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Schools rally in support of peers in Parkland
In The City — 30 March 2018
By Patti Roth
CIty & Shore Magazine
In Boca Raton, a fifth-grader started a donation drive for backpacks and school supplies. A 16-year-old performer recruited friends and put on a show that raised about $5,000. And in Davie, about 100 teens from dozens of high schools showed up on a weekend to be trained to register voters.
From sweet notes on painted rocks to well-organized fundraisers and no-nonsense political action, South Florida students are rallying in support of their peers in Parkland.
For some it's beyond a project. It's a mission.
Daniella Ellison, 17, is among throngs of students shifting from regular routines to organize public events, distribute petitions and form partnerships with other students.
"This tragedy unfolded in our own backyards and to our own friends," says Ellison, a junior at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale. "After what had happened, it is impossible for me to sit here and continue on with my life as if nothing happened. I knew immediately that I had to do something to make sure something like this never happens again to anyone's child, sibling, friend or teacher."
When Stoneman Douglas students returned to school after the shooting, they were welcomed with an outpouring of warmth that included upbeat artwork, posters and banners, many with personal, hand-written notes.
Some of the messages apparently were sent via stones. A post on a school's Twitter feed in February said, "Art students throughout BCPS r painting rocks with special messages & pics of support for the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High. They will be placed around the grounds of MSD 4 students to find, and do with as they please…keep them, or put them back 4 others."
About 300 students at The Weiss School in Palm Beach Gardens pitched in with colorful drawings. "The art teacher at [Stoneman Douglas] asked for works to be sent to their school so when the kids came back, the walls would be full of color and positive messages," says Weiss School visual arts teacher David Tripp. "I loved the idea, so all my kids from 3 years old to eighth grade created beautiful butterflies adding notes of encouragement."
In Boca Raton, Tinka Ellington-Hooper and her fifth-grade daughter Sophia organized an effort, in partnership with other Saint Andrew's School families and a Girl Scout troop, to supply new backpacks for some of the Stoneman-Douglas students who left theirs behind the day of the shooting. "On the day Sophia came up with the idea, she even asked me if a 10-year-old fifth-grader could do something useful in this situation and I told her no matter what age you are you can help and do some good," Ellington-Hooper says.
The mom and daughter also ordered a banner, which was signed by third-, fourth- and fifth-graders. The effort sparked other acts of generosity, Ellington-Hooper says, such as that by the owner of Pompano Beach Sign Company, who refused payment for that banner and others banners they made for Stoneman Douglas.
Plenty of South Florida schools initiated fund-raising projects, including selling T-shirts emblazoned with such statements as "We Stand With Douglas." Various shirt designs incorporate the Stoneman Douglas burgundy hue and eagle mascot.
Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton is behind Steps for Stoneman, a 5-kilometer walk, with funds to go toward a new freshman building at Stoneman Douglas or in whatever other way the money is needed, according to an FAU spokeswoman.
Mason Pace, a junior at Saint Andrew's School in Boca Raton, worked with his parents to produce Concert for Douglas, which featured his own alternative rock band along with an assortment of other bands, solo artists and choruses from South Florida. Ticket sales and donations netted about $5,000, which are earmarked for the Stoneman Douglas Victims Fund. Students at various other schools, including Pine Crest School and American Heritage School, also are working on shows in support of Douglas. Jackson Harbour, a musician, producer and musical theater student in 10th grade at American Heritage, volunteered to produce a benefit concert, which is expected to be in May.
Fund-raisers at St. Thomas Aquinas included a car wash for about four hours after school on a Friday.
"Our school has come together like never before," says Grant Sabadash, a junior at St. Thomas. "I think doing everything we can to provide emotional or financial help has now become our duty as students. We see acts as terrible as this on the news and we read about, but now it happened in our own community, to our own peers," he says. "School unity has reached its zenith."
Political action is extremely important for some students. Students are urging lawmakers to enact policies for safer schools, stricter gun laws and improved resources for mental health.
Alexa Hui, a senior and student body president at St. Thomas Aquinas, is embarking on a broad effort to reach elected officials with thousands of postcards, signed by students, teachers and parents. Some students rode a bus to meet with lawmakers in Tallahassee. Others added lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to their political action agendas. Among them is Liam Asayag, 16, from NSU University School in Davie. He is also part of a group that established a new network of student ambassadors from various schools, who are working together on such projects as encouraging eligible students to register to vote.
"We just all need to be heard," Asayag says. "Coming together we have a much larger voice than just one person."
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Shared bicycles represent the wide range of bike-share systems around the world, many of which are currently facing challenges in terms of operation and ridership. Photo courtesy of Melbourne Bike Share.
The Bike-share Report is a new blog series on bike-sharing, exclusive to TheCityFix, from Peter Midgley – the former Urban Mobility Theme Champion for the global Transport Knowledge Partnership (gTKP) with 25 years of experience at The World Bank. The first blog post in this series provided an overview of the swift, global expansion of bicycle-sharing schemes.
Despite experiencing astonishing growth throughout the past decade, recent years have borne witness to a series of challenges in the world of bike-sharing. As evidenced by the closure of 82 bike-sharing systems since 2000 – including 42 in Spain alone – the global bike-sharing industry is in the interesting position of facing both enormous potential for growth and significant obstacles.
So, what's happening? Why have bike-sharing schemes failed in so many cities? How is it possible for an industry to grow so rapidly in some areas yet struggle so profoundly in others? In this installment of "The Bike-share Report," we take a look at the challenges and opportunities in front of the global bike-sharing industry.
While no two bike-sharing systems are exactly alike, there are a number of common challenges that bike-sharing systems face as they seek to gain traction within the array of mobility options in cities. For instance, a recent report on bike-sharing in Spain attributed the difficulties faced by Spanish cities in part to "lack of a critical mass, sufficient bicycles to meet demand, political will at the highest level, a good communications plan, and the development of cycling infrastructure designed to encourage cycling in the city." While Spain's considerable struggles with bike-sharing may be an extreme case, the themes of dwindling political and financial commitment have been echoed by other systems, particularly within Europe.
Beyond systems that have closed, others are simply failing to attract users. For example, data show that Australia's two systems in Brisbane and Melbourne are sorely underused when compared to other systems, with usage rates only 5-10% of the rates of successful bike-sharing systems elsewhere. While some have suggested that compulsory helmet laws in both cities impede usage, one report suggests that the two Australian schemes lack some of the key attributes that contribute to success elsewhere – high density of bikes and stations, pricing access, convenient operating hours, and effective marketing to name a few. Another article cites major accessibility problems – including the sign-up process, helmet availability, and the location of docking stations – as well safety issues and a 10:00pm closing time with curtailing wider use of the systems. As with Spain, these problems are not all unique to Australia and reflect the need for better understanding of global best practices in bike-share planning and operation.
Bike-share system closure by country. EMBARQ and Peter Midgley.
Finally, new maps and visualizations are helping bike-share enthusiasts earn access to information on systems from around the world. Moreover, they are helping to keep bike-sharing in the media spotlight, which in turn attracts new users and builds the beginnings of a bike-sharing culture in major cities. This attention has contributed to an increased awareness and demand worldwide, with a reported 183 cities planning or constructing new bike-sharing systems.
While it is clear that there are plenty of difficulties in structuring efficient, effective, and user-friendly bike-share systems, reports of new planned systems indicate that cities are not shying away from the challenge. For these new systems to be successful, they must develop innovative approaches and draw from the lessons of current systems in order to make bike-sharing a long-term, viable, and sustainable urban mobility solution.
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February 09, 2015 - 18:31 GMT hellomagazine.com Keira Knightley was the epitome of laidback glamour as she rocked a leather jacket on the BAFTAs red carpet.
Keira Knightley is never one to stick to the conventional red carpet look, and at this year's BAFTA ceremony on Sunday night, she didn't disappoint. The 29-year-old showcased her blossoming baby bump in a glamorous Giambattista Valli floral embellished strapless gown for the glitzy event, but chose to toughen up her look by pairing it with a leather jacket.
Keira and her husband James Righton at the 2015 BAFTAs on Sunday night
Keira stepped out on the red carpet with Klaxons singer and rocker husband James Righton, but held her own in the stylish biker jacket as she kept out the winter chill, which saw Reese Witherspoon reveal that she had not anticipated how cold the evening would be.
The happy couple are expecting their first child together, confirming the news in December after Keira was spotted ditching her usually tailored style in favour of loose-fitting clothes.
The British beauty was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Imitation Game opposite Benedict Cumberbatch, however it was Boyhood's Patricia Arquette who took home the prize.
It's not the first time that Keira has chosen to push the envelope with her red carpet outfit choice. The Anna Karenina star previously saw jaws drop as she attended a charity gala, wearing the same dress she wore at her wedding.
Keira recycled her wedding dress for a charity gala
The Teddington-born actress looked as stunning as she did on her big day, donning the strapless, pale pink Rodarte ballerina-style dress, adding a twist with a sheer overlay and cream embroidered beading on the collar and the cuffs.
Keira later revealed that the dress was now covered in wine stains as a result of having been worn so much.
"It's now got red wine spilled down the front because the last time I wore it my friend went like this" – she juts out her elbows – "and now it's everywhere," the actress told the Daily Telegraph in an interview.
"I didn't quite realise the extent of it until I got home. It's quite impressively splattered. But, hey, a good night is a good night and when a dress has had its time, maybe it's had its time."
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Ms Arnold said the networking events were aimed at keeping alumni engaged and informed across the globe.
"Our Alumni Relations team is committed to staying connected with our alumni, so they continue to feel part of the University post-graduation," Ms Arnold said.
"We offer a range of benefits for our alumni and are always seeking to showcase their career achievements and life after university, which often results in giving back to the place where it all started.
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Sadiq says that he is "standing up for South West London, and standing up for our values", but the new London Plan give developers - especially in so-called "opportunity areas" like Kingston free rein to build on a massive scale with NO LIMIT to the density on any site and NO PROMISE of improved transport and social infrastructure and inadequate assessment of the effect of the planned scale of development on the environment
The lack of funding for the plan means that the urgent need for affordable and especially social housing in London will not be met, exposing low income and vulnerable people to greater inequality. These people will suffer most from increased overcrowding and the physical and mental health impacts of what will very much be "bad" growth
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Fusion Academy Greenwich Features One-to-One Schooling with Abundant Water Views
By: greenwichfreepress | March 30, 2016
Fusion Academy has opened its Greenwich location, offering the one-to-one student to teacher model that has proven successful in dozens of other Fusion Academy locations. The new school, with its waterfront location, is located just across the town line, on Dolphin Cove.
Regional Area Manager, Jennifer Walsh-Rurak recently shared a tour of the 13,500 square ft stand alone building, which is Fusion's 31st academy. The school serves students in grades 6-12, and is the organization's first Connecticut location.
"There are water views from all four sides of the building," she said, adding that the campus includes the entire building and its lawns. The students can play Frisbee and football out on the lawn. There are also picnic tables to eat outside.
"It was really nice the other day, and English class was outside," Walsh-Rurak said, adding that there are infinite opportunities to incorporate the surroundings from a therapeutic standpoint, but also potential for science labs and collaborations with organizations that involve Long Island Sound.
After having opened just this past fall, the school enrolls 22 students from Greenwich and nearby towns including New Canaan, Darien, Westport and Stamford. Walsh-Rurak said there are already numerous enrollments for next fall and she expects Fusion Academy Greenwich will be be close to fully enrolled, with 60 students.
At Fusion Academy Greenwich, there are study nooks scattered throughout the spacious corridors and abundant water views. Credit: Leslie Yager
"We moved in in phases, taking over the first floor in November and the entire building in January," said Walsh-Rurak. The school was formerly an office building and has been completely reconfigured.
What makes Fusion Academy unique is its one-to-one model, but other draws are the flexible start time. "All students get to choose when to start the day. Some students like to start early and end early," Walsh-Rurak said. "For others the early morning doesn't work and maybe they'll start at 10:30am and finish in the early evening." Also, as classes are offered year round, students can begin studying at any time during the calendar year.
Fusion Academy Greenwich is located on the water in Dolphin Cove.
Also, all homework is completed on site. Students typically spend three hours of class paired with a single instructor, and three hours of supervised homework time, with students given a choice between a silent homework café and a social homework café. At the end of the day the student heads home or to a sport or activity without homework.
Though most students attend Fusion full-time, though some students use the school for after-school tutoring and mentoring for a couple hours in the afternoon. They engage in skill-building, get homework done, get tutored and take test prep."There are families who want the traditional school model, but want the one-on-one for a difficult class, for example," Walsh-Rurak said.
With a summer on the water at Fusion Academy Greenwich right around the corner Walsh-Rurak said students can take an individual course for credit, or re-take a course for a higher grade. There are also offerings like photography, guitar lessons, recording studio, computer programming, studio art, yoga and one-on-one personal training, which offer an enrichment experience in lieu of the traditional summer camp.
In the recording studio, music teacher Andrew Ostenfeld. Credit: Leslie Yager
"Summer is a great opportunity for remediation," Walsh-Rurak said. "They can catch up on work. There is tutoring and mentoring or they can take a subject for credit and transfer it back to their school." Some courses include journalism, creative writing, poetry, fashion design, interior design, Computer Aided Design. Science classes include marine biology, forensics, astronomy, anatomy & physiology. "I'm seeing people realize how à la carte we are over the summer," she said. "A teacher can very quickly assess a student's need, so they're not repeating material a student has mastered, and spend time in the areas where they need support."
A student works one on one with music teacher Andrew Ostenfeld in the recording studio at Fusion Academy Greenwich. Credit: Leslie Yager
A students completes homework in one of the two homework cafés at Fusion Academy Greenwich. Credit: Leslie Yager
During a break from homework in the social homework café where music may be playing in the background, a student relaxes on one of the massive bean bag chairs in the homework café. Credit: Leslie Yager
Overlooking Dolphin Cover, just across the town line in Stamford, head of school Jennifer Walsh-Rurak shows off rows of tables and chairs on the deck outside the homework cafe. Credit Leslie Yager
Fusion Academy Greenwich is located on the water in Dolphin Cove. Credit: Leslie Yager
Fusion Academy Greenwich recently launched a speaker series. On April 28, a talk, Raising a Child with ADHD: A Candid and Open Discussion will include an optional school tour from 6:00pm to 6:30, with the talk running from 6:30pm to 7:30pm.
The first speaker was Linda Orton, who went over the pros and cons of teens on social media, and the value of creating a LinkedIn profile as early as age 14.
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Makar Sankranti is a Hindu holiday that is extremely important to believers. Devotees across the Indian subcontinent celebrate Makar Sankranti with a magnificent festivity. Continue reading to learn more about the festival.
India is a festival-filled country. Each festival in India has its own distinct relevance, significance, and significance based on people's beliefs. India is noted for its cultural variety, as the country is made up of people of many beliefs. This is why India has so many festivals, and each of these festivals provides an opportunity for everyone to enjoy and celebrate. Makar Sankranti, which is held every year in the frigid month of January, is known as India's first important Hindu holiday. Makar Sankranti, also known as Maghi, is an annual Hindu festival honouring Surya Dev, popularly known as the Sun God.
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Makar Sankranti 2022 Date And Time
According to the Gregorian calendar, the Makar Sankranti celebration occurs on about the same day every year. Makar Sankranti happens on the 14th or 15th of January every year, according to the Gregorian calendar. The dates and times for Makar Sankranti 2022 are listed here.
Makar Sankranti 2022– 14th January 2022 (Friday)
Makar Sankranti Punya Kala Timing– 02:43 PM to 05:45 PM (IST)
In many regions of India, the Makar Sankranti festivities last for two to four days. For example, in Tamil Nadu, Makar Sankranti is a four-day festival. Each day of the festival is celebrated with distinct names and customs. The dates for the four days are given below.
Sankranti Day 1– 13th January 2022 (Thursday)
Sankranti Day 2– 14th January 2022 (Friday)
Makar Sankranti Significance: A Look into It
Makar Sankranti is one of the most pious Hindu festivals. This festival is one of the few Hindu festivals aligned with the solar cycle. As per the Vedas, 'Sankranti' means the 'transmigration of the Sun from one Rashi or constellation of the zodiac sign to another. This is why there are twelve Sankrantis in a year. The festival of Makar Sankranti marks the onset of warmer and longer days and bids farewell to the cold winter months. Prior to the Makar Sankranti, the Sun is in the Southern Hemisphere, which is why winter nights are longer in India, and the days are smaller. However, the Sun begins its journey towards the Northern Hemisphere with this occasion. Due to this phenomenon, the days become longer and the nights smaller. Devotees celebrate this ascent of the Sun into the Northern Hemisphere with splendor and pomp.
Also known as Maghi, Makar Sankranti is a festival devoted to Surya Dev or Lord Sun. In India, the Sun is considered a divine and powerful deity. Therefore, the festival is dedicated to the devotion of Surya Dev. It marks the start of the harvest season. This is why the Makar Sankranti festival is referred to as the harvest festival. The harvest festival brings about a change in the season as the Sun moves from the South or Dakshinayana to Uttarayana or the Northern Hemisphere. This period is known as Uttarayana and is considered to be incredibly auspicious. Dakshinayana symbolizes the night and all things negative, whereas the Uttarayana is regarded as the symbol of day and a sign of positivity.
This particular harvest festival holds religious and seasonal importance for Hindus across India. On the crucial occasion of Makar Sankranti, people worship the Sun God in various forms to express their gratitude. It is believed that any donations or meritorious deeds done during this period can prove to be fruitful and beneficial for you.
What Is The Astrological Relevance of Makar Sankranti?
The festival of Makar Sankranti is symbolic of change in the seasons. Astrologically, it brings a symbolic shift in the planetary houses. Sun marks the transit by moving into Makar Rashi or Capricorn zodiac sign. The Sun moves from Sagittarius to Capricorn during this time of the year. The Sun transits to the twelve zodiac signs every year, and spends one month in each zodiac sign. However, the transit or the Sankranti that happens in January is the most auspicious.
The Indian festivals are based on the Hindu Lunar calendar; however, Makar Sankranti is based on the Solar Calendar. This is why this specific festival is usually celebrated on the same day every year. As mentioned earlier, Makar Sankranti is also the occasion that marks the sacred period of Uttarayana. This period is excellent for attaining 'Mukti' or salvation.
What Are The Rituals Associated with Makar Sankranti?
Let's get to know the Makar Sankranti rituals that add to the festive spirit of this day.
All the rituals or practices observed during Makar Sankranti offer gratitude to the Sun, as the Sun makes life possible on Earth. The Sun God is worshipped for granting excellent harvest and nurturing livestock. Along with this, the cattle, especially the oxen and bulls, are worshiped for playing a significant role in plowing the fields.
On this day, as the Sun begins its journey towards the North, people celebrate it by taking a holy dip in holy rivers such as Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari, and Krishna, and by chanting mantras. This is done to wash off all the past sins and purge you. In Northern India, this practice of taking a dip in the water on this specific day holds enormous relevance. Thousands of people crowd at Hindu pilgrimage sites like Haridwar, Allahabad, Banaras, etc., to take a sacred dip in the holy Ganges.
According to the ancient scriptures, it is suggested that one should wake up a little before sunrise and take a bath on this particular day. This ensures that you will have a promising start to the day. After bathing, you should offer Arghya, i.e., pouring water towards the Sun, as well as chant the Gayatri Mantra. Doing this will prove to be beneficial for you.
Kite-flying is of prime importance on this occasion, especially in Gujarat. On this day, the sky is filled with kites.
On the day of Makar Sankranti, donating Gud or jaggery and Til or sesame seeds is considered very auspicious. Jaggery and sesame seeds are exchanged between people and donated to the needy and poor people on this day. Food delicacies made with jaggery and sesame seeds are believed to keep the body warm and provide oil, which becomes a necessity in the cold months of winter as winter dries up the moisture in the body. This is why food delicacies made of jaggery and sesame seeds are exchanged on this occasion. Sweets made of sesame seeds are believed to have 'satvik' elements. It is commonly believed that people who indulge in charitable activities to help the poor and needy on this day will be bestowed with fortune.
How Is Makar Sankranti Celebrated?
Makar Sankranti is an enormous harvest festival celebrated across the nation. Not only do the Hindus residing in India celebrate this occasion, but also the Hindus around the world celebrate this occasion. This festival has different names in different states. The festival has its own pious traditions, customs, and rituals based on the region where it is celebrated. For instance, this occasion is known as Makar Sankranti and Poush Sankranti in Goa, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka, and Maghi in Northern India, which Lohri precedes. It is known as Pongal in Tamil Nadu, Bhogali Bihu in Assam, and Khichdi in Uttar Pradesh.
Below are a few ways Makar Sankranti is celebrated in some parts of India.
In Uttar Pradesh, Khichdi is celebrated on this day. On this occasion, people take a holy bath in the river Ganga. Sesame and Khichdi are donated to the poor. The popular Magh Mela begins on this day at Prayag, Allahabad.
In Gujarat, this festival is famously known as Uttarayana. It lasts for two days. On this occasion, the grains from the new harvest are used for cooking Khichdo and Undhiyu and are savored by all. Kite-flying is another activity done on this day, and many kite-flying competitions are organized in major cities such as Surat, Vadodara, and Ahmedabad. Elders giving gifts to the younger family members is also a common practice. The day of Uttarayan is dedicated to God, so it is very auspicious.
In West Bengal, this occasion is observed as Poush Sankranti. The famous Ganga Sagar Mela is organized on this occasion. On this day, an enormous number of people take dips in the holy water in the Ganga Sagar at the point where the River Ganga meets the Bay of Bengal. Traditional Bengali sweets containing Patali and Khejurer Gur are the famous delicacies of this festival.
In Tamil Nadu and some other parts of South India, Makar Sankranti is known as Pongal. This incredible occasion marks the worship of the harvest God. The farmers harvest paddy after worshipping Sun God and performing Puja for the Sun God, earth, and sickles. The fresh rice is brought home, and sweets are made up of pulses, rice, milk, and then cooked in ghee, which is then offered to the deity and, after that, everyone. The occasion is celebrated with the hopes that everyone's homes are filled with wealth and prosperity. Undoubtedly, this is one of the biggest festivals in Southern India.
The eve of Makar Sankranti is celebrated as Lohri in Punjab. A huge bonfire is kindled on this occasion, and people perform Puja around the sacred fire by throwing peanuts, popcorn, etc., into it. This is followed by traditional feasts and people celebrating with their near and dear ones.


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There are many areas of the world and periods in the story of the human race to which archaeologists can devote themselves through research and excavation. From Roman coins to Egyptian hieroglyphs, from the Maya pyramids to the megaliths of Stonehenge, there is something to intrigue, obsess and satisfy everyone with imagination, dedication and enthusiasm […]
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The dramatic emergence of the Mary Rose from the bottom of the sea off Portsmouth in 1982 inspired many an archaeologist to enroll in diving lessons (see CA 218). However, maritime archaeologists also study submerged cultural environments and coastal settlements, as well as ships, ports and harbours, to set them within the relevant socio-political context. […]
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LUCENA CITY – Suspected communist rebels burned the heavy equipment of a private road contractor in Quezon province on Wednesday evening, the military said Thursday.
Lt. General Ferdinand Quidilla, commander of the Armed Forces Southern Luzon Command (Solcom), said suspected New People's Army (NPA) rebels burned a dump truck, two cement mixers and one bulldozer in Sitio Centro in Barangay Casay in San Francisco town around 10:30 p.m.
He said the Rapid Foremost Construction Company was building a circumferential road project in the area.
The military alleged that the company refused to pay so-called revolutionary taxes being imposed by the NPA which led to the destruction of the equipment.


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An exciting extra event will be added to the forthcoming That Beats Banagher Festival when renowned Bronte expert and Yorkshire guide Mr. Johnnie Briggs will deliver a talk entitled The Story of the Bronte Family in Crank House at 6 p.m. on Sunday 15th May. This promises to be a colourful and entertaining presentation which will be embellished with extracts from letters, poems and novels written by the famous family. Everybody is welcome to this event which will conclude the festival weekend.
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December 8, 2022 January 20, 2023 davidmvining
#36 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films.
One for Eastwood (Bronco Billy), one for the audience (Firefox). Eastwood really seemed to be in this alternating take on things at this still early bit of his directing career. He was going from little character pieces about men he saw himself as and more action/thriller fare that should be bringing in the audiences to the theaters. Eastwood was better at the personal stuff, if you ask me. Firefox isn't bad. If I had to use a single word to describe it, I'd call it competent. Unlike The Eiger Sanction, which meandered around without point for so long that any sense of the central thrills were long gone by the time the finale started, Eastwood does show some decent command of thriller sequences. Decent command is all, though. There are some interesting bits here and there, but at two hours and fourteen minutes long, this is at least twenty minutes too long to be the kind of gripping thriller it feels like it's supposed to be.
Mitchell Gant (Eastwood) is an air force pilot who was shot down in Vietnam and is now having flashbacks during PTSD episodes about some napalming he witnessed. When information is dug up about the Soviet Union have a new, Mach-5 capable fighter jet called the Firefox, the Air Force sees no one better to take up the mission of sneaking into the Soviet Union and stealing this aircraft from a top secret air base than him. Sure. I'll say this upfront, I think the PTSD angle adds absolutely nothing to the film. It's a somewhat interesting bit of backstory to Gant, but it comes up occasionally to be dismissed without incident. It is possible that it is supposed to tie into the series of questions Gant asks of the Soviet dissidents who help him in the country about their motives, providing a contrast of a cynical man, harmed by his own government and talking like dying for his country is pointless (on a mission he accepts that could very well kill himself). I'm going to assume that it was either an idea of Eastwood's himself to add into the narrative to help make the film speak to him a bit more, or it was one of the underwritten ideas in the script based on stuff from the source novel by Craig Thomas that Eastwood was originally interested in. However, the script by Alex Lasker and Wendell Wellman simply doesn't navigate the ideas with the machinations of the thriller well at all.
Anyway, where this movie is at its best is in Gants' time in Moscow. Through a series of overcomplicated steps about Gants taking the place of a heroin smuggler, he ends up in a subway station as the KGB tightens the noose around him. There's the killing of a KGB officer in a bathroom, and Gant needing to navigate through a KGB checkpoint. It's surprisingly tensely done, and it works. It's not spectacular, but it works.
Gant gets deeper into Russia, throwing off his tail and meeting up with Dr. Baranovich (Nigel Hawthorne), the lead developer on the Firefox project. It's here where we get both a rundown of how the heist is supposed to play out (always helpful in a thriller) as well as Baranovich describing the difference between points of view about his situation. As a citizen of the Soviet Union, subject to terror by the KGB, dying to injure them becomes worthwhile. It's an interesting contrast to what Gant is supposed to be: a selfish man who doesn't want to risk his life, except that he's already weeks into this mission that he volunteered for. There's an interesting idea here, but the thriller mechanics don't gel with it. That's something that could have been addressed in the writing, but no one did. It's weird where it stands.
The events in the hangar are, again, decently competent stuff. The noose around Gant tightens even further as an investigation breaks out led by Colonel Kontarsky (Kenneth Colley), taking bits of information gathered since Gant entered the country to identify him and his goal. All of that gets undermined, though, when Gant, his face hidden in the pressure suit, simply walks into the Firefox and turns it on while every single guard in the place is distracted. I mean…that's just lazy filmmaking right there.
Gant flies away, and there's still about half an hour in the film. As he flew away, I was wondering if I was going to like the film more than I ended up, but the protracted flight away just kind of dragged on. There's a lot of detail about the Soviet response as Kontarsky gets reprimanded by General Vladimirov (Klaus Lowitsch) and the First Secretary (Stefan Schnabel), they discuss a lot about why Gant has to be going south (he goes north), and the putting the secondary Firefox into the air to commit to a chase. The Gant side of things involves a whole lot of Gant talking to himself. It's kind of silly.
The final fight is, again, competent, and little more. It doesn't help that the opposition pilot has no character and is simply an object of the plot. His little salute to Gant late in the fight, when he thinks he's about to win, doesn't really do anything (I recalled the much superior moment in Howard Hawks' The Dawn Patrol).
Eh. It's not good. It's not bad. It's very lukewarm. Eastwood simply didn't bring the urgency to the proceedings, especially the final act, that a thriller really needs. There is an interesting idea percolating around, but it doesn't work in this film. Every performer is good, better than the material needs, giving a certain sense of life to even smaller parts like Freddie Jones as an exposition machine who explains a whole bunch of stuff to everyone throughout the film.
When setting out on this Eastwood adventure, it was Firefox that I was probably most interested in because it felt so completely out of place. Well, considering The Eiger Sanction, it's not as out of place as I assumed. Eastwood has made worse, that's for sure, but he's also made better.
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Mark Andrew Edwards says:
There's a tight, tense 100 minute thriller embedded in Firefox somewhere. My only real problem with it is its leisurely pace. I have the novel and some of the themes and story beats that are not well developed in the movie, come from the book. Despite coming out in 1982, this really is a 70's thriller, with the overly languid pace of that decade.
I appreciate that they didn't shoehorn in a female love interest, that the bad guys are depicted as competent and we do have a strong reason for the protagonist to be volun-told. (He knows Russian well enough to think in Russian). The cast it sell selected and feels 'Russian' enough. (and I really love Freddie Jones. He's one of those RSC vets who never really broke into Hollywood but lived in the smaller English film/tv/stage world. )
As a former AFROTC cadet, the airplane stuff was sweet sweet candy to me. I loved all the nitty gritty details about the jet.
davidmvining says:
Eastwood's default seems to be a leisurely pace. It almost feels like he started making films in the wrong era. Could he have managed with a thriller made in the 40s? Maybe. A technothriller in the early 80s just didn't really seem to gel with who he was as a director at the time.
beckoningchasm says:
I saw this one recently and yes, it struck me as competent but not really all that engaging. I think the flying scenes were supposed to be the big attraction for the viewer. But nothing, not even fashion, dates faster than state-of-the-art.
I actually saw this in the theater when it was originally released. I enjoyed it more then, and was somewhat disappointed that I didn't enjoy the rewatch more. Sometimes a good theatrical experience can make a routine movie far more thrilling than it actually is.
The special effects were fine, but I struggle to find how they'd be mind blowing at the time. Maybe it's the surviving print, but it felt faded, something I assumed was part of the optical printing process, and the compositing wasn't great, not to mention a handful of odd shots that seemed to defy physics in ways that aren't exactly awesome. Maybe it did look better contemporaneously way back when, but 2001 level special effects these are not. I think part of it is that the whole speed in the air thing (as opposed to lumbering ships in space) is hard to do all that convincingly.
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Mars Food Scientists End 4-Month Mock Space Mission In Hawaii
By Mike Wall 2013-08-14T11:04:56Z
A HI-SEAS crew member walks in a spacesuit on EVA's during the 2013 HI-SEAS simulated space mission in Hawaii.
(Image: © Angelo Vermeulen/HI-SEAS)
Six scientists emerged from a space habitat on Hawaii's Big Island Tuesday (Aug. 13), ending a four-month simulated mission designed to study how best to feed astronauts during the long trip to Mars.
The mission, known as Hawaii Space Exploration Analog & Simulation (or HI-SEAS for short), began in mid-April and wrapped up Tuesday morning, when the six explorers stepped onto a lava field about 8,000 feet (2,440 meters) above sea level on the northern slope of Mauna Loa.
"We have landed. #hiseas Mission 1 is officially over," mission commander Angelo Vermeulen (@angelovermeulen) tweeted Tuesday. [See photos of the 2013 HI-SEAS Mock Mars Mission]
During the 118-day mission, Vermeulen and his colleagues ate a variety of instant foods and also cooked for themselves using shelf-stable ingredients. They rated all of their meals and kept detailed records of their moods, body mass and health status.
HI-SEAS — which was led by Cornell University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa and funded by NASA — aimed to learn more about how to keep astronauts healthy and happy during long space journeys, which can be taxing physically, psychologically and emotionally.
While researchers will likely pore over the HI-SEAS crewmembers' journals for a while to come, some conclusions are already apparent to Vermeulen.
Crewmembers of the HI-SEAS mock Mars mission enjoy a fresh meal after emerging from their "space habitat" on Hawaii's Big Island on Aug. 13, 2013. (Image credit: HI-SEAS)
"Ingredients that will be essential for future space missions on Mars or the moon will include spices, herbs and hot sauce," Vermeulen told Astrobiology Magazine's Leslie Mullen during the mission. "But also comfort food such as Nutella, peanut butter and margarine. And then enough ingredients rich in fiber. The problem with shelf-stable ingredients is that they're usually highly processed and hence lacking fiber. We enjoy wheat bread, rye crackers, nuts, and dried fruits, for example."
While food was the main focus of the study, the HI-SEAS crew did more than just cook and eat. For example, they ventured outside the habitat at least once per week to explore the terrain and perform geological and microbe-detection studies (donning spacesuits, of course, in keeping with the Mars mission theme).
HI-SEAS isn't the only food-related study NASA is funding in connection with its Mars ambitions. For example, the space agency recently awarded $125,000 to a researcher seeking to develop a "3D pizza printer," which could synthesize a variety of foods using ingredients with a long shelf life.
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Kyrie Irving says forcing trade from Cleveland Cavaliers was 'best thing I've done'
In an interview with Bleacher Report's Howard Beck, Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving opened up about his decision to force a trade from the Cleveland Cavaliers a year ago.
Author: Ben Axelrod
Last summer, Kyrie Irving demanded to be traded from the Cleveland Cavaliers.
More than a year later, it's clear Irving isn't only happy with his decision -- it's worked out even better than the 5-time All-Star could have ever thought.
"I think it was the best thing I've done, honestly," Irving told Bleacher Report's Howard Beck in a profile that ran on the Boston Celtics star on Wednesday.
Dating back to that July 2017 day when he asked the Cavs for a trade, Irving's disdain for the franchise he spent the first seven seasons of his NBA career has become apparent. Last week, after publicly committing to signing a long-term deal with the Celtics next summer, he thanked Boston in part for "getting me out of Cleveland."
Speaking to Beck, Irving opened up about his trade request and why he believes it looks even better in hindsight. In particular, the 2016 Olympic gold medalist alluded to LeBron James' departure from the Cavs this past summer and the predicament it could have left him in had he remained in Cleveland.
"Like, keep it real," said Irving, whose Celtics are now considered the front-runners in the Eastern Conference following James' decision to take his talents to Hollywood. "If I was still in Cleveland, I would be ... like everything that was foreseen to happen, happened.
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LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida deputy caught stealing from a Home Depot received an hours-long suspension following an internal investigation.
According to a WPEC report, Palm Beach County deputy Daniel Golubovic was arrested for stealing $46.56 worth of items from a Home Depot store in the unincorporated Lake Worth area on April 14, 2022.
The report states a loss prevention employee called 911 just before 6:30 p.m. to report a theft in progress. Golubovic was detained while waiting for deputies to arrive.
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The three responding deputies did not initially know Golubovic worked for the sheriff's office, according to the internal affairs report. A deputy noticed Golubovic listed the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office headquarters address on his driver's license, so she took him aside to ask if he was employed by the agency. He revealed he was a deputy working at the airport
Additional detectives and an internal affairs officer also responded to the store. The loss prevention worker told them Golubovic waited for employees and other customers to leave his line of sight before putting several items in the pockets of his cargo pants.
When the worker confronted Golubovic, the deputy initially denied stealing anything, but the worker told authorities a package was spotted sticking out of his pocket. After reviewing surveillance footage, investigators noted items were visibly protruding from Golubovic's pants.
The following items were found on Golubovic's person, according to the report:
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After a detective read Golubovic his Miranda rights, he reportedly asked them, "Going this far for just a 65?"
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Christopher was born to Cora and Roosevelt Coleman. Due to his parents not staying together long, he was always moving from city to city and state to state because as a child he yearned to be with not just one parent, but both.
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At the age of 17, Chris joined the Army while he was still a junior in high school. At age 20, Christopher's son, Demonta LaCarlos was born. And at age 24, Chris was arrested in Tennessee for capital murder, the same case he is now fighting from death row. Sentenced to death in Houston, Texas on June 6, 1997--the same day one of his close friends was murdered at a club only hours before his sentencing.
Chris arrived on Death Row at the Ellis One Unit on September 10, 1997, and since that day he has diligently strived to save his life. First he tried working with his court appointed and whoever else would help him. Now, almost six years later, Bea and the ALIVE Organization have entered his life, as well as a few dedicated others, such as Nicole Walker (Omaha, NE) who has been writing Chris since 2001. Nicole has helped Christopher in a tremendous way on her own accord and created this website to help draw attention to his case. Also, Micki D. who was moved by a conversation with Christopher's mother and took time out of her busy schedual to look into Christopher's case, and has done so much to try to help save Christopher's life. A lot is owed to those two individuals for their dedication.
The one who has always been by Chris's side through all of his trials and tribulations is his mother, Cora Coleman. She has never waivered in her support. Many mothers of death row inmates get so distraught that they turn their back, but Cora has always maintained her devotion. It has not been easy as she works, takes care of Chris's son, Demonta, as well as looking after her mother who has suffered three strokes and had both legs amputated due to complications of diabetes. So as you can see, Cora is a very strong woman which is where Christopher says his strength derived from.
At the current time, Chris is in his Federal Stage of Appeals and he has a lot of things which support his claims of innocence. Most of these items are posted on this site and will be on his other webesite set up by Bea and the ALIVE group. Chris and his supporters are in the process of raising enough finances to help fund his defense as well as to prepare for a new trial as it is their goal to make sure that all of the injustice which took place in his original trial does not happen again. Some may feel they are jumping ahead with such a lofty goal, but they feel it is best to be not only prepared but positive in their thoughts so that they can stay focused on saving Christopher's life.
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Q: Do Java 8 default methods break source compatibility? It has generally been the case the Java source code has been forward compatible.  Until Java 8, as far as I know, both compiled classes and source have been forward compatible with later JDK/JVM releases.  [Update: this is not correct, see comments re 'enum', etc, below.]  However, with the addition of default methods in Java 8 this appears to no longer be the case.
For example, a library I have been using has an implementation of java.util.List which includes a List<V> sort().  This method returns a copy of the contents of the list sorted. This library, deployed as a jar file dependency, worked fine in a project being built using JDK 1.8.
However, later I had occasion to recompile the library itself using JDK 1.8 and
I found the library no longer compiles: the List-implementing class with its own sort() method now conflicts with the Java 8 java.util.List.sort() default method.  The Java 8 sort() default method sorts the list in place (returns void); my library's sort() method - since it returns a new sorted list - has an incompatible signature.
So my basic question is:

*

*Doesn't JDK 1.8 introduce a forward incompatibility for Java source code due to default methods?

Also:

*

*Is this the first such forward incompatible change?

*Was this considered or discussed when default methods where designed and implemented?  Is it documented anywhere?

*Was the (admittedly small) inconvenience discounted versus the benefits?

The following is an example of some code that compiles and runs under 1.7 and
runs under 1.8 - but does not compile under 1.8:
import java.util.*;

public final class Sort8 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SortableList<String> l = new SortableList<String>(Arrays.asList(args));
        System.out.println("unsorted: "+l);
        SortableList<String> s = l.sort(Collections.reverseOrder());
        System.out.println("sorted  : "+s);
    }

    public static class SortableList<V> extends ArrayList<V> {

        public SortableList() { super(); }
        public SortableList(Collection<? extends V> col) { super(col); }

        public SortableList<V> sort(Comparator<? super V> cmp) {
            SortableList<V> l = new SortableList<V>();
            l.addAll(this);
            Collections.sort(l, cmp);
            return l;
        }

    }

}

The following shows this code being compiled (or failing to) and being run.
> c:\tools\jdk1.7.0_10\bin\javac Sort8.java

> c:\tools\jdk1.7.0_10\bin\java Sort8 this is a test
unsorted: [this, is, a, test]
sorted  : [this, test, is, a]

> c:\tools\jdk1.8.0_05\bin\java Sort8 this is a test
unsorted: [this, is, a, test]
sorted  : [this, test, is, a]

> del Sort8*.class

> c:\tools\jdk1.8.0_05\bin\javac Sort8.java
Sort8.java:46: error: sort(Comparator<? super V>) in SortableList cannot implement sort(Comparator<? super E>) in List
                public SortableList<V> sort(Comparator<? super V> cmp) {
                                       ^
  return type SortableList<V> is not compatible with void
  where V,E are type-variables:
    V extends Object declared in class SortableList
    E extends Object declared in interface List
1 error

A: Doesn't JDK 1.8 introduce a forward incompatibility for Java source code due to default methods?
Any new method in a superclass or interface can break compatibility. Default methods make it less likely that a change in an interface will break compatibility. In the sense that default methods open the door to adding methods to interfaces, you could say that default methods may contribute to some broken compatibility.
Is this the first such forward incompatible change?
Almost certainly not, since we've been subclassing classes from the standard library since Java 1.0.
Was this considered or discussed when default methods were designed and implemented? Is it documented anywhere?
Yes, it was considered. See Brian Goetz's August 2010 paper "Interface evolution via "public defender" methods":

*Source compatibility

  It is possible that this scheme could introduce source incompatibilities to the extent that library interfaces are modified to insert new methods that are incompatible with methods in existing classes. (For example, if a class has a float-valued xyz() method and implements Collection, and we add an int-valued xyz() method to Collection, the existing class will no longer compile.)

Was the (admittedly small) inconvenience discounted versus the benefits?
Before, changing an interface would definitely break compatibility. Now, it might. Going from 'definitely' to 'might' can be seen either positively or negatively. On the one hand, it makes it feasible to add methods to interfaces. On the other hand, it opens the door to the kind of incompatibility you saw, not just with classes, but with interfaces too.
The benefits are larger than the inconveniences, though, as cited at the top of Goetz's paper:

*

*Problem statement

  Once published, it is impossible to add methods to an interface without breaking existing implementations. The longer the time since a library has been published, the more likely it is that this restriction will cause grief for its maintainers.
The addition of closures to the Java language in JDK 7 place additional stress on the aging Collection interfaces; one of the most significant benefits of closures is that it enables the development of more powerful libraries. It would be disappointing to add a language feature that enables better libraries while at the same time not extending the core libraries to take advantage of that feature.

A: We can draw a parallel with abstract class. An abstract class is intended to be subclassed so that the abstract methods can be implemented. The abstract class itself contains concrete methods that invoke the abstract methods. The abstract class is free to evolve by adding more concrete methods; and this practice may break subclasses.
Therefore the exact problem you described existed even before Java8. The problem is much more manifested on Collection APIs because there are a lot of subclasses out in the wild.
While the leading motivation of default method was to add some useful methods to existing Collection APIs without breaking subclasses, they had to exercise great self-control of doing it too much, for fear of breaking subclasses. A default method is added only if it's absolutely necessary. The real question here is, why List.sort is considered absolutely necessary. I think that is debatable.
Regardless of why default method was introduced in the 1st place, it is now a great tool for API designers, and we ought to treat it the same as concrete methods in abstract classes - they need to be designed carefully up front; and new ones must be introduced with great caution.

A: Ironically default methods in interfaces were introduced to allow existing libraries using those interfaces not to break, while introducing massive new functionality in the interfaces. (backward compatibility.)
Conflicts like that sort method might arise. Something to pay for the extra functionality. In your case also something to investigate (should new functionality be used instead?).
Java forward compatibility breaks are little, more in its typing system, which was constantly enlarged. First with generic types and now with inferred types from functional interfaces. From version to version and from compiler to compiler there were slight differences.

A:
Doesn't JDK 1.8 introduce a forward incompatibility for Java source code due to default methods?

Yes as you've seen your self.

Is this the first such forward incompatible change?

No.  Java 5 enumkeyword was also breaking because before that you could have variables named that which would no longer compile in Java 5 +

Was this considered or discussed when default methods where designed and implemented? Is it documented anywhere?

Yes Orcale Java 8 source incompatibility description

Was the (admittedly small) inconvenience discounted versus the benefits?

Yes

A: Reading this issue, I was thinking of its solution.
Default methods have solved the backward compatibility problems but forward compatibility issues will exist.
I think instead of extending existing classes, in such cases, we can have our application specific interfaces to add some desired behaviour to our class. We can implement this application specific interface and use it.

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