A screenshot of the bobcat known as B-332, taken from a National Park Service video. The bobcat died after ingesting high levels of rat poison, the Park Service said on March 30, 2017.
A bobcat that died last December in the Simi Valley area ingested rat poison, the National Park Service has determined.
In a statement released Thursday, the Park Service said it suspected the presence of rat poison even before the animal died, based on its appearance. A necropsy later revealed that the liver of the bobcat known as B-332 contained an unusually large mixture of toxic compounds and internal bleeding.
"The only thing that's unique about this case is the high levels of poisonings," Joanne Moriarty, a wildlife ecologist for the Park Service, told KPCC. "We've seen it a lot [in bobcats], but he happened to have particularly high levels — he'd gotten into quite a lot of it."
In December, Simi Valley residents spotted 3-year-old B-332 wandering around a residential area, looking sickly, Moriarty said. The battery in B-332's tracking collar had recently died, and the Park Service had lost track of him, she said. When residents approached the bobcat, he didn't flee or move much.
"From that, we knew he was quite ill," Moriarty said.
Animal control officials collected B-332 and took him to one of their facilities, where a veterinarian examined him. From that examination, the veterinarian determined B-332 had a severe case of mange disease, and decided to euthanize the animal.
"[The vet] felt [B-332] would not recover from the condition he was in," Moriarty said.
Cases such as B-332's are a reminder that rat poison remains a deadly threat introduced by humans to the ecosystem, Moriarty said, adding that she hoped the bobcat's death inspires residents to find alternative means, such as fencing or electric traps, for managing rat problems.
"My intuition is to say we've seen more mange death this last year," Moriarty said. "Cases like this continue to tell us that household rat poison is penetrating the ecosystem with deadly consequences."
In 2014, California restricted the sale of some types of rat poison, but the toxins remain widely used by licensed applicators, the Park Service statement said. The poison, initially ingested by rats, works its way up the food chain into the systems of coyotes, mountain lions and bobcats.
In an ongoing study that began in 2002, the Park Service has found rat poison in nearly every bobcat living in and around the Santa Monica Mountains that it has analyzed.
How rat poison moves through the food chain and gets into the system of larger mammals and predators, such as bobcats.


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President Joko Widodo, right, congratulates Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X for the extension of his term as Yogyakarta governor after the inauguration ceremony at the State Palace in Jakarta on October 10, 2022. (Antara Photo)
Jokowi Extends Yogyakarta Sultan's Gubernatorial Term
Jakarta. Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X had his term as Yogyakarta governor extended by another five years on Monday which will keep him in office for a total of 29 years.
Yogyakarta in southern Java Island has been granted a special autonomy status and led by a monarch since Indonesia's independence in 1945.
Since the gubernatorial system was introduced in Yogyakarta in 1950, Sri Sultan, 76, has been only the third governor after his father Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX (1950-1988) and Paku Alam VIII (1988-1998).
The latest law on Yogyakarta's special autonomy status issued in 2012 stipulates that the governor post is reserved to the Sultan and the vice governor post is awarded to the heirs of Paku Alam, who ruled a smaller split-off area of the ancient Javanese kingdom of Mataram.
The current Yogyakarta Vice Governor is Adipati Aryo Paku Alam X.
To keep the democratic system in check, Yogyakarta also has the Provincial Legislative Council, and both the governor and the vice governor report to the president.
"After this inauguration, the governor and the vice governor can immediately return to their works," President Joko Widodo said after the swearing-in ceremony at the State Palace in Jakarta.
"Their most important task today has a lot to do with food prices and inflation that should become their focus."
The remaining 33 provinces will elect their governors across the country in 2024.
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BRIC Rotunda Gallery is pleased to announce In/Formation, a group exhibition curated by Elizabeth Ferrer. The artists in In/Formation employ widely varying media and representational approaches to examine the radically changing nature of information systems and vehicles in the digital era. Leslie Alfin, Louisa Bufardeci, [dNASAb], Penelope Umbrico, and Ward Shelley present works that express the effects of information overload brought about by rapidly transforming websites such as Google and Wikipedia. In the current environment, information is ubiquitous but not necessarily stable or even accurate. Rather, it is literally in formation—relentlessly growing in quantity and endlessly mutable.
The sense that information can no longer be understood as a fixed truth, but as fluid and constantly shifting in interpretation, fuels and complicates the viewer's engagement with these works. In 4,238,053 Suns from Flickr (partial) 10/1/08, Penelope Umbrico presents an overabundance of imagery, mirroring the sensory overload that comes from the incessant flow of images and information in electronic media. Umbrico's large-scale Suns is a visually stunning panorama of photographs of sunsets, all taken from the photo-sharing site, Flickr. Leslie Alfin produces sculptures, installations, and twodimensional works based on print-outs of words and images yielded from Google searches. In Googling her own name or other questions, the search results have included both relevant information as well as random websites that she melds into her work.
Louisa Bufardeci's series Some Material Flags re-envisions flags from numerous countries around the world. Her works present new national symbologies with an invented code of crescents, circles, bars, and other forms made to represent statistically measured characteristics of a nation's inhabitants (level of Internet usage, proportion of people who are on the political right or left, percentage of unemployed people). Ward Shelley constructs diagrammatic paintings that chart the course of particular art historical movements or figures; each functions as an organic, if idiosyncratic, visual process of archiving recent historical data. His intricate charts grow and stem out, resulting in intricately complex links and webs of connection between events, people, and happenings.
In conjunction with the exhibition, a free Drop-In Flag-A-Thon will be held on Saturday, December 6 from 1 to 4 pm. BRIC Rotunda Artist Teachers will lead a family day of personal flag making inspired by Louisa Bufardeci's Some Material Flags series included in the exhibition. Groups are welcome to stop by throughout the afternoon to find their flag making talent. Also, a forum around the theme Do artist residencies work? will be held on Wednesday, December 10 at 7 pm. This discussion is geared towards visual artists and arts administrators considering artist residencies by addressing their benefits, challenges, and logistics. The panel will consist of BRIC Rotunda Director Elizabeth Ferrer, Smack Mellon Programs Manager Jeanne Gerrity, and artist Chitra Ganesh.
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By zamber, July 5, 2018 in Interpath Dialogue, Universal Virtues and Values
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Can a god be different from another if the name, attributes, etc. are the same, so people think it is the same god? I put this in the interfaith forum because it involves people worshiping a god of a different religion. A person would think he is worshiping one god, but is really worshiping another. If someone cannot tell the difference, would it really be the same god? Except if it is not?
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3 hours ago, zamber said:
If someone cannot tell the difference, would it really be the same god? Except if it is not?
People often get confused, especially monotheist who believe there's one supreme being, so they might assume Allah and God are the same entity. But the devil is in the details, they are completely different Beings in name and attributes. Mohammad said to seek out and kill your enemies (infidels) where ever you find them (Quran 2:191), while Jesus taught to love and pray for your enemies (Matthew 5:44). Two diametrically opposed messages.. So imo, the differences make it impossible to confuse the real deal with a counterfeit.
Jonathan H. B. Lobl
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Location:New York City (Jackson Hts. in Queens)
I'm not clear on what you are asking. Are you presuming that both gods exist -- and their followers can't tell the difference? Is that what you're asking?
I am asking, what if there are two gods with the same name and attributes, can they be two gods or are they the same god? What if one god impersonates another? What if another group of people create a false god that is a mirror image of a real one? Who are they worshiping then?
If they both exist, a war god like Mars could impersonate YHVH. Is that what You're asking?
Or do you mean that two entities, known only as God could impersonate each other? It's pure if, but why not?
Edited July 6, 2018 by Jonathan H. B. Lobl
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Location:Over Here
I vaguely remember a Gnostic story about a violently insane god who pretends to be the creator god. I never understood what he was supposed to be getting out of the ruse, but he was described as being insane, so I suppose that's a moot point...
Edited July 6, 2018 by mererdog
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Location:Here, not There
The question brings to mind a race of supposedly superior beings created for the Star Trek franchises, (starting on Next Generation, then to Voyager), and they referred to themselves only as "Q".
Now supposing there were such beings in existence, confusion might just be something of fun for them to create among us, you think?
Then again, it has also been said that Satan might impersonate God to lead some sheep astray. One explanation for this is that he was once called Lucifer, or morning star, and was a fallen angel. He was fallen because he thought himself an equal to God and had many of the same abilities before being cast out.
Many stories with as many plot points for possibilities if true.
In the end, no one will truly know which God was the true God until after they die, right?
4 minutes ago, Key said:
There are also the Satanic verses. It seems that Mohamed decided, after the fact, that some of the verses he had been given had come from Satan.
On 7/7/2018 at 7:22 AM, Jonathan H. B. Lobl said:
Which begs the question, why hasn't anyone considered how much that Mohamed proclaimed was actually lies from Satan, if he, himself, suspected some? (Actually. since I don't, nor ever have, follow Islamic history, so I don't really know if anyone ever questioned validity. But it doesn't seem like anyone has to me.)
Edited July 9, 2018 by Key
Adding thought.
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Location:citizen of the world
I'm still stuck on the idea of proving ANY deity as real...let alone that there are multiples counterfeiting each other.
As an aside, I think there are myriad religions which have similarities to the point of being able to claim plagiarism in some sense, although I do not know that the actual religions did indeed "steal" from each other. Some ideas are accepted socially to the point that they could be termed universal, I believe. So I don't think it's an enormous stretch to conclude that multiple religions might have used the same mythological set up to express the ideas in very similar manners.
I have been considering myself something of an oddball lately for the reason that I can find truth in any religion while believing in none of them, or at least while believing in none of the deities. Of course, the converse is also true in that I can find falsehood in every religion.
On 7/9/2018 at 3:20 PM, Key said:
Do you remember the Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie? This is what it was based on.
4 hours ago, cuchulain said:
There are plenty of good things in the Bible. It requires cherry picking, but they are there.
18 hours ago, Jonathan H. B. Lobl said:
Yes. Never personally read it. Assumed it warranted a death sentence from Muslims due to being a work of fiction. As stated in other threads, I am not up on Islam knowledge much.
4 hours ago, Key said:
What work of fiction, is worthy of the death penalty?
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The Bee movie script?
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On 7/17/2018 at 1:16 PM, Jonathan H. B. Lobl said:
Personally, I think none. But, they in the Middle East, apparently, take anything to do with Mohamed as blasphemy if it isn't how they want him portrayed, regardless of it is in the Quran, as well.
I never finished reading the Koran. The parts I did read were so Biblical in feel. It all seemed so familiar.
History is a thing of sadness. So many real deaths, commanded by works of fiction. I can't bring myself to take sides. It's all so horrible. At this layer of history, the Koran is more dangerous. The Bible had a head start.
Back to the thread. When we ask which God is counterfeit -- distinct from authentic -- doesn't that suggest that at least one -- or both gods -- actually exists?
If we are only talking about their books -- the real issue is plagerism.
Edited July 19, 2018 by Jonathan H. B. Lobl
2 hours ago, Jonathan H. B. Lobl said:
That's been my question. First, shouldn't we prove ANY god is real? I mean, they really don't care...if they aren't real.
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On 7/5/2018 at 10:55 AM, zamber said:
This really isn't a problem for polytheists, what with our Zeus who dwells on the mountaintop and the Zeus who dwells in the household pantry. Not to mention the Zeus of different cities, or the Zeus of foreigners who know him in their own "barbaric" tongue.
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West Brom news: Valerien Ismael slams Albion players after 1-0 Derby County defeat
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West Brom manager Valerien Ismael slammed his players after the Baggies slumped to a disappointing 1-0 loss at Derby County.
Wayne Rooney's side, who are currently battling relegation, managed to secure full points from the home encounter after Colin Kazim-Richards popped up with the deciding goal in the second half.
The visitors dominated possession but they squandered opportunities to end up losing the Championship match.
The Albion boss was furious after the game and blasted his players for their "lack of mentality and quality" at Pride Park.
He said (as per Birminghammail): "It's more than frustration, I'm really upset.
"There was a lack of mentality and quality from the first minute. It's all about desire, when you have the chance of a top two spot, you need to show it from the first minute."
Valerien Ismael led the Baggies to an impressive Championship start after taking charge in summer, winning four of their first five league matches.
However, the Albion's form dropped as the season progressed and they went on to lose matches at Stoke City, Swansea City, Fulham and Huddersfield Town.
Their latest defeat came at Derby County who are currently at the bottom of the Championship table.
West Brom are aiming to secure promotion to the top-flight but they have consistently been dropping points this campaign.
They must improve their performances if they want an immediate return to the Premier League.
Velerien has rightly criticised his players as their performances were terrible at Pride Park. However, he should shoulder some responsibility himself as he has failed to improve the players after being appointed as the new manager in June.
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Easter Parade is a wonderful, all-singing all-dancing feel good movie musical from 1948 that will warm any heart. It stars Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Ann Miller and Peter Lawford.
There are (count them!) 17 songs in Easter Parade, half of which were written by the brilliant Irving Berlin.
Easter Parade is set in 1912 New York, and as with any film set in a different era to the one in which it was made, you can see the odd bit of late 1940's styling creeping in, be it a hairstyle or whatever.
Astaire plays Don Hewes, one half of the popular Broadway dance combo of Nadine and Hewes. Nadine (Ann Miller), decides she is destined for bigger and better things and goes off on her own to star in the Ziegfield Follies. In a state of drunken dispair, Hewes holes up in a bar with friend Johnny (Peter Lawford) and declares that he can take any common showgirl and turn her into his next partner. So, with the gauntlet thrown down, Hannah Brown (Judy Garland) enters stage left and Hewes has his girl. Hewes promises Hannah that within a year they'll walk down Fifth Avenue and it will be them that turn heads rather than Nadine.
And that is the premise of Easter Parade. Although a little predictable in plotting, this cliche is soon forgotten as we are launched into a pacey, enjoyable jaunt through the rest of the film as Hewes and Brown work on their act together.
The song and dance numbers are, as you would expect, incredible. With Astaire starring, you just know that you are in for a first class performance, and that is what you get. But it is here that the story behind Easter Parade gets interesting. There was talk that the film was to have originally starred Gene Kelly (who dropped out with a broken ankle). You cannot help but wonder how different the film might have been with Kelly in the lead role.
Firstly, Garland and Astaire are two of the greatest cinematic performers that ever lived, and certainly, in their own right, they are both captivating to watch. And yet, somehow, watching them on screen, there is something missing, the chemistry just isn't what it should be.
I think there are a number of reasons for this. For a start, the age gap between the two can't have helped, although this is surmountable. The crux of the problem lies with Astaire. The film is a Pygmalion story, whereby a classy, powerful man takes a humble, lowly girl and makes all her dreams come true, and Easter Parade has much in common with My Fair Lady (also see Pretty Woman). Astaire is very much a gentleman with class, sophistication, style and wit, but he doesn't have the necessary power, charisma or brute masculinity to convey the part well. We are never completely convinced by him. And this is where I think casting Gene Kelly would have worked.
Gene Kelly was a more muscular, physical and powerful performer and he would have complimented the girlish Garland much better than sauve Astaire, and, there was less of an age gap. I hate to say it, but I can't help thinking that Easter Parade would have been the better film had they cast Kelly over Astaire. And I hate to say this as I love both actors. Still, it is what it is, and Easter Parade remains a wonderful film.
Astaire is at his best when performing alone and is not weighed down by a partner, for example, in the second number 'Drum Crazy', he just takes flight. On reflection, I think it is this performance that really draws you in to the film. The three other standout numbers are the wonderful 'A Couple of Swells', an iconic number from Astaire and Garland dressed as tramps, an athletic solo dance piece to 'Shakin' The Blues Away' from the superb Ann Miller and a very clever, highly sophisticated slow-motion effect for 'Stepping Out With My Baby'.
All in all, a hugely enjoyable, easy going, fun musical that will stay with you long after the final credits. To have remained so poluar, for so long, is recommendation enough.


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How do you achieve effective low-carbon design beyond the building level? How do you create a community that is both livable and sustainable? More importantly, how do you know if you have succeeded? Harrison Fraker goes beyond abstract principles to provide a clear, in-depth evaluation of four first generation low-carbon neighborhoods in Europe, and shows...
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Global Lessons on Green Urbanism
by Timothy Beatley
In the absence of federal leadership, states and localities are stepping forward to address critical problems like climate change, urban sprawl, and polluted water and air. Making a city fundamentally sustainable is a daunting task, but fortunately, there are dynamic, innovative models outside U.S. borders. Green Cities of Europe draws on the world's best...
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by Charles R. Wolfe
This beautifully illustrated short e-book explores the idea that to create vibrant, sustainable urban areas for the long term, we must first understand what happens naturally when people congregate in cities—innate, unprompted interactions of urban dwellers with each other and their surrounding urban and physical environment. Wolfe elaborates on the...
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by National Association of City Transportation Officials
The NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public activity. Unlike older, more conservative engineering manuals, this design guide emphasizes the core principle that urban streets are public places and have a larger role to play in...
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Methods in Urban Design
by Jan Gehl; Birgitte Svarre
How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent to answer as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global cities continue to compete to be the most vibrant centers of culture, knowledge, and finance.
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Superstorm Sandy sent a strong message that a new generation of urban development and infrastructure is desperately needed, and it must be designed with resilience in mind. As cities continue to face climate change impacts while growing in population, they find themselves at the center of resilience and green city solutions, yet political and budgetary...
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Tech CEO Rania Hoteit On Sexism In STEM
Alexandra Dickinson Contributor
I write about how to use a negotiation mindset to achieve your goals.
"What is a sexy girl like you doing in San Francisco?"
Rania Hoteit, CEO of ID4A Technologies
Natali Truax
Rania Hoteit is the CEO and cofounder of ID4A Technologies, a technology company that makes software for manufacturing and robotic technologies. They work with corporations, startups, inventors, engineers and designers to take their ideas from design to production and distribution. ID4A is on Entrepreneur 360's 2016 list of best entrepreneurial companies in America.
Hoteit is originally from Lebanon and has been living in the US since 2001. She has a highly technical background, with advanced degrees in production design and architecture.
"Women in STEM remain challenged by sexist behaviors and gender dynamics," said Hoteit. "I've seen it all — I've been stereotyped by my physical appearance, gender, ethnicity and education."
It's no secret that women in business face unique challenges. For Hoteit, negotiating with partners and investors has been fraught from day one. She has found that as a Lebanese woman, she is not typically what people expect when they picture the head of a technical company.
About three and a half years ago, when her company was expanding to international markets, Dubai was one of the first places Hoteit wanted to enter. She was pursuing a partnership with a government official who was a part of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Community Development.
"He started asking personal questions like, 'Why does your family let you live alone in the U.S.?'" said Hoteit. "They were invasive questions, but at the same time, I thought, I can't let him keep invading my personal space. So I said, 'I'm too scary to be scared."
Hoteit says she tried not to shut him down, but lead the conversation to something more constructive.
"I didn't want to be a victim," reflects Hoteit. "I was so angry, but I didn't want people to know. I kept pushing and channeling all my negative energy to keep moving and doing what I needed to do."
When he asked her whether she was single, she worked to change the subject by asking, "How would that affect how we're going to work together?"
Ultimately, Hoteit and ID4A were able to get a sponsorship deal. He eventually became one of their largest partners in the Emirates.
Hoteit says she's faced similar situations as much in Silicon Valley as in the Middle East.
At a meeting with a venture capital firm to pitch for funding, a potential investor took one look at Hoteit and said, "What is a sexy girl like you doing in San Francisco?"
Hoteit turned and walked out. She didn't even pitch. That meeting was the turning point when she decided not to continue raising money.
So what should you do if you find yourself in a similar situation? Understanding your alternatives and having the confidence that you can find another opportunity will help you create more options for yourself when you're in a difficult — or inappropriate — negotiation.
The first question you should ask yourself is, how much do you need this deal? Or, said another way, how much are you willing to put up with in order to reach an agreement? Hoteit's experiences demonstrate two potential options. You can stand your ground and show your counterpart that you still intend to make a deal, or you can walk away.
If you find yourself facing an unpleasant counterpart, you have to wonder: if this is someone who will treat me this way before we've even agreed to work together, is he or she the right partner for me?
When in doubt, trust your gut.
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Yearn Finance DAI Vault 'Has Suffered an Exploit'; Nearly $14M Drained
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Yearn Finance has suffered an exploit in one of its DAI lending pools, according to the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol's official Twitter account.
At 5:14 p.m. ET, banteg, from the Yearn team, posted in Discord: "Attacker got away with 2.8m, dai vault lost 11.1m."
An Aave flash loan was used to trigger the vault draining, according to an Ethereum address presumed to be associated with the exploit.
Yearn Finance is one of the leading venues in DeFi, known for always enabling depositors to recoup all their yield in the token they initially deposited. The platform recently updated to a new suite of vaults, but like any smart contract platform, the prior smart contracts persisted. According to DeFi Pulse, Yearn currently has $500 million worth of assets entrusted to it. Even on version 1, many of its pools earn annual yields of well over 20%.
Users in the Yearn Discord and Telegram channels began reporting drains Thursday afternoon. At 4:38 p.m. ET in the Yearn Discord server, Jeffrey Bongos wrote, "Anyone know why v1Dai vault is showing that I've lost thousands of Dai in the last few minutes?"
At a little after 5 p.m. ET, the front end of the v1 vaults on the Yearn website showed a loss of 1059%.
Yearn's YFI governance token had a price drop of $4,000 on the news. Just after the attack became public, the UniWhales Twitter account reported a large sale of YFI for ETH:
The vault attacked was Yearn's v1 DAI vault, which updated to a new investment strategy last month, according to a blog post published by the Yearn team on Jan. 23.
The vault's strategy at the time of the attack was to deposit all funds into the "3pool" on the automated market maker (AMM) Curve. Curve's 3pool contains DAI, USDT and USDC, allowing users to swap any of the stablecoins for another at very low slippage.


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Students participate in Virtual March for Life
The Catholic Free Press
Local students were encouraged to make prize-winning signs – for an online slideshow this year instead of for the March for Life in Washington, D.C. It's being called a Virtual March for Life.
In-person and online Masses and Holy Hours, and an in-person morning of recollection and Life Chain, are other opportunities to pray, learn and show respect for human life.
Jan. 22 marks the 48th anniversary of U.S. Supreme Court decisions legalizing abortion, and therefore the Church has designated that date as a day of prayer and penance, Bishop McManus noted in a letter sent to parishes.
The March for Life and accompanying events in Washington are held annually at this time to pray and work for an end to abortion.
The March is being held virtually this year, but on Jan. 29 because of the presidential inauguration. This year's theme is "Together Strong: Life Unites," said Allison LeDoux, director of the Worcester Diocese's Respect Life Office.
She usually coordinates the diocesan trip to Washington, but this year buses are not going because of the pandemic, she said.
"Since we can't participate physically in the D.C. events, we decided to do a virtual March for Life," she said.
LOCAL MASS
AND HOLY HOUR
The diocesan Mass that usually sends travelers off to the March is still being held; Father Richard F. Reidy, is to celebrate it at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 28 at St. Paul Cathedral, Mrs. LeDoux said. New this year is a Holy Hour following that Mass.
A link to this Mass and Holy Hour was sent to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which will share it so anyone can watch these services while they're happening or afterwards, she said. In this way, the Worcester Diocese, like other dioceses across the nation, will participate virtually in the National Prayer Vigil for Life. (Local events can also be watched on worcesterdiocese.org.)
NATIONAL PRAYER VIGIL
The national vigil is held the night before the March each year, in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. In past years at least 10,000 people have filled the Great Upper Church of the Basilica for the National Prayer Vigil for Life. This year, due to local restrictions on attendance sizes because of the pandemic, the prayer vigil will be virtual.
This year's virtual vigil will begin at 8 p.m. on Jan. 28 with a live broadcast of the praying of the rosary, followed by Mass. Throughout the night people can watch Holy Hours from around the nation, including Worcester's, online. The vigil ends at 8 a.m. Jan. 29 with a closing Mass. The Masses can be viewed on EWTN.
NOVENA FOR LIFE
Also marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court decisions legalizing abortion is the 9 Days for Life National Novena, held Jan. 21-29. Those wanting to participate can visit www.9daysforlife.com to download a free app or sign up for daily emails or text messages with prayer intentions.
RECOLLECTION MORNING
A Morning for Life is being held from 10 a.m. to noon Jan. 23 at St. Paul Cathedral, 19 Chatham St., Worcester.
The cathedral rector, Msgr. James P. Moroney, is to lead the gathering prayer and give a talk about "Pope Francis and the Gospel of Life." Then there will be time for quiet prayer at the church's shrines, and an 11 a.m. Mass to thank God for the gift of human life.
Pre-registration by emailing aledoux@worcesterdiocese.org is preferred, but not required. There is no charge for the event. People unable to attend can particpate by watching the prayer service via livestreaming by going to https://livestream.com/dioceseofworcester/events/9481587
Mrs. LeDoux offered parishes resources to hold their own devotions and events too.
St. James Parish, 89 Main St., South Grafton, holds a Divine Mercy Holy Hour for an End to Abortion on Fridays at 3 p.m. and has scheduled a Life Chain in front of the church after the 9 a.m. Mass Jan. 23.
Annunciation Parish is to hold a day of prayer for the legal protection of the unborn Jan. 22, beginning with the 9 a.m. Mass, followed by adoration until 8 p.m., in Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church, 135 Nichols St., Gardner. There will be a rosary at noon, Divine Mercy Chaplet at 3 p.m., and a Holy Hour at 7 p.m.
To unite their prayers with the prayers of those around the country, Mary Queen of the Rosary Parish, Spencer, is to hold a Mass to promote the respect for life from conception to natural death at 7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 22, with exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. The parish is also planning to pray the Stations of the Cross for life.
WORCESTER'S VIRTUAL MARCH
To set up the diocese's Virtual March for Life, Mrs. LeDoux said, she reached out to Catholic schools, colleges and parish youth ministries to invite students in grades 7-12 or in college to create signs like those typically carried in the March.
Photos of the signs were to be emailed to her for a slide show to be launched on the Respect Life Office website www.worcesterdiocese.org/respect-life on Jan. 29. She plans to give prizes for some of the best signs in different categories.
"Our virtual March for Life will provide an opportunity for everyone to participate, increase involvement, and bolster our commitment to the cause of life," she said in a flier.
David Perda, superintendent of schools, informed educators that the Catholic Schools Office and Catholic Identity Committee of the Diocesan Catholic School Board were supporting the virtual march, and included a letter from Bishop McManus which asked them to participate.
"This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of St. John Paul II's landmark encyclical Evangelium Vitae – The Gospel of Life, and what better way to put the Church's teaching on the sacredness of human life and the dignity of the human person into practice than by joining our voices in defense of those most vulnerable," the bishop said.
Mrs. LeDoux said she offered webinars for educators and youth ministers, to give them ideas for the project and background about the March for Life.
She said information about the project was also sent to area colleges and, through the diocesan youth ministry office, to parish youth ministers.
BISHOP'S LETTER
Bishop McManus, in his letter to people of the diocese, wrote about the devastation of abortion and the Church's outreach to those suffering from it, and called for prayer, fasting and sacrifice to uphold the dignity of all human life, especially on Jan. 22.
All the faithful in the nation "are called to observe this day in a spirit of prayer for the full restoration of the legal guarantee of the right to life and of penance for the violations to the dignity of the human person committed through acts of abortion," he wrote.
He said, "It is through our fervent prayers accompanied by our charitable works and loving sacrifices that the culture can be transformed."


PMA Hosts live and online events throughout the years.
Live PMA events include the Annual Convention & Awards Ceremony (spring), the Annual Publishers' Retreat (fall) and Open Houses (at member offices in varying cities). Live event information and registration links are below.
Online PMA events include special event webinars with industry leaders. All events are FREE to current PMA members and notices are sent out in advance of each calls. Webinars and calls are archived here: Group Networking Calls.
Room rates are $179 for standard rooms. Registration opens in early August, 2019. Registration fees are $295 for the 1st attendee and $195 for the 2nd attendee.
The 2020 PMA Annual Conference will be held February 27-29, 2020 at The Sirata Beach Hotel.
Rooms are $194 for standard rooms and $224 for Bay View Suites. Registration opens in December 2019. Registration fees are $495 for the 1st attendee, $395 for the 2nd attendee and $295 for 3rd+ attendees.
Annual 2018 Conference, March 1-3 in St. Petersburg, Florida!
We hosted a great event with over 85% of the membership attending. We are currently reviewing locations and session ideas for 2019. Stay tuned!


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From the creator of Treasure Island and Kidnapped, and written while he lived in Samoa, this was the author s last title Stevenson had written all but the very conclusion of this work at the time of his death His stepdaughter had been serving as his secretary and was in possession of an outline for the ending In order to conclude the story the publisher enlisted the talFrom the creator of Treasure Island and Kidnapped, and written while he lived in Samoa, this was the author s last title Stevenson had written all but the very conclusion of this work at the time of his death His stepdaughter had been serving as his secretary and was in possession of an outline for the ending In order to conclude the story the publisher enlisted the talents of Sir Arthur Quiller Couch who supplied the last few chapters.
This is another of Stevenson's epic adventure stories that follows a French soldier as he is taken capture after enrolling in Napoleon's army under a pseudonym. The story follows his adventures with the army, his time as a prisoner and his travels around Britain following his release. It is written with Stevenson's typical skill at story telling and his sense of adventure. A fabulously traditional adventure story.
I would call it a 19th century bathtub book (def: book suitable for reading in the bathtub). Writing is lovely, characterizations are disarming, storyline is farfetched. Its near-fatal drawback: RLS died before finishing it and the publisher gave it to Mr. Quiller-Couch to wrap up based on Stevenson's notes. Unfortunately, he turned a charming treat into a boring slog.
My mom gave me this book for Christmas, and it sat on my shelf for six months because it didn't look interesting. Finally forced myself to pick it upd it's beautiful. Not one of his deepest stories perhaps, but very sweet and touching. I loved it.
Another rollicking tale of adventure from RLS, St. Ives himself is one of the most likable of any of his protagonists, but sadly this book (or at least my version) lacks an ending.
It's been a while since I have read a Robert Louis Stevenson book, but I think this was below average for him. The plot is, of course, some adventurous romp, in which the hero is always in danger. Several of the hero's escapes are just nonsense, though, as are some of the situations that he needs to escape. I found reading this tedious after a while.
The copy I own is a battered second-hand hardback pocket book published in 1905.
Too much love, not enough adventure makes this less believable and less fun than most Stevenson novels. The abrupt ending is also a bummer.


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Home Entertainment So who killed Senzo Meyiwa: Rapper Blaklez demands answers as his murderers...
So who killed Senzo Meyiwa: Rapper Blaklez demands answers as his murderers go unpunished
Muza Mpofu
South African rapper, Blaklez is using his music to remind the nation that the search for Senzo's killers needs to continue.
It's difficult to believe that it is almost four years since Senzo Meyiwa was killed – and yet we are no closer to finding his murderers.
The circumstances around the Bafana Bafana goalkeeper's death are as confusing as they were when we learned of the fatal incident back in October 2014.
Unfortunately, despite a number of conspiracy theories and rumours, we have yet to receive anything close to an answer.
It is this frustration that has fuelled Blaklez' latest single, Who Killed Senzo.
However, while Blaklez, like any citizen of South Africa, wants to see Senzo's killers found, his song serves as an indicator of everything that is wrong with the South African criminal justice system right now.
@Blaklez – Who killed senzo. This jam has a deep message though still as a nation we still want to know who killed Senzo @AdvBarryRoux
— Thendo Maggz (@thendo_magoma) August 16, 2018
The poetic rapper spoke to Tshisa Live and explained the meaning behind Who Killed Senzo:
"I have seen a lot of speculation on social media and we have to let the law take its course. On the song I am not talking about who was there that night or what not. We know nothing. I am using an incident that happened in real life to talk about the injustices that happen in society. The song is used to highlight issues. It is almost like I martyred Senzo."
He vents his frustrations about the fact that Senzo's death has yet to be solved; and then goes on to compare it to other societal problems that remain unaddressed
"It was my way of speaking about issues. About black people not living well and not being in a situation where we want to be. The struggles we face. There were people who fought and died for certain ordeals and that was not realised. I can say I put all these issues on Senzo's shoulders.
"The question of who killed Senzo is just the tip of the iceberg. There is no justice for people in this country, at least in the full sense of how we want it."
The Senzo Meyiwa case seemed to heat up again at the beginning of this year, after a number of theories about the events that led to his death emerged online.
It was alleged by a Twitter account labelled @AdvBarryRoux that Kelly Khumalo and Zandi Khumalo (as well as Longwe and Chicco Twala) witnessed everything and were involved in the covering up of the conspiracy.
While this theory could not be proven, it did reignite an interest in the hunt for Senzo Meyiwa's killers but the trail went cold soon after February 2018.
Do you think Senzo Meyiwa and his family will ever receive the justice they deserve?
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Djibril Diarra – gwinejski piłkarz grający na pozycji pomocnika. W swojej karierze grał w reprezentacji Gwinei.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
W 1976 roku Diarra został powołany do reprezentacji Gwinei na Puchar Narodów Afryki 1976. Wystąpił w nim w sześciu meczach: grupowych z Egiptem (1:1), z Etiopią (2:1) i z Ugandą (2:1) oraz w grupie finałowej z Nigerią (1:1), z Egiptem (2:4) i z Marokiem (1:1). Z Gwineą wywalczył wicemistrzostwo Afryki.

W 1980 roku Diarrę powołano do kadry na Puchar Narodów Afryki 1980. Zagrał w nim w dwóch meczach grupowych: z Ghaną (0:1) i z Algierią (2:3).

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Reprezentanci Gwinei w piłce nożnej
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Home BBC Watch The Lost BBC: Dick Barton – Special Agent
The Lost BBC: Dick Barton – Special Agent
WITH these words: 'Six years of battle, murder and sudden death just spoil you completely for a nice, peaceful office job. Don't you agree, Snowey?' Captain Richard Barton MC, ex-wartime commando, introduced himself to his BBC audience in 1946.
Novelist Norman Collins had just become head of the Light Programme and he thought a daily adventure serial could be a success. His assistant, John McMillan, had pioneered a daily thriller serial called Vic Samson: Special Investigator for Radio Luxembourg before the war, and he wrote the synopsis of Dick Barton – Special Agent, and biographies of the characters. The scripts were written by Edward J Mason and Geoffrey Webb.
The fast and furious theme tune was The Devil's Galop by Charles Williams (1893–1978).
Like Eric Coates, the composer of the themes for Music While You Work and In Town Tonight, Williams was a successful composer of light orchestral works, many of which remain familiar today. His piece The Young Ballerina was the background to the Potter's Wheel interlude, probably the best remembered of the fillers the BBC had on standby in case a programme fell short or went wrong. (I find this film frustrating because the potter, a man named George Aubertin, never finishes the wretched pot, just keeps reworking it. He explained later that he was 'doodling away' as he had been asked to do.)
Williams's march Girls in Grey, originally written for the Women's Junior Air Corps, which was formed in 1939 for older schoolgirls, later became the BBC Television Newsreel theme.
He composed the score for numerous films. This is the theme from Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) played by Ferrante and Teicher, though I am not certain that this was the version used in the film. Perhaps Williams's most successful work was his Dream of Olwen for the 1947 film While I Live (does anyone else hear a similarity between this and the previous melody?)
The first episode of Dick Barton – Special Agent went out on Monday 7 October 1946 at 6.45pm. Thereafter the 15-minute programmes went out five nights a week for six months of the year. Each ended with Dick in some impossible situation which he would get out of with ease by the next day. Every so often he would save the planet. The scriptwriters sometimes wrote alternate episodes, leaving the other to find the way out of the deadly trap. An omnibus was broadcast on Sundays.
Dick was played by Noel Johnson, who had been evacuated from Dunkirk and was invalided out of the Army. His sidekicks Snowey and Jock were played by John Mann and Alex McCrindle. There are almost no recordings remaining but here is a snippet from the second episode.
(The BBC made a pretty faithful revival of the first series for its 1972 Golden Jubilee in which many of the original cast, including Johnson, Mann and McCrindle, reprised their roles. You can hear it here.)
Twelve days after the launch, the first review appeared in the Communist Daily Worker: 'It is so bad as to be almost beyond belief.' It branded Barton a 'crypto-fascist'.
Within a month the BBC was receiving 200 fan letters a week. Within six months it was 2,000. At its peak, the programme averaged 15million listeners per episode. It was meant for an adult audience, and the unworldly BBC executives were taken by surprise when it caught on with children. In those days children played outside but at 6.44pm every weekday the streets would empty, filling up again at 7.01 as young listeners met to discuss the latest episode. This popularity caused problems.
A Miss Marion Seddon complained in the Illustrated London News that 'children have no business listening at the homework hour to the exploits of Dick Barton and other characters leading abnormal lives'.
A letter to The Times read: 'The BBC seems bent on turning children into a new kind of drug addict. They grow more concerned from day to day about what Dick Barton may do next than about their futures or the future of England.'
In January 1948 the BBC bowed to pressure and published a code of conduct which the characters had to abide by.
The 12 rules of Dick Barton were:
1 Barton is intelligent as well as hard-hitting. He relies as much upon brains as upon brawn.
2 He only uses force when normal, peaceful means of reaching a legitimate goal have failed.
3 Barton never commits an offence in the criminal code, no matter how desirable the means may be argued to justify the end.
4 In reasonable circumstances, he may deceive but he never lies.
5 Barton's violence is restricted to clean socks on the jaw. (Ed: In extremis presumably slightly soiled ones would do.)
6 Barton's enemies have more latitude in their behaviour but they may not indulge in actually giving any injury or punishment that is basically sadistic.
7 Barton and his friends do not wittingly involve innocent members of the public in situations that would cause them to be distressed.
8 Barton has now given up drink altogether. Drunken scenes are barred.
9 Sex, in the active sense, plays no part in the Barton adventures.
10 Horrific effects in general must be closely watched. Supernatural or pseudo-supernatural sequences are to be avoided – ghosts, night-prowling, gorillas or vampires. (Ed: What's wrong with gorillas?)
11 Swearing and bad language generally may not be used by any character.
12 Political themes are unpopular as well as being occasionally embarrassing.
In a later interview Johnson commented: 'Barton was a proper character at first. He drank, he smoked and had a girlfriend. As soon as the producers cottoned on to the fact we had a youth audience, they felt they had to become moral guardians.' And in this 1948 interview he makes the point that Barton is not a crook – he always beats the crook: 'He should be an inspiration.' (This clip is third in a short compilation and follows a priceless 'interview' with Field Marshal Montgomery.)
There was another reason for Johnson's irritation: he had become a major star, but he was paid only £18 a week (about £620 today). In late 1948 he asked for a rise. The BBC refused. He resigned. The Corporation tried to get him to change his mind and asked him to name his price. When he (probably jokingly) said he wanted £100 a week (about £3,500) negotiations came to a halt.
He went on to have a long career in films and TV. In a 1982 BBC2 play called The Combination he played a magistrate admonishing two ten-year-old boys: 'If I had to point the finger at any single responsible body, it would be the BBC for churning out Dick Barton every single solitary night of the week. If anything was guaranteed to warp the spirit of the young, it's that perverted rubbish!'
So the BBC had to find a new Dick Barton. More than a thousand people applied for the role, including a seven-year-old boy who wrote on a postcard: 'I want to be Dick Barton, I have a gruff voice and I can shout.' The role was eventually given to explorer Duncan Carse and subsequently to Gordon Davies.
After five years and 711 programmes defeating giant spiders, death rays, plague-infested rats and the Nazis, Dick Barton came up against his deadliest foe – a bunch of everyday country folk.
In the postwar era of rationing and food shortages, the Ministry of Agriculture wanted the BBC to produce a programme for farmers to disseminate the latest information. At a conference to discuss the issue, one farmer said: 'What we really want is a farming Dick Barton!' The idea took root and Dick Barton's writers, Edward J Mason and Geoffrey Webb, were set to work to create The Archers, with the same format of 15-minute programmes Monday to Friday. (This must have been hard work since they were still turning out Dick Barton.)
The new programme launched nationally on January 1, 1951 at 11.15am, and Dick Barton's days were numbered. The BBC top brass had already been concerned about the programme. The head of drama was Val Gielgud (brother of Sir John). Johnson said: 'I was aware that Val Gielgud always hated the show for being so downmarket.' John Mann, who played Snowey, added: 'I think he thought it was a bad influence on the youth of Britain.'
This was a bit rich since Gielgud was a prolific writer of detective novels and thrillers, including one called Death at Broadcasting House featuring a murder.
However the death sentence was pronounced and Dick Barton was pitchforked out of the BBC on Friday 30 March 1951, having got his reservist call-up papers to return to the Army. The Archers moved into his slot the following Monday, and they have never left it (except that they now go out at 7pm.)
Footnote: Dick Barton's progenitor, Norman Collins (who also initiated Woman's Hour), subsequently fell out with the BBC when he was overlooked for promotion and was instrumental in founding its commercial rival ITV. Barton would have been proud.
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Euthanize the girl, fling that POS into a volcano.
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Exclusive: Vincent Kartheiser & Olivia Thirlby Hang Out With Penguins In Clip From 'Red Knot'
Exclusive: Vincent Kartheiser & Olivia Thirlby Hang Out With Penguins In Clip From 'Red Knot'
Between July 4th excitement and the upcoming frenzy of San Diego Comic Con, a cinematic counterbalance to multiplex spectacle might be in order. And particularly with temperatures on the rise, "Red Knot" just might be a welcome respite —today we have exclusive clip from the film.
READ MORE: Review: 'Red Knot' Starring Vincent Kartheiser, Olivia Thirlby and Billy Campbell
Directed by Scott Cohen and led by "Mad Men" star Vincent Kartheiser and Olivia Thirlby, the story follows a young writer and his wife who turn his research trip to Antarctica into a belated honeymoon voyage, combining business with pleasure. But once on the ship, they realize their marriage might be more fragile than they previously thought. In this scene, as the couple are surrounded by penguins, some of the issues they've never really discussed are broached.
"Red Knot" is one to make some time for —I called it "insightful in the way few first films are" in my review. The film hits iTunes and VOD on July 7th. Watch below.
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Igniting a passion
By Chelsea Yates
Photos by Silas Chu and SARP
"Getting to build a rocket from scratch with other students who share a passion for rocketry is such a cool project to apply our skills to. It's amazing to have this opportunity at the UW." – Clifford Jess Grant
SARP team members prepare their rocket for launch at the 2018 Spaceport America Cup.
It's 109 degrees in the New Mexican desert at Spaceport America, where more than 110 college teams from across the globe have convened and are ready to compete. In addition to sunblock, tools and plenty of water, they have brought the high-powered rockets they've built over the last year. Ranging from eight to 20 feet in length, the rockets are designed to reach heights of 10,000 to 30,000 feet.
The challenge — Spaceport America Cup — is an incredible, if not unusual, opportunity. Designed around the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition, the challenge hosts student-built rockets of all chemical propulsion types— solid, liquid and hybrid. To win, the teams' rockets must launch successfully, achieve maximum altitude and be recovered after landing, hopefully in one piece.
"For students interested in rocket science and aerospace engineering, it's the best," says aeronautics and astronautics (A&A) senior Clifford Jess Grant. He's the chief engineer for the UW's student-run rocketry organization, the Society for Advanced Rocket Propulsion (SARP).
Grant joined SARP as soon as he stepped on campus his freshman year. "The team is one of the main reasons I decided to attend the UW," he says. He's eager to spend his final year leading SARP to success at next June's Spaceport America Cup.
Cat Hannahs adjusts a mill during fin manufacturing. The team fabricates rocket components in A&A's Bossart Machine Shop and the ME Machine Shop.
Team members spend the academic year designing and constructing their rocket. Here Cody Olson and Aakash Kurse prepare aluminum stock to be lathed into the payload coupler.
It's not rocket science (wait, yes it is)
Nearly 200 students are involved with SARP; most are A&A majors but some come from other areas, such as mechanical engineering (ME) and computer science and engineering (CSE). The team focuses a full-year's efforts on designing and building a single rocket for competition.
"We start each year with a new rocket," says Grant. "But we are continually iterating on previous years, so you could say that this has been a multi-year process, extending back to the team's inception in 2009."
SARP primarily builds hybrid rockets — rockets that use a combination of solid and liquid fuel. These types tend to be safer than their solid or liquid counterparts but are more complicated to design and construct.
Structures lead and A&A senior Austin Cassayre explains the rocket base airframe and fin design at last spring's UW Engineering Discovery Days.
"The team is one of the main reasons I decided to attend the UW," says SARP chief engineer Clifford Jess Grant, right. Here he works with Structures team members Aaron Goldfogel and Elliott Leisen on the carbon fiber layup of the fin can.
"There's so much involved in building rockets," says CSE senior and SARP's Avionics lead Sabrina Tong. She joined the team a few years ago; SARP needed students with programming and circuitry skills, and she was excited for the opportunity to apply hers to an aerospace-related project.
"In addition to technical skills such as programming, system design and analysis, we learn project management and leadership skills," she says.
At competition, each team usually launches just one rocket, so they hone their efforts into precision design and construction. Successful rockets must launch a payload — the equipment being transported by the rocket — and be recovered after flight.
After three days of set-up at competition, the team hoists its rocket into launch position.
SARP designs its rockets to reach 30,000 feet at a speed of Mach 1.3. Last year, the team's rocket measured about 14 feet from the tip of the nose cone to the bottom of the fin can.
Building a successful — and safe — rocket is no easy feat. To get the job done, the team divides into several subteams. The Avionics team focuses on remote fill and launch sequence control, in-flight data and tracking. Structures is concerned with the airframe and other structural components. The Propulsion team develops the motor. Payload designs and creates the item that will be transported inside the rocket (last year's was an autonomous rover and this year's is a plasma actuator). The Recovery team determines how to safely recover the rocket, and the Business team is responsible for administration, publicity and sponsorship.
SARP's rocket is single-use, and competition marks the first — and only —time it will fly, so everything has to run smoothly.
"We test components, subsystems and small-scale versions on campus and at remote sites in Oregon and Washington, but usually the only time we get to see the whole rocket fly is at competition," says Tong.
"As you might imagine, we all get a little anxious on Launch Day," Grant adds.
Three, two, one…lift off!
SARP's 2018 rocket, moments before launch. It measured about 14 feet from top to bottom and had a target altitude of 30,000 feet with a maximum speed of Mach 1.3.
"Even though we're competing, we all have similar anticipation at the moment of lift off," says Grant.
The teams spend three days in the desert preparing for launch. On day one, they set up their base camps, launch pads and guide rails. They also start assembling their rockets, installing payloads and testing subsystems. On day two, they set up remote control stations. Judges review and assess the rockets; those that pass inspection are moved to their respective launch sites.
On the third day, the rockets are ignited, and teams and judges watch from a safe distance as each soars into the air. Environmental elements — rising temperatures, wind and dust — can make a launch even more challenging, and sometimes dangerous.
Last June, SARP's was one of 94 rockets that took off during the competition's launch window.
"We were so nervous; our rocket flew straight for about three seconds but then experienced some instability on its ascent to 30,000 feet," Grant remembers. "On the descent there was a glitch with parachute deployment. Fortunately we were able to recover the rocket mostly in one piece."
Teams are assessed on everything from written technical reports to design implementation to overall flight performance, recovery and successful payload functionality and landing.
Despite the abnormal flight, SARP's rocket met its altitude goals, and its construction and engineering impressed the judges. The team took first place in their division.
Team members are now focused on refining last year's rocket design for next June's competition.
"The lessons we learn in our engineering classes are super important, but they're only part of engineering education," says Grant. "Getting to build a rocket from scratch with other students who share a passion for rocketry is such a cool project to apply our skills to. It's amazing to have this opportunity at the UW."
Three, two, one…lift off! Team members watch their rocket soar into the sky.
Help SARP build and launch their rocket at next summer's competition by making a gift to the team's crowdfunding campaign.
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What Brendan Rodgers said about Leicester City defying Newcastle United boo boys
Leicester City news | A trio of Foxes players were booed - and all three scored in the 3-0 win
Jordan Blackwell
Hamza Choudhury's majestic first Leicester City goal is "what dreams are made of" with the academy graduate ignoring the boo boys to crown a 3-0 win over Newcastle.
Choudhury was jeered with every touch by the St James' Park crowd because of his foul on Matt Ritchie in August's Carabao Cup tie between the clubs, a challenge that has kept the winger on the sidelines ever since.
But Choudhury, off the bench to replace James Maddison, was unaffected by the boos, opening his account for his boyhood club with an inch-perfect first-time strike to the top corner.
"It's what your dreams are made of, for a local boy, who's been in the academy since he was seven or eight years age, coming through the system," said Rodgers.
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"Not only to score your first goal, but to score it a real iconic stadium, that makes it really special for him, in front of the supporters up in the skies. It was a very good goal.
"I felt we needed to keep the energy in the game, so we brought him into the game to keep us pressing and keep us running. But also, in that number eight role, he has to get forward and look to threaten the goal and it was a fantastic strike at the end of a good move."
Choudhury was not the only player to receive a negative reaction from the home supporters. Former Magpie Ayoze Perez was booed, as was James Maddison, who irritated the crowd when he was deemed to have gone down softly looking for a penalty in the first half. The pair scored City's first two goals in the win.
Leicester City's James Maddison (R) celebrates after scoring their second goal (Image: Getty)
"It's part and parcel of it," Rodgers said of the booing. "Ayo was terrific today, his energy, his attitude in the game, his pressing. We know he can score goals.
"And young Hamza, he had an unfortunate incident earlier in the year when he was here but he's got a big personality and I had no hesitation putting him in."
On the performance, Rodgers added: "We played very well, particularly in the first half. We really attacked the game when we had the ball and when we didn't have the ball, and that led to two really good opportunities for us.
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"The first goal, we press it, Ayo anticipates it really well, cuts it out and then shows great skill to finish. The second goal as well, we press it, win it back, and then it's a great bit of individual quality from James to score. I thought we were well deserving of that in the first half.
"Unfortunately for Steve and Newcastle, they lose the player (Fabian Schar) at the beginning of the half, but then I was really pleased with our game idea then because we were happy to have the ball, work them side to side and wait for more openings.
"They came, we just couldn't quite finish. But then we get the third goal through a great finish by Hamza and it rounded off a good day for us."
James Maddison donates big sum to send young girl battling leukaemia on dream Disney World trip
Leicester City FCThe Leicester City midfielder has taken the fundraiser over its £20,000 goal to allow seven-year-old Violet Westwood to go to Florida after months of chemotherapy


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Introducing Fast and Female's first-ever Youth Advisory Council! Fast and Female is excited to introduce our community to our first-ever Youth Advisory Council (YAC), supported through funding from the Doc Seaman Amateur Sports Grant! Our YAC is currently comprised of…
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Trigger warning The following statement includes mention of Islamophobia, murder and violence against children. On Sunday, June 6, 2021, four members of a Muslim, Pakistani-Canadian family: Salman Afzaal, 46, Madiha Salman, 44, Yumma Salman, 15, and Talat Afzaal, 74,…


In the recently-published biography Peter Selz: Sketches of a Life in Art, author Paul J. Karlstrom details Peter Selz's illustrious career as an art historian, which Selz states "has consisted of looking at art that I think is excellent–whether German expressionism then or Morris Graves now–that deserve to be seen and is on the periphery." Selz, now 93, has written over fifty books and articles on art and art history, and befriended artists such as Mark Rothko and Sam Francis. He also formed friendships with several artists he met during his time as a graduate student at the University of Chicago.
After escaping Nazi Germany at the age of 17, Selz attended the University on the GI Bill, studying Art History under professors Ulrich Middeldorf and Joshua C. Taylor. In 1954, Selz earned his PhD with a 600-page dissertation that examined the work of artists such as Kandinsky, Beckmann, and Emil Nolde within social and political contexts. It became an extremely influential book within the field, German Expressionist Painting, and is still in print.
In the 1960s, Selz became a professor of art and founding director of the Berkeley Art Museum at the University of California. His home in Berkeley is a testament to his long and thriving career–it contains works such as a Beckmann self-portrait and the painting Iris (pictured), a gift from Sam Francis. Far from retiring, Selz remains dedicated to writing, teaching, and curating.
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Willett House Veterinary Surgeons - Radiography - Vets in Staines, Feltham, Addlestone & Hampton.
An X-ray (radiograph) test is a quick and painless method used to diagnose many health conditions. The procedure involves exposing part of your body to a small dose of ionising radiation (X-rays). The X-rays travel through your body where they are absorbed at different levels by different tissues such as bones, muscles and organs. When the X-rays come out on the other side of your body they hit a photographic film and make a pattern of light and shade. The images produced are black, white and grey. We have a state of the art Computerised Radiography CR unit which produces digital images. This allows for images to be magnified and adjusted, to produce extremely high quality images. We are able via Diacom to link these images to our computer system, enabling the images to be accessed from all computer screens within all of our branches.
What happens when my pet has an x-ray?
In most cases, a general anaesthetic or heavy sedation is required to perform an accurate x-ray in animals. This is because most pets, however well behaved, will not sit completely still in the required positions to obtain high quality diagnostic x-rays. In some situations (for example a cat which has difficulty breathing), we may take a survey x-ray with the animal fully conscious to remove the additional risk associated with an anaesthetic in these cases.
Animals are not allowed to be manually restrained for x-ray under the guidelines set down by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) for health and safety reasons.
Once your pet is stable under the anaesthetic or sedation, the vet will position your animal appropriately for the x-ray. It is usually necessary to take different views of the same part of the body - for example if we were taking x-rays of the knee joint we would need a "lateral" view (left to right) and a front to back view as a minimum. With limb x-rays we also usually need to take images from the opposite leg to use as a comparison.
Once the vet is happy with the x-ray positioning, they will adjust the exposure settings to obtain a good quality image. Once the x-ray has been taken it is developed in an x-ray processor. The final films can then be examined and evaluated.


The Museum of the Battle of the Bulge in Clervaux Castle illustrates this historic battle through documents, uniforms and authentic weapons. Clervaux is the heart of the Luxembourg Ardennes and therefore part of areas which particularly suffered during the Second World War. The Battle of the Bulge, in winter 1944/45, was the last attempt of the Third Reich to nullify the allied forces of the West. After the failure of the attack, Luxembourg again became a free country. The Museum of the Battle of the Bulge remembers this obscure but highly decisive period of the last century.


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We have recently upgraded and re-launched our website to be compatible and responsive to mobile devices. We live in the era of information age and likewise business is characterized by the digital revolution. Through digital era we acquire knowledge and the know how of various industries and most importantly we are able to liaise with our beloved customers efficiently. On the other hand, we can also influence government policy, communicate our plights and advocate for the advancement of our businesses.
Recently the Competition Commission investigated into collusive and anti-competitive practices in the construction industry. Small construction businesses, whether working in the domestic, commercial and industrial sectors face major challenges and are at the mercy of the economy which dictates whether opportunities will be plentiful or scarce. Hence, the investigations were targeting those who benefited from big projects prior 2010 world cup, rather than us.
There is a perpetual problem of late payment to contractors by some government departments and in the private sector alike, which continues stalling any hope of sustained growth. In the interim the solution to this problem of late payments will be the strict implementation of the JBCC clause of adhering to the payment period stipulated thereto, whilst industry bodies continue to fight the Department of Public Works to urgently process the Draft Regulations on prompt payment and promulgate it to law.
The biggest problem in the industry, still after years of banning apartheid and propagating for reconciliation, is the fact that the bigger construction companies through collusive behaviour are indirectly denying smaller construction companies the equal opportunity to grow, to expand and to overcome challenges such as skills shortage, cash flow issues etc.
So many small construction companies in South Africa have the potential, the motivation and, and at times the skills but are denied opportunity by their big brothers to grow in the construction industry. Sadly some of these companies will never achieve their full potential, not because of inability but because of inequality, corruption, late payments, favoritism, nepotism and the list goes on…..
It is discomforting that the preaching of our icon, the late Nelson Mandela of growth, free, fair and equal opportunity for all is not practiced after two decades of our democracy. Indeed his vision which all the wise believe in can create better life`s for all and the future of a growing democracy.
I have pondered on the decision made by the competition commission of fining the Goliath of the industry a mere R1, 5 billion and wonder if they contemplated on downgrading their CIDB rating or forcing them to implement enterprise development and transfer skills to the benefit of the up and coming David's.
I presume that David knew that he had to get rid of Goliath in order for the Israelites to live in peace and harmony and to praise and glorify their Lord eternally. Perhaps reconciliation was not an option, after all there will always be underdogs.
The story of David and Goliath is there to give us hope that we shall overcome and Malcolm Glad well's latest book on the topic has given a better perspective of the scenario. Hence, I recommend all my buddies in the small businesses to read the book. We are the liberators of the economies globally and through our underdog business we can eradicate poverty and reduce unemployment.
Have a pleasant and blessed month!!