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The Science Of Harry Potter And Other College Classes You Wish You Could Take
All around the country, you can hear the sound of college students hitting bookstores with new reading lists and buying mini-fridges in which they will store zero food and a whole lot of beer. Ah, I miss college. Earlier today, I read about a class at Occidental College called, simply, "Stupidity," which I really wish I'd been able to take, even though the course description is a snoozefest. ("Stupidity is neither ignorance nor organicity, but rather, a corollary of knowing and an element of normalcy, the double of intelligence rather than its opposite. Stupidity is always the name of the Other, and it is the sign of the feminine." Huh?) So in honor of back to school, here are some other off-the-wall classes you can actually enroll in at higher education establishments across the country. Yes, the student loans are totally worth it.
|The Class
|The College
|The Deal
|Arguing with "Judge Judy"
|This class is all about logic and the, uh, illogic of arguments constructed on TV court shows.
|Adultery Novel In and Out of Russia
|University of Pennsylvania
|This class actually involves reading heavy-duty novels about the theme of adultery. However, we're more tickled by the "in and out" part of the course title.
|Philosophy and "Star Trek"
|"What better way to learn philosophy, than to watch "Star Trek," read philosophy, and hash it all out in class?" That's from the actual course description.
|Art of Walking
|Center College
|This class meets twice a day—in the first half, they read Kant's Critique of Judgment which is all about beauty and nature. Then in the afternoon, they take a daily walk.
|Learning From YouTube
|Pitzer College
|In this class, students look at what's available on YouTube and what that says about our society. Wonder what they thought of that candy bra video?
|Joy of Garbage
|Santa Clara University
|Field trip! Students in this class go to a sewage treatment plant, a household garbage transfer station, and an electronics recycling facility. Fun?
|The Science of Superheroes
|University of California at Irvine
|This class sounds kind of bad-ass. You learn basic science concepts through discussions of, say, whether Superman could really fly or whether Wonder Woman's bracelet could really deflect bullets.
|The Dirty Picture
|Rhode Island School of Design
|"Note: Sexually explicit subject matter will be addressed and viewed in this course." Nuf said.
|Zombies in Popular Media
|Columbia College
|After all, zombies are the new pop-culture vampires.
|Alfred University
|This class is all about debunking capitalism and showing students that spending money does not equal happiness.
|The Science of Harry Potter
|Frostburg State University
|Holler. This class looks at the magical happenings in the Harry Potter books and explains them via physics. Even quiddich.
|Cyberporn and Society
|State University of New York at Buffalo
|This class looks at how porn built the interwebs, and how having so much available at our fingertips affects us.
|Finding Dates Worth Keeping
|University of Sioux Falls
|Um, no really. I need this class.


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Ludwig Lewisohn, the author, announced in a letter to Morris Rothenberg made public today that he supports him for re-election as president of the Zionist Organization of America. The New England Zionist Region, of which Dr. Lewisohn was elected vice-president at its convention yesterday, adopted a resolution in support of Dr. Stephen S. Wise.
Dr. Lewisohn said in his letter: "I now hear on good authority that you are not unwilling to run again. Under these circumstances there seems no need to add this to Dr. Wise's multifarious and crushing responsibilities and I want to assure you again…of my unqualified endorsement and support."
The Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary of American made public a resolution adopted by its executive council at a special meeting declaring that Dr. Wise's election "would be detrimental to the best interest" of the Z.O.A. and urged election of a president "who will lead us in harmony and retain for Zionism the loyalty and friendships which have been built up through a whole generation of indefatigable labor."


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Just wondering if anyone has experimented in changing the reps and intensity of the 5 movements every couple of weeks. It seems that just shooting for 50 reps of pushups every workout would lead to a plateau after a while. Most experts recommend changing things up like muscle confusion ( to steal from Tony Horton)
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Originally posted by Drmike View PostJust wondering if anyone has experimented in changing the reps and intensity of the 5 movements every couple of weeks. It seems that just shooting for 50 reps of pushups every workout would lead to a plateau after a while. Most experts recommend changing things up like muscle confusion ( to steal from Tony Horton)
Through Pavel Tsatsoulines different books I have found an easy way of applying perodization: three workouts a week where workout 1 is quite easy (just doing the basic move at an easy stage) workout 2 is moderate, a workout with the heart pumping rather high, and workout 3 is a balls to the walls ninjakickinthe head workout. To get strong, do 3-5/8 reps in 3-5 sets. Vary the exercise to get variation/periodization (Pavel varies the amount of sets/reps). This can easily be done with all basic exercises.
Example w pushups and squats:
1) Knee pushups, box squatss
2) Normal pushups, normal squats (air squats)
3) Assisted one arm pushups, assisted pistols
When I can do 20 something of a certain exercise any given sunday (i.e. 20 normal pushups without warmup or any real fatigue afterwards) I make that my exercise day 1 basis. For me, 20+ reps is boring and waste of time (provided that it is not a HIIT workout/conditioning). Also, consider that the basic movements can be varied with some equipment. The horizontal press (pushups) can be done through bench press, dips etc. and the shoulders can be done through military press, kettlebell work and handstand shoulder press. A vertical pull can be deadlift, heavy kettlebell swing and light sumo dead lift high pull.
Just make sure that day 1 is EASY, a walk in the park. Day 2 is a "normal" workout and day 3 is when you go ninja.
It really boils down to exactly what you're trying to get out of the movements. But I'd say that to continue to get results you need to continually progress the movements. With lifting this is easy - just add more weight to the bar. Bodyweight work requires a little more ingenuity.
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Check out Convict Conditioning. It has some of the best bodyweight strength progressions I've ever seen, and everyone from Pavel to Gray Cook endorse it. 50 pushups is impressive, but I find a single one-arm pushup to be even more so (not there yet, but I'm working on it!).Josh Vernier, CPT
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As for all communities established along the coastline
sea, related techniques, such as shipbuilding, seafaring, as well
as fishing, were developed in Greece from the down of the history.
Greeks established very strong ties with the sea and soon they
become a tremendous sea power. Bold discoverers visited in their
ships the entire known ancient world and they established commercial
relations with distant nations. The nautical supremacy of the
Athenians, with their warships the "TRIREMS" -that bore
three rows of oars as well as a metallic ram projecting from the
bow- enabled them to withstand victoriously the assault of outnumbering
Persians who wanted to enslave them. It is thanks to their maritime
valor that they established trade colonies throughout the then
known world.
Simultaneously Greeks discovered at a very early
stage the immense wealth of the sea bed and consequently fishing
and free diving developed greatly. The free divers of that ancient
world were not used only for nourishment needs but also for war
purposes. Thus they formed a precious part of warship crews. Most
of the existing reports relating to these times give evidence
of the feats of these diving warriors. As was then customary,
heroic duds were divined and thus the names of heroes were added
to mythology. Thus besides Poseidon, the God of the sea and master
of the fate of every seaman, Greek mythology refers to the astounding
diving achievements of GLAFKOS.
SKYLLIS and YDNA
In Herodotus SKYLLIYS the Skionian (from Skiona in
Halkidiki) is referred to as " a superb diver" and it
is mentioned that he dived in the deepest parts of the sea. He
taught the diving techniques to his daughter YDNA. At the beginning
SKYLLIS was an ally of the Persians and he partook to their expedition
against the Hellenes. When the Persian flute shipwrecked an the
shores of Pilion, he dived and recuperated valuable objects from
the sunken ships, but kept however for himself some of the most
valuable. Thus he lost the Persians favor and had to escape by
swimming (oft underwater) the distance of 80 Stadius (approx.
15 km). With his daughter's help he succeeded in destroying the
remainder of the Persian Ships and , diving below, they cut their
anchors and all safety means. In their honour the "Amhiktyons"
erected their statues at Delphi. The statue of YDNA was subsequently
taken away to Rome by the Roman emperor Nero, whereas the statue
of SKYLLIYAS stood there up to the year 170 A.C.
It should be particularly noted that Herodotus mentions, as regards YDNA, that only virgin women were allowed to practice the diving art in antiquity.
References as to the feats of divers for military purposes, making No mention of any particular ones, are made by Homer in ILIAD - Rhapsody verses 733-750 ,"truly, the Trojans have in their ranks such capable divers?" as well as by Thoukididis in SIKELICA, 7th book, chapter 25 where referring to the siege of Syracuse by the Athenians, he describes the method and the endeavors exerted by the Athenian divers to destroy the underwater defensive barriers of the harbour.
The resort to divers for clearly military operations is also mentioned to have taken place in the course of the battle of Thermopiles when the Greek leader Leonidas sent a special corps of divers to kidnap the Persian emperor from his headquarters, considering that the only way to reach the Persian encampment was via the sea. Although the raid was a success, the Persian emperor was not captured as he was not in his quarters that night.
The tradition of sponge collection, with their unbelievable feats, spread to many Greek islands, but its main representatives are the inhabitants of Kalymnos and Symi. It is said, though this has not been ascertained, that Alexander the Great dived, and remained underwater for a long time, using a crystal bell. (shortly before his unexpected death, making some experts to speak about decompression sickness).
The first recorder descent, made with the use of
an autonomous apparatus, is that of a women, called EVGENYA MASTORIDI,
wife of PHOTIOS MASTORIDIS, and effected in the isle of Symi in
1863. Her husband was a renowned sponge diver and he brought in
Greece the first scaphander. As his country men were not easy
to convince to try the new equipment, which considered risky,
his pregnant wife wore it and dived at the entrance of the harbour.
The use of such diving "wear" spread throughout these
two islands and brought wealth to its inhabitants. However it
also brought the terrible and then yet unknown diver's sickness,
up to these days one can meet on the island of Calymnos one of
these former "mechanics" (as these autonomous divers
were then called) hit by the paralysis caused by this accursed
Particular attention should be given to the story
of STATHIS HADZIS, the firs man ever to dive freely to a depth
of over 80m. Hadzis was a famed diver of the island of Symi.
The captain of an Italian warship called the "Regina Margherita"
asked him to recover his vessel's anchor that had been lost at
cape Pigadia off the island of Karpathos. On 16 July 1913, in
the presence of the entire crew of the warship, he effected the
unbelievable immersion to a depth of 88m., just holding a stone
in his hands that dragged him to the bottom swiftly. When in the
darkness of the abyss , he succeeded in locating the lost anchor,
he tied to its chain a wire which he was carrying round his waist.
The whole operation lasted 3min and 58 seconds, as recorded by
the ship's officers. Hadzis was upon his ascent examined by doctors.
He was vainly trying to tell them that it was only underwater
that he had the ability of holding his breath for such a long
time. This unbelievable feat by Stathis Xadzis was recorded in
the ship's log. The story became known throughout the world thanks
to two persons: the modern world champion in deep diving Jacque
Mayol and a former sailor of the warship who attained in 1950
a high ranking position in the Italian Admiralty.
(Bibliography: Mythology of Gods and Demons/ The
Conqueror of the immense Blue G.Detorakis/ relevant books : Pafsanias
9,22,6-7/Athineos 7.296-297/Filostratos.Icons2/ Commentaries of
Platon/The Barbarians by K.Plevris)


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Mission-oriented revenue cycle leaders recognize that the amount of money collected needs to be balanced with the use of patient-friendly practices. Patients do not typically distinguish between a hospital that provided excellent care and the collection representatives who contacted them after the care was delivered.
"Never forget that those folks represent your hospital. If they do a poor job, it tarnishes the reputation of your organization," says Greg Meyers, vice president-revenue integrity at INTEGRIS, a 14-hospital system in Oklahoma.
To ensure a patient-oriented approach, INTEGRIS moved its collections in house. Cleveland Clinic has taken the opposite approach and is trying to form close partnerships with collection agencies that share its mission.
Cleveland Clinic contracts with 10 billing agencies, five of which handle accounts receivable. The others deal with bad debt accounts or estate collections. Many healthcare financial executives would refer to these collection agencies as "vendors," but Lyman Sornberger, executive director of revenue cycle management, prefers the term "partner."
"Our philosophy is that we want a partnership, not necessarily a vendor/provider relationship," he says. "That partnership means they know our business, they know our mission and philosophy, and they will adhere to it."
As a result, the health system will not choose outside agencies based only on the lowest bid. "Cheaper isn't always best because that cheaper vendor, no matter how you hold them accountable, will probably only do the minimum, which leaves you at some risk," he says. "We want more of a personal touch, and we're willing to pay for that."
Cleveland Clinic creates partner relationships with outside companies through three key steps: evaluating bids, negotiating contracts, and monitoring performance, Sornberger says. The Clinic's policies, standards, and "Patients First" principles are continuously communicated to its partners, and these agencies are expected to mirror the Clinic's approach in their interactions with patients.
Bidding and contracting. The creation of a Cleveland Clinic partnership starts during the request-for-proposal process. The Clinic scrutinizes bids to find organizations that share its values. "We want to make sure they are doing due diligence in, for example, the selection of employees. If they don't agree with our philosophy of due diligence, then we're probably not a good partner," Sornberger says.
Similarly, Sornberger puts a high priority on giving employees training on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, HIPAA privacy regulations related to collections, applicable state laws, and other compliance issues?and expects outside agencies to do the same. Cleveland Clinic believes that new collections personnel need formal classroom training program that includes interactive scenarios and testing. "So if a vendor says, 'We have a buddy program where trainees sit with an experienced worker,' we don't tell them it's the wrong thing, we just say that is not our culture," Sornberger says.
Details of the partnership relationship are spelled out in the Clinic's contracts, which include the following statement: "Company ABC will adhere to all client policy and procedures and adhere to the Cleveland Clinic Health Systems mission." This means that any time the Clinic changes a billing or collection policy, contracted agencies must adapt their procedures to comply.
Evaluating performance. Sornberger introduced a quality program to ensure all revenue cycle employees and vendors are meeting the Clinic's standards. Dedicated auditors review anywhere from 10 percent to 100 percent of accounts, depending on the area, each month. "They audit accounts, internal and external, to see whether policies are being followed and whether we are living up to our mission," he says. "If I see anything glaring, then I reach out."
In addition, each of Cleveland Clinic's revenue cycle units and external vendors is required to hit the 95th percentile of certain benchmarks and thresholds. Cleveland Clinic distributes a monthly report card to each of the five agencies that handle accounts receivable. Each agency's report shows how its performance compared to the (blinded) results of the other four agencies (see the exhibit below). Any agency that is the lowest performer for three consecutive months receives a termination letter. In the past six years, only two agencies have been terminated.
The report card reflects not only the agency's collection results but other factors, including the number of complaints received from patients and the number of VIP complaints that have escalated to the C-suite. "We measure agency performance beyond just the financial exposure to the health system," Sornberger says.
Two years ago, INTEGRIS, a 14-hospital system in Oklahoma, moved its accounts receivable collections in-house to accomplish two goals: Increase the amount of money collected and improve the patient experience.
The health system hired six additional staff members and invested about $400,000 in technology to drive a largely automated collection process. "By the fifth month, we had paid for the system and increased our collections by more than $350,000 a month-with a much more patient-centric approach," says Greg Meyers, vice president-revenue integrity at INTEGRIS. "The complaint calls from patients who are being sought out by collections dropped significantly. It turned out to be a good decision."
INTEGRIS' decision hinged on two factors. First, the emergence of new technology convinced Meyers that collections could be handled efficiently in-house. Furthermore, the system's unannounced audits of collection agencies revealed that the agencies were not always representing INTEGRIS with a patient-friendly approach.
"Collections activities can be the last voice of INTEGRIS," he says. "When patients leave the hospital, and they have gotten wonderful care and life-saving care, all that goodwill can disappear if they have bad collection experiences. We felt it was so important to keep the patient-centered focus that we moved all that back into our business office."
Segmenting patients. INTEGRIS uses a software program that assigns a propensity-to-pay score to each patient at the time of registration (see the exhibit below). Those scores, which reflect a patient's payment history and payment ability, are combined with account balances to segment patients into categories, each of which has a pre-determined protocol for collection activities. For example, patients whose scores indicate they are very likely to pay quickly get what Meyers refers to as a "concierge call."
"For folks who have high scores, it's really not a collection activity," Meyer says. "It's more like, 'How was your visit, was there anything we could do better, anything you didn't like, and by the way, since we have you on the phone, we can go ahead and take care of your account now, if you'd like.'"
Different automated workflows are programmed into the collection software to drive the various protocols. "Letters with different verbiage on them go out at different points in time, based on where someone falls on the propensity-to-pay chart," Meyers says.
"Now that we have a lot of history, we can see pockets of opportunity where people with certain scores usually always pay," he says. "We didn't know that in the past, so those accounts would get sent on to collection agencies. Now, we collect those internally, eliminate fees, and provide a better experience to the patients."
Automating charity designation. INTEGRIS further automated its processes by creating a presumptive charity program for patients with very low propensity-to-pay scores that translated to a low ability to pay. Historically, staff devoted hours to the tedious process of getting patients qualified for charity care. After it implemented the propensity-to-pay technology, INTEGRIS analyzed data for patients with very low scores below a defined threshold and found that more than 99 percent of them eventually qualified for charity care.
Meyers' staff used that analysis to convince INTEGRIS' outside audit firm that automatically assigning accounts with certain scores to charity care was appropriate. "That cut down on a whole internal administrative hassle that we used to have," he says.
Collecting bad debts. About 4 percent of INTEGRIS' gross revenue winds up in bad-debt collections, which Meyers considers an acceptable level for the Oklahoma market. "Our self-pay population has increased, but our bad debt has held fairly stable over the last several years," he says. "That indicates to us that moving collections back internally has been a good decision."
INTEGRIS contracts with two external agencies for bad-debt collections and one secondary-placement agency that pursue accounts when the primary agencies are unsuccessful. To be selected as a vendor, the agencies must:
INTEGRIS monitors the agencies through unannounced visits to audit their collection practices and ensure that the agencies are representing INTEGRIS in a professional manner.
Because the technology needed to segment the patient population for specific collection protocols is so expensive, Meyers says small stand-alone hospitals may not be able to justify it. But he recommends technology-driven, in-house collections to those health systems that can afford it. Since it started bringing A/R collections in-house two years ago, INTEGRIS has fine-tuned the system to reach the right balance of patient-friendly methods and collection success-and eliminated the worry that an overzealous outside agency might be heavy-handed in pursuing money from an INTEGRIS patient.
"We're at the point now where we have a multi-tiered focused approach and have a lot of different collection strategies based on the financial profile of the patient," Meyers says.
Lola Butcher is a freelance writer and editor based in Missouri.
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Lyman Sornberger is executive director of revenue cycle management, Cleveland Clinic Health System, Cleveland, Ohio, and a member of HFMA's Northeast Ohio Chapter (email@example.com).
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While queuing up in the EA business area at Gamescom in Cologne last year, waiting to get hands-on time with the likes of Titanfall and Battlefield 4, I was startled to see a familiar title stuck on one of the area's many doors. I saw "Dungeon Keeper" and gasped, then turned to the EA staff member who was taking me to my appointments.
"You're remaking Dungeon Keeper?" I asked.
"Oh yes," she said. "Didn't you know?"
"No!" I almost shouted. "How did I not know about this? I love Dungeon Keeper!"
"Oh, would you like a demo?"
The original Dungeon Keeper and its sequel remain two of my all-time favourites. They came out around the time I got my first well-paid 9-5 day job, when I had disposable income and could afford my first gaming PC and state of the art (for the time) games to play on it.
Playing the villain was a rare thrill, especially with the game's deliciously sardonic sense of humour. Before each level - in which you would tunnel out rooms and corridors and fill them with treasure, monsters, and traps, in preparation for the arrival of some noble hero or other - a delightfully evil spoken intro would describe the idyllic place that was about to be conquered by your slavering hordes. Neatly bookending this would be a second voiceover at the end of the level, describing the destruction you had wrought.
Back in Cologne, my friendly PR rep managed to secure me an unscheduled ten minute session with the new Dungeon Keeper, and within seconds my excitement had shrivelled to nothing. This was not the free-flowing villainous sandbox of the original games. Where I could once dig out a new room in less than a minute, this new version could take up to 24 hours for a single square, always with the reminder that I could spend real-world money to buy gems to speed things up.
My beloved Dungeon Keeper had gone freemium, and I wasn't happy.
In the gaming world, there is rarely such a thing as a truly free game. Studios and publishers quite rightly want to be paid for their work, and so-called "free to play" games are typically geared toward encouraging the player to spend real cash in order to progress faster.
The art of convincing punters to part with their money has turned into a stock formula. First, make the game quick to play at first, then gradually stretch out completion times the longer you play. Give the player a handful of whatever currency they need to hurry the game along, providing them with a taste of the convenience that will cost them cash in future. Finally, give the player frequent small rewards throughout the day, encouraging them to play for just a few minutes at a time, but many times per day; also, ensure that they stop receiving any reward if they don't come back regularly.
This business model for mobile games has become the most profitable for any gaming platform. Some of the most popular free-to-play games on Apple touch devices are reportedly earning over $500,000 per day, which is close to $200 million a year. Paying up front for a mobile game looks to become a thing of the past, with only nine of the top 100 earners on the App Store having a flat fee. Some players spend horrifying amounts of money on these titles.
In-app purchases have been occurring since 2009, when Apple enabled the feature on their distribution network. Early freemium hits included Dragonvale and Tiny Tower - both of which I was hooked on for a time, though I never spent any money on either. Many industry commentators have complained about them in the past, worrying that games geared toward wringing dollars out of players' pockets will become more popular than those designed to simply be a great gaming experience.
However, the usual grumbling about the evils of free-to-play surged dramatically when Dungeon Keeper was released a month or so ago. Gaming news and opinion sites were flooded with articles bemoaning the malign influence of the business model on the entire industry, not least because Dungeon Keeper's in-app purchases seemed to be unusually expensive. Some went so far as to say that these games are destroying the entire industry.
One of the interesting developments from this, though, is that Dungeon Keeper has bombed. It is nowhere to be seen in the top 100 highest grossing games for iPhone or iPad. While it may be tempting to think that this is the result of negative publicity, it is most likely just down to terrible market research on EA's part. There's hasn't been a Dungeon Keeper game for 15 years, which means most of its existing fans are 30-40 years old, coincidentally the demographic least likely to pay for in-app purchases.
Why would EA appeal to the nostalgia of a demographic that will refuse to pay for their new game, and will instead scream bloody murder about how it has corrupted the purity of a franchise they loved? It's particularly galling when you consider that a faithful remake of Dungeon Keeper would have worked beautifully on a touch screen, and hordes of nostalgic thirtysomethings would have happily shelled out five bucks for it up front.
The failure of this new version of Dungeon Keeper actually gives me hope. It sends a clear message to EA and other publishers that while casual free-to-play gaming may be lucrative with certain demographics, there are dedicated gamers who would love to play mobile games, particularly games that feed into their nostalgia, but want an actual game that they can pay for in its entirety and enjoy at their own pace.
Even if the entire mainstream gaming industry went free-to-play (which, despite the doomsayers, is comically unlikely) there would still be legions of independent studios who make games because they love them. Major studios would lose talented staff in droves because they want to craft excellent gaming experiences, not engineer game-like machines for separating money from wallets.
Regardless of what happens in mobile gaming, someone will always have the passion to make great games.
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After nearly 80 years of publication, the US-based magazine Newsweek on December 31 released its last print issue, making way for its transition to an online-only format.
The magazine, which started publishing in 1933, has long been considered an important source for news analysis and political commentary by readers in Myanmar.
U Maung Maung Lwin — general manager of Innwa bookstore on Pansodan Street, which has sold subscriptions to Newsweek since 1995 — said most of the people who bought the magazine through his shop were "retirees".
He said he didn't think the magazine's transition to a digital format would satisfy the preference among these older readers for print magazines.
"I tell the subscribers that they can read the magazine online, but they don't like that idea," U Maung Maung Lwin said.
"The retirees say it's impossible to read online. They want to read news on paper. They want to make notes in the margins of the articles and highlight words they want to remember, and they want to be able to read the articles over again."
He said he has made a career out of distributing English-language magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Fortune, The Economist, Reader's Digest and National Geographic, and he has encountered this type of transition in the past.
Innwa had distributed Businessweek and Discovery Channel magazines, both of which stopped printing for a short period but which re-launched as print magazines. The bookstore still sells issues of Discovery Channel magazine.
"So I hope we will see Newsweek in print form again in the future," U Maung Maung Lwin said.
He added that Newsweek's distribution representative to Myanmar was always considerate of local readers, moderating the price to a reasonable K1200 an issue for subscribers.
"At my bookstore there have always been more subscribers to Newsweek than to Time," he said, adding that each week his shop delivered 700 copies of Newsweek to people's homes.
Copies of the magazine became readily available in Myanmar shortly after independence in 1948.
U Maung Maung Lwin said there were always risks associated with supplying copies of the magazine to readers, especially when it contained articles about Myanmar that expressed views contrary to the draconian censorship policies of the military government.
"We had to tear some pages from the magazine if censored articles and news stories were included inside. If the front-page news was censored, the whole magazine was banned from distribution. Such incidents were relatively rare, but they happened at least once a year," he said.
He said it was "sad" that the magazine's subscribers cannot enjoy the pleasure of freely reading the articles, decrying the timing of the print edition's termination mere months after censorship of print media was ended in the country.
U Zaw Win, 90, subscribed to Newsweek from 1955 to 1990.
"There are several widely read news magazine in the US, such Time and Newsweek. Time is read for political views and Newsweek is best for updated news. I prefer Newsweek," he said.
He added that in 1955 the subscription rate was K90 a year.
"I stopped my subscription in 1990 because they always tore out the pages that included important news about Myanmar. For example, while reading the magazine, the pages might jump from 30 to 34. It spoiled the experience," he said.
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What are external and internal conflicts in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad?
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In "Heart of Darkness" the internal and external conflicts are intertwined with Marlow's trip into colonial Africa. Initially seeking adventure, Marlow is looking forward to taking a journey up the Congo River to find Kurtz, a man whom he initially admires. However, during the trip, Marlow encounters many external conflicts that begin to change Marlow's internal beliefs. His journey is a difficult one and the external conflicts Marlow sees are horrific. He sees a French ship shelling the bush country but there seem to be no humans in sight. He sees naked black men dead and dying of disease. He boat is fired upon by supporters of Kurtz. Finally, when Marlow meets Kurtz, he finds a man whom he can no longer admire. He sees and feels how low man can sink into corruption. Internally, Marlow is disgusted. Then he takes Kurtz, who is dying, back down the Congo. Kurtz has become his "choice of nightmares". When he hears Kurtz's last words, "The horror, the horror". Marlow assumes that Kurtz has seen the consequences of his actions and resumes his loyalty to Kurtz. But seeing the horrors of Africa changes Marlow. At the beginning of the novel, he says he hates lies. However, one year after returning to Belgium, he sees Kurtz's fiancee and lies to her, telling her Kurtz died with her name on his lips. He lies in order to prevent her from seeing the same kinds of horrors he witnessed in Africa. Thus, his external voyage has affected his interior beliefs.


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Masked man in double shooting
Date published: 30 June 2014
A MASKED gunman shot two men as they sat in a car in St Mary's last night.
The victims were in a Seat Leon on Radcliffe Road when they were approached by the man — described only as black and wearing dark clothing — at 10.20pm.
The gunman spoke to them both briefly before shooting them and making off on foot.
A 19-year-old man was taken to hospital for treatment to stomach injuries and a 20-year-old man for injuries to his buttocks.
Superintendent Denise Worth said: "We are at the very early stages of our investigation but believe this was a deliberate and targeted attack. While the injuries are very serious, we don't believe they are life threatening. It is hugely fortunate neither has been killed.
"I would encourage anyone with information about what happened to call us in absolute confidence.
Anyone with information can call police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Drug's has to be something like that.
Every criminal who wants a gun has either got one, or can get one. Not just an ordinary pistol, but large calibre, machine guns and even hand grenades.
Partly thanks to the EU opening our borders to 'vibrancy'.
We now have an excuse for a police force, more interested in political correctness than crime, so don't expect any help from them.
As we move into a state of anarchy we need the law abiding to be able to protect themselves in their homes, and the time has come to allow firearms ownership.
People don't get shot for no reason! If you play with fire your gonna get burnt its a simple as that.
" Hi ho Silver , awaaay " , sorry poor taste I know but I couldn't resist it . Hope they recover and that the shooter is caught soon .
Oldham getting more like the ghetto on a daily basis. Drugs fights stabbings shootings.
great idea Flake@. guns on the NHS for everyone. That would put a stop to gun violence.
@Flake - where to even begin with your comment! I am assuming your reference to the opening of borders and 'vibrancy' is basically accusing immigrants of being behind gun crime which is outrageous. Last major shooting in this area was by a certain English chap called Dale Creegan! As for allowing gun ownership, that is the stupidest thing you have ever said and there's been a lot. Do you want this country to go the way of America? The police have driven gun crime down in this country
No chance of gun ownership in UK, far too many stupid people!
I don't mean that I am some high and mighty intellect, but a bit of common sense is lost in this country.
Look at dog ownership now, on dodgy ground if your dog attacks a burglar on your property.
All because some stupid people had several dogs heavier than a human and left them untrained, without exercise, and unsupervised with strangers and young children.
Lord no, don't give these people guns!!
Cowardly criminals wouldn't risk shooting at someone if they knew dozens of other gun owners were ready to shoot them if they tried .Most of the gun rampages in the states happen where the gun controls are the tightest and that's because no one is armed to oppose them except the police who are only minutes away when the seconds count.A bit like ours .
@johnprice - utter nonsense. Most gun rampages are because gun laws aren't tight enough so it is too easy for people to get their hands on weapons and most of time it's people who are under the legal age.
Oh Bramble you are silly !
Where do you think Dale Creegan obtained his arsenal of weapons from?
Yep that's right! They came from former Eastern bloc countries which joined the borderless EU.
This is well documented if only you could stop the knee jerk reaction to anything you disagree with, and stop & think for a moment!
Cregan is not the only criminal to have made use of this supply route, plenty of other criminals have done the same too.
@Flake - so using your logic it must mean before the EU introduced free movement there can't have been any weapons in the UK ever as it's all their fault. Wonder where the IRA got their weapons from? If someone with criminal intent wants a weapon they will get one but let's not let stand in the way of another ill judged criticism of the EU.
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ProLink Solutions has announced the Green Valley Ranch Golf Club (Denver, Colo.) now features the ProLink Solutions ProStar GPS system used at many of the world's most famous golf courses.
The Perry Dye-designed Green Valley Ranch Golf Club consistently earns rave reviews and accolades. In 2007, the readers of Colorado Avid Golfer named it the Most Family-Friendly Course, Most Female-Friendly Course and Best Overall Value while calling the 639-yard, par-5 18th the Best Finishing Hole. Green Valley Ranch blends natural wetlands, creeks and giant cottonwoods into a stirring golf experience.
Green Valley Ranch previously featured ProLink's GameStar GPS system. Last year, ProLink posted a renewal rate of approximately 90 percent on expiring leases.
"We're excited to add ProLink's ProStar GPS to the amenities at Green Valley Ranch. Our guests will enjoy and appreciate the excellent graphics and strategic help the system provides," says Matt Bryant, Director of Golf at Green Valley Ranch.
"On the operations side, we rely on ProLink to keep the pace of play moving, promote restaurant and pro shop specials, and attract extra tournament play with the scoring software. We consider it a necessity for managing the course and maximizing revenue."
"Green Valley Ranch Golf Club ranks among Denver's premier golf operations, and we are proud to call the club a trusted partner," says Lawrence D. Bain, CEO of ProLink Solutions.
"We've forged and maintained long-term relationships with upscale courses like Green Valley Ranch thanks to our superior technology, reliability and commitment to customer support. The return on investment our system delivers makes ProLink the clear choice for golf course GPS."
With ProLink's patented, 10.4" high-resolution color screen - the industry's largest - Green Valley Ranch's cart-mounted units display dynamic, easy-to-read graphics including distances to the pin and hazards, pro tips, pace-of-play timer and radial arc for cart-path-only holes. Golfers at Green Valley Ranch will also be able to order food and beverage items with a touch of a button on the ProLink screen.
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whats the fastest and most easiest way to find all the subsets in a given set?
use 2 as the base!, 2 raise to the power of n, where n is the number of elements in a set.
The power set is the set of all possible subsets of a given set of cardinality n (contains n elements). The power set has a cardinality of 2^n.
To find the all elements of the power set of a given set A, we start with the null set, and add one element at a time.
{∅,a, b,{a,b}}
{∅,a, b,{a,b}, c,{a,c},{b,c},{a,b,c}}
and so on.
We see that the introduction of each element of A doubles the number of subsets, hence the total number of 2^n.


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Netgear Arlo cuts all cords for weatherproof security cameras
Netgear has launched a new wireless security camera, Arlo, promising complete liberation from wires thanks to WiFi and some long-lasting batteries. Streaming 720p video to iOS and Android apps, and delivering low-light vision for nighttime use, the Arlo cameras are weatherproof for outdoor use. At first glance, then, they seem like the ideal alternative to a Dropcam for the wire-averse; however, there are some compromises to be made if you want to cut your cords completely.


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London City Airport Consultative Committee
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About the facilities at London City Airport for Corporate Aviation
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Jet Centre
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Jet Centre
LONDON City Airport is proving popular with corporate operators who enjoy the speed and efficiency of an Airport so close to the city centre. Between 1995 and 2001 there was a 252% increase in corporate aviation and in August that year the Airport announced it was to build a dedicated facility for this traffic.
This Jet Centre was completed in mid 2002. It has since been upgraded twice. The latest extension and reordering of the space was completed in the summer of 2008. This extension has stream-lined passenger flow through the jet centre, offering separate arrivals/departure lounges and dedicated operator/customer areas. The Centre provides a complete corporate aviation package including VIP lounges, a dedicated VIP stand, parking for at least 20 aircraft and immigration, customs and crew facilities. The Airport itself operates the centre with a fully trained staff on hand to provide flight planning, weather briefings and landing clearances. They also organise slot requests, ground handling arrangements, flight watch, cleaning, catering, line maintenance, refuelling, baggage and aircraft handling.
The Jet Centre, the only fixed base operation (FBO) actually in London, is a key attraction to the users of corporate aircraft being only six miles from the heart of London with easy access to the City and Canary Wharf . And the surrounding road network allows users to reach the A406 and M11 within 10 minutes. The facility thus offers speed and convenience - two keys factors for the business traveller today.
The growth in corporate aviation has been fuelled by new schemes such as fractional ownership, virtual airlines, corporate shuttle and many more innovative approaches, all of which are aimed at meeting increased customer demand as businesses recognise the benefits flowing from corporate aviation and how it can help them to improve their performance.
Fractional ownership aircraft, where businesses buy a percentage of an aircraft, represented in flight hours, drastically reduce the cost of private air travel and now account for approximately 55% of the Jet Centre's business.
Total corporate movements at London City in 2007 came to 13,669 - this compares with 13,076 in 2006 and 9,674 in 2005.
In June 2006, The Jet Centre was awarded the contract to provide a Premier Passenger Service at RAF Northolt. Adding Northolt Jet Centre PPS allows London City Airport to enhance its London operation and tailor it's corporate passenger handling. Passengers travelling to the West End from Northolt will enjoy the location benefits that passengers currently enjoy travelling via the London City Airport Jet Centre to central London.
Aircraft Types
For a full list of approved types see our Aircraft Page. They include a number of corporate types including the Beechcraft 200/900, 350 & C90, a number of variants of the Cessna Citation, Bombardier Learjet 40/45/45XR, the Dassault Falcon DA10/50/900, the Embraer Legacy, the Hawker 400SP/HS800XP/800. To ensure maximum use of London City , the airport maintains an involvement with manufacturers and operators so that current aircraft with the necessary performance capabilities are cleared for operations and that future models take account of its steep approach requirements
Charter Services
PrivateJet, London City Airport 's worldwide executive jet charter brokering service, celebrated its first birthday on in April 2007and predicts growth of 100% for their second year of operation.
PrivateJet is confident of their growth target for year two, which is being fuelled by the business community, increasingly recognising the value of using private jets. Currently PrivateJet are seeing the business aviation segment of the market growing faster than any other in air transport. The majority of PrivateJet's demand is for European travel. Europe is a rapidly expanding market and, while America is expected to remain the largest market for business jets, deliveries of private jets into Europe are now exceeding America
PrivateJet attends to all customer needs, from initial quotation through to the VIP catering that may be required on board. In short, every detail is looked after to ensure that travel is effective, flexible and enjoyable wherever it may be in the world.
Also based at the Centre, with their own lounges and other facilities, is London Executive Aviation and Netjets
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The conception of an ens realissimum is that which best agrees with the conception of an unconditioned and necessary being.
That ens Realissimum, synthesis of monster and superman, surnamed Napoleon!
In this case, therefore, we must employ simple conversion, and say that every ens realissimum is a necessary Being.
To be cogitated is no more an attribute of ens than of Non-ens.
But you admit (says the Eleate) that the mind knows ens:— and that ens is known by the mind.
Motion is different from ens — in other words, it is Non-ens.
Clarence, klar′ens, n. a four-wheeled carriage, seated inside for two or more persons.
God is the only being (ens); all other things are merely existences.
He maintains that ens and Unum are equivocal — πολλαχῶς λεγόμενα.
They conceived themselves to have thus found positive meanings both for ens and Non-ens.


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The senior had three goals plus two assists in a lacrosse win over M-A before scoring six goals and getting two assists in a 16-15 victory over rival Menlo School to clinch no worse than a tie for the WBAL Foothill Division title.
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Travel to Chengdu
With long and glorious history, with rich tourism resources, a lot of foreign tourists prefer to spend their holidays in China. In recent years, China City Tour has become more and more popular. There are so many attractive places to visit in China, no matter you are interested in beautiful natural landscapes, historical sites or colorful cultures, China will meet all your needs.
Among many places to visit in China, Chendu is very popular among foreign tourists. Chendu is a beautiful city located in the southwest of China, and Chengdu Tour is one of the most popular tour routes in China. Known as "Land of Abundance" since ancient times Chengdu is located in the middle of Sichuan Province. It is the important central city, science and technology center, business center, financial center and hub of transportation and communication in the southwest of China. Chengdu has a long history nearly 2300 years. And in August 2011, it won the second place of "the most happiness city" just behind Hangzhou. Sichuan embroidery is one of the four big name embroidery in China. When traveling to Chengdu, buy some as the gifts to your family and friends will be really good.
If you are interested in natural landscapes, Jiuzhaigou will be the best one of the good places to visit in China. Jiuzhaigou means "Nine Village Gully" and refers to the nine Baima Tibetan villages that can be found in the valley. According to legend, Jiuzhaigou was created when a jealous devil caused the goddess Wunosemo to drop here magic mirror, a present from her lover, the warlord God Dage. The scenery of Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve includes forests and meadows roamed by takins, golden monkeys and pandas. All surrounded by snow-capped peaks, the reserve was deemed so impressive it got the attention of the UN, which proclaimed it a World Biosphere Neserve and placed it on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1992, along with nearby Huanglong National Park. Trees are growing unexpectedly out of the middle of rivers, lakes and waterfalls, which are trademarks of the park. This eccentric flourish to the scenery is caused by fertile pockets of calcium in the waterways, which create impromptu flowerpots.
After visiting one the most beautiful places to visit in China-Jiuzhaigou, you will feel relaxed and comfortable and the breath of nature. Besides jiuzhaigou, there are also many other wonderful places to visit in China. These wonderful places to visit in China will make your China vacation more interesting.


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Thursday, 30 May, 2002, 14:46 GMT 15:46 UK
Council wins right to deport families
A decision to send destitute Dutch women and children of Somali origin back to the Netherlands from the UK has been backed by the High Court.
Birmingham City Council was cleared of claims that it acted irrationally and unfairly and was guilty of operating a policy involving race discrimination.
In a case watched closely by other councils with similar problems, Mr Justice Moses said the authority was entitled to take into account the "enormous financial burden" of caring for the families.
The judge dismissed test cases brought by three single mothers, with a total of 13 children, who claimed they were forced to leave their Dutch homes in 2001 because of domestic violence.
He said the council was entitled to decide that their needs could best be met back in the Netherlands.
Return flight
Birmingham City Council said that by July of last year it had received 2,000 applications for assistance from more than 265 families in the Smallheath and Sparkbrook area.
In 2000/2001, dealing with them had cost the council £2.6 million, with expenditure for the current financial year likely to reach £1.8m.
In July 2001 it adopted the policy of stating the rights of the families protected by the Children Act could best be met by funding their return to the Netherlands.
If the offer of a return flight was turned down, the council said it would house the children as a last resort.
Dismissing a challenge by the mothers, Mr Justice Moses said: "There was no obligation on the council to provide homes in the first place, and no statutory obligation can arise because the mothers have chosen not to avail themselves of funding to return to the place where a home can be provided."
'Individual need'
He said there had been no breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the council had properly balanced the needs of the women and their children against its limited resources with "sympathy and attention".
The judge refused the women permission to appeal against his ruling, but their lawyers can still apply directly to the Court of Appeal.
All three women have now lived in Birmingham long enough to have the legal right to claim income support and other benefits and are no longer directly affected by Thursday's ruling.
But social services manager Ken Wynne said it was still of importance to Birmingham and other local councils.
He said: "It will mean that we shall continue to consider cases on the basis of individual need, but we can manage them in a way which has regard to our resources."
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Of course, a great literary work does not a great film make—if it did, Shakespeare would need merely to be slathered on celluloid.
"Everyone could see their love right there on celluloid," added their son, Stephen Bogart.
In her hands, celluloid comes off as a medium that allows for old-fashioned rumination, with some of the slowness of oil paint.
In the most crowd-pleasing section of the exhibition—dubbed Stage and Screen—hang his pictures of celluloid legends.
At 50, she is just 11 years older than her would- be celluloid son.
Sheets of celluloid or waterproof cardboard sometimes laid in or between books when pressing.
That if a spark hits a celluloid collar, the collar will explode.
And Sue took the celluloid doll off the deck and laid her on the grass in the shade.
Good thing I didn't have on a celluloid collar or 'twould have bust into a blaze.
celluloid may be cut into narrow strips by using the method described above.
transparent plastic made from nitro-celluloses and camphor, 1871, trademark name (reg. U.S.), a hybrid coined by U.S. inventor John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1900) from cellulose + Greek-based suffix -oid. Used figuratively for "motion pictures" from 1934. Abbreviated form cell "sheet of celluloid" is from 1933 (cf. cel).


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Then and Now: Bust of Abraham Lincoln
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In the main hall of the Statehouse, there's a bust of Abraham Lincoln that came to Vermont in an unlikely way. No one knows if its sculptor, Larkin Mead, even intended for it to be on public display. But as curator David Schutz explains, the Lincoln bust tells of Vermont's link to the Civil War.
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Geriatric Social Workers Out There !??!
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Nikkiiiiiiiii in Warwick, New York
53 months ago
Hello I'm 22 and sooo frustrated what career I want I know I love the geriatric population because I used to work in a nursing home. I used to love to talk to the elderly and hear there stories.
- How much do you make either in a nursing home or hospice care? hourly & yearly?
I feel I'm a really caring person and want to help. However, I also want a family some day that I can support. I know everyone says "social work is not a career if you want $$" but I was looking on the internet and found that geriatric social workers get paid around 40,000-50,000 so I don't know why people say that, to me that salary doesn't sound so bad? Not trying to sound selfish but I do have dreams of having a family, go on vacations and maybe even work part time If I can find a spot that pays decent. But I do love the elderly. I know nursing isn't the field for me either/can't draw blood.
Any advice/Opinions for this career?
Hall in Atlanta, Georgia
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Hello! Would it be ok to take your career plans and upgrade them to the next level?My Lifevantage team need you to first watch 12mins of www.primetimebreakthrough.com
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Four days before the official start of the fall season, the CW has already launched three of its four new series. The latest, The Secret Circle, opened last night with 3 million viewers and a 1.3/4 in adults 18-34. It was even with last fall's premiere in the time slot of Nikita among adults 18-34 but down 16% in total viewers and a tenth in adults 18-49 as Nikita is a little broader and older-skewing. Secret Circle edged the Nikita premeire in women 18-34 (1.9/5) by 6% to post the network's all-time high in the slot in that demo. The Secret Circle's lead-in, the third-season premiere of CW's flagship drama The Vampire Diaries (3 million, 1.6/5), was down 11% in total viewers and 16% in 18-34 from last fall's premiere but built on the May finale. Secret Circle and Vampire Diaries — which share Kevin Williamson as executive producer and Alloy books by L.J. Smith as source material — showed good compatibility, with Secret Circle retaining 100% of the Vampire Diaries audience. But the real test for the two shows will come next week, when they will face all-new competition, including Fox's The X Factor. The only original offering on the Big 4 last night was the two-hour finale of ABC's Wipeout (2.2/6 in adults 18-49), which was down 19% from last September's two-hour closer. It finished tied for second place for the night in 18-49 with a Big Bang Theory repeat, with another Big Bang rerun (2.6/8) topping the rankings. ABC (1.8/5, 5.6 million total viewers) finished tied with CBS (1.8/5, 8.1 million) for the night in 18-49, while CBS was No. 1 in total viewers.
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I've been watching The Vampire Diaries since the beginning and was surprised to love it as much as I did after just the first episode. The writing is great and the cast is phenomenal. I watched Secret Circle last night but was underwhelmed and will drop it from my DVR if next week isn't much better. TVD's season premiere was excellent. Looking forward to another fun ride…. :)
I think if you looked back at TVD when it first started it was a bit slow. Shows take a little while to get settled in to the point where you know all the characters so all they have to do is focus on the storyline. I think TSC will get there if people give it the chance.


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THE second of Wirral Sunday League's domestic titles was settled at the weekend, and it was consistent performers Bebington who were crowned Division One champions.
The victory followed a hard-fought 2-1 win over promotion rivals Lever Bushell Athletic.
Efforts from Shaun Burgess and Chris Ballard were sufficient as the newly-crowned champions celebrated their 16th win of the season and remained unbeaten.
On Thursday evening, it was a different story for Levers who won the Senior Cup final at Kirklands in dramatic fashion.
With four minutes remaining, and trailing 2-1 to a hard working Wallasey Athletic.
Richard Lacey's oufit equalised and then snatched the winner in the fourth minute of injury time.
Bebington's main rivals for the title Higher Bebington RBL look assured of the runners-up medals, despite Sunday's 4-2 home defeat to Bromborough Social.
Forum Athletic, with goals from Mozza Legg and Mike Dunn, were in the driving seat against Wallasey Athletic, but it was the visitors who profited after Danny Price, John Berry and a late winner from Adam Melling, turned the game on its head.
Kent concluded their Premier Division campaign with a 2-1 result over champions Neston Nomads, who had Richie Foulkes on target but capitulated to a smart double from man of the match Danny Morley, in a rehearsal for next week's Premier Cup final.
In Division Two, second-placed Greave showed no signs of nerves as they blitzed an under-strength Bromborough 9-0, and victory in their final fixture over tricky opponents Port Sunlight will see them snatch the title from current leaders Champions Bar.
Julian Gorbutt helped himself to a four timer in Sunday's goal glut. Further efforts from Nathan Jones (2), Chris Hawthorne (2) and Ben Percival completed a job well done.
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The first material book was doubtless a series of knots well represented by the quipu (Fig. 2) of the ancient Peruvians.
After these words he sat down, and threw in his quipu—a movement which was imitated by the other chiefs.
Which are the nations that accepted the quipu, and sent their warriors to the gathering place?
The quipu has been sent round, and the chiefs who will be present at the meeting are twenty in number.
According to Tylor, "the quipu is a near relation of the rosary and the wampum-string."
The lengths of the strings used in making the quipu were various.
The Peruvians adopted a totally different and unique system of records, that by means of the quipu.
In every town some expert men were appointed to tie the knots of the quipu, and to explain them.
It, however, seldom happened that they had to read a quipu without some verbal commentary.
quipu: Knotted, parti-colored strings used by the ancient Peruvians to keep records.
ancient Inca recording device using knotted cords, 1704, from Quechua quipu "knot."