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The Odyssey Experience!
This past year, I had the extreme pleasure of serving on the Odyssey Award Committee for the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults.
The following are actual numbers of time spent by me on this Listening Odyssey – including unfinished listening and also re-listening, not including note-taking or review writing and posting on the private conversation online bulletin board.
Minutes Listened: 40000
Hours Listened: 667
Days (24 hours) Listened: 27.8
Weeks (24 hours/7 days) Listened: 4
Months (24 hours/7 days) Listened: 0.9
Work Days (8 hours) Listened: 83.4
Work Weeks (8 hours/5 days) Listened: 17
Work Months (8 hours/5 days) Listened: 4
So it is with great pleasure and relief that we unveiled our selection on January 23rd. For more detailed information, please check out the official website. I love every single one of these titles TO PIECES! Each does something magical to enhance the already wonderful original text. All four deserve to be listened to and be read. I also love how we have different age brackets represented — and an outstanding Graphic Novel adaptation in the midst!
Anna and the Swallow Man written by Gavriel Savit, narrated by Allan Corduner, from Listening Library, won the Gold medal.
The three honored titles are:
Ghost written by Jason Reynolds, narrated by Guy Lockard and produced by Simon and Schuster Audio.
Dream On, Amber written by Emma Shevah, narrated by Laura Kirman and produced by Recorded Books.
Nimona written by Noelle Stevenson, narrated by Rebecca Soler, Jonathan Davis, Marc Thompson, January LaVoy, Natalie Gold, Peter Bradbury, and David Pittu, and produced by HarperAudio.
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Tagged as audio book, awards, odyssey award
2016 ALA Annual at Orlando, Final Recap
In between the ALSC Awards and the Odyssey Award presentations, I attended the ALSC Membership Meeting and were updated on what this Division has been working on all year. I also joined everyone to celebrate the presentation of the professional awards. Distinguished Services Award recipient Pat Scales is a former school librarian and past ALSC President and she so deserves this Award for her 38 years of and continuing services to children, the library profession, and to ALSC. Other awards and grants and this year's recipient information can be found on this page.
ALSC Office also has gathered all the award acceptance speeches in one easily accessible page.
Of course, the Conference was not just about media and professional wards, it was also about professional development and teaching and learning from each other with many workshops and sessions going on in the Convention Center. To get a broad sampling of all the offerings and what ALSC conference attendees gleaned from this Conference, visit ALSC's 2016 Annual Conference Blog Roundup page.
Finally — but truly NOT leastly — I thoroughly enjoyed the two meetings on Saturday and Sunday (5 hours and 2 hours long respectively) with my fellow Odyssey Audiobook Award selection committee members. We're from many different parts of the country, with different professional duties, varied audiobook listening and evaluating experiences, and distinct personalities — and I met each and everyone of other eight members for the first time at Annual and felt completely grateful for everyone's diligence, insights, and good humor. I can't wait to see everyone and have those meaty discussions about each audiobook we have all carefully listened to at Midwinter (in Atlanta)!
Tagged as awards, odyssey award
2016 ALA Annual at Orlando – Recap, Part 2
Following the CSK Awards breakfast were ALSC awards celebrations on Sunday and Monday. ALSC (Association for Library Services to Children) is the administering body for many well known (and some lesser known but equally high quality) Youth Media awards. Youth Media = books, videos, and audios. Newbery and Caldecott are the two longest standing American Children's Book Awards, of course, but then there are also: the Belpre for Latina/o Book Creators, Batchelder for Books in Translation, Arbuthnot Lecture, Wilder Lifetime Achievements, the Sibert for Nonfiction, the Geisel for Beginning Readers, the Carnegie for Videos, and the Odyssey for Audiobooks. All of the 2016 winners and honorees were publicly celebrated on these two days.
The Newbery/Caldecott/Wilder banquet is always an elegant and happy affair with more than 1,000 in attendance, well crafted speeches, and a long receiving line that pushes the event way past midnight if you choose to hang around (or don't have a choice because you work for the publishing companies!) The three acceptance speeches are printed in this month's Horn Book Magazine: Newbery, Caldecott, Wilder. I also took a couple of snapshots and posted them at the end of this post.
Each year, I have also routinely attended the Monday morning award presentation of Sibert, Geisel, Batchelder, and Carnegie since ALSC started hosting this celebration and have always come away awed by the richness and dedication of writers, artists, editors, producers in creating high quality works that powerfully impact young people's lives! This year was no exception. The bonus reel for me was meeting David Adler, the 2016 Geisel Award winner for Don't Throw It To Mo. Adler has been a beginning readers author for almost half a century and his Cam Jansen series held special significance in the Feldman household: it marked my daughter's journey from a pre-reader to a completely independent reader back in 2006. I had to take a picture with Adler and told him that it was Cam Jansen that made my daughter a true reader. He humbly replied that if it were not his series, some other beginning readers would have done it, too. But I must beg to differ here — it is because Adler not only understands text cadences for very beginning readers, but he also understands that perhaps a young and bright minded girl would want to see herself reflected in some way in the stories she encounters so there is a connection between the act of reading and the reader herself. No, it had to be Cam Jansen and not just "some other series."
Here's David Adler with his much deserved Geisel Medal!
For the first time, this year I also attended the Odyssey Award for audio book production presentation Monday Afternoon and it was simply fabulous. We were treated to a humorous Infographs slideshow documenting the total minutes the Committee spent listening, the yardage of yarn knitted, the sacrificed one must make (not spending time with the family, not watching football on TV, not reading print books, etc.,) and the number of headphones used to their bitter-ends and many other Odyssey Committee Only Experiences! We then were treated to the amazing live performances and speeches from the voice actors and musicians! I especially adored the impassioned speeches by the performers and producers that sheds light on what a labor of love and how much expertise it is needed to produce a single good audiobook.
My biggest take-away from this event is that even though Odyssey is for audiobook Production and not for the Content of the original text, these two are indeed deeply intertwined. Jayne Entwistle, the reader for The War That Saved My Life, told us that she was so deeply moved by the book and its characters, she cried multiple times at the studio while recording this book. She teared up and pretty much sobbed just to recall how much she loved this text. Her narration and character acting showcase not only how highly skilled she is but also why there is a certain kind of genuine gravitas and presence that a lesser text would not have inspired: the skills would still have been there, but the not-at-all-easily-quantifiable, extra LIFE would not have. Attending this event, I gained added insights for my own task in being part of the selecting committee of the 2017 Odyssey award winners — hope to see many people joining us at this really lovely event next June in Chicago!
Betsy Bird in her Caldecott/Newbery Winners library catalog cards dress especially made for the Banquet.
The long receiving line that kept us way past midnight. (I went out with friends old and new for a late night snack of root beer floats and apple pies that lasted until 2:00 a.m. Feeling very indulgent, of course! Pictures are on someone else's phone!)
A Picture Book for Newbery! Last Stop on Market Street
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Peña
Illustrated by Christian Robinson
I jumped up and down when this book was announced at the Youth Media Awards press conference — after the initial "WHAT? Really? A picture book text?" Then, it was, "YAY! Finally. A real picture book has won the Newbery!" Great job. Committee!
However, it was not until today, when I finally re-read the text, blocking out all the illustrations, just paying attention to the rhythm, the word choices, the imagery, the heart and soul of this seemingly simple text for the very young that I realized how marvelous a choice this book is for the award.
By recognizing the text, which allows for so much imagination and chances of deep discussions, especially literary ones, the Newbery Committee has affirmed the significant value of finely crafted text for young children. I can still recite many passages from Margaret Wise Brown's The Important Book because I read that book to my daughter when she was still in her crib. Every night, for months, and no matter how many times I read it aloud, I found myself admiring the genius writing page after page. I am quite certain that the reason my daughter appreciates poetry and what she calls "good writing" in the adult books she reads now that she's 16 is her wide exposure to excellent texts like The Important Book, So Said the Little Monkeys, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Madeline, and many others.
I am ordering copies of Last Stop on Market Street for my Middle School Library and will encourage middle grade teachers to use the book to inspire students to interpret the text as they envision in their mind. CJ could be anyone. Nana could be anyone's grandma. The boys on the bus with something CJ envies do not have to share ear-buds on their iPod and the imagery of the large tree "drinking through a straw" was never depicted literally in the illustration anyway. The students in a language arts class will simply bask in the glory of the text like "The outside air smelled like freedom," and "rain, which freckled CJ's shirt" and have a rigorous mental workout to understand the implied interactions and emotions.
And ample discussion opportunities for the ending, when Nana does not give her usual deep laugh… now what is that all about?
De La Peña sure wrote a distinguished book!
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Tagged as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, awards, highly recommended, Picture Book, Pre-K
August 9, 2015 · 4:24 pm
Who Publishes Newbery Winning Titles (1996-2015)?
Last Monday, I published the statistics of Caldecott publishers from the last 20 years. This week, I offer the results of my spreadsheeting for The Newbery Award. Sampled years: 1996 to 2015 (20 years.) Two comparative highlights:
The Newbery gold and silver medals have gone to fewer publishers than the Caldecott medals. (28/13 for Newbery and 32/17 for Caldecott.)
The Newbery Gold Medal winners are mostly female while women have only won four Caldecott gold. (13x vs 4x)
Again I ask the Children's Lit experts in the field to correct information when you spot errors so I can update and make this report more accurate for everyone.
Summary by the number, from 1996 to 2015:
84 Winning and Honored Titles total (20 winner and 64 honor)
19 Individuals won — (Kate DiCamillo won the gold medal twice.)
12 women are named award winners (63%)
4 Winners are POC: Kwame Alexander, Christopher Paul Curtis, Cynthia Kadohata, and Linda Sue Park
41 Honor titles are written by women and 23 are written by men (64% vs 36%).
Multiple winners of Gold + Silver seals: 4 times: Jacqueline Woodson; 3 times: Christopher Paul Curtis (1 gold), Kate DiCamillo (1 gold), Jennifer Holm; 2 times: Richard Peck (1 gold), Jack Gantos (1 gold), Nancy Farmer, Sharon Creech (1 gold), Kevin Henkes, Laura Amy Schlitz (1 gold), Jim Murphy, Gary D. Schmidt, and Patricia Reilly Giff.
Imprints & Publishers
28 Different Imprints
13 Different Publishers after consolidation*
* Please bear in mind that due to the nature of large companies incorporating smaller publishers with previous wins, the accounting can not be perfect. (FSG, for example, was independent, then part of Macmillan.)
* Also recognize that children's book publishing is a small world and there are but a few dozen companies operating in the U.S., eligible for the award.
Here are the two charts I made.
Newbery Wins by Imprint
The reddish area represents about 50% of the total, split between 7 imprints while 21 other imprints share the rest 50%. Clarion had a large share and now counts as part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. FSG did exceedingly well as a small publishing house (Frances Foster and Melanie Kroupa were both acknowledged as their imprints) before becoming part of Macmillan. So did Henry Holt, now also part of Macmillan.
Nancy Paulsen, Joanna Cotler, Frances Foster, Richard Jackson,Melanie Kroupa, and Wendy Lamb are all editors with their own named imprints, making up for almost 10% of the total.
Newbery Wins by Publisher
The reddish area represents about 89.5% of the total, split between 8 publishers while 5 other publishers took home 10% (7 titles) of the win. Penguin and Random House are still counted separately even though they are technically merged. Together, these two publishers combined would have 30% (25 titles) share of the total wins for the last 20 years. Front Street is no longer a stand-along publisher and their backlist titles are now sold by Boyds Mills and also absorbed into Namelos, under the steerage of Steven Roxburgh, former publisher of Front Street.
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Tagged as awards, info, thoughts
Sunday Select, August 09, 2015
"There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to men of white skins. Even among these there are prejudices of which I as a Jew am clearly conscious; but they are unimportant in comparison with the attitude of the 'Whites' toward their fellow-citizens of darker complexion, particularly toward Negroes. The more I feel an American, the more this situation pains me. I can escape the feeling of complicity in it only by speaking out."
— Albert Einstein, "The Negro Question (1946)"
Children's Lit Happenings!
Announcing the 2015 Golden Kite Winners — from Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
2015 Teens Top Ten Nominees Announced — from Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
Ashley Bryan Talks with Roger by Roger Sutton — from The Horn Book Magazine
A Notable Summer by Andrew Medler — from Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC)
Author Name Pronunciation Guide — from TeachingBooks.net
Interview with Phoebe Yeh by Jenn Baker — from Minorities in Publishing (MiP)
Roundtable: The New Archie by Brigid Alverson– from School Library Journal
Important Points to Consider:
Einstein: The Negro Question (1946) by Albert Einstein — reposted on On Being
Teen Girls and the Persistence of Gender Stereotypes by Randye Hoder from The Atlantic
Diversity: What Can We Do About It? — from The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
INDIAN 101 FOR WRITERS – A Five Part Series, Part I — from A Fresh Pot of Tea (link provided for Part II and so on)
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Who Publishes Caldecott Winning Titles (1996-2015)?
Inspired by Barbara Genco's Caldecott by the numbers: Brooklyn edition (math is fun!), I did a little bit of my own unscientific investigation playing with a spreadsheet and a couple of charts: for the past 20 years of Caldecott winners and honor titles. There are people more knowledgeable about the publisher/imprint situation and also where they are located (and were located when each individual title won the award) so please feel free to comment and correct. I will update the blog entry when corrections are received and verified.
87 titles received gold and silver medals (20 winner, 67 honor)
18 individual Caldecott winning illustrators (David Wiesner and Chris Raschka both won twice)
4 women were named medal winners (20%)
Out of the 67 honored titles, some illustrators were named more than once like Jerry Pinkney: 4x, Mo Willems, Brian Collier, and Peter Sis: 3x, Kadir Nelson, Melissa Sweet, Laura Vaccaro Seeger, Jon Klassen, 2x — not an exhaustive list, and some honored illustrators were also winners in other years, such as Jon Klassen, Brian Selznick, and David Wiesner.
58 out of the 87 titles are illustrated by men (67%)
32 individually named imprints
17 publishers were named (after some consolidation*)
10 titles are from publishers that do not operate mainly from the NYC offices – as to the best of my knowledge: Candlewick: 4x, Chronicle: 1x, Eerdmans: 2x, Harcourt: 3x, Beach Lane: 1x (11%)
* Please bear in mind that due to the nature of large companies incorporating smaller publishers with previous wins, the accounting can not be perfect. (Roaring Brook, for example, was independent, then part of Millbrook, and now part of Macmillan, which in turn is actually a part of an even bigger company, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.)
Here are the two charts I made. If you can't see them here, please click on the links.
Caldecott Wins: By Imprint — The reddish area represents about 60% of the pie
Caldecott Wins: By Publisher — The reddish area represents about 87% of the pie
The information gathered for these charts are from the Official Caldecott Award Page. Readers might find it of interest to browse older winners and honor titles and discovered more facts, such as:
Finding some publishing names no longer with us: Lothrop, Bradbury, Scribner, Four Winds and the "original" Macmillan Children's publishing group.
Some years the same publisher is awarded 2-3 times, for example: Orchard in 1997, 3 wins; Macmillan in 1972, 3 wins; Harper in 1971 2 wins
Before 1980s, Newbery and Caldecott were the SAME committee.
The CYBILS Awards results are out http www…
The CYBILS Awards results are out! http://www.cybils.com/2014/02/the-2013-cybils-awards.html I served on the panel for the Graphic Novels (both MG and YA) short lists and am SO pleased to see that Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite Barry Deutsch and Templar by Jordan Mechner won in their respective categories. The other titles in the graphic novels shortlists are also really strong. 2013 was a great year for GNs and it felt like the Children's and Young Adults' GN field has finally matured!
February 21, 2014 · 12:34 pm
This morning's ALA Youth Media Awards Press Conference…
This morning's ALA Youth Media Awards Press Conference was fun and full of great titles to cheer and to explore. See the whole list here: http://ala.org/news/pr?id=9108
2008 Anaheim ALA Highlights in Pictures
I'm back home in warm and breezy New York City. It's beautiful here by the Hudson. The sun just set. And we saw many beautiful white sails on the river in the dimming sunlight…. Now it's time to upload some pictures from the ALA Annual Conference. I never remembered to bring a camera but this time, I did and boy did I go a bit crazy! I should have taken some pictures of the Notable Children's Books Committee but I got too nervous and too focused on "work" and never thought of capturing those moments which were super important. These pictures here preserved the moments that I relaxed and had fun with friends — old and new.
But before the people pictures… see the carpet in the Ballroom of the Disneyland Hotel…. can you "Spy Mickey"?
Yes. Monica and I (and Nina) went to Disnleyland!
Nina Lindsay, Me, Candace Fleming, Eric Rohmann, Richie Partington at the Lucky Strike Bowling Lane (Orange Block)
Reunion with the 2002 Newbery Committee
(Kathy Odean, Ken Setterington, Louise Sherman, Jeri Kladder,
Patty Carleton, Me, Vaunda Nelson, Vicky Smith)
Lisa Falk, Vicky Smith, Elizabeth Overmeyer, and Kathy Odean
I also saw Joanne dinner and "glanced" and said hi to Deb. Junko is in Germany and Gail and Shron were not at the Conference.
THE CALDECOTT/NEWBERY BANQUET, JUNE 29th, 2008.
Yup, it's me with the 2008 Caldecott Medal winner Brian Selznick. Our footwear matched!
2008 Newbery Winner Laura Amy Schlitz with Nina Linday, Newbery Chair.
2002 Newbery winner Linda Sue Park with me.
Me, Kathy, and Louise pre-banquet
Jonathan Hunt, friend, librarian, reviewer, and 2008 Printz Committee member Monica Edinger, friend, teacher, author, blogger of children's literature, and 2008 Newbery Committee member. At the banquet.
Me with Hope Anita Smith, poet, author of The Way A Door Closes and Keeping the Night Watch.
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Tagged as authors, awards, events, info, Newbery Thoughts, thoughts
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First look at Apple's U.S.-based sapphire crystal glass plant
BYPhilip Elmer-DeWitt
November 5, 2013, 6:17 PM UTC
The building at right is the size of a shopping mall, about 1 million sq. ft. The site was once used as proving grounds for GM.
Inside. Photo: AZCentral
FORTUNE — Local real-estate reporters in Arizona knew something was afoot when First Solar, a Tempe-based manufacturer of thin-film solar cells, said last week that it had sold one of its properties in nearby Mesa to an unknown buyer for $100 million.
Meanwhile, Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook told a Senate subcommittee last May that Arizona was one of five states where the company planned to repatriate some of its manufacturing operations, nearly all of which are now in Asia.
Arizona Governor Janice Brewer put two and two together for the media Monday morning, and suddenly the international press was all over the story: Apple, which closed its last American manufacturing facility ten years ago, was opening its second U.S. plant in a year.
The first, in Fort Worth, TX, is currently assembling Mac Pros.
The second, in Mesa, will make sapphire crystals like those that cover the iPhone 5S's TouchID fingerprint sensor.
According to GT Advanced Technologies, the New Hampshire-based firm that won the multi-year contract, Apple has pre-paid GT $578 million, which GT is scheduled to repay in five years starting in 2015. GT will own the factory equipment, including the ASFs (advanced sapphire furnaces) that it will build at the Mesa site.
Apple has promised to the make the plant 100% renewable by providing Mesa with additional solar and geothermal energy, news that didn't escape the notice of Greenpeace and the National Resource Defense Council.
Video: How Apple plans to make its own scratch-proof glass.
Below: Statements from various interested parties.
Governor Brewer:
"Apple is indisputably one of the world's most innovative companies and I'm thrilled to welcome them to Arizona. Apple will have an incredibly positive economic impact for Arizona and its decision to locate here speaks volumes about the friendly, pro-business climate we have been creating these past four years. Their investment in renewable energy will also be greening our power grid, and creating significant new solar and geothermal power sources for the state."
"We are proud to expand our domestic manufacturing initiative with a new facility in Arizona, creating more than 2,000 jobs in engineering, manufacturing and construction.
GT Advanced Technologies:
"We are very excited about this agreement with Apple as it represents a significant milestone in GT's long term diversification strategy."
NRDC:
"Apple's new manufacturing facility in Arizona is good news for U.S. jobs and the environment… Their approach starts with energy efficiency in the facility's design and operation, and then ensures the load is met by renewables; this will benefit Apple shareholders as well as the environment."

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Q: Finding a dual problem I am given the following minimization problem in $\mathbb{R}^n$:
$min \{\sum_{i=1}^nx_i ln\frac{x_i}{d_i} + \|x\|^2+2a^Tx \mid x^TAx+2b^Tx+c\le0, x_i \ge0\ \ \  \forall i\}$
where $d_i>0\ \ \ \forall i$, $A$ is a positively definite matrix, $b\in\mathbb{R}^n$ ans $c$ is a real number.
I need to find its dual problem, but I am getting stuck while trying to minimize the Lagrangian:
$L(x, \lambda) = \sum_{i=1}^nx_i ln\frac{x_i}{d_i} + \|x\|^2+2a^Tx + \lambda(x^TAx+2b^Tx+c)$
The minimization problem:
$q(\lambda)=min_{x\ge0} {L(x, \lambda)}$
How can I solve this problem in order to find $q(\lambda)$?

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Pa. Special Ed. panel recommends more funding predictability for schools | Thursday Morning Coffee
'These recommendations provide more clarity and consistency for school districts regarding its projected special education costs in planning yearly budgets,' Senate Appropriations Committee Chairperson Pat Browne, R-Lehigh, said
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Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers.
A special commission charged with fixing how Pennsylvania pays for special education for tens of thousands of students statewide released a report Thursday recommending a raft of changes that it says will provide more predictability and consistency for the state's 500 school districts.
Advocates have long complained that the commonwealth has ignored skyrocketing costs for school districts, with districts boosting their special education spending by $2 billion between 2009 to 2019. But state aid during that same period grew by just $110 million, according to a 2020 report by the Education Law Center and PA Schools Work.
The 2021-22 state budget sets aside $1.2 billion for special education funding, according to state Department of Education data. That's a $50 million, or 4.2 increase, over the prior year.
In 2019, a joint analysis by the Education Law Center and Research for Action, a policy research group in Philadelphia, concluded that the state's current formula "does not accurately account for district poverty. As a result, state special education funding does not fulfill its intended purpose of addressing funding disparities resulting from differences in local wealth."
Analysts argued that the state needed an annual funding increase of $100 million a year or more to keep pace with rising costs.
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The panel's recommendations build on those already offered by the state's first special education funding commission in 2013, the panel's co-chair, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairperson Pat Browne, R-Lehigh, said in a statement.
The panel's findings "provide more clarity and consistency for school districts regarding its projected special education costs in planning yearly budgets," Browne continued. "These recommendations continue to consider the actual number of students needing specialized education services and refine how the actual needs of each student can be addressed."
Among other things, the commission recommended that the Education Department "[provide] greater transparency by posting the special education contingency fund awards on [its] publicly accessible website."
The COVID-19 pandemic, "has been especially difficult for our special education students and has resulted in more students being identified," the panel's co-chair, House Education Committee Chairperson Curt Sonney, R-Erie, said. "The commission's recommended changes will help to ensure that funds are distributed in a more equitable manner to provide more stability and transparency."
For activists and advocates, the only way the state has to go is up.
"Pennsylvania has been a bottom-dweller nationally for what a low share of overall public education spending the state provides – just 38 percent," Education Law Center Executive Director Deborah Gordon Klehr said when the group released its report last December.
"For special education, the portion covered by the state is now only 22 percent, down from 32 percent a decade ago," she continued. "When the state abdicates responsibility like this, students are harmed, especially in our lowest-wealth school districts that have the greatest difficulty generating more revenue to meet student needs."
Pennsylvania State Capitol Building. (Capital-Star photo by Cassie Miller.)
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As the Pennsylvania General Assembly finished off its last week of lawmaking of 2021, the specter of a key vote on Thursday — one entirely outside of its control — loomed over their debates. Stephen Caruso explains what's at stake.
A legislative subpoena issued as part of a taxpayer-funded election investigation — specifically its request for the personal information of 9 million Pennsylvania voters — went before Commonwealth Court Wednesday, with arguments surrounding its purpose and intra-governmental sharing of information. Marley Parish has the story.
Amid a national debate about school history curricula, a bill mandating schools post their course materials online is heading to Gov. Tom Wolf's desk after it passed the Republican-controlled General Assembly this week, Marley Parish and Stephen Caruso report. Wolf opposes the bill, which has been described as a stealth attack on the teaching of critical race theory in the classroom.
A Pennsylvania House panel advanced a modified version of a citizen-drawn congressional map submitted to lawmakers this fall ahead of legislators' Christmas recess, Stephen Caruso also reports.
Broadband companies will have access to tens of millions of dollars in federal aid dollars to build new or expand old internet infrastructure under a bill the Pennsylvania General Assembly unanimously approved this week, Stephen Caruso further reports.
State officials have sent a second vague email to patients about medical marijuana vape product safety, Correspondent Kim Lyons reports.
Needs for the hungry remain high in Fayette County. In today's edition of Helping the Helpers, our partners at the Uniontown Herald-Standard explain how one group is lending a helping hand.
Our partners at the Philadelphia Gay News talk to the new president and CEO of the Philadelphia-based LGBTQ advocacy organization, the Mazzoni Center.
As the U.S. House passed an anti-Islamophobia bill on Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-10th District, called its sponsor, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., 'anti-Semitic,' Capital-Star Washington Reporter Jacob Fischler writes.
The day after a shooting outside his Philadelphia district office, Democratic state Sen. Sharif Street says he hopes the incident will lend urgency to gun violence prevention efforts in the General Assembly, our partners at the Philadelphia Tribune report.
On our Commentary Page this morning: Columnist Max McCoy, of our sibling site, the Kansas Reflector, puts out a call to rebuild the nation's 'civic infrastructure.' And a coalition of 17 service providers to people living with intellectual disabilities accuse the Wolf administration of failing to halt the collapse of their industry.
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Elsewhere.
The Inquirer looks at the epidemic of wrongful convictions in Pennsylvania's judicial system.
With hospitals overflowing, a Westmoreland County lawmaker is offering her constituents help in obtaining vaccine exemptions, the Tribune-Review reports.
The pandemic has pushed hospital costs above $100,000 for many Pennsylvanians, PennLive reports.
PennDOT has rolled out its plans for improvements to Route 30 in Lancaster, LancasterOnline reports.
York County residents are facing their first tax hike since 2017, the York Dispatch reports.
Lehigh County has moved a step closer to forming its own health department, the Morning Call reports.
The former head of Luzerne County's Children & Youth Office has gotten house arrest for child endangerment, the Citizens' Voice reports (paywall).
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Through the eyes of a child.
by Guest on Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:39 pm
I met Dorothy on the Age Concern forum some time ago when I was seeking tales from WW2 veterans to put on my website.
Dorothy had been a nurse during WW2 but although she did not send me any of her own stories she asked me if she could send the photo and the reading of her fiance who was killed in the war.
I was happy to do this and started the memorial pages on the Home Front website and here is Dorothys story....................
http://www.memorylanehf.oddquine.co.uk/inmemory/gordon.htm
As our cyber friendship developed I found out that after the war Dorothy did get married and had two children a boy and a girl named John who was the eldest and Jane.
I was extremely sorry to hear that her young daughter Jane was tragically killed by a car coming home after her first day at her new comprehensive school. A second tragedy for Dorothy.
Dorothy then told me that her daughter had written poetry and it was a great comfort to her to go and read it at times.
I have a poetry site apart from my two WW2 websites and I asked Dorothy if she would send me some of Jane's poetry to put on my website.
She did and I was so impressed with the little girls writings I told Dorothy that I wasn't going to put them on my website BUT I would contact the one who had done my websites and would get a website put up for Jane.
Dorothy was over the moon about this.
I got together with my domain owner and she did put a site up for Jane's poetry. http://www.sunbeam.oddquine.co.uk/
When the tragic accident happened to Jane it was her brother who identified her and it came as a great shock to him.
He just could not come to terms with what had happened and into the bargain he had heart problems.
He was one of the first in the country to have heart surgery and Dorothy was so very grateful to the British Heart Foundation for all they had done to help him.
He finally overcame his difficulties and grew up still with the awful
memory of seeing his sister lying in the road.
After the website had been up for a week or so John decided to visit it and read many of the comments in the guest book.
That was a turning point for him so Dorothy said.
He had never been able to talk about his beloved sister before but the website seemed to unlock something inside him that helped him come to terms with what had happened.
This made me feel as though I had been a part of helping him to face the demons and I felt very happy for them both.
A week or so later after corresponding with Dorothy about the lovely comments concerning the website she told me that Jane had also written a book.
It was all written in an exercise book and I asked Dorothy if she had ever thought about getting it printed. She said she had no idea what to do so I asked her to send me the book and I would get it sorted for her.
When I received it I was impressed with the story written by a little girl in a child's handwriting plus the little drawings she had done.
I contacted the chap who did my books and asked him if he could call in to see me so that I could show it to him.
He was also impressed with it and I asked him if he could print it exactly as it had been written.
This he did and a copy was sent to Dorothy.
To say her cup runneth over would be putting it mildly.
When she told John he too was over the moon because Dorothy had decided to pay for more copies and sell them in aid of the British Heart Foundation. Dorothy was so grateful to them for saving her son she wanted to give something back.
Many copies were sold and money sent to the foundation.
John, Janes brother, finally came to terms with his grief and left a lovely message in the guest book.
I feel very honoured to have written the introduction page on Jane's website and to know that John has at long last come to terms with life.
Re: Through the eyes of a child.
by Joelle on Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:05 pm
What a lovely story Maywalk and how much you helped Dorothy and through her her son and it is so beautiful that the little girls poems were published and her book too thus an everlasting tribute to Dorothy's little girl. A single kindness is like a pebble in a pool with ever widening circles and touches the lives of so many.
Maywalk I have just been and read Jane's poetry with tears in my eyes, what a lovely web site, what a talented little girl she was and how sad her guest book has had to be closed. I will read Dorothy's story tomorrow thank you for the links.
by Tan on Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:15 pm
Such terrible tragedies for Dorothy and for John too, such trauma for sure like you describe Maywalk, words are not enough are they, it's a pain that would grip them throughout their lives, but how lovely you have done all that to help them so much to ease their pain, you really are a very kind and thoughtful lady for all that you have done to help them both, amazing.
Such a tragedy for them losing Jane, and it goes to show she had Poetry and Prose inborn in her, such a young age too in expressing what was in her to share with others, she never go that chance to add more, but you have brought it all for everyone to see and enjoy, as you did for her Mum and Brother too..
Pain like that is so terribly deep, many think they will never be able to walk away from that pain, but you certainly helped them for all time.
by Captain Nemo on Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:07 pm
Im just going to look at the links Maisie it was a lovely thing you have done there ,
Thankyou for this and the emotions and feelings it contains ,
Thankyou everyone for the replies.
It gave me enormous pleasure to help get the site together and to know it helped Jane's brother to come through that dark hole he had been stuck in since her untimely death.


Has anyone tried this or have a story to tell about power banks?
My relatively new X1C does quite poorly on battery if I'm doing real work, e.g. compiling and running apps with Visual Studio & SQL Server. Fiddling with the battery settings doesn't make that much of a difference so I thought why not carry a brick with me when on the road?
I'm just starting to look into it but real stories from real users are just so much better than generic 'reviews' or hidden adverts that have become all too commonplace in the last few years.
I have a 26800mAh power bank from an australian retailer called kogan but really anything that supports USB C power delivery should work fine. That capacity will easily change the laptop from zero to 100% at least once and really improves my overall endurance and its not obnoxiously heavy, charges with the same power cable aswell which is nice. I would suggest finding something that can do at least 45w to play it safe and some decent C to C cables, i have the belkin 1m USB 3.1 Gen 2/TB3 cables.
I use the Lenovo 14000 mAh USB-C Laptop Power Bank 40AL140CWW which is compatible with the X1C6. It's compact and in addition to a short USB-C cable comes with a nice USB-C to ThinkPad Slim Tip ower adapter so you can also power Slim Tip-powered Thinkpads. There is also a version G0A3140CWW which comes with a round-tip adapter, the even older ThinkPad connection. Both will power ThinkPads which run with up to 65W power adapters.


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School Finance Manual
The School Finance Manual is a comprehensive reference guide to the financial procedures for schools in North Yorkshire.
The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (Section 48) requires the financial controls within which delegation works to be set out in an LMS Scheme for the financing of schools prepared by the Local Authority and approved by the Secretary of State for Education.
The LMS Scheme is the funding framework for schools. It sets out the financial relationship between the Local Authority and the maintained schools it funds. Within it are requirements relating to financial management and associated issues which are binding to both the Local Authority and the schools. The Scheme is updated to reflect Governmental advice. The North Yorkshire Scheme can be found in Chapter 2 of the School Finance Manual.
The LMS Procedure Rules form a part of this overall control framework. They aim to facilitate service delivery by setting out best practice for the administration of all financial matters within schools. This, then, ensures a high quality of financial information thereby enabling better decision making. They should not be viewed as a barrier to executive action and are constantly kept under review to ensure that they remain relevant to the day to day activities of schools.
The School Finance Manual contains both of the above documents as well as giving more detailed information in relation to particular areas such as budgets and forecasting, banking arrangements, VAT and charging for school activities. The manual is produced by North Yorkshire County Council for its schools. It is updated to reflect any changes of a local or national nature.
Other guidance and policies for schools are produced by the Local Authority outside of the LMS Scheme and LMS Procedure Rules. These are either reproduced within the Schools Finance Manual or are referred to with links as to where they may be found on the cypsinfo website.
Introduction - the school finance manual in context
Chapter 1 - List of Contacts (updated November 2021)
Chapter 2 (broken down into 3 parts - see below)
2.1 - LMS Scheme for Financing Schools (updated March 2022)
2.2 - LMS Financial Procedure Rules (approved by CYPS Executive Members February 2022)
2.3 - LMS Procurement and Contract Procedure Rules (approved by CYPS Executive Members July 2022)
Chapter 3 - Revenue Budgets & Long Term Financial Forecasts (updated August 2021)
Chapter 4 - Capital Expenditure (updated September 2021)
Chapter 5 - Banking Arrangements (updated September 2021)
Chapter 6 - Purchasing (updated August 2021)
Chapter 7 - Ordering (updated August 2021)
Chapter 8 - Payment of Invoices (updated November 2022)
Chapter 9 - Construction Industry Scheme (updated September 2022)
Chapter 10 - Catering (updated November 2021)
Chapter 11 - Income (updated October 2021)
Chapter 12 - Hire of Educational Premises (updated November 2021)
Chapter 12 - Hire of Educational Premises (word document) (updated November 2021)
Chapter 13 - Private & Commercial Sponsorship (updated October 2022)
Chapter 14 - School Private Funds (updated June 2021)
Chapter 15 - Earmarked Funds (updated August 2021)
Chapter 16 - Value Added Tax (updated March 2021)
Chapter 17 - Governors (updated October 2021)
Chapter 18 - Bank Reconciliation (updated September 2021)
Chapter 19 - School Accounting (updated December 2021)
Chapter 20 - Payroll (updated August 2022)
Chapter 21 - Security (updated October 2021)
Chapter 22 - Audit Arrangements (updated October 2022)
Chapter 23 - Insurance Services to Schools (updated September 2021)
Chapter 24 - Charging for School Activities (updated August 2021)
Chapter 25 - Glossary of Terms (updated August 2021)
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Wikipedia's Hard SF article is pretty dissapointing: a large section is devoted to Anime and there is little in the way of examples of the genre. I was thinking about recent hard SF books I have read and Ash: A secret history sprung to mind.
I read this novel whilst on holiday in Europe last summer. It features many major european cities and regions such as Milan, Lion, Dijon and the rest of Burgundy. It was interesting to be reading a novel set in the cities as I travelled through them. There's also quite a bit about the Flemish. I visited a friend of mine in Aachen which is in southern Germany on the border with Belgium and Holland where the older folk still speak Flemish.
Anyway to get back to the point. The novel was fairly laborous in places, which is typical of a fantasy (a category it nominally falls into). However it's interesting because each chapter of swashbuckling is interspersed with letters between a historian and his publisher regarding the translation and unearthing of the life of Ash (who is doing the swashbuckling).
As the novel nears its end, the Hard SF element comes out. I won't spoil it for you but it's a strange way of interpreting some quantum physics stuff. Not on the level of Egan's explorations but fun non-the-less.
The novel was slightly spoilt for me by the author's preoccupation with battle-nerve induced faeces, and a particular graphic passage about a miscarriage. Actually that is the first book I've read which very nearly had me throwing up.


This is a fascinating book, with delectable minutiae in practically every page. Unlike the usual turgid tomes we encounter when we go in search of authoritative books, Manu Pillai's volume tells us, succinctly but with sufficient weight, the turbulent history of 500 years of the Deccan—from the events leading to the founding of the Bahmani kingdom to the ascent of the Marathas, who nagged Aurangzeb until he died a disappointed and bitter man.
The Sultans, both Muslim and Hindu, were at once magnificent and bloodthirsty—killing thousands without compunction and destroying cities and places of worship that took decades to reach eminence in a few terrible days of loot and arson. At the same time, they have left beautiful monuments and rare works of art. The cities of Bijapur, Hyderabad, Aurangabad and the ruined wonder of Hampi are their creations.
The Sangamas of Vijayanagar called themselves Hinduraya Suratrana, Sultan among Hindu kings. Krishna Deva Raya, the most famous of them, "gave orders to enlist Mussalmans in his service...erecting a mosque for their use…ordered a Koran to be placed before his throne on a rich desk, so that the faithful might perform the ceremony of obeisance in his presence without sinning against their laws". And we have Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur, who is described as one "whose father is Guru Ganapati and mother the pure Saraswati". There is a stunning painting of Saraswati from his period in which she appears dressed as a Deccan princess but with her usual symbols of conch, veena and lotus. Ibrahim referred himself as Abala Bali (the defender of the weak) and composed a book named Kitab-e-Nauras, which also speaks about Shiva, Parvati and the great Hindu epics.
Two great medieval characters portrayed in the book are Chand Bibi and Malik Ambar. While Chand Bibi defied Akbar in the defence of Ahmadnagar, "clad in armour…with a drawn sword in her hand" only to be killed treacherously by her own men, Malik Ambar held out seemingly forever, to the irritation of emperor Jahangir. He was a habshi (African), born in Abyssinia. Sold as a slave and exchanged several hands, Malik eventually rose to eminence as the commander of the Nizam Shahi forces and fought resolutely against the Mughals. As a Mughal historian says, "Malik Ambar was sometimes defeated and sometimes victorious, but did not cease to oppose". It was he who established a new capital for the Nizam Shahi kingdom in Khirki, later known as Aurangabad.
Unlike the Mughals, the Deccan sultans considered themselves beholden to Persia, celebrating the Persian Shah in the khutbah during the Friday prayers. In the pecking order, the Westerners, as the Persian nobles were called, almost always took precedence. In the eyes of a medieval Hindu observer, the government of the Muslims were devoted only to becoming rich and leaving for places which they considered to be their fatherland or holy. Here, the author clarifies that Muslims, in this context, seem to mean Persians rather than the Dakhini Muslims. The Dakhinis, while not fully pleased with the ascendancy of the Hindus, worked with them to protect their own interests which clashed with those of the Persians. This contradiction eventually led to the end of the Deccan Sultans and it was in the Deccan that the ruin of the Mughals began, leading to the rise of the British.
This book is about the sultans and not about the inhabitants of the sultanates. It speaks about the fabulously rich persons and the treasures they possessed, but not about the teeming millions who lived in the Deccan. It doesn't speak about the produce or the food of the region. The horror of wars, even at this distance, is chilling and the author gives us but a glimpse of it. This was what Adil Shah did to his own domain to slow the advance of the Mughal army: "The embankment of the tanks were demolished, poison and carrion were thrown into the wells, trees and loft building near the fortress were destroyed. Similar outrages were committed by the warring emperors, sultans and kings year after year. The author also mentions in passing of the terrible famine of 1630: "Life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it (and) the flesh of a son was preferred to his love".
What makes me love the book is the prose of the author. I have been struggling hard for over 50 years to write non-execrable stuff and here is an unassuming young person, effortlessly writing elegant, illuminating prose. I do envy him.


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Кубок Квебека 2015 — 23-й розыгрыш ежегодного профессионального теннисного турнира среди женщин, проводящегося в канадском городе Квебек и являющегося частью тура WTA в рамках международной серии.

В 2015 году турнир прошёл с 14 по 20 сентября. Соревнование завершало серию хардовых турниров в регионе, расположенную вокруг US Open.

Прошлогодние победители:
 в одиночном разряде —  Мирьяна Лучич-Барони
 в парном разряде —  Луция Градецкая и  Мирьяна Лучич-Барони

Общая информация
Список участниц одиночного турнира возглавила прошлогодняя чемпионка Мирьяна Лучич-Барони (№ 48 в мире на тот момент). До полуфинала хорватка была близка к повторению своего прошлогоднего результата, но здесь не смогла справиться с немкой Анникой Бек, уступив ей в трёх равных партиях. Пятая сеянная проиграла в этом матче свой единственный за весь турнир сет, а затем в финале справилась с 18-летней Еленой Остапенко, уступив ей всего четыре гейма, в то время как их обе встречи в протуре до квебекского приза закончились в пользу недавнего латвийского юниора. Помимо Остапенко до поздней стадии кубка добралась ещё одна несеянная спортсменка: Наоми Броуди, проиграв в финале квалификации Джессике Пегуле, затем из-за нескольких поздних снятий была допущена в основу и смогла выиграть там три матча.

Посев в парном соревновании возглавили сёстры Киченок: Людмила и Надежда (№ 53 и № 67 в мире на тот момент). Украинки задержались в сетке лишь на два матча, а титул достался несеянному альянсу Барбора Крейчикова / Ан-Софи Местах, переигравшему в финале третью сеянную команду турнира Мария Иригойен / Паула Каня, а до этого выбивший из борьбы прошлогодних чемпионок — Луцию Градецкую и Мирьяну Лучич-Барони. И для чешки и для бельгийки этот успех стал первым титулом на соревнованиях ассоциации во втором сыгранном финале.

Соревнования

Одиночный турнир
  Анника Бек обыграла  Елену Остапенко со счётом 6-2, 6-2.
 Бек выигрывает 1-й титул в сезоне и 2-й за карьеру в туре ассоциации.
 Остапенко впервые добралась до финала на соревнованиях тура ассоциации.

Первые раунды

Секция 1

Секция 2
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}}

 Финал

 Парный турнир
  Барбора Крейчикова /  Ан-Софи Местах''' обыграли  Марию Иригойен /  Паулу Каню со счётом 4-6, 6-3, [12-10].
 Крейчикова со 2-й попытки побеждает в финале соревнования ассоциации.
 Местах со 2-й попытки побеждает в финале соревнования ассоциации.

Примечания

См. также
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 WTA Тур 2015 года
 Международные турниры WTA

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Q: Javascript RegEx number only from number with comma and text after I've got this text: 3,142 people. I need to remove the people from it and get only the number, also removing comma(s). I need it to work with any higher numbers too like 13,142 or even 130,142 (at every 3 digits it will get a new comma).
So, in short, I need to get the numeric characters only, without commas and people. Ex: 3,142 people -> 3142.
My first version that didn't work was:
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But after I changed patt2 to /\d+[,]\d+/g, it worked.

A: you can use this:
var test = '3,142 people';
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It will remove every thing except digit and decimal point

A: '3,142 people'.replace(/[^\d]/g, ''); // 3142

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Explanation
[]    // match any character in this set
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\d    // match only digit
[^\d] // match any character that is NOT a digit

string.replace(/[^\d]/g, '') // replace any character that is NOT a digit with an empty string, in other words, remove it.


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ROUND 19: Newcastle Knights v. Gold Coast Titans (McDonald Jones Stadium, 21/7/18)
Posted on July 21, 2018 by Billy Stevenson in KNIGHTS, TITANS // 0 Comments
The Titans still hadn't got over their 38-0 loss to the Broncos in Round 17 when they met the Knights at McDonald Jones Stadium on Saturday afternoon, having lost to the Roosters as well the week before. Only a try ended up separating the two teams, in a hard-fought contest that started with about ten minutes of fairly consistent sets, with only a dropped ball from Konrad Hurrell and some escalating field position for the Knights towards the end of this period doing much to disrupt the back-and-forth momentum.
The Newcastle possession paid dividends eleven minutes in, when a series of repeat sets culminated with a kick from Nick Meaney that initially looked to be a bit strong, skidding through Ash Taylor's legs and well on its way to going too far, only to ricochet off Brenko Lee at exactly the right angle for Mitch Barnett to collect it on the line. Seizing his opportunity, Barnett gathered the football and ground it before Michael Gordon could get to him, cementing the first four points for Newcastle.
It didn't take the Titans long to respond, however, thanks to a deft pass from Hurrell a couple of sets later that saw Gordon careen down the left edge for about fifty metres before he was finally brought to ground. While Nathan Peats made some good metres up the middle of the field, Gold Coast shifted the Steeden back to the left at the end of the tackle count, forcing Nathan Ross to boot the ball into touch at the tail end of a well-placed kick from AJ Brimson.
With a slow peel from Aidan Guerra on the first tackle, the Titans chose to kick for touch, consolidating immediately with some rapid movement out to the right, culminating with a great pass from Gordon and a rapid catch-and-pass from Brenko Lee that saw Anthony Don get the football down one-handed as Mitchell Pearce flew through the air to bundle him into touch. While Ken Sio might have missed the kick, keeping the score level at 4-4, the Gold Coast had exposed a chink in the Knights' defence, and regained some momentum over the next couple of sets.
With two tries on the board, there was a bit of an arm wrestle for control of the game over the next couple of plays, as both teams made a series of big gestures to try and reclaim dominance. First, Pearce kicked on tackle two, only for Fitzgibbon to knock the football on while trying to ground it, due to a great chase and some tough pressure from Brimson. Then, the Knights got their own back, as Ross helped spearhead a pack defensive effort that saw Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Conor Watson and Fitzgibbon slam Philip Sami into touch on the Titans' left edge.
Shortly after, Jarod Wallace charged down a promising Pearce kick after the ex-Rooster had been held down without a Gold Coast penalty a couple of tackles before, while Meaney responded by putting enough pressure on Gordon a set later to force him to cough up the high ball, forcing Don to scoot around and act as second fullback. In order to reclaim the game, one of the teams had to internalize all this back-and-forth momentum into the rhythm and structure of their own attack.
That's just what the Titans did a couple of sets later, in one of the more memorable set pieces of their 2018 season. The play started with a rapid pair of passes from Peats and Taylor that saw the Steeden move to the outside of the field, where Kevin Proctor sent it back inside just as quickly, where it sailed through Mitch Rein before finding Peats once again, who had nothing but open space ahead of him, but still came to ground just a metre short of the chalk.
Nevertheless, Peats managed to continue the inside momentum of the previous play, lobbing the footy back to his left where it bounced off Ross' forearm and into the arms of Moeaki Fotuaika, who crossed over for the second Gold Coast try of the night – a nice way to make up for an average last-tackle kick earlier in the match that had bounced lopsidedly into touch. This time, Taylor added the extras – the first kick points of the afternoon so far – bringing the Titans to 10-6 as the last ten minutes grew near.
For a moment, the Titans looked set to consolidate, thanks to an inspired kick from Taylor that bounced off the uprights and came very close to providing them with a chance to cross over once again. Some strong defensive work from Ross put an end to that, however, while Chris Heighington responded by earning his team a penalty midway through the next tackle count, and taking a quick tap as soon as the whistle blew to get the blue and gold army five metres out from the line by play two.
From here, Newcastle were all conviction, as Danny Levi tried to barge his way through the Titans' right edge defence before surprising them with a rapid play-the-ball that saw the Knights shift the Steeden over to their right side just as quickly. They only lingered there for the briefest moment, however, before Pearce sent through a beautiful crossfield kick that Meaney leapt up to catch on the full, outplaying both Taylor and Sami before slamming to ground beside the posts.
In this vision of perfect, fluid communication between a young gun and veteran player, and between a Newcastle import and a Newcastle native, the Knights had the last word on the first stanza. While they might have still been two points behind, due to a penalty kick from Gordon at the thirty-third minute, this moment of consolidation played no small part in the confidence they showcased from the beginning of the second half – the confidence they needed to come away with a six point win over a Titans outfit still smarting from their zero game against Brisbane.
Nevertheless, Gold Coast were the next to score, following on from a well-timed pass from Taylor and a double pump from Brimson, which put Sami across in the corner five minutes into the second stanza. On the restart, the Titans got their own turn to benefit off a ricochet, following Barnett's effort in the first minutes, as Taylor kick bounced off Corey Denniss and allowed Taylor to regain possession before passing it across to Don, who crossed over for his eighth career double.
The Titans were now fourteen ahead, but these would turn out to be their last points of the night, as Newcastle commenced a tryscoring bonanza that saw them clock up twenty before before the game finished. For a second, it looked as if Gold Coast might be the next to score, though, after Hurrell knocked the high ball backwards before the Knights could get to it. If one of the Titans had managed to cross over they might have wrested the match beyond the Knights' grasp, but luckily for the home crowd the red and blue army managed to regather quickly here, and prevent another four points being scored off the back of Don's previous try.
Towards the end of the next set, Newcastle got six again. A couple of good runs from Barnett and Herman Ese'ese looked promising, only for Peats and Lee to hold down the fort with a strong trysaving tackle and a deft recovery of the football respectively. Still, with a penalty and a quick tap from Daniel Saifiti midway through the next set the Knights got another option to make the most of some additional field position, as Fitzgibbon signalled their determination by slamming to ground a foot from the chalk on the second tackle.
The Titans' momentum plummeted further when Brimson was taken off for an HIA after running into Conor Watson. Earlier in the match, Heighington had been removed for a dislocated finger, and the symmetry of both teams having now lost a man seemed to steady the Knights as they waited for Brimson to be led off the field. For the last ten minutes, the Newcastle forwards had been raring for a twist-and-spin, and Fitzgibbon delivered a moment after play resumed, slamming through Rein and Keegan Hipgrave off a short ball from Levi for the gutsiest putdown of the game.
It was now Newcastle's turn to score tries in rapid succession, as Levi clocked up a second try assist to help Barnett get a double in his fiftieth game for the club. The sequence played out like an intensified version of the contest between Barnett and Gordon that opened a game, as the big second-rower slammed the Steeden down moments before Gordo stuck out a boot to try and deflect the football from his grasp. Once again, Sio added the extras, narrowing the Titans' lead to two points as the final quarter of the match got underway.
Sio then levelled the score a couple of minutes later, with a penalty kick following a second effort from Jack Stockwell. Between some verbal dissent from Wallace and the spectacle of Peats having his head bandaged following a nasty tackle, the Titans' grasp on the game seemed to be slipping more and more by the minute. Yet while the Knights had built some serious escalation, there would only be one more converted try in the match.
It was still an elegant finale, though, as Watson found himself with the football at the tail end of a superb sequence of Newcastle field position, heading to the edge of the field as Shaun Kenny-Dowall crossed inside behind him, and then flicking the footy back for the best set play of the evening. Timed to perfection, it suggested a Newcastle outfit that would remain unflappable – and they did, notching up one of their most assured wins of the season, despite the close scoreline.
The Titans therefore have to wait another week to get some closure following their loss to the Broncos two weeks ago, and will be looking to make the most of a home ground advantage when they take on New Zealand on Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile, the Knights will be looking to consolidate further when they travel to Townsville to take on the Cowboys, who will also be desperate to make the most of their home ground after losing to St. George at 1300SMILES this round, as the end of Johnathan Thurston's storied career draws near.


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