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Forced marriage now a crime
New law will help protect thousands of potential victims
Forcing someone to marry against their will is now a criminal offence.
New legislation introduced today (16 June) by the government is designed to help people in England and Wales. It also applies to UK nationals overseas who are at risk of becoming the victim of a forced marriage.
Forced marriage can involve physical, psychological, emotional, financial and sexual abuse including being held unlawfully captive, assaulted and raped.
In 2013, the government's Forced Marriage Unit gave advice or support related to a possible forced marriage to more than 1300 people.
Maximum penalty of seven years
The maximum penalty for the new offence of forced marriage is seven years imprisonment.
Law enforcement agencies will also be able to pursue perpetrators in other countries where a UK national is involved under new powers defined in legislation.
Home Secretary Theresa May said:
Forced marriage is a tragedy for each and every victim, and its very nature means that many cases go unreported.
I am proud to say that the UK is already a world-leader in the fight to stamp out this harmful practice with the government's Forced Marriage Unit working hard to tackle this terrible practice in the UK and overseas.
Today's criminalisation is a further move by this government to ensure victims are protected by the law and that they have the confidence, safety and the freedom to choose.
This summer, the Prime Minister will also be hosting the UK's first summit dedicated to galvanising action against forced marriage and related issues.
The new legislation also makes forcing a UK national into marriage outside the UK an offence under domestic law for the first time. The offence is triable in courts in England and Wales.
The new criminal offences will work alongside existing civil legislation (Forced Marriage Protection Orders - FMPOs) allowing victims to pursue a civil or criminal option.
Speedier and more effective
FMPOs can already be made by a civil court against any individuals suspected of trying to force a victim into marriage. From today the breach of a FMPO is a criminal offence with a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine.
This will strengthen the existing law by enabling speedier and more effective enforcement action against those who breach the terms of an order.
It will still be possible for victims to seek enforcement for breach of a forced marriage protection order by way of the civil court's contempt powers as an alternative to reporting the breach to the police.
Crime Prevention Minister Norman Baker said:
Forced marriage is an appalling form of abuse which crosses borders and cultural boundaries. The scale of reported cases is deeply worrying, but this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Legislation is the next key step in solving this problem and builds on the hard work already being done by the government and third sector organisations to tackle this practice.
The message from the coalition government is clear - forced marriage is totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
Aneeta Prem, founder of Freedom charity, which exists to educate young people about forced marriage, said:
I am delighted that the government has taken action to criminalise forced marriage.
In the most tragic cases, people forced into marriage become domestic slaves by day and sexual slaves by night.
Today's announcement sends out a powerful message that this indefensible abuse of human rights will be not be tolerated.
Everyone should have the freedom to choose.
Dr Ash Chand, the NSPCC's strategy head for minority ethnic children said:
The change in the law to make forced marriage a crime in England and Wales is a huge step forward which we hope will deter those plotting against their own children.
Many young people who call our ChildLine service about this issue are frightened, concerned and feel control of their lives is being wrenched from them.
We have produced an animation that will help allay their fears and encourage them to contact us for help and advice.


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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been on the hunt for a more natural way to maneuver robots in space for some time now, resulting in cool experiments like using a Leap Motion controller to remotely control a Mars rover and using an Oculus Rift plus a Virtuix Omni to take a virtual tour of the Red Planet. It therefore made sense for the folks at JPL to sign up for the latest Kinect for Windows developer program in order to get their hands on the newer and more precise Kinect 2 (which, incidentally, is not available as a standalone unit separate from the Xbox One) to see if it would offer yet another robotics solution.
They received their dev kit in late November, and after a few days of tinkering, were able to hook up an Oculus Rift with the Kinect 2 in order to manipulate an off-the-shelf robotic arm. According to our interview with a group of JPL engineers, the combination of the Oculus's head-mounted display and the Kinect's motion sensors has resulted in "the most immersive interface" JPL has built to date. Join us after the break to see a video of this in action and find out just why one of them has called this build nothing short of revolutionary.

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Just an ordinary day on my morning trip to Starbucks..
But let me back up a few hours before that trip..
4am: first, "Mama!" cry from the hallway followed by my rush to take her back to her bed before she wakes up her sister.
4:15am: repeat
4:20am: repeat
4:30am: repeat
5:00am: say, "WHATEVER!" and let her have her way, which entails her crawling into bed and somehow taking up the whole bed while she tosses and turns for the next 2 hours.
7:00am: ALARM
7:45: CRA!!!.. forgot to hit snooze and get awoken with a foot in my face!
7:45-8:45: rush to get two kiddos ready, get showered, check my emails to make sure nothing urgent happened, take a look at my planner to figure out where I need to be, make coffee, make my shake, load the kids in the car..go back in for the book bag and lunch box I forgot.
9:10: drop child #1 at school with child #2 in hand.
9:15: drive to my little slice of heaven..STARBUCKS for coffee since I left the cup I made at home.
9:30: unload child #2, grab my purse and happily walk into Starbucks UNTIL..
A women races to the door in front of me and says, "So sorry, but I'm in a rush to get to work."
So, I let her cut in front of me and surprisingly, I felt sad instead of pissed off!
Sad that she judged me in my yoga pants and Momlife shirt for not having a life deemed important enough to value…
Sad that she assumed I had nowhere to be …
Sad that she had given no thought to how my morning might have been…
Sad that she felt that because she was dressed up in a business suit that her "job" was more important than mine…
When will we get it as women, as mothers?
It's ALL hard, no matter if your rocking yoga pants or tailored business pants.
It's ALL hard, no matter if your giving a presentation to 50 board members or trying to get your kiddos fed and down for nap time so that you can clean up, prep dinner and put a load of laundry in.
It's ALL hard, PERIOD.
So to that woman who cut me in line at Starbucks, your life is not more important than mine.. just different and that's perfectly OK with me!


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- 6 thin chicken cutlets.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- 3/4 bar of butter.
- 1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder.
- 5 tablespoons of chopped parsley.
- 3 tablespoons of chopped scallion.
- Flour as needed.
- 1 or 2 eggs.
- Breadcrumbs as needed.
- 1/2 cup of Nutrioli® oil.
For the filling:
- Coat the cutlets with salt and pepper on both sides.
- Soften the butter with a fork and add garlic powder, parsley, and scallion.
- Stretch the cutlets out and put a tablespoon of butter mix in the center of each. Roll them up, making sure to seal the sides well so that the filling doesn't come out. Cut the rolls into slices. Coat in flour, then in the beaten egg, and finally in the breadcrumbs.
- Heat up the Nutrioli® oil in a pan and fry the chicken rolls on medium heat until the breading turns golden. Afterwards, place them in a baking dish and bake at 200°C (392°F) for 15 minutes in order to complete cooking. Serve accompanied by the steamed vegetables of your choice.


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Lykke Li gets deported
A New Name To Go By is a twilight lullaby, where Lykke Li's layered vocals swirl around a drowsy steel drum loop. If this was the 80s, she'd perform it on Top Of The Pops in a sea of dry ice while two backing dancers rotated slowly behind her in white silk sheets.
But it's not the 80s. So here is a Soundcloud link. How disappointing.


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Ah, fall is here and I've started to think about decorating for Halloween. This year I'm really drawn toward a simple, modern Halloween look and have been searching Pinterest for ideas. One image that stood out were these darling diy modern painted pumkins. It sounds like they are easy enough to create and you can find out how by visiting the.beauty.dojo.
To get us the spirit, I've rounded up a few Halloween decor with modern touches that would be fun to decorate a front door, mantel or foyer.
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1 filigree ceramic pumpkin // 2 dark wheat wreath // 3 mini bat string lights
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The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a Federal law which states that educational institutions must notify students annually of their rights under the act. FERPA affords students certain rights with respect to their education records. These rights include:
Students may choose to complete and submit the FERPA Form for Student Consent to Release Information to the Registrar's Office or Financial Aid Office allowing the release of their education records to specified third parties, which includes a parent, spouse or any other person, organization, etc.
The FERPA Form for Student Consent to Release Information can be found on the Financial Aid page.
Directory information includes the student's name, home and school addresses, home and school telephone numbers, electronic mail address, date and place of birth, degree program, dates of attendance, degrees, and honors.
Students may withhold directory information from being released outside of the seminary community by notifying the Registrar in writing within two weeks of the first day of class for the Fall Quarter. Forms are available in the Registrar's Office.


text: The Porn Kings shape their own brandish style of club/dance music for an eclectic listen similar to their fellow cohorts out of Liverpool. Releasing hits since the mid-'90s, these electronic slicers and dicers' first major single was "Up to No Good," which went Top 30 in Germany and the U.K., as well as sizzling to number one in Canada. Davy T. and the rest of the crew finally gathered their biggest breakbeats and techno slides for a full-length, named for the successful first single, three years later, as well as mixing for DJ Quicksilver, Young MC, Josh Wink, and Pamela Fenandez. ~ MacKenzie Wilson


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City Max Arar
City Max is located at King Saud Road, Arar City, Saudi Arabia Kingdom. Citymax is today the largest economic chain working in the fashion field in the Middle East. Citymax meets requirements of medium social class. City Max, where you will enjoy a unique shopping experience. It includes men's clothing, women's clothing, children's clothes, shoes, toys, accessories and cosmetics. The opening of the City Max Arar was in 1433 in a commercial area estimated at 23,000 square feet.
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If you have one simple task, and you fail, you need more help than we can give you. Or, your own meme. Luckily for you, the Internets have decided it's the latter.
The "You Had One Job" meme is a mockery of the tiny, hilarious failures we encounter in everyday life. Enjoy the best of the collection here: 25 People Who Had One Job to Do and Failed.
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In the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass Region, Nicholasville is a bedroom community of Lexington. The area, known for its beautiful rural landscape, music heritage and historical sites, has a lot to offer visitors, including a number of locations with paranormal activity. When traveling near Nicholasville, take a tour of the haunted houses in and around the city.
West Jessamine High School
Nicholasville's West Jessamine High School (jessamine.k12.ky) has a long reputation as a higher, but haunted, place of learning. Students claim that lockers open and close on their own, vehicles self-start and strong wafts of perfume permeate rooms. According to StrangeUSA.com, janitors report cases of assaults by flying trash cans and football field lights mysteriously turning on and off. To make even more hairs stand on end, janitors and teachers allege that a humming apparition and three ghostly women dressed in red walk the hallways in the dark of night.
Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park
During the Civil War, Camp Nelson (campnelson.org) served as a recruiting, training and supply depot. It provided over 10,000 African-American soldiers for the Union Army. The location even became a refugee camp for the soldiers' families. Today, spirits are said to haunt the fields, cemetery, prison and forts of Camp Nelson. Ghost tours, held periodically in the park by certified ghost hunters, have revealed strange orbs, aromas, movements and chills.
Gratz Park Inn
Unusual apparitions have appeared at the Gratz Park Inn (gratzparkinn.com), just 12 miles from Nicholasville. Patrons report spotting a young girl in Victorian dress playing with her dolls by the second-floor elevators. According to "This Old House," little Lizzie has a fondness for opening doors and tugging on guests' sleeves. Another male spirit inhabits the lower floor, while housekeepers claim that an older ghostly gentleman turns on TVs. Although the story behind the paranormal sightings is hazy, Lexington Convention and Visitors Center says that the building dates to 1916. Throughout its history, it has seen use as a home, medical clinic and morgue.
The Mansion at Griffin Gate
The Mansion (mansionatgriffingate.com), a 19th-century antebellum estate, was home to a succession of prominent Lexington families and now is said to be the residence of souls long passed. Serving as Lexington's only four-diamond restaurant, The Mansion is purportedly haunted by the ghost of Gretta, a teenage girl who hanged herself over a boy. Staffers and guests report unexplained occurrences, such as apparitions, keys being moved, lights going on and off, swaying chandeliers and cold breezes.
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Food and drink advanced process operator
Supervising work on food and drink production lines within food manufacturing plants and businesses.
Summary of this apprenticeship standard
- Level
3 (equivalent to A levels at grades A to E)
- Typical length
- 24 months
- Current funding band
Up to £9,000 per apprentice.
More information about funding
- Entry requirements
Set by employer.
Candidates will usually have GCSEs at grade D to G (or equivalent) - including English and maths.
- What apprentices will learn
- advanced food and drink processing principles - including good manufacturing processes (GMP), multi-stage operations, standard operating procedures (SOPs), stock control and waste minimisation
- advanced food and drink processing practices - including managing incidents, developing new products, implementing SOPs, routine and preventative maintenance and quality control testing
- business management - including understanding business vision and values, internal and external customers and profitability and commercial awareness
- continuous improvement - including using data and identifying trends and evaluating and improving productivity and performance
- leadership and management - including building relationships, leading teams and by example, training, mentoring and buddying and communicating effectively at all levels
- health and safety practices and legislation within a food production environment - including food safety, hygiene standards and hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP)
- Qualifications
- level 3 qualification in food and drink advanced operations (in development)
Before taking their end-point assessment apprentices must:
- achieve level 2 English and maths (equivalent to GCSEs at grades A* to C)
- Professional registration
None specified.
- End-Point Assessment
View a list of end-point assessment organisations for this standard
Organisation Phone Number FDQ Ltd 0113 3970321 firstname.lastname@example.com Allsup&Dale limited email@example.com Occupational Awards Limited 01235 432 032 email@example.com
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Our Instruments
We specialize in making the 'lower' sounding flutes. We produce a wide range of flutes: including Alto-, Bass-, Contrabass and Sub contrabass flutes. Our flutes are hand-made and we have dedicated time and effort towards building instruments that suit the requirements and physical needs of our customers. The results of our endeavors have led to the development of a line of instruments with increased musical potential which all began with the development of the open-hole alto flute. Following the innovation of the "Key-on-Key mechanism" and the patented "Kingma System ®", a series of open-hole and quarter-tone Alto, Bass and Contrabass flutes were created. As a result of the inspiring collaboration with Bickford Brannen a full quarter-tone C-flute with the patented Kingma System® is now available at Levit Flute Company, Brannen Brothers Flutemakers and Sankyoflutes.
Our Philosophy
Our involvement with our product does not end at the point of delivery. Customers are welcome to choose from several head joints, and we will make any final adjustments necessary to meet the personal requirements of the individual customer. Several customers have enjoyed their stay in our village Grolloo while fine-tuning their instrument. When an instrument leaves our shop, we remain interested in its well-being and are always ready to advise or help you with any question or issue which might arise.
The Kingma Company originated in Holland in the early 1950's, shortly after World War II. At that time there was a great shortage of wind instruments and Dirk Kuiper, who was the second flutist in the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, founded his small company to meet the demand for new flutes. For over 20 years Kuiper was known for his wooden, silver and gold C-flutes. He also built alto flutes, which at that time were unusual. In 1975 Eva Kingma joined Dirk Kuiper in building flutes. In 1981 Eva Kingma took over the company. On february 12th 2006 Dirk Kuiper died at the age of 92 years after a fruitful life. Since 1988, the company is located in the picturesque rural village of Grolloo in the north of the Netherlands.
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Our company is indebted to many people who contributed ideas, technical solutions, artistic opinions and motivation. Some of them we would like to mention:
Albert Cooper, Bickford and Laura Brannen, Matthias Ziegler, Robert Dick, Carla Rees, Jos Zwaanenburg and Anne La Berge.
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Broadway's "SpongeBob SquarePants, the Broadway Musical" | Talks at Google
We are joined by Brian Ray Norris, Jai'Len Josey, Curtis Holbrook, Lilli Cooper, and Wesley Taylor for an amazing performance and discussion about their 12-time Tony Award-nominated show.
More info and tickets via http://spongebobbroadway.com/
About the show:
A legendary roster of Grammy® Award winners. A visionary director and a Tony Award®-winning design team. One of the world's most beloved characters. Turn them loose on Broadway and what do you get? The musical The New York Times declares, "BRILLIANT!"
"Wonders pour from the stage in a ravishing stream of color and invention" (Time Out New York) as Broadway's best creative minds reimagine and bring to life the beloved Nickelodeon series with humor, heart and pure theatricality in "a party for the eyes and ears" (Daily Beast). Be there when SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face catastrophe—until a most unexpected hero rises to take center stage. The New York Times hails Ethan Slater's performance as our uber-absorbent champion, "a once-in- a-lifetime match of actor and character." Get ready to explore the depths of theatrical innovation in SpongeBob SquarePants, where the power of optimism really can save the world.


text: 21isSuperman 13,713 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Fanspeak has an On the Clock section where you can pick the team you want to draft as and how many rounds. Then you pick the big board you want to use and you go from there. The link was first posted on these boards by another member a year ago and it's a really fun website that lets you do all 7 rounds of the draft in a relatively quick time. Post your results and analysis here! This is my first attempt for 2015. They have us picking at 28th overall. Please keep in mind my analysis at this point is likely to be very superficial and the rankings of these players will be all over the place as the draft draws closer, more players declare, etc. 28: R1P28OT BRANDON SCHERFFIOWAAnalysis: I'm surprised he was still on the board when I was picking. I believe he is one of the best OTs in the draft and is projected to go in the top 10/15. I would love to grab him and maybe we can let go of Cherilus and his big contract 60: R2P28CB WAYNE LYONSSTANFORDA big (6'1", 196 lbs), smart, athletic CB. He'll be great insurance if (when?) Toler gets hurt 92: R3P28DE MARKUS GOLDENMISSOURIAt 6'3", 260 lbs, I think he has perfect size for a 3-4 OLB. I went after him in hopes of giving our pass rush some help (though I'm not sure if that's a strength of his). If it isn't and he's more of a run stuffer, he could take Walden's spot 124: R4P28WR DEONTAY GREENBERRYHOUSTONA big (6'3", 200 lbs), very gifted WR. He has tons of potential and has some good tools, but is very raw. Hopefully some work with a great route runner like Wayne can help him develop and reach that potential. This pick was made under the assumption that Hakeem Nicks is not brought back. That would give us a WR corps next year of Wayne, Hilton, Moncrief, Greenberry, and Whalen. 156: R5P28S SAM CARTERTCUThe safety class is apparently really weak here. The top ranked safety on the big board was something like #93 overall. (Edit: I'm really stupid and somehow missed a lot of the higher ranked S prospects. Please excuse my stupidity.) He's another big guy (6'1, 215 lbs) who can really help stabilize our safety position. I don't expect Landry to stick around with the team much longer and Mike Adams will be 34 by the time the draft takes place. 188: R6P28C DALLAS LEWALLENWISCONSINI went after some interior OL help here. I didn't do much research into Dallas. I just know Wisconsin has a great history with OLs, so I took a shot 191: R6P31S BRISON WILLIAMSSOUTH CAROLINAHe's noted as being a good leader, and he can play both safety spots. He's also played some corner, so his cover skills should be pretty good. Perhaps our FS of the future with Carter as our SS? 213: R7P21WR DEVIN SMITHOHIO STATEHe's very gifted athletically, so I think he could be a good PR/KR. Whalen has been very "meh" to me in terms of his returns. Whalen's best attribute is his ability to catch the ball securely. However, he's had a few mistakes so far this season and the Ravens game was probably his worst of the season. Putting a guy like Smith out there could really help our offense get better field position Overall: I'm not too excited about this mock. I like getting such a high ranked OT so late in the first round, but other than that, I don't think I addressed the team's needs as best as I could/should have. I do like taking 3 DBs and letting Pagano work his DB magic with them, but otherwise, I think I can address the team's needs better. I would have liked to get another interior OL and/or ILB at some point. Link to post Share on other sites


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James Dolan reportedly furious after latest Knicks loss, wants dancers to stop dancing
New York Knicks owner James Dolan is not going to wait very long for his team to turn things around before making rash decisions. According to the NY Daily News, Dolan was "ready to erupt" on Sunday night after the Knicks gave up 40 points in the first quarter and eventually dug themselves into a 23-point hole during a loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. At one point, he got up and left his courtside seat.
If this continues, we may eventually have to deal with the beautiful Knicks dancers becoming nothing more than human T-shirt cannons.
Dolan has become such a hands-on owner — figuratively speaking — that, according to a source, he doesn't want the dancers dancing. Crazy, right? The same guy who wanted creative input on the dancers' outfits (and he's good at it) apparently ordered that the girls' roles be reduced to mostly throwing T-shirts into the crowd. They performed maybe one routine on Sunday.
Why? No one seems to know, except the standard answer is usually "that's Dolan."
This is bad new for everyone. The Knicks are off to a 1-2 start and have 79 games left to play. Apparently Dolan has no intention of being patient this year. He said before the season started that he expects to win a championship this year, and it looks like he wasn't joking.
The Daily News added that Dolan tracked down Knicks general manager and team president Steve Mills to give him an earful about how poorly the team has been playing. Mills may not be to blame, but he should take one for the team in this instance. Nobody wants to see the dancers run out of Madison Square Garden.
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New York / Helsinki 8.8.2018 - United Nations Technology Innovation Labs (UNTIL) and xEdu, one of the world's leading startup accelerators, announced that they will collaborate to accelerate the development and implementation of new learning solutions via the frameworks provided by xEdu startup acceleration program and the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs.
Under the initiative, titled "UNTIL-xEdu Learning Accelerator", the selected startups that are developing and using technology to provide learning solutions for the needs of the emerging economies are able to join the xEdu acceleration program of Fall '18. The program will include additional tailormade modules focusing on the specific issues of the developing countries, and the acceleration program will continue with chosen UNTIL country pilot deployments in the Spring of 2019.
Welcoming the collaboration between UNTIL and xEdu, Mr Salem Avan, Director of the Global Services Division at UNHQ in New York stated "UNTIL is pleased to work with key partners to bring first tangible results out from the collaboration between Finland and the UN that resulted in the creation of UNTIL Finland in Espoo, supported by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. With the insight that Finland has on how to use technology to make education work, we can expect great things from the collaboration."
"During the last two years xEdu has been focusing on helping startups to scale-up their education and learning innovations in a sustainable way. This would not have been possible without the help of the Finnish education system, cities of Helsinki and Espoo, nor our main business partners Samsung and Telia. We believe that the collaboration with UNTIL is a great way to empower the startups, and to speed up the global deployment of the best learning innovations. This can create sustainable impact in education,"noted Antti Korhonen, CEO of xEdu.
Overall, it is estimated that in the upcoming years millions of learners will benefit from faster access to new scalable learning solutions provided by the education startups accelerated through the collaboration in the upcoming acceleration programs.
The initiative, which will be coordinated out of UNTIL Labs in Espoo, Finland, is kicked off with a true startup clock speed. The currently open application period for the upcoming xEdu acceleration program will be extended for an additional two weeks, i.e. the application period for the UNTIL-xEdu Learning Accelerator will be open until the 22nd of August 2018, and the program starts already in mid-September after the selection process is over. Concrete results of the first joint acceleration program will be featured in Helsinki at the world-leading startup conference Slush in December of 2018.
"The advances of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, including those brought on by a combination of computing power, robotics, big data and artificial intelligence, are generating revolutions in health care, transport and manufacturing.
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I've never been a big fan of decorating for halloween but this year I've had the itch to make sugar cookies for every occasion so I'll even cave for halloween. I searched for some inspiration and found these adorable bats and decided to turn my tulip cookie cutter upside down and into a ghost!
These came out so good!
I am always asked how my cookies hold their shape so well…the magic recipe from Sweetopia (below!). These cookies are not quick but they are worth the extra effort to have them hold their shape. Lots of time in the fridge and no baking powder.
2 cups unsalted butter (at room temperature)
2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract (sometimes I add a little more, or swap for almond extract)
5 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1. Cream the butter and sugar together in the bowl of an electric mixer on low to medium speed using the paddle attachment. Mix until fully combined, about a minute, scrap anything from the side of the bowl and mix again for a few seconds. They says Sweetopia (and its true!) is to not overmix the butter and sugar. Extra air incorporating will make your cookies spread.
2. Add eggs and mix; scrape down the sides of the bowl and mix for a few more seconds.
3. Add in liquid vanilla extract or almond extract. Mix again for a few seconds.
4. Add in flour and salt about 1/3 at a time. Mix on low so your flour doesn't splash out of the bowl, you'll only need to mix it for about 30-40 seconds. Again, don't overmix here. You'll see the dough come together – scrape down the bowl again if you need too.
5. Roll the dough out between 2 large pieces of parchment paper. Place on a baking sheet and into the fridge for a minimum of 1 hour.
6. Roll out the dough further if you need to. I like to make these cookies thick because they not only look and taste great they also make it one million times easier to decorate on. Thinner cookies don't have solid edges and can tend to get crispy and lose shape.
7. Once you have shapes ready to go, place them back in the fridge for at least 10 minutes to rechill. As you work through the dough place it back in the fridge if it starts to get warm and "goopier". It's not worth fooling with because it won't hold the shape even ad dough.
8. Bake cookies for 8-12 minutes at 350F. Let the cookies fully cool before attempting to decorate (trust me, liquid icing is not a friend to warm cookies!). If you are in a rush or trying to do this in one day just pop them back in the fridge to jumpstart the cooling process.
I use a non-egg, non-meringue powder royal icing recipe to frost my cookies. They are ultra shiny and taste great but if you freeze them the color can turn a little bit. But the cookies stay fresh in an air-tight container for two weeks so you can definitely make these ahead of time. The icing can sweat so try to keep them where they can dry really thoroughly or you'll be smudgey!
Ingredients for icing:
- 1½ cups confectioner's (powdered) sugar
- 1 tbls milk
- 2 tsps light corn syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla or almond extract
Directions for icing:
Mix your powdered sugar and milk in a kitchen-aid mixer until blended. It will look crazy but try to get the lumps out. Add in corn syrup and vanilla or almond extract and mix until its smooth (about a minute). If its too thick add a tiny amount of water, you'll be surprised how quick it can get runny, if you pour in to much, just add more powdered sugar. To get the consistency right I suggest seeing a visual example – I like this video that shows how it should peak before you put it in the piping bag.


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Nyjer Morgan has his say on collision, batting eighth
Nationals center fielder Nyjer Morgan expressed his displeasure with Manager Jim Riggleman's public admonishment of his running into St. Louis Cardinals catcher Bryan Anderson on Saturday night, calling it "very unacceptable" while defending the play and adding he hoped not to escalate the situation.
Morgan, who is back in the lineup tonight hitting eighth, believes he should have been in the lineup Sunday. On Sunday, Riggleman said Morgan's play at home plate -- which cost the Nationals a run because he did not touch the base -- was "unprofessional" but indicative of Morgan's overall style.
Morgan "did an unprofessional thing. He went after the catcher," Riggleman said Sunday. "So I certainly don't condone that, but we've all made mistakes. I think that's not Nyjer's style of play to do something like that. That's totally uncharacteristic."
Riggleman also explained he kept Morgan out of the lineup because he feared the Cardinals would intentionally hit Morgan and start a beanball war.
Today, Morgan was asked if he had received an explanation for why he didn't play. He and Riggleman had not spoken about the one-game hiatus, but Morgan gave expanded thoughts on the situation and the play.
"I guess it was his thought that maybe I shouldn't be in the lineup," Morgan said. "I don't know why. As players, we police ourselves. Maybe, I guess, from how he hit thought it was, I guess he perceived it as some nasty play with the intentions of trying to hurt somebody before coming to me and asking me about the situation, which was very unacceptable. But on my half, I'm not going to go ahead and throw fuel on the fire. I'm going to try to be as professional as I can about the situation. Basically, I thought I should have been in there yesterday.
"I probably knew something was coming. But I know as another player, they're not going to try to intentionally hit me in the [expletive] head. I'm probably one of the league leaders in getting hit by pitches this year.* Getting hit by a pitch, you've got to take your lumps.
(*Morgan has been hit eight times, tied for eighth in the National League.)
"You go out there and play hard and don't try to hurt somebody. It happened to maybe look like that. I don't want to be perceived as a dirty player. It was just an intense play. From what I saw, I saw [Albert] Pujols threw a nice little pump fake. I was going full-speed around third. It was just what I saw. I thought maybe the ball was coming. I saw the catcher maybe tense up. I could have took the kid out if I wanted to, but I kind of grazed him. It wasn't, in my eyes, intentional. From what I saw, I guess have should have slid. Next time, I'll slide."
Asked if he thought he'd done anything wrong on the play, Morgan said , "Besides not touching the base, no. Just playing hard. Like I said, I don't really want to throw on the fire."
Asked if he and Riggleman had spoke, Morgan said, "He just basically did a cardinal sin. You don't blast your player in the papers. That's all right."
Riggleman said he spoke with Morgan Friday night, after Morgan was picked off first base in the eighth inning even though the Nationals trailed, 4-0. Riggleman defended Morgan in his postgame comments and took the blame himself that night despite Morgan's obvious mistake. Riggleman did not address Saturday's play at the plate with Morgan.
"That's self-explanatory," Riggleman said. "There's not much to talk about that play."
Said General Manager Mike Rizzo: "Whenever things like that happen -- we address a lot of things. We don't announce them. We don't talk about them. He's family, and we keep all of our family stuff in house."
Morgan, the Nationals' leadoff hitter most of the season, expressed no qualms with hitting eighth.
"Being that he's the skipper, he's going to make those calls," Morgan said. "I could care less about hitting eighth in the lineup or whatever. That doesn't really get to me. I know where I should be in the lineup, but he's the skipper of this team and as far as I know that's what he's going to do."
Riggleman has moved Morgan down in the order because of his .316 on-base percentage, which is nine points below league average and 62nd out of 75 qualifying players in the National League. Riggleman prefers Morgan at leadoff but said his drop in getting on base became untenable. Before this season, Morgan had a .362 on-base percentage.
"I think our ball club is best if he's hitting leadoff," Riggleman said. "As we build the club for the future, that's what we want him to do. It's got to get to a point where we're getting more in the .340, .350, .360 on-base percentage for him to really nail that spot down for us. I think that he will get back to where he was last year in the bigger picture. Our ball club will fare better with him at the top of the lineup. Right now, it's just not happening."
Much of the discrepancy owes to Morgan running into worse luck on balls put in play. Morgan's batting average on balls in play before this year was .357. This year, it's .309. His strikeout rate, 15 percent, is virtually identical to previous seasons. Riggleman believes Morgan will revert to his career norms.
"For the most part, it's something you have or you don't have, but his history says that he does get on base at a higher clip than what he's done this year," Riggleman said. "We saw it last year when he came to us."
Adam Kilgore
August 30, 2010; 6:45 PM ET
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wow. how's that quote go? "Why isn't Nyjer playing? Look at the back of his baseball card."
Who's this guy think he is?
Posted by: Section406 | August 30, 2010 7:29 PM | Report abuse
wow is right. he's just begging to be DFA'd
Posted by: DCguy7 | August 30, 2010 7:30 PM | Report abuse
Adam's having a productive rain delay.
Dirty, not dirty, I don't know.
But a.316 OBP, arm far too weak to play MLB outfield, not knowing some rules regarding baserunning, getting picked of with amazing regularity, leading the league in caught stealing, throwing to the wrong base too often....that I know about.
So, seriously, who was that dude wearing Nyjer's jersey last July, and where the heck is he? That dude was dynamic.
And Riggleman's laid back style has hurt Nyjer. He made plenty of mistakes early in the year, (baserunning, bunting and throwing), they went uncorrected for far too long, and now Nyjer and the rest of us are paying for it.
Posted by: Sunderland | August 30, 2010 7:30 PM | Report abuse
I'm sure that Riggleman and the coaching staff addressed his behavior. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to have taken.
Posted by: Cavalier83 | August 30, 2010 7:44 PM | Report abuse
Open mouth, insert foot, exit stage left. Bizarro year continues.
Posted by: joemktg1 | August 30, 2010 7:46 PM | Report abuse
John McLaughlin is on the phone.
He says: "Bye bye."
Posted by: Drew8 | August 30, 2010 7:55 PM | Report abuse
His comments show all the acumen for successful relations with his boss that his base running shows for success in baseball.
And we thought Dibble stepped in it.
Posted by: NatsFly | August 30, 2010 8:10 PM | Report abuse
I was at that game, sitting in sec. 319, and thus looking more or less straight down at home when Nyjer came in from third.
Anderson was not at all "tensed up." He was standing a full step or two into fair territory, nowhere close to the plate. Nyjer came right at him, making no attempt whatsoever to step on the plate. Of course, as it's well known now, Pudge had to remind him of the reason he was running down the line, and pushed him back to touch home.
Morgan has Dibble-itis this week. I think he just established himself as a very dedicated hockey player. Too bad, but it looks like the Nats have an outfield after all, with Bernadina, Morse and Willingham. Guess they need to shop for a fourth one--but I don't think it's Nyjer.
Posted by: shepdave2003 | August 30, 2010 8:11 PM | Report abuse
Nyjer, you just bought your ticket out of DC.
Thank you.
Posted by: scmonty1 | August 30, 2010 8:41 PM | Report abuse
In Nyjer's child like world he obviously believes that his words can make things go away. That was a bush league play and everyone who has seen it knows it.Whether his pathetic play,childish stupidity or his mouth cause him to be released I could care less. Just pick one and get rid of this clown,he is one of the worst major leaguers I have ever seen.
Posted by: wellscats | August 30, 2010 8:54 PM | Report abuse
Congrats to Nyjer for completely duping all of us into thinking he wasn't a d-bag. Wow. Is this REALLY the same guy from last year?
Posted by: jdwood84 | August 30, 2010 8:55 PM | Report abuse
Dang. And I have an extra Nyjer bobblehead a Phillies fan gave me at the game. Shoulda put it on craigslist the next day while it still had value.
Posted by: gilbertbp | August 30, 2010 9:12 PM | Report abuse
a fast but awful base runner who makes too many mistakes. one of the differences in being where we are, and being better, is getting better production out of his position not only offensively but defensively....he's got a weak arm, throws to the wrong base, misses cut off's and yet, he's the best we have, for now.
Posted by: outrbnksm | August 30, 2010 9:21 PM | Report abuse
"[P]ublic admonishment"????? The word is "admonition."
Posted by: 1995hoo | August 30, 2010 9:30 PM | Report abuse
Never has so much been made out of so little if i hear he cost us a run one more time i gonna puke WE WON THE FREAKIN GAME BY NINE RUNS, HELLO!!! what did it matter that he didn't touch the plate some of you couch potato fantasy league mangers need to get a life, an outfield of Morse,Bernie and JWill sounds like recepie for lot of doubles and triples next year, you want to run Nyjer out of town? fine but be carefull what you wish for.
Posted by: dargregmag | August 30, 2010 9:52 PM | Report abuse
This guy lives in a dream world. He thinks he's alot better then he actually is. He's totally undisiplined and needs to eat a little humble pie because he hasn't built up much collateral with this team.
Posted by: pstotts15 | August 30, 2010 9:59 PM | Report abuse
Dargramps, if that was just one boneheaded play out of the season, nobody would be screaming for his head now. But you could make a highlight reel of his bad plays - the missing of the cutoff guys (allowing runners to get an extra base), getting picked off all the time, flinging his glove down when he missed that fly ball, now this. The Nats are a weak team; they need every man they can get. It doesn't help when they start off a man down because the manager has to sit one of them down for his own protection.
Nyjer could be a real asset to the team - if he just kept his head screwed on straight. But he's costing them outs on the basepaths and giving them up on the field. That's unpardonable.
Posted by: gilbertbp | August 30, 2010 10:01 PM | Report abuse
Hey, commenter known as "1995hoo" -- There is absolutely nothing wrong with the word "admonishment." Look it up. It was used correctly in this article.
I trust that the Nationals will do the right thing, baseball-wise, with Nyjer Morgan. If they believe he's a clubhouse disruption, they will cut him, just as they did with Elijah Dukes in March. Thus far, that's not how they see him.
Posted by: MrRamsey | August 30, 2010 10:18 PM | Report abuse
Is Riggs really suggesting that a .357 BABIP is sustainable for Nyjer? It's not, and any plan built on that assumption is not really a serious plan.
Posted by: HHover | August 30, 2010 10:40 PM | Report abuse
Let's not forget that Riggleman, with essentially a one-year contract no matter what Rizzo says (no extension yet in writing) is way down there on the totem pole, just above Willie Harris and Alberto Gonzalez.
Posted by: paulkp | August 31, 2010 12:05 AM | Report abuse
Maxwell, Bernadina & Morse, next year's starting outfield
Posted by: DCsportsnut | August 31, 2010 5:56 AM | Report abuse
I didn't want to think it was true (for either guy really), but I finally must concede that Milledge for Morgan was trading head cases. Make that air-head cases. Make that arrogant air-head cases. As Mike Singletary once said, can't win with 'em.
Posted by: evanescent_panoply | August 31, 2010 6:36 AM | Report abuse
Morgan's a jerk!!! If the Nats have anybody in the minors ready to come up or if they want to put Bernadina in Center and steroid user-Morse in Right they should do it. Dump the bum.
Posted by: Dog-1 | August 31, 2010 6:46 AM | Report abuse
"steroid user-Morse"? Do you have definite proof of this?
Moonball Morgan just doesn't get it. Is anybody else on this team doing the bone headed stuff he is doing?
He is pretty arrogant.
Posted by: M20832 | August 31, 2010 7:26 AM | Report abuse
What a shame. Morgan has some raw athletic talent, but he doesn't have the emotional maturity to succeed in the majors.
Posted by: SmittyATL | August 31, 2010 7:36 AM | Report abuse
Without question, it was a totally bush league play by NM at the plate. And on top of that, he won't own up to it.
Posted by: shanks1 | August 31, 2010 7:40 AM | Report abuse
Morgan has no baseball sense. Terrible on the bases, despite his blazing speed. No clue, whatsover, in the field, regularly throws the ball to the wrong place. Eventually, looking at the tools gets old and you have to look at the sum of them. Kind of like Gary Matthews, Jr. in that repect, with the same type of all star mentality, while getting picked off.
Posted by: Gooddogs | August 31, 2010 7:43 AM | Report abuse
Let's speak in terms Nyjer can understand. The ball in the stands was a game misconduct, and the play at the plate was two minutes for boarding. The next move should be demotion to the ECHL.
[guys he doesn't know what he's doing out there. they need to save him from himself. He doesn't sniff the lineup of any of the other 29 teams in the league.]
Posted by: nfb987 | August 31, 2010 7:47 AM | Report abuse
Morse was suspended in 2005 after testing positive for steroids.
Bernadina in CF next year. Count on it. RF will interesting but don't think they will count on Morse as the starter.
Posted by: smirkman | August 31, 2010 7:50 AM | Report abuse
The one thing Morgan is right about is that the manager shouldn't have thrown his player under the bus like that. Tony La Russa said that Drew Storen didn't belong in the majors and I didn't hear anyone (Riggleman) stick up for the young man. Right or wrong you have stick up for your players in public.....
Posted by: punchdaclock | August 31, 2010 8:34 AM | Report abuse
The guy is made for the name: bonehead. His IQ is less than his jersey number.
Posted by: lp_lodestar | August 31, 2010 8:37 AM | Report abuse
Morse was suspended in 2005 after testing positive for steroids.
Ok. but that was five years ago. Anything lately?
Posted by: M20832 | August 31, 2010 9:22 AM | Report abuse
I want to know why Morgan's benching was reported in the St. Louis
Dispatch on Sunday, but not one word of it in the Post sports section.. What 's up with that?
Posted by: nb888 | August 31, 2010 9:34 AM | Report abuse
On the hit to the catcher. Morgan is first a hockey player. Emough said.
Posted by: boyn4884 | August 31, 2010 9:50 AM | Report abuse
@shepdave2003 - good comment - we were right above ya in 416, and I remember thinking why did he try to go after the catcher? Definitely had the same view you did - Anderson was in front of the plate, frankly hanging out watching the play. Loved Nyjer last year, can't understand what's happened to him this year. I think he's made one mistake too many and might be on the Dibble Express out of town...
Posted by: Section416akatheAlps | August 31, 2010 10:24 AM | Report abuse
Morgan needs to stop doing interviews! he just comes off as a COMPLETE FOOL!
He has no clue how the game of baseball is played.
The nuances of baseball escape this guy and he doesn't have the aptitude to grasp the game.
Posted by: whatyoutalkinboutman | August 31, 2010 10:50 AM | Report abuse
Maybe, I guess, from how he hit thought it was, I guess he perceived it as some nasty play with the intentions of trying to hurt somebody before coming to me and asking me about the situation, which was very unacceptable.
The reason Riggleman didn't go to Nyjer is because he probably knew that he was going to deny running into the catcher on purpose. It was a bush league play and I wish it was Matt Weiters he would've did that too, because Weiters would have picked up Nyjer and body slammed him into home plate.
Posted by: PublicEnemy1 | August 31, 2010 11:27 AM | Report abuse
He sort of reminds me of Dibble. For a while the stream of stuff coming out of his mouth is entertaining, but then he says too much and it's not.
Posted by: markfromark | August 31, 2010 11:29 AM | Report abuse
Nyjer has all the physical tools to be a special player, but his mind for the game does not exist. Why do you think we traded a head case for him? We traded our talented but bullheaded player for the Pirates talented but bullheaded player. Yet when he shows his lack of baseball finesse we act surprised. It's not like he's a young guy either, he just either doesn't listen to coaching or is too thick headed to institute the lessons he's learned. Either way you can't have him in the center of your outfield on a young building team.
Posted by: damjammer | August 31, 2010 1:47 PM | Report abuse
ok, now you have your scapegoat. Go roast it
Posted by: golo1 | August 31, 2010 3:01 PM | Report abuse
ok, now you have your scapegoat. Go roast it
Posted by: golo1 | August 31, 2010 3:04 PM | Report abuse
Yes Nyjer is a Head Case but he sure is the best center fielder they have had since they started in 2005. Maybe he will grow up. I would like to see him stick around for next season. But he would have to earn his way into the starting lineup.
Posted by: frediemac1 | August 31, 2010 4:33 PM | Report abuse
Got Ritalin?
Posted by: McLobo | August 31, 2010 5:02 PM | Report abuse
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From the exhibit, "Superheroes in Court! Lawyers, Law and Comic Books", curated by Mark S. Zaid, Esq., and on display Sept. 4-Dec, 16, 2010 in the Rare Book Exhibition Gallery, Level L2, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School.
Alanna Wolff and Jeff Byrd began taking on their macabre clients in a weekly strip in The Brooklyn Paper in 1979. Creator Batton Lash took his inspiration from the gothic law offices along Brooklyn's Court Street, the hub of The Brooklyn Paper's readership. From 1983 to 1997 the Wolff & Byrd strip ran in The National Law Journal, and the firm got their very own comic book in 1994, with story titles like "It Stalks the Public Domain," "Juristic Park," and "Lawyers in Hell," where Wolff and Byrd literally met a client in hell. Exhibit A Press still publishes the comic today under the title Supernatural Law, along with 16 compilations and an ongoing web comic. The Lillian Goldman Law Library has a complete collection of Wolff & Byrd comics.
Wolff & Byrd: Counselors of the Macabre no. 3 (Sept.1994). Rare Book Collection, Lillian Goldman Law Library.


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Xavier beats USC to reach AdvoCare title game
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) Xavier looks ready to climb higher in the rankings.
Trevon Bluiett scored 16 points and No. 23 Xavier beat Southern California 87-77 on Friday to reach the AdvoCare Invitational title game.
Bluiett had 11 points as Xavier (6-0) took control early on en route to a 54-27 halftime lead.
''Had our best half of the year,'' Xavier coach Chris Mack said. ''Our guys were ready to play. We're just excited to play in the championship game.''
Xavier also got 13 points from Edmond Sumner.
Nikola Jovanovic and Julian Jacobs had 15 points each for USC (5-1). The season-opening five-game run was the Trojans' best since starting 2000-01 with an 8-0 record.
''Xavier played outstanding basketball in the first half,'' USC coach Andy Enfield said. ''We got on our heels a little bit on offense. It kind of snowballed on us.''
The Musketeers were 6 of 13 from 3-point range, including Bluiett converting 3 of 4 during the opening half.
Bluiett had a pair of 3s and Jalen Reynolds added two slams during a 17-0 run that put Xavier ahead 19-3 5 minutes into the game.
USC shot 9 for 26 and was outrebounded 25-10 in the opening half.
Jovanovic's 3-point play and a slam by Jacobs got USC to 70-55 with 6 1/2 minutes to play. The deficit was trimmed to 72-59 on Malik Marquetti's rebound basket.
The Trojans outscored Xavier 50-33 in the second half.
''It was a learning experience for the guys,'' said Xavier guard Myles Davis, who had 12 points. ''I'm not saying we let our foot off the gas. I just think we're in a different circumstance that we haven't been in yet.''
USC guard Jordan McLaughlin had six points over 17 minutes during the first half, but didn't play in the second due to a broken nose.
''He's a tough young man,'' Enfield said. ''We'll see how it plays out and whether he can play on Sunday.''
Xavier: Mack has 140 victories at the school. He's eight away from tying Skip Prosser (1994-2001) for second place. ... The Musketeers opened the tournament Thursday by beating Alabama 64-45.
USC: The Trojans were looking to win two games in the same season against Top 25 teams for the first time since 2010-11. ... USC, behind 22 points from Boatwright, beat No. 20 Wichita State 72-69 on Thursday.
Xavier made 22 of 29 free throws, while USC converted 10 of 13. ... The Musketeers also won the rebound battle 43-30. ... Both teams had 12 turnovers.
Xavier: Plays the Monmouth-Dayton winner Sunday.
USC: Plays the Monmouth-Dayton loser for third place Sunday.


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Self Service restaurant is a modernly furnished restaurant with tasty food and diversified menu, which changes daily. The restaurant's dishes are prepared with care and love and makes you remember the taste of food prepared in childhood. Also, our chef know how to surprise you with international recipes, surprisingly palatable.
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Arsenal head coach Unai Emery remains cautious even after 11 wins on the bounce
PUBLISHED: 21:25 25 October 2018 | UPDATED: 21:30 25 October 2018
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Arsenal head coach Unai Emery has been speaking after his side's 1-0 victory against Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League on Thursday evening.
Read the transcript of what he had to say after Danny Welbeck's second half strike clinched victory at a noisy Estadio Jose Alvalade in the Portugeuse capital as the Gunners made it 11 wins on the bounce.
On only being three wins off equaling Arsenal's record winning run
Three matches. They are a lot of matches. We are thinking only of the next one against CP and also to enjoy each moment with our supporters.
On starting games slowly
Each match there is a big opportunity to improve [on things] and one is this. We spoke about it before the match.
Emery on his side's second half performance
When we were in the dressing room at half time we spoke and said 'OK today also, we cannot impose our game in first 45 minutes, but the second half we have the opportunity to change the result and continue in our way, thinking only of winning this match and improving things in the second half.
And I think the team did that in the second 45 minutes. But we need to continue finding the solution for the first half to be better.
Emery on Arsenal digging deep to get the win
The match, for the 90 minutes, there were different things happening tactically and individually. The first half is not clear for us, there was not a lot of chances. The second half step by step we imposed our job, our play to win this match, For us it's very important because we want too finish first in this group and at the moment the other club who is with us is Sporting. But also because we want to continue this process. There were many positive things
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Things To Do in Scottsdale - April 2018
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Scottsdale's high season events are still underway and there are a lot of fun things planned for April, including a lot of food-related events! Here is a list of some things going on in and around Scottsdale.
- Arizona Wine and Dine - April 5th - Head on over to Scottsdale Quarter to experience this annual event. Food from the area's top hotels and resorts will be served and there will be drinks, live music, socializing and more.
- Golden Palette Scottsdale ArtWalk - April 5th - This special edition of the ArtWalk in Old Town Scottsdale is called "A Taste of Scottsdale: Eat Drink and Art." It will run from 6:30PM to 9PM.
- Phoenix Film Festival - April 5th - April 15th - The Phoenix Film festival will kick off this year's event with a party on April 5th. Then, for the next ten days, films of all lengths from all genres and from all over the globe will be screened at the Harkins Scottsdale 101.
- Uncorked Wine Festival - April 7th - Salt River Fields will be hosting this afternoon event featuring over 50 wineries and over 100 wines from all over the globe. Food will be available for purchase as well. (Over 21 only.)
- Arizona Bike Week - April 11 - April 15th - Arizona Bike Week will be taking over WestWorld of Scottsdale in April. Besides the bikes, there will be flat track racing, several concerts, (including ZZ Top) and so much more.
- Scottsdale Culinary Festival- April 14th - April 15th - This is the 40th anniversary of this great festival at the Scottsdale Civic Center Plaza. Food offerings include BBQ, American, Latin, Asian, European and more. An Everclear and Eve6 concert will take place on Saturday.
- Nirvana Food & Wine Festival - April 19th - April 22nd - The Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain is home to this event again which features lots of food and drink-centered events, including the "Rosé Parte", wine dinners and a Tortillas and Tequila event. High-profile celebrity chefs, local chefs and celebrities will be in hosting and in attendance.
- Junk in the Trunk Vintage Market - April 27th - April 29th - Come find special treasures and this vintage flea market event. Taking place at WestWorld, there will be over 100 vendors.


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Welcome to Port Macquarie Football Clubs website
Port Macquarie Football Club was founded in 1974 and welcomes all families to the sporting club in Juniors, Ladies and Mens Competitions.
This website is open to all and serves the players, coaches, sponsors and members of Port Macquarie Football Club. The club also has a Facebook site for members to keep in touch.
If you have any feedback, content or suggestions for the website please send an email to email@example.com
Join the oldest football club in Port Macquarie
2020 Club Sponsors
Online registrations for 2020 are now open for all age groups. We look forward to welcoming returning and new players to the club for the 2020 season.
All registrations and payments are to be completed through Playfootball.com.au
For players eligible for the Active Kids Program Port FC are registered for the $100 Rebate. Please ensure that you have applied for the voucher prior to beginning your registration.
Registration/Information Days
We will be holding registration/information days at our home ground, Macquare Park, Gordon Street, Port Macquarie on Sunday 2nd and Saturday 8th February 2020 from 9-11am. Club shorts & socks and second hand boots will also be available for purchase.
For more information on playing or volunteering with Port Macquarie Football Club contact Cath Cornish on 0419 478 308.
Girls Only Competition
Girls only teams are available for U6s, U7s, U8s, U9s and U10/11s. Register with Port Macquarie FC today to secure your spot.
2020 Fixtures
2020 Fixtures will be available late Feb/early March. See our news & events page for fixtures for each team.
Results and venue information can be found on the Football MidNorth Coast website.
Important Dates 2020:
1 Feb: Online registrations open
Wet Weather Info
It's raining! Are the games on? What do I do? Who do I contact?
Rain does not automatically mean games are off. It is the state of the ground that determines whether matches proceed.
Cick here for current Wet Weather information: Football Mid North Coast - Wet Weather Page (note: click on refresh when viewing this page)
Port FC Canteen is open every Saturday through out the season
Come and try our amazing food & drink including:
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Support our Cafe, so we can support the club. 100% of profits made at the canteen are put back into the club.
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Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters were called to a fire at a terraced house converted into flats in Gloucester Mews in Leyton.
A two-roomed flat on the first floor was damaged by the fire. There were no reports of any injuries.
The Brigade was called at 1521 and the fire was under control at 1616.
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Georgia Watchdogs was created by a consortium of government watchdog organizations dedicated to monitoring the activities of state and local government in Georgia. We are non-partisan and committed to being a resource for Georgia residents who want to learn more about their public officials and government agencies.
We can teach you how to use Georgia's open records law to become better informed. There are a lot of links and resources on this website to help you easily access the information you need.
Of particular interest to our readers are matters concerning:
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"We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?
I am taking a contemporary look at e-learning or, more properly modern learning. How can it help those who work in the Learning and Skills Sector (LSS) deal with it's properties, opportunities, contribution and the challenges associated with its subsumation into effective teaching and learning? We have used these ideas to inform our enquiry into current tools for assessing e-learning development in modern learning.
This 'Thought Paper' looks again at what makes a successful college and how we might know what e-learning does as a component part of it.
Contemporary Learning
Successful colleges are those that are able to recruit a full complement of students, based on competition for places on courses each year. Students seek to enrol in high numbers.
They achieve this through a combination of successful academic achievement and (of equal or greater importance), providing a learning and learner experience such that its reputation is strong enough to bring others to the college. Rather than 'teach to the outcome', successful colleges provide a learning and learner experience of such quality that academic success follows naturally.
Assessments of this are made through the Learner Voice activities, success rates, commentaries in Social Media sites, formal surveys and demand for places on courses. This is Reputation and successful colleges take care to foster their good reputation.
Satisfactory colleges will attempt to manage their Reputation directly. Good and Outstanding colleges allow their reputation to develop obliquely, as a natural consequence or outcome. Reputation is characterised as a settled view by everyone else but the object. A college can destroy or reinforce a reputation but cannot create it or own it.
Satisfactory colleges lack 'a unique Reputation'. They provide a basic facility for obtaining qualifications without a high reputation.They will work very hard to attract students and have average success rates. Students will not talk about their exciting student experience.
Outstanding colleges are able to provide employers and employees with what they want relating to their business rather than a choice from a set of provisions. They give students and employers and employees what they want. Good colleges only give them a choice. They are seen as part of the training department of each employer they work with, providing a service drawing on training, or education, and pedagogical expertise and software hosting.
Satisfactory colleges provide what they have. In every case, the outstanding feature is provided as a judgement on the reputation of the college as evidenced by the demand of others to be associated with it. In these situations reputation is not owned by the college.
Technology has a huge role to play in this process. It defines the learning experience and behaviours. It can widen participation and deepen learning not least through the increased self-management of lifelong learning. It provides a lifestyle approach to being a student, valued by most young people, particularly where it helps make learning more accessible, more fun and more personal or contextualised and it strengthens on-line reputation. Technologies in college is far more than simply supporting learning. Good colleges work in a digitally literate culture. Digital Literacy is defined by JISC (2012) as:
'those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society'
Good college's relationship with technology is as a design science and there is value in sharing and learning from research on 'what works'. Improving colleges will innovative use as a contribution to that design.
The impact of technology is not measured easily. This is particularly so for outstanding colleges who do not treat technology as a discrete service nor see it related only to teaching and learning. Ultimately the success of any implementation of technology is seen by inverse degree the turbulence caused by its introduction, where this is less than the perceived benefits. This is because the aim of e-learning is to introduce the new possibilities of technology to effective teaching and learning and the wider student and teacher experience, subsuming what works into general teaching and learning practice and ejecting the new that causes too much turbulence relative to the benefits.
The standing and effectiveness of any college is never greater than the quality of its teaching. Outstanding colleges have moved much of the effort for success from teachers teaching to students sharing the management of their own learning and successes.
Teachers who use technology well have the confidence to work with it imaginatively, requiring a set of mindsets over having a wide knowledge of software processes. Teachers won't be replaced by technology but teachers that use technology will replace those that don't in all colleges.
Confidence is the pivotal aspect that determines the ability to be agile in adapting to new technologies. Confidence of the individual when aggregated describes the e-maturity of the provider and the pace of the journey towards maturity is an interaction between staff confidence and organisational barriers.
Teachers in outstanding colleges are able to explore the craft of teaching autonomously with what is known of the design science of teaching and make adaptive changes with the support of colleagues. Poorly supported teachers will make reactive change in course teams. Unsupported teachers will look to college compliance.
Outstanding colleges are able to encourage divergent thinking by staff and students through the affordances of latest personal technologies. Satisfactory colleges don't see beyond convergent learning. Compliant teachers won't be seen as needing support.
Good colleges use technology to make learning more enjoyable and accessible. Poorer colleges see technology as providing evidence of college effort and improving administrative efficiency primarily. None of this need be affected by old buildings, the classroom being seen as a meeting place for learners, mostly with a teacher, but held together with an enthusiasm for the learning in hand. In good colleges, technology will not be seen as a substitute for a strong student/tutor relationship.
Over 'compliance and control mechanisms,' enforced by management structures slows progression generally and affects the desire to explore effective use of technology. In improving colleges, those that teach feel a sense of trust to explore effective pedagogy that includes the use of technology. In good colleges, technology supports good teaching and learning where it falls rather than teaching and learning occurring inside what is offered by college technologies. This leads to fragmentation of technologies in use. In improving colleges this is not seen as a problem as all use is judged by the unchanging values of good teaching. It follows that whilst good teaching and learning should be common to all colleges, technological profiles can be as unique as the provider itself.
The fear of fragmenting technologies and the risk of maintaining safety leads to withholding uses rather than teaching mature use.
This argument of holding back of teachers is reinforced in a Paper by the 157 group and the IfL, quoting a study at Birmingham Metropolitan College. They advocate the professionalisation of the teaching includes 'letting go to get more'.
"in such organisations, perceptions of professional development being something that is done to employees, usually as a punishment or a reward, are being eroded. They are being replaced by more inclusive approaches that allow staff to play a far greater role in shaping and delivering their own professional learning and development."
It follows that any estimation of the rate of progress could include a consideration of the degree to which any of these characteristics exist in a college.
Perhaps this problem can be summarised as a lack of trust in the capability of technologies to be both radical and safe?
A measurement of 'where we are' is of less importance and relevance than having a sense of direction and an understanding of progress in that direction and knowing where to find the tell tale signs. To inform a strong sense of a provider's vector. Measurements tend to be constructed to 'inform up'. Direction and progress tends to be felt within.
A mechanism then needs to be found to support a narrative approach to direction and progress, based on good teaching and learning as it is supported by technology, concentrating on the new and its turbulence, relative to benefit. The Common Inspection Framework (CIF) seeks this too.
Improving colleges provide evidence of their journey, from the perspective of students, teachers, and employers. It will attune with the Vision and be reflected in the college culture, which allows summary and positional statements supported by summary and positional evidence.
Technology can provide better and more agreeable ways of working. It must not add work, but release obligations for work elsewhere so roles are seen to evolve qualitatively and not grow quantitatively.
Experienced e-learning practitioners can summarise college journeys with technology, less experienced voices will need a mentor to support understanding, some will need a critical friend and some co-mentorships.
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