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Run Child Run talks about his new album Vanishing Point, India and more
Sarang Menon·
· April 9, 2018
From being a jazz drummer, tabla player, singer and producer, to playing a plethora of instruments on his debut EP, Ian Sims seems like the perfect definition of a multi-faceted musician. His debut EP Vanishing Point under the moniker Run Child Run is absorbing, meditative, and an avant-garde take on what minimalist music needs to be. Touring across Europe with the iconic electronic producer Nicolas Jaar, recording and performing with drone/stoner rock group Queen Elephantine, collaborations with Indian sitar players, Ian Sims' musical career looks like an assortment of colourful musical genres that are poles apart from each other.
Ian's musical journey started out at the piano next to his mother and listening to blues and jazz music his father always played in the house. "My mom always loved to play the piano, she still does and I used to imitate and watch her hands as she played Mozart and Beethovan. I played most of the sonatas by ear and never really took to reading music," Ian recollects.
Ian then joined the Providence based stoner rock band Queen Elephantine and went on to record albums such as Kala & Sacrab, playing drums & percussions on the songs as well as taking on production duties.
Nicolas Jaar & Europe
From his relatively simple beginnings, Ian Sims' musical career took a turn when he was invited to play drums & percussions in the live band put together by Nicolas Jaar. "Until that time I had considered myself only a Jazz drummer which I was pretty straight about. Nico kind of opened a whole world of electronic music to me, his approach to music was so different in using sampling and computers to create dance music," says Ian speaking about the influences of Jaar on his own music. An influence that seems to have followed him through to Vanishing Point.
After touring all over Europe, the band recorded a session covering an Abdullah Ibrahim track 'Ishmael' for BBC that made it to the compilation album Don't Break My Love. "The chance to go to Europe on tour was life changing, I had never experienced an audience who cared so much about music which is very different from America. Their festival season is phenomenal and every little town celebrates music," Ian fondly remembers.
Ian and India
Vanishing Point opens with a soothing Tampura on the track 'Darbari' and his Indian influence runs through the EP. "It's cool to know that you hear the Indian influence because it wasn't necessarily my intention to put that in there. It just happened organically through the fact that I was living & playing a lot of Indian music and being around a lot of Indian musicians so that kind of seeped in this project in many ways," says Ian when quizzed about the Indian influences on the EP.
Not surprising given that he spent a lot of time playing the Tabla in the US with Indian musicians as well as an extensive trip around the country with his long time collaborator in Queen Elephantine, Indrayudh Shome.
"It took me a little time to get the courage to start playing the tabla. I am so grateful for the three teachers I have had – Ajit Acharya, Anindo Chatterjee, and Shouri Lahiri. They have each in their own way taught me so much about music and the drums," says Ian.
"I went to Kerala first and then to Indy and his mom in Kolkata. Then I went to Ahmedabad to visit Srinivas Reddy whom I had met through Indy. Then we made it through to Hampi and finally to Bangalore," Ian says about what he calls a life-changing Indian trip. He also joined Srinivas Reddy on sitar and Indy on acoustic guitar to perform as a trio, Bismillah, at IIT Ahmedabad.
After an exploration over his own sound that lasted nearly 5 years, Vanishing Point was released in February, 2018 to rousing critical acclaim. The EP got due credits after being picked up as featured album of the week in Bandcamp weekly. Despite it being an electronic album, Ian ensures to retain live elements intact throughout by using wonderful looping techniques and live instruments wherever possible.
"There is some Tampura and a little hand held harp that I found abandoned. There's a wooden recorder, bass guitar, electronic drums, Yamaha Keyboards and my voice looped back in. It was a meditative process making it, I sat on it for several nights just marinating on the sounds," say Ian about the EP's recording process.
Ian now embarks on shows around the US promoting the EP and soon plans to head out to Europe, North America, India and other Asian countries in the near future. Going by what we have heard, this would be a show that must not be missed if given the chance.
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LeBron James Airing Television Special To Help Class of 2020 'Graduate Together'
4th May 2020 by BOTWC Staff
This is just the type of encouragement graduates need!
LeBron James is putting together a star-studded television special that will honor the Class of 2020.
According to AP News, The LeBron James Family Foundation has partnered with the XQ Institute and The Entertainment Industry Foundation to bring a one hour graduation special to television. "Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020," will celebrate high school graduates across the world, who are missing out on a physical graduation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The special was curated by high school students and educators across the country, and will feature performances, commencement speeches and a star studded lineup. Special guests include LeBron James, producer Pharrell Williams, activist Malala Yousafzai, actress Yara Shahidi, screenwriter Lena Waithe, singer/songwriter H.E.R., and hip hop artists YBN Cordae and Chika. `
"I wanted to help create a show that looked and felt very different from traditional specials. Something that spoke to kids in a different way. These kids worked so hard to graduate and what is happening to them is truly unfair. I hope we can give them and their families something cool that makes their accomplishment feel special," James said in a statement.
The special will air May 16th at 8pm EST. on NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, Complex Networks, PeopleTV, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube simultaneously.
For more information visit www.graduatetogether2020.com.
Thank you LeBron! Let's get our graduates across the stage!
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Pope leads rosary for peace at Rome shrine
Pope Francis recites the rosary at the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love in Rome May 1. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
By Cindy Wooden • Catholic News Service • Posted May 1, 2018
ROME (CNS) — Pope Francis visited Rome's popular Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love to pray the rosary for peace, especially in Syria.
The pope invited pilgrims in St. Peter's Square April 29 to join his prayers May 1 at the shrine and "to prolong for the whole month of May praying the rosary for peace."
May is a month Catholics traditionally devote to Mary.
After Pope Francis entered the old 18th-century church at the shrine May 1, one of the Daughters of Our Lady of Divine Love, the religious order founded there, introduced the rosary by quoting from Pope Francis' Easter address: "Today we implore fruits of peace upon the entire world, beginning with the beloved and long-suffering land of Syria, whose people are worn down by an apparently endless war."
The pope was joined in the small church by just over 100 people, including a few children and young adults, who assisted in leading the recitation of the prayers. Hundreds of other people were gathered outside and along the paths to the new church, which was consecrated in 1999.
After the rosary and the singing of Hail, Holy Queen, the congregation offered special prayers "for the intentions of the Holy Father" and then chanted the Loreto litany, a list mainly of the various titles of Mary — Holy Mother of God, Mother of the Church, Health of the Sick, Refuge of Sinners and, of course, Mother of Divine Love — followed by the petition, "Pray for us."
Pope Francis gave no homily or speech, simply leading the crowd in prayer and offering his apostolic blessing.
Each Saturday night from Easter through the end of October, pilgrims set off at midnight from within the walls of Rome and walk about 10 miles to the shrine, where they attend a special Mass at 5 a.m. Sunday.
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One hundred percent employee engagement is a business performance metric that most CEOs only dream of. But for CEO Jill Hesselroth of Intek Plastics, the goal of 100 percent employee engagement gave way to reality. "That [engagement] meant every employee either suggested a new idea, participated in a Kaizen or continuous improvement event or continuous learning activiity," she explains.
Before that record-breaking performance, employee engagement had never exceeded 70 percent. Jill attributes the high engagement scores to intentional leadership and increased communication at all levels of the 220-person firm. Jill and her leadership team get out of the office and on the manufacturing floor daily asking how are things going and what could be improved?
Intek Plastics is a privately held company that engineers, extrudes and fabricates custom extrusions for midsize and large OEM firms. Its largest segment (80 percent) is in fenestration for door and window manufacturers. Jill says Intek's largest customers are Andersen Window, Marvin and Pella, however, the company has about 180 customers buying its tailored solutions.
A few other industry segments the company serves include refrigeration, lighting and retail. It even counts amongst its customers NHL and college hockey rinks. The firm designs and builds the plastic bumpers that join the rink board and glass. Intek was the first company to provide the plastic bumpers in any color. "Colleges think it's great to be able to have their school colors around the rink and it's safer for the players" explains Jill.
Intek distances itself from the competition by providing integrated and innovative engineering services and solutions for its client's challenges. "We partner with our customers to solve their problems," says Jill. She calls their approach a true strategic partnership where customers seek Intek's manufacturing expertise as well as the company's engineering design and development ideas and solutions to tough problems.
Jill also employs a technical sales team she refers to as excellent "hunters," and fully integrated business partners, however, a lot of Intek's new business comes from new products or extensions of existing lines. Intek has customers on both coasts and in Mexico, however, the largest window and door manufacturers are in Minnesota, Wisconsin or Iowa for the $50 million company.
Shortly after Jill joined the company, she was asked to give a presentation to the shareholders. Her instinct was to give a straight, just-the-facts business presentation. But when her Vistage chair saw what she had planned, he quickly recommended another approach. Rob told her, "In communicating with your shareholders, you need to tell them about you. You need to get personal. It's such a small group of shareholders, and they have a vested interest." Jill recalls, "That was difficult for me to do," but she revised it.
She didn't anticipate the results: More than half the shareholders said something akin to, "We're so glad that you told us about you, and not just about the things you wanted to do for the business." She says because of Rob's insight into how to approach the presentation to the shareholders she now has more than just a professional connection with them.
Like many CEOs in Vistage, Jill shares what she learns with her direct reports and invites them to presentations whenever it makes sense. Following the annual Vistage Summit in Minneapolis, for instance, Jill packed her team into a conference room to go through each of the day's presentations and critical takeaways. The positive response from her team was universal: "Wow, that was worthwhile for us to see." The topics ranged from strategic planning to executive development, to the economy—each inextricably linked to Intek's future course.


GENEVA, N.Y. -- Down 2-0 to host William Smith at halftime Sunday with a bid to the NCAA Div. III national semifinals on the line, the Williams College women's soccer team remained defiant -- a term that would accurately describe the Ephs' run through the tourney up until today.
Two goals didn't seem like too many, not when you've lost your home field for the season, not when you've lost five players to season-ending injuries, and not even when two of your three senior tri-captains had yet to take the field.
"We definitely felt like we still had a chance," senior tri-captain Nicole Stenquist said. "We knew 2-0 is the most dangerous score in soccer, and we felt if we could get the next goal, anything could happen. Coach (Michelyne Pinard) kept telling us, 'we can take this game back one goal at a time."
Unfortunately for the Ephs, that goal never came, and the No. 2-ranked Herons added two more late scores to pull away from Williams, 4-0, and end the Ephs' season at Couzzens Field for the second straight season.
Williams finished its season at 13-5-3, while Williams Smith improved to 20-0-1 and moved onto the national semifinals to take on Messiah in San Antonio, Texas.
"Watching this team -- literally to the last minute -- compete, fight and battle today ... as a coach I could not ask for more or be more proud of them," Pinard said. "William Smith is the best team we've seen all year. They certainly belong in Texas."
The Ephs didn't come out looking like their tank was empty, not even following the thrilling double-overtime win over Emory on Saturday, but with seniors Sachi Siegelman and Brett Eisenhart out of the starting line-up with injuries, it looked like an uphill battle.
That hill got a little steeper 14:24 into the contest when, following a giveaway at midfield, Heron forward Whitney Frary slotted a through ball to the top of the box that first-year forward Dineo Mmutla ran onto and slid a shot past Eph keeper Laura Wann into the net on the near left post.
"Them going up 1-0 early was a heartbreaker of sorts," Pinard said. "We knew they would attack out of the midfield, they are very dynamic there."
Just 2 minutes, 52 seconds later, it was 2-0. The Herons had a corner kick from the right that Wann punched away, but the ball went right to Mmutla at the top of the 18, and she volleyed it out of the air, over Wann's leap backward and into the net.
From there, it was hard for the Ephs to generate much offense. The Herons continued to attack and pressure the Ephs' defense, nearly getting a goal from Frary and then a third from Dmmutla, both whose shots from close range went just over the crossbar.
"They have a lot of dangerous players," Pinard said. "They are unique in that they are dangerous from a lot of different spaces -- in the box, out wide, on crosses. Add to that they are solid defensively and very well-coached and you could see our challenge."
Williams was outshot 7-1 in the first half and 14-4 for the game. The Herons had a 5-2 advantage in cornerkicks. Still, with 25:38 left in the contest, it was still 2-0 when Pinard put Eisenhart and Siegelman into the contest.
The move did not pan out as the Herons added a goal just 65 seconds later off another corner kick opportunity. Olivia Zitoli pooched a shot off the corssbar, and Sarah Tarantino quickly headed the rebound into the goal for a 3-0 lead. A goal by Frary with 3:43 sealed the Ephs' fate.
The loss ended the careers of Eisenhart, Siegelman and Stenquist. The trio helped the Ephs win three NESCAC titles and four NCAA appearances, including one trip to the national semifinals and two Elite 8 appearances.
"I couldn't believe the effort Sachi and Brett gave today," Pinard said. "They probably should not have been out on the field, but they gave it all they had. And Nicole, she just sets the standard for the whole program with her work ethic. All three of them combined inspire us more than they could ever know."
Stenquist said that after all the Ephs went through this season, another Elite 8 appearance was a surprise.
"I don't think we could have asked for anything more -- obviously we wanted to win a national championship -- but it's amazing to be here again after all we went through. I think the big thing for us was the 10 freshman. Their excitement and the novelty of this whole opportunity for them fueled all of us. I know the three of us (seniors) could not have asked for anything more."
Wann finished with five saves for Williams. Amanda Davis had two for the Herons.


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"It better not be true about George Michael," Gallagher wrote on the social platform, where he has 1.4 million followers. In a since-deleted reply to that tweet, a Twitter user by the name of @Migualez then made a joke that referred to Michael's 1998 arrest in a public restroom in Beverley Hills, California.
Gallagher paid tribute to the late singer yesterday (December 26) on Twitter by posting a link to Michael's 1990 single 'Praying For Time'.
Since news broke of his death two days ago at the age of 53, various accounts have shone a light on how Michael had anonymously raised thousands of pounds for charity during his life.
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A 2.159-mm pitch ribbon-type connector for soldering. These are the core of the 57 family of connectors, which are available in 5 types.
■ This 57 Series forms the core of the 57 family of DIP connectors. The following 5 types are available.
· 57-10 type (unit connection plug).
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· 57-30 type (plug with straight hood for cables).
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Connector for board-to-cable and cable-to-cable connections with 2.5-mm pitch. A wide variety of offerings, including choices in PCB mounting orientation, terminal arrangements, and terminal plating.
· A new approach to contact pressure welding and crimping: A new type of connector where the contact-pressure-welded terminal is inserted into the casing.
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· Headers support potting: A header with increased height to support potting of the board for waterproofing (via resin filling) is available.
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MIL Standard-compliant ribbon cable connector. A wide variety are available and are used broadly in numerous types of devices and equipment.
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· Guiding achieved by fitting a convex element on the socket-side (HIF3A type) with a slot in the center of the pin-header side.
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17 Series (Dsub type) soldering connection type square connector for cable equipment.
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· The cable and plug wire connection can be shielded with a metalized hood, which is effective as an EMI measure.
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▪ Compatibility: pin header compatible with HIF3B series.
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This is a Fanuc CNC and servo I/O connector. Selectable between press-weld connections and solder connections.
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· Efficient wiring connection by bulk pressure wiring.
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• Use screws to ground the drain wire of the cable with a clamp.
• Easily incorporated using solder (HD type), pressure contact (FD*D type) or crimping (CD type).
• For FD*D, however, wire a fused I/O cable when using the case.
• CTH-type plug cases use UL94HB ABS resin and the plating conforms to the UL746C standard.
This is a 1.27-mm pitch I/O connector (general purpose type). A wide variety is available to suit different applications.
The SUMICON 1600 series of rectangular multi-pin connectors are built using an original Hirose Electric design. These connectors can be used for a variety of different applications based on the combination of connector unit and case employed.
· The same nine versions that are available in the 1300 series are available here, with the numbers of pins equal to 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 34, 45, or 60.
· Connector units are available in soldering, wrapping, or crimping types.
· Available accessories include C cases, CA cases, CBA cases, ST stoppers, STA stoppers, STB stoppers, and others. Combining connectors with these accessories opens up a wide range of possible applications.
· A single row surface mounting solder tail is used to easily achieve circuit board wiring with good transfer properties.
· The contact lengths of the upper and lower columns are equal, and the skew of the contact portion is essentially zero.
· Crosstalk prevention and impedance matching taken into account.
・ This D-sub connector series has been renewed with lead-free compatible products.
・ The fastening screw diameter can be identified from its external appearance.
・ A solution to problems associated with combining fasteners has been found.
・ Shielded connectors for EMI countermeasures.
▪ This is a UL standard (File No.E103202) certified product (except for XM4Z type).


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Last name: Clyne
This is a famous clan Scottish surname. Originating from an estate known as 'The lands of Clyne,' in the parish of Clyne in the county of Sutherland, far away in the north of the country, it has one of the earliest recordings of a Scottish surname. This was William de Clyne also known as William of Clyne, who witnessed various charters between the year 1350 and 1372. Other early recordings include Malcolm de Clyne, given as being the secretary to the bishop of Orkney around the year 1390, and William of Clyne, who was also the first to be known as 'of that Ilk' in 1458. The family of the original nameholders seems to have come to an end in or about the year 1520, when it would seem that the male heirs died out. However this does not seem to have stopped the march of the surname, other branches remaining prominent in Scottish affairs through to the 19th century. It is said that the most recent and well known holder of the name was Norval Clyne, who died in 1899, being famed as a 'man of letters'.
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Background: The USA situation
In some states in America it has become, or is due to become, illegal for employers and recruiters to ask about current salary or historical salary. The reason is to attempt to close or significantly reduce the gender pay gap in the US. The background behind this can be summarised as follows:
Most employers/recruiters ask for salary information upfront in order to help develop an offer.
Most employers base their offer, at least in part, on what salary a person has been earning prior to that. So, in an offer of employment, where a range of salary has not been advertised, the salary is typically a slight uplift on the person's previous salary.
However, because in the US women and minorities are, on average, earning less than white males, an employer basing a salary offer on historical salary/current salary, is likely to mean this difference or gap in pay remains.
So the thinking behind the ban on asking for salary information is that employers will have to offer a salary they think is suitable for the job they are recruiting for/matches an employee's aspirations without any gender bias. (NB: Employers can ask for salary expectations or aspirations).
The position in the UK
As is the case in the US, in the UK there is also a gender pay gap (in fact, there is a gender pay gap reported in all Western countries). Nationally, in the UK, the Telegraph reported that the Office of National Statistics states that "women still earn 9.4 per cent less than men, with big discrepancies still existing in some parts of the country". (Scott, 2017).
Last month, the Law Society Gazette reported that firms face a gender pay gap challenge over [salaried] partners as a result of new laws coming in, in the UK, to help reduce the gender pay gap here in the UK. (Fouzder, 2017).
Recruitment and asking for salary information: in the UK
Whilst some employment legislation exists around recruitment, (covered by the Equality Act 2010, in the UK) asking upfront for a candidate's current salary or salary history as part of a recruitment process, remains legal.
What to do if you are asked about your salary (in the UK)
Choosing to discuss or share your salary history/current salary when working with a recruiter or direct employer is a matter of personal choice. As above, it is not illegal for an employer or recruiter to ask for this information.
In our experience, an employer tends to ask for this [salary] information upfront for overall recruitment efficiency; they want to know if a candidate is affordable since it's a waste of everyone's time (the candidate's, the employer's and the recruiter's) if it later transpires a candidate is too expensive to hire at the point of an offer of employment.
In our experience, if the question of salary arises after a first meeting or final interview, it is usually because there is serious interest in making an attractive offer. So by providing the context of a current or historical salary, an employer can ensure that their offer is attractive and, hopefully, will be accepted and will result in a candidate actually accepting the offer.
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Scott, P. (8 March 2017). International Women's Day 2017: How big is the gender pay gap where you live? Retrieved from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/26/uks-gender-wage-gap-narrows-to-record-low-how-does-it-fare-where/
Fouzder, M. (6 April 2017). Firms face gender pay gap challenge over partners. Retrieved from https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/firms-face-gender-pay-gap-challenge-over-partners/5060583.article
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Feature by Andrea Needham	| 1 December, 2015
An excerpt from Andrea Needham's amazing new book, The Hammer Blow – how 10 women disarmed a warplane, to be published by Peace News in January
On 29 January 1996, Jo Blackman, Lotta Kronlid and Andrea Needham broke into a British Aerospace factory in Lancashire and used household hammers to disarm a Hawk warplane bound for Indonesia. They were arrested, charged with £2.4m of criminal damage, and sent to prison to await trial. A week later, Angie Zelter joined them, accused of conspiracy. After six months in prison, all four were acquitted by a Liverpool jury in a court case that effectively put Britain's arms trade on trial.
The disarmament could not have happened without the support of the other six members of the Seeds of Hope Ploughshares group – Lyn Bliss, Clare Fearnley, Emily Johns, Jen Parker, Ricarda Steinbrecher and Rowan Tilly – who were absolutely integral to the whole action from the very start. Andrea Needham's new book, The Hammer Blow – how 10 women disarmed a warplane, will be published by Peace News on 29 January, the 20th anniversary of the action.
Pre-order your copy now on the PN webshop or by sending a cheque for £10 per copy incl p&p (special pre-order price) to Peace News, 5 Caledonian Rd, London N1 9DY (with your address).
Andrea Needham, Angie Zelter, Lotta Kronlid and Jo Blackman outside Liverpool Crown Court after their aquittal. Photo: Ricarda Steinbrrecher
It was a strangely surreal experience; here we were, sitting in a pizza restaurant, surrounded by people going about their normal lives, and we were about to launch ourselves into something which was likely to put us behind bars for several years. None of us wanted to talk much: there was nothing much left to say. I stared out of the window at the empty streets and tears dropped slowly into my tea.
The final bus ride didn't take long, and soon we were climbing off in Warton. Lotta and I got off a stop before Jo, and we walked through the village separately, thinking it might be less suspicious if we weren't all together. We had torches but didn't want to draw attention to ourselves, so we skulked along in the moonlight. We passed along a road lined with houses, then dived down a narrow footpath behind a row of cottages. I'd walked this path so many times that even in the dark I knew exactly where there was a concrete post lying on the path, and was able to warn Lotta to avoid it.
The route we had always taken at night went straight through the middle of a boatyard. There was no way of avoiding it, as it occupied a narrow shelf of land between the river on one side and a high bank on the other. This hadn't been a problem before, as the boatyard had been deserted every time we crept through late at night. This time, however, a light was on and a man was working outside: there was no way through without passing within a few feet of him. It seemed very odd to be repairing a boat in the freezing cold at nearly midnight, and for a second the thought flashed through my mind that perhaps he was a spy for British Aerospace, in position to catch us as we came past. I quickly tried to put this ludicrous idea out of my mind.
The man hadn't seen us, and Lotta and I tiptoed back into the darkness to wait for Jo. When she arrived, we had a whispered conversation about what to do. We quickly dismissed the idea of taking a different route: the only other way to the site was back through the village and then down the road which ran along the eastern end of the runway. We would almost certainly be spotted. There was only one option: to climb the bank, which from where I was standing looked almost vertical.
The bank was made of loose earth, anchored by wet brambles which grabbed at our legs and hands as we scrambled upwards in the pitch dark beneath the trees. Our heavy bags made progress very slow, and often we would slip and slide a few feet before being able to regain a foothold. Finally we reached the top, puffing and gasping, and climbed over a barbed wire fence onto the path.
From there the route was simple; we had plotted it out to the last yard and even with our torches off Jo and I knew precisely where we should branch off from the path and across a field, which gates to climb, where was the best place to squeeze under the fences, where the farm buildings were. On one of our earlier trips, a dog had started barking in a nearby farmhouse as we passed, so we had modified the route and now stayed well away from any kind of habitation.
Andrea's hammer. Photo: Seeds of Hope
We knew from our many recces that on other nights of the week there were often people working in the hangar all night, but on Sundays the lights were always off and the only people on the site were the security patrols. This time, however, as we got closer we saw that the lights were on.
I was suddenly thrown into panic; perhaps, despite all our carefully coded phone calls and cryptic letters, British Aerospace were onto us. We huddled together in the dark for a quick discussion. There were two options: we could carry on and hope for the best, or we could return home and come back the following Sunday.
We knew that the Hawks were due to be delivered to Indonesia any day. It was too risky to leave it a whole week. Besides that, we were as prepared as we were ever going to be. We'd said our goodbyes, packed our bags, and prepared ourselves emotionally as well as practically for doing the action that night. We would go ahead as planned, and hope for the best.
We were close to the fence by now, and looking for a suitable spot with a little cover, where we could wait until it was time to go in. Our plan was to watch from outside the site for two security patrols to go by before we entered, so we'd know roughly how frequent they were and wouldn't be taken by surprise while cutting the fence.
Suddenly we heard the noise of an engine, and a searchlight swept over the frozen fields towards us. I dived into a ditch while Jo and Lotta flattened themselves on the ground. I hardly dared breathe as the bright beam came closer and closer to where we were lying. It swept over us then was gone, and we were once again plunged into a cold darkness relieved only by a little moonlight and the distant floodlights around the huge hangar. I had a moment's panic; we had never seen a searchlight in any of our night time visits to the site. Were British Aerospace lying in wait for us, having discovered our plans? Or was it merely coincidence?
Several weeks earlier, I had taken part in a vigil outside the site, with a few friends from the Stop the Hawk Deal group. A small army of security guards had watched us suspiciously from behind the gates, shut and locked as soon as we hove into sight. Later, I walked around the perimeter fence, and was trailed the whole way by plain- clothes guards driving a few feet behind me.
It was with memories of that day in mind that I was feeling decidedly worried about the level of security we were likely to encounter, and the powerful searchlight did nothing to reduce my fears. However, the security vehicle drove on, and I gradually calmed down, reassured that we had not been found out.
It was a freezing night; there had been heavy snow a few days before and much of it was still lying. In the last days before the action, as the snow fell ever deeper around Jo's flat, I'd stared despondently out at the whitening landscape around us and worried about whether we'd make it to Warton at all, reliant as we were on public transport.
There was another worry: we might be more easily spotted against snow as we crept across the fields to the site. We had planned to wear dark clothes on the walk, then change into blue boiler suits of the kind worn by British Aerospace mechanics before we entered the site. This was so that at a glance and from a distance, we might be taken for workers rather than intruders.
The advent of the snow sparked long discussions about whether it would be better to wear white for maximum concealment. In the event, enough of the snow had melted for us to decide to carry on with our original plan. In any case, it was unlikely that anyone would be out in the fields at midnight on an icy January night.
We passed the time outside the fence watching the hangar through binoculars, looking for any signs of movement, and jumping around trying to keep warm. We didn't talk much, each deep in our own thoughts about what was ahead of us – not just the next few hours, but possibly the next few years. I tried to focus my mind on why we were there; I'd spent nearly a year thinking about prison and coming to terms with my fears of it, and now I wanted to concentrate on the action at hand.
The Hawk aircraft after it has been disarmed by women with hammers in the hangar at BAe Warton
Finally, the sound of an engine broke the silence and another patrol drove into sight. We flattened ourselves against the sides of the newly-dug ditch in which we were standing; the lights passed over our heads and were gone. The time had come. We stood in a circle, held hands and had a minute's silence. Images came flooding into my mind; young people, covered in blood, screaming in terror as Indonesian soldiers opened fire on them in the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili, the capital of East Timor, after a peaceful procession. A young boy in front of a banner showing the East Timorese resistance leader, Xanana Gusmão. Both of his arms are raised; one fist is clenched in a gesture of defiance, while with his other hand he is making a victory sign. His face is set, determined. Shortly after the picture was taken, he was shot by the Indonesian military, one more casualty in a bloody occupation which had claimed the lives of one third of the Timorese population.
I thought also of the promotional video we had recently watched about Hawk aircraft. Along with much gloating over the attack capability of the plane – the narrator almost salivating as he declares that the Hawk 'packs a healthy wallop' – there are shots of a Hawk flying in low and firing a missile into a tank, which explodes in a ball of fire. Although it was obviously a scene created for the camera, it was impossible to watch it without thinking about the outcome if the target was a house in East Timor. Standing in that ditch, many thousands of miles from East Timor, I felt a great connection with the people who would be at the receiving end of these British weapons, and a great sense that what we were about to do was right and necessary.
For several weeks I had been having panic attacks. They would swoop on me out of nowhere; walking down the street, not even thinking about the action, my legs would suddenly turn to jelly, my heart would start pounding and great waves of panic would engulf me. I'd have to sit down and take some deep breaths to calm myself down. These episodes made me worried about how I would cope on the night: if I could react like that beforehand, how much worse would it be in the actual event?
But now, to my surprise, I felt very calm and focused. We'd spent nearly a year in planning, and had talked through every last detail of what we were to do, right down to the configuration in which we'd cut the fence and who would wield each tool as we broke into the hangar. I think we all needed reassurance that we could carry off this disarmament, and such detailed planning offered a sense of security; there were to be, we hoped, no surprises.
"The Seeds of Hope East Timor Ploughshares action was one of the most imaginative and successful direct actions in modern-day Britain. It demonstrated that principle and courage are natural, crucial allies. Andrea Needham was part of that action, and her eagerly-awaited book is now here. Read it and learn how to change the world." - John Pilger
We finished the minute's silence, gave each other a last hug, and headed for the fence. Lotta and I were carrying boltcutters, Jo had the Japanese peace cranes we'd made to tie on the fence as a symbol of our peaceful intentions.
Lotta and I worked on cutting an arch-shaped hole in the fence, while Jo tied the peace cranes nearby, her frozen fingers struggling with the string. We were confident the fence wasn't alarmed: Jo and I had made a small cut in it during one of our night time recces some weeks earlier, before giving it a vigorous shake and scuttling behind a bush to watch for any reaction. Nothing had happened.
After the trial, a British Aerospace worker in a more unguarded moment told us that there was in fact a movement sensor on the site but it was set off so often by rabbits that it was generally ignored. Perhaps that night the security guards were sitting in their office wondering vaguely about the three extremely large rabbits hopping around.
It seemed to take ages to cut the fence; our hands were cold and we were made clumsy by the urgency of the situation. Finally the last strand gave way. I scrambled through the hole and grabbed the bags which Lotta and Jo passed to me before squeezing through themselves.
From where we had entered, it was only about fifty yards to the nearest entrance, a fire door on the corner of the building. However, we had to walk through chest-high grass, which was dry and frozen, and crunched and snapped as we passed. There was otherwise complete silence apart from the occasional distant engine, and the noise of the grass seemed incredibly loud. But there was nobody to hear us, and soon we were clambering up the bank onto the road around the hangar.
The fire door was right in front of us. We planned to smash the glass, then reach through and push the exit bar from the inside. Having no idea how strong the glass would be, we'd taken no chances and come equipped ('armed' as the prosecutor would later put it with no sense of irony) with an enormously heavy iron bar, a weight from inside a sash window. It had been ceremoniously presented to us a few weeks earlier by Ricarda and Rowan who were replacing their windows. Not wanting it to appear to be an offensive weapon, they had carefully painted 'Women disarming for life and justice' on it.
There was a camera over the fire door, and security lights on each corner of the hangar. Standing there in the glare of the lights I felt very exposed and vulnerable. Surely they must have noticed us? What if we were caught now?
We'd talked a great deal about what we could do to make the action a success even if we didn't manage to disarm the Hawks. To that end, we carried with us personal statements and a video we had made to leave at the site to explain what we had come to do. We even had business cards with our names and 'Seeds of Hope East Timor Ploughshares' inscribed on them. Nobody would be left in any doubt as to what our intentions were.
But despite all that, I knew that I'd be desperately disappointed if we failed to hammer on the planes. And more than any personal feelings, the fact was that we were trying to prevent these Hawks from leaving for Indonesia; it was absolutely vital that we were able to carry out the action as planned.
The glass smashed easily, and Lotta put her hand through the window, feeling about for the bar inside. 'I can't find it!' she whispered. 'Can you break the other panel?' I smashed the other panel of glass. 'I still can't feel it,' she said, her voice tense. 'Let's try the crowbars!'
In desperation, and expecting a heavy hand on our shoulders at any minute, we set to with the crowbars, but the gap between the two doors was too thin for them. Things weren't looking good: it would be terrible to be caught now, so near and yet so far from our target.
While Lotta and I wrestled with the door, Jo ran off round the corner to see if we could get in anywhere else. A couple of minutes later she was back. 'I've found a way in!' she said.
There were small doors set into the big folding metal shutters which opened to let the planes in and out of the hangar, but in our planning we'd dismissed these as being too difficult to crack. However, Jo had almost got one open with her crowbar; a little extra pressure from Lotta and me, and the whole lock popped off. We were in.
EAST TIMORESE VOICES
"These four women not only inspired us, the Timorese, but people around the world to not fold our hands and ignore human rights abuse in this planet. Seeds of Hope was a wonderful act of solidarity with the people of East Timor threatened by British weapons. The support of people around the world throughout our long struggle for independence was crucial, and this action raised the profile of Britain's role in arming Indonesia, and raised the spirits of the Timorese people. This is the kind of book that we all should read to be reminded that we are one, no matter where we come from, and it is our responsibility to make sure our world is safe and humanity should be highly upheld.' - Bella Galhos, East Timorese human rights activist
'The "Liverpool Four" who undertook an ethical and moral action in disabling a British Aerospace aircraft paid for by Indonesia and being readied to be delivered were part of Timor-Leste's network of friends around the world who with courage and imagination contributed significantly in raising awareness in the UK about British arms sales to Indonesia. I remain till this very day in admiration and gratitude for the "Liverpool Four".' - Jose Ramos Horta, president of Timor-Leste (2007-2012) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1996)
'When writing some paragraphs on this book, I feel overwhelmed with tears and happiness, with profound privilege and honor to all my activist colleagues for your generosities, courage and solidarities that you have shown us during our fight for independence.' - Micato Fernandes Alves, founder of Fokupers (the East Timorese women's NGO)
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(Salt Lake City) - Gone are the days of heavy science textbooks with over-used examples and hard-to-grasp lessons. The Genetic Science Learning Center (GSLC) at the University of Utah is bringing science education into the 21st century with an online, interactive and multimedia curriculum that teaches up-to-date concepts in evolution and genetics to high school students.
The newly released and freely available curriculum, Evolution: DNA and the Unity of Life, can be found on two complementary websites: Learn.Genetics, geared for students and the public, and Teach.Genetics, for teachers.
Since the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) were released 5 years ago, teachers have been demanding curricula based on the guidelines. The new GSLC materials meet this need while bringing a fresh perspective to the age-old topic of evolution.
Early lessons explore genes and basic biological functions that are common to all life on earth—some of the newest and most compelling evidence that all living things share a common ancestor. Later lessons also feature DNA, both as the source of differences in traits over time and as a record of evolutionary change.
Along the way, interactive multimedia lessons and paper-based activities engage students in valuable skills including interpreting data, using models and constructing evidence-based arguments. Support materials make it easy for teachers to prepare lessons quickly.
At first glance a little silver fish called the stickleback may not seem inspiring. But the finned subject of several lessons in the Natural Selection module of the GSLC's Evolution unit is helping students and teachers think differently about science.
A video introduces students to a real scientific conundrum: What happens when a population of ocean sticklebacks is introduced to a nearby lake? Will their characteristics change to become more like other lake sticklebacks? Students step into the role of scientist to find out. Through an interactive online game, they collect fish and analyze data from actual scientific studies to build their argument.
These lessons typify the unit's approach, explains Rob Wilson, who taught the curriculum to 9th graders at Rowland Hall Upper School in Salt Lake City last year. "What's really exciting about the curriculum is that students discover the concepts for themselves and come to their own conclusions with guidance," he says.
More than a flashy package, the GSLC unit effectively teaches evolution. Scientific methodologies were used to evaluate students' knowledge before and after instruction. More than 2,250 high school students from diverse backgrounds taught by 38 teachers in 23 states across the country participated in curriculum testing. High school students who learned evolution through the GSLC unit significantly outperformed students taught with comparable NGSS-aligned materials.
With new funding from the National Science Foundation, the GLSC plans to develop an evolution curriculum for 6th to 8th graders. The middle school curriculum will be available in 2022.
The GSLC is already known for developing the most highly used online biology education resource in the world. More than 16 million unique users from nearly every country visit their Learn.Genetics and Teach.Genetics websites annually.
"Evolution: DNA and the Unity of Life" was created with support from the National Science Foundation. Assessment measures were developed and administered by a project partner, Project 2061, an initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.


The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE) and Deutsche Bank have once again partnered to mobilize private institutional capital for micro and small enterprise (MSE) finance in Southeast Europe and the European Eastern Neighborhood region. Through the placement of two tranches of three-year floating-rate notes in the amount of USD 20 million and EUR 40 million, Deutsche Bank has made the equivalent of EUR 57 million available for private investors to participate in EFSE's mission of investing in the economic development and prosperity of its target region, Deutsche Bank announced.
By providing funding to local banks and microfinance institutions, EFSE provides key support to MSEs in Southeast Europe and the European Eastern Neighborhood region – a sector that plays a pivotal role in fostering growth and securing employment. As of 31 March 2018, EFSE had outstanding loans of EUR 891 million to nearly 140,000 end-borrowers among MSEs and households. Since its inception, EFSE has financed a total of more than 927,600 loans for an aggregate value of EUR 6.6 billion, and contributed to the creation of well over 760,000 jobs throughout the target region.
EFSE was created in 2005 by the Development Bank KfW (KfW), with financial support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the European Commission. The privately managed fund is set up as a public-private partnership and registered in Luxembourg. Funding by public investors is complemented by private capital investments, providing a broader and more robust funding platform for development finance.


But this weekend in Dallas, the second International WFTDA Division 1 Playoff tournament of 2015 can properly live up to the moniker. The ten teams in the field represent five distinct nations, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Sweden…and of course, Texas.
The top four seeds, all domestic teams, look to be the favorites to finish in the top 3 and advance to the WFTDA Championships in St. Paul, Minn. this November. Last weekend in Tucson, Ariz., Arch Rival, Bay Area, and bye-winner Victoria of Australia qualified for Champs, and are awaiting the entrants here and in the two upcoming playoff tournaments in Jacksonville, Fla. and Omaha, Neb.
Four of the bottom six seeds aren't from around these parts. As the WFTDA is still growing internationally, many of the foreign teams participating haven't had a very consistent or challenging gameplay schedule. For readers playing the bracket home game, that means a lot of these teams may be misrepresented by their ranking and seed—which is going to lead to a lot of unpredictability down in the consolation brackets.
If you want to watch the chaos unfold, WFTDA.tv has you covered. It's not free, of course—a single streaming pass costs fifteen of our American dollars. (The live audio feed is free.) Though we've already gone through one of the tournaments, you can still save a bit of money by buying a $60 season pass if you are plan on watching the rest of the WFTDA tournament season.
Let's take a look at how each team will try to navigate the shark-infested international waters that is the Dallas bracket.
Last year, Rose City was thiiiiiiiiiiiis close to doing the impossible. In the 2014 WFTDA Championship final, they had Gotham beat…until the last seconds of the game. A helpless Scald Eagle could only watch from the penalty box as Bonnie Thunders scored 15 points on a last-gasp power jam to steal a thrilling—and heart-wrenching—147-144 victory for the five-time champs.
A game like that will stay with you forever, let alone over the course of the following season. With something to prove this year, Rose came out charging during their first sanctioned games in April and May. The Rollers easily dispatched #14 Rocky Mountain, #13 Atlanta, and #10 (slash Dallas 3-seed) Philly with blowouts in the 200-point range. In June, #27 Terminal City and—would you believe it?—#6 Bay Area were also destroyed by high triple-digit margins.
Rose City's other games are much more indicative of how they'll do this weekend. Winning the Dallas playoff and securing a bye is the most likely outcome for them, with Rose having already comfortably beaten their likely semifinal (Rat City, +83 points) and final (Texas, +46) opponents.
As for their one and only loss of the season?
FINAL SCORE: 193 LONDON BRAWLING 129 ROSE CITY WHEELS OF JUSTICE. What a game!
Keep that in mind for Champs. But in Dallas, Rose City should face moderate to little resistance getting to Minnesota.
Speaking of Gotham (we're going to be doing that a lot more in the next few weeks), Texas was bounced out of Championships last year by the New York juggernauts. The biggest off-season move Texas made was picking up a recently-relocated Jackie Daniels from Windy City, bolstering an already-strong roster.
However, things didn't quite gel with the Texecutioners right away. They dropped all three of their games at The Big O, against #3 Victoria (-70 points), #5 Denver (-23) and Rose City. A trip down to Los Angeles for Pac Destruction in June was better, taking easy wins against #8 Angel City (+64) and #14 Rocky Mountain (+129), but losing to #4 London 166-134 despite jumping to an early 30-point lead.
Texas finished their regular season with another win over Angel City (+46), as well as a win over Golden Bowl host #6 Bay Area in a tight one, 157-144. If you consider the London loss a "win" compared to how much Rose City lost to them by, you could argue that Texas is coming into the playoffs on a hot streak. But can they take it to Rose City head to head?
Like Texas, Philly also went 0-3 against the top of the WFTDA at The Big O. Though they did better against each opponent they faced, they also were facing progressively weaker opponents. After Rose City ka-blooied Philly by 226 points, Denver beat them by 134 and Bay Area by 42.
Philly finished off the month of May on a positive, however, beating #12 Minnesota 191-106. The next month, hosting ECDX, Philly played their old rivals Gotham. (Them again!) In a result that shocked absolutely no one, Gotham won 316-82. Philly won by a similar margin against #21 Detroit, though.
Unlike many other top-ranked playoff teams, Philly continued its interleague season deep into August, playing three games. The two most significant of those were a 12-point win over #16 Montreal, and a big improvement in a rematch against Denver, only losing by 28 in a 199-171 contest. That extra work will come in handy this weekend as the team looks to get back to Championships, likely via the third-place play-in game.
That's not a good misstep to have when you need to beat the #17 seed (Stockholm, see below) just to have a chance to stay in the running for a Champs berth. A 47-point loss at Besterns against #16 Rocky Mountain doesn't help your case.
On the other hand, Rat City did look quite good against Denver, losing to them by a respectable 57. Their 179-96 loss at home against Rose City also exceeded expectations. In the end, though, if you're looking to advance in the playoffs, there's no such thing as a good loss. Ray City will need a good win, and possibly two, to make their way to Champs.
Sweden! This is Stockholm's first experience with the WFTDA playoffs, but it isn't the first time the team has participated in an official WFTDA tournament. At the first WFTDA European Tournament held last year in their home country, Stockholm easily went 3-0. This year, they opened up their WFTDA season with a 252-147 win over Finnish rivals Helsinki.
But Stockholm didn't really get their 2015 campaign started until it made the arduous (and very expensive) trip to the United States to face North America's best. Their trip to ECDX paid big dividends, with wins against #21 Detroit by 97 points and #19 Charm City by 63. Though they lost to #16 Montreal on the scoreboard by 32 points, Stockholm ultimately won out on the WFTDA rankings calculator to the tune of a 14-rank increase in the span of a single month, putting them at their current WFTDA rank of #17.
Whether or not that rank comes with an asterisk will be determined in Dallas this weekend. You can never quite trust the ranking of European teams, even if they happen to have recent score data to judge them by. It's really hard to know how well a team travelling so far for a tournament will do, especially in the 4/5 game right out of the gate.
It's amazing what the right kind of motivation can do. Missing the playoffs altogether last year, not even qualifying for Division 2, Dallas had every incentive to do well this season. If the team could get into the top 40 and make Division 1, it would get to stay at home and play in the tournament they were to host.2 And boy did they!
The only team that beat Dallas in 2015 was Arch "We're Going to Champs" Rival. Everyone else Dallas faced was blasted away. In March and April, they toppled D2 playoff contenders, including a 213-107 pasting of Champs-bound #45 Kansas City. Through the summer, they beat #32 Toronto 167-127 and shocked #31 Arizona 243-99 at RollerCon. Those big wins propelled Dallas past Division 2 and right into the middle of D1.
With the season Dallas has had, getting rewarded with a home playoff means this year is a rousing success for them no matter what happens this weekend. In most circumstances, this would make Dallas The Team With Nothing to Lose. The other teams in the bracket may prevent them from going anywhere with that mentality, however.
Australia! The Queensland squad comes into Dallas ranked #15 at Flat Track Stats, which is great! Realistically, however, that ranking is inflated. Sun State's very first sanctioned game event was a 654-6 win over Assassination City, ranked 260th in the WFTDA.3 That put their initial FTS ranking very high, with not a lot of games to dial-in any corrections.
The best yardstick (metrestick?) to test Sun State against is the recent results against common opponents. Or in this case, a very recent result against an opponent common to the team. In their second sanctioned game back in December, Sun State beat #53 Houston 239-82. In their last sanctioned game, which just took place hours ago on Wednesday night, Sun State beat Houston by only 26 points, 172-146. That's a big, big difference.
It looks like we have a case of another international team that hasn't played very many useful games for ranking purposes, potentially creating a team ranked higher than they maybe should be. Lucky for Sun State, they'll be going up against 10-seed and lowest-ranked Division 1 playoff qualifier Rideau Valley in their WFTDA tournament debut. If Sun is as good as their ranking indicates, there's no better opponent to prove it against.
Although by now, Crime City should speak some decent English. This will be their third trip to the States, having played at ECDX last year and at Beach Brawl earlier this year. Their most significant sanctioned win in 2015 was against #38 Charlottesville, 269-135; the others were larger spreads against weaker opponents. That sounds like another one of those results where you can't be quite sure the team is seeded where it should be…right?
In a tournament that's filled with a lot of international teams, misleading ranks, and unknown abilities, the one and possibly only team you can set your ranking-watch to this weekend is the Ohio Roller Girls. The team abides by a simple principle: Play every goddamn weekend. With 20 games under their belts in 2015, 19 of which were sanctioned, Ohio should be ready for just about any situation that might get thrown their way in Dallas.
They've had big wins. (+200pt range vs. #92 Gold Coast, #83 Maine, #77 Ft. Wayne.) They've had big losses. (-350pt range vs. #9 Jacksonville, #11 Arch Rival; -200pt range vs. #12 Minnesota, #18 Tampa.) Six of their games have been competitive. (Among others: +20pts vs #19 Charm City; +33pts vs. #50 Demolition City; -50pts vs. #48 Naptown.) They've been through it all.
Ohio will want to avenge a disappointing 2014 playoff season, where they finished 9th in Evansville after having went into the bracket seeded 5th. Reversing that for this year will hard, but Ohio should be good for at least one win this weekend.
Canada! Your 2014 WFTDA Division 2 runners-up might have been champions if not for a horrendously underranked Detroit and them gothamming their way through the D2 field on their way to the title, dispatching Rideau Valley in the D2 final 244-125. Still, Rideau followed up their D2 divisional playoff win with a trip to the D1 playoffs this year, which isn't a bad upgrade. The team's results in 2015 haven't been too shabby, either.
Wins against #29 Steel City (+23 points) and #40 Tri-City (+30); along with very fair losses to #16 Montreal (-26), #23 Boston (-23), and #32 Toronto (-32), got Rideau ranked as high as #34 during the year. However, they come into Dallas having lost their last two, including a 233-132 trip-up against #33 Queen City.
A loss that big against a team ranked that near to them damn near knocked Rideau back into Division 2—but they just managed to hold on (by 0.59 WFTDA ranking points) to the last Division 1 spot. In what looks to be an extremely volatile bracket, what can they do from there?
Yeah, yeah, Canada is international. But it's also the 51st U.S. state and America's hat. So there.
A subplot we noted in January.
There are currently 265 ranked WFTDA teams. Shout-out to the Southern Oregon Rollergirls, ranked #265!


Transfer games and other files to your Kindle wirelessly or from your computer.
When you purchase a game for your Kindle, the purchase is saved to your Amazon Kindle account management dashboard. In fact, all items you purchase for your device can be accessed via the Archived Items folder. You can transfer purchased games and other content from your Amazon account using a wireless connection or the Kindle USB cable that connects the device to your computer. Once you transfer the games, the items display on the home screen.
Connect the Kindle to your wireless network.
Tap the "Archived Items" icon in the Kindle home screen. The Archived Items screen displays all items you have purchased and saved to your Amazon account.
Tap the game to transfer. The game is transferred to the Kindle, and the shortcut for the app is saved on the home screen.
Open a Web browser on the computer and log in to the Manage Your Kindle dashboard (see Resources).
Click the "Actions" drop-down box next to the game to download to view the Action menu.
Click the "Download & Transfer via USB" option in the Actions menu.
Click the "Which Kindle Will You Transfer This To?" drop-down box, and then click the entry for your Kindle.
Click the "Download" option. If you have not yet purchased the game, you will be prompted to add the item to your cart and complete the transaction.
Save the file to your hard drive by clicking the "Save" option when prompted.
Connect the Kindle to a free USB port on your computer using the USB cable. The Kindle registers to your computer as a removable drive.
Open Windows File Explorer on the computer, and then click the Kindle removable drive icon in the left panel. The Kindle file system opens.
Drag and drop the game file into the "Documents" folder on the Kindle. The game is now available from the Kindle home screen.
Note that games are automatically pushed to your Kindle if your device is connected wirelessly to the Internet at the time of purchase.
Information provided in this article applies to the 2nd generation Kindle. Instructions may vary slightly or significantly for other models of the Kindle.
Blackburn, Randall. "Transferring Purchased Games to My New Kindle." Synonym, https://classroom.synonym.com/transferring-purchased-games-new-kindle-6921.html. Accessed 25 April 2019.


There is only one you- you are an incredible work of art- a Masterpiece! You have gifts to offer us that no one else has; things only you can do for mankind. Please remember this, we need you. Bless our world with what only you can bring to us.
Your best life depends on the gifts that are within you! What we do with our lives is not even half as important as what we become. Live wholeheartedly using your own unique personality, for in truth? Your very life depends on how you choose to live it each day.
If you don't know where to start? Get historical– remember that which was done well with passion from the most creative places within you- when your inner fire was burning and what came out of the forge was useful and beautiful. Don't allow the gracious gifts of God within you to simmer on the backburner. The world needs every gracious gift only you can bring.
God has not given you a spirit of fear! Anyone or anything who provokes fear in your heart- is not from God. Those who would stir up fear render us helpless and unsettled. Self controlled, loving, calm and well balanced minds are powerful forces for good. What will you choose? Fear? or Calm and Well Balanced Minds? Use those qualities as a yardstick to measure character.
Words are powerful– spoken or written- either cause bruises or heal them- your choice. Folks that get others 'riled up and angry' or folks that help us 'settle down and be hopeful'; these are two more measures of mankind for me- Learn along with me to reject angry voices- Heated, mean spirited quarrels have never built a better mankind.
No matter what-make the very most of your time. Live wholeheartedly, life is too short for halfheartedly living, accepting the mediocre is unacceptable. Make the very most of your time.
I hope you have stayed with me- this is the most important of all of the verses! Read it again- 'by this shall all men know you are Mine'… There it is! The Distinquishing Mark! This is: how you will know what is authentic and what is a poor imitation of almost anyone. How we view others, how well we treat other human beings says everything about true character. All of us are human beings- far too many are broken, beaten down by life and shattered dreams. The true test of our humanity is how well we show love to one another. This old world is heavy handed- hardened and sore in too many places… How much better would the world be if we chose to walk softly and leave that big stick behind? Look for the distinquishing mark, the engravings…resolve to live your best life, make the most of your time, use your words carefully, keep the measuring tape with you and don't forget what a masterpiece you are!
*The beautiful beginning and ending scenes- were photographed at the lovely Hotel St. Francis in the historic district of Santa Fe, New Mexico- a very inspiring place to be.
*Verses originate from the KJV-Amplified Version of the Bible.
Sunday in the company of the divine is bliss. lovely post.