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Yet Another FTL AAR
I have never written a AAR before and i am well aware that there are plenty of FTL storys already. However, i had fun reading them, so i wondered wether it would be fun writing one.
Let me add: English is not my native language.
Sector 1
Log of captain Grumpy
Here i am, with the one information that may save the federation, hunted by a massive fleet of human supremacists. Not what i asked for.
And to make it even better, the ship they gave me is little more than a pile of junk called 'Eagle'. I have no idea what 'Eagle' might mean, but presumably it has something to do with rust or hole.
The glorious 'Eagle' before its mission
Jump 1
Nothing of interest here. I remove the atmosphere from the ship except for the helm so i will not have to bother too much with fire, rats or possible intruders. I am not too sure that the Eagles hull is airtight to begin with as well.
No air, no problems
I decide to upgrade the doors with some scrap lying around to offer me additional protection.
Jump 2
My first encounter with the rebels!
And immediatly i take a pounding! Their first missile takes out my Heavy Laser. I activate one of the repair drones to take care of the damage while i try to take out their weapons system. Sadly, while my Heavy Ion can take out way stronger shields than theirs, it cannot do so long enough to disrupt anything else.
Hurry little drone
However, once my laser is back up, i manage to destroy their weapons quickly. After that it is an easy job to take them apart while my drone repairs the remaining damages.
Now you can take your time
They first try to power the FTL and then to surrender. But it is them who put me in this situation and i show no mercy. I manage to salvage some decent scrap from the wreckage. I put it to good use, upgrading my engine and the reactor.
Jump 3
I followed a distress signal to this position. Checking what the Eagle optimistically calls its scanner i pick up a stranded civilian ship. Apparently their navigation broke down and they ask me to guide them to a nearby outpost. I do not mind visiting an outpost myself so i agree. Obviously after accepting their payment of scrap.
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Jump 4
Another distress beacon leads me to small science station that has a problem with fire on board. I send my repair drone in to take care of that. The little drone proves its worth once more and earns me the thanks of the scientists and a schematic for a beam drone.
Also i once again upgrade my engine and the reactor.
Jump 5
This is the position that the civilian ship from jump 3 gave me. Instead of a welcoming outpost i am greeted by a way less welcoming rebel rigger. These rebels shy away from nothing!
His attack drone keeps my shield busy while his laser eats away at my hull. I activate my new beam drone to take him out as fast as possible. And not too long later:
Jump 6
A store! I sell my second repair drone and look through the offers. A proper sensor! But...
One scrap
I just repair my hull and buy both drone parts in stock. I am at 8 now and given that my repair and anti-personal drones can be reused unless they die, i believe that should do for a while.
Jump 7
Just some boring planet with nothing of interest.
Jump 8
A well known pirate offers his 'mercenary' work. I am not falling for that and open fire. I still only have one shield and my engine is not the most powerfull either. Thus their two heavy lasers look as if they could hurt if i let them and thus i launch a beam drone to get over with this as fast as possible. It only takes a few hits before they offer to replace my drone and some scrap. I accept.
The bold 'mercenarys'
Jump 9
A planet that apparently has life signs. I investigate and find wierd six-legged animals. I decide to capture a few of them to sell later. Afterall, i did not ask to be in this situation and morality is a luxury that i have no time for.
However, the cattle acts surprisingly well organised and i have to retreat to my shuttle.
I may have underestimated their intellect.
Jump 10
The long range beacon.
Before i leave this now rebel-ridden part of space some suspicious 'trader' offers me 2 drone parts for my 2 missiles. I do not ask where those drone parts might come from and gladly accept.
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Una, Brazil – Former Saint Leo men's golf JP Albuquerque earned his first CGB Pro Tour victory last weekend at the par-72 Ilha de Comandatuba Ocean Course. The tour rookie, competing in just his second event, fired an eight-under 208 over three rounds to cruise to a six-stroke win over São Paulo's Ronaldo Francisco.
Albuquerque, who represented Saint Leo men's golf as a NCAA National Championship participant in 2009-10, claimed victory to the tour's second-ever event. He now aims to the tour's next stop in Rio de Janeiro on September 15-17 with qualifying to the 2011 Brazilian Open on the line.
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February 16, 2010—
The men's Nordic ski team from Michigan Technological University won the men's overall team title at the Central Collegiate Ski Association on Feb.13-14. Tech finished five points ahead of second-place Northern Michigan University.
"I was really proud of how our men skied today," said head coach Joe Haggenmiller. "The men have been skiing really well this season, and this is the payoff."
Senior Oskar Lund led the team with a runner-up finish in 50:02 in the 20-kilometer freestyle.
Sophomore Jesse Smith finished eighth (51:26) and sophomore Petter Sjulstad was 11th (52:02) to round out the top three for the Huskies.
Sophomore Mackenzie Brennan turned in a strong race, finishing 22nd (54:28).
Senior Henna Riikonen-Purtsi was the top finisher on the women's team with a seventh place finish. She covered the 15-kilometer freestyle course in 39:02.
Tech had two other top-20 finishes. Senior Jenna Klein was 16th (41:20) and sophomore Jackie Pribyl was 20th (42:06).
Sophomore Christina Mishica finished 23rd in 42:31.
The women finished third out nine teams.
The ski team will return to action when it hosts the NCAA Central Regional Championships Feb. 20-21.
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It's September; how is your MS today?
Well, it's that time of the month again…time to check in and ask, "How's your MS today?"
Each month here on the Life with MS blog, we take one posting and open it up to you. It's a place where you can ask any question, post any thought, start a whole new conversation. We have new friends connect and old stand-bys keep in touch with us.
This posting is something of a catch-all, a potpourri, if you will.
If there is something you've wanted to ask, ask it. If there's something you just have to get off your chest, let 'er fly. Much appreciated from these installments have been ideas for new conversations.
I'd go back and count the number of threads started by ideas found in these monthly chats, but I just don't have that kind of time anymore.
As for this writer, I've been in "power through" mode of late. MS fatigue is hitting me pretty hard, but I've got (as Rusty calls them) my Superman undies on these days. It's that wonderfully awful circle of not knowing when we'll have this kind of energy again, which leads to doing more than we really should. It's kind of like living life in an extended Indian Summer. So I'm taking advantage of everything I've got, even when I don't have as much as I'm putting out.
I'll also share that the pain in my hip is back to pre-surgery levels. We hoped to buy three-five years, with this core decompression and strut augmentation surgery, before needing a total hip replacement. It's not looking like we'll get that long from it. I hope to not have to go in again until at least a year after this last operation.
I guess I'll be walking like a Weebl for a few months and popping prescription anti-inflammatory drugs like they're candy (kidding, I'm only taking what I really need).
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Every couple of months I get the urge to give up my carnivore ways and get off the meat-eating grid. That's right, I admit it – I'd be happy to go crazy and swing totally vegetarian. Usually the feeling comes over me following episodes of particular overindulgence…after spit-roasting baby animals, for instance, or in my more recent case, a few weeks spent over the holidays cooking, feasting and drinking….a little too much.
Truth be told, I haven't been cooking or eating much red meat lately. Whenever I shop for food I try to load up my cart heavily in the produce section before moving on to the seafood counter to see what looks good. I tiptoe past the meat department, occasionally getting a chicken to roast. Except for really good bacon, which I will argue is another category of food altogether, our consumption of meat has gone down considerably. And a few people I know have flirted with Mark Bittman's concept of healthy, conscious eating – Vegan Until Six.
It can be a hard sell to a certain member of the family – my son- who shuns most vegetables unless, inconceivably, they are floating in some kind of soup. When I called these chickpea cakes "veggie burgers" I got a much more positive reaction than I expected. I served them in warm naan bread, and the boy actually ate most of it.
This recipe is inspired from one in Heidi Swanson's book Super Natural Cooking, a book that I've used so much the pages are falling out – and now that I'm on the subject I wish the publisher had used a better binding – it's kind of cheaply glued together. Celestial Arts, if you're reading, heads up!
I made a dairy-free creamy sauce to accompany the cakes, but the recipe doesn't qualify as vegan since there are a few eggs involved.
- 4 cups cooked chickpeas (or 2 cans, drained)
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 cup cilantro leaves and tender stems
- 1/2 cup roughly chopped green onions
- 1 crushed garlic clove
- 1 teaspoon grated fresh lime
- 1 1/2 - 2 cups panko bread crumbs
- 1 cup raw cashews
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon curry powder
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Pulse the chickpeas, eggs, salt, cumin, cayenne, cilantro, green onions, garlic and lime zest in a food processor until blended but still slightly chunky.
- Add 1 cup panko and pulse once or twice to incorporate. Let the mixture sit for a few minutes - if it looks too wet and gloppy add more panko 1/4 cup at a time until you can form a ball that holds together. Form into about 12 cakes about 3-inches in diameter.
- Meanwhile, blend the cashews, water, salt and curry in a blender until completely smooth, adding drops of water if it's too thick. Taste for seasoning. (you can wash out the food processor bowl and use that instead, but the sauce won't be as smooth).
- Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Cook half the cakes until browned on both sides; keep warm while cooking the rest of the cakes in the remaining oil.
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As we ventured out into the bay and past the old castle and monastery on the Iles de Lerins, we felt the full force of the breeze for the first time—a steady, Mediterranean yachtsman's blow, constant, warm, and strong. The waves were already a steep five or six feet and would certainly get bigger as we proceeded downwind. I waited for the start of the roll. And waited.
I checked that the ARGs were indeed switched off. I waited some more, glancing aft to gauge the size of the waves again. And as I waited, and nothing happened, I began to relax. It wasn't that the fins were merely coping, keeping the roll to a minimum—they were ironing it out completely. We were cruising down the coast as steadily as a battlecruiser: 13 knots at 2070 rpm, with decks dead level. I could walk without reaching out to steady myself. Drinks stayed where they were put. The only interruptions to our steady, calm progress were my repeated expressions of disbelief.
But what if it wasn't really all that rough? We turned through 180 degrees to see what would happen. The Navetta's fine bow sections and generous flare punched through the seas like a trawler, while the wind picked up the sheeting spray and hurled it clean over the wheelhouse. Okay, it was rough. No wonder there was hardly anyone else out. Beam-on, I expected the fins to struggle against the momentum of the yacht's superstructure. We were going to roll. I braced myself. Nothing happened. At 90 degrees to the waves, we simply rose up and down on a dead-even keel. It was more than impressive, it was extraordinary. Who would have tagged the Navetta 26 as a sea boat? Not me.
Reassured, I took some performance readings. At our 13-knot cruising speed, the 26 was burning 59 gph, which meant a range (allowing for the usual ten-percent reserve) of around 650 nautical miles. The maximum speed I recorded was 14.5 knots at 2350 rpm, burning 93.5 gph, for a range of approximately 460 miles. With a waterline length of just under 71 feet, the Navetta has a theoretical hull speed in displacement mode—and thus its most efficient cruising speed—of a shade over 11 knots.
Monaco was soon visible ahead, nestling beneath the towering, 1,800-foot bluffs of Plateau Tercier. Even without such geological assistance, we would soon have spotted the diminutive principality by the fleet of yachts gathered outside, either ejected from their home berths to make way for the show or waiting to be allowed in to take their places.
We saw T6, a striking New Zealand-built, 159-foot expedition yacht, leaving, along with the 156-foot Christensen One More Toy, well known on the charter circuit. Pitching into the seas as they left the shelter of the enormous new floating breakwater, both seemed to be off to ride out the show, and the blow, at anchor, in the lee of Cap Ferrat.
Although the water was calm in the harbor, shielded from the southwest, the wind was still howling across the berths at what I'd guess was 25 knots, with stronger gusts. We learned later of various expensive wind-borne mishaps, as unwieldy superyachts arriving for the show got away from their hapless captains.
In the meantime, our tall, shallow-draft 86-footer was not exacly the sort of boat to make docking in such conditions fun, unless you're made of much sterner stuff than me. Fortunately our captain, Costanzo Domenico, was. After getting the yacht into roughly the right area from the wheelhouse, he walked out onto the starboard bridge wing to line us up in front of our berth, which appeared to be an impossibly narrow gap between a Pershing 72 and a Custom Line 97. Then, after a quick glance around, he darted down to the cockpit and took charge from the lower controls on the port side, reversing the yacht into the slot in one steady, precise, and decisive movement. Bravo.
For Domenico and his crew, the day's work was nearly done. After cleaning and tidying the boat, they could relax and enjoy the show. For me, though, the relaxation of the trip was about to become a distant memory. An ocean of shiny fiberglass stretched out in every direction across Port Hercule. I was going to need a new notebook.
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Col Allan declares himself MacArthur, as the 'New York Post' roils
"Like MacArthur I shall return."
That's what Col Allan, the New York Post's pit bull of an editor-in-chief, wrote in an email to Capital earlier this week, likening himself to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the World War II hero who escaped to Australia in 1942 as Japanese forces were bearing down on him, in order to regroup and lead the Allies to victory in the Pacific Theater.
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The reference seemed well chosen, if a little self-aggrandizing. Allan was, after all, writing from his native Australia, where he's been on a rescue mission for the Post's parent company, News Corp. Or at least that's how his trip was described to Post employees: In a July 25 memo obtained by Capital, News Corp. C.E.O. Robert Thomson said Allan had been asked to "provide extra editorial leadership" for Murdoch's struggling Australian newspapers for "to two three months." While he's away, Jesse Angelo, a longtime loyal Post soldier and the paper's current publisher, will "oversee our very talented journalistic team."
For the most part, however, Post employees took Thomson's memo to mean that Allan was being "sent down," and that his days at the Post were over.
"The common consensus is: I don't think there's anybody who thinks Col will be returning," one insider told Capital. "Most people are expecting that it's not a temporary change," said another. "The obvious message is that Jesse's in charge," said a third, adding: "The website is what's important now. Jesse is the future, Col is the past."
The palace intrigue over who will run the New York Post at a decisive point in the paper's battle for survival mirrors larger forces.
Conversations with nearly two dozen sources, including current and former employees of the Post and News Corp. and people familiar with the inner workings of both entities, revealed a centuries-old news brand whose future is on the line as it grapples with the pressures of an increasingly competitive digital landscape and an owner, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, who can no longer afford to spill gobs of red ink on his beloved though troubled American tabloid.
As a result of News Corp's recent split into two separate publicly traded entities, the Post is now a creature of a newly formed media company that has shown early signs of volatility in its leadership structure, making it difficult to know what will happen next. And with Allan a hemisphere away, the paper is undergoing significant change under the interim leadership of Angelo, who has reportedly long coveted the top masthead slot.
It's a climactic drama that will continue to unfold in the coming months. And the ending is anyone's guess.
ANGELO'S GROOMING AT NEWS CORP. HAS BEEN two decades in the making, and his stock at the Post has risen even when he wasn't employed at the paper full-time.
Last fall, when Angelo was still editor of News Corp.'s much ballyhooed tablet publication, The Daily, he led a "digital off-site" for Post editors inside the Windgate Room of The Garrison, a stately 300-acre property overlooking the rolling hills and reddening foliage of the Hudson Highlands.
The idyllic setting seemed a world away from Langan's, the dim Irish pub about an hour south where Post staffers are known to congregate after deadline. There was a breakfast spread of assorted pastries, bagels and seasonal fruits. The lunch buffet included shaved fennel and orange salad; rigatoni mezze al forno; and roasted free-range chicken with lemon and garlic. Cocktail hour was held on an adjacent patio.
The two-dozen or so Posties who'd schlepped up to the bucolic Putnam County hamlet of Garrison for the mandatory all-day retreat on Saturday, Sept. 29, were there for a crash course in digital journalism.
For a long time, the paper had been dealing with its mess of a website and an atavistic relationship to the news cycle. Compared to most other large news outlets, it seemed like a dinghy bobbing in the wake of warships.
At the beginning of the event, Allan offered a rare mea culpa from his perch at the back of the room.
"As most of you know, there was nobody less interested in the Internet at this newspaper than me," one person who was there recalls him saying. "It seems I was wrong about that."
Starting now, said Allan, in his '50s and dressed in jeans and a casual shirt but looking all business, it was time for the Post to really get on board with the web.
But it was Angelo, along with Remy Stern, hired last April to run the Post's digital operation under Angelo's supervision, who taught everyone how to go about doing it.
For starters, they acknowledged the paper's abysmal web chops while emphasizing the Post's brand value. There were tutorials about traffic and readership patterns and the like. Alan Murray, who at the time was the online boss at The Wall Street Journal, which also is owned by News Corp., had been brought in to give some pointers, such as examples of how reporters could use their iPhones to file quick turnaround video dispatches from breaking news events. (This was amusing to some of the assembled Post editors since the company phones being issued to their journalists were BlackBerries.)
Since that meeting, gestures have been made to highlight the importance of the web-news cycle over print production. Large monitors displaying live traffic stats were installed near the news and city desks, for instance, a feature familiar to journalists who work for Stern's former employer, Gawker. And the daily 11 a.m. news meeting is being moved up so editors can get an earlier jump on the heavily-trafficked online morning news rush, sources said.
All of it suggests the Post is taking the web seriously in the face of declining circulation and staggering annual losses. Total weekday circulation, which includes digital editions, was down 9.9 percent on average to 500,521 during the six months that ended on March 31, according to the Alliance for Audited Media, which also showed an 18.5 percent drop in the Post's Sunday circulation. Print copies numbered less than 300,000 on average, a far cry from 850,847 during the same period in 1985, or 669,063 in 2005, a few years after Allan took the helm. It's been estimated that the paper has hemorrhaged as much as around $100 million a year, and at least one Murdoch obsessive has already written its obituary.
"The message has gone out," said Ken Doctor, a media analyst. "It's clear that as a company, they need to significantly reduce the losses at the Post and to get on with a digital transition. There are going to be continued pressures on [News Corp.] as a standalone company and there's going to be a much more intense view on what they're doing."
At the center of the Post's digital ambitions is a long-overdue overhaul of the archaic nypost.com. Stern, who holds the dual titles of online managing editor and head of digital strategy and product, is the person overseeing the makeover day to day. The redesign itself is being handled by Hard Candy Shell, a well-regarded firm whose client list includes The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Newsweek, The New York Observer and Gawker. Previously slated for the first week of August, the relaunch was pushed back to early September, according to sources with knowledge of the schedule.
Thomson vaguely emphasized the web revamp as central to the Post's strategy in a recent interview with The Financial Times, promising the new site would battle with digital bounders like Buzzfeed for national market share.
What he didn't mention was that the Post just lost a bunch of troops.
Long insulated from the type of big budget slashing that has become a trademark of the modern news industry, the Post recently implemented a rare round of buyouts and layoffs—the paper's first in some 20 years—that reduced the newsroom headcount by 10 percent. The culling targeted old-timers, and therefore erased a good bit of institutional memory in the process. It was carried out in the weeks leading up to News Corp's corporate split on June 28, in which the company's publishing titles were extricated from the television and film cash cows, like Fox News and 20th Century Fox, that had always been there to break their fall. (Those brands are now part of a separate company called 21st Century Fox.)
And there are signs that more belt-tightening is to come, like the recent termination, due to "budget cutbacks," of freelance film critic and 40-year Post veteran Vinnie Musetto (of "Headless body in topless bar" fame).
Several other longtime Post journalists recently resigned to pursue other jobs, including TV critic Linda Stasi (who plans to write a novel while freelancing for the Post) and deputy features editor Isaac Guzman (who will begin a new job as Time magazine's culture editor starting in September). Even fire-breathing columnist Andrea Peyser is on an extened hiatus (although sources said her leave of absence was taken for personal reasons.)
"I think if I went back there now I would know very few people," said Musetto, who retired from his full-time job at the Post in 2011. "Most of the old-timers are gone."
It's not clear how many new people (if any) the Post will recruit to work on the website. A representative for the Post declined to comment on hiring plans. Angelo and Thomson declined to be interviewed for this article and did not respond to questions sent to them through spokespeople for the Post and News Corp.
But if the strategy is hazy, the challenge isn't. The first step, of course, will be to get traffic up: nypost.com had roughly 6.92 million unique visitors during July (an increase of 25 percent from the same month last year), according to the web measurement firm comScore. That leaves them far short of the Buzzfeed goal, but also far short of the Post's more traditional rival, the Daily News, for which comScore counted 15.73 million users (a 31-percent increase) in the same period.
Step 2 is to make some money from it. Mastering the type of audience-targeting technologies that can fetch higher rates is key, said Doctor, as is striking the right tone with the new site.
"In the case of the Post," he said, "they've got a lot of readership but it's a downscale market. That's not particularly helpful since a lot of digital advertising is upscale. So the application of advertising technology will be hugely important."IF THE POST'S FUTURE IS TIED TO PIXELS, NOT INK, then Angelo, with his deep News Corp. history, innate tabloid sensibilitIies and experience running a digital publication (albeit one that failed), seems like the most logical inside candidate to usher in that new era.
The 40-year-old's rise has been a product of his laser-focused ambition and a lifelong affiliation with the world's most powerful media dynasty: He's been best friends with Murdoch's younger son, James, since they were in Kindergarten.
Nepotism aside, the mustachioed Harvard grad and Manhattan native worked his tail off. He enrolled in News Corp. boot camp as an eager Ivy Leaguer in his early 20s, climbing his way up the tabloid totem pole from coffee-fetcher at The Sun of London, to cub reporter at The Daily Telegraph of Sydney (where he first worked under Allan), to stringer, general assignment reporter, business reporter and, by 2001, deputy business editor at the Post.
Not long before Allan was imported from The Telegraph that same year, Xana Antunes, Allan's soon-to-be-ousted predecessor, asked Angelo what he wanted to do next.
His reply, according to a 2011 profile in Women's Wear Daily: "I want to do whatever I need to do to get into your job."
Angelo's promotions under Allan to metro editor and executive editor followed. But his big break didn't come until late 2010, when Murdoch needed an editor for his $30-million experiment in making a tabloid for the iPad: The Daily.
It didn't go according to plan: With fewer subscribers than expected and a mountain of debt on its back, The Daily was going downhill by last spring. Around that time, Angelo was reconsolidating his influence at the Post—where he'd held onto his executive editor title (just in case)—by becoming more involved in the paper's flailing web operation.
By the time The Daily imploded last December, the writing was on the wall: Angelo would become publisher of the Post while continuing to oversee the direction of nypost.com. And when Allan sailed back to Oz, it was obvious that Angelo would man the ship while he was gone. Two sources told Capital they've heard he's working on a print redesign in tandem with the web relaunch. If true, it would mean that Allan will have been absent during the most momentous period of change the Post has seen in recent years. (A spokesperson declined to comment on the print-redesign rumor.)
On the other hand, Allan's task in Australia may be less insignificant than many of us parochial New York media watchers imagine it to be.
Reading the Australian press documenting his time there, it's clear the difficulties in Murdoch's Australian publishing group are as severe, and as important to the company, as the Post's.
According to one article, in the Australian Financial Review, it was Allan who set his own homecoming in motion. The story is that Allan—or Col Pot, as Aussie journos like to call him—balked at the state of News Corp's tabloids down under during a family holiday earlier this year. So he decided, with the blessing of fellow Aussies Murdoch and Thomson, that he "should head home for a few months to shake things up."
The Australian papers have become a trouble spot for the company, whose recent earnings reports have singled them out for "lower advertising revenues."
But perhaps more importantly, there's a heated federal election on Sept. 7, and Murdoch's papers will be damned if they don't play a role in the defeat of Australia's Labor Party. Allan was not satisfied that the papers were biting hard enough.
The very executive whom Allan was sent back to advise has already resigned after just two years on the job, replaced by an old Murdoch lieutenant. And the Australian tabloid fronts are screaming. ("KICK THIS MOB OUT," wailed the headline on the Sunday, Aug. 4 edition of The Telegraph, referring to the party of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who famously spent a memorable evening with Allan at the west-side strip joint Scores in 2003.)
"Col Allan is not a huge power in Oz, he's just the guy whose opinion Rupert trusts most about how News Corp. Australia is running," said Neil Chenoweth, a Murdoch chronicler and columnist at the Australian Financial Review. "Col Allan's target demographic is one old guy in Manhattan."
But within the new News Corp., that's precisely the question. How much larger does one's target demographic have to be to wield power in the company? Does it matter what Thomson thinks of you if Murdoch is on your team?
It's an important question. Sources familiar with their dynamic told Capital that Thomson looks down on Allan. The former is an erudite broadsheet guy reared at venerable titles like The Sydney Morning Herald, The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, where he was named managing editor amid the 2007 News Corp. acquisition. The latter's name is synonymous with low-brow tabloidism. Privately, Thomson has made disparaging remarks about Allan, said a source who knows the C.E.O.
One former News Corp. executive put it this way: "Thomson sees himself as a serious journalist and Col as not a serious journalist who doesn't make any money for the company either. So what good is he?"
Rather, what good is he in Manhattan?
"While Australian attention has been concentrated on the local implications of Allan's return," wrote Rodney Tiffen in the Australian current affairs magazine Inside Story, "its greater significance in Murdoch corporate politics may be that it removes the champion loss-maker from New York. One can imagine Robert Thomson and the accountants, fervently telling him, 'Col, mate, Australia really needs you…'"
With the lines of power so difficult to discern, it's hard to tell what Murdoch could mean to do next with the Post. He could always pull out a wild-card if and when Allan were to step aside. But Chenoweth, speaking of News Corp's Australian editing bench, said he "can't see any of them as likely for the Post." Roy Greenslade, a London-based media commentator and journalism professor, likewise said there's "no obvious candidate" in the U.K., where The Sun also recently saw a shakeup in its leadership.
Allan, who didn't respond to a series of questions from Capital beyond his MacArthur bon mot, has endeared himself to Murdoch by excelling as a tabloid auteur.
Sure, his boozy, colorful history has made him a sort of punchline about anachronism among the New York media cognoscenti—the loud louche presiding over tens of millions of dollars in losses every year for the past 12 years.
But Allan's always resisted the idea that he is nothing more than a Murdoch pet, suffered by the mogul's more successful consiglieres.
"I'll get fired not because Rupert doesn't like the stories I put in the paper," he told New York magazine in 2007. "I'll get fired because we don't sell newspapers. And that judgment is made not by Rupert, but by the market, and by the audience. And I think that's pretty democratic. I like that deal."
We'll know soon enough if that really is the deal, and whether Allan still has reason to like it.


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On which platform and with which version of Captivate can I use this converter?
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Does that mean I can't convert the SWFs created with previous versions of Captivate?
You can convert SWFs created with previous versions of Captivate (3, 4, and 5). First upgrade the projects by opening them in Captivate 5.5 and saving them. You can then publish these projects from Cp 5.5 as SWFs and then use the SWFs for conversion.
What are the prerequisites to download and use this converter?
- Adobe Captivate 5.5. To install a trial version, click here.
- AIR 2.5 and later. To download, the latest version of AIR, click here.
- To stream the HTML5 videos, H264 video streaming module must be installed on the Apache server.
- IIS server – just place the content in web root and access it through device.
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Double-click the exe file that you downloaded from Adobe labs. After the converter installs, perform the following steps before loading your SWF file:
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In January, 2003, Vladimir Putin was the first non-Islamic leader to address the Organization of the Islamic Conference, which brings 57 Muslim countries together. This was a masterly political and diplomatic move, because he was there despite the continuing war in Chechnya. Putin said that 15% of the Russian Federation population was Muslim and that eight out of its 21 autonomous republics were entirely Muslim.
Putin and other Russian leaders, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, have from that time on been saying that Russia "is, to some extent, a part of the Muslim world." In an interview on Al Jazeera on 16 October, 2003, Putin said that in contrast to Muslims living in Western Europe, Muslims in Russia were indigenous and that Islam entered Russian territory long before Christianity. For that reason, it now claims a privileged position in political relations with the Arab and Muslim world, and as a largely European state believes it has a historic mission to act as a mediator between the Western and Muslim worlds.
Now, Russia is not just looking for strong relations with Iran and Syria, but also with Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey, longstanding allies of the USA.
Russia's desire to draw closer to the Islamic world, and Turkey in particular, which is taking significant steps toward the leadership of the Turkish-Islamic Union is especially noteworthy.
Mr. Adnan Oktar has recently been making detailed statements how the urgent foundation of the Turkish-Islamic Union, which will enable all countries to enjoy physical and spiritual well-being and live in peace and security, will considerably benefit not solely the Turkic states but also other countries. In the immediate wake of these statements by Mr. Oktar the leaders of several countries have issued statements setting out their opinions and ideas on such important subjects as acting in unison and collaborating in economic and political terms, as well as praising Islam.
One of the major developments to follow on from this is that Russia has adopted a more positive approach to the Turkish-Islamic world, and to Turkey in particular.


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A clavicle fracture is a break in the clavicle bone (also called the collarbone). It connects the sternum (breastplate) to the shoulder.
The clavicle can fracture in three different places:
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A clavicle fracture is caused by trauma to the clavicle bone. The trauma is usually caused by:
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Most clavicle fractures can be treated either with a figure-of-eight strap, which is wrapped around the body and the shoulders, or with the arm in a sling. These devices help hold the shoulder in place while the clavicle heals. The doctor may prescribe pain medication.
Surgery may rarely be needed to set the bone. The doctor may insert pins or a plate and screws in the bone to hold it in place while it heals. You will still need to wear the sling or figure-of-eight strap while you heal.
When your doctor decides you are ready, start shoulder range-of-motion and strengthening exercises. You may be referred to a physical therapist to assist you with these exercises. Do not return to sports activity until your clavicle is fully healed.
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Stegeman SA, de Jong M, Sier CF, et al. Displaced midshaft fractures of the clavicle: nonoperative treatment versus plate fixation (Sleutel-TRIAL). A multicentre randomised controlled trial. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2011 Aug 24;12:196.
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DETROIT - A Detroit police commander has been demoted following claims of inappropriate conduct with a female officer.
Mayor Dave Bing's office said Tuesday that James Moore was returned to the rank of lieutenant, effective the previous day.
Moore joined the department in 1978 and was appointed commander in 2007.
"Based on the seriousness of these allegations, his role as Commander was compromised in the police department and in the community. Standards for appointees are higher than that of other ranking officers. There are consequences for any allegation of inappropriate behavior. We will investigate all reports of misconduct," said Chief Logan in statement on Tuesday.
Ralph Godbee retired earlier this morning as police chief after a subordinate revealed she had a sexual relationship with him. Godbee was chief for two years.
"The Chief's action is consistent with my desire to eliminate improper behavior in the police department and all City of Detroit departments," said Mayor Bing. "Employee misconduct will not be tolerated."
Logan says Moore had lost his effectiveness as commander.
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PHILADELPHIA - Rising junior Dan Davis was named to the College Football Performance Awards (CFPA) watch list for the 2013 CFPA Linebacker Award, given to the top individual linebacker in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
"Congratulations to Daniel Davis on earning a spot on the 2013 CFPA Watch List," said CFPA Executive Director Brad Smith. "Davis will likely play an important role in Penn's run at the Ivy League title in 2013."
Davis is the only Ivy League linebacker named among the 35 players on the watch list. Last season, he helped guide the Quakers to the 2012 Ivy League title and was named first-team All-Ivy as a sophomore. The Norman, Okla., native was third on the team with 58 tackles, which was tops among linebackers. He also led Penn and finished fourth in the Ivies with 13.5 tackles for loss, including 2.0 sacks.
College Football Performance Awards, the largest awards organization in D-I college football, selects players exclusively based upon objective scientific rankings of the extent to which individual players increase the overall effectiveness of their teams. All players are eligible for awards at their respective positions; players are not preemptively eliminated from consideration.
The full list of 2013 recipients, including the 2013 CFPA FCS Awards, will be announced on Jan. 8, 2014.
Davis and the Quakers will begin their defense of the Ivy title when they open the 2013 campaign against Lafayette on Sept. 21 at historic Franklin Field.


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I wanted to spread my opinion on the matter and hopefully many of you will see my point and spread the word. I don't want FFXIV to fail solely because the new mentality is that subscription fees for MMOs are no longer desirable by players. That being said here is my point:
If there is a game (or any other type of entertainment service you love) paying a monthly fee for it is not that bad especially when we're talking $12-$14 a month. The reality is that these games cost alot to produce and cost alot to maintain. If we want something that is good with regular content being delivered that has to come at a price. And folks,let's be real here, is $14 a month really going to break you if it is going toward something you want to do?
I spend $10 a month on netflix.
I buy a cup of coffee a day from Starbucks which ends up at about $90 a month.
I buy cable with hbo and showtime. Hbo I watch basically never unless there is a movie on that I've probably already seen.
I spend about $100 or more a month going out for drinks.
I spend about $150 a month going out to eat when I have food at home.
What is my point? My point is that I, like many if not all of you, spend my money on various crap each month that I don't need. So, if we are excited about a product should we let it fail simply because we refuse to pay for it? I can cut out 3 cups of Starbucks a month or I can skip going out to dinner once. I can avoid that 5th trip to the bar one night of the month or **** even just skip those last 3 drinks of a night I'm already there.
In other words, there are many many ways I can scrounge together $14 a month for a product I'm really excited about. The question is, can you?
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PROFESSIONAL football is a results-based industry and there's been an alarming drop in Joey Elliott's production of late.
The quarterback has watched his numbers sink like a stone since his first start of the 2012 three games ago, a trend that either coincides or is a direct result of Winnipeg's uninspired offensive effort and game plan of late.
Or maybe it's a little of both. Anyway, in his last three games...
-- Elliott went 9-of-19 for 61 yards and one interception in three-plus quarters of work as the Bombers were put over the Saskatchewan Roughriders knee and spanked 52-0 in the Labour Day Classic Sunday. It was brutal -- no other way to put it.
-- Before the Riders game, the third-year pivot went 20-of-42 for 256 yards and one pick in a loss to the B.C. Lions. Not bad, though the low completion percentage was a red flag of sorts.
-- Prior to the Lions date, Elliott turned in what many thought was his breakthrough performance: 33-of-43 for 406 yards and one interception against Hamilton. Elliott, the great unknown both in Bomberland and across the league had announced his arrival, the pundits screamed.
If only the Tiger-Cats defence was on the schedule every week.
Benefit of the doubt regarding Elliott's downward trajectory includes mention of his inexperience (five career starts) and the fact he's coming off a significant knee injury last season. Both are valid arguments and should be measured when making a final ruling on his overall play. Right now, however, he's struggling.
The club is hoping Buck Pierce will be healthy enough to play when the Riders make the trip to Manitoba next weekend, though his status won't be determined until today at the earliest. Pierce, who is still experiencing discomfort, missed six games with a torn ligament in his left foot.
SATISFACTION: His name didn't appear on the stats sheet but Odell Willis, who danced around Mosaic Stadium field all afternoon Sunday, didn't have a care in the world after the game.
"This lived up to it and then some," the Riders defensive end said outside the Bombers locker-room following Sunday's bloodbath. "A shutout and our team played pretty good. This feels pretty good and I'm already looking forward to coming to Winnipeg. That's going to be a good one."
Willis, the former Bomber who was shipped out of town by GM Joe Mack in the off-season, was asked what kind of reception he'll get when he returns to the city and stadium where he apparently held some sort of high ranking position in civic government (mayor).
"They (the fans) be talking bad to me on Twitter, so it's going to be mixed feelings for me," he smiled. "Hopefully they don't boo me off the field. I hope they're nice to me."
STRANGE CALL: History will mark Tim Burke's head coaching debut as a complete disaster -- losing by 52 points tends to skew perspective that way -- but how did he actually perform on the sidelines in his first go around?
Looking somewhat uncomfortable standing with the players (he spent the last 18 years in the press box as a position coach and defensive co-ordinator during games), Winnipeg's interim head coach made one glaring error during Sunday's contest.
In the second quarter, the Riders were on the Winnipeg 26-yard line and facing a second-and-10 into the strong wind. Quarterback Darian Durant completed a four-yard pass to Chris Getzlaf, moving it to the 22-yard line, but Saskatchewan was flagged for an offside infraction.
Instead of taking the penalty and pushing the Riders back, the Bombers declined the penalty and gave Sandro DeAngelis a field goal opportunity from five-yards closer. The score was 25-0 at the time, so the decision didn't really hurt the Bombers, but it was a curious one.
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A SUMMER soccer tournament exclusively for under-21 teams is set to be a sizzling success, according to organisers, writes Simon Parkinson.
The nine-week event, to be held on the new 3G pitch at Oaklands Park, is being staged to mark the return of the Bristol Under-21 Combination League at the start of September.
Tournament hosts Gloucestershire FA have teamed up with the new league's officials to put on the football fest, which will see a series of nine v nine games, lasting 50 minutes each, performed every Tuesday evening at the recently-revamped centre in Almondsbury, starting next Tuesday, June 3.
Many of the teams entering the under-21 league campaign are expected to take part, including sides associated with Longwell Green Sports, Nicholas Wanderers, Bradley Stoke, Mendip and Ashton and Backwell United.
The GFA and 19-year-old Bristol U18 Combination League, which is overseeing the inclusion of a new under-21 section, spoke recently of the need to offer maturing teenage footballers a smoother pathway into full-blown adult football through the advent of under-21s competition.
The Combination League is optimistic at least ten teams will join up for the 2014-15 season and is issuing invitations to even more clubs to take part.
League secretary Ken Howitt said: "We're extending our offers to any teams in the region within a sensible travelling distance, not just those within the GFA county confines. Clubs themselves have identified a need for such a league and we're looking to run it on Sundays with 2pm kick-offs.
"That said we're prepared to be flexible and if clubs agree with one another to kick off earlier, or maybe in midweek, we'll certainly cater for such changes.
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GFA football development officer Joe Goulding added: "This new league presents a great opportunity for clubs to retain their young players and members.
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I'm only posting these nude/topless photos of Michelle "Bombshell" McGee so future generations will know we spent the latter half of March estimating just how many genital sores Jesse James received by having an affair with The World's Tattooiest Little Nazi and learn from our mistakes. On that note, let the record show this writer guessed 87, 12 of which looked like Hitler smiling.
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JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. - A Jacksonville Beach mother is accused of selling her 6-year-old daughter for sex in exchange for drugs.
Dalina Nicholas, 39, was being held in Columbus, Ga., late Saturday, awaiting extradition to Jacksonville Beach.
Police said Nicholas sold her 6-year-old daughter to two men in Jacksonville Beach in exchange for crack cocaine.
A warrant for her arrest was issued last week.
Nicholas' Jacksonville Beach neighbors said they were shocked at the news and found out after watching Channel 4.
"A 6-year-old? Are you serious? That's disgusting. That's insane," neighbor Ronnie Swartz said.
They said they never saw any police activity and could never have imagined what was going on.
"It's disgusting. I can't even fathom the thought. I have a 3-year-old and a 2-year-old. I can't fathom it," Maria Sullo said.
The Department of Children and Families is investigating the case. John Harrell said the allegations are disturbing and that DCF hasn't seen a case like this one in several years. He said a team of doctors was called in to help the little girl.
"Our primary concerns at DCF are the safety and wellbeing of this child," Harrell said. "This child is now in a safe environment with relatives. And additionally, our partners at the Children's Home Society are providing services to help this child, which include therapy and counseling."
The two men accused of having sex with Nicholas's daughter, Quinn Brooks, 56, and John Hagans, 47, were charged with rape. Hagans has been arrested at least 12 times in Duval County; Brooks has been arrested seven times. Dalina Nicholas has no local record.
Both were being held in the Duval County jail on no bond.
Jacksonville Beach police are expected to head to Muscogee County to pick Nicholas up sometime this week.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron came under fresh pressure from his own party to loosen ties with the European Union on Wednesday, two days before a speech in which he will spell out plans to renegotiate Britain's membership of the bloc.
As different interests jockey to influence his speech, which some say could end up reshaping Britain's role in the world, a group representing about a third of MPs in the ruling Conservative party published a "Manifesto for Change" listing areas where they want decision-making brought back to London.
Cameron will deliver his speech - one of the most closely watched Europe addresses by a British leader since World War Two - in Amsterdam on Friday, a choice meant to underline the fact that some other EU member states such as the Netherlands are sympathetic to many of his policies towards the bloc.
He is expected to say he will offer a referendum on any new settlement he manages to hammer out to change Britain's four-decade-old links with the EU, probably in 2018. His prospects of success are uncertain, however, as there is unease in some EU member states, notably Germany and France, about Cameron's plans.
"The status quo in the European Union is no longer an option," the group's manifesto said. "The euro zone is facing up to the inevitable consequences of the financial crisis, and is moving towards fiscal and banking union. This is not a path that the British people will go down."
"We also want to protect British sovereignty, ensuring that the British Parliament can decide what is best for Britain. We do not share the vision of 'ever closer union' as set out in the EU treaties."
Areas where the members of parliament (MPs), who call themselves the Fresh Start group, would like to see powers clawed back including large swathes of employment, social and criminal justice law. They are also pressing for an "emergency brake" on new laws that could affect Britain's powerhouse financial services industry and are demanding that the EU's agriculture and fisheries budget be overhauled.
The MPs are also asking Cameron to withdraw Britain from the EU's "regional policy", which distributes EU funds to poorer regions, and to press him to restrict the rights of future immigrants from countries such as Romania and Bulgaria.
In a demand likely to be seen as provocative by europhiles, the group wants the option of unilaterally withdrawing from some EU policies if they are perceived to be causing "significant harm".
William Hague, Britain's foreign secretary, endorsed the MPs' manifesto in a fulsome foreword to the document, saying some of the proposals "could well become future Government or Conservative Party policy".
Cameron regarded the document as "a very interesting contribution to the debate", his official spokesman said.
Asked in parliament on Wednesday if Britain risked sleepwalking out of the EU, Cameron said: "The most dangerous thing for this country would be to see the changes that are taking place in Europe because of the single currency and stand back and say we are going to do nothing about it."
He said he did not favour holding an in/out referendum on Britain's membership of the EU for now, saying it would be a false choice.
"Millions of people in this country, myself included, want Britain to stay in the European Union, but they believe there are chances to negotiate a better relationship," he said.
Ed Miliband, leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, accused Cameron of damaging the country's image as a good place to invest.
"His position appears to be this: an in/out referendum would be destabilising, but promising one in five years' time is just fine for the country," he told parliament.
"What does that mean? That is five years of businesses seeing a 'closed for business' sign hanging around Britain."
Miliband, whom polls show is favourite to win power in 2015, has said he opposes an in/out vote for now, but has declined to spell out precisely what his own policy would be before the general election.
Peter Wilding, founder of the Centre for British Influence Through Europe, a lobby group that promotes the case for close British ties with the EU, warned the MPs' proposals would risk alienating EU member states and might even trigger legal action.
"Although 50 percent of the proposals are good, most of the repatriation proposals are not supported by practical methods to achieve the objectives," said Wilding.
Though Cameron says he is adamant he wants his country to remain a member of the 27-nation EU, senior allies such as George Osborne, the Chancellor, have been more ambiguous suggesting the EU must reform itself if London is to stay in it.
Cameron faces pressure from another less influential wing of his party to back away from his renegotiation plans. Ken Clarke, a minister without portfolio, warned the premier against diluting Britain's influence in a newspaper interview on Wednesday.
Miliband's brother David, also a member of the Labour party and a former British foreign minister, sounded a similar note of caution as did Nigel Sheinwald, Britain's former ambassador to the United States.
Prominent business leaders have also told Cameron not to damage ties with the EU, Britain's biggest trading partner.
France in particular appears anxious about Cameron's EU policies.
"It's up to the British to say what they want to do," French Europe Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told Reuters.
"It is not in the interests of the single market to see the British leave. And the British know very well it is not in their interest to leave the single market."
Speaking in Brussels, Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen waded into the debate, saying he expected Britain to remain inside the EU. "The European Union without Britain is pretty much the same as fish without chips. It's not a meal anymore," he said.
In Berlin, a spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel said: "I believe that Europe and above all Britain know what our position is on Britain and the EU: we want an active and engaged Britain in the European Union."
Cameron is expected to brief Conservative members of his cabinet on the contents of his speech on Wednesday, but will exclude ministers from his junior coalition partner - the Liberal Democrats.
Additional reporting by Paul Taylor, Mark John and Emmanuel Cazeneuve in Paris, Luke Baker and Ethan Bilby in Brussels and Stephen Brown in Berlin; Editing by Will Waterman


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BETRAYAL Plays Perseverance Theatre and Alaska Center, Beginning 1/11
BETRAYAL plays at the Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, January 11 - February 3, 2013, then in the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts in Anchorage, April 12 - 21, 2013.
BETRAYAL is written by Harold Pinter and directed by Bostin Christopher.
Robert and Jerry are best friends. Robert and Emma are married. Jerry and Emma are lovers. Over nine years, feelings are masked and words are used in a struggle for power as the price of passion is paid and layers of hidden truth are revealed. Nobel Prize-winning author Harold Pinter's modern classic is an intricate, intimate unveiling of the moments leading to the ultimate break in trust. In its 33 years, Perseverance has never produced Harold Pinter - we look forward to sharing this Nobel Prize-winning author's work with you!
The artistic team includes: Director: Bostin Christopher; Set Design: Akiko Nishijima Rotch; Lighting Design: Jim Cucurull; Costume Design: Arnulfo Maldonado; Sound Design: Lucy Peckham; and Production Stage Manager: Olivia Tymon.
The cast includes: Emma: Shona Strauser; Jerry: Daniel Billet*; Robert: AaRon Wiseman; Waiter: James Sullivan (Juneau only); and Waiter: David Haynes (Anchorage only).
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For tickets and more information, visit: http://www.perseverancetheatre.org/shows/betrayal.html


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DOG owners are being invited to get their pooches a free health check in Oldbury.
The PDSA's Pet Check vehicle will be at Sandwell Christian Centre, Langley Crescent, from 10am until 5pm on Thursday, June 26.
Oldbury was selected by the PDSA to benefit from a pet care roadshow after research showed a large percentage of local pet owners did not fully understand their animals' needs.
PDSA vet nurse Sue Bartlett will examine canine visitors' weight, body-shape, teeth, eyes, coat and general fitness, as well as offering expert advice on caring for other pets.
Preventive treatments will be on offer at an affordable cost and Cats Protection neutering vouchers will also be available.
Mrs Bartlett said: "I've spent the last three weeks visiting schools and groups all across Birmingham.
"It's clear that people here really love their pets and want the best for them, and by sharing our advice and support I know we can work together to help improve the health and happiness of local pets."
For safety reasons only dogs can be brought along for checks and should be kept on the lead at all times. Full details of all events can be found at www.pdsa.org.uk/petcheck.