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Nottingham/Bestwood Park
Bestwood Park is an area of social housing in the north of Nottingham City. This page refers to a broader area defined as a 'cake slice' on the main Nottingham page. This includes the Top Valley, and Rise Park estates.
The main purpose of this page is to provide more detail on mapping status, progress and issues, than is possible on the main page for the city.
This is one of the least well mapped areas around Nottingham, no active mappers seem to live nearby, it is not covered by aerial photography on Yahoo, and was mostly built in the past 50 years and NPE is therefore not useful. A significant proportion of the area is covered by post-1970 social housing with intricate networks of short cul-de-sacs and many walkways between houses, as well as many small open areas of grass or other green space. Most of the area will therefore require mapping on foot to achieve a decent level of coverage and accuracy.
Boundaries of the 'Cake Slice'
Subdivisions for mapping and monitoring status
Given the size and complexity of the area it will require concerted survey effort over time. In order to facilitate such effort, and determine what remains to be done, the area has been broken down into much smaller units. The basic principle is that an individual unit should be mappable (all roads, footpaths, cycleways and most POI) on foot in 2-3 hours.
Colour and symbol legend
The status of each map region is indicated by a symbol, which describes the type of feature, and a colour, which indicates the completeness of that feature in a map region.
The status is displayed using a template Template:State
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Meaning of symbols
- - Roads for car traffic are present. One way streets and pedestrian streets are present. This means that the map can be used for car navigation - Key: c
- - Street names are labelled. This means that the map can be used to find an address - Key: l
- - All housenumbers are present - Key: h
- - All cycleways, and field and forest roads suitable for bicycles are present - Key: b
- - All footways are present - Key: fo
- - All wheelchair access is present - Key: d
- - All public transports are present (including name of the bus stop/station names) - Key: tr
- - All stop/station/harbour names are present - Key: ha
- - All bus lines are present (including name of the bus stop names) - Key: bu
- - All trolley/guided bus lines are present (including name of the station names) - Key: ty
- - All tram lines are present (including name of the tram station names) - Key: tm
- - All U-Bahn (subway in Germany) lines are present (including name of the station names) - Key: u
- - All S-Bahn (regional commuter train in Germany) lines are present (including name of the station names) - Key: s
- - All fast railway lines transports are present (including name of the train station names) - Key: tm
- - All steam railway lines transports are present (including name of the train station names) - Key: st
- - All ship lines are present (including name of the harbour station names) - Key: sh
- - All public institutions are present (Churches, sports facilities, venues, schools, hospitals, city hall) - Key: p
- - All petrol stations are present - Key: fu
- - All restaurants and hotels are present - Key: r
- - All tourist attractions are present - Key: t
- - All natural resources are mapped (e.g Water, Lakes and Woodland) - Key: n
Meaning of colours
|Cake Slice
|Mapped / Checked by
|Rise Park NW 53.01237,-1.17878
|N of Revelstoke Drive, bounded to the E by Brownlow Drive. Approx area 10 ha.
|Rise Park SW 53.01107,-1.17862
|Between Revelstoke Road and Bestwood Park Drive West, bounded to the E by Brownlow Drive. Approx area 20 ha.
|Rise Park E 53.01215,-1.17195
|N of Bestwood Park Drive West, bounded to the W by Brownlow Drive. Approx area 20 ha.
|Rise Park S 53.00955,-1.17842
|S of Bestwood Park Drive West, accessed by Rise Park Road and Earlbank Avenue. Approx area 10 ha.
|Muirfield Road 53.01137,-1.16293
|Muirfield Road and roads and other housing off Muirfield Road except for Bewcastle Road. Approx area 20 ha.
|Bewcastle Road W 53.01357,-1.1635
|All of Bewcastle Road and roads off on the loop from one end of Muirfield Road to the next, except for on the E side after Finsbury Road. Approx area 20 ha.
|Bewcastle Road E 53.01234,-1.15902
|Bewcastle Road and roads off from the Duke of St. Albans pub to Muirfield Road and roads off N of Bewcastle Road on the E side to Finsbury Road. Approx area 10 ha.
|Harkstead Road 53.0087,-1.15648
|Harkstead Road and roads off. Approx area 4.4 ha.
|Queens Bower Road E (City) 53.00608,-1.14801
|Mildenhall Crescent and roads off within the City boundary.
|Queens Bower Road E (County) 53.00533,-1.14545
|Bestwood Hall Drive & roads off.
|Redhill 53.00977,-1.13367
|Roads on W side of Mansfield Road from cemetery to edge of countryside.
|Top Valley W 53.00624,-1.17652
|Top Valley to the W of Top Valley Drive and the Ridgeway. About 30 ha.
|Top Valley C 53.00551,-1.17135
|Bounded by Top Valley Drive on the North, by Old Farm Road to the E, and by the Ridgeway to the S. 1970's housing estate with many short cul-de-sacs, pedestrian footways, and probably addresses not readily allocatable to a road. About 30 ha.
|Top Valley E 53.0068,53.0068
|Bounded by Bestwood Park Road West on the North, by to the W, and by the Ridgeway to the E and S. 1970's housing estate with many short cul-de-sacs, pedestrian footways, and probably addresses not readily allocatable to a road. About 40 ha.
|Bestwood Park N 53.0056,-1.15741
|Roads off Beckhampton Road S to Elmbridge Shops, W boundary Belleville Road. About 20 ha.
|Most roads are now on the map, but many still need accurate traces, and stubs need more surveying.
|Bestwood Park S 53.00111,-1.15295
|Roads off Beckhampton Road S of junction with Belleville Road. Bounded to W by Parkview Drive, Eastglade Road, Beckhampton Road, and Hartcroft Drive; to the S by Arnold Road, and to the E by Chippenham Road. Aim is to include the bulk of the estate within the city boundary. Approx 40 ha.
|S of Chippenham Road 53.00033,-1.14862
|Bestwood Park Estate between Chippenham Road and Oxclose Lane, bounded to W by Edwards Lane and to N by Bestwood Park Road. The S and E parts of this area are in Gedling District. Approx 30 ha.
|Off Hucknall Road (E) 53.00013,-1.17798
|A newish development S of Top Valley on the E side of Hucknall Road. Approx 8.5 ha.
|3 out of 10 roads surveyed with GPS, remainder as stubs, but reasonably accurate w.r.t. length & position.
|Southglade Park 53.00046,-1.17226
|Green space S of Top Valley and N of Southglade Road, bounded to E by Parkview Drive. Approx 30 ha.
|Bestwood Park C 53.00065,-1.15879
|Roads off Beckhampton Road S of junction with Belleville Road. Bounded to W by Parkview Drive, Eastglade Road; to W & S Beckhampton Road, and to E by , and to the E by Pedmore Valley. Approx 40 ha.
|Bestwood W 52.99536,-1.16974
|Between Hucknall Road, Southglade Road, Padstow Road and Gainsford Crescent. About 40 ha.
|Bestwood E 52.99682,-1.16348
|t.b.a. W of Hartcroft and Beckhampton Roads. About 30 ha.
|Former High Pavement Site 52.99315,-1.16612
|Area bounded by Gainsford Crescent and Arnold Road. Approx 10 ha.
|Bestwood SE (Landscroft Crescent area) 52.994559,-1.161657
|t.b.a. Approx 9 ha.


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A Hybrid Approach to Direct Search Answers
May 8, 2012 | By Microsoft blog editor
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You might have noticed in your most recent Bing search that, these days, you often can get an answer to your query without having to click through to one of the search results.
For example, I recently wondered about this year's date for Mother's Day in the United States. I typed "mother's day" into Bing and was greeted with a bold line of text in the middle of the screen that read "Mother's Day is on Sunday, May 13, 2012." Great—just what I needed.
Such assistance, though, requires manual intervention. People research and write the direct answers for such requests, and, given that the list of potential web queries is endless, there aren't enough people to go around. Expensive human help is available for only the most popular queries.
That's what Jaime Teevan, Susan Dumais, Dan Liebling, and Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research Redmond and accepted for the Association for Computing Machinery's 2012 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, being held in Austin, Texas, from May 5 to 10—offers the solution of Tail Answers, a large collection of crowdsourced search results that are unpopular individually but together address a large proportion of search traffic.
"There are many uncommon queries, like 'molasses substitute' or 'body temperature of a dog,' that could be answered but aren't," Teevan explains. "Individually, none of these queries are issued often enough to make it worth the editorial effort, but collectively, they represent a significant portion of the query volume."
The authors offer a straightforward approach to what is essentially an issue of extracting knowledge from huge volumes of data, using a combination of search-log analysis and crowdsourcing.
"We developed a method that automatically creates answers for these tail queries using the aggregate knowledge of thousands of web users," Teevan says. "We mine people's web-search behavior to identify questions that could potentially be resolved with just a short snippet of text and use crowdsourcing to filter out the misidentified queries.
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As you might imagine, one of the biggest challenges to such an approach involved quality control.
"Because the answers provided by search engines appear authoritative, they need to be accurate," Teevan says. "We used people, via crowdsourcing, to vet the quality of the content identified by our algorithms, but we also needed to develop a way to vet the quality of the information provided by the people. We did this by collecting judgments for the same thing from multiple people and requiring them to agree with each other—and by sometimes asking questions we already knew the answer to."
Clearly, the logic behind the project has proved effective. A user study of 361 participants demonstrated that Tail Answers provided significant improvement in users' subjective ratings of search quality and their ability to find answers without having to click through. The findings indicate that search engines can be extended to respond directly to a large new class of queries.
"This work represents a way for search engines to aggregate user knowledge to improve not just ranking, but the entire search user experience," Teevan concludes. "To generate Tail Answers, we use algorithms whenever possible, but rely on people to complete the parts that are easy for humans but hard for computers."

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Born in New York City in 1944, Paul Lansky's early musical studies were at the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan. He subsequently attended Queens College, where he studied composition with George Perle and Hugo Weisgall and Princeton University, where he worked with Milton Babbitt, Earl Kim and others. Originally intending to pursue a career as a French horn player he played with the Dorian Wind Quintet in 1966-67 before going on to Princeton University for graduate studies. He has been on the faculty at Princeton since 1969, where he is now William Shubael Conant Professor of Music. Until the mid-1990s, the bulk of Lansky's work was in computer music and he has long been recognized as one of the pioneers in the field. In 2002 he was the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from SEAMUS (the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States) and in 2000 he was the subject of a documentary made for European Television's ARTE network, My Cinema for the Ears, directed by Uli Aumueller (now available on DVD). His music is well represented on recording (see listing on Lansky's website: paullansky.org/disc.html) and played and broadcast widely. Numerous dance companies have used his music including the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, the Eliot Feld Ballet and the New York City Ballet. His piece Notjustmoreidlechatter is included in the Norton Anthology accompanying the widely used music appreciation text, The Enjoyment of Music. He has received awards and commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim, Koussevitsky and Fromm Foundations, Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest, ASCAP and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among others.
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for Chamber Orchestra
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Concerto for French Horn and Wind Ensemble
23558 15:00 Picc., 2Fl., 2Ob., E.H., 3Cl., B.Cl., 2A.Sax., Ten.Sax., Bar.Sax., 2Bsn., Cbsn. – 3Hn., 3Tpt., 2Tbn., B.Tbn., Tu.; 2Perc. Cb. Shapeshifters
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
20929 25:00 Solo Pno(2); 2 2 2 2 – 4 2 1 1 Perc. Timp. Str. Shapeshifters
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
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Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra
20930 23:00 Solo Guit.; 2 2 2 2 – 2 2 0 0; Timp. Perc. Str. With The Grain
Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra
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(on poems by Jonathan Greene)
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PAUL LANSKY: Idle Fancies
Bridge Records (9454); November 9, 2015
Performer(s): Gwendolyn Dease, marimba
Work(s): Spirals
Three Moves
Idle Fancies
Bridge Records (9447); April 7, 2015
Performer(s): Western Michigan University Chorale, Birds on a Wire, Kimberly Dunn Adams, conductor; Meehan/Perkins Duo; Quattro Mani
Work(s): Contemplating Weather
It All Adds Up
Travel Diary
Bridge Records (9435); August 12, 2014
Performer(s): Svet Stoyanov, percussion; Gwendolyn Burgett, percussion; Ian Rosenbaum, percussion; Ayano Kataoka, percussion; Thomas Rosenkranz, piano; Michael Sheppard, piano
Work(s): Threads
PAUL LANSKY: Notes to Self
Bridge Records (9405); December 9, 2013
Performer(s): Odense Symphony Orchestra; Real Quiet; Mihae Lee, piano; David Starobin, guitar, Mari Yoshinaga, percussion
Work(s): Arches
Notes to Self
Line and Shadow
PAUL LANSKY: Imaginary Islands
Bridge Records (9366); March 1, 2012
Performer(s): Quattro Mani; Alabama Symphony Orchestra; David Starobin, guitar
Work(s): Shapeshifters
With The Grain
Imaginary Islands
PAUL LANSKY: Threads
Cantaloupe Music; January 25, 2011
Performer(s): So Percussion
Work(s): Threads
PAUL LANSKY: Etudes and Parodies
Bridge Records (9222); March 5, 2007
Performer(s): William Purvis, French horn; Curtis Macomber, violin; Mihae Lee, piano; David Starobin, guitar; Brentano String Quartet
Work(s): Etudes and Parodies
Ricercare Plus
PAUL LANSKY: Music Box
Bridge Records (9210); December 26, 2006
Performer(s): Paul Lansky
Work(s): Wordless
Chatter of Pins
Pavane Noir
On F
Two by Two
Composition Project for Seniors
The Joy of F# Minor
Music Box
PAUL LANSKY: Alphabet book
Bridge Records (9126); October 29, 2002
Performer(s): Paul Lansky and Hannah MacKay
Work(s): ABC
Alphanumeric Song
Interesting Numbers
Pattern's Patterns
A is for…
Say That Again
As Things Were
Folk Song
PAUL LANSKY: Ride
Bridge Records (9103); February 27, 2001
Performer(s): Paul Lansky
Work(s): Idle Chatter Junior
Looking Back
Heavy Set
Dancetracks: Remix
PAUL LANSKY: Conversation Pieces
Bridge Records (9083); September 15, 1998
Performer(s): Paul Lansky
Work(s): For the Moment
Now That You Mention It
Same Scene, Nine Years Later
PAUL LANSKY: Things She Carried
Bridge Records (9076); September 16, 1997
Performer(s): Paul Lansky
Work(s): Things She Carried
Things She Noticed
Wish in the Dark
Things She Remembered
Things She Read
Everybody Heard
Things She Knew
PAUL LANSKY: Folk Images
Bridge Records (9060); September 19, 1995
Performer(s): Paul Lansky
Work(s): Folk song settings for instruments and computer
PAUL LANSKY: Fantasies and Tableaux
New World Records (CRI 683); 1994
Performer(s): Paul Lansky
Work(s): Six Fantasies on a Poem by Thomas Campion
Still Time
PAUL LANSKY: More Than Idle Chatter
Bridge Records (9050); September 20, 1994
Performer(s): Paul Lansky
Work(s): Idle Chatter
Word Color
The Lesson
Memory Pages
PAUL LANSKY: Homebrew
Bridge Records (9035); April 19, 1993
Performer(s): Paul Lansky
Work(s): Homebrew
Table's Clear
Night Traffic
Now and Then
The Sound of Two Hands
PAUL LANSKY: Smalltalk
New Albion Records (030); November 18, 2009
Performer(s): Paul Lansky
Work(s): Smalltalk
Guy's Harp
Late August
Not So Heavy Metal
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for OrchestraLine and Shadow
for Chamber OrchestraShapeshifters
Concerto for Two Pianos and OrchestraTouch and Go
Concerto for Percussion and Wind EnsembleWith the Grain
Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra


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Collecting and Analyzing Wait events on SQL Server with Procedure and Agent job
These days I'm digging into how to collect and analyze wait events on SQL Server database. So I simply have created a stored procedure to collect wait event information and have set it on SQL Agent job to run every 5 or 10 minutes. Then using same procedure with different parameter, I was able to … [Read more…]


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So a friend of mine and I had sex about
Patient : So a friend of mine and I had sex about 2 weeks ago. The both of us usually practice safe sex, in which I use a condom, and she uses birth control. From my understanding ,she been using the Depo Provera injection method regularly for over a year and still is. During intercourse, my condom broke and I immediately withdrew myself. I wasn't even close to ejaculating so we continued without a condom, but only for a few seconds. I was uncomfortable about not using a condom and got a new one. In the end, I ejaculated in the condom and withdrew prior to finishing. But I feel that there may have been a small trace of pre-cum during that moment of unprotected sex. Is she likely to be pregnant?
Symptoms: She has displayed no symptoms so far.
Doctor : Hello, Thank you for your query at AskTheDoctor.com I understand your concern. Firstly for pregnancy to occur, evacu ation has to occur, and secondly she has been on birth control. So even if there was any ejaculation, she would not get pregnant. Precum is a highly controversial topic as even though some studies claim there is an outside chance of pregnancy from precum, till now there has been no such reported cases of a pregnancy occurring exclusively from precum. No study has been able to demonstrate live viable semen in precum. It is more of a lubricatory fluid. So considering all that, you got nothing to worry about pregnancy. Hope this was helpful, Feel free to discuss further, Regards.
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Back in March I introduced student blogging to my Year 9 Drama class. I dived right in having each student create their own individual student blog which was connected to a class blog.
The other day a very kind reader of my blog asked me how my class blogging was going and what my thoughts were on using it in the Drama classroom. I had been meaning to update on this for some time so having interested readers push me along in this pursuit was great!
Here is the class blog page.
As you can see, I've added absolutely zilch to it since starting it. That was my responsibility and my fault and I have some thoughts on that further on.
However, some student drama blogs that I think are well worth taking a look at from my class include:
On the downside though, only these four of the eleven students in my class have really taken to blogging and have been updating it regularly. Three of my student's haven't added their link to the class blog page at all. Student's were just not contributing to their own blog nor commenting on their peers.
This really surprised me. I really thought the kids would want to engage with their laptops and create a blog.
So why, were they just not getting into blogging?
Most of them did not know what a blog was nor did they have the patience to set one up thus making them very frustrated and hence giving up on the idea all together (thus why many of them are not regularly updated or are non-existent).
This classroom moment did re-affirm for me this idea I have that technology is really not that scary and children don't necessarily know more than us about technology. Their fear of trying something new online was just as obvious as that of any adult using a computer for the first time. Student's may be surrounded by technology but they really don't know the breadth and depth of it nor do they really use any more than a couple of web tools on a daily basis. I guess this is obvious to many of you who have been engaging with web tools and web based learning for a long time but I'm still new to this revelation.
In reflecting further on this I really shouldn't have delved straight into individual student blogging. Spending time reading other blogs and simply commenting is the best way to go. I should have also done my part in keeping the central drama blog up to date along with the kids.
Time is something I do feel pressured by and I do find critical reflection and appreciation in drama can get lost by the wayside when you are dealing with student's who have behaviour problems, learning difficulties or simply do not like having to write.
What I have learnt though and I what I need to get better at, is really sticking to keeping the last 15-20 minutes of a lesson (mine are 75mins so adjust accordingly) for writing activities. Unfortunately, getting student's to do this kind of reflective work at home is not an option at my school. If you can do it though, go for it. It is ideal because then you really can concentrate on practical activities. Getting into habits, such as writing for the last part of the lesson, is a basic teaching rule and one that I think can be forgotten in Drama classrooms because of the practical nature of our subject.
The way the student's have completed their "blog logs" for drama is based on a template I gave them which I will share in another post.
For web tools and ICT to work in the Drama classroom, I believe teachers need to allocate appropriate amounts of time to appreciation, critical study and simply writing to ensure student's are getting into effective habits that will assist them to process the thoughts and experiences of the practical classroom and then to eventually share that with the world of the Internet.Follow @karlao_dtn


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Congratulations, Michael.
Great news. I really do love that Endevour piece, I give it an up vote each time you post it.
Thanks Bruce! They emailed me just now and let me know it's that one that got in the exhibition. I knew my love for a middle-aged TV show would pay off one day.
The record label has made the announcement of the release so I can show the final artwork!
Really enjoyed this one. Giant robots almost draw themselves...
That's great. The colouring really enhances it when it would have been easy to overwhelm it.
Thanks Dave! Much appreciated.
Bit of an old pic I never got around to polishing off, from a trip to Mousehole in Cornwall. I quite like seeing the pencil lines from the sketch underneath:
Because that film was great.
Here's the original sketch I did on orange paper before taking it into Photoshop. Hope people like it!
Man, I like this even more the longer I look at it.
Love the scratchy pen style, more so now as it fits the tone of the film.
Cheers Keith! It's all in pencil then darkened with Levels once scanned in though, had to make the conscious choice of pen vs. pencil for this one - the grit of graphite just suited the material more.
Some pages from 2007 or so, hadn't seen them for a while and thought they could see the light of day!
Oops, forgot the extra pages, these ones were in watercolour:
Silly question: Did you produce it to look like that (as though it was in a book) or is that a preview from a book printing website?
Oh, the former. My work involves a lot of brochure design and we use Photoshop mockup files - realised the other day I could present my portfolio in the same manner.
I've updated some of the record sleeve artwork I've done in the same way:
Came across this promotional comic I did in 2006 for 'The Return of Dr. Octagon' album for Buttercuts Records.
Was ripping off Mignola a bit at the time, and I think this was the first bit of artwork I made entirely digitally.
Anyway, here it is! The plot is that at the end of his last album, the mad scientist Dr. Octagon is shot in his studio...
Michael's on fire here. This is all 100% in my love zone!!
Cheers Mark!
Just started on this new pic last night:
Oh baby. Looking forward to seeing that!


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This means:
- Almost all Voxel Shaders are PBR compatible now. Each shader has rich set of parameters, including different textures, SSS, Gloss, Metalness, Cavity and Bulge settings. Very good support of cavity and bulge is present in realtime.
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- PicMat-s are also present but it is not guaranteed that they will be baked correctly, so use them only on intermediate stage.
- GGX exact support means compatibility with most of current game and render engines.
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Several drawbacks:
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- New Export Constructor. It allows to pack many channels into one texture in custom way. It helps to adopt 3D-Coat's texture export for any render or game engine.
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Build your understanding of behavior as communication, and learn to interpret the messages behind the actions. This book provides information and tools to support all children whose primary way to communicate is through challenging behaviors. Enlightening, sometimes humorous stories provide examples of how children use behavior to communicate. Engaging exercises and end-of-chapter questions can be used to improve current practice.
Publisher: Solution Tree Press (December 01, 2009)
Collection: Essentials for Principals
Format: EPUB
Page count: 112 pages
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Britney Spears' 'Femme Fatale' Aiming for No. 1 on Billboard 200
All eyes are on Britney Spears, as the pop diva is poised to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart next week with her new album, "Femme Fatale." Her seventh studio effort, released on Tuesday (March 29), is on course to top the tally with around 280,000 copies sold by week's end on April 3.
Industry prognosticators suggest the album could approach 300,000 if all of the stars align. Presently, it's looking like "Femme" will earn the second-largest sales week of the year after Adele's "21" bow with 352,000.
If "Femme" finds its away to No. 1, it will give Spears her sixth chart-topper. Five out of her earlier six studio sets crowned the tally -- only her fifth, "Blackout," missed the top slot, starting at No. 2.
A sixth No. 1 album would place Spears in rare air, tying her for the third-most No. 1s among women with Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson. Only Barbra Streisand (nine No. 1s) and Madonna (seven) have earned more No. 1s.
Spears' last studio release, 2008's "Circus," blasted in at No. 1 with 506,000 according to Nielsen SoundScan, led by the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single "Womanizer." "Femme" was preceded by the Hot 100 No. 1 "Hold It Against Me" while its second single, "Till the World Ends," rebounds 23-22 on the tally this week, after having already (so far) peaked at No. 9.
Spears won't be the only big news on the Billboard 200 next week. Wiz Khalifa is looking to enter at No. 2 with his first major label album, "Rolling Papers," with perhaps 200,000 to 225,000. We can also expect debuts from the mainstream release of Radiohead's "The King of Limbs," Snoop Dogg's "Doggumentary" and Mary Mary's "Something Big."


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These custom Sunburst and Rays shapes are easy to customize, re-size and re-color.
Custom shapes can be scaled and colored without any loss in quality. Making them more versatile than bitmap shapes. I have included versions for both Photoshop and Illustrator.
The download pack includes.
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This is a film, dive and island focused expedition using the sailing boat as a base.
This leg is focused on video documentation of underwater and top-side conditions. The team will concentrate their work on documenting a range of habitat conditions, issues and human stories. These will be put into short video communications, a longer documentary, and raw footage stock. All three will be made available to the Cook Islands NGO's and authorities to support their conservation work.
The survey will focus on local marine conservation issues alongside local NGOs and communities. These islands are mostly inhabited and demonstrate either destroyed, restored or managed marine environments.
Largest island of 67km2 and population 12,000.
The marine environment of Rarotonga has been affected by human activities in several areas. Coral is smothered by eroded soil and other material (e.g. pesticides, plastic containers) washed into the lagoon; 38 man-made structures alter the lagoon environment by affecting current flows; and heavy fishing of most of the edible resources may have caused the noticeable decline of many marine animals.
Declines in mussels and giant clams due to poisonous runoff from land. Coastal erosion and flooding. Overfishing is an issue since the introduction of modern fishing gear and SCUBA. Harvesting of trochus (very large sea snails) that naturally filter nutrients out of the water. Examples of pollution from septic and oil leaks.


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Middle East in crisis
A new front in the escalating crisis in the Middle East opened up yesterday when Hezbollah militants seized two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border with Israel, in an attempt to negotiate the release of Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails. Hezbollah also fired rockets from Lebanon today, killing one Israeli civilian and injuring 29 others. In response, Israel has blockaded Lebanon from the air and sea, and launched a major offensive in the country, killing at least 52 civilians. Christian Aid is extremely concerned about the safety of all those living in the region, be they Israeli, Lebanese, or Palestinian and would urge a restraint in both action and language that could further enflame this troubled part of the world. Christian Aid partner the Middle East Council of Churches has released a statement reflecting the thoughts of many of our partners in Lebanon. It expresses fear of a return to conflict there and the danger that development work, carried out with Christian Aid support, could be undone: 'Once again since yesterday, July 12, morning violence has taken over in Lebanon. The deterioration in the security situation has been very serious in the last 24 hours with Israel authorising a "harsh response" to the capture of two Israeli soldiers in Lebanon. More Israeli tanks are heading towards the Lebanese border since early this morning, and Israel has called up reservists. In South Lebanon, continuous air raids have severely damaged houses, bridges and main roads linking the southern villages and the south to the capital. This morning, Israeli attacks have been heard in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a very populous area. Tens of civilians were killed (of whom one family of ten) according to news today early morning, and the number of wounded is still unknown. The Beirut International Airport is now closed after Israeli air raids early this morning. All three runways are severely damaged. There is fear that electricity and water stations will be targeted next. Days of dread and despair long-lived by the Lebanese during the war seem to have returned. Your prayers and support are needed at this terrible time we are living in.' Source: Christian Aid


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According to the press release they say "Our critical infrastructure – such as the electricity grid, financial sector, and transportation networks that sustain our way of life – have suffered repeated cyber intrusions, and cyber crime has increased dramatically over the last decade. The President has thus made cybersecurity an Administration priority. When the President released his Cyberspace Policy Review almost two years ago, he declared that the "cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation."
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Whitehouse has released a cybersecurity planPosted: 13th May 2011 by admin in Compliance, Government Security, Identity theft, Security Policy, Web 2.0
Tags: Computer security, Critical infrastructure, Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002, Intrusion prevention system, Local Government, United States, United States Department of Homeland Security, White House
Ponemon Institute Cyber megatrends – Some Additions NeededPosted: 28th November 2009 by admin in Compliance, Corporate Stupidity, Could Computing, Outsourcing, Unstructured Data, Web 2.0
Tags: Cloud computing, Computer security, security
Ponemon Institute recently released their Cyber megratrends as listed below. While I agree with these I think there were a couple that could easily be added to the list. First, I would either add or modify Web 2.0 into Web 3.0. Lets look to what is going to happen versus what is happening. Incremental change [...]


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Except, to the hundreds of folks munching down hot dogs and giant pretzels (not to mention the free tacos), and happily donning 3DS-branded woolen caps and tees, the cold wasn't such a big deal. As we approached the front of the line, blankets and makeshift blanket forts were keeping the most loyal -- or perhaps the craziest? -- warm in the last painful hour, with smiles as ubiquitous as the blankets.
The cold, it seems, may have pushed some people off. As you'll see in the gallery after the break, the 3DS's big coming-out party could've probably used a few more attendees lining up to get inside. We're sure Nintendo will have no problem getting rid of consoles at launch and in the coming weeks, but the catering company from tonight's event is likely gonna need to get rid of a few hundred extra hot dogs.


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Ng Wah Catholic Secondary School
|Ng Wah College Secondary School
|San Po Kong, Wong Tai Sin District, Hong Kong
|22°19′59″N 114°11′45″E / 22.3330°N 114.1957°ECoordinates: 22°19′59″N 114°11′45″E / 22.3330°N 114.1957°E
|Subsidized School
|In Consilio Sapientia
(Latin:To think conscientiously and to discern with intelligence)
|Religious affiliation(s)
|School district
|Wong Tai Sin
|Fr. Ng Kwok Po
|Dr. Lau Pak Ling
|Green and Silver
|Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong
|Ng Wah Catholic Secondary School
Ng Wah Catholic Secondary School (Chinese: 天主教伍華中學) is a boys' secondary school in San Po Kong, Wong Tai Sin District, Hong Kong. Founded in 1965 by Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong.
Established in 1965 as Sanpokong Catholic College, the school is a government subsidized grammar school for boys, under the sponsorship of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong.
Before moving into the new premises, with consent of the school authority of Choi Hung Estate Catholic Secondary School (CHESS), CHECSS was partially used by Ng Wah School in its first year of operation, with a total of 480 junior form students (S1 to S3) in 12 classes.
On 30 March 1966, the present site in San Po Kong were completed and were inaugurated by the then Governor of Hong Kong, Sir David Trench on 14 April 1966.
After a donation by Mr. Ng Ping Kin, an architect and Urban Councillor, the school was renamed Ng Wah College in commemoration of his father, Mr. Ng Wah (Chinese: 伍華). In the late 1970s, the rooftop of the secondary school building was modified and became the 6th floor to accommodate the then expanding student population.
In 1986, three standard classrooms were also in place in the covered playground. Under the School Improvement Project scheme, a new six-storey annex was built connected the primary school building near Choi Hung Rd. in 2000. In the same year, the three classrooms in the covered playground were converted into a bigger multi-purpose Student Activity Room.
Starting from September 2002, the school was renamed as Ng Wah Catholic Secondary School in accordance with the naming system of schools under the sponsorship of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese.
The School Motto is Latin phrase "IN CONSILIO SAPIENTIA", which means "To think conscientiously and to discern with intelligence" in English.
- Fred Li Wah-ming, SBS, JP, politician, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
- Comfort Chan Kwong-wing, music composer.
- Ng Chi-Sum (吳志森), presenter.
- William Chak Wai-lim, actor.
- Ken Leung Kam-wing, businessman, one of the hostages in Manila hostage crisis.
- Yung Yau, associate professor of housing studies, City University of Hong Kong.
- "Ng Wah Catholic Secondary School". Ng Wah Catholic Secondary School. 21 September 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
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On the 2004 pilot you have to remove the battery and tray and cold air intake. It is on top of transmission.
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I didn't think the Pilot had a transmission filter that was replaceable, I see a filter listed with transmission casing components but it doesn't show a labor time to replace. The filter doesn't look like a conventional spin on filter on parts image. The part number I have is Honda part number 25420P7W003 call the dealer see if they have it in stock and ask do they generally replace them? If they have it in stock they probably replace them, I personally never have.
There is no serviceable automatic transmission filter in most modern Honda vehicles....your '04 Pilot included. I have an '03 and an '07 Pilot in my stable of Honda vehicles. You can easily change the tranny fluid by locating the drain plug on the side of the transmission directly under the vehicle. Use a rachet to remove the plug and drain the fluid. The plug will have a magnetic end that will be covered in small iron "dust". Wipe it off completely before reinstalling the plug. The tricky part is refilling the fluid thru the dipstick hole under the hood. The dipstick tube is very small in diameter and requires a narrow neck funnel. Only use Honda ATF-Z tranny fluid available at the dealer....I believe it's about three quarts for a refill. Good luck.
6 quarts to totally refill! You can take an 10 inch socket and got right underneath the breather and take the speedometer out to fill the tranny easily with a big funnell
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Imaging Trial With I-124-CLR1404 in Patients With Newly Diagnosed or Recurrent Glioblastoma
This study has been terminated.
Cellectar Biosciences, Inc.
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First Posted: July 12, 2013
Last Update Posted: October 12, 2017
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The primary objective of this trial is to determine the optimal dose and imaging time point(s) of I-124-CLR1404 in subjects with newly diagnosed and recurrent glioma to be used in future trials.
|Drug: I-124-CLR1404
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
|Official Title:
|Phase 2, Open-Label, Imaging Trial of I-124-CLR1404 in Patients With Newly Diagnosed or Recurrent Glioblastoma
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Optimal Imaging Parameters - Dose [ Time Frame: 8 days ]Up to two dose levels (5 mCi and 7.5 mCi) will be evaluated in conjunction with multiple imaging time points to determine the optimal parameters for PET/CT brain imaging. Dosing will begin at 5 mCi and if the images are deemed inadequate, as assessed by count statistics and image quality, the 7.5 mCi dose level will be evaluated.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Optimal Imaging Parameters - Imaging Time Point [ Time Frame: 8 days ]Multiple imaging time points (Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4-8) will be evaluated to determine the optimal parameters for PET/CT brain imaging.
|Study Start Date:
|February 2014
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2015
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|September 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
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Drug: I-124-CLR1404
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Other Name: I-124-NM404
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- newly diagnosed glioblastoma or recurrent/suspected recurrent glioblastoma
- scheduled to undergo a clinically-indicated surgery or biopsy (specific cohorts)
- ECOG performance status of 0 to 2 (Appendix C)
- 18 years of age or older
- has the initiative and means to be compliant with the protocol and be within geographical proximity to make the required study visits
- has the ability to read, understand and provide written informed consent for the initiation of any study related procedures (or legal representative)
- if female of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test within 24 hours of enrollment
- Women of childbearing potential and men who are able to father a child, must agree to use an effective method of contraception (e.g., oral contraceptives, double-barrier methods such as a condom and a diaphragm, intrauterine device, Norplant, Depo-Provera) during the study and for 45 days following the last dose of the study drug.
Exclusion Criteria:
- ongoing grade 2 or greater toxicities due to previous therapies. However, tolerable grade 2 adverse (e.g. neuropathy) events may be allowed at the discretion of the investigator.
has following laboratory abnormalities
- Platelets < 100,000/μL
- WBC < 3000/μL
- Hematocrit < 22%
- Serum creatinine > 2.5 mg/dL
- ALT > 1.5 x ULN
- Bilirubin > 1.5 x ULN
- ongoing chronic immunosuppressive therapy
- history of hypersensitivity to iodine
- any other concomitant serious illness or organ system dysfunction which in the opinion of the investigator would either compromise subject safety or interfere with the evaluation of the safety of the test drug
- women of childbearing potential, or men who are able to father a child, unwilling to use a medically acceptable method of contraception during the trial
- pregnancy or breast-feeding
- inability to comply with the protocol
- use of any investigational drug within 4 weeks of dosing (unless a longer time period is required by local regulations or the investigational agent)
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01898273
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01898273
|United States, California
|City of Hope
|Duarte, California, United States, 91010
|United States, Florida
|Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
|Tampa, Florida, United States, 33612
|United States, Maryland
|University of Maryland School of Medicine
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201
|United States, Ohio
|Cleveland Clinic
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195
|Ohio State University Medical Center
|Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210
|Kettering Medical Center
|Kettering, Ohio, United States, 45429
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|United States, Wisconsin
|University of Wisconsin
|Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 53792
|Medical College of Wisconsin
|Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53228
Sponsors and Collaborators
Cellectar Biosciences, Inc.
|Principal Investigator:
|John Kuo, MD, PhD
|University of Wisconsin, Madison
|Principal Investigator:
|Jana Portnow, MD
|City of Hope Medical Center
|Principal Investigator:
|Abass Alavi, MD
|University of Pennsylvania
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|Responsible Party:
|Cellectar Biosciences, Inc.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01898273 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Submitted:
|July 8, 2013
|First Posted:
|July 12, 2013
|Last Update Posted:
|October 12, 2017
|Last Verified:
|September 2015
Keywords provided by Cellectar Biosciences, Inc.:
Glioblastoma Multiforme
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue


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The Confessions of St. Augustine is one of the most moving diaries ever recorded of a man's journey to the fountain of God's grace. Writing as a sinner, not a saint, Augustine shares his innermost thoughts and conversion experiences, and wrestles with the spiritual questions that have stirred the hearts of the thoughtful since time began.
Starting with his childhood in Numidia and continuing through his youth and early adulthood in Carthage, Rome, and Milan, this book shows Augustine as a human being, a fellow traveler on the road to salvation. If you are fighting changes in your life, struggling to know God more, or staggering around roadblocks in your faith, Augustine's confessions will stretch your mind and enrich your soul.
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Dear Savings Diary…
Another month rolls on, I saved some money and the world inched forwards. Well, maybe it inched backwards following the Brexit result. Sad times indeed, but as The Escape Artist points out the world continues and it's not the coming of the Fourth Reich.
Indeed, it seemed to have a positive impact on many people's NetWorth, if we ignore the weakening of the £-Sterling. R.I.T. even crossed over into the 'double comma' club, a culmination of nearly a decade of focus, awesome stuff.
So Sunday rolls round, meaning it was time to open the NetWorth spreadsheet methodically update it with a cup of good coffee and, of course, some good music. Another trip back in time, right back to 2003 to listen to Jack Johnson's 'On and On' album. Sure, now you hear Jack Johnson's tunes being played as background music in waiting rooms and even the odd guy who walks to the office with no shoes on has heard of him. That's no reason not to listen to him, the lyrics are still relevant;
Look at all those fancy clothes,
But these could keep us warm just like those.
And what about your soul? Is it cold?
Is it straight from the mould, and ready to be sold?
And cars and phones and diamond rings,
Bling, bling, because those are only removable things.
And what about your mind? Does it shine?
Are there things that concern you, more than your time?
Seems old Mr Johnson was hinting at Financial Independence years ago.
I set myself some goals at the start of the year, some temporary carrots to entice myself towards the over-arching destination of Financial Independence. My overall goal is Financial Independence, which I am defining as when the total return on my investments more than covers day to day living expenses.
Trying to aim for just one goal that is potentially over a decade away is exhausting. Months roll by and it can appear that very little progress has been made. Which would be terribly demotivating. Our brains just aren't wired to keep track of such distant things.
So in the mean time, like running a marathon, it's better to chop the journey up into smaller and more manageable chunks.
The first goal for 2016 is to try and achieve an average savings rate of 60% across the year.
Developing the habit of consistently hitting a high savings rate is the biggest driver in hitting that overall goal of financial independence, especially at the start of the journey where your contributions will have a much larger impact than any investment returns.
60% is looking less and less achievable for the year, due to wedding costs which pulled my average savings rate down in the first part of the year, and even into negative territory in some months. It's tough to hit 60% consistently, even tougher to hit higher than that in order to pull the average back up in the remaining second half of the year.
With that said, June was a good month for the tightly run Mr Zombie Limited.
The bulk of my savings is made up from pension contributions, monthly ISA contributions and monthly payments into a share options scheme with my employer. In a strange mix of happy and sad emotions I sold my motorbike, the proceeds of which were piled into savings and so boosting the savings rate for the month. Mrs Z and I also decided to tighten the savings nut another quarter turn, and overpay the mortgage a little bit more each month.
All of this means the best savings rate in The Finance Zombie's near two year history. A savings rate of 78.3% was reached.
The average savings rate for the year is slowly creeping back up from the barren valley that was March.
Some quick sums shows me that an average of 78% is needed for the rest of the year to hit an average for the year of 60%. Looking pretty unlikely!
Target: 60% savings rate
Year to Date average: 41.9% FAIL
In month: 78.3% PASS
My second goal is centred around NetWorth growth. NetWorth growth will be driven primarily by progress on the first goal, and the whims of market movements. But it's more fun to track and provides a representation of progress towards Financial Independence. Tracking it is my savings diary.
My goal for 2016 is to increase my NetWorth by 45%, I don't include equity on my house for the purpose of this goal.
To be on track I needed to increase NetWorth by 20.4% from the start of the year to the end of June. I've actually seen an increase of 19.9%, the gap is nearly closed! 😀
My NetWorth has really reached for the stars this month, increasing by nearly 8% in the month alone. Having a bit of a dig around in the numbers there are three legendary drivers behind the increase;
- My legendary, and likely one-off, savings rate of 78.3%
- Some legendary share options maturing and being in the money
- The majority of my equity being in legendary global trackers which increased following Brexit.
At first glance posting my NetWorth may appear a bit narcissistic and showy, "Hey Internet passer bys, I'm amazingly epic, check me out, my NetWorth is growing". But if I can make a few lifestyle changes that positively impact my NetWorth, so can anyone.
Simply spending less than I earn and saving the difference. And with this a slow shift from 10% of my income being the norm for savings towards a 50% savings rate feeling more normal.
Target: Annual 45% increase in NetWorth.
Actual: Annualised projected growth of 43.8%.
Result: A very narrow FAIL
Goal three is simply to overpay the mortgage each month.
Mrs Z and I 'Zombied up' in June and doubled the amount we are overpaying, throwing £200 each against the mortgage in overpayments. Lovely.
Target: Overpay mortgage each month.
Actual: £200 overpayment each.
Result: PASS
I really am a fan of setting a few goals and tracking progress towards them, it's certainly helping my journey towards Financial Independence.
How was everyone's June?
All of my prior months updates are here, if you just. Need. More!
Spend Less, Save More & Escape the Horde
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Gaza City - Hamas appears to be drifting away from its longtime patron Iran - part of a shift that began with last year's Arab Spring and accelerated over Tehran's backing of the pariah regime in Syria.The movement's top leader in exile, Khaled Mashaal, wants Hamas to be part of the broader Islamist political rise triggered by the popular uprisings sweeping across the Arab world. For this, Hamas needs new friends like the wealthy Gulf states that are at odds with Iran.For now, Hamas won't cut ties with Iran or close its headquarters-in-exile in the Syrian capital of Damascus, officials in the movement said.However, relations have become increasingly strained.Hamas has reduced its presence in Iran-allied Damascus in response to Syrian President Bashar Assad's brutal crackdown on a popular uprising against him. Hamas also rejected Iran's demand that the group publicly side with Assad, standing firm even when Tehran delayed the monthly support payments Hamas needs to govern the Gaza Strip, according to a senior Hamas official who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorised to discuss internal deliberations.Unity dealAt the same time, Hamas is increasingly relying on political and financial support from the Gulf, particularly tiny Qatar, which also has close ties to the West.This week, Qatar brokered a breakthrough unity deal between Mashaal and his longtime rival, internationally backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. After five years of separate Palestinian governments in the West Bank and Gaza, Abbas is now to head an interim unity government and lead the Palestinians to elections.Qatar promised to help in case the international community will withdraw support for a transition government that - though headed by Abbas - would also be supported from the outside by Hamas.The movement is still widely shunned in the West and is considered a terrorist group by the United States and Europe - a legacy of the years in which it regularly claimed suicide bombings and other attacks on civilians in Israel."Of course, the safety net is there," Ahmed Yousef, a Gaza-based Hamas intellectual and Mashaal confidant, said of Qatar's pledges of support. "The financial support will be there. ... They will be generous to help the Palestinians, to rebuild Gaza and cover the shortage. If there is a financial problem, they will help."More CEO than firebrandEven as Qatar was mediating the unity deal, the Hamas prime minister of Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, was leading his own tour through wealthy Gulf states Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait. His tone was far more CEO than anti-Israel firebrand as he met Gulf rulers and investment groups about pumping money into struggling Gaza.Palestinian officials who have been briefed on the Doha unity talks said Qatar asked Haniyeh to skip the next stop on his journey, a visit to Tehran. Gulf countries have moved aggressively to undercut Iranian influence as the region is reshaped by the Arab uprisings.However, Haniyeh will likely be in Tehran on Friday, Hamas officials said.It was not immediately clear whether his decision to go ahead was shaped by a desire not to snub the Iranians so brazenly or is part of a brewing internal conflict within Hamas. Some of the Hamas leaders in Gaza, who stand to lose influence in a power-sharing arrangement, have criticised the Doha deal.Millions in donationsStill, Haniyeh's meetings with Iran's leaders - Assad's most enthusiastic supporters - can prove politically embarrassing to Hamas. Readers commenting on a Hamas website this week overwhelmingly urged Haniyeh not to visit Iran because of Tehran's backing for Assad.Before the Arab Spring, Hamas had few friends in the Arab world and relied on Iranian largesse and Syrian hospitality. According to some estimates, Iran paid several hundred million dollars a year to Hamas, crucial for keeping blockaded Gaza afloat. Damascus hosted Mashaal and his decision-making political bureau which was unwanted elsewhere.But Hamas' parent movement, the pan-Arab Muslim Brotherhood, scored election victories after uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia last year, and is becoming influential elsewhere in the region."The Arab Spring awakenings had a pivotal effect on Hamas' world view," said Fawaz Gerges, director of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics. "The rise of the Islamists to power has really given Hamas a strategic depth."However, the widened support comes with demands that the Islamists moderate and not embarrass Brotherhood branches abroad as they seek to reach out to the broadest possible audience and gain political legitimacy through elections.Gulf powerGulf countries have moved aggressively to gain new leverage and to try to undercut Iranian influence."Hamas is moving into the Arab orbit," said Salman Shaikh, director of The Brookings Doha Centre in Qatar. "This is one of the significant achievements of the Arab Spring and a reflection of how Gulf power has grown."It seems unlikely Hamas will meet international demands to forswear violence - but an alliance with Gulf states could nudge the group in that direction.The Gulf leaders intensified pressure this week on Iran-ally Assad, by pulling their ambassadors and ordering out Syrian envoys from Kuwait to Oman. Last month, Qatar urged for an Arab military force to intervene to halt 11 months of bloodshed in Syria.Yousef, the Mashaal confidant, said in an interview on Thursday that Hamas wants to be on good terms with everyone, including Iran and Syria, but his comments suggested a new confidence vis-a-vis the old patrons."We are not going to support anybody [just] because he is giving us shelter or safe haven," Yousef said, when asked about Iranian pressure on Hamas to publicly back the Assad regime. "If he is not happy with us, we can leave. We can find another save haven."Beyond QatarHe also suggested the Iranians need Hamas more than the other way around. "They [the Iranians] are capitalising on this image that they are helping the Palestinians," he said. "This is giving the Iranians some credibility in the way they think about their leadership in the region."He did not say how Hamas would act if forced to choose between Iran and the Gulf. However, the Arab Spring-inspired paradigm shift he described - Hamas seeking to share power with former political rivals and embracing pluralism - would make Iran an unattractive choice in the long run.Khaled Hroub, a Hamas expert at Cambridge University, said he believes Hamas won't leave the Iranian-Syrian orbit for good unless other Gulf countries, particularly regional powerhouse Saudi Arabia, pledge their support."They want to go beyond Qatar ... and hear from the Saudis, even if indirectly," Hroub said of Hamas. "This is a golden opportunity [for the Saudis]. Syria is going down, you can break the whole Syrian-Iranian axis, maybe forever, and the Iranian influence on the [Levant], yet the Saudis are turning their backs," Hroub said.
Hamas must forsake terrorism and embrace peaceful co-existance with Israel and start to work for a two state living side by side in peace
Hamas must change or else it will fall like Syria and in due time Iran.
Every crazy has his day.
Right....that's why the head of Hamas is in Iran right now celebrating the anniversary of their Islamic revolution. Because it's a clear sign of all that drifting apart mentioned in this article. :P
I think you need to understand that Hamas has never been a puppet regime controlled by Iran. I don't recall reading anything about Iran demanding or requesting anything of the Palestinians. They have indirect (and likely some direct) control over Hezbollah in Lebanon, but not over Hamas in Palestine.
Regardless...Syria's not going anywhere, because they're an example of the type of government present in Russia and China, and they don't like America's interference in these matters as it will end up directly affecting them at some point.
I'd honestly bet that the Assad regime will stay in power, ultimately.
I very much hope you're wrong.
I think change in Syria will come from a coup within Assad's inner circle. There has to be someone or a group in there that has a conscience, which then grows into a driving desire to change the evil being perpetrated on fellow Syrians, fellow human beings, followed by action.
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Timex Race Trainer Watch Kit - Black/Silver
Crossing finish lines around the world since 1986, Timex Ironman is the undisputed favourite in sports watches. Timex's collection includes activity tracking, connected products and sports timing. So whether you're a serious athlete training for a PB, or just trying to get a little healthier, Timex has a full range of easy-to-use solutions at great value.
- Timex watches
- Model no.: T5K263
- Race Trainer Kit
- Contents includes:
- 1 x Timex Ironman heart rate monitor watch
- 1 x Digital 2.4 heart rate sensor (water resistant)
- 1 x Data Xchanger USB
- For men
- Colour: Black/Silver
- Band colour: Black
- Case colour: Silver/black
- Case material: Stainless steel/plastic
- Band material: Rubber
- Band length (mm, approx): 244
- Case diameter (mm, approx): 41
- Case thickness (mm, approx): 13
- Clasp type: Belt notch
- Water resistance: 100 metres/10ATM
- Date display
- Battery type: CR2032
- Battery life: N/A
- Workout averages & peak heart rates
- 50-lap recall with heart rate data
- 10-workout memory
- Five automatic training zones
- Time-in-target zone
- Recovery heart rate timer
- Five linked interval timers
- Calories burned
- %-of-Max or BPM heart rate
- Displays lap & split times
- 3-mode countdown timer & 5 alarms
- Indiglo night-light
- Digital system eliminates cross-talk
- Data Xchanger USB for 2-way wireless communication between watch & computer
- Comes in a box - the perfect gift!
Timex is America's leading watchmaker. With a storied history reaching back a century or two, the brand creates a range of watches that wonderfully blends style and functionality. Great for all-day wear and suitable for all occasions, there's a Timex that's perfect for you!


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