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Now that the calendar says Spring, I think we need to convince Mother Nature that she needs to play nice and let the Spring Shine On!
So, here's to Mother Nature.
Looking forward to Spring ….


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Hollywood Shorts: As Told at the Masquers Club
Charles Ray was a popular juvenile star in the 1910s and '20s, but by the '30s, his career was on the rocks, and he turned to writing. Here's another in a series of offerings from his book, Hollywood Shorts, a collection of short stories set in Tinseltown.
As Told at the Masquers Club
"Aw, give 'im the works, boys. He's nuts!"
"Harold, you're crazy! You're going soft-hearted, or soft-headed, I can't tell which!"
"Why don't you put your altruistic theories into practice? You're daffy as a loon, and someday they'll drive up and take you for a ride—to a place with a tall iron fence."
At the Hollywood actors' club, a small group were seated in the lounge kidding Harold Wild.
Harold was an actor of prominence. His friends understood his place on the screen and his excellent portrayals, but not his multivocal rantings on the conventionalism of life which, as he averred, kept people from being themselves—their real selves.
"It's a silly old world," he often contended. "It's human beings that make existence so miserable."
Harold Wild was not a character that his name might imply. But he made himself very obnoxious around the club with his theoretical chatter, and so they avoided him—called him "Softy" Wild.
Weeks passed.
Gradually his friends noticed a great change in him. A little caused him to give in and tell a story concerning himself.
One stormy night, while driving along Hollywood Boulevard in the warm confines of his roomy sedan, he was speculating seriously on why it was, in such a nasty rain, that a man could not throw open his car door and offer a lift to any woman in need.
Conventionalism is the answer, he sneered. He had passed up three women at crossings in the last four blocks. Silly conventionalism was the curse of the human family, he thought, stifling a world which might otherwise be a happy playground. What an infantile existence this life really was!
And so he argued on until conscience demanded action. A firm conviction gave him peace of mind: at the next intersection he would do this chivalrous thing without thought of race or age. No one could accuse him of being a masher. His attitude would show that it was all purely an impersonal gesture.
The red light of the traffic signal bloomed into prominence through the veil of mist on his windshield. Slowly he eased his car nearer to the curbing, and through the rivulets of water streaking the glass door, saw a sight which made his soul vibrate with compassion.
"What a crime!" he mumbled.
Sitting on a bus bench in a miserable attitude, a woman was trying to house herself waterproof by holding a newspaper roof-like over her head. Pathetic, he thought sincerely, and threw his car door open in welcome.
"Madam!" he shouted quite reverently. Then he stammered: "I'd like to—would you—it's just my way of—"
The rush of rain down his coat sleeve demanded simplicity, and he intelligently succumbed.
"May I have the privilege of giving you a lift?" he achieved without stuttering.
Dropping the soggy newspaper, the girl rose and skipped the distance to the car quickly, entering with a mumbled "thanks."
The signals changed. The traffic moved on. Harold Wild cleared his throat and expressed his elation.
"I'm very happy that you accepted my offer of a lift. This conventional business is silly, isn't it? Now if you'll just tell me your destination, I'll not even bother you with conversation."
"I can't see very well," she mumbled, peering through the glass. "It's only a few blocks. I suppose I had better watch closely and tell you when to stop."
"Live right on the corner?"
"Why, no, it's about a hundred steps off the boulevard. Five or six doors, anyway. Could you go that far out of your way?"
"Certainly. Just tell me when to turn."
A warm, happy feeling surged through Harold's body as he felt conscious of the girl's eyes upon him. His altruistic attitude held him in certain bounds, but through the dark mirror of the windshield, he was able to steal glances at her shadowed form.
With pleasure he recorded that a blonde head crowned a facial contour well chiseled, possessing large eyes which surely must be blue. Her chic hat, well wilted by the rain, caused him to hurl more fiery thoughts against the outrages of conventionalism. What a lovely thing she was! He meant to say something about the condition of her collapsed hat, but when his mouth opened, it asked:
What made him say that, he thought. Immediately astonished, his blood congealed; but relief came when he heard her answer:
"Elaine." Then she added: "This is it. Turn here, please."
"To the right," he managed with a gulp.
"Yes. It's a dark street, isn't it? Wonder why they don't light side streets better?"
"Politics!" Harold answered freely, turning off the boulevard. "You always find politics at the bottom of everything. Why, it's a shame to allow women to go about with such lack of protection."
Gradually he slowed the car up to the curb where the girl was pointing. Reaching behind her shoulder to flip the door open, he experienced surprise in viewing nothing but a vacant lot. He was further surprised when he became conscious of gazing down the barrel of a baby automatic.
"Give me your wallet!" the girl commanded calmly. "Hand over your extra change too. I'll take that ring and those cuff links. Add the wrist watch, and make it snappy!"
As he watched his companion bow out of the car, his ears rang with some hissing phrases, quite humiliating.
"Don't look back until you get around that next corner," she advised strongly. "Thanks for the buggy ride, and for not being conventional. My name's really Elaine. Next time you should pick up Ethyl. Much faster, they say."
Slamming the door, she disappeared in the rain.
Harold Wild sped to the lighted boulevard while cold chills and odd, indescribable emotions played a strange tattoo upon his body. As he got settled into traffic, his mind seemed to refuse to function. No phrase, however profane, would formulate into suitable expression. He wasn't one to talk to himself. But presently his dry throat relaxed, his mouth moved, and from the depths of his diaphragm came the energy to form the humorous declaration which crossed his mind.
"Well, I'll be a dirty name!" he exclaimed, and kept his car in the middle of the street.
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Really, it started as me messing about with a Python script, the Google APIs and a list of council websites. After a little bit of trial and error and quite a bit of tweaking, I have the council speedy indexish thingy; and it says that East Sussex have the 'fastest' council website in the county.
The script uses the Google Pagespeed API, to get information on every council website, the scores and page sizes are then stored in a central table and who doesn't like a league table?
The reality is these results don't tell you that any one website is faster than another. Google PageSpeed actually measures how much potential improvement there is for a website.
PageSpeed uses a series of measure focusing on how long a page takes to appear to the user, that includes server response times, download size and how long the page takes to render. These give you a good indicator of how 'fast' as website appears when someone requests it, and more importantly the Insight tool tells you what is slowing down that user experience.
Speed of course isn't the only (or even main) concern people have with a website. In reality the speed a website loads is a hygiene factor, you only really notice it if it's slow, but also it doesn't actually take that long to fix some basic things to make your site load quicker, and Google's PageSpeed tools are an easy place to start.
The Google PageSpeed tools are a family of tools designed to help you optimise your website, at the root of the tools is the PageSpeed insight tool which will analyse your site and give you a series of recommendations on how to improve page speed. This is more than looking at server response time and file size. It looks at things like file compression, styles and scripts that might block the page from actually being rendered. with a few simple tweaks you can improve a sites page speed score, and hence make it appear a lot quicker for users.
When we run the script it produces a nice big spreadsheet, if you want to see the data then that's the place to look.
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Disclaimer; All items contained on these pages are non-profit amateur fiction. The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, The Bewitchments of Love and Hate, The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire and all characters named in those books are the copyright of Storm Constantine and her publishers. No infringement on the copyrights are intended. These stories are for personal enjoyment only and should be reproduced, electronically or otherwise, only for this purpose and never for profit of any sort.
We're different, he and I. We know it and so do they. They can smell it on us, I'm sure, even though I'm equally sure that we've never given them slightest hint.
They look at us, squinty eyed and almost snarling when we pass. Whispering amongst themselves, working up the nerve to spit at our feet. One day, I know it will be something far worse that they do.
We have to go, get away from the narrow-minded streets and alleys we were born to. Away from parents who stare at us dull eyed and suspicious, not quite sure who we are. Did we spring from these dried-up, fearful loins? Or are we changeling children, destined for something else?
If we are, I don't know what it is. I only know that this place is choking me, these attitudes are wringing the life from me as surely as the gang kids on the corner would like to wring our necks.
They live in fear, terrified of the death and the decay, the change that they can sense is coming, knowing they have no way of denying it entry.
I welcome its coming. Anything has to be better than this.
I look at him, strolling with false insouciance by my side. To look at us, walking down the cracked pavement, wrapped in tough boy rags and sneering poses, you would never guess at the nights when we sit upon the rooftop of the tenement I call home, arms wrapped around each other, exchanging secrets and kisses as others exchange goods and violence.
I find comfort in his soft skin, his hot wet mouth pressed to mine, the feel of his strength giving way to me willingly as I lay him down on the broken tiles. The crunch of grit and dirt grinding against his back as I push myself inside. Seared nerve endings set off a smell in my brain, like burning rubber, the pounding of my heart, the feel of his pulse against my throat, all these things lend me courage.
After, we lay together, touching, yet apart, sharing a stolen cigarette or just a moment's peace before we must break away, return downstairs to the lies, the pretense, the despair.
The breeze lifts our hair and whispers promises in our ears, we listen and want to weep with impatience. Make it soon, make it now. Save us.
Whatever it is that I smell on the wind, he smells it too. It's something for us, coming for us…our time. Seel's and mine.
Originally Posted: Creation of Angels(1) Lord of Angels(3): July 9, 2002. Army of Angels(2) Grissecon Booklet: Oct 10, 2003.
Disclaimer: All items contained on these pages are non-profit amateur fiction. The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, The Bewitchments of Love and Hate, The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire and all characters named in those books are the copyright of Storm Constantine and her publishers. No infringements on the copyrights are intended. These stories are for personal enjoyment only and should be reproduced, electronically or otherwise, only for this purpose and never for profit of any sort.
The evening meal was over, the dishes washed in the stream and the babes, children, horses and dogs long since fed.
Grizzling offspring were put to bed in the caravans as the lamps, strung from the trees around the grove were spluttering and swaying in the warm evening breeze.
Now was the time for the tribe to sit around the fire and share with each other the day's events; to discuss plans for the morrow and finally, as the evening sky darkened from violet to velvet, to sip their beer, reminisce and gossip.
The younger men were engaged in a discussion, talking politics as usual and it was turning into a heated debate, one that the tribal leader, Aarron, wanted to deflect to more placid channels.
Honing in on the subject of the quarrel, he sipped his drink and gazed into the flames, Aarron heard talk of Gelaming edicts and proposed changes to the protected zones.
As a human tribal leader, he should be concerning himself with such things, he knew. But the night was so pleasant and the warmth of the lingering summer had made him lethargic after a hard day of herding cattle through the passes toward winter grazing. He didn't want to get involved in such a debate tonight.
One name kept recurring in the increasingly loud row; that of the General in charge of the Human Protectorate, General Ashmael Aldebaran, a name Aarron had had reason both to curse and to praise in the past.
The General's verdicts in matters of dispute had gone both for and against Aarron and his people in the past and this was what the young men were discussing yet again. Would Aldebaran find in their favour this time in their case against the neighbouring tribe who had tried to claim their summer fields as their own?
But Aarron was feeling too good tonight to be bothered with it and sought a way to change the subject without having to quell the discussion forcefully. Looking around the fire, his gaze came to rest on the face of an elderly man named Joshua. The wrinkled visage was apparently lost in thought, eyes turned inward as they stared blindly into the flames, and Aarron had a good idea what he was thinking about.
Joshua was not blood kin of the tribe of Finlata, but he had been a useful and productive member for longer than most of the young bloods of the tribe could recall. Even Aarron, who knew he had at least fifty human years to his credit, could recall Joshua from his childhood. Even then, fifty or more years ago, he had been an old man, quietly going about his duty of tending the horses and keeping the caravans supplied with kindling.
But there was one fact that Aarron had almost forgotten until tonight, a fact that he was sure the youngsters, gesticulating wildly across the flames at each other, were unaware of and it was this piece of almost-forgotten information that he intended to put to use for the sake of peace.
All conversation ceased as astonished eyes turned toward Joshua. Joshua Smithy, as he called himself, was a most unremarkable character, the kind of person who tended to be overlooked and taken for granted by all. The quietness of his nature and his disinclination to gossiping or discussing his past, would lead most to think (if they thought of him at all) that Joshua was nondescript and that his life would be likewise.
That this unexceptional individual, so casually dismissed as boring and unimportant in any major way, could possibly be acquainted with such a luminous personality as General Aldebaran, in any way, shape or form, was a shocking and almost unbelievable idea for most of them. They sat stunned, their mouths gaping at the very suggestion by their chief that Joshua might possibly know such a Har.
"You did?" August, the most mercurial and curious of all the younger lads, was the first to speak. Aarron could have confidently laid a bet with no fear of losing, had he needed to predict the first questioner.
"But, how? Where did you meet him? What is he like?" August leaned forward, his posture conveying his earnest intent. The other lads followed likewise; the air suddenly peppered with questions as the curious began their inquisition.
Aarron leaned back against his log, content. He vaguely recalled the tale from childhood, but much of the detail escaped him and he was kind of looking forward to hearing it again if the lads could persuade the reticent Joshua to tell it. Even if they failed, the peace had been restored and Aarron could at last enjoy his beer in relative harmony with the balmy summer night.
But it seemed the boys' discussions had fired old Joshua's memory and he almost seemed to smile as he dipped his tankard into the barrel for a refill. Perhaps it was the debate; perhaps it was the beer and the clement weather that loosened his tongue, or maybe he was just in the mood for a bit of storytelling. Whatever the case, Joshua settled further down into his lambs' wool robe and began to speak.


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February 7, 2017 - 10:42 pm EST 5 years ago
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The PGA Tour continues its swing along the West Coast as the game's best players visit some of the most scenic golf courses in the world on Monterey Peninsula. The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am features 54 unique holes framed by the vistas of the Pacific Ocean, and you can catch the Tour while you're still at work exclusively on PGA TOUR LIVE.
Matt Kuchar and Patrick Reed headline Thursday's first-round coverage on PGA TOUR LIVE as they play alongside their amateur partners Aneel Buhsri and Ed Vaughan, respectively. Kuchar and Reed will be joined by Pat Perez and Billy Hurley III during the exclusive coverage.
Highlights and look-ins on the rounds of Jordan Spieth, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson will also compliment the shot-by-shot coverage of the featured groups.
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The Hungarian cavalry () was a Hungarian cavalry force.

The hussars of medieval Hungary

A type of irregular light horsemen was already well established by the 15th century. The word hussar ( or ; also spelling pronunciation ) is from the Hungarian huszár.The word is derived from the Hungarian word of húsz meaning twenty, suggesting that hussar regiments were originally composed of twenty men. The hussars reportedly originated in bands of Serbian warriors crossing into southern Hungary after Turkish invasion on Serbia at the end of the 14th century. Initially they fought in small bands, but were reorganised into a larger, trained, formations during the reign of King Matthias I Corvinus of Hungary.  So the first Hussar regiments were the light cavalry of the Black Army of Hungary. Under his command the hussars took part in the war against the Ottoman Empire in 1485 and proved successful against the Turkish Spahis as well as against Bohemians and Poles. After the king's death in 1490, hussars remained the preferred form of cavalry in Hungary. The Habsburg emperors hired Hungarian hussars as mercenaries to serve against the Ottoman Empire and on various battlefields throughout Europe.

Hussars of Frederick the Great
During and after the Rákóczi's War for Independence, many Hungarians served in the Habsburg army. Located in garrisons far away from Hungary, some deserted from the Austrian army joining that of Prussia. The value of the Hungarian hussars as light cavalry was recognised and in 1721 two Hussaren Corps were organized in the Prussian Army.

Frederick II (later called "The Great") recognised the value of hussars as light cavalry and encouraged their recruitment. In 1741 he established a further five regiments, largely from Polish deserters. Three more regiments were raised for Prussian service in 1744 and another in 1758. While the hussars were increasingly drawn from Prussian and other German cavalrymen, they continued to wear the traditional Hungarian uniform, richly decorated with braid and gold trim.

Frederick also recognized the national characteristics of his Hungarian recruits and in 1759 issued a royal order which warned the Prussian officers never to offend the self-esteem of his hussars with insults and abuses. At the same time he exempted the hussars from the usual disciplinary measures of the Prussian Army: physical punishments including cudgeling.

Frederick used his hussars for reconnaissance duties and for surprise attacks against the enemy's flanks and rear. A hussar regiment under the command of Colonel Sigismund Dabasi-Halász won the battle at Striegau on May 4, 1745, by attacking the Austrian combat formation in its flank and capturing its entire artillery.

The effectiveness of the hussars in Frederick's army can be judged by the number of promotions and decorations awarded to their officers. Recipients included the Hungarian generals Pal Werner and Ferenc Kőszeghy, who received the highest Prussian military order, the "Pour le Merite"; General Tivadar Ruesh was awarded the title of baron; Mihály Székely was promoted from the rank of captain to general after less than fifteen years of service.

While Hungarian hussars served in the opposing armies of Frederick and Maria Theresa there were no known instances of fratricidal clashes between them.

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08-23-1967 ANT (born Anthony Steven Kalloniatis) – Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Greek immigrant parents. He is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He talks about his parents in his act – his mother was born on the island of Lesbos. He has performed at comedy clubs across the USA beginning in 1991. In 1995, he was a semi-regular cast member on the WB series Unhappily Ever After, spending 4 seasons on the sitcom. He has appeared as a guest on various TV show, including Jay Leno. ANT also performs in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe. He is openly gay.
08-23-1904 – 02-13-1965 Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt – Born at the Grand Hotel National in Lucerne, Switzerland. Her father was an American diplomat. She was an American socialite best known as the mother of fashion designer and artist Gloria Vanderbilt and the maternal grandmother of television journalist Anderson Cooper. After her husband died, members of the Vanderbilt family took her to court for custody of her child. The court case, Vanderbilt vs. Whitney, was one of the most sensational American custody trails in the 20th century. At the trial, a maid on the side of the prosecution claimed she caught Gloria and Lady Milford Haven kissing. The Supreme Court eventually decided she was an unfit mother, lesbian rumors being a factor. Custody of her daughter went to her sister-in-law Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
08-23-1912 – 11-04-1977 Keith Vaughan (born John Keith Vaughan) – Born in Selsey Bill, Selsey, United Kingdom. He was a British painter that worked in an advertising agency until the start of WWII, when as a conscientious objector he joined the St. John Ambulance. Vaughan was self-taught as an artist. His first exhibitions took place during the war. After the war, Vaughan worked as an art teacher at the Camberwell College of Arts, the Central School of Art and later at the Slade School. Vaughan is also known for his journals, selections from which were published in 1966 and more extensively in 1989, after his death. A gay man troubled by his sexuality, he is known largely through those journals. He was diagnosed with cancer in 1975 and committed suicide in 1977 in London. In June 2012, his birth date was celebrated with an exhibition at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. His auction record for the sale of one his paintings (oil on canvas Theseus and the Minotaur) was 313,250 pounds ( over $400,000 US dollars), set at Sotheby's London, on November 11, 2009.
08-23-1928 – 01-15-2018 Peter Wyngarde – Born in Marseille, France, the son of an English father and a French mother. He was a French-born English actor best known for playing the character Jason King in two British television series: Department S (1969-1970) and Jason King (1971-1972). Although he never came out publicly, his homosexuality was well known in acting circles, where he was known by the nickname of "Petunia Winegum." From 1956, he had a ten-year relationship with Alan Bates. During the 1980s and 1990s, he made a number of TV appearances. In 2014 he narrated an episode of the BBC's Timeshift documentary strand, Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective.
08-23-1954 Charles Busch – Born in New York City, New York. He is an openly gay American actor, screenwriter, playwright and female impersonator, known for his appearances on stage in his own camp style plays, and in film and television. He wrote a successful play on Broadway, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife (2000), which received a Tony Award nomination. His play, Die, Mommie, Die! (1999) was made into a film of the same name. For his performance in the film, he won the Best Performance Award at the Sundance Film Festival (2003).
08-23-1954 Terry Wolverton – Born in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Wolverton grew up in Detroit, Michigan. She is an American novelist, memoirist, poet, and editor. Her book Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building, a memoir published in 2002 by City Lights Books was named one of the "Best Books of 2002" by the LA Times and was the winner of the 2003 Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Wolverton moved to Los Angeles in 1976, enrolling in the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman's Building. She was instrumental in the Lesbian Art Project, the Great American Lesbian Art Show (GALAS), and a White Women's Anti-Racism Consciousness-Raising Group. In 1997, Wolverton founded Writers at Work, located in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California. It's a creative writing center where she continues to teach fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry, and to provide creative consultations to writers. She is also an affiliated faculty member of Antioch University, Los Angeles. She is openly lesbian.
08-23-1958 Neil Vivian Bartlett – Born in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. He is a British director, translator, and writer. He is one of the founding members of Gloria, a production company established in 1988 to produce his work along with that of Nicolas Bloomfield, Leah Hausman, and Simon Mellor. His work has won several awards. His production of The Dispute won a Time Out Award for Best Production in the West End and the 1999 TMA Best Touring Production award. He was appointed an OBE in 2000 for his services to the arts. Who Was That Man shows the gay history of London in the 1890s and how it affected Bartlett's life as a gay man in London in the 1980s. His latest novel, The Disappearance Boy was published in London by Bloomsbury Circus in January 2014. He also served as Artistic Director at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith from 1994 until 2004. Many of his translations of classic plays have been performed throughout the world.
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Everton: Danny Mills drops Lucas Digne claim
By Adam Clancy
Posted on 1 March 2021, 12:45
Danny Mills has claimed that Lucas Digne can go to replace Leighton Baines at Everton after he put pen to paper on a new deal at the Goodison Park faithful.
Speaking to Football Insider, the former Leeds United and Manchester City defender believes that the Merseyside club are going in the right direction by tying the former FC Barcelona man down to a new contract and added that he has all the capabilities of replacing Baines in the future:
"Everton are moving in the right direction.
"After some indifferent signings for a couple of seasons, they've now got a fantastic manager in Carlo Ancelotti.
"He and Marcel Brands seem to have a really good connection and understanding. The recruitment has been really good at Everton.
"They've just got planning permission for the new stadium and they're looking to move up in the world.
"They can cement that top eight position season in, season out and see where they can kick on from there.
"Lucas Digne is a fantastic attacking left-back. It was always going to be difficult to replace Leighton Baines, but there's every chance in the future that he can go on and do that."
Digne can be an Everton legend
Digne certainly has all of the potential to become a legend at the Toffees, just like Baines is. The latter played in no fewer than 420 games in total over all competitions across 13 consecutive seasons, scoring 39 goals and making a further 67 assists (Transfermarkt).
Is Digne the best left-back in the Premier League?
The France international has a very long way to go to catch Baines in terms of those kind of stats, but he has been nothing short of fantastic for the Blue since his arrival from La Liga.
He has made no fewer than six assists in 16 matches in total in the Premier League so far in the 2020/21 campaign and has also averaged 2.4 clearances, 2.1 tackles, 1.5 key passes and 1.1 interceptions per appearance (Sofascore).
Can you beat our impossible Everton transfer fee quiz!? First up, what did Gylfi Sigurdsson cost the Toffees? *All fees taken from Transfermarkt*
The 27-year-old has become such an important player to Carlo Ancelotti's team, but he still has a long way to go to become as much of a legend to EFC as Baines is.
In other news, find out what Fabrizio Romano transfer update has been lauded by Everton fans here!
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My wife had never heard of sweet potato until I arrived in The Netherlands. Also unheard of was parsnips. Now both a firm favourite with her and the numerous friends she has told about these lovely vegetables.
Warm the oven to 220 deg. C.
Cut the sweet potato into small wedges.
Place on a baking tray and sprinkle with the oregano, olive oil and the juice of the lemon.
Cook in the oven for around 20 minutes or until golden brown.


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Ow! Ow!
More on Sotomayor
This wins!
But That's Racist!
Seen at the Reagan Library
Really, Really Tough
Pro What Now?
Rachel!
Cap & Trade
Right-Wing Whining
More on Maddow & Torture
Those Women!
Writing And Race
Race Fail
No,No!
Why Won't Those People Vote for Us?
Hack Gack
Arkansas, yeah
Wait, Wait
But There's No Patriarchy!
Oh, well, okay
Oh man
Some time ago I had a commenter take me to task because I seemed to be implying, with my tea bag posts, that many Republicans were racist and sexist.
Geez, don't know why I would think that.
And last night, on Bill Maher, I don't know if you saw this one: John Bolton claiming that Sotomayor violated her oath -- she says, after all, that her life and her history and her ethnic background has an influence on what she thinks, how she decides things. The oath, Bolton tells us, pompously reading it aloud for the ignorant masses who don't know what the oath says, clearly says one does not distinguish between rich and poor, one class or the other: Justice must be blind!
Hill Harper took exception to this interpretation of the circumstances; as did Maher, who pointed out, reading from a citation he had ready, that Justice John Roberts had, in his decisions, sided with the corporations, with the prosecutors, with the state -- in other words, with the patriarchial, white male side, his culture's side -- in every single decision he had made.
Zoomed right over Bolton's head. See, that's not cultural bias, because white guys don't have cultural bias. White guys are the culture. Only people that aren't white guys have cultural bias.
It's like the white hegemonic argument that is getting made over there at RaceFail: we don't want to read SF where the story/characters are all concerned with race or sex, the (white hegemonic male straight) folk are saying. We just want a good story!
A good story about a white male hegemonic straight culture, doing things of interest to white male hegemonic straight people -- because that's the real culture, those are real people. That's the only unmarked state, that's the only real POV, to someone like Bolton, and the other Republican, Heather Wilson, who was much more polite, but was saying the same thing.
This came out when Maher brought up Proposition Eight.
Why, he asked, should the religion be involved the business part of marriage at all? It should, he said, obvious be a civil matter. The religious part should be entirely separate.
Heather Wilson came up with a sweet little Right-Wing talking point, which she had obviously used before: "Because," she said, "though we are not all a faithful people, we are all people of faith."
She was going to go on, but Maher, and this is why I keep watching him even though he gets on my nerves sometimes, cut her off: "I'm not," he said.
This unnerved her. "Well," she said, and was quiet. Obviously, this line had always worked before -- what to do when it didn't. After a second she said, "Most of..."
"I'm not," he repeated, "and plenty of America is like me. More and more."
(I can't find a transcript -- here's his page, maybe you can -- so I'm working from memory.)
"Well," she said again. "Most Americans--"
"I just don't think you can say we all are," he said. "We aren't all."
"I am," she said, sweetly, bravely, standing up to the infidel. "And I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman."
"All right," Maher said, and moved on -- nicely, I thought, instead of pointing out to her, as he might have, that that was all very well, but the country was founded precisely so that she could believe what she wanted, and do what she wanted in her own personal life, not so that she could impose her religious beliefs on the rest of us.
I mean, I'm an atheist. I don't insist she raise her kids as atheists, do I? Even though I do think they'd be better off that way? (And I do, in fact.)
My point -- and I do have one -- is that Wilson and Bolton both have been marked by their culture and their race. That they don't recognize that flat truth does, in fact, make them less wise as well as less able to make good decisions than Sotomayor, or any other person, of color or otherwise, who is minimally self-aware and introspective.
Sorry. It just does.
PS/Update: Oh, I forgot the funniest bit of Bill Maher last night: how neither John Bolton nor Wilson would speak against the Sainted Rush Limbaugh when Maher asked them to! Maher, citing how looney Limbaugh's side of the Republican Party had become, and then mentioning what Colin Powell was trying to do -- create a more sane branch for balance -- asked Bolton and Wilson whether they thought Limbaugh or Powell was the better approach, and neither would say a word against the Great and Powerful Limbaugh. No! No! One does not take the Name of Rush in Vain!
Hee! These people are such tools.
Posted by delagar at 12:55 PM
Labels: Right-Wing
zelda1 said...
It really pisses me off when the wingnuts question that she, the little woman, can judge fairly because she is, in fact, a woman and not just any woman but a hispanic woman. Also, that they question her statement that judges make the laws. Hello, they do make the law. And I liked that Obama says that they are not going to fuck this up. Not exactly in those words, but he ain't backing down. Go, Obama, go.


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百老匯的由來是什麼?
百老匯的英文是:Broadway,後面還有一個way,請問兩者有什麼關係嗎?
最佳解答: Broadway:
1.A thoroughfare of New York, the longest street in the world. It begins at the southern tip of Manhattan and extends about 241 km (150 mi) north to Albany.
2. The principal theater and amusement district of New York City, on the West Side of midtown Manhattan centered on Broadway.
Broadway是貫穿紐約市的一條大路,
主要的戲院以Broadway為中心群聚,
所以就以百老匯為名,
為戲劇主要代名詞,
就像台北市的迪化街為年貨大街,
台中的天津街為成衣集散地一樣,
http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/b/b0495000.html
http://www.mustseenewyork.com/maps/district-theaters-map.html
參考資料: http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/b/b0495000.html
明泰 · 15 年前
famous thoroughfare in New York City. It extends from Bowling Green near the foot of Manhattan island N to 262d St. in the Bronx. Throughout its length Broadway is chiefly a commercial street. In lower Manhattan it runs through the financial center of the country; N of Union Square (14th St.) it passes a merchandising section; further N around Herald Square there are large department stores; finally around Times Square (42d St.), which has undergone significant redevelopment, it enters the theater district, or the "Great White Way," the most storied portion of Broadway. Points of interest along Broadway include Trinity Church (Wall St.); St. Paul's Chapel, built 1766 (near City Hall); the Woolworth Building (at Barclay St.); the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (64th—66th streets); Columbia Univ. (113th—121st streets); the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (168th St.); and Van Cortlandt Park (at the north end of the city). Broadway was laid out by the Dutch and was the principal street of New Amsterdam; its northern stretches in Manhattan were formerly called Bloomingdale Road.
See D. W. Dunlap, On Broadway (1990).
百老匯是一條街 長25公里
1890年代以來鷹成為美國商業性戲劇的象徵而馳名
參考資料: 個人知識
毛毛 · 15 年前
百老匯是一條街
一條充斥著劇院的街
並不是一家劇院的名字唷!
Tiny*布丁 · 15 年前


Holy crap! I have a Gmail account and I thought I only had six to give away. I just checked and I have 50 as well.
There's no way I'm gonna be able to give them all away.
Make sure the invite is to "mythusmage". Sans the quotation marks of course.
Ummm... would this be an appropriate thread to inquire about email troubles?
If you decide to delete this comment too, then I'll just have to assume that you want to quit but are feeling too passive-aggressive to come out and say so.


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Jan. 22 – Tuesday Night Mens' League – Lane 1:Gerry Roeder- 214,223,176,613, Lane 2: Paul Rood-172,153,147,472.
Jan. 18 – Marina Jaques 2w22, Marjorie Coleman 2w22, Fran McCallum 1w15, Tina Brand 1w14.
Jan. 29 – 3 wins: Bill Wheeler 309, Fred Wells 290, Del Nixon 281, Gladys Skinner 210. 2 wins: Carol Ducharme 212, Wayne Denomme 199, Bill Rowe 196, Audrey Rowe 191, Orca Jopling 164, Phyllis Turner 135, Sandra Tryon 126, Lloyd Walters 118.
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Cat's are very special lovable creatures. Some more than others can have the strangest of habits, likes or dislikes. Apart from things that cat's hate, here are 10 things cats love!
Most (not all) cats love high places. They either climb the trees outside, the highest cupboard they can find in your house, or they try to sit on top of the open door or even try to hold onto the ceiling. Our black cat Kira is a great example of that. Cats like the higher area's to get a good overview of their preys, predators and us humans that keep busy below.
Cats sleep up to 16 hours a day, while we are more likely awake for 16 hours a day. Cats tend to sleep during the day as their preys wake up during the night. With their near night vision they can see much more than us with a little bit of moonlight or other form of light. They can sleep in the craziest of places and the funniest positions. Curled up in a ball, like a bread, lying long and wide over your sofa or chair, on top of the cupboards or shelves in a kitty bed and more.
Both indoor and outdoor cats love to hunt. When there are no mice in your house, than they will put their energy in the little cat toy mice, balls or anything that is fun to play with. Yes, also your lollypop, tampong, a little stone from outside and more. If you got cats that are solely indoor, it is a good idea to activate them and play with them daily.
I often see cats lying down in full sunlight, whether inside or outside. Our inside cats lay in the windowsill when the sun is out and about. Kira feels too hot in direct sunlight and doesn't do this, as she is very black and would attract and absorb all the sunlight. Most of our cats love to lie down in the sun, but after a while they go to the shadow.
Inside they also love to lie directly under the heatpump or woodoven. It is important that cats got a water fountain nearby to keep themselves hydrated at all times. In the warmth cats often fall asleep.
Cats love to get food. In nature they have to hunt for their food solely, here they get it served on a (silver?) plate. Cats are very curious and can easily, especially when they are as small as a kitten, take poisonous plants or poisonous human foods for food. They prefer soft wet foods over the dry kibble, but eat mainly everything. Most cats do however not know how or when to stop, so if you would put food down all day and night for them, there is a chance your cat becomes obese.
Cats, like humans, want to feel safe in situations. Some prefer a little hole between you and the sofa (behind your back), others sit high perched on top of your shelf or cupboard. They tuck themselves in a perfect circle with their nose in their tail. Some sleep in a cat bed or next to their biggest dog friend. There are plenty of examples to put forward.
There is this special plant that is safe for cats and cats simply love it. They like to roll in it, put their face in it, lick it, eat it up and fall asleep with it. Catnip is often used in cat toys to keep their attention on the toy. We often buy it in the herb form. We sprinkle it near the cat tree or scratching post to make them use those instead of our fantastic looking (badly looking) furniture.
Cats love to play. Although most of the playing is based upon their hunting or practicing for hunting, cats also do play. They can play a bit rougher than you and I would do. Kittens jump each other on the back and try to nibble each other in the ear or neck. It is an early sign for dominance.
Cats simply love bags and mostly boxes. When you come home with the biggest and newest cat tree you could found, the first thing your dear cat will do is help you out with your construction kit by sitting in the big boxes that it came with. Bags are also famous for a look around. Cats also love to sit on a piece of paper.
Cats love our company and our cuddling behaviour with cats. They also love friends with which they can play. We can choose to scratch their scratchy points. Felicia for example loves it when we scratch or rub her on her back near her tail. Most cats love a cuddle under their chin, over their fangs, on the side of their face and over the head between the ears. Make sure you know how to cuddle a cat. You stroke them in the right direction (with the hair direction). Note that when cats cuddle with their fangs (sometimes slightly painful) do this to mark you with their pheromones.
Read about 10 things cats hate.
Did you recognize any specific habits? Are there perhaps more things that cats hate? Please share below.
I used to have cats years ago but I became allergic. My daughter has two cats and they can be a handful. Her cats do sleep a lot, but they do like the higher places a lot. They aren't outside much but they do love playing. She watches what she gives them to eat because she doesn't want her cats to be obese. Catnip is their favorite. They also love the scratching post that I made for them.
Did you know that most people that are allergic to cats, are actually allergic to a glycoprotein that is being spread through saliva over the entire body of the cat because of grooming? Of course there are also other allergic reactions to cats.
Great to hear that your daughter has active cats and good to hear that she takes good care of them and their health. Catnip is always a big favorite among our cats too. And scratching posts are a good way to prevent your own furniture from going to bits.


Today was a hot one in Chicago! I met with Vilay and Troy to get some Chicago Skyline shots as well as some shots at Lincoln Park Zoo. I loved their choices of outfits and adding in some of their personality with their rival football jerseys!
I cannot wait for their October wedding in Elkhart, IN.
Thank you to you both for coming to meet me in Chicago and spending a couple of hours of walking around in the sun!


• A collective sigh of "Oh no, not again" was heard last week when venerable German-tastic bar Von Trier announced it would soon be morphing into an "upscale cocktail lounge." People wept, people cursed, people took to Facebook. Within hours, an online petition was created to "save" Von Trier; more than 2,300 Milwaukeeans have signed it so far.
• Have a great weekend, Milwaukee!


Bridgestone has once again been named the Most Trusted Tyre Brand in Australia in an independent survey conducted by Roy Morgan Research. It is the fifth year in a row Bridgestone has been named as the nation's most trusted tyre brand in the survey commissioned by Reader's Digest magazine, building upon the company's already established reputation.
Recognised around the world as a market leader in the tyre industry, Bridgestone products and services combine the very best in performance, safety and quality.
Bridgestone Australia and New Zealand Managing Director Andrew Moffatt said the recognition reflects the confidence consumers have in the Bridgestone brand.
"The research shows that consumers continue to put their trust in the Bridgestone brand for quality tyres they can rely on in all conditions," Mr Moffatt said."We are constantly striving to offer the best products and service to ensure we maintain our position as an industry leader," he said.


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Agonès - miejscowość i gmina we Francji, w regionie Oksytania, w departamencie Hérault.

Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwało 131 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 31 osób/km² (wśród 1545 gmin Langwedocji-Roussillon Agonès plasuje się na 772. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 1047.).

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The Debt Crisis and the Governance Crisis
July 13th, 2011 | Published in Politics | 1 Comment
With Mitch McConnell now desperately trying to pull the Republicans back from the brink of a sovereign debt crisis, I'm honestly a little surprised that there hasn't been more discussion of Matt Yglesias's argument that the debt ceiling fiasco signals the incipient collapse of the American system of government. He's been making this argument on the blog for a while, and now he's made it at greater length in the American Prospect. Basically, the idea is that:
In a Presidential system like the U.S.'s, the President and congress have independent sources of political legitimacy and an independent ability to obstruct the operation of the government.
For this reason, the system is unstable: if the two branches are controlled by rival parties, they can bring the system to a standstill. Most other countries that have adopted American-style political systems ultimately either saw a military coup or a presidential abrogation of the legislature's power.
The reason this didn't happen in America is because we didn't have cohesive, ideological parties, and so it was possible for Presidents to make compromises and deals with congressional factions.
Now we have disciplined, ideological parties. Or rather, we have one such party, but that's enough. The result is constant gridlock.
This has some things in common with the argument I made about contagious delegitimation in the American political system. My point there was that the government's inability to function was making various branches of government increasingly unpopular, and that this was further inhibiting their ability to do anything. Yglesias provides a structural account of just why this is happening.
It isn't really all that surprising, either--as Yglesias points out, the American system of government pioneered modern bourgeois democracy, and the founders didn't really have other examples to work from. The constitution is like the operating system for the country's political and legal system, and we've basically been running Democracy 1.0 (with 27 patches to address major vulnerabilities) since the 18th century. No wonder our politics now work about as well as a computer that's still running Windows 95. Other countries have moved on to better designed, less buggy implementations, and eventually we'll have to do so as well. Maybe people are just unwilling to accept that at some point, the U.S. system of government could become so dysfunctional that it would actually fall apart. Maybe liberals are just too terrified to contemplate what would happen if we had a constitutional convention in this political environment.
Or maybe people just don't know what to say about a proposal that's so far outside the parameters of what everyone else is talking about. There's another piece like this that I also think isn't getting enough attention: Dean Baker's argument along with Ron Paul that the Fed should destroy the 1.6 trillion dollars of government bonds that it owns in order to get around the debt ceiling crisis. I've seen remarkably little discussion of this, even though it's, you know, Dean Baker arguing alongside Ron Paul that the Fed should destroy 1.6 trillion dollars in bonds. Maybe people don't love wacky and counter-intuitive #slatepitches as much as we thought.
But when the American constitutional order disintegrates, don't say you weren't warned.
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FPInnovations is a not-for-profit organization that specializes in innovative scientific solutions for the forestry sector, with a strong commitment to enhancing competitiveness and sustainability. One of their promising innovations is a proprietary process that recovers lignin – a highly versatile and renewable bioproduct – from waste products in the pulp industry. It was recently discovered that it can be used as a replacement for fossil-based raw materials in products such as carbon fiber, adhesives, thermoplastics, resins, composites and various chemicals.
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New Mexico is known for its extraordinary scenic beauty and rich cultural history. Our journey starts in Santa Fe, arguably the art lover's capital of North America, with over 200 galleries and museums. Sante Fe is the land of enchantment, casting a spell over visitors who return over and over, flocking to this southern art Mecca.
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The home of Georgia O'Keefe, the legendary artist whose work was immensely influenced by this desert environment. Follow in her footsteps and experience a deep connection with the land she loved.
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The short list of spectacular inclusions in this year's release includes Legendary Lineups Booklets (featuring nine historic memorabilia pieces per booklet), memorabilia cards featuring cleats, bat nameplates, jersey ID tags and more) and a must-see Cut Signature Booklet featuring Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Also look for Quad Signatures, Six Signatures, Franchise Lineups and New York Row booklets.
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Officials say three monitoring stations, Anand Vihar, ITO and Delhi College of Engineering in Bawana, which are located in heavy traffic zone, are the reasons why the overall air quality was not "good" in the city.
Delhi, which is infamous for its foul air quality and has been often dubbed as one of the most polluted cities in the world, has not seen a "bad" air day since June 15, a Central Pollution Control Board official said.
According to him, this is because of meteorological conditions like wind speed and rain in the city and the neighbouring states.
"A large part of the pollution in the city is due to the neighbouring states. This constitutes of nearly 30% of the total pollution in the city. The rain and the moisture in the air have negated these external pollutants and the air quality never went to 'bad' level and stayed 'satisfactory' after June 15," Dr Dipankar Saha, additional director and head of the Air Laboratory at the CPCB told the Hindustan Times.
On Thursday, according to the apex pollution body, Delhi's air quality index (AQI) across seven monitoring stations was 95, which is "satisfactory". According to the CPCB barometer, air quality falls in the good range if it is 50 or less. The satisfactory range falls between 50-100.
Similarly, the monitoring done by the Ministry of Earth Science's System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR), Delhi's overall Air Quality Index on Thursday was 77. When AQI is below 100, the air quality is considered good and air pollution poses little or no risk. On Friday, too, the AQI is expected to be 72 and it is likely to remain in the same range for the next few days.
The 24-hour rolling average of PM10 and PM2.5 was recorded at 77 μg/m3 and 45μg/m3, respectively on Thursday, according to SAFAR. PM2.5 and PM10 are ultra-fine particles that are the dominant pollutants in Delhi. The acceptable levels of PM 2.5 and PM10 are 60 and 100 microgram per cubic metre, respectively. On Friday, they are expected to be 72 μg/m3 and 42μg/m3, while after another three days these are predicted to be 68 μg/m3 and 38μg/m3.
According to a MeT official, even though it might not be raining in Delhi all the time, the rain in neighbouring areas is of help. "Because of this, long range transport of pollutants from outside Delhi is minimal and therefore this good air quality," he said.


Even though the number and severity of Mac malware has been growing steadily, and despite Flashback infecting a significant percent of the Mac user population last year, there are still some people who don't "believe" in using antivirus software on their Mac. Usually the reasoning is they're "smart enough to avoid getting infected in the first place," or they think the chances of getting infected are really low, especially given Apple's own internal security tools. No matter what we or anyone else say to those folks about the increasing risk of Mac malware, they've made up their minds and don't want to believe in the necessity of protecting themselves. However, regardless of whether or not you believe malware is a problem on Macs, it's not the only threat you should be concerned about.
The aim of most cybercrime is data theft, and malware is just one tool in the arsenal criminals have at their disposal to get hold of sensitive personal information.
Public WiFi -- When you're on public WiFi, you're sharing a network with complete strangers. There's no telling who those strangers are or whether they include people who would do you harm – especially if you're somewhere very public and crowded, like a hotel or an airport.
Breaches -- When your school, bank, email, social networking site, or other keeper of your personal information gets breached, it may provide the attacker enough ammo to steal your identity, or it could give them sufficient information to target you for further attacks.
Hacking Accounts -- This may be the after-effect of a breach. Now that you're on a hacker's radar, they may send you targeted malware or try to attack your computer directly.
Phishing -- This is another way attackers can get into your account. If they find your email in a breach, if it's published publicly, or if they attack someone who has your contact information, they can send you an email to try to get you to reveal your password.
Targeted Attacks -- If you have something an attacker particularly wants, they may go the extra mile to try to install malware or hack into your accounts or computer, creating tools or attacks that specifically target your vulnerabilities.
In all of these cases, the goal is the same: someone is trying to take advantage of ways that systems are left open and vulnerable in order to sneak in and make off with your data. Apple does provide some protection already, but it's not intended to close all the holes attackers could use to get in.
When it's in transit to or from the network.
On your machine, you need to know what data lives where and then keep it in a central location that you can encrypt. To protect your data in transit, you can use a Virtual Private Network to keep out prying eyes. Make sure sensitive data is encrypted by checking to see the website you're sending to is using HTTPS (rather than simply HTTP) when you look at the URL.
Apple provides a few ways to keep you from getting harmed by malware – namely XProtect, the Application Firewall, and Gatekeeper. Using all of these technologies is good, but it does leave a few holes. XProtect helps detect malware, but there's still a big window between when researchers discover new Mac-related threats and when they're added to XProtect. Malware that is less prevalent never makes it into XProtect, which isn't much help if you're one of those few that are affected.
Gatekeeper can be helpful in preventing new threats, but there are still plenty of ways malware could get around this tool. Having a dedicated anti-virus program will allow you to detect and remove a wide variety of threats a very short while after they're discovered – before they can hit a large number of users.
The Application Firewall will help you filter inbound connections, but not outbound. If malware or hackers manage to get into your machine, it can send your data out to attackers. Having a full-featured firewall can help identify and prevent incoming attacks as well as someone trying to get data out from your machine.
Humans write software and humans make mistakes, so software sometimes has vulnerabilities which need to be corrected. Most software companies update their products from time to time, and popular software is a popular target by criminals, so they frequently update to fix vulnerabilities. Be sure to install those updates as soon as you can to limit your exposure.
While there are a lot of ways out there that cybercriminals can try to get your data, there are also a lot of ways you can protect yourself. You don't necessarily need to have your data locked up tighter than Fort Knox – you just need to have your data locked up well enough that it's not easy pickings. By closing up holes, fortifying your defenses, and protecting your valuables, you can make stealing your data more trouble than it's worth for cybercriminals.
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You will need a minimum of: 5 GCSEs grade A*/9 - C/4 including English and maths; or successful completion of the Level 2 Diploma with merit or above.
Over the two years you will gain an in-depth knowledge about a wide range of ICT areas including networking, programming, web design, and game development. You will be able to analyse complex tasks and develop innovative solutions to their problems. You will develop your independent study skills and learn how to manage projects; skills which will help you to excel in professional environments. You will also gain an industry recognised accreditation from CISCO upon completions of the course.
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On completion of the course you can progress onto degree level courses here at the University Centre Hastings, or start an Apprenticeship in the industry.
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