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Randy Shumway: Streamline educational oversight, set milestones
rnoble Pendleton, ORNov. 10, 2010 1:31 p.m.
Mr. Shumway errs in defining educations success by earning potential. Education is about the whole man or woman. He is correct in requiring a change but not to expand the current K-12 to K-20. The current system has failed us. Research shows that life long learning is effected most by both positive experiences in the first three years of formal training and the attitudes of the people in the home about education and children.
Our task to improve education is to make sure learning potential is maximized with net positive experience during those first years and then individual mastery of subjects before moving on in subsequent years. We should abandon K-12 in favor of three years of general grade assignment followed by 10-20 years of increasingly difficult concepts based on solid foundations at each step. It is much easier to get straight A's than to get C's because the underlying information is known and does not have to be re-learned at each step. Additionally, we should begin specializtion of education much earlier; perhaps among the 12 to 15 year-old age group. Their interest would remain higher if they were working to strengths.
RedShirt USS Enterprise, UTNov. 10, 2010 10:39 a.m.
To "Orem Parent | 7:30 p.m. " I have kids in elementary school, and have worked with kids in Highschool.
The classrooms are changing for the worse. If you look at what they teach in math, yes they teach "advanced" subjects, but they sacrifice mastery of the basics. Just look at the grading system for Elementary grading system now. Where once they received letter grades, they now are at grade level, below grade level, or inadequate.
I don't know where you went to school, but the kids I have interacted with have lower standards to meet than I had.
While you are a mother, the teachers that I have spoken with say that what they teach is not a difficult as what was taught 20 or 30 years ago.
As for your son taking Calculus, I hope you don't plan on him taking the AP test because the AP test program is more concerned about the number of kids passing than proving that the kids who take the test know the subject.
Orem Parent Orem, UTNov. 9, 2010 7:30 p.m.
As long as the Utah legislature is in charge of education funding and standards, nothing is going to change.
Also to redshirt, you obviously haven't been in a classroom since your own childhood or you would know that today's 4th graders are doing what we did in junior high. Today's junior high kids are doing what we did in high school.
My kids are taking Geometry in 8th grade. Something we didn't do until 10th or 11th grade back in the day. No it isn't the "watered down math" the old timers like to complain about. They had to do proofs just like I did. My son will be taking Calculus in 11th grade.
I do like one proposal I heard recently. Your state income taxes should be based on your child's grades. We would see a DRAMATIC increase in parent participation.
Redshirt1701 Deep Space 9, UtNov. 9, 2010 9:35 a.m.
What is the point in setting new milestones, if the standards are so low?
If they want to improve education 2 things must be done.
1. Learning standards must be raised. If you only expect a 4th grade student to do what a 2nd grade student did 30 years ago, that is the wrong direction.
2. Concequences must exist for failure. If a student fails their class, they do not receive credit and do not advance with their classmates. Hold a child back for not learning. At the same time, schools need to be held accountable for having students that do not meet the minimum requirements.
Get that first, then, we can talk about milestones.
Carolyn Sharette Sandy, UTNov. 9, 2010 9:17 a.m.
I would support the streamlining of public education in a K-20 system. Connecting higher education with the preparatory levels, and connecting the entire system to business and the workforce is key.
The needs and demands of the workplace need to be constantly before us as we prepare students for their futures. It is difficult to connect these things in our current system, and we continue to send too many unprepared young adults into college and the workforce.
The milestones do need to be clarified, then aggressively pursued by students, parents and teachers alike. At our schools, we know how many words/minute a student needs to be able to read at each grade level to comprehend text. Students take home a paper each day that lists the reading goal and students record their achievement level that day toward that goal.
This is one of our "laser focus" activities that helped 100% of 2nd, 5th and 7th graders achieve proficiency in reading and 96% of all other students achieve it. With similar focus, 100% of our Algebra and Geometry students achieved proficiency, and 97% of Jr. High Math students overall.
Thanks to Mr. Shumway for another insightful piece.


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PALOMA FAITH was nominated for two Brit Awards – Best Female and Best Album
for Fall To Grace.
Although she's been grafting hard for a while, only now is she getting the
recognition she deserves.
Paloma took some time out of pre-tour rehearsals to speak to Biz Extra
about her style, her work ethic and adopting LA Reid as her American dad.
You've had a really busy 2012. Is 2013 looking just as manic?
Yes but it's more about the live stuff — which is great as it's my favourite
part. Last year was about putting in the groundwork. Now I get to celebrate
You start your tour tomorrow night in Manchester. What can your fans expect?
Me and the music. I haven't got a lot of costume changes because I want it to
be more about the music.
You have 31 dates in total on this tour. Was it your decision to do so many?
I'm totally up for it and looking forward to getting out there but do feel a
little bit nervous doing so many. Everyone knows I love touring in my head
but whether my body can do that many…
You're described as one of the finest singers around. How does that make
you feel?
It makes me happy and shocked as I never really thought I was a singer. I'm
scared to say that I am because I feel like all the people I admired from
the past are so incredible that I don't want to put myself up there like
Congratulations on your two Brit Award nominations for Best Female and Best
Album – if you could win one, which would it be?
Best Album — although I'm not expecting to win any. I'm a realist.
Who would you like to see win Best Female?
I think that category is full of amazing women. I wouldn't be disappointed if
any won. I love Jessie Ware. One of my best friends (The Invisible's) Dave
Okumu produced her album so thought I ought to listen to it, but it's
Emeli was lovely when I met her. I like her song Heaven.
What would you think if Amy Winehouse won?
It's wonderful to acknowledge what she contributed to British music.
But I'd be interested to know what she thought of the album (Lioness: Hidden
Treasures) because it was unreleased music. I know from personal experience
that the reason I don't release certain songs is because I don't think it's
the best stuff I've done.
I do think it's really important that she's in that category, though.
Who would you like to see win Best Male?
I'm really torn between Richard Hawley and Plan B. I love Richard as he's had
such a long career and he's written some amazing, beautiful songs.
But Plan B is the only modern artist who is using his position to say
something political.
You're known for your eccentric style. How long does it take you to get
ready in the morning?
It depends what I'm getting dressed for. If I'm popping to the shops, it takes
no time. Although I'm finding it quite difficult to get dressed on a normal
day at the moment.
I'm thinking so much about the tour and about appearances that by the time I
get round to an average day I've forgotten how to dress. It looks like I've
been to a jumble sale and just put everything on.
It feels like you've been reborn with your second album, Fall To Grace. Am
I right?
It feels that way, yes. I had to play some chess moves on the first record and
compromise myself creatively to get my foot in the door.
I then said: "I want to do what I want to do." Now, I've made the album I want
to make and feel like it's really honest and emotionally quite open.
Who do you think you most appeal to?
It's hard to say. When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational.
Sometimes there's three generations there. It's as close as we can get to a
variety show when it was wartime.
LA Reid recently took you under his wing and has since said some lovely
things about you. How was your first meeting with him?
He's really, really lovely and supportive. He really believes in me and I
don't really know why. But he's really encouraging and believes in what I'm
about. He's my American dad now.
So you now have a chance to crack the States, are you up for it?
It feels exciting and daunting. I'm up for trying anything once but we'll see
what happens. The response has been really great but I'm no stranger to hard
work. Nothing in my career has come instantly.
What do you think about Adele's success in America?
They're not going to forget her over there and I think we'd all want what
she's got. But she's an anomaly.
You've had loads of jobs. What was your favourite?
My favourite was definitely working for Agent Provocateur because I met a lot
of people who really inspired me and who were really creative. A lot are
still my best friends and have gone on to do amazing things.
I ended up developing friendships with pre-op transsexuals and high-class
prostitutes, some lonely people and people who have strange fetishes, but
underneath the sensation, there's something that unites all those people.
You've filmed a guest part in new BBC sitcom Blandings. How was that?
It was great, I loved working with Timothy Spall. He's one of my idols, a
wonderful actor. I've always admired people who I'd like as a father figure.
Is acting something you'd like to do more of?
Yes I would. I haven't had a huge amount of time but I'm hoping to do more
this year. I like presenting too. I did some for the Brits and thought it
was fun. I didn't plan anything, I just went with the flow. Nick Grimshaw
said to me after, "You're quite good at that."
What do you do to relax?
I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go. I just
went to see Amour. It's a brilliant film, the performances are amazing. It
left me speechless to be honest.
I read you used to call yourself "a weird gremlin from Hackney". Do you
I try not to brand myself weird any more because it sticks. Those who know me
would probably say I'm the most normal, down-to-earth person they've ever
met. Maybe it is weird in life to be laid-back and relaxed — perhaps it's
more normal to be uptight.
Describe yourself in three words?
I think I'm a lateral thinker and non-judgmental. I love interesting people
with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world. I don't like to be around
people who are forced not be themselves. It makes me feel tense.

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"I told myself to come into this game focused on one thing, and that's winning," Minnesota running back Adrian Peterson said.
Peterson did just that against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. Like a thoroughbred, Peterson's legs took the Minnesota Vikings to the playoffs for the first time since 2009 after a 37-34 victory.
After back to back last place finishes, no one expected the Vikings to even sniff the playoffs. But then again, no one expected Peterson to have the second best season in the history of NFL running backs.
The playoff hopes of the storied franchise took a backseat to Peterson's quest to break Eric Dickerson's single season rushing yards record of 2,105 yards. Peterson came up just nine yards shy of the incredible record by finishing the night with 199 rushing yards to give him 2,097 for the total season. Not a bad season for a guy who was supposed to be washed up after major knee surgery.
With the win, the Vikings head to Green Bay to face the Packers again for the first round of the playoffs. On paper, you wouldn't give the Vikings much of a chance but they just beat the exact same team. They are obviously capable of winning next weekend, but let's look at the resume, shall we?
The Vikings are 2-4 against teams that made the playoffs this season; two wins coming against San Francisco and Green Bay. Their four losses coming against Indianapolis, Green Bay, Washington, and Seattle. Above all else, their resume explains how fans should expect their playoff game to unfold. Minnesota's only two wins against playoff competition came while playing at home. Their four losses were all on the road. Where do they play next weekend? On the road.
If you look at the statistics, its surprising that Minnesota even made the playoffs. Their passing game ranks 31st out of 32 teams. Quarterback Christian Ponder, only in his second year, threw for an average of 171 yards a game. That statistic alone makes Peterson's performance in 2012 even more impressive considering the Vikings had no passing attack; and defenses stacked the box and he STILL ran for over 2,000 yards.
In short, Minnesota fans shouldn't expect anything more than a one and done cameo this playoff season. The Packers are 7-1 at home this season. They're not going to lose again to the Vikings. The fact they have got this far is nothing short of miraculous and no team will overlook them again. However, when everyone looks back on the 2012 season, Minnesota making the playoffs will just be a secondary backdrop to Peterson's legendary performance on his way to the Most Valuable Player award.
Joshua Caudill is a writer for CraveOnline Sports. You can follow him on Twitter@JoshuaCaudill85 or subscribe at Facebook.com/CraveOnlineSports.
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The plight of Robert Nkemdiche (if one really wants to refer to it as a plight) has some similarities to another top prospect we covered a few years ago.
The star defensive end—rated the No. 1 recruit in the land by many—recently stepped back from his commitment to Clemson. He is now seriously considering the Tigers, Alabama and Ole Miss, where his brother, Denzel, plays. He took in his fourth Ole Miss home game last weekend.
Sporting News Top 125: 1-10 | 11-25 | 26-75 | 76-125
Two years ago, it was Sporting News' No. 1 overall prospect Cyrus Kouandjio who was going through this exact quandary: Do I go my own way or do I go where my brother plays? Kouandjio told Sporting News numerous times—sometimes in a defiant tone—that he was going to be his own man, and on signing day he actually picked Auburn with his parents standing behind him. But within minutes he was having second thoughts. A few days later he signed his letter of intent with Alabama, where his brother, Arie, is an offensive lineman.
The Nkemdiches and Kouandjios have similar backgrounds. Both are from well-off West African families—the Nkemdiches from Nigeria and the Kouandjios from Cameroon. Coming from countries that love football of a different sort (soccer), neither family could have imagined how much hype would one day engulf their American football-playing sons, even with older sons who signed with BCS schools. Both families have handled it humbly and done a good job not letting it get to their sons' heads. They've also avoided letting outside influences dominate the experience.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to make this prediction: Nkemdiche will join his brother at Ole Miss. During the 2010-11 recruiting process, I never thought Kouandjio would end up anywhere but Alabama. The family bond was too tight. You could sense it.
That bond is what led Nkemdiche to stepping back from an earlier commitment to Clemson.
"I felt like if I de-commit it gives me a chance to really back up and see, take a step back, and really pay attention to other schools, instead of (people) saying 'Oh, he's cheating on Clemson with other schools,'" he told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently. "Now they can't say anything."
Nkemdiche says he won't announce his decision until January, but my bet is he already knows what he wants to do and his mother has made it very clear she'd like to see her son join his brother in Oxford, Miss. I'd say Rebels fans will soon be celebrating their biggest recruiting coup since Eli Manning.


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Scott's Tampa visit may highlight charters
TAMPA -- He'll have no shortage of things to talk about, but it's a fair bet that Gov. Rick Scott will try to change the subject this afternoon to talk about Florida's next big education reform topic: charter schools.
He'll be visiting Pepin Academies, a charter system that caters largely to special-needs students. Scott's appearance comes on the heels of his expected signing of Florida's tenure-busting SB 736, amid the dustup over education commissioner Eric J. Smith's abrupt resignation this week.
Discussion of SB 1546 -- the bill that would expand charter schools in Florida, and potentially chip away at school districts' power by granting authority to colleges, universities, and even private companies to open them -- was again postponed at yesterday's Senate PreK-12 Education Committee hearing. And this new bill analysis confirms what we suspected, that such changes raise potential legal problems. As you'll recall, the last time the Legislature tried to establish an outside body to independently authorize charter schools, the courts shot it down.
Taken all together, it looks like Scott suddenly has a lot of challenges on his hands. He had plenty of backing from Smith and the state Board of Education for SB 736. But now Smith is on the way out and the board is angry over how that was handled. Any predictions on where all of this is headed?


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Two years ago, Kelly made the decision to have a true freshman quarterback (Tommy Rees) attempt a pass into the end zone against Tulsa in the waning seconds, when a relatively easy field goal would have sufficed in securing a victory.
"You better get used to it," Kelly boasted as he stood there with a 28-27 defeat to the Golden Hurricane hanging around his neck. "Because that's the way we're playing."
Through this season of eight victories without a defeat, Kelly has been fairly cautious in his play calling. Against Brigham Young the third-ranked Irish threw the ball just three times. However, in the most unexpected time in last Saturday's win over the Sooners, the ol' Kelly bravado awoke.
Oklahoma had just marched down the field to tie the game at 13 early in the fourth quarter and the 82,000-plus hometown fans were going berserk. Instead of Kelly doing the expected and trying to methodically drive down the field, score, yet not leave an abundance of time on the clock, he took a "let's go for it" approach and had quarterback Everett Golson hit freshman receiver Chris Brown for a 50-yard gain on the second play of the drive.
"I wanted to win the game," Kelly explained. "I thought that we needed to throw the football and get a big chunk play."
Though it was Brown's first and only catch of this season, Kelly had seen some defensive looks from the Sooners that made him feel a bit daring.
"I wanted to win and there was no way that we were going to turn down that opportunity," Kelly said. "We had some of those (opportunities) against BYU and we didn't throw them. We knew coming into (Oklahoma) that we were going to have to hit some plays down the field."
So will these types of aggressive play calls become a regular sight for Irish fans?
"The passing game still needs to improve," Kelly said. "We had where we consider four, maybe five opportunities that we left out there in terms of throwing the ball. So we want to see a higher passing efficiency in that respect. And then I think you're correct in assuming that what we need now is to put together a string of games back to back. I think those are the two things that we're going to ask from Everett in terms of his progress."


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On Saturday, Jan. 12, at 4 p.m., Yolo County's Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch Library will present the film, "California Indian," which was written, produced and directed by California Native American Tim Ramos (Pomo) and filmed in Lake County.
Ramos will be in attendance to present the film.
Featuring professional actors, the film tells a dramatic modern story of a proposed gambling casino on tribal land. Chris Eyre, who produced the popular award-winning film, "Smoke Signals," co-produced "California Indian" with Tim Ramos. Some features of the film include:
n Shot on location in Lakeport, (Clear Lake), home to the Big Valley Rancheria.
n Pomo tribal members, who had no prior acting experience, were cast in many of the roles in the film, which allowed for greater authenticity of the portrayal of the tribe.
n Contributors to the making of the film include: Big Valley Rancheria, Robinson Rancheria, Konocti Vista Casino Resort and Marina, Robinson Rancheria Resort and Casino, the local Lakeport community.
"As a producer and now director, my goal is to keep telling stories and honor who I am and where I came from," said Tim Ramos. "There are 280,000 'urban Indians' that currently live in Los Angeles, and like me, they are very comfortable balancing both worlds. They successfully transitioned from the 'rez' to the city without losing their cultural ties in the process."
"As part of our ongoing efforts to share and celebrate the cultural diversity of community, the Yolo County Library is pleased to present "California Indian," said Yolo County Librarian Patty Wong.
"California Indian" will be shown at the Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch Library, located at 315 E. 14th St., Davis. Yolo County Library facilities are accessible for persons with disabilities. This free event is sponsored by the Friends of the Davis Library.


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Last week's brisk temperatures have everyone thinking about the change of seasons. Cooler than normal temperatures had parents sending children for the morning school bus wearing sweaters and jackets.
High school football and club soccer games saw parents decked out in all kinds of hoodies, jackets and gloves.
The early cool weather is certainly a harbinger that the official start of fall is just a few days away.


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Hard to believe, but cocoa--well, a defatted extract of it--may be good for the heart. In a study, rabbits were fed a cholesterol-rich diet along with 200 mg of the extract daily. After two months, the bunnies' blood vessels did a better job contracting and relaxing than the vessels of rabbits fed the same diet but deprived of the extract. Cocoa contains powerful antioxidants called flavonoids that sweep up damaging molecules in cells. The rabbit news isn't license to drown in hot chocolate. But food companies are working on cocoa-extract supplements--and low-fat cocoa-packed drinks.
The FDA has okayed Zyvox, the first entirely new type of antibiotic in 35 years. With microbes becoming ever more resistant to antibiotics--including the drug of last resort, vancomycin--the FDA's nod comes just in time: Zyvox is approved for staph bacteria, pneumonia and other serious infections. Now if only docs won't overprescribe it, lest the bugs develop resistance to it as well.
Bad News
If you go to the emergency room with chest pains, will doctors know you're having a heart attack or just figure it's last night's burrito? A study shows that E.R. physicians correctly diagnose and hospitalize patients for heart attack and unstable angina fully 98% of the time. Still, that leaves 26,000 patients who are erroneously sent home. What's more, doctors are more likely to err in diagnoses of women under 55, African Americans, Hispanics and other minorities.
For years, doctors administered a powerful aspirin-like drug called Ticlid to prevent clots in angioplasty patients who had had tiny stents placed in their vessels. But after Ticlid was linked to a rare but frightening blood disorder known as TTP, which attacks nearly every organ of the body, they turned to a supposedly less toxic drug called Plavix. Now researchers report the same trouble with Plavix. So far 11 cases of TTP have turned up among Plavix users--and their illness seems harder than ever to treat.
Sources: Good News: Experimental Biology 2000 conference; FDA. Bad News: New England Journal of Medicine (4/20/00); NEJM (early release, 6/15/00)


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built 1915 by Workman Clark Ltd, Belfast
National Historic Fleet
Fighting Vessel
Museum based
Museum: dry berth
Web sitehttps
Steam triple expansion
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31.00 feet (9.45 metres)
177.00 feet (53.95 metres)
4.00 feet (1.25 metres)
In 1914, the Royal Navy embarked on an expansive programme of warship construction, including a fleet of low freeboard, coastal bombardment vessels called monitors. M33 was one of a new class of particularly shallow draft monitors, designed in 1915 once it was found that the four secondary 6-inch guns on the new QUEEN ELIZABETH class of battleships were too close to the deep waterline to be worked effectively in a seaway. Two of these guns in each of the 5 ships in this class were re-sited, but the other two were removed completely and mounted on the new monitors, ordered from Harland and Wolff, Belfast, on 15 March 1915.
Both M32 and M33 were sub-contracted to the neighbouring yard of Workman Clarke and Co., Ltd., where they were laid down on 1 April 1915 and launched on 22 May 1915. Fitted with a pair of steam reciprocating engines capable of running at 9.6 knots, M33 commissioned at Belfast on 17 June 1915 and, after certain technical difficulties relating to her freeboard and trim, which were overcome by an extra four tons of permanent ballast aft, she was accepted from the builders, on 24 June.
With five officers and 67 hands, M33 under the command of Lieutenant Commander QB Preston Thomas RN, sailed for the Dardanelles, arriving at the end of July 1915. She gave support at the Suvla landings in August and continued to assist there for the remainder of the Gallipoli Campaign, until she was ordered to Salonika in January 1916 to support the Allied flank against the Bulgarians. Until almost the end of the war, M33 then operated with the several Detached Squadrons in the central Aegean, where her duties included bombardment of the Turkish coast, blockade, control of shipping and general patrol work, before returning briefly to Salonika.
M33 paid off at Mudros on 10 January 1919 with the reputation of being a "lucky" ship. Early in 1919, she went home to be adapted for service with the White Sea Squadron. She sailed for North Russia on 12 May 1919, arriving at Archangel in June under the command of Lieutenant Commander K Mitchell RN. She was immediately ordered to the River Dvina to help the British and other ground troops fighting in support of the counter-revolutionary forces in their war against the Bolsheviks. Her shallow draft and relatively heavy armament proved invaluable both then and in the subsequent Allied withdrawal in September 1919. On her return to England, M33 was laid up at the Nore until 1924 when she was converted for mine-laying duties at Pembroke. Re-commissioned on 3 February 1925 and renamed HMS MINERVA, she became a tender at HMS VERNON, the Portsmouth school of torpedo and anti-submarine warfare.
In 1939, she was converted to a boom defence workshop, designated C23(M), and towed to the Clyde. Returning to the Solent post-war, she remained a floating workshop and office, based at Royal Clarence Yard in Gosport, with her name changed once more to RMAS MINERVA. In 1987 she was disposed of and taken to Hartlepool for restoration. She was then acquired by Hampshire County Council in recognition of her outstanding combat history and as one of only two surviving naval vessels of World War One. In April 1997, bearing her old name M33, she was placed in No 1 Dock in HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, to facilitate the vital scientific conservation work on her still largely original shell plating. Much of this has now been accomplished with considerable progress made in returning most of her upper deck arrangements and superstructure to their external configuration and appearance circa 1915-1919; both six-inch guns have been re-instated and new timber masts from the conservation workshops at Merseyside Maritime Museum fitted.
In 2007, her hull, funnel and upperworks were re-painted in her First World War livery.
M33 occupies a prominent position adjacent to HMS VICTORY.
This vessel is a survivor from the First World War. You can read more about her wartime history by visiting our First World War: Britain's Surviving Vessels website www.ww1britainssurvivingvessels.org.uk.
Source; Campbell McMurray, Advisory Committee, March 2009.
Heritage Microbiology and Science: Microbes, Monuments and Maritime pub: RSC Publishing
Norman J Brouwer, International Register of Historic Ships (Edition 2, 1993, pp163) pub: Anthony Nelson
Bill Schleihauf, Warship International The restoration of M33 (2000)
Sea Breezes (April, 1991, pp225-6) Credit where its due
Avril Stephens, The News (15 February, 1997) Ship survives battles to be hit by weather
Richard Bettsworth, The News (Portsmouth) (2 April, 1998, pp31) Ship to be flooded for her own good
Richard Bettsworth, The News (Portsmouth) (25 July, 1996, pp11) New Milestones in Warship's Slow Journey
1. What is the vessel's ability to demonstrate history in her physical fabric?
Evidence for designs, functions, techniques, processes, styles, customs and habits or uses and associations in relation to events and people. How early, intact or rare these features are may impact on significance.
M33 was one of nearly 40 Monitors built following the outbreak of the First World War. She was designed as a floating gun platform, and was fabricated in just seven weeks. She is flat-bottomed with a draught of less than 6 feet, and so could be risked close inshore. She was powered by a twin screw triple expansion 400hp engine, and had a top speed of less than 10 knots. She carried two 6 inch guns, situated forward and aft, a single 6 pounder Hotchkiss gun and two Maxim machine guns.
After the end of the First World War M33 was used for a variety of purposes. In 1919 she became a tender, and in 1925 was converted into a minelaying training ship. She was later used as a fuelling hulk, and in 1943 her engines and boiler were removed when she was converted to a boom defence workshop. After the end of the Second World War she became a floating workshop and office for local Fleet Auxiliary craft.
Her funnel was restored in 1987, and in 1991 her forward gun was installed. In 2007 she was repainted in the black and white anti-submarine dazzle camouflage she wore in 1918. She underwent an extensive programme of conservation in 2014/15. The original steelwork was consolidated and conserved so as to expose original features. Later layers of paint were stripped back exposing the authentic and cracked paint surface below, which were then coated with protective wax. Fittings including the mast, boat, gun shields for the 6 inch and 6 pounder guns were restored and refitted.
2. What are the vessel's associational links for which there is no physical evidence?
Associations with people or places. Off-ship research.
Evidence exists to suggest that the smaller 6-inch gun monitors began life as a rough sketch drawn by the then Director of Naval Construction, Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt, during a meeting with Sir Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty and Admiral Sir Jacky Fisher, First Sea Lord, in March 1915. The basic design for the larger monitors was largely carried out by Charles Lillicrap, who also seems to have taken over the design of the smaller vessels, and he too went on to become Director of Naval Construction (1944-1951). Monitors thus had a very distinguished lineage.
M33 is one of only three surviving warships of the First World War (the others are HMS Caroline and HMS President). She played an important role in the Gallipoli Campaign. She and some of her sister ships arrived in the Aegean Sea in time to help cover the landing of reinforcements along the southern coast of the Peninsula during August 1915. She was later involved in the evacuation of troop, assisting the army in establishing a base at Stavros in January 1916. She continued to serve in the region before her return to England in April 1919. She was recommissioned and sent to North Russia in May 1919 with the British Relief Force to cover the withdrawal of Allied and White Russian troops, as part of the Dvina River Campaign. M33 with other vessels bombarded Bolshevik positions along the river.
Her distinguished record of service at Gallipoli gives M33 great national and international significance. Her uniqueness and her career between 1915 and 1919, the significant period of her life and history, provide rich opportunities for both the interpretation of a distinctive aspect of the operational history of the Royal Navy in the First World War, and more widely for the education and greater public understanding of the economic, social and geo-political context within which the history and experience of citizens of the twentieth century were in large part shaped.
In view of her record of survival virtually unscathed in circumstances where so many other ships were badly damaged or destroyed, M33 won the reputation of being a "lucky" ship which she retained throughout her active service life.
M33 relieved more versatile ships like destroyers for deployment in more active roles. Lessons learned from the experience of the monitors in all theatres of war drove many of the advances in long-range naval gunnery later applied to the battle fleet.
3. How does the vessel's shape or form combine and contribute to her function?
Overall aesthetic impact of the vessel, her lines, material she was built from and her setting. Does she remain in her working environment?
Being a steel-built, steam-driven hull of simple form and construction M33 does not embody any important technological innovation or other distinctive nautical feature. She is not a particularly significant artefact in terms of naval architecture or ship construction, but in her relative ordinariness she is an important representative of the smaller type of naval vessel generally employed for workaday purposes in war-time.
M33 is positioned in the No.1 Dry Dock at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard built in 1801 alongside HMS Victory, where she serves as a static museum. Internal exhibits include an immersive battle experience and a digital projection of the Gallipoli Campaign. She is fully accessible to the public.
Source: NHS-UK team, 11 August 2015.
This statement was developed as part of the Heritage Lottery funded First World War project. http://www.ww1britainssurvivingvessels.org.uk/
Previous names
- 1925 – 1939HMS Minerva
Subsequent Developments
- March 2009 Vessel painted externally throughout in her World War One camouflage and livery during 2007. Source: Campbell McMurray, Advisory Committee, March 2009
- September 2013 Hampshire County Council's Museums Service acquired her in 1990 to preserve her for the county and the nation and they are currently working in partnership with the National Museum of the Royal Navy to complete her conservation and enable full public access in time for the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign in 2015. £1.799m is currently being sought from the Heritage Lottery Fund to support this work with additional financial support coming from Hampshire County Council and fundraising by the National Museum of the Royal Navy. If the bid for Lottery funding is successful the vessel will become another highly popular public attraction at Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard. Source: Hantsweb.co.uk, Sep 13
- September 2013 The future of Hampshire's HMS Monitor M33, one of the UK's most significant surviving First World War warships, is more secure today, thanks to £1.79million of earmarked money from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). A final bid will be submitted to HLF early next year, which if successful will allow the physical restoration to begin. Currently owned by Hampshire County Council, the aim is to transfer ownership of HMS M33 to the NMRN by 2015. Source: HLF, Sep 13
- October 2014 M33 is now in the ownership of the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth. The museum has been awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £1.75m to help restore and conserve the vessel, with an aim to finally open her to the public. Source: The News, Portsmouth, 20 Oct 2014
- August 2015 On 6th August 2015, HMS M.33 was opened to the public for the very first time as a visitor attraction, 100 years after she saw action at Gallipoli. (NMRN.org.uk)
Key dates
- March 1915 Laid down in yard of Workman, Clarke & Co Ltd, Belfast
- May 1915 Launched
- July 1915 Commissioned and sailed for Aegean and the Gallipoli Campaign
- January 1919 Paid off, repaired and refitted
- May 1919 Joined White Sea Squadron and sailed for Dvina River, North Russia
- September 1919 Returned to England, paid off and laid up at the Nore
- 1924 Taken to Pembroke Dockyard for conversion to mine-laying duties
- February 1925 Re-commissioned, re-named HMS MINERVA, tender to HMS VERNON
- 1939 Floating boom defence vessel, towed to River Clyde, re-named C23(M)
- 1945 Returned to Portsmouth, re-named RMAS MINERVA, a floating workshop
- 1987 Disposed of and transported to Hartlepool for restoration
- 1990 Acquired by Hampshire County Council, the ship is returned to Portsmouth where she becomes M33 again
- 2007 Vessel 2007 repainting add "also known as dazzle style"
- 2013 Awarded a grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Restoration project begins
- 2015 Following £2.8m restoration project, HMS M33 opens to the public as new visitor attraction
- unknown Heritage Microbiology and Science: Microbes, Monuments and Maritime
- 1991 Sea Breezes Credit where its due
- 1993 International Register of Historic Ships - Brouwer, Norman J
- 1996 The News (Portsmouth) New Milestones in Warship's Slow Journey
- 1997 The News Ship survives battles to be hit by weather
- 1998 The News (Portsmouth) Ship to be flooded for her own good
- 2000 Warship International The restoration of M33 - Bill Schleihauf
- 2013-14 The Heritage Lottery Fund awarded £1,799,000 for the 'Commemorating Gallipoli 1915' project
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March: Heading North
In March migration is underway. Hummingbirds can't afford to be in too much of a hurry when they return to their breeding range in spring. There has to be food all along the way due to their tiny size and high metabolism. Hummingbirds can follow Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers north because those birds drill holes, called sapsucker wells, in trees as they migrate north. These tiny birds cannot survive a day without food, so sap running from the holes is important for Ruby-throated Hummingbirds in early spring.
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RMS indexed file collating key support can provide this capability. Please see the Guide to OpenVMS File Applications Manual and the Record Management Services Reference Manual for details of OpenVMS RMS indexed file support and associated capabilities. In particular, the XABKEY structure and the discussion of the XAB$B_RTP field will be of interest here.


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Switzerland's approach to monetary policy
Monetary policy as conducted by the Swiss National Bank is aimed at maintaining price stability in the medium term. Between 1980 and 1999, the Bank used the seasonally adjusted monetary base as monetary target and as indicator. Given the continually distorted indicator value of the monetary base after 1996, the Bank fundamentally reviewed its modus operandi. As of the beginning of 2000, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) considers price stability to be achieved with an annual inflation (CPI) rate of less than 2 percent. The Bank bases its monetary policy decisions on a medium-term (three-year) inflation forecast. Despite similarities to inflation targeting, the new framework differs from it in one important respect, namely, it does not contain an institutional commitment to an inflation target as the overriding objective of monetary policy.
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Fayetteville man arrested after police respond to woman running down street in underwear
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The Dewitt Police Department was called to the Highbridge Road area, near Lyndon Corners, on Sunday due to a woman running down the street in her underwear.
Units from the Dewitt Police Department, as well as the Manlius Police Department and responded. They found the victim, 47-year-old Ida Eskeli of Manlius, bleeding from her head and face. She said that she had been beaten and threatened with a knife by 57-year-old John Norderhus of 6940 Highbridge Road in Fayetteville.
Norderhus barricaded himself in his trailer. Negotiators from the Dewitt Police Department convinced him to surrender after a short time without incident.
According to the Dewitt Police Department, Norderhus and the victim were arguing over pictures that were allegedly taken by Eskeli of Norderhus. The suspect became enraged when Eskeli would not give up her cell phone that contained the images and is alleged to have punched her and held a knife to her throat.
The Dewitt Police arrested Norderhus on charges of Unlawful Imprisonment 1st, Menacing 2nd, Assault and Criminal Possession of a Weapon. He was ordered to be held at the Justice Center $20,000 cash or $20,000 bond after being arraigned in the Town of Dewitt Court.
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1. Spencer Flournoy [921] was born in 1820 in Georgia.1 User ID: 991.
Noted events in his life were:
He appeared on the census on 13 Jul 1870 in Bullard, Smith, Texas, USA. 2 Spencer, Age 50, his personal estate was valued at $150.00, born in Georgia. Crecy, age 51, Claybourne, age 22, Edmund, age 17 and Amanda, age 5 were enumerated with him. Squire and Susan Dewberry lived next door. He appeared on the census on 23 Jul 1880 in Smith, Texas, USA. 3,4 Spencer, Age 62, Farm Hand, Born in Georgia as were his parents. Five farms from John and Caroline Clark (Swelling 248), next to Squire and Susan Dewberry (dwelling 254) and near Edward & Patsey Flournoy (dwelling 261). Crecie, age 70, Clayborne, age 30, Amanda, age 16, Edward, age 5 and Jane Dorough, a boarder, age 20, were enumerated with him.
Spencer married Cricy [494] 3 [MRIN: 333], daughter of Unknown and Unknown, about 1847. Cricy was born about 1819 in Georgia. Another name for Cricy was Cricy Flournoy.
Noted events in her life were:
She appeared on the census on 13 Jul 1870 in
Bullard, Smith, Texas, USA. 3 Cricy, Age
51, Keeping House, born in Georgia. She appeared on the census on 23 Jun 1880
in Tyler, Smith, Texas, USA. 5 Listed as
Crecie, Wife of spencer Flournoy, Age 70, Keeping House, Born in Virginia as
were her parents
Children from this marriage were:
+ 2 F i. Susan Flernoy [192] was born in Feb 1845 in Georgia and died in Lawton, Comanche, Oklahoma, USA.
+ 3 M ii. Claibourne Flournoy [495] was born in Dec 1848 in Georgia and died on 1 Jun 1915 at age 66.
4 F iii. Amanda Flournoy [1450] was born in 1864 in Texas.
Noted events in her life were:
She appeared on the census on 13 Jul 1870 in Bullard, Smith, Texas, USA. 6 Amanda, Age 5, born in Texas. She appeared on the census on 23 Jun 1880 in Smith, Texas, USA. 7 Daughter of Spencer Flournoy, Age 16, At Home, Born in Texas.
5 M iv. Edmond Flournoy [2242] was born in 1863 in Texas.8
6 M v. Edward Flournoy [2243] was born in 1875 in Texas.9
+ 7 M vi. Edward Flournoy [496] was born in 1853.10
Spencer next married someone.
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After the long summer holidays, the girls are back to school and we are all adjusting to our new routine. Lauren started kindergarten yesterday with her new class and new teacher, Mr Agnew. Many of her old friends from Prep started Kindergarten at different schools or in different classes, so she was disappointed not to see them after the long holiday. Jocelyn restarted pre-prep but also with mainly new children; I think she missed her sister, who was no longer in Prep.
Frazzled Working Mum
On an endless quest for balance between family life and working life!
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Back to School
Friday, August 20, 2010
Zoom Zoom Zoom!
Last weekend, Lauren had her first ever proper birthday party at Zoom. I think it was a huge success because she had an amazing time and loved it! I was a little afraid at first that she might be shy seeing her friends out of context but she took it all in her stride and had lots of fun running, bouncing and zooming around the climbing frames with all her classmates.
We also had lots of opportunity to get to know the other parents a bit better – almost impossible when you are a working mum, especially as I rarely do drop off now. Besides, everyone is always in a rush to get to work, so it's often impossible to have a chat.
I think a lot of the parents hadn't realised that we'd just moved from the UK. However, we are fast making friends!
On the day, the children arrived, gave their presents to Lauren and promptly disappeared into the vast network of climbing frames. We had to round them up again after half an hour to feed them lunch and cake – an interesting experience! In this photo, you can see Lauren sitting in the birthday girl seat surrounded by her friends.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Cake Marathon
Tomorrow, we are having Lauren's first big birthday party. She's going to be 5 and has invited all her friends from her class in prep; we are taking 26 children to the local indoor soft play centre called Zoom. Being a winter birthday and not being sure how the weather would be, I didn't take any chances. Perhaps if we are in a bigger house next year, we'll consider something outdoors.
Lauren's never had a party like this before; this was partly our reluctance to host one for toddlers in a small house with almost no garden and partly because Lauren never asked for one before now. Lauren has always been a shy child and didn't really enjoy parties when she was younger. She ended up clinging to me and not playing with any of the other children at most of the parties we ever went to – if not for all of it then at least for the first 30 minutes.
Since coming to Australia, she has really gained in confidence and is so much more at ease with herself. I remember taking the girls to the park in the first week we were here – I noticed that the girls were too shy to approach the other children to play with them. I was really sad to see it. However, within a short time of starting school and nursery here, they were different children. I think it's partly to do with the relaxed and friendly way of life here – their school friends were quick to befriend them and make them feel welcome, and the fact that they are happy and settled, and thus more confident.
So she asked me for a birthday party, and I agreed that she could have one.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Wollongong, Sound of the Sea
We call this city home now and have done for almost exactly 5 months. We love it here and in many ways it found us as much as we discovered it. When we first talked about coming back to Australia, we had no idea we'd be coming here. We'd never travelled to the Illawarra back in 2002, and had never heard of the place until my agent first mentioned that there was a job going there that I ought to consider.
This is an aerial view of the city; what a beautiful place! We live right on the harbour at the moment. The name Wollongong is unusual – one theory is that it comes from an Aboriginal word meaning "sound of the sea".
When we left the UK, it was winter. Travelling to the Southern Hemisphere, we found ourselves facing another winter. It's been a strange year.
It's almost exactly five months since we came to Australia. I can't believe how quickly that time has flown, nor how quickly we've settled into life here. Although we've had to adapt to new things, mostly things have felt oddly right somehow.
It's almost Lauren's fifth birthday – and her very first winter birthday. I'm baking a chocolate birthday cake for her – she's invited 25 of her school friends to a party this weekend, so I'll be busy getting everything ready for that later.
Back in our last UK winter, we celebrated another birthday - Granddad's 70th birthday with him in York. This is Granddad opening his birthday cards and presents in the morning (girls helping of course).
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Our last winter in the UK
When I wrote the post about the Tooth Fairies, we were just heading into our last winter in the UK. What a winter it turned out to be – bitterly cold with more persistent snow on the ground than I could remember for decades.
We were all trapped indoors for long periods of time. Jocey decided that our flat needed some redecoration; I found this on our tumble drier one evening!


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Reuters Market Eye - The move by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to offer concessional swap rates to banks to raise dollar deposits from non-resident Indians could raise up to $8-$10 billion, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch says, as it removes the currency risk away from banks or citizens abroad.
The RBI will swap FX-denominated foreign currency non-resident bond (FCNRB) deposits with tenures of 3 or more years at a fixed hedge cost of 3.5 percent a year until November 30.
Banks are raising these deposits from NRIs at Libor/swap rate of +400 basis points, which works out to a cost of mobilising FCNRB deposits at about 8.5 percent and with lending at 11 percent, it will enable banks to enjoy a 250 basis point spread as these deposits will not qualify for CRR or SLR status for now, BofA-Merrill says.
Separately, Morgan Stanley estimates that the measure could raise an additional $5-$10 billion from NRIs.
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A Perfect StormPosted by Greg at 14:07, 11 Aug 2010
Every once in a while, the third rock from the Sun gets buffeted by a storm originating from its solar guardian. Energized particles rain down upon the Earth, and like water down a hill, flow down the planet's magnetic field lines toward the Poles. As this deluge of particles collides with atoms in our atmosphere, light energy is released, and a rainbow of shimmering colors hangs over the ends of the Earth:
Head over to National Geographic for more gorgeous images of last week's Northern Lights show. And stand by for more - another deluge approaches.
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Our friends at Megarom Interactive have provided the fantastic SteelSeries 6G V2 mechanical gaming keyboard for give-away on MyGaming.
The keyboard features Cherry Black MX mechanical switches, which are specced for 50 million presses and offer great tactile feedback. The keyboard can also handle more simultaneous key-presses than most humans have fingers.
Check out what MyGaming thought of the set in our review: SteelSeries 6G V2 keyboard review
The keyboard may not sport in-your-face looks, however, the feature list more than makes up for this and the SteelSeries G6 V2 is well worth considering if you're in the market for a mechanical gaming keyboard.
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The genuine nero.exe file is a software component of Nero Burning ROM by Nero.
Nero.exe is an executable file that runs the Nero Burning ROM, a suite that bundles software programs meant for burning data onto optical discs, digital file management, media editing, file compression and archiving, as well as streaming content over the Internet. This is a critical component for Nero Burning ROM and should not be directly removed. Nero Burning ROM is a utility program created for the Windows platform, originally for authoring optical discs such as CDs and DVDs. The first version was released in 1997 and has been released through ten new versions ever since. Different versions of the software such as Nero Burning ROM Lite were released as cheaper alternatives with limited functionality and features. Nero Express was targeted at entry-level audiences. It showcased a friendlier interface making it much easier to use. Nero is a German software developer best known for their flagship disc burning software program, the Nero Suite. Richard Lesser founded the company in 1995 as Ahead Software GmbH but the company changed their name to Nero in 2005. Nero became quite popular after many OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) decided to bundle the suite with their hardware products. Nero is headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Nero stands for Nero Burning ROM
The .exe extension on a filename indicates an executable file. Executable files may, in some cases, harm your computer. Therefore, please read below to decide for yourself whether the nero.exe on your computer is a Trojan that you should remove, or whether it is a file belonging to the Windows operating system or to a trusted application.
The process known as Nero Burning ROM belongs to software Nero OEM or Nero 7 Ultra Edition by Ahead Software AG (www.nero.com) or Nero AG (nero.com).
Description: Nero.exe is not essential for Windows and will often cause problems. The nero.exe file is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files".
Known file sizes on Windows 10/8/7/XP are 13,179,660 bytes (77% of all occurrences) or 12,784,200 bytes.
Nero.exe is not a Windows system file. The program has no visible window. Nero.exe is able to record keyboard and mouse inputs and connect to the Internet. Therefore the technical security rating is 21% dangerous; however you should also read the user reviews.
Recommended: Identify nero.exe related errors
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Summary: Average user rating of nero.exe: based on 7 votes with 5 user comments. 2 users think nero.exe is essential for Windows or an installed application. 2 users think it's probably harmless. One user thinks it's neither essential nor dangerous. One user suspects danger. One user thinks nero.exe is dangerous and recommends removing it.
A clean and tidy computer is the key requirement for avoiding problems with nero. This means running a scan for malware, cleaning your hard drive using 1cleanmgr and 2sfc /scannow, 3uninstalling programs that you no longer need, checking for Autostart programs (using 4msconfig) and enabling Windows' 5Automatic Update. Always remember to perform periodic backups, or at least to set restore points.
Should you experience an actual problem, try to recall the last thing you did, or the last thing you installed before the problem appeared for the first time. Use the 6resmon command to identify the processes that are causing your problem. Even for serious problems, rather than reinstalling Windows, you are better off repairing of your installation or, for Windows 8 and later versions, executing the 7DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth command. This allows you to repair the operating system without losing data.
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The latest opinion polls in the Spanish state have been stirring waves of concern in the ruling elites, of hope on the left and storms of comment in the media.
Nationally, they show the radical federation United Left (IU) within reach of closing the gap on the social-democratic Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE). In the June Metroscopia poll IU trailed just 4.7% percentage points behind the PSOE (16.8% to 21.5%).
Spanish social democracy's decline is most advanced in Catalonia and Galicia, and in the capital Madrid. A May 5 Asca poll showed the Galician Left Alternative (AGE)—in which IU participates with the left-nationalist ANOVA, the all-Spanish green party Equo and the Galician Ecosocialist Space (EEG)—doubling its presence in the 75-seat Galician parliament to 18 seats. That would put it just one seat behind the PSOE (represented in Galicia by the Party of Socialists of Galicia, PSG).
A June 6 Gesop poll put IU's Catalan affiliate, the United and Alternative Left (EUiA), which acts in electoral coalition with Initiative for Catalonia-Greens (ICV), in a similar position. The alliance is now level-pegging on 12.2% with the Party of Catalan Socialists (PSC, the PSOE's Catalan affiliate).
In Madrid city council IU would jump from 10.7% to 20.5% of the vote, just 1.6% behind the PSOE. These results are being confirmed at the city and regional level:


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EARTHblog » Sharon Wilson
The Texas Tribune inadvertently demonstrates the importance of the 1st amendment
By Sharon Wilson
September 26, 2011
This past weekend, The Texas Tribune, the nonprofit news site that enjoys a higher profile in the journalism world (than it would otherwise) thanks to its partnership with The New York Times, held a lecture-and-networking event on the University of Texas campus in Austin.
I was invited to appear on a panel after the showing of the documentary Haynesville: A Nation's Hunt for an Energy Future.
I knew the film depicted natural gas drilling in the Haynesville Shale as an economic miracle for folks in north Louisiana and East Texas, with barely a mention of environmental health risks. I said yes, received an enthusiastic confirmation letter requesting my bio, which I sent in, a request to sign the "Talent Agreement," and a list of the panel members.
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Eagle Ford Shale: Trust me, I'm a doctor
By Sharon Wilson
September 15, 2011
When I choose a banker, I want one with enough savvy that he would never say the following:
"Call me naïve, but I'm inclined to trust the industry to be good stewards of this land until they prove me otherwise."
Naïve? Nah, that's a profound lack of judgment and ignorance of the historical abuses of the oil and gas industry.
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The Five Bells3 Self rated
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"We found the pub very easily using the direction attached to the booking form. Lovely, and unspoiled, inn with accommodation directly linked..."
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The Five Bells is a 17th Century traditional "Chocolate Box" Freehouse Inn in the rolling Berkshire countryside. Located 4 miles from Newbury. Steeped in charm and full of character, this lovely old inn has undergone a full refurbishment by the new owners in May 2012.
We have four Ensuite doubles and one ensuite single rooms available. Serving an ever changing selection of at least 9 of the country's finest Ales, some local, all well kept, some very unusual and some old favourites, but we will only serve the best that Britain's finest brewers have to offer, making us THE destination real ale pub in West Berkshire and probably further afield too.
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Fund Times: Updates for Advance, AMP, AXA, Challenger, Macquarie, MMC, Principal
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In recent news from the funds management industry, Advance investment manager Tradewinds has a new head of research; AXA investment manager AllianceBernstein has replaced its head of fixed interest; two Macquarie global infrastructure securities staff have swapped jobs; AMP Capital, Challenger, and Principal have provided updates about distribution windows; and MMC Asset Management has been sold to Valuestream.
Advance sub-manager Tradewinds hires research director
Tradewinds, the Los Angeles-based investment manager for Advance Tradewinds Global Equities, has had a number of recent changes to its investment team. The firm has appointed Rowe Michels as its new Director of Research, overseeing the research activities of the analysts. Michels replaces Nathaniel Velarde, acting Director of Research for the past year, who has moved to a role as materials analyst with associated firm NWQ. Michels was previously Director of Research with hedge fund manager Wexford Capital, and before that spent 10 years with Bear Stearns in emerging markets analysis.
In other changes, Paul Hechmer – a member of the firm's wider research team and portfolio manager for non-US portfolios, but not directly responsible for working on the Advance mandate – has also left the firm. His replacements are Peter Boardman and Alberto Jimenez Crespo. Our fund research analysts have updated our research report for Advance/Tradewinds, and have confirmed our existing Morningstar Recommendation of 'Investment Grade'. (Because of its quirks, we suggest investors use the strategy as a supporting player in a portfolio, rather than as a core holding.) Tradewinds Portfolio Manager David Iben was a keynote speaker at our Investment Conference earlier this year.
Redemption updates for AMP Capital, Challenger, Principal
A number of fund managers have provided updates about their redemption policies for funds whose illiquid holdings led their managers to restrict redemptions last year (in Challenger's case because of side-effects of the Australian Government's bank deposits guarantee).
AMP Capital Investors has stated that no monies will be available from its Enhanced Yield funds (AMP Capital Enhanced Yield A, AMP Capital Enhanced Yield, AMP Capital Enhanced Yield H, and AMP FLI – AMP Capital Enhanced Yield) to pay for a forthcoming quarterly withdrawal window ending 31 July 2009.
AMP Capital aims for the Enhanced Yield funds to have about half their investments in high-yield corporate bonds and hybrid securities, and the remainder in illiquid private debt instruments (by investing in the in-house AMP Capital Structured High Yield Fund). (The ratio was 59:41 in early July, having increased because of falls in the value of the listed securities component.) The amount of liquidity available to fund redemptions depends on the amount of money the Enhanced Yield Fund receives from the Structured High Yield Fund. The next potential redemption window opens on 1 August and closes on 31 October 2009.
AMP Capital also provided an update on the status of the Enhanced Yield Fund's assets, stating that the high-yield securities component is positioned defensively in investment-grade assets providing attractive yields, and that the fund manager continues to manage the portfolio to attempt to bring the ratio between the liquid and illiquid components back to broadly 50:50.
In February this year, the firm announced that it would no longer accept new or additional applications for investments into the Enhanced Yield funds, and our fund research analysts consequently moved our Morningstar Recommendation from 'Investment Grade' to 'Hold'. (We'd previously downgraded the Enhanced Yield funds from 'Recommended' in October 2008 following AMP Capital's move to restrict paying withdrawals to a quarterly window.)
The next quarterly redemption window for Challenger Howard Mortgage and Challenger Howard Wholesale Mortgage runs from 24 July until 21 August. Investors will be able to withdraw up to five percent of their units, with a minimum payment of A$500. Challenger also said that on the basis of current liquidity and expected future loan discharges that it expected to make withdrawal offers of at least five percent of investments each quarter for the next 12 months.
We moved our Morningstar Recommendation for the Challenger Howard Mortgage funds back from 'Hold' to 'Investment Grade' in April this year. We did this because the quality of the process and the senior investment personnel's experience at navigating difficult periods mean that the funds remain suitable for investors with longer time horizons looking for a regular income stream, who do not need short-term access to principal and who recognise that mortgage funds are not proxies for easily-accessible cash options.
Finally, Principal Global Investors has announced that because of the impact of losses on currency hedging as a result of the significant fluctuations over the past year in the value of the $A, that it would not be able to make any income distributions from Principal Global Strategic Income for the June 2009 quarter, and that this situation is likely to remain the case for some time. Global Strategic Income produced a -21.32 percent return over the year to 30 June 2009, the main recent areas of weakness being asset-backed securities and high-yield. Principal has more recently been increasing its exposure to high-quality liquid government-guaranteed and non-guaranteed bank debt in the 390-security portfolio, and paring back some emerging market bond exposure.
AXA/Alliance Bernstein Fixed Income head departs
Jamie Alexander, formerly Director – Fixed Income at AllianceBernstein, has left the firm to pursue a career outside the funds management industry. Alexander had been in his position since the merger of AllianceBernstein's two Sydney- and Melbourne-based fixed interest teams in March 2003.
AllianceBernstein has appointed Hayden Briscoe as Alexander's replacement, effective from 18 August 2009. He'll head the team which runs funds such as AXA Wholesale – Australian Fixed Income. Briscoe was previously a senior fixed interest investment manager with Schroders, who worked on Schroder Fixed Income and Schroder Fixed Income S. He'll also be responsible for managing the fixed interest component of AXA mortgage funds such as AXA – Wholesale Australian Monthly Income and AXA – Australian Monthly Income, while AllianceBernstein is also responsible for 50.0 percent of the underlying investments of Advance Australian Fixed Interest Multi-Blend and Advance Wholesale Australian Fixed Interest Multi-Blend.
In related news, AllianceBernstein has also appointed Joran Laird as a Portfolio Manager effective 17 August. Laird, with the firm for the past nine years, has spent the past five of these with AllianceBernstein's New York-based global fixed interest team.
Macquarie Infrastructure staff swap roles
Two key staff running Macquarie global listed infrastructure funds are swapping jobs from 1 August. Portfolio Manager Andrew Maple-Brown heads to New York to assume portfolio management responsibilities for North American and European portfolios, while Justin Lannen will relocate back to Sydney after a year in the US to take up Maple-Brown's role. Lannen and Maple-Brown will continue to run Macquarie International Infrastructure Securities with Jon Fitch. Lannen has been with Macquarie since March 2007, before that having spent 10 years with Colonial First State, ultimately as portfolio manager for Colonial First State Wholesale – Industrial Share. Maple-Brown has been with Macquarie Bank since 2001, and transferred to the infrastructure securities team in 2007 from the firm's Debt Markets team, where he worked on unlisted infrastructure transactions.
We currently have a Morningstar Recommendation for Macquarie's global listed infrastructure capability of 'Investment Grade', the third of the five designations on our scale from 'Highly Recommended' to 'Avoid'. We noted that the firm largely targets stocks that own regulated assets like pipelines or water distribution, or user demand assets like ports, tollroads, or airports, but also pointed out the additional financial risks when investments in these assets are leveraged, which eventuated in 2008. Our analysts have assessed the change in roles, have updated references where appropriate, and have elected to leave our existing Morningstar Recommendation where it stands.
MMC Asset Management sold to Valuestream
Listed financial services company MMC Contrarian (MMA) has sold Sydney funds management boutique MMC Asset Management to Valuestream Investment Management, an issuer of managed investment schemes and provider of back office services including fund accounting, unit registry, and custody and compliance services.
In its announcement to the ASX, MMC Contrarian stated that "the market downturn and related fund outflows has [sic] resulted in a further decline in funds under management which no longer makes ownership of the funds management business cost effective", noting that MMC Asset Management will report a loss for the 12 months to 30 June 2009.
Management of the MMC Australian Share, MMC Small Companies, MMC Value Growth, and MMC Concentrated funds will shift to a new boutique, Huon Investments, headed by existing MMC Asset Management Portfolio Manager Michael Birch. MMC Contrarian is taking a 10.0 percent stake in Huon, stating in its market statement that this would be a passive holding, and that it would "not seek to play an active role in the business of Huon".
The MMC funds have been comparatively poor performers: the Australian Share, Small Companies, and Value Growth funds were third- or fourth-quartile performers relative to peers over the three and five years to 30 June 2009, although first quartile over the past year. The funds' assets have fallen substantially in recent years: MMC Australian Share peaked at A$232.37 million at 31 October 2006, for instance, but had only A$50.26 million at 31 May 2009, while Small Companies' A$62.33 million at 31 January 2007 had by a combination of outflows and declining share valuations fallen to A$10.25 million by 31 May 2009. (MMC Asset Management also terminated listed property fund MMC Property Securities in June 2007, another consistently poor performer with only A$3.0 million in assets at its termination date.)
The MMC businesses have also had a varied history. MMC Contrarian listed on the ASX in December 2003 as a vehicle investing in other ASX listed companies. In 2008, the firm changed its business strategy to focus on investing in the wider financial services sector, and in March 2009 purchased Community & Corporate Financial Services from Tolhurst Group (TNL). ComCorp had previously acquired financial planning firms Affiliate and Hillmac, whose businesses are concentrated on the credit union industry, and recently purchased 40.0 percent of Port Macquarie-based financial planning firm Berry Financial Services.
MMC Asset Management was originally the merger of two existing funds management businesses owned by Erik Metanomski and Peter Constable. Metanomski subsequently sold down his stake in the funds management company progressively and resigned in 2007. The business has subsequently employed a succession of investment management staff, most of whom have not stayed for any extended period. We withdrew our Morningstar Recommendations from MMC funds in June 2008 because we were unable to obtain sufficient information from the fund manager to update our qualitative assessments of its funds.


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The unfortunate incident occurred on December 16 in Delhi and shook the entire nation, even as the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern fought for her life in the Safdarjung Hospital (Delhi) and later the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. She succumbed to her injuries thirteen days later while undergoing emergency treatment in Singapore for brain and gastrointestinal damage on December 29.
After watching a film in South Delhi in the early evening, she and a male companion had boarded a bus, which was being driven as an unauthorized "joyride", thinking it was a public bus.
The only other passengers on the bus were five men who were friends of the driver. All six, including the driver, were charged in connection with the assaults and have been arrested.
After the attack, she was taken to Safdarjang Hospital, received multiple surgeries, and was placed on mechanical ventilation.
The victims, a 23-year old woman and her male friend, were on their way home after watching the film Life of Pi in Saket in South Delhi.They boarded a chartered bus at Munirka for Dwarka that was being driven by joyriders at about 9:30 pm.
The minor among the accused had called for passengers telling them that it was going towards their destination.
The woman's friend became suspicious when the bus deviated from its normal route and its doors were shut. When he objected, the group of six men already on board taunted the couple, asking what they were doing alone at such a late hour.
When the male victim tried to intervene, he was beaten, gagged and knocked unconscious with an iron rod.
The men dragged the woman to the rear of the bus, beating her with the rod and raping her while the bus driver continued to drive. Medical reports later suggested that the woman suffered serious injuries to her abdomen, intestines and genitals due to the assault, and doctors say that the damage indicates that a blunt object (suspected to be the iron rod) may have been used for penetration.
That rod was later described by police as being a rusted, L-shaped implement of the type used as a wheel jack handle.According to the International Business Times, a police spokesman said that the youngest attacker "sexually abused his victim twice and ripped out her intestines with his bare hands."
According to police reports the woman attempted to fight off her assailants, biting three of the attackers and leaving bite marks on the accused men.After the beatings and rape ended, the attackers threw both the victims from the moving bus.
Then the accused allegedly tried to drive the bus over the woman but she was pulled aside by her male friend. One of the perpetrators later cleaned the vehicle. Police impounded it the next day.
The victims were found by a passerby on the road, partially clothed and unconscious, around 11 pm. The passerby phoned the Delhi Police, who took the couple to a hospital, where the female victim was given emergency treatment and placed on mechanical ventilation.
She was found with only 5% of her intestines left inside of her. A doctor at the hospital later said that the "rod was inserted into her and it was pulled out with so much force that the act brought out her intestines also. That is probably the only thing that explains such severe damage to her intestines."
The incident has generated international coverage and was condemned by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, who called on the Government of India and the Government of Delhi "to do everything in their power to take up radical reforms, ensure justice and reach out with robust public services to make women's lives more safe and secure".
The female victim was born and raised in Delhi while her parents were from a small village in the Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh. Her father, who sold his agricultural land to educate her, works for a private company as a loader in Delhi.
Complying with Indian law, the real name of the victim was initially not released to the media, so pseudonyms were used for her by various media houses instead, including Jagruti ("awareness"), Amanat ("treasure"), Nirbhaya ("fearless one"), and Damini ("lightning", after the 1993 Hindi film Damini),although some media commentators have questioned the judgement of using pseudonyms for her.
Six men have been arrested in connection with the incident: Ram Singh, the bus driver, and his brother, Mukesh Singh, were both arrested in Rajasthan; Vinay Sharma, an assistant gym instructor, was arrested in Delhi, as was Pawan Gupta, a fruit seller; Mohammad Afroz (aka Raju), a 17 years and 8 month old minor and native of Uttar Pradesh was arrested by the police at Anand Vihar terminal in Delhi; Akshay Thakur, a man who had gone from Bihar to Delhi seeking work, was arrested in Aurangabad in Bihar.
The group had been eating and drinking together and "having a party" earlier that day.Mohammad Afroz (aka Raju) had only met the others that day.Although the charter bus which Ram Singh drove on weekdays was not permitted to pick up public passengers or even to operate in Delhi because of its tinted windows, they decided to take it out "to have some fun".
With Mukesh Singh driving, they first picked up a carpenter who was charged Rs. 10 for a ticket and then robbed of Rs. 8,000 and ejected in South Delhi.They then turned back and a half hour later, picked up the couple who were charged Rs. 10 each.
Ram Singh was presented before the Metropolitan Magistrate on 18 December 2012.Mukesh Singh, who was placed in Tihar Jail after his arrest, was assaulted by other inmates and was kept in solitary confinement for his own protection.
Ram and Mukesh Singh are from Ravidas camp, a slum in South Delhi.Ram Singh suffers from a substantial disability in his right arm, sustained after a bus accident for which he had sought compensation.[48] He refused to participate in an identification process.
Shortly after the attacks, Gupta said he accepted his guilt and should be hanged.
The male victim is 28 years old, from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, and lives in Ber Sarai, New Delhi.
Public protests took place in Delhi, where thousands of protesters clashed with security forces. Similar protests took place in major cities throughout the country.