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The CRA is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/D/V LAST REVISED: 04/28/2017
The incumbent is responsible for the management and supervision of activities, operations, projects, and general operations of the CRA and as assigned by the CRA Executive Director. This individual is expected to assist and work collaboratively and on a regular and on- going basis with the Executive Director and fills in as Executive Director as needed. The incumbent works under the direction of the Executive Director and work is reviewed through meetings, reports, observation, and task/report/project completion.
The following duties and functions, as outlined herein, are intended to be representative of the type of tasks performed within this position. They are not listed in any order of importance. The omission of specific statements of the duties or functions does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this position. Other duties may be required and assigned.
Supervises, directs, and evaluates assigned staff, processes employee concerns and problems, directs work, guides expectation and reviews outcomes, provides professional and position related counseling, disciplining, and provides regular performance feedback.
Coordinates work activities of assigned divisions/departments; organizes and prioritizes projects and workload; initiates and manages work assignments; monitors status of work in progress and inspects completed work; consults with assigned staff to review work requirements, status of work, and problems; assists with complex or problem situations; provides direction, advice, and technical expertise.
Ensures compliance with all applicable codes, laws, rules, regulations, standards, policies and procedures; ensures adherence to established safety procedures; initiates any actions necessary to correct deviations or violations.
Consults with Executive Director and other officials as needed to review division/department activities, provide recommendations/technical expertise, resolve problems, or receive advice/direction; advises Executive Director on administrative details relating to daily functions of the CRA; plans, enacts, and monitors special programs/activities as directed by Executive Director; assists Executive Director with certain assigned duties.
Coordinates division/department activities with those of other divisions, departments, the City of Boynton Beach management and staff, consultants, outside agencies, or others as needed; participates with departments in accomplishment of activities necessary for CRA operations; acts as technical advisor to other agencies/departments.
Performs the duties of Executive Director in absence of Executive Director and upon designation by Executive Director.
Assists Executive Director with the development and implementation of CRA Board directed projects, planning and development activities and strategies.
Assists with the management of the CRA's Strategic Planning process. Coordinates all activities with the CRA and City. Maintains process and tracking of all goals and initiatives. Communicates and coordinates with all departments to ensure targets are being met.
Manages a variety of special projects, programmatic, and community outreach initiatives. Serves on a variety of task forces, boards, and other collaborative teams.
Assists realtors, constructions firms, developers, architectural firms, engineering firms, etc. who are in the process of starting a new development, buying old property to refurbish, and opening up a retail establishment. Provide technical support to these groups during design, rezoning, land use amendment and project implementation.
Ensures that all development within the CRA is consistent with the goals and objectives of adopted redevelopment plans and design guidelines. Provides comments to City Planning staff on site plans, land use and zoning amendments.
Reviews and makes recommendations regarding public capital improvement projects to ensure that improvements are made to further the goals of the redevelopment plans.
Reviews and makes recommendations on behalf of the CRA, the writing of municipal zoning and land use plans, and code reviews which result in recommendations to amend land development regulations, codes and
amendments; analyzes and recommends amendments to the municipal land use plan.
Performs administrative functions associated with department/division operations; reviews administrative policy and procurement manuals; reviews/revises procedures to implement changes and improvements; makes suggestions to improve operational procedures; develops methods/strategies to meet program goals/objectives consistent with county, state, federal, and professional standards and/or needs of service population; monitors, allocates, and schedules resources to ensure accomplishment of program goals.
Assists with preparation of agenda and support materials for all CRA Board meetings; serves on committees as needed; attends City Commission and Board meetings as needed, committee meetings, or other meetings; gives speeches or presentations.
Documents all rights/obligations of the CRA and contractor/grantor to avoid misunderstandings regarding contractual activity; reviews and monitors contracts/grants to ensure compliance with established policies; amends/reconstructs contracts to comply with services needed.
Compiles or monitors various administrative and statistical data pertaining to departmental operations; performs research as needed; makes applicable calculations; analyzes data and identifies trends; prepares or generates reports; maintains records.
Prepares or completes various forms, reports, correspondence, logs, worksheets, graphs, tables, budget documents, grant applications, newsletter articles, press releases, policies, procedures, or other documents.
Receives various forms, reports, correspondence, budget documents, policies, procedures, manuals, reference materials, or other documentation; reviews, completes, processes, forwards or retains as appropriate.
Operates a computer to enter, retrieve, review or modify data; utilizes word processing, spreadsheet, desktop publishing, or other software programs.
Attends work groups at public meetings, hearings, conferences, committee meetings, and board meetings as required.
Communicates with Executive Director, CRA Board members, city officials, employees, other departments, consultants, regulatory agencies, vendors, community organizations, outside agencies, the public, the media, and other individuals as needed to coordinate work activities, review status of work, exchange information, resolve problems, or give/receive advice/direction.
Responds to requests for information from the public and media representatives by assuring that current information on CRA activities is easily available and accessible.
Writes, manages and files reports for grants to obtain funding for special projects as needed.
Performs other related duties as required.
- Demonstrates the ability to promote the development and performance of staff through effective delegation, direction, support, and feedback; facilitating teamwork and creating a work environment that encourages responsibility and decision-making at all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrates the ability to build cooperation and consensus among and within diverse groups; valuing and fostering diversity throughout the organization and community.
- Demonstrates the understanding of service delivery management including functional and operational planning; determining citizen needs and providing responsive requests to the community.
- Demonstrates the understanding of strategic leadership including initiative, calculated risk-taking, vision, creativity, and innovation; understanding of information technology and ensuring appropriate incorporation in plans to improve service delivery, information sharing, organizational communication, and citizen access.
- Demonstrates a commitment to foster the values and integrity of representative government and local democracy through action and example; promoting active citizen involvement in local governance.
- Demonstrates an understanding of budgeting; assessing short and long term financial impacts, program/service cost-effectiveness, and considering alternative strategies.
- Demonstrates the ability to exchange verbal and nonverbal messages with others in a way that demonstrates respect for the individual and furthers organizational and community objectives; effectively conveying ideas and information to others.
- Demonstrates fairness, honesty, ethical, and legal awareness in personal and professional relationships and fostering integrity throughout the organization.
Bachelor's or Master's degree from an accredited college or university in Public Administration, Public Relations, Political Science, Business Administration, Urban Planning, Social Economics or closely related field. Six (6) years work experience in special districts or public administration with exposure to municipal government operations, public relations, urban planning, public agency administration, and economic development. Must possess and maintain a valid Florida driver's license.
Physical Ability: Tasks require the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of light weight (10 pounds). Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or work station.
Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate sound and visual cues or signals. Tasks require the ability to communicate orally.
Environmental Factors: Essential functions are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions.
The Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency, Florida, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S. C. 12101 et. seq.), the CRA will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer. The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements are subject to possible modifications to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the abilities and aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat of significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. Requirements are representative of the minimum level of knowledge, skills, and ability.


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We've got everything you need to turn your Bristol stag weekend into an epic battle between inflatable Subbuteo teams! We supply the pitch, the bubbles, and a ref, for an hour of unmatchable fun. Bounce, bobble and try desperately to stay on your feet while the best player in the group throws a fit of the sulks because he can't pull of a Cruyff turn.
The rules are simple. Try to play football, laugh like a hyena and bounce the stag into a corner every time he gets anywhere near the ball! If you have a sneaky word with the ref before the match starts, she'll send your boy off every time he moves. Quality.
This is one of our favourite things to do on a stag weekend in Bristol. When you get your bubble on, you'll see why!
We'll supply 10 bubbles for a standard five-a-side encounter, or 14 if you've got more than 10 players in the group. So what's it to be - City or Rovers?

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Players competing in the fourth season of the PartyPoker.com Premier League could be forgiven for asking for a set of earplugs as part of their buy-in after the news that 'Poker Brat' Phil Hellmuth and Luke '_FullFlush_' Schwartz will both be taking part in the $1.5m event.
A typically shy and retiring Schwartz said, "I can't wait to get to Vegas and crush the field in the PartyPoker.com Premier League. For sure there are some big names playing but I have to be a huge favourite. They need to know that I'm coming with my sharky hat on and it's gonna be a whole week of soul owning from Full Flush." A PartyPoker.com spokesman added, "We did a lot of soul searching rather than soul owning before deciding to invite Luke into the Premier League. The fact is that he is a great player and he will certainly ignite the line-up and we haven't even completed it yet! It will be particularly interesting to see how he comes off in a verbal sparring battle against the Poker Brat himself, Phil Hellmuth." The Poker Brat was slightly more understated but still sounded in ebullient mood, "I am looking forward to playing in the Premier League and starting the new decade off on the right note! After being points leader in the Premier League in 2006, 2007 and 2008 I was relegated, and it is time to step up and claim a title!" The two loudmouths join a line up that already includes defending champion JC Tran, Yevgeniy Timoshenko and triple-crown winner Roland de Wolfe. The action takes place in Las Vegas from 12th to 18th February 2010.
For fans of poker that like to enjoy games on the go, Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker have introduced a new mobile service for users of smartphones and tablet computers.
Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker will hold their special May Day online poker tournament with a guaranteed $2,000 in the prize pool on May 1 and players are being offered the chance to qualify from Monday to April 30 via a series of satellites.
The Easter holidays are now upon us and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are celebrating by holding a pair of special online poker tournaments.
Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker will be launching their three-stage Vegas Milli Maker tournament series from tomorrow offering players the chance to win a prize package to compete in the upcoming Millionaire Maker event at the 48th annual edition of the World Series Of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.
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Manufacturing Supervisor
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Manufacturing Supervisor job in Chippenham, £15 - £20 per hour, 12 month interim contract Your new companyHays Supply Chain are pleased to be assisting a leading organisation in Chippenham in the recruitment of a Manufacturing Supervisor on a 12 month interim contract to lead an expanding team. Your new role You will manage the day to day activities of staff, providing guidance and coaching, technical know-how towards delivering specific project objectives along with performing a wide range of manufacturing activities to achieve specific objectives as agreed with line management. You will be involved in the generation, review and approval of procedures, investigation documents and other technical documentation within the organization's quality system as well as driving quality, productivity and efficiency standards. What you'll need to succeed You will have previous team leader experience in a manufacturing organisation ideally within pharmaceuticals, proven experience in the industry and be available at short notice. What you'll get in returnThis role is being offered with the hourly rate between £15 - £20 on a 12 month interim contract. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up to date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk


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As persons age, there is the inevitable struggle to preserve the youthful and beautiful features that were once so easy to maintain. However, just because you get older, it does not mean you have to look it. We will present some of the food choices to help you look younger and more beautiful.
What you can eat to make you look younger…
The main aspect of our bodies that helps us to look younger is our skin. There are several types of foods, fruits and vegetables out there that aid in promoting healthier and younger looking skin. Some of these are presented here:
Avocado –due to its rich content of Vitamin E, avocado fights those cells that can cause damage to our skin. It also boosts the production of collagen in the body, which helps the skin to look much younger as you age.
Tomatoes– contain an antioxidant that helps to fight off those dangerous molecules that can damage the skin cells. This antioxidant has also been found to be useful in protecting the skin against potential sun damage.
Mangoes – helps the skin look younger by assisting the skin with its collagen production.
Red wine – contains a compound that aids in prolonging cell life, which bodes well for younger looking skin for a longer period of time.
Watermelon – another fruit that helps protect the skin from the dangerous UV rays from the sun.
Pomegranates – helps to prevent fine lines, wrinkles and dryness of the skin by fighting those compounds that add wear and tear to the skin.
Walnuts – contain Omega 3 fatty acids and Vitamin E, both of which can keep hair looking hydrated and help repair damaged hair follicles. They also contain copper, which helps to preserve the richness of natural hair color (copper deficiencies is a factor in premature grayness).
Shellfish (for example Lobster) – their anti-inflammatory properties can aid in reducing skin issues such as acne. The zinc in shellfish heals the skin cells and helps them to renew at a faster rate.
Eggs – our fingernails and toenails are all made of protein. Eggs can aid in reducing protein deficiency, which can help in promoting healthy nails.
Red Peppers – have a high Vitamin C content, and it has been found that persons with diets high in vitamin C are less prone to wrinkles.
What you can eat to make you look more beautiful…
This is closely linked with looking younger, as a key aspect of looking beautiful is having youthful, radiant looking skin. Listed are just a few example on eating beautifully
Cranberries – cranberries have a special compound that prevents bacteria from sticking to teeth. Therefore, they can enhance help you maintain a radiant smile.
Oily fish (for example Salmon) – helps to maintain a healthy scalp as it contains vitamins that help alleviate dry scalp issues. These types of fish have the dual effect of promoting hydrated and healthy looking skin as well.
Greek Yogurt – can help remove dark circles rom your eye.
Kidney beans – can aid in giving you longer and stronger hair due to the presence of proteins, iron zinc and biotin.
Pumpkin Seeds – contain a powerful antioxidant (Vitamin E) that slows down skin aging, it also contains other ingredients that help to keep your skin smooth and your hair shiny and also aids in reducing the appearance of skin issues such as acne.
Acai Berries – these can help maintain a good blood flow to the skin, helping you keep your pores clear leaving you with a fresher, more beautiful appearance.
Flaxseed – keeps hormones in balance, which aids in preventing weight gain and acne.
Carrots – contain vitamins and minerals that aid in maintaining a healthy scalp, thus maintaining healthy hair. They also kill harmful germs that can cause tooth decay.
Mushrooms – good source of zinc and thus can help in maintaining healthy and strong hair and nails.
Red Cabbage – in addition to its cancer preventing properties, red cabbage can reduce the appearance of wrinkles on your skin.
These are just a snippet of the types foods that can make you look younger and more beautiful when you use them regularly. As is evident by these lists, looking younger and beautiful on the outside means taking care of your skin, hair, teeth and nails. Thus, by taking care of these important aspects of your appearance, you will be well on your way to being more confident in your outer appearance.
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tailgate wont open. please help
I try to open my tailgate and the lever just pulls up and it wont open. i have a bed cover that rolls open and closed and its closed so i dont know how to get into it. does anyone know how to fix this??:4-dontknow:
Oh man, I had that happen on my 03, there is a little plastic thing on the opener that broke. if you can't open your tonneau I have no idea because i had to pull the panel on the inside of the tailgate off to get to the mechanism.
try lifting your tailgate handle & look for bolts or clips
i believe on the newer Rams, it is just plastic clips & you can pop the handle off enough to work the latching bars
when i lift the handle up theres only 2 small square holes and theres nothing in them
i just lifted up the side of my bed cover and pulled the cable to open it up.
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PANCHKULA: The Panchkula police have arrested the mastermind behind the prisoner escape incident. The police arrested Mandeep, alias Mani, a resident of Sector 41, Chandigarh. Mani, a key member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, was an engineering student and close friend of gangster Sampat Nehra, who had freed Deepak Kumar from the custody of the Panchkula police on June 17.
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Some hours after Kapil Sharma apologised to his co-star Sunil Grover over the infamous mid-air scuffle, the latter came up with a befitting response and that too, "with love."
Sunil took to Twitter to send out a note, pouring his heart out over the whole brouhaha and captioned it, "From a friend, with love."
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He started saying, "Bhai ji! Yes, You hurt me deeply. Working with you has been a learning experience. Just one advice, start respecting human beings also apart from animals. All are not as successful as you are. All are not as talented as you are. But if they all are talented like you, who will value you."
"So, have some gratitude towards their existence. And also, if someone is correcting you, don't abuse the person. Refrain from using foul language in front of women who have nothing to do with the stardom you carry, they are by chance just traveling with you. Thanks for making me realise it was your show and you have power to throw out anybody, anytime. You are the wittiest, and the best in your field," he continued.
The actor, famous for his character Gutthi, concluded by saying, "But don't act like a 'God.' Take good care of yourself. Wish you lot more success and fame."
Last night Kapil took to Twitter to seek apology on the same and wrote, "Paji @WhoSunilGrover sry if I hurt u unintentionally. u knw vry well how much I luv u. M also upset .love n regards always:)."
Earlier, acknowledging the issue in a Facebook post, the "Kis Kis Ko Pyaar Karoon" actor wrote, "Hi.. good morning friends .. was celebrating my best time n suddenly I heard a news about me n sunil paji fighting.. first of all see where it is coming from.. what r the intentions behind this.. if I fought with him in the flight then who saw it n informed u.. is he trustworthy..? Some people enjoy these kind of stuff.. we eat together .. we travel together.. I meet my brother once in a year.. n spending almost everyday with my team.. specially sunil .. I love him.. I respect him.. yes I had a argue with him. but r we not normal people..?I shouted at him first time in 5 years .. itna to chalta hai bhai."
"We will sit n talk that where is the problem.. I love him as a artist as a human being.. he is like my elder brother.. why so much negativity all the time.. I respect our media.. there r some other serious issues which we need to focus. Is me n sunil's issue is so important n realted with the security of my country ..? We spend a lot of time together rather then our families .. n sometime it happens in family.. its our family matter.. we will sort this out.. zyada maze mat liya karoo. OK now m tired typing .. n one more thing.. I m going for the final schedule of Firangi. Hahahahaha.. sorry again promotion.. thank u so much for ur love n blessings... keep smiling n stay happy always :)) love u all (sic)," added 'The Kapil Sharma Show' host.
Kapil and Sunil, reportedly, had a fight as they were flying down with their team to Mumbai from Australia, after a show. Apparently, the former got drunk and belittled Sunil and also physically assaulted him.
Now, with his response, Sunil has fueled the rumours about his decision of quitting 'The Kapil Sharma Show,' following the spat. —ANI


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Olymel of Boucherville, Quebec, Canada, is recalling approximately 1,124 pounds of pork ribs products.
The products were repacked and distributed without undergoing federal inspection.
There have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products.
The following items, repacked and produced from January 10 – 13, 2017, are being recalled:
- 10-lb. cardboard box of pork rib tips with a packaging date of Jan. 10-13, 2017.
- 30-lb. cardboard box of pork rib tips with a packaging date of Jan. 10-13, 2017.
The recalled products, bearing establishment number "Est. 8951" inside the USDA mark of inspection, were shipped to restaurants in Michigan.
What to do
Customers who purchased these products should not consume them, but throw them away or return them to the place of purchase.
Consumers and media with questions about the recall may contact Richard Vigneault at (514) 497-1385.


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When the Department of Transportation doled out $1.5 billion in infrastructure grants last week, one of the largest checks went to a rail overhaul in the Chicago area.
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Almost all of the country's freight railroads converge there. The region handles so much cargo that only three cities outrank it: Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai.
And like O'Hare, Chicago's infamous airport, it's reviled for its traffic.
"When there's delays at O'Hare, it impacts the whole nation's air transportation," said Joseph DiJohn, a freight analyst for the Urban Transportation Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "Likewise, if there's delays in freight here, it can impact the rest of the nation, backing up trains. This is not a local project, it's a project of national significance."
In 2003, DOT, local governments and the rail carriers teamed up to form a plan. CREATE, as they called it, would encompass dozens of projects to help trains, cars, trucks and pedestrians flow past one another. That could mean double-stacking trains, building more clearance under bridges, building overpasses for roads and rails, or improving traffic signals.
The problem: money. The estimated project cost was $3 billion, but as of last year, the project was nearly $2.6 billion short. A $100 million grant from DOT's TIGER program will go to the most urgent projects. Non-federal sources will kick in another $62 million.
Unclog one mode and others may benefit
It was one prominent example of "intermodalism," a common term in Secretary Ray LaHood's DOT. The concept is that people and goods can move in different ways -- by truck, boat, plane or train -- but that each one has unique strengths. In congested zones like Chicago, the thinking goes, those strengths go to waste.
Careful investments, it's argued, can save time, energy and carbon -- all by letting people use the transportation mode that is most efficient.
Will Schroeer, state policy director for Smart Growth America, said the Chicago investment will show that unclogging just a few parts of the transportation system will make the whole thing run smoother.
The railroads will be the first to enjoy the reduced traffic, he said. But soon the effects will ripple out to the city's commuter trains and motorists, who will blow by crossings where they once had to wait. Pressure on the city's urban train, the El, will ease.
"This is not about making freight cheaper for shippers. This is about strengthening the communities and the economy that are going to be served by these projects," he said.
The freight sector makes up a small portion of national greenhouse gas emissions -- roughly 7 percent -- but it may lead the administration's efforts to make transportation more efficient nationwide. The top three TIGER grants, which add up to $300 million, went to CREATE and two other freight rail projects. Many of the remaining grants also devote funds to rail and barge shipping.
Road investments featured relatively lightly, which may signal a change in the freight sector overall. Over the last 20 years, according to DOT, more freight has shifted to trucks and planes, which are faster but less energy-efficient than trains and barges. As truck efficiency has dropped -- partly owing to stronger engines and devices that control other emissions -- the freight industry's carbon footprint has swelled.
Getting 436 miles to the gallon?
Meanwhile, the freight railroads have launched a campaign to brand trains as the most energy-efficient way to move goods. High-profile ads in recent years have boasted of moving "a ton of freight 436 miles on a single gallon of fuel."
At least at the White House, some are buying it. In an e-mail, a DOT spokesperson referred to "the public environmental benefit" of rail: "Shifting traffic from truck to train -- reduces emissions and is more energy-efficient."
That's true, if the modes are compared strictly, said Jim Kruse, director for the Center on Ports and Waterways at the Texas Transportation Institute. In a 2007 report, Kruse and his co-authors found that trucks are one-third as efficient at moving a ton of goods for a mile compared to railroads and inland barges, which use the nation's rivers to get around.
So if large portions of freight were diverted from trucks to trains, would it make a dent in the nation's carbon footprint?
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Just two specifications were offered initially – Active and Elite – with the promise of a spicy SR turbo variant to top the range later in 2016.
The new model underwent significant chassis testing in Australia to ensure it was better suited to local conditions and it had a positive impact on ride and handling characteristics of the Toyota Corolla and Mazda3 rival.
Power came from a new 2.0-litre four-cylinder naturally aspirated petrol engine matched with a six-speed manual (Active only) or a six-speed auto.
Boot space shrunk from 485 to 458 litres thanks to the new suspension set-up and fuel economy was not as good as the previous model thanks to the larger capacity engine, but it was still about average for the segment, consuming 7.2L/100km in auto guise.
Apple CarPlay and Android Auto was offered as standard as was power windows, a 7.0-inch touchscreen, Bluetooth, cruise control, a reversing camera and rear parking sensors among other features in Active guise.
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Direct, High-Yield Conversion of Cellulose into Biofuel†
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This work was supported by a grant from Chevron Technology Ventures. We also thank Prof. Brian Higgins for helpful discussions.
Fueling up with furans: Cellulose can be converted into furanic biofuels in unprecedented yields using an inexpensive, simple process involving concurrent hydrolysis, dehydration, and chlorine substitution reactions coupled with continuous extraction into an organic phase (see scheme). Furanic ethers, such as those that can be derived from the products above, are known diesel additives.


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Teacher professional development through digital content evaluation
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- Xie, K., Kim, M.K., Cheng, SL. et al. Education Tech Research Dev (2017). doi:10.1007/s11423-017-9519-0
In this study, researchers designed and implemented a 1-year professional development (PD) program that focused on supporting teachers in evaluating and selecting digital learning contents. Participants in this investigation included 109 teachers who consented to the study amongst a total of 171 teachers from five school districts across central Ohio. In addition to their participation in the PD program, they completed surveys, interviews, and self-reflections in this mixed-method study. The results revealed that teachers' perceived TPACK increased over time throughout the PD program, suggesting that training teachers to evaluate digital contents can be an effective PD model to improve teachers' capacity in learning technology integration. The PD program was especially effective for teachers with less prior experience in technology integration or related training. Mathematics teachers, in comparison to teachers from other disciplines, began with low TPACK; however, these initial differences gradually diminished over the course of the PD program. In terms of their motivation in digital content evaluation, teachers' expectancy for success increased significantly while their task values remained medium high. The qualitative analyses provided additional insights and revealed design suggestions for success in future PDs.
KeywordsDigital content evaluation Technology integration TPACK Standard alignment Professional development Teacher training
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I just read about a truly disgusting accident where a biker was killed after he made a full stop at a signal, and was rear ended by a Van. You can read about the accident by clicking here. The van driver not only killed this guy but he then ran away. He has turned himself in.
The biker that was killed was riding a custom Big Dog Chopper.
The reason I am bringing attention to this one particular accident is to bring a basic motorcycle safety issue to the forefront. We who ride motorcycles are completely open to the elements. Unlike cagers, we have no protection other than what we are wearing.
When you come to a stop at a signal or stop sign, you should always keep your bike in gear, and you should always be watching your mirrors for idiots that do not look like they are going to stop. Unlike in a car where you may not be able to move out of the way, on a motorcycle you can real quickly give it some gas, let the clutch out and move if you have to.
Always leave yourself an out when you are stopped. Plan on some idiot rear ending you and plan your out; Everytime you Stop! Do not be lazy. After a while this process will become second nature.
Now with respect to custom motorcycles and choppers; there are tons of really cool looking aftermarket mirrors, and even stock mirrors. I ask this question; is having a functional dual mirror setup on your motorcycle, more important than looking cool? No way! Don't buy those micro mirrors that are worthless in function. Make sure you have good mirrors on your motorcycle. The stock mirrors on my Harley Davidson Electra Glide are perfect for functionality. Most stock mirrors on the motorcycles that I have owned are perfect. It is the cool looking aftermarket mirrors that in most cases are worthless.
Some of the custom motorcycles that I have seen being produced have mirrors that are basically installed as an afterthought just because the law requires them to be there. I am guilty on this issue too. I have purchased really cool looking aftermarket mirrors that were basically worthless. I have since changed my ways.
You must be able to see behind you on both sides. Your mirrors can save your life.
There is no way of knowing whether the biker killed in the article mentioned above could have gotten out of the way in this instance. The reason I am bringing this article to your attention is to let you know that when you are stopped on a motorcycle, you must be vigilant to protect your life.
Remember, cagers cannot see us like they would if we were in a car. We must act like we are invisible to the cager. If cager's rear end each other, it is ten times worse for us!
Keep Both Wheels on the Road.
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Senior care is a specialized market that requires a combination of medical attention, compassionate care and assisted living. Whether you offer adult day care, long term care, or hospice services, marketing your senior care services is critical to maintaining high patient levels and profits. The best marketing tactics for senior care involve providing outstanding care and service options that will lead to increased referrals and facility visibility among medical personnel.
Target Family Members
Target family members, especially the adult children of senior adults. Place advertisements in the health section of your local paper and create a website with localized information and helpful senior care advice. Since family members may make the decision regarding senior care for their elderly relatives, it is important for them to review your services. Offer tours that highlight activities and a positive environment. Reduce the anxiety and worry that family members may feel with placing their loved one in senior care through a well-run, activity-oriented facility that provides visibly compassionate care.
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Provide multiple communication options for family members about their loved one's care. Offer daily emails, weekly progress reports and the ability to call-in and discuss the patient. This extra level of communication will set your senior care services apart from competitors and will provide extra piece of mind that many adult children want for their parents in senior care.
Offer comprehensive services like counseling services, treatment transportation, physical therapy, water therapy, alternative therapies and even nutritionists. This comprehensive approach will lead patients to focus their medical dollars in your facility and will assist family members who will not need to rearrange their schedule to transport their loved one to numerous medical appointments and services. As an added bonus, you can provide a higher level of service to your patients who may benefit from services they are unable to obtain due to logistical constraints.
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Specialize in providing in-depth senior focused care. Offer a monthly review of medications to prevent harmful drug interactions, maximize medical benefits, and adjust dosages based on condition changes. Have a gerontologist on-call, or that routinely monitors patients' conditions. This attention to senior specific medical concerns will have customers flocking to your services and may allow you to price your services higher than your competitors.
Many times patients will choose a service provider based on the acceptance of their insurance plan. Accept as many insurance plans as possible and dedicate staff to maximizing each patient's financial benefits. This attention to the financial aspect of patient care will gain the respect of families who will refer your services to other potential patients. Additionally, by maximizing a patient's insurance benefits, your facilities can also increase revenue.
Doctors Offices
Work with doctor's offices that are commonly used by the elderly. Provide information about your services and pamphlets that doctors can use when discussing senior care options with patients and family members. Since doctors are a prime source for senior care referrals, keep your facility on their mind through routine correspondence with helpful information and holiday gifts.
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Connect with other facilities offering senior care at different levels. Many seniors need different levels of care as their condition improves or progresses. Connect with other service providers to make senior care facility transitions as easy as possible. These connections will provide helpful referrals and will increase patient services.


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Inverse polymerase chain reaction
An efficient approach to cloning cDNA ends
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- Huang, SH. Mol Biotechnol (1994) 2: 15. doi:10.1007/BF02789286
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The conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) requires that DNA sequences at both ends of the region to be amplified be known. Inverse PCR (IPCR) and anchored PCR overcome this limitation and amplify flanking unknown DNA sequences by utilizing inverse amplification and a universal primer, rcspectively. The major advantage of IPCR is that two gene-specific primers arc reserved for specific and efficient amplification of the unknown cDNA ends on the basis of a small stretch of known sequence. The protocol consists of five steps: reverse transcription, synthesis of second strand cDNA, circularization of double strand cDNA. reopen the circle DNA, and amplification of the inverse DNA fragment.
Index EntriesInverse PCR flanking cDNA sequences reverse transcription inverse DNA fragment cDNA cloning
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Safety Around the Water
Teaching children how to be safe around water is not a luxury; it is a necessity. The YMCA's Safety Around the Water program will help make sure your child learns essential water safety skills, which can open up a world of possibilities for them to
satisfy their curiosity safely.
Over the week, by learning how to perform a sequence set of skills, your child will gain confidence in and around the water, helping to reduce their risk of drowning.
Kids will attend a daily swim lesson during the week of school vacation in April.
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text: I am looking to purchace either a rear or front prjection display. Here's a list of the components that I will be using: -Panasonic RP91 DVD Player (Prog Scan) -VCR -DirecTV (Cheap RCA receiver with S-Vid out) -Nintendo GAMECUBE (Prog Scan) -PC running at at least 1024x768 (VGA Connection) I was looking at getting the new Samsung DLP Projection TV (HLM507W), but then I was thinking for the price of the TV, is it possible to get a front projector? The TV is on for about 4 hours a day, I just leave it on while doing stuff in my room. I have a basement appartment, so it is VERY dark down there. Can someone give some advice on both the front and rear projection paths. Thanks, Jason Edit: The topic should say Rear, not Read.


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Sorry this is so late! I wanted this on YouTube, but it got flagged, and the flag is still there days after disputing it (it's Fair Use, FFS) so I had to upload it to my new VidMe account. Not being able to monetize this video is irritating after all the work I put into it.
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2017-swf-Brochure ALM 2017 Sydney Writers Festival Brochure: alas, the ALM 2017 brochure is PDF only, though it its full colour! The font is Equity, a font for lawyers by Matthew Butterick… lawyers? Yes! And it's based loosely on Erhardt, a lovely old font that is almost exactly the same as Kis (or Janson, if you prefer), a font used by most American book designers. You can read much more about the font here, at John Tranter's Journal site: http://johntranter.net/special-features/a-font-just-for-lawyers/.
Sarah Bailey
'There had been a few minutes when I was alone with her in the autopsy room. I 'd felt wild. Absent. Before I could stop myself I was leaning close to her, telling her everything. The words draining out of me as she lay there. Her long damp hair hanging off the back of the steel table. Glassy eyes fixed blindly on the ceiling. She was still so beautiful, even in death.
'Our secrets circled madly around the bright white room that morning. Rocking back and forth on my heels as I stood there next to her, I knew how far in I was again, how comprehensively her death could undo me. I looked at Rosalind Ryan properly for the last time before breathing deeply, readying myself, letting her pull me back into her world, and I sank down, further and further until I was completely, utterly under.'
A beautiful young teacher has been murdered, her body found in the lake, strewn with red roses. Local policewoman Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock pushes to be assigned to the case, concealing the fact that she knew the murdered woman in high school years before.
But that 's not all Gemma 's trying to hide. As the investigation digs deeper into the victim 's past, other secrets threaten to come to light, secrets that were supposed to remain buried. The lake holds the key to solving the murder, but it also has the power to drag Gemma down into its dark depths…
Mark Isaacs: The Undesirables
Mark Isaacs went to work inside the Nauru detention centre in 2012. As a Salvation Army employee, he provided humanitarian aid to the men interned in the camp. What he saw there moved him to write this book.
The Undesirables chronicles his time on Nauru, detailing daily life and the stories of the men held there; the self-harm, suicide attempts, and riots; the rare moments of joy; the moments of deep despair. He takes us behind the gates of Nauru and humanises a political debate usually ruled by misleading rhetoric.
In a strange twist of fate, Mark's father, Professor David Isaacs, travelled to Nauru in December 2014 to investigate how children were treated in detention. This revised edition of The Undesirables reveals the human rights abuses Professor Isaacs discovered on Nauru, and interrogates how little has changed for people in detention.
Mark Isaacs is a writer, a community worker, an adventurer, and a campaigner for social justice. He resigned from the Salvation Army in June 2013 and spoke out publicly against the government's 'No Advantage' policy. After returning from Nauru, Mark worked at an asylum seeker settlement agency in Sydney.
Mark appeared in Eva Orner's 2016 documentary Chasing Asylum and has written for Foreign Policy, World Policy Journal, Huffington Post, New Internationalist, Mamamia, New Matilda and VICE.
Joyce Morgan: Martin Sharp
'Martin wore tight pants that were striped red, white and blue, like a Union Jack, and an embroidered Afghan vest. In front of his face he carried, like a lollipop, a smile on a stick. As he went, he bowed to passers-by. Even on King's Road, he stood out.'
Martin Sharp's art was as singular as his style. He blurred the boundaries of high art and low with images of Dylan, Hendrix and naked flower children that defined an era. Along the way the irreverent Australian was charged with obscenity and collaborated with Eric Clapton as he drew rock stars and reprobates into his world.
In this richly told and beautifully written biography, Joyce Morgan captures the loneliness of a privileged childhood, the heady days of the underground magazine Oz as well as the exuberant creativity of Swinging London and beyond.
Sharp pursued his quixotic dream to realise van Gogh's Yellow House in Australia. He obsessively championed eccentric singer Tiny Tim and was haunted by the awful deaths at Sydney's Luna Park. Charismatic and paradoxical, he became a recluse whose phone never stopped ringing.
There was no one like Martin Sharp. When he died, he was described as a stranger in a strange land who left behind a trail of stardust.
Nicholas Whitlam: Four Weeks One Summer
In the summer of 1936, over just four weeks, it all went wrong — for democracy and for Spain, even for the British royals. Politicians failed, and Hitler was emboldened to plan a new European war, and more.
When some army generals sought to overthrow Spain's elected government, Francisco Franco quickly emerged as their leader; Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy supported him with men and materiel; pusillanimous politicians in Britain and the United States, even in France, turned a blind-eye — and the Spanish Civil War was on. Edward VIII took a scandalous holiday cruise with Mrs Simpson, Berlin staged the greatest sporting event of modern times, the alternative Peoples' Olympiad never came to be, and Barcelona was transformed into a unique workers' paradise. All this in four weeks. It was an incongruous, at times brilliant, juxtaposition of events.
Nicholas Whitlam majored in history at Harvard. Four Weeks One Summer, his third book, is the product of a long-held interest in the Spanish Civil War, the Olympic movement and the politics of the 1930s.
Four Weeks One Summer: When It All Went Wrong is published by Australian Scholarly Publishing, at http://www.scholarly.info
Mark Colvin: Launch speech for Four Weeks One Summer: When it All Went Wrong
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WHEN I WAS A SMALL BOY at an English boarding school, our main history text was a small book by one of the masters, Harold Hartley, who made a tidy sum over the years as a result.
It was mostly a book of significant events attached to their dates: events and dates which we were expected to learn by rote. The Battle of Plassey, 1757. The Diet of Worms, 1521. The defenestration of Prague 1617. No context. You learned them first, almost like your alphabet, and expected that eventually, perhaps in your fourth or fifth year, someone would explain what they actually meant. We learned the names of the Kings and Queens of England by means of the mnemonic rhyme:
Willy, Willy, Harry, Ste,
Harry, Dick, John, Harry three,
One, two, three Neds, Richard two,
Henries four, five, six — then who?
Edwards four, five, Dick the bad,
Harries twain and Ned the lad… and so on…
In general the whole approach was remarkably reminiscent of Sellars and Yeatman's great satire 1066 and all that, with its sweeping pronouncements on how any given King's actions were A Good Thing or A Bad Thing — in capitals — and its summings-up of massive historical shifts like the English Civil War in a sentence: 'With the ascension of Charles I to the throne we come at last to the utterly memorable Struggle between the Cavaliers (Wrong but Wromantic) and the Roundheads (Right but Repulsive).'
Even when I was a teenager, history, though less simplistic, was understood as a series of texts by great authorities, who once they'd ruled on a subject could be taken as gospel. G.R. Elton, for instance, was then much more famous as the author of England Under The Tudors than as the father of the creator of Blackadder, and what he said could be faithfully paraphrased if you wanted an A for your essay.
There were the Whig and Tory theories of history, competing with the Marxists of course — this was the sixties — but they all seemed to exist in separate boxes and there appeared to be little real dialogue or debate, and overarching all of them was the Great Man theory. History — whether it was about Kings and Queens or Prime Ministers and Presidents — was mostly about important guys doing important stuff which changed the world.
A lot about the writing of history has changed in the intervening decades, thank heavens. There was a huge shift away from the great men, for one thing, and towards a perspective that looked at the lives of ordinary people — a shift which radically changed our view of the events surrounding the French Revolution, for example.
There was a minor movement towards the counterfactual — what would have happened if the Germans had won the First World War, for instance — which forced some historians to re-examine some of their assumptions. And there were small books of powerful storytelling which could give you a whole new window into a moment or a sweep of history. I would include in that category Dava Sobel's Longitude, on the otherwise dry subject of timekeeping and naval warfare in the 18th century, Mark Kurlansky's book Salt, in which the history of a single chemical illuminates much of human existence, and John Lukacs' Five Days in London, which tells the story of how Churchill only narrowly defeated the appeasers and saw off Lord Halifax to become Prime Minister in May 1940, probably the single most world-changing political moment of the twentieth century.
It's among that distinguished company — and in that category — that Nick Whitlam's book comfortably fits. Because it takes history day by day, switching focus between places and people, it reads almost filmically. It is not just a book about the Spanish Civil War, or the rise of Fascism in Europe, the degree to which sport can ever be apolitical, or the responsibilities of a young man like Edward the Eighth within the confines of a modern constitutional monarchy.
It is — to borrow the title of a BBC Radio series — a book about 'The things we forgot to remember': a book about some things we think we know well and others we may never have heard or. Everyone remembers Jessie Owens' wonderful victories at the Berlin Olympics and the challenge they presented to Hitler's insane race theories — but who has ever heard about the Popular Olympics in Barcelona, the anti-Olympics if you like? I certainly hadn't until I read Nick's book.
Similarly we all know the name of Juan Antonio Samaranch, because it became synonymous with the corruption and authoritarianism of the International Olympic Committee. But where else but in this book can you find him as a 16-year-old fascist preparing to fight for Franco at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, while in a parallel narrative, Avery Brundage is shepherding the American Olympic squad across the Atlantic by ship towards Hitler's festival of Aryan supremacy?
In a quirk of history it's Brundage of course, who goes on to create the massive international rort of International Olympianism with its quasi-State privileges, tax untouchability and group of leaders whose greed became unquenchable — and Samaranch to whom — if you'll pardon the expression — he passes the Olympic torch.
If you believe in genetics, probably no-one but Nick Whitlam could have written this particular book. It begins with a story about his late father and a certain characteristic finickiness about the title of the Duchess of Windsor, and it goes on to be — unmistakably — the book of someone who grew up surrounded by politics in practice and in theory.
But it's also the book of someone whose mother swam for Australia in the British Empire Games, and swam despite an infection for which there were then no antibiotics. If she'd been a couple of years older in other words, Margaret could well have been there in Berlin or Barcelona. With Margaret and Gough, twenty years after the events in this book, he watched the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne.
It's the book, in other words, of someone who has always combined his interest in politics with a fascination with sport.
This is also a book which forces you to ruminate on history's turning points. It occurs in the year after Mussolini has gone to war in Abyssinia, a few months after Hitler has taken the Rhineland. The decisions taken by the German and Italian dictators at this time, supporting the Francoists, and by France's Prime Minister Leon Blum, supporting the Republic, were in retrospect early signs of the long manoeuvring that led up to the Second World War.
Similarly, Britain's inaction, obsessed as the Government was with the Abdication crisis, provides a melancholy foretaste of the moment less than two years hence when Neville Chamberlain would dismiss Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia as a 'quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing'.
That reminds me of another anniversary which we've just commemorated — Moscow's crushing of the Hungarian Revolution, exactly sixty years ago, which they were able to get away with because the world was focussed on the spectacular bungle being committed by France and Britain in Egypt over Suez.
Having just myself put out a book which begins and ends with the Cold War, I'm particularly conscious at the moment of the idea that there are eras with defined beginnings and endings.
I never for a moment subscribed to Francis Fukuyama's theory of the 'End Of History', but I confess we had moved from one fairly lengthy era into another. It seemed to me until quite recently that the end of Marxism had catapulted us back into a period that would be much more like the late nineteenth century: great powers manoeuvring fairly cautiously around each other, perhaps in a new version of the Great Game: certainly a return in economic debate to the great Victorian era standoffs of free trade versus imperial protection or mercantilism.
The parallels I didn't see coming were the ones with the Thirties, in particular the return of a type of populist nationalism to which you can give many labels. Let's face it, the American term 'alt-right' is a euphemism for a host of nasties, from racism to straight out fascism.
We've long been warned against comparing anyone too easily to Hitler, and mostly rightly. But it's not hysterical to note that authoritarians who run up against economic difficulty tend to react by military adventurism. Mussolini invaded Abyssinia — Putin invaded Crimea.
It's not too much to note that Hitler came to power with considerably less than a majority of the popular vote, and that the establishment fatally miscalculated that it — and the institutions of the State — could control him.
It's not too much to note either that a leader who comes to power on an authoritarian platform — as Franco did and as Trump has if we take many of his speeches literally — will not necessarily bring about his own downfall through war or incompetence. Franco came to power in the Spanish Civil War and he remained in power, playing a canny game on the national and international stage, for nearly four decades.
And he died in office, untroubled by opposition because he had crushed all opposition. I remember writing his obituary for [radio station] Double J, forty one years ago last month.
They say all great quotes end up being attributed to Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein or Mark Twain. Twain, it turns out, did not say 'History doesn't repeat itself but it sometimes rhymes': no-one's quite sure who did. What he did write, though slightly less pithy, was this 'History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends.'
This is a book of kaleidoscopic combinations.
It is constructed, eighty years being several generations, from what might seem to us at first to be broken fragments of antique legends.
But in Nick's work, this piece of history suddenly speaks to us as if it were yesterday or today.
Draw your own conclusions, draw your own parallels, but I urge you at least to read it. You will be, to borrow a phrase from the ABC Charter, 'educated, entertained and culturally enriched'.
Christina Stead: The Man Who Loved Children (UK)
Christina Stead, one of Australia's great novelists: The Man Who Loved Children
'This crazy, gorgeous family novel is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn't read the book so much as lived it.' — JONATHAN FRANZEN
All the June Saturday afternoon Sam Pollitt's children were on the lookout for him as they skated round the dirt sidewalks and seamed old asphalt of R Street and Reservoir Road…
Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money and too much loathing for each other. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny becomes a geyser of rage against her improvident husband. And, caught in the midst of it all, is Louisa, Sam's watchful eleven-year-old daughter.
Published in the UK by Apollo. The Norman Rockewll painting used for the cover and for the endpapers is 'Coming and Going', 1947. See below.
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Peter Timms
A Serious History of Silliness
Silliness is basically humour that is completely pointless. It has no moral purpose, it is not satirical, it makes no sense; it thumbs is nose at conventions of form and content and does not fit the standard theories of humour. Silliness is just for fun, although it is not without social and cultural effect.
In this work, high culture happily rubs shoulders with low: when it comes to being silly, the distinction hardly matters. Great authors such as Rabelais and Swift are silly in ways that differ little from the nursery rhymes and popular ditties of their day. Peter Timms explores 18th-century tongue-twisters, the nonsense rhymes of Lewis Carroll, the savage lunacy of Dada, the surrealist antics of the Marx Brothers, the Goons and Monty Python. But above all silliness is timeless. What made people laugh four hundred, or even two thousand years ago, still makes us laugh today.
Peter Timms is the author of many books ranging from books on design, culture, art, gardening to the novel Asking For Trouble, published by HarperCollins in 2014. He lives in Hobart, Tasmania, and to his knowledge nobody has written a serious book on silliness: it is time we took silliness seriously.
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Melissa Ashley
The Birdman's Wife
This work is based on the life of Elizabeth Gould, the wife of the celebrated zoolologist and world famous lithographer John Gould.
Born in England in 1804, Elizabeth married Gould in 1829. After his wife gave birth to four children, Gould announced his intention to travel to Australia. So she left her three youngest children with her mother and with her eldest child, Henry then aged seven, set sail to Australia, a dangerous and perilous journey in those days. It has now been established that Elizabeth was pivotal to Gould's success, providing over six hundred drawings for his publications. She was a great creative artist who researched and studied her subjects in minute detail. The couple spent two years in the colonies before returning to England.
This is a meticiously researched work but also a fascinating portrait of the times. Fiona Henderson, now at Affirm Press, is the publisher. The author is a young Queensland academic in her early forties.
Rights available: U.S. and translation.
Nicholas Whitlam
WHEN IT ALL WENT WRONG: Four Weeks, One Summer
This non-fiction work explores the extraordinary events that took place in Europe in 1936. The author, Nicholas Whitlam, highlights just four weeks (18th July to 16th August) of that year to illustrate the tumultuous changes that shaped the world.
Opening on the day General Franco started the Spanish Civil War, while at the same time Pablo Casals is rehearsing Beethoven's paean to humankind Ode To Joy; four weeks later the book concludes with an enthusiastic mass rendition of the Nazis' the Horst Wessell Song, the last music played at the closing ceremony of the Berlin Olympics in 1936.
Written in diary format, the story explores the little-known Peoples' Olympics in Barcelona; the critical earlys days of the Spanish Civil War; Edward VIII's scandalous holiday cruise with Mrs Wallis Simpson; the impact of Leni Riefenstahl; Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics; and countless others who make up the story of these thirty days.
Nicholas Whitlam is a company director and former banker. A graduate from Harvard University in history, he has long had an interest in Europe between the two World Wars. He has published two previous books: A Nest of Traitors, which dealt with the Petrov affair, and Still Standing, a memoir. He is the son of the former Prime Minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam.
Currently under submission. World rights available.
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Samuel Bellamy
Samuel Bellamy is a 12-year-old transported from the Swan River Colony in Western Australia to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), but who journeys to San Francisco in 1849 in search of his mother. Upon his arrival, in a gold-rush city populated largely by men, he's adopted by an Australian crime gang called 'The Sydney Ducks', and put to work. This gang of largely escaped Australian convicts was notorious for burning down the city on three occasions between 1849 and 1855 (a too-colourful period of San Franciscan history, currently being made into a cable TV series by Mel Gibson.)
In an age where there's no such thing as childhood, Sam learns to survive and behave as his older peers do. When he discovers his mother in the city, he is forced to demonstrate his loyalty to her by way of a daring crime — one that puts his life and everything he holds dear at risk.
Photo, San Francisco 1851: By Unknown — Library of Congress CALL NUMBER: DAG no. 1331, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3374703
David Whish-Wilson lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, where he teaches creative writing at Curtin University. He is the author of short stories and and his novels include the crime books The Frank Swan Trilogy. The first volume Line of Sight (Penguin 2010) was followed by Zero At the Bone (Penguin 2013). The third volume, Old Scores, will be released by Fremantle Press in 2016. This trilogy has also been sold into Germany and will be published by Suhrkamp in 2017.
Kirsten Tranter
Her first novel The Legacy was published in 2010. The Guardian described it as "a seductive contemporary literary thriller… a knowing, classy debut". It was translated into Polish and Spanish.
This was followed by A Common Loss in 2012. The Evening Standard said it was "like a Barbara Vine novel, or Donna Tartt's The Secret History. It's compulsive, it sucks you in."
Now we have her third novel, the beautifully evocative Hold. Ceridwen Dovey, author of Only The Animals, said it was "Sensual, spooky, and utterly beguiling: Hold is an enormously powerful work of art, and intimate portrait of grief and betrayal".
In The Legacy Tranter reimagines Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady, while in Hold there is a similar eerie echo of his short story The Turn of the Screw. Jennifer Levasseur in reviewing it for the Sydney Morning Herald noted how "she evokes an overwhelming sense of dread, tension and trepidation."
Rights: World Rights available ex Australia/New Zealand
Stephen Daisley
Coming Rain
Stephen Daisley wins NZ$50,000 fiction prize at Ockham NZ Book Awards… Reviewer Sue Green writes: 'It is four years since Stephen Daisley's heartbreakingly beautiful debut novel Traitor. Many of us enjoyed the irony of this Western Australia-based Kiwi winning the $80,000 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction with what was, at its heart, a very New Zealand story. So it was disconcerting to discover that this much-anticipated second book is wrought by his experience in the harsh environs of rural Western Australia. Shearer, truck driver, sheep and cattle station worker, Daisley, who moved to Australia more than twenty-five years ago, knows and loves this unforgiving country and its people. [more below]
And it shows. Even such unlovely characters as the violent bigot Painter Hayes are drawn with compassion for a man of his place and time…'
'This is a brutal, unflinching work with moments of shocking violence. Yet it is rendered with the same compassion, the exquisite tenderness and eye for beauty in the harshest places which made Traitor so affecting and memorable.'
Tamora Pierce
Tamora Pierce is an American writer of fantasy fiction for teenagers, known best for stories featuring young heroines. She made a name for herself with her first book series, The Song of the Lioness (1983–1988), which followed the main character Alanna through the trials and triumphs of training as a knight. Many of her books have feminist themes.
Pierce won the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2013, citing her two quartets Song of the Lioness and Protector of the Small (1999–2002). The annual award recognizes one writer and a particular body of work for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature". (Wikipedia)
Judy Osborne
Against his mother's wishes, John Charles Barrie joined the Australian army in 1909. Five years later, he was on his way to Egypt as an officer with the Australian Imperial Force. He survived the war to write his memoirs, which were kept by his family for 80 years.
Made public for the first time, this book gives first-hand accounts of Barrie's wounding at Gallipoli on that fateful first Anzac Day, his recuperation in England, and the friendships he made there. It chronicles his escape from rehab so that he could return to the war in France, and his fighting for days on end, waist-deep in mud in the trenches.
Memoirs of an Anzac tells of the horrors of war, but it is also lightened with the good humour that resulted from thousands of young Australian men being thrown together in dire circumstances.
This is not a history textbook, nor is it a series of diary notes and letters — it is a gut-wrenching, heart-warming true story that will move you. This very personal memoir has been made available by John Barrie's grand-daughter, Judy Osborne, and Introduced and Annotated by Ross McMullin.
Valerie Lawson: Mary Poppins, She Wrote
Valerie Lawson: Mary Poppins, She Wrote
The story of Mary Poppins, the quintessentially English and utterly magical children's nanny, is remarkable enough. She flew into the lives of the Banks family in a children's book that is now hailed as a classic, then became a household name when Julie Andrews stepped into the starring role in Disney's hugely successful film. Now she is a musical sensation all over again in 'Mary Poppins', the musical. But the story of Mary Poppins's creator is just as unexpected and outstanding.
The fabulous nanny was conceived by an Australian, Pamela Lyndon Travers, who in 1924 left Sydney for London, where her career as a writer blossomed.
She travelled in the elite literary circles of the time and, most famously, clashed with Walt Disney over the adaptation of her books into film. Disney accused her of vanity for 'thinking you know more about Mary Poppins than I do'. This struggle formed the center of the recent movie "Saving Mister Banks", starring Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson.
Like her mysterious character, Travers remained inscrutable and enigmatic to the end of her ninety-six remarkable years. Valerie Lawson's illuminating biography provides the only glimpse into the mind of a writer who fervently believed that 'Everyday life is the miracle'.


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Hi I played a bit of chaos a couple of years back before the new rules/codex (though I was never great at it) and recently decided to pick up the hobby again and i have my comeback match this sunday and was hoping for advice all i know is that I can field 1200
Chaos Lord w/ Terminator armor and mark of tzeentch 135 (I liked the look of added invun but not attached to it)
8 Thousand sons
1 Aspiring Sorcerer w/ doombolt
6 chaos space marine w/ccw and pistols and 1 flame
1 aspiring champ w/ power sword and bolt pistol
6 chaos space marines w/ccw and pistols
1 aspiring champ w/power sword and plasma pistol
Fast Attack
4 chaos bikers
1 aspiring champ w/power sword
Heavy Support
2 obliterators 150 (mainly for anti tank and possibly for shooting down high save infantry)
5 Havoks w/2heavy bolters, 1missile launcher and 1 plasma gun 14 (anti infantry and I thought the missile launcher could be good for light vehicles)
I was thinking of taking out either the rhino or the plasma gun from the havoks (or both) and giving the bikers an icon (probably khorne or slanesh)
Apart from whats listed i have 7 possessed 4 terminators (1 with powerfist 1 with chainfist and reaper autocannon) a dreadnought about 10 more marines (1 more heavy bolter and at least 1 more plasma gun) two standard lords (both with powerfist unfortunetly) and a demon prince (b'elakor model from fantasy)
thanks in advance for any help
Last edited by Ajtn; February 13th, 2009 at 23:48. Reason: noticed that i thanked in advance twice (very tired at the time)
ok, first thing I would recommend would be to drop the chaos lord for the daemon prince. I would recommend either "The Lash Prince" (MoS + Lash of Submission) or a prince with no mark and warp time. Both are cheap and very effective.
The thousand sons look good and can function without a rhino but it would definitely help. That being said I think all of your squads should be in rhinos.
I would then recommend either dropping the bikes to bring both marine squads up to ten men with 2 special weapons a piece or to drop one squad to fill out the other. (Take the plasma gun out of the havocs to have 2x plasma in one squad)
If you do keep the bikes I would drop the champion, keep the count at three, and grab them 2 meltas. Unless you plan on using 6+ bikes the champion is really not worth the cost as there is a good chance he'll die before doing anything.
The oblits are good and the havocs are functional after dropping the plasma gun.
I would have recommended more severe changes but realize that you are trying to build a list using the models you already have. Hope this helps!
I survived LO Chat thanks to: Karmoon, Rabbit, Process, Tossy and Meish.
Demon Prince w/MoS wings and warptime 160
8 Thousand sons
1 Aspiring Sorcerer w/ doombolt
9 chaos space marine w/ccw and pistols 1 flamer and 1 plasma gun
1 aspiring champ w/ power sword and bolt pistol
Fast Attack
3 Chaos bikers w/ 2 meltaguns
Heavy Support
2 obliterators 150
5 Havoks w/2heavy bolters, and 1 missile launcher 125
and that leaves 157 points I was thinking of either a squad of 6 possessed or a hq possibly my original termie or should i add another squad of regular marines (most of the remaining models have bolters not combat weapons )
Last edited by Ajtn; February 14th, 2009 at 05:49. Reason: accidently posted before i finished typing
I would really say to switch out the flamer in the normal marine squad for the other plasma gun and give them the rhino instead of the 1k sons. Due to S&P 1k sons can still fire to full range after moving so they need the rhino slightly less.
for the last 160 or so points I recommend getting more bodies on the field. definitely grab another squad, maybe outflanking chosen.
I survived LO Chat thanks to: Karmoon, Rabbit, Process, Tossy and Meish.
Not bad couple of things
1. Give the DP Lash of Submission, warptime is good but lash is just awesome
2. the CSM need a rhino, more than the 1ksons
3. 2 plasmas or 2 flamers, meltas would work well too, just have 2 of the same
4. not sure if you know this but we no longer have to chose between CCW/pistol and bolter, we get them all as standard.
4. give the CSM champ a powerfist
5. drop the bikes for the other marines, bikes w/out MoN are too fragile in my opinion
6. Give the havocs at least 3 more men and give them just missile launchers for versitility
Hope it helps
Thanks for all the help on the day i embarrassingly enough forgot my box of bikers/rhino which resulted in a rather slow army in a game that turned out to be 1500 so all in all an unbalanced list but i think i learnt a bit on the day and from the help here
I know plan on getting at least 1 more biker and another rhino


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By Ryan Ritchey / Louisville Bats | June 6, 2014 10:17 PM ET
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Lehigh Valley was able to salvage the finale of a four-game series, defeating Louisville on Friday night 7-2 at Coca-Cola Park.
Making his 2014 and Reds organization debut was right-hander Brett Marshall (0-1, 13.50). Marshall pitched one and one-third innings, allowed two runs on no hits, and walked five, including a bases loaded walk.
Marshall would exit the game and slated starter Josh Smith (3.77) would take over. He pitched three and two-thirds innings, allowed five runs, on four hits, four walks and struck out four IronPigs.
Louisville pitching allowed ten walks on the night. Add that with last nights total and they have walked 16 over the last 17 innings. The 10 walks in a game ties the season high for Bats pitching. Louisville pitchers walked 10 on April 28 in Buffalo.
Offensively for the Bats center fielder Jason Bourgeois extended his hitting streak to eight games after a 1-for-4 night at the plate. Kristopher Negron has the current team high hitting streak of nine in a row but he was not in the lineup on Friday night. Felix Perez saw his eighth home run of the season fly over the right field wall and now has the team lead in RBI with 41.
In the series finale the IronPigs called on Sean O'Sullivan (3-5, 4.06) to try and salvage a game in the series. He pitched seven-plus innings, allowed one run on five hits, walked one batter and struck out three. He threw 95 pitches, 65 of them for a strike.
The Lehigh Valley offense seemed to be on base all night long as every starter but Jim Murphy reached base in the game. Six out of the nine starters drew at least one walk in the game.
Trevor Bell made his first rehab appearance of the 2014 season. He pitched one inning, and walked a batter and struck out one.
Louisville (31-31) will travel to Pawtucket (30-33) to begin a four-game series with the PawSox tomorrow at 6:05 p.m. Jair Jurrjens (1-0, 1.80) will make his second start of the season opposing right-hander Matt Barnes (1-4, 5.01).
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