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RSPCA produces first ever snapshot of animal welfare in Wales
The RSPCA has published its first ever report into the state of animal welfare in Wales.
Animal welfare is now a formally devolved issue (with some exceptions*) and this report recognises several significant milestones:
· New legislation has made using electronic shock collars on dogs and cats in Wales illegal. This is the first law of its kind in the UK. A successful prosecution against an Ogmore dog owner was brought using this legislation in 2011.
· Wales was the first country within Great Britain to have codes of practice in relation to the welfare of dogs, cats and equines.
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· In 2010 the Welsh Government published a code of practice for the welfare of rabbits, and again is the only country in Great Britain to have done so.
· In 2010, 81 percent of Assembly Members, staff and civil servants voted in favour of the National Assembly for Wales switching to Freedom Food**-labelled produce. Freedom Food eggs and salmon have now been introduced in the National Assembly for Wales – the first legislature to do so.
The report, Animal Welfare Indicators Wales, is a snapshot into the state of animal welfare in Wales. Consisting of statistics compiled by the RSPCA using sources such as the Welsh Government's CAWES (Companion Animal Welfare Enhancement) Scheme, it provides a view of the way animals are treated in Wales.
Key findings in the report include:
· In 2010, the RSPCA received 60,000 telephone calls in Wales alone (that's 1 in 50 of the population), of which 8,009 were subsequently investigated as complaints. The RSPCA has 5 Animal Collection Officers, 5 Animal Welfare Officers & 28 Inspectors in Wales
· There were 147 convictions under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 in 2010 as a result of prosecutions taken by the RSPCA
· 1,723 unwanted cats and 646 unwanted dogs were taken into the care of the RSPCA in 2010
· 68% of hens in Wales are kept in Free-range systems***
· 36% of stray dogs were returned to their owner in 2009-2010
· Wales has 139 Freedom Food members accounting for over 1.8 million animals
David Bowles, RSPCA director of communications, said: "Animal Welfare Indicators Wales is the most comprehensive measure of animal welfare in the nation."
He said: "We are proud of our achievements in Wales and our working partnership with the Welsh Government. Since 1999 we have had a dedicated team to liaise with the National Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Government and our work together is now more important than ever. We hope in the years to come that the information detailed in this report will be expanded and new indicators will be introduced covering a wider variety of issues and animals. The Welsh Government and the RSPCA continue to strive for high standards of animal welfare.
"For improvements to be made to the lives of animals in Wales, we need to know where we are starting from. By benchmarking animal welfare and subsequently tracking and measuring, we can identify where problems are and encourage positive changes.
"Our idea is to ask the same questions about animal welfare every year, so we can measure how things are improving – or not. This RSPCA report is the only one that tackles the state of animal welfare on such a scale.
"The questions we are asking are those that we feel are significant from an animal protection perspective, and ones which we feel are essential for informing government and stakeholder policy."
A full PDF version of Animal Welfare Indicators Wales is available to download for free at www.politicalanimal.org.uk/wales
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*Hunting remains within the purview of Westminster as detailed in the Government of Wales Act (2006) and the responsibility for the regulation of animal experiments is reserved to the Home Office.
**Freedom Food is the RSPCA's farm assurance and food labelling scheme. It is the
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Located in Tsim Sha Tsui, The Luxe Manor is within a 5-minute walk of Miramar Shopping Centre and within 15 minutes of other popular attractions like Nathan Road Shopping District. This 159-room, 4-star hotel welcomes guests with conveniences like a 24-hour fitness center, free in-room WiFi, and a 24-hour business center. It's in central Kowloon and also a short walk from Hong Kong Coliseum and Avenue of Stars.
This hotel is home to a restaurant and a bar/lounge. Savor a meal from the comfort of your room with room service. For your convenience, breakfast is available for a fee.
All 159 air-conditioned rooms provide minibars, coffee makers, and free newspapers. Guests can enjoy flat-screen TVs and stay connected with free WiFi and wired Internet. Beds sport premium bedding and bathrooms offer hair dryers and free toiletries. Other standard amenities include free international calls, free local calls, and free bottled water.
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Renovated in 2015, The Luxe Manor offers a 24-hour fitness center, free WiFi in public areas, and a meeting room. Valet parking is HKD 300 per day if you plan to drive, or hop aboard the airport shuttle for HKD 130 per person one-way. The front desk has multilingual staff on hand 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Other amenities at this boutique hotel include a 24-hour business center, express check-in, and express check-out.
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The Luxe Manor is furnished with a delightfully rich eclectic mix of Oriental and European decor with post-modern sensibilities. There is a mix of vibrant colors used throughout the hotel, creating an eye-catching spectacle. Each day the hotel's restaurant FINDS offers in-house guests award-winning cuisine as well as exciting molecular mixology cocktails. All areas of the hotel are provided with complimentary WiFi access. For a surcharge, guests also have access to both self and valet parking, and an airport shuttle bus (scheduled times). There is also a 24-hour business center and a fully equipped 24-hour fitness facility.
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The Luxe Manor offers 159 air-conditioned accommodations with minibars and safes. Beds feature premium bedding. Flat-screen televisions are featured in guestrooms. Bathrooms include showers, bathrobes, slippers, and complimentary toiletries.
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The on-site health club at The Luxe Manor is located on basement level one and is fully equipped with treadmills, stationery bikes, strength training machines, and free weights.
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Jason Scruggs is the type of drag racer who makes the guys running tech sweat.
Most sanctioning bodies would say Scruggs pushes the envelope, and they would throw the rule book at him.
Not so in the National Guard American Drag Racing League. The ADRL embraces the inner-outlaw that is found in every drag racer.
"What do I like about it most?" said Scruggs, from Tupelo, Miss. "They have multiple safety rules, but they don't have a lot of performance restrictions. That allows you to try different combinations, and that's why you see a variety of things.
"It's the way racing used to be, back in the 1970s and '80s, when there was a lot of innovation to be had. If you run fast, you don't have anyone in the class whining about getting the rules changed, because there are no rules. I don't like the crying and whining."
Scruggs and the ADRL will return to U.S. 131 Motorsports Park in Martin for the Ford Drive One Summer Drags V on Friday and Saturday.
Friday's action begins with a test-and-tune from 2 to 6 p.m., followed by eliminations at 7:30 p.m. Saturday's qualifying is 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., with eliminations at 7:30 p.m.
Friday's program will serve as the completion to the Memphis program that was rained out two weeks ago. It is the 10th stop on the ADRL's 10-race schedule.
The ADRL, which features five classes of drag racing, always has done things a little differently than other sanctioning bodies since it debuted in 2005.
Racers compete on a one-eighth mile strip instead of the traditional quarter-mile. Officials do not charge spectators admission -- only $10 per vehicle to park.
And of course, there is opportunity for creativity.
"Not only do the drivers like it, but so do the car owners and chassis builders," ADRL spokesman Ian Tocher said. "For all those times that they wondered and said, 'Hmm, I wonder if this will work,' they can now experiment."
Scruggs is the two-time defending Pro Extreme division champion, and he is faster this year, thanks to his new 1968 Camaro. His car already has set the ADRL's Pro Extreme elapsed time record when he ripped off a pass in 3.66 seconds more than 207 mph. Garret Race Cars in Marble Hills, Mo., built the car.
"We try to put everything we learned the last few years into this car," Scruggs said. "Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. This time, it has been fast right out of the box. We had a lot of high expectations for this car. Deep down, we thought it was going to be a good car. We only have 13 runs on it.
"We always take chances. We push the envelope. This car has a little bit of titanium in some parts of the chassis that we didn't think would matter much, and the back is a little bit different. But it has made a difference."


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The Detroit News's Ted Kulfan spent the weekend in Traverse City, attending the Red Wings' prospect tournament, and he speaks very favorably of the tournament as a whole:
September 13, Detroit News: Organizers here in Traverse City at the Wings' prospects tournament have done an incredible job. I can't believe how it's grown over the years. It's now in its 13th season, and other NHL teams are clamoring to be invited. The facility (Centre ICE Arena), the Traverse City area, the recreational opportunities, the restaurants -- all of those things are a huge draw.
This already has somewhat of a hockey festival feeling to it. Getting more teams involved would only strengthen that feeling, I suppose.
Only the true hockey die-hards can really appreciate the hockey here. These kids playing won't arrive in the NHL for a few more years. But the hockey is high-caliber, and you have to love the tournament atmosphere. You had teams who just completed their games surrounding the glass of the Detroit-Tampa game Sunday night, watching the shootout and getting just as excited as the fans. It was fun to watch.


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One of my favorite parts of pregnancy is being able to show off my belly. I think that baby bumps are one of the most beautiful things on a woman and something to be celebrated. For the past 19 weeks I've had nothing but horrible morning sickness and have had nothing to show for it.
The worst part of being sick in the city with no visible bump is on the subway and bus. There are signs everywhere to give up your seats for the elderly and pregnant, but no matter how sick or upset I felt, no one would get up for me. Why would they? Although I was feeling the effects of pregnancy, there was no physical signs showing I was pregnant.
Last week I went to my OB for my 18 week check up. The baby looked great and had a strong healthy heartbeat. The thing I dread most about going to the doctor is stepping on the scale. As I stepped on last week I learned I had only gained 5 pounds. My doctor didn't seem too concerned, but thoughts kept racing through my mind that the baby wasn't getting enough nutrients because I have been so sick and not eating as much as I should.
She reassured me that everything was fine and the baby looked healthy. I also expressed concern over not having any physical bump showing yet. She laughed at me and told me I will be eating those words come five months from now when my belly will be the size of a pumpkin.
The morning after my appointment I was getting dressed and noticed the pants I wore just last week weren't buttoning. I looked in the mirror to notice that somehow overnight a baby bump had appeared. I had finally popped!
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Get an overview of this hotelHotel in New Stanton with free breakfast and fitness center
Located in the heart of New Stanton, this hotel is within 12 mi (20 km) of Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Westmoreland Mall, and Big Mac Museum. Plaza Park is 11.3 mi (18.2 km) away.
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Along with a fitness center, this hotel has a bar/lounge and coffee/tea in a common area. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a business center, conference rooms, and laundry facilities are onsite.
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Carroll Twp. soon will adopt an ordinance to prevent burning of plastics and nonpaper material.
"We've been beating this one around for a while," said chairman Kirby Kitner at the June 4 meeting. "People burn vinyl siding, diapers, you name it."
Residents whose neighbors burn such items frequently call the township office, complaining that they have to keep windows closed to block out fumes. The Shermans Dale Fire Company also has been dispatched when people see trash burning and mistake it for a house fire. The ordinance will include a requirement to notify the fire department before burning to decrease false alarms.
The ordinance will not prohibit all controlled burning, such as burning paper or campfires. "We still want to let people burn properly," supervisor Dan Kirk said.
Kitner acknowledged that not all residents would be happy. "As many people that are adamant about having it, there are as many people adamant against having it."
He said the ordinance is almost complete, but the supervisors tabled it until next month to allow time to review changes by the solicitor.
In other business, supervisors approved a $14,668 contract for Alpha Space Control for 58 miles of line painting.
The most recent contractor, Midlantic, did not complete line painting last summer. "Their equipment failed, and they didn't come back," Kitner said. He also said the township did not pay that company for its partial work.
Supervisors also approved junkyard license renewals for four applicants: Deimler Recycling, Dennis Hartzell, Robert Smiley and Harvey Shuler. One junkyard operator, Teresa Kirk, had not submitted an application for renewal on a license that expires June 30.
After that time, "if they don't have a license, then they're operating illegally," solicitor Bill Dissinger said.


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When I wrote two years ago that the eurozone resembled the Hindenburg approaching the docking mast at Lakehurst, New Jersey, euroskeptics cheered and only those committed to the worst features of europhilia suggested I had underestimated Europe's capacity for recovery.
Through gritted teeth, I am now forced to admit that the europhiles were right, at least in the short term. Disaster has not occurred, and in some places even some recovery has taken place. Nevertheless, this week's European elections give me an opportunity to suggest that even though the EU Hindenburg may have docked safely two years ago, its construction remains fundamentally unsound, and it does not represent a viable means of transportation in the long term.
The fundamental problem of the eurozone, and of the European
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Before the increased competition produced by modern telecoms, this didn't matter much. Tariffs could be erected against disfavored American goods, while Japanese and Korean VCRs could be forced to clear customs at Poitiers (where, one gathers, efficiency and procedures hadn't improved much since the Black Prince decimated the flower of French cavalry there in 1356).
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At a Monday meeting of the City Council, Estacada resident Dora Morgan called for Arnold's resignation based on the mayor's support for a competing initiative to Measure 3-391, passed March 13, which requires voter approval for changes to the city's urban renewal plan.
Morgan, a TriMet bus driver who ran against Arnold for the mayor position in 2010, is a member of a group called the Clackistani Allied Forces, which pushed for Measure 3-391's passage and has been a vocal opponent of urban renewal and the Milwaukie light rail project.
"On behalf of the Clackistani Allied Forces, we will accept your resignation," Morgan said during Monday's meeting. "Lay down your arms of [Local Governments for Sustainability], smart growth, urban renewal and Metro, or face the dire consequences at the hands of the mainstream voters this fall."
Arnold laughed at Morgan's request — "I didn't think it was a big deal in the beginning. I thought, 'Great, Dora. Let's just move on,'" she said.
Arnold said Morgan also threatened to "make [Arnold's] life miserable."
"[The statements] weren't violent, but in a sense they were threats," Arnold said. "Their name itself is meant to be intimidating."
Clackistani Allied Forces members have often watched and photographed her home, as well, said Arnold, whose second term as mayor is nearing its end. Entries on Morgan's website, theestacadatruth.org, show photos taken from several positions around Arnold's home, including along the driveway alley behind Arnold's backyard.
Another Estacada councilor, who asked not to be named, said Morgan has a lengthy history of "bizarre, aggressive behavior" such as blocking Council members from entering their vehicles, following them and approaching them in the company of "large men."
"What else are [the Clackistani Allied Forces] going to do?" Arnold said. "I feel that she's crossed the line. She's made me a target."
Fearing for her safety, Arnold spoke with a Clackamas County sheriff's officer. Arnold said she only planned to make authorities aware of the incident, but sheriff's office spokesman Lt. James Rhodes said the complaint was made an official report in case of issues down the road.
"Repeated behavior like this could indicate criminal behavior in the future," Rhodes said.
Despite the tension, Arnold said she'll continue working toward bettering the city. That work, she said, includes supporting some level of urban renewal despite opposition from the Clackistani Allied Forces and others.
"I truly believe urban renewal has been abused before," she said. "But people lump it all together."
Urban renewal programs could help fix up downtown Estacada, she said, and help the city's businesses.
"I love my community, and I'm sad that this is happening," she said. "But on the whole, this community loves each other. I govern it as my family."


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My new cookbook suggests throwing frozen berries and heavy cream in a food processor until velvety smooth. Anyone have some frozen berries they want to test this one?
Funny I just saw this! I actually did this with strawberries and 1% milk the other day for DD.
I used my Ninja. I threw in maybe 1 cup of frozen strawberries and a few tablespoons of milk at first. Pulsed a bunch. I added a few more tablespoons of milk and pulsed some more. I just kept blending and all of a sudden it turned to ice cream consistency. DD ate it right up.
It wasn't very sweet though. I would have added some honey if I was going to eat it but she loved it as is. lol I actually may try some vanilla almond milk next time vs regular milk. Maybe that will help with the sweetness.
What berries did you use?
I put in a decent amount of honey too.
i used the frozen blueberries. It definitely needed something to sweeten it the first time. But the freezing just made it curdled.
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What berries did you use?
I put in a decent amount of honey too.
I used vanillia almond milk and bananas w/ vegan choc chips b/c I/m vegan- my husband & I loved it!!!!!!!! My daughter not so thrilled. I'm going to try rice milk and strawberries or mangos and I think we will all love it. I will keep ypu posted. I think that using the bananas as a base and then add strawberries etc would be amazing!


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Serge Devant returns with 'Always On My Mind'.
Serge Devant returns to the forefront with 'Always On My Mind' for Damian Lazarus's Crosstown Rebels, complete with remixes from Kornél Kovács and Pirupa.Premiered by Pete Tong and featured on BBC Radio 1 as track of the week by Btraits 'Always On My Mind' lands with an impact. First heard on Lazarus's Essential mix in 2015 and much requested since, 'Always On My Mind' has been causing tremors in its wake. Oceanic waves of melody frame muted vocals from Ali Love, resulting in a chiselled classic bridging the splintered sounds of today. Climbing the charts and already hailed as many by track on the summer. Serge Devant returns with this smash.
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It's been around six months since Damian Lazarus dropped the debut album from his otherworldy side project—Damian Lazarus & The Ancient Moons. Since then, the gang has released two singles, one of which was &ME's bouncy churning take on one of the album's standouts "Vermillion." Now, we've gotten our paws on NYC-based DJ/producer Serge Devant's take on the album's third single "We Will Return."
Originally a steadily danceable, yet low-key track featuring some wonderful vocals from Ali Love, Devant takes things in a bit more of a sinister direction, installing some churning synths, while stretching out the track to a place even more fit for the sunrise dancefloor.
Serge Devant Kicks Off Jamie Jones and Lee Foss' New Emerald City Label with Brooding Video
Serge Devant is probably smiling right now. Not only did the NYC-bred house producer and DJ just achieve the supremely honorable feat of being the debut release on a brand-new record label, but that new label, Emerald City, happens to belong to Jamie Jones and Lee Foss, two of the unabashedly so-hot-right-now names in house music.
Sharpening his vinyl in New York City's post Paradise Garage-Studio 54 clubbing heyday with sets at rave havens like Tunnel and Limelight, Devant honed in on what would become his respected dynamic sound. Fast forward to the current day as a forced hiatus due to an injury gave Devant the kick in the ass to slightly revamp his sound to something different, a style of which slips gracefully into the framework of Jamie and Lee's stylistic focus. The result of this all is a brooding (yet still totally pumping) house track, the production of which is brought to life with a vocal performance by Camille Safiya. Along with the debut release, is a new video which take some strong cues from the forever trippy Michel Gondry directed drama, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
To bring the label kick-off to even higher levels of awesome, Jamie and Lee themselves will offer up a remix on the record's B-side.
With a completely restructured sound emerging this year through his release 'Fearing Love' on Emerald City, Jamie Jones and Lee Foss' new label, the NY based veteran has demonstrated his innate and hard-worked production skills and vast knowledge of the techno and house genres and is well on his way to fully complete his transformation into a well-respected member of the electronic music community.
The title track 'The Way You Move' serves up a deep and balanced groove perfectly complemented by an ethereal vocal emerging in the first breakdown. The track is a full and rich affair and a master class in sonic soundscaping as every note is as astutely placed in the mix as the next.
The Audiofly remix of the title track takes the EP into deeper and darker territory with crisp percussions complementing the reworked vocals.
Billboard: Exclusive Song Premiere
The newest addition to Jamie Jones and Lee Foss' house-music empire is Emerald City, a label they launched earlier this month that will spotlight melodic, vocal-heavy deep house releases. The debut EP isn't due until April 6, but on Wednesday (March 18), Jones and Foss released its first track, "Fearing Love," which was produced by New York artists Serge Devant and Damiano and features vocals by Camille Safiya.
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Rumors are swirling about the futures of key Michigan State football juniors, and no one from within the Spartans' program was able to provide clarity on Wednesday night.
On Tuesday, a report from Sports Illustrated's Tony Pauline said that Spartans tailback Le'Veon Bell was expected to meet with agents, and that action was a "sure sign" Bell would abandon Heisman Trophy hopes for this senior season and gamble on his NFL Draft stock.
On Wednesday night, ESPN's Joe Schad sent out a tweet that Spartans tight end Dion Sims was expected to announced he was going to declare himself eligible for the NFL Draft, according to an unnamed source.
Sims is the No. 77 overall player — a projected third-round pick — according to ESPN Scouts Inc.
Sims told MLive.com following Saturday night's 17-16 victory over TCU in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl that his draft rating would likely be the determining factor.
Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio, who said he would help his players get accurate information to make their decisions, has not been available to the media since following the bowl game in Tempe, Ariz.
Dantonio's absence has left the Michigan State Spartans press corps grasping for straws, as the school requests the media covering the team not contact players or their parents directly.
MLive.com has also been unable to confirm the reports.
Following Saturday's game, Bell, Sims and defensive end William Gholston indicated Dantonio had yet to share with them their evaluations from the NFL College Advisory Committee.
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Google has long dominated Web search, and the advertising it generates. But the company has vowed to build a major business in the parallel market of online display ads, and on Tuesday laid out some predictions about how that business will evolve.
Search ads tend to be simple text links that pop up next to the results of a query. Display ads are larger, typically appearing on websites as banners, though sometimes spiced up with video or animation.
During a presentation during the IAB advertising conference, Google executives said the medium will become much more engaging. In past years, display ads were "static" and it was "tough to engage Madison Avenue's most creative minds," said Barry Salzman, a Google managing director for media. Now "display is bringing 'sexy' back."
In five years, Salzman said 75% of display ads will be "social," meaning people will be able to comment on them, share them with friends on social networks, or "subscribe" to them, implying that users could sign up to receive notices of when similar ads are available to watch. Google also said 50% of display ad campaigns will include video ads for which advertisers pay based on how many individuals viewed them, and that 50% of ads will use real-time bidding technology that wasn't previously available.
In addition, Google demonstrated several new technologies including new video ad formats for its YouTube service, which Google calls "TrueView." The YouTube ad formats, which will roll out later this year, give viewers the option to skip an ad if they don't want to watch, or to choose from multiple ads the one they want to watch, similar to ad experiences on rival Hulu. Advertisers on YouTube only pay if the user chooses to watch their ad. Other YouTube ad initiatives charge advertisers based on how many users view ad.
"On television, [networks] generally made more money by showing more ads," said Shishir Mehrotra, a YouTube executive. "Online video will reverse that trend."
Google also is using technology it obtained from the recent purchase of Teracent to alter the creative elements of an ad in real-time, depending on factors like geographic location, the content of the website and the time of day. For example, a Web user in New York during a rainstorm would see an ad for a new SUV that might reference the time and weather and would appear differently than for a user in Phoenix, where it is sunny.
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"Never in the history of the country have we worried about budget around emergency appropriations for natural disasters and, frankly, in my view, we shouldn't be worried about it now," Ridge said. "I realize you got fiscal problems, which is a real challenge, but we're all in as a country. And when Mother Nature devastates a community we may need emergency appropriations and we ought to just deal with it and then deal with the fiscal issues later on."
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DETROIT – You're going to have off nights, even when you've won 19 games in a row at home.
The Detroit Red Wings have found ways to win even when they haven't brought their "A' game.
Coach Mike Babcock said his team is excited about the opportunity to tie the NHL record for consecutive home wins tonight against the Philadelphia Flyers at Joe Louis Arena (7:30, NBC Sports Network), but they must turn in a better effort than they have lately.
"We got to play way better than we've played,'' Babcock said after today's morning skate. "Our energy level this last little bit hasn't been as good. Our ability to skate and play the kind of game we want to play at a high, high level hasn't quite been there.
"We've found ways to grind out games with good goaltending and defense and yet we think we can be better than we've been, and we have to be.''
The Red Wings can tie the NHL record of 20 consecutive home wins shared by the 1929-30 Boston Bruins and 1975-76 Flyers.
That Bruins club won two games in overtime (they had it back then). But there was no overtime or shootout to break ties when the Flyers matched that record.
The Red Wings have won once in OT and three times in a shootout during this streak.
"You're not always as good as you can be and that's why you grind it out,'' Babcock said. "The next morning (general manager) Ken Holland always says you look in the paper and you got two points, it's a Picasso.
"You just find a way to do it and keep grinding. If you can win when you're on a down cycle that's a great thing.''
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— Vandals broke off a basketball hoop June 24 from its mount along East Censer Street and threw it to the ground.
— There were 25 complaints of vandalism to mailboxes on June 24 and indications from police that two juveniles were involved. The vandalism — which included ripping off the doors to mailboxes, or uprooting the mailbox and post and throwing it elsewhere on a property, occurred on Moore Boulevard, East Avenue, Turner Street, Sugar Hill Drive, East Center Street, Sun Haven Drive, Clevenger Drive and Laurel Court.
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Lesson Plan:
Creating Narrative ArtworkStudents will make "antique" panels for the classroom door. Assembled together, the door will represent interests and strengths of class members.
- Length: 4 35-minute classes
- Students will recognize the Paneled Room as functional/narrative art.
- Students will create narrative art unique to their own experiences.
- Students will describe their work using art terminology.
Resource Used:
Paneled Room (West Door)
Found in: the Speed Art Museum gallery of the Kentucky Virtual Art Museum CD-ROM
Vocabularydetails, emphasis, functional art, narrative art, overlap, pattern, repetition, symmetry
Instructional Strategies and Activities
Paneled Room
The West Door of the English Paneled Room in the Speed Art Museum is an extraordinary example of both functional and narrative art. It is a 400-year-old wooden door that is finely decorated with carvings (functional art), and it portrays six dramatic and fantastical stories by the Roman poet Ovid (narrative art). The lesson handout provides information about the stories which you can relate to your students.
View and discuss the English door and its panels. Information about the door can be found on the Kentucky Virtual Art Museum CD-ROM. Talk about the door as functional art. Look at the door panel details and ask students to describe what they see. Help them use art vocabulary by pointing out areas of emphasis in each panel, the use of pattern and repetition, and the symmetrical arrangement.
Select one of the panels and tell the story associated with the scene depicted there. If the students are interested and time allows, tell other stories associated with door panels. Then talk about the door as an example of narrative art.
Now tell students they will make panels for your classroom door. As you give instructions, emphasize art vocabulary.
Student Directions for Art Project (This may take 1-4 class periods, depending on how much time you wish to allow.)
- Draw a half-inch border on all sides of the paper.
- Draw an arch about 1-1/2" in from the edges of the border.
- Draw yourself doing something that you do really well within the arch.
- Draw big, filling a good portion of the space. (This will make the student the focal point—emphasis—of each panel.)
- Add surrounding people, animals, plants, etc. that are responding to your talent. (Tell students to be sure to overlap at least once within the drawin, and add lots and lots of details filling up the space, leaving no area with more than two fingers' width of space.)
- Decorate the arches with patterns of repeated lines and/or shapes. These patterns can relate to the subject matter of the drawing or can be purely decorative.
- Go over all pencil lines with a black marker.
- Color the panels with crayons. (They should color "waxy," with short, close strokes, in order to get intense colors, leaving only the 1/2" border uncolored. For white areas, use a white crayon.)
- Wet the panel under running water. (Show them how to gently wad it up to "wring it out." This will put cracks in the colored areas.)
- Open up the panel and spread it out on a newspaper.
- Brush brown tempera paint over the entire panel, then totally wipe off the paint with a damp rag. The brown paint will remain in the cracked areas and create an "antique patina." Set drawing aside to dry.
Have each student write a description of his or her panel, using art vocabulary from the lesson.
Work Tip
By using a symmetrical pattern of two panels across and six panels down, you should be able to display the entire class's panels on both the inside and outside of the door.
Support • Connections • Resources
See handout for stories of the Paneled Room (also included on the Kentucky Virtual Art Museum CD-ROM).
Performance Assessment
Performance Event: Look at the door from the English Paneled Room at the Speed Museum. This door is a fine example of both functional and narrative art.
Directions: Make a panel for your classroom door telling a "story" about a special talent you have. Describe what your panel looks like, using the art vocabulary from this lesson.
Performance Scoring Guide
|The student makes a panel that clearly describes his/her talent and its effect. All space is effectively used, with lots of details, the main figure as focal point, overlapping in at least one spot, no empty space greater than two fingers' width, and a pleasing pattern in the arch. Craftsmanship is effective. Description includes consistently correct use of the art vocabulary.
|The student makes a panel that somewhat clearly describes his/her talent and its effect. Most of the space is well used, with lots of details, the main figure as the focal point, and a pleasing pattern in the arch. Craftsmanship is fairly effective. Description includes an overall correct use of the art vocabulary.
|The student makes a panel that basically describes his/her talent and its effect. Minimal attention has been paid to the space on the paper, with few details, the main figure as focal point, and minimal effort in designing the arch. Craftsmanship is adequate. Description includes a limited use of the art vocabulary.
|The student makes a panel that barely describes his/her talent and shows little or none of its effect. Little or no attention has been paid to organization of space on the paper. Craftsmanship is not evident. Description includes little or no knowledge of the art vocabulary.
|Blank, no answer, or irrelevant response.
Academic Content
Academic Expectations:
- 1.13: Students make sense of ideas and communicate ideas with the visual arts.
- 2.22: Students create works of art and make presentations to convey a point of view.
- 2.23: Students analyze their own and others' artistic products and performances using accepted standards.
- 2.24: Students have knowledge of major works of art, music, and literature and appreciate creativity and the contributions of the arts and humanities.
Program of Studies:
- Demonstrate an awareness of the elements of art and principles of design.
- Identify and use the elements of art and principles of design.
- Explore a variety of media (e.g., crayon, pencil, paint) and processes (e.g., drawing, painting, weaving) used for creating works of art.
- Experience art from different cultures, periods, and styles.
Core Content for Assessment:
- AH-EP-1.4.1: Students will identify or describe works of art using elements of art and principles of design.
- AH-EP-3.4.1: Students will experience visual art works created for a variety of purposes. (functional, narrative)


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NEW GLASGOW – Navee Sarawan Angoor, a 16-year-old living in New Glasgow on an exchange from Thailand, is looking for a new host family.
Angoor has been living with the Malloy family while Breia Malloy, a North Nova student, studies abroad in Germany on a Nacel Canada scholarship.
"She left New Glasgow in August last year and has been having a wonderful year. (She) is now fluent in German, has made some wonderful new lifelong friends and will be returning back home to New Glasgow in late June," Kim Monteith, regional coordinator for Nacel Canada, said.
When she returns, the Malloy family won't have the space to host Angoor.
Nacel Canada, a not-for-profit cultural exchange organization promoting world peace and cultural understand through youth exchanges, is reaching out to New Glasgow families in the hopes that someone would be willing to take him in.
Although there are families willing to host Angoor in Halifax and Dartmouth, New Glasgow is where he wants to be.
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GULF SHORES, Alabama – A cold win may have slowed the times in many events at the Class 4A-6A state track meet Saturday morning.
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The Bucs' brother-sister duo swept the early 6A hurdle events as expected. Marlon won the boys 110 with a time of 13.86. He set the state record in the preliminary race Friday with a time of 13.53.
Sister Brittley won the girls 100 hurdles with a time of 14.60. Her teammate Sarah Sanford finished second.
"These are pretty tough conditions to run the hurdles in to be honest," said Marlon, one of the state's top football recruits. "I think we all kind of new that before we started so we had it in the back of our minds. All in all, I thought it was a decent time for that type of wind."
His sister agreed the conditions probably weren't ideal.
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Polydos action is 'Grit to the Mill' I suppose. Pity Polydor did not Bother till now?
Does Jan Moir have a column every Friday in the Mail?
I'm curious to see if she has one this week and if so then what she will have to say. Surely if the Mail decide to run another article by her, she cannot avoid addressing what happened since last Friday.
If she refuses to apologise for her vicious spite (on the day before Stephen Gately's funeral) and tries to justify herself, then I expect the Daily Heil will face a repeat of last week.
They've got a bit of financial clout. they might be able to use it. They could claim that her slanderous comments might affect sales of Boyzone cds or something? That makes them directly affected and that was what the PCC said they needed to act.
How can there be justice when the PCC chairman is paid by the Daliy Mail!?!?! This is going to be a farce!
I don't know, Stephen. I'm just trying to see something positive in this whole sad saga. Yes, I know, the Rose-tinted glasses. But that's me.
If the PCC refuses to act or does as little as it can, I hope everyone who complained then asks their MP what they hope to do about it. In an election year, it could be effective.
Why do we have to see the Moir woman's pork pie face leering at us in all these stories?
Word in the press seems to be that the complaints to the PCC will get nowhere. However the PCC is under review at the present time and submissions to the review board are welcomed (apparently!)
Buscombe announces independent PCC governance review
Buscombe announces independent PCC governance review
In her first major initiative since taking over as Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission in April 2009, Baroness Buscombe has announced plans for an independent review of the PCC's governance. The review group will examine the operation of the PCC board, sub-committees and secretariat; how transparency in the system can be enhanced; whether the independent systems of accountability – the Charter Commissioner and Charter Compliance Panel – can be improved; and the PCC's Articles of Association.
Announcing the move, Lady Buscombe said:
"I have been impressed by many aspects of the PCC's work since I took over as Chairman – not least, the extent to which it works hard behind the scenes to minimise intrusion and resolve complaints quickly and amicably. However, there has not been an independent review of the PCC's governance since it was created in 1991, and I think it is important periodically to reflect on the way an organisation works to make sure we have taken account of good practice elsewhere and wider public expectations. The review group will also want to consider the findings of the Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport when it completes its report later this summer on press standards, privacy and libel.
"For all those reasons, I have asked Vivien Hepworth – who has experience of many different bodies in the public, private and NGO sectors as well as the PCC – to chair this review. She is stepping down before the end of her final term on the PCC board in order to undertake this review, and I have asked for her report in Spring 2010. Further appointments to the review group will be made shortly."
Vivien Hepworth said: "I am honoured to have been asked by Peta Buscombe to chair this governance review. I am a strong believer in self-regulation of the press, but it must constantly adapt in order to prosper. It is the right time for a fresh and independent look at the areas this review will consider. In my view, this initiative underlines the PCC's flexibility – something that is one of the hallmarks and advantages of non-statutory regulation. I will step down from the board of the PCC before this review group starts work in the autumn".
1. Vivien Hepworth is Executive Chairman of Grayling in the UK and Brussels. She has been a Lay Member of the PCC since October 2001. A former Chairman of Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Hospital Trust, she is also a Trustee of the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, Vice-Chairman of the College of St Barnabas and the founder and Hon President of the Nystagmus Network, a self-help group for those with certain rare visual impairments and their families.
2. Three further appointments to the review group will be made, including another independent member and one with senior experience of the newspaper and magazine industry.
3. It will work for approximately six months, before making recommendations to the board of the PCC in spring 2010.
4. For more information, contact Tim Toulmin on 020 7831 0022.
It might be appropriate to address comments on the current in effectiveness of the PCC and its codes or practice to the review board in the event the complaints do not get addressed.
"The PPC, whose chairman Paul Dacre is the editor of the Daily Mail, usually only deals with complaints from those directly affected by articles."
That's pretty clear to me.
The 22,000 complaints were received from persons who were not affected by Moir's viewpoint.
O-o-o-o-o-o-o, now I see why the merry-go-round has so many mirrors!
It all boils down to "Who watches the Watchmen" doesn't it. Someone has to chair the PCC, and who can guarantee their impartiality without being under the same level of scrutiny? Does it get put to the vote ever?
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A dark piece of WWII history in Taiwan
By Matthew Smith
TAIPEI - Overcast and chilly, gradually turning to a steady rain, the weather is unwelcome but entirely appropriate for the occasion. A group of perhaps 70 people has arrived at the town of Chinguashi, amid the windswept, grassy hills overlooking Taiwan's rugged northern coastline and the South China Sea. The town is not far from Jiufen, a larger hilltop community popular with Taiwanese tourists. But the group that gathered at Chinguashi last Sunday did not come to enjoy the area's natural beauty.
Indeed, four of the visitors know the area most for its horrendously ugly past, for the suffering they and their comrades endured 60 years ago. These men know the location by a different name: Kinkaseki, site of one of World War II's worst prisoner of war camps. It is a name that they know all too well, having spent years living under atrocious conditions and working as slaves for the Japanese Imperial Army. Their story - unlike the misery of Allied POWs in places such as Thailand, Burma, the Philippines and Borneo - has never entered the world's general consciousness. But Jack Edwards, Les Davis, Harry Brown and Bill Kingate - as well as other surviving former Kinkaseki inmates around the world - still remember those years of suffering, and the hundreds of their comrades who died here.
When Singapore fell in 1942, tens of thousands of British soldiers surrendered to the Japanese invaders, whose
code upheld that a true soldier should commit suicide rather than give up. At the time, Taiwan had already been a Japanese colony for 47 years, supplying food and natural resources to help fuel Japan's ongoing industrialization and militarization.
Among the bounty of Taiwan were the mines at Kinkaseki, which boasted the largest copper output in the Japanese empire. While there was no shortage of Taiwanese civilians willing to dig in the mines, they refused to enter the deepest and most dangerous shafts. For that work, the Japanese brought more than 500 British Commonwealth and Allied POWs to work as slaves at Kinkaseki in November 1942. That total was to rise to over 1,000 men before the war ended.
Conditions at Kinkaseki were worse than any of Taiwan's other 15 POW camps. The men were forced to march daily up and over a high ridge to the mine entrance - "the hellhole of Kinkaseki". Working in a mineshaft as much as a mile long and more than 800 feet in depth, the prisoners were made to produce daily quotas of copper ore - and administered daily beatings when they could not meet the quotas. With skin stained yellow by the hot sulfurous water in the mine, covered in bruises from daily beatings to their slowly starving bodies, the POWs were forced to work in unstable shafts amid temperatures that reached as high as 55 degrees Celsius (130 degrees Fahrenheit).
Under such conditions, hundreds of POWs died and were buried in a nearby cemetery over the next three years; and those who survived the war would continue to suffer and die from their injuries in the years following World War II. The torture, degradation and slow starvation they endured - which became worse as the war continued - is best described by former Kinkaseki inmate Jack Edwards in his book
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. "The culmination of nearly three years of being on a starvation diet, being treated brutally, and the hard labor in the mine, was resulting in rapidly increasing illnesses, mental depression, and death. All of us were sick, some worse than others. Men dragged themselves back and forth to the mine like zombies."
Jack Edwards is doggedly unapologetic about the book's title, which was the Kinkaseki inmates' morale-building cry when US bombers attacked the camp and the nearby copper smelting works as the war turned against the Japanese. The author's insistence on using it made publishers balk, he says: "But I told them, 'I don't give a damn if we never sell a single copy - that's the title'." The book has sold surprisingly well in Japan, considering the Japanese translator's similar aversion to niceties: The Japanese version is titled "Drop Dead, Jap Bastards!"
Despite an admirable level of good humor, the pain the POWs endured is still apparent in those who survived the ordeal and its aftermath, and who returned for this year's memorial. "It was terrible, and I wouldn't have wished it on anybody," says former POW William Kingate, who made the return trip to Taiwan this year. "Not even my own worst enemy."
Jack Edwards, 84, who returned to Kinkaseki in the years following the war to gather and present evidence for war crimes trials, eventually settled in Hong Kong. He has made it his lifelong task to spread the word about the POW camps of Taiwan, and to ensure that the memory of the hundreds who died there is never forgotten. As Edwards tells it, some 800 of the graves in Hong Kong's Sai Wan Bay Cemetery are those of POWs who died in Taiwan and were moved there after the war. Almost half of them died from the effects of overwork, torture, starvation or accidents in the mines at Kinkaseki.
Nevertheless, their story is still not widely known. The British public, enthralled by "The Bridge Over The River Kwai", which Edwards calls "a tremendous film - and a load of rubbish", had little capacity for listening to horror stories of the POW camps of Taiwan. "A War Story", a 1981 documentary by Canadian Anne Wheeler and commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada, is a far more accurate piece on Japanese POWs, the men say. The haunting film is based on the journals of Ben Wheeler, Ann's father, who served as camp doctor at Kinkaseki, and includes footage taken by Japanese propagandists and Allied war crimes investigators. Yet even this film was never widely circulated outside of Canada.
Taiwan's POW camps might have been entirely forgotten by everyone but the POWs themselves and their families. But inspired by Edwards, a group of expatriates here in the mid-1990s found the site of the Kinkaseki camp at Chinguashi, and with the assistance of Taiwanese authorities and local residents, a memorial was established on the site of the camp in 1997. (Despite being one of the few pieces of level land in the mountainous area, Chinguashi residents believe the site to be haunted, and never developed it.)
Meanwhile, the group also formed the Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society, an organization that finds former POWs and tries to promote awareness - in Allied countries, Japan and Taiwan - of what happened here. "We just felt that more needed to be done," says society director Michael Hurst. The group has so far located over 200 POWs and their families, and has re-discovered 14 of the island's 15 WWII POW camps. With help from the society, the past few years have seen many POWs return to Taiwan for annual memorial services in November. And now that the surviving POWs are all well into their 80s, this resurgence of interest in their story comes not a moment too soon.
One of the society's goals is to raise awareness of the camps in Taiwanese society. Ironically, many of the Kinkaseki prison guards were recruited from the local population and remain living in Chinguashi to this day. Yet for most Taiwanese, this piece of history is completely unknown. Indeed, the mines at Chinguashi, which only ceased operations in the 1980s, are a source of nostalgia and a potential tourist attraction, which creates a strong incentive to airbrush the camp from the area's history - as does the common view in Taiwan that Japanese rule was benevolent. But thanks to the POWs and those who support them, that seems unlikely to happen.
"To Taiwan, we wish to say, do not neglect the darkness of your past," says Father Edmund Ryden, SJ, director of the John Paul II Peace Institute at Fujen University, in a brilliant sermon at the ceremony. "As you strive to be a country of the high tech future, do not forget that on this, your soil, in living memory, deeds of hate, torture, violence and disrespect were committed. A present built on a romantic fiction of the past lacks substance … To forget the past is to be blind to the present too."
Likewise, Edwards stresses that one of his goals is to teach young people in Taiwan to value their own history, and to rethink their ongoing identification with Japan and Japanese culture.
Banzai You Bastards!
is now available in simplified Chinese characters, and Edwards says that a traditional character edition will be published soon, for the Taiwan market.
"I sincerely hope that even when we pass on, people will still go up to Kinkaseki and remember what happened there, because as I say at the end of my book, 'None of us should forget'." He adds a cautionary note for all of us: "And please don't forget, because if you do, you'll be condemned to go through it all over again, just like our fathers were."
For more information, visit the Taiwanese POW Camp Memorial Society website: www.powtaiwan.org.
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