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West Ham United Football Club: 1914-15
January 1, 2000 kjehan
Registered players for West Ham United Football Club, season 1914-15: R.H. Allen, Herbert Ashton, * 1914-15: 14-0 (Southern League 1); 1-0 (FA Cup). William L.
Careers of famous footballers: Sam Hardy
April 29, 1913 kjehan
April 29, 1913 It isn't very often that I do anything in the writing line; in fact, to tell the truth, I am scarcely cut
Liverpool v Chelsea 5-1 (League match: January 8, 1910)
January 8, 1910 Match: Football League, First Division, at Anfield, kick-off: 14:30. Liverpool – Chelsea 5-1 (3-0). Attendance: 25,000. Referee: Mr. H.S. Bamlett. Liverpool (2-3-5):
Chelsea v Liverpool 2-1 (League match: September 4, 1909)
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September 4, 1909 Match: Football League, First Division, at Stamford Bridge, kick-off: 15:30. Chelsea – Liverpool 2-1 (2-1). Attendance: 25,000. Referee: Mr. H.S. Bamlett; linesmen:
Sam Hardy and Arthur Berry for England
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February 1, 1909 The International Selection Committee of the English Association met this afternoon and chose the following to represent England in the match with
Chelsea v Liverpool 3-0 (League match: January 2, 1909)
January 2, 1909 Match: Football League, First Division, at Stamford Bridge, kick-off: 14:30. Chelsea – Liverpool 3-0 (1-0). Attendance: 25,000. Referee: Mr. T. Kirkham. Chelsea
Chelsea's luck out
September 7, 1908 Hard game with Liverpool at Anfield Road Chelsea are two points down upon their last season's League record as a result of
Liverpool v Chelsea 2-1 (League match: September 5, 1908)
September 5, 1908 Match: Football League, First Division, at Anfield, kick-off: 15:30. Liverpool – Chelsea 2-1 (0-0). Attendance: 20,000. Referee: Mr. T. Kirkham. Liverpool (2-3-5):
Anfield Happenings (April 25, 1908)
April 25, 1908 A busy weekend. Three matches in four days is sufficient for even the most avaricious of football spectators, and that was Liverpool's
Chelsea v Liverpool 0-2 (League match)
Monday, April 20 – 1908 Match: Football League, First Division, at Stamford Bridge, kick-off: 15:30. Chelsea – Liverpool 0-2 (0-0). Attendance: 35,000. Referee: Mr. A.
Scotland v England 1-1 (International: April 4, 1908)
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Sam Hardy selected for England duty
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March 30, 1908 A meeting of the Scottish Football Association was held in Glasgow last night, when the following team was selected to represent Scotland
Wales v England 1-7 (International: March 16, 1908)
March 16, 1908 Match: International: British Championship, at The Racecourse (Wrexham). Wales – England 1-7 (0-4). Attendance: 7,000. Referee: Mr. P. Phelps (Scotland FA). Wales
English League v Scottish League 2-0 (Inter League: February 29, 1908)
February 29, 1908 kjehan
February 29, 1908 International, Inter League, at Aston Lower Grounds (Birmingham). English League – Scottish League 2-0 (2-0). Attendance: 11,000; gate receipts: £379. Referee: Mr.
Ireland v England 1-3 (International: February 15, 1908)
February 15, 1908 Match: International, British Championship, at Solitude (Belfast). Ireland – England 1-3 (1-1). Attendance: 22,600. Referee: Mr. Thomas Robertson (Scotland). Ireland (2-3-5): William
North v South 4-4 (International trial: January 27, 1908)
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January 27, 1908 Match: International trial, at Hyde Road, kick-off: 15:00. North – South 4-4 (0-2). Attendance: 8,000; gate receipts: £220. Referee: Mr. W. Gilgryst
Liverpool v Chelsea 1-4 (League match: December 25, 1907)
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December 25, 1907 Match: Football League, First Division, at Anfield, kick-off: 11:00. Liverpool – Chelsea 1-4 (1-2). Attendance: 25,000. Liverpool (2-3-5): Sam Hardy, Alf West,
England v Ireland 1-0 (International: February 16, 1907)
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Monsanto, a Contemporary East India Company, and Corporate Knowledge in India
by Kamalakar Duvvuru / July 25th, 2009
Economic growth, large technical workforce and lower research costs in India are attracting Research and Development (R&D) investment from multinational corporations (MNCs), particularly in agri-business. In the OECD economies, agri-business is the second most profitable industry, after pharmaceuticals. Contributing to its profitability is rapid development in biotechnology.
The Indian Biotechnology sector is gaining global visibility and is being picked for emerging investment opportunities. India has 40 state agriculture universities, five deemed universities, one central agricultural university and more than 200 agricultural colleges. These institutions produce about 14,000 graduates and 7,800 postgraduate and Ph.D. scholars every year.
With Monsanto's progress in European markets frozen, growing economies like India and their markets took on greater significance. The company urgently needed to expand the market for its GM crops internationally. Monsanto's agriculture division had already begun to focus on Asian, African and Latin American markets in the early 1990s, towards the goal of "transforming agriculture" in a number of countries, a target that became known as the "developing country goal". Monsanto's commercial vision has been projected as a benevolent vision for the world. When Robert Shapiro was appointed as Monsanto's new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in 1995, he engaged in a program to reorient the company's business around "sustainability". He linked the urgent need to grow enough food to feed a growing population with "inadequate" existing technologies and agricultural practices. So Monsanto's "sustainability" vision, it is claimed, could be realized through GM technology.
Monsanto India (MI), which began its operations in 1949 as a trader of industrial chemicals and later an agrochemical company in 1975 with the launch of the herbicide, Machete (butachlor), has evolved into an agribusiness giant of GM seeds. The Monsanto research centre established at Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Bangalore in 1998 is the only R&D centre established outside the US.
The foundation for Monsanto to tap into the research potential of students as well as the research facilities available in Indian universities was laid by a trade agreement between India and the United States, known as the Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture (KIA) or Agricultural Knowledge Initiative (AKI). This trade deal was influenced by Monsanto, Archer Daniels Midland Company and Wal-Mart.
Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture (KIA)
The India-US Agreement on Agriculture and Science and Technology emerged from a joint statement by Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, and George W. Bush, then US President, on July 18, 2005. This far-reaching bilateral pronouncement was the genesis of the Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture (KIA). Later, in March 2006 Singh and Bush signed a joint declaration on enhanced cooperation in agricultural education and research. This cooperation is based on the KIA.
The KIA is implemented through KIA Board, which consists of US and Indian members from government, universities, and the private sector. Dr. Norman Borlaug and Dr. M.S. Swaminathan are honorary advisors for the KIA. The US private sector members are: Monsanto, the largest seller of GM seeds in the world; Archer Daniels Midland, a US grain purchaser and trader and is, with Cargill, one of the companies that maintains "oligopolistic control of the American food-manufacturing and food-processing markets"; and Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer.
The Board has decided to focus initially on four core areas: agricultural education, food processing and marketing, biotechnology and water management.1 "The KIA is part of the US comprehensive strategy on revitalizing the bilateral relationship in agriculture with India," said Susan Owens, director of the FAS Research and Scientific Exchanges Division. A key feature of KIA is university-business partnership. Owen stated: "We want to broaden the scope of the AKI beyond just research…We want to use the AKI to increase agricultural production in India…."2 That means, industry helps in not only reshaping the universities' curricula, but also identifying research areas that have the potential for rapid commercialization.1 This new Knowledge Initiative required development of "effective policy, regulatory, and institutional frameworks."1 As Owen said, "The AKI aims to promote science and technology to create a sound regulatory environment that promotes investment and trade."2
The KIA Board discussed rights (Intellectual Property Rights) to products that the research in public-funded universities will develop. US land-grant universities and industry representatives are asked to help reshape the curricula of Agricultural education. Some of suggested new courses were in entrepreneurship development, agribusiness, biotechnology, international trade, patent regimes and environmental science in various disciplines. Under KIA endowment of industry-sponsored chairs in Indian universities are allowed.
However, there is fear that India's Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act could face threats under US pressure. Along with multinationals such as Monsanto, the US has been lobbying for a change in India's intellectual property laws, to introduce patents on seeds and genes and dilute the provisions protecting farmers' rights. Vandana Shiva, a physicist and environmentalist, said,
The Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement between the US and India establishes intellectual property protocols of research, bypassing consultation with Indian scientists and the Indian public which has been resisting IPR regimes that force countries to patent life, and create monopolies on seeds, medicine and software…For us, these agreements are instruments of corporate dictatorship; they are not instruments of democracy. And as dictatorship, they will fuel more anger, more discontent, more frustration.3
The Protection and Utilization of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill 2008
Yielding to the pressures of both the US government and the MNCs such as Monsanto, Indian government introduced in the Parliament a controversial legislation titled "The Protection and Utilization of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill 2008". The Bill is modeled on the US' 1980 Bayh-Dole Act. It provides for the protection and utilization of intellectual property originating from public-funded research. It would alter the existing IP rules to allow government funded universities and autonomous research institutions, rather than the government, to patent their innovations and research outcomes, and to reward institutions and inventors with a share of the royalties and licensing fees generated from the commercial products that result.4 It also recommends universities to have a committee, called an intellectual property management committee, to "identify, assess, document and protect public funded intellectual property having commercial potential." The objective of the IP Bill, it is claimed, is to create an environment in which wealth can be generated from the university system, stimulate national competitiveness, and forge closer academia-industry partnerships.
The IP Bill has attracted considerable debate due to its perceived and potential adverse impact on the R&D, innovation and public interest.5 Pushpa Bhargava, who resigned in 2007 as vice-chairman of National Knowledge Commission, an Indian government advisory body that recommended the Bill, says that there was no major open discussion at the commission and he was "taken aback" by the recommendation. The IP Bill also goes against the National Knowledge Commission's policy objectives of promoting, sharing and using new knowledge to maximize public good.
Supporters of the Bill, mostly government officials and some section of industry argued that "protection of IP creates incentive for more knowledge and technology generation as innovators are recognized and rewarded."6 Officials from India's Department of Biotechnology, which helped draft the bill, say that the Bill will promote innovation in Indian universities and research institutes by generating funds through patents. According to Somenath Ghosh, managing director of India's National Research Development Corporation, it has brought "much-needed change," as "there was no mechanism or incentive to protect knowledge and their research networks have limited interaction with industry."
IP Legislation and Corporate Knowledge
Since "The Protection and Utilization of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill 2008" is modeled on the 1980 US' Bayh-Dole Act, the latter's impact on US universities imparts some important lessons to Indian academia.
Jim Patrico gives three reasons for bringing US public universities and private companies closer7 :
1.	Stagnant levels of public research funding by the Federal Government for agriculture research since 1980s. In 2008 National Budget under George Bush, surprisingly there was nearly one third cut in the public funding for agriculture research at the land grant institutions. This seems to be the government's strategy to gradually eliminate regular public research funding. Giving the rationale for the massive reduction in grants, a USDA deputy secretary said, "We feel like our agricultural research should not be earmarked; it should be competitively awarded, and that's how you're going to get the most bang for the buck."
Due to increase in cost of research, universities had to find their own ways to raise the extra amount of money from outside sources such as big companies. Because of its partnership with Monsanto, University of Missouri was nicknamed "University of Monsanto."
2.	The 1980's US Bayh-Dole Act, which gave US universities, for the first time, ownership of patents arising from government funded research.
3.	The 1980 US Supreme Court verdict that life forms could be patented. This made agriculture a prime target for patents. Private industry and universities mainly focused on the promising field of biotechnology. Patrico notes, "Within months of that Supreme Court decision, faculty members of UC-Davis created Calgene, a private company and one of the first biotech companies of the chute."
Although the university-corporate relationship existed even before 1980, Boyh-Dole Act gave public institutions a kick towards the market by encouraging them to patent their public funded research. A shift in universities' research focus towards creation of marketable products has dawned. The habit of patenting their research has developed a taste for private business deals. This put the public funded institutions in a conundrum, because they no longer existed as "public" institutions. Paul Gepts, professor of agronomy and plant genetics at UC Davis, says, "Public universities are a contradiction."7
Patenting of research and university-industry alliance raise troublesome questions about academic freedom, the purity of research, and research agendas. Patenting of research necessitates confidentiality. Agricultural universities and research centers become no longer places of open academic sharing and collaboration. William Folk, a plant geneticist at the University of Missouri says, "When I started in the 70s, meetings were filled with people criticizing each other and sharing ideas…(But today) if you have an idea that has any potential commercial value, you are reluctant to share."7 Thus, colleagues are seen as potential competitors.
Moreover, scientists who perform industry-sponsored research routinely sign agreements requiring them to keep both the methods and the results of their work confidential for a certain period of time. As biotech and pharmaceutical companies involve more in funding research, confidentiality becomes very important for the funding company. From a company's point of view, confidentiality may be necessary to prevent potential competitors from pilfering ideas. However, one of the basic tenets of science is open sharing of ideas and information. That is why Steven Rosenberg, cancer researcher of the National Cancer Institute, says, "The ethics of business and the ethics of science do not mix well."
There is also genuine fear that university-corporate relationship might lead to tampering the research manuscripts to serve corporate commercial interests. In 1996 four researchers working on a study of calcium channel blockers accused their sponsor Sandoz that passages highlighting the drug's potential dangers were removed from a draft manuscript. They wrote in a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association: "We believed that the sponsor…was attempting to wield undue influence on the nature of the final paper. This effort was so oppressive that we felt it inhibited academic freedom."7
As the research in the public institutions is market-driven, there is a potential danger that the research focus or agenda of universities converge with corporate agendas and interests. The one possibly negative impact of research collaboration with industry is the impact on public sector research priorities. Major victim will be the "minor crops", which are commercially not profitable for the companies. Market-driven research also suppresses ideas that may not have immediate commercial value. Organic farming will get affected for lack of not only public funds, but also enthusiasm among agricultural researchers. Students, who wish to pursue their research in organic farming, will face a bleak future.
University-Corporation relationship gives legitimacy to the company and its products. The company can use this legitimacy to promote its products. In 2007, Monsanto gave royalty-free license of its GM papaya seeds to the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India. License will be valid for ten years and royalty will be decided thereafter. "This is the first product delivery from Monsanto to the university, and Monsanto has been working on this for the past year," said Bhagirath Choudhary, National Coordinator, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications that assists universities acquire technology from private companies.8 The reason for the collaboration between the university and Monsanto was that famers buy papaya seeds from the university.
Therefore, IP law makes public funded universities and research centers excessively focus on income generation and sharing of royalties. This may derail public funded academic institutions from their mission of unqualified pursuit and public dissemination of truth and knowledge. The university serves the broad public interest, to the extent that it treasures informed analysis, critical inquiry and uncompromising standards of intellectual integrity. However, university-industry alliance converts these public centers of knowledge into centers to serve the greed of private companies. However, Rob Hersch, Monsanto's vice president of product and technology cooperation, disagrees. He says, "The No.1 issue for us with universities and with science is to get good information…unbiased, believable, reproducible information."7 Ignacio Chapela, a UC-Berkeley professor of microbial ecology, admits that a deal between university and company "institutionalizes the university's relationship with one company, whose interest is profit. Our role should be to serve the public good."9 Therefore, there is a real danger of "business of the universities" becoming business. Consequentially, the knowledge of universities will help widen the gap between the rich and the poor by providing knowledge that helps rich to become richer, rather than bridging the gap between the rich and the poor. So, research will be geared towards making profit for the big corporations.
Thus, university education system is converted to essentially profit making commercial enterprise. It is structured like any other commercial enterprise that looks primarily at its bottom line. A deeper analysis of nature, which has no immediate commercial market, is now being downgraded in favor of what the industry considers as "lucrative" research. It shifts research priorities away from what society needs as a whole to the greed of the corporations. Science is no longer for advancing knowledge and the well-being of society but almost entirely for generating profits for the educational enterprise, and consequently to the funding corporations. Professor Steve Rose of UK's Open University, succinctly puts it,
Well I think there is a very real problem from the point of view of university research in the way that private companies have entered the university, both with direct companies in the universities and with contracts to university researchers. So that in fact the whole climate of what might be open and independent scientific research has disappeared, the old idea that universities were a place of independence has gone. Instead of which one's got secrecy, one's got patents, one's got contracts and one's got shareholders.
Stifling downstream R&D, hindering free scientific exchange of scientific information, data and materials and increasing opportunities for conflict of interest and other unethical practices not consistent with the best interests of science is not the way to go.
In India Monsanto has started country-wide campaign to attract research talent into the development of hybrid rice and wheat. For this, it has linked with some of the country's premier universities and research institutes. In 2009 Monsanto announced $10 million grant to establish Monsanto's Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program (MBBISP) to improve research on breeding techniques for rice and wheat. The program will be administered by Texas AgriLife Research, and agency of the Texas A&M University system, for the next five years. What is alarming is not that agribusiness giant Monsanto is seeking answers from the Indian public funded universities and research institutions. It is that Monsanto is the one asking the questions at Indian public funded institutions. As Andrew Neighbour, former administrator at Washington University in St. Louis, who managed the university's multiyear and multimillion dollar relationship with Monsanto, admits, "There's no question that industry money comes with strings. It limits what you can do, when you can do it, who it has to be approved by."7 This raises the question: if Agribusiness giant Monsanto is funding the research, will Indian agricultural researchers pursue such lines of scientific inquiry as "How will this new rice or wheat variety impact the Indian farmer, or health of Indian public?" The reality is, Monsanto is funding the research not for the benefit of either Indian farmer or public, but for its profit. It is paying researchers to ask questions that it is most interested in having answered.
Now, the basic role of the public funded agricultural institutions and research centers in a democratic society is at risk. The new developments in India are vehicles to empower food giants such as Monsanto, destroy small farmers, and harm the public health. In 1970 Henry Kissinger said: "Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control people."10 What we are witnessing in India today are developments towards that end, under the disguise of "food security." Concentrating control in the hands of the US Agbusiness company Monsanto (and few others) places Indian public at risk, and leads to its control of India, as the British East India Company did.
Dinesh C. Sharma, "Preparing for New Challenges," Span, March/April 2007. [↩] [↩] [↩]
Julia Debes, "U.S.-India Agricultural Cooperation: A New Beginning," FAS Worldwide, September 2006. [↩] [↩]
Rahul Goswami, "A Bargain-Basement Knowledge 'Mandi'," InfoChange News &Features, August 2006. [↩]
Rahul Vartak and Manish Saurashtri, "The Indian Version of Bayh-Dole Act," Intellectual Asset Management, March/April 2009. [↩]
"The Indian Public Funded IP Bill: Are We Ready?" Indian J Med Res, 128, December 2008, 682-685. [↩]
Sharad Pawar, India's Union Minister for Agriculture, at Conference of Vice-Chancellors of Agricultural Universities, New Delhi, February 16-17, 2009. [↩]
Jim Patrico, "Universities for Sale?" Progressive Farmer, November 2001. [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩] [↩]
Padmaparna Ghosh, "Monsanto's Gift to Tamil Nadu University: GM Papaya Licence," livemint.com,india, October 24, 2007. [↩]
Eyal Press and Jennifer Washburn, "The Kept University," The Atlantic Monthly, 285/3, March 2000, 39-54. [↩]
Stephen Lendman, "Destroying America's Family Farm: HR 2749. A Stealth Agribusiness Empowering Act," Global Research, June 12, 2009. [↩]
Kamalakar Duvvuru teaches the New Testament in India with an objective of promoting peace, justice, unity and love. He can be reached at: kamalakar.duvvur@gmail.com. Read other articles by Kamalakar, or visit Kamalakar's website.
This article was posted on Saturday, July 25th, 2009 at 8:00am and is filed under Corporate Globalization, Food/Nutrition, GMO.
3 comments on this article so far ...
Rikje Maria Ruiter said on July 27th, 2009 at 8:55am #
If we accept gen- products….
that is the begin of the end…..!
Rikje Maria
Stephen said on July 27th, 2009 at 12:33pm #
Great article. Thanks for posting.
ATUL V. BHOLE said on October 5th, 2009 at 11:43am #
Natural Resources should be maintained,
We should go toward researches for alternatives of natural resources.

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Seth Fischer's writing has appeared in Guernica, Buzzfeed, Best Sex Writing, PANK, Lunch Ticket, and other publications, and he was the first Sunday editor at the online literary magazine The Rumpus, where his work was listed as notable in The Best American Essays. He's received fellowships from Ucross, Jentel, Lambda Literary, and elsewhere. He is also a professional editor, and he teaches at Antioch University Los Angeles and Writing Workshops Los Angeles.
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Monsanto pleads guilty to using banned pesticide in Hawaii
The company admitted that it used Penncap-M despite knowing its use was prohibited
11/22/2019 | ConsumerAffairs | Legal News
Following an investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Monsanto has pleaded guilty to spraying a banned pesticide called Penncap-M on corn seed and research crops on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
The Department of Justice announced the decision on Thursday, saying the Bayer-owned company has agreed to pay $10.2 million in fines over its use and storage of the banned pesticide.
Prosecutors noted that the pesticide is considered "acute hazardous waste" and therefore poses a threat to the environment.
"Monsanto admitted in the court documents that it used Penncap-M, even though the company knew its use was prohibited after 2013 pursuant to a 'cancellation order' issued by the Environmental Protection Agency," the Justice Department said in a release.
"The company further admitted that, after the 2014 spraying, it told employees to re-enter the sprayed fields seven days later – even though Monsanto knew that workers should have been prohibited from entering the area for 31 days."
Terms of the agreement
The $10 million fine Monsanto has agreed to pay includes a $6 million criminal fine and $4 million in community service payments to Hawaiian government entities, the DOJ said. The company won't be prosecuted if it abides by the agreement, which also states that it must fully comply with federal environmental laws.
The agreement adds to mounting legal troubles for Monsanto's parent company Bayer, which is currently facing more than 40,000 lawsuits claiming glyphosate is carcinogenic. To date, three separate juries have found that the company's glyphosate-based product Roundup caused plaintiffs' non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
In a statement, Bayer expressed remorse for failing to use its products safely and manage its waste correctly.
"We take this very seriously and accept full responsibility for our actions," said Darren Wallis, Bayer's vice president of communications in North America.
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FC Hajduk
The story of Hajduk is really the story of Split during the past hundred or so years. The football club was founded in 1911 and was always much more than just a club, representing one of the main points of identity of Split going back to the time when it was founded by the students from Split studying in Prague, Fabjan Kaliterna, Vjekoslav Ivanišević, Lucijan Stalla and Ivan Šakić.
The history of Hajduk is abundant with achievements but not only in sports, making it an indispensible part of the contemporary history of Split and Croatia. Hajduk has been continuously playing in the first league since 1923. In 1924 in the game between the representations of Yugoslavia against Czechoslovakia 10 players came from Hajduk, confirming the dominance hard to find anywhere in the world. In the years to come Hajduk was often at the top of the charts in Yugoslavia and in Croatia, he was the champion 18 times, and he won the cup 15 times. There were also notable European achievements - one time semi finalist of the UEFA Cup Winners Cup, one time semi finalist of the UEFA Cup and three times quarter finalist of the European Cup or today's the UEFA Champions League.
There are so many other things making Hajduk so much more than just sports. In 1926 the club had its own operetta, composed in honour of Hajduk by Ivo Tijardović, it is hard, if not impossible, to find an example of a football club which has "its own" operetta.
The Second World War brought out probably the brightest out-of-sports episode in Hajduk's history. After refusing to play in the Italian League, as requested by the occupation's authorities, the entire team of Hajduk went to Vis in 1944, which was a free territory, club was renewed there and acted as the anti-fascist army team, the game with the British army team in Bari was the best attended sports event during the war, 40.000 people watched.
General Charles de Gaulle declared in 1945 Hajduk the honorary team of the free France for that very reason. Just as Hajduk and Split are inseparable so are Hajduk and its supporters, who have in 1950 founded one of the first organised fan clubs in Europe, called after their Brazilian role model Torcida. Through all these decades Torcida stood by its club, during its good and bad times, and the celebration of 100 years of Hajduk in 2011 was a magnificent demonstration of love towards the club admired also through photographs by the entire world.
BC Split
Usually in Split everything seems to be about football, it seems as though there is no other club which could identify itself with Split besides Hajduk. But when we're talking about sports achievements, there is one standing tall, raising above everything the local football myth managed to achieve in its entire history. Of course, we're talking about BC (basketball club) Split or - BC Jugoplastika as it was called during its glory days.
World basketball organisation (FIBA) declared the "Yellows" from Split, or their generation from the late eighties, the best team in the world of all times. Such title was the result of three European Champion titles in a row, in 1989, 1990 and 1991, but the history prior to these dates was also filled with glorious successes. Unfortunately, today they are far from their former glory, but with an eternal hope of returning to the old paths of success.
The club was founded in 1945 when basketball was still considered an exotic sport. Still, the main part of their history begins in 1963 when they managed to enter the first Yugoslav league. After that came the successes. In ex-Yugoslavia, the country considered one of the three greatest basketball superpowers, they were the country champions six times. They won the National Cup five times.
After Croatia's independence they have won another five Cups and they were also once champions. International successes started in 1972, when they lost the Euro league Finals in Tel Aviv by just one point against Ignis from Varese, while next year they reached the finals of the Saporta Cup. After that they won the Cup of Radivoj Korać twice (in 1976 and 1977), and the mentioned three Triple Crowns. In 1989 and 1990 they played the McDonald's Championship finals, a memorable event when teams from the NBA met Europe for the first time.
Jugoplastika has yielded through history dozens of great players, first memorable generation was the one led by Petar Skansi and Rato Tvrdić, later came Damir Šolman, Željko Jerkov, Duje Krstulović, Ivica Dukan... But the ruling dynasty of the late eighties will be hard to top over in any club: Toni Kukoč, Dino Rađa, Žan Tabak, Velimir Perasović, Zoran Sretenović, Duško Ivanović, Zoran Savić, Goran Sobin... Later on came Nikola Vujičić, Roko Leni Ukić...
Some of them became true world legends, especially Toni Kukoč, who left a glowing trace in the NBA league, winning three championship rings for the Chicago Bulls, next to Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and others. One ring from the NBA was also brought by Žan Tabak, playing for the Houston Rockets, and Dino Rađa was a member of the Boston Celtics.
Of course, all of them participated in the greatest achievements of the Yugoslavian and Croatian basketball, bringing to Split numerous medals from Olympic games , World and European Championships.
YC Labud
In the twenties of the 20th century Split was suddenly becoming a cosmopolitan city. Construction work was at its peak, the cultural life was thriving, newspapers were being published, and foundations were being made for what we call today "the city of sport". Hajduk was starting to win titles, Split became a swimming and rowing superpower, while at the same time some locals discovered that sailing could be done for fun and not only for fishing the lunch.
On the 24th of August 1924, from Matejuška to the Marjan suburbs Meje, the first sailing race took place with 23 sailing boats participating in it. Just a couple of months later a sailing club YC Labud was founded, existing to this day as one of the most important points of sport in Split.
Labud resides in the same house ever since the thirties, in the port of the Baluni bay below the cape Sustipan, counting its successes, organising races with some other clubs from Split (Mornar, Split, Zenta) keeping the spirit of sailing alive in Split. Today Mornar is even more successful than Labud by the number of medals, but the tradition started long ago by Žarko Dešković, with a couple of friends, cannot be erased. The successes of the Labud sailors are innumerable, hundreds of races have been won and nobody knows how many medals in national and international competitions.
Karlo Baumann from Labud was the first Croatian sailor at the Olympic games in Berlin in 1936, Karlo Kuret achieved the best ever success of Croatian sailing on the Olympic games, 4th place in Sydney, sailors from Labud, Minski Fabris, Ante Ivančić, Branko Širola, Karlo Kuret and others have won medals on European Championships, and the world champion, Tina Mihelić is keeping the flames burning today in the port on the west side of the city's harbour.
As much as Labud is renowned for its sport successes, it is also famous for the two greatest sailing holidays in Dalmatia. The Mrduja race is one of the oldest sailing races in Croatia, and one of the oldest sport competitions today, held for the first time in 1927, and grew to become the greatest sailing race on the Adriatic, 22 miles long with more than 300 sailing boats participating, from family sailing boats to Maxi yachts. It is not much younger than the Vis regatta or race, happening in October 2014 for the 70th time. Those two races are synonyms for sailing in Split, a sign of the connection existing between Split and sailing and of how much Labud is a part of the collective spirit of Split.
Rowing club VK Gusar
100 years of Gusar
There seems to be a secret connection between Split and Prague. Every small child in Split already knows what happened in 1911 at the pub At Flecks, but Prague conceived another Ace from Split - The Croatian Rowing Club Gusar.
In 1912 Prague was hosting a traditional race of three Prague clubs "Primatorska osma". Among many viewers of the race were a group of students from Split amongst which also Fabjan Kaliterna. While he watched with enthusiasm as the blades of the oars cut through the murky Vltava, Fabjan had an idea: We already have Hajduk, why shouldn't we establish a rowing club in Split? And what should it be called?
Well, naturally, Gusar (meaning pirate), as a marine counterpart to Hajduk. It was all Fabjan Kaliterna, Ivo Stralia, Josip Kodla and other Split enthusiasts could think about, spending hours after hours in the Prague Café "Sport" while planning the future of rowing in Split, and finally on the 5th of March 1914 an inaugural meeting was held and Dr Ivo Stalio was chosen for president.
100 years have passed since, and many beautiful (and some not so beautiful) things have happened during that period: starting on Matejuška, and later moving to their new built base in Spinut, from their first gold medal of an eight on the European championship in 1932, to the first Croatian Olympic gold for a four in Helsinki in 1952, and then the unlucky explosion and the destruction of the club base in 1992, and finally to the latest successes of Boraska, Franković, the Skelin brothers and many others...
Maybe more than medals and cups are the people who make Gusar, those who came from this club and left their mark in its mosaic, those who stuck by it as its great family and gained numerous sport and life values.
We can only wish to this favourable centenarian that its next one hundred years are at least half as successful as those preceding.
Generations of rowers have gone through Gusar giving their contribution to this club. Its history is written in sweat and determination of rowers, and not in pen and ink, therefore if something is missing let no one hold a grudge, instead let them point towards the flaw and we will gladly put things right.
Sailing club Split
History, sports achievements, and objectives of the club - In the year 2020, sailing club Split is celebrating its 70th anniversary with its continuous work on the promotion of the sailing sport. Since their first statutory meeting, held on 18th of October 1950, in the space of sailing club Labud, which at the same time represents the foundation of today known club, many things have been achieved. Marina construction has begun already one year after that meeting, thanks to the enthusiasm of the first members and club's founders, as well as the enormous support of the local shipyard. First sailing boats entered the newly built marina on the 10th of September 1953. It was a year when the name of the sailing club was changed to Vicko Krstulović in honor of the tremendous help and support of the eponymous shipyard. Until 1969, the club got a contemporary look, which has been designed according to the project of well-known Split's architect Vuk Bombardelli. With time club has built a respectable place among Croatian sailors and in sailing sport. The club changed its name again to the current one during 1998 and established itself as one of the leading clubs in the region.
During last year only, our members won more than 50 medals on national and international regattas. The best acknowledgment of hard work and special gift for the 70th anniversary came during 2020 when club's member Elena Vorobeva won the national norm for the Olympic Games, which will take place in Tokyo this year. But this is not the only time when sailing club Split had its member among Olympic athletes. It also happened during the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2020 when brothers Toni and Ivan Bulaja represented Croatia and Croatian sailing sport at the same time, marking the 50th anniversary of the club.
It is also worthy of mentioning that sailing school Split is one of the most numerous and the best equipped in Croatia, which every year has more than 30 new members and future athletes.
Club's ultimate goal is to raise the club to the highest level of the international sailing center by continuous investment in club infrastructure and high-quality sailing instructors and trainers, never ceasing to think about new ways of practicing sailing as a way of life together with the awakening of global awareness and the importance of preserving sea and marine life for our future generations.
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A braid of destinies that will unite two loving hearts begins when they put the wedding rings on for the first time. In this very moment everything around becomes lighter and full of new meanings.
The wedding rings "Plaited Belt" will confirm the marriage vow of the couple to live in harmony and concord. The masters of Lobortas Classic Jewelry House painted sophisticated braids on the surface of gold and praised love that unites two souls forever in this picture.
The rings are made by gifted masters who followed the traditions and experience of Fabergé who discovered beauty of enamel and gold combination. They will make the couple sure that these jewels are the proofs of their sincere feelings.
The mystery that unites two destinies like the strips of the plaited belt. Only two lovers know what it is and will enjoy each other for ever. These two rings are made for them only.


The faerie household went to the Ren Faire this past weekend and we had a blast!
I find mermaids everywhere I go. Upon editing I found I didn't just get 2 mermaids like I thought. I got three!
My own little faeries wrought with mischief. There are more photos but I'm currently having problems with my MacBook. Again. So I'm posting from my iPhone right now.


Hundreds of dead animals were bought from China, Vietnam and elsewhere for use in research on lab cats back home.
U.S. government scientists bought hundreds of dogs and cats from "Asian meat markets" and conducted experiments that included feeding their remains to healthy lab cats for needless research, according to a disturbing watchdog report being released Tuesday.
The experiments — some of which the agency said in scientific reports were aimed at studying different forms of a parasite that causes the food-borne illness toxoplasmosis — are believed to have been conducted between 2003 and 2015. The animals that were euthanized to be used as lab food included over 400 dogs from Colombia, Brazil and Vietnam and over 100 cats from China and Ethiopia.
"Some of these cats and dogs were purchased by the government from the same Asian meat markets that the U.S. Congress roundly condemned in a House Resolution" last year, said the report by the WCW.
The group plans on releasing its findings, which were culled from the USDA's own research publications, in a report to Congress entitled, "USDA Kitten Cannibalism."
The experiments were carried out at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service's Animal Parasitic Disease Laboratory in Beltsville, Md. The facility was already under fire from some lawmakers for killing cats intentionally infected with T. Gondii, the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis.
"The details of these kitten experiments keep getting worse and they need to end now," said Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., the lead Republican co-sponsor of legislation aimed at stopping the cat killings.
"The fact that the USDA has been rounding up pets and other innocent dogs and cats in foreign countries —including at Chinese meat markets condemned by Congress — killing them and feeding them to lab cats back here in the States is simply disgusting and unjustifiable."
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., called the revelations "deeply disturbing."
"We can advance scientific discovery while treating animals humanely, and American taxpayers have every right to expect our government will meet that standard," he said in a statement, while urging passage of the legislation, entitled Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now — or KITTEN.
The agency has been breeding kittens at the lab since 1982, and feeding them raw meat to infect them with T. Gondii. Scientists harvest the parasites from their stool for two to three weeks, and then euthanize and incinerate the cats. Cats are used because they're the only host animal that produces parasite eggs.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says toxoplasmosis is one of the leading causes of death from foodborne illnesses in the U.S. While over 40 million Americans are believed to carry the parasite without an issue, exposure can have "severe consequences" for people who are pregnant or have a compromised immune system.
Keen, who left the USDA after blowing the whistle on mistreatment of livestock in Nebraska in 2015, said the Maryland experiments have helped combat toxoplasmosis, but that scientists there haven't had any major breakthroughs in about 20 years. He and WCW vice president of advocacy and public policy Justin Goodman contend that scientists can continue their work with the samples they already have, and don't need to keep infecting and killing kittens.
"They just don't need to do it anymore; it's scientifically unnecessary," Goodman said.
Keen was also at a loss to explain the scientific purpose of the "cannibal" experiments. The USDA is supposed to protect the food supply, but cats and dogs aren't part of the food chain in the United States.
"It's totally unrelated to the food safety mission," Keen said. "We shouldn't be paying for that as taxpayers."
Keen, who's now a private citizen, learned about the experiments while researching the Maryland lab's scientific publications. The publications said the dogs and cats were killed in Asia, South America and Africa, and then tissues from the animals were sent to Maryland.
Some of the publications detailed feeding tissue from cat hearts, brains and tongues to other cats. Others involved feeding the same parts of dogs to the lab cats, and in some cases, injecting the tissue from the infected cats into mice.
The studies conducted using animals from China said "the cats were killed humanely according to PRC laws for slaughtering of food animal (sic)." The WCW report calls that claim "concerning and deceptive," and pointed to the 2018 Congressional resolution condemning the Chinese facilities. The resolution said the treatment of dogs and cats in the Chinese facilities "would breach anti-cruelty laws in the United States."
The WCW report contends the experiments were needless.
"These were all abnormal diets for cats, dogs and mice so likely irrelevant to natural toxoplasmosis biology. Their scientific relevance and justification is questionable, at best, as is their relevance to American public health since we do not consume cats and dogs, and the practice is now outlawed in U.S.," the report says.
The WCW says almost 4,000 cats have been killed since the testing began, and that the experiments have cost taxpayers about $22 million to date.


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• Any other class of offences or persons that may be prescribed in this behalf.
Any other offence may, upon payment of the prescribed (compounding) amount be compounded and such compounding is permissible either before or after the institution of prosecution. Compounding is to be permitted only after payment of tax, interest and penalty and compounding shall not affect any proceeding already instituted under any other law.
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Registration is still open—but closes soon—for the 2019 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and the 2019 Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE). Registration for NSSE closes September 21, 2018, while FSSE registration closes in February 2019.
Survey questions that capture key aspects of the student experience that promote learning and development.
Smartphone-friendly, mobile-optimized format that reduces survey fatigue and increases response rates.
Topical Modules—short sets of questions that can be appended to the core survey on topics such as academic advising, experiences with writing, global learning, and inclusiveness and engagement with cultural diversity.
Information-rich, graphically illustrative reports on ten valid, reliable Engagement Indicators and six research-endorsed High-Impact Practices and including customizable comparison groups for benchmarking your results.
Secure online tools to facilitate analysis and sharing of results.
When institutions participate in NSSE they can be confident that systematic, research-informed efforts have been made to boost response rates. Many institutions have already taken the opportunity to avail themselves of one such effort—namely, posting survey links to student portals or learning management systems. Institutions can also send two additional recruitment reminder messages directly to their students using IRB-approved message templates.
Every fall, NSSE and FSSE staff discuss potential revisions to the survey instruments, whether it be the core item sets that all participating institutions receive or any of the elective Topical Module item sets. Changes may include the addition, deletion, and/or modification of existing questions.
While no new questions are being added to either the NSSE or FSSE core instrument, respondents will now be able to select a "Middle Eastern or North African" response option when asked to describe their race/ethnicity, an approach that has been considered by the U.S. Census Bureau.
For NSSE, students will be able only to indicate that they participate on a sports team recognized by their school's athletic department and will not have the option of providing any details about the specific teams with which they participate.
In addition, respondents will be asked about the frequency with which they "Participate in a constructive dialogue with someone who disagrees with you." More minor changes to response options and item wording will also be implemented to other Civic Engagement questions.
For institutions that do not actively select a student comment prompt, the above question will be added to their NSSE administration as the default option.
NSSE Experimentation. NSSE will conduct two experiments during the upcoming administration to help boost response rates. The first will provide a yet-to-be determined group of institutions generic survey links for use with Twitter. The second will investigate the impact of sending recruitment messages at different times of the day. If interested in participating in either experiment, please contact Shimon Sarraf, Assistant Director for Survey Operations and Project Services, at ssarraf@indiana.edu.
Our newly released resource, Tips for More Inclusive Data Sharing and Analysis, offers suggestions for analyzing and comparing the experiences reported by small student populations and for conducting more inclusive analyses. Whether you are preparing reports for internal stakeholders or conducting research to share externally, we hope these tips allow us all to be more attentive to the ways we engage in this work.
A total of 122 colleges and universities registered for BCSSE 2018, and survey administration is quickly winding down with a few schools still administering the survey to their incoming first-year students. Taking advantage of a new BCSSE administration option, 11 of these BCSSE 2018 institutions are also scheduled to administer the survey to their new first-year students who are starting in January. This past summer we also pilot tested a revised web-based BCSSE that will accommodate transfer students and older students with more relevant questions regarding these students' recent experiences replacing BCSSE's standard items on high school experience. The pilot will result in updates to BCSSE 2019 (in the web-based format only) that will allow institutions to collect important information about their incoming transfer students and older students as well as their incoming traditional first-year students. A webinar describing the revised BCSSE 2019 will be offered in late fall/early winter. In the meantime, feel free to contact BCSSE Project Manager Jim Cole (colejs@indiana.edu) with any questions.
NSSE's Institutional Report 2018 includes four briefs illustrating themed examples of institutional uses of NSSE data. One of these briefs—titled "Enhancing Educational Practice"—highlights four institutions that have utilized their NSSE data to promote positive changes enriching undergraduate education.
When Andrews University's NSSE results suggested their students received less feedback from faculty than did students at comparison institutions, the campus developed their own follow-up assessment to determine how best to provide feedback. After Keuka College's students gave low ratings to their interactions with faculty, staff, and students, the college revamped their first-year experience course as well as their advising process. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology utilized NSSE as a complementary benchmark assessment for a grant they received from the Kern Family Foundation. Lastly, Carlow University mapped their NSSE core survey and Topical Module responses to guide the development of their new core curriculum—The Carlow Compass—and to inform a faculty development initiative to enhance the use of technology in the classroom.
Take a moment to read these stories in full for inspiration and more information on catalyzing change on your campus.
NSSE Sightings, NSSE's blog, shares current research findings and more from NSSE, FSSE, BCSSE, and other projects at the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research. The latest postings feature climate, academic, and health outcomes for queer and trans-spectrum students and senior experiences with creative coursework activities. Other posts include tips for examining engagement for small populations, an approach to understanding faculty motivations for teaching, and student and faculty perspectives on inclusive and culturally engaging coursework activities.
Be sure to check out NSSE Sightings and, if you sight good engagement-related research, findings, tips, or stories, please let us know. As always, we welcome your ideas and feedback!
Registration is open for participation in the 2018-19 VALUE Institute. The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and Indiana University's Center for Postsecondary Research, NSSE's home unit, established the VALUE Institute to provide a continuing resource for higher education institutions to document, report, and use learning outcomes evidence to improve student success in college. Through this project, higher education institutions can have authentic student work scored by trained raters using VALUE rubrics and then can receive data and reports from the VALUE nationwide database for benchmarking student learning.
Send your email to express interest and pose questions to info@valueinstituteassessment.org.
This past month, 511 colleges and universities (489 in the US, 16 in Canada, and 6 in other countries) received their NSSE Institutional Report 2018 in both electronic and print formats.
Close to 300,000 first-year and senior students from an original sample of approximately 1.2 million responded to the survey.
A total of 91 U.S. institutions chose to post survey links to their learning management systems or student portals, and the average institutional share of respondents who accessed the survey this way was 24%.
Eight-five percent (85%) of institutions appended at least one Topical Module to the core NSSE questions.
More than a survey, NSSE is a resource for data-informed improvement. While challenges and opportunities lie ahead for these institutions to keep improving undergraduate education, with NSSE data and resources at their disposal, these schools have many effective tools to inform and facilitate the process. For more information about NSSE 2018, see our Overview.
Are you looking for ways to integrate NSSE results with other evidence of student learning in your accreditation self-study, quality enhancement initiative, assessment project, institutional strategic plan, or other improvement endeavor? Consider joining us at the 4th Annual Using Evidence for Improvement: Teaching and Learning National Institute, to be held July 28–31, 2019, at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.
Using Evidence for Improvement: The 3rd Annual Teaching and Learning National Institute (TLNI) brought together campus teams of faculty, student affairs professionals, institutional researchers, and administrators to use evidence to identify areas to strengthen in the student experience and to construct specifically articulated action plans for their campuses grounded in known effective practices both in and outside the classroom.
The 4th Annual TLNI will be held July 28–31, 2019. Join us!


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Costa Rica will resume in-person learning in 2021
The Buenaventura Corrales Elementary School, also known as the "Metallic Building," in San José. ((Nate Doughty / The Tico Times))
The Public Education Ministry (MEP) announced this week that Costa Rica will resume in-person learning in 2021 using a blended model. Public schools will return to classes on February 8, and private learning centers may begin in January.
While MEP is promoting a blended learning model — where students attend in-person on certain days — each institution can create its own plan, as long as it follows the national guidelines.
Masks will be mandatory for teaching and administrative staff, as well as for students. Schools must limit daily in-person attendance to ensure appropriate physical distancing between students.
In most cases, students will alternate days attending class in-person and learning online. However, each school will determine its own policy and communicate it to parents. Students without reliable internet access should be prioritized for in-person learning.
Finally, schools must differentiate arrival, exit and recess times for different grades to help prevent large crowds.
MEP says it will continue distributing food packages to students who rely on schools for their dietary needs.
In-person learning has been suspended since mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic. In August, authorities announced that Costa Rica wouldn't resume in-person learning in 2020.
Struggles to adopt distance learning
The Education Ministry has detailed difficulties in the country's transition to distance learning in 2020.
In March, more than 1 million Costa Rican students were provided with an institutional email account in order to facilitate distance learning. As of late August, just 590,136 had completed account activation in order to use the online platform.
Additionally, data provided by school directors indicate 35% of students' homes don't have an internet connection.
Costa Rica is advancing with plans to install broadband internet in every public school by the end of 2021. The first-of-its-kind strategy would especially benefit rural communities that otherwise don't have reliable connectivity.
In addition to online resources, MEP broadcast educational materials via public television and radio.
UNESCO and ECLAC have warned that the coronavirus pandemic would exacerbate gaps in terms of educational access, equity and quality across the region.
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Is this acceptable behaviour by a live act?
Having been going to gigs for the last 35 years I can confirm that a typical start time for a headline band hitting the stage has always been 9-9.30.
It is only in recent times where the venue intends to have a club-night event in the venue afterwards that they have made a 10pm or 10.30 curfew for live bands resulting in them coming on earlier.
And I've just seen that you live just outside Croydon , so until fairly recently transport was still pretty reliable getting home.
I went to my first ever paid for gig on a birthday so just coming up to 39 years of going to see bands! Not very often these days admittedly.
Even large venues with curfews I've been stuck on car parks and not got home to 2am. The more I look at this I think the OP is just trolling.
I'm not sure if this is a troll post or not? Most gigs start at around 9pm and finish around 11pm to 11.30pm in my experience. I've been to local gigs 2 nights so far this week, and have struggled to get up for work the following mornings. But that's just the way it is with midweek gigs!
In London 7:50 pm is really early. I was a roadie for a European band for a while and in the week they typically went on stage at about 9:00 pm at the earliest or later unless they were doing two sets (rare but it happened at the weekend).
The OP is not a troll. I do not like to take a chance on being late for work because I stayed out late the night before. For those that do like to take that risk, maybe you could find another job if you were fired from your current job for poor timekeeping.
Also, as I pay for a concert ticket, I feel entitled to expect a level of service in return.
I trust none of your gigs have ever been a bit late, then?
I agree totally, anyway. It's really inconsiderate of bands and promoters not to organise their tour schedule and running times around your sleep schedule.
I don't get the risk element of not getting up in the morning. There are things called alarm clocks that will help you there. If you are worried about not getting up after a couple of hours sleep then just don't go to bed. I've done it many times. The human body is quite resilient and missing sleep for one day doesn't do it any damage.
The human body is quite resilient and missing sleep for one day doesn't do it any damage.
That is not true at all. Missing sleep can cause early death. Also, I do not appreciate being called a troll. Maybe this forum does not need my continued presence.
With that attitude, probably not.
OP sounds fun, I'd go to a gig with him.
Glad I didn't get involved in this one.
From my experience rock bands are late much more often than on time, in contrast with classical concerts which start pretty much on the dot. I sympathise with what you're saying and in my bands we have always tried very hard to start on the advertised time. And the professional bands and shows I've been in have been sticklers for timeliness. Having said that, I make it almost a rule to try never to schedule a start before 21:00. That seems to be the time when audiences are in the best mood for it.
You're not a troll. You are however an individual so anally retentive that it'd take seven Customs officials armed with the loader from Aliens to carry out a cavity search properly on you.
One has to question who is more sad... the fact that @alnmouth is a bored teenager posting a ridiculous (though amusing thread) or that we're all commenting on it.
Well, in for a penny.. in for a pound.
Festival. Share a two man tent.
Ffs keep your side clean though, or you'll end up in court!
And start on time... or he'll start a thread about it!
We regularly go the SSE in Belfast for gigs. Sometimes they're bang on 9pm, other times it's 9.15. No big deal.
We also have a 35/40 min drive after the gig is over around 10.30/45 and that's assuming we can get out of the traffic jams promptly. So, that gets us home between 11.30 and 12 (give or take). AND that includes a school night.
As well as getting up at 5am or 5.30am you can be guaranteed one of our 3 kids will waken us during the night.
Soooo.... does 15/20/25/30 mins bother me? Not in the slightest. But that's me. Aside from a band carrying on backstage there are other problems that can lead to a band going on late.
You gonna rock out to Little Mix next year? They're playing a Sunday and on a Monday so I'll be giving it a miss.
The OP would have appreciated an Isley Brothers gig I went to twenty years or more ago. They were on stage something like 7.00pm and had only done maybe 5 or 6 songs when the drummer fell backwards off the raised podium. Curtain down and gig over. We were all down the pub before 8.15.
If only they were all like that, eh?
Someone give OP a nappy change. Put him to bed before 7pm.
This is the most ludicrous opening post I've read in a while, think I need to go for a lie down.
The OP aside, I think for me there is a point here.
Obviously 7:50 is fine, disregarding that I do think it's unfortunate that often bands don't come on until 10pm. If you stay till the end it's midnight, then you need to get home on top of that. If you've gone to Manchester from Leeds, which I do often, then it's a good hour and a half till I'm in bed. I don't worry about being sacked because of course I'll be up in the morning, but my job is one where I can't be knackered the day after. I have to make serious decisions with repercussions, and I can't do that on 5 hours sleep. This varies from person to person, I know plenty of people who can and do function on 5-6 hours, but personally I can't do it, and professionally I won't put myself in that position. So, yes I often have to leave gigs early, in fact I can't remember the last gig I stayed for the very last tune of. However it's up to the band and the venue, and if I don't like it I will just vote with my feet and not go. Ultimately, it's an annoyance and disappointing if I have to miss the band, but that's part of my career choice.
I dont believe OP is a millennial (assuming that's who you mean by snowflake!). Surely no one under 50 would care for such a live act?
I went to see John Martyn in the mid 80s. The support act finished about 8.30pm. Shortly before 10.00pm, a barely able to stand John Martyn came on stage for a very short set.
I'd seen him a few times before and was used to his performances being 'variable', depending on how pissed/stoned he was - but this was just unacceptable.
Imagine you are the band.
What time are you going to start your set?
Will there be anyone there?
And where's the bass player gone?
Goddamn it bass player! The OP is in the audience. He's gonna be soooo pissed.
How is anyone going to enjoy our set if we don't start at the advertised time +/-10minutes. It's the main reason people come to see live music.


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The Cass County Courthouse in Linden, Texas was built in 1859 and has remained in operation since 1861, making it the only existing Antebellum courthouse in Texas and therefore making it the oldest courthouse in continuous operation.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

It is a three-story Classical Revival-style building, with its appearance mainly deriving from c.1900 renovation/expansion.  It was damaged by a fire in 1933 but was quickly repaired.  When listed on the National Register it was the longest continually-used courthouse in Texas.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Cass County, Texas
Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Cass County

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Coronavirus: Physios turning to tele-rehab
Hands-on consults not possible so they're helping patients via video calls, wearable tech
Physiotherapist Reginald Tang guiding national rugby player Jay-Hykel Jailani over video conferencing software Zoom during their tele-rehab session. PHOTO COURTESY OF REGINALD TANG
Heartland Physio relies on wearable technology to remotely monitor and instruct patients.PHOTO: XCLR8 TECHNOLOGIES
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Since Covid-19 circuit breaker measures kicked in on April 7, national rugby player Jay-Hykel Jailani has not visited his physiotherapist Reginald Tang.
Now, their weekly sessions to treat an ulcer in Jay-Hykel's left knee cap are done online over video conferencing software Zoom.
As physiotherapy is not considered an essential service, clinics have been shut till June 1 following the extension of circuit breaker measures yesterday, so many are offering tele-rehabilitation instead. This allows patients to be seen and diagnosed remotely by physiotherapists through virtual platforms.
But even as they find ways to continue seeing clients, business has been hit hard, with the roster of patients dwindling significantly.
Private clinics that The Straits Times spoke to saw a 60 to 90 per cent decrease in clients during this period.
Given the severity of the current situation, with Singapore reporting over 9,000 coronavirus cases and 11 deaths up till yesterday, many clients have opted to reschedule their appointments till after the circuit breaker period ends.
In a job that relies heavily on physical contact, physiotherapists now have to trust what they see and hear over video calls to assist clients in their recovery.
Without physical examinations, ascertaining the problems that patients are grappling with can be challenging.
Tang, a senior physiotherapist at Physio Solutions, explained: "During physical examinations, you can feel the difference between right and left sides when testing the physical strength of a muscle. When you are doing it online, it's not as affirmative."
This has forced physiotherapists to think of alternative ways to identify clients' conditions.
Heartland Physio has partnered health technology company XCLR8 Technologies to come up with wearable technology called Rebee.
Of patients' diagnosis is by touch.
The device, which is still a prototype and operated via an app, is worn on the joint that is being treated and data such as range of movement, speed and accuracy is recorded when patients exercise.
The data is then uploaded on to a programme that both practitioners and patients can access, allowing the physiotherapists to remotely monitor and modify the home exercise programmes.
Balaji Prem Chand, director and principal sports physiotherapist at Heartland Physio, said: "This helps to track if patients are doing their exercises in good form. Sometimes, although we give exercises for patients to do, they don't do it or forget how to do it so this helps to mitigate that."
Others have found the need to be more descriptive when trying to gauge their clients' conditions or demonstrate exercises to them.
Tang got one of his clients to use ankle weights as resistance, starting with 1kg on both sides and gradually increasing the load to see which one caused more problems.
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Muhammad Nifail Zainal, the lead physiotherapist at Get Moving, sometimes does the exercises with his clients. Because he cannot do physical examinations now, he depends on his patients to do the hands-on part of the sessions for him, guiding them along using bony landmarks - grooves or prominences found on bones.
While they have come up with ways to circumvent the constraints of tele-consultations, some like Sharon Lim, a sports physiotherapist at Moving Space, have decided to be more selective with the patients they see.
"The touch component is 30 to 40 per cent of how we form our diagnosis, and without that, our diagnosis may not be accurate, so we're selective with the patients we deal with," said Lim, who has served as the sports physiotherapist for the Team Singapore contingent at several major Games.
She sees patients who would benefit from tele-consultations as follow-up appointments, even if they are seeking treatment for a different problem, as she is more familiar with the way their bodies work. Other cases she is more confident in dealing with are exercise-based treatments such as those for anterior knee pains, which are more easily identifiable based on the descriptions provided.
With physiotherapists being more cautious now, recovery may take a little longer for some.
Jay-Hykel had been making decent progress since he started seeing Tang in February and was looking forward to making a full recovery by August.
He was able to do proper squats, which used to cause him severe pain last year, and with his knee responding well, Tang gave him more exercises to do.
But now that face-to-face sessions have stopped, the winger has not done new exercises as it is harder for Tang to assess how his knee is doing.
He said: "It does get a bit frustrating because I started seeing progress for the first time in a long time and I wanted to do more, but I can't now. But I'm still positive, 1 or 2 per cent of progress is better than nothing."
Assisting clients who have recently gone for surgery or suffer from acute injuries is also harder to do virtually.
Nifail said: "The first three to six weeks post-surgery are important and we tend to have a lot of hands-on sessions. Part of the assessment is to palpate the area, see if there's swelling, see if the range is all right and when you are unable to do that properly, it's difficult."
However, there have been some exceptions. Lim was granted an exemption for one of her patients who went for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery about two weeks ago, although her application for an exemption to see a patient who recently had shoulder surgery was rejected.
Seeing patients who have just done back or neck surgeries is also complicated.
Although Jenny Huang, founder of HelloPhysio, has not had to look at such cases during the circuit breaker period, she stressed the importance of knowing which cases can or cannot be managed over virtual platforms.
She said: "It's important to note the difference between those who can be seen through tele-health and someone who requires a hands-on (consultation) to prevent disability in the long term."
The Singapore Sport Institute (SSI) has also moved its physiotherapy and rehabilitation sessions with national athletes online.
National netballer Kimberly Lim had been going for three rehabilitation and two physiotherapy sessions a week at the SSI for her torn Achilles tendon since February, but is now currently doing her sessions at home.
She can no longer exercise on the anti-gravity machine, which she was using at SSI to reduce the impact on her Achilles tendon as it still is not strong enough for running and jumping.
While tele-consultations have not begun for her, she sends videos to her physiotherapist if she is unsure about anything. Lim has also been using a portable electrical muscle stimulation unit provided by the institute to help strengthen her muscles.
She said: "I'd never known anyone with an Achilles injury before, so it makes me quite scared to do my own rehab at home because I'm not sure how much I should push. But the physiotherapist is always there to help me whenever I send videos over. We're doing the best that we can."
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March 8, 2019 in Mental health | Tags: Adelaide Fringe, burlesque, cabaret, chronic illness, Mental health, Mindshare, Nexus Arts, Singin' in the Pain | Leave a comment
My third show to review for mindshare was Singin' in the Pain last night at Nexus Arts in the Lion Arts Centre.
This is burlesque with a definitive kick, produced by Diana Divine who began by sharing her own story. On strong painkillers after putting her back out, which she later discovered she was allergic to, Diana performed a show in excruciating pain et voila, the title!
Diana removed her back brace to music to demonstrate burlesque for those unfamiliar with it and then sang about trying to accomplish things with a constantly shifting finish line. Her voice was amazing.
Diana introduced the first act – Jaqueline Boxx (aka Miss Disa-burly-tease) from the US. With Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which affects connective tissues, Jacqueline performed in a wheelchair as pertinent messages flashed across the screen behind, such as You don't look ill and the one below, culminating in a defiant pose giving the finger.
Next up was the recently crowned burlesque idol SA who, with one hand deformed, fascinated with a fan dance, her energy and stage-coverage exhausting, quickly followed by Moisty Magic who shared her history of mental illness through song. Moisty's voice wasn't as strong as Diana's and having Googled her, I found a far more profound performance she gave called Unique.
Madame Savage graced the stage next, drunk on love and high on prescriptions, who, suffering from diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis to name a few, demonstrated difficulties in the bedroom. Her act finished with a release of medical waste from above – empty blister packs, syringes, boxes, etc. – representing just a few months' worth. Imagine this for everyone managing a debilitating condition.
The next act enthralled me – Laetitia Stitch who, after visiting ER with endless bleeding, was eventually diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome. Laetitia presented herself as a bandage, head to foot in white, which when peeled, revealed its symbolic red lining. Living with endometriosis myself, this resonated.
While the acts were not as polished as some I've seen at the Fringe, they were brave and the concept's quite brilliant, in its attempt to shatter the assumptions associated with disability, highlight individual experience and demonstrate that accessibility shouldn't be a barrier. I believe it achieved its goals.
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The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, also known as the MNAC, is the national museum of Catalan Art. It is one of Barcelona's most important museums and has an extensive collection of artworks from Catalonia and beyond.
A part of travelling is having to communicate with people in another language than your own. And in Barcelona there are two official languages. So which one should you try to speak?
One of Barcelona's biggest charms is its eclectic style. A style that combines the old with the new, the hip with the old-fashioned, the beauty with the dirty and kind of run down.


StreamLinx, a software company that facilitates lighting and energy retrofits for businesses to help companies meet the new government standards, was launching a new and much improved version of its software. StreamLinx needed help with a variety of branding and marketing communications deliverables. In this very competitive space, it needed to stand apart. And, do everything in time for the most important tradeshow of the year: LightFair.
Starting with a sub-branding recommendation (SnapCount™), a new identity was created. More friendly and approachable than what one typically sees in the very technical, retrofitting business-to-business space – we wanted to set StreamLinx apart. The same philosophy held true with all of the other deliverables ERC developed: collateral, postcard (to generate interest/traffic in the StreamLinx booth at LightFair), email invites, tradeshow booth design as well as completely new website.


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Q: What shape is this quadrilateral? It is a quadrilateral but I do not know which one it is:

A: It is a type of kite (Also known as a deltoid). On the left hand side of the image below is a convex kite, and on the right hand side is a concave kite.
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A concave kite is sometimes referred as a dart or arrowhead.

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With reference to both academic sources and primary research, critically evaluate the factors influencing student leisure participation.
This should be short and accurately reflect the content of the report.
Should introduce the reader to the topic, outlining the aims of the research.
A review of the literature in your chosen field of research. Reference should be made to books and academic journals such that an understanding of the key issues in the area is demonstrated.
As the method of data collection has been pre-determined, discussion should be restricted to justification of the questions asked in the questionnaire, questionnaire administration and issues of sampling, reliability and validity.
Discussion and analysis of results supported by use of appropriate presentation methods and descriptive and inferential statistics.
Summary of major findings and suggestions for further research.
List of all sources used during the research. All references cited in the text must be listed alphabetically in the University standard format.
Just want to add to the instruction here.
First, you need to make a questionnaire, about Sports Survey, Please make about 9 questions, for example like: what sports do you like the most, how often do you do sports, how do you usually like to do sports with. Questions like these. Then can you answer it differently 15 times, then do a SPSS with the result of the questionnaire.
Then finish the essay followed by the instructions above i provided.


There was plenty of straight talk at the first ever telephone town hall.
The volunteers and call screeners were ready, and the countdown was on. The boardroom of the ARCCAW Union Hall in Edmonton was transformed into a makeshift call centre – the first point of contact for members calling in with questions for Executive Secretary Treasurer Derrick Schulte. When the clock hit 7:30 p.m. on April 11, the Carpenter's first telephone town hall was underway and by all accounts, it was a success.
The start time was chosen to give crews working in remote locations such as Fort Hills the time needed to get back to their lodging from the jobsite and call in. Groups of members organized makeshift meeting spaces in hotel rooms where they could call in with their questions and listen to other issues as they were discussed.
"The sole purpose of this town hall was to connect with our members who are working in camps and remote locations and don't have the opportunity to connect with their union representatives, or union executive to have their questions answered," Schulte explained.
Six screening stations were were manned by a few hired communications and technical experts who worked alongside volunteers from Local 1325. Members calling in were asked to conduct themselves as they would if they came to any meeting at the Hall.
Volunteers screened each call and would then send them through to ARCCAW EST Derrick Schulte and Jeff Sloychuk, Recruitment and Communications Specialist for the ARCCAW. All totalled, around a dozen questions were handled, with no time for rebuttals or follow up questions.
The next Carpenter's Telephone Town Hall is scheduled for this summer. "We're constantly learning and looking to access new technology so we can continually improve our connection to our members and address their concerns," Schulte said.


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But even with that, the early reviews on the AX100 say the footage is simply stunning, even when downconverted to HD.
Doughie, thanks for pointing out the correct math. This drives me crazy too. 1080 to 2160 is 2x. 4k refers to px wide, which is pretty sleazy in my mind because it implies lines.
When you hit "Post Reply," underneath the reply box should be a tab that says "Upload Attachment." You should be able to post pics that way.