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Southwest Airlines has a new targeted offer for buying or gifting Rapid Rewards points and getting 30% discount between September 12 – 18, 2017.
You can buy 60,000 Rapid Rewards point in a transactions and this is daily maximum as well. Southwest doesn't limit the number of points you can purchase in a year.
You can access this offer on Southwest's buy Rapid Rewards points website here.
Price of Rapid Rewards point at 30% off:
The price of a Rapid Rewards points purchased under this at the max level offer is 1.93 cents each.
Does it make ANY sense to buy Rapid Rewards points?
The value of a Rapid Rewards point used for Wanna Getaway fares is 1.4 cents, 1 cent for Anytime fares and 0.83 cents for Business Select fares. Southwest devalued the value of Rapid Rewards points last time on April 17, 2015 (read more here)
It makes no sense whatsoever to purchase Rapid Rewards points at 1.93 cents each, when the maximum value that you can get out of them is capped at 1.4 cents each.
The only time I could consider buying would be if I would need to top off an account (small number of points) for an award redemption.
Note that paid fares would EARN more Rapid Rewards points. Certain taxes are not applicable for award tickets issued using Rapid Rewards points and ticket are cancelable.
Buying points purely because they are on sale doesn't often makes much sense. This is one of those sales that is very difficult to justify unless you need to top up your account for an award.
Here are the terms and conditions of this offer:
Offer is valid between September 12, 2017, 12:00:01 a.m. CST and September 19, 2017, 11:59:59 p.m. CST. Member will save 30% when they buy a minimum of 10,000 Rapid Rewards® points. A valid credit card is required to buy points. Points can be purchased in blocks of 1,000 and a daily maximum of 60,000 points can be purchased, transferred, or gifted by a Member with no annual maximum. Transactions are non-refundable and non-reversible. Purchased points and bonus points do not count towards A-List, A-List Preferred, or Companion Pass qualification. Prices are in U.S. Dollars and include all applicable taxes. Only the Rapid Rewards Member who received this offer from Southwest Airlines is eligible for this promotion. Prices for the purchase of points are only valid while a Member is currently logged into Southwest.com and such prices are subject to change. Please allow up to 72 hours for points to post to the applicable Rapid Rewards account. All Rapid Rewards rules and regulations apply and can be found at Southwest.com/rrterms. Southwest® reserves the right to amend, suspend, or change the Rapid Rewards program and/or Rapid Rewards program rules at any time without notice. Rapid Rewards Members do not acquire property rights in accrued points and awards. The number of Rapid Rewards points needed for any particular Southwest flight is set by Southwest and will vary depending on destination, time, day of travel, demand, point redemption rate, and other factors and are subject to change.


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I wonder how's a police going to field this one? It takes a special kind of stupid to flip a vehicle at 5kph. It also takes a special kind of stupid to stop traffic to assault somebody by spitting on them.
Military special operations mixed with a high performance speed boat! – Would you spend $1 million on the basically unsinkable 'Thunder Child'?
Dumbest. Burglars. Ever. – Two criminals were caught on security camera trying to throw bricks through a shop window, but one of them threw their brick right into the others head!
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Interlochen Center for the Arts' Instructor of Singer-Songwriting Courtney Kaiser-Sandler and Director of Motion Picture Arts Michael Mittelstaedt have been invited to present at the 2019 SXSW EDU conference in Austin, Texas.
Interlochen Center for the Arts' Instructor of Singer-Songwriting Courtney Kaiser-Sandler and Director of Motion Picture Arts Michael Mittelstaedt have been invited to present at the 2019 SXSW EDU conference in Austin, Texas.
Kaiser-Sandler and Mittelstaedt are scheduled to lead two sessions during their trip: "Sharing Your Identity Through Artistic Expression" and "Spark Creative Access Through Personal Identity."
The SXSW EDU Conference & Festival is designed to cultivate and empower disparate communities to advance teaching and learning techniques, and exists as a component of the South by Southwest family of events. The annual conference includes open and engaging sessions, immersive workshops, interactive learning experiences, film screenings, early-stage startups, and business opportunities and networking.
In the first session, "Spark Creative Access Through Personal Identity", Kaiser-Sandler and Mittelstaedt will model techniques and activities that can be utilized by teachers facilitating student exploration of who they are within the medium of the arts. These hands-on tools exist within their respective curriculums, and offer cross-discipline methods to aid students in exploring and strengthening their personal identities and how it relates artistic medium.
"Sharing Your Identity Through Artistic Expression" is a longer session, and includes a live performance by Interlochen students with the students sharing their personal identity work, along with an open conversation around the topics of citizen artistry, creating topical and relevant work, and an in-depth demonstration of the aforementioned tools.
In 2018, Kaiser-Sandler was joined by students from Interlochen Arts Academy for her SXSW EDU presentation titled "Taking the Inside Out," which included live performance elements along with a presentation on the importance of touring with students off campus in order to enhance teaching, assess students, and in turn give students performance experience with a real audience.
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Fall is a popular choice for weddings, likely due to the gorgeous backdrops and comfortably cool weather. However, we often come up short on what to wear to a fall wedding as a guest. Fall wedding guest dresses are characterized by rich jewel tones, long sleeves, heavy fabrics, and prints that echo the changing of seasons, but this doesn't mean that you are restricted to a few cookie-cutter choices where you run the risk of sharing the same outfit with another guest.
Figuring out what to wear to a fall wedding can be tricky – the strapless gowns and backless dresses that wowed in the summer can leave you shivering in the fall, and the soft pastels that were the perfect color in the spring turn gauche as the leaves turn color. With a new season comes new style, and we've got your guide for what to wear to fall weddings.
Can't figure out what to wear to a fall wedding? For a classic fall look, choose a rich jewel tone like fuchsia, sapphire or emerald. You can also take color inspiration from the changing color of the leaves and go with an autumn orange, mustard yellow or deep maroon. For a more muted look, you can choose a charcoal or caramel gown. You can never go wrong with sophisticated black (that's right — you can wear black to a wedding). Look at the invitation you were given to get an idea of whether this will be an outdoor wedding in a barn or a ballroom extravaganza at a downtown hotel. Take note of the wedding dress code and plan your wedding outfit accordingly. For fall, think velvet, satin, silks, and shimmering materials in colorful tones of marigolds, maroons, deep purples, turquoise, and dark greens. Lace wedding guest dresses in bright colors with different colored shifts underneath are a growing trend, as well as dress styles with more fabric to keep you warm.
Here are the several option wedding dress for guess that can inspire you, please have a look. Enjoy!


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The 2017 Farming Health & Wellbeing Forum
On June 5th 2017 the Worshipful Company of Farmers and Farmers & Fletcher's Hall played host to an important, national forum devoted to promoting co-ordination and co-operation between the many bodies operating in the farming health and wellbeing arena.
Then Master, Philip Wynn welcomed delegates from all over the UK to what is believed to be, the first forum of its kind ever held.
The attendees shared their experiences, many of them truly moving, discussed best practice and importantly, how best to create a much more 'joined up', nationwide approach to coping with what is rapidly becoming recognised as a major issue for farming, stress in the workplace.
With the discussion wide ranging and complex, the decision was taken to summarise the output and conclusions of the meeting in a 'Discussion Paper'.
One of the actions agreed was the publication of a national list of resources, contacts and facilities. This document has now been compiled by the YANA Project is now available via this website.
Delegates at the workshop included Charles Smith, and Glyn Evans of the Farming Community Network; Allan Robson, Lincolnshire Rural Support Network; David Leaver, Worshipful Company of Farmers; Nina Clancy, RSABI in Scotland; Trish Pickford, RABI; Johann Tasker, Farmers Weekly; Aarun Naik, Nuffield Scholar; Stuart Burgess, Worshipful Company of Farmers; Diane Spark, Upper Teasdale Agricultural Support Service; Holly Beckett, Focussed Farmers Project; Richard Soffe, Rural Business School; Rita Walsh, Royal Agricultural University; Fay Jones, The National Farmers Union; Gordon Gatward, Chaplain to the Worshipful Company of Farmers; Rosie Carne, Junior Warden of the Worshipful Company of Farmers, Julian Sayers, Senior Warden of the Worshipful Company of Farmers and Philip Wynn the Master of the Worshipful Company of Farmers.


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This is similar to a bug I filed a few hours ago for another exercise I was working on.
This exercise is supposed to test my function with a sequence or array of numbers. Instead, what is getting passed to my function is an Object with a Chai assertion string as one of its properties. The problem can be replicated using the code below.
Here is a screenshot of the problem using Chrome: https://imgur.com/a/SylONne
It also happens with Firefox.
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On 7th July 2012 I set off for my first ever tournament in any game system, the Blood, Steel and Stones Malifaux tournament. I wasn't really sure of what to expect, so I packed up my Guild, my line in the sand markers and the usual hobby supplies and set off into the pouring rain. I'm delighted to say how welcoming everyone was, especially since I think that all the other nine players knew each other or had at the very least met at previous Malifaux events. After a bit of setting up boards etc, the tournament organiser (TO), David announced the initial pairings, found that he'd matched up a couple against each other and swiftly re-jigged it. As there was an odd number of players, David himself was taking part and indeed I was his first opponent. My battle reports are a bit sketchy since I didn't want to delay the games too much to take copious notes; the same goes for the photos.
Game 1: Guild (me) vs Arcanists (David)
Shared Plant Evidence (spend an action to interact with up four pieces of terrain in the other half of the board)
Guild: Stake a Claim (end the game touching a specified piece of terrain; in this case it was a set of ruins just to the left of the centre), Breakthrough (have more models in the opponent's deployment zone than he does)
Arcanists: Bodyguard (keep your master alive), Kill Protegé (kill off the highest cost minion, Samael Hopkins in this case)
Guild: Sonnia Criid (plus 6 soulstones), Samael Hopkins, Witchling Handler, 2 Guild Hounds, 2 Witchling Stalkers, Austringer
Arcanists: Rasputina (plus 5 soulstones), Kaeris, Ice Gamin, 2 Gunsmiths, 2 Large Steampunk Arachnids
I deploy in a strung out line, focussed in the middle with the Guild Hounds out on the right aiming to go through the ruins and start planting evidence (though I have no idea how; they can light dynamite too!) and the Austringer on the left to hide behind cover and send his bird at people a bit. David puts both Large Steampunk Arachnids facing the Guild Hounds, and they'll tear the dogs to bits in a straight fight so I'll have to rethink that part of the plan. Kaeris goes on my left and everyone else takes up the firing lane in the centre.
Turn 1: Mostly everyone just runs forward. The Witchling Handler pushes one of the stalkers up to interfere with the Gunsmiths, and Rasputina burns a couple of soulstones to hurt him, then puts up ice pillars in front of the Guild Hounds, forcing them to turn around or spend ages trying to bite through them. This picture is from the end of turn 1.
Turn 2: The Witchling Stalker severely wounds the female Gunsmith before being shot by the male one. The Ice Gamin runs up to the clump of my miniatures with Sonnia in it (they explode when killed) and I have no choice but to kill it off with the other Witchling simply to get it out of my hair. Sonnia then turns the wounded Gunsmith into another Witchling Stalker which is conveniently in combat with Rasputina, though she burns a soulstone to avoid its attack. Here's are a couple of shots from somewhere around the end of turn 2.
Turn 3: We've been playing fairly slowly, so this will be the final turn. Samael Hopkins flips the dreaded black joker taking a shot at one of the Large Steampunk Arachnids in the hope of destroying it before it plants evidence, then runs away to avoid getting killed (and hence give up kill protegé). Rasputina shows what she's capable of by blowing up two Witchling Stalkers, but it's too little, too late. Sonnia and the Guild Hounds zoom around planting evidence and staking a claim. The final score is 5 – 3 to the Guild (3 bits of evidence planted, plus stake a claim compared to 1 bit of evidence and bodyguard). This is the centre at the end of the game.
It was a really fun game, and I learned quite a few rules clarifications from David. I've got a feeling that he was going a bit easy on me (as TO, it's not really in his interest to pummel the new guy on his first ever game in the group), or perhaps he was just distracted because he was meant to be doing the TO thing as well as playing the game. After the game there was some lunch and general chit-chat, then the pairings were announced for game 2. I was to play Greg, who has the coolest possible method for tracking his soulstones: sweeties. Whenever he uses one in-game, he eats it for a 'power up'.
Game 2: Guild (me) vs Ressurectionists (Greg)
Shared Contain Power (kill the opponent's leader)
Guild: Hold Out (stop the other side getting models in your deployment zone), Kill Protegé (on Mortimer)
Ressurectionists: Bodyguard (keep your leader alive), Death After Death (end the game with more models than you started with)
Guild: Sonnia Criid (plus 8 soulstones), Exorcist, Witchling Handler, 2 Guild Hounds, 2 Witchling Stalkers, Austringer
Ressurectionists: Nicodem (plus 6 soulstones), Grave Spirit, Von Schill (who was the leader for contain power and bodyguard purposes), Mortimer, Madame Sybelle, 2 Rotten Belles
I actually remembered to take a picture of deployment this time.
Turn 1: Everyone rushes forward like 5 year olds playing football. The Rotten Belles lure in one of the Witchling Stalkers, and Madame Sybelle hits him a little.
Turn 2: Madame Sybelle kills her Witchling, and Von Schill makes short work of the other one. Meanwhile, the Guild Hounds eat the Grave Spirit and dog-pile Nicodem, mainly just to clog him up a bit while he kills them off. Nicodem totally ignores the dogs, instead summoning a Flesh Construct right in Sonnia's face. Eeek!
Turn 3: Sonnia uses a lot of soulstones to keep the Flesh Construct from killing her, and then tries to use her disassemble trigger to get it to go away. This doesn't actually work, but Greg is forced to discard enough cards that the Exorcist can banish it to oblivion at the end of the turn. Von Schill rockets about being annoying, and somewhere around here the Witchling Handler is killed and Madame Sybelle and one of her Rotten Belles are severely damaged. The Guild Hounds carry on biting Nicodem, and he carries on paying them no attention. Down boy!
Turn 4: This is the last turn, again due to time. Von Schill zooms into my deployment zone to try and make it hard to kill him and also to deny me holdout. Sonnia turns both Madame Sybelle and the injured Belle into Witchling Stalkers (I love doing that). Nicodem summons a boat load of Punk Zombies to try and get his death after death scheme, and is then killed by the Guild Hounds. A couple of shots on Mortimer don't get me lucky enough to kill him, so it's now all about the Austringer and Von Schill. The big guy is on 3 wounds. The Austringer hits with his first attack, doing one wound. He hits with his second attack. I'm on a negative flip, so I need both cards to be above 6. I flip the first: it's a 6. All I ned now is anything above a 5 to win the game. Both Greg and I are on tenterhooks. I flip the second card… it's a 3. Weak damage, and Von Schill is left on a single wound, denying me the points for hold out and contain power, while getting Greg the points for bodyguard. The final score is 2 – 0 to the Ressurectionists (for bodyguard). Here's the scene at the end. Von Schill is painted like Hulk Hogan since they seem to share the same barber (balding with an outrageous moustache).
That was a great game, perhaps the best I've had in Malifaux. Greg was a lovely opponent, and I really enjoyed every minute of it. Close games are always the most exciting. Anyway, with that we were onto the final round where I was paired with Irving.
Game 3: Guild (me) vs Neverborn (Irving)
Shared Line in the Sand (attacker has to light the dynamite markers in the centre of the table while the defender has to defuse them; I was the defender in this one)
Guild: Bodyguard, Grudge (kill a pre-selected minion with a non-master melee attack; I chose Tuco)
Neverborn: Hold Out, Assassinate (kill the other master)
Guild: Sonnia Criid (plus 8 soulstones), Samael Hopkins, Witchling Handler, 2 Guild Hounds, 2 Witchling Stalkers, Austringer
Neverborn: Lilith (plus 7 soulstones), Mature Nephilim, Young Nephilim, 3 Terror Tots, Tuco
As usual, deployment was a couple lines of miniatures hurrying to get to each other as quickly as possible. My Guild Hounds were away out on the left with everyone else pretty much taking up the centre. Lilith was on my far right and one Terror Tot was on the left, the rest of the Nephilim were advancing in the open ground behind the pool.
Turn 1: Everyone rushes forward to get started on the dynamite. One of the Terror Tots in the centre is killed by the Austringer. The Mature Nephilim is looking very big and scary as it stands next to the pool.
Turn 2: Samael Hopkins sets his bullets on fire then rapid fires at the Mature Nephilim. Slightly to my surprise, the big chap dies on the second shot. Lilith uses a couple of soulstones to get a blood token for herself (I've no idea what she can do with it though, as I've never played against Lilith or any other Neverborn before). The Guild Hounds kill the isolated Terror Tot and Sonnia Criid uses Violation of Magic to turn the last one into a Witchling Stalker. Did I mention how much I love that spell? Here's how things looked at the end of turn 2.
Turn 3: The fresh Witchling Stalker kill off Tuco, and the Young Nephilim is pulled down in a wash of black blood. Only Lilith is left from her crew, but she's already lit two of the dynamite markers. Everyone starts running over to try and stop her.
Turn 4: Pretty much my whole crew dog-piles Lilith. It's depressingly ineffective, as I fail to put a single wound on her this round.
Turn 5: Lilith kills Sonnia (getting assassinate, and denying me bodyguard), and I finally pull down Lilith as black blood splashing onto the Witchling Stalkers after Samael Hopkins had delivered a wound causes them to blow up and finish her off. The Austringer defuses one of the lit dynamite markers in turn 6. The final score is 5 – 2 to the Guild (I got 4 of 5 dynamite markers defused and picked up grudge; the Neverborn took the points for assassinate).
There was an interesting bit of tournament etiquette here. In Malifaux, the game doesn't end if you table your opponent, instead the game can continue until turns run out in so that you can achieve various victory conditions. When I killed Lilith in turn 5 (of 6), Irving shook my hand, which of course I reciprocated. I took this to mean 'well done, you wiped out my crew and will win the game' as I was already ahead on VPs at the time. However, he seemed to think that my accepting this handshake indicated that the game had ended, and was therefore aggrieved when I started moving my miniatures to try and get the remaining dynamite tokens. It ended up with a disagreement between Irving and the TO in which Irving was asked to leave the store, presumably to cool off. In full disclosure, they are brothers so I suppose that may have been the argument rather than anything relating to Malifaux. Anyway, how would you have interpreted the situation?
Anyway, the tournament ended, and I came in a respectable 4th place with two wins and a defeat. David (game 1) was third with the same record, beating me on some tiebreaker which I think was VP differential. Greg (game 2) won overall with 3 wins and Irving finished in 9th. I'm pretty delighted at that result. Lets have a quick look at my goals for the tournament:
- Draw or win at least one game
- Meet new gaming friends
- Have a good time
Glorious success on all three counts, I would say. In terms of playing the game I certainly can get better in pretty much all areas of the game, but the biggest thing I could fix is picking the right schemes. Of the six I chose, I only managed to achieve two.
Particular thanks must go to David for organising the tournament. I had a great time and I certainly plan to go back for more. It was quite interesting that I was the only player who brought Guild.
Finally, here are a few random pictures of crews from the tournament. I didn't take any notes about them, but I think that the purple and white Nephilim won the award for best painted and I know that the Kirai-themed Gremlins in the last picture are the work of NinjaBreadMan (the theme is a bit of a Malifaux in-joke). There are some more pictures from tournament here and a podcast with hilarious echo issues here.


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By Christine Armishaw, Equestrian Australia
As riders galloped round the cross country track at the Adelaide International Three Day Event (Aus3DE) in 2018, many spectators would have noticed the adornment of little soft toy horses.
Strapped in to body protectors and holding on for the ride, plush Peppermint Fred toys brought a smile to the faces of those who rode with them, and to the spectators who cheered the riders on.
The significance of these fluffy XC hitchhikers is in the association they have with Olympic great, Gillian Rolton, who personally dedicated so much to the Aus3DE, the then only four star, now five star, event in the Southern Hemisphere.
Gill became the first Aussie female equestrian to medal at any Olympics when she won Gold in Eventing at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
She achieved much notoriety at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics after slipping on the flat at the half-way mark of the cross-country course and falling from her horse. Gill broke her collarbone and ribs but soldiered on and remounted only to fall again at the next water jump. Miraculously, despite her injuries, she completed the 6000m course and posted a team score, helping the Australian Eventing Team win Gold.
At both Olympics, she rode Peppermint Grove (Freddie), a horse she'd purchased as a gangly, barely broken in four-year-old. She brought him up through the grades to reach Olympic level.
Over the years, Gill went on to offer so much of her time to the sport, as a coach, committee and board member, national selector, FEI judge and so much more.
Diagnosed with endometrial cancer in 2015, Gillian approached Cancer Council SA to do something to raise funds to support those impacted by women's cancers. True to form, even in this challenging time, Gill was still looking for ways to continue to help others.
Ahead of the 2017 Aus3DE, Cancer Council SA established a partnership with the Aus3DE team. Gillian (61) passed away on 18th November 2017.
After Gill's passing, Cancer Council SA continued to work with her husband Greg, to build on the partnership and honour Gill's legacy. In 2018, Greg and the Aus3DE team decided to create a soft toy horse. "Peppermint Fred", named after Gillian's beloved Olympic horse, was born.
The toys were sold at the 2018 event to raise funds and awareness for Cancer Council SA and proved to be a great success. Riders rode with them on their horses, and at the end of the competition, drove with little Peppermint Freds sitting proudly on their truck dashboards for the journey home.
Through the sale of Peppermint Fred toys and generous donations at the event, $12,360 was raised to support Cancer Council SA.
The money raised through the event has gone towards funding Cancer Council's research, prevention and support programs, helping South Australian women and their families throughout every stage of their cancer journey.
As an organisation which is 95% community funded, fundraisers like this play a huge role in enabling Cancer Council SA to continue to do their vital work.
"We are unbelievably grateful to Greg Rolton and the Australian 3 Day International team for their support, which is a credit to Gillian and her legacy", shared Natasha Baugh from Cancer Council SA.
The Cancer Council SA will continue to work with Aus3DE as their partner charity in line with Gill's wishes, and are looking forward to building on and evolving the partnership in future years.
So, if you head to Adelaide to compete in, or watch the Aus3DE this year, remember to get your own Peppermint Fred, or get your current Peppermint Fred some more herd mates!
The memory and legacy of the incredible Gillian Rolton will continue to live on and help others, just as she set out to do while she was still here.


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I ended last week's column with the issues raised by Colonel P.A. Clark (rtd) in the text message he sent to me a fortnight ago. The first was his question on if I was a seer, prophet or man of God? The other one was his request that I should brief him on my intellect, education and integrity. His text came at a period when I received commendation for the quality of the well – researched and objective articles I write from high – profile professionals, academics and others.
The appreciative readers included Major – General Charles Ogunlewe, a distinguished officer and electrical engineer in Abuja; Dr. Uzochukwu of Enugu, a Ph.D. Management degree holder (090 – 9344 – 5600); Port Harcourt – based Dr. Augustine who has a Ph.D. certificate in Geography (070 – 1369 – 1277); Mr. A. T. Mozie, 63, a graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; 80 year – old Mr. Ekete J. George (080 – 3840 – 1340) and Apostle James Olukayode of Lagos (080 – 3365 – 4765).
Given the reaction from these eminent citizens, I therefore took Colonel Clark's enquiries as coming from someone who also likes my column and that he raised his questions for good reasons. I believe he asked for my educational qualifications because, like Dr. Uzochukwu and others, he too was impressed with the way I tackled the Akwa Ibom State – born professor I took on in this column a fortnight ago. And the fact that I disclosed I published a book in 2004 on God's plan to make Nigeria a great nation.
The second reason I believe is that like everyone else, Colonel Mark too had not seen or heard of anyone anywhere in the world writing a newspaper column or article that God had a plan to make a country great. I am also of the opinion that he raised the issue of integrity because he is new to my column, as he first got in touch with me in a text message he sent two months ago, on August 2nd.
Consequently, he does not know that I am someone the Ancient of Days discusses the hereafter and issues on people and events in the Holy Bible and Qur'an with and who had written about some of them a number of times in this column in the last nine years. Such as the number of years Job's ordeal in the Christian Scriptures lasted (30 years) and why of all the people Jesus Christ cured, that it was only those with skin diseases that he sent to the priests to carry out the sacrifice prescribed by Moses.
Colonel Clark also does not know that I am someone the Lord in the last 24 years had sent to some politicians He wanted to be the country's president under His scheme to make Nigeria a great nation. I decided to make my reply to his text message public because of those, who like him, may not be aware of my spiritual endowment as a servant of the Most High to know this fact. I also did so to let the academics and others who reacted to my articles in the last two months know that I am a graduate.
Ignorant of this fact, some of them talked to me on phone condescendingly as if I was educationally inferior to them or younger to them in age and status because of the 1985 photograph I use in this column because I don't like people recognizing me in public. Indeed, some of them behaved as if they think, as was the case in the 1940s through the 60s, that many a Nigerian journalist and columnist are people with only primary, secondary or teachers' training education.
When he phoned me three weeks ago, on October 25, the Akwa Ibom State – born professor was so insulting and nauseating that some minutes into his diatribe I had to tell him that I graduated from the University of Ibadan in June 1968, forty – nine years ago. I also informed him that I belonged to the 1965 matriculating set which included Professor Eyitayo Lambo and Professor A.B.C. Nwosu who were Ministers in the cabinet of President Olusegun Obasanjo (1999 – 2003) and Senator Jubril Martins – Kuye who was a Minister in the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan.
Ditto His Royal Majesty Adedotun Gbadebo, the Alake of Egba Kingdom, Professor Femi Odekunle of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Professor Afolabi Soyode, a former Vice – Chancellor of Olabisi Onabanjo University (2001 – 06), Professor Isola Adamson of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta and Professor Monrufu Rahman, a retired staff of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife.
Professor Charles Adebisi Ajibade, a former Deputy Vice – Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Minna was my classmate in the 1957 – 61 West African School Certificate set at Christ's School, Ado – Ekiti. While Professor Roger Makanjuola, a former Vice – Chancellor of OAU (2001 – 06), was my classmate in the 1963 – 64 Higher School Certificate set at Ibadan Grammar School..
Immediately I stated this I switched off my phone. The professor called back about two minutes later and this time showed me respect that we discussed for twelve minutes and eight seconds.
To be continued next Wednesday with my educational qualifications and proofs of my impeccable integrity as a journalist and columnist and servant of God.


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EveryChild - Family first, Prioritising support to kinship carers, especially older carers
The paper focuses on grandparent care as the most common and often least adequately supported form of kinship care, and is a collaborative effort between EveryChild and HelpAge International. It suggests that greater collaboration is needed between agencies striving to achieve child rights and those working on greater protection of older people's rights.
Three key conclusions are made in the paper:
1) Kinship care is and should be here to stay, and it is especially important to celebrate and support the role of grandparents in bringing up children who cannot be cared for by their parents
2) A full package of support must be developed for kinship carers and the children in their care, recognising the particular needs and vulnerability of grandparent carer headed household
3) Kinship care should never be the only care option available to children. Parents need support too and other forms of alternative care should be available
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But just because the wine is more modestly priced than his other labels doesn't mean that it isn't what you'd expect from a guy like Brian: full tilt.
(Disclosure: This wine was received as a press sample.)
On the surface, this is a fun little wine, but that changes quickly after sip number two. While of medium body and density, the flavor structure of this wine runs deep; soft, round, precious. Layers of baritone, meandering fruit take you on a journey that swirls along a languid, comforting path to contentment. Versatile as a contemplative wine, social accompaniment, or with all manner of foods, this is something of a Swiss Army Knife wine - only draped in crushed velvet and sitting in a well worn mitt leather chair. Wow. If it had a smidgen more density or heft or tannins - and was labeled as being from Napa (70% of it is), it'd probably be triple the price, but probably no more enjoyable. A stellar wine at a fair price.


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Where's waldo, I mean Gahdafi
Somehow, I sense, the "maddog of north Africa," is that how Reagan called him?, will pop up here and there and continue to make trouble. It would be nice to stability on the fast track over there.
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1. 石墨烯的应用---石墨烯电池
2. 石墨烯的应用---石墨烯集成电路
3. 石墨烯的应用---石墨烯触摸屏
4. 石墨烯的应用---石墨烯存储器
英国、韩国的研究人员还在致力开发基于氧化石墨烯的可弯曲、透明的存储系统。基于石墨烯的新型存储材料成本低、功耗小、重量轻、体积小、存储密度高,可以三维堆积。例如,英国开发的这款石墨烯二氧化钛存储只有50 纳米长、8 纳米厚,写入和读取速度仅需5 纳秒。随着基于石墨烯的触屏、内存等电子器件不断开发,未来可弯曲、全透明的智能手机将成为现实。
5. 石墨烯的应用---石墨烯超级材料
Graphene as carbon nano materials the forefront of scientific and technological innovation in the field, with its special crystal structure performance has attracted wide attention and research of the scientific community, was found so far the thinnest two-dimensional material, is believed to be construction of graphite, the fullerenes and carbon nanotubes and graphite, the basic structural unit with excellent thermal properties, mechanical properties, high electron mobility, high specific surface area and nature of the quantum hall effect, etc. Due to its excellent thermal conductivity and mechanical properties, graphene has many potential applications in sensors, polymer nanocomposites, photoelectric functional materials, drug controlled release and other fields. Led the 21st century new technological revolution.
Look forward to a breakthrough in five areas
The consensus is that graphene will be used in five areas in the future. First, in the field of photoelectric products, it plays a role in touch screens, wearable devices, OLED, solar energy and other fields due to its excellent light transmittance, electrical conductivity and bendability. This is also currently recognized as the most likely first to commercialize the field. The other is the field of energy technology, which mainly relies on the extremely high specific surface area, extremely light weight and very good electrical conductivity of graphene. Supercapacitors made of graphene, which have a maximum energy storage density of about 2-5 times that of existing materials, have been described as the ideal electrode material. Third, functional composites. By adding graphene into various plastic substrates, special materials with good conductivity, heat conduction, machinability and damage resistance can be prepared, which have potential applications in integrated circuits, heat sink and high-toughness containers. The fourth is microelectronic devices. The future of graphene semiconductors, graphene integrated circuits, THz devices and other fields may need to take advantage of the unique properties of graphene to play. Fifth, in the field of biomedicine and sensors, the response ability of graphene to a single molecule and the molecular transport ability after carrying antibodies are all unrealized by other sensors.
The application of graphene fiber and the application of graphene heating film are specifically sorted out in the website of docyterene, which will not be detailed here.
So, apart from these two, what are the other applications of graphene?
1. Application of graphene -- graphene battery
In the production of batteries, graphene can be directly used as a positive and negative material, or added to the positive and negative materials as a conductive additive, and as a coating to improve the battery power characteristics. The problem of charging and driving range has been plaguing new energy vehicles because of the "bottleneck" in the development of lead-acid batteries and traditional lithium batteries. Graphene batteries are expected to make a breakthrough here. At the recent Shanghai auto show, a car company launched a new type of graphene lithium titanate battery, which can be quickly recharged in 10 to 15 minutes, and can be charged and discharged more than 40,000 times in a sustainable way, with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers.
2. Application of graphene -- graphene integrated circuit
With its ultra-high electron transfer capacity and excellent thermal conductivity, graphene is expected to replace the widely used silicon as the foundation of the next generation of integrated circuits. In 2010, a U.S. research team made the first graphene-based transistor and integrated it into a single integrated circuit. In 2016, Chinese scientists developed the first low-noise amplifier monolithic integrated circuit.
3. Application of graphene -- graphene touch screen
The key component of a smartphone is a touch screen that is both conductive and very transparent. Graphene's flexibility, electrical conductivity and optical transparency fully meet this requirement, which is more perfect than the current transparent electrode material indium tin oxide (ITO). Researchers in South Korea have created transparent, bendable displays made of layers of graphene and a polyester substrate. In this way, graphene-based solar cells, touch sensors, flat-panel displays, organic light-emitting diodes and others can also be made.
4. Application of graphene -- graphene memory
Researchers in the UK and South Korea are also working on flexible, transparent storage systems based on go. The new graphene-based storage materials have low cost, low power consumption, light weight, small size, high storage density and can be stacked in three dimensions. For example, the british-developed graphene titanium dioxide store is only 50 nanometers long and 8 nanometers thick, and can be written and read in just 5 nanoseconds. With the development of graphene-based touch screens, memory and other electronic devices, flexible and fully transparent smartphones of the future will become a reality.
5. Application of graphene -- graphene super material
The us researchers turned the soft graphite into a strong 'steel bar' by turning a single layer of two-dimensional graphene into a three-dimensional graphene foam-like material, which is then reinforced with strong mechanical properties and high electrical conductivity of carbon nanotubes to make 'reinforced graphene'. Chinese researchers have used tiny tubes of graphene to form a foam material with a honeycomb structure. It is as light as a balloon but as strong as metal.


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The El Paso Police Department is looking for a man accused of dragging a German Shepherd to death.
As per the accounts of several witnesses, 43-year-old Jose Bautista was seen driving a Chevy pickup truck with the dog tethered behind it.
By the time the locals intervened, the dog was already dead.
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The dog's body was heavily grazed and it seemed that he had suffered a slow and painful death.
When confronted by the onlookers, Jose simply tossed the dog's dead corpse in the back of his pickup truck and drove away.
The department's Animal Cruelty Unit has launched a full-fledged investigation into the dog's death.
If you have any information about the whereabouts of Jose, do contact the El Paso Police Department. Spread the word.
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Update: The cops have updated that Jose Bautista has been arrested. He will be charged with cruelty to non-livestock animals. Currently, he has been detained in the El Paso County Detention Facility on a $5,000 bond. Let's raise our voices and demand a strict punishment for his despicable act. Spread the word.
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We've all seen some unique and unlikely friendships over the years, but this one here may take the cake!
One day, a starving otter appeared at an elderly man's door wanting some food. Ever since, Seppo Laamanen, 65, and Iivari the otter have been inseparable best friends.
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It all started when Seppo fed worms and fish to the small and malnourished otter who was clearly looking for food.
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Giving love and support to humans is something that some dogs do better than others.
While many dogs love everyone they meet and are willing to take treats or belly rubs from anyone, the pups we found are just the opposite.
These 10 dogs are some of the most loyal breeds on the planet. They are rock steady in their loyalty to their owner no matter what.
1) Akita
When the American Kennel Club (AKC) lists loyalty to describe the temperament of the Akita, you know they mean business. The beautiful double-coated working dog of Japanese ancestry is considered hardwired in protecting those she loves. They should be socialized with other dogs and people from the time they are puppies. Their silly, fun, but dignified personalities round out the loyal Akita.
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2) Boxer
This working dog is smart, full of energy, and oh so loyal to their family. They get along great with kids and have an innate instinct to protect their pack. He's a watchdog with a heart of gold who oozes dedication to his owner.
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3) Skye Terrier
Known as the "small dog with the big ears," this adorable breed hails from the Scottish Isle of Skye, hence the name. Whether you live in the city or the country, this small dog with a big personality is steadfast in snuggling, playtime, and remaining loyal to his owners.
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4) Beagle
This merry hound is friendly, curious and incredibly loyal. While he doesn't mind the occasional couch potato time, this spunky pooch is energetic and merry. A fun fact about this hound: the breed standard is for 13 inches and under and another in the 13-15 inch category. No matter how you size him, these adorable dogs just want to cling to you.
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5) Shar-Pei
This wrinkly non-sporting breed is standoffish to strangers but very loyal to his owner. His ancient Chinese roots are part of the charm of the Shar-Pei. Regal, strong, and smart, if you want a BFF for life, this loose-skinned pooch may be the right choice for you.
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With the outdoor temperatures dipping below freezing, it is essential to make sure everyone is well-protected from the elements. Seniors are especially vulnerable during the winter season, and if you have an elderly family member or neighbor – we suggest you keep an eye out to make sure they are safe and warm.
5 Tips To Stay Safe in the Winter
- Set your heat to at least 68–70°F. To save on heating bills, close off rooms you are not using. Close the vents and shut the doors in these rooms, and keep the basement door closed. Place a rolled towel in front of all doors to keep out drafts.
- Dress warmly on cold days even if you are staying in the house. Throw a blanket over your legs. Wear socks and slippers.
- Make sure you eat enough food to keep up your weight. If you don't eat well, you might have less fat under your skin. Body fat helps you to stay warm.
- Bundle up on cold, windy days: A heavy wind can quickly lower your body temperature. Check the weather forecast for windy and cold days. On those days, try to stay inside or in a warm place. If you have to go out, wear warm clothes, and don't stay out in the cold and wind for a long time.
- Fight wintertime depression. Because it can be difficult and dangerous to get around, many seniors have less contact with others during cold months. This can breed feelings of loneliness and isolation. To help avoid these issues, family members can check in on seniors as often as possible or send their loved one to adult day care; a short, daily phone call can also make a big difference. Seniors can also arrange a check-in system with neighbors and friends, where each person looks in on one or two others daily.


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On September 13th, the Sunday School children at Starkdale celebrated Rally Day, inviting their friends and reminding them to attend Sunday School every week at 9:30 A.M. Our Rally Day theme was "Back to the Bible Sunday." The new Communicants Class for 6th through 12th grade also began with a wonderful turnout. The celebration continued at the Fellowship Hour. Balloons were released after Sunday School. It was really great, as a huge wind came up and our balloons with John 3:16 written on the tags, lifted off so fast that we were all surprised!! All the children at Fellowship who attended church also had a great lunch, ice cream dessert and a balloon to release. It was a very special day at Sunday School, Church and Fellowship. If you would like to come to Sunday School at 9:30, there are classes for everyone Kindergarten up!
Dear Starkdale Parents, Youth and Friends,
It was an exciting summer for the youth ministry highlighted especially by the Philadelphia/Allentown mission trip in late July. We also took part in the Hometown Talent Celebration, the Back-to-School bash at the Urban Mission, the Trash to Treasure sale, the Victory in Da Ville Festival, and a number of us took part in preparing and serving food to the homeless at the Urban Mission on a weekly basis. We also have been having an average of 7 teenagers every Wednesday night for the Wednesday night adult Bible Study.
We just had around 35 people out for a last three youth meetings. Sunday night, September 13 will be an unbelievable evening featuring 10 youth acts including the Allegheny Angels and then followed by a dramatic testimony by former Ohio State Buckeye national champion football player Maurice Clarett. It will run from 6:00-8:00 and will take place at the Big Red Auditorium and it is free of charge.
Dear Starkdale Family of Faith,
Glowing with the light of the Word, genuine in your faith in the Lord, gracious in your dealings with others, and generous in your giving of yourselves and of God's blessings to you, these are only a few of the obvious characteristics that I have seen in you and experienced about you since I became the pastor of Starkdale on May 1, 2005.
On Sunday, August 9, 2015, the day you extravagantly provided for my retirement celebration at St. Florian hall, was a day on which all those amazing characteristics of you reached their highest point. I still keep reminiscing over what took place during the course of that evening. Surrounded by my spiritual brothers and sisters, members of our biological families (Vickey's and mine), out-of-town friends, community people, Presbytery representatives, and the Valley's Ministerial Network, made the evening pleasantly very special. I can assuredly say that since I was born I had never been in such company, or in such spotlight. The GIFTS, the WORDS, the CARDS, the HUGS, the SMILES, and of course, the TEARS, will continue to be to Vickey and me a river of flowing memories of pure love.


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DESTINATION DUBLIN: ESSMA Summit 2018 set to be biggest yet
The ESSMA Summit is the go-to stadium industry event organised by ESSMA (European Stadium & Safety Management Association) in partnership with the ECA (European Club Association) and the EPFL (European Professional Football Leagues).
ESSMA's flagship annual Summit aims to bring together the associations members to discuss the hot topics and latest trends in the stadium industry, all underpinned by inspiring keynote sessions.
The ESSMA Summit is the marquee event of the year and offers a wide range of world-class workshops, exclusive stadium tours and high-level networking opportunities.
If you are in the stadium sector, then the ESSMA Summit – the industry event of the year – needs to be in your diary. Over 350 participants from over 29 countries participate in this unrivalled gathering of industry professionals.
Attendees include top ranking industry executives who own, operate and develop stadiums, arena's and sports venue businesses.
The ESSMA Summit 2018 will be held at the iconic Aviva Stadium, the 50,000-seat shared home of the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) and the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), from January 16-17, 2018.
Aviva Stadium is Ireland's first and only UEFA Elite Stadium and was host to the 2011 Europa League Final. The stadium has won a number of awards including RIAI and RIBA. Since opening in May 2010, over 1.8 million ticketed visitors have passed through the turnstiles for rugby, soccer and concerts.
Declan O'Brien, Operations Manager, IRFU and ESSMA Advisory Board Member, said:
The ESSMA Summit is the most important event held by ESSMA throughout the year. It is a great networking opportunity for people to meet other stadiums throughout Europe and to discuss problems that are similar in all stadiums. And it is a great opportunity for people to come to Dublin.
And in regards to the 2018 Summit's host venue, Aviva Stadium, he added:
What you see is what you get: a wonderful stadium, home to Irish football and Irish rugby. It hosts about 20 events a year, so it is a heavily used stadium. We are really happy that we have such a venue, which has a capacity of 50,000, and we are looking forward to hosting the ESSMA Summit here.
Dublin, and indeed the country as a whole, is a hotbed of sporting venue developments, with Ireland still very much in the running to host the Rugby World Cup 2023, alongside rival bidders France and South Africa, with World Rugby set to vote on the host nation on November 15. The country boasts some world-class stadia, including Croke Park Stadium, the 80,000-plus-seat home to the GAA.
In addition, UEFA has chosen Dublin to host the the draw for the 2020 European Championship (UEFA EURO 2020) qualifying groups. The draw will be held on December 2, 2018, in the Dublin Convention & Conference Centre (DCCC), which is fully equipped to deliver UEFA's list of requirements.
The EURO 2020 tournament will be the 60th anniversary of UEFA's prestigious competition. For the first time, games will be taking place in 13 cities across Europe, which makes this edition unique.
Speaking about Dublin being chosen to host the draw, Owen Keegan, Chief Executive of Dublin City Council, said:
The 60th anniversary of the EURO's will be a wonderful sporting occasion eagerly anticipated by all supporters. Dublin City Council is particularly proud to have played its part in securing Dublin as a host city for the matches and the EURO 2020 qualifying draw.
Furthermore, Dublin will host three group matches and a round 16 match at the Aviva Stadium.
Secure your place now & qualify for Early Bird tickets
Early Bird tickets for the ESSMA Summit 2018 are still available, so make sure to secure yours online today at: https://essmasummit.eu/ticket-options
Strategic Partners
The Association of European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) is an association governed by Swiss law, founded in 2005 and based in Nyon, Switzerland. It traces its origins back to the founding in 1997 of the EUPPFL (European Union Premier Professional Football Leagues). Originally composed of 12 members, the Association is now comprised of 29 Member leagues and Associate Members across Europe.
The European Club Association (ECA) is the sole, independent body directly representing football clubs at European level. The main objective is to safeguard and promote the clubs' interests on European club football matters and to maintain a high level involvement in the decision-making process of the game's governing bodies. Furthermore, ECA provides to its member clubs a platform for knowledge-sharing, information and services.
About ESSMA
ESSMA is built around three pillars: events, business intelligence, and strategic support. The Association offers an inspirational range of events for members to connect, learn and evolve with other like-minded professionals. Carefully designed workshops and tours along with the Association's flagship Annual Summit stimulate knowledge-sharing while adding value.
ESSMA carefully collects a wide range of data from its vast stadium network. It provides members with up-to-date, easy to understand data, analysing actual stadium development projects. ESSMA conducts valuable case studies to share best-practice guidelines and insights from its experienced membership-base. Thanks to its Stadium In Construction database, it can also offer an extensive overview of the industry, along with in-depth analysis of specific projects.
ESSMA aims to offer the right strategic support for every member. Whether it's providing professional film solutions for events or helping with a bespoke communication strategy, ESSMA is there to help.
To get a quick, relevant and detailed response from industry experts to stadium related queries, ESSMA developed the Ask ESSMA service. A practical and educational program, ESSMA's Join the 'X' Manager gives stadium professionals the unique opportunity to experience match-day preparations with other stadium management professionals to help increase their management knowledge and practical experience.
For further information on the ESSMA Summit, click here.
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The Allergan name will remain the calling card of the company that will be formed after the Irvine-based drug maker's estimated $69 billion acquisition by Dublin-based Actavis Plc.
The deal is expected to close by early in the second quarter.
Actavis will keep its old name for some products and in some geographic markets.
Actavis Chief Executive Brian Saunders said in an interview the decision to take the Allergan name overall is because the new company will be "a leader in growth pharma."
He said the Allergan name on the combined company recognizes the latter's "powerful heritage" in pharmaceuticals.
Separately, Actavis cited acquisitions driving revenue growth as it raised profit guidance for 2015 by about 6% or $1, from $16.30 per share to $17.30 per share.
Actavis' U.S. operations are based in Parsippany, N.J.
Allergan this morning was trading at a market cap of about $68.3 billion.


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Team Office Celebrates 15 Years in Business
Posted by Brad Justice in General Information on October 28, 2013
Team Office is excited to celebrate our 15 year anniversary this month! In June of 1999, our founders, Ron Crabtree and Brad Justice, officially introduced Team Office to the public. We started in a small office with a few employees in downtown Kansas City and have since grown to 2 locations delivering outstanding value to clients in over 30 states.
Over the years, many people have asked why we named an office furniture company "Team Office". The answer is easy. It's called Team Office because office furniture is designed, built, sold and installed FOR PEOPLE and BY PEOPLE – and it takes a great Team of people to do it right.
We are both grateful and fortunate to have fantastic clients and terrific associates. All of those people are why and how we do what we do. We look forward to many more years of service to our customers and friends, and want to thank everyone for their support.
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Michael R Garnett Construction of Prestatyn was also ordered to pay £5,368 costs after admitting failing to ensure workers weren't exposed to health and safety risks.
Magistrates at Llandudno were told the bricklayer had been working on a housing development at Conwy.
But boards had been placed on first floor joists, as a working platform, and the joist hangers weren't at that stage bedded in properly.
Solicitor Tudor Williams, prosecuting for the Health and Safety Executive, said it was estimated that the load on the joist hangers weighed more than two tonnes, as building blocks were piled up on the platform.
Workman Robert Parry fell nine feet onto concrete and needed the stitches in his head, had a broken nose, lost a tooth and was limping.
Mr Williams said supports or scaffolding should have been provided for the bricklayers, and the manufacturers' instructions for the joist hangers should also have been brought to their attention.
At least three layers of blocks were required above the hangers with the mortar set fully. Luckily another bricklayer had moved off the platform before the collapse.
"It was the company's duty to make sure this accident didn't happen," said Mr Williams.
"Joiners installed the joists the previous day and they didn't then have contact with the bricklayers. It was something the firm should have addressed."
Mr Parry had asked the site agent for props before the accident and had been told they would be ordered, the court heard.
He thought it was all right to carry on working until they arrived.
Jenny Ashworth, defending, said the firm had relied too much on the experience of sub-contractors and of the site manager at the time.
"He needed greater supervision and eventually had been sacked," she said.
"His superior had directed that scaffolding was to be erected and, had this been done, the accident could have been avoided.This offence is against the background of an excellent health and safety record."


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The St. Johns River is a fantastic fishery that continues to produce quality fish daily. If you ever come to this part of North Florida, you must check out Castaways on the River. We left out of this beautiful hotel resort today on a Castaways on the River Largemouth Bass Fishing North Florida Adventure.
David traveled from the winter locked state of Virginia to embark on a Fishing Adventure. We had a foggy start to the day, but that soon lifted and the fishing began.
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Rubber duckies turning up after 11 years at sea
September 1, 2003
They've never lost their smiles.
Granted, those smiles are molded permanently into their plastic heads.
Back in 1992, a violent storm tossed 20 containers of rubber duckies off the back of a cargo ship halfway between China and Seattle, and they were quickly presumed lost at sea. Instead, it appears the castaways embarked on an epic 11-year swim across three oceans and half the globe. Somehow, they stayed afloat through all magnitude of wind and wave, weathering several winters likely frozen in an arctic ice floe and enduring so many days of exposure their once-bright yellow skin has been bleached white as bone.
And now their voyage may have brought them to the East Coast.
Remnants of the lost armada of bath toys, which also includes frogs, beavers and turtles – nearly 29,000 in all – are thought to be streaming down the New England seaboard right now. Although there are no confirmed sightings in the Atlantic yet, oceanographers who have documented the movement of flotsam and ice from the Pacific to the Atlantic via the Arctic Ocean are confident some of the ducks ended up over here. A breakaway flotilla of ducks is expected to make landfall in Britain soon as well.
A faded beaver from the doomed shipment was discovered in July after it washed up on Kruzof Island in Alaska.
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Anyone who finds one of the three-inch refugees on the East Coast of the United States or Canada or on Iceland earns a $100 U.S. savings bond from the First Years Inc., the company that originally commissioned the toys from a Chinese manufacturer.
Spokeswoman Darlene Hollywood said First Years has received a number of ducks since offering the reward in July, but they've all been the wrong kind.
"We've had quite a few false sightings. … Apparently, quite a few children bring rubber duckies to the beach during the summer," she said.
An authenticated duckie in hand could be worth a lot more than $100, having become something of a cult collector's item during 11 years at sea. Only about 400 of the rare birds have been recovered since the toys went overboard into the middle of the Pacific.
And plastic waterfowl enthusiasts aren't the only ones intrigued by the Voyage of the Lost Tub Toys. Using a global network of beachcombers and a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration computer model, oceanographers Curtis Ebbesmeyer and James Ingraham have tracked the ducks from the beginning of the voyage in an effort to better understand the behavior of surface currents.
"I track everything that floats in the ocean. If it floats, I want to know about it," said Ebbesmeyer, who once posed for People magazine mostly naked in a pool full of rubber duckies.
Every time a new duck is found, the two scientists plug fresh data into the Ocean Surface Current Simulator that Ingraham has been working on for 20 years at NOAA-Fisheries in Seattle. Though primarily used for tracking the drift of fish eggs to nursery grounds in the north Pacific, the program has been modified to predict where the ducks might end up next.
The model accurately forecast duck landings along the Alaskan coast not long after the spill and again three years later, in Washington state, after the ducks traveled around the Pacific "gyre," a huge circular current that Ebbesmeyer said acts "like a toilet that never flushes."
The toys also have been found off Hawaii, Vancouver Island, and the Queen Charlotte Islands off Canada.
Relying on well-known ocean flows, Ebbesmeyer and Ingraham believe that as many as 10,000 of the ducks wandered northeast of Alaska into the Bering Sea. From there, the only way out is up over the North Pole. By the winter of 1993-1994, the ducks probably were grafted onto ice packs that move across the Arctic Ocean.
"Wind moves ice from the Bering Strait over the North Pole down to eastern Greenland at about a mile a day. That's five years to get across from the Pacific to the Atlantic," Ebbesmeyer said.
Gradually, south of Greenland, the ice floes began to melt, freeing the ducks to swim around and around the Atlantic gyre and down into the coastal currents of the Eastern Seaboard.
The timing and pattern of the ducks' dispersal has allowed Ingraham to fine-tune his computer model so that it has become a useful tool in studying the elusive behavior of surface currents, he said.
Driven primarily by prevailing winds and the Earth's rotation, these currents represent one of the bigger missing pieces in the puzzle of predicting severe weather such as hurricanes, drought and floods. The currents also determine most of the world's major fish migrations, so better knowledge of them could be invaluable to fishermen.
"The surface of the ocean is more of an unknown than the bottom," Ebbesmeyer said. "It's an oceanographic blind spot."
Thanks to the ducks, Ebbesmeyer and Ingraham can claim credit for an oceanographic truism: Flotsam is faster than water. The two scientists were able to calculate the speed of the ducks from their spill point to Sitka, Alaska, where more than 400 of the toys first washed ashore nine months after going overboard. ("Hot tubs in Sitka were full of them," Ebbesmeyer said.)
The scientists found that surface winds were scooting the critters along twice as fast as the current. It usually takes water about six years to make a full circuit around the north Pacific; the ducks made it in three.
To their knowledge, Ebbesmeyer and Ingraham are the only people on the planet who keep tabs on the world's flotsam, which at the moment also includes more than 30,000 Nike running shoes, 34,000 hockey gloves, 5 million lost Legos, and a number of onions.
One man's treasure is another man's trash, of course.
Environmentalists have turned a spotlight on the ducks to highlight what they say is a global epidemic of overboard cargo. Turns out, 10,000 containers fall off cargo ships each year. Given an estimated 100 million containers shipped annually, insurance companies say that's actually not a bad loss rate.
Trouble is, the containers float, so they're sitting out there like little steel icebergs just waiting to wreak havoc. Ebbesmeyer said sailors sometimes run into them, sinking their boats.
Others are worried that the ducks have disintegrated into fragments, adding to the tons of non-biodegradable plastic that forever roams the oceans, endangering marine life.
But Ebbesmeyer isn't much worried about shipwrecks or environmental disaster right now – he just wants to know whether some of the duckies made it from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
"We know they were in the Bering Strait in 1994. We know some were on ice," he said.
Ebbesmeyer has proof of 30 drifters such as bottles and running shoes that have made the Arctic journey to the Atlantic, and satellite-tracked buoys have been tracked making the trip as well. Given those precedents, by 2001 the tub toys should have been all over the North Atlantic. Ebbesmeyer is confident that by now they should be skirting New England.
People have contacted him with reports of duck sightings in Maine, Florida and Scotland, but none of those toys have been sent to Ebbesmeyer for authentication. A woman in Maine told Ebbesmeyer she is sure she found one of the ducks in July, but she was unaware of the lost toys at the time so she did not keep it.
How to recognize a true survivor if you come across an orphaned duck, frog, turtle or beaver on the beach?
One of the globe-swimming tub toys will have "First Years" and the company's logo embossed on it, it'll fit in the palm of the hand and its coat will have faded dramatically, probably appearing more white than yellow, blue, green or red.
And, of course, it'll be smiling.
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