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What you need to know: Video Assistant Referee
VAR begins this weekend. Here is what you can expect to see while watching a match.
By Ralph Schudel@schudel_ralph Aug 3, 2017, 11:02am EDT
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You have heard about it for weeks but now it's finally here. Video Assistant Referee (VAR) debuts in Major League Soccer this weekend.
The move has prompted many questions from supporters and skeptics, but Massive Report is here to help you have a better understanding of this new protocol.
Aug. 5th will be the first match day in MLS for the new VAR system, but this isn't something new to the league.
VAR was tested on 130 occurrences across North America and live-tested 25 times in USL matches. Columbus Crew SC were involved in offline VAR testing during their home matches against the Montreal Impact on May 24th and against against Atlanta United on July 1st.
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VAR is meant to be used as a tool to assist referees and make sure clear mistakes are avoided and serious incidents are not missed. Howard Webb of PRO Referees emphasized that the implementation of VAR is for "maximum benefit and minimum interference."
The Video Assistant Referee will serve as the fifth member of the officiating crew and will be located in a booth located in the stadium. The VAR will have access to all available broadcast angles and check plays for clear and obvious errors or serious missed incidents.
What can be reviewed?
VAR will be available for review in four match changing situations:
Direct red cards
Cases of mistaken identity
The head referee is encouraged to officiate the match as normal. If a serious infraction occurs, the VAR can make a recommendation that a play can be reviewed. If the head referee accepts the VAR's recommendation for review, he or she will make a television box motion to indicate the start of the review.
Once the review is completed, the head referee will repeat the box motion and reveal his verdict. The final decision will always belong to the head referee.
Information will be relayed to the public address announcer and broadcaster so the fans in attendance may know the decision. In addiction, fans will be shown the angles the referee utilized to arrive at his decision.
Similar to other professional leagues that have video review, if a stoppage of play occurs and play begins quickly, the window for review is closed. However, the head referee may halt the restart as the VAR reviews the video to check for a clear and obvious error.
During their testing period, PRO revealed that on average they experienced between 10-12 checks of VAR per-match.
How does the process work?
As previously mentioned, the VAR will have access to broadcast feeds only. For a call to be successfully overturned, there must be clear evidence to support it was incorrect. If the video doesn't provide clear evidence and allow a different decision to be rendered, the call on the field will stand and the match will move on.
PRO Referees surveyed 90 matches. Averaging 8.9 checks of clear and obvious errors and 0.36 reviews per 90 minutes.
Typically, the average time from a whistle to restart is 1:25, but with VAR the restart time was bumped up to 2:41. The referees will be emphasizing accuracy but want to maintain minimum interference.
All goals scored will be reviewed by the Video Assistant Referee. The VAR will look at the goal-scoring action and/or the attacking phase of play leading up to the goal. He or she will try to answer whether the awarding of a goal or not was a clear and obvious error.
Some examples referenced in getting a goal overturned are handballs or infractions committed by the team with possession that created a goal scoring opportunity. These would be deemed as clear and obvious errors, and the goals would not be allowed to stand.
VAR can review offside and disallow a goal if the call is missed on the field, but this will be at the discretion of the head referee.
The VAR process is cut and dry in regards to penalties. The VAR will look for a clear and obvious error in which a penalty kick was awarded or not awarded.
Howard Webb outlines everything that the VAR will look for in penalty kick scenarios.
PRO has made it clear that only straight red cards are reviewable. The VAR can recommend a review in situations where a straight red might be warranted.
The VAR will only look at the attacking phase of the play and review if there was a denial of a goal scoring opportunity.
Unlike prior sections, restarts don't negate potential red cards in cases of violent conduct.
Cases of mistaken identity will be reviewable with the introduction of VAR.
Columbus Crew SC fans will remember an instance last season when Tyson Wahl earned a straight red, but PRO referee Ted Unkel sent off Michael Parkhurst mistakenly. Under the new VAR protocol, Unkel would pause play to check with the VAR and then would make the correct call to send off Wahl.
The introduction of Video Assistant Referee will be met with praise and skepticism, but PRO have taken the time and training with the new technology.
Howard Webb estimates that officials have trained over 100 hours with this new procedure and feels confident in its implementation as he stresses a "maximum benefit with minimum interference."
Like most professional sports leagues that have instant replay, it's going to take some getting used to, but in the long run, VAR is meant to make the game better.
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Home Health West African Surgeons Laud Gov Abiodun On Healthcare Delivery
West African Surgeons Laud Gov Abiodun On Healthcare Delivery
By; Kolawole Olayinka, Abeokuta
The West African College of Surgeons (WACS), Faculty of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Yaba, Lagos has commended Ogun State Government for repositioning health care delivery for the citizenry.
The body of surgeons gave the commendation during a visit to the State Hospital Ijaye, Abeokuta, for re-accreditation of Postgraduate and Residency training programme in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O and G).
The group said it was impressed by the noticeable improvement on the facilities, expressing optimism that the newly procured state-of-the-art operative equipment would expose resident doctors to global health practice.
Chairman, WACS, Prof. Joseph Ikechebelu said, "re-accreditation exercise was is in line with the global health practice, in order to improve the facilities and allied specialist doctors for medical schools and teaching hospitals in West Africa. It is commendable that a secondary health facility has gone beyond the confines to run a post graduate and residency training programme here in Ijaye, Abeokuta".
Prof. Ikechebelu, suggested relocation of some of the structures, such as the neonatal centre to be closer to the operating theatre, while there would be need to procure transport incubator for the maternity ward, calling for the construction of a standard pharmacy and accommodation for Resident Doctors, to enable them attend to emergencies.
It will be recalled that last week, Governor Abiodun ordered the procurement of modern equipment such as anaesthesia machine, patient monitor, single and double oxygen concentrator, gunnery trolleys, incubator resuscitative machine, foldaway sketcher, delivery beds, laparoscopic unit, cardiotocographic machine, cardiac defibrillators, instrument trolleys, suctioning, autoclaving machine, wheel chairs among others to replace the broken down ones at the State Government secondary healthcare facilities across the State.
In her welcome address, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Health, Dr. Sade Adebanjo, expressed government's commitment to putting necessary infrastructure in place in its bid to restore Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital's accreditation.
On his part, Permanent Secretary, Hospitals Management Board, Dr. Nafiu Aigoro, appreciated the present administration for granting funds to ensure reaccreditation of the postgraduate and residency training in O and G at the State Hospital Abeokuta, saying it would assist in attracting the required specialists for secondary health care facilities across the State.
Other members of the re- accreditation team included the team leader, Prof. Olasurubomi Ogedengbe, Prof. D.W Onwusunu and Dr. John Sotunsa.
Faculty of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Joseph Ikechebelu
West African College of Surgeons (WACS)
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I carried away to go to the gym yesterday even if I had fever.
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City Room | The Many Front Pages of New York, Past and Present
The Many Front Pages of New York, Past and Present
By Sam Roberts
In 1940, as World War II ensnared the globe, New Yorkers had 10 major daily newspapers to get their news. The papers pictured didn't survive.Credit
You're probably more likely to have read about it online than in print, but this is National Newspaper Week. And if you can't take a reporter to lunch, at least pause and reflect on the fact that while New York remains that rare, robust daily newspaper town, that's nothing compared to the choices available in the city a century ago.
Chicago was the setting for Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's rollicking 1928 melodrama, "The Front Page," but New York had many more front pages.
In 1900, at least 15 daily general circulation English-language newspapers were being published in New York, before they were gobbled up by mergers and acquisitions or died untimely deaths.
Their names and logos are largely the stuff of nostalgia.
In addition to two survivors — The New York Times and The New York Post — New Yorkers could regularly read The Press, The Herald, The Tribune, The Telegram, The Mail and Express, The Evening News, The Commercial Advertiser, and the morning and evening editions of The World, The Sun and The Journal.
They would be followed in subsequent decades by The Daily News, The Daily Mirror, The Graphic, P.M. and The Compass. More localized dailies included The Brooklyn Eagle, The Bronx Home News, The Long Island Press, The Long Island Star-Journal and The Staten Island Advance.
The Mirror folded in 1963 with a million readers. Dwindling advertising doomed the ultimate conglomerate, the hybrid World Journal Tribune – known as the Widget — in 1967 (its offspring, New York Magazine, survived). New York Newsday closed in 1995.
Still, no other city still has as many newspapers in the top 25 by paid circulation today. New York has four: The Times, The Daily News, The Post and The Wall Street Journal, although print readership has declined precipitously since the days when The News could regularly boast two million daily and three million on Sundays.
Combined print and online circulation for The Times and some other publications are higher than ever, though. AMNew York and New York Metro are distributed free.
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Heinrich Bullinger was a good pastor and a better father. He was born in 1504 to a priest who, in his old age, embraced Reformation views, such as "the just shall live by faith." Though it cost him his church, it gained him a son.
Young Heinrich fell in love with Martin Luther's writings, Melanchthon's books, and the study of the Bible. At the remarkably young age of 27, he was asked to take the place of slain Swiss Reformer Ulrich Zwingli as pastor of the Grossmunster of Zurich. He ascended the pulpit there on December 23, 1531.
Bullinger continued Zwingli's practice of preaching through books of the Bible, verse by verse. His home, like his Bible, was open from morning till night, and he freely distributed food, clothing, and money to the needy. His wisdom and influence spread across Euroope. No one was more affected than his son, Henry.
James said, "The wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure, then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere" (James 3:17).
Joel Osteen is the pastor of America's largest church. Lakewood Church in Houston boasts a weekly worship attendance of about 47,000. A gifted communicator and best-selling author, one would assume Osteen doesn't have a care in the world. One would assume that nothing fazes him. But that would be wrong. At a recent appearance at a Virginia church, Joel Osteen went off script. And what he said about his personality was not expected. Osteen shared a personal flaw with his audience.
That flaw, in his own words, is that "I want people to like me." But he has accepted that some people never will.
Osteen shared his thoughts at Lifepoint Church, near Washington, D.C., while promoting his new book, Next Level Thinking.
Before delving into a discussion with Lifepoint Church's senior pastor, Osteen told the 1,650 people who had gathered to hear him speak that he didn't come prepared with a special message, but ended up sharing one anyway.
Francis Chan is one of the leading voices on the church and American culture today. This is his recent interview, on the release of his new book, Letters to the Church.
Q: How do you see the future of the American church?
A: I wrote this book during one of the happiest seasons of my life. I don't remember ever being this excited about ministry or the future of the Church. I have never been one to proclaim, "Revival is coming!" But it does currently feel that way.
There have been stirrings throughout our country, and some of these are not the usual critics but true lovers and servants of the Church—which is awesome. I get excited about the possibility of the consumer mentality in the American Church disappearing. I dream of this happening in my lifetime, and I'm excited to give what remains of my life to it. I think the starting point is for all of us to ask, pray, and dwell on the question: What does God want for His Church? This question can change everything.
For the first time in my life, I actually feel closer to God while praying alongside my church family! It's like I can sense His actual presence in the room with us. It makes me want to stay in a room with them all because I want to get as close to Jesus as possible. Just the other day, a one-hour teaching session spontaneously turned into thirteen hours of prayer! We were enjoying His presence together so much that no one wanted to leave!
It is an awesome thing to experience God's presence in a room full of people who truly love Him.
Q: Your new book, Letters to the Church, reflects on the state of American evangelical churches – including lessons learned from your own mistakes.
A: Yes, God has graciously shown me the good fruit from my Cornerstone days as well as some of the fundamental mistakes I made early on. I hope to help others avoid some of the same mistakes. I realize now that I built a church designed around what I wanted in a church.
Honestly, I struggled in writing this book because the Church is such a sacred topic. I have not always treated the Church as such. I spent years doing "whatever works" to get people's attention. I had joined millions of Americans in being too quick to speak and too sure about my opinions. Over the last few years, I have spent time crying in the presence of God, confessing my arrogance. 25 years after launching that first church, I'm asking myself, "Who cares what Francis Chan wants?" Is there anything less significant than my opinion of what church should be? Could anything matter less than the kind of church I want to create?
The good news is that by the grace of God, some of us are seeing our failures now and are training ourselves to prioritize His desires. Scripture is our starting point, not desire or tradition. Rather than thinking of what we would enjoy or asking others what they would like, we ask the simple question: What would please God most?
Q: In Acts 4 you point out a pattern that could transform American churches. Describe that pattern for us.
God is present in His Word: As we read, we encounter God and allow others to do the same.
God is present in fellowship: As we join together for the mission, people see God.
God is present in Communion: As we break bread together, we proclaim the sacrifice of Jesus.
God is present when we pray: As we cry out on our knees, we will see God act.
This pattern is simple, and it will work today as powerfully as it did in Acts.
Our job is to reveal God to people. He is present in His Word, fellowship, Communion, and prayer. Rather than creating our own pep rallies, our calling is to simply put Him on display and watch as He draws people to Himself. If they are not interested in Him, what do we think we're accomplishing by trying to lure them by other means? We have to accept the fact that not everyone is interested in God. We just need to make sure that it's really God that we are putting on display. Otherwise we run the risk of people attending our services who have merely fallen in love with us.
Q: But will it work today?
A: You mean, will anyone show up on Sunday? We are consumed with this question, but it is the wrong question. Paul actually told Timothy that teaching sound doctrine will not "work," in fact it will drive people away (2 Tim. 4:1–5). Yet he is commanded to preach truth because it is what God wants! Remember, it's not about what I would like, what others would like, or what "works." Church is for Him.
Having said that, I think we would be surprised. We may find that people are actually attracted to a group that is devoted to the presence of God. After all, it was enough to attract over 100 million people to the underground church in China. It could be that God is waiting for a group of people to strip away all that they think will work and devote themselves to what He commanded.
Q: You employ a "churchBNB" model as you plant churches in the San Francisco area. These are small home-based churches which grow then intentionally divide and multiply. Is this a model you believe will work in other locations?
A: First of all, the New Testament avoids laying out a model for precisely how the Church ought to be structured. The biblical authors could have been very clear on this, but instead they leave us with a lot of freedom. I think that's important, and it is part of preserving the mystery of the Church. What works for us in San Francisco, may not work for every church in the Body.
So, I do not argue that all churches should be small. I thank God for many of the large churches that currently exist, and I hope they thrive. I have many friends who don't know Jesus. Some might not come to a gathering in someone's house but would be open to visiting a large gathering. I just want to see them saved.
Yet I do believe that God is leading a movement in this country toward simple, smaller gatherings, and I long to see this movement gain greater traction. I get so excited when I dream about the Church spreading in small, invigorating expressions that look and feel like the early church. I want to help others begin dreaming as well.
Francis Chan is a pastor, speaker and best-selling author of books including Crazy Love, Forgotten God, and Erasing Hell. Currently, Francis is a pastor of We Are Church and is planting churches in Northern California, where he lives with his wife of 25 years, Lisa. They have seven children and one beautiful granddaughter.


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Great example why mixing tableware and fixtures add interest to rooms.


Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. I managed to get a bit of rest but the holidays took a lot out of me energy wise and as a result I didn't get as much done as I would have liked. I wanted to get more than a cover up for you guys today, but I figured I should save what little buffer I have so I don't miss updates. Also, I should note that I changed the formatting of the covers to show the volume number in addition to the chapter, the page resolution is also slightly smaller (700px vs 725) to allow for more breathing room on the right side of the comic.
There's a new vote incentive for Top Web Comics, it's the first panel of next week's page! (I may add a few details before it goes up next Weds but it's pretty much finished).
Yay! New chapter of Terra for a new year. Looking forward to both.
Firstly, allow me to say, Welcome Back and Happy 2017.
And secondly, yay, a new chapter begins! Hopefully things don't go back for the crew when they go to rescue Rick's family.
Christmas was pretty fun. I mean, Rogue One was VERY awesome. That goes without saying, really. Anyway, I'm rambling, so I'll see you guys next week!
May 2017 be kinder to you than 2016.
Still haven't seen Rogue One but I hear very good things! Hopefully Drew and I can catch it before it leaves theatres.


The GAC, at its meeting in Rio in March 2003 established a ccTLD working group (WG 4) and gave it two short-term priority tasks: 1) Preparation of a GAC advice on the ccNSO; and 2) consideration of the appropriateness of an updating of the February 2000 GAC principles for delegation and administration of ccTLDs.
On the second of these priority tasks, the Working Group considered appropriate to prepare a preliminary discussion paper for the GAC meeting in Montreal. Based on the response from the GAC, the real redrafting work will take place after the Montreal meeting and in view of the Carthage meeting.
No GAC member has opposed the idea of updating the GAC principles or any of the ideas expressed in the initial non-paper.
The GAC is asked to endorse the lines proposed and instruct WG 4 to update the GAC principles with a view to proposing a text to the GAC meeting in Carthage.
This paper addresses the possibility of updating and adapting the GAC Principles to take into account the various experiences since the year 2000 and the recent developments concerning the ICANN reform. The updated principles should set an appropriate framework for the relationship of individual governments with ICANN in relation to their ccTLDs.
The ICANN reform has recognised an enhanced advisory role for the GAC. It has also, for the first time, recognised the ccTLDs as a separate constituency with an own SO (ccNSO). These aspects of the ICANN reform should be reflected in the GAC Principles, as well as the newly defined ccTLD-related ICANN mission. Another goal of the updating exercise may be to clarify delegation or re-delegation processes which have been causing dissatisfaction among certain governments and ccTLD managers and which have not enabled ICANN to deal with all requests in a timely manner. The present GAC Principles are not sufficiently clear regarding the procedures for designation and delegation of a ccTLD.
Moreover, there may be a need to clarify certain statements in the GAC Principles which either need more specific language to ensure that their purpose is understood correctly (e.g. clause 10.2.1 with respect to zone file transfers to ICANN), or which need to take into account national law provisions in GAC member countries.
As a corollary of the effort undertaken to clarify the relationships among the various parties concerned and their respective roles regarding ccTLD issues, the update of GAC Principles could be a stepping stone to improve internationalisation of delegation and re-delegation processes.
Statements made in GAC Principles should be reviewed in light of the newly revised ICANN mission, the role of governments and GAC, the creation of the ccNSO and the distinction between global and local policies as regards ccTLDs, as they are or will be reflected in ICANN Bylaws.
In accordance with its role vis-�-vis public policy issues, the GAC should be given a role of contributing to the definition of global ccTLD-related policies, together with the ccNSO. GAC Principles could describe the role the GAC could play in this field.
GAC Principles should address the requirements to which the performance of the ccTLD-related IANA function should conform, in order to guarantee a smooth, consistent and reliable operation of the IANA database. The smooth operation of the IANA function is crucial for the adequate performance of ccTLDs.
Experience with re-delegation processes since the approval of the GAC Principles shows that clearer, predictable and more streamlined procedures are needed to deal with delegation and re-delegation requests. GAC Principles could better delineate the respective roles and responsibilities in these processes, as well as the procedures to be applied.
The starting point would be that delegation or re-delegation is a government.s right. This means that the administration of a ccTLD can only be delegated or re-delegated to an entity designated or recognised by the respective government. The GAC and the international organisations represented in it could play a role in facilitating re-delegation processes, in cases of doubt or contentious requests. The provisions contained in this part of the document should ideally be accepted by ICANN and the ccTLDs as a new procedure and replace RFC 1591, ICP1 insofar as they are used to address re-delegation requests.
GAC Principles could also include a set of "best practice" guidelines for the designation of ccTLD managers by governments (consultation with LIC), for the exercise of their public authority over them (public policy issues they can take care of...) or for the structuring of their relationship with them (laws, agreements...).
Clarification could be useful with regard to principle 10.2.1, which seems to mandate a zone file transfer that may be contrary to data protection laws or problematic in respect of legal protection of databases in certain countries.
Conversely, broader terms should be used to define ccTLD Registries, since the conditions embedded in the definition of "delegee" (principle 3.5) . that is, designation by the relevant government and recognition through a communication between ICANN and the designated entity - are not met by all of the existing ccTLD managers.
The updated GAC Principles could reflect a more mature stage in ccTLD relationships that should allow for some initial steps to be taken in the internationalisation of ccTLD delegation and re-delegation processes. In this regard, GAC Principles could assert each country.s right to have a ccTLD in the root zone file.
Some colleagues find the current principles too prescriptive and would prefer to use conciliatory wording: a light-touch framework, not instructions, particularly where it refers to the role of governments. Some don.t consider appropriate that governments need to notify ICANN of the details of arrangements between them and private or public entities constituting national ccTLD Registries or of subcontracts signed by those Registries. They put in question some references distinguishing Registries which accept registrations from users resident outside their territory and see no particular role for ICANN in this regard. There also seems to be some divergence of views on the value of some of the current GAC principles. The question has been raised of not unduly regulating the ccTLD Registry operators more than other communications operators. All these and any other points GAC colleagues may wish to raise are matters for consideration by WG 4 in the context of the updating of the GAC principles, after Montreal.
Before adopting updated GAC principles it would be useful to discuss certain issues with ICANN and the ccTLD community in order to create a common understanding and commitment to the GAC principles, and to achieve a maximum efficiency in applying the GAC principles in practice.
To the extent they refer to the role of ICANN, the updated GAC principles would have the standing of "GAC advice" according to article XI, section 2.1, paragraphs j) and K) of the new ICANN bylaws.


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An individual will be found to have a credible fear of persecution if he or she establishes that there is a "significant possibility" that he or she could establish in a full hearing before an Immigration Judge that he or she has been persecuted or has a well-founded fear of persecution or harm on account of his or her race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion if returned to his or her country.
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Amy C. Smith, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain Fascicule 23, Reading Museum Service (Reading Borough Council). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 47; pls. 40. ISBN 978-0-19-726389-1. £55.00.
This CVA fascicule completes the publication of Greek vases belonging to the Reading Museum Service (formerly known as the Reading Museum) that are on loan to the Ure Museum. The exceptions are the Cypriote vases and the fragmentary material which will be the subject of a separate publication. The contents of this new CVA are greatly varied, more than in most CVA fascicules; it ranges from Minoan to mainland Greece to South Italian. Most of these vases are published for the first time (there are a few exceptions).
The Introduction provides a concise history of the collection. The first Greek vases arrived in 1882 from the collection of Horatio Bland and they formed the nucleus of the museum's holdings of Greek pottery, consisting of Corinthian, Attic and Apulian material that reflected Bland's varied interests. In the following decades, there were several more donations as well as purchases. When known, provenances are given, but for most of the vases, their original location is unknown. An unexpected provenance is the cup that was dredged up in the River Thames and attributed to the Pithos Painter, an undistinguished late sixth-century Attic red-figured painter. The incrustation on the cup suggested to conservators that it arrived in the river at some time in antiquity. One wonders how that occurred.
The text begins with two undecorated Minoan conical cups and quickly moves on to Corinthian black figure and patterned vases, as well as black glaze. Worthy of mention are a Late Corinthian warrior aryballos, a good Late Protocorinthian pointed aryballos that has an elegant scale pattern, and a round-bottomed alabastron decorated with a seated sphinx. Inexplicably, the enlarged illustration of the last vase crops the lower part of the vessel (pl. 2, 1). There is a Corinthian red-figured pelike and a white-ground lekythos, both modest vessels, as well a variety of black-glazed and unglazed ware that ranges in date from the late sixth century to the early fourth. East Greek vases include two cups that resemble the Attic Siana cup, and a small unglazed Lydion. A pseudo-Chalcidian trefoil oinochoe decorated with komasts is attributed to the Polyphemos Group. This rather eclectic beginning of the fascicule concludes with Etruscan vases, including alabastra, a stemmed dish and a kantharos.
Next come the Attic vases. The black-figured material consists mainly of late lekythoi that are found in abundance all over the Mediterranean world. These belong to the Haimon Group and the Class of Athens 581, i and ii, painters short on talent but often innovative in choice of subject. A few black-patterned lekythoi and a cup type B complete the early Attic entries. The Attic red-figured and white-ground vases come next. The Pithos Painter's cup depicts in its tondo his customary seated figure wearing a kidaris. The exterior is glazed. There are three small squat lekythoi, two decorated with just a single palmette, the third with a charging boar. The small early fourth century bell-krater decorated with satyrs, Eros and a seated woman deserves a better presentation. The layout of pl. 15 should have included some details of this krater's figures, especially the satyr on Side B which reflects the satyr from Myron's famous group of Athena and Marsyas which stood on the Athenian Akropolis. According to Ian McPhee, the vase is close in style to the Painter of Athens 13894. The white-ground lekythoi are in a poor state of preservation, yet one can still make out the fine drawing on the one attributed by the author to the Painter of Munich 2335, an artist working during the third quarter of the fifth century B. C. The Attic material concludes with a black-glazed trefoil oinochoe, a skyphos, cup-skyphoi and a salt cellar. One plate contains Boeotian patterned, glazed and figured vases. The single vase with figures has a woman's head on one side, the other being patterned. The footer at the bottom of this plate (19) reads Bolotian instead of Boeotian.
The last group of vases are South Italian: Apulian, Campanian and Sicilian. The best are the Apulian, beginning with a handsome alabastron from the Alabastra Group. There is an unidentified woman moving to right, looking back and holding a box in her left hand on the front and, on the back, a figure of Eros sitting on a flower holding out a beaded necklace, the two separated by an elegant tendril ornament. Next come two pseudo-Panathenaic amphorae attributed by Trendall to the Split-mouth Group. Each depicts a woman seated in a naiskos flanked by a woman and a youth; on the other side, a female head to left. The two were probably made as a pair. There is a bell-krater attributed by Trendall and Cambitoglou to the Painter of Geneva 13108 as well as a rather nice column-krater attributed by them to the Snub-nose painter. The latter has an intriguing scene on the obverse of a youthful warrior seated on a rock holding a large phiale in his right hand, two spears in his left. A youth holding a pair of spears and a wreath stands before him; standing behind him is a well-dressed woman holding a situla and a sash. For this entry one would like a bit of commentary on the subject. A modest bell-krater from the third quarter of the fourth century shows a large plump bird that Trendall and Cambitoglou identified as a partridge. A metallic-looking epichysis and a handsome fish-plate are important pieces, especially the fish-plate attributed to the Group of Karlsruhe 66/160. There, each fish is so carefully rendered that its species may be identified. A hydria by the Painter of Karlsruhe B9 depicts a crane(?) standing in a perirrhanterion flanked by a youth and a woman holding a box. I am not sure the neck of the bird is long enough to be that of a crane and since its legs are overlapped by the wall of the vessel, one cannot determine how long they are. The rest of the Apulian vases are modest pieces: a kantharos, two lids, either from lekanides or pyxides, two squat lekythoi, a mug as well as two mug lids, two trefoil oinochoai, a pelike and a deep skyphos. The most important of these is the mug which shows a female figure and Eros, then a perirrhanterion with a bird identified as a wryneck. The drawing is rough and ready, but the artist (the Lampas Painter) was attentive to the features of the bird, an eager-looking little creature. The Apulian section concludes with patterned vases, an askos in the shape of a duck, black-glazed ware and Gnathian. A bell-krater by the Roccanova Painter represents the Lucanian material in this fascicule and the last entries are small Campanian and Sicilian patterned and black-glazed vases.
The descriptions are meticulous right down to including correlation of the color of the clay to the chips in the Munsell color charts. Useful comparanda are given for many entries. The text concludes with a Concordance of Greek Vases in the Reading Museum Service and an Index of Artists, Stylistic Groups, and Classes. A few criticisms. It is not clear why the miniature skyphos on pl. 18, 12-13 deserves a profile on p. 23, but no other vase does. The illustrations are copious, but most of the photographs are washed out and there is so little contrast between the images and the background that the vases look contoured. Often, there are distracting light reflections (pl. 29 is a particularly relevant example). In this time of superb photography, whether film or digital, the results should have been better. The cost of this fascicule seems excessive given how slim it is.


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Bookwise: "Sunset Western Garden Book", "Cass Turnbull's Guide to Pruning", "Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades" (Solomon), "Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast" (Pojar), and anything by Dan Hinkley, Ann Lovejoy, Penelope Hobhouse or Christopher Lloyd.
South Sound gardeners are NOT fair weather gardeners. If we were, we'd never get anything accomplished. However, from the current weather predictions it sounds like even the most dedicated Northwest gardeners will have too much rain and snow to slog through this winter to get an off-season gardening 'fix'. Vegan Community to the rescue!
"Microgreens" (sprouts to the rest of us) can be grown on a windowsill and harvested in only ten days. Easy as 1,2,3…4. The best containers for this mini gardening job are the clear plastic boxes you get in the produce aisle. Start a new box of "greens" every few days to have tasty, spicy microgreens all winter to flavor salads and sandwiches. Growing microgreens isn't exactly real gardening but it's good "buffer gardening" until the real thing comes along again in the springtime.
Put on windowsill, keep moist and wait about 10 days, then harvest with scissors.
Compost stems left in the container and replant.
Harvesting is kind of a pain but the gardening part is fun.
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Brad Goreski's new series "It's a Brad, Brad World" finally premieres Jan. 2 on Bravo (we say "finally," because those commercials have been working overtime). In it, Goreski, 34, attempts to break out on his own as a Hollywood stylist. And while he doesn't have quite the same snazzy fashion vernacular ("Bananas!" "I die!") as his former boss Rachel Zoe, there are fashion shoots, significant other quibbles, and celebrity clientle (albeit, on a somewhat smaller scale; in the first episode, his only celebrity client is Jessica Alba).
We chatted briefly with the reality star/stylist, who was recently named "exclusive brand stylist" for Kate Spade — about his headlining his own show and the split from stylist Rachel Zoe in September 2010 — which, it turns out, didn't end as amicably as they let on.
Well, you know, initially I didn't want to. I wanted to focus on getting my portfolio together, which I did. About six months after I went out on my own, I got a lot of emails about meeting with people and such. I initially wanted to do a makeover show. Then, when I met with Shed Media, the production company for the show, they loved the idea of a makeover show, but they thought what people liked so much about me on Rachel show was me going through my firsts — my first Oscars, my first triumphs, my first failures. We decided that it was an exciting time in my life and that it might be interesting and worthwhile to continue letting people see what I was up to. We thought it would be interesting to show somebody who was not necessarily at the top of their game but was climbing their way to get there and the struggles that entails. Also, I was very much interested in showing the complete other side of my life, which is my personal life and my family life — aspects they weren't introduced to on Rachel's show.
My main focus was also to focus on the process of styling. And the process that goes into a photo shoot. It's not like we just arrive on the set with clothes. There are many steps in between. There's also many steps to putting together an Oscar outfit. There are skills that come with this job, believe it or not.
Have their been clients that have been turned off by all the cameras?
Not so far. Not everyone wants to be on camera, sure. But I wouldn't say that it's prevented me from getting a job.
How about the drama factor. Bravo has made a name for itself with those table-flipping housewives. Is there a sense of pressure that you have to provide that same kind of drama?
That is just not me — I couldn't even act that out if they had a script. It's more of natural drama that comes with this line of work — it's more will-I-do-something-or-not? kind of suspense.
Let's talk about the cameras on that other show, "The Rachel Zoe Project," in terms of how they portrayed your departure [She says she was under the impression he was leaving to live a quiet life with his boyfriend]. You guys seemed to be on good terms after your exit. But on 'Watch What Happens Live!" recently, you painted a different picture. What's the story?
Unfortunately, from my point of view and the number of conversations we had about my departure, and then also the press release we released to People, things on her show were portrayed completely different. It's very clear in that release that my intentions were to spread my wings and soar, which indicates going to another level and going to another place — not simply going home to my boyfriend and my dogs. My intention of assisting her and interning at Vogue and working at Vogue and other stuff was I was always preparing to be a stylist on my own and have my own business.
To say those things are not what we discussed — it was just unfortunate and a little bit disappointing. I had given her 2 1/2 months' notice and helped find a replacement and stayed past my end date to finish out a photo shoot with her. I really did conduct myself in an honest way. It's unfortunate to me the way it was brought up on national television instead of just emailing me or calling me if she had issues.
So you haven't been in touch?
We are! We speak every so often. We see each other out. It's not like we're going out to dinner or anything. I'm happy for her and what she's doing. I wish her continued success.
Are you excited about the Golden Globes? Got any clients walking the red carpet?
I'm still waiting for some presenters to be confirmed. We'll see. I'm definitely excited.
Photo: Brad Goreski in an episode from "It's a Brad, Brad World." Credit: Bravo.


Fifth House Ensemble presented the world premiere of Stacy Garrop's "And All Time" Saturday night at Fourth Presbyterian Church.
Among the plethora of new-music ensembles in Chicago, some like to stay in a personal safety zone, performing works by a handful of composer friends and largely neglecting important forward-looking modernists of the past.
Not so Fifth House Ensemble. In their final concert of the season Saturday night at Fourth Presbyterian Church, the collective offered an enterprising, well-balanced program with a world premiere by a leading local composer and a pair of works by 20th-century masters.
The concept tying all six works together–some rather tenuously–was time in its various manifestations. The printed program says the concert was curated to feature works "that challenge our perceptions and make us think about the remarkably diverse ways that humans share the experience of time." So far so good.
But there were issues with the self-consciously artsy presentation. In between the musical works, a contemporary poem by Anonymous was read that depicted a train journey and various transient passengers' dilemmas, semi-enacted by Fifth House members and set off by train sounds and blinking lights.
More problematic was the decision to perform all six works continuously without a break. Even with the poem reading as connective tissue, it wasn't always clear when one work ended and the next began. (Listing the scoring for each piece would have helped.) The sequencing was made more confusing still by presenting a partial version of George Crumbs's Vox Balaenae at the start (minus cello for some reason) as listed in the program, and then performing the complete Crumb work at the end (not listed). No wonder some audience members appeared to be checking their programs in bafflement.
Even with that issue and the dubious poetic linking, Fifth House Ensemble delivered supremely vital and polished performances that provided the best possible advocacy for all six works.
The centerpiece and main event was the world premiere of Stacy Garrop's And All Time. Her work is cast in four sections with each inspired sequentially by poems of Poe ("The Bells") Henry van Dyke (Time Is"), John Milton ("On Time") and Walt Whitman ("Poem of Joys"). The musicians' prerecorded readings of lines from each poem were interstiched between the music.
Written for Fifth House's Ensemble full complement of ten musicians, And All Time begins with the musicians individually muttering "Time Is," the multi-voiced chant growing louder until the music leaps in. The first section ("delight") is aptly bold and optimistic with Straussian horn writing (well played by Parker Nelson) highlighting Garrop's nearly symphonic textures.
The second section is melodic and lovely, wrought in a melancholy Copland-esque nostalgia with expressive lines for horn and woodwinds. The music gradually accelerates and goes directly into the more agitated third section with the musicians shouting "Fly envious Time" (from Milton) amid more dynamic and turbulent music.
The final section is equally muscular, with a majestic, striding main theme and fizzing energy, which eventually quietens down, ending on a note of peaceful elevation.
The interpolated poem readings feels like a dated device, not adding much to the music. But Garrop's score is otherwise highly inspired. This is confident, big-boned music, scored with flair and wholly delightful. And All Time seems like a short symphony in waiting, and would likely benefit from a full-orchestral version.
The rest of the program proved equally diverting.
Alfred Schnittke's bleak, coffin-nail music can make Shostakovich seem like Leroy Anderson. Such is the case with his Piano Quartet in A minor. In this concise work Schnittke deconstructs the main theme of Mahler's uncompleted student Piano Quartet, layering multiple fragments of the melody on top of each other with increasing volume and dissonance until the breaking point. The strings' matter-of-fact reprise of the theme near the coda failed to provide the requisite tug, though Katherine Petersen unleashed playing of massive force in the daunting keyboard part.
Petersen was also featured in Caleb Burhans' In Time of Desperation, where her insistent playing of an ostinato-like motif was put across with powerful accelerating impact.
In LJ White's moody Groove III for quintet, a yearning theme is reworked in various guises ultimately not avoiding repetitiveness. More rewarding was Nicolas Scherzinger's Fractured Mirrors (also for quintet) with its jumpy, mercurial phrases traveling through an array of colors and building up a considerable head of steam at the coda.
Despite the bifurcated presentation, Crumb's Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) proved a highlight of the evening, along with the Garrop premiere. Crumb's 1971 paean to the title cetacean remains one of his most popular and characteristic works, showing the American composer's singular ear for colors and unorthodox use of instruments (scored for flute, cello and prepared piano).
Flutist Melissa Snoza, cellist Herine Coetzee Koschak, and pianist Petersen did the Full Crumb in this performance, wearing black half-masks as directed in the score, with the playing area bathed in an evocative blue light.
From Petersen's scraping of the piano strings, to Snoza singing into her flute while playing, and Koschak doubling on small antique cymbals, the Fifth House members delivered a committed and atmospheric performance, bringing out the haunting sonic landscape, unearthly beauty and musical imagination of Crumb's score.


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Iran doctor freed by US returns home after prisoner swap
Iranian physician Majid Taheri returned home on Monday after his release from jail in the United States as part of a prisoner exchange.
Taheri was greeted at Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport by Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Jaberi Ansari, reported the semi-official news agency, ISNA, which published a picture of the pair speaking to reporters.
More: Speculation surrounds Iran scientist release after US detention US Navy veteran held by Iran released and en route home French-Iranian academic marks one year imprisoned in Iran
The doctor, who had been detained in the US for 16 months, was freed on Thursday as Iran released US Navy veteran Michael White, who was imprisoned in July 2018 after being convicted of insulting Iran's supreme leader and posting private information online.
"I hope to see the release of [other Iranians imprisoned abroad] in the near future," Ansari said, adding his ministry would do its best to achieve this.
Taheri thanked Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
"I thank the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and dear officials, including Mr Zarif, who worked hard, and other officials who took months to help release me, as an Iranian physician accused of circumventing US sanctions on medicine," he was quoted as saying.
US Navy veteran released by Iran arrives in Switzerland
Taheri was the second Iranian to return in a week after being detained in the US.
Cancer vaccine
A US federal judge issued an order to free Taheri - an Iranian-American dermatologist who had been working at a clinic in Tampa, Florida - on time served.
Taheri had been accused of violating US sanctions by attempting to export a filter to Iran that he said was for vaccine research, but that US authorities said required a licence because it could be used for chemical and biological warfare purposes.
He was also accused of structuring a series of bank deposits below $10,000 to evade reporting requirements under federal law. In December he pleaded guilty to charges he violated financial reporting requirements by depositing $277,344 at a bank, according to court documents.
On Monday he rejected accusations against him as "unfair and false", according to Iran's Fars news agency.
"I was helping the University of Tehran to develop a cancer vaccine, especially for women," he was quoted as saying.
Earlier last week, an Iranian scientist named Sirous Asgari returned to Tehran after being acquitted in a federal trade secrets case and deported. Asgari's departure had been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic and his supporters say the scientist contracted the virus while being held.
Iran-US tensions have soared in recent years as President Donald Trump has pursued a campaign of "maximum pressure" against the US's arch enemy.
Since unilaterally withdrawing the US from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, Trump has hit the Islamic republic with sweeping sanctions.
The two sides appeared to come to the brink of war for the second time in less than a year in January, when Trump ordered an air strike that killed one of Iran's top generals, Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad, Iraq, and Iran responded with a missile attack targeting US troops there.
Iranian scientist detained in US on the way home
Saudi embassy urges its citizens in Washington to avoid protest sites


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Старое Вялковское кладбище (другое название — «Быково-Вялки», в официальных документах — муниципальное кладбище г.п. Родники по улице Касимовская) — закрытое для свободного захоронения кладбище в городском поселении Родники Раменского района Расположено на окраине поселка Родники по улице Касимовская на границе с городским поселением Быково.

История

Открыто для захоронений в 1905 году по прошению прихожан церкви Святой Троицы поселка Удельная. В годы Первой Мировой войны на нем захоронили трех воинов, один из которых — Георгий Лавриненко умер 2 марта 1915 года в Красковской лечебнице. До наших дней сохранилось около пятнадцати дореволюционных надгробий. В 1938 году на кладбище был похоронен известный бухгалтер Александр Михайлович Галаган (1879—1938). Во время Великой Отечественной войны на кладбище хоронили солдат, умерших в эвакогоспитале в поселке Удельная. Кладбище активно использовалось для захоронений до 1950 года, когда было открыто Родниковское кладбище в лесу за линией Московско-Казанской железной дороги. После этого количество захоронений на Старом Вялковском кладбище уменьшилось, но хоронить здесь продолжали до 1975 года, после чего производятся только подзахоронения в родственные могилы (хотя имеются и единичные случаи новых, не родственных захоронений, датированных 1990—2010 гг.). Официально муниципальное кладбище г.п. Родники, ул. Касимовская закрыто для свободного захоронения Постановлением главы г.п. Родники 5 сентября 2018 года. Этим Постановлением разрешены захоронения урн с прахом и захоронения при наличии свободного участка земли или могилы ранее умершего родственника или ранее умершего супруга, а также документов, подтверждающих близкое родство, только в пределах родственных или семейных захоронений. В 2018 году администрацией г.п. Родники проведены большие работы по благоустройству кладбища — вырублены заросли, удалены кустарники, обновлено ограждение, центральный вход выложен плиткой и установлены емкости с водой и песком. Работы по приведению кладбища в соответствии с требованиями будут продолжены и далее

На кладбище похоронены: внучка народовольца Александра Генриховича Штанге художник Ирина Дмитриевна Штанге (1906—1991); бухгалтер Александр Михайлович Галаган (1879—1938, могила не сохранилась); архитектор, соавтор проекта здания Детского Мира в Москве Гордей Гордеевич Аквилев (1912—1975).

Примечания

Кладбища Московской области
Похороненные в Раменском районе
Родники (Раменский район)

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In Fantage news, the January special item has been released and it is an Agent Costume!
When you wear them you do some really cool animations, take a look!
Fantage have also released some new clothes and hairstyles this week. Head on over to Le Shop and Stellar Salon to look at them!
That's everything for Fantage but in Peace Police news we now have over 100 members!!
For this reason we are asking all current Peace Police members to attend our first event tomorrow Saturday 5th January on the server Yellow Yeti in the Extreme Snowboarding Cabin at Mt Fantage. The time for this will be 9pm GMT (UK) time. This means 4pm EST and 1pm PST. It is also 4pm FST (Fantage Standard Time) We hope that all members can attend as will start our first mass reporting spree. Re-blog this image and/or tell your Peace Police friends so we can get as many people to come!
Make sure to be on our xat to stay connected with all members of the force!
UPDATE Thanks to all who could make it, we didn't run into much trouble and only managed to report a couple of people (Maybe they were scared of us and didn't say anything xD) The turnout was good but considering we have over 100 members only 15-20 people attended 😦 Still better than nothing but i do urge everyone to come next time. We will decide when this is in our next post.


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Q: PrepareStatement error I get an error in this function but I don't know why.
Can you help me?
The error is in the row where I call executeQuery()
public static int numeroElementi(String table) throws SQLException {

    // viene reistanziata perché questa è una funziona statica!
    String DB_URL = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/kmzero";
    Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(DB_URL, "root", "root");

    String query = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM ? ";
    PreparedStatement pStatement = connection.prepareStatement(query);
    pStatement.setString(1, table);

    try {

        ResultSet resultSet = pStatement.executeQuery();

        try {
            if (resultSet.next())
                return resultSet.getInt("count");

            else
                return 0;

        } finally {
            resultSet.close();
        }
    } finally {
        pStatement.close();
    }
}

A: I think you cannot pass the tablename (also columnNames) as a parameter and this is the time when tableName should be concatenated in your string.
String query = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM " + table;

if your table needs to be escape,
String query = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM `" + table + "`";

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Green: Bucs infected by losing attitude (Oct. 14)
Mary Green | Monday, October 14, 2013
You think you've got it bad, Giants and Jaguars fans?
Try being a Bucs fan.
Sure, your teams are winless, and sure, there are rumors floating around that one of those franchises might not only relocate, but might move to a different country altogether. Well, I'll admit, life is pretty rough if you're a Jags fan.
But at least you don't have to cheer for the Yucks.
This is the team that won the Super Bowl only 10 years ago, with one of the best defenses in the league year after year.
And now? Tampa Bay's defense is still statistically one of the top in the NFL, but it gives up points when it can't afford to do so. In losses to the Jets, Cardinals and Saints, the Bucs yielded game-winning scores after the two-minute warning – not the way you want to end your Sunday afternoon.
But even taking those losses into consideration, the worst part of being a Bucs fan is still the circus of off-field controversies.
It started off with the tamest point of contention, but one that nonetheless irks fans in the Cigar City: the home-game blackouts.
Now, this isn't entirely the Bucs' fault. The NFL has a rule stating games are blacked out in the television market of a home team if that team does not sell out its games 72 hours prior to kickoff.
Florida is really hot from about March to October, and it's really, really hot in September at the beginning of the NFL season. No one wants to sit outside in the beating sun and a cloud of humidity to watch a football game, especially one with a mediocre team. They want to watch the Bucs at home, in the air conditioning and out of the heat.
However, if fans don't come to the game, they can't watch it at home because of the blackout rule. At least one positive of this is that hometown fans can't see the quarter-empty stadium in high definition.
The national media likes to draw attention to the fact that every week, the Bucs game is off the air in the Tampa Bay area. No local fans watching games is not the best way for a team to make headlines.
The ongoing blackout controversy was the hottest off-field topic for the Bucs for a few years, so they must have decided to spice things up this season by releasing MRSA in their facilities.
Yes, that's right, the antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria were found in the team's practice facility and locker room and infected not one, not two, but three players, kicker Lawrence Tynes, guard Carl Nicks and cornerback Johnthan Banks.
After the Bucs admitted the presence of MRSA in their facilities in August and named Tynes and Nicks as the two players known to be infected but recovering, Tynes's wife called out the organization on Twitter, saying her husband wasn't responding as well to treatment as the team claimed.
The story took another turn last week when Tampa Bay revealed a third player, Banks, was infected. It's one thing to say the injury bug hit the locker room, but it's a whole new story when that bug is a deadly bacterium.
So now there are blackouts, MRSA and a kicker's wife involved, so what's the only thing missing from the team's smorgasbord of ridiculousness?
Drugs, of course, and that's what the Bucs got in the Josh Freeman saga.
The drama started when head coach Greg Schiano demoted Freeman from starter to backup quarterback and then didn't activate him in his first post-demotion game. The trade rumors began when Freeman said wanted out of Tampa and general manager Mark Dominick returned the shots, saying none of the 31 other NFL teams wanted him.
Where do the drugs come in? About the time I developed a migraine from trying to keep up with this madness.
Somehow, word got out that Freeman voluntarily enrolled in the first stage of the NFL's drug program after testing positive for a banned substance. The now-Viking said he accidently took Ritalin instead of Adderall to treat his ADHD, and he didn't have the league's approval to take the former prescription.
He said he willingly submitted to multiple drug tests throughout the season and did not test positive again, but the story still came to light. Now, the NFLPA is investigating if the Bucs possibly released the news to start a smear campaign against their former disgruntled quarterback.
So, to all you fans disappointed in your team's start this season, it could be worse. You could have a team with enough drama to start a Kardashian-spinoff.
And what's the next chapter in this absurd saga? I couldn't tell you – that migraine still hasn't gone away.
Contact Mary Green at [email protected]
The views expressed in this Sports Authority column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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What the level 1 literacy standards mean for English language learners (ELLs)
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This page outlines the two new literacy pathways for level 1 NCEA.
In response to the alignment of standards with The New Zealand Curriculum (NZC), two pathways have been developed to assess students' literacy for a Level 1 NCEA Certificate. These can both be used by English language learners (ELLs).
Currently students can meet the Level 1 NCEA Literacy requirement in three ways - through English, Te Reo or specified Communication Skills standards, through the specified, literacy-tagged achievement standards, or through new Literacy unit standards. These Literacy unit standards are also available to students in tertiary study. From 2012 onwards, students will only be able to meet the Level 1 NCEA Literacy requirement through the literacy-tagged achievement standards, or the new Literacy unit standards.
For the interests of ELLs at school, the ESOL teacher should be involved in monitoring the collection of evidence for the Literacy unit standards as well as the ESOL unit standards. ELLs who have not reached the literacy expectations of their cohort should be encouraged to continue their study of ESOL so that they receive specific language tuition and support of their learning in other subject areas. ESOL study will also help the students' achievement in the Literacy unit standards and ESOL unit standards.
Pathway One
The Level 1 achievement standard literacy pathway will be measured by achievement in specified standards that are levelled at curriculum level 6. This pathway would be appropriate for school students who are learning at Stage 4 of The English Language Learning Progressions. ELLs should also be supported to continue to develop English language proficiency, particularly in academic English, in their mainstream classes. These students should be monitored to ensure that they do not "fall through the cracks".
Pathway Two
School students who are at Stage 3 of The English Language Learning Progressions could collect naturally occurring evidence from a range of sources throughout the year, to be measured against three specific Literacy unit standards. The ESOL unit standards can play an important part, as evidence gathered in the assessment of these standards can also be used for the required evidence for the Literacy unit standards.
Students learning at earlier stages of The English Language Learning Progressions will take longer to achieve Level 1 literacy and can collect evidence over more than one year.
Students at the Foundation Stage and Stage 1 of The English Language Learning Progressions are by definition unable to achieve the literacy requirement.
No matter what their stage of English language learning is, ELLs students can be assessed against ESOL unit standards. This is in addition to any literacy standards that the students in the higher stages can also be assessed against. While the ESOL unit standards do not count towards meeting the Level 1 NCEA literacy requirement, they do count towards credits for NCEA Certificates. There is a relationship between the ESOL unit standards and the stages of The English Language Learning Progressions, so that, for example, students learning at Stage 3 could be assessed against Level 3 ESOL unit standards and students learning at English Language Learning Progressions Stage 1 could be assessed at Level 1 ESOL unit standards.
Literacy and ESOL unit standards have differences and similarities. The Literacy unit standards require 'naturally occurring evidence' which may be collected throughout the year. The ESOL unit standards have more specific performance criteria related to focused teaching of language. Both Literacy and ESOL unit standards can assess learning in contexts related to students' learning across the curriculum. In the Literacy unit standards, evidence can be collected from the ESOL and English classes, as well as from other subjects e.g. PE, Economics. The evidence for ESOL unit standards can be collected as naturally occurring evidence, for example as a portfolio, or assessed through specific and specially-written assessment activities, provided the specific requirements of the standard are adhered to.


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Pro-Life Groups To Bury 2000+ Aborted Babies Kept In Garage By Abortionist
Brenna Lewis - 11 Feb 2020
Pro-life groups in Indiana have announced plans to properly bury the over 2,000 aborted babies that were found in September 2019 in the Illinois home of Indiana abortionist Ulrich Klopfer. Klopfer was a prominent abortionist in Indiana and was supported in his endeavors by Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, where Klopfer ran one of his unsanitary and degrading abortion facilities.
ABC57 reports, "The fetal remains discovered at Dr. Ulrich Klopfer's home and properties in Illinois will be buried in South Bend on Wednesday, February 12, according to Attorney General Curtis Hill Jr."
Cathie Humbarger of Right To Life of Northeast Indiana stated, "We are so pleased that these little boys and girls will finally be laid to rest with the dignity and respect they deserve."
As we noted, the Klopfer case reinforces the importance of fetal burial laws; had these laws existed during Klopfer's reign of terror, these aborted babies would have never ended up in a garage. Brenna Lewis, online editor for Students for Life wrote, "Pro-abortion politicians and supporters have demonized pro-life people so much that they won't even let us give abortion victims a proper burial. They don't care that we view them as people, not medical trash. Fetal burial laws don't even affect abortion. The abortion has already taken their lives. Yet they won't even allow us in the conversation after the deed's been done."
Students for Life participated in a prayer vigil soon after the babies were found, outside the Will County, IL coroner's office, where the aborted babies were kept immediately after the remains were discovered.
A USA TODAY editorial in September blasted the media coverage and lack thereof, of the discovery. "
There's a lot to be curious about. How does a doctor get in trouble in five states and yet remain an abortionist in other states that claim to care about women? Why would Planned Parenthood fire a 15-year employee rather than address concerns for patient safety? How does a doctor amass enough dead bodies in his garage to do a passable imitation of a World War II mass grave? Didn't his employees notice he was taking home baby parts?
How does a story this sensational — that happens to have partly taken place in presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg's hometown, where he's the mayor — not get more than cursory attention from the national news media? Now there's a question."
Brenna Lewis
Serving as President of her Students for Life group in college, Brenna is now Students for Life's Digital Content Manager. Her work includes managing Students for Life's website content, contributions to the blog, and other digital content as part of the mission to make abortion unthinkable.


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In U.S., 10.2% of LGBT Adults Now Married to Same-Sex Spouse
Percentage married to same-sex spouse up from 7.9% two years ago
Sharp decline in same-sex domestic partnerships
LGBT men more likely to be married than LGBT women
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two years after the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that states could not prohibit same-sex marriages, 10.2% of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) adults in the U.S. are married to a same-sex spouse. That is up from 7.9% in the months prior to the Supreme Court decision in 2015, but only marginally higher than the 9.6% measured in the first year after the ruling.
Marital Status of LGBT Americans
Pre-Obergefell decision
Year 1, Post-Obergefell decision
Married to same-sex spouse
Living with same-sex partner
Single/Never married
Living with opposite-sex partner
Married to opposite-sex spouse
Dates: Pre-Obergefell (Jan. 28-June 26, 2015); Year 1, Post-Obergefell (June 27, 2015-June 19, 2016); Year 2, Post-Obergefell (June 20, 2016-June 19, 2017)
Gallup Daily
On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court issued the Obergefell decision. As would be expected, the number of same-sex marriages has increased, though the rate of increase has slowed.
As the percentage of LGBT adults in same-sex marriages has increased over the past two years, the percentage in same-sex domestic partnerships has fallen sharply from 12.8% before the Supreme Court ruling to 6.6%.
About half of the decline in same-sex domestic partnerships can be explained by the increase in same-sex marriages. The rest of the decline could mean that others formerly in same-sex domestic partnerships may have stopped living together, or no longer consider a same-sex cohabitant as a "partner."
As a result of these shifts, Gallup estimates that 61% of same-sex, cohabiting couples in the U.S. are now married, up from 38% before the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in June 2015, and 49% one year ago.
An increasing percentage of LGBT adults now identify their marital status as single or never married. That has always been the dominant status among LGBT individuals, but has increased from 47.4% to 55.7% over the last two years.
LGBT Americans are still more likely to be married to an opposite-sex spouse (13.1%) than a same-sex spouse (10.2%), but the gap is narrowing. According to prior research on LGBT identification, roughly half of those who self-identify as LGBT are bisexual, helping explaining the high proportion of LGBT individuals who are married to opposite-sex partners. Gallup's question does not probe specifically for whether LGBT individuals are lesbian or gay or bisexual or transgender.
The results are based on Gallup Daily tracking interviews since Jan. 28, 2015, when Gallup first asked lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) individuals who indicated they were married or living with a partner if their spouse or partner was the same sex or the opposite sex.
Overall, 4.3% of U.S. adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to Gallup's latest estimate from its June 2016-June 2017 tracking data. That is up from 3.9% a year ago and 3.4% in Gallup's initial estimate in 2012.
Same-Sex Marriage More Common Among Men, Older LGBT Adults
Currently, 11.4% of LGBT men versus 9.3% of LGBT women say they are married to a same-sex partner. Also, the marriage rate among older LGBT adults is higher than it is among younger adults.
Marital Status of LGBT Americans, by Gender and Age
11.4 9.3 3.3 14.4 18.1
6,789 6,043 4,340 3,641 4,777
June 20, 2016-June 19, 2017
Notably, even older LGBT adults are most likely to identify their marital status as single -- 32% say they have never married. This indicates that many LGBT adults, even at older ages when marriage may be more feasible or desirable than it is for younger adults, are remaining single. By comparison, 11.3% of non-LGBT adults age 50 and older have never married.
Same-sex marriages are becoming increasingly common, and same-sex domestic partnerships less common, for LGBT Americans. In the first year after the Supreme Court ruled states could not prohibit same-sex marriages, the percentage of LGBT Americans who were married grew nearly two percentage points. In the second year since the ruling, the growth has continued, but at a diminished rate. This suggests an initial burst in the number of same-sex marriages came in response to the legal changes. Now, with those legal changes further in the past, the growth in same-sex marriages may be slower.
However, growth in the rate of same-sex marriages is likely to continue. Younger adults, many who may not be in a position to marry regardless of their sexual identity, are disproportionately likely to identify as LGBT. As they age, their life situations may change and they may want to get married. Also, as future generations of LGBT adults come of age, having grown up in a time when there were no legal restrictions on same-sex marriage and greatly reduced societal norms against it, they may marry at higher rates than LGBT Americans in generations before them.
These data are available in Gallup Analytics.
Editor's Note: A correction was made to the estimated proportions of LGBT adults in cohabiting same-sex couples who are married (from 67% to 61%) or living with a partner (from 33% to 39%).
Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted June 20, 2016-June 19, 2017, on the Gallup U.S. Daily survey, with a random sample of 352,851 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±1 percentage point at the 95% confidence level.
For results based on the total sample of 12,832 lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender adults, the margin of sampling error is ±1 percentage point at the 95% confidence level. All reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting.
Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 70% cellphone respondents and 30% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline and cellular telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods.
Learn more about how the Gallup U.S. Daily works.
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Tucker Carlson Tonight é um talk show estadunidense apresentado pelo jornalista Tucker Carlson. O programa estreou em 14 de novembro de 2016, e é transmitido ao vivo no canal de notícias Fox News.

História
Tucker Carlson Tonight foi criado para substituir o programa On the Record, apresentado por Brit Hume após a saída de Greta Van Susteren da Fox News.

Após a saída de Megyn Kelly do canal, foi anunciado em 5 de janeiro de 2017 que o programa seria o substituto de The Kelly File em 9 de janeiro de 2017. Martha MacCallum foi anunciada como sua substituta no horário das 19:00, com seu programa com o título The First 100 Days.

Em 19 de abril de 2017, foi anunciado que o programa assumiria o horário das 20:00 do The O'Reilly Factor a partir de 24 de abril de 2017, após o cancelamento do último programa.

Audiência
O episódio de estréia do programa, foi visto por 3,7 milhões, com uma audiência superior às edições anteriores do On the Record, apresentadas por Greta Van Susteren e mais tarde por Brit Hume. Tucker Carlson Tonight atualmente mantém o domínio do horário da rede sobre a CNN e MSNBC. Em outubro de 2018, Tucker Carlson Tonight foi o segundo noticiário de maior audiência no horário nobre, depois de Hannity, com 3,2 milhões de espectadores.

Ligações externas
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In a perfect world, we'd just call on all of the best chefs from across the country to come and cook our holiday dinner for us.
That's not going to happen — the logistics alone would be a nightmare, what with airline travel at this time of the year. So we've done the next best thing. To create the ultimate Canadian holiday meal, we checked in with some of our favourite chefs from BC to NFLD and asked them for their favourite dish. The results: a deconstructed turkey, boozy squash, crowd-sourced tourtière, a pie laced with vinegar — pretty much a dream dinner provided by some of the country's most talented cooks. Whether you mix and match or take on the whole menu, these dishes will take your holiday table to the next level.
Cranberry Butter Sauce
Lee Cooper, L'Abattoir
For some people, and that includes chef Lee Cooper of Vancouver's L'Abattoir, the cranberry sauce is the most important dish on the holiday table. His extra-luxe version is essentially a classic French beurre blanc with cranberries added. "The acid from the cranberries and the little bit of orange that we put in there is going to cut that fat from the butter and be well-balanced," he explains. If you're eating a white meat like turkey, or lean pork, adding some fat to the dish along with a bit of acid is a nice complement.
Holiday Turkey
Sylvain Assie, Cafe Boulud
The brown, lacquered whole-bird version may look impressive, in a Norman Rockwell sort of way, but in truth, with a big old bird like a turkey, it's nearly impossible to get thigh and breast and crisp skin all ready at the same time. The inevitable dryness ensues. Something's gotta give. By breaking the bird down and brining it before it's cooked, Assie uses each part of the bird to the best of its ability: breasts are cooked sous vide, legs are braised and bones are turned into a rich stock that makes for a luscious gravy. If you don't have access to a sous vide machine you can simply rub the brined breasts with oil and roast in an oven (450 degrees fahrenheit), scattering a few sprigs of rosemary and thyme around, for 50 minutes or so until golden.
Deane Weaver, Sanagan's
Deane Weaver, head chef at Sanagan's Meat Locker in Toronto has made hundreds of tourtière over the course of his career. "This recipe comes from years of just listening to customers and finding out what kind of tourtière they grew up on, what they had in theirs, how their moms made it and looking into the classic way of doing things and trying to make it better each time." Weaver's version is built around a filling that's close to a classic "creton" (a crazy delicious French Canadian pork spread) lightened up with a bit of milk and breadcrumbs.
Hasselback Potatoes
Derek Dammann, Maison Publique
Derek Dammann was inspired by old-school versions of this classic Good Housekeeping side dish for his luxurious, savoury take. "Hasselback potatoes are cool because they accordion out and they're a potato so they're fun to eat anyway," he says. "The fat melts down inside the cuts of the potato, that get all crispy and you just keep basting it with herbs and garlic at the end. They're ridiculous."
Ken Nakano, Market Shangri-La
In case there are still people out there who think they don't like Brussels sprouts, we present chef Ken Nakano's apple-and walnut-spiked-version. "We always buy our Brussels sprouts on the stalk," Nakano says. "There's a real inherent sweetness when you get just-picked vegetables." The Fuji apple in this recipe has enough sweetness to offset that little bit of natural bitterness is the Brussels sprouts. Caramelizing the sprouts enhances their natural nuttiness and that's underscored by the presence of walnuts in the expertly balanced vinaigrette.
From Daniel Boulud (who isn't technically Canadian, but since he does operate two restaurants here he's an honourary Canuck), this epic stuffing is jam-packed with bacon and sausage, cornbread and croutons and a whole pantry's worth of herbs and spices. The recipe is highly flexible and can be adapted to include even more ingredients, but will still work if you're missing an herb or two.
Roasted Squash
Alexandra Feswick, The Drake
Alexandra Feswick is down with squash, and offers up a preparation that includes an almost irresponsible amount of booze. "Bourbon really falls into a nice holiday category, though in Canada we seem to have found a way to use it all year round," she explains. "It's definitely one of those liquors that makes you physically warmer when you drink it, too." The combination of bourbon and candied nuts, along with maple and cayenne to balance out turn a basic roasted squash into something worth celebrating. And you thought marshmallows were the best thing you could add to your holiday gourds.
Vinegar Pie
Jeremy Charles, The Merchant Tavern
Yes, it sounds like the dessert equivalent of a lump of coal in your stocking. But trust us, this is no punishment. "This recipe dates back to the 1920s," chef Jeremy Charles tells me. "Back then, whenever people couldn't afford or didn't have access to fresh citrus, they'd replace the acidic element with vinegar. It's delicious, and one of our most popular desserts." At the restaurant Charles' cooks use a sagamite flour crust, but if you can't find one, cornmeal will work just fine.
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