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thegauntlet
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The Crown returns to Metal Blade Records!
'For the Sake of Heaviness': The History of Metal Blade Records': new book excerpt available!
SiriusXM Liquid Metal announces For The Sake Of Heaviness!
Testament: 'Low' and 'The Ritual' now available on wax!
On April 7th, Australian thrashers Harlott will release their new album, Extinction, worldwide via Metal Blade Records!
Metal Legends BOLT THROWER calling it quits.
Revocation Release Video For "Deathless"
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2019-04-25T10:02:20Z
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http://www.thegauntlet.com/tags/metal+blade+records
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Arts
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News
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indiewire
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Getting the call from the Sundance Film Festival that your film has been accepted can be one of the most exhilarating moments indie filmmakers will ever experience, but it can also be one of the most sobering ones. With approximately two months between acceptance letters and premieres, filmmakers are faced with having to finish editing their films, completing sound design (including sound effects, score and mix) and mastering the picture (including color correction and special effects), often on a shoestring budget while over 100 other indies face the same deadline.
“Is the film going to be compromised if we move this fast?” This is a conversation Green had with her team in the five weeks they had to finish “It Follows” before its 2014 premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. On “I’ll See You In My Dreams,” which had a much smaller budget, Green knew that in order to work with quality vendors they couldn’t wait to find out if they got into Sundance.
With many indies shooting in the summer before Sundance, they don’t have the luxury of getting ahead of the curve, but most productions that believe they have even a chance at premiering at Sundance do preemptively put Park City housing and post production vendors on hold ahead of the announcement. Deadlines always lead to escalating costs, but most indie teams find there are post production houses and artists willing to work within a film’s time and budgetary constraints.
The motivation for colorists, sound mixers, composers, special effects artists and post-production supervisors to forgo their normal commercial rates is clear: they want to work on cool films and advance their feature film careers. The larger issue for them is often less associated with how much they’ll get paid and more with their ability to do competent jobs working in a compressed time period. If the film is going to be a showcase for their talents, they want to ensure they will have the ability to do quality work.
The result is the infamous last minute “we almost didn’t make it” stories. Three different filmmakers who spoke to Indiewire for this article had stories of someone, a friend or member of the crew, grabbing a tape from the lab, hopping on a plane to Utah and delivering the film to Sundance Quality Control — a group warmly praised for their diligence and understanding — the day of the premiere.
The costs continue to mount as the Sundance deadline looms and it’s often not for the post production work that’s been budgeted.
Green added that having a film get into Sundance definitely makes it easier to raise funds — in the case of “Dreams,” all 11 original investors signed on — but the process was still extremely challenging.
According to Producer Michele Turnure-Salleo, who is the director of the San Francisco Film Society’s Filmmaker360 program — a non-profit that advises and hands out large financial grants to films like “Fruitvale,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and “Short Term 12” — there’s a cycle in indie films that isn’t necessarily healthy.
To address this problem, SFFS now hands out its post-production grants ahead of the major festival announcements, but it also introduces its filmmakers to key artistic post people while the film is in production, so that directors and technicians are taking important post issues into account while they shoot.
But not everybody gets a SFFS grant and is getting a first class sound mix at Skywalker paid for, which was the case for “Beasts” and “Fruitvale.” There are also often producers and directors who have worked for free or little money for well over a year on the film and are not willing to dilute their potential backend by raising additional funds. It’s for this reason that for the last last three Sundance film festivals, a handful of films like “Obvious Child” and “Sembene” have turned to crowdfunding to raise post production funds after getting into Sundance. Kickstarter’s Dan Schoenbrun told Indiewire that 2016 likely won’t be much different, with a number of projects already inquiring about crowdfunding for the festival.
Beyond finishing films and the finances, there’s the element of getting everybody to Park City and getting everyone on the same page in terms of how they’ll talk about the film, especially the actors, and making sure everybody feels part of the team and has good experience.
“Producers are finding sales agents, we’re dealing with tickets, with parties, travel, getting all your talent there and with very little money you are coordinating what feels like a whole another production,” explained Green.
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2019-04-25T13:09:01Z
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https://www.indiewire.com/2015/12/the-sundance-crunch-the-expense-stress-and-endless-work-of-getting-ready-for-the-2016-festival-46741/
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Arts
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Business
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coneyisland
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Coney Island USA Spring Gala - March 25, 2017 - Gal Friday!
Miss Coney Island 2008 Gal Friday is bringing her classic moves and fearless personality to the Coral Jubilee Coney Island USA Gala! Gal is a true bump-and-grinding, booty-shaking queen! She had the honor of performing at The Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, wowed crowds in Jamaica, Bermuda and The Bahamas. Gal Friday loves to perform for all the Mermaids and Mermen at Coney. She hates being shellfish.
35th Annual Mermaid Parade Registration is now open!
The 35th Annual Mermaid Parade is Saturday, June 17th at 1pm!
Click here for info and to register online!
Coney Island USA Spring Gala - March 25, 2017 - Adam Realman!
Sword swallower, strongman and sideshow performer Adam Realman, was born and raised in the legendary Coney Island section of Brooklyn. He’s spent the past fifteen years developing and perfecting his one man show, performing daring and unusual acts with spot on comedic timing in front of nationwide audiences. So risk temptation and spend the eve with your gala MC, Adam!
Green Fairy at the Coney Island USA Spring Gala!
Coney Island USA Spring Gala VIP's, join us in our VIP Speakeasy for Don Spiro's Green Fairy Absinthe tasting!! Don's infamous Green Fairy Parties are held the first Thursday of every month at the Red Room where you can enjoy an elegant, decadent evening of absinthe tasting, live hot jazz and a variety of bawdy performances. Come experience it this time, at our Coral Jubilee Spring Gala on Saturday, March 25th!
Coney Island USA Spring Gala - March 25, 2017 - Julie Atlas Muz!
Miss Coney Island 2006 and Queen of the Mermaid Parade 2015 Julie Atlas Muz is thrilled to be bringing the gang together again for the Coral Jubilee Gala! Julie is calling all mermaids and Miss Coney Islands past, present and future to come, celebrate and help defend the honor of American popular culture at Coney Island USA! Photo by Andrew Brusso taken at the Coral Room, a nightclub in NYC that boasted a 30,000 saltwater tank with live fish!
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2019-04-22T00:40:51Z
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https://www.coneyisland.com/home?page=17
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Arts
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Business
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cnet
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On the Mac, you've become accustomed to software that's not just powerful, but elegant too. Armed with the belief that file-transfer should be no exception, we made Flow. Flow brings the best of the Mac to your server's files and folders. Put simply, Flow makes working remotely every bit as intuitive and natural as working locally with the Finder.
"Terrible. Try one of the many alternatives."
It doesn't work reliably, if at all.
"Very comfortable FTP program for Mac."
- A tiny bit unstable - froze a couple of time. Had to close and reopen program. Otherwise could not access the files anymore.
The program is - as mentioned - very easy to use - and fits perfectly to the Mac. It would be great if there is the option to copy the paths on the server. Sometime I would like to check, whether the uploaded file works or not, and could not find how to copy and paste the path to the browser instead of typing the,.
"Looks nice but terribly buggy, unuseable"
The program looks nice, but I have never had so much trouble with a program as I have had with Flow. Crashes all the time, freezes up. Some of the function simply don't even work, like 'move' a file to another directory. Bookmarks are a mess. They randomly disappear. They can't be re-ordered. It's a disaster. I bought the program and it is simply unusable. Have emailed the authors numerous times and have not heard a peep. One of the worst programs I have ever tried and the worst customer support as well. It is not even in an advanced beta state. Awful.
"Flow's a joy to use"
I've been using Flow for about 7 months now -- I think pretty much since it was released. Although it was pretty buggy at first, Flow is now an absolute joy to use. It's simple, it's intuitive, it's fast, it's stable, and it looks fantastic.
This app is a winner.
"Looks pretty, but that's about it."
I was really impressed with the interface. Very pretty.
However, I couldn't accomplish anything else with this program except logging into my FTP site. File transfers fail and I wasn't able to upload a single file to my site.
I dragged my files into the window, Flow populated the window with my file names and then most of the files just disappeared from the window. The files that remained in the window just sat there and did nothing.
As usual, don't pay for software that doesn't work. Use the trial first. I'm glad I did.
"Slick UI. Poor file transfer."
A slick UI without a doubt, but most (if not all?) of that is provided by the OS itself, and as far as interfaces go not having a dual pane local/remote view makes it very hard to use, not to mention lots buggy of behavior in other areas.
The biggest problem though is that the file transfer bit ... you know, the part which actually makes the app of any use ... it's flaky as hell. "Solid Connections" ? Nope.
Fixed: Issue where Flow didn't function with some modern SFTP implementations.
Fixed: Support for macOS High Sierra.
Limitations 15-day fully featured trial. After 15 days, sessions will be limited to 10 minutes.
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2019-04-23T00:32:46Z
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https://download.cnet.com/Flow/3000-2160_4-190965.html
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Arts
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Arts
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classicalsource
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Garsington Opera’s 30th anniversary season will feature four new productions – the UK stage premiere of Offenbach’s Fantasio, Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, Mozart’s Don Giovanni and finally Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. The season culminates with concert performances of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, celebrating the start of a partnership with The English Concert. The season runs from 29 May to 26 July.
The UK stage premiere of Offenbach’s little-known opera Fantasio celebrates his bicentenary year. A beguiling tale of love and mistaken identity, it will feature Hanna Hipp, who sang Clairon in Capriccio last season, in the role of the Jester, a melancholy, moon-struck dreamer yearning after Princess Elsbeth, performed by Jennifer France, winner of the Critics Circle Emerging Talent Award 2018, the Leonard Ingrams Foundation Award 2014 and praised for her appearance as Susanna in John Cox’s legendary Le nozze di Figaro. They are joined by Huw Montague Rendall (Prince of Mantua), Timothy Robinson (Marinoni), Brian Bannatyne-Scott (King of Bavaria) and Bianca Andrew (Flamel). Three singers, formerly on the Alvarez Young Artists’ Programme, Benjamin Lewis (Sparck), Joseph Padfield (Hartmann) and Joel Williams (Facio) complete the cast. This fantastical story is performed in a lively new English translation by Jeremy Sams. The creative team of director Martin Duncan and designer Francis O’Connor return after many admired productions at Garsington Opera, and are joined by lighting designer Howard Hudson and choreographer Ewan Jones. Making his Garsington Opera debut, Justin Doyle, Artistic Director of RIAS Kammerchor, Berlin, will conduct.
The Bartered Bride, a celebration of Czech culture and identity, will be reimagined into the heart of the English countryside, and will open the season. Natalya Romaniw, last seen at Garsington as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, sings the heroine Mařenka who uses all her charm and cunning to marry the man she loves – Jeník, sung by American tenor Brenden Gunnell. The cast includes Joshua Bloom (Kecal) last seen as Figaro (2017), Stuart Jackson (Vašek), Peter Savidge (Krušina), Heather Shipp (Ludmila), Brian Bannatyne-Scott (Mícha), Anne-Marie Owens (Háta), and Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Circus Master). Lara Marie Müller, a former Alvarez Young Artist, sings Esmeralda. Dance is at the heart of this sparkling work from the vibrant overture to the riotous and festive polka; Jac van Steen, who returns after his success with Pelléas et Mélisande (2017), will conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra. The creative team of Paul Curran (director) and Kevin Knight (designer), whose production of Death in Venice (2015) was much acclaimed, returns with Howard Hudson (lighting designer) and Darren Royston (movement director).
Mozart's enduring masterpiece Don Giovanni will feature several role debuts including Jonathan McGovern in the title role, David Ireland (Leporello), formerly an Alvarez Young Artist, Australian soprano Sky Ingram (Donna Elvira) and Welsh tenor Trystan Llŷr Griffiths (Don Ottavio). The cast also includes two UK debuts – Brazilian soprano Camila Titinger (Donna Anna) and Canadian soprano Mireille Asselin (Zerlina). Paul Whelan (Commendatore) and former Alvarez Young Artist Thomas Faulkner (Masetto) complete the cast. Garsington Opera’s Artistic Director Douglas Boyd conducts and former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company Michael Boyd (director) returns to direct together with Tom Piper (designer), after their success with Pelléas et Mélisande (2017) and Eugene Onegin (2016) with Malcolm Rippeth (lighting designer).
The Turn of the Screw with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the novella by Henry James, is considered to be one of Britten’s finest stage works. The gripping story of a young governess, performed by Sophie Bevan, sent to a remote country house to care for two children, also features the tenor Ed Lyon (Prologue/Quint), making his role debut. Also in the cast are Kathleen Wilkinson (Mrs Grose) and Katherine Broderick (Miss Jessel). Emerging American director Louisa Muller makes her UK debut together with two-time Olivier and Tony Award-winner Christopher Oram (designer) and Malcolm Rippeth (lighting designer). Richard Farnes, conductor of last year’s admired Falstaff, will conduct.
Celebrating the start of a new partnership, the renowned Baroque and Classical chamber orchestra The English Concert makes its Garsington debut playing on period instruments in three concert performances of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610. They will be joined by soloists Mary Bevan, Sophie Bevan, Benjamin Hulett, Robert Murray and James Way. Laurence Cummings returns to conduct with the Garsington Opera Chorus.
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2019-04-22T21:02:55Z
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http://www.classicalsource.com/db_control/db_news.php?id=6792
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Arts
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Arts
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theage
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A bushwalker who spent two nights missing in rugged bushland in the Otway Ranges, south-west of Melbourne, survived by eating grass.
He was found this morning when he walked out on to a track to greet police searching for him and was eating grass to survive.
The 19-year-old Scottish tourist was reported missing by his girlfriend at 8pm on Tuesday night after he failed to return from a hike on Tuesday afternoon.
He went missing near Sabine Falls, in Smythe Creek near Mt Sabine, north of Apollo Bay and spent two nights in the bush before being found at 9:20 this morning.
Senior Sergeant Peter Nichols from Colac Police told theage.com.au that the man was found just as his crew were about to resume their search.
"We were sending a crew in there to start searching this morning and he just walked out onto the track.
"He was found in an area south-west of the falls walking out onto to a track that leads east west onto the forest Apollo Bay road," he said.
Sergeant Nichols said that the man's condition was "remarkable" given that he spent two nights out the heavy terrain.
"He's got a few scratches on him, but he's in remarkable condition."
The man apparently drank creek water and ate grass to keep himself going.
"He had filled up his drink bottle from the creek. He was eating some type of grass from near the creek to keep up his energy," Mr Nichols said.
Police say that the man became disoriented when leaving the walking track and was not able to find his way back.
The police airwing, along with 40 people on the ground, including search and rescue members and State Emergency Service volunteers, searched until dark last night.
Victoria Police acting Inspector Ken Slingsby said searchers found footprints in a creekbed yesterday.
"Police had been concerned for the man's health because it had been cold and had rained in the area overnight.
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2019-04-21T15:23:12Z
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https://www.theage.com.au/national/lost-tourist-survived-by-eating-grass-20070406-ge4lkp.html
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Arts
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Health
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npr
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The Thistle & Shamrock: ThistleRadio Classics Listen to a mix of classic songs from Celtic music's newest, genre re-defining artists.
This weeks' episode of The Thistle & Shamrock features music by Kris Drever.
This week, from ThistleRadio's award-winning 24-hour music channel, we span the decades with classic, bedrock tracks of our playlist along with some of the newer artists helping to redefine the sound of today's Celtic-rooted music. Artists include Kris Drever, Dervish, and the Bothy Band. Enjoy.
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2019-04-26T15:22:47Z
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https://www.npr.org/2018/02/16/585501706/the-thistle-shamrock-thistleradio-classics
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Arts
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Arts
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clarku
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Never forget” and “never again” are promises-to remember the horrors of the past and to prevent their reoccurrence in the future. Present circumstances shape the possibilities of what can be done to realize both goals in the wake of mass atrocities. This course examines: 1) how these circumstances affect understandings of what “transitional justice” means to different actors; 2) the myriad forms it takes in different contexts (e.g. criminal proceedings, truth and reconciliation commissions, reparations, and memory projects); and 3) the impacts these initiatives have upon post-conflict reconstruction and development.
The course is divided into two sections. The first section is philosophical and historical in orientation. The focus is upon the ethical issues, political events, and the legal mechanisms out of which the concept of “transitional justice” emerged and has since become institutionalized. The second section consists of topic-focused case studies on development-related issues - ranging from displacement and corruption to sexual violence and climate change - in different countries such as Yugoslavia, Argentina, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda, among others. The details shed light on both the implementation of transitional justice proceedings in concrete settings, creating the basis for informed comparative discussions.
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2019-04-20T15:14:44Z
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http://catalog.clarku.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=22&coid=75612
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Arts
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Society
| 0.501237 |
wordpress
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The Emperor is your Authorship.
We write the stories of our lives. We write the future according to our writings of the past as we continue or discontinue the narrative in our present.
The Emperor is related to the Sun, he is creative wisdom, he is The Will embodied, he is The Word.
To gain full power of our Authorship, we need to write our past in truthful memory so that our Discernment becomes clear, so that our Assertiveness is based in the present on honest assessments of our strengths and weaknesses.
The Emperor and The Empress are bonded as a singular interplay. The process of creation and manifestation requires this relationship. The right and left hemisphere of the brain, if you like. Every masterpiece is brought into existence by this interplay. Without The Empress, The Emperor is a frustrated and neurotic tyrant. Without The Emperor, The Empress is repressed from the realization of her creative passions (in other words, she’s a nail biter).
The Emperor’s closest colleague is The Seer. His authority is made legitimate by his thirst for knowledge and his wise choice of counsel. The Emperor makes no decision off the cuff nor is he petty. He does the asking The Seer requires and receives the wisdom of the underworld in all matters upon The Terrace.
The Emperor can admit a mistake, but these are rare.
The Emperor is structure. He acknowledges society and its rules, laws, norms. He understands that all of these may be bent or broken, must, in fact, be bent and broken but only upon analysis and consideration of all that may be lost and all that may be gained.
The Emperor’s power is that of vision. From analysis and discipline, from the wise counsel of The Seer, he achieves a steady course toward the vision he set upon the horizon from his own power to do precisely that.
The Emperor anchors his quest in both the structures of nature and the laws that govern them.
The Emperor is The Word. And his Word is final. You are The Emperor. You are in your Authority. This is your story, so don’t forget to tell it, to write it: Past, Present, and Future. Your power is your vision. And that is that.
Write your stories well, write them with great vision.
This is Jack Kerouac’s list of essentials for writers.
I think he got it very right here.
Try it out. Everyday. Write your stories. Write them well. Make up yr own list of essentials.
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2019-04-20T14:45:57Z
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https://bookofkeys.wordpress.com/category/the-emperor-4/
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.716018 |
thenation
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Why, to Beltway reporters, Glenn Greenwald is no Bob Woodward.
Every so often, a single event so galvanizes members of the mainstream media that they end up revealing things about themselves that tend to be obscured by their typical, surface-level coverage. The Glenn Greenwald/Edward Snowden NSA bombshell is one such story. Among its important contributions, it demonstrates just how deeply the most prominent members of the MSM identify with the powerful officials they profess to hold accountable, rather than the public they are supposed to inform.
Consider this: Greenwald’s “crime,” to the best of Gregory’s (or anyone else’s) knowledge, was reporting leaks of classified national security material, something that it would not be an exaggeration to say happens almost every day in Washington (and is nearly unavoidable, given our classification system’s ridiculous excess). When Bob Woodward published his hagiographic Bush at War in 2002, the reporter explained that he was given access to the deeply classified minutes of National Security Council meetings, among myriad other secret decisions and intelligence data. This shocked even Woodward, who observed, “Certainly Richard Nixon would not have allowed reporters to question him like that. Bush’s father wouldn’t allow it. Clinton wouldn’t allow it.” Did anyone in Washington suggest that Bob Woodward should be charged with a crime?
Reporters in these same higher media precincts have also engaged in a rash of irresponsible speculation. For instance, NBC News reporter Chuck Todd wondered, sans evidence, whether “Glenn Greenwald, you know—how much was he involved in the plot? It’s one thing as a source, but what, what was his role—did he have a role beyond simply being a receiver of this information?” Jane Perlez and Keith Bradsher of The New York Times reported: “Two Western intelligence experts, who worked for major government spy agencies, said that they believed that the Chinese government had managed to drain the contents of the four laptops that Mr. Snowden said he brought to Hong Kong, and that he said were with him during his stay at a Hong Kong hotel”—a notion that would strengthen suspicions of alleged “espionage.” No knowledge, no evidence and no names were offered. Soon enough, this story was being repeated pretty much everywhere.
sourcing—tends to be with the intelligence community (which is one reason he was able to resist the lies coming from Cheney, Rumsfeld et al.). Here again, one can see how easily the rules of good journalism are bent when it comes to figures outside the Beltway’s sacred circle.
Edward Snowden, like Bradley Manning, broke the law and did so knowing he would likely be punished. But the inhumane treatment of Manning and the phony espionage charges against Snowden say more about our permanent government’s fear of exposure than about the “crimes” each man has committed.
Think there's no upside to aiding and abetting mass murder? Alterman sees it otherwise for the Reagan-era officials who enabled the Guatemalan genocide.
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2019-04-21T22:39:00Z
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https://www.thenation.com/article/msm-and-snowden-affair-where-true-loyalty-lies/
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Arts
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News
| 0.669655 |
bravepages
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Currently, I have posted the information and my photos of Sudan; Iraq (including travel information in Chinese); Bam; Persepolis; Syria (including information in Chinese). Please come back later to see other topics.
Click here to enter My Photo Center that includes the photos of March on 1st July and Rally on 9th July 2003 in Hong Kong. Or, click here for the flash photo show of 4th June 2004 night at Victoria Park.
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Please update or re-install the browser. Click here for further information.
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2019-04-23T14:07:09Z
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http://patrickmllai.bravepages.com/
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Arts
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Reference
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wordpress
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Last week I told you about a restaurant that mom/dad went to with Aunt Tina a couple of months ago while visiting Chicago. This is the second half of that posting.
On this night, mom/dad split a meal. They do that a lot. On tonight’s menu it was a Fontina Pork Chop. I know – I know. I was shocked too. Thank goodness I’m not that kind of pig!
This pork chop was boneless, had fontina cheese, garlic and prosciutto ham and a mushroom marsala sauce. Mom said it was the best pig that she ever had…besides kissing me that is – snorts and rolls with piggy laughter.
They served it with garlic whipped potatoes and one of dad’s favorites – crab fried rice – which dad absolutely fell in love with!
Do you see that yummy shrimp? It’s called Bang Bang Shrimp. The shrimp are crispy and tossed with a creamy spicy sauce. AND they serve the shrimp with chopsticks. How cute is that? Mom/dad said they were awesome! Can you guess what restaurant it is with the fish in the lower left hand corner?
Aunt Tina took mom/dad to this place when they last visited in May. What an awesome place it was… or maybe it was the awesome food… or MAYBE it was just the AWESOME COMPANY they had at dinner.
Oh boy, has daddy got a good one today for you my friends. For obvious reasons, I’m going to let daddy explain his choice to you – snorts with piggy laughter.
Thank you Bacon – now you scoot along and be a good piggy. You certainly do not need to see this.
On a recent outing with the wife, I came across the burger. The menu called it The Boss. I nicknamed it The Caveman. It was *almost* too much for even me to handle… but I did.
The pictures don’t do it justice – it is HUGE!
Are you asking yourself what is in this creation? There is a hamburger patty on the bottom, topped by smoked brisket, tender rib meat, jalapeno cheddar smoked sausage, bacon and cheddar.
I could barely wrap my hands around this burger. And once I did get my hands around it, I wouldn’t dare put it down because it would fall apart on me. And that my friends would be horrible.
So I picked it up and dug in. This burger was so piled with goodies inside that they kept falling out and onto my tray.
And see those french fries on my plate. I’m sure they would have been good but I had no room left to enjoy them.
And if the sandwich was that big, do you think I could wrap my mouth around it? Barely – that is the word – barely!
And it was good until the last bite!
First up, Aunt Tina said they had the best calamari. So everyone ordered the Calamari Fritti which was lightly breaded and fried to perfection. They serve this delectable appetizer with a side of cocktail sauce. Of course, Aunt Tina made sure to spritz lemon all over these yum-yum’s before everyone dug into them.
And then everyone dug into some salad. See even Aunt Tina made daddy eat some vegetables – mom was so proud. Of course mom told daddy he had to eat the salad because the pizza takes time to cook. That’s right. Deep dish pizza takes longer to cook than the regular pizzas you might order from your fast food place.
Then after a while, mom/dad/Aunt Tina said they heard angels singing and their individual pizzas were delivered. Instead of getting one huge pizza, they all got individual ones with side salads. These pizzas had sausage and black olives – and lots of sauce.
What did mom/dad think about this Chicago style deep dish pizza? Dad is a huge pizza person. He said that he ‘thinks’ he liked it but he would have to try one again to be sure. That sounds like dad, huh? But in the end, he said he would give it about an eight.
Mom said it was okay. Mom is not a fan of a lot of sauce on her pizzas and of course this one is fully loaded with sauce. And the crust is thick and a there is a lot of it surrounding the pizza. Mom said the crust was kind of hard too. There was lots of flavor but this pizza left mom on the it was okay side. So for these reasons, mom gave it about a four.
But overall, everyone had a fantastic time at a famous landmark. Would they go back again – of course they would! There is more to the menu than just pizza. And if you know anything about my mom/dad, they are professional eaters – snorts with piggy laughter.
Daddy is doing Travels in the South today – take it away pops!
Sometimes you get the craving for some really good barbeque. And for obvious reasons, we don’t tell Bacon what really good barbeque can be. So the other day, I took the wife to a local place that has the best ribs. As you can see in the picture above, you get a lot of food for just a little over $12.00 – and it’s good and solid food. You can get the ribs in different flavors too – regular barbeque, bourbon or you can add more pork to it in the form of little pieces of bacon on top of your ribs. I showed some respect for the pig and didn’t get bacon added to it. I just couldn’t do that – LOL.
Oh my friends – mom/dad found the *best* local seafood restaurant. It is called Fishers of Men and they are located at 1500 Mt Zion Road, Suite 20, Morrow. They are open everyday except Sunday.
Mom/dad went there one Saturday night to check it out and they have since been back repeatedly. Why? Let me tell you why mom/dad like it so much.
The food is authentic. As you’ve read on my blog, mom/dad like to travel and they like to eat. They’ve eaten everywhere. And this place can hold their own with some of the other restaurants they’ve been to all over the world.
The atmosphere is home. You go in, order and pay for your food. Then you find a comfy spot and wait smelling all of that deliciousness being created in the kitchen for your order. There’s no rush to herd you out of the restaurant like some places do. Everything is cooked fresh to order so it comes out sizzling hot.
And let me tell you one more thing. You may go in as a stranger but you will leave as family.
When mom/dad went the first time, they ordered two of the whiting and shrimp dinners. That’s four pieces of whiting and thirteen shrimp with fries. They didn’t have any clue how much food they would get. Look at all of that food! And yes, dad said they snorted it all down – can you believe that?
There is a LOT of pictures below that mom/dad wanted to share with you – no they didn’t order everything at once – snorts with piggy laughter. As I’ve said, they have been there many times in the past couple of weeks.
As they like to tell one of the owners Arlene, they are working their way through the menu. Today, I wanted to share with you some of their fabulous food. And, if you are in the area we highly suggest you try this place.
You will not regret it! In fact, as mom/dad try more of their food, you might see them here again on Travels in the South.
Now try not to get too hungry looking at these gorgeous pictures!
In no particular order, the following pictures are: scallops (sweet, succulent and flaky on the inside like they should be); crab sticks (we had to ask what these were too! crab meat breaded and fried); oysters and catfish; whiting and shrimp; whiting and the best seafood salad and clams. And let me add by saying there french fries are crispy and there onion rings are out of this world!! Mom/dad have also tried their wonderful cole slaw and grits. Yes grits are good for you!
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2019-04-22T04:09:03Z
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https://piglove.wordpress.com/category/travels-around-the-world/
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Whether or not you support having an A-League finals series, you simply cannot deny just how good the past two weeks have been in this oft-derided season.
Suddenly, from nowhere, the A-League feels exciting, vibrant and flooded with narratives worth following. It was totally organic – driven exclusively by the on-field product – and achieved without a cent of marketing.
In my ideal world, we wouldn’t need an A-League finals series. We’d generate all the excitement we ever needed from the league, the FFA Cup, Asian Champions League and the frenzied clamour of promotion-relegation.
However, for now, I’ve got to hold my hand up: this season, thank God for the finals.
It’s the first time all season we have talked about the football – and only the football. No normalisation committees. No political leverage or power-hungry leviathans. No backroom deals; nor wheeling and dealing. Fighting for the next goal, not the next argument.
And as much as political scandals and transfer deals draw clicks by the thousands, nothing can beat the goodness of the game's raw sunlight. It’s had an almost cleansing effect.
Hats off to the players, coaches and you, the fan. The atmosphere at the A-League has been so very hollow this season but how loud were the crowds in Newcastle and Sydney on the weekend?
Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory seemed eternally tethered to each other at finals time. Their gladiatorial slug-fests over the years have become annual events. You can set your watch to a Big Blue in the finals – and on it going to extra time.
Credit to Sydney for their amazing season, for which they deserve great recognition. But what a colossal effort from Kevin Muscat and his men. The team that refused to die, with the most amazing 20-minute turnaround from Terry Antonis. Unsavory assistant coaching scenes aside, that moment is already enshrined in A-League history.
Speaking of A-League history, I can’t stop watching Riley McGree’s goal. It is the Australian sporting play of the year. Did he mean it? He certainly meant to make contact, which is good enough for me. The Internet is currently being hosed down after spontaneously catching fire.
That goal virtually overshadowed the Jets’ comeback against the glamour boys from Melbourne City, which in itself was a sensational achievement. Not only would they win that match, but the expected trip to Sydney to face the Sky Blues rapidly morphed into the biggest match in the history of football in the Hunter Valley, the traditional cradle of the game in this country.
Some were worried the A-League grand final wouldn’t sell out if played in Newcastle. Are you kidding me? The only grand final that sold out quicker was when somebody forget to book Etihad Stadium and we had to shoehorn Victory and Sydney into AAMI Park.
The Hunter Valley is going to go bonkers, inside and outside the stadium. The atmosphere on Saturday night will be up there with the loudest of all time. Victory will bring a huge number of away fans and the hosts will be on their feet for 90 minutes. How wonderful that our sport can deliver such a blockbuster event to a regional centre.
But if there’s one not-so-silver lining to this cloud, it is this. Why hasn’t this kind of football been played in the regular season? Why did half of the season feel it was 'on hold', just waiting for the finals? For any football purist, it was depressing few months.
I often wonder if we could get all our knockout drama fix from a revamped FFA Cup – an event currently serviced magnificently by National Premier League clubs and dreadfully by A-League clubs.
The advent of promotion-relegation, too, would provide even greater drama than a finals series ever could. And the finals’ spaghetti has totally destroyed the excitement over Asian Champions League qualification, devaluing what should be a huge achievement. Nobody seems to know exactly who finishes where and the ACL, naturally, becomes an afterthought.
Indeed, before anyone shoots back “it’s Australia, mate”, I hear you. We are unique, but other sports don’t have the sudden-death cup and continental competitions, either.
However, what isn’t in question is that the finals saved the A-League this year. Whether it’s the best solution – long-term – is an answer that’s still up for grabs.
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2019-04-19T17:25:39Z
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https://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/the-season-the-finals-saved-the-a-league
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unctv
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Price began his military service in 1937 with the 1st Coast Artillery. Drafted in 1940, he returned to Fort Bragg for boot camp and later worked at Camp Davis, the first man, he says, to be drafted from Cleveland County. On D-Day + 16, he landed at Normandy with the 56th General Hospital and cared for the wounded from the many battles that followed. When the Army — desperate for front line soldiers — gave him the opportunity to fight, he joined the 106th Infantry Division. His timing couldn’t have been worse: the 106th was demolished by Hitler’s army in the Ardennes Offensive. A wonderful storyteller, Falls tells about the war from several perspectives including the loss of one of his brothers.
Falls Price recalls his run-ins with German soldiers in the European theater of World War II.
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2019-04-19T08:53:51Z
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http://wwii.unctv.org/the-participants/falls-price
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Society
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fanpop
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Toralei. . Wallpaper and background images in the মনস্টার হাই club tagged: toralei lover.
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2019-04-18T13:06:54Z
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http://bn.fanpop.com/clubs/monster-high/images/34661879/title/toralei-photo
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Reference
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Prism: Hate is easy. Love takes courage.
Hello and welcome to the official website of Prism, Truman State University's Pride Alliance! We want to make you feel welcome and safe on our campus and in good old Kirksville, MO. Though our town and campus are on the small side, we never let that get in the way! With current membership around 60 students, along with support from many faculty members and alumni, Prism has had a presence at Truman for more than 20 years.
We have several big events during each semester, as well as many smaller get-togethers. There are meetings every week, small groups once a month, movie nights, game nights, tabling and petitioning, conference trips, and much more.
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2019-04-20T06:54:16Z
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http://prism.truman.edu/
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Start by draining tuna and set aside..
Heat a sauce pan, put 3/4 cup olive oil.
Put the chopped garlic followed by chopped onion.
Then add crushed tomato, bay leaf and mix well.
Once it boils,turn the heat to simmering mode.
Simmer for abour 10 minutes then add Tuna, mix, cover and simmer for about 20 minutes.
Then add 1/4 cup olive oil chopped roasted bell pepper, chili flakes, salt, sugar and pepper.
Simmer for another 5 minutes. Serve and enjoy.
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2019-04-21T20:41:11Z
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https://sites.google.com/site/kocinadepinayinsingapura/filipino-bacalhau
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Arts
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Reference
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fanpop
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Michael Phelps. . Wallpaper and background images in the Michael Phelps club tagged: michael phelps swimmer phelps.
I've always like this picture, but hated the fact that they spelled Michael wrong on that jacket.
That really is a cute photo, but you're right too bad they spelled his name wrong.
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2019-04-25T14:08:02Z
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http://ur.fanpop.com/clubs/michael-phelps/images/2602018/title/michael-phelps-photo
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ign
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Praise the sun in amiibo form.
Ahead of Dark Souls Remastered's May release, Nintendo revealed an amiibo to coincide with the game.
A network test will also be coming ahead of Dark Souls Remastered's release. More details will be revealed by Nintendo soon, but players will be able to try out the gameplay and online features early.
Nintendo confirmed Dark Souls Remastered for Switch in a Direct Mini earlier this year, and the game is also coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC. For more on the remaster, check out 7 things we hope Dark Souls Remastered will fix.
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2019-04-24T12:41:14Z
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https://in.ign.com/dark-souls-remastered/119848/news/dark-souls-remastered-amiibo-announced
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nps
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Hiking in Zion, even short hikes, requires advance planning. Review the trail information linked below to choose a trail that is right for your group. Your safety is your responsibility.
Print out your Zion National Park Hiking Guide.
Some of the most popular trails in the national park are located in Zion Canyon. Zion Canyon Trail Descriptions.
Several hiking options are located at Kolob Canyons, the northwest corner of Zion National Park. Kolob Canyons Trail Descriptions.
Much longer hikes are located in the Zion Wilderness. Overnight trips require a wilderness permit. Wilderness Trail Descriptions.
For updated trail closure information, check the Current Conditions.
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2019-04-25T16:55:15Z
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https://www.nps.gov/zion/planyourvisit/hiking-in-zion.htm
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This tutorial is a learning tool designed to provide William & Mary employees with a better understanding of the federal law that protects the privacy of student education records.
Once you have finished the tutorial, you must complete a Tribe Responses form to record that you have read and understand the content of this tutorial.
FERPA Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) is a federal law that governs access to and release of education records.
Directory Information Student information that is generally not considered an invasion of privacy if made publicly available.
FERPA provision that allows a school official to review a student's education record in order to fulfill their professional responsibilities for the university.
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2019-04-18T12:19:26Z
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https://www.wm.edu/offices/registrar/facstaff/ferpaandbanner/FERPAtutorial/index.php
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Arts
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Reference
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drew
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Spend a few hours in The Forest! Hear from current students, take a tour and meet faculty members.
For additional information, visit http://www.drew.edu/admissions-aid/plan-a-visit/.
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2019-04-18T14:55:07Z
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http://www.drew.edu/events/event/discover-drew-day-3/
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Reference
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wolfram
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The Otto cycle is an idealized thermodynamic cycle proposed by Nikolaus August Otto in 1876. This cycle describes the functioning of a typical reciprocating piston engine (see snapshot 4 or the "engine diagram" button). This thermodynamic cycle is used in automobile engines. This cycle consists of two adiabatic and two isochoric transformations. The thermal efficiency of this cycle is given by: , where is the compression ratio and is the specific heat ratio, taken to be 1.4 for air in the present Demonstration.
This Demonstration plots the four transformations in the PV (i.e. pressure vs. volume) and TS (i.e. temperature vs. entropy) diagrams. The adiabatic and isochoric transformations are shown in blue and red, respectively. The areas shown in the PV and TS diagrams are equal to the net work and to the net heat transfer, respectively. These two quantities are equal. You can set the values of the heat source temperature, the heat sink temperature, and the compression ratio.
1. Air and fuel are mixed and compressed adiabatically. Work is thereby performed on the system (i.e. the gas).
2. A spark ignites the mixture leading to an explosion. A rapid rise in the pressure and temperature occurs. The process is idealized as a constant volume process. Heat is absorbed by the system in this step.
3. The explosion is followed by an adiabatic expansion producing a force on the piston. Work is performed by the system.
4. After the working stroke, there is still some residual pressure in the cylinder. This pressure is released by opening the exhaust valve. The drop in the pressure occurs at a constant volume, so that heat is released by the system to the surroundings.
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2019-04-24T18:55:07Z
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http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/OttoCycle/
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nj
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Custom Embroidery and Digital Printing on T's, towels, golf shirts, totes, etc. Military Guideons and flags - also for presentation framing. Shop locally!
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2019-04-23T14:54:52Z
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https://businessfinder.nj.com/11627489/Grammys-Hugs-and-Signature-Stitches-Browns-Mills-NJ
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We told you we wouldn't forget about you, Swedish Templars! On November 28, it's time for HammerFall to lay siege to Scandinavium in Göteborg once again. As a very special guest, we'll have our friends in Edguy, with Civil War as an opener. This will indeed be a ??November to Remember?!
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2019-04-23T06:51:16Z
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http://www.hammerfall.net/?navigation=news&view=25
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dvdtalk
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cd-rom for my laptop has bit it...need some advice please!
i own a compaq prosignia 150 laptop and my cd-rom drive has died on me. i'd like to replace it with cd-rw drive, maybe a dvd combo..is that possible? i looked at several online stores to find a replacement, but most of them were either external drives or drives for pc's-- nothing specifically for laptops.
would someone mind offering me some advice? if i can in fact remove and replace my old drive, where can i buy a new one?
I got some CD-ROMs for an IBM laptop on ebay for much less than I could find anywhere else. Take a look there.
Well, you could always talk to Compaq, but you're probably not going to like the prices very much.
I'd second X's suggestion - check EBay to see what you can find.
Most laptop drives use a proprietary connector, so it's not something you're likely to find at your local computer store.
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2019-04-20T04:51:05Z
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https://forum.dvdtalk.com/tech-talk/347971-cd-rom-my-laptop-has-bit-need-some-advice-please.html
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Arts
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Computers
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nme
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Arctic Monkeys‘ Matt Helders has joined P Diddy’s band temporarily.
The drummer teamed up with the rapper and his backing band, Diddy-Dirty Money, for a performance of their new single ‘Hello Good Morning’, which is released on June 21.
Helders filled in on drums during a set for Jonathan Ross’ talk show, which will be broadcast tonight (June 11) on BBC1 from 10.35pm (BST).
After the recording, which took place earlier this week, the rapper and Helders went on to party together at Whisky Mist in London.
The unlikely pair became friends last year, while Arctic Monkeys were recording third album ‘Humbug’ in the US.
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2019-04-20T04:32:20Z
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https://www.nme.com/news/music/arctic-monkeys-321-1292264
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ehow
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Why Doesn't Our Tree Have Leaves at the Top?
Trees are susceptible to a variety of problems, including pests and diseases, that cause premature defoliation. Leaf loss that begins at the top of the tree indicates a disease problem or an issue in the tree's growing environment. Proper care of trees and disease treatment are crucial to keeping leaves healthy and growing.
Trees in drought conditions are likely to start shedding leaves over time. A lack of moisture in the soil prevents trees from getting nutrients, and the leaves on the upper branches lose moisture first, because they are furthest from the roots of the tree. The longer a tree goes without water, the more leaves it will lose. Leaves turn yellow and begin to brown at the edges before dropping from the tree. Water the tree regularly during periods of drought.
Verticillium wilt is a fungal disease caused by Verticillium alboatrum, and it causes noticeable problems beginning in the early summer. Leaves will be light and dull in color and start dropping from the tree without first wilting; leaf drop can begin at the top of the tree or along one side. Interior leaves begin to fall first, and the leaf loss moves outward along the branches. Pruning and good soil culture help control verticillium wilt, but there is no chemical treatment.
Root girdling is a problem for some maple trees, including the Norway maple, according to the University of Rhode Island Extension web site. Girdling of roots occurs when roots wrap around one another, and one root becomes choked off and unable to transport nutrients and moisture to the top of the tree. Symptoms of girdling roots include top dieback, leaf loss, stunted leaves and dieback of twigs. Root girdling is treated by removing the root that is causing the girdling.
Some insect pests begin feeding at the upper portions of the tree. The emerald ash borer, which affects ash trees and is a cause of serious problems for native ash populations, is one such pest. As emerald ash borers feed, they cause leaf loss at the crown of the tree, which spreads to the lower branches of the tree. Bronze birch borers are another type of pest that causes leaf loss at the tops of trees. Pesticides help control the presence of pests, although there is little possibility for control of emerald ash borers.
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2019-04-19T08:48:33Z
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https://www.ehow.com/info_8681365_doesnt-tree-leaves-top.html
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cornell
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Class headquarters and housing will be on West Campus in Carl Becker House South. Photos of a single and double room on West Campus can be found here.
When arriving for Reunion, guests can pull up near Alice Cook House (709 University Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850) in the semi-circle driveway area to drop off luggage. Luggage handlers will be on hand to assist with bringing guest luggage into headquarters. You will not be able to leave your vehicle parked in this area while you check in.
A Reunion shuttle will help guests get back to their headquarter location after parking. Flag the shuttle down when you see them.
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2019-04-26T14:37:01Z
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https://alumni.cornell.edu/come-back/reunion/classes-groups/class-of-1974/
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umd
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You may have noticed that we have included our monthly professional and leadership course offerings in each of the UHR Connect newsletters. In this issue, we are featuring our Learning and Talent Development (L&TD) team. L&TD coordinates, designs, and delivers a diverse selection of classroom, on-line, and individual learning programs for the UMD community. As an essential part of UHR, their goal is to stimulate a transformative culture of learning by providing tools to develop and enhance essential workplace skills. Professional development courses include: Developing Resourcefulness, Crucial Conversations in a Diverse Workforce, GED Test Preparation, and MBTI®. On the leadership development track courses such as; Keys to a Positive Workplace, Effective Delegation, Planning and Execution, and Coaching for Performance and Growth are offered. I strongly encourage you to register at training.umd.edu for any of the many courses offered. We also welcome the opportunity to come to your department and deliver group/team trainings.
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2019-04-20T07:26:49Z
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https://uhr.umd.edu/news/uhrconnect-december-2015/
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“I have served as a Lutheran pastor since 1993 and have been Peninsula Lutheran’s pastor since 2016. Although it was never my intention to be a parish pastor, I have been blessed and surprised by how much joy I find in pastoral ministry. To be present with God’s people in times of celebration, crisis, and the stuff of daily life is good. Elizabeth, my wife, and I have two children, Caroline (16) and Mark (14). When I am not wrestling with Scripture or transporting my children, I enjoy staying active at the YMCA or planning my next pilgrimage. In May, 2019 I am traveling to Lebanon to work with an Egyptian pastor serving at a refugee camp. In summer of 2020, our church is taking a group to the Mediterranean to experience the “Cities of Paul”. My other passions include reading Sports Illustrated, seeking out a new micro-brewery, and making sure I have a life outside of church. My favorite biblical character is Jonah. In my experience, we all have ways and means of trying to evade the Almighty. Yet, the grit and greatness of grace is that God pursues us through the years and through the wilderness, ultimately so we can be swept up in his mercy for a Final Homecoming.
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2019-04-26T01:41:35Z
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https://pastorchuckstakeaway.wordpress.com/about/
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Arts
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google
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2009-08-05 Assigned to LAT49 MEDIA INC. reassignment LAT49 MEDIA INC. ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: CAMPBELL, SAUNDERS LTD., RECEIVER-MANAGER OF IDELIX SOFTWARE INC.
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A method for generating a presentation of an advertisement image for display on a display screen, comprising: subdividing a map image into a plurality of geographic regions; associating the advertisement image with a region-of-interest, the region-of-interest being one of the plurality of geographic regions; receiving a signal selecting the region-of-interest; and, applying a lens to the map image to produce the presentation, the lens having a focal region with a magnification for the region-of-interest at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region where the magnification diminishes to that of the map image, the presentation including a view of the advertisement image.
This application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/741,445, filed Dec. 2, 2005, and incorporated herein by reference.
This invention relates to the field of computer graphics processing, and more specifically, to a method and system for generating and adjusting detail-in-context lenses for display in detail-in-context data presentations for applications including geographically-based and time-based online advertising.
Moderm computer graphics systems, including virtual environment systems, are used for numerous applications such as mapping, navigation, flight training, surveillance, and even playing computer games. In general, these applications are launched by the computer graphics system's operating system upon selection by a user from a menu or other graphical user interface (“GUI”). A GUI is used to convey information to and receive commands from users and generally includes a variety of GUI objects or controls, including icons, toolbars, drop-down menus, text, dialog boxes, buttons, and the like. A user typically interacts with a GUI by using a pointing device (e.g., a mouse) to position a pointer or cursor over an object and “clicking” on the object.
Now, the growth of the Internet and online map presentation technologies has resulted in broad availability of online and interactive presentation of maps and geographically relevant photographic images. Online geographic data presentations such as maps and images also present new opportunities for online advertising. However, the screen real estate problem referred to above often limits these opportunities.
A need therefore exists for an improved method and system for generating and adjusting detailed views of selected information within the context of surrounding information presented on the display of a computer graphics system. Accordingly, a solution that addresses, at least in part, the above and other shortcomings is desired.
According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for generating a presentation of an advertisement image for display on a display screen, comprising: subdividing a map image into a plurality of geographic regions; associating the advertisement image with a region-of-interest, the region-of-interest being one of the plurality of geographic regions; receiving a signal selecting the region-of-interest; and, applying a lens to the map image to produce the presentation, the lens having a focal region with a magnification for the region-of-interest at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region where the magnification diminishes to that of the map image, the presentation including a view of the advertisement image.
According to another aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for generating a presentation of an advertisement image for display on a display screen, comprising: subdividing a map image into a plurality of geographic regions; associating the advertisement image with a region-of-interest, the region-of-interest being one of the plurality of geographic regions; receiving a signal selecting the region-of-interest; and, combining a first view of the map image and a second view of the advertisement to produce the presentation.
According to another aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for distributing rights to include an advertisement image with a map image for display on a display screen, comprising: subdividing the map image into a plurality of geographic regions; receiving an offer to purchase rights to associate the advertisement image with a region-of-interest, the region-of-interest being one of the plurality of geographic regions; and, if the offer is acceptable, associating the advertisement image with the region-of-interest; wherein when the map image is presented on the display screen and when the region-of-interest is selected, the advertisement image is combined with the map image to produce a presentation for display on the display screen.
FIG. 6 is a flow chart illustrating operations of modules within the memory of a data processing system for generating a presentation of an advertisement image for display on a display screen, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
A recent solution to this problem is the application of “detail-in-context” presentation techniques. Detail-in-context is the magnification of a particular region-of-interest (the “focal region” or “detail”) in a data presentation while preserving visibility of the surrounding information (the “context”). This technique has applicability to the display of large surface area media (e.g. digital maps) on computer screens of variable size including graphics workstations, laptop computers, personal digital assistants (“PDAs”), and cell phones.
In general, detail-in-context data presentations are characterized by magnification of areas of an image where detail is desired, in combination with compression of a restricted range of areas of the remaining information (i.e. the context), the result typically giving the appearance of a lens having been applied to the display surface. Using the techniques described by Carpendale, points in a representation are displaced in three dimensions and a perspective projection is used to display the points on a two-dimensional presentation display. Thus, when a lens is applied to a two-dimensional continuous surface representation, for example, the resulting presentation appears to be three-dimensional. In other words, the lens transformation appears to have stretched the continuous surface in a third dimension. In EPS graphics technology, a two-dimensional visual representation is placed onto a surface; this surface is placed in three-dimensional space; the surface, containing the representation, is viewed through perspective projection; and the surface is manipulated to effect the reorganization of image details. The presentation transformation is separated into two steps: surface manipulation or distortion and perspective projection.
FIG. 1 is a graphical representation illustrating the geometry 100 for constructing a three-dimensional (“3D”) perspective viewing frustum 220, relative to an x, y, z coordinate system, in accordance with elastic presentation space (EPS) graphics technology and an embodiment of the invention. In EPS technology, detail-in-context views of two-dimensional (“2D”) visual representations are created with sight-line aligned distortions of a 2D information presentation surface within a 3D perspective viewing frustum 220. In EPS, magnification of regions-of-interest and the accompanying compression of the contextual region to accommodate this change in scale are produced by the movement of regions of the surface towards the viewpoint (“VP”) 240 located at the apex of the pyramidal shape 220 containing the frustum. The process of projecting these transformed layouts via a perspective projection results in a new 2D layout which includes the zoomed and compressed regions. The use of the third dimension and perspective distortion to provide magnification in EPS provides a meaningful metaphor for the process of distorting the information presentation surface. The 3D manipulation of the information presentation surface in such a system is an intermediate step in the process of creating a new 2D layout of the information.
FIG. 2 is a graphical representation illustrating the geometry 200 of a presentation in accordance with EPS graphics technology and an embodiment of the invention. EPS graphics technology employs viewer-aligned perspective projections to produce detail-in-context presentations in a reference view plane 201 which may be viewed on a display. Undistorted 2D data points are located in a base plane 210 of a 3D perspective viewing volume or frustum 220 which is defined by extreme rays 221 and 222 and the base plane 210. The VP 240 is generally located above the centre point of the base plane 210 and reference view plane (“RVP”) 201. Points in the base plane 210 are displaced upward onto a distorted surface or “lens” 230 which is defined by a general 3D distortion function (i.e., a detail-in-context distortion basis function). The direction of the perspective projection corresponding to the distorted surface 230 is indicated by the line FPo-FP 231 drawn from a point FPo 232 in the base plane 210 through the point FP 233 which corresponds to the focal point, focus, or focal region 233 of the distorted surface 230. Typically, the perspective projection has a direction 231 that is viewer-aligned (i.e., the points FPo 232, FP 233, and VP 240 are collinear).
EPS is applicable to multidimensional data and is well suited to implementation on a computer for dynamic detail-in-context display on an electronic display surface such as a monitor. In the case of two dimensional data, EPS is typically characterized by magnification of areas of an image where detail is desired 233, in combination with compression of a restricted range of areas of the remaining information (i.e., the context) 234, the end result typically giving the appearance of a lens 230 having been applied to the display surface. The areas of the lens 230 where compression occurs may be referred to as the “shoulder” 234 of the lens 230. The area of the representation transformed by the lens may be referred to as the “lensed area”. The lensed area thus includes the focal region 233 and the shoulder region 234. Typically, the distorted surface, distortion function, or lens 230 provides a continuous or smooth transition from the base plane 210 through the shoulder region 234 to the focal region 233 as shown in FIG. 2. However, of course, the distorted surface, distortion function, or lens 230 may have a number of different shapes (e.g., truncated pyramid, etc.). To reiterate, the source image or representation to be viewed is located in the base plane 210. Magnification 233 and compression 234 are achieved through elevating elements of the source image relative to the base plane 210, and then projecting the resultant distorted surface onto the reference view plane 201. EPS performs detail-in-context presentation of n-dimensional data through the use of a procedure wherein the data is mapped into a region in an (n+1) dimensional space, manipulated through perspective projections in the (n+1) dimensional space, and then finally transformed back into n-dimensional space for presentation. EPS has numerous advantages over conventional zoom, pan, and scroll technologies, including the capability of preserving the visibility of information outside 210, 234 the local region of interest 233.
For example, and referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, in two dimensions, EPS can be implemented through the projection of an image onto a reference plane 201 in the following manner. The source image or representation is located on a base plane 210, and those regions of interest 233 of the image for which magnification is desired are elevated so as to move them closer to a reference plane situated between the reference viewpoint 240 and the reference view plane 201. Magnification of the focal region 233 closest to the RVP 201 varies inversely with distance from the RVP 201. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, compression of regions 234 outside the focal region 233 is a function of both distance from the RVP 201, and the gradient of the function (i.e., the shoulder function or drop-off function) describing the vertical distance from the RVP 201 with respect to the horizontal distance from the focal region 233. The resultant combination of magnification 233 and compression 234 of the image as seen from the reference viewpoint 240 results in a lens-like effect similar to that of a magnifying glass applied to the image. Hence, the various functions used to vary the magnification and compression of the source image via vertical displacement from the basal plane 210 are described as lenses, lens types, or lens functions. Lens functions that describe basic lens types with point and circular focal regions, as well as certain more complex lenses and advanced capabilities such as folding, have previously been described by Carpendale.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a data processing system 300 adapted to implement an embodiment of the invention. The data processing system 300 is suitable for generating, displaying, and adjusting detail-in-context lens presentations in conjunction with a detail-in-context graphical user interface (“GUI”) 400, as described below. The data processing system 300 includes an input device 310, a central processing unit (“CPU”) 320, memory 330, a display 340, and an interface device 350. The input device 310 may include a keyboard, a mouse, a trackball, a touch sensitive surface or screen, a position tracking device, an eye tracking device, or a similar device. The CPU 320 may include dedicated coprocessors and memory devices. The memory 330 may include RAM, ROM, databases, or disk devices. The display 340 may include a computer screen, terminal device, a touch sensitive display surface or screen, or a hardcopy producing output device such as a printer or plotter. And, the interface device 350 may include an interface to a network (not shown) such as the Internet and/or another wired or wireless network. Thus, the data processing system 300 may be linked to other data processing systems (not shown) by a network (not shown). For example, the data processing system 300 may be a client and/or server in a client/server system. The data processing system 300 has stored therein data representing sequences of instructions which when executed cause the method described herein to be performed. Of course, the data processing system 300 may contain additional software and hardware a description of which is not necessary for understanding the invention.
Thus, the data processing system 300 includes computer executable programmed instructions for directing the system 300 to implement the embodiments of the present invention. The programmed instructions may be embodied in one or more hardware or software modules 331 resident in the memory 330 of the data processing system 300. Alternatively, the programmed instructions may be embodied on a computer readable medium (such as a CD disk or floppy disk) which may be used for transporting the programmed instructions to the memory 330 of the data processing system 300. Alternatively, the programmed instructions may be embedded in a computer-readable signal or signal-bearing medium that is uploaded to a network by a vendor or supplier of the programmed instructions, and this signal-bearing medium may be downloaded through an interface (e.g., 350) to the data processing system 300 from the network by end users or potential buyers.
As mentioned, detail-in-context presentations of data using techniques such as pliable surfaces, as described by Carpendale, are useful in presenting large amounts of information on limited-size display surfaces. Detail-in-context views allow magnification of a particular region-of-interest (e.g., the focal region) 233 in a data presentation while preserving visibility of the surrounding information 210. In the following, a GUI 400 is described having lens control elements that can be implemented in software (and/or hardware) and applied to the control of detail-in-context data presentations. The software (and/or hardware) can be loaded into and run by the data processing system 300 of FIG. 3.
FIG. 4 is a partial screen capture illustrating a GUI 400 having lens control elements for user interaction with detail-in-context data presentations in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. Detail-in-context data presentations are characterized by magnification of areas of an image where detail is desired, in combination with compression of a restricted range of areas of the remaining information (i.e. the context), the end result typically giving the appearance of a lens having been applied to the display screen surface. This lens 410 includes a “focal region” 420 having high magnification, a surrounding “shoulder region” 430 where information is typically visibly compressed, and a “base” 412 surrounding the shoulder region 430 and defining the extent of the lens 410. In FIG. 4, the lens 410 is shown with a circular shaped base 412 (or outline) and with a focal region 420 lying near the center of the lens 410. However, the lens 410 and focal region 420 may have any desired shape. As mentioned above, the base of the lens 412 may be coextensive with the focal region 420.
Moreover, the cursor 401 provides a visual cue indicating the nature of an available lens control element. As such, the cursor 401 will generally change in form by simply pointing to a different lens control icon 450, 412, 411,421, 481, 482, 491, 492, 440. For example, when resizing the base 412 of a lens 410 using a corner handle 491, the cursor 401 will change form to a resize icon 490 once it is pointed at (i.e., positioned over) the corner handle 491. The cursor 401 will remain in the form of the resize icon 490 until the cursor 401 has been moved away from the corner handle 491.
Lateral movement of a lens 410 is provided by the move lens control element of the GUI 400. This functionality is accomplished by the user first selecting the lens 410 through a point and click operation. Then, the user points to a point within the lens 410 that is other than a point lying on a lens control icon 450, 412, 411, 421, 481, 482, 491, 492, 440. When the cursor 401 is so located, a move icon 460 is displayed over the lens 410 to replace the cursor 401 or may be displayed in combination with the cursor 401. The move icon 460 not only informs the user that the lens 410 may be moved, but also provides the user with indications as to what movement operations are possible for the selected lens 410. For example, the move icon 460 may include arrowheads indicating up, down, left, and right motion. Next, the lens 410 is moved by a click and drag operation in which the user clicks and drags the lens 410 to the desired position on the screen 340 and then releases the mouse button 310. The lens 410 is locked in its new position until a further pickup and move operation is performed.
Resizing of the base 412 (or outline) of a lens 410 is provided by the resize base lens control element of the GUI. After the lens 410 is selected, a bounding rectangle icon 411 is displayed surrounding the base 412. For a rectangular shaped base 412, the bounding rectangle icon 411 may be coextensive with the perimeter of the base 412. The bounding rectangle 411 includes handles 491, 492. These handles 491, 492 can be used to stretch the base 412 taller or shorter, wider or narrower, or proportionally larger or smaller. The corner handles 491 will keep the proportions the same while changing the size. The middle handles (not shown) will make the base 412 taller or shorter, wider or narrower. Resizing the base 412 by the corner handles 491 will keep the base 412 in proportion. Resizing the base 412 by the middle handles will change the proportions of the base 412. That is, the middle handles change the aspect ratio of the base 412 (i.e., the ratio between the height and the width of the bounding rectangle 411 of the base 412). When a user points at a handle 491 with the cursor 401 a resize icon 490 may be displayed over the handle 491 to replace the cursor 401 or may be displayed in combination with the cursor 401. The resize icon 490 not only informs the user that the handle 491 may be selected, but also provides the user with indications as to the resizing operations that are possible with the selected handle. For example, the resize icon 490 for a corner handle 491 may include arrows indicating proportional resizing. The resize icon (not shown) for a middle handle may include arrows indicating width resizing or height resizing. After pointing at the desired handle 491 the user would click and drag the handle 491 until the desired shape and size for the base 412 is reached. Once the desired shape and size are reached, the user would release the mouse button 310. The base 412 of the lens 410 is then locked in its new size and shape until a further base resize operation is performed.
Resizing of the focal region 420 of a lens 410 is provided by the resize focus lens control 30 element of the GUI. After the lens 410 is selected, a bounding rectangle icon 421 is displayed surrounding the focal region 420. For a rectangular shaped focal region 420, the bounding rectangle icon 421 may be coextensive with the perimeter of the focal region 420. The bounding rectangle 421 includes handles 481, 482. These handles 481, 482 can be used to stretch the focal region 420 taller or shorter, wider or narrower, or proportionally larger or smaller. The corner handles 481 will keep the proportions the same while changing the size. The middle handles 482 will make the focal region 420 taller or shorter, wider or narrower. Resizing the focal region 420 by the corner handles 481 will keep the focal region 420 in proportion. Resizing the focal region 420 by the middle handles 482 will change the proportions of the focal region 420. That is, the middle handles 482 change the aspect ratio of the focal region 420 (i.e., the ratio between the height and the width of the bounding rectangle 421 of the focal region 420). When a user points at a handle 481, 482 with the cursor 401 a resize icon 480 may be displayed over the handle 481, 482 to replace the cursor 401 or may be displayed in combination with the cursor 401. The resize icon 480 not only informs the user that a handle 481, 482 may be selected, but also provides the user with indications as to the resizing operations that are possible with the selected handle. For example, the resize icon 480 for a corner handle 481 may include arrows indicating proportional resizing. The resize icon 480 for a middle handle 482 may include arrows indicating width resizing or height resizing. After pointing at the desired handle 481, 482, the user would click and drag the handle 481, 482 until the desired shape and size for the focal region 420 is reached. Once the desired shape and size are reached, the user would release the mouse button 310. The focal region 420 is then locked in its new size and shape until a further focus resize operation is performed.
Folding of the focal region 420 of a lens 410 is provided by the fold control element of the GUI. In general, control of the degree and direction of folding (i.e., skewing of the viewer aligned vector 231 as described by Carpendale) is accomplished by a click and drag operation on a point 471, other than a handle 481, 482, on the bounding rectangle 421 surrounding the focal region 420. The direction of folding is determined by the direction in which the point 471 is dragged. The degree of folding is determined by the magnitude of the translation of the cursor 401 during the drag. In general, the direction and degree of folding corresponds to the relative displacement of the focus 420 with respect to the lens base 410. In other words, and referring to FIG. 2, the direction and degree of folding corresponds to the displacement of the point FP 233 relative to the point FPo 232, where the vector joining the points FPo 232 and FP 233 defines the viewer aligned vector 231. In particular, after the lens 410 is selected, a bounding rectangle icon 421 is displayed surrounding the focal region 420. The bounding rectangle 421 includes handles 481, 482. When a user points at a point 471, other than a handle 481, 482, on the bounding rectangle 421 surrounding the focal region 420 with the cursor 401, a fold icon 470 may be displayed over the point 471 to replace the cursor 401 or may be displayed in combination with the cursor 401. The fold icon 470 not only informs the user that a point 471 on the bounding rectangle 421 may be selected, but also provides the user with indications as to what fold operations are possible. For example, the fold icon 470 may include arrowheads indicating up, down, left, and right motion. By choosing a point 471, other than a handle 481, 482, on the bounding rectangle 421 a user may control the degree and direction of folding. To control the direction of folding, the user would click on the point 471 and drag in the desired direction of folding. To control the degree of folding, the user would drag to a greater or lesser degree in the desired direction of folding. Once the desired direction and degree of folding is reached, the user would release the mouse button 310. The lens 410 is then locked with the selected fold until a further fold operation is performed.
Magnification of the lens 410 is provided by the magnify lens control element of the GUI. After the lens 410 is selected, the magnify control is presented to the user as a slide bar icon 440 near or adjacent to the lens 410 and typically to one side of the lens 410. Sliding the bar 441 of the slide bar 440 results in a proportional change in the magnification of the lens 410. The slide bar 440 not only informs the user that magnification of the lens 410 may be selected, but also provides the user with an indication as to what level of magnification is possible. The slide bar 440 includes a bar 441 that may be slid up and down, or left and right, to adjust and indicate the level of magnification. To control the level of magnification, the user would click on the bar 441 of the slide bar 440 and drag in the direction of desired magnification level. Once the desired level of magnification is reached, the user would release the mouse button 310. The lens 410 is then locked with the selected magnification until a further magnification operation is performed. In general, the focal region 420 is an area of the lens 410 having constant magnification (i.e., if the focal region is a plane). Again referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, magnification of the focal region 420, 233 varies inversely with the distance from the focal region 420, 233 to the reference view plane (RVP) 201. Magnification of areas lying in the shoulder region 430 of the lens 410 also varies inversely with their distance from the RVP 201. Thus, magnification of areas lying in the shoulder region 430 will range from unity at the base 412 to the level of magnification of the focal region 420.
Advantageously, a user may choose to hide one or more lens control icons 450, 412, 411, 421, 481, 482, 491, 492, 440, 495 shown in FIG. 4 from view so as not to impede the user's view of the image within the lens 410. This may be helpful, for example, during an editing or move operation. A user may select this option through means such as a menu, toolbar, or lens property dialog box.
In addition, the GUI 400 maintains a record of control element operations such that the user may restore pre-operation presentations. This record of operations may be accessed by or presented to the user through “Undo” and “Redo” icons 497,498, through a pull-down operation history menu (not shown), or through a toolbar.
Thus, detail-in-context data viewing techniques allow a user to view multiple levels of detail or resolution on one display 340. The appearance of the data display or presentation is that of one or more virtual lenses showing detail 233 within the context of a larger area view 210. Using multiple lenses in detail-in-context data presentations may be used to compare two regions-of-interest at the same time. Folding enhances this comparison by allowing the user to pull the regions-of-interest closer together. Moreover, using detail-in-context technology, a region-of-interest can be magnified to pixel level resolution, or to any level of detail available from the source information, for in-depth review. The digital images may include graphic images, maps, photographic images, or text documents, and the source information may be in raster, vector, or text form.
In operation, the data processing system 300 employs EPS techniques with an input device 310 and GUI 400 for selecting objects or regions-of-interest for detailed display to a user on a display screen 340. Data representing an original image or representation is received by the CPU 320 of the data processing system 300. Using EPS techniques, the CPU 320 processes the data in accordance with instructions received from the user via an input device 310 and GUI 400 to produce a detail-in-context presentation. The presentation is presented to the user on a display screen 340. It will be understood that the CPU 320 may apply a transformation to the shoulder region 430 surrounding the focal region 420 to affect blending or folding in accordance with EPS techniques. For example, the transformation may map the focal region 420 and/or shoulder region 430 to a predefined lens surface 230, defined by a transformation or distortion function and having a variety of shapes, using EPS techniques. Or, the lens 410 may be simply coextensive with the region-of-interest or focal region 420.
Advantageously, by using a detail-in-context lens 410 to select an object or region-of-interest for detailed information gathering, a user can view a large area (i.e., outside the extent of the lens 410) while focusing in on a smaller area (or within the focal region 420 of the lens 410) surrounding the selected object or region-of-interest. This makes it possible for a user to accurately gather detailed information without losing visibility or context of the portion of the original image surrounding the selected object or region-of-interest.
Now, the growth of the Internet and online map presentation technologies has resulted in broad availability of online and interactive presentation of maps and geographically relevant photographic images. Online geographic data presentations such as maps and images also present new opportunities for online advertising. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method and system for the presentation and sale of online advertisements is provided wherein the sale of advertisements has a geospatial and/or temporal basis. Embodiments of the invention include, but are not limited to, sale via an auction or bidding system of specific advertisement space for a predetermined region, wherein the presentation of the advertisement occurs when that region is later viewed by a user, and wherein the content of the advertisement is not necessarily semantically related to that region. Another aspect of the invention pertains to the use of detail-in-context “lenses”(described above) to define a user's geospatial area or region-of-interest such that a particular advertisement may be selected based on the advertiser having previously contracted to have the advertisement appear during the presentation of the area or region-of-interest.
FIG. 5 is a partial screen capture illustrating an online map and advertisement presentation 500 in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. In FIG. 5, an advertiser pays to have an advertisement 510 appear when a user later views a region or area 520 (shown as hatched in FIG. 5) on a map 530. According to one embodiment, prior to the user seeing this presentation 500, persons or corporations (i.e., advertisers) wishing to purchase space for advertisement presentation purchase from an advertising host or vendor the right or service of having a specific advertisement 510 appear when a given geographic region (i.e., a region-of-interest) or area 520 on a map 530 is later viewed, either in whole or in part, by a user on the user's display screen 340. Then, when the user later views the area or region 520, the advertisement 510 is presented in the presentation 500. According to one embodiment, the advertisement 510 may appear in a separate advertisement view or window 540 as shown in FIG. 5. According to another embodiment, the advertisement 510 may be presented using a window, overlay, or transparency (not shown) over the map 530 in the map view or window 550. According to another embodiment, other means of advertisement presentation may be used.
According to one embodiment, the user is provided with the ability to view the map 530 using a detail-in-context lens 410 or an inset magnifier. In this embodiment, the advertisement 510 may be presented when the user moves the lens 410 or magnifier over any part of the specified area or region 520. According to one embodiment, the advertisement 510 may be presented in a separate viewing area, view, or window 540 adjacent to the map 530. According to another embodiment, the advertisement 510 may be presented adjacent to, or overlaid on, the lens 410 in the map view or window 550.
According to one embodiment, an advertising vendor or host may sell advertising services (e.g., 510) to one or more advertisers for one or more geographic areas or regions (e.g., 520). In this embodiment, a map such as a world map or country map (e.g., 530) may be subdivided into a grid 560 and advertising services may be sold for presenting advertisements (e.g., 510) with respect to each unit 561 of the grid 560. According to another embodiment, the advertising vendor may sell advertising services on the basis of coverage of a specific (or predetermined) geographic area such as a city, state, province, or country (e.g., Canada 570, the United States 571, etc.). According to another embodiment, the advertising services offered for sale may be sold on a temporal as well as a geographic basis. For example, an advertiser may purchase from the advertising vendor an advertising service providing for the display of a particular advertisement (e.g., 510) for a particular period of time (e.g., a prime Internet usage period, a weekday, a month, etc.). The advertising services would pertain to a particular geographic area or region (e.g., 520, 561, 570, 571) and appropriate advertisements (e.g., 510) would be presented when a user (i.e., a customer of the advertiser) views the particular geographic area or region (i.e., a region-of-interest to the user). When the user views the particular geographic area or region, the advertisement(s) 510 may be presented to the user either in a main map view or window 550 or when the extent 412 of a detail-in-context lens 410 or an inset magnifier presented to the user on the user's display screen 340 intersects (or is positioned over) that area or region 520, 561, 570, 571.
One of the business considerations with respect to the above is the pricing to be charged for the presentation of advertisements 510 associated with a particular area 520. For example, one would expect that a particular geographic region such as a major city or country (e.g., the United States 571) would have more frequent user traffic and hence would be of more value to advertisers than a remote region such as Antarctica. As such, according to one embodiment, advertising services may be sold on a per-view basis. According to another embodiment, advertising services may be sold through an auction process in which the right to have an advertisement appear when the user views a particular region is won by the highest bidder for that region. In this case, a per view price may also be charged after the right to present an advertisement is purchased via auction.
According to one embodiment, the displayed advertisement image 510 may change with scale. That is, if the scale of the map image 530 changes or is adjusted, a different advertisement image 510 may be presented (i.e., one with different content), with rights to regions at specific presentation scales having previously been sold to advertisers.
Thus, embodiments of the present invention, as described above, may be considered as methods for the sale of “virtual real estate” for advertising purposes, wherein the real estate of the globe (or a given portion of the globe) is subdivided (e.g., 560) and sold based on the presentation of specific advertisements (e.g., 510) when a predetermined geographic region (e.g., 520, 561) is viewed by a user in whole or in part in a main map view or window 550, or in a detail-in-context lens 410, or in an inset magnifier.
The above described method may be summarized with the aid of a flowchart. FIG. 6 is a flow chart illustrating operations 600 of modules 331 within the memory 330 of a data processing system 300 for generating a presentation 500 of an advertisement image 510 for display on a display screen 340, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
At step 601, the operations 600 start.
At step 602, a map image 530 is subdivided into a plurality of geographic regions (e.g., 560).
At step 603, the advertisement image 510 is associated with a region-of-interest (e.g., 520), the region-of-interest 520 being one of the plurality of geographic regions 560.
At step 604, a signal is received (e.g., by a user moving a lens 410, etc.) selecting the region-of-interest 520.
At step 605, applying a lens 410 to the map image 530 to produce the presentation 500, the lens 410 having a focal region 420 with a magnification for the region-of-interest 520 at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region 430 where the magnification diminishes to that of the map image 530, the presentation 500 including a view (e.g., 540) of the advertisement image 510.
At step 606, the operations 600 end.
The method may further include displaying the presentation 500 on the display screen 340. The lens 410 may be an inset magnifier having a focal region 420 but no shoulder region 430. The view of the advertisement image 510 may be a window 540 for the advertisement image. The window 540 for the advertisement image may be presented adjacent to a window 550 for the map image. The view of the advertisement image 510 may be presented over a portion of the map image. The portion of the map image may be adjacent to the lens 410. The view of the advertisement image 510 may be presented within the lens 410. The step of applying may include displacing the map image 530 onto the lens 410 to produce a displaced image and projecting the displaced image onto a plane 201 in a direction 231 aligned with a viewpoint 240 for the region-of-interest 520. The method may further include receiving one or more signals to adjust the focal region 420 through a graphical user interface (“GUI”) 400 having means for adjusting at least one of a size of the focal region 481, 482, a shape of the focal region 481, 482, and the magnification 440, 441. And, a scale of the map image 530 may be adjustable and content of the advertisement image 510 may change when the scale is adjusted.
In particular, the sequences of instructions which when executed cause the method described herein to be performed by the data processing system 300 can be contained in a data carrier product according to one embodiment of the invention. This data carrier product can be loaded into and run by the data processing system 300. In addition, the sequences of instructions which when executed cause the method described herein to be performed by the data processing system 300 can be contained in a computer software product according to one embodiment of the invention. This computer software product can be loaded into and run by the data processing system 300. Moreover, the sequences of instructions which when executed cause the method described herein to be performed by the data processing system 300 can be contained in an integrated circuit product (e.g., a hardware module or modules) which may include a coprocessor or memory according to one embodiment of the invention. This integrated circuit product can be installed in the data processing system 300.
applying a lens to the map image to produce the presentation, the lens having a focal region with a magnification for the region-of-interest at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region where the magnification diminishes to that of the map image, the presentation including a view of the advertisement image.
2. The method of claim 1 and further comprising displaying the presentation on the display screen.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the lens is an inset magnifier having a focal region but no shoulder region.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the view of the advertisement image is a window for the advertisement image.
5. The method of claim 4 wherein the window for the advertisement image is presented adjacent to a window for the map image.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the view of the advertisement image is presented over a portion of the map image.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein the portion of the map image is adjacent to the lens.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein the view of the advertisement image is presented within the lens.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein the applying includes displacing the map image onto the lens to produce a displaced image and projecting the displaced image onto a plane in a direction aligned with a viewpoint for the region-of-interest.
10. The method of claim 1 and further comprising receiving one or more signals to adjust the focal region through a graphical user interface (“GUI”) having means for adjusting at least one of a size of the focal region, a shape of the focal region, and the magnification.
11. The method of claim 1 wherein a scale of the map image is adjustable and wherein content of the advertisement image changes when the scale is adjusted.
combining a first view of the map image and a second view of the advertisement to produce the presentation.
13. The method of claim 12 and further comprising displaying the presentation on the display screen.
14. The method of claim 12 wherein the first view is a first window for the map image and the second view is a second window for the advertisement image.
15. The method of claim 14 wherein the second window for the advertisement image is presented adjacent to the first window for the map image.
16. The method of claim 12 wherein the second view of the advertisement image is presented over a portion of the map image in the first view.
17. The method of claim 16 wherein the portion of the map image is adjacent to the region-of-interest.
18. The method of claim 12 wherein the second view of the advertisement image is presented within the region-of-interest.
19. The method of claim 12 and further comprising applying a lens to the map image to produce the second view, the lens having a focal region with a magnification for the region-of-interest at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region where the magnification diminishes to that of the map image.
20. The method of claim 19 wherein the lens is an inset magnifier having a focal region but no shoulder region.
21. The method of claim 19 wherein the applying includes displacing the map image onto the lens to produce a displaced image and projecting the displaced image onto a plane in a direction aligned with a viewpoint for the region-of-interest.
22. The method of claim 19 and further comprising receiving one or more signals to adjust the focal region through a graphical user interface (“GUI”) having means for adjusting at least one of a size of the focal region, a shape of the focal region, and the magnification.
23. The method of claim 12 wherein a scale of the map image is adjustable and wherein content of the advertisement image changes when the scale is adjusted.
if the offer is acceptable, associating the advertisement image with the region-of-interest; wherein when the map image is presented on the display screen and when the region-of-interest is selected, the advertisement image is combined with the map image to produce a presentation for display on the display screen.
25. The method of claim 24 and further comprising establishing a price for the rights to associate the advertisement image with the region-of-interest.
26. The method of claim 25 and further comprising determining the price based on popularity of the region-of-interest.
27. The method of claim 26 and further comprising determining the popularity of the region-of-interest from a distance from a predetermined location in the map image.
28. The method of claim 27 where the predetermined location includes one or more of a city, a state, a country, and a continent.
29. The method of claim 25 and further comprising determining the price based on a time period when the presentation is to be displayed.
30. The method of claim 25 and further comprising determining the price based on a scale at which the presentation is to be displayed.
31. The method of claim 24 wherein the offer is received through an auction.
32. The method of claim 31 wherein the auction is an online auction.
33. The method of claim 24 wherein the presentation is displayed on the display screen.
34. The method of claim 24 wherein the presentation is produced by combining a first view of the map image and a second view of the advertisement.
35. The method of claim 34 wherein the first view is a first window for the map image and the second view is a second window for the advertisement image.
36. The method of claim 35 wherein the second window for the advertisement image is presented adjacent to the first window for the map image.
37. The method of claim 34 wherein the second view of the advertisement image is presented over a portion of the map image in the first view.
38. The method of claim 37 wherein the portion of the map image is adjacent to the region-of-interest.
39. The method of claim 34 wherein the second view of the advertisement image is presented within the region-of-interest.
40. The method of claim 34 wherein the second view is produced by applying a lens to the map image, the lens having a focal region with a magnification for the region-of-interest at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region where the magnification diminishes to that of the map image.
41. The method of claim 40 wherein the lens is an inset magnifier having a focal region but no shoulder region.
42. The method of claim 40 wherein the applying includes displacing the map image onto the lens to produce a displaced image and projecting the displaced image onto a plane in a direction aligned with a viewpoint for the region-of-interest.
43. The method of claim 40 wherein the focal region is adjusted by receiving one or more signals to adjust the focal region through a graphical user interface (“GUI”) having means for adjusting at least one of a size of the focal region, a shape of the focal region, and the magnification.
44. The method of claim 24 wherein a scale of the map image is adjustable and wherein content of the advertisement image changes when the scale is adjusted.
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Superhero. Super young. Super freaked out In his second adventure, Smash has his hands full with old enemies and a few new ones — not to mention homework.
Thanks to a strange twist of fate — and a massive explosion — Andrew's dream of having the strength and abilities of his superhero idol came true, and Smash was born. Great, right? Wrong As superhero Smash, Andrew finds himself in a losing battle with the one emotion no hero should ever feel: fear. And he definitely didn't count on becoming the prime target of Magus, the vilest supervillain of all time, who will stop at nothing to steal Smash's powers. It's going to take Andrew everything he's got to conquer his fears, safeguard the city, keep his identity a secret...and pass the fifth grade.
Chris A. Bolton has written short fiction, stage plays, sketch comedy, and screenplays. He is the writer of the webcomics Z-squad and Fireborn. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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use of the academy model. The Bill turns that on its head and says we will allow schools that are doing well under the current system to become academies, with all the worries and concerns that have arisen.
I know that the hon. Gentleman has been involved in this area and has worked hard in his constituency on the issue of school reorganisation. However, in virtually every circumstance in which academies have been agreed-that includes the 200 that were agreed and the number that were to go forward in September with secondary school reorganisation attached to educational transformation-the local authorities were key partners in those decisions. Some of those decisions were difficult. We have not tabled the amendments to say that any of this is easy, that there is a panacea or that someone can wave a magic wand to bring about school reorganisation in way that is never controversial or painful. We are saying that under our model, local authorities and local partners were specifically included. There were still difficulties, and sometimes tough decisions had to be made, but local authorities and local decision makers were involved. The way that the Bill is drafted specifically excludes those people from being involved other than in the way that a wish list of good practice would say that they should be involved.
Ian Mearns: Does my hon. Friend accept that under the previous Government's academy proposals, the local consultation that took place was subject to an adjudicator's ruling in the last instance if that was necessary?
Vernon Coaker: I was going to make that point: schools adjudicators have been involved almost as a final route of appeal. I know from my experience as a Minister-if the hon. Member for Brigg and Goole (Andrew Percy) becomes a Minister he will find this out-that even when one thinks a decision is right, it can be completely thrown out of the window because the schools adjudicator prevents something from going ahead. That happened to me a couple of times in relation to the closure of a school.
Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon) (Con): Does the Minister accept that there have been examples of Labour-held local authorities being given the opportunity to set up academies but rejecting it without consulting parents at all? I refer specifically to the offer by Goldman Sachs several years ago to set up an academy in Tower Hamlets. The local authority there gave parents not a jot of consultation.
Vernon Coaker: Some local authorities have been a problem, but not just Labour authorities-Conservative local authorities have also stood in the way of academy development. One pays a price for local democracy and involving local authorities: sometimes it means that people pursue educational options in their area that one does not agree with. That is the point I was making when I asked the Minister whether localism is fine only as long as it goes along with the Government's policy objectives.
that takes place? Who knows what is going on? How will the school funding proposals that have been published today affect what is going on? There are all sorts of issues to be discussed.
Bill Esterson: May I take my hon. Friend back to the primary capital programme and the democracy in that process, which the hon. Member for Brigg and Goole (Andrew Percy) asked about? In the Tory-run authority in which I was the opposition spokesman on children's services, there was a lot of opposition to some proposals and only a thorough consultation process brought up that opposition and showed the flaws in the plan. The council rejected them and the adjudicator, whose role my hon. Friend the Member for Gateshead (Ian Mearns) has mentioned, had to get involved. The checks and balances were in place in that process as they were in the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.
Vernon Coaker: My hon. Friend makes a self-evident and good point, and identifies some of the problems regarding the difference between what happened before and what will happen under the Bill's measures. There are a huge number of questions that the Minister needs to answer.
On consultation, it would help if the Government and the Minister answered named day written questions, including a large number that are specifically relevant to this whole process and our discussions on consultation. I have 11 named-day questions for last Monday that have not yet been answered by the Department. Not all of them are relevant to this debate- [ Interruption. ] The Front Benchers are now debating who is responsible; I am afraid that it involves both Conservative and Liberal Democrat Ministers. Some of those questions are specific to today's debate on consultation, so for the Department to talk about consultation, procedure and correct processes when I still have not received the answers to questions for which the named day was last Monday- [ Interruption. ] The Minister says that I have had a holding response: on Monday 19 July, for 11 of my questions, I received the reply, "I will reply as soon as possible," from him and his colleagues. I do not know whether anyone else has experienced this problem, but given that the measures are being pushed through Parliament at significant speed, all hon. Members need the answers to their named day questions so that information that might inform our discussions is available.
With that, I shall simply say that we will support amendment 8 if the hon. Member for Southport pushes it to a vote, and I give notice that we would like to put amendment 78 to a vote.
Bill Esterson: I want to talk about consultation in relation to my experience as an opposition spokesman for children's services, particularly in relation to pre and post-decision consultation and three academies that the council pushed through. The Tory-run council in Medway decided not to consult until decisions had been taken, which caused consternation and all sorts of problems with the wider community, not just parents. I think that was a precursor to what is happening with this legislation. It was only the involvement of the then Ministers with responsibility for schools standards, including my hon.
Friend the Member for Gedling (Vernon Coaker), that enabled us to have proper consultation before decisions were finally taken and to ensure that the assurances that the local community sought were addressed. My concern is that the proposed measures will cause what happened in Medway to be repeated across the country.
Dan Rogerson: Will the hon. Gentleman confirm that the situation he describes happened under legislation that was pushed through by a Labour Government and that the Bill does say-thanks to amendments that were passed in another place-that consultation must take place?
Bill Esterson: I confirm that it happened under the legislation-that was why the checks and balances were eventually put in place. The point I was making is that the Tory-run council in Medway tried to push things through using the same procedure that will be introduced by the Bill. The hon. Gentleman mentions the amendments that were made in the other place, but, like many hon. Members, I have grave concerns that leaving it to the governing body to decide not just who to consult but whether to consult is a fundamental problem that will not be overcome by any checks and balances further down the line.
My experience and that of many people in Medway shows that allowing consultation at any time up to the signing of an academy agreement will not work and will make the process completely inadequate. That is why the amendments are so important. If they are not accepted, not only Members, but schools, children, staff and parents across the country will regret the lack of a requirement for the sort of proper consultation that is detailed in many of the amendments and that was in the 1998 Act. That guidance on how to consult different groups is extremely thorough and works extremely well when it is followed.
Andrew Percy: I am failing to get my head round the arguments of Opposition Members. There was plenty of consultation-admittedly under the previous Government-on Building Schools for the Future and on transforming our primary school agenda, and it threw up thousands of names on petitions from parents who did not want their schools closed, yet their schools were still closed. Where was the consultation? The failings the hon. Gentleman is outlining are exactly those that took place under the last Government.
Bill Esterson: Consultation is not a referendum; it will not necessarily produce the answer that the majority are pushing for, but there is a fundamental difference between holding a consultation and not holding one at all. The problem with the Bill is that unless the governing body agrees, there will be no consultation at all.
Andrew Percy: I think I heard the hon. Gentleman correctly and that he was saying that the Opposition are arguing that they want consultation simply so that they can say they have had it, but they are not all that bothered about the outcome.
Bill Esterson: The hon. Gentleman is trying to put words into the mouths of many Members. I think he is talking a load of nonsense on that point, but it was a nice try.
One of my concerns about leaving it to governing bodies to decide about consultation is that they, understandably, feel that it is their duty to support head teachers. Sometimes, however, the head teacher gets their own way through strength of personality and the governing body may not apply the degree of scrutiny and challenge that it should, although I am not saying that is always true because many governing bodies work extremely well in genuine partnership with their head teacher. The reason I support the amendments proposed by the hon. Member for Southport (Dr Pugh) is that the situation I described, together with the potential for financial benefit for head teachers, could create the possibility for conflict of financial interest, which would be wholly undesirable. There is concern about the potential for financial gain for head teachers and the lack of scrutiny in some governing bodies, although by no means all-I stress that point. It is important that we get the legislation right at this point, before things go wrong, rather than rushing it through with the danger that such problems might arise.
The hon. Member for Portsmouth South (Mr Hancock) and the former Chair of the Select Committee, the hon. Member for Huddersfield (Mr Sheerman), made important points about schools being a key part of their community. Although governing bodies are representative of certain parts of the community, they do not represent the wider community, which is why the provisions of the School Standards and Framework Act are a good guide. The fundamental problem with the Bill is that if consultation is not held until after the initial decision, it will be apparent to the local community that there has been a fait accompli. The danger is that once the train has left the station, it will be very difficult to put the brakes on.
As a result of persuasive arguments put in the other place, principally by Liberal Democrat peers, the Government tabled the amendment that led to clauses 5 and 10. I pay particular tribute to Baroness Walmsley for her determination to put consultation on the face of the Bill.
of votes of those governors present and voting, and no decision can be taken without due discussion. Furthermore, at least a third of the membership of the governing bodies of all maintained schools is made up of parents. That means that the views of parents will clearly be considered during the governing body's discussions. In addition, clause 5 requires a school's governing body to consult on its proposals to convert to an academy. In practice, we believe that means that parents will be consulted and will have the chance to make representations about the proposals.
Dan Rogerson: The Minister is setting out his vision for the Bill and talking about the role of governing bodies. We did not have the opportunity to reach that clause last week because time defeated us. Is he able to confirm whether he has looked at the issue of how many parent governors there should be on future academy governing bodies?
Mr Gibb: I am happy to do so. We shall be coming to the relevant clause later in the debate, but I have been persuaded by my hon. Friend's arguments, and as a result of his representations, and those of other people, we intend to amend the model funding agreement to raise the number of parents on governing bodies from one to a minimum of two.
Requiring a ballot of all parents of pupils at the school would unduly politicise the process.
Vernon Coaker: I welcome the concession the Minister just made. The Committee has run very well without being churlish about such things, and there are many other aspects we agree with, but that is an important step forward.
Mr Gibb: I am grateful to the shadow Minister for that remark. He clearly takes the issue very seriously and has scrutinised the Bill thoroughly. It is a pleasure to debate the measure with him.
Mr Gibb: I think I have taken the hon. Lady's point. Requiring a ballot of all parents of pupils at the school would unduly politicise the process and would enable those who are ideologically opposed to academies-I do not accuse the hon. Lady of that-to use the process either to agitate against the proposals or to try to delay the implementation of the decision. That would place unnecessary burdens on the governing body of the school.
withdraw from the meeting and not vote. If one of those individuals has a financial interest in any matter, he or she must disclose it, withdraw from the meeting and not vote. If there is any dispute as to whether a person must withdraw, the other governors must decide on the matter.
There are important safeguards that apply both before and after conversion to academy status. They mean that there is no need for an amendment specifically to disallow a governor from leading the consultation, as under existing law governors cannot participate in decision making on issues that concern their remuneration or benefit. That is a fundamental principle of charity law, and all academies are charities. I can also confirm that the model articles of association ensure that no governor can make any financial gain in his or her role as a governor.
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex) (Con): Will the Minister clarify that, by and large, these proceedings and procedures have worked very well and have presented very little difficulty in this regard?
Mr Gibb: Yes, my hon. Friend makes a very good point. The type of people who become school governors are motivated by one issue only-the school of which they are governors; they want to raise standards and are concerned about that school.
"must consult such persons as they think appropriate"
on the proposed conversion. The consultation may take place before or after an application for an academy order has been made in respect of the school or after an academy order has been granted. This will allow each school to determine when it has sufficient information on which to consult and at what point during the application process it wishes to do so. Schools are, after all, in the best position to determine when and how consultation should best take place, and they may not want to approach parents or others until they have firm proposals.
The only requirement is that the consultation must be held before the funding agreement is signed, since at that point the school will be legally committed to the conversion process. Academy orders, though a step along the way, are not irreversible and we therefore believe that there is still value in a school consulting after an order has been made. At that point, the school is in no sense bound to convert, so it is not the case that any consultation of parents or others would either be not meaningful or too late, as the hon. Member for Gedling (Vernon Coaker) suggested it would be in last week's debate.
Mr Gibb: I give way to my hon. Friend first and then to the hon. Gentleman.
Mr Leech: I thank the Minister. I seek some clarification of the provision he cited, which makes reference to consulting "such persons". Does he assume that "such persons" would include the parent body of the school?
"It will be for the Governing Body of the school to determine who should be consulted, although schools should consider involving local bodies or groups who have strong links with the school."
It sets out various elements such as: information on the school's website, a letter to all parents explaining the proposal, a meeting for parents, a newsletter for parents and asking for views from parents to be sent in writing to the school.
Ian Mearns: My hon. Friend the Member for Gedling (Vernon Coaker) pursued this issue earlier, when he spoke about the ability of schools in the list to go ahead and become academies in September. If the Bill is passed-we assume it will be, given the parliamentary numbers-orders will be made and consultation will have to take place before the funding agreement is in force. If schools are to become academies in September-assuming this idea has not been completely abandoned-it means that the consultation will happen all through August. Is my understanding correct?
Mr Gibb: It is possible for an academy order to be issued in September, while the details of the funding agreement are still being negotiated. These things are very complicated, and it might take several weeks after the academy order is issued before the funding agreement is signed, so the consultation process can continue after the academy order has been issued.
"The Secretary of State expects that a significant number of Academies will open in September 2010".
Is the Minister now suggesting that academies will open without a funding agreement being in place?
Mr Gibb: The school can continue with an academy order made. That is the point. The academy order can be made in September, but the funding agreement might take several additional weeks afterwards- [Interruption.] No, the school will be open; children will be able to attend a school and an academy order will have been made.
Sammy Wilson: I thank the Minister for giving way and for his further clarification of the purpose and usefulness of consultation after the order has been made, but does he not accept that once an order has been made, many of those who might have had an interest in the consultation might well deem that there has been a done deal so that the consultation is meaningless? I say that despite the Minister's assurances today, because the flag locally will be whether or not an order has been made to declare a school an academy.
Mr Gibb: I am grateful for that intervention, as it enables me to repeat that the deal is not done until the funding agreement is signed. That has always been the case: it was the case under the previous Administration and it is the case today. It is the funding agreement that is key.
Let me turn my attention to amendments 78, 4 and 18, which seek to prescribe with whom the school must consult. The Government believe that the individuals who lead schools-the governors and the head-are best placed to make decisions about their schools. They are the ones who know the local area, the local circumstances of the school and how it relates to other schools in the area. We do not intend to be prescriptive over whom schools should consult, as schools will have different views and the level of information they want or can make available at the time of consultation will depend on the point at which they do it. If they consult at the very beginning of the process, they may consult only on the principle of conversion itself. If they consult at a much later stage, they may want to consult on a wide range of additional matters-the curriculum, governance arrangements or a specialism for the academy, for example-on which they may by then have firmer views.
We trust the school to determine how to consult and whom to consult, and we do not intend to provide an inflexible checklist, which would not, in itself, ensure that consultation were any more meaningful. This includes consultation with the local authority, as amendment 18 would require. We do not intend to give local authorities a role that could, in some areas of the country, undermine the Government's policy-as we know, this has been the case in the past. We do not want to provide local authorities with an opportunity to delay or frustrate applications via the consultation process. The Department's website, as I mentioned earlier, includes guidance on good consultation practice.
New clause 1, tabled by the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas), would allow schools that have become academies to return to maintained status if 10% of the parents of the pupils at the academy vote in favour of it. Of course, the academies programme is about freedoms and lack of prescription, so an academy could choose, if it wished, to run itself like a maintained school. The academy could willingly act in such a way that for all intents and purposes, it would be a maintained school, operating with all the restrictions and requirements that apply to them-including the academy buying back services from the local authority and choosing not to use its curriculum or staffing freedoms. Therefore there would be no need for it to change its status for it to be run in a way that is equivalent to a maintained school.
We expect all schools that apply to become an academy to be fully committed to the academies programme. Before becoming an academy, the governing body of the predecessor school will have taken account, as I have said on numerous occasions, of the views of the parents and pupils at the academy.
the coalition involves discussion, concessions and change, which we have seen during the passage of the Bill. The coalition is delivering the kind of politics demanded by the public. Today, the coalition has delivered its promise to introduce a pupil premium. The Minister of State, my hon. Friend the Member for Brent Central (Sarah Teather) has today tabled a written ministerial statement announcing a consultation process on the implementation of the pupil premium.
My right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr Redwood) took us back to the halcyon days of Lady Thatcher, which I know he likes to do from time to time, as do we all. My right hon. Friend is absolutely right that we need to trust teachers and head teachers and that we need to give parents a genuine choice that will serve as a powerful force to raise standards.
My hon. Friend the Member for North Cornwall (Dan Rogerson) is right to point out that it is the funding agreement that is the key and the binding moment in the conversion process towards academy status. Schools wishing to convert in September had to apply by 30 June and we expect that those schools most keen to convert in September will already have embarked on consultation. That is what the Department has advised. There is nothing to stop such enthusiastic governing bodies from continuing to consult through July and the summer holidays, and it is inconceivable that they will have kept such matters from parents, when parents are represented to the tune of one third of governors on such bodies.
My hon. Friend the Member for Brigg and Goole (Andrew Percy) is absolutely right that the governors of a school, particularly the parent governors, take their responsibilities very seriously. They care deeply about the school and would not take forward the process of acquiring academy status without taking into account the views of the community, whether or not a particular part of the community were represented on the governing body.
The hon. Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) made the important point that schools are at the heart of the local community, and we agree that they should be, which is why the funding agreement specifically states that academies should be at the heart of the community and share facilities with it. She also raised the issue of the risk to governing bodies of a legal challenge, but clause 5(1) requires them to consult those people whom they think appropriate, and to a large extent, therefore, it is up to the body to decide whom it should consult. Provided that its decision is reasonable, it is unlikely to face a legal challenge.
The hon. Member for Gedling asked for the number of schools that have applied. Those that want to convert in September must have applied to do so by 30 June, but that does not mean that others will not also have applied by that date, and we do not believe that all those that have applied will necessarily be in a position to convert by September. We want to ensure that the process is right, and we will not allow conversions until all issues have been resolved.
proposed September convertors will have been advised to begin a TUPE consultation some time ago, at the outset of their consideration of the application.
Finally, the hon. Gentleman asked about the details of the academy order. It will state that a named school will convert to an academy on such date as is specified in the funding agreement. It is a very short document, and with those few remarks I urge hon. Members and my hon. Friends, when asked, to withdraw their amendments.
Dr Pugh: I shall say a few words before putting amendment 8 to the vote. Ministers have been fairly quiet throughout the large part of this debate, and I cannot be alone in sensing a certain embarrassment about some aspects of this legislation and the manner in which it has been pressed.
My hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth South (Mr. Hancock) said to me during my earlier contribution that the real reason for weak consultation and no balloting is that it is all about making the establishment of academies easier, and at the time I said that that was uncharitable. Having listened to the counter-arguments, however, I am not sure that he was not after all right and me a little naive.
The ministerial argument against ballots was that they would politicise, but one does not need to be very bright to realise that that is a general argument against any ballot, any time, any place. The right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) suggested that we would know the parental view from informal soundings, and to some extent that is correct, but he was unable to explain how that could happen before September, when schools are closed for the holiday. Indeed, if that is such a good, sure-fire method, why do we persist with ballots before changing a grammar school's status? People were completely unable to answer that, or why primary, secondary and special schools should not have the same privileged legal position.
No one answered the comments from the hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Mr. Stuart), the Chair of the Education Committee, even though they were repeated. I shall repeat them again: he described the consultation arrangements as appearing like a charade. I recall working for a boss who used to listen to his heads of department, gather them all around, very carefully solicit their views and conclude by saying, "I hear what you say." After that, he would do precisely what he wanted to do in the first place.
The hon. Member for Brigg and Goole (Andrew Percy) suggested that parents will be able to vote not necessarily by ballot but with their feet. I describe that as the Burmese school of democracy: "If you don't like it, you can get out and go somewhere else." He was quite right that governors generally and usually have a good awareness of and good contact with parents, and that they are likely to know quite a lot about how they might feel and react, but the clear point is that that is not invariably the case. Were it invariably the case, every grant-maintained ballot would have been won, but many were lost. Indeed, the hon. Member for Sefton Central (Bill Esterson) and I come from an area where all the grant-maintained ballots were lost.
If Members wish to disempower parents, if people in this Chamber genuinely believe in post hoc consultation, and if they object to rational amendment in the Commons, they should vote against my amendment. I can do nothing about that, but if they think differently I should like them to agree to amendment 8.
'(1A) Before making an application for an Academy order, the governing body shall consult relevant parties on whether to make such an application.
'(1A) An application under subsection (1) shall be in such form and shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed in regulations.'.
'(3A) The Secretary of State shall publish criteria which he will apply in deciding whether to make Academy orders, which shall be in such form and shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed in regulations.'.
Amendment 83, in clause 4, page 4, line 3, leave out subsection (6).
Vernon Coaker: I will be interested to hear why the Minister thinks that the amendments are unacceptable. Before that, it is important to say that, in the previous debate, there was a massive change in Government hope and expectation for their flagship academies policy. They have retreated from claiming that hundreds of new academies will open in September to saying that hundreds or a large number of academy orders will be agreed. The Secretary of State did not outline that as part of a flagship Government policy, which was for significant numbers of new academies to open. The policy is chaos, confusion and a complete shambles. Hon. Members of all parties will find it unbelievable that we now have a Government commitment to a significant number of academy orders, with consultation to follow. Significant progress has therefore been made as we have exposed the flaws in many aspects of the Bill. However, a Minister coming to the Dispatch Box and admitting that the Government's aims and objectives will not be realised is astonishing.
I do not want to take up too much of the Committee's time on the amendments. I should simply be grateful if the Minister explained why he thinks that they are unacceptable.
Mr Gibb: The amendments would collectively have the effect of increasing the burden of regulation associated with the academy conversion process. They propose several sets of regulations as well as a requirement that academy orders be made by statutory instrument. Hon. Members will recognise that that would take the Government's policy in the opposite direction from our proposals. We want to deregulate when regulatory burdens are not only stifling innovation, but costing time and therefore money to achieve compliance. We want to give schools freedoms to allow them to focus on raising standards. Adding bureaucracy to the process is the last thing that we want.
Amendments 81 and 82 would introduce regulations that prescribed the contents of applications for academy orders and the criteria that the Secretary of State applied when deciding whether to make them. We do not believe that it is appropriate to regulate the contents of applications for academy orders. The Department already provides clear guidance on its website about the conversion process and the various steps that a school needs to take. The website also includes an application pro forma, which covers all the necessary information to enable a decision to be made. The Government have made it clear that they will apply a rigorous fit and proper person test in approving any sponsors of an academy.
The Secretary of State will consider applications from schools that wish to become academies and, in each case, confirm whether he is content for the conversion proposal to proceed to the next stage. If he is, he will make an academy order. In doing that he will, of course, take account of the relevant information before him, but he expects to approve most applications from outstanding schools. Those schools will make up the first wave, and we will publish the criteria for other applicants-the next wave-on the Department's website.
Before issuing an academy order, the Secretary of State will undertake checks to ensure that the school is in a position to become an academy. That is important because academies operate with greater autonomy than other schools and need to be in a secure position to do so. We will check whether there has been any significant change since the school's last outstanding Ofsted rating.
Mr Mike Hancock: Does my hon. Friend anticipate the criteria being changed from those that are currently applied to the raft of academies that is going through the process and the academies that he expects to go through shortly? Will the basic criteria be changed for future academies? He suggested that they would be published, but how different will they be?
Mr Gibb: The criteria will be different because the fast-tracking is confined to schools that are graded outstanding. When they have gone through the process, we will relax the criteria to enable other schools to do so. My hon. Friend will recall that the Secretary of State sent letters to all schools in the country. The criteria that I just mentioned apply to fast-tracking. There will be different criteria for the process once the first wave has gone through.
Issues that the Secretary of State will check include whether the school has a substantial budget deficit, whether there are PFI arrangements relating to the school and whether the school is already part of reorganisation proposals. Depending on the outcome of discussions, that may have a bearing on whether and when the Secretary of State can approve an outstanding school's progression to the next stage. When an academy order is made, the Secretary of State must give a copy to the governing body, the head teacher and the local authority. If the application is rejected, the Secretary of State is required to inform the governing body, the head teacher and the local authority of his decision and the reason for it. It will therefore be transparent and clear why and when a school will be permitted to convert and when it will not.
However, the first stage of the process-the academy order stage-is just that: it permits a school to convert, but does not require it to do so. We need to be clear that, for many proposals, the greater detail and the final stage of the process will come later, when the Secretary of State decides whether to enter into a funding agreement with a proposed academy. It is only on signing the funding agreement that the conversion becomes legally binding. We therefore believe that prescription of the form and content of academy orders in secondary legislation is unnecessary and too bureaucratic.
An academy order is the means whereby a school's conversion into an academy is enabled. The intention behind amendment 83 is that an academy order be made by statutory instrument, which would have to be laid before Parliament. Academy orders are intended to be the legal means whereby an individual school converts to academy status. They will contain key pieces of information that are pertinent to the conversion, but are highly specific to the circumstances of each school. It would not be a good use of Parliament's time to require each order for each and every school to be tabled. The use of the negative resolution procedure would also be highly disruptive to any school, since the period of 40 days during which the order could be prayed against in this House or the other place would leave the school with no certainty about whether the conversion could go ahead.
"this seems to us to be reasonable. Each order affects only one school and there is provision for those affected to be provided with copies. We agree... that these Orders are not really legislative in character and we see no reason why Parliament would want to have any control over them."
For those reasons, I urge the hon. Gentleman to withdraw the amendment.
Vernon Coaker: It is a very good job that the Minister has persuaded me that statutory instruments of any sort-negative or affirmative-are unnecessary, otherwise he would not be able to announce academy orders in September. I intend to ask leave to withdraw the amendment, but I return to a point I made earlier. I provoked the Minister at the beginning of this debate, but in both this debate and the debate on the previous group of amendments, I note that he has not put any figure at all on the number of schools that he expects to become academies. That now seems to have gone down to almost nought, because the aspiration now is to introduce large numbers of academy orders.
to have significant numbers of academy orders, with consultation to follow. We will see where we are in September, but with those comments, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
'(3A) An Academy order must include provisions which make available for community use some or all of the school's facilities.
(3B) Such provisions shall not be fewer and on less advantageous terms than those which have been available prior to the application being made for an Academy order.
(3C) Such provisions may be made by means of a contract or contracts with a local authority or other non-profit making or commercial body.
(3D) "Local authority" in this section means a county, district, unitary or parish council.'.
I welcome you to the Chair, Mr Hoyle. I think that this is the first time I have served under your distinguished chairpersonship, to use a gender-neutral phrase. Notwithstanding the fact that you and I come from different sides of the Pennines, I am sure that you will exercise justice and mercy if I happen to cross the line from time to time-if that is possible between people from different sides of the Pennines.
Amendment 54 is a probing amendment, and a similar proposal was discussed, albeit briefly, in the House of Lords, where the Minister prompted more questions than he gave answers. I shall be brief because I know that we have other important matters to debate tonight.
We now know that the Government have effectively given the Secretary of State the power to change the status of schools by order-by fiat or administrative measures-notwithstanding the fact that we seek some form of accountability to local communities, which the Government have denied. Members of the House will know that I was against academies and that I voted against them when they were introduced by my own party. However, at least the previous Government had the merit of saying that schools should be accountable and responsible to local communities, and that their facilities should be as widely accessible as possible.
The concept of the extended school-a school that reaches out into the community, and a community that reaches into the school-was very much at the heart of Labour's schools provisions. It occurred to me that I should like to know what will happen to schools' assets that are associated with that community provision. The idea of the extended school is that the school is a facility for the whole community. After all, in the African phrase, it takes a whole village to educate a child-sometimes it takes a child to educate the village, too-so the interaction between the community and the school is important, and lies at the heart of modern educational thinking.
way. At Minsthorpe community college, a gym provided by the Labour Government, the Labour council and the college is open to everybody. A brand new sports hall that was built at the cost of millions of pounds in 2009 is also open to the community at subsidised cost. The college might become part of the Olympic preparations, because it is an Olympic-recognised site, which is a very proud achievement for our whole community. The school also has AstroTurf, which is used by local football clubs, a training and conference centre, beauty training, adult education, and crèche facilities on site and in the local village of Upton. The youngest pupil at the college is three months old, and the oldest is 80 years old. That is the school's range of provision.
Hemsworth arts and community college has also had millions of pounds spent on it, and it opens every single day in one form or another. Cherry Tree House, a multi-agency drop-in centre, is available to the whole community, the police, the health service and others, and an on-site sports centre is open all year. There is an Ofsted-registered day-care nursery, an adult education learning programme, and a programme of arts that works with all kinds of community groups, which use creative skills that were unimaginable even a few years ago in Hemsworth. There are outreach programmes with local Churches, the skills centre and so on and so forth. That is a description of two schools, but I am sure that every school in every community provides similar facilities.
By tabling amendment 54, I am asking the Government: what do they intend to happen to all that community outreach? I propose that there should effectively be two further aspects to the Bill. First, there should be no less provision to the community than there is on the day of transfer, and secondly, those provisions should be available on at least the same advantageous terms as they are now, meaning that there should be no increase in price or decrease in accessibility. It is a simple proposal.
Tens of thousands of people use community schools in my constituency and throughout the country. The question is: what will happen to those community facilities? After all, they were provided not by the school, but by the whole community, through council tax and central taxation. The Bill ought to make it clear that that community provision should continue-that should be the underlying philosophy of the nature of the relationship between educational institutions and the people who live in a community-and that the pricing should not change.
"charge persons who are not registered pupils at the Academy for education provided or for facilities used by them at the Academy".
I guess that the Minister will say that that is simply a measure to give academies a legal power to charge. However, there are fears, including in the schools that I mentioned and among the people who use them, whom I represent, that fees will increase rapidly, and that the community will be seen as a cash cow. Like many other right hon. and hon. Members, I represent many deprived communities. They, too, are seriously worried about the intentions of some academies.
I guess that the Minister will say the same thing.
There are two ways to deal with this community access issue. One would be for the thousands and thousands of academies-if that is how many are eventually created-to each have their own funding agreement, which would have to be policed separately. If constituents come to my surgery and say that the fees that they used to pay to do French or learn IT, or to use the sports or beauty facilities, have suddenly tripled or quadrupled, where will I turn if the amendment is not accepted? I will have to turn to the Minister and his civil servants, who will have to look at the funding agreement and make a separate enforcement order. This is not releasing schools from red tape, as was suggested a few moments ago by the Minister. It is nationalising the education system and the schools because, instead of schools being accountable to the local authority, or regulated under an amendment of the type that I propose, the Minister will have to take separate enforcement orders for every academy. How can that be the case for a Government who claim to believe in freeing up institutions and the education system?
If the Government are determined to go ahead with the system proposed in the Bill and if they agree with the philosophy that schools should be part of their communities, it would be simpler, more direct and cheaper to put something in the Bill so that each principal and governing body of an academy will understand from the beginning that they have taken over community facilities that the council helped to build, that they have inherited pricing structures, and that they have to honour them. The amendment is not an earth-shattering one, but I want to test the Government's commitment to their expressed desire to release people rather than bind them up in red tape. The Minister's answer in the other place opened up a Pandora's box of national control over an education system that we have always been proud of it being administered locally. The Bill is a reversal of that trend.
Mr Mike Hancock: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hoyle. This is the first time that I have had the honour of speaking when you are in the Chair.
I congratulate the hon. Member for Hemsworth (Jon Trickett) because he makes a very important point. We have had a helpful debate on all the issues over the three or four days of consideration of the Bill, and it has been remarkable how much common ground has been found, even by those who are diametrically opposed to the idea of academies. Several of us have seen the merits of some of the issues, and the debate as a whole has been fair and frank. I suspect that the Minister has also found some of the comments helpful in framing the final form of the legislation and the detail that is provided to future academies.
I support the amendment, because the effect of a large secondary school on the social fabric of a community-with possibly an increased role in the future-is important for social cohesion. I had hoped that we would consider new clause 2, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for North Cornwall (Dan Rogerson), because that talks specifically about the importance of social cohesion. If that obligation were in the Bill, there would be no going back on the school's commitment to the community. I have been a governor of schools where the local authority put in money for community facilities-such as a nursery-and bit by bit those services, which were additional to the school, disappeared, because of the weight of numbers. First, we lost the community room, and then the nursery. Those community facilities are not paid for by the education budget, but by the general rate fund-and in large council estates by the housing revenue account-but the pressure of numbers at the school means that they are lost to the community.
The investment needed to make real social cohesion work in large secondary schools, in both rural and urban areas, but especially in large schools in densely populated urban areas, is important not only to the school, but to the whole community. I want to see our academies, and all our schools, used seven days a week, with proper facilities being offered and without the restriction of governors saying that they do not want strangers in the building. Social cohesion means that the school can be used on a Sunday afternoon if someone is prepared to put the money in to pay the caretaker, not that the facilities are jealously guarded by the school as if they are only for its use. If this is going to work, we have to accept that these schools are an integral part of community provision. Sadly- [ Interruption. ] I thought that the right hon. Member for Morley and Outwood (Ed Balls) wished to intervene. He was either yawning or mumbling about his leadership bid.
The Minister of State, Department for Education (Sarah Teather): He was talking to his wife.
The Chairman of Ways and Means (Mr Hoyle): Order. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman could stick to the amendment.
Mr Hancock: The amendment is very important because it places pressure on the Minister to spell out exactly what he believes social cohesion should mean, how schools can be best used and whether any concession will be made by the Government in this area. I hope that there is, and I expect that the hon. Member for Hemsworth feels the same.
If academies come into being, the chances of local authorities-which may have "bought into" new schools in the past-to buy facilities in schools will be remote and will not happen very often. It will be important for academies to start to sell themselves to the wider communities, saying what is on offer and inviting people to use it. We do not want to start with the idea that the use of facilities will be restricted. I would hope that Ministers will give us a concession tonight that would lead people to believe that schools will have a newly awakened sense of their responsibility to make a greater effort to bring the community in.
Dan Rogerson: I apologise to you, Mr Hoyle, and to the Committee for not being here for the start of the debate on this group of amendments. I was startled by the efficiency and economy with which the Committee dealt with the previous one.
I welcome the fact that the hon. Member for Hemsworth (Jon Trickett) has raised this issue. It is right that people should look to their local schools for more than the education of young people-or even the education of people throughout their lives. In constituencies such as mine, the rural primary schools are at the heart of the small villages and offer much in terms of facilities and a focal point for much of what happens in the community. In the towns and bigger urban areas, secondary schools offer a similar facility, as my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth South (Mr Hancock) said. I completely understand the concerns that the hon. Member for Hemsworth has raised, on behalf of his constituents and people across the country watching this debate, about facilities that they are accustomed to having access to, for a whole range of purposes, perhaps being affected.
I do not have an academy in my constituency, so I bow to the experience of hon. Members who do as to how academies can continue to be at the heart of their communities. However, I would hope that we could have a response from the Minister to the issues raised by the hon. Member for Hemsworth, to reassure people that there will be something in the funding agreement-as we have heard, Government spokespeople in the other place suggested that that would be the way forward-if not in the Bill itself, to ensure that there is a duty on those schools to continue to engage with their local communities.
We have provision in the Bill not just for the transition of existing maintained schools into academies, but for new schools. We have already had a debate about whether some capital resource might be available to help those schools get under way. I hope that that could be kept to a minimum and that where people come forward wishing to provide those services, they would bring with them the determination to provide such facilities themselves. However, if there is a drawdown of money from the state system, as it were, the relevant duties and responsibilities must lie with those people, because they will be wanting to make a contribution to the education of young people in their communities, and I would hope that they should also be at the heart of those communities.
Amendment 54 seeks to place that commitment in the Bill, particularly with regard to facilities. I hesitate to get into a debate on the new clause standing in my name, which my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth South mentioned-we may reach it this evening; I am not sure-but there are related issues, which I hope you will permit me to mention, Mr Hoyle, that go wider than just the facilities. My hon. Friend referred to social and community cohesion, on which I hope the Minister will have had a chance to reflect.
they are undergoing the process or not, will want to be at the heart of their communities. However, behind the amendment is a concern that a school might wish to restrict access a little. My concern is that accepting the amendment as drafted, with all the caveats that the hon. Member for Gedling (Vernon Coaker) will no doubt raise on Report-perhaps I can cut in now, before we get there-will mean that schools would be encouraged to run down the community activities that they offer, because they would want to keep to a minimum what they would have to do afterwards. The amendment might therefore have the opposite effect.
Also, the courts would presumably then become the final arbiter of whether a school was keeping its swimming pool open-if it had a swimming pool-for the same number of hours as it had been a little while ago. We could have schools repeatedly going back to court. I know that that is not the intention of the hon. Member for Hemsworth. I am merely saying that his amendment is a chance to probe the Minister's intentions and insist that, wherever possible, we should have as much in the guidelines or the funding agreement, which is probably the way to do things, to reassure people that schools will continue to be at the heart of their communities, no matter how they receive their state funding-whether through a maintained set-up or the newer, academies option.
I hope that the Minister will indicate his support for that, but also place on record the fact that it will apply to any new academies, as well as to those formed by existing schools transferring across.
Mr Iain Wright: May I begin by saying what a pleasure it is to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hoyle?
I will be brief, because my hon. Friend the Member for Hemsworth (Jon Trickett) and the hon. Members for Portsmouth South (Mr Hancock) and for North Cornwall (Dan Rogerson) have said all that needs to be said about amendment 54. I welcome the amendment, which was tabled by my hon. Friend. He has rightly expressed the concern about the risk that community facilities-provision that could and should be used by partnering schools or the wider community-could be stopped as a result of an academy order. All three hon. Members who have spoken in this debate have said how important such facilities are to social cohesion.
A further point is that in times when public finances are tight, the potential saving from having extended schools with those provisions is immense. There could be savings to the NHS, from having that social network in place, to the Home Office and police budgets, from early intervention, or to the social care budget. Those savings could be huge, and they all stem from the idea of an extended school that opens out into the community, providing an open and collaborative range of offers. However, there is nothing in the Bill that might safeguard that. I am concerned about that, which is why I welcome the amendment. I know that it is a probing amendment, as my hon. Friend said. However, I hope that the Minister can reassure the Committee that what is in the Bill will safeguard what is available for the community, because the whole of society can benefit as a result.
"to be at the heart of their communities and to share their facilities with other schools and the wider community".
That could include a wide range of initiatives-for example, making the school's sports facilities available for local groups to use, offering adult education after hours, and engaging staff in outreach work across other local schools. It is clear from the provisions in academy arrangements that we are committed to academies being a central resource to their local communities. That is also borne out by our expectation that all outstanding schools commit in principle to working in partnership with a weaker school, as part of their applications to become academies.
However, it would not be appropriate for every academy order to make such provision. Academy orders are intended to be the documents that confirm a school's conversion, and will contain key pieces of information pertinent to the conversion, depending on the circumstances of each school. We believe that the place to impose obligations on an academy is through the academy arrangements, in either the funding agreement or the terms and conditions of grant. That is consistent with the approach of the previous Government.
The hon. Member for Hemsworth (Jon Trickett) talked about the gym and the sports facilities in his local school, and asked whether it could be made a requirement that there should be no less provision to the community than existed at the date of the transfer. He wanted to put that in the Bill, which I have explained would be excessive. He also raised the issue of the fees charged for those sports facilities. Again, his fear is that an academy would raise those fees in order to raise further funds for the academy or the school. However, all the issues that he has raised are issues for the funding agreement. There is no reason why those facilities cannot continue. If the issue is shared facilities between the school and the local authority, these will be subject to discussion as part of the conversion process. On the wider issue of charging, charging that is allowed is limited, as he knows, and will be equivalent to the money that maintained schools are also entitled to raise for out-of-hours-type activities.
I suppose that the issue at the back of the hon. Gentleman's mind is the concern that somehow academies will be less community-minded than the maintained schools that they replace-that somehow they will gouge out those facilities used by local residents or the out-of-hours evening classes that they attend. I see no evidence from the academies that I have visited around the country that that is their attitude. They are just as much a part of the community as the maintained schools that they are replacing.
The hon. Gentleman should be assured, certainly on the basis of the statements that I am now making to the Committee, that it is not the Government's intention that academies should become islands unto themselves, charging the maximum that they can to raise funds for their facilities. They will continue to be part of the community, concerned about the community, and wanting to share their facilities with the community.
I want to turn now to the points raised tangentially by my hon. Friends the Members for Portsmouth South (Mr Hancock) and for North Cornwall (Dan Rogerson). They both raised the issue of community cohesion. It is our view that the funding agreement will already include that requirement, using the phrase that I have just read out about being at the heart of the community and sharing facilities with the community. I am also able to help my hon. Friends by adding to the funding agreement an explicit requirement that academies will be required to be at the heart of their communities, to promote community cohesion and to share their facilities with other schools and the wider community. I hope that, in the light of those few words and the arguments that I put forward earlier, the hon. Member for Hemsworth will withdraw his amendment, which he described as a probing amendment.
Jon Trickett: I am grateful to the Minister for the way in which he has presented his case to the Committee, and I do not wish to press the amendment to a vote. He has had the opportunity to put the Government's views on record, and they will no doubt form part of any future debate when academies begin to operate. I predict, however, that the monitoring system he is introducing will be more expensive, more bureaucratic and more top-down than the present system of accountability of schools to their local communities through the local authorities, and that is deeply regrettable. With that, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
(e) such other persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.'.
(c) social cohesion in the local authority area where the school is situated.
(2) The impact assessment in subsection (1) should be made with regard to any existing policies the local authority or local schools forum have in relation to (a), (b) and (c).
(3) Before making an Academy order or an Academy arrangement with an additional school the Secretary of State must have regard to the impact assessment in subsection (1) made by the local authority.'.
Mr Wright: With this amendment and new clause 7, we return to a subject that we have discussed time and again in this brief Committee stage. One of the most fundamental weaknesses of the entire Bill is its wholly inadequate provision for consultation. Clause 4 sets out the process for the Secretary of State to consider and approve an academy order. It also sets out the criteria by which an application may be considered. The two criteria are that the governing body has applied or that the school is eligible for intervention. This provides no role for the local community or for parents to ask for intervention, however. Time and again this afternoon, the point has been raised about the lack of consultation for local stakeholders, especially parents. We believe that local authorities, communities, teachers, trade unionists and, most importantly, parents should have a role in calling for intervention.
Inherent in the Bill is a massive risk of creating a two-tier system that will divide rather than unite communities, and that will set deprived communities against affluent neighbourhoods. As I said in Committee last week, the Bill could ensure that the most important relationship was between the individual school and the Secretary of State, rather than between the school and its local community.
We have just been discussing amendment 54. One of my concerns is that the Bill, as it stands, is a highly centralising piece of legislation whose focus is firmly on the school and the Secretary of State, rather than on the wider area. There is also a risk that the Secretary of State intends to use the freedoms that academies allow to give only successful, prosperous schools the flexibility and resources to thrive. Those freedoms could well be provided at the expense of the vast majority of schools, which could face cuts to support services and experience severe disruption. The fragmentation of our schools system would be a real step backwards for social progress and social cohesion.
Amendment 79 would ensure that, before making an academy order in respect of a maintained school, the Secretary of State would be obliged to consult the local authority, teachers and other staff at the school, parents and pupils of the school and the other schools in the community, and any other such persons who are considered appropriate. In addition, he would have to consult other local authorities that might be affected by an academy order. This is most common, although not exclusively so, in London, where pupils in a particular school may be drawn from a wide variety of local authorities. Demand for places at a school in a particular local authority, especially a popular school, can affect the demand, and hence the viability, of schools in other boroughs. Surely the Minister accepts that it is right for those affected local authorities to be consulted as well. Proposed new subsection 8(b) would ensure that any other local authority that might be affected by the making of an academy order was consulted. For those reasons, we believe that amendment 79 offers an important means of injecting more challenge, scrutiny and consultation into the proposed legislation.
We believe strongly that local authorities have a strong role to play in helping every child to succeed. They do not, and should not, run schools, but they can provide a strategic function, and commission provision across an area that is relevant, suitable and in keeping with the local authority's vision for the shape of their economy.
Local authorities can ensure that local services are of a high quality and meet the needs, ambitions and aspirations of children and young people. The actions or, at times, inactions of local authorities can also be held to account by local people in a truly democratic fashion, as a means of securing effective, efficient and fair local public services.
"Local authorities will not run schools, but will have a central and strategic role, including responsibility for oversight of school performance and fair admissions. They will be expected to intervene where school leadership or performance is weak."
"We will ensure a level playing field for admissions and funding and replace Academies with our own model of 'Sponsor-Managed Schools'. These schools will be commissioned by and accountable to local authorities and not Whitehall".
That is an important commitment, on which every Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament was returned to the House. It is important that the Committee has the opportunity to vote on the matter, so that Liberal Democrat Members can support their manifesto commitments to a level playing field on admissions and funding and on social cohesion. On that basis, I give notice that I want to test the Committee's opinion with regard to new clause 7.
Ian Swales (Redcar) (LD): What did the hon. Gentleman think about the provisions under discussion when the Labour Government introduced academies? As far as I know, none of the provisions apply to the current academy system.
Mr Wright: I do not want to return to the Second Reading debate, but the purpose and definition of academies under the Bill differ fundamentally from those of the academies introduced by the Labour Government. We gave freedoms and flexibilities to poorly performing schools in deprived areas. The Bill is a completely different kettle of fish, and I think that the hon. Gentleman agrees with me.
Under new clause 7, before a school can make an application for an academy order-or arrangement with a free school-local authorities would be asked to assess the impact of such an order or arrangement on admissions, the funding between all state-funded schools and social cohesion in an area. As the hon. Member for North Cornwall (Dan Rogerson) ably articulated, social cohesion with regard to education is vital. There is a huge risk inherent in the Bill that social cohesion will be threatened and compromised. The new clause addresses that.
circumstances in which, inevitably, parents will be disgruntled that their child is unable to gain admission to a local school?
Mr Wright: In my constituency, parents want to get their children into certain popular schools. It is important that the local authority sets out a clear procedure by which admissions will be considered, that there is a good appeals process, and that the schools adjudicator is part of that process. It is important that local authorities are in the driving seat: not running schools, but with borough-wide thinking on admissions. The approach has worked well and can continue to do so.
Earlier today, my right hon. Friend the shadow Secretary of State for Education and the shadow Schools Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Gedling (Vernon Coaker) wrote to every Liberal Democrat Member, expressing the wish that we work together to amend and improve the Bill by supporting new clause 7. If Liberal Democrat Members feel that they must support the Bill as a whole in keeping with the coalition agreement, I can understand and respect their position, but I hope that there can be cross-party support for new clause 7.
Dan Rogerson: How could I resist the opportunity to respond to the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr Wright), who has thrown his glove across the Floor of the House to land at my feet?
The hon. Gentleman is obviously pining for the day on which there is a Liberal Democrat majority Government- [Interruption.] I look forward to working with the hon. Gentleman. Given the way in which his party has conducted itself in opposition, he and his hon. Friends may well be working towards such an arrangement even now.
Let me say, in all seriousness, that the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to suggest that if the Liberal Democrats had been the majority party, we would have proceeded with the sponsor-managed schools option. However, we are not in that position. As the hon. Gentleman pointed out, we are in a coalition Government with a coalition agreement, and it is clear that some policies emanate from one partner in the coalition and some from the other. That is the way it works in coalition agreements all over the world, in countries where arrangements such as this are far more common than they have been in the United Kingdom, at least for several decades.
I do not think that academies are the answer. I did not think that they were the answer when the hon. Gentleman's party was in charge of the policy, and I do not think that they will necessarily be the answer for all schools now. However, following the coalition agreement, the Bill contains a series of provisions enabling communities, where there is a will, to allow schools to adopt academy status. It remains to be seen how many will take up the option and what use they will make of it. Amendments were made in another place, notably with regard to the provision of additional schools-which I know concerned the hon. Gentleman in earlier debates-and assessments of the impact on the surrounding area.
and discuss. Believe me, people in my constituency and others have been discussing it, and we have had many debates on it. That should not come as a surprise to the hon. Gentleman.
I had the honour of serving in the last Parliament, when the hon. Gentleman stood at the Government Dispatch Box ably standing up for-it must be said-the sometimes slightly dodgy policies that his party was producing. He must have seen us sitting on the Opposition Benches below the Gangway-where his hon. Friend the Member for Gateshead (Ian Mearns) is sitting now-talking to some of his hon. Friends who were then sitting on this side of the Committee. They were sorely tempted to join us. Lord McAvoy, as he now is, would have been there, casting his eye over Labour Members and making sure that that did not happen.
It could be said that we are now in similar circumstances in terms of the way in which this place works, but it can only work, and a Government can only work, when there is an agreed programme. We have an agreed programme, and the Government are proceeding with it. However, I am pleased that the Minister was willing to listen-as was his noble Friend Lord Hill-to Members of our party and our side of the coalition, and to other noble Lords and hon. Members, and to make provision to allay some of the concerns that have been raised.
"social cohesion in the local authority area where the school is situated."
Under the Bill, as part of the funding agreement, if a pupil is excluded from an academy during the year, the academy will keep the funding as if the pupil had not been excluded, but the local authority-or someone else-will have to provide the funding for that excluded pupil somewhere else. It is because of such provisions in the Bill that some of us consider an impact assessment to be vital. Otherwise, when a pupil is excluded, the academy will keep the money and the pupil will become the responsibility of the local authority, which will have no funds with which to carry out that responsibility.
Dan Rogerson: I understand the hon. Gentleman's point, and I am sure the Minister will want to respond to it in respect of how the funding agreement will work as the academies come into being. However, the hon. Gentleman said earlier that he thinks that academies are a good thing and that if Labour had continued in government, they would have increased in number. [Interruption.] Well, the issue of variance that has arisen between the Government's proposal and that of the hon. Gentleman is how the academies come into being. Until now they have undoubtedly had an effect on their local area, but there is an issue of critical mass, as many Opposition Members have said: there must be a tipping point at which there is a sufficient number of academies to have a particular effect on the local authority. That would have happened under the hon. Gentleman's vision for expanding the number of academies as well as under the Government's, so that is a separate question; it is a question about how many academies we have and what effect they have collectively.
history. It is not of course, but real progress has been made in that the Government have now introduced a Bill that includes a provision to allay a lot of the concerns that many of us have raised, but which also opens a way for communities that feel they want to go in this direction.
I am concerned that scare stories are being told that everybody will want to go for this in a big rush, but I do not think that will be the case. I think that many governing bodies, schools and groups will want to- [Interruption.] Well, the Secretary of State has talked about the huge amount of interest in this programme and I am sure that that is true, but I think that many people will want to see what happens and how things develop before deciding whether to take advantage of the provisions.
Andrew George: My hon. Friend has said that his concerns have been allayed. He will have heard my intervention on the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr Wright) in respect of the impact of these proposals on the admissions policies of each of the academies and what will happen when parents are unable to find a place in their local school which happens to be an academy-from whom they can seek redress in those circumstances if they have a justifiable reason to take the matter a stage further. I wonder how my hon. Friend might allay my concerns, given that his concerns in respect of the admissions policy have been allayed. This point is particularly important if we bear in mind the fact that the first academies are likely to be the outstanding schools-those that all pupils would wish to go to.
Dan Rogerson: My hon. Friend raises an important point. He has intervened on both the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr Wright) and me, and he will no doubt want to raise his question with the Minister when he responds-indeed, the Minister may well wish to do address it in any case. When talking about fears being allayed, the particular point I was addressing was to do with community cohesion, which is very important. It is about the way in which the existing maintained schools, the new academies that have transferred over and other new school provision that is offered will interact and relate to the surrounding community. There has been a bit of progress on that, which I welcome.
On the tempting invitation from the hon. Member for Hartlepool to support the Labour amendment, I must say that their conversion comes a little late on some of these issues. As my party colleagues, my hon. Friends the Members for St Ives (Andrew George) and for Redcar (Ian Swales), have already said in this brief debate, in respect of how the relationships emerge most of the provisions were in existence and operation under the previous academies programme. I do not think there is any huge difference therefore. The only difference is that this is someone else's academy programme, not that of the hon. Gentleman.
on its proposals. That provision was included in the Bill in response to concerns raised in the other place and in order to demonstrate the importance that this Government attach to consultation. I believe, therefore, that it is unnecessary and inappropriate, not to mention impractical, for the Secretary of State to consult on those same proposals. It should be the school's decision to become an academy, except in those cases where the school is eligible for intervention. It is our aim to reduce any unnecessary bureaucracy surrounding the academy conversion process, and I believe that potentially duplicating consultation would fall into that category.
We have made it very clear that we believe that schools are in the best position to determine how best consultation should take place. That includes deciding who should be consulted, although some guidance is provided on the website as to who is consulted, and when and how that should be done. We do not intend to provide an inflexible checklist, such as that proposed in this amendment, which would not, in itself, ensure that consultation was any more meaningful.
New clause 7 would mean that before a school makes an application for an academy order or an academy arrangement with an additional school, a local authority must be asked to assess the impact of academy status on admissions, on funding between all publicly funded schools and on social cohesion in the local authority area where the school is situated. It would also mean that before making an academy order or an academy arrangement with an additional school, the Secretary of State would be required to have regard to the impact assessment.
Clause 9 requires the Secretary of State, when deciding whether to enter into academy arrangements with an additional school-an entirely new or "free" school-to take into account the impact of such a school on the existing schools and colleges in the area. We believe that requiring the local authority to consider the impact of an additional school as well is unnecessary and will simply result, again, in the duplication of work. The clause does not include provisions for the Secretary of State to assess the impact of schools that convert into academies. We are clear that schools should convert "as is"; in most cases, it will be the same head, the same staff, the same parents and the same children in the school, but with additional freedoms to innovate and raise standards. Furthermore, the requirement for converting schools to consult means that those other schools in the area may have the chance to make representations on the proposed conversion. Where schools convert "as is" we do not believe, therefore, that the nature of the change is such that there is any need for an impact assessment.
Andrew George: The Minister will have heard my two interventions about the availability of an appeals process where an admissions policy excludes potential pupils from a school before they have been able to gain admission to the school. Under the current arrangements, in most areas the parents can appeal to the local authority if they feel that the decision is unacceptable. What arrangements will apply where an academy has been set up?
apply just as much to academies as to maintained schools and that the co-ordination arrangements will apply too. So the local authorities will hold the ring on admissions in the same way as they do at the moment.
"an Academy arrangement with an additional school".
That refers to a free school. Will the existing arrangements still apply in respect of a free school too? Could the Minister provide clarity on that?
Mr Gibb: I shall seek to do that during the rest of my speech. If I do not get round to the hon. Gentleman's point, I shall write to him.
We believe that the impact of an increase in academies and the freedoms they provide will lead to improvements in standards across the education sector as the best heads and the best schools drive improvements and expertise. The noble Lords were concerned about schools changing their age range and the Bill was amended to allay those concerns. Subsection (4) of clause 9 makes it clear than when a maintained school becomes an academy under the current school closure processes, further to the Education and Inspections Act 2006 and not further to an academy order, when the age range is not like-for-like, the school would be classed as an additional school, so the Secretary of State would be required to evaluate the impact. That would include, for example, an academy created as a result of the amalgamation of two or more schools or an 11-to-18 academy that replaced an 11-to-16 maintained school, if that involved a closure rather than a conversion. Any school wishing to add a sixth form would need to follow the relevant statutory provisions.
Mr Wright: I'm not the Minister any more.
Mr Gibb: Sorry, the shadow Minister. It is all very new.
The problem with the shadow Minister's speech in moving the amendment was that it was written, I think, before he heard of the Government's intention to put in the funding agreement an explicit requirement to promote community cohesion. On top of that, it already requires academies to be at the heart of the community. He cited the Liberal Democrat manifesto commitment that local authorities will not run schools. That is a view common throughout the coalition and we also agree that local authorities should be the champion of parents and pupils, championing school improvement and challenging rather than defending underperforming schools. In an old politics kind of way, he is trying to drive a wedge into fissures in the coalition where no fissures exist-and he is doing so unsuccessfully.
The point made by the hon. Member for Gedling (Vernon Coaker) about excluded pupils is wrong. He alleged that the funding for an excluded pupil stays with the academy. The funding follows the pupil when the pupil is excluded and that is a requirement in the academy agreement.
With those few words, I hope that I have persuaded Opposition Members and those elsewhere to withdraw their amendments.
Mr Iain Wright: I apologise to the Minister on the subject of the concession that he has made on social cohesion and community cohesion in the funding agreement. I had meant to mention that, but I was wrapped up in helping Liberal Democrats. I apologise; that is a welcome concession.
The hon. Member for North Cornwall (Dan Rogerson) went so far in tempting me to think that he does not agree with academies, but then he pulled back considerably. He mentioned, rightly, that coalition-like all politics-is a question of compromise and negotiation, but I think that the Liberal Democrats are getting a bit of a raw deal in the coalition agreement when it comes to education policy. I will readily admit that today there has been the announcement on school funding and the pupil premium and I am pleased to see the Minister of State, the hon. Member for Brent Central (Sarah Teather), on the Treasury Bench. I pay tribute to her for pushing that forward.
In every other sense, the emphasis has been on Conservative party policy, with an emphasis on free markets. There has been a rush to the markets and a lack of consultation with and consideration for the wider community that is at odds with what the Liberal Democrats want. I shall still provide the hon. Member for North Cornwall and his hon. Friends, who seem readily poised to join us in the appropriate Lobby, with the opportunity to ensure that the commitments that were made in the Liberal Democrat manifesto in the general election, only a matter of weeks ago, can still be fulfilled.
I am not content with the Minister's explanations in terms of new clause 7. I think it is very important and I will want to press that to a vote, but I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Proceedings interrupted (Programme Order, 19 July).
The Chair put forthwith the Questions necessary for the disposal of the business to be concluded at that time .
Clauses 17 to 19 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clause 20, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.
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2019-04-20T06:37:24Z
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Abstract: Electrospinning is a facile technique for the fabrication of nanofibers (one-dimensional, 1D, nanostructures) of metals, metal oxides and polymers on a commercial scale which find applications in the fields of energy (dye-sensitized solar cells, Li-ion batteries, fuel cells, etc.), healthcare, environmental engineering and biotechnology (membranes and filters). While electrospinning polymer solutions results in polymer nanofibers, metal oxide nanofibers (say of TiO2) are made by electrospinning a TiO2 precursor along with a polymer into composite nanofibers and subsequently removing the polymer by a sintering process. However, we have found that the morphology of the electrospun TiO2 depends on the chemical nature of the polymer involved and more precisely the chemical interactions between the polymer and the TiO2 during the sintering process. When the polymer is changed from polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) to polyvinyl acetate (PVAc) to a mixture of PVP and PVAc, the morphology of the TiO2 varies from continuous fibre to rice-shaped to leaf-shaped. The present manuscript explores the chemistry between the TiO2 and the above mentioned polymers which results in the structural anisotropy of the electrospun TiO2. The electrospun metal oxides are useful for energy and environmental applications. © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2013.
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https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/85188
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Prediction: "While the poor people starve/Computers takin’ over they jobs/A man’s forced to live off land/Back to the caveman era."
Outcome: The U.S. unemployment rate is currently sitting around 10%. Surely the many industries taking advantage of computer automation and cheap overseas labor haven't helped. As for the caveman reference—at least those Geico commercials were popular!
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2019-04-19T04:22:30Z
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https://www.complex.com/music/2010/12/a-decade-later-did-nas-nastradamus-predictions-come-true/New-World-3
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Do Du Think That Ugly Naked Guy Is Gay?
Did Du want to see him in the finale?
Were Du glad when he moved oder did Du want him to stay?
Did u think it was sweet when he was having thanksgiving abendessen with ugly naked gal?
Did Du find his antics funny oder repulsive?
a comment was made to the poll: Were Du glad when he moved oder did Du want him to stay?
a comment was made to the poll: Did Du want to see him in the finale?
What instrument does UNG play?
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2019-04-25T23:20:20Z
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http://de.fanpop.com/clubs/ugly-naked-guy
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Barack Obama's tack to the center is quite clever for three reasons (and maybe more, but three is all I could think of). One, it may cause moderate and centrist voters to feel more comfortable about voting for him. That's the big one. Two, he's better off being attacked by John McCain as a flip-flopper than as an unrepentant liberal. And three, he gave up practically nothing in the process. The tack to the middle has been mostly a fuzzy feint that didn't lock him into any new positions.
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2019-04-21T10:25:11Z
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https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/07/the-week-in-review/214410/
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Last week at Google's Conversions event in Dublin, I walked through the past ten years of mobile design and what the future could/should look like including an extensive Q&A session. Videos from both these sessions (totaling 3 hours) can now be viewed online.
In the first session (90min), I take a look at what we've learned over the past ten years of designing for the largest, most connected form of mass media on our planet. Have all the mock-ups, meetings, emails, and more we've created in the last decade moved us beyond desktop computing interfaces and ideas? If not, can we find inspiration to go further from looking at what's happening in natural user interfaces and hardware design?
The second ninety minutes are dedicated to Q&A on common mobile design and development issues, what's next in tech, and more.
Big thanks to the Conversions@Google team for making these sessions available to all.
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2019-04-26T04:38:33Z
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https://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1982
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John Ashley, 62, an actor and producer or co-producer of such TV series as "The A-Team," "Walker Texas Ranger," "Hardball" and "Something's Out There." As a beginning actor he was seen in several beach-oriented, low-budget pictures of the 1960s, including "Beach Party" and "Beach Blanket Bingo." In 1963, he played Hermy in "Hud," probably his best-remembered role. He also was a regular on TV's "The Beverly Hillbillies," playing one of Ellie May's suitors. In New York City on Saturday, while on the set of his latest feature film, "Scarred City."
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2019-04-24T20:24:11Z
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-10-mn-41296-story.html
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It’s fall, so pattern companies are introducing new patterns. I am especially interested in what the lovely indie pattern companies are doing. Aren’t you? With their beautiful instructions and great fit.
Most patterns I’m really excited about but some patterns I’m very underwhelmed by (I’m looking at you, Colette patterns). So I thought I’d give a roundup of all the indie patterns that I’ve seen. Maybe some of them you haven’t seen yet (I doubt it, though). Plus you’re getting my two cents on each one. You can click on any of the pictures to be taken to the website.
Let’s start off with the one that is irking me the most. I’m sorry but I can’t get behind this pattern. The one pictured here is the one I dislike the most. The chiffon one with lining, that one looks pretty, but nothing I can’t find in one of my back issues of Burda magazine. If you’re handy with patterns, I think you could easily make it yourself with a couple of rectangles and a fitted waistband. I gravitate more towards the Kelly skirt or the Beignet skirt for a skirt with buttons.
I was just added to Colette’s mailing list a few weeks before Hawthorn’s release. I was so excited because I really love their designs. I was a little bit disappointed by the Laurel, as I just don’t think it looks very flattering on me, although I saw a ton of beautiful versions in the Flickr group. But I was definitely underwhelmed when I saw this dress. I thought it could just be the styling on Colette’s model, so I waited until a few versions popped up in the blogosphere. Some were beautiful, but most I didn’t like too much. I think shirt dresses just aren’t my thing. But I do love the half-circle skirt!
This dress is so adorable. Since I made that apron of mine with the pintucks, even though they’re really annoying to sew, they look really cute. This is definitely high on my wishlist. I think first I will make a tunic of sheer material to wear over a slip and leggings.
I’ve never been so excited for a pattern release before. I liked the tiramisu from Cake, but I never purchased it because I kept thinking it was only so-so. But this…. This is really quite lovely. You have some options for the bodice and skirt, plus you can go crazy with colour or print blocking if you want. I’ve heard great things about the fitting of Cake patterns, so I think I won’t be able to contain myself when it’s released (there’s no release date yet; I’m hoping end of september/beginning october).
I’m a sucker for leggings. I have a pattern from McCalls and they were way too low rise for me. I’m happy that Megan included both high rise and low rise in her pattern. Plus they’re available as a PDF download. Instant gratification! This is definitely coming up in my sewing queue after my unselfish sewing is finished, for which I’m actually using a Megan Nielsen pattern for! I’m making the maternity skirt for a pregnant friend of mine.
I was one of the kickstarter campaign investors, so I got this pattern for ‘free.’ I really can’t wait to try it out. It’s got really interesting seaming along the side, and you’ve got a lot of options in just one pattern: a top, a dress, and different necklines. I think it would be great for job interviews with a blazer over top. She’s also got a ‘pay what you want’ cami pattern that was recently released. Also very pretty.
Ok, not so new, and they’re coming out with one or two patterns shortly (Georgia and Polly, I believe). But I just had to give a shout out to the By Hand London ladies for taking the blogosphere by storm! I’ve been seeing multiples shoot up on many blogs. I am also a fan! I want to make the short version with an asymmetrical v-neck.
I thought I’d add this pattern by Ralph Pink. If you haven’t heard of this pattern company yet, go check it out. Not that their collection is all that new. Kazz the Spazz wrote about their jumpsuit a few months ago. There’s some interesting stuff over there, especially if you’re into making corsets. The 2013 collection has some cool looking designs that you can have fun with colour blocking, like the jigsaw dress. I haven’t tried one yet, but I find them to be very reasonably priced.
So, what do you think? Which fall patterns are on your wish list? And did I forget to mention any new patterns?
*disclaimer: all pictures are copyright of their respective owners. I’ve used them here for illustrative purposes.
I agree with you about the Colette patterns – they’re just not that exciting. Though I did see a demo version of Hawthorn sewn up at one of my local sewing shops that made me re-think it somewhat. They’d done a bunch of interesting detailing and decorative stuff at the cuffs and hem, which made the pattern a lot more interesting. So maybe? Except I have two or three other shirt dress patterns already, and I can’t really justify it.
I am excited for the new Cake stuff. I’m going through a phase where I want to make lots of things out of knits and Steph does great patterns for that!
Anna seems like a classic – I really want to make a maxi version for autumn.
Really interested in those Ralph Pink patterns – I want to try out their trouser block to nail some well fitting jeans.
And yes, Cake’s fitting is brilliant. I’d like to get my hands on a Red Velvet too.
And yeah, can’t agree more about Colette. I always want to like them, but they seem underwhelming every time.
Completely agree about the underwhelming Colette patterns, and I’m not a fab of the new Deer & Doe dress either just because I know empire waists make me look preggers. I feel like lately the indie companies have been focussing on the beginner patterns and have forgotten about the intermediate and higher sewists. I pointed that out on the Colette page and they replied that the Laurel was an intermediate pattern, which I disagree. Ahh well, I hope Papercut releases her next collection soon and I am excited to read some new patterns from BHL are coming soon too.
I don’t really see laurel as intermediate either. Or are sleeves immediately considered intermediate?!
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2019-04-18T22:44:35Z
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https://zoelivana.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/new-patterns-first-impressions/
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Now this was quite interesting. I'm really hoping these guys will give me some embed so I can post video. Anyway Matt--who attended--has his impressions here, here, here and here. The panel featured Shelby Steele, Charles Kamasaki, and Richard Thompson Ford. I had a devil of a time because I was moderating, but as many of you know, I have some deep deep--dare I say profound--disagreements with Shelby Steele. I was hoping that someone on the panel would challenge some of his more outlandish statements, but it mostly fell to me. i don't think that was out of any passivity--it wasn't Kamasaki's area, and I think Richard may be a little closer to Shelby's politics than me. I hope I'm not miscasting Richard there. Anyway, I challenged where I could--the idea that the biggest problem in America, regarding race, is white guilt was particularly ridiculous, and I said as much.
But more interesting to me was the crowd, which immediately made me understand why someone might think that white guilt was a problem. When people say white folks are "uncomfortable" talking about race, I've basically accepted it as true. It's never been my experience--all the white people I know talk about it willingly. But once again, we're back to the differing tribes of whiteness, no? There were a few black folks in the audience (We've actually been represented well out here. Props to Aspen on that), but virtually no Latinos or Asians. More importantly, the crowd was, in the main, over fifty. What I mean is that, the crowd was of a generation where people were extremely uncomfortable discussing race.
Of course, I'm slow on the uptake. Man listen, I'm steady cracking jokes, trying to lighten the mood, and I'm getting the stone-face treatment the whole time. A riff on all the black folks rooting for the Celtics this year went over like a Toby Keith concert in Harlem. Tough crowd. Plus we got questions like "Where are all the black leaders to tell black people about social responsibility" and "Will Barack Obama be assassinated." The whole thing sort of depressed me, because I felt as a moderator, I could have done better, and yet I also wanted to be in a better position to challenge Shelby on some of his arguments. That said, again, this is where you see that the biggest divide on this whole racial conversation may not be between black and white, but between the old and the young.
UPDATE: On Monday Shelby bizarely claimed that white guilt was one of the reasons we were losing the Iraq War. I don't think I have to comment on that. But what's interesting is that it wasn't the first time he'd made such a statement.
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2019-04-23T20:25:55Z
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https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2008/07/race-and-politics-panel-at-aspen/5021/
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Welcome to the Disney Parks Moms Panel. I am so happy you have visited us with such a great question, and I hope you continue visiting us before your upcoming vacation this October!
As the mom of an infant myself, I love answering questions for Guests traveling to Walt Disney World Resort with little ones. We traveled to Walt Disney World Resort recently when my baby had just begun eating solid foods. I hope that my answer and experience can help you worry less! I want your Walt Disney World Resort vacation to be as stress and worry-free as possible.
Currently, the Baby Care Centers are carrying Gerber 2nd Stage Foods which are adequate for babies 6 months of age and older or babies who sit unassisted.
Simon, if you have any additional questions please visit the Disney Parks Moms Panel again. We are always here to help you plan the “practically perfect” Walt Disney World vacation.
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2019-04-24T08:25:35Z
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https://disneyparksmomspanel.disney.go.com/question/im-disney-october-month-old-worried-baby-food-places-sell-349120/
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If you want to make real friends in Argentina, you need to get into mate culture in a big way!
The health benefits of this wonder drink are well-documented. But it's a bit of an aquired taste, to be honest (I'm acquiring it), and it's rather more complicated to prepare even than loose-leaf tea, which I drink plenty of. Then there is the whole ritual of mate, that is, how it is drunk in community with others. There are procedures to be learned and followed, and everyone has her own opinion on what kind of mate (container) to buy, which type of bombilla is best, and what brand of yerbe mate is superior to the rest.
I was lucky enough to sip my first sip from the mate of a teacher in one of my workshops in January, who shared with me some of the rituals about how the drink is passed from cebador (server) to each person in the group (typically to the right) and back. She also explained to me that one does not touch or move the bombilla (many "newcomers" tend to want to use the metal straw to stir the drink -- a big no-no in mate culture).
My next mate experience was on the rocky beach in Punta Ninfas, where our guide shared mate with us while hanging out with the elephant seals. That was pretty cool!
Once back from that trip, Tats and I decided to look in earnest for our own mate equipment. Tats figured she'd need a large mate, preferably wooden, as she had heard they were easier to keep clean. Being an extrovert, I was more into the whole sharing and ritual thing, so I was okay with a smaller mate. At the suggestion of the two Marias, I bought a small, handcrafted one in Recoletta, along with an alpaca bombilla.
A week later, I fell in love with a hand-carved gourd at the San Telmo market, and "had" to buy it! Now I have two mates, and I love them both!
There are a variety of different mates available on the market, and many websites to help you decide which is best for you.
The bombilla is also a matter of personal preference, and -- again -- many options are available, each with its own benefits.
Unless you get a ceramic mate, the next step in the mate adventure is curing the container. This helps to seal off any small holes in the gourd, and give the mate its initial flavour. If done correctly, it's also supposed to help prevent mold.
Once your mate is finally cured, you can actually prepare and drink it! We've chosen to use "Mate Suave", which is a smoother, slightly less bitter yerbamate. Currently we use the Union brand, though we're thinking of trying Rosamonte, which we've also heard good things about.
Preparing the mate properly ensures proper extraction of the drink's nutrients, and therefore, maximizes health benefits.
Conflicting ideas exist regarding how the bombilla is to be inserted into the yerbamate, but it is generally agreed that once inserted, the bombilla is not to be moved or "stirred" while drinking.
I'm still experimenting with this, but to date I have more or less successfully drunk mate on my own and with the boys several mornings before school. Tats, who is less picky about proper preparation, has downed multiple large helpings from her giant wood gourd.
Nice way of going local and sensing regional customs. Enjoy!
I can't wait to learn more about the ritual. The next time we go to the AGO, I'm going to stop by the store on Queen Street where they sell the drink.
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2019-04-20T10:19:02Z
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http://homeschooling4.weebly.com/blog/mate-mate
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Hobby Lobby founder David Green's new book is both memoir and message. The message is that God owns everything, including David Green’s multi-billion dollar business. He applied that principle first in the form of personal generosity, eschewing the CEO lifestyle for one of high and growing philanthropy. But later for him it went deeper and the Greens were moved to give the company itself away, transferring it to a trust. The trust is mission-oriented, and ensures that the family can no longer touch the assets. If they want to make a living from Hobby Lobby, they have to apply for a job and work there. That's why the book is called Giving it All Away, at least that's the first half of the title. The second half is ...And Getting it All Back Again. How do you get it back when you've given it away? You get it back by getting peace of mind. When you acknowledge that Someone else is in charge, and that you are responsible only for faithfulness, not for outcomes, life gets simpler.
This is one of those paradoxes of the Bible: first shall be last; lose your life to gain your life; the greatest of all shall be the servant of all; give and it shall be given to you. Theologian Gordon Clark called paradoxes 'charley horses between the ears'. Paradoxes trigger cramps in our mind in order to reveal the ways in which our thinking was already too cramped. They force us to change the way we naturally think.
Giving it away is a source of joy because human nature is such that when we own things, they also tend to own us. Wealth can get a hold on us. I've seen this among wealthy acquaintances, especially once they've 'cashed out' of the business. Often after that big liquidity event their one and only job is to guard 'the pile'. But that begs the question: if you spend all your time and energy guarding the pile, is the pile your property, or are you just the pile's full-time security guard? Just who is working for whom in that relationship?
David Green told me that the time in his life which was most difficult was not when the federal courts had threatened to shut him down because of his refusal to pay for abortifacient drugs, and he was fighting for liberty of conscience while being excoriated in the press. No, the toughest challenge for him was when he had listened to advisors who told him to set up his business affairs in a way which would cause Hobby Lobby to be passed on to multiple generations of his descendants. That's when he was really worried. What will this money do to them? How can he be assured that future generations will not turn away from the original mission and culture of the company and become a hundred 'hooks' into the company, taking from it rather than giving to it? What if future generations abandon the culture of service to employees and customers?
It's an understandable concern. You don't have to look too hard to find situations where dropping a gigantic pile of money on heirs crushed their spirit, their initiative, and their values.
So the Greens decided to go in a different direction. They turned away from the advice they had gotten from the high prestige accounting/consulting/legal experts and asked Gen 2 (the immediate offspring of David and Barbara) to give back their 15% equity stake in the company and place it in a trust. They did so, without hesitation. The trust owns the company now. The trustee's job is to make sure that Hobby Lobby remains true to the mission and values on which it was founded - in perpetuity. No jobless 4th or 5th Gen heirs siphoning cash out of the company instead of working for a living.
For the Greens, once this option was presented, it was an easy decision. Theologically God owns it all, and the Greens are only stewards of God's company. The most natural thing in the world for them was to choose a legal and capital structure which matched the theological structure to which they were already committed.
I might be a little biased, as I happen to work for a company which has also chosen that structure. But I don’t think it's mostly bias on my part: it's more a matter of exegesis. The New Testament (as well as the Law and the Prophets) have a great deal to say about the role of a steward/trustee. Several of Jesus' parables are about trustee relationships in business. It's a surprisingly (at least to people who think the Bible is otherworldly) central topic in the Bible.
Am I, or is David Green, saying that every Christian business owner should go with the Trust legal model? No. You have to think, pray, love (but maybe not eat) your way through this decision.
I sat down across a Skype line with David Green who is the founder, but no longer the owner, of Hobby Lobby to talk about this and many other things. You can listen to the entire interview here and read a partial transcript below. Both are edited for clarity.
Jerry Bowyer: I was not aware, until I read this book, of your corporate structure -- the ownership is a trust company. That is not a solution a lot of businesses turn to. Can you just talk a little bit about how you got there? What does that mean? I know that our mutual acquaintance Bill High helped you set this up. Bill also helped set up this interview. The book talks about how you came to that conclusion. Can you talk a little bit about that, and then lay out what that means to have your corporation owned by a trust, as opposed to shares owned directly by, say, you or your family members?
David Green: Well, when we were involved and saying, what do I do with this company that's worth billions of dollars? We called in some of the people -- you might even know their names -- that would help us with all of the ownership issues of this company, our estate. And what they were suggesting is that we hand it down to our children, and they would hand it down to their children, and they would hand it down to their children.
Bill was not involved at this time, and it was one of the most difficult times of my life, because I had all of these questions that were "what ifs". What if there's a divorce? What if someone doesn't want to work and they own five percent of this company, they're multibillionaires, or mult-millionaires? And so it was a most difficult time in my life, or one of the most difficult times of my life the decision about what to do with this company. And so finally we found the answer in God's word; it said He owns it and we don't.
And so I had already given my children about fifteen percent of this company, and I asked them if they would sign off on it to where that we all, as a family, in a document said there's no way any of our family, my children, my grandchildren, my great grandchildren can ever touch the assets of this company, because God says He owns it.
So the answer to my problem was real, real simple. God. I don't know own it I'm the stewardship. And so now we have a stewardship trust that we're stewards of this company, but we're not owners. And I, nor any of my family, could ever touch one penny of the assets of this company. We can only -- we can only be stewards of it.
If at any generation; gen one, gen two, gen three, any of them sells the company, ninety percent of it goes into a foundation that would serve the Lord and do ministry things, and ten percent would be for education, for the family, for health, for widows, things of that nature. But no one has the ability for a company that's worth billions of dollars to ever touch the company, because it's all real simple: God says He owns it, so now we're the stewards. We're set up in a trust where one hundred percent of the voting stock is in one percent of it, and the trust is my wife, myself and my three children. But to get on the trust -- we can have as many as seven -- these individuals have to follow this -- they have to say when they accepted Jesus Christ as their personal savior; they have to say these are the basic tenets of a Christian.
So we feel like that through the generations, generation after generation, that we will be stewards of people that love God and want to use this business for His benefit.
Bowyer: So as I understand that story, if I understood it properly, you had family members who owned fifteen percent of a multibillion dollar market cap company and they willingly relinquished that ownership share?
Green: You know, they did, because we do a lot of things wrong here, but we did one thing right in the beginning, and that's -- we said this business belongs to God, and all you get is what you earn.
Bowyer: It gave them an opportunity to be generous voluntarily, right?
Green: Yes. And now here's what we have; it's a whole different model -- I can't find anything wrong with being a steward...with what we've done. I can't find one thing wrong. I can't find one thing right with being an owner.
Everything we have done is one hundred percent. I'm glad we're where we are. I don't worry about if there's a divorce in the family, if there's someone that doesn't work. I see there's companies where there's like 200 hooks into the company. Well, that means there's 200 people saying if I own part of this company, you owe me something, right?
We owe no one anything. Hobby Lobby owes no one anything. It's a whole different mindset. Our family owes the business, which is a ministry; we don't owe the family anything. And so that becomes very, very important. It's a different paradigm.
Green: Completely different. Ownership versus stewardship is totally different. Those two things are just the opposite.
And you have all these "what if" questions in gen two. Gen two is my kids; gen three, my grandkids. Great grandkids, I got eleven gen fours. I had a thousand different "what if" questions. What if this and what if that?
But I got good kids, and great grandkids. But I have great grandkids that aren't born yet. I don't know about them yet.
Bowyer: Well, we've seen the great fortunes of America destroy the third and fourth generations in many cases. I mean look at fourth generation of, say, the Rockefellers, or whatever. Something about that model of the great man of the first generation builds his dynasty and builds his fortune, and then second generation remembers some of it, third generation forgets most of it, fourth generation almost reverses the world view in many cases. It seems like oftentimes these gigantic bequests are spiritually and culturally toxic. You can poison your descendants in some ways by giving them too much.
Green: I think your chances of hurting your children and your grandchildren and your great grandchildren is much greater of hurting them than helping them. So why do it? It's that simple.
And it's also that simple because God says we don't own it anyway. So why not say you own it God; we're going to be the stewards of it.
Bowyer: Right. Why not have a legal structure that matches the theological structure, right?
Bowyer: But so few people do that. And I find often, with these successful Christian entrepreneurs, you know, early on, they make a fortune following Biblical principles, and then at some point they go to the Big Four accounting firm, or the high status, high prestige accounting and/or consulting firm which doesn't share their world view. But God got you there; God got you to being a billionaire, so why not keep going with Him, rather than at some point saying, okay, well, you know, we can't really use Biblical principles anymore? Now it's serious; now we've got a billion; now we have to use the big names in consulting.
Green: Well, that's where we meet. We used the big names in helping us with all of our assets, and we were being guided the same way that someone that wasn't a Christian. And that was where we lost a lot of sleep for a period of time. That was before Bill. And so we finally decided it's real, real simple: we don't own it; let's just write it off where we can't touch it. So that's what I'm so excited about God's word is -- it just helps guide us. And no place is it going to hurt us.
Bowyer: Right, idleness can be bad for you.
Well, you look at the Bible -- at some point I'd like to do a deep dive on this. The idea of a steward or a trustee, you know, in 2 Corinthians, first of all, it's required of a steward that he be found faithful. The steward model is throughout Jesus' parables, it's throughout the Prophets, it's throughout the Pauline epistles. There's a lot there, and almost nobody uses a business structure that formalizes the steward or trustee model. So there's a lot there as well.
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There isn’t a lot of information out there about Annette Krebs nor is she over-documented in recordings. But in the last couple of years her music has catapulted from being rather mixed to being rather outstanding. With the scant evidence that we have available to us it is interesting to attempt to understand this development. The only interview I have been able to find of Annette is from Suzuki-san of Improvised Music from Japan in 2001 (IMJ has also done an interview in 2006 but it is alas only in Japanese). This is from before the period in which I think that she has become much more interesting but I do think that it it provides the basis for why this is the case.
Krebs learned guitar quite young (age 11) and continued to study it academically up to the point she moved to Berlin in 1992. She studied both Jazz and Classical guitar (focusing on Baroque) and supplemented this playing in pubs (more folk like stuff it sounds like) and also trying her own hand at more abstract forms of expression.
When she moved to Berlin she was able to see contemporary music performances and was exposed to Berlin’s vibrant improvised music community. She began playing in pubs here to “…get out of the classical–you know, it’s very serious, and I wanted to put this music in another place–this was nice. And then, to forget the scales–it’s in the hands, you have so many scales–at one time I preferred to hold the guitar like a cello, and to take strings off and have only a few strings.” From this she moved on to playing the guitar with preparations and playing it flat on the table. When speaking of table top guitar it is impossible not to mention Keith Rowe, and AMM did play in Germany during this period. In fact Krebs went on to adopt a lot of the material of Rowe: radio, brillo pads and the like. It is hard to imagine that there wasn’t some influence there, though this interview really does make her seem pretty disconnected. However it was five years after she had moved to Berlin before she moved to prepared table top guitar and being involved in the music scene there was sure to have involved absorbing influences.
While abstract painting and sculpture being touchstones for her music, she never seemed to find a way to really adapt that into her music making, she continues from the above quote: “But then I discovered that perhaps the music is music and I cannot make objects, really, with music–something that’s not there–so I took the guitar here on my knees again. I can do more with movements; it’s easier. ” This I think really gives us all the information that we really need on the development of Kreb’s music making; essentially as of this interview (2001) she had not really found her voice. She had a lot of interesting ideas and had absorbed a lot of techniques but had not worked out how to translate them into her own music.
Her early collaborations with Taku Sugimoto and Andrea Neumann are hit and miss, with good moments in them but usually driven by her collaborators with her sounds often coming as intrusive interjections. A solo disc, Guitar Solo, released in 2002 on the Fringes label was like a catalog of these techniques. Without a collaborator to step on this disc is easily the most successful of her early work. Its interjections of radio, prepared guitar and other sounds had a near random feel to it as if it was all slightly out of her control – she knew she was turning on the radio but not what it was going to do or how it was going to fit in. Perhaps there was an attempt to utilize some of Cage’s ideas of indeterminacy but instead of achieving his program of removing the composer from the music it seems to almost do the opposite: bring the performer to the forefront.
After a release in 2003 (a not very successful duo with Alessandro Bosetti) there were several years of near inactivity from Krebs. In 2006 though she reemerged with a track on the IMJ Magazine EXTRA 2006 comp and far more importantly in a self-released CD-R: Various Projects 2003-2005. This CD-R documents what was going on in these “lost years” and contains the seeds of her next several years of musical making activity. The first of these projects to be developed was a duo with Robin Heyward, sgraffito, which was one of my favorite albums from last year. The next release would be from early this year, an excerpt from a solo performance released as part of Absinth’s Berlin Electronics comp.
Absinth has so far released four collections of four three-inch cd-rs each focusing on Berlin musicians playing a particular category of instrument: Berlin Reeds, Berlin Drums and Berlin Strings. Each collection allows a each artist to have an entire disc to themselves, albeit only 20 minutes, without the issues of flow and disconnection that often surround comps. However I have found the series to be uniformly better in concept then in execution, almost none of the music released on these sets have been of much interest. Berlin Electronics follows this trend, with the exception of the Annette Krebs track which is remarkable.
I saw Annette Krebs perform at the Vancouver New Music Guitars! Guitars! festival last October and that set was remarkably similar to what this recording has to offer. This disc is an excerpt from a live concert in Berlin in 2007 the same year as the Vancouver set. It seems to me that she has whittled her tools down to a current set that she is exploring and thus these two sets from the same year have a similar feel to them. Her sounds are mostly the same as they have been in the past: still using brillo pads, still using radio still working with feedback and electronics. However she has also added a laptop to mix and uses it to add in pre-set samples, and a soft-synth. One use of this that she applies on this disc that I witnessed live is the playing and manipulation of spoken word samples. “… the samples being of spoken word pieces in French and maybe German that should would manipulate in various ways – speed up, slow down and so on.”. Reading again my review of that concert it really could be a review of this disc with some events changed in their order. Like that set this has loud washes of noise, the simple synth work, the aforementioned vocal samples and the occasional radio grab. It also has that semi-random, somewhat arbitrary feel of the live set and that I felt was somewhat of a detriment in her earlier work. But here I think that it works to the benefit of the album, in a way it sounds like someone wandering the radio dial. It’s use of space is very effective, with a more Cagean feel to them then the more forced examples we hear a lot these days. Her control of the sounds used seems to be at such a higher degree then in years past.
It has been fascinating to watch Krebs grow from a musician with solid foundations and sloppy execution evolve into a much more focused and genuinely exciting performer. The reports of her recent concerts in Ireland and elsewhere in Europe sounds like she is continuing to keep it interesting and fresh even as she works with this more limited set of tools. I for one certainly am anticipating future releases from her.
1) 2001 Interview with Yoshiyuki Suzuki at Japan Improv.
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The last time General Motors launched a Chevy Volt, it was operating without really knowing how people would use the plug-in hybrid. Sure, it had experience with the EV1, but the Volt was a new kind of car, and you can see in the archives just how much time GM spent explaining this fresh, new powertrain to potential customers. Then, once the vehicle was released, the company collected voluntary data from a large number of owners to learn about their driving and charging habits. The company also asked them what they wanted most in the new version. There's got to be an algorithm buried somewhere in GM headquarters that was used to take all of the numbers GM collected and spat out the headline figures for the 2016 Volt: 50 miles of EV range and 41 miles per gallon.
The overall gist is that the new Voltec 5ET50 drive unit is lighter, smaller and more powerful thanks to a redesigned two-motor traction drive.
As previously reported, the new engine is a 1.5-liter DOHC four-cylinder that offers 101-horsepower (at 5,600 RPM). Grewe said it's "great for range extension." The electric motor side of the powertrain offers 149 motoring horsepower from a two-motor, continuously variable transaxle.
Initially, the new engine will be made in Mexico. GM will move production to Flint, MI during the first year it makes the 2016 Volt.
The battery is slightly bigger in the new Volt – 18.4 kWh compared to 16.5 in the current-gen – and will have less range variation in the cold. GM is also using more of the overall capacity in the pack in the 2016 Volt than in previous versions, but is not saying how much more.
GM is not ready to publish acceleration times just yet, but the 2016 Volt has improved numbers, especially when going from 30-60 miles per hour.
Most everything on the new powertrain has become more efficient compared to the first-gen Volt. There are fewer losses from the engine, the inverter, the aerodynamic drag and transmission, for example. In some circumstances, there is a little bit more strain on the battery, but Grewe said that this extra work makes the overall system more efficient, so it's worth it. GM engineers took advantage of knowing what the battery can handle to get the improvements, he said.
Savagian said that putting the traction power inverter module (TPIM) inside the electrified transaxle is an industry first. Putting the TPIM inside reduces the number of cables and connections required, which frees up space and reduces weight and cost.
Listen to Grewe and Savagian talk about the Volt's new powertrain in the video above.
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I’m preparing an application to the Arts Council. It’s been on my mind for months, shaping the inner narrative in my mind, but still I’ve struggled until now to get the ideas down on paper.
In the end I had to scale down the vision, I’ve secured some residencies in January so no longer could afford the 3 month turn around needed for a more substantial bid, so just been hard at it here for a few weeks, at my desk, accompanied by an old dusty church candle, aged from years in an old ice cream tub under the stairs, lit now beside me – the warm glow of support has helped.
I asked a very special person who’s been supporting me, whether better to include a document as supporting material or a link. I could only include one or the other. She said the blog, ‘shows I am a reflective artist’.
I had forgotten about the blog.
It’s true I rarely use it for myself and yet, it would help, be a holding place for thoughts and anxieties, the latter has been increasing somehow, it might be my age.
I made a little while ago, a corner at the end of the bed. Sandwiched between a wall of books and the bed, facing a wall. On a wooden box my mum had given me are candles and a wooden African sculpture with twisted body parts that don’t quite fit, merged with the ebony, I think it must be ebony, that I used to look at and then stopped looking at and now I look at it again.
Having a space to kneel and be, holding a precious stone I bought in Norwich outdoor market some years ago, I try and still myself. It doesn’t last very long but at least I have made a space to be, for me.
From time to time I never know if I can keep this up. It’s not melodramatic really, it’s a product of on-going reflection, that I’m required to do, but also acknowledgement of the reality of things. I haven’t had proper paid work since June, it’s now October (apart from 400 pounds in July). This is unusual. It’s given me time to think, time to prepare writing, time to be a better parent, more present and available, it also provides space to doubt more, to feel even less sure, and anxiety is no doubt more present with the time alone figuring out ‘what next’.
I went to see several live events. A work in some underground caves, by Katie Green, in Torquay, a wonderful way to be poised underground, to be carried by the performers, to hear song and sound and watch the shadows by candlelight.
I saw Gecko’s new show, The Wedding. Remembering many years ago when I was performing in one of the Greenwich Dance Cabarets and did a short cameo part for them, and now, how that confident, physically luxuriant, lithe agility of dancing, how I can’t do it anymore. I watched with pleasure though. I don’t need the work to work on every level, I’m a generous witness when I see things, genuinely interested in the endeavour, the character of the work. Here the strong choreographic punctuation, relatively few bodies making the stage seem more populated, movement darting and charging in-between each other.
It was the Lost Weekend festival in Exeter last weekend. I saw Mike Bell’s Cardboard Arcade. Given I’m not a gaming person I discovered something quite extraordinary really, people playing together, helping each other and talking opening to each other. I understood something I’d not before. Helped by my son, it was lovely to see children so involved and so present.
There’s been more shows, I’ve seen a lot really and there was an interesting talk by Alex Legere from his years as a Blue Peter producer in the pub, in my town, a fundraiser for the new scout hut.
But away from things to see and experience.
I’ve another proposal to write, the Bonnie Bird Choreographic award. I was shortlisted in 2013 and 2015 but this year, it feels not ‘more urgent’, I feel even less likely to get it really, but that the job is to try, to move my thinking on, to be dignified about it. Maybe the holding out for things, the demonstrating of need, isn’t to be held on to too tight. It makes it worse. Creates a kind of temporary dependency, one that doesn’t strengthen me inside. Without the need, the applications probably don’t register as urgent; but expressing the urgency makes me even more vulnerable.
In France over the summer I made dances on the children. I couldn’t help it. I noticed how different I felt about the environment when I imagined making portraits of the elder village folk dancing in their gardens/driveways. I could see it. I felt alive just imagining it. I should do it.
The answer must be just to do things anyway, just to do them!
There has to be a way – a new way!
I just have to sit quietly to find it.
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2019-04-18T13:36:04Z
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Colonel Anthony Febbo at Fort Hood reportedly told investigators he was twice contacted by Hasan, on Nov. 2 and a week earlier in October, about the question of whether he could legally provide information on "war crimes" he had learned in the course of psychiatric counseling he provided soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Col. Febbo told ABC News he could not comment because of the on-going investigation.
His supervisor in the Department of Psychiatry, Captain Naomi Surman, told investigators that Hasan raised similar issues with her in conversations in October, according to documents reviewed by ABC News.
Captain Surman told investigators that Hasan had formally contacted military prosecutors to report patients he was evaluating, according to people briefed on the exchange. She said Hasan signed his e-mails with "Praise Be to Allah." Legal analysts say psychiatrists are strictly bound by the rules of patient confidentiality except in cases where they might become aware of crimes about to be committed.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/11/fairly-dispositive-evidence-about-hasans-mindset/30435/
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As the series continues to limp along, you can at least argue that the third installment would make an excellent drinking game.
As the third installment in the Divergent series opens, you'd think we stumbled across a Trump rally. Now that wicked leader Jeanine is dead (oh, how I miss you, Kate Winslet!), the factionless leader Evelyn (Naomi Watts) has now taken control. This new society, ignoring the assigned factions, basically has Chicago in chaos, where a trial usually ends with mob bloodlust and a shot to the head.
Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) are pretty sure they could do better. In fact, maybe there is someone else out there, beyond the wall, that IS doing better, and they need to find out. Along with a few of their buddies, some moxie, and wire cutters, they make it over the barrier around the city, and stumble into Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. I know, that is a bit unfair, but I swear, I *just* saw a handful of attractive young people make their way across an unhospitable landscape, except this one just happens to have rivers of blood and a bit of a toxic glow.
Lucky for all involved, there is an invisible wall just beyond over there. The group is picked up by people in cool red camo, and find that there ARE others. There is a modern, self-sustained city run by a man named David (Jeff Daniels), and boy are they all happy to see the five-some! Tris, Four, and the others have been watched their whole lives, because the Faction society of Chicago has been one big experiment on humanity! And Tris has basically won! Or proven a point! Or something.
It doesn't take a 25-year-old writing a YA dystopian novel to sense that Jeff Daniels and crew may not be the nice folks that they seem. Tris and Four just have to figure out what the heck is going on, while looking good in white sleeveless tops (her) and tight black t-shirts (him). Oh, and you get to see each of them take at least one shower, where strangely their hair does not get wet.
Allegiant spins its wheels while poaching from other movies in the genre, and almost forgetting the heft of the assigned-faction society from its previous two movies. Four is supposed to have relationship issues with his mom Eveyln, but the weird thing is, Theo James has more sexual chemistry with Naomi Watts (his mom) than he does with Woodley (his lover). There are a few weird plot points that had the audience giggling (for instance, Tris struggles to fly an escape pod, but hands it over to passenger Caleb, who effortlessly drives off; there is really cool holographic technology, but vehicles have seatbelts that look like they were from my old 1980s Civic). This is also the kind of movie where guns are blazing, bodies fall left and right, and the second the coast seems to be clear, Tris and Four slowly make out while their friend is awkwardly standing there with a machine gun.
But the best part is how often the word "Chicago" is uttered. Not for one second are you in doubt where this dystopian story is taking place. Don't bother looking for landmarks or remnants of famous places, because Chicago is mentioned in every... single... scene; sometimes (I'm really not making this up), every sentence. If you made a drinking game where everyone had to take a shot for every "Chicago" spoken, the whole party would be under the table after a few scenes. It would be OK though, because then you could just snooze through the rest.
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Ashland, KS is an excellent place to live. It’s got all of the charm and quiet of any small town, but it’s also close enough to the larger city of Henry to have some nearby fun and excitement. Unfortunately, though, Ashland is neither as developed or as technologically advanced as it could be. In fact, it isn’t even its own “town” really; it’s still unincorporated and is often lumped in as an outlier of Henry. Despite those facts, many people really love living in Ashland and couldn’t imagine living anywhere else; their only problem, however, is that they have a hard time finding Internet service. Most Internet providers just haven’t bothered with Ashland, and the Internet service providers that have mostly offer slow, outdated, and unreliable Internet options. The one exception to that rule is HughesNet Internet, also known as HughesNet Satellite Internet. Hughesnet is a satellite Internet service provider that offers very high speed, very reliable satellite Internet to people regardless of where they live, and that extends to people in good old Ashland!
People are often unsure about using satellite Internet service in Ashland, usually because they don’t know as much about it as they do about older forms of Internet access, such as broadband Internet or wireless Internet. The truth is, however, that satellite internet companies, such as HughesNet in Ashland, truly do offer the very best option for securing high speed Internet, especially for those living in rural areas like Ashland, Kansas. Other options, which may or may not be available for rural Internet subscribers, just aren’t as reliable and don’t provide fast Internet the way that a satellite Internet provider can. Dial-up Internet, for example, is so outdated that many modern computers can’t even support it. Plus, dial-up requires you to have a phone line, ties that phone line up when you’re online, and is notorious for slow connections and constant disconnects, Internet options Ashland, KS. Some people think that DSL is a much better option, but when you look at DSL vs. satellite Internet, you’ll see that you still need a phone line, and that if you’re not in close proximity to a central switching station, which most people in rural areas aren’t, you’re not likely to fare much better than you would with dial-up in Ashland. Comparing cable vs satellite Internet is even worse, since cable connections need a strong connection to a nearby service center in order to give out good Internet signal in Ashland, Kansas and to keep speeds from being agonizingly slow . When you grow tired of these options or when you can’t get access to them, give yourself a break by securing surprisingly cheap Internet service from the best Internet provider around, Hughesnet! HughesNet will even send satellite Internet installers to your home at your convenience to set up your service and teach you how to use it; talk about customer support in Ashland, KS!
HughesNet Internet is truly the only one of the internet providers that absolutely anyone in Ashland, KS can qualify for, regardless of which area of it they live in. When a person chooses to sign up for Hughesnet Satellite Internet, he or she will be able to connect to the Internet absolutely anytime, and other users in the Ashland home can use the Internet service as well. See, unlike other Internet service providers and other types of Internet, satellite Internet is delivered via a satellite that sits in orbit. Because of this fact, when Hughesnet becomes your satellite Internet service provider Ashland, KS, you don’t need to go through some long, complex, and difficult installation process. Instead, a small mini-dish will simply be installed somewhere on your property, and you’ll be given a modem to connect to your computer. After that, you’re good to go; it’s really that simple in Ashland, KS! You can expect nothing but the very best when you choose to secure your Internet service through Hughesnet Internet. Hughesnet Satellite Internet offers the very best speeds of all Internet service providers, including download speeds of up to 12 megabits per second, allowing you to download in Ashland, KSeven the largest picture, movie, and music files in much less time than you could with DSL or other Internet providers. A wide variety of customized satellite Internet packages are available from Hughesnet in Ashland, KS; in fact, it’s one of the few satellite Internet service provider companies that will actually customize a package specifically to meet your needs. By keeping your best interests in mind at all times, offering great customer service and support, and striving to keep you happy, Hughesnet is easily the best Internet service provider in Ashland, KS, and you should have an experience that “meets” your expectations!
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DONATIONS for the family of murdered shopkeeper Asad Shah have passed £100,000, six days after his death.
Mr Shah, 40, was found with serious injuries outside his shop in Minard Road, Shawlands, hours after posting an Easter message of harmony on Facebook.
He was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
A gofundme page which was set up by the local community to raise money for his family has raised £102,806 with donations from over 5,000 people.
Jen Bannerman, a neighbour of the Shah family, set up the page as a way for Shawlands residents to show their support after the incident.
She said: “Mr Shah was a popular, well-respected and much-loved member of our community and his death has devastated many. He was a warm and friendly man and he always went out of his way to make time to talk to you – he was more than just our local shopkeeper. He was a friend to many.
“We are raising funds for his family to use in whatever way they see most fitting - whether that be to contribute towards funeral expenses, provide financial security for his family in the coming months, or simply to do something in his memory.
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2019-04-26T02:16:50Z
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https://www.scotsman.com/news-2-15012/asad-shah-online-appeal-raises-more-than-100-000-in-four-days-1-4085887
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Introduce the process of cinematic and narrative production.
Learn the function of language, including Chinese and other Asian languages, in film and its importance as an extra layer in film.
Examine the principles of film-making and how it represents the real.
Learn how the ideas and ideologies of films circulate and function in society.
visuals. While the increasingly globalized consumption of films has allowed people around the world access to stories and cultures that were previously beyond their reach and imagination, the importance and value of language in the consumption of these films is often overlooked. The most egregious example of this occurs in cinemas and on TVs throughout the world when original voice performances of actors are dubbed into the local language. While the plot remains intact and the story is still more or less conveyed, the tone of the film can be drastically altered, often with disastrous or humorous results.
Come join us this next Wednesday evening as Jay Hubert gives his perspective on this phenomenon, replete with examples from films around Asia and the rest of the world.
Light refreshments served during session.
Please bring your own cups, plates and utensils.
Learn the human history of navigation, including Polynesian navigation, and its interplay with technology.
Learn the history, philosophy and the principles of GPS.
Learn how GPS’s impacts on human behavior and cognitive process.
In this WES session, Milner will present the interplay of navigation and technology based on his most recent book Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds. The Global Positioning System (GPS) – a constellation of satellites owned by the United States and operated by the Air Force – is used in every country in the world, and impacts the lives of all its citizens. This talk will explain the basics of GPS – what it is and how it works – and place it within the context of the history of navigation, from Polynesian navigation to the invention of the chronometer, and beyond. It will also examine the social and cognitive effects of GPS use, which we are only now beginning to discover.
Learn how global agreements are made and what are the principles and strategies to achieve agreements.
Learn the leadership role and impacts of international organizations with case studies of the United Nations and the EWC.
Cultivate an opportunity for current participants to envision their impacts in the future.
how the world is now being reshaped by these forces at a pace that is eliciting dissonance in the citizens, societies and institutions. Dr. Arun Kashyap will discuss the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as these relate to global aspirations and strategies. WES is also pleased to invite Ambassador Amanda Ellis , who will provide her insights as the former UN representative from New Zealand.
Enjoy a Hawaiian kanikapila style music and dance gathering. Kanikapila refers to an informal jam session where the most important aspect is to have fun. It is never considered to be a performance and proficiency levels mean nothing. It is how a lot of people in Hawaiʻi learn about music.
Learn the speakers’ personal stories and cultural experiences in their communities.
Kanikapila is a Hawaiian way of learning about music. It simply refers to an informal jam session where the most important aspect is to have fun. It is never considered to be a performance and proficiency levels mean nothing. This is how a lot of people in Hawaiʻi learn about music. In this session, the local artists – ukulele instructor Kimo Hussey and kumu hula Michael Pili Pang will bring the Hawaiian kanikapila style music and dance gathering, and share their personal stories and cultural experiences. Everyone is welcome to bring your own ukulele or any instruments to join us!
Introduce the evolution of astronomy.
Understand the historical change of human conceptualization of the Universe.
Learn the development of telescope and the construction of the Mauna Kea Observatory of University of Hawaiʻi.
Approach Mauna Kea from the Hawaiian cultural perspective.
The arc of astronomy has placed humanity in an increasingly humble context. The early notions of Earth as the center of the Universe have steadily given way to today’s understanding of a Universe with no center – and possibly teeming with life. In this session, Dr. Roy Gal will take us on a journey through these views of the cosmos, examine the development of modern observatories and their greatest discoveries, and analyze the role of the modern observatories in growing our knowledge over the past half century. Dr. Paul Coleman will discuss Native Hawaiian perspectives on astronomy and celestial navigation. Built upon their insights of cosmology, this session will invite the participants to share their understanding of the Universe in the Asia Pacific region and to discuss the intersection between science and culture.
Learn the art history of Combodia.
Through identifying the creation and manipulation of signs in arts, analyze how the artifacts represent history, places, and people.
Explore how ethnography and museology lead to a greater understanding of self and others.
Images have power because humans confer meanings of them, and these meanings are often the results of a process of negotiations. By examining the power relations of different cultural agencies, this session will explore the repeated appropriations of images in public spaces and social environments using the political and religious icons and architectures as examples. Dr. Heather Diamond will talk about the visual and conceptual strategies used to represent Queen Liliuʻokalani at 'Iolani Palace as an example of how museums negotiate and represent contentious histories. Dr. Paul Lavy will present the multifaceted history and shifting significance of Angkor Wat as a symbol of French colonial power, an icon of Cambodian national identity, a marketing logo, and a major international tourist destination.
Learn the histories, concepts and philosophies of martial arts of different cultural traditions.
Enjoy positioning yourself and interacting with others through the kinesthetic activities of martial arts.
Develop the awareness of self and others through group activities.
This session will introduce the histories, concepts and philosophies of martial arts and meditation of different cultural traditions. Senior Instructor Alan Lee will talk about Karate’s origin in the Ryukyu Islands (now known as Okinawa) in the late 19th century and its association with Chinese martial art, and how it began to be practiced in Hawaii. Grandmaster Dong Zeng Chen will share about his Taiji family history and how his grandfather, the founder of Dong style Taijiquan, started to learn Taijiquan and how his father and later generations pass on the art of Taijiquan around the world. Head Instructor Charles Boyer will present how meditation is related to martial art, how it teaches us to let go – of our constant striving, of our desire to control our surroundings, and how meditation reveals to us our original condition of being one with the universe. Participants will learn the basic practices of martial art and meditation. Each sub-session will close with a master-led kinesthetic participation activity. Please wear comfortable attires for participating.
Examine the differences between the colonial project and the local history.
Understand the Federated States of Micronesia as a localized nation-state form, instead of an American dependency.
Many commentators argue that the Federated States of Micronesia's (FSM) Compact of Free Association with the United States belies claims of sovereignty and independence, and thus renders meaningless the term “postcolonial.” Using ethnography, linguistics, contemporary biographical studies, and Greg Dening’s notion of deep time, this presentation seeks to understand the FSM not as an American dependency, but as an imperfect and localized expression in nation-state form of much older exchange networks, voyaging communities, and contact zones.
Understand the paradigm shift in governance and democracy.
Learn how different departments collaborate in order to facilitate economic management and political participation in national, regional, and local levels.
Examine how cultural influence and social difference shape the conception of gender.
Explore gender empowerment in governance for positive change.
Cities in Asia contribute to economic, social and technological transformation by providing opportunities for economies of scale, products, income, services and social experimentation. They play a vital role in productivity gains through innovation, trade, globalization of capital and the growth of service industries. However, urbanization in Asia has led to an increasing incidence of urban poverty and inequity, deteriorating quality of the urban environment and deficiencies in access to basic urban services, including water supply and sanitation, urban shelter, waste management, energy, transport and health. This session will focus on emerging trends in urbanization in Asia; the role of cities in national development; what and why of urban governance; and urban challenges and innovations in Asia.
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2019-04-24T10:26:56Z
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https://ewc-wes.weebly.com/programs-spring-2017.html
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https://soils.wisc.edu/wp-content/cache/students/dissertation-binding-farnham.html
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The season’s royal duo, Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren, were once again given the royal treatment for their roles in “The Last King of Scotland” and “The Queen” by critics at the first annual Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards.
The 9/11 drama “United 93” was named film of the year.
Besides Mirren and Whitaker cementing their king and queen status of critic’s lists, the Oklahoma crix stood with other best-of lists by naming Martin Scorsese as top helmer for “The Departed,” “An Inconvenient Truth” for best docu and “Pan’s Labyrinth” as best foreign pic.
“Little Children”‘s Jackie Earle Haley and “Notes on a Scandal”‘s Cate Blanchett were named in the supporting categories.
In addition to best perfs and pics of the year, the Oklahoma critics also named the worst of the year. Critics gave a dubious honor to “Basic Instint 2” as the worst film of 2006, while Emilio Estevez’s “Bobby” took home “honors” as the not-so-obviously worst film of the year.
The first Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards were given out on Dec. 27.
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https://variety.com/2007/film/news/oklahoma-critics-name-best-worst-of-2006-1117956466/
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Save the OAuth credentials you created for the application and group them with your application code.
Implement the authorization flows for your app using these credentials.
Verify that the application meets our standards for publishing in G Suite Marketplace.
The following sections summarize how to do these steps for each architectural style.
Make sure that you have the following information for your application, created when you configure your application OAuth credentials. You can download a client ID and client secret together as a JSON file from the console. You can also download service account private keys as JSON (recommended) or P12 files.
If you are using a downloaded JSON or P12 file, place it where your application code can access it while setting up the authorization flow.
Warning: Be careful not to expose these 'secret' files outside of your application code where others can access it. If you are developing the application as a open-source project, do not inlcude the JSON file in the public code.
Depending on how you wish to build your application, you can use one of the following methods to implement authorization.
Implement the client-side authorization flow using the Google API client library.
Use the Google+ Sign-in button to help simplify the process.
Access Google services using the appropriate Google API calls.
Instantiate service client objects using the appropriate Google API client library, with the client ID and client secret.
Use these objects to implement the web server authorization flow.
Instantiate a client object using the appropriate Google API client library, with the client ID and client secret.
Use this object to implement the web server authorization flow and obtain the user ID from an access token.
Instantiate new client objects, with the service account client ID and private key, to implement the service account authorization flow.
For these applications, you don't need to implement the authorization flow yourself; Apps Script handles the details of the authorization flow automatically. See Authorization for Google services and Add-on authorization lifecycle for more information.
When implementing your application, your code can make calls to Google APIs and services. The Google API client libraries provide tools to make calling Google APIs easier.
The user sees the OAuth Consent screen only once; if you’re using a service account to allow a domain admin accept terms on behalf of the domain users, then the end users must never see the OAuth consent screen.
Use SSO to to have existing users of your application log into their account with you.
New users of your application should be able to use their Google credentials to create a new account. It’s acceptable to direct them to trial or freemium version of an account if they cannot have a full version.
If you still have technical questions after reviewing the above documentation, visit our Stack Overflow page.
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https://developers.google.com/gsuite/marketplace/building
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How old are you when you get to 18?
You Are Exactly: 65700 Days Old On Your 18th Birthday!
How do you get emancipated at 18 years old?
Can an 18-year-old be adopted?
What rights do you have when you are 18 years old?
In most countries you gain full rights as an adult citizen at the age of 18, though in some areas the age is 21.
What can an 18-year-old do legally?
What rights do 18 year olds have?
In the United States 18 years can vote, drive, and sign contracts.Most states allow 18 year olds to marry without parents' consent.
How old is Sakura when Sasuke is 18?
The same age she might be with him or Naruto. The were born thesame year as Naruto plus taller at first! No they're not a year older than Naruto! Sakura was born march 28th,sasuke was born July 23rd andNaruto was born 10th october THE SAME YEAR. *proof*-manga 500,pg 11.
What would you do when you are 18 years old?
Once you are 18 years old and in college you look for a boy to date and go steady with , hoping to marry him one day.
Are 18 year olds emancipated?
Where can you gamble at 18 years old?
Where are there 18 year old casinos?
Can you have a gun at 18 years old?
Providing you meet all the requirements set forth by the Federal Government you can own a long gun.
What can an 18 year old do In UK?
The three main activities are... vote in government elections, buyalcohol, and get married without their parents' consent.
Can an 18 year old date someone under 18?
If you are 18 years old you an adult?
At the age of 18 you are considered an adult. You can vote, you don't need to live with your parents, etc.
What is the curfew for 18 year old?
Do you have to be 18 years old to have Facebook?
No. At this point in time, legally, you have to be at least 13 to get facebook.
Where can a 18 year old work?
Is it illegal for a 18-year-old to date a 18 -year-old?
\nNo. Nowhere. But I think you have your ages wrong, at least one of them. If you do, and you would like your question answered, you need also to post your location. Age of Consent laws are different all over.
Can a 18 year old be a lawyer?
What can you do when im 18 years old?
What is the curfew for 18 year olds?
You are an adult at 18 so basically it's your parents rules that apply. If you are in school it should be based on that and everyone is different.
How tall will you be when you are 18 years old?
If you take the height that you were when you were two and a half, and double that, that is your approximate height when you are full grown.
Can an 18 year old be in homeschooling?
In most states, any age can be in homeschooling. If you are an adult, you can even homeschool in college via online schools like "Kaplan" or "College Plus"
How fertile is an 18-year-old?
oh, fertile. Very very fertile indeed. The sowing start as early as 12 in females. After 6 years a woman I'd say is well tilled to take in the harrow and yield a beautiful crop after 9 months.
What celeb is 18 years old?
There is Taylor Lautner, Selena Gomez, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, Carlos Pena, Demi Lovato, Sterling Knights and the list goes on and on you could look it up on different websites all you have to do is type "List Of 18 Year Old Celebs".
No. 18 seems old when you're maybe eight years old, but you don't feel old at 18. When you turn 30, you get to look back to your days of being 18 and you get to wondering how you ever managed to make it past life.
Can a 18 year old girl marry a 18 year old guy if they are in love?
An 18 year old girl can marry an 18 year old boy even if they are not in love in this state.
How can you get an 18 year old to move out?
18 years old with no experience?
Not all jobs require experience. If you have a driver's license you can make deliveries.
How can a 18 years old get emancipated?
Your 18. You are legally an adult so you don't need an emancipation. By law you are aloud to move out without parental consent. So, being your 18 your free to move out and live on your own at anytime you chose.
What do you get your 18 year old girlfriend?
What can an 18 year old do leagally?
Is he too old for you if you are 18 and he is 24?
Where can a 18-year-old get a job?
Anywhere you like but will have to be entry level if you have no experience.
If your 18 how old can you date?
What do you get an 18 year old for their birthday?
Aftershave,a decent one.And a wine glass/pint pot with happy 18th birthday on it. Theres 2 ideas.I have got my son both for his 18th next week.And a ps3 game.
18 years is old for a cat?
Yes, 18 years is old for a cat but cats tend to live longer than dogs. If your cat does not appear to be in pain and has not lost a lot of weight, you can consider yourself very lucky to still have him or her.
How old do you have to be to ride in an 18 wheeler?
You can ride in one at just about any age, so long as it's approved by the owner and company insuring the vehicle. To drive one, you must be 18, but you must be 21 to drive one in interstate operations.
How can I get your 18 year old not to move out?
They are adults and wants to take responsibility for themselves. Do you not remember how free you felt when you moved out? Just be there if they need help. This is why we raise them, so they can take care of themselves.
How old do you have to be to date a 18 year old?
How old is an 18 year old?
Is a 18 year old a minor?
When your 18 years old are you legal?
That depends on what you mean by legal. In most states 18 is theage of majority. It means your are an adult and can enter intocontracts and marriage. It does not mean you can purchase alcohol.
Can an 18 year old have a firearm?
How old do you have to date an 18-year-old?
What can a 18 year old do?
an 18 year old can study, work full or part time, donate time to a charity, mentor, and become a happy and fulfilled adult.
Is inuyasha 18 years old?
Technically, in human years he's meant to be 15, but in demon years he's around 200.
How old is a ladybug with 18 spots?
It is not possible to determine the age of a ladybug by counting its spots. If a ladybug has eighteen spots, it may be a baby ladybug or an adult. The spots do not determine age.
What does an 18 year old girl look for in an 18 year old guy?
18 year old girls look for different things in 18 year old boys,but it is important for then to look for a boy who is responsibleand has plans for his future.
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Huascar, in full Inti Cusi Huallpa Huáscar (“Sun of Joy”), (died 1532, Cajamarca, Peru), Inca chieftain, legitimate heir to the Inca empire, who lost his inheritance and his life in rivalry with his younger half brother Atahuallpa, who in turn was defeated and executed by the Spanish conquerors under Francisco Pizarro.
Huascar succeeded his father in 1525 but was given only part of the empire (Cuzco), while about one-fifth of it (Quito) was left to Atahuallpa. Although at first Atahuallpa agreed to the division, he soon began to tire of the limits upon his power and started an armed rebellion. Huascar led his troops north to subdue the threat to his supremacy, but Atahuallpa was consistently victorious. Huascar fled Cuzco with the remnants of his army but was apprehended and compelled to watch the murder of his family, friends, and supporters. He was then ordered to be taken to Atahuallpa’s residence at Cajamarca. This was the state of affairs when Francisco Pizarro arrived in 1532. After the Spaniard succeeded in his great conquest, Atahuallpa feared that Pizarro might return Huascar to power, and so he ordered his brother’s assassination.
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Before we get into the meat of it I received a complimentary sample of Purina One from Influenster for an honest review. All below is my honest opinion.
Chloe is not a cat who has ever really been picky. She will eat anything you put in front of her though you can tell when something is not 100% up to her liking. She will eat it but it tends to stay in her bowl longer than you think is needed. When we tried Purina One we did the standard thing of mixing it in with her old food. She ate heartily but after a few days we realized she was eating around the old stuff and gobbling down the Purina.
Okay, so she definitely likes the stuff. The next day we did just straight Purina One and the food was gone by the time we went to bed. We usually feed her around nine but a day after we completely switched we slept in. A few hours after we normally feed her we got up and discovered she had decided to feed herself. We found the bag on the floor with a hole clawed through the bottom. That was the first time she had ever done that. She is usually a polite cat who never begged. Now if we are just a minute or two late we hear about it.
It seems we have become a Purina One family. My cat is happy and full and her fur seems to be growing more and more shiny as the days go on. I know if Chloe could type she would be singing its praises and expressing her gratitude. Thanks Influenster.
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https://kraftingkitten.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/little-cat-and-the-oneswitch-challenge-purina-one/
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One of them our contribution as educated generation to take a part for nature eternality is use public transportation. Why? By this habit, we can take a part to reduce pollution. It’s mean we participate to save the earth from global warming.
You know about global warming, aren’t? Pollution is cause this disaster and this disaster can make we die, because abnormally increase of temperature. You know from where that cause appear? Industry activities are biggest contributor, and the second is from emission of transportation.
This second cause which will we discuss. Who don’t know transportation? Go to school, office, shopping at mall and other place, always we are helped by it. Conscious or not, this activity was contributed emission for earth disaster. It can more horrible if we prefer use personal transportation (such as motorcycle, car) than public transportation.
picture: some days ago, i and my friends used “angkot” -one of name of public transportation in indonesia- after done an activity.
Many advantage if we use public service. First, of course we will participate to reducing pollution. Public transportation have more space for many people. If we prefer to use personal transportation, then large amount of pollution produced. Second, not less important than the first, use public transportation will decrease a traffic jam.
Beside use public service, many better way, which we can do in our habit. For example, if distance between school and home is near, then don’t shy for use bicycle, or just walk for shorter distance. Not only save the nature, but also save our health.
Therefore do many little things for nature, because everything we do, it most useful for better world. Don’t forget : “Each one of you is part of this life, this world!”.
For other resources, you can visit : Wikipedia:Global Warming /StopGlobalWarming.org /PhotograpicOfClimateChange …..enjoy!
I’m author and environmental consultant John Banta. I am glad to hear about your commitment to our environment.
I have started a new blog. Each day for the next year I’m going to be posting a new tip for becoming an environmental steward for our home and planet. It will take about one minute a day to learn about that day’s goal. If it’s something you’re already on board with then that’s great, but if not – plan on spending another 5 minutes learning more about the objective and ten minutes making it so. That’s why I call it 1:5:10:365.
This week I am beginning by taking stock of our energy and resource profile. I’m hoping everyone will make a minimum commitment to spend one minute a day considering something new they can do to help.
i prefer use public transportation than my dad’s motorcycle.
even though is faster, i think if i use public transportation it can decrease the vehicle on street so that there is ( i hope) no traffic jam.
I strongly agree with all of you.
Actually I also prefer use public transportation.
Sometime people use their motorcycle because they think that the cost is very expensive totally (including me if I go to the market with my family). So it will become a tragedy of commons when all of us think like that. I hope the government can provide cheap and good public transportation or they can provide a good infrastructure for the user of bicycle. Everyday I go to my office by train eventhough the performance is not enough goood. Hope we can give contribution for improvement of our environment in order to reduce the climate change. Thank you very much for all of your opinion.
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How can you stop the spread of flu and other contagious diseases? Four things make a difference: vaccination against seasonal flu, good health habits like frequent hand-washing, and cleaning and disinfecting surfaces that might spread germs. Learn more from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
Many people say this song is about the Great Plague, when many people got sick in Europe in the 1600s. But music experts do not agree. Even so, it takes more than singing to stop contagious diseases Learn about how to stop and treat pandemic flu.
The Cell: An Image Library is a freely accessible, easy-to-search repository of reviewed and annotated images, videos, and animations of cells from a variety of organisms. It was funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
Things you can do every day to help limit the spread of germs and prevent infection!
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https://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/childrens/ring-around-the-rosies/index.htm
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At CHESS, students make significant contributions to our cutting-edge research in x-ray science. We offer many opportunities for students throughout our diverse research program.
Work side by side with CHESS scientists to further your development and knowledge of science.
CHESS invests considerable resources into the education of graduate students, recognizing the national need to train scientists who will advance the use of x-rays in a variety of fields, as well as to train scientists who will further advance the infrastructure of U.S. synchrotron science facilities. Many synchrotron facilities involve graduate students as users, but few offer opportunities to learn what goes on upstream of the primary shielding wall. The CHESS mission goes a step beyond. Students perform research which has direct benefit to the CHESS user community. The goal is to link beamline science program and graduate students. The synchrotron serves as a science incubator by involving students at all levels, from behind the primary shielding wall, to design of the beamlines, to performance of the experiments, to analysis and presentation of the results. CHESS is the most productive training center in the U.S. for new beamline scientists who then go on to populate the scientific and administrative staff of other synchrotron facilities.
Exposure to research and applying textbook knowledge outside of the classroom reinforces understanding and provides personal insights into career options.
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2019-04-23T00:15:34Z
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The weather gods evidently have decided they haven’t yet crapped on Houston enough for one month. This morning, another line of gnarly thunderstorms pushed its way through the city, just in time for rush hour traffic. By the time the quickly moving storms had pushed through, the Harris County Sheriff's Office confirmed that one woman died from a tree that crashed into her mobile home near Tomball (authorities haven't yet released the woman's name).
While not a full encore to the type of storms that inundated Houston last week, the severe weather early this morning brought tornado warnings in Harris, Polk and San Jacinto counties. The National Weather Service reported wind speeds as high as 60 mph and even warned of the possibility of nickel-size hail. Some school districts on the outer edge of the Houston area canceled or delayed classes.
A flood warning for the area around Addicks Reservoir remains in effect until late Friday afternoon (a flood warning was issued for the beleaguered Addicks and Barker reservoirs for the first time ever last week; the Barker flood warning has since lapsed). CenterPoint reports more than 120,000 people across the region lost power because of the storms.
On top of all that, the forecast for the week out isn’t exactly encouraging. According to the weather service, an “active weather pattern” is expected to develop sometime later this week, bringing widespread showers and thunderstorms Friday and Saturday across the region. Luckily, according to the indefatigable Eric “Sci Guy” Berger, conditions don’t look too “conducive” for the kind of very heavy rainfall we saw last week.
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2019-04-21T18:59:12Z
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https://www.houstonpress.com/news/one-woman-dies-in-early-morning-storm-even-more-rain-expected-for-houston-this-week-8357538
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Consumerism: you can touch, but there isn’t much in there you can eat.
It’s difficult to dispense with ironic quotation marks when you see armchair theologians using these catchwords. Words which were maybe meaningful, say, about a hundred years ago. What they don’t seem to know is how much the humanities have recognized they need to extricate themselves from the dead-ends of identity politics. Ironically, all the while, many seminaries are only now discovering these same intellectual trends and jumping at them as if they were the royal road to relevance.
Nihilistic artists such as Andy Warhol are sometimes the targets of these, I believe, sincere attacks. They say it’s better that our children don’t get exposed to postmodernism if they are to keep their faith. Yet, it turns out Warhol was a faithful Byzantine Catholic who participated in Mass frequently, carried around a missal and a rosary, financed a nephew’s studies for the priesthood, and might have remained a virgin all his life.
Despite popular prejudices to the contrary these biographical details did discretely spill out into his art. He did a cycle of nearly 100 variations on the Last Supper, which the Guggenheim folks think “indicates an almost obsessive investment in the subject matter.” Or as I’d have it: devotion.
Is there anything consumerism won’t absorb? To paraphrase Robert Musil: clean hands don’t necessarily imply a clear conscience.
In my estimates, the painting above is a fine bit of iconoclasm, part of a long tradition of busting idols, going all the way back to the most riveting (and slightly embarrassing) episodes in the Hebrew Bible. It takes the hammer to our daily idols by transposing them upon the Real Presence they cannibalize. I know it’s not the most aesthetically pleasing work of art, but neither is the process of consumerist absorption it depicts.
My line of reasoning gets even more twisted, more Rabelaisian, as I know from my own experience at a secular university. Even the most secular academic culture can bring up (and even answer) some of the ultimate questions that are at the heart of religion. By the time I was at the University of Washington I thought I had the boring paleo-nationalism of Polish-American Catholicism behind me. While majoring in history, Slavic, and ultimately comparative religion, I was fascinated by how much my professors deeply appreciated the artifacts of Christian culture, while doing their best to disarm the way of life and beliefs that stood behind them. There was obviously something dangerous about it. This got me thinking. And to make a long story short, I ended up reverting to Catholicism at a secular university. Some of this was the result of taking classes with outstanding Christian intellectuals such as Eugene Webb and James Felak.
Herbert Blau’s bafflement keeps me on my toes and in the pews.
But it wasn’t only the faithful remnant who taught me about faith. Actually, people who work outside of religious studies are given more leeway than those within them. It’s because they aren’t always required to bracket off the truth content of what they’re teaching. One prime example is the recently deceased professor of theater, Herbert Blau, an American theater pioneer who was a close friend of Samuel Beckett. I’m still reeling from his passing, because I miss his encouragement and the intensity he brought to teaching the importance of ultimate questions (to students who weren’t always aware they exist).
His own inability to believe, perhaps his inability to accept grace, was one of the things that baffled Blau. He was willing to talk about it to whomever wanted to listen. The seriousness with which he took these questions would blow many a catechist out of the water. His influence keeps me going in trying to understand the Catholic tradition and its significance for my own life, my family, and our community.
Perhaps the world and the academy are much more mysterious than we make them out to be? After all, we shouldn’t forget we live in a post-Christian culture where everything, even the very concepts anyone thinks in, are half baptized. Let’s be a bit more charitable toward it and call off the undertakers unless we want to saw off the branch we’re sitting on.
Nota Bene: Don’t miss the Sartre and Camus installments in the “Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists” series.
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-from Fish and Wildlife Research Institute- (FWC) they contact the Coast Guard to investigate our findings. E-mail photo’s to SWP@EM.MyFlorida.com for Florida Oil Spill damages.
Florida Oil Spill Information Line (replaces Fla. Emergency Info. Line): 888-337-3569.
To report oiled wildlife: 866-557-1401.
To discuss spill-related damage: 800-440-0858.
To report oiled shoreline: 866-448-5816.
To request volunteer information: 866-448-5816.
William Djubin President Ocean Rehab Initiative Inc.
Pre Oil Spill surveys, Volunteers are needed.
Please note your locations of interest, and availability. These surveys will be of Mangroves and Sea Grasses only, sorry no Reefs yet.
Proposed Survey Date, Tomorrow, Wednesday volunteers will meet at Noon at Bert Winters Park.
Bert Winters Park on Ellison Wilson Road north then under Donald Ross bridge and continue north till mangroves fade.
Cato’s Bridge, South Jupiter Island north to Coral Cove Park area of the Jupiter Island inter-coastal.
Sawfish Bay Park east towards the Jupiter Inlet and the Jupiter Lighthouse mangrove area west towards the Loxahatchee River Basin.
Proposed Survey Date, Thursday, volunteers will meet at Jim Barry Light Harbor Park at 1PM.
Flagler Drive Mangrove Planting Area, west side of inter-coastal located off Southern Boulevard.
Thanks to all that are helping out and to all that are spreading the word about our Efforts to Inventory Florida.
We were told that several Tar Balls were reported from Vero, none of which have been related to the Horizon and Gulf Oil Spill.
Fortunately we had GPS on-site for the Pre-oil Surveys.
Thanks for visiting, please stay a while and learn about Ocean Rehab.
Pre-oil Florida Surveys; Volunteers are needed- contact us at info@oceanrehab.org today.. Help us Photo Inventory Florida’s Natural Eco-systems.
Gumbo Limbo Nature Center 10am- Saturday- we will be surveying the Mangroves and Seagrasses of this wonderful slice of Florida Heaven. This is a great opportunity to learn our Emergency Habitat Surveying Methodology.
We will be surveying Mangroves, Seagrasses, and Spawning Aggregate. This is a great opportunity to learn our Emergency Habitat Surveying Methodology.
-support our efforts at Ocean Rehab Initiative Inc. and Volunteer now.
Volunteers are needed to Inventory Critical Habitat before Oil saturates your Coastline.
Our Simple methodology with 4 volunteers and a few “easy to access items” is all you need to protect Fragile Eco-systems. What will you need?
3. A Camera and paper to record your Locations on.
Our survey system for recording Critical Habitat including Coral Reefs, Mangroves, Sea Grasses, Sea Oats, and Beaches has been proven successful for Scientific purposes and easy to understand and implement by our Volunteers.
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This weekend 19th and 20th July was an opportunity for my wargaming buddies to all meet up at a show. Six of us got together at the Devizes show, Attack. Three came up from Plymouth, 2 from Chippenham and myself from Exeter.
Father and son, Chris and Robert living the nearest put the game on. It was a 28mm early Japanese attack against a British/American force trying to stem the tide and allow an evacuation. Below are a few shots of the game. Hope you enjoy them.
Figures – Chris, mainly TAG.
Vehicles – Chris, various manufacturers.
Planes – Robert, only joking Chris.
I am starting to think Chris may be a megalomaniac !
The whole table 10×6 with Jetty and some of the best jungle terrain I have ever seen.
Compound area and a few buildings. the large red rooed building was the officers mess.
View from the other end with paddy fields on the left.
British manning the barrier. That red and white pole will stop all comers.
Only boat available so far! Who goes and who stays?
The Val misses the vehicles and hits the corner of the laundry.
The Val has a group of Ghurkas in its sights. Lucky for them the Val is off target.
The Japanese are burning the buildings as they advance through the jungle causing more panic.
First of the Japanese armour rolls on to the table with infantry support.
The Val takes out the staff car, he is already at the dock demanding the first safe passage away.
A junk turns up to help the evacuation.
British in a trench come under mortar fire!
The tanks start to break out from the village. No resistance met, yet.
Japs stumble on a bunker and start to clear it. Slow progress. they lose a few infantry and an armoured car in the progress.
More Japanese wadding across the paddy fields.
Japanese armour having assisted clearing the bunker only have to defeat the red and white barrier to be in the compound.
A merchant ship turns up. Cheers go up from all waiting to get out of there. This was made by Chris from the Snowberry kit.
British get some much needed air support in the shape of a Brewster Buffalo. It did manage to drive off the Val.
The merchant ship in a bit more detail.
The returned Val eyes up the ship.
Japanese tanks fail to advance due to the Lee.
Swarms of Japs burst out of the jungle. Figures are mainly from The Assault Group.
Crew pulling up the gang plank.
In a last ditch attempt the Val has another go at the merchant ship. Only light damage caused.
After 2 days of great gaming Father and Son, Chris and Robert receive the show award. Well deserved even if I say so myself.
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Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
No oren por una vida fácil; Oren por la fuerza para soportar uno difícil.
Nature allows us to feel the magic in the air & the power of a breeze. Surround yourself by nature. Start your day with a walk… it makes all the difference in the world. God created earthly beauty so we can enjoy it.
Our spirit desires stillness. With such a chaotic world silence is not an emptiness, we need it in order to fulfill Gods purpose for us.
If you are reading this thank God for a New Day, A New Beginning & another chance to make a difference by displaying Love, Peace & Joy.
Si estás leyendo esto gracias a Dios por un nuevo día, un nuevo comienzo y otra oportunidad de hacer una diferencia mostrando amor, paz y gozo.
As I look back at my life I realize that everything that has happened to me is exactly what God wanted. At times the pain hurt so bad… at times the joy was overflowing…I’ve gained so much wisdom. I’ve also learned that the only way to live is to depend on my divine being. Live loving others including yourself. Don’t sweat the small stuff it’s just not worth it.
Walk away from your problems. You can either be filled with inner peace or filled with turbulence. It’s your choice.
Aléjate de tus problemas. Puedes estar lleno de paz interior o lleno de turbulencias. Es tu elección.
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By now it almost goes without saying that a catalogue of failures and criminal negligence contributed to the Grenfell Fire disaster. The criminally negligent decision to replace the external cladding and insulation with inferior alternatives that were highly toxic and highly combustible was of course chief among these. But there were many other factors that contributed to this catastrophe: the gross overdevelopment of the adjacent area that badly compromised emergency access, the gross underfunding of the fire service over recent years that left them ill-equipped to deal with the enormity of the challenge they were faced with, the smoke detection and extraction system and the fire alarms, all of which appear to have failed, the botched installation of the windows and the decision to fix gas pipes for the new heating and hot water system to the walls of the stairwell and lobbies. All of these factors appear likely to have contributed significantly to the disaster.
As of now we can only hope and expect that all contributory factors will be identified and fully addressed in both the criminal investigation and the public inquiry.
Today’s blog, however, will focus on none of the above but will seek instead to reveal the failures of the Information Commissioners Office, the flawed interpretations of the Freedom of Information Act on which their decisions were based, and the shameless exploitation of these failings by the KCTMO, who were thereby enabled to avoid public scrutiny of their grossly negligent housing management practices by conducting their affairs behind a veil of secrecy.
in 2014, shortly after the Genfell Tower refurbishment works had begun Eddie again requested information from the KCTMO. This time he asked for copies of the minutes of monthly meetings attended by representatives of the TMO, the architects Studio E, and the contractors Rydons who were involved in the Grenfell refurbishment. Unsurprisingly the TMO refused his request. Already discouraged by the outcome of his 2012 ICO appeal, Eddie decided it would be pointless to appeal again on this this occasion. He was probably right and as a result we never got sight of the minutes in question.
“17. The definition in section 3(2) of FOIA of information “held by a public authority” includes information “‘held by another person on behalf of an authority”. Therefore, information that a contractor holds on behalf of a public authority is also in scope of a FOIA request, even if the authority never physically holds it in its own hard copy or electronic files.
(i) In refusing Eddie’s appeal in 2012 the ICO failed to inform him that information held on behalf of a public authority is still subject to the FOIA. The decision notice issued by the ICO in 2012 was therefore based on a partial and highly misleading interpretation of the Act and was therefore incorrect.
(ii) The claim by KCTMO in 2014 that the minutes Eddie was seeking were not held on behalf of the public authority is highly questionable if not entirely bogus. All major works carried out by KCTMO are carried out on behalf of the local authority and all associated documentation is, therefore, held on behalf of the local authority. The KCTMO exists solely to manage the housing stock owned by the local authority (RBKC) Therefore all information held by KCTMO related to the condition of the housing stock theey manage, including information related to fire safety, or other health and safety issues, is held on behalf of the local authority and should be copied to the local authority.
(iii) At no time did the KCTMO or the ICO refer any of our FOI issues with the TMO to RBKC or advise us that we should consider doing so.
The minutes Eddie had been seeking would almost certainly have recorded discussion of the decision to replace the fireproof cladding and insulation specified in the planning application with cheaper alternatives that had not been specified and which we now know were highly flammable and highly toxic. Had we had access to that information at the time, or enough of that information to enable further research, we would almost certainly have discovered the dangers inherent in the alternative products that were used.
Armed with that information we would have raised hell. It is impossible to know now whether publishing that information would have made any difference to subsequent events, or whether there was any way we could have prevented the atrocity that subsequently befell the residents of Grenfell Tower, but we never had a chance to raise this issue because the minutes we needed were so cynically and illegally witheld from us.
On 15th june 2017, the day after The Grenfell Fire, I made a Freedom of Information request to the KCTMO. Eddie, who had lived in Genfell, had lost his home and narrowly escaped with his life. He had of course also lost his computer and was virtually unreachable by phone, so it fell to me to continue alone the important work of the Grenfell Action Group blog. Before then I had assumed that because I had moved to Ireland in 2013 I could no longer use the UK Freedom of Information Act. I was amazed to discover this was not true and that I could make a FOI request from anywhere.
I requested a copy of a consultants report from 2005 which documented a serious failure by the TMO and one of its contractors to maintain the emergency lighting system in the stairwell of Grenfell Tower. The report confirmed that two thirds of the emergency lighting had failed a routine inspection in February 2004 and was a damning indictment of the mismanagement, negligence and incompetence of the TMO and its contractor at that time.
My reasons for making the request were twofold. Firstly, I recognised the evidential value of the report in relation to the Grenfell fire, particularly if further evidence emerged that the TMO had failed to properly maintain the Grenfell tower emergency lighting during the succeeding years, as I had long suspected.
My second reason for pursuing the request was to test to destruction repeated KCTMO refusals to disclose vital information by appealing and re-appealing to both the KCTMO and the ICO until I had exhausted all avenues open to me. It simply made no sense to me that the biggest public housing management company in London, which had been created for the sole purpose of contracting out the management of the entire RBKC housing stock, had no legal duty to publicly disclose vital information about the condition of that housing stock, especially information relating to fire safety and other health and safety issues.
Because the KCTMO had once again claimed that they were not subject to the FOIA it seemed pointless to follow the normal mandatory procedure of requesting a review of the initial decision, so I immediately appealed to the ICO.
However, instead of accepting the ICO decision, and complying with the instruction issued with it, to my horror the KCTMO instead appealed against it. The outcome of the TMO appeal was that the decision of 8th August, which had favored me, was overturned on 30th August by a more senior ICO officer, the KCTMO was again declared by the ICO to be exempt from the Feedom of Information Act, and the case was closed. What’s more the ICO had once again failed to clarify that information held by a contractor (KCTMO) on behalf of a public authority (RBKC) falls within the scope of the FOIA.
A crucial implication of all of the above is that we were repeatedly denied by KCTMO, on false pretences and with the full support of the ICO, important and sometimes vital information to which we were fully entitled under the Freedom of Information Act.
I finally succeeded in obtaining a copy of the Grenfell Tower emergency lighting report, not from the TMO, but by asking Robin Yu, the Information Governance and Management Officer at RBKC, to request a copy from the TMO. He did so and forwarded it to me on 16th October. A copy is attached below and I strongly urge anyone with knowledge of subsequent failures of the Grenfell emergency lighting system to contact the Metroplolitan Police Grenfell Investigation team (Operation Northleigh) and make a statement.
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this entire saga is the repeated failure of the ICO to advise us at any time that the definition in section 3(2) of the Freedom of Information Act implicitly recognises that information ‘held by a public authority’ includes information ‘held by another person on behalf of a public authority’ and that information held by a contractor (eg KCTMO) on behalf of a public authority (RBKC) falls within the scope of the Act, even if the authority never physically holds it in its own hard copy or electronic files.
Both of these bodies, KCTMO and ICO, were complicit, through their failure to discharge their duties fully, competently and impartially, in the deaths of the many who perished in the Grenfell Tower fire and should be held to account for their failings. Whether they resulted from negligence or incompetence the fact remains that the failure to discharge their duties fairly, competently and with due care and diligence had consequences of the utmost gravity for the residents of Grenfell Tower, both the living and the dead.
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It's the sports reaction you never thought you'd need ... but you'll be glad you watched, trust us.
Antonio Brown is no longer a Pittsburgh Steeler ... and there's one superfan who's still trying to figure out what to hell to do about losing his favorite player -- that guy is Carson Kressley.
Yes, as it turns out, the 'Queer Eye' star -- an Allentown, PA native -- is a HUGE Steelers fan. Seriously, the dude even has AB's total yardage memorized like some kinda freak.
So, with CK being the biggest AB fan east of the Mississippi, we had to ask the fashion guru how he's handling the news of Brown going to the Silver and Black.
And, uh ... let's just say he's had better days.
"I can't believe it," Kressley tells us in NYC. "We're gonna miss him. Antonio, come back to us, please!!!"
There are fake tears, hugs, and compliments shared as our camera guy consoles the devastated Kressley ... and it makes you almost feel bad for the dude.
Stay strong, Carson. There's always JuJu.
Carson Kressley: Go Eagles, But I Still Wanna Bang Tom Brady!
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https://www.tmz.com/2019/03/16/carson-kressley-antonio-brown-pittsburgh-steelers-oakland-raiders-queer-eye/
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Luu, Ngoc, Cadeaux, Jack and Ngo, Liem (2017) The dark side of formal and informal governance. In: 2017 European Marketing Academy Conference (EMAC), 23-26 May 2017, Groningen, Netherlands.
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It’s time to take the little tykes out to go trick-or-treating, but it is awfully cold outside, and it would be a shame to cover your little zombie with a coat and have everyone miss out on that awesome costume that cost a shiny nickle. It would have been smart to plan ahead and make the costume warm enough so that they could just wear the costume and be able to stay comfortable in the cool night air of Halloween night. There is a ton of ways to fix this problem with some clever costume ideas to keep the children warm.
Talk to your child and figure out what animals your child would like to maybe turn into on Halloween. Taking this route is great because most animals are covered in fur meaning that the costume will definitely have to cover them completely in order for them to convince people that they are really a wild animal. For example, making a lion costume out of a full body suit can be lined with stuffing and their little heads can then be covered with a Lions mane. Another option is taking an old fur coat and incorporating into the idea of the costume, whatever the fur on the coat resembles. Fur coats are extremely warm and would keep that child warm if a blizzard decided to dump snow and ice on them.
Another warm idea for making costumes for little kids is a super hero. Super heroes always have full body suits and in the case of little boys, need to have fake muscles to make them look the part. With this opportunity to add fake muscles, the stuffed physique will hold in a lot of heat and help keep them warm while they are out on the streets fighting crime and collecting candy. Some examples of super heroes that have huge muscles are The Hulk, Superman, Batman, Captain America, etc. These costumes are fun to make and a blast for the little kids. The nice thing about these costumes is they never get old. These super heroes have been around for decades and will continue to be popular. So be confident that putting a lot of work into the costume will pay off because it will be used over and over again as the years go by.
If keeping the kids warm is not an issue for you, then here are some more fun ideas for costumes for kids. Being a pirate never gets old during Halloween. Taking a quick trip to any dollar store will cover the hook, eye patch, hoop-earrings, and bandana needed to start off that pirate costume. Find an old T-shirt or long sleeved shirt and rough it up a bit. Put some tears in it that makes it look like the pirate’been in a few fights. Find some sweats that are black or brown and rough them up a bit too. Push them up your child’leg and tuck them in barely into the tops of some striped knee-high socks. Top that off with some buckled loafers and you’ve got pirate legs to die for. Adding a black wig, or scar makeup can add to the realism of the costume. Even a moustache drawn in a little bit will accentuate the costume and make that kid look like a real live buccaneer.
The key to making a fun costume for kids is to be creative and enthusiastic about the ideas that come to mind. Look at what kids are fascinated with and run with it. It may seem hard at first on how to get ideas on how to make the costume look good but with a little practice, your child will love the costumes that you come up with for them. They say everything is better homemade. But even if it is not better, it is definitely more fun to put the costume together with your child and watch them work their mind and imagination along the way. Happy Halloween!
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Manchester United look set for another record-breaking year off the pitch after posting a healthy 16.5 per cent increase in first-quarter turnover to £73.8million.
United reported growth in all areas, with the commercial side benefiting from the amazing £40m deal with DHL to sponsor their training kit, helping it rise 22.3 per cent to £29.6m.
Media revenues were up from £19.4m to £22.6m, largely thanks to United's status as Premier League champions ensuring they get a larger share of the Champions League pot, and a lucrative five-match tour of the United States.
In addition, matchday income has also grown 9.6 per cent to £21.6m, thanks to the first complete sell-out of seasonal hospitality boxes since the plush Old Trafford quadrants were completed in 2006.
It leaves United's gross debt at £433.2m.
After posting turnover of £331.4m and profits of £110.9m last year, matching a campaign when they won the title and reached the Champions League final, where they were beaten by Barcelona, will not be easy given Manchester City's rise to prominence, including a 6-1 derby-day annihilation last month.
It places more emphasis on the commercial side, which has grown enormously thanks to a 'territorial' approach to marketing, which rival clubs may attempt to copy.
However, speaking last month, commercial director Richard Arnold was relaxed about that prospect.
'There is only one Manchester United,' he said. 'Whilst a lot of the strategy is public knowledge, I am very fortunate to be with the club I am with and able to do these deals.
'A lot of hard work has gone into getting to the position we are in now and we are already looking to the future.
'If people want to recreate what we did five years ago that is up to them.
United are also patting themselves on the back for securing five players on new contracts, including England international Chris Smalling and striking sensation Javier Hernandez, in addition to the summer arrivals of Ashley Young, Phil Jones and David de Gea.
However, there was no comment on speculation that Portugal winger Nani may be the next to benefit from an extension to his present deal, which is due to expire in 2014.
The position of £30.75m record signing Dimitar Berbatov also remains unresolved, with United still to confirm their intention to extend the Bulgarian's stay with the Red Devils by a further season, which under the terms of his present contract, which expires at the end of the season, they have the right to do.
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This past Friday it came to light that a Federal Judge in the District of Washington D.C., following review by a Grand Jury, had signed off on a sealed indictment and that an arrest (or arrests) are imminent and will probably take place on Monday. There’s taking place a wide level of speculation regarding who will be taken into custody, but the leading names fielded thus far are Paul Manafort (Trump’s campaign manager for a period of 3 of the 5 months he was involved) and Michael Flynn (heavily involved with the campaign and, albeit briefly, served as National Security Chief). Both of these men resigned when their various involvements came to public notice.
While other names are being floated such as Felix Sater, Roger Stone and Simon Gorski, Manafort and Flynn are the most often cited in conjunction with an impending arrest or arrest.
There’s a need for a set of reminders as to Manafort’s role. President Trump has repeatedly attempted to downplay Manafort’s role in his campaign, inferring that he played a very minor role and his influence was exceedingly limited. In reality, Manafort was involved for a total of five months and for three of those months he served as campaign chairman. His role cannot be deemed as “minor”.
Additionally, Manafort’s involvement with Trump and his campaign antedated his formal inclusion and apparently continued, at least to some degree, after his departure. Manafort has been connected to Trump and his circle for many years through Roger Stone–the two were business partners. Stone’s connection to Trump–and Manafort–go back to the early 1980s.
Manafort resigned amid criticisms of his activities as a paid lobbyist for Russian and Ukranian oligarchs set against the backdrop of Trump’s ad nauseum assertions that he had no Russian ties or connections and a preponderance of evidence suggesting that such assertions were balderdash. As has come to light, President Trump has had a series of involvements with Russian interests. To assert that Manafort’s inclusion in the campaign did not result in a series of positions and pronouncements favorable to the Russian interests from whom Manafort has netted tens of millions of dollars would seem a preposterous assertion at this point. As has been noted, the only plank in the GOP platform that the Trump campaign pushed was the curtailment of sanctions against the Russian Federation for its incursions into the Ukraine. This alone raises consideration of possible slanting toward Russian interests possesses considerable merit for further scrutiny.
Manafort didn’t resign as Trump campaign Chair due to liberal media bias. He resigned because he had his hand in the cookie jar and got caught. It’s that simple. His involvements with Russian and Ukranian oligarchs are well-documented and indisputable.
Michael Flynn, a retired three-star General of the United States Army, had a memorable moment at the Republican National Convention (RNC) last year when he led the chant, “lock her up” with regard to Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandals and her various quasi-ethical involvements. He additionally noted, at various points, that seeking immunity from prosecution for cooperation in any investigation implied culpability. Yet, earlier this year Flynn’s attorneys approached the Senate with offers of cooperation in exchange for, you guessed it, immunity. Hmm.
Flynn’s place in history is assured, and it won’t be for serving his nation honorably for decades in uniform, with all of the personal sacrifice that entails. Unfortunately, Flynn’s place in history will be to be remembered as the National Security Adviser whose term broke all records, twenty three days. The shortest term served in the position. He wasn’t forced to leave his post due to liberal media bias or uneven-handed treatment. Flynn was forced out due to the simple fact that he failed to register as a foreign agent and he failed to disclose both his activities and efforts undertaken on behalf of the Turkish and Russian governments and interests.
So, how much did Flynn get paid and not report. Accounts vary. But at a very minimum he failed to report $150,000 on his 2016 tax returns A portion of this was drawn from his work with Russian state-backed media outlet RT. As came to light prior to his departure from the administration, Flynn had received considerable payments from Turkish sources.
Mueller has got to know that the minute the arrests are effected and Manafort, Flynn or whoever else is taken into custody the fur will most assuredly fly. He has to know that whatever he has, it better be good. As a former FBI Director, decorated combat veteran and a man long-experienced in the political arena, Mueller must no very well that filing charges against former–and possibly current–administration officials is not something one does without ample grounds and preparation. Given the caliber and experience of the team he has assembled and the fact that a Grand Jury and a Federal Judge signed off on the evidence and sealed indictment one can only conclude that the case must be quite compelling.
In the prelude to the arrest of arrests about to happen there’s been plenty of activity within the administration and among those supporting its membership. President Trump took to Twitter immediately on the heels of the announcement, trotting out Hillary Clinton’s transgressions. Distraction or valid concern? Well, how many senior Clinton campaign staff had close contact with the FSB? In terms of remuneration we have 30 years of Clinton tax returns. We have yet to see the President’s, despite his multiple prior assurances that as soon as he was elected he’d immediately disclose full financials…and we’re still waiting on that promise as on so many others. Distraction, dissembling, disservice.
Betting on Mueller’s preparation is a good bet. Whatever he has, it will probably be good.
President Trump, in effect, has already initiated his trademark tirades seeking to divert and deflect. Many people that news of an impending indictment or indictments had been circulating for some weeks and that Trump and his staff sought to head off any criticism by throwing out a series of incidents involving, you guessed it, Hillary Clinton. If Hillary Clinton and\or her campaign staff did anything untoward in the conduct of opposition research is another set of considerations. If she or her staff did anything illegal or unethical those affronts should by no means be ignored. Here’s the thing, though, Hillary Clinton is not the President of the United States. Trump and his campaign are the subject of the Special Prosecutor’s investigation. What Hillary Clinton did or didn’t do represents a separate set of considerations.
On Monday, within minutes of any arrest or arrests, expect a series of Tweets from President Trump. Expect that the Tweets will not directly respond to the material contained within the sealed indictment. He will not directly answer as to the material evidence, merely dissemble and avoid. His outbursts have been characterized as Trumpertantrums and that term seems most apt.
His posturings and positions, just like his methodology, have become tediously predictable: He lies or blurts out some ill-digested statement. When confronted with his lack of accuracy or the absence of a fact-based veracity, he doubles down and digs himself in still deeper into the misrepresentation. When confrontation continues rather than falling back and apologizing or noting he might be in error, he proceeds to the next phase of his method: personally attack whomsoever calls him out. It doesn’t matter who or what he attacks–no person or institution is beyond the direct fire of a Trumpertantrum; Gold-Star Mothers, War Heroes, Disabled People, Professors, Journalists, all are fair game. Whether they are right or wrong doesn’t enter in. Simply pointing out Trump’s errors or misstatements suffice. Not very Presidential.
Monday, the long-game will start in earnest. For those watching closely this represents a beginning, not an end. The ball of yarn is starting to unravel and the Trumpertantrums are about to increase in ferocity and frequency. We have a big brat in the White House and he’s about to start whining louder than ever before.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. services sector activity hit a more than 19-month low in March and private payrolls grew less than expected, underscoring a loss of momentum in the economy that supports the Federal Reserve’s move to suspend interest rate hikes this year.
The reports on Wednesday came on the heels of some modestly upbeat data earlier in the week, including retail and motor vehicle sales and manufacturing. Investors are worried about a sharp slowdown in economic growth in the first quarter.
The Fed last month ended its three-year campaign to tighten monetary policy, dropping projections for any interest rate increases this year. The U.S. central bank lifted borrowing costs four times in 2018.
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said its non-manufacturing activity index fell 3.6 percentage points to 56.1, the lowest since August 2017. A reading above 50 indicates expansion in the sector, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity.
Last month’s sharp slowdown in services industry activity reflected a 7.3 points drop in the production subindex. Activity was also weighed down by decreases in new and export orders measures. A gauge of service sector employment rose. But many industries continued to believe that their inventories were too high, a potential hurdle for increased production.
It said 16 industries, including utilities, real estate, finance and insurance, healthcare and social assistance, information, and professional, scientific and technical services reported growth last month. The two industries reporting contraction were education services and retail trade.
Businesses in the accommodation and food services industry complained that “labor is tight and in short supply.” Similar complaints were also voiced by businesses in the transportation and public administration sectors.
The economy is losing speed as stimulus from the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion in tax cuts diminishes. It is also facing headwinds from slowing global growth, Washington’s trade war with China and uncertainty over Britain’s exit from the European Union.
Growth estimates for the first-quarter range from as low as a 1.4 percent annualized rate to as high as a 2.1 percent pace. The economy grew at a 2.2 percent pace in the fourth quarter.
The dollar was trading lower against a basket of currencies. U.S. Treasury prices fell, while stocks on Wall Street rose.
The shortage of workers could be curbing job growth. The ADP National Employment Report on Wednesday showed private employers added 129,000 jobs in March, the fewest since September 2017, after creating 197,000 positions in February.
The ADP figures came ahead of the Labor Department’s more comprehensive non-farm payrolls report on Friday, which includes both public- and private-sector employment.
The ADP report, which is jointly developed with Moody’s Analytics, has a poor record predicting the private payrolls component of the government’s employment report. But job growth has slowed from last year’s 223,000 monthly average pace.
Economists polled by Reuters are looking for private payroll employment to have grown by 170,000 jobs in March, up from 25,000 the month before. Total non-farm employment is expected to have increased by 180,000 jobs after a paltry 20,000 gain in February.
“There is sure to be a bounce back in the official data given how weak February was, the only question is how big it will be?” said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics in Toronto.
According to the ADP report, employment in the goods producing sector fell by 6,000 jobs in March, with manufacturing payrolls shrinking 2,000 and construction shedding 6,000 positions. The services sector added 135,000 jobs last month, concentrated in professional and education and health services.
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"What first attracted me…was this excellent Masters programme, taught by important figures of contemporary sociological and social theory, and the support, encouragement and help of the staff. The Masters programme…provided the ideal intellectual environment and the scientific tools for my subsequent PhD research."
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Studying on these programmes gives you access to an enormous range of expertise. Methods courses are delivered by the College of Social Sciences Graduate School. You benefit by being taught research methods by academics who are specialists in particular approaches. At the same time, subject courses are taught by leading experts in their field.
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Members of the Kansas Senate's negotiating team on taxes include Sen. Tom Holland, left, D-Baldwin City; Sen. Caryn Tyson, R-Parker; and Sen. Dan Kerschen, R-Garden Plain.
Topeka ? As the Kansas House and Senate continued to negotiate a final budget bill and a package of tax cuts Tuesday, a new report on state revenues added pressure on lawmakers to try to do some of both.
The Kansas Department of Revenue reported Tuesday that tax collections in the month of April came in $66 million above the recently revised, higher estimates, and that total tax collections so far this fiscal year have come in nearly $1 billion above the same period last year.
That news came during the final week of the 2018 legislative session as House and Senate negotiators on taxes and the budget were meeting in hopes of resolving both issues by Friday.
“Why wouldn’t we want to give more of the taxpayers’ money back to the taxpayers?” said Sen. Caryn Tyson, R-Parker, chairwoman of the Senate tax committee during an interview moments after the revenue report was released.
The Senate has passed a bill that it is now negotiating with the House that is intended mainly to prevent the state from reaping a windfall as a result of the recent federal tax overhaul. For that reason, supporters of that bill say it is not a tax cut but rather the prevention of an unintended tax increase.
But the Senate’s bill also contains a number of provisions unrelated to the federal tax changes that would amount to tax cuts in Kansas, including a 25 percent expansion of the standard deduction, and allowing full deductibility for things like medical expenses and mortgage interest paid.
The House, however, has so far declined to accept the larger deductions. It also declined a Senate proposal that would lower the effective sales tax rate on vehicle purchases by recognizing dealer and manufacturer rebates as an actual reduction in the sale price paid.
Meanwhile, on the spending side of the ledger, House and Senate budget negotiators continued to meet Tuesday on a final bill that calls for partially restoring funding for several programs and services that have taken deep cuts in recent years, including higher education.
At the beginning of the last fiscal year, then-Gov. Sam Brownback ordered a $30 million cut to the universities. Lawmakers restored about $6 million of that for the current fiscal year, but state universities and the Kansas Board of Regents have pleaded with lawmakers to restore the remaining $24 million in the upcoming fiscal year, which begins July 1.
Rep. Troy Waymaster, R-Bunker Hill, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, said that even with the additional revenue flowing into the state lawmakers are not likely to go on a spending spree.
But Rep. Kathy Wolfe Moore, of Kansas City, Kan., the ranking Democrat on the House budget negotiating team, said she thinks it’s premature to talk about tax cuts as long as a school finance lawsuit is still pending before the Kansas Supreme Court.
That was a reference to the tax cuts that Brownback championed, cuts that many people argue were the primary cause of an extended period of revenue shortfalls that forced cutbacks in a number of state programs, particularly highways, higher education and funding for the state pension system.
Other major items on the table in the budget talks include restoring some of the payments into the state pension system that were delayed in recent years and sweeping less money out of the state highway fund to pay for K-12 school transportation.
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The core curriculum and required courses form the foundation of the Information Science major, that each student can then build upon to create their own unique skill set.
The core curriculum and required courses form the foundation of the Information Science major, that each student can then build upon to create their own unique skill set. Please reference the Cornell Class Roster for detailed information about these courses.
INFO 1200: Information Ethics, Law, and Policy – This course investigates the ethical, legal, and social foundations of information.
INFO 1300: Introductory Design and Programming for the Web – In this course, students develop skills in all three of these areas through the use of technologies such as XHTML, Cascading Stylesheets, and PHP.
INFO 2040: Networks – This interdisciplinary course examines network structures and how they matter in everyday life. The course examines how each of the computing, economic, sociological and natural worlds are connected and how the structure of these connections affects each of these worlds.
INFO 2450: Communication and Technology – This course introduces students to the behavioral aspects of Information Science. It examines several approaches to understanding technology and its role in human behavior and society.
INFO 2950: Introduction to Data Science – This course teaches basic mathematical methods for information science, with applications to data science.
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OraFSPlus is an enhanced Oracle SQLPlus implementation. Nearly all SQLPlus commands are implemented. An autocompletion function helps to enter the correct SQL syntax and pops up with the required database items needed for your statement. Full screen and line editing is possible. With the help of the object browser you can edit and execute any DDL by a mouse click. A SQL analyzer helps you to check the performance of your statements or scripts. You can open, edit, and run SQL scripts from a toolbar. A full help system is integrated including the SQL reference guide.
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SodaStream gears up for an unpleasant quarterly report.
SodaStream (NASDAQ:SODA) used to excite investors ahead of posting blowout quarterly results, but that's unlikely to happen when the global leader in home carbonation reports tomorrow morning.
The stock fell to a 52-week low earlier this month, a couple of weeks after hosing down expectations for its holiday quarter. Its full-year guidance implies that revenue growth will decelerate to a 26% clip for the fourth quarter. That's not too shabby, especially with Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) and PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) reporting net revenues declining by 2% and climbing 1%, respectively, during the same period.
Coming up a bit shy of top-line expectations isn't fatal, but the real dagger in last month's SodaStream warning was that it expects to barely break even during the current quarter.
SodaStream has some serious margin issues. The Israeli-based company behind the namesake machine that turns water into carbonated beverages stumbled during the previous quarter when syrup sales fell far short of its starter kits and carbonator refills. The conclusion at the time was that they were selling briskly, going by the healthy uptick in soda-maker sales, and being used by those who own them, judging by the CO2 sales. However, the weak sale of flavors suggested that folks were using other ways to sweeten their sodas or just fancying unflavored seltzer more than before.
We already know that margins will be a problem given the sharp drop in profitability provided in last month's update. We don't know if flavor sales will bounce back, though as a high-margin item for SodaStream, it probably wouldn't be a shock to see some struggles there.
SodaStream's stock started to bounce back earlier this month when Coca-Cola took a 10% stake in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, signing up a long-term deal to provide flavors for the Keurig Cold machine that will hit the market as early as this holiday season but likely at some point during the first nine months of next year. Having the world's soft-drink giant back a Green Mountain carbonation platform that isn't even on the market could've scared investors, but it helped increase the chatter that surfaced last year about PepsiCo buying SodaStream. Even if a buyout seems unlikely, if Coca-Cola is getting into home carbonation, PepsiCo can validate SodaStream's platform by partnering with it to take on its fizzy rival on a new battlefront. However, even that fizz is starting to run flat. After spending nine consecutive trading days closing above $40, the stock fell through that floor yesterday.
The silver lining here is that the stock is trading sharply lower than it was just a couple of months ago. A lot of the bad news that will be disclosed before the market opens tomorrow is already priced into its shares. This doesn't mean that an overdue pop is coming tomorrow. Between the weak earnings and the looming threat of Green Mountain's Keurig Cold, SodaStream's going to have to earn back its fizzy ways.
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Esther Williams and Gloria Stuart face off.
In her new memoir, "The Million Dollar Mermaid," 76-year-old Esther Williams recounts her frustration when she discovered that her lover, fellow film star Jeff Chandler, was a cross-dresser. And in "Gloria Stuart: I Just Kept Hoping," another recent Hollywood autobiography, "Titanic" octogenarian Stuart reflects on free love and masturbation. Meanwhile, Eddie Fisher dines out on Elizabeth Taylor's surfeit of passion, and Debbie Reynolds' lack thereof, in his new tell-all, "Been There, Done That."
The old Hollywood, which has been known to pat itself on the back for its sexual discretion, is letting its gray hair down these days - and its stars are every bit as candid in person as they are in print. At Williams' book party, thrown by her publisher, Simon & Schuster, the swimming starlet took a poke at Fisher's book when asked to comment on the rash of dishy memoirs. "Eddie Fisher's isn't very fun-loving," she said. "It's mean-spirited."
Williams herself drew criticism from Stuart. "I don't think it was necessary for us to know that Jeff was a cross-dresser. What did she gain by that?" Stuart said at the party that her publisher, Little, Brown, threw for her. "It's something I didn't want to know about him. It's a minus quality. Actually, there were some things I wrote about some personalities that my daughter [co-writer Sylvia Thompson] thought were a little strong. She said, 'Mother, you didn't need to say that,' and I didn't say it."
In her New York Post column, Liz Smith also took Williams to task for revealing Chandler's secret when the late star of "Broken Arrow" (1950) wasn't around to defend himself. But Williams made a splash of her own Thursday. "I remember Gloria," she told USA Today. "Those in lesser roles in movies had a better time than we did. We were too busy getting the job done."
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is suspected of crimes involving fraud, breach of trust and bribes in two corruption cases, Israeli police revealed Thursday.
Police have been questioning Netanyahu for months over the cases but have released few details. A gag order was released Thursday night on reporting the details of talks that are underway to enlist a state witness.
The document says the cases involving Netanyahu deal with "a suspicion of committing crimes of bribery, fraud and breach of trust."
On Friday, police said Netanyahu's former chief of staff and onetime close confidant agreed to testify against him.
The police said in a statement that Ari Harow will serve six months of community service and pay a fine of 700,000 Shekels (about $193,000) for his involvement in a separate corruption case, apparently a lighter-than-expected sentence in exchange for his testimony.
Netanyahu's office has repeatedly denied wrongdoing over the investigations, portraying the accusations as a witch hunt against him and his family by a hostile media opposed to his hard-line political views.
A statement from his office Thursday night said, "We completely reject the unfounded claims against the prime minister." It said the allegations are part of a campaign to "replace the government" and "there will be nothing, because there was nothing."
In a video posted to Facebook Friday, he refered to the news as "the inevitable scandal of the week," according to the Reuters news agency.
"I would like to tell you, citizens of Israel, that I do not heed background noises," he said. "I continue to work for you."
One investigation, dubbed "File 1000," reportedly concerns claims that Netanyahu improperly accepted lavish gifts from wealthy supporters, including Australian billionaire James Packer and Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan.
The second investigation, "File 2000," reportedly concerns Netanyahu's alleged attempts to strike a deal with publisher Arnon Mozes of the Yediot Ahronot newspaper group to promote legislation to weaken Yediot's main competitor in exchange for more favorable coverage of him by Yediot.
The U.S.-born Harow has been under investigation for the past two years for fraud and other crimes regarding the sale of his consulting company while working as chief of staff, according to media reports.
Police reportedly have a copy of a recording made by Harow of a 2014 conversation between Netanyahu and the publisher.
After eight years in office, in addition to an earlier term in the 1990s, Netanyahu has garnered an image as a cigar-puffing, cognac-drinking socialite who is as comfortable rubbing shoulders with international celebrities as he is making deals in parliament. His wife, Sara, has been accused of abusive behavior toward staff.
Scandals have long dogged the couple over their lavish tastes and opponents have portrayed both as being out of touch with the struggles of average Israelis.
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2019-04-20T19:05:19Z
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/benjamin-netanyahu-suspected-bribery-fraud-israel-police/
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Move over J.K. Rowling! The fourth installment of Stephenie Meyers Twilight series has been flying off shelves. Were taking a look at this vampire saga!
Move over J.K. Rowling! The fourth installment of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series has been flying off shelves. We're taking a look at this vampire saga!
The Twilight book series follows the life of Isabella Swan, a teenager whose life is changed forever when she falls in love with a 'vegetarian vampire' (a vampire who drinks animal, not human, blood) named Edward. In Breaking Dawn, the couple marries, but their dreams of a perfect honeymoon are cut short when Bella discovers that she's pregnant.
The werewolf leader sets his sites on killing Bella's unborn baby, which seems to be growing at an unnatural rate. Unlikely allegiances will be formed both to protect the child and to kill it. But who will win out? And will Bella survive the difficult pregnancy? You'll have to read Breaking Dawn to find out!
Breaking Dawn is a gory and drama-filled epic with twists and turns galore. That said, there are plenty of Twilight fans who are seriously not feeling this latest installment and have launched an online campaign against it. We don't know what they're freaking out about. This is a great, page-turning read that will keep you interested until the very last page. If you love all things vampire, this is the must-read of the year.
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2019-04-20T14:23:04Z
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https://www.kidzworld.com/article/14604-breaking-dawn-book-review
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krige-page
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We hope you can find what you need here. We always effort to show a picture with HD resolution or at least with perfect images. Jeux En Ligne Géographie Élégant Les 25 Meilleures Idées Concernant Départements Français can be beneficial inspiration for those who seek an image according specific categories; you can find it in this site. Finally all pictures we have been displayed in this site will inspire you all..
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2019-04-26T14:24:05Z
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https://www.krige-page.com/15-elegant-jeux-en-ligne-geographie-photograph/jeux-en-ligne-geographie-elegant-les-25-meilleures-idees-concernant-departements-francais/
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Games
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penturners
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Jr. Gent Drill Bit size change or problem???
Source for plastic material for segmenting?
Never tried this dealers acrilic blanks .
How do you make your pens unique?
Holy Land olive wood source?
Source for a bigger chuck?
UPDATE to "NAME THAT BLANK"
Show pens or work pens?
Best price on acrylic blanks?
PKPAR 10FT instructions - Solved, Thanks Eric!
Why are pen blanks 3/4" wide?
where to get nibs for Statesman?
Kit that comes in fountain/roller/ballpoint?
What makes a fine wood pen blank?
Whats the nicest pen you've ever seen?
IT ISN'T EASY GETTING GREEN!
How do I Disassemble a Sedona?
Instructions? Who knew . . . .
Disassembling a baron OR How stupid can I be?
Help, I can't do it!!!!
What can not be turned?
Shop Cooling. Anyone using a portable A/C unit?
What is it like to work with Zircote?
Anyone else dislike this on the churchill?
You all are killing me!!!
Top 5 beginner mistakes in making pens?
Cigar lower centerband bushing too big?
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2019-04-24T18:26:31Z
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http://www.penturners.org/forum/sitemap/f-14-p-65.html
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weebly
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Question 1: Who was assassinated by a Serbian Nationalist?
Question 2: Who was Austria-Hungary's most important ally?
Question 3: What is the number of regions in Austria-Hungary?
Question 4: What does the word Krieg mean?
Question 5: Austria-Hungary was apart the allied powers?
Question 6: What is the name of the Austrian-Hungarian currency?
Question 7: What is the name of the capital of Imperial Austria?
Question 8: What country did Austria-Hungary first declare war on?
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2019-04-20T19:02:34Z
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https://ww1ah.weebly.com/quiz-questions.html
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Excellent program. Particularly impressed by mizzou grad student. The future generation is very promising. Keep up the good work.
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2019-04-18T22:27:52Z
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http://intersectkbia.weebly.com/archive/the-state-of-marriage-today
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indiatimes
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IPOs are often issued by companies seeking capital to expand, but can also be done by large privately-owned companies looking to become publicly traded.
In the case of existing schemes, the portfolio is well known, the fund managers' style of investing is known and the schemes are well researched and tracked by analysts.
What is an NFO and why are many fund houses launching them now?
An NFO is the first subscription offering of a new fund by an asset management company at a net asset value (NAV) of Rs 10. An NFO could either be for a closed-end or open-end funds. Closed-end funds generally have a lock-in of 3 to 3.5 years. In a closed-end NFO, one can invest only during the offer period. On the other hand, an open-end fund reopens for subscription and investors have the option to subscribe anytime at the prevailing net asset value (NAV). An NFO is usually launched by a fund house to complete its product basket, or if there is a demand from investors for a particular theme which cannot be played through an existing fund.
Should investors put money in NFOs?
In the case of existing schemes, the portfolio is well known, the fund managers' style of investing is known and the schemes are well researched and tracked by analysts. In comparison, in an NFO one does not know what the portfolio will look like, how much assets the fund will gather and so on. Financial planners say investors should invest in an NFO only if it has something different to offer from the existing funds universe, or something which cannot be done in an open-end fund. Many investors mistakenly believe an NFO is cheap because each unit is available for an NAV of Rs 10. Financial planners say an NAV is irrelevant in a mutual fund while investing. Many wealth managers also believe investors should avoid closed-end NFOs, as there is no exit route during the lock-in period, and many of them are a mere replica of existing open-end schemes.
Is an equity IPO different from an NFO?
IPOs are often issued by companies seeking capital to expand, but can also be done by large privately-owned companies looking to become publicly traded. An NFO from a mutual fund just pools in money from investors to invest in a set of securities (stocks or bonds or government securities and so on), based on a stated strategy. Many IPOs are done at a premium to face value, while a mutual fund NFO is always available at Rs 10.
13 New Fund Offerings in the pipeline. Should you invest?
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2019-04-22T08:36:22Z
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/wealth/mutual-funds/et-in-the-classroom-mutual-funds-new-fund-offers/articleshow/62729998.cms
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4to40
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It’s not just a smartphone but a superphone. This is what Chinese smartphone maker LeEco calls its first device – Le 1s – that has just been launched in India with an aim to “disrupt” the mid-range market with its cutting-edge specifications.
So to test the claims, I used the 4G-enabled Le 1s “superphone” and found that to an extent, the company’s assertions are right.
On the first look, the thin device with a bezel-less screen looks stunning in shiny rose-gold – not too large, not too small and which easily fits into the palm.
The touch sensor of home, menu and back buttons look nice but interestingly, these are not visible until you touch them. Even when the screen is “awake,” the sensors do not light up. Moreover, the backlight gets switched off if the sensors are not touched for four seconds.
Le 1s has a 5.5-inch fHD display with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. I watched over three back-to-back episodes of a Hollywood series in high-definition with no strain in the eyes. The device also has a crisp sound.
Le 1s is powered by MediaTek’s MT6795 Helios X10 2.2 GHz Octa-core processor which is assisted by a 3GB RAM. Playing games of the phone was fun and multi-tasking was smooth.
The “superphone” has a decent 13-megapixel primary camera, which actually took photos (with auto-focus) in less than a second. However, the phone took more than a second to take photo with a single-tone LED flash (no, I did not miss any shots though).
Similar to iPhones, LeEco has provided four modes – slow motion, video, photo and panorama – for its users. The phone allows users to edit the photos with its several built-in colour effects.
The Le 1s with all its features and a price of Rs.10,999 is a good buy. Display quality, good user interface, fast charging, lag-free multi-tasking and handy design that lets user work with one hand are some of the features to look for in the phone. Phone loses points for incorporating a quite basic camera.
2.2 GHz Octa-core Mediatek MT6795 Helio X10 processor with PowerVR G6200 GPU | 3 GB DDR3 RAM | 5.5-inch display | 32 GB storage | 13-megapixel auto focus rear camera with ISOCELL technology and blue glass infrared filter | 5-megapixel front camera | dual 4G/LTE | Wi-Fi | Bluetooth | 3,000 mAH battery | mirror-finish fingerprint identification system.
Next When was Guru Ravidass born?
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2019-04-25T20:50:43Z
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http://www.4to40.com/gadgets/leeco-le-1s-not-just-a-smartphone-but-a-superphone/
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Fox will be serving up an interesting animation biz mashup as the season 24 finale of its record-running toon The Simpsons will be an episode featuring the voice of Seth MacFarlane, Entertainment Weekly reports. The creator of Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show will try to make a love connection with Marge in “Dangers on a Train” which will premiere May 19.
In “Dangers on a Train,” the Simpson family matriarch accidentally ends up on a website for married people seeking to have affairs and attracts the unwanted attentions of Ben (MacFarlane), a super slick guy who tries to lay the charm on Marge, much to Homer’s displeasure. Season 24’s guest star list also includes Steve Carrell, Zooey Deschanel, Tina Fey and Justin Bieber, who will appear in this Sunday’s show.
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2019-04-20T19:05:53Z
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http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/macfarlane-simpsons-now-season-finale/
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wordpress
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This is really more like a pork and rice stew. It was really simple to put together and tasted awesome when it was done. The leftovers taste even better today.
I got the recipe out of “Ultimate Casseroles”- which is a supplemental magazine published by Better Homes and Gardens. I am such a sucker for the glossy magazines at the grocery store…with their photos of heartachingly-rich dishes on the cover…promising warmth and gooiness.
Anyhoo- I bought it and have now made 3 things out of it, with a 4th on the docket for this afternoon (Black Bean Lasagne to take to a New Year’s gathering).
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cut meat into 3/4 inch pieces. In an extra large skillet, heat 2 tablespoons oil over medium high heat. Cook meat, half at a time, in hot oil til brown. Transfer meat to an ungreased 3 quart rectangular baking dish and stir in carrots, sweet pepper and water chestnuts. I didn’t have a 3 qt. dish so I used my dutch oven and it worked fine.
Add the remaining oil to the skillet and cook onions til tender. Add rice, cook and stir for 1 minute. Stir in broth, water, soy sauce, molasses, corn syrup, chili paste and five spice powder. Cook and stir until it all comes to a boil. Add to meat mixture and stir to combine.
Bake, uncovered, about 1 hour or until meat and rice are tender. Let stand, covered, for 10 more minutes before serving. Garnish with green onions and serve.
This was so good! It was sweet and spicy and very warm. Next time I’ll add more veggies. I think mushrooms and cauliflower would be great additions. You could really use any combination of meat and/or veggies you wanted.
I made the sauce from about 3 glugs of Country Bob’s sauce, 2 glugs of soy sauce, a dash of pineapple juice and a clove of minced garlic. The pork pieces marinated for about 2 hours in the marinade, then I skewered the pork with red pepper, onion, pineapple and canteloupe.
We enjoyed preparing our dishes, and I’m sure Suz enjoyed being our unbiased taste-tester. Of course, in true Suz fashion, she didn’t really pick one dish over the other.
Mimi and I completed our Country Bob cook-off. I’ll let her blog about her meal, but will let you know hers is on the right – the pork kabobs. I chose to cook chicken. We also chose very different applications of the sauce and again I’ll leave hers to her. I took about a 1/2 cup of the country bob sauce, and about a 1/2 bottle of beer, and a good glug of honey, I also added a dash of pineapple juice. I heated the sauce and let it thicken and reduce down and I used it as a marinade and then a sauce for the chicken. Before adding the country bob concoction I salted and pepperd the chicken and rubbed it with a bit of olive oil. I let the chicken marinate for about 45 minutes and then threw it on the grill. The sauce made for a pretty tasty chicken I must admit, though I must also say that I won’t add country bob to my shelf if for no other reason than the second ingredient is high fructose corn syrup and I have eliminated that from my diet. I’d have to describe the sauce as something between A1 and Worsteshire sauce -so you wouldn’t want to use it straight. We enjoyed the contest and as usual thought of totally different and equally viable uses for the sauce. We served this along side a nice spinach salad and some quinoa that Mimi brought me from Colorado.
This is what happened when Dev decided he wanted to make his own bacon this week. Curious about how much work it is? Go here and find out!
I didn’t make the slaw. I used flour tortillas because that’s what I had. I didn’t have coriander seeds so I used ground. I served the meat with the tortillas, sliced avacado, chopped cilantro, chopped green onions, lettuce and sour cream.
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2019-04-22T19:55:26Z
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https://1700milesofcooking.wordpress.com/category/meat/
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^ Lesley Adkins,Roy A.Adkins（1998）.Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece.Oxford University Press,USA.ISBN 9780195124910.
Homer. Iliad, XXIII, 423, 541, 556.
Pausanias, Description of Greece. W. H. S. Jones (translator). Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. (1918). Vol. 1. Books I–II: ISBN 0-674-99104-4.
Chisholm, Hugh (编). 安提洛科斯. 大英百科全書 第十一版. 劍橋大學出版社. 1911年.
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2019-04-18T19:29:49Z
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https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E6%8F%90%E6%B4%9B%E7%A7%91%E6%96%AF
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Bill Gates made an appearance on The Big Bang Theory and, believe it or not, the boys were more than just a little excited. The premise was that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was looking to team up with a pharmaceutical company to develop affordable vaccines and Penny was going to show Gates around the labs. Leonard and the guys were supposed to leave Gates alone, but that didn’t happen.Leonard, Howard, and Raj found out what hotel Gates was staying in and waited for him in the lobby. When Gates finally appeared, Leonard just had to say hello. This wasn’t the first time Leonard had met him. As he told Penny earlier, he’d met Gates before and began to cry. This meeting would be no different.Leonard approached Gates and said, “Mr. Gates, I’m Dr. Leonard Hofstadter. We’ve actually met before.” Gates responded, “Sorry, I don’t remember.” At this point, Leonard began to break down as he told Gates how much it meant to meet him. Gates asked, “Would you like a tissue?” “How about a hug?” Leonard replied.” But Gates wasn’t up for a hug, saying, “How about a tissue?”Penny didn’t know about this tearful reunion but she was about to find out. She FaceTimed Leonard with Gates, who recognized him, and threw him under the bus.
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2019-04-25T11:55:25Z
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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/bill-gates-makes-leonard-cry-070434051.html
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fox5sandiego
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CARLSBAD, Calif. — A suspicious car in Sage Creek High School’s parking lot at 3:15 a.m. Saturday led to a short car chase, a crash into a tree, and an arrest.
Matthew Gioia, 30, of Oceanside, was arrested on suspicion of felony evading and resisting arrest.
The incident began just before 3:15 a.m., when a patrol officer at Sage Creek High School noticed a “suspicious” car entering the school’s secured parking lot, Carlsbad police Sgt. Alonso DeVelasco said.
The school is located in the 3900 block of Cannon Road, on the northeastern side of the city.
An officer attempted to pull over the driver, but he sped west on Cannon Road toward College Boulevard, DeVelasco said.
The car hit a tree on Peninsula Drive just east of College Boulevard, and police said Gioia bailed out and ran. He briefly struggled with police before being taken into custody, DeVelasco said.
Gioia was given medical treatment at a hospital and was to be booked into the Vista Detention Facility, DeVelasco said.
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2019-04-20T16:28:03Z
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https://fox5sandiego.com/2018/04/07/suspicious-car-in-high-school-parking-lot-leads-to-carsh/?utm_source=related_1
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My offering; Conservatives will reward and sustain those who invent, work hard, teach the next generation and care for the needy.
Please try and keep to the 140 characters limit.
I'll Twitter the best tmrw morning and encourage it to be RT'd*.
* Re-Tweeted for the non-Twitterers out there!
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2019-04-23T20:13:57Z
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https://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/07/the-conservative-message-in-140-characters.html
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typepad
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Not just one, but two spring chickens!
The big, round chicken is a potholder that, quite honestly, I probably won't use much because I'm terrified of the inevitable: the bit of food that would fall just so on my beautiful white chicken, staining her forever. Oh, the horror! She works pretty well as wall art anyway, right?
And then there's the little shelf doll. I call her Florence. Or just Flo. Depends on my mood. I just love her little apron! She was lots of fun to make, and although you can't see in this picture, she has a pretty feathered tail, too. She keeps me company when I do the dishes.
The pattern that I used to make both chickens was available for free on this site last year, but it appears that they've taken it down. Phooey. I'm not exactly sure which crochet magazine the original pattern appeared in, but in case anyone's interested, I did a quick internet search, and was able to find this eBay listing for the pattern, cut out from the magazine in which it was originally printed (although the price for shipping's a bit steep).
Here's a little something that I painted in Photoshop for this week's Illustration Friday. I tried a more graphic, contemporary style this time around, and had lots of fun playing with the polygon lasso tool. I first tried to paint her eye open, but it turned out a bit too freaky-looking for me. I gave up after my third try and painted a closed eye instead. I think the illo would read a bit better with an open eye, so someday, I'll come back and fiddle with it again. But that day's not today, hehe.
I did another quick illustration, for the "citrus" theme, using a similar palette of colors. Oscar just loves the smell of oranges, and sometimes he's lucky enough to get a small piece for a treat. The illustration shows a rabbit (Oscar, perhaps? hehe) looking up at a fruiting orange tree. I think I am going to paint it on canvas, and hang it in Oscar's corner of the apartment.
So, it's official. I started my new job this Monday. I have to commute all the way to the southern tip of Brooklyn, which takes about 90-100 minutes for me each way. I figured that I would be able to sit down and get a bit of crafting or reading done during my commute...boy was I wrong. The trains are incredibly crowded in early morning, and moreso in the evening. I'm lucky if I get a seat during the last 30 minutes of the commute. Haha, that pretty much throws my plans right out the window. Oh, the things I would have made! These things happen. So...my hunt for some good audiobooks begins.
The people that I worked with previously got me a card, which they all signed, and flowers on my last day of work. Many people came to me personally to wish me well. The gesture made me a little misty-eyed. I will definitely miss all the wonderful people that I was able to meet and work with. Truly.
During the weekend, I went down to Union Square and purchased some organically grown herbs and planted them in a window box. Guess who they're for?? Hehe.
Although I'm definitely excited about having fresh herbs on hand for cooking, I'm more excited thinking about how happy Oscar will be when he has a variety of fresh organically grown herbs to eat. He frequently visits the kitchen in anticipation of getting a little taste of the herbs in addition to the other greens that have been gradually introduced into his diet.
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2019-04-18T17:15:47Z
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https://warmfuzzies.typepad.com/warmfuzzies/2007/05/index.html
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Arts
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tmbw
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Band Of Dans was They Might Be Giants' recording and touring band from 1999 to 2004. In 2004, drummer Dan Hickey departed from the band, and was replaced by Marty Beller. The remaining Dans continue to record and tour with the Johns.
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2019-04-19T09:15:37Z
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http://tmbw.net/wiki/Band_Of_Dans
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Arts
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Arts
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