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Praise And Blame Released July 26, 2010 39th Studio Album
February 7, 2012 by staff
Praise And Blame Released July 26, 2010 39th Studio Album, Praise & Blame is the 39th studio album by Welsh musician Tom Jones, released 26 July 2010. The album was Jones' first release with Island Records and was recorded in 2009 at the Real World Studios in England.
Produced by Ethan Johns, Praise & Blame was made up of largely little known devotional and gospel covers, marking a departure from the pop-orientated style that had dominated Jones' recent recordings.
In an interview with HitQuarters, Island A&R, Louis Bloom, talked about how the concept for the album first came together:
"I saw Tom on the Jonathan Ross show a couple of years ago and he had stopped dying his hair – he looked great! I've always been a massive fan of his voice but in recent years he had been doing the musical equivalent of dying his hair in trying to make modern records that just felt too forced and missed the mark.
I tracked down his management and coincidentally they were also thinking they wanted to make more of a classic rootsy record."
Upon its release, Praise & Blame received generally positive reviews from most critics. Giving the album four stars, Andrew Perry in The Daily Telegraph claimed that the album was "by far Jones' best album in two decades" and stated that "with its loose, spontaneous sound, and the all-pervasive sense of artistic rebirth it's a revelation."
Similarly, Andy Gill in The Independent stated: "Overall, it's an extraordinary achievement: Praise & Blame represents the kind of reconnection with his core creative fire that was hinted on a few tracks of his last album, 24 Hours, but is here left nkd and bleeding raw, bereft of showbiz blandishments." Giving the album five stars, Gill labelled the album one of the best in Jones' six decade long career.
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UNITED States Ambassador to Australia Jeffrey Bleich says the relationship between the two nations will remain strong despite differences on the Palestinian issue.
Mr Bleich was commenting on Australia's decision to abstain from a vote in the general assembly on a resolution to give Palestine observer status at the UN.
Australia was expected to join the US and Israel in voting against the resolution.
Mr Bleich said the relationship between the US and Australia was "deeply, deeply grounded".
"Even where we have differences in terms of how we cast votes, we always manage to progress further because we always have the same objectives," he told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday.
"Australia, just as the US, feels that ultimately we need to have peace in this region and a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians."
The US believes that upgrading Palestine's status at the UN will not advance the peace process or the creation of a two-state solution, he said.
Prime Minster Julia Gillard said federal Labor supported a two-state solution while being a strong friend of Israel.
Labor would also continue working with the Palestinian people to realise their legitimate aspirations for a homeland and a state, she told federal parliament on Wednesday.
Originally published as Ties strong despite Palestine vote: Bleich


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Fermanagh: Island Girls and Lusty Ladies
Northern Ireland breaks
She reminds me she's an island girl as we bowl past the lakes of Virginia where we used as children visit our only brother in boarding school.
I'd forgotten when inviting my youngest sibling to accompany me on this spa jaunt that indeed she's always had a passion for islands. Most summers see Justine venturing off to some enchanted isle or other. Inisbofin, Achill, Valentia — indeed, only last summer the pair of us abandoned our daughters and our dogs and left them with the menfolk and took a boat to legendary Clare Island.
Storm Harry hovers as we head off to Lough Erne and the brilliantly monikered Lusty Beg Island Resort. Red post boxes signal that we've entered Northern Ireland, and before long we're through Quinn country and Enniskillen and on Boa Island; a causeway brings us to Lusty Mor and suddenly there's a slipway and a dinky navy ferry which carries car, two sisters and luggage across a small, choppy expanse of lake to our weekend retreat.
Exquisitely beautiful, this is an utterly beguiling place. The resort comprises a main reception area with restaurant, bar and wedding venue and an assortment of chalets, lodges, suites and cabins. Nor is there any shortage of activities here; in addition to the plethora of obvious aqua-based activities offered by the locale's watery setting, there are tennis courts, a football pitch, off-road tracks, a clay pigeon shoot and an archery area. Not to mention a well equipped spa and leisure centre, of which more anon.
Justine and I were staying in a three-bed (four-starred) wooden lodge. With two twins and a master bedroom, they sleep six, and are fully equipped with everything from LED TV and stove to all the mod cons in the kitchen; management have also kindly stocked the essentials of life —herbal teas, decent coffee, pistachios and prosecco. Bathrooms are contemporary and expensively kitted out, downstairs there's a shower/wet room and my top floor suite has a verandah overlooking the lake.
Their signature cocktail here is a Lusty Lady (obviously) and the barman hands me mine explaining that it's made with rum, schnapps, grenadine, strawberries and lots of care, before heading into the dark woods and a very inclement night to check out a chirping alarm in our cabin.
Dining is relaxed and unfussy and we both opt for starters of gambas pil pil, followed by ribeye with chips. We sleep blissfully in the complete dark offered only by such a remote spot, the silence momentarily shattered by a thunderstorm that passes so closely overhead that the house shakes and someone remarks later that it was like a bomb going off.
We wake to wind and snow, which lends an even more ethereally lovely air to the place. After breakfast we take advantage of the sunshine to walk the perimeter of the island. We're both navigationally challenged (even armed with GPS and an AA printout we couldn't manage getting from Dublin to County Fermanagh) so natch we get a bit lost. But what a wonderful place in which to lose the plot. I half expect to bump into Mr Tumnus for it's like being in Narnia when Aslan returns: the quiet forest, the stilly lake, the drifts of melting snow everywhere. My horticulturist sister observes that the superb quality of the lichen indicates the purity of the air. Our stroll is a mere preamble to the later activity when, after excellent chicken liver pate and mushrooms on toast in front of a roaring fire, we take a RIB out on the lake. Our genial boatman zooms over the choppy water, passing a snow-covered Ben Bulben, a family of swans, a few tiny islets. Kaipo, who landed in Ireland from his native Estonia 14 years ago on St Patrick's Day and never looked back, tells us how Lusty Beg comes into its own during the summer with hundreds of crafts buzzing about on the lake, all manner of water sports occurring while music plays over the loudspeakers. He lets me drive the boat back. The island is also only half an hour from Donegal and its stunning surfing beach — Rossnowlagh. Interestingly, with the Iowa caucuses due to take place the next day, we're not too far from the ancestral homes of two US Presidents — Woodrow Wilson and James Buchanan. We are near Belleek too and Florence Court, fabled for its gardens and its 18th-Century house.
Earlier, over hot whiskeys to fortify us against the winter chill, the ebullient owners, Arthur and Liz Cadden, explain that they've spent a quarter of a century developing the resort. When the conference business, on which they relied heavily, fell off a cliff in September 2008, they were forced to reinvent; the wedding market was an obvious route for such an idyllically romantic locale and now they do about 150 a year. There's one on while we're there; and in both detail and ambience it's compellingly lovely — the table of heart-shaped shortbread and pink cocktails, the vintage Daimler to carry the bridal party across the lake, and a lone Scottish piper playing the bagpipes as dusk descends upon the island.
Meanwhile, the spa hums with the sounds of an eight-strong hen party preening and pampering themselves. Serendipitously, Justine and I had enjoyed our treatments the previous day — a deluxe facial (complete with back, feet and head massage) for my little sis and a smashing 90-minute muslin bag massage for moi. I also take full advantage of the pool, sauna, steam room and outdoor hot tub — tiny snowflakes fall on my bare shoulders as I sit in its warm, soothing waters. Island Girl and Lusty Lady vow to return: who knows — maybe with a bride in tow.
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Myla who happened to be a student in high school who was being bullied a lot in school. She knew that her grades were failing as well. This teacher on the other hand Mr. Paras, gave him a chance to pass the subject.
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I'll just start by saying....I LOVE THE DENT HOUSE. Love everything about it. I spent last weekend there along with my 6 best girlfriends. This was our 9th year doing our trip and our 4th time staying at the Dent House.
A noticeable difference from our last trip was that the grounds look really amazing. All of the trees were cut back allowing more sunlight in. The lawn looked beautiful. The new caretaker was very accommodating, even chopping wood for us to to be able to use the outdoor Santa Maria BBQ. Usually in November we are not able to make use of the beautiful outdoor areas, but this year we were! There is a picnic table and hammock to enjoy as well as plenty of grassy areas to sit and read a book.
Our early Thanksgiving feast was easily made in the commercial kitchen that offers a butler's pantry with a triple sink, dishwasher, refrigerator, coffee pot, toaster, microwave and enough glassware, dinnerware and servingware to host a small army. The main kitchen area offers a commercial stove/range, another refrigerator, double sink, bottled water station and beautiful views of the side yard.
The house is very "homey". We spent most of the weekend on the screened front porch enjoying the fall colors and the breezy days. A few of us did some hiking back into the canyon. We enjoyed maybe the best weather ever at the Dent House.
We all discussed how ideal this area would be for an outdoor wedding!
Upsides: Beautiful location, cozy home, comfortable beds, nature, location location location.
Downsides (if I had to think of one) would be that there is no cell phone service or internet service. The owners do provide a calling card and local phone for use. It was actually nice not having a cell phone and internet for once. Truly unplugged weekend!
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Speed awareness courses are often offered as an alternative to a fine and penalty points, but what do they involve and what can you expect on the day?
Breaking the speed limit is one of the most common offences in the book, and very few people can honestly say, hand on heart, that they have never driven faster than the law allows. If you are caught speeding, either by a police traffic patrol, or by a roadside camera, you face a fine of around £100 and three penalty points on your licence. And that's just the start of it; you'll also find your car insurance may increase to reflect your driving record, and may stay up for several years while the points remain on your licence.
The problem is, some people don't see speeding as all that dangerous. Doing 35mph in a 30mph zone is seen as something that everyone does, and it certainly doesn't carry the same stigma as drink driving, even though it can be just as dangerous. Driving at 35mph instead of 30mph raises the fatality rate from 20% to 50%. Hit someone at 20mph, and there is a 99% chance they will survive. Hit them at 40mph, and there is a 90% chance they won't, so speed really is more dangerous than most people think.
If you are caught speeding, within certain limits, anywhere but a 20mph zone, you may be offered a speed awareness course as an alternative to your automatic fine and points. You will still have to pay for this, but your licence will stay clean.
Not every police force offers these courses, and not everyone will be given this second chance, but if you are, it is well worth taking.
The cost of the course varies depending on the course provider and takes around four hours. You are required to bring your driving licence along with you to prove your identity and attendance at this course. You can usually choose the date and venue to suit you, including evenings and weekends, but don't miss your appointment, or you'll be referred straight back to the police for the standard fine and penalty points.
Speed awareness courses are not run by the police and they are not designed to make you feel naughty by sending you back to school. The aim of the course is exactly what it says – to raise your awareness of speed and its consequences.
There is no written exam, no driving test and you don't pass or fail. However, to complete the course, you will be expected to participate fully in the session and share your thoughts and experiences. This is not just a half-day of dull 1970s road safety videos; this is a full and frank exploration of how and why we speed and the potential consequences if we do. For example, one of the sessions is normally a discussion of the various 'excuses' for speeding – virtually all of which are clearly indefensible in the cold light of day.
The aim of the course is not to help you avoid getting caught again, but to change your attitude to speeding and make you think twice about how fast you are going.
You might think that you'll be spending your half-day with boy racers, but you'll be surprised. The 25-30 people on your course are just as likely to be school-run-mums and pensioners as anyone else.
If you complete the course, then that is it; no points, no fine and nothing on your record. However, this is a one off chance, and if you are caught speeding again within three years, you will not get the same offer, so it is important to learn your lesson.
Of course, when you look back at the statistics at the start of this article, learning that lesson is important in more ways than one.
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A Bloomington-Normal native, Doug graduated from Normal Community High School in 1983 and Illinois State University in 1987. He holds a masters degree in Studio Art from ISU, where he was a recipient of the Elizabeth Stein Scholarship and Friends of the Arts Talent Grant. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from Northern Illinois University in 1992, where he was awarded Best of Show in the Student Annual exhibition. He has exhibited at Addington Gallery and the Peter Miller Gallery (both in Chicago), Illinois Wesleyan University and at the Chicago International Art Expo.
He currently serves on the executive board of Arts Alliance Illinois, and is the past president of the Bloomington Rotary Club.Additionally, he founded and serves as president of the Area Arts Round Table (a consortium of McLean County Arts programmers) and is co-chair of the Local Arts Network (a statewide group of executive directors at cultural institutions).
|Lisa Lofgren is an artist, educator and founder of a community printmaking and papermaking facility titled Together Press in coordination with cometogetherstudios in Bloomington, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Wyoming with a BFA and received her MFA from Illinois State University. Lisa's past gallery experience includes owning Main Gallery 404 in Downtown Bloomington, Illinois and working for the University Wyoming Art Museum as an Interim Ann Simpson Art Mobile Curator before assisting the museum preparators.
|Carmel Rhoda serves as Office Manager. Joining the staff in November 2011, Carmel is in charge of membership and bookkeeping responsibilities. She has enjoyed becoming involved in the local arts community and frequently attends shows and festivals locally and throughout the Midwest. She is a graduate of Illinois State University with a Bachelors in Sociology. Carmel and her husband have three children.
Justin Hay recently received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Illinois State University with a focus in Ceramics. Justin started at MCAC as an intern for the Ceramics studio and has now moved to the title of Project Coordinator. Justin currently works and lives in Bloomington and continues to make artwork utilizing the MCAC Ceramics studio. During 2016 Justin received The Alcorn Family Scholarship while at Illinois State University which allowed him to attend an Artist Residency Workshop at Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass, CO. This inspired him to want to be a part of some artist residencies around the country before applying to Graduate School. Until then, building a studio practice and new body/bodies of work outside of academia is his main goal.
Sarah Sciba holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Kendall College of Art and Design, where she studied Printmaking and Art Education. Sarah graduated with high honors and was awarded the National Art Education Association's Higher Education Achievement Award in 2009.
Sarah moved to Bloomington in 2012 with her partner, Morgan Price, assistant professor of Lithography at Illinois State University. They reside in the Founder's Grove neighborhood, where Sarah maintains her home studio. In addition to being a practicing artist, Sarah is a strong advocate for art education and enjoys facilitating studio art classes for diverse audiences.


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Published: Saturday 21st March 2015 by The News Editor
Soldiers have killed 80 militants and wounded about 100 in an operation near the Afghan border, according to a Pakistani military official.
The official said the two-day operation in the Tirah Valley in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region also saw seven soldiers killed.
Military jets have bombed the area, known to be a home to the Pakistani Taliban and its allies.
Pakistan has stepped up its operations targeting militants after the Taliban attacked a school in the north-western city of Peshawar, killing 150 people – mostly children – in December.
Published: Saturday 21st March 2015 by The News Editor


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Capital expenditure in India has nosedived amid wariness over demand, China slowdown and US rates
Daily Archives: October 11, 2015
Western economies are still too weak to cope with Fed rate rise, says China
US Federal Reserve has 'global responsibilities' to ensure that monetary policy is kept loose, says Lou Jiwei ahead of the IMF annual meeting in Lima
The slow recovery of western economies means the US Federal Reserve should not raise interest rates yet, according to the Chinese finance minister.
Related: The Fed must ignore accusations of dithering over interest rates
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Osborne claims success on economy
Reports show wage growth, improved business optimism and increased consumer spending
Private sector pay rising at fastest rate for 14 years, says thinktank
Resolution Foundation says real wages rose at 3.6% thanks to low inflation but warns benefits may be felt mostly by older, more qualified workers
Britain's private sector workers are enjoying the fastest real wage growth in 14 years, with pay deals picking up as inflation hovers close to zero, according to a leading thinktank.
Analysis by the Resolution Foundation suggests that private sector wages rose at an annual rate of up to 3.6% in the three months to August, due to rising wages and flat living costs. That would be the fastest growth since 2001 if it is confirmed in official figures to be published on Wednesday.
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Britain wants long-term plan from World Bank for refugee crisis
International development secretary Justine Greening called on bank to 'ensure refugees have chance of getting jobs'
Britain is urging the World Bank to put together a long-term plan to meet the needs of refugees following a summer dominated by a migration crisis that has put strains on the European Union.
Justine Greening, the international development secretary, told the bank's annual meeting in Lima that short-term emergency assistance was not enough and that a strategy was needed to provide schools, hospitals and work for those displaced.
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Don't let the Nobel prize fool you. Economics is not a science | Joris Luyendijk
The award glorifies economists as tellers of timeless truths, fostering hubris and leading to disaster
Business as usual. That will be the implicit message when the Sveriges Riksbank announces this year's winner of the "Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel", to give it its full title. Seven years ago this autumn, practically the entire mainstream economics profession was caught off guard by the global financial crash and the "worst panic since the 1930s" that followed. And yet on Monday the glorification of economics as a scientific field on a par with physics, chemistry and medicine will continue.
The problem is not so much that there is a Nobel prize in economics, but that there are no equivalent prizes in psychology, sociology, anthropology. Economics, this seems to say, is not a social science but an exact one, like physics or chemistry – a distinction that not only encourages hubris among economists but also changes the way we think about the economy.
Related: Economist Sir Richard Blundell frontrunners Nobel prize
Related: Nobel Prizes in science: strictly a man's game?
Related: How the banks ignored the lessons of the crash |
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Germany risks wasting refugee benefits
The irresistible force of the migrants is hitting the immovable object of a high minimum wage
Fed vice-chair: interest rate increase is 'expectation, not commitment' for 2015
Federal Reserve moves to hinge on economic developments amid 'considerable uncertainties' in exports, investment and job growth, says Stanley Fischer
Federal Reserve policymakers are still likely to raise interest rates this year, but that is "an expectation, not a commitment" and could change if the global economy pushes the US economy further off course, Fed vice-chairman Stanley Fischer said.
"Both the timing of the first rate increase and any subsequent adjustments to the federal funds rate target will depend critically on future developments in the economy," Fischer told a group on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund meeting in Peru.
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Why support TPP? Critics should read the agreement and keep an open mind
In light of vociferous opposition to the trade deal, the TPP that emerged is a pleasant surprise – so much so that some Republicans threaten to oppose it
Agreement among negotiators from 12 Pacific rim countries on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) represents a triumph over long odds. Tremendous political obstacles, both domestic and international, had to be overcome to conclude the deal. And now critics of the TPP's ratification, particularly in the US, should read the agreement with an open mind.
Many of the issues surrounding the TPP have been framed, at least in US political terms, as left versus right. The left's unremitting hostility to the deal – often on the grounds that the US Congress was kept in the dark about its content during negotiations – carried two dangers: A worthwhile effort could have been blocked; or President Barack Obama's Democratic administration could have been compelled to be more generous to American corporations, in order to pick up needed votes from Republicans.
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The LTBG logo comp is drawing to a close. There are only three days remaining, and the time has come for me to put my thinking cap on and decide on a winner.
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Review: The Sims 3 Showtime Expansion Pack
Written by Melisa Snyder on April 24, 2012 in PC
[EA, PC, Rated T for teen, teen, The Married Gamers, The Sims 3, The Sims 3: Showtime]
(The following is translated by the creator from Simlish into English) Hello, my name is Simone Digiorno. I know it is a silly name. I blame my creator's unnatural love of pizza products. I have spent most of my virtual life in good ole Sunset Valley thanks to the folks at Electronic Arts but now… Read More »
Review: Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Written by David Chapman on February 23, 2012 in Xbox 360
[Alan Wake, Alan Wake: American Nightmare, Rated T for teen, Remedy, T for Teen, xbla, Xbox 360]
"Previously on Alan Wake …" The last time we heard from best-selling author Alan Wake, he and his wife were taking a vacation together to try and break through a particularly nasty case of writer's block. Instead of peace and tranquility, though, Wake found himself cast as the hero in a horror novel he didn't… Read More »
Review: UFC Undisputed 3
Written by Wallace Phelps on February 22, 2012 in Xbox 360
[DLC, fighting, MMA, Rated T for teen, sports, T for Teen, The Married Gamers, TMG, UFC, UFC Undisputed 3, Undisputed 3, Xbox 360]
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Review: X-Men: Destiny
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WV - Mother Of Kidnapped Baby Behind Bars
This case is a hot mess. As I read about it earlier today there were five people arrested. The mother of the 9 month old was in the hospital, and now the lady is locked up.
Tabitha Blankenship aged 30 was arrested for giving false information to the police. From what I gather Miss Blakenship got an order of full custody of her 9 month old son on Thursday. Supposedly at some point the baby's father, and his parents and two others kidnapped this baby. They were all arrested and the baby was found unharmed. However, Miss Blankenship got her butt whooped during the altercation of these people taking her child.
Well, now who knows. As of this hour it's still seems to be a big mixup In West Virginia. Photo and more at link.
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Could it be possible that she made something up against the father (LIED) in order to hurt him and get full custody of the baby?
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Yes, she probably asked dad or the grandparents to babysit or there were custody orders and it was dad's weekend. So she can't even seem to find the $200 to post her bail.
This kind of stuff makes me mad.
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Sounds like a big mix up to me. I don't think so many people would have been arrested, 5 including the father for their role in the kidnapping, if the mom was the only one who did something.
Basically I think the mother originally went and filed for custody claiming the father did something wrong. It looks like he didn't and his family and friends called BS and went to get the baby. Somehow Blankenship got knocked around either on her own accord or they did conk her. They took the baby to his parents it looks like and Blankenship went to the hospital.
Lastly LE found out she's lying her head off about the incident. Thus she's locked up.
Oh here we go. She's in trouble. Tabitha Blankenship lies.
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Why Men Leave Home (1924)
Directed by John M. StahlSub-Genres - Marriage Drama | Countries - USA |
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This comedy-drama was based on the successful play by Avery Hopwood, who was known for his tales of domestic turmoil. It features Lewis Stone and Helene Chadwick as a newlywed couple, John and Irene Emerson. At the beginning John is totally devoted to his wife, but by the time their first-year anniversary comes around, he has become so neglectful that he forgets to give her a present until she gives him one first. Left on her own, Irene spends a lot of time with her girlfriends. John becomes lonely and brings his stenographer, Jean Ralston (Alma Bennett), to the theater. When his wife finds out about it, the couple divorce. Jean uses her wiles to wed John. John's grandmother (Mary Carr) hears about the marital discord, and not realizing that the couple has already divorced, fakes an injury so they both come rushing over to her home. Then, with the cooperation of a doctor (Howard Truesdell), Grandma has the place quarantined so that neither John nor Irene can leave. The couple realize that they still love each other. When Jean shows up and tries to take John away, he gets rid of her by agreeing to a large alimony settlement. He and Irene marry again and head off on a second honeymoon.
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Directed by James WhaleGenres - Drama, War | Sub-Genres - War Drama, War Romance | Run Time - 75 min. | Countries - USA |
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Between fiscal year (FY) 1997 and FY 1998, federal domestic discretionary spending adjusted for inflation will increase $3.3 billion to reach $228.3 billion. President Clinton wants an additional $6 billion to reach a record $234.3 billion in federal spending in FY 1999.
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Summer Youth Employment and Training Program
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As the GAO points out, however, there already are 19 federal programs that focus directly on youth training and employment.2 Together, these programs spend $2.8 billion per year, and this does not include the $1.0 billion spent on vocational education programs.3 Almost half of the youth in the summer jobs program are 14 and 15 years old, and are essentially paid to go to summer school to learn what they should have learned during the regular school year.
A report by then-Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich acknowledges that summer jobs programs do not work.4 The study notes that subsidized work experience has not been successful in improving the employability of youths once the subsidized job has ended. The graduation rates and grades of participants do not improve, and young girls in the program are just as likely to become pregnant as those that do not participate in the program.
A national controlled scientific study of JTPA reported that youth programs had no statistically significant effect on either the average earnings of young females or their employment.5 Even worse, the programs had a large negative effect on the earnings of young males and no effect on their employment.
Many Members of Congress realize that basic education reform, and tax and regulatory reform, are the best ways to strengthen the ability of all young Americans to find gainful employment. Accordingly, the House Appropriations Committee has eliminated the Summer Youth Employment and Training Program to make it easier to pursue initiatives that support economic growth and more effectively create the jobs that young Americans want and need.
Since the program was created in 1994, 43 states have received School-to-Work implementation grants. In FY 1997 and FY 1998, $400 million was appropriated each year for these programs. School-to-Work's authorization is scheduled to expire on October 1, 2001.
Proponents claim that the program focuses on building school, business, and community partnerships; academic and occupational integration; the integration of school and work-based learning; and connections to post-secondary education. However:
Since FY 1994, the U.S. Department of Education has granted the states money from other federal programs--$4.4 billion in vocational education grants, $1.1 billion in professional development grants, and $1.3 billion in program innovation grants--to do the same things the School-to-Work program does.
Of the $200 million appropriated in FY 1998 for the Department of Education's responsibilities under the School-to-Work Opportunities Act, less than one-half (about $93 million) actually is used in classrooms, according to the Congressional Research Service.6
A preliminary report on how states have implemented School-to-Work programs already has concluded that efforts to raise academic and vocational standards are peripheral to School-to-Work priorities and that the links between school and worksite learning are limited.7
The $2.8 billion currently planned to be spent on School-to-Work programs between 1994 and 2001 will continue to have a negligible effect on teaching the basic skills that employers require. In the first-ever national evaluation of school-to-work programs, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., is assessing the states' progress in creating these systems for the U.S. Department of Education. It will measure, among other things, the outcomes students achieve in high school and post-secondary education and employment. (The study does not use a rigorous control group evaluation methodology, however, and this raises serious concerns about its ultimate usefulness.8 )
States and localities should have the flexibility to establish their own core curricula, use proven teaching methods, set high expectations, and improve discipline. Primary and secondary schools should concentrate on improving key areas such as these instead of devoting scarce resources to interagency collaboration and the formation of local partnerships. Thus, the House Appropriations Committee has proposed significant reductions in School-to-Work funding.
The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) provides federal funding to help pay home energy costs (heating and cooling) for some low-income households. Funds are distributed through annual block grants to states, the District of Columbia, more than 100 eligible Indian tribes, two commonwealths, and four territories. Up to 10 percent of the funds payable to a state may be used to pay planning and administrative costs.
The United States has spent over $27.1 billion on LIHEAP since the program began in 1982. As the Congressional Budget Office points out:
LIHEAP was created in response to the rapid increases in the price of energy used in the home in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Since 1981, however, inflation in fuel prices has lagged far behind general inflation: fuel prices are up about 25 percent since 1981 in comparison with an overall inflation rate of 70 percent. That fact might now warrant either eliminating or reducing LIHEAP.9
The LIHEAP program is now obsolete. The extreme conditions it was created to address no longer exist. In addition, the states have been given more discretion over how they use federal welfare money, and this has enabled them to address the needs of low-income Americans more creatively. Continuing the LIHEAP program would needlessly preserve a federal bureaucracy to manage the program and drain resources that more appropriately should be available to states, local communities, and families. The House Appropriations Committee, therefore, has proposed to terminate funding for LIHEAP in FY 1999.
Head Start10
Since 1965, the Head Start program has served more than 15 million children at a total cost of over $30 billion. The program's general purpose is to provide comprehensive health, social, educational, and mental health services to disadvantaged students.11 According to the GAO, however, the early childhood development program has continued to operate without any valid, useful study of how well it works.12
The Clinton Administration has asked Congress to increase funding for the program from $4.4 billion in FY 1998 to $4.7 billion in FY 1999. With these funds, the government anticipates serving an additional 30,000 to 36,000 children, raising the total number of children served annually to approximately 860,000.
Yet, in its five-year strategic plan submitted to Congress on September 30, 1997, Head Start's parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, was unable--after more than 30 years--to describe precisely what the program is supposed to accomplish.13 Worse, the agency's FY 1999 annual performance plan makes no mention of what American parents and taxpayers reasonably might expect in return for the $4.7 billion the Administration is asking them to give.14
The House Appropriations Committee bill proposes to fund a study by HHS, but this study--the Family and Child Experience Survey (FACES)--has serious methodological shortcomings.15 In June 1998, the GAO testified before Congress that "we are not convinced that [HHS] initiatives will provide definitive information on impact, that is, on whether children and their families would have achieved these gains without participating in Head Start."16 Thus, Congress also should require HHS to perform the following much-needed analyses:
Evaluate the differential effects of Head Start on participants' income as shown by its Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).
Use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY)--which since 1988 has gathered data on children who attended Head Start--to study a wide range of outcomes, including cognitive, socio-emotional, behavioral, and academic development, while controlling for such factors as family background and the mother's IQ and level of education.
Employ the Survey of Program Dynamics, a new longitudinal survey required by the 1996 welfare reform act, to conduct an additional study of Head Start.
Mandate that the Survey of Program Dynamics be linked with the NLSY at least once by the use of a common performance test. This would enable greater generalization of NLSY Head Start data.
After 30 years and more than $30 billion, Congress would be wise to demand that HHS competently study and effectively demonstrate that the Head Start program produces results.
Enacted in 1994, the Goals 2000: Educate America Act is expected to provide $491 million in FY 1998 to states and local districts. Under the program as recently amended, states and local school districts may apply to the U.S. Department of Education for funds to be applied to academic standards, model curricula, staff training, student assessments, technology, or magnet and charter schools.
Goals 2000 funding, however, duplicates other federal programs or pays the states to do what they already are doing. Moreover, states are paying the federal government at least 13 percent of the program money--$67 million of the $491 million in FY 1998--to maintain this duplicative federal bureaucracy.17
A 1994 survey by the Council of Chief State School Officers, conducted after the passage of Goals 2000, found that virtually all states had implemented or were formulating curriculum content and pupil performance standards. There is little evidence that any reforms currently are taking place that would not have been implemented if Goals 2000 had not been enacted.
Continued high levels of funding for Goals 2000 will only maintain and strengthen the federal government's control over local reform efforts and hamper grassroots reform initiatives. Washington does not need to pay the states to do what they already are doing and waste money on maintaining an unnecessary federal bureaucracy. Accordingly, the House Appropriations Committee has proposed significantly reduced funding for this program.
The Eisenhower Professional Development Program, funded at $335 million in FY 1998, provides grants to state and local education agencies, state agencies for higher education, institutions of higher education, and qualified nonprofit organizations to support professional development in core academic subjects.
While the Department of Education currently funds several professional programs, it "does not have an estimate of the amount expended for teacher professional development under these programs."18 It also does not keep records on funding provided for these purposes by other agencies, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.19 Despite this duplication and the lack of any clear demonstration of need, Congress has increased funding for the Eisenhower program steadily since 1992.
The Department of Education proposes to use some of the Eisenhower program's funding to support the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, which administers a voluntary assessment and certification process based on national standards of excellence developed by the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF). The Department of Education has requested that funding for the Board's certification process be doubled to $5 million in FY 1999, arguing that this increase is needed to reach the NCTAF's goal of certifying 105,000 teachers by 2006.
However, a recent appraisal of NCTAF's goal by University of Missouri economists Dale Ballou and Michael Podgursky raises important questions about who really stands to benefit. Noting the close ties between teacher unions and the NCTAF, the authors point out that NCTAF has yet to prove whether the achievement of this goal, other than simply generating a larger number of teachers, actually will improve the quality of teaching in a way that demonstrably benefits children and whether it can accomplish this in a cost-effective way.20
The House Appropriations Committee has proposed reduced funding for this program. States should be allowed to use funds for professional development as they deem appropriate. For example, state and local education agencies should have the freedom to use federal funds for scholarships to encourage teachers to study core subjects at area universities and community colleges.
Federal Regional Education Laboratories21
The regional education laboratories have been around for more than 32 years and have received over $750 million in federal funding. Although the ten regional laboratories seem to be doing interesting work, their impact on education reform has been small; in some cases, their work may even have undermined efforts at reform. Among the many problems associated with the work of these labs are the following:
Evidence of waste and abuse has been reported by the Department of Education's own inspector general.
Research is of questionable quality and value. Nearly half of the states and districts that have had contact with regional labs have found them to be of little or no help in understanding or implementing comprehensive standards-based reform.22
A review of lab Internet sites indicates a lack of objectivity, with few details on free-market ideas or the many recent studies on school choice.
The labs tend to promote education fads at the expense of sound policy.23
The House Appropriations Committee bill takes a modest first step toward eliminating this redundant and ineffective program by refusing to increase program funding in FY 1999. Ultimately, the private sector, as well as other agencies, should be allowed to compete for funds targeted to the work of these labs, with funding based on individual projects.
Education research is best conducted by private and independent organizations that are funded based on their ability to translate research findings into successful methodology and practice. The sole determinant in deciding whether a program will be implemented in the schools should be an increase in academic scores, not how much the educational bureaucracy or lobbyists may like the program.
Bilingual Education24
The House Appropriations Committee bill contains several measures designed to improve the education of Limited English-Proficient (LEP) students. Research and evaluation on methods of second language instruction have been inconclusive at best.
In 1997, the Department of Education and several independent foundations evaluated the available research on English language instruction. One of the reports concluded that nearly $100 million and 30 years of research and evaluation had yielded scant results in terms of classroom achievement.25 Not surprisingly, the Department of Education's FY 1999 annual performance plan fails to include the measurements it will use to determine what, if anything, the program actually accomplishes.26
The Department of Education has been inattentive to the results of its own in-house research projects and has failed to build upon original research.27 For example, during a 1992 audit of Office of Bilingual Education research, a budget analyst from the Department of Education's Office of the Under Secretary discovered that, of the 91 research evaluations or studies funded with $47 million of Title VII appropriations from 1980 to 1991, 40 of the final reports had been discarded or lost. Of the remaining 51 studies available, just 29 were relevant to policy formation and only 12 were described as "large-scale policy-relevant studies."28
Before giving more money to bilingual education, Congress would be wise to:
Block grant to states all current federal funding for bilingual and immigrant education, giving states more flexibility develop ways to help their Limited English-Proficient students make the transition to English-language fluency while requiring that 90 percent of the grant go directly to classroom instruction.
Allow the local education agencies to select which method of English language instruction to use and secure parental consent before placing a child in the program. Parents would have the right to remove their child from the program at any time and would be able to select the method of English language instruction if more than one were offered.
Void all previous compliance agreements that mandate bilingual education between the Department of Education and districts receiving funds and prohibit the Office of Civil Rights from entering into any new compliance agreements until the Secretary sets new regulations.
The House Appropriations Committee takes several steps to give states more flexibility to design the best models for their students, while at the same time assuring that these students exit the program within two to four years. The bill requires the Secretary of Education to give priority to funding state grant proposals that focus on the most rapid transition to English.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration: Enforcement and Compliance Strategy
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been enforcing safety and health standards for 27 years. There are serious questions, however, as to whether it has improved worker safety.
Too often, OSHA pits the employer against the inspector, a model that fosters distrust and suspicion and flies in the face of true partnership efforts that are the key to worker safety. The threat of large fines for non-compliance, when millions of safety-conscious employers do not know how to comply, undermines the enhancement of worker safety and protection. OSHA should concentrate on working with employers who are concerned about worker safety and health and encouraging them voluntarily to seek expert advice on how to comply with OSHA's regulations. It also should provide adequate funding for its compliance assistance programs.
To this end, Congress passed, and the President signed on July 16, 1998, the OSHA Compliance Assistance Act (PL 105-197). This law codifies OSHA's consultation program, which provides states with funding to perform on-site consultations, as well as other education and training activities. Employers who voluntarily requested a consultation would be able to work with the state to correct any hazards and safety violations; only if they failed to correct hazards would enforcement authorities be notified. Employers who corrected hazards identified in the consultative visit would be exempt from subsequent "general schedule" inspections for one year.
Since the 1970s, Congress has allotted money for a small grant program--now codified by PL 105-197--under which state agencies provide these services to a limited number of small businesses. But this program has been chronically underfunded. In some states, employers requesting consultation assistance must wait more than one year, and sometimes two; this denies employees vital safety and health protections.
In addition, while overall funding for compliance assistance has increased in the past few years, nearly all of the increase has been kept in Washington. Among other problems, this federalizing of compliance assistance means that employers and employees in nearly half of the states do not receive any benefit from the funding.
Funds for federal enforcement activities should be redirected to consultation grants that go directly to states.29 The House Appropriations Committee's bill holds back a requested funding increase for FY 1999 and sends an important message to OSHA by shifting more of OSHA's funding away from enforcement programs and into compliance activities.
Occupational Safety and Health
Health and Safety Regulations
The FY 1999 House appropriations bill for OSHA sets aside $300,000 for the peer review of safety and health standards. Peer review is widely recognized in professional and academic circles, where it is viewed as a linchpin of quality assurance.
The Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management has recognized the importance of peer review:
Peer review is an important and effective mechanism for evaluating the accuracy or appropriateness of technical data, observations, interpretations, and the scientific and economic aspects of regulatory decisions. Peer review should provide balanced, independent views. When used well, peer review can serve as a system of checks and balances for the technical aspects of the regulatory process.30
The peer review provision in the House Appropriations Committee bill, however, needs to define the kind of quality review that Congress has in mind. For peer review to be effective, it must be conducted through independent panels and expert bodies that are broadly representative and involve participants with relevant expertise. The peer review process should provide for the timely completion of the review and contain a balanced presentation of the weight of scientific evidence and all other considerations, including minority reports and an agency response to all significant peer review comments.
The House Appropriations Committee has included a provision in the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill that requires the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to adjust its jurisdictional thresholds for inflation.
The NLRB is the government agency designated to settle labor disputes between unions and management. Most of its jurisdictional thresholds were set in 1959 and are based on the gross receipts of a business. Labor disputes involving businesses below the threshold are subject to resolution in state courts rather than by the NLRB. The threshold for non-retail businesses is currently $50,000-$310,000 in 1997 dollars.
With no adjustment for inflation, businesses and the NLRB have been caught in "bracket creep." As inflation has increased since 1959, the NLRB has acquired jurisdiction over smaller and smaller businesses, needlessly increasing both its own and businesses' workloads. Congress never intended for businesses with as few as two employees to be covered by the NLRB, but up to 20 percent of the NLRB's workload now involves small businesses, and its budget has grown to $145 million.
The NLRB claims it cannot change its jurisdiction without an act of Congress. The corrective language in the appropriations bill does exactly that. By indexing jurisdiction to the rate of inflation, the NLRB once again will be able to focus on the larger businesses for which the law originally was written. At the same time, the corrective language continues the NLRB's current authority to adjudicate egregious cases below the thresholds and does nothing to alter the right of workers to organize or bargain collectively.
There is an old saying that the closest thing to immortality is a government program. But programs created to address problems the nation faced decades ago will not meet the needs of Americans in the 21st century. As Congress considers the FY 1999 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill, it should take steps to terminate such obsolete, redundant, and ineffective programs as School-to-Work, Goals 2000, and federal regional education laboratories (among others) and fundamentally reevaluate the goals, priorities, and results of these federal agencies.
--Mark Wilson is a former Labor
Economist at The Heritage Foundation; Nina H. Shokraii is former
Education Policy Analyst at The Heritage Foundation; and Angela
Antonelli is the former Director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for
Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
1. The Government Performance and Results Act requires all agencies to submit to Congress strategic plans that outline their missions, goals, objectives, and performance measures. For more information on the Results Act and agency plans, see http://www.freedom.house.gov/results.
2. U.S. General Accounting Office, Information Crosswalk on 163 Employment Training Programs, GAO/HEHS-95-85FS, February 14, 1995. This group of 19 programs does not include many other programs that also provide services to youth.
4. "What's Working (and What's Not): A Summary of Research on the Economic Impacts of Employment and Training Programs," U.S. Department of Labor, January 1995.
5. U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, The National JTPA Study: Title II-A Impacts on Earnings and Employment at 18 Months, 1993.
6. Memorandum from Wayne Riddle, Specialist in Education Finance, Education and Public Welfare Division, Congressional Research Service, to the Honorable Joseph Pitts, April 28, 1998, p. CRS-4.
7. Alan Hershey, "Partners in Progress: Early Steps in Creating School-to-Work Systems," Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., April 1997.
8. The only method for evaluating training programs effectively is to conduct an experimental design study that randomly assigns individuals either to a treatment group that can receive services from the program under study or to a control group that cannot, and then evaluate the outcomes. See Orley Ashenfelter, "The Case for Evaluating Training Programs with Randomized Trials," Economics of Education Review, Vol. 6, No. 4 (1987).
9. Congressional Budget Office, Reducing the Deficit: Spending and Revenue Options, August 1996, p. 305.
10. For more information, see Nina H. Shokraii and Patrick F. Fagan, "After 33 Years and $30 Billion, Time to Find Out If Head Start Produces Results," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 1202, July 15, 1998.
11. See U.S. General Accounting Office, Head Start: Participant Characteristics, Services, and Funding, GAO/HEHS-98-65, March 31, 1998, for detailed information on the populations that receive Head Start services, what types of services are delivered, and when and where such services are available.
12. U.S. General Accounting Office, Head Start: Research Provides Little Information on Impact of Current Program, GAO/HEHS-97-59, April 15, 1997, p. 4.
13. The Department of Health and Human Services' strategic plan can be found on the Internet at http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/hhsplan. Of the 24 strategic plans graded by Congress, this plan ranked 13th with a failing grade of 43 out of a possible 100 points.
14. HHS's annual performance plan can be found at http://www.hhs.gov/progorg/fin/99perfpl.html. Of the 24 performance plans graded by Congress, this plan ranked 14th with a failing grade of 36.5 out of a possible 100 points.
15. GAO, Head Start: Research Provides Little Information on Impact of Current Program, p. 4.
16. Carlotta Joyner, "Challenges Faced in Demonstrating Program Results and Responding to Societal Changes," testimony before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, 105th Cong., 2nd session, GAO/T-HEHS-98-183, June 9, 1998.
17. Memorandum from Wayne Riddle, Specialist in Education Finance, Education and Public Welfare Division, Congressional Research Service, to the Honorable Joseph Pitts, April 28, 1998, p. CRS-4.
18. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 1997, Report No. 104-659, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives, 104th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 8, 1996, p. 132.
20. Dale Ballou and Michael Podgursky, "Reforming Teacher Training and Recruitment: A Critical Appraisal of the Recommendations of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future," Government Union Review, Vol. 17, No. 4 (November 1997), p. 43.
21. For more information, see Nina H. Shokraii, "Why Congress Should Overhaul the Federal Regional Education Laboratories," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 1200, July 2, 1998.
22. Nancy Kober, From Promise to Practice: Stories from the Regional Education Laboratories, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, September 1996. See http://www.ed.gov/prog_info/Labs/Promise/overview.html.
23. See http://www.ed.gov/prog_info/Labs/Profiles/nwrel.html.
24. For more information, see Nina H. Shokraii and Sarah E. Youssef, "What Congress Can Do to Help Limited English-Proficient Children Learn English," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 1206, July 23, 1998.
25. Charles Glenn, A Review of the National Research Council Study: Improving Schooling for Language Minority Children: A Research Agenda (Amherst, Mass.: Institute for Research in English Acquisition and Development, May 1997), p. 2.
26. U.S. Department of Education, FY 1999 Plan, Vol. 2, Program Performance Plans, February 25, 1998. Available at http://www.ed.gov/PDFDocs/apvol2.pdf.
29. House appropriators have redirected $5.6 million from federal enforcement activities to state consultation grants in the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill. Even with this reallocation of resources, however, total spending on federal and state enforcement activities will still be 6.4 percent higher than 1996.
30. Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management, Risk Assessment and Risk Management in Regulatory Decision-Making, Vol. 2, 1997, p. 103. Available on the Internet at http://www.riskworld.com/Nreports/1997/risk-rpt/volume2/html/v2epaa.htm.


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Some of these were taken with a cell phone camera, so the quality is greatly lacking. What I find interesting when I look at these is that I remember where I was, what mood I was in, what the weather was like for each and every one of these photos. (except the 3rd photo which was taken by my daughter and who has given her permission for it to be posted here.) I remember who I was with, if I wasn't alone, and how the beauty of the sunsets, each different in their own way, made me wish I could paint them on canvas, just as they appeared in front of me.
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Ooooh, aaaaah....BEAUTIFUL!!ReplyDelete
VERY nice. Sunrises and sunsets are just about my favorite times o' day, rivaled only by Happy Hour. In the summer I often get to combine sunset AND Happy Hour, LOL!ReplyDelete
Nice collection! And yes, every one of them is special...ReplyDelete
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There was an early blow for Neil Hixon's side when goalkeeper Neal Atkinson was stretchered off and replaced by Craig Shields.
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The game attracted a crowd of 190, the highest of the season at Meadow Park.
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Lee Paul Scroggins was an early marksman but when Shaun Sweeney quickly equalised, the hopes of the Mariners rose.
Paul Chow though regained the advantage for the Seahorses and in the second half Whitley romped home with four goals in 12 minutes from Chow, Paul Robinson, Ash Davis and Lee Kerr, with the best goal of the seven.
There was also a goals fest at Bedford Terrace where Billingham Town recovered from a 4-1 deficit to gain a draw with third-top Bedlington Terriers.
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Seaham Red Star are equal on points with fifth-placed Crook Town in Division Two after seeing off the challenge from neighbours Horden CW.
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Birtley Town went down to Ryton and Crawcrook Albion for whom Robert Ruddick scored the only goal in the 75th minute.
Chester-le-Street trailed Whickham for more than an hour at The Glebe. Scot Goldsmith-Scott was a seventh-minute scorer with a clinical finish past Cestrian goalkeeper Nick Ling and 20 minutes from the end Keiran McDonald equalised with a back-post header.
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Durham City, fourth-from-bottom in Division One, made it back-to-back wins and progressed to the second round of the Brooks Mileson Memorial Cup.
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