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A GANG who masterminded a plot to supply Scots underworld criminals with illegal firearms were yesterday jailed for a total of 32 years.
The weapon-smuggling ring was smashed after serving soldier William Dempsey, 29, who was dressed in desert combats, panicked on a train to Scotland and left his bags with a cleaner at Carlisle station.
Cocaine addict Dempsey, a mortarman with the 5th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, was paranoid about being followed and believed there were snipers at the station.
When he failed to return to collect his gear, the cleaner took the camouflage holdalls to the British Transport Police.
Stunned officers found they contained an Uzi sub-machine gun with silencer, a sawn-off shotgun, a handgun and 194 rounds of ammunition.
The resulting investigation – codenamed Operation Aurora – focused on mobile phone analysis to identify the gang members and put them behind bars.
Experts discovered a series of texts in which Dempsey – who served in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan – referred to the lethal weapons as "toys".
And at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday, he was jailed for eight years.
Barry Kelly, 34, of Darvel, Ayrshire, sgot nine years, Craig Colquhoun, 28, of Barrhead, near Glasgow, was jailed for seven years and James Ashdown, 32, of Canterbury, Kent, was sentenced to eight years and a further three years for separate drugs offences.
Detective Chief Inspector Simon Taylor, who led the investigation, said: "These four clearly intended to put illegal firearms on to the streets of Scotland.
"It is a fair assumption that they would have been used to commit criminal acts or to intimidate people.
"We have taken this potential threat out of circulation and ensured the conviction of four dangerous men."
The court heard Dempsey, from Paisley, collected the bags from his cocaine addict pal Ashdown in Kent before the ill-fated train journey on August 17, 2012.
The guns were destined for underworld figure Barry Kelly and his lieutenant Craig Colquhoun.
After the bags were discovered, police began a hunt for Dempsey and he was arrested on a viaduct after enjoying a "final pint" in a Carlisle pub.
The barracks where he was based in Canterbury were searched and a handgun-shaped crossbow, metal-tipped arrows and large military batteries were found.
The battalion said no weapons were missing from the armoury and police began to suspect Dempsey was part of a gang moving firearms around the country.
Analysis of his mobile phone revealed messages between Dempsey and Ashdown regarding large cash payments for "toys" – items believed to be the firearms seized at Carlisle. Links to both Colquhoun and Kelly were also identified.
The day before Dempsey's arrest, Colquhoun was seen on CCTV at a Royal Bank of Scotland branch in Paisley, paying £3500 into the soldier's account.
Kelly, Ashdown and Colquhoun were arrested in co-ordinated swoops.
And officers found £20,000 hidden in the loft of Kelly's home in Darvel.
Prosecutor Nicholas Kennedy said it was not known where the Uzi and the handgun had come from but the shotgun had been stolen in a burglary at a farm in Maidstone in 2007.
Sentencing the four for conspiracy to buy or sell firearms, judge Robert Warnock said: "The weapons had a clear potential for causing serious injury and death.
"Had these firearms reached their intended recipients, I have no doubt they would have significantly contributed to the upward spiral of gun crime."
He said Dempsey had used his uniform to hide what he was doing.
He said: "For reasons principally to do with your abuse of alcohol and drugs, you abandoned the firearms at Carlisle station.
"These actions were not motivated by remorse or insight but your befuddled and confused thinking."
The judge told Kelly he was "clearly a relatively sophisticated criminal who is well-versed in the use and abuse of mobile phone technology".
He said Kelly's "employee" Colquhoun was a peripheral player in the conspiracy.
Ashdown was a drug dealer who was motivated to make money to fund his cocaine habit by selling the firearms and ammunition and used Dempsey and his connections to do so.
Dempsey's barrister David Thompson said his client had been a "reliable and competent soldier" but his life began to go downhill in July 2012.
He had long-term problems with alcohol abuse and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. Mr Thompson said his client had run up a £5000 drug debt at the time he entered the firearms conspiracy.
The barrister added: "He is filled with remorse for getting involved and the shame he has brought upon his regiment."


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I currently write a monthly column for our weekly newspaper The Gratiot County Herald. Many of my topics and themes have dealt with World War II and how it relates to our own local history. A highlight of my spare time is working with primary sources, and researching newspapers and documents dealing with early twentieth century history in our county.
Engaging students with research is a regular part of my history and English classes. My philosophy of education has been greatly shaped by using National History Day in my history classes. The reason that I use National History Day is that I believe in "doing history" as opposed to only talking or lecturing about it. It is my goal that students come as close to history as possible, and I found that many of their projects usually are related to a World War II topic.


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Bengaluru: Installing a gas geyser proved costly as a mother-son duo had to pay with their life. Arpitha(23), a homemaker and her son Amruth(3) were found dead in the bathroom of their house in Lakshmipura in Kempegowda Nagar police station limits. They died due to inhaling carbon monoxide generated by their geyser on 7 December.
According to police, Arpitha went to have bath after finishing her household chores. Amruth, who was playing in the hall, is suspected to have gone inside the bathroom to urinate. His grandparents who were sitting outside grew suspicious as the boy could not be seen around for a while. They started looking out for the boy and knocked on the bathroom door, but got no response. They raised an alarm and a few neighbours came in who broke open the door and found the mother and son lying motionless on the bathroom floor.
According to sources, they were immediately rushed to the nearby hospital where they were declared brought dead. Initial investigations revealed that the gas geyser installed in the bathroom generated carbon monoxide which lead to their deaths.
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As a community of artists we aim to alert our members to opportunities to exhibit and sell your works in a variety of venues and markets. Members can group together to take on responsibility for running the markets, such as North End Road and the Parsons Green Fair (1st July 2017).
We regularly exhibit at the Lilyville Surgery, in 6 week slots, changing over on the Friday between 1 – 2pm. It is a great opportunity to hang 12+ paintings plus one in the Library and see if you can boost interest and sales. This is now fully booked until January 2018, but if you would like to take a slot for next year, please email: email@example.com
North End Road Open Markets:
The council are increasingly setting the North End Road into a free from traffic zone on quarterly days throughout the year: March, June, September & December. (We are awaiting confirmation of dates). We ask our Scholars to help organise and run what can be a double stall with awning under SoFAP's banner. This is ideal for smaller artworks at less than £100, cards, and other little items. Christmas is the best turnout where 10,000 people come along. To make it work we need at least 6 members, and you have to be there to look after the stall – as this is a team effort. If you are interested, please contact Astrella Mullen by email.
Parson Green Fair – 1st July 2017
Another opportunity for members who are interested to join forces, take advantage of SoFAP's awning, and create a stall usually in the wonderful sunshine in July. This is a buzzy event, and similar to the NER market is idea for small, good value art works, ceramics and cards. If you are interested please contact Patricia Watson by email no later than 20th May, 2017
Posk Gallery in the Polish Centre (238-246 King Street W60RF), 0208 742 6430, could be a good venue for a solo or combined exhibition.
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In Conventional Chinese Medication, there are over 800 vital force points in the human body. These points lie along meridians that run throughout a person's body. Chi, or life energy, flows along the meridians and through the energy points in healthy individuals. Chi that is blocked or overabundant near particular energy points causes disease and discomfort.
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Puducherry, March 15: Amid discussions of a possible alliance between BJP and PMK for the formalization of an alliance in Tamil Nadu, the local PMK unit may contest the elections independently, irrespective of whether the party ends up joining hands with BJP or not.
However, this has not been taken sportingly by the All India NR Congress (AINRC).
Meanwhile, the party members are unhappy over the announcement of the AINRC candidate by the Chief Minister N Rangasamy for the party alliance with BJP, even before it materialised.
"Our party leader Dr Anbumani Ramadoss has met Rangasamy four times seeking AINRC support for the party candidate, but never during the discussions had Rangasamy made it clear that he would be fielding a candidate," said R K R Ananthaman, PMK state organiser.
Party members further accuse,"Rangasamy did not take the party into confidence before making the announcement."
PMK had announced its candidates long back. Rangasamy said,"I have been campaigning since February and have covered several areas and have gone even to the outlying areas. Going back would be cutting a sorry figure."
Party cadres who had worked hard are also discontented with the announcement and have said that they would contest even without an alliance.
In fact, the party is planning to delink itself from the TN alliance, but is awaiting a general body meeting to be held on Sunday where the decision would be taken.
This, in turn, will leave a gap in AINRC's vote bank as predominant Vanniyar caste votes will have to be excluded then.
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PerceptionDo We See the World as It Is?
After we wake up in the mornings, something fascinating is happening, something we hardly notice. It's smooth and transparent, yet fundamental as we navigate our world. We hear the alarm ring, we open our eyes and make our way to the kitchen. We smell the milk we use for our coffee, is it fresh or spoiled? We sense the temperature; is it cold, shall I wear a sweater today? We navigate our lives with the help of a fascinating process: perception.
For us to act safely and with purpose, we must first collect information from our environment using perception. Perception is an automatic and intricate process of data collection and evaluation to sense what's useful or beneficial for us and what's not.
Perception is an all-encompassing faculty. It includes not only the five senses to collect information from the exterior environment but also many senses that collect information from our interior environment; for example, a sense for balance, temperature sensors, or proprioception which allows us to sense where in space our body parts located. Nearly all perception occurs subconsciously. If we were conscious of the myriad of data processed each moment; we'd be overwhelmed. Instead. Only the information that is novel or critical, becomes conscious for higher level consideration.
An interesting feature of conscious perception is the feeling that we perceive the world the way it actually is, but this might not be the case. The philosopher Thomas Metzinger calls human beings "naïve realists" because we assume that the world is actually the way we see it, that we perceive our surroundings directly and completely. But in fact, our brains generate a virtual world inside our minds. The data that our senses collect is analyzed and organized into a coherent mental representations. Our brain then attempts to make sense of the torrent of information by applying a host of biases, prejudices, conditioning, hunches, and guesses so it and has meaning for a civilized primate. It's a crucial step in order to initiate behavior that keeps us out of trouble and optimizes our chances to flourish.


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The Eighteenth Emergency - Betsy Byars
Mouse and his best friend Ezzie have come up with 17 action plans for various types of emergency such as Attack by an Unfriendly Lion. But nothing has...
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"State of Emergency"
Mouse is a boy with a plan. He and his friend Ezzie have developed a series of fail-safe strategies for any dangerous situations. Happen to have found yourself being approached by an unfriendly lion? Well, that's obviously Emergency Two, so you'd better thrust your arm into his mouth and choke him. The downside, of course, is that you end up shoulder-deep in lion. The upside is that you're not dead. Yet. If you're a fan of the Twilight films and you're concerned about being attacked by a werewolf, then consider the remedy to Emergency Eleven: draw a six pointed star and get in it.
The Eighteenth Emergency, though, is an altogether different proposition. It comes in the shape of Marv Hammerman: the biggest, meanest sixth grader in the school. And he's after Mouse. This is one emergency which Mouse and Ezzie aren't prepared for. Will Mouse manage to outwit Hammerman, or will he take the worst pounding since Viola Angotti (a girl who could have been the heavyweight champion of the world) socked him in the stomach at recess?
As a character, Mouse is immediately likeable, realistic and funny. He has a mother who never quite 'gets' how important some things are, and instead focuses on all the wrong issues, like what he may have done to provoke the bullies. He has a best friend, Ezzie, who tries to bolster him up with moral support, but can't always be there when he needs him. He has a father who's not around, and a neighbour who asks him to run errands. He also has the unfortunate habit of drawing arrows and labelling everything, which may have been what got him into trouble in the first place. In short, Mouse is instantly recognisable to all children. He doesn't have magic powers, he isn't a wizard, and he most definitely doesn't have a fairy godmother to rescue him. He's just an average kid, with an everyday problem.
What Betsy Byars does exceedingly well is to recognise and represent how children are. The sinking feeling of dread when you realise you're in the worst kind of trouble. The exasperation at parents who are more worried about how many lima beans you eat for dinner than the fact of your imminent death at the hands of the most notorious bully since Hitler. The knowledge that, no matter how good a best friend you have, you still can't tell him that you once got beaten up by a girl. The dawning realisation that there are some things in life you just can't get out of.
Betsy Byars is one of my favourite children's authors and I like her for many of the same reasons that I love another of the greats: Roald Dahl. Both recognised that children are, essentially, powerless. They have little say over their own destinies and this can cause immense frustration and resentment. They both also realised that much gets lost in translation between children and adults and the things that seem trivial to grown-ups take on immense importance for children. Most importantly, they both knew how to describe children and their lives in such a way that was at once accurate, humorous, and sympathetic.
Where this book triumphs is to take a character who represents all children and to put him in a situation that most children will recognise. Even though the audience are children, they are not patronised or pandered to and therefore they can all empathise with Mouse and his plight. Even though Mouse may have brought his troubles upon himself, you still find yourself rooting for him to succeed. And, in a funny kind of way, he does.
I've read this book hundreds of times to whole classes, small groups and individuals and it's never lost its appeal. I'd say that children from about 7 or 8 upwards will appreciate the overall tone of the book and should be able to read it independently, although they may not get all the jokes. There are quite a few Americanisms like garbage, sidewalk, flashlight etc. which may need explained.
The children I've read it to have always loved it for the wry humour and realistic themes. It's a good starting point from which to explore a bullying topic and it lends itself well to the idea that bullies may not always be entirely bad people and that situations are rarely black and white. Exchanges between Mouse and Ezzie/his mum/Hammerman have realistic dialogue and so are good to act out for small drama groups. In terms of written possibilities, I've had a lot of fun with classes over the years dreaming up new emergencies and solutions (my favourite being from a seven year old self-confessed Father Ted fan called William, 'Emergency 207 - getting stuck in the ladies' underwear department at Debenhams'*)
At 118 pages, it's a nice bridging length between story books and 'proper' novels and presents a challenge without being overwhelming. I think that everyone should read it; children to remind themselves that everyone has problems just like them, and adults to remember that childhood often isn't magical.
**God bless Ciao and their ability to upload a picture which clearly has no relevance to this title. It's very much the 'f*ck it, it'll do' approach to website maintenance. But, I ask you, would you have them any other way? (If your answer is 'yes, I'd like a website that doesn't go mental all the time and has appropriate categories and pictures, please' then I fear you may be waiting a while. Embrace the eccentricity, I say!)
*Wondering what William's solution to Emergency 207 was? 'Find a couple of pairs of the massive pants like my granny wears and stick them together with chewing gum. Then parachute out of there into the toy department.'
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Secre published 19/07/2011I am going to have to look this one up now...when I've finished reading it I MIGHT consider giving it to my foster brother...maybe...yes, I am a supernaturally large child. Lissy
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Gooseydyoo published 02/12/2010Where did you get those pants?! :-D Another brilliant review. Back tomorrow with an E.
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Manufacturer's product descriptionMouse and his best friend Ezzie have come up with 17 action plans for various types of emergency such as Attack by an Unfriendly Lion. But nothing has prepared them for the 18th emergency: being on the wrong side of Marv Hammerman every eighth-grader's worst nightmare.
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There are many explanations to what most of you are feeling. From a psychological point of view, every brain is wired the same, but at the same time it's different. In fact the variations are what make us all different. Many of those are built while we grow. It is not unusual that when a child grows in an environment where couples fail, that child will most likely end up failing himself when establishing a relationship. Same goes for most kinds of brain growth.
Which is why we can be different.
Aside from that, there is a biological reason to our choices, who we decide to partner with, even when we think it's their personality entirely, there is a pheromone side to them, that impulsed the initial attraction. Even on this online times. Then there are the different kinds of brain "wiring" as I like to call it. Our brains carries a lot of residual content from our earlier days as primitive beings. Thus, us males have a bigger tendency to hump everything that moves. With time though, we have learned to attach this to a more reason like chart, and now we can evaluate a situation to know if we want or not. But all the stimulation will still affect us, even on situations of stress.
Women's on the other side have developed on a different way, and are just now developing their sexual nature. This was due to us a society being strongly focused on Male dominance. Fun fact of life, in the past, women used to develop big butts because nature found out that our ancestors liked them since it meant that childbirth was going to be easier. Currently, mother nature decided that due to the sex positions we do, and the lack of risk involved and some other facts, Boobs are better, so future women of the world will have bigger breast, but smaller butts.
Nature is a funny thing to study, and it explains many of our decisions and impulses. Of course, all the years we have on our backs will re-shape most of this into a perfect "ME" mold, changing what we once were.
But people should not feel afraid of not liking "sex" or liking it a lot. What should really make you worried is to be afraid of making contact with other folks. Even if you don't want to establish as a couple, meeting people is a thing that everyone needs, specially in this connected world, where this social skills are a must.


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Driver ticketed in four-vehicle crash in fog in Coles County
MATTOON — One driver was ticketed and three people suffered minor injuries Wednesday in a collision involving four vehicles, including a state police squad car, in the fog in Coles County.
The crash happened at Illinois 16 and Coles County Road 1050E, the road that leads to Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center, at 7:23 a.m.
Three westbound vehicles were stopped for a traffic light at the intersection when, a state police report says, Alisha N. Terrell, 29, of Mattoon was driving west on Illinois 16 and distracted by a phone call in heavy fog. Her car hit an SUV driven by Jing Zhang, 18, of Charleston, which was pushed into a car driven by Linda M. Burns, 53, of Kansas, Ill., which was pushed into a Ford Crown Victoria squad car driven by state trooper Kevin L. Kersey, 50, of Ashmore.
Terrell, Zhang and Burns were treated and released at Sarah Bush Lincoln, state police said. Kersey, who was on duty, was not injured. His squad car did not require towing.
Terrell was ticketed for having no valid driver's license and for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.
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October 4, 2004
Because of open adoptions, there are now more babies waiting for adoption than there are adoptive parents, says the Wall Street Journal.
Open adoptions allow for birth mothers and adoptive parents to stay in contact with each other through the child's growth and development. They also enable the birth mother to choose the parents she wants for her baby.
According to the National Center for State Courts:
- Domestic adoptions declined from 77 percent of all adoptions in 1992 to 46 percent in 2001, primarily due to the decline in unwanted pregnancies due to more birth control and abortion, and the prevalence of single mothers wanting to raise their own children.
- However, agencies offering open adoptions appeal to mothers who wish to have a say in who is raising their child and who want to be informed and updated on their child; in fact, 18 states have now made open adoptions legally enforceable.
- In 18 states, open adoption is legally enforceable; it is most common in the West and Midwest, and in Minnesota, 80 percent of all adoptions are open.
Many adoptive parents, however, are concerned over potential problems with open adoption. The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute notes that 82 percent of Americans are worried that the birth parent would one day try to reclaim their biological child. State laws make it next to impossible for efforts like this to succeed, but a few highly publicized cases have caused families to be wary of biological parents.
Furthermore, 90 percent of birth mothers want to know how their child is doing after adoption, and if given that opportunity, they will be more likely to consider adoption for an unwanted pregnancy.
Source: Suein L. Hwang, "U.S. Adoptions Get Easier," Wall Street Journal, September 28, 2004, National Center for State Courts, "Adoption." modified August 9, 2004.
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The Daily Mail last week risked alienating its millions of women readers (whom I assume from its normal priorities to be interested only in health, beauty and plastic surgery) by running pages of indigestible stuff about a conspiracy to curb the freedoms of the British press. It was perhaps a selfless initiative in the public interest, disclosing things that the Mail felt its readers ought to know even if they probably didn't give a fig about them.
The burden of its message was that a network of 'elitist liberals' from the Blair era had been exerting undue influence on the Leveson inquiry to get it to recommend statutory regulation of the British press. It identified its chief villain as Sir David Bell, a Leveson 'assessor', a former chairman of the Financial Times and a man with a stake in a number of strange organisations united by a common urge to impose some sort of ethical discipline on the British press.
They have names like Common Purpose, which trains high-flying people in 'networking' and 'leadership'; the Media Standards Trust, 'which aims to foster high standards in news media on behalf of the public'; Hacked Off, a group of celebrities begging for protection from the glare of the tabloids; and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which seeks to educate the media and the public in 'the value of honest reporting'. Well, you can't be on as many trusts and committees as Sir David Bell without sometimes having a tangential involvement with cock-ups of one kind or another. And we shouldn't hold it against him that the Millennium Bridge across the Thames, of which he was chairman, should have wobbled; or that the Orwell Prize for political journalism, of which he was also chairman, should have been awarded in 2008 to Johann Hari of the Independent who turned out to be dishonest and a plagiarist.
But what of the BIJ of which Sir David is a trustee? This is the outfit that is supposed to show us all how journalism should be done, and to set an example of excellence and diligence to the shoddy and corrupt papers of Fleet Street. In its self-regarding evidence to the Leveson inquiry, it said it aimed to be 'a masterclass, a gold standard for evidence-based journalism', to be 'a hands-on training ground for journalism students', and to produce reporting that would be 'as close to incontrovertible as possible'. Well, this is the organisation that 'exposed' Lord McAlpine as a paedophile and in doing so brought disgrace upon one of the BBC's most admired news programmes, Newsnight, and provoked a blizzard of libel actions against all and sundry. It pleaded at Leveson for charitable status and legal protection to enable it to afford its noble work, but then went on to show a disregard for routine checking procedures that would shame even the lowliest tabloid hack.
The first lesson to emerge from the McAlpine affair is that strict regulation of the press and commitment to the highest standards of journalism are no protection against catastrophes of this kind. The reliance on one source, Steve Messham, to identify Lord McAlpine as his abuser, and then not even to show Messham a photograph of the accused man, is quite incredible. You don't have to go to journalism school, or to aspire to 'a gold standard for evidence-based journalism', to realise that it is grotesquely irresponsible to make this vile accusation against anyone on such a flimsy basis. You don't even have to be a journalist. To be a normal human being would be enough. Yet the BIJ and Newsnight itself, with its state regulation and elaborate bureaucratic systems of upward reference, failed the most elementary test of good journalism.
And I think back to the case of Jayson Blair, a young black reporter on the New York Times who in 2003 was found to have routinely lied and plagiarised in his news stories, and I marvel at how he got away with it on a newspaper obsessed with the highest journalistic standards, and with an editorial staff of 1,200 there to enforce them. The Times admitted no fault by anyone but the pushy, scheming young reporter who had let everyone down and dishonoured the paper. It was implicit in its defence that deliberate, systematic deceit by a reporter is almost impossible to detect. But if it had happened on the Sun or News of the World, I bet it would have been detected. The mere fact that for six months Blair submitted no expenses claims, although pretending to file reports from 20 American cities during that time, would have been quite enough to arouse the deepest suspicions in Fleet Street.
When I was young, journalism schools barely existed, and I never knew anyone who went to one. But we were nevertheless terrified of getting things wrong because our news editors would get so angry with us if we did. There was nothing pious or sanctimonious about Fleet Street, but it was simply accepted there that whatever stuff it printed, however trivial or tasteless or offensive, had at least to be true. Unless journalists themselves believe this, and work with editors who insist upon it, I don't see what anyone can do.
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Competency Mapping, Techniques & Models. What is Competency Mapping?.
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It is about identifying preferred behaviours and personal skills which distinguish excellent and outstanding performance from the average.A Competency is the ingredients (skills, knowledge, attributes and behaviours) that contribute to excellence.
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The use of Competencies can include: assessment during recruitment, assessment during further development; as a profile during assessment to guide future development needs; succession planning and promotion; organisational development analysis. Techniques used to map Competencies include Critical Incident Analysis and Repertory Grid.
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The Nationals have just announced that tonight's game between the Nats and Mets has been postponed due to inclement weather.
No makeup date has been announced as of yet.
The Mets make two more trips to D.C. this season - July 26-28 and August 30-September 1 - so there are plenty of options when it comes to makeup dates.
The Nats could choose to push back Gio Gonzalez and have him start tomorrow and then have Nathan Karns start Saturday.
That would allow them to not have to call-up a starter to get the ball Saturday, as they had originally planned.
Update: The Nats will indeed push back Gonzalez and Karns, manager Davey Johnson said, meaning they won't need to call up a starter for Saturday.
That means the weather has cost Ross Ohlendorf a chance to get back to the big leagues.
This stinks for Ohlendorf, who has spent the entirety of this season at Triple-A Syracuse, but it's a plus for the Nats. It will allow them to get some rest and align their rotation favorably for the next week.
"With the number of guys we have on the DL, this is a welcome call," Johnson said. "And then not having to add somebody else, another starter, and then we've got an off-day on Monday. So we would have just really made a bunch of guys move around. This is much better. So I'm happy about it."
Gonzalez is set to pitch tomorrow (assuming there's a game tomorrow, with heavy rain in the forecast), Karns would start Saturday, Jordan Zimmermann would go Sunday, Dan Haren would go Tuesday against the Rockies, Gonzalez would go again Wednesday and then Ross Detwiler could potentially come off the DL and pitch Wednesday, if he's ready.
The Nats' concern is that the rain could disrupt Detwiler's rehab start at high Single-A Potomac on Saturday, but they'll cross that bridge when they come to it.
Update II: The Nationals and Mets will play a split doubleheader on Friday, July 26 with tonight's make-up game beginning at 1:35 p.m. The second regularly scheduled game is scheduled to begin at 7:05 p.m.
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Katy Perry is making major revelations this week about what she's been doing in bed for the last few months. It sounds dubious—perhaps intentionally so!—but it isn't really; so read on to get the lowdown.
In an exclusive interview with OK! magazine, the singer confessed that she has been sleeping at all kinds of odd hours recently, given her hectic touring schedule. "My operating hours are very strange. I'm a nine-to-five girl, but not in a Dolly Parton way—I'm a 9pm to 5am girl!" Katy lets on, adding, "I start my day about noon and end my day about 3am."
Despite the fact that she really is 'Wide Awake' all night, Katy confesses that she "sleeps a lot," though friends suggest she is actually addicted to packing as much as possible into each day. Vocalising her agreement, Katy admits she isn't pining for alone-time or R&R on a deserted island somewhere. "Put me on a desert island with no phone and I'll already probably have a phone hidden in some box," the 'Teenage Dream' singer laughs. Of course her travel itinerary is quite as exotic as that — with China, Thailand and Singapore slated for visits this month. And though Katy isn't waiting with bated breath for an island getaway, she does profess to missing "normal things" like going to a farmers' market and picking fruit. Well, if she wants apples, Katy will have to shake the tree!
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