning objectives help pupils understand the purpose of tasks. Well structured opportunities for pupils to work both independently and with others, reinforce learning and foster skills essential for future success. Questions are targeted effectively to check and develop pupils' learning. Sharply focused activities at the end of lessons consolidate learning and promote a sense of achievement.
However, in some lessons expectations are not as high, the pace of learning is more leisurely and only satisfactory progress is made. In these lessons, there is often too much input from teachers so that pupils' attention wanders and they are less motivated. It is not always evident how the range of pupils' needs and abilities are met through activities and inconsistencies in lesson planning do not support best practice in this regard.
As a consequence of the school's specialist status, there has been a significant increase in the facilities for information and communication technology (ICT) across all areas of the school. This has been accompanied by staff training, resulting in good use of ICT as a teaching aid to add variety and interest to lessons.
Curriculum and other activities
Grade: 2
The curriculum is good, meeting the needs of pupils and all statutory requirements. The school's specialism has a significantly positive impact on the curriculum. The school regularly reviews its provision and evaluates new courses effectively. Most recently, a well thought out cross-curricular scheme has been introduced into Year 7. This is designed to enable pupils to focus on and develop their understanding of cultural diversity, global issues, technology, media and creativity. In addition, the introduction of a structured programme will enable pupils to develop and practise their ICT skills in all subject areas.
In Key Stage 4, pupils benefit from the wide and appropriate range of courses offered. Choices have been increased to meet the needs of those seeking more vocational options. The school has introduced an effective alternative curriculum centered on skills essential for working life, for a small group of pupils at risk of not achieving. This has helped these pupils to continue their studies and achieve in line with their abilities.
Linked in many aspects to the school's specialism, work-related learning is a particular strength with all pupils benefiting from a number of imaginative activities, such as the construction of an eco-garden. The development of an innovative on-site centre for horticulture and enterprise is playing a significant part in fostering business related skills, alongside understanding about care of the environment.
The curriculum is very effectively enriched by a range of events and activity days, such as the eco days in Years 7, 8 and 9. Many of these activities are supported through the school's specialist status. The vast range of extra-curricular opportunities is highly valued by pupils and contributes greatly to their enjoyment of school. There are worthwhile links with organisations abroad, such as an orphanage in Bolivia and the Smiles for Miles appeal. These initiatives extend pupils' awareness of different cultures and offer exciting opportunities for them to acquire new skills.
Care, guidance and support
Grade: 2
Care, guidance and support for pupils are good overall. The quality of care is outstanding. Staff know pupils very well and ensure that they are effectively supported at all transition points, so that they can settle quickly into the next stage of school life. There are very good strategies for promoting social and economic well-being, including a careers guidance programme which ensures that the vast majority of pupils gain places in education, employment and training on leaving school. Attendance is outstanding, but the school remains diligent in employing strategies to maintain this and reduce any incidence of unpunctuality. Safeguarding arrangements are robust and include training and clear guidance for all staff. Barriers to learning are removed so that all groups of pupils are able to make equal progress, including the significant number of Eastern European pupils who arrive speaking little English. The school has extensive knowledge of pupils with additional needs and has formed a range of partnerships with outside agencies to support them, but monitoring arrangements are insufficiently developed to ensure that all departments are using information and strategies consistently. Challenging targets are set for pupils in all subjects, but there are some inconsistencies in the way that this is done. Pastoral leaders have a clear commitment to support pupils' academic progress, but their role in doing this is not yet sufficiently developed.
Leadership and management
Grade: 2
Leadership and management are good. The school has made considerable strides since the last inspection to establish systems that successfully support its central aim of raising standards. The headteacher's collegiate leadership style has enabled all staff to contribute to developments, thus fostering a sense of ownership, professionalism and high morale. The specialist subject department has been at the forefront of the improvements that have been rolled out across the school.
Regular assessment and tracking of pupils' progress towards challenging targets is now in place for every pupil in all subjects. Good use is made of this to identify those who require additional help and encouragement to reach their potential. Suitable support is matched to pupils' needs and reinforced through strong partnerships with parents. Examination results and assessments demonstrate that these measures are effective. However, the school recognises that further benefits for pupils could be gained by building more coherent links between academic monitoring and pastoral support and has plans to develop these.
Alongside tracking pupils' progress, regular monitoring of provision in all subjects has been established, enabling strengths and areas for improvement to be identified. The role of middle leaders has developed so that they play a key part in these processes and are held to account for performance in their subjects. However, some inconsistencies in the frequency and depth of evaluation; a shortfall in training for staff on, for instance, conducting lesson observations and a lack of systematic checks by the senior team reduce the rigour of the school's quality assurance systems. Consequently, while self-evaluation is broadly accurate, it lacks the necessary refinement to drill down beyond accurate overarching priorities.
The school's specialist work has been the catalyst for developing a broad range of mutually beneficial partnerships with schools, colleges, museums and the business sector. A particular success has been work with primary partners, which has not only had a positive impact on pupils' standards and skills in science, but also engaged families in science-related events. This builds well on the already strong links the school has with parents. Many parents who returned the inspection questionnaire commented warmly on the benefits for their children of the ethos of the school as a large family. This sense of community is reflected in the long-standing commitment of many governors and the generous way they give of their time and expertise. Governance is good. The governing body provides an effective level of challenge to the senior leadership team.
|Any complaints about the inspection or the report should be made following the procedures set out in the guidance 'Complaining about inspections', which is available from Ofsted's website: ofsted.gov.uk.
Annex A
Inspection judgements
|Key to judgements: grade 1 is outstanding, grade 2 good, grade 3 satisfactory, and grade 4 inadequate.
|School Overall
Overall effectiveness
|How effective,efficient and inclusive is the provision of education,integrated care and any extended services in meeting the needs of learners?
|Effective steps have been taken to promote improvement since the last inspection
|How well does the school work in partnership with others to promote learners' well-being?
|The capacity to make any necessary improvements
Achievement and standards
|How well do learners achieve?
|The standards¹ reached by learners
|How well learners make progress, taking account of any significant variations between groups of learners
|How well learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities make progress
Personal development and well-being
|How good are the overall personal development and well-being of the learners?
|The extent of learners' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
|The extent to which learners adopt healthy lifestyles
|The extent to which learners adopt safe practices
|The extent to which learners enjoy their education
|The attendance of learners
|The behaviour of learners
|The extent to which learners make a positive contribution to the community
|How well learners develop workplace and other skills that will contribute to their future economic well-being
The quality of provision
|How effective are teaching and learning in meeting the full range of learners' needs?
|How well do the curriculum and other activities meet the range of needs and interests of learners?
|How well are learners cared for, guided and supported?
Leadership and management
|How effective are leadership and management in raising achievement and supporting all learners?
|How effectively leaders and managers at all levels set clear direction leading to improvement and promote high quality of care and education
|How effectively leaders and managers use challenging targets to raise standards
|The effectiveness of the school's self-evaluation
|How well equality of opportunity is promoted and discrimination eliminated
|How well does the school contribute to community cohesion?
|How effectively and efficiently resources, including staff, are deployed to achieve value for money
|The extent to which governors and other supervisory boards discharge their responsibilities
|Do procedures for safeguarding learners meet current government requirements?
|Does this school require special measures?
|Does this school require a notice to improve?
1 Grade 1 - Exceptionally and consistently high; Grade 2 - Generally above average with none significantly below average; Grade 3 - Broadly average to below average; Grade 4 - Exceptionally low.
Annex B
Text from letter to pupils explaining the findings of the inspection
Thank you very much for making us welcome when we inspected your school recently. We were very impressed by your good manners and considerate conduct. Particular thanks go to those of you who gave up time to talk to us. We agree with the very positive picture you gave us of your school. We judge it to be good with some outstanding aspects.
We found the following strengths which led us to draw this conclusion:
- you make good progress to reach standards that are well above average by the time you leave school
- your behaviour is excellent and you have very positive attitudes to learning
- your attendance is outstanding and you enjoy school life, particularly all the trips, visits and activities linked to eco issues
- a very high number of you participate in extra-curricular activities, such as those linked to sports and music
- you approach your responsibilities, for instance, as school councillors and peer mentors in a mature way
- most lessons are interesting, challenging and help you learn at a good pace
- the care provided by staff, who know you very well, is outstanding
- you have a good choice of courses in Key Stage 4.
In order for your school to become even better we have asked the headteacher and staff to keep a closer check on the quality of the school's work and to ensure that information about your progress is used as effectively as possible to raise standards even further.
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Heavens above: the sex bomb, Opus Dei and why Benedict is now the prisoner of the Vatican
By Richard Cottrell
Contributing writer for End the Lie
How ironic that a set of backward creeds which have nothing to do with the apostolic message of Jesus may destroy the Roman Church. The conception of sex as an original sin flowed from the complicated personality of Paul of Tarsus, the greatest PR genius in history, who single-handedly created the Roman Church, the Vatican and the succession of celibate priests known as popes, the earthly representatives of God incarnate.
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Paul may well have been gay, who knows at this distance in time. He was certainly in permanent neutral gear when it came to the fumbling business of sex. He was rigorously ascetic and a dedicated misogynist, which led him to the conclusion that if the minds of men (note, men) were not diverted by animistic stirrings, they would better concentrate on the job of building heaven on earth.
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That is how we come to the present disarray in the Vatican. Joseph Ratzinger, 111th Vicar of Christ was advised early in February by the Holy See's inner counsels to resign ahead of huge new claims for compensation arising from abuse by prelates reaching the courts as a massive, global class action. Moreover as chief executive of the church, he was told that he might himself prove liable for charges of complicity and therefore open to arrest. Benedict's problem, as with his predecessors, was the dual nature of the Vatican as a cradle of faith and a recognised state with lay responsibilities.
In 2005 these twin faucets came together when Benedict was accused directly of personally attempting to sabotage an abuse case involving three young boys in the Archdiocese of Houston, Texas. The lawsuit called for his arrest and detention, deterred by his plea of immunity as a head of state – and perhaps a call George Bush put in from the White House.
Suffer little children
Ratzinger's ascent on the Vatican ladder of promotion is directly connected to both the Sex Bomb and a secretive internal hard-line Catholic sect known as Opus Dei. In 2001 Pope John Paul II, thoroughly alarmed at the tsunami of abuse cases reaching the Vatican, shook up the internal bureaucracy which hitherto examined each claim. So the German cardinal and former member of the Hitler Youth was placed in charge of a special and largely secret holy office, with the chief responsibility of closing down the scandals.
Ratzinger interpreted his brief as covering up as many cases as possible, given that St.Peter's Pence had paid outstanding claims for damages in the area of $30 billion, the tip, as everyone in the Vatican knew perfectly well, of the true extent of the sickness afflicting the church. Ratzinger's chief tactic was wearing down complainants, many of whom stated they had been directly bullied and threatened by high church officials. Those who had followed Ratzinger's rise were not surprised since they recognised his usual handiwork confronted with abuse cases in his own homeland.
Ratzinger was fighting on two fronts, the internal rampant homosexuality among the priestly battalions, and perverse and evil things in the vestry involving adolescents and younger children. The argument that the one fuels the other is not automatic. It is no crime to be gay, yet the stories now coming to the surface demonstrate that Catholic seminaries are foremost recruiting hostels for same-sex encounters, rather than training to spread the Gospel.
A few lone voices within the Holy See counselled Christian atonement, the creation of a dedicated area of the church administration designated to investigate every claim and reach appropriate compensation. But this of course also amounts to confession, which if popular on Sundays among the multitude, is not one of the Roman Church's noted leading precepts.
What the butler saw
The fuse which led to the current eruption beneath the Holy See began with the sensational Vatileaks Affair, early in 2012. Senior 'princes of the church' supported by lower ranks of the clergy and so-called small fry in the ranks of the bureaucracy leaked highly embarrassing top secret documents concerning the sex scandals wracking the Holy See. The affair was decorated with a lively Vatican 'deep throat' feeding the Roman media and the gossip mill with juicy morsels describing rifts, backbiting and plots revolving around St Peter's Throne.
The customary patsy duly appeared. He was the pope's highly trusted manservant, 40-year-old Paolo Gabriele, arrested by the papal police on charges of stealing sensitive documents from the pope's apartment, thrown into the tiny Vatican state prison, ritually excoriated, sentenced, then absolved. Rather heavy treatment on the scale meted out to Galileo for a minor footman who was obviously acting on the commands of an internal resistance movement arming themselves with compromising secrets.
At the best of times the Vatican is a seething vipers' nest of plots and conspiracies. Parallels with the struggles for control of the former Soviet Politburo are not inapt. The latest bout of turmoil centred not so much on the incumbent pope as a far wider struggle for the soul of the church itself, and even the survival of the Catholic religion. In this scenario Benedict was a pawn, an observer of events and certainly not a manipulator.
In the wake of Vatileaks, Ratzinger drifted into brooding isolation, rarely stepping outside his apartment except when summoned on official duties, his conversation limited to pleasantries exchanged with the nuns and servants looking after his quarters. A little over a year from the scandal bursting into the headlines, he was gone, almost it seemed in a puff of holy smoke. It is quite extraordinary how skilled commentators and church-watchers – especially in Italy – ignored the seamless connection which led to the precipitate fall of the Bishop of Rome.
Benedict XVI did not retire because he was old, infirm, or just exhausted. He was the victim of a brilliantly organised, long-playing coup d'état, a putsch conducted within the cloisters of the Holy City by papal strong men associated with the highly secretive and powerful 'church within a church' known and feared as Opus Dei – the Work of God.
Who pulled the trigger?
Practically speaking, the unfortunate Ratzinger himself.
After Vatileaks, he appointed an exclusive commission headed by the hefty Spanish cardinal, Julian Harranz Casado, formerly president of the internal censors responsible for the purity of Catholic canon law. He is also a leading light in Opus Dei, which John Paul II invested as his own 'personal prelature.' Opus Dei reflects many physiognomies of lay-world cults like the Moonies and Scientology, demanding exceptional levels of purity and mass unquestioning obedience, not excluding self-mortification and Stasi-like tactics of snooping and prying on worshippers outside the organisation.
The movement demands absolute obedience to its inspirational founder, a charismatic Spanish priest called Escrivá de Balaguer, who started Opus Dei in 1928. This highly equivocal figure grew to such eminence he was more than once unkindly compared to the truly ungodly L. Ron Hubbard, patron saint of Scientology. Following his death in 1975, he was, by the customary slothful standards, beatified at lightning pace once John Paul II was safely on St Peter's Throne. Seventeen years is breaking the speed of light in the Vatican.
Yet the elevation was marked by cantankerous disputes, protests and bouts of fury aimed at the rushed beatification, the veracity of the essential miraculous cures and the personality of Escrivá himself, described by his many fulsome critics as venal, intolerant, harsh towards subordinates, bearing closet pro-Nazi and Francoist sympathies. With an eye to the future the signs of schism were clearly apparent.
Opus Dei's modest accredited membership – probably about 100,000 worldwide, out of 1.2 billion communicants, is outweighed in terms of spiritual and political power thanks to its concentrated Soviet cell-like structure and the intense potency of Spanish Messianic Catholicism on which the movement draws. Even the Jesuits are prone to shrink in its shadow.
Harranz Casado is Opus Dei's own pope and but for his ripe years (83) might have been a pope in waiting. It was he who organised the secret off-radar conclaves in safe houses dotted around Rome that duly raised their man Ratzinger – a fellow traveller of Opus Dei but not a formal acolyte – to the papacy, at a venerable 76 and therefore likely to enjoy a conveniently brief reign.
A little over three weeks ago Harranz Casado came to the papal apartment on an important mission. He brought with him a bulky secret file containing his findings on the Vatileaks affair and the subsequent fall-out in terms of church and global politics. Harranz Casado warned the pope that he might face a subpoena from an 'important state' and the argument of immunity might not hold. Better not to let matters travel that far, for the good of the church. In the event of resigning, then his immunity might be tested if he stepped outside the Vatican, where he must remain for his own safety, even as a virtual prisoner.
After his last audience, the now ex-pope flew to the Vatican's retreat at Castel Gondolfo in the hills close to Rome in the safety of a helicopter. The prisoner was now at bay in the castle of comfort.
The Vatican's Civil Wars
Schism is the state of normality within the Vatican. The famous fracas 600 years ago, that saw three popes tussling for the throne, does offer uncanny clues as to what is happening today. Once again there are three factions who would have their man as Pontiff: the traditional conservatives, the largely isolated moderates champing for change and modernization and Opus Dei, which seeks to return to intensely spiritual values – and strict discipline in the ranks.
Against that background the mushroom cloud of the Sex Bomb. The fallout will be toxic. The Roman Catholic consensus refuses to recognise the singularity of humanity, that we are but clay formed from sexual passions. Sex becomes a cipher in the poverty of mind, until it reaches the point where the church cracks apart owning to the sheer vast sum of its inconsistencies. We are, I suspect, approaching that point now.
Opus Dei is a guerrilla force working patiently and quietly to seize control of the entire Roman Catholic Church. Effectively the Polish pope institutionalized conservative forces within the church, led by his newly invested Praetorian Guard. He was an extraordinary custodian of the keys of St Peter's by any standards: the compassionate humanitarian: gifted international statesman: cheerful consorter with crooks and hoodlums within the precincts of the Vatican: the first Slav to head the church. Yet at heart, a doctrinaire conservative who stood firm against the glaring necessity for urgent reforms.
Harranz Casado is one of two cardinals with declared affiliations to Opus Dei. The other is a Latin American rock star, the egregiously self promoting Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne of Peru. But this greatly understates the strength of Opus Dei sympathizers in the ranks of the cardinals, potentially important 'swing voters' in the forthcoming conclave. One hot tip is the highly conservative cleric heading the Ghanaian church, Peter Turkson. Here is a veteran Vatican insider, a mere stripling at 64, profoundly opposed to relaxing the church's stand against same-sex relations or melting the celibacy rules and so forth. He could well prove Opus Dei's favourite son.
The Vatican's propensity for civil wars is an ancient inheritance. The difference in these times is the fallout from the detonation of the Sex Bomb, which brings the church into collision with forces and mores of temporal society. That the church's own teachings on matters of sex are ignored – glaringly so within the portals of the institution itself – is patently obvious
A schism will not of course occur overnight. Rather it will be a slow, painful dissolution, a crumbling of the pillars, a progressive decline in the power and influence of the church as the ebbing faithful recoil from the rank odour of the on-going abuse scandals and the spreading turmoil on the banks of the Tiber. All that Opus Dei and the conservative ranks in general can preach is more of the same. They will finish up scrambling in the embers.
Coming next: the Last Schism and the Fall of the Catholic Church
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Looking back at the outstanding weeks we spent roving through Vietnam we can reflect on our time working with Jews here. We began in Hanoi, where we divided our time between meeting with the local Jewish community and walking the streets meeting Israeli tourists, ready to give them the opportunity to put on tefillin or just to schmooze with another Jew in Northern Vietnam.
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