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A former Assistant Director at Lincolnshire County Council has written to The Rt. Hon Maria Miller MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to formally request that she intervene and order an urgent inquiry into the changes being made by the County Council to the Lincolnshire library service. (read this letter here)
Maurice Nauta was a senior manager in the library service and several other frontline services in the county, from 1988 to 2002.
His call for an inquiry is something quite separate from the judicial review that was in the news recently. A judicial review looks in great detail at points of law but an inquiry by The Secretary of State, as called for by Maurice, is likely to be much more wide-ranging. An inquiry could cover some of the same ground as a review by The High Court but provides a separate route by which the council's decision to cut services could be overturned.
Running a proper library service is not something that the council do simply through choice, it is a requirement placed on them by Parliament. In 1964 Parliament ordered that all local authorities must provide a comprehensive and efficient library service "for all persons desiring to make use thereof ". The Secretary of State has the power to order the council to improve its services if they are not up to standard.
The council have said that any volunteer run libraries that are introduced are to be "non-statutory". This means that they will not officially count towards fulfilling the council's duty to provide a comprehensive service on behalf of the government, adding to uncertainty about their long-term future.
Maurice believes that the changes that are being introduced are unlawful, as they would put the remaining level of library services in Lincolnshire substantially below that provided in any other rural county in England. His figures, taken from a government report, indicate that the local service will have half the number of buildings and professional staff and 50% of the budget for the size of the population than neighbours Nottinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Leicestershire and over ten other authorities.
The letter points out that the council have given no explanation as to why Lincolnshire's official statutory service should be so very much worse than that provided in all of these similar rural counties and Maurice questions if it can genuinely be called comprehensive when compared to them.
He has also asked the Secretary of State to examine the efficiency aspect, as the current full and efficient service is to be removed from large areas of the county. Statutory libraries are only being kept in urban locations that are so far away from over a quarter of Lincolnshire families that none of this huge number of adults and children will be able to get to any of the remaining full service libraries in a reasonable time, as defined by the Department of Transport. Calculations using the council's own figures show that the quantity of service provided for each pound of public money spent will also go down, making the new service less financially efficient which, if confirmed, would also break the law.
Enclosed with his letter are exhaustive and highly critical reports, including one on the consultation process. This report contains details of a document where the council say: "Some decisions had to be made before consultation" a statement which he puts forward as a part of the evidence collected to show that that the council did not consult with open minds as to the results. If an inquiry found this to be the case then it would render the consultation illegal and the decision to change the service that was based on it would be invalid.
Maurice encourages local people to contact their MP's to ask them to back the call for an inquiry. "If you feel that the library service in the county will no longer be comprehensive, as Parliament requires it must be, then tell your MP and ask that they take it up with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport" he advised.
Please support Maurice by contacting your MP about his letter. Find out the contact details of your representative councillors and MPs by entering your postcode here, and let them know what you think https://www.writetothem.com/
The full text of the letter is here https://savelincslibraries.org.uk/lincolnshire-libraries-secretary-of-state-letter/
A STATEMENT by Maurice Nauta re The open letter to Secretary of State at The Department for Culture, Media and Sport
I would like to make clear that my decision to write to the Secretary of State at The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is not the result of any political agenda. Throughout my long career in library administration (in Lincolnshire and elsewhere) I worked comfortably with individuals and councils of all parties with the aim of providing both a high quality service and the best possible value for money to ratepayers.
I am appalled at the way this whole affair has been handled. Decisions have been made before proper debate and consultation; promises to protect frontline services have been broken; the views of most people consulted have been ignored; alternative proposals have been ignored or dealt with high-handedly; local communities are being forced to run their local libraries on a "take it or lose it" basis, and yet what is being put in its place can be shown to be less efficient and not comprehensive.
Even worse, little heed has been paid to the most vulnerable groups in society, many of whom will need to spend money even getting to library in future, or choose to lose their service completely. Little thought seems to have been given to any development of library services in the future.
I feel particularly saddened that this state of affairs could have been prevented in June last year. I sent a letter at that time to the Leader of LCC, Martin Hill, suggesting a different approach which would START with residents being asked for their views on the future of library services. I acknowledged that they do need to change. I offered my help with this. In the same letter, I suggested an alternative approach to budget reductions, which would mean LCC joining with co-terminous library services and saving on management and support services. I did not and still have not had an acknowledgement, let alone a reply to that letter.
I have supplied the Secretary of State with detailed and factual information so that she can judge for herself whether she believes that LCC has acted appropriately in pushing through proposals which I fear will not only destroy the library service in Lincolnshire, but damage the sense of community, hope and democracy across the whole of the countries second largest county.
Yours Sincerely,
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In a paper this week for the journal Nature Energy, a Los Alamos National Laboratory research team demonstrates an important step in taking quantum dot, solar-powered windows from the laboratory to the construction site by proving that the technology can be scaled up from palm-sized demonstration models to windows large enough to put in and power a building.
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Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are light-management devices that can serve as large-area sunlight collectors for photovoltaic cells. An LSC consists of a slab of transparent glass or plastic impregnated or coated with highly emissive fluorophores. After absorbing solar light shining onto a larger-area face of the slab, LSC fluorophores re-emit photons at a lower energy and these photons are guided by total internal reflection to the device edges where they are collected by photovoltaic cells.
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|This is a discussion on Re: Todd McGee, Retiring Omaha within the online poker forums, in the General Poker section; After reading your latest blog, Todd, I'm starting to get an idea why we have such a hard time disagreeing with each other--even when we
Re: Todd McGee, Retiring Omaha
After reading your latest blog, Todd, I'm starting to get an idea why we have such a hard time disagreeing with each other--even when we try for the sake of entertainment value. If we both think poker should be exciting and action packed, then there's really going to be more that we agree on than disagree.
So, this post is less a rebuttal of your post and more a request of expansion of the idea. I'd like to know, what do you think of shootouts? The excitement value of bounty tournaments is obvious, but I think having more than just one or two shootout events would add a lot of excitement as well. I mean, one table, 9-10 players enter, just one leaves with their tournament life? Talk about being able to cut the tension with a knife, right? And tension very much helps create excitement.
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And please, if your name isn't Todd McGee don't think that just because I'm addressing this mainly to him that you're not welcome to share your own opinion on this!
I like shootouts. I've played them online before but never live. Omaha on-line is fine because it moves so much quicker, but a live Omaha tourney is the pits. Each hand takes 5 minutes to play, and then if it's a Hi-Low tourney with a split pot, it takes another 2-3 minutes for the dealer to split the pot and then shuffle up and deal the next hand. About as exciting as watching paint dry. I just want the Circuit folks to pay attention and start scheduling more bounty tourneys and less Omaha events. Attendance for the Omaha tourneys is abysmal.


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I don't think the hair works for her.
She can pull off that hair, but her lips and dress clash I think.
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I love red lipstick, but this particular one looks harsh on her- maybe a tad too orangey for her complexion?
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I write this article, ironically enough, the morning after an 'alleged' Islamic extremist is arrested in Ohio purported to have been planning an attack on the US Capitol in support of the jihad being waged against the west by the Islamic State!
Given this arrest in conjunction with all of the other news and past events from around the world, the failure and continued unwillingness of Barack Obama and his minions to utter the simple phrase "Islamic Extremism' is troubling!
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'...He cannot say Islamic extremists, has dithered making key decisions, has placed blame for his failures on others, has let Americans die for political reasons, has called obvious acts of domestic terrorism workplace violence and telegraphs our strategies to our enemies...'
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of U.S. senators wants Burger King Worldwide BKW.N to scrap its plans to invert, or move its tax domicile to Canada, as part of a deal to buy coffee and donut chain Tim Hortons Inc THI.TO.
Burger King announced in August plans to buy the Canadian restaurant chain for $11.5 billion. Canada has a lower corporate tax rate than the United States, and it does not require companies based there to pay extra taxes on income earned abroad, so the deal was expected to yield tax savings.
Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, and four other lawmakers argue that move is unfair because many Burger King workers count on programs such as Medicaid and food stamps that rely on taxpayer funding.
They also said, in a letter to Burger King Chief Executive Officer Daniel Schwartz that was dated Thursday, that the burger chain uses taxpayer-supported roads, food safety inspectors and other perks of doing business in the United States.
"Now, after profiting from these taxpayer-funded benefits, Burger King intends to move its tax address overseas to avoid paying its fair share for these benefits," the group said in the letter, which was viewed by Reuters.
"Many of your loyal customers may choose to spend their hard-earned money at one of your many competitors, instead of supporting a company that wants all the benefits of America but refuses to pay its fair share to support our nation," they said.
In addition to Durbin, Senate Democrats Jack Reed, Sherrod Brown, Carl Levin, and Independent Bernie Sanders signed on.
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By means of nuclear analyses the concentrations of Au, Ag, Cu, Ir, Os, Pt, Co and Hg were measured in the 12 artifacts of the gold hoard discovered in 1837 at Pietroasa, Buzäu county in Romania. The concentrations of the first four elements were used to compare different stylistic groups assumed by historians. Comparisons with gold nuggets from the old Dacian territory and gold Roman imperial coins were also made. A good agreement was found with the oldest hypothesis which considers that the hoard is represented by three styles appropriated mainly by the Goths.
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The Bulgarians are notoriously tough, stingy and disciplined, and this crop of players is unlikely to change that perception. They simply don't have the talent up and down the squad, though, that the favorites have — even in this mediocre group.
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|A1 motorway
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|Southern Croatia
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|27.9 m
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The Dabar Bridge is located between the Šibenik and Vrpolje interchanges of the A1 motorway in the Dalmatia region of Croatia. It is a 330 metres (1,080 ft) long concrete girder bridge spanning the Dabar flash flood gully at a height of 60 metres (200 ft).[1]
The bridge is 354.12 metres (1,161.8 ft) long overall, executed across 7 spans (40 m (130 ft) + 5 x 50 m (160 ft) + 40 m (130 ft)). Axis of the bridge is in a horizontal circular curve 2,400 metres (7,900 ft) in diameter. The cross section of the bridge comprises two dilated structures, each carrying one motorway carriageway consisting of two 3.75 metres (12.3 ft) wide traffic lanes and one 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) wide emergency lane. The bridge is 27.9 metres (92 ft) wide overall.
The deck structure consists of longitudinal girders, cross-girders, and the deck. The abutments and the outermost piers support the structure through bearings while the remaining four piers are fixed to the deck structure. The longitudinal girders are executed as prefabricated, pretensioned girders and there are 10 longitudinal girders comprising the cross-section of the bridge, i.e. five of them, with axes set 2.7 metres (8 ft 10 in) apart, supporting each of the carriageways. Length of the prefabricated girders ranges from 38.6 m (127 ft) to 39 m (128 ft) in the peripheral spans and between 48.24 m (158.3 ft) and 48.66 m (159.6 ft) in the remaining spans. The girders are 240 centimetres (94 in) high I-sections with 268 centimetres (106 in) wide upper flange. The bottom flange of the longitudinal girders is 68 centimetres (27 in) wide. The longitudinal girders were manufactured in a special plant next to the bridge construction site and placed in the bridge structure using incremental launching.
Bridge piers comprise a box cross-section measuring 5.0 m (16.4 ft) by 3.2 m (10 ft) with a constant wall thickness of 30 centimetres (12 in). The top of each of the piers is closed by an Omnia slab 15 cm (5.9 in) deep. Each motorway carriageway is supported by a separate set of piers. The abutments, on the other hand, are designed to support both of the carriageways. The cross-girders are placed at the abutments and the piers.[1][2]
The Dabar Bridge was designed by Jure Radnić and constructed by Hidroelektra niskogradnja, Zagreb.[3]
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Traffic is regularly counted and reported by Hrvatske autoceste, operator of the bridge and the A1 motorway where the bridge is located, and published by Hrvatske ceste.[4] Substantial variations between annual (AADT) and summer (ASDT) traffic volumes are attributed to the fact that the bridge carries substantial tourist traffic to the Dalmatian Adriatic resorts. The traffic count is performed using analysis of motorway toll ticket sales.
|Dabar Bridge traffic volume
|Counting site
|5316 Šibenik south
|Between Šibenik and Vrpolje interchanges.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b "Construction of Dabar Bridge; Retrieved on September 5, 2010". Građevinar (in Croatian). January 3, 2006.
- ^ "HAC Monografija pp 224-225; Retrieved on September 5, 2010". Hrvatske autoceste.
- ^ "Hidroelektra niskogradnja – references; Retrieved on September 5, 2010". Hidroelektra niskogradnja (in Croatian).
- ^ "Traffic counting on the roadways of Croatia in 2009 - digest" (PDF). Hrvatske Ceste. May 1, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-21.


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Abilene High School running back Herschel Sims has flown under the radar for most of his career. That is until this year where he has single handedly rewritten the schools rushing and scoring records; launching himself into the national spotlight as one of the top running backs in Texas.
"I'm able to start this year," said Abilene High School running back Herschel Sims. "I've gotten a lot of reps in. I've played more received then I did last year."
What has made Sims so successful this season is an intangible that cannot be coached.
"The thing that I think that makes him special is he's extremely talented," said Abilene High School head coach Steve Warren. "There's a lot of talented football players but he works hard. I've seen in high school football a lot of kids will rely on their talent but he's mastered the work ethic."
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That work ethic has allowed him to rush for over 2,000 yards and score 39 touch downs this yer along with earning the respect of his teammates.
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Coach Warren is certain about Sims ability at the next level.
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"I want to go to college and make a name for myself," said Herschel Sims. "I want to be a great person as well. I know a lot of people they go to the pros and you hardly hear of them after that back in their hometown. I just want to be that person that doesn't forget where you come from just because you made it."
Another goal Sims has for himself is he wants to meeting NFL Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson.
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With dreams of playing in the NFL the 5 foot 10 inch, 185 pound junior star running back, has made a name for himself in the Abilene High School history books. He has also launched himself into the National spotlight as one of the most complete backs in the 2011 recruiting class. Sports fans, keep your eye out for Herschel Sims.
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Hey Dallas! I am originally from Orange, California and grew up playing softball, soccer, basketball, and track. I also participated in television commercials and movies during my childhood. After graduating high school, I accepted a full scholarship to the University of Oklahoma to play softball for the Sooners. I was an elite scholar athlete all four years at University of Oklahoma. I was a 3 time All-American, 2007 Big 12 Player of the Year, and Academic All-American. I have traveled and played internationally representing the USA in Pan American Games in Hermosillo, Mexico; The Junior Olympics in Nanjing, China and The University Games in Tai'nan City, Taiwan. During my time at Oklahoma I completed an internship at KWTV News 9 in Oklahoma City, and worked as a freelance reporter for the Oklahoma High School Sports Express television show. I also worked as the Sooner Sports Network Softball Color analyst both on the radio and television. I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications in 2007, and was the 7th pick in the first round of the National Pro-Fast pitch League draft. After two successful seasons with the Akron Racers I returned home to California, where I continued my career in sports broadcasting. I worked in the media department of the WNBA Los Angeles Sparks. I also worked in the sports department at CBS/KCAL 9 in Los Angeles. I have recently found my way to the Dallas area to follow my dream of being a sports reporter. I currently work as the sideline reporter for the Millennium Sports Network, and I am extremely excited to begin work at DFWreporting.com. I Enjoy athletics, travel, entertainment, and adventure! If you have a story idea please feel free to contact me at email@example.com. I look forward to hearing from you!
Excellent report. I would love to see more reporting like this.
Keep up the good work!!
This was a very good interview. I think this reporter has natural talent of her own. I will be looking forward to more sports reports from Norrell. Great job keep it up.
Herschel has talent and i wish him luck. The reporter also did a great interview
Kid looks like a future NFL back. Nice report
Great story, real nice production, and well explained. I get a feeling with your strong resume and the RB's strong faith in God, we will be seeing both the running back and the reporter on the NFL sidelines soon. Great Story!
This kid looks legit. Running wild at Cowboys Stadium may be a sign of things to come. Great report and it is nice to hear about the up and coming stars.
Wow Herschel looks so talented. Would love to see updates on him. Nice reporting by Ms. Dickson.
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What a great story! Very professional, the look sound and editing . This young man has a bright future can't wait to watch him at the next level. The young woman reporter here also has a bright future expect to see her at the next level also.Great job all around!
Good report on a local TX football player
great story man im so proud of you girl…im happy for ya..keep doing big things
Hershcel, enjoy your last year of high school. You will leave there with lasting friendships and memories. Good luck to you in college ! Norelle – looks like you have a bright future ahead of you too ! Well done
HERSCHEL Sims is one of the best running backs in the nation. His humbleness and his work ethic put him above all others. Great report and insight on this amazing running back.
ha i went to elementry and middle school with herschel sims
i went to high school with him. he is an amazing athlete & so is ronnell. abilene high loves there sims boys & will back them thru everything they do
He is a great running back probably one of the best i think the cowboys should pick him up when he goes pro! mostly because that is my team!
he was awesome on world of jenks
I agree, he is a talented back. I hope to watch him in Stillwater, Oklahoma next year. We will need someone that can fill Kendall Hunter's spot.He will get to meet all of the NFL players he wants,when he is playing there.
I would love to see him on OSU Cowboys team!! The campus is great and so is Stillwater. Herschel, I think you would really enjoy your teammates there, the coaches, and playing in Boone Pickens Stadium on gameday. I really hope to see you on the field the first game against Texas A&M. I don't think you'll have any problem stepping up to college. Go Pokes!!!
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