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AMES, Iowa (Reuters) – Republicans Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty clashed repeatedly over their records during a presidential debate on Thursday, two days before they vie for conservative support in a straw poll that could make or break their campaigns.
The fierce exchanges between the two Minnesotans highlighted a nationally televised presidential debate that also featured heavy criticism of President Barack Obama's economic leadership by eight Republican White House hopefuls.
The debate was the opening act for Saturday's Iowa straw poll, a traditional test of campaign strength in the state that holds the first presidential nominating contest in 2012.
But the debate and straw poll were overshadowed by Texas Governor Rick Perry's plan to enter the race on Saturday, a move that could dramatically reshape the contest and vault him into the top tier of contenders with front-runner Mitt Romney.
In Iowa, Pawlenty is desperately seeking to gain ground on Bachmann, a conservative and Tea Party favorite who leads polls in the state. He wasted little time in ripping into her record in Congress.
"It's an indisputable fact that her record of accomplishment and results is nonexistent," said Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota who was criticized when he passed up an opportunity to criticize Romney in the last debate.
He said Bachmann, a U.S. representative from Minnesota, had fought in Congress against spending, against the healthcare overhaul and against other initiatives that had passed despite her efforts.
"She said she's got a titanium spine. It's not her spine we're worried about, it's her record of results," he said. "If that's your view of effective leadership with results, please stop, because you're killing us."
Bachmann responded by attacking Pawlenty's record as governor, including his support for a state cap and trade environmental plan and for individual mandates in healthcare.
"That sounds a lot more like Barack Obama if you ask me," she said.
Pawlenty shot back that Bachmann had "a record of misstating and making false statements."
The repeated clashes between the two contenders caused former Senator Rick Santorum to interrupt at one point and beg moderators of the debate to ask him a question.
The debate's timing two days before the straw poll raised the stakes for several candidates, most notably Pawlenty, who could be fighting for his political life in the nonbinding mock election.
Pawlenty, who has been criticized for being too nice, was more aggressive than he has been on the campaign trail.
He threw a few soft jabs at Romney, who was left alone by the other contenders. Pawlenty made a joke about Romney's wealth and took the opportunity he declined in the last debate to criticize Romney for the healthcare plan he backed while governor of Massachusetts.
That plan has drawn criticism from conservatives as a precursor to Obama's healthcare overhaul, but Romney said there were important differences and "we put together a plan that was right for Massachusetts."
"It's bad law," Romney said of Obama's healthcare plan. "It's bad constitutional law, it's bad medicine."
The candidates all welcomed Perry to the race but had little to say about his candidacy. A staunch social and religious conservative, Perry has a strong job creation record that could cut into Romney's support among the party's pro-business wing.
The debate was the debut on the national stage of former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, who defended his time as U.S. ambassador to China under Obama. "I'm proud of my service to the country," he said.
Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich condemned some of the questions from the moderators, accusing them of asking "Mickey Mouse" and "gotcha" questions.
All of the contenders battered Obama after last week's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating and days of wild mood swings on Wall Street. "We have, unfortunately, as a leader of this country a man who is out of his depth," Romney said.
Businessman Herman Cain and U.S. Representative Ron Paul also participated in the debate.
Romney warmed up for the debate during a morning visit to the Iowa state fair in Des Moines, where he had a heated exchange with hecklers who pressed him on what he would do to strengthen the Social Security retirement system.
They shouted and chanted "Wall Street greed" as he tried to answer. "If you don't like my answer, you can vote for someone else," Romney said. "I'm not going to raise taxes, that's my answer." He rejected a shouted suggestion that corporations should face higher taxes.
"Corporations are people, my friend," said Romney, the former head of a private equity fund. "Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes?"
(Additional reporting by Kim Dixon; Editing by Todd Eastham and Sandra Maler)


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Tenants' Rights in Eviction: When Do Landlords Go Too Far?
What can you be evicted for? The most common reasons for eviction are unpaid rent or consistently late rent payments. Illegal activity on rental property or allowing people to live in an apartment when they are not covered by the terms of a lease agreement can also get a tenant booted. But burning your dinner in the oven? That's why one 75-year-old woman is being ordered to leave her Atlanta apartment.
Retha Scott fell asleep as she was cooking a meal at home, causing the food to burn. Next thing she knew, she received an eviction notice from the management of her senior living complex, Hairston Lake Apartments, saying that the incident proves that she's a danger to other tenants, CBS Atlanta reported. There were no injuries as a result of the incident, no other units were damaged and it was unclear what, if any, damage Scott's own unit suffered.
"Nothing I do is right. It seems that there's always something they want to talk to me about," Scott told CBS Atlanta of the complex's management. "I don't have anywhere here to go. I don't have no people here. I don't have no family here. ... Nothing was done to intentionally set this apartment on fire."
Scott said she offered to use only the microwave for cooking to settle the problem with her complex, and she even hired an outside agency to cook meals for her daily. The agency disconnected her stove so it could no longer be used, according to CBS Atlanta. But the complex is still asking for her to leave.
A representative of Hairston Lake refused to grant an on-camera interview to the TV station, but the DeKalb County Housing Authority released a statement, saying: "Please be assured that we are actively working with [Scott] on a quick resolution to her concerns."
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Attorney Joshua Davis, who agreed to represent Scott after hearing of her case, said Hairston Lake is violating her rights. "It's just absurd," he said. "This woman is elderly, she's 75, and the fact that she is of that age -- they should give some type of accommodation to the fact that these things happen. ... And specifically to what they're claiming, that she's so-called 'endangering' the other residents through the activities of cooking -- that has now been removed."
So does Scott's landlord have a real case against her? In most states, a landlord must give a tenant written notice of a potential lease violation, and the tenant must be given ample time to correct it before the landlord can initiate eviction proceedings, according to RentLaw.com. It's unclear whether Scott's complex alerted her of potential violations before issuing her an eviction notice -- but it's clear that Scott has taken steps to correct the problem.
And as NOLO.com points out, there are only a few circumstances under which landlords can evict tenants without giving them time to correct lease violations: if tenants have repeatedly violated a significant clause in the lease, continuously failed to pay rent on time, seriously damaged a rental unit, or engaged in illegal activity on the premises. A landlord cannot have a tenant physically removed from an apartment without a court order to do so.
If you believe you have been wrongfully evicted and want to fight it in court, hire a lawyer and be able to produce your lease agreement, any correspondence to and from your landlord, receipts of rental payments, photos and any other evidence that can prove your case. In cases that involve discrimination, you should alert your local Department of Housing and Urban Development branch. Local housing authorities are required to investigate claims of discrimination against tenants.
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Linked by Howard Fosdick on Mon 30th May 2011 22:04 UTC
Canonical Ltd., the company behind Ubuntu Linux, estimates that the product has over 12 million users worldwide. And why not? Ubuntu is free and it runs more than ten thousand applications. It has a vibrant user community, websites covering everything you might ever need to know, good tutorials, a paid support option, and more. Yet I often hear friends and co-workers casually criticize Ubuntu. Perhaps this the price of success. Or is it? In this article I'll analyze common criticisms and try to sort fact from fiction.
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A Symbol Which Has Been Instrumentalised
The Islamic headscarf is seen by the media and in public debate as a symbol of the oppression of Muslim women by their religion. Sabine Schiffer argues that this perception is often linked to stereotypes and prejudice, and that the media often try to read too much into the headscarf
It's a paradox. We want to liberate Muslim women and they simply don't want to be liberated. One of them even goes to court to fight for the right to wear a headscarf.
Isn't the headscarf the perfect symbol of the oppression of women? Not quite, but this piece of cloth has been so overburdened with meaning that even a court of law can't deal with it in a neutral fashion.
These days, the cloth has so many meanings that, when the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe had to deal with a case in which a teacher, Fereshta Ludin, appealed against the decision of a lower court prohibiting her from wearing a headscarf in a state school, the judges were nervous about making a decision on the principle of the thing, although they'll have to make such a decision one day. But they evidently did not find it easy to make a judgement based on German legal principles.
It's much easier to look at Turkey, which is hoping to get into the European Union and where the headscarf is not allowed in any public office or even in a public building. But it's also easy to overlook that, unlike Germany, Turkey is a laicist state. That makes the comparison invalid—it only works insofar as it says it is possible to prohibit religious symbols (which is what the headscarf has been reduced to) in state institutions.
Stereotypical perception of symbols
Such a decision requires an objective discussion about all religious symbols, but that's exactly what one can't expect here in Germany. For the headscarf has a long history. Since Ayatollah Khomeini took power in Iran in 1979, the headscarf has not just been on heads—it's been on everyone's lips.
Its precise form serves as a measure of the level of freedom which those who wear it enjoy. It's a symbol for the Islamic oppression of women, and as such it's a symbol of the repression which is generally believed to be typical of Islam.
The increasing popularity of the headscarf and the beard on the one hand are confronted on the other by an increasingly stereotyped perception, which seems to have become standard since September 11th, according to which such signs are a public statement of rejection of western culture and democracy.
It's true that there are those who do indeed reject western culture and democracy, but they are not necessarily identifiable from outward signs—and anyway, in such issues it's impossible to avoid the dangers of generalisation.
From a psychological point of view, it's well known that rejection strengthens radical tendencies. And that in turn undermines the efforts of those who are trying to achieve a realistic integration of Islam into Europe.
At the same time, Muslims themselves are also guilty of the symbolic overburdening of the headscarf. Some groups use it as a measure of how far the non-Muslim majority is prepared to integrate them. And in the case of Fereshta Ludin, she emphasised the symbolic significance of her decision to wear the headscarf by linking it to her process of religious self-discovery.
But in fact it would be enough if people simply put the headscarf in the context of their cultural identity and how that affects their personal sense of modesty. If the discussion were all about modesty it would have an entirely different quality.
Instead we're having to deal with religious tolerance. And our attitude to the headscarf is a reflection of our entire view of the world, which is very culture-specific and is usually applied to other cultures quite unconsciously.
As a consequence of industrialisation and the division of life into separate areas such as work and home, the so-called West allowed the public arena to become the most important of these areas.
Functioning in this arena meant having power. That meant, for example, that the emancipation of women was linked to their conquest of the public arena.
Metaphors of emancipation and reaction
Women who were active in the public world were more visible and powerful than those who did housework or carried out less visible tasks. "Back to the hearth" was seen as metaphor for reaction. And the word "work" is almost only used to refer to work outside the home, in an occupation which, however lowly regarded, is still better than housework.
That's one reason why feminism has often used the number of women in the workforce as an indicator of the level of emancipation, without considering that this makes male values into the standard to which women have to adapt.
In the case of the headscarf, this recognition of the primacy of the public arena has simply been applied to another culture, so that a veiled woman, whom one cannot "see", who looks after a household, and is not visible in the public arena, contradicts current ideas of emancipation.
The headscarf extends the Muslim woman's "invisibility" into the public space. But it's too simple to identify freedom and emancipation simply with the freedom to wear what one likes. And it's often not the freedom to wear what one likes which is the issue when Muslim women are expected not to wear specific items. The headscarf is an easily identifiable symbol which can used economically to cover a range of issues.
When a veiled woman crosses the television screen, it immediately awakens associations which have been developed over many years. These associations are unconscious and thus they cannot easily be questioned. Assumptions, such as that the headscarf is always worn involuntarily, seem to many people to be "true."
The headscarf as a symbol of the stranger
There seems to be no way of talking about Islam any longer without reference to the headscarf, and successful women, like the Iranians Nobel peace prize-winner Shirin Ebadi, are usually shown bareheaded.
In addition, in both television news reports and newspapers, the issue of "foreigners" has for years almost always been illustrated with pictures of women wearing headscarves, so that the idea that "Islam is foreign" is reinforced. This doesn't exactly help the integration of Muslim women, who often feel misunderstood rather than "rescued."
All these assumptions about the headscarf are hovering in the background when the headscarf is presented as a threat to which we cannot allow our children to be exposed. But what risk do they run in looking at this item of clothing?
We're much less sensitive about the depiction of violence in the media and other similar issues. Aside from the questionable argument that a teacher wearing a headscarf puts over an unemancipated image of women, it might be possible instead to use the situation for the purpose of anti-racist education.
This is most successful when a child sees around it a variety of ways of living, without any special commentary, so that they seem normal. This applies to skin colour as well as other characteristics which adults may have learnt to perceive as "strange": disabilities, religious symbols, clothes, the shape of an eye or the shape of a body. The world isn't as ideal as teachers would like it to be.
To put them in context, one can use media—picture books or television programmes, for example—in which such groups of people appear. This is where the media can play a very positive role.
What's important is that these people simply appear and aren't presented as something special. Black people, Asians, people wearing various religious symbols, boys and girls in all the various situations of life and not just in stereotypical contexts.
It's even better when a child's daily life allows it to see all these different kinds of reality—and it's better still when this happens as early as possible, since that's when the differences are simply accepted as normal, and not turned into an "issue" or even seen as "odd."
So let's imagine that there are some teachers with headscarves in school. Or even better in the kindergarten. As long as it's not turned into an issue, the children will simply see it as normal and they won't make any fuss about it. That would be an ideal anti-racist education.
Just let tradition simply happen. It's enough if women wearing headscarves simply appear in the environment—without commentary and as if it were absolutely normal.
What is dangerous for our children is the polemic which surrounds this piece of cloth and those who wear it. The way such people are currently commented upon will leave children only able to perceive a woman wearing a headscarf as something requiring special attention.
Sabine Schiffer
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Translation from German: Michael Lawton
Sabine Schiffer is a lecturer in media education and communication studies at Friedrich-Alexander University, Nürnberg/Erlangen, Germany.
Islam and the Western Media
Constructed Realities and Caricatures
Ever since the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, Islam has once again been in the media spotlight. But many of the reports seem to be based on half-truths and a blinkered view of the situation. An analysis by Sabine Schiffer.
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
"Banning Clothing Is a Violation of Human Rights"
Article 18 of the Declaration on Human Rights guarantees the right to freedom of religion. But increasingly many countries are outlawing religious dress, a trend that the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty tries to counter. Imogen Foulkes reports
The Headscarf Debate
In the West and the Islamic world alike, the headscarf is the subject of heated discussions. We take a closer look at various aspects of the debate and highlight its background and social reality.


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Ok – this time something bit different. Honestly – inspired by some adverts on TV – I'm not sure what product was that, but by the sound it could be some … life insurance or some health product ? It could be some kids products – I'm not sure. I still hope it will inspire you.
I've used this time some nice electric piano – rhode type, acoustic guitar processed through various fx, some glockenspiel play significant role, some drums, strings … I was very close to throw some ukulele and claps, but c'mon … everybody doing it now
Very inspirational and uplifting. Good as a presentation background music. Could be on video, marketing materials or even on website.


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By James W, Tuesday 9th April 2013
Dominic Brunt and Mark Charnock, Emmerdale's Paddy and Marlon and complete Zombie obsessives, bring you the sixth Leeds Zombie Film Festival at the Cottage Road Cinema, Headingley on April 21st.
Running from noon till midnight the duo promise a great night out (but not for the whole family!) Dominic and Mark will give a short intro to each film and explain why it was chosen.
The movies will be both old and new, giving fans of zombie culture a chance to see classics from the past on the big screen for the first time and some more recent contributions to the genre that may have passed many fans by.
The film line up will be announced soon. For more details and prices click here and do note this is strictly fo rover 18s only.
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The day kicks off with Julian Richards' latest chiller Reborn, a Carrie for the Z Generation, starring the First Lady of FrightFest, Barbara Crampton, and featuring a stunning performance from rising newcomer Kayleigh Gilbert. Richards, famous for The Last Horror Movie, will be at this World Premiere screening.
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February 27. 2013 9:55PM
Nashua airport awaits Congressional action on sequestration
By BENJAMIN C. KLEIN
Union Leader Correspondent
Military cuts may ground fly-overs at NHMS
NASHUA - Less then a year after the federal government finished spending $25 million of stimulus money to complete an extension on the Nashua Municipal Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration is threatening to cut the airport's funding for its control tower.
The airport - the second busiest in the state - is on a list released by the FAA of more than 100 airports nationally that would lose federal funding should Congress be unable to reach a deal to avert sequestration cuts by the deadline of Friday.
"Our argument is you just spent $25 million to make this a better and safer place and now you have to turn your back on it?" said Gordon Jackson, of the board of directors of the Nashua Airport Authority, he added, "That is just bad business, and the last thing the government wants, after they make a decision like this, is for a deadly situation to arise."
Jackson said the potential closure of the control tower could hurt a number of small businesses that operate out of the Nashua Airport, forcing many of them to move to an airport that has a control tower like the one in Manchester.
"We don't know if the cuts will happen, we suspect highly that they will, I am assuming that Congress and the White House aren't going to get their acts together before midnight," Jackson said.
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, said she was working to avoid the sequester cuts, adding, "we can replace the arbitrary sequester cuts with smarter alternative savings, and I'm continuing my work in the Senate to do just that."
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, called the potential sequester cuts, "the wrong way to deal with our deficit. These indiscriminate cuts threaten our economy and our national defense. I remain very concerned about the impact of these automatic cuts, and I continue to believe that we need a balanced approach when it comes to addressing the deficit."
Jackson was adamant that if the cuts happen the airport will explore every avenue to keep the control tower open.
"If the cuts happen we would have, I think 30 days minimum, to prepare for the termination of the contract regarding FAA services to the tower. This gives us additional time to avert this particular closure and solve this for everyone's benefit."
However, Jackson said that if the tower must close, the airport would remain open, "but many of these businesses are small businesses. They keep getting called fat cats, but they are basically taxi companies. If they start to lose money and their insurance goes up they will leave and take their business with them, hurting Nashua.
"This would drive them to Manchester, which would be good for Manchester, but they are busy as it is, there would be too much traffic, we are a reliever airport for Manchester and Boston, which makes everyone safer," he said.
Jackson said if the tower were to close, the problems it would create would extend far beyond the region.
"We are also an emergency field in case of an in-air crisis, without a tower we can't do that or provide help. Organs for transplants get transported through here, and without a tower they wouldn't land in bad weather like this, they don't want to deal with the issues of not having air traffic control."


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NHIAA Field Hockey: Merrimack Valley, Windham advanceBy HARRY KOZLOWSKI
Special to The Union Leader
October 31. 2013 11:48PM
EXETER — Merrimack Valley scored once and it was all it needed as the sixth-seeded Pride upset No. 2 seed Lebanon, 1-0, at Bill Ball Stadium Thursday in the Division II field hockey semifinals.
Merrimack Valley will face top-seeded Windham in the finals on Sunday at Beford High School at 2:30 p.m. Windham advanced with a 3-2 overtime win against St. Thomas Aquinas of Dover on Thursday.
Merrimack Valley's Olivia Thurber scored what would be the game's only goal when Lily Davis dribbled down the sideline at the 11-minute mark of the first half and centered a pass to Thurber, who was all alone against Lebanon goalie Emily Foster.
Thurber slipped a shot between Foster's pads to put the Pride up, 1-0.
"It was a beautiful pass, I was in the right spot," said Thurber of the play by Davis. "We make a great team."
Two minutes into the second half it appeared Lebanon tied the game with a slap shot off a penalty corner.
But after a conference by the officials, it was ruled the ball did not leave the circle surrounding the goal, as it must on a corner play.
The goal was waved off.
Windham 3, St. Thomas 2: Windham scored with eight seconds remaining in regulation to send the game into overtime before scoring again in OT to avoid an upset.
Courtney Sweeney scored the winning goal 10 minuites into overtime for Windham. Nicole Croteau had sent the game into overtime with a goal in the last seconds of regulation.
Windham put pressure on St. Thomas early, resulting in five straight penalty corners. Taylor Powell scored off the fifth one to put Windham up 1-0 at the 8-minute mark.
But St. Thomas Aquinas responded 7 minutes later with some nifty ballhandling by Jensen Palmer, who was able to split the Jaguar defense and beat Kelsey Frederico in net to the the game at 1-1.
St. Thomas kept applying pressure in the second half before Gabrielle Dodier scored off a long corner and put the Saints in front 2-1, setting up Windham's late-game heroics.


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Drownings are the leading cause of accidental death for kids ages 1 to 4. Stay vigilant around water with these tips from Garry Gardner, M.D., chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention.
Stay close at hand. "Being within arm's reach at all times—called 'touch supervision'—means you'll be able to reach out and grab your child the second she needs you," emphasizes Dr. Gardner.
Don't depend on floaties. Water wings, inner tubes, and tiny blow-up boats are fun, but they aren't approved flotation devices. If you do use them in the water, you still need to be right by your child's side. Remove them and any other water toys when you are not in the pool so that your child is not tempted to go in after them.
Learn a lesson. The AAP strongly recommends swim instruction for children ages 4 and up, but evidence has shown that kids between the ages of 1 and 4 may benefit from lessons, too.
Put up a fence. A four-sided, four-foot or higher barrier that separates the house from the pool is the safest enclosure. The wall or fence should have a self-closing, self-latching gate that swings outward, away from the pool (it's harder for little kids to open these types of gates). Latches that are out of a child's reach are best of all.
Be alarmed. Consider a pool or gate alarm, as well as a rigid pool cover, for an extra layer of protection.
Get your sea legs. If you're visiting a lake or the beach, swim only when a lifeguard is on duty, be aware of undertow warnings, find out how deep the water is before jumping off a dock, and insist all family members wear a life preserver on a boat.
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Hooksett voters gain insight with video series
HOOKSETT - Hooksett voters looking to get a jump on the key votes facing the town can gain insight by visiting the town's web site, with a video interview series posted detailing some of the bigger choices voters will face this year.
The videos consist of brief interviews, each generally lasting around 15 minutes, between Hooksett Town Administrator Dean Shankle and department heads. The videos discuss department budgets and any related warrant articles.
Shankle, who started the video series in Hooksett before the 2012 Town Meeting and ran similar series earlier in his career in other towns, talks with the department heads on the specifics of their budgets and the reasoning behind them, as well as inviting them to make their case to the voters.
"I think it's a good thing. It gives people a chance to, not ask questions, but maybe get the details that they want," said Shankle. "I think it gives people a chance to get some background even before they go to the deliberative session (and it) gives a lot of the department heads a chance to make their case for as long as they want to."
Three videos were uploaded as of Thursday afternoon. The first is a general overview of the proposed budget, default budget, and revenues with Finance Director Christine Soucie.
Also currently uploaded is a video with Superintendent for the town's Recycling and Transfer Station Diane Boyce, in which she details her budget and discusses the much-debated mandatory recycling article.
One of the longer videos, at about 45 minutes, features a discussion between Shankle, Hooksett Police Chief Peter Bartlett, and Police Commission Chair Joanne McHugh. A major component of this video is how the default budget, a lower figure which will come into effect should the town's proposed operating budget fail at the polls, would affect the department and the commission's work.
Still to come are interviews with Library Director Heather Rainier, Department of Public Works Director Leo Lessard, and the Hooksett Fire Department.
The videos can be found on the towns' web site (www.hooksett.org) in the streaming media archive, where videos of various town meetings are stored. The interviews are labeled "2013 Budget."
Hooksett's Deliberative Session will be held on Saturday, April 6 at 9 a.m. at Cawley Middle School. A voter's guide is expected to be uploaded to the town's web site by the weekend.


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Work has been progressing steadily on my Portsmouth Heroes project. At the moment I am researching a handful of some of the most interesting stories in detail, right down to when they were born, what kind of a background they came from, absolutely everything I can find out about them in order to try and understand what makes them tick.
I can remember reading Supreme Courage by Sir Peter de la Billiere, which is a fascinating profile of a number of Victoria Cross winners. DLB doesn't just state the bare facts, he tries to get into the minds of the men in question, and explains how the came to show such inspiring bravery. That's what I'm hoping to achieve here, only looking at Portsmouth men. Who stories, I hope, will be more accessible to local people.
Recently I have been researching:
- Chief Petty Officer Reginald Ellingworth, a First World War veteran who served for years in submarines, transferred to B0mb Disposal and was killed defusing a Parachute Mine during the Blitz. He was awarded one of the first George Crosses posthumously.
- Sergeant Sidney Cornell, a Paratrooper who won the Distinguished Conduct Medal in Normandy, fought in the Ardennes and the Rhine Crossing and was killed in the final battle for Germany in April 1945.
- Lance Corporal Leslie Webb, a member of the 1st Hampshire Regiment who was mortally wounded landing in the first wave on D-Day, and was awarded a posthumous Military Medal.
- Flight Lieutenant John Coghlan, a Battle of Britain pilot who fought in the Battle of France, over Dunkirk and over southern England, claiming at least 6 downed enemy aircraft and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. In August a Westland Lysander he was flying over northern France on a secret operation vanished.
- Major Robert Easton, a pre-war Lancashire Fusilier who transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps, and won a Distinguished Service Order in the battles around Monte Cassino in Italy in 1944. He was killed while second in command of his Regiment later that year.
- Wing Commander John Buchanan, a Bomber pilot who flew early missions against Nazi Germany, then transferred to flying Beaufighters in North Africa and from Malta, where he commanded Squadrons. He was killed in the Mediterranean in 1944, after being awarded a Distinguished Service Order, a Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar and a Belgian Croix de Guerre.
- Lieutenant-Commander William Hussey, a young Destroyer commander who saw action escorting convoys in the North Sea, Channel and Atlantic, took part in evacuating Dutch officials in 1940, and then saw service in the Mediterranean, escorting Convoys to Malta and attacking Axis shipping to North Africa. He was killed when his ship was sunk off Tobruk in May 1942. He was awarded the DSO, a DSC and was mentioned in despatches three times.
Its amazing how much you can find out. Navy, Army and Air Force lists are a godsend for tracing the careers of officers. Other ranks are slightly more tricky. Medal winners are easier too, as awards were announced in the London Gazette and you can obtain citations from the National Archives. The Portsmouth Evening News is very useful, but on microfilm it can take an age to trawl through! You can also get long-serving sailors and marines records from TNA too. A lengthy trip to the National Archives is in the offing, and probably the Imperial War Museum as well. And I can feel a few interlibrary loans in the offing too!
There are some other men I am keen to research too – such as Colour Sergeant Willie Bird of the Royal Marines, Petty Officer Frank Collison and Electrical Artificer Arthur Biggleston of HM Submarine Triumph, Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Stanley Thayer and Major Maurice Budd. Then there are the interesting stories such as the Venables brothers who were killed in the same plane crash, Private Bobby Johns the underage Para, the massive losses on the Battleships Royal Oak, Hood and Barham, the POW's in Europe and South East Asia, the brothers who died during the war, the Boy Seamen, the men who were killed on the SS Portsdown, the Merchant Seamen and NAAFI personnel, WAAFs, Wrens and ATS girls…
If there any stories that I have forgotten, or if anyone has any information about any of these men, or would like to chip in on anything about the whole project, I'm all ears. It's hard knowing who to focus on, as with the best will in the world it would take me forever to research all 2,000+ men in such detail, and I'm hoping to take a representative sample of men and women who could have been anyone from Portsmouth.


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WASHINGTON — Temporary truck routes have been established in the city's tornado-affected neighborhoods.
The City Council approved a resolution Monday lifting restrictions on truck traffic on the routes starting Tuesday and continuing through Jan. 31, 2015.
"We'll notify contractors and building materials suppliers about the routes as soon as possible," said City Administrator Tim Gleason.
Standard axle arrangements and corresponding loads as defined by the Illinois Vehicle Code will be allowed on the routes. City permits will be needed for overweight loads.
For the northeast area, trucks can use North Cummings Lane, Cruger Road, Devonshire Road, Hampton Road and Westminster Road from U.S. Route 24.
For the central area, trucks can use Gillman Avenue and Grandyle Drive from Washington Road.
For the southwest area, trucks can use South Cummings Lane and Kern Road from Washington Road.
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The temporary routes were established to give contractors and materials suppliers consistent access into the affected neighborhoods and limit damage to other streets.
Home reconstruction has picked up in the neighborhoods since spring weather arrived.
Two milestones were reached last week when the city issued the 200th home rebuilding permit since the Nov. 17 tornado and the first rebuilt home was completed.
"We're now in the low 200s in home rebuilding permits," said Jon Oliphant, Washington's planning and development director. "And besides the one home that's done, a few others are very close."
Mayor Gary Manier said more than 500 permits have been issued for home rebuilds and repairs.
"When you consider 1,108 homes were destroyed or damaged, that's an incredible amount of permits (five months after the storm)," he said.
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►Heard from Gleason and Oliphant that compliance with city codes in the tornado-affected neighborhoods has improved.
To continue the improvement, a letter will be sent Tuesday to residents who haven't contacted the city regarding rebuilding, debris cleanup or their property safety intentions.
The letter also is on the city's website, ci.washington.il.us. Oliphant said 15 responses have been received since the letter went online.
Police Chief Don Volk said his department has stepped up code enforcement work in affected neighborhoods, doing it two days a week instead of one.
Fire Chief Mike Vaughn said open burning violations in affected neighborhoods have subsided.
►Approved the 2014-2015 city budget, a nearly $20 million spending plan that mirrors the 2013-2014 budget. The city's fiscal year begins May 1.
►Approved a more than $4,100 salary raise to $95,000 for Volk, effective May 1 through April 30, 2015.
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First & foremost he has said "that a diagnosis of conduct or oppositional defiant disorder may be appropriate though T's primary diagnosis of Autism impacts markedly on the presentation of these other marked behavioural & emotional challenges that he manifests" Is he saying this is a dual diagnosis?
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Under different circumstances, this could have been the setting for a made-for-the-history-books moment, a meeting of political figures who overcame racial barriers to lead their countries. But as Mr. Obama made his first presidential visit to South Africa, Mr. Mandela remained in critical but stable condition with a recurring lung infection....


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Awed by Jeter, Selig thrilled with MLB's direction
MINNEAPOLIS -- After he presented Angels outfielder Mike Trout with the Ted Williams Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet, after he met retiring Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter outside the dugout for a final embrace, Commissioner Bud Selig took a few moments on Tuesday night to reflect.
Both the first half of the regular season and the 85th Midsummer Classic at Minnesota's Target Field could not have gone better, Selig said.
MINNEAPOLIS -- After he presented Angels outfielder Mike Trout with the Ted Williams Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet, after he met retiring Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter outside the dugout for a final embrace, Commissioner Bud Selig took a few moments on Tuesday night to reflect.
Both the first half of the regular season and the 85th Midsummer Classic at Minnesota's Target Field could not have gone better, Selig said.
The Commissioner was thrilled with a well-played All-Star Game that the American League won, 5-3. And Jeter's final appearance couldn't have been scripted any better, from the extended standing ovation he got when he stepped to the plate to lead off the bottom of the first, to his going 2-for-2 with a double and a run scored, to another outpouring of emotion when he came out of the game.
"I had chills," Selig said. "I've said it before, but you're proud to be the Commissioner of baseball when your icon is Derek Jeter. I don't know what else I can say. He's a great player, but he's so classy and dignified."
That was a fitting end to a first half of the season that Selig gives high marks.
"Great races -- and great races shaping up," Selig said. "I just can't tell you how good I feel about the year. I've meant what I said. The competitive balance is amazing. Remarkable. I feel good about where we are, very good. There's just been a lot of very good baseball, and I've enjoyed it."
At the break, 23 of baseball's 30 teams are within eight games of either a division lead or a Wild Card berth.
Baseball has also made sweeping changes in the way the game is played with expanded replay review and new rules governing home-plate collisions.
"Tony La Russa [part of the committee that put together the revised replay system] and I had another conversation [on Tuesday night], and we're lucky," Selig said. "It's working out great. Yes, there are a few things we can do over the offseason. But to put in a new system and have it work as well as it is now? Very, very happy.
"And the collision rule is Joe Torre's baby, but he's very happy and the managers are happy. And you know what? The fans love instant replay. I've had more people say to me at the ballparks, 'This is really good.'"
Everybody asks Selig if the thought crossed his mind that this would be his last All-Star Game as Commissioner. Even his wife, Sue, asked him during the game.
"It did not," Selig said. "So many people have talked to me about it, but I really do think that the answer in November or December would be very different."
Along those lines, the Commissioner appeared on the FOX telecast and was asked about his greatest accomplishments and his biggest regrets during his 22-year tenure.
"I think overall, the economic changes that have produced what I call competitive balance, the greatest in baseball history," Selig said of his most treasured achievement. "The changes were painful and took a while, but it's led to wonderful, wonderful balance. If you look at the standings today, every division is really close, and some have four-team races. Baseball has always been resistant to change, but when you look at all of the changes plus the Wild Cards and everything else, we're a long way from where we were in 1992."
Selig conceded that he still rues the strike that caused the 1994 World Series to be canceled.
"I don't know that I could have done anything different, but I will say that ... was the eighth work stoppage in my baseball career, and you probably could see it coming," Selig said. "Now, I'm proud of the fact we've had 22 years of labor peace. But do I wish somehow there would have been a way to stop that? I do. I've thought long and hard about that. I would hope at least that everybody learned their lessons and we've moved on. But that was very painful."
The 2015 All-Star Game will be hosted by the Cincinnati Reds, and Selig said he's looking forward to that event.
"They have a great baseball tradition," Selig said of the Reds. "Oldest franchise. Wonderful fans. They do very well. Given all their tradition, to give them an All-Star Game is a great match."
Paul Hagen is a reporter for MLB.com.


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The children of Aarhus now have a unique hall to romp in. Aarhus Gymnastics and Motor Skills Hall, designed by C. F. Møller Architects, combines the best of the sports hall and playground and is the only one of its kind in Denmark – probably worldwide.
- Architects: C. F. Møller Architects
- Project: Aarhus Gymnastics and Motor Skills Hall
- Location: Hvidkildevej, Aarhus, Denmark
- Client: VIK Gymnastik
- Engineer: Moe & Brødsgaard A/S
- Size: 1600m2 (1200m2 new building and 400m2 refurbishment)
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PRESEASON EXPECTATIONS: R.A. Dickey had been a journeyman with a trick pitch his entire career, winning a career-high 11 games in 2010. Realistically, they had no right to expect more than that from him at age 37 and figured to be third or fourth in the rotation at best. Only injuries or poor performance from others could elevate his status, and was why he was in the Mets' rotation in the first place. However, he pitched well in stretches the last two years and was a workhorse in 2011 with 208.2 innings. If he could log a comparable number in 2012, the pitching depleted Mets would be happy. Dickey had a solid ERA in 2010 and 2011 with hitters batting .251 and .256, respectively, against him. Since joining the Mets, for the most part Dickey pitched with composure and minimized damage. The Mets hoped he'd be a positive influence.
2012 SEASON REVIEW: Not only was Dickey a positive influence on the younger pitchers, he was arguably the team's most important player. At 20-6 with a 2.73 ERA, he was 14 games above .500. Overall, the Mets finished 14 games below, so I'll leave it to your imagination as to where the team would have been without him. Dickey threw 233.2 innings in 33 starts – he made one relief appearance – and limited hitters to an anemic .226 average, a career best by 30 points. Hitters had a .278 on-base and .640 OPS against him and he registered a 1.05 WHIP, easily his career best. Dickey's All-Star season – it's a shame Tony La Russa didn't see fit to start him – included five complete games and three shutouts with back-to-back one-hitters. Clearly, in a game dominated by hard throwers, splitters and cutters, Dickey prevailed with the toughest pitch of all to control, walking only 54. He did this playing for a team in a free-fall for the second half and deserves the Cy Young Award.
LOOKING AT 2013: For all his numbers, it was only his third since 2001 with a winning record, which could make the Mets wondering if it was all done with smoke and mirrors. Dickey is on the books for $5 million next year, but it isn't a given he'll return, and if he does, stay for long. Dickey said his re-signing with the Mets is largely contingent on whether they also bring back David Wright. The two, on and off the field, represent the Mets and they would be taking a dramatic public relations hit if they traded or let them walk after 2013. An argument can be made if the Mets don't see themselves as contenders next summer they could continue their rebuilding by dealing them for prospects. Any such deal, however, would be contingent on the other team being allowed to negotiate with them before making a trade. It would also be an admission they are a long way from being competitive.
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in six European countries, the USA and Australia regarding public perceptions of infertility and its treatment. In response to the statement 'infertility is a disease' only 38% of respondents agreed.
As Ravitsky et al note regarding this study:
The implications of the question are clear: if perceived as a disease, public funding for its treatment is construed as justified and what remains to be determined is its prioritization in relation to other required treatments competing for limited resources…if not, funding it may not be justified from the outset.
The following comments by Pemberton encapsulate this sort of scepticism:
In the 1960s, those unable to conceive were referred to as the 'involuntary childless'. Today, this has been reframed within the discourse of biomedicine as 'infertility', and it reflects an increasing tendency for medicine to step in to manage and provide solutions to social problems. This, of course, does not detract from the upset that childlessness can bring. But, this is grief based on a sense of failure because of an 'abnormality' that is culturally determined. I am not arguing that the infertile should not be free to seek assistance with conception if they choose it. My issue is whether they are entitled to treatment under the NHS. While childlessness is distressing, it is not associated with long-term disability, morbidity or mortality. It is not a disease. Rather, it is about people unable to have something that they want. This is not what the NHS is there to remedy.
Two main claims underlie Pemberton's comments; these will be explored in the subsections that follow. The first is that infertility should not be classed as a disease because it is only harmful to people with certain desires . The second is that infertility is a social problem but is mistakenly viewed as medical instead.
For individuals who do not want children, infertility is, at worst, a neutral characteristic and may even prove slightly advantageous, eliminating the need to worry about accidental pregnancy. Indeed, before the advent of effective contraception and safe abortion services, infertility would have been highly advantageous to any women who didn't want children (and still is in many parts of the world). Thus, .
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However, while infertility is only harmful when the sufferer is in possession of certain desires, the same is true for many diseases and disorders; infertility is by no means unique in this respect. Take colour-blindness, for example. Arguably, while there are everyday disadvantages associated with colour-blindness, the level of harm suffered will be relatively modest provided that the person lacks certain preferences. If, however, the person wanted to be an electrician, a painter or a pilot then (at least in some countries) her ambition would be thwarted with potentially serious consequences. Colour-blindness then, while always a disability or impairment, is only seriously harmful when certain desires are present, and in certain social contexts. 18
A different kind of case in which desire and social context play an important role is where the infliction of injury confers sufficient benefit to make it worthwhile for the individual, all things considered. Perhaps the paradigm example of this is the 'Blighty Wound'. A significant number of soldiers in World War I, faced with the prospect of death and disability, would inflict upon themselves a severe but not life-threatening injury in order to return home and avoid the front line. Horrifying cases have also been reported in which healthy young people have had limbs amputated in order to become more effective beggars, and trapped climbers have severed salvageable limbs in order to escape. In such cases, because of the person's desires and because of the social context, there may be no net harm to the individual, and there may even be benefits, all things considered. But we should nonetheless still say that the person has acquired a pathological condition, an injury or what Closer, Culver and Gert usefully term a 'malady'. 19–21
What follows from considering these cases? First, many pathological conditions are only harmful in the presence of certain desires. Hence, the fact that the major harms associated with infertility are dependent on the desire to have children does not mean that infertility cannot be a pathological condition. Second, many pathological conditions are only (directly) harmful in certain social contexts and may even be beneficial in others. So again, even if this is true of infertility, this does not mean that it cannot be a disease.
A related suggestion is that infertility is in fact a but is mistakenly viewed as . 22 What might this mean?
One interpretation is that infertility is more like (say) bad housing, loneliness or poverty, than a disease. Perhaps this is what Pemberton has in mind when he speaks of how talk of 'involuntary childlessness', has given way to a medicalised discourse of 'infertility'. The problem with this view though is that infertility usually 'medical' in ways that bad housing and poverty are not. Its proximate cause is often biological, and the main option for alleviating it is medical treatment. This goes for infertility in general but applies especially forcefully to AUFI; it would be hard to sustain the claim that not having a uterus is a merely social phenomenon.
A second way of understanding the 'social not medical' claim is as the suggestion that infertility is more than One might, for example, compare infertility to being unusually short, or having a face or body-shape that does not conform to prevailing aesthetic norms. Characteristics like these, so the argument goes, are differences and not diseases. They are often disadvantageous to the person (and may sometimes even be 'treated'—eg, through cosmetic surgery or human growth hormone). However, they are not diseases because the disadvantage associated with them is caused wholly or primarily by social discrimination. In cases like these, it may be argued that supporting medicalisation (by funding 'treatments') would be wrong because it would waste valuable resources and, perhaps more importantly, because to do so would be to collude with discrimination. For example, having darker skin in a racist (predominantly 'white') society is highly likely to be disadvantageous. Yet, while this is so, it would be both inefficient a wrongful collusion with racism for the state to respond by providing a medical fix (such as skin whitening) for this social problem.
In the case of infertility, the parallel claim is that there is nothing not being able to have children (just as there is nothing being black, short, or 'unattractive'). But, in our 'pronatalist' society, not being able to have children is disadvantageous because of discriminatory attitudes and practices. Some of these are general pro-parental ones applying to men and women alike such as the view that non-parents' lives are inferior, with less meaning and purpose. Others more adversely affect women and reflect sexist attitudes, which encourage us to see women as essentially or naturally mothers, and as incomplete or defective if they remain childless.
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So, is funding infertility treatment in some respects like providing cosmetic surgery so that people can fit in with society's aesthetic norms, and like skin whitening in response to racism? Our view is that, although this critique of the medicalisation of infertility is not wholly without foundation, it fails to provide a strong enough reason to deny funding for infertility treatments in general or UTx in particular. For, although the harmful effects of infertility are pronatalism and sexism, discrimination is not the sole cause of that harm, nor is it the case that there would be no harm if it weren't for the discrimination.
There are two reasons for this. As has already been noted, AUFI does involve the subnormal functioning (or absence) of a bodily part or process and does deprive women of the option to become pregnant, and this would be so even in a utopia without sexist and pronatalist attitudes. Regarding the desire to parent, we concede that this may be encouraged and influenced by such attitudes. It may be that more women want children, and that those who want children desire them more forcefully, because of prevailing ideologies. However, it is implausible to see such desires as caused by these ideologies; even in a society with no sexism and pronatalism people would still want children. perhaps would want them, maybe they would want them and crucially maybe those who couldn't have them would . But it is implausible to suppose that a desire for parenthood is wholly down to pronatalism and sexism.
Infertility then is in a similar position to many (other) physical disabilities. Its proximate cause is what we might term impairment: the 'malfunctioning' of a bodily part or process leading to a lower than (statistically) normal level of ability. Sometimes this has direct negative effects (ones not dependent on social context) but other effects are caused or exacerbated by social context: disability discrimination, and in the case of infertility, pronatalism and sexism. 18 , 24 , 25 Thus, however interpreted (and we have tried here to construct some sympathetic interpretations) the view that infertility is 'social not medical' is implausible; this is true of AUFI, which has very clear biological underpinnings. Its negative effects may well be exacerbated by pronatalist and sexist ideologies but these are certainly not their sole cause.
Finally, we have allowed an assumption to be made in this section that should not be allowed to stand unchallenged: the suggestion that the state should fund interventions that address disease. While this is not an issue on which we need to take a stand here, there may be sound policy reasons not to have this restriction. Imagine, for example, that it is entirely normal for people to have minor aches and pains: in other words, these are not the symptoms of disease but just part of the human condition (like feeling tired at the end of a busy day). If these aches and pains could be removed cheaply and beneficially through medication would there not be a case for state funding? Similarly, what about people who are anxious or shy but not sufficiently so for them to qualify as mentally ill? Again, if such things could be dealt with cheaply and beneficially through counselling or medication, would there not be a case for funding? We suggest therefore that there may be instances in which it is appropriate for the state to use its resources to address issues other than disease. And, if this is right, that would further weaken the argument which says that countries with socialised medical systems should not fund UTx because what it 'treats' is not a 'proper' disease. For even if it were not it could still merit 'treatment'.
If it costs 10 times more to have a child via a uterus transplant than adoption or surrogacy, does that pregnancy have 10x the value? While we would never put a price on the mother-child bond, surely there is a higher opportunity cost with achieving a pregnancy with uterus transplantation than other ARTs?
The embattled chair of a London college that was at the centre of a bitter row with staff and local residents over its merger plans has dramatically resigned.
Mary Curnock Cook (pictured above), chair of Kensington Chelsea College, was said to have walked out of a governors' meeting last night after announcing she was stepping down with immediate effect.
The college is looking for a new partner after its previously planned merger was called off following direct
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, which was triggered by fallout from the fire tragedy at nearby Grenfell Tower.
Ms Curnock Cook's resignation with immediate effect was confirmed this morning.
Following discussions about her "continued chairmanship with the FE commissioner, the principal and the deputy chair" she said she had "come to the conclusion that the end of the academic year is the right time to stand down and allow new leadership to take the college through the next phase of its development".
"I thank all members of the corporation and staff at KCC for their service while I have been chair and wish students and staff every success in the future," she said.
She later tweeted that she "had always said she would stand down if her chairmanship was more of a hindrance than a help".
Ian Valvona will step up as interim chair until a permanent replacement is appointed.
Ms Curnock Cook, the former boss of the University and Colleges Adminissions Service, took over as chair at KCC in May last year.
This was around the same time that a huge scandal broke around the
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There was huge public outcry as it emerged that the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea planned to build housing over most of the site, with a much-reduced space for learning.
That prompted the Save Wornington campaign, with local residents – some of whom were caught up in the Grenfell Tower fire which claimed 72 lives in June last year – fighting to save their local campus.
Ms Curnock Cook became a focus for much of the embittered comments from staff and residents at a series of public meetings on the plans.
She eventually reached an agreement with RBKC to pause the redevelopment, but she repeatedly refused to cancel the merger.
Campaigners opposed this due to fears the resulting super-college would not retain the contentious Wornington campus in the long term.
The merger had been set to go through in January, but in
It's understood this came at the request of skills minister Anne Milton, who met with members of the campaign group.
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The following month , the college board conceded "there was more we could have done to secure local community support for last year's merger plans".
It confirmed the college would co-operate with a new commissioner-led structure and prospects appraisal seeking a different merger partner.
At the time she vowed to stay on as chair, insisting that she had the full backing on the board.
"I have always seen my role to steer KCC to a secure and successful future," she said. "This continues to be my priority."
A college spokesperson paid tribute to Ms Curnock Cook, and said shehad "worked tirelessly to help lead the college through an unprecedented period of change and challenge. It is testament to her efforts that the college has retained a successful focus on improving teaching, learning and student achievements".
Her "commitment to public service at such a complex point in the College's history has been exemplary" and the college thanked her "for the key role she has played over the past year and wishes her well for the future"
KCC has yet to announce who its new merger partner is.
In a statement last week, a spokesperson said it was "continuing to work closely with the FE commissioner's team on its structure and prospects appraisal to secure a new strategic partner".
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With the release of iOS-11 , Apple introduced Drag and Drop in and with a specialized API that works on the concept of Interactions (something like gestures).
Table view and collection view have similar APIs to support drag and drop with some small differences.
Drag and drop is supported in both iPhone as well as iPad . On iPad, user can drag-drop within multiple apps. But for iPhone this support is provided only within a single app.
We'll be discussing how drag and drop works in collection views and the same will be applicable to table views. I'll point out the differences in table view wherever required. So don't worry about it. You'll get it working for both collection view as well as the table view.
Adopting drag and drop in collection view is a multi-step process. We'll go through each and every detail required to integrate dragging and dropping elements in the collection view.
To enable drags , the custom object must conform to protocol.
It contains multiple methods that can be implemented to customize the drag behaviour of the collection view.
The only required method of this protocol you need to put in place to support drag behaviour is:
We'll look into the method details in upcoming sections.
Also, set the delegate object of collection view in to manage the dragging of items from it.
To enable drops , the custom object must conform to protocol.
The only required method of this protocol is:
You can implement other methods as needed to customize the drop behavior of your collection view.
Also, assign your custom delegate object to the property of your collection view in .
To enable/disable drags, you can customize property of your collection view.
The default value of this property is true on iPad and false on iPhone.
So, set it to true to enable content dragging from your collection view if you are providing drag-drop support in iPhone.
Now that we have configured our collection view to support drags and drops, its time to actually write the code that will make it happen.
Let's start with the introduction to some important classes required to support drags and drops. Here we go:
Each item that needs to be dragged must be represented as an object of .
To allow dragging of items from your collection view, implement the only required method of and return one or more objects for the item at the specified .
OMG! 😯 What was that? Too much to understand..!!!
Don't worry. We'll go through each step in the below code:
Let's see what the code says..
In case you want to ignore the drag, return an empty array.
We have seen how to drag a single item from collection view. What if I want to drag multiple items in one go?
Well, we have a method to achieve that.
This method adds the specified items to an existing drag session.
Items are added to the active drag session with a single tap . If you do not implement this method, taps in the collection view trigger the selection of items or other behaviors.
It has the similar implementation as that of .
You can add your own constraints as per your requirement.
Example : ignore adding the item if it already exist in collection view in which you are dropping it. In this case return an empty array.
We picked the item and then dragged it. Now, we cannot just keep on dragging the item for long. What to do with it now? Where to drop it? What will happen when I drop the item?
All of these questions point to a very specific one:"How do you intend to handle the drop at a specified location?Do you want to copy the item or just move it to a new position?Or do you want to forbid the movement in some specific conditions?Oh no..!! Can I just cancel it?"
Well well well..!!! There is a single answer to all your question — Drop Proposal. A drop proposal as the name suggests is the proposal of how you intend to handle the drop at a specific location when the user lifts his finger.
UIDropProposal — A configuration for the behavior of a drop interaction, required if a view accepts drop activities.
Each proposal defines an operation — enum UIDropOperation , that determines how a drag and drop activity resolves when the user drops a drag item. An operation is defined by can be of type:
UICollectionViewDropProposal — A subclass of UIDropProposal dedicated to collection views for handling drop proposals.
A collection view proposal also defines an optional intent — enum UICollectionViewDropIntent , that determines how to incorporate the content into the collection view. You can insert the content between items or add it to an existing item. Possible values of an intent are:
The collection view uses information to provide appropriate visual feedback to the user.
Now that we know what a drop proposal is, the thing we need to figure out now is how and where to implement it.
provides a method where you can specify the drop proposal you want to use, that is:
While the user is dragging content, the collection view calls this method repeatedly to determine how you would handle the drop if it occurred at the specified location.
Because this method is called repeatedly while the user drags over the collection view, your implementation should return as quickly as possible .
In the above code I have used 2 properties:
So here is what the above code speaks:
After being clear about how we intend to handle the drop, let's look at the implementation details of what we need to do once the actual drop is made.
To allow dropping of items in your collection view, implement the only required method of .
That is: — Tells your delegate to incorporate the drop data into the collection view.
This method provides you with a UICollectionViewDropCoordinator object that you can use to handle the drop. Using , you can fetch the below items to update your collection view's data source:
Also, when incorporating items, use or methods of the object to animate the transition from the drag item's preview to the corresponding item in your collection view.
Let's look at some code now.
The above code is pretty straight forward:
In case your drop proposal is , won't be called for handling the drops and hence you need not do anything special about it.
If the proposed handling is , we need to reorder the items. We'll discuss more about reordering in the next section.
In this section, let's have a look at how to handle drop if we intend to the items.
You can use collection view's to make changes in the collection view.
You can use this method in cases where you want to make multiple changes to the collection view in one single animated operation, as opposed to in several separate animations.
Deletes are processed before inserts in batch operations. This means the indexes for the deletions are processed relative to the indexes of the collection view's state before the batch operation, and the indexes for the insertions are processed relative to the indexes of the state after all the deletions in the batch operation.
Here is how you can do it:
To get the data corresponding to dragged item, you can use one of the below options:
Reordering of the cells occur when the drop proposal is specified as — move .
Reordering — Moving an item from source index path to destination index path within same/different collection view or table view as per your requirement.
I am explicitly referring to table view here because table view and collection view handle reordering a bit differently. We'll discuss both of them here.
In table views , reordering functionality is already available since a long time. And the good thing is we can continue using that 😅. No need to do anything special to support reordering in table views. You just need to:
won't be called for handling drops if the above methods are implemented.
In collection views , reordering is handled in the same manner as copying. The only difference is — in copying you were inserting a brand new item at the destination index path, but in reordering you need to delete an item from source index path and insert it at the destination index path.
The logic is changed a bit, rest everything remains same.
Note: the obtained from in could be the number of items in collection view if you try to reorder the item to the end of the collection view. In case of reordering, number of items in collection view remain same. So you need to handle that explicitly as it might throw runtime error.
Oh Wait! I have , but from where do I get ?
Well, we have an answer for that too.
can be obtained corresponding to each item fetched using . If the item is originated from the same collection view, this property contains the item's original index path.
In the above code, a single item is reordered. You can do it for multiple items as per your requirement.
In case of reordering, when you drag an item over a collection view which accepts a drop, the collection view provides an appropriate visual feedback to the user — shifting/reordering the cells to accomodate a new one.
We can control the reordering speed for a better user experience using
of type
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on collection view object.
can have these possible values:
Set the appropriate value of on your collection view object in .
When an item is lifted, the collection view uses the item's visible bounds to create the preview by default. In case you want to customize the appearance of the item, you can achieve it through preview parameters.
UIDragPreviewParameters — A set of parameters for adjusting the appearance of a drag item preview.
The parameters specify different visual aspects of the preview, including the background color and the visible area of the view associated with the preview.
In case you don't want to make any changes to the drag preview, don't implement this method or return if you implement it.
To customize the drag preview, implement method of .
That's it. That's all you need to get drop-drop working in collection and table view. Go on..give it a try!!
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