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Community Spotlight, Features
Third Annual Wheaton Arts Parade and Festival Set for Sunday
Celebration Features Fabulous Floats, Family Fun, Art, Music, Poetry, Food and Deep Community Connections
Sep 19, 2019/
Chris Slattery/
The Wheaton community is Adam-ant about art.
Courtesy of Wheaton Arts Parade and Festival
There are three designated arts and entertainment districts in Montgomery County, and one of them is Wheaton. Which is why Jim Epstein is standing in a dedicated art gallery on the second floor of the Westfield Wheaton mall, where the work of local artists hangs on the walls and display panels, and a stack of neon-bright posters sits on the counter, emblazoned with the details of a very important upcoming event.
"This is the third annual Wheaton Arts Parade and Festival," said Epstein, one of two Wheaton artists who co-founded the celebration of imagination and community. "All the artists that exhibit in the gallery are required to participate in the parade and festival. Some are exhibiting in tents, some are also parading, some are dressing up as their favorite artists, or favorite paintings, doing a tableau vivant — all sorts of fun stuff!"
"We would not be here were it not for Westfield," said Dan Thompson, the event's co-founder, who lives in Wheaton and served on the Wheaton Urban Development Advisory Committee (WUDAC), upon which Epstein currently sits. "There's a convergence going on here: citizens, culture and commerce. We care about our community, and art makes it a better place."
So the gallery — an artistic co-op where 25 artists can show and sell their work, provided they take turns keeping shop and participate in the Wheaton Arts Parade and Festival — has been donated by Westfield, which also provides a space where the community can create and store a key component of any parade: floats. They live in a massive studio on the other side of the food court: Vincent Van Gogh in a field of sunflowers, a bedazzled Albert Einstein, a Pegasus-unicorn, the "Wheaton Walrus," made completely of recycled materials — even a tableau of one of Michelangelo's most famous creations that depicts Adam taking a cellphone selfie, named "The Narcissis-tine Chapel."
A bedazzled Albert Einstein on display at Westfield Wheaton mall. Courtesy of Wheaton Arts Parade and Festival
That last one — okay, many of the floats — sprang from the mind of Thompson, although the duo has enlisted the help of students, teachers and community members (as well as fellow artists) to create the bright and beautiful floats that will sail down Georgia Avenue on Sunday.
"I'm an actor and a producer, and an event coordinator and performer," said Epstein. "Dan is an ex-actor and ex-government employee — and creates incredible floats."
One of those incredible floats, however, is the work of Sofia Hart. The artist, teacher and stay-at-home mom was walking from Metro to the parking lot when she first crossed paths with the Wheaton Arts Parade and Festival. "I loved that it was happening — it felt so local, so grassroots," said Hart. "I didn't see the parade that year, but I saw the art. I had a booth in 2018, and then this year, I was ready."
She wrote a grant application and got some money; had "a vision" and got Wheaton Area Moms (the nurturing support group for parents to which she belongs) on board, and collaborated with friends and fellow artists to create a float featuring a mother and child as well as flora and fauna from the Cerrado, the tropical savannah in her native Brazil. "I never in my life thought I'd move to Maryland, but I love it here," said Hart. "I love living in Wheaton!"
That's the kind of enthusiasm the Wheaton Arts Parade and Festival organizers want to spotlight. Thompson said the idea for the event came to him when he visited Cleveland, Ohio four years ago.
"They had 'Parade the Circle,'" he recalled. "And I thought, we can parade the triangle, because Wheaton is a triangle. University Boulevard., Georgia Avenue, Veirs Mill Road — Wheaton is defined by that intersection, and so it was a metaphor and a reality. Here in the most diverse community in Montgomery County, we all have a common interest: to make our lives better and to make our community better."
Attendees at the Inaugural Wheaton Arts Parade in 2017. Courtesy of Wheaton Arts Parade and Festival
The answer, Epstein and Thompson insist, is art. "On this day, anyone can be an artist," said Thompson, noting that art, the common denominator that brings families, neighborhoods, businesses, artists and performers to the parade, is a jumping-off point for a day filled with family friendly fun. "Everything opens at 10," noted Epstein, "but you're going to want to see the parade. Anywhere on Price or Georgia [avenues]; there are performance stops along the parade route, and of course, a reviewing stand."
In addition to the parade itself, there will be 70 tents with exhibits by artists and community organizations, and three performance spaces for a variety of musical, dance and spoken word artists. Look for hip-hop/go-go phenom Christylez Bacon, singer-songwriter Chris Urquiaga, the steel drum sounds of Josanne Francis Trio, dancers from the Wheaton High School Pom Squad, the Northwood High School Drumline and Dance Team, the Culkin School of Irish Dance and the Wheaton Studio of Dance, plus storytellers, poets and performers from a variety of nations and cultures. There's even a food court, for folks who want to make a day of it.
A year's worth of work organizing, planning, creating and executing means the Wheaton Arts Parade and Festival "is sort of like Mardi Gras," according to Thompson. "We start our year right after the parade is over."
Until that moment, though, the focus is on this year's celebration: a day dedicated to Wheaton, its community, and the artists who call it home.
The Wheaton Arts Parade and Festival will take place on Sunday, Sept. 22, rain or shine. The parade starts at 10 a.m., marching up the northbound lanes of Georgia Avenue from the intersection at Veirs Mill Road, making right turns onto Price Avenue and Fern Street to the festival, which goes from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Wheaton Veterans Urban Park, 11200 Amherst Ave., Wheaton. Admission is free. Visit www.wheatonartsparade.org.
Linda Govantes September 20, 2019
Didn't even know about this. I'm there!! See you Sunday!!!
Leenan Hayden Manzari September 24, 2019
I am a painter and quite naive. Was not aware of this as well. Want to find out more about the Westfield artists gallery co-op and if there is any space for me there. It's a bummer that I have family issues to attend to. But there is next time. I grew up in the DC/MD area – went to Wheaton HS.& U of MD. Now I am 70, have MS and a lovely bright red wheelchair. Picked up my art jut recently
I am a painter and quite naive. Was not aware of this as well. Want to find out more about the Westfield artists gallery co-op and if there is any space for me there. It's a bummer that I have family issues to attend to. But there is next time. I grew up in the DC/MD area – went to Wheaton HS.& U of MD. Now I am 70, have MS and a lovely bright red wheelchair. Picked up my art jut recently and can't stop. who do I contact? It is very exciting. i need my own art space and to belong. Bless y'all.


Grapefruit is available year round, thanks to staggered growing seasons among the handful of states that produce it: California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida. Peak season is October through March. I've always thought that the pink and red varieties were sweeter than the pale-fleshed ones, but apparently it isn't true. Ripeness is one of the factors that effect the sweetness. I still prefer the red varieties because of their striking color.
Chock-full of vitamin C, fiber, and among the red varieties, lycopene, an antioxidant also found in tomatoes, grapefruit is one healthy food. I wouldn't recommend the fad grapefruit diet, but incorporating grapefruit as part of your fruit intake is a wise, and flavorful decision.
My favorite grapefruit (forgive me, Arizona), is the Texas Rio Star, which is the most red-fleshed variety available. It is so red, even the normally white pith is tinged pink. Juicy and sweet, this grapefruit beauty perks up all kinds of dishes, from sauces, to vinaigrettes, to desserts. Here is a recipe for a vinaigrette, using the potent zest and freshly squeezed juice of the versatile grapefruit.
I love to toss this vinaigrette with baby greens and top it with grilled shrimp. (You could marinate the shrimp in the vinaigrette for 15 minutes before grilling). Garnish the salad with grapefruit sections and a ripe, sliced avocado. A little goat cheese wouldn't hurt, either.
Place the vinegar through white pepper in a blender and blend until smooth.
With the motor running, slowly drizzle in the olive oil until smooth. Set aside.
First zest grapefruit, then peel and section. Save the sections to garnish the salad, and squeeze the juice needed for the recipe from the pulp after removing the sections.


Indigenous artists Megan Cope (Melbourne) and Eunice Yunurupa Porter (Warakurna, Goldfields-Esperance region) have taken out top honours at the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards.
Megan won the overall prize of $50,000 for her video titled, The Blaktism. Eunice will receive $10,000 for her body of work including Mission times truck as the winner of the WA Artist Award.
Culture and the Arts Minister John Day congratulated Megan and Eunice and all the artists who participated in the program.
"The awards and exhibition recognise and celebrate the significance of indigenous art and what it brings to our culture," Mr Day said.
"This year 118 nominations were received with 14 finalists ultimately chosen to participate. This is testament to both the ongoing commitment made by indigenous artists to their practices and to the strength and vitality of indigenous art in Australia.
"In their own right, each work tells a very unique and powerful story. Together, the finalists create a very insightful, vibrant and original exhibition and I encourage everyone to take the time to visit the Art Gallery of WA to see it."
Feedback from the panel of national judges claimed Megan's work was sophisticated and complex, and highlighted social and political themes in a pop culture narrative. Likewise, the judges thought Eunice's work was a unique and contemporary way of documenting her community's history.
The Minister said the Western Australian award was hotly contested this year with six of the 14 finalists from the State - representing some of the most revered local artists practising today.
A $5,000 People's Choice Award will also be awarded to the most popular artist, as voted by exhibition visitors.


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package main

import (
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"os/exec"
	"path/filepath"
	"regexp"
	"sort"
	"strconv"
	"strings"
	"sync"

	"github.com/fatih/color"
	fastly "github.com/sethvargo/go-fastly"
)

// Version is the application version
const Version = "1.0.1"

// Fastly API doesn't return sorted data
type version struct {
	Number  int
	Version *fastly.Version
}

type wrappedVersions []version

// Satisfy the Sort interface
func (v wrappedVersions) Len() int      { return len(v) }
func (v wrappedVersions) Swap(i, j int) { v[i], v[j] = v[j], v[i] }
func (v wrappedVersions) Less(i, j int) bool {
	return v[i].Number < v[j].Number
}

type vclResponse struct {
	Path    string
	Name    string
	Content string
}

// Globals needed for sharing between functions
var fastlyServiceID string
var latestVersion string
var selectedVersion string

// List of VCL files to process
var vclFiles []string

// Regex used to define user specific filtering
var dirSkipRegex *regexp.Regexp
var dirMatchRegex *regexp.Regexp

// WaitGroup and Channel for storing responses from API
var wg sync.WaitGroup
var ch chan vclResponse

func main() {
	help := flag.Bool("help", false, "show available flags")
	appVersion := flag.Bool("version", false, "show application version")
	debug := flag.Bool("debug", false, "show the error/diff output")
	serviceVersion := flag.String("vcl-version", "", "specify Fastly service 'version' to verify against")
	service := flag.String("service", os.Getenv("FASTLY_SERVICE_ID"), "your service id (fallback: FASTLY_SERVICE_ID)")
	token := flag.String("token", os.Getenv("FASTLY_API_TOKEN"), "your fastly api token (fallback: FASTLY_API_TOKEN)")
	dir := flag.String("dir", os.Getenv("VCL_DIRECTORY"), "vcl directory to compare files against")
	skip := flag.String("skip", "^____", "regex for skipping vcl directories (will also try: VCL_SKIP_DIRECTORY)")
	match := flag.String("match", "", "regex for matching vcl directories (will also try: VCL_MATCH_DIRECTORY)")
	flag.Parse()

	if *help == true {
		flag.PrintDefaults()
		os.Exit(1)
	}

	if *appVersion == true {
		fmt.Println(Version)
		os.Exit(1)
	}

	envSkipDir := os.Getenv("VCL_SKIP_DIRECTORY")
	envMatchDir := os.Getenv("VCL_MATCH_DIRECTORY")

	if envSkipDir != "" {
		*skip = envSkipDir
	}

	if envMatchDir != "" {
		*match = envMatchDir
	}

	dirSkipRegex, _ = regexp.Compile(*skip)
	dirMatchRegex, _ = regexp.Compile(*match)

	client, err := fastly.NewClient(*token)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		os.Exit(1)
	}

	fastlyServiceID = *service

	listVersions, err := client.ListVersions(&fastly.ListVersionsInput{
		Service: fastlyServiceID,
	})
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		os.Exit(1)
	}

	wv := wrappedVersions{}
	for _, v := range listVersions {
		i, err := strconv.Atoi(v.Number)
		if err != nil {
			fmt.Println(err)
			os.Exit(1)
		}
		wv = append(wv, version{i, v})
	}
	sort.Sort(wv)

	latestVersion = strconv.Itoa(wv[len(wv)-1].Number)

	if *serviceVersion != "" {
		selectedVersion = *serviceVersion
	} else {
		selectedVersion = latestVersion
	}

	walkError := filepath.Walk(*dir, aggregate)
	if walkError != nil {
		fmt.Printf("filepath.Walk() returned an error: %v\n", walkError)
	}

	ch = make(chan vclResponse, len(vclFiles))
	for _, vclPath := range vclFiles {
		wg.Add(1)
		go getVCL(vclPath, client)
	}
	wg.Wait()
	close(ch)

	for vclFile := range ch {
		processDiff(vclFile, *debug)
	}
}

func aggregate(path string, f os.FileInfo, err error) error {
	if validPathDefaults(path) && validPathUserDefined(path) && !invalidPathUserDefined(path) {
		vclFiles = append(vclFiles, path)
	}

	return nil
}

func validPathDefaults(path string) bool {
	return !strings.Contains(path, ".git") && strings.Contains(path, ".vcl")
}

func validPathUserDefined(path string) bool {
	return dirMatchRegex.MatchString(path)
}

func invalidPathUserDefined(path string) bool {
	return dirSkipRegex.MatchString(path)
}

func getVCL(path string, client *fastly.Client) {
	defer wg.Done()

	name := extractName(path)

	vclFile, err := client.GetVCL(&fastly.GetVCLInput{
		Service: fastlyServiceID,
		Version: selectedVersion,
		Name:    name,
	})

	if err != nil {
		ch <- vclResponse{
			Path:    path,
			Name:    name,
			Content: fmt.Sprintf("error: %s", err),
		}
	} else {
		ch <- vclResponse{
			Path:    path,
			Name:    name,
			Content: vclFile.Content,
		}
	}
}

func extractName(path string) string {
	_, file := filepath.Split(path)
	return strings.Split(file, ".")[0]
}

func processDiff(vr vclResponse, debug bool) {
	var (
		err    error
		cmdOut []byte
	)
	cmdName := "diff"
	cmdArgs := []string{
		"--ignore-all-space",
		"--ignore-blank-lines",
		"--ignore-matching-lines",
		"^[[:space:]]\\+#",
		"-", // first file comes from stdin
		vr.Path,
	}
	cmd := exec.Command(cmdName, cmdArgs...)
	cmd.Stdin = strings.NewReader(vr.Content)

	if cmdOut, err = cmd.Output(); err != nil {
		color.Red("\nThere was a difference between the version (%s) of '%s' and the version found locally\n\t%s\n", selectedVersion, vr.Name, vr.Path)

		if debug == true {
			fmt.Printf("\n%s\n", string(cmdOut))
		}
	} else {
		color.Green("\nNo difference between the version (%s) of '%s' and the version found locally\n\t%s\n", selectedVersion, vr.Name, vr.Path)
	}
}

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Home / News / New Media / Night Argent Announces 'The Fear' EP With Release of New Track "Dreamcatcher"
Night Argent Announces 'The Fear' EP With Release of New Track "Dreamcatcher"
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Washington alternative pop rock outfit Night Argent announced the release of their highly anticipated sophomore EP, The Fear, set for July 14, 2017 with Outerloop Records. The Fear EP was written and produced by Night Argent (Rainmaker Studios), co-written and produced in part by John Feldmann (Neon Trees, Biffy Clyro, 5 Seconds of Summer) and Steven Solomon, and mixed/mastered by Brook Floyd (Rainmaker Studios). The dynamic sophomore release contains 6 infectious tracks that showcase the band's diverse, powerful, and anthemic sound which will appeal to fans of arena-friendly alternative rock.With this announcement, the band partnered with Paste Magazine to unveil the the EP's lead single, "Dreamcatcher," which was co-written by Night Argent and John Feldmann. On the track and the forthcoming EP, front-man Chase Manhattan states:
"'Dreamcatcher' was the first song we knew without a doubt would be on this record. The message behind the song set the tone for everything we recorded from that point on. It definitely echoes the intensity and energy we felt in the studio while working with Feldy and his team. This record is our war cry. It's a call to the battered, the broken, and the tired, to rise up and set fire to the fear.." – Chase Manhattan
NIGHT ARGENT is an alternative rock band hailing from Washington State. Their music combines infectious melodies with the high-energy live performance of an anthemic rock powerhouse. Praised for their energetic songwriting, pop-driven lyrics and multi-layered rock instrumentation, Night Argent have been making waves since the debut of their self-titled EP, released in Spring 2016. Comprised of four talented multi-instrumentalists, Chase Manhattan (lead vocals, guitar), Shane Santanna (keys, guitar, drums), Evan Taylor (bass), and Zac Burrell (drums), Night Argent pulls from a variety of genres to create a dynamic, breakthrough sound.
In 2015 Night Argent won the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands landing them a stint on the Vans Warped Tour and a writing/recording deal with John Feldmann (Blink 182, Panic! At The Disco, 5 Seconds of Summer). The band shortly after penned a management deal with Outerloop Management and released their debut self-titled EP in April 2016, which premiered in partnership with FUSE. This dynamic do-it-yourself band has focused the majority of their time in their hometown studio and performance venue on Argent Road (The Scarlet Room at Rainmaker Studios) creating music that not only bridges the gap between artist and fan, but provides them the musical freedom on stage to give audiences an experience they'll never forget. Off the stage, Night Argent is best known for their brilliant creativity, as shown in their cinematic self-produced music videos for tracks such as "Nothing More Beautiful," "Widowmaker," and their take on a holiday classic, "Cold (Carol of the Bells)." Night Argent has played at festivals such as Warped Tour (2015, 2016), SXSW (2015, 2016) and Gentlemen of the Road (2016), and shared the stage with bands such as Imagine Dragons, Andy Grammar, X Ambassadors, and more.
Listen to "Dreamcatcher," the first track release off Night Argent's sophomore EP, The Fear, here. The Fear will be released via Outerloop Records on July 14, 2017. Pre-orders and merch packages are available here. Follow Night Argent online for news, music, and more.
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The beautiful watercolour collage of Sylvie. Sylvie makes a statement with her pink and turquoise detailing. Printed on matte 300gsm cardstock, the collage detailing is evident when you see her in person.
Sylvie is available in sizes A5-A3. If you would like a size A2 it's a special order- so please contact Kylie directly to discuss costs and postage times.


The DMM Sentinel HMS Screwgate karabiner is a lightweight yet rope friendly biner designed for belaying or as a secure part of a rigging system.
Have you found the DMM Sentinel HMS Screwgate Carabiner Cheaper?
A lightweight mini HMS biner thats rope friendly and designed for belaying or as a secure part of a rigging system. With I-beam technology, the DMM Sentinel combines strength and lightness to offer an easy to handle biner that has an excellent rope bearing radius. All in all the complete compact belay biner for those who are serious about the weight of their rack.
The mini HMS (pear shaped) biner lends itself to all sorts of climbing applications and it a really versatile addition to any rack. You can fit a couple of clove hitches on it; plus it has a slightly offset shape that increases strength by directing force into the spine of the biner.
Mini HMS shape ideal for belaying.
Bottom end fits harness loops snugly.
What do you think of DMM Sentinel HMS Screwgate Carabiner?
Incredibly light, fantastic quality and very functional. Great value for money too.


Conservative investing is an investing strategy that seeks to preserve an investment portfolio's value by investing in lower risk securities such as fixed-income and money market securities, and often blue-chip or large-cap equities.
Conservative investors have risk tolerances ranging from low to moderate. Those who have a low risk tolerance are often less comfortable with the stock market and might wish to avoid it entirely. However, although a conservative investing strategy may protect against inflation, it will not earn significant value over time.
Preservation of capital and current income are popular conservative investing strategies. Preservation of capital centers on maintaining current capital levels and preventing any portfolio losses. A capital preservation strategy incorporates safe, short-term instruments, such as Treasury bills and certificates of deposit. A capital preservation strategy could be appropriate for an older investor, looking to maximize her current financial assets without significant risks. Losses sustained could put her retirement at risk.
Current income strategies work to identify investments that pay above average distributions, such as dividends and interest. Current income strategies, while relatively steady overall, can be included in a range of allocation decisions across the spectrum of risk. Strategies focused on income could be appropriate for an investor interested in established entities that pay consistently (i.e. without risk of default or missing a dividend payment deadline), such as large-cap or blue-chip equities.
Coca-Cola, Disney, PepsiCo, Wal-Mart, General Electric, IBM, and McDonald's are examples of blue chip companies. They are multinational firms that have been in operation for a number of years. They dominate their respective industries and have built highly reputable brands over the years, surviving multiple economic downturns.
A current income strategy can be appropriate for older investors with a lower risk tolerance, looking for a way to continue to earn a steady flow of money post-retirement and without their usual salary.
Both of these strategies sit below more aggressive strategies, such as a growth portfolio. For example, a capital growth strategy seeks to maximize capital appreciation or the increase in a portfolio's value over the long term. Such a portfolio could invest in high risk small-cap stocks, such as new technology companies, junk or below investment grade bonds, international equities in emerging markets, and derivatives.
In general, a capital growth portfolio will contain approximately 65-70% equities, 20-25% fixed-income securities and the remainder in cash or money market securities. Although growth-oriented strategies seek high returns by definition, the mixture still somewhat protects the investor against severe losses.
The dividend irrelevance theory states that investors are not concerned with a company's dividend policy.
Cash plus funds, commonly found in Australia, are formulated for conservative investors seeking preservation of capital and reasonable returns.
The Nifty 50 was a group of 50 stocks that were most favored by institutional investors in the 1960s and 1970s.


In Orange, a switch statement is like an if statement that allows for executing code based on certain patterns.
If a pattern is a binding, the pattern defines a variable name that will be equal to the value of the expression.
Patterns can be combined by using || like a logical OR.
Guards are an if statement that executes before the rest of pattern is checked, and affects whether or not the pattern matches.


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Ken Ward reviews 'Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the struggle to remake Indonesia' by Ben Bland
Ben Bland, a Financial Times correspondent in Indonesia in 2012–15 and currently director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute, had a ringside seat to watch the rise of Indonesia's President Joko Widodo (also known as Jokowi). By his own account, Bland has met him more than a dozen times. Jokowi was a furniture-maker and -exporter, mayor of Solo, and governor of Jakarta before being elected president in 2014. Bland has written a good introduction to the Jokowi era that will appeal to the general reader but may leave the serious student of Indonesia unsatisfied.


A Neil Avenue construction project that has faced two construction delays is set to be completed by Jan. 21.
A Neil Avenue construction project that has faced two construction delays and a roughly 22 percent budget increase is set to largely be completed after this weekend.
The construction was supposed to be completed by the end of 2013, which was delayed from its initial estimated completion date of September, but weather conditions in December and early January caused construction delays. The addition of a waterline under Neil Avenue is the only remaining "significant work" on the project, which is set to be finished over the weekend, said Ohio State spokeswoman for Administration and Planning Lindsay Komlanc in an email.
The project was initially delayed because additional maintenance issues were encountered after construction began on the Neil Avenue stretch of the tunnel replacement project because of the project being underground. The additional work discovered included undiscovered maintenance issues with tunnels such as problems with the tunnel floor that required a redesign of the condensate line alignment, natural gas line alignment changes and a need to relocate the water main to McCracken Power Plant.
The project budget has remained at $4.5 million despite the additional delay, Komlanc said. The budget increased to $4.5 million from $3.7 million after the additional maintenance issues were discovered.
The unfinished construction site is part of a larger project that began in summer 2012 that includes work such as repairing the deteriorated tops of tunnels, removing abandoned utilities and enhancing the structural integrity of the tunnels, which house the heating system steam and hot water pipes between the McCracken Power Plant and various campus buildings.
This is the last stop on that particular plan, but Komlanc said OSU might begin repairs as a separate project on other tunnels around campus in the spring.
Final touches might not be completed until spring, Komlanc said, as the project still requires planting grass. She said, however, once workers start planting grass, chain-link fences will disappear to make room for orange fences or posts with rope, which she added should reduce the impact of the project on pedestrians.
Some students said getting to classes can be inconvenient around the construction.
"A lot of times (the fences) are (inconvenient). Nowadays they're not as bad, but when they were close to Dreese (Laboratory), I had to go through Baker (Systems Engineering) to get to math," said Michelle Endsley, a second-year in electrical engineering.
"It's kind of hard trying to get to other classes when you have to cross the street to get to where you want to go," said Chelseay Thomas, a third-year in zoology.


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GOVERNMENT CODE
TITLE 3. LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
SUBTITLE C.  LEGISLATIVE AGENCIES AND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEES
CHAPTER 326. COOPERATION BETWEEN LEGISLATIVE AGENCIES
Sec. 326.001.  DEFINITION.  In this chapter, "legislative agency" means:
(1)  the senate;
(2)  the house of representatives;
(3)  a committee, division, department, or office of the senate or house;
(4)  the Texas Legislative Council;
(5)  the Legislative Budget Board;
(6)  the Legislative Reference Library;
(7)  the office of the State Auditor;  or
(8)  any other agency in the legislative branch of state government.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 479, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.  Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 167, Sec. 2.15(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Sec. 326.002.  PROVISION OF SERVICES.  (a)  A legislative agency may provide administrative, professional, clerical, data processing, and other services to another legislative agency with or without reimbursement and may transfer equipment, supplies, and materials to the other legislative agency with or without reimbursement.
(b)  Reimbursement, if any, must be made under a written contract executed by an officer who is authorized to execute contracts for each agency.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 479, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.  Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 167, Sec. 2.15(b), eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Sec. 326.003.  COMMITTEE OF STATE AUDITOR'S OFFICE, LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD, AND SUNSET ADVISORY COMMISSION.  (a)  The State Auditor's Office, Legislative Budget Board, and Sunset Advisory Commission shall form a committee to make recommendations relating to the coordination of the agencies' functions.
(b)  The committee shall meet on a regular basis at least quarterly.  The State Auditor shall call each meeting.
(c)  Each agency shall designate a supervisory level staff member as its representative on the committee.
(d)  Not later than one month after the date of a meeting, the committee shall submit its recommendations in writing to the head of each agency and the members of the legislative audit committee.
Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 167, Sec. 2.16(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1987.  Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 785, Sec. 8, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.


The Tantrum Studio is located at 101 City Road Merewether NSW 2291.
Access to the venue is via Allworth Street, Merewether (there is no stopping or parking on City Road).
The venue is a large 132m2 hall space with a floating wooden floor ideal for rehearsals and workshops, dance/exercise classes, community groups, training and meetings.
Sound, lighting and audio-visual equipment is also available to hire from Tantrum Youth Arts for an additional cost.
Portable Rear Projection Screen Price on application.


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"""Tests for ..public.message for the pure Python implementation."""

import os
os.environ['PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION'] = 'python'

# We must set the implementation version above before the google3 imports.
# pylint: disable=g-import-not-at-top
from google.apputils import basetest
from google.protobuf.internal import api_implementation
# Run all tests from the original module by putting them in our namespace.
# pylint: disable=wildcard-import
from google.protobuf.internal.message_test import *

class ConfirmPurePythonTest(basetest.TestCase):

  def testImplementationSetting(self):
    self.assertEqual('python', api_implementation.Type())

if __name__ == '__main__':
  basetest.main()


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Elementary School, High School, Middle School September 28, 2018
Students in Valencia's new Teacher Pathway gain experience in the classroom at Ruby Drive, Kraemer
Valencia High School's (VHS) new Teacher Pathway had its first day in the classroom with Ruby Drive Elementary School students on Tuesday,…
High School September 28, 2018
Esperanza Aztec Engineering and Manufacturing Academy builds kiln
At Esperanza High School (EHS), students use hands-on skills to help each other succeed. Mr. Wallace's Aztec Engineering and Manufacturing…
Middle School September 28, 2018
After opening in 1968, Tuffree Middle School is set to celebrate 50 years
On Wednesday, November 7, 2018, Tuffree Middle School in Placentia will celebrate their 50 year anniversary! The school will host a…
Esperanza Aztecs attend trade discussion at Nixon Library
On September 17, students from Mr. Elmore's AP United States History class at Esperanza High School (EHS) attended a symposium…
New elective at Bernardo Yorba creates space for students to learn community familiarity and practice social skills
Bernardo Yorba Middle School (BYMS) has introduced a new elective class this year for students who would benefit from community-based instruction (CBI). The importance…
School District September 27, 2018
Local SchoolsFirst branch presents PYLUSD McKinney Vento with generous donation
The Placentia branch of SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union recently made a donation of school supplies to the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School…
Freshmen fun night at El Dorado High School
On Wednesday, September 19, El Dorado High School (EDHS) hosted their annual Freshmen Fun Night! Each year, the Golden Hawks invite 9th…
WEB leaders make connections with new 7th graders at Tuffree
Tuffree Middle School's "Where Everyone Belongs" (WEB) leaders met for the first time on Friday, September 21 with their assigned…
El Dorado High School "rocks" for CHOC
On September 20, El Dorado High School (EDHS) Community Service Commissioners Brylee Hicks and Ellie Greer hosted a rock painting…
High School, School District September 21, 2018
VIDEO: An Inside Look at How PYLUSD High Schools Prepare Students for Careers of the Future
Students in the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) gain an advantage with unique, future-ready Career Technical Education (CTE) opportunities…


This movie, directed by Emily V. Driscoll, is an award-winning short documentary that follows NYC sci-artist Mara G. Haseltine as she creates a sculpture to reveal a microscopic threat beneath the surface of the ocean.
The film features Mara G. Haseltine, Christian Sardet (The Plankton Chronicles, TARA Oceans) and Mark Anthony Browne (Ecologist NCEAS).
The Raja Ampat Islands, an Indonesian archipelago, known for coral reefs rich with marine life.
So say the scientists behind the 2016 Ocean Health Index (OHI), an annual study that evaluates key aspects—biological, physical, economic and social—of ocean health worldwide.
The OHI defines a healthy ocean as one that sustainably delivers a range of benefits to people now and in the future based on 10 diverse public goals.
This year's score is 71, unchanged from those for 2013-2015, which were recalculated using the current year's improved methods.
"We've given the oceans their annual checkup and the results are mixed," said UC Santa Barbara ecologist Ben Halpern, OHI chief scientist.
"It's as if you went to the doctor and heard that, although you don't have a terminal disease, you really need to change your diet, exercise a lot more and get those precancerous skin lesions removed.
You're glad you're not going to die but you need to change your lifestyle."
A score of 100 means optimal productivity from the ocean in a sustainable way.
Established in 2012, the OHI is a partnership between UCSB's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) and the nonprofit environmental organization Conservation International.
The index serves as a comprehensive tool for understanding, tracking and communicating in a holistic way the status of the ocean's health.
It also provides a basis for identifying and promoting the most effective actions for improved ocean management on subnational, national, regional and global scales.
Two exclusive economic zones (EEZs) demonstrate higher scores and therefore better efforts at sustainability.
For example, Germany, with a population of 81 million, ranked fourth among the 220 EEZs assessed with a score of 85.
The much-less-populated Seychelle Islands (with about 97,000 people) ranked eighth with a score of 84.
These areas exemplify effective social and environmental governance systems for improving ocean health.
Successive years of global OHI assessments also identify potential trends.
The Livelihoods & Economies goal, for example, showed the most rapid score increase between 2012 and 2013, possibly reflecting recovery from the recession that began in 2008.
Lasting Special Places (a subgoal of Sense of Place) scores improved by an average of 0.5 points per year, likely due to the designation of marine protected areas.
Consistently low scores for Tourism & Recreation (47) highlight countries that are not sustainably maximizing benefits derived from a healthy tourism sector.
Scores for Food Provision (54) and Natural Products (48) indicate that many regions are either harvesting unsustainably or not maximizing their sustainable potential to produce more food from the sea.
The overarching issue of poor quality data (or no data at all) limits the ability to estimate the status of fish stocks in many regions as well as the overall status of fisheries.
Biodiversity (91) and Coastal Protection (87) goals remain the highest scoring.
Reference points for both include maintaining coastal habitats at or about their 1980 levels, so decline of these scores from 100 has occurred in less than four decades.
Continuing threats to habitat could lower scores further.
The OHI team works directly with more than 25 countries across priority marine regions, including the Pacific, East Africa and Southeast Asia.
Nations in these areas lead independent assessments known as the OHI+, which have already driven marine conservation actions at national levels by shaping China's 13th five-year plan, Ecuador's National Plan for Good Living and Mexico's National Policy on Seas and Coasts.
"We believe the Ocean Health Index gives reason for hope by providing a detailed diagnosis of the state of ocean health and also a framework that allows countries to identify and prioritize the most necessary resilience actions to improve ocean health," said Johanna Polsenberg, senior director of governance and policy for Conservation International's Center for Oceans.
"This is where our work is most valuable. It may take some time for such actions to be reflected in the scores—but the steps being taken are essential to ensure a healthy ocean into the future."
NIWA's flagship research vessel returned to port in Wellington today after a two-week voyage, initially to undertake seismological research on the Hikurangi subduction zone, off the North Island's East Coast which is regarded as New Zealand's largest earthquake and tsunami hazard.
However, with several leading marine geologists on board, it was decided to divert the ship to take core samples and survey the seabed in areas affected by the Mw 7.8 earthquake.
Voyage leader and NIWA marine geologist Dr Philip Barnes said today new mapping and profiling confirmed that the Needles Fault ruptured forming newly discovered scarps on the seafloor along the Marlborough coast south of Cape Campbell.
Dr Barnes said the length of the Kekerengu-Needles fault rupture may now extend for about 70km – 36km on land and 34km under the sea.
Scientists collected 61 sediment cores, each about 5.5m long from sites on the continental margin between the Kaikoura coast and Poverty Bay that will provide evidence of submarine landslides.
The cores revealed the earthquake generated a huge turbidity current in the Hikurangi Trough, offshore from Marlborough and Wairarapa.
A turbidity current is a rapidly moving underwater current comprising mud, sand, gravel and water.
It eventually results in layers of sediment being deposited across the sea floor.
These are known as turbidites.
"We detected a very recent turbidite about 10-20cm thick over a very large region, extending at least 300km from Kaikoura. It is still settling on the seabed from the water column and may not complete this process for some time," Dr Barnes said.
The precise location of the underwater landslides that generated the turbidity current has not been studied.
Data collected over the past few days will help inform understanding of the entire fault network activated during the earthquake.
Dr Barnes said last week's earthquake presented a rare opportunity to study how an area has been affected in real time.
The voyage was funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment as part of a five-year programme to address critical gaps in understanding about the earthquake potential of the Hikurangi subduction zone.
This simulation shows how the seismic waves of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake were propagated across New Zealand.
Subduction zones produce the planet's deadliest earthquakes and tsunamis – such as the 2011 magnitude 9 earthquake in northern Japan and the M9.3 earthquake in Sumatra in 2004.
These are known as "megathrust earthquakes".
The aim is to advance knowledge of the earthquake potential on the Hikurangi margin, to more reliably forecast the hazard it poses to New Zealand.
The research involves scientists from NIWA, GNS Science, the universities of Auckland, Otago, Canterbury and Victoria as well as scientists from France, Turkey, Japan and the US.
On December 7, 2016, 75 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, join us for a live dive on two Japanese mini submarines, the first of which was sunk by the USS Ward prior to the attack.
This will be the first time the public will be able to view live underwater exploration of the submarines in real time.
A team of maritime archaeologists and scientists from NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and Office of Ocean Exploration and Research will live-stream the dive.
A remotely operated vehicle deployed off of the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer will send back images of the wreck site.
James Delgado, director of maritime heritage, NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and Frank Cantelas, marine archaeologist, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research will be on board, describing the exploration.
"Until now, only a handful of explorers and scientists have seen these relics of the war in the deep sea," notes James Delgado, "but thanks to technology, anyone and everyone can now dive with us in the first live exploration of the 'midget' submarines that represent the beginning of the war in the Pacific."
The research team will be using a remotely operated vehicle from NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer to revisit the historic wreck site and document its condition.
The dive will be live-streamed and the public is invited to participate.
The conning tower of the mini submarine sunk by the USS Ward.
On the morning of December 7, 1941, U.S. naval vessels and aircraft on patrol outside Pearl Harbor spotted a partially submerged submarine trying to enter the harbor, but alerts were not immediately sent.
Ninety minutes before Pearl Harbor was bombed by air, the destroyer USS Ward fired on the mini submarine, sinking the sub.
The event marks the first U.S. shots fired and the country's entry into World War II in the Pacific.
The NOAA team will dive on the wreck of this submarine.
The second submarine to be explored during the dive disappeared on the morning of December 7, 1941.
It was discovered in shallow waters in 1951, raised by the U.S. Navy, and taken out to sea to be dumped in deeper water.
In 1992, the University of Hawaiʻi's Undersea Research Laboratory rediscovered it.
It has been periodically visited by the university's submersibles, the last time in 2013.
wave-powered robots are enabling the "Blue Economy."
On a planet mostly covered by water, there is plenty of dull, dirty and dangerous work to be done at sea, but robotics provides breakthrough capabilities that will transform how humans interact with the ocean.
New technical capabilities and increasing market demand have converged to kick off an era of growth in autonomous, unmanned systems—an important component of the blue economy's infrastructure.
Picture a small ocean robot swimming deep beneath the sea.
It could be searching, mapping, servicing equipment, or performing any number of other activities that we take for granted while living on the 28% of the planet that is not covered in water.
This robot works in a hostile environment.
Saltwater can short-circuit electronics and corrode metal, and deep under the ocean, water exerts a crushing pressure of tonnes per square inch.
Closer to the surface, there are waves, wind and extreme weather.
Sharks bite things to see if they're edible, and algae and barnacles grow wherever they can, fouling mechanisms and sensors.
The field of ocean robotics is decades old and, thanks to steady development and funding from organisations like the United States Office of Naval Research and oceanographic research labs around the world, many of the challenges it presents now have solutions.
Energy, communications and market development have all been holding back the widespread adoption of ocean robotics.
Fortunately, there's now good news on all these fronts.
The SHARC unmanned surface vehicle detected, reported, and tracked a manned submarine during the Unmanned Warrior exercise off the coast of Scotland in October 2016.
Robotic autonomy isn't just about artificial intelligence.
For ocean systems, energy is the first constraint on how independent a robot can be.
The most common robotic systems in the marine industry are remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) that are powered through a tether connected to a ship.
Famously, several ROVs were deployed a mile deep to stop the oil gushing from the ocean floor after the catastrophic failure of the Deepwater Horizon rig.
These ROVs, while often extremely sophisticated, are an extension of highly trained human crews living and working on specialised ships.
Since ship operations are expensive, ship-based robot operations are even more expensive.
Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) achieve great agility and flexibility by eliminating the ROV's tether, cutting the cord to the support ship.
But this means that UUVs must rely purely on stored energy; their limited battery capacity constrains their range and the power available for sensors.
Most UUVs are deployed from ships and operated in a similar way to ROVs.
Improved battery technology, combined with low-power sensors and processors, is leading to rapid advances in the efficacy of long-range UUVs.
Buoyancy gliders, a type of UUV, use hyper-efficient propulsion to spend months at sea and operate in a way that is truly unmanned—with no ship in sight.
At the surface of the ocean, a newer class of autonomous ocean vehicles called unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) has emerged.
Harvesting energy from wind, waves and the sun, USVs such as Liquid Robotics' Wave Gliders convert natural energy to power propulsion, sensor payloads and communication devices.
Boeing's latest unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) Echo Voyager.
The 51-foot-long vehicle is the latest innovation in Boeing's UUV family, joining the 32-foot Echo Seeker and the 18-foot Echo Ranger.
The communications network for ocean robots is comprised of ocean robots, which are now being deployed in teams above, below and on the surface of the ocean.
Radio waves and light don't propagate through the ocean like they do through the atmosphere.
Just a few centimetres of saltwater is enough to block radio and GPS signals.
Sound, on the other hand, travels enormous distances underwater.
Robots at the surface, equipped with acoustic modems and satellite links, are being used to extend communications and positioning services to a wide variety of subsea devices, including sea-floor sensors and UUVs.
In combined deployments, aerial drones with optical sensors and surface robots with acoustic sensors co-operate to extend communication ranges and provide a persistent and agile monitoring system.
A system-of-systems approach enables real-time, actionable updates for early detection, warning and monitoring.
This network of robots will become more capable and valuable as it grows.
Economies of scale mean that the more robots you build, the less each one costs.
Without the need for fuel and human labour, operating costs can be very low.
Reliability also improves with numbers, for each individual robot but also as the result of deploying slightly more robots than are necessary to complete a job.
All this leads to a virtuous cycle of expanding utility and reduced costs as adoption grows.
The network effect also applies to a growing, global ecosystem of sensor developers, platform manufacturers and integrators who provide creative solutions to diverse market needs in security, offshore industry, science and environmental assessment.
Today, ocean robotics are in the same position as the iPhone was when Apple created it as a platform on which others would innovate and build—applications are at a nascent stage.
This is changing as the underlying technology gains greater capabilities and is produced in greater volume.
It's an exciting time that will see a new industry of ocean application developers emerge.
Imagine an ocean where networks of sensors, manned and unmanned systems, and satellites are connected to give us instant, affordable access to information.
This is the vision for the digital ocean.
It's not science fiction: it's a prerequisite for more-effective ocean preservation and economic expansion for the blue economy.
The networked ocean will deliver real-time seismic warnings and more accurate hurricane and cyclone forecasts that will help save lives and economies.
It will help expose illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing (IUU), and trafficking in drugs and people.
Robots already help research, measure, and monitor precious marine ecologies.
In the digital ocean, the insights we gain will foster new scientific discoveries, new job opportunities and new economic growth.
In science fiction, robots don't run out of power and can communicate from seemingly anywhere.
In reality, powering devices and networking their data takes a lot of effort.
But as these issues are addressed and the market matures, the opportunity for autonomous ocean devices is enormous.
Ocean robotics is at an inflection point where it is ready to enable a safer, sustainable digital ocean.
We asked yesterday if the pull of gravity is the same everywhere on Earth. As many of you noted, the answer is no.
This map of Earth's gravity field, based on airborne and satellite measurements, depicts variations in Earth's gravity field.
As Astronomy Picture of the Day explained when they ran a similar image in 2014: "High areas on this map, colored red, indicate areas where gravity is slightly stronger than usual, while in blue areas gravity is slightly weaker.
Many bumps and valleys can be attributed to surface features, such as the North Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the Himalayan Mountains, but others cannot, and so might relate to unusually high or low sub-surface densities."
In addition, processes happening deep in the Earth's mantle—such as descending tectonic plates and hot mantle plumes—can also affect the strength of the gravitational field.
The geoid is a measurement of mean sea level (MSL).
When you average out the motion of waves, the level at which water settles is MSL.
To calculate MSL, all you have to do is just measure the average level of the oceans… and there you have it.
But how about on land?
Let's say you dig a canal away from the ocean inwards to the land.
The level the water would settle could be interpreted as mean sea level.
And it's used by surveyors to measure precise surface elevations as a true zero surface in a vertical datum.
All objects on Earth fall at 9.81 m/s2 (meters, per second, per second).
Gravity differs where you are on Earth, as shown in the geoid model.
For example, mountains have more mass than valleys.
As a result, gravity at the Rocky Mountains is relatively stronger to other locations on Earth.
Gravity on the Earth's surface ranges from 9.7639 m/s2 in Peru to 9.8337 m/s2 in the Arctic.
This also means that our planet is actually very bumpy and non-uniform.
It's not as smooth that most people tend to think it is.
The Earth bulges at the equator from rotational forces. This means the difference from the center of the Earth and the surface is smaller at the poles than at the equator.
The material composition of the Earth varies and matter isn't evenly distributed, which adds more complexity to understanding gravity.
How do you measure the geoid?
But you'd need a lot of tide gauges placed around the entire globe.
So this is why satellites like NASA's GRACE mission (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) and ESA's GOCE mission (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer) are measuring our planet's gravity field with a precision never obtained before.
How do these satellite missions do this?
GRACE is a pair of satellites in the same orbit approximately 220 kilometers apart.
When the leading satellite increases speed, this means there is a greater gravitational pull. If the leading satellite slows down, this means there is less gravitational pull.
These tugs and pushes in gravity are measured using microwave pulses from one satellite to the other. Each satellite position is being pinned down with GPS.
The end result is the most accurate measurements of gravity anomaly to date.
Geoid applications include weather forecasting, drought predictions, survey accuracy, water cycle, polar ice mass loss and anything that can track mass change.
Earth's Interior – Scientists are closer than ever to earthquake prediction.
Because we can retrieve variations in the geoid, these subduction events are like retrieving earthquake signatures.
Geoid variations were associated with more than 98 per cent of the earthquakes of magnitude 9 or above, around 60 per cent for magnitude 8.8, 40 per cent for magnitude 8.6 and 33 per cent for magnitude 8.3.
If all the ice melted, climate scientists would measure change by the Earth's rising sea levels and tide gauges.
GRACE measures mass change from the melt of Arctic ice.
It helps us understand if ocean circulation is changing and how if affects world climate change.
As you walk around Earth, you weigh a little more or less depending on where you are.
It's actually a function of how much mass is below you.
The geoid derived from the GRACE and GOCE missions can sense just how much that mass is.
We love remote sensing applications.
And the list goes on for these uniquely interesting satellite missions.
Earthquake prediction, climate change models and the water cycle are some of the areas that the geoid is helping us understand how our Earth works.
But the list of GRACE applications doesn't stop here.


In our professional section you will find all information about all current LOD productions.
LOD muziektheater has a file for every production, containing updated information. Every file features an up-to-date colophon, a list of performance dates, a dramaturgical interview with the creators and – where available – press quotes. In addition, we also have rehearsal and performance images and videos per performance.
You can find everything on https://planning.lod.be/en/producties.
If you would like more information about the possibility of programming a particular production, please contact anne-louise@lod.be.


A luxury glamping site with yurts and iconic American Airstream caravans is set to transform a hay field near Ratcliffe Culey.
Permission for change of use was approved for the project at the latest meeting of Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council's planning committee.
Applicant Dom Such, an Airstream fan, can now forge ahead with the scheme which will offer 29 pitches for holidaymakers at Westlands Farm, off Sibson Road.
The proposal was passed despite objections from Witherley Parish Council and neighbours who raised concerns over increased traffic, impact on wildlife, lack of privacy and the use of the facilities for permanent residence.
In support of the application, Ian Ritchie, from Rand Architects, said: "Planning approval has previously been obtained for relocation of a commercial business, however, the applicants who are the owners of the site and also live there have become involved in the Airstream caravan community.
"They now feel from their attendance at a number of caravan rallies that there is a demand for a quality site in this location. As you will be aware there are a number of local attractions as well as notable restaurants in Sheepy Parva and Twycross as well as popular tourists attractions like Market Bosworth and Twycross Zoo.
As well as plots for Airstreams and yurts the park would also feature a traditional horse-drawn Romany style caravan. To offer a more comfortable stay all of the 29 pitches will be serviced by a Camp Plus bathroom unit, providing a toilet, shower and sink, which will be connected to the foul drainage system.
The proposal also includes a change of use from an outbuilding to a communal area with laundry and wash facilities and a reception/shop.
The 1.11ha site is around 1.6 km east of Ratcliffe Culey within the open countryside and has historically been used as a hay field. It is bounded to the east and west by mature hedgerow, to the north by trees and the south by a fence and conifers, offering natural screening.
Council planning officers said in their report: "The site is located within the western area of the borough and is within six miles of Twycross Zoo and five miles of Market Bosworth and Bosworth Battlefield. The site is not well served by public transport.
"However, due to the rural nature of a caravan site, this can often be the case. There are nearby footpaths which lead to the nearby villages of Ratcliffe Culey, Sheepy Magna, Sibson and Witherley. There are also opportunities for cycling within the area and due to the short distance of tourist features it is considered reasonable to assume that cycling maybe used as a form of transport to these locations.


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Russia Reacts to Claims of Iranian Missile Downing Ukrainian Plane
Posted on January 10, 2020 by foccusser	4 comments
An Iranian missile likely accidentally brought down a Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near Tehran, killing all 176 aboard, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday.
The Ukraine International Airlines flight to Kiev from Tehran crashed Wednesday, hours after Iran fired ballistic missiles at two U.S. military bases in Iraq. The U.S. government believes Iran shot down the plane by mistake, three unnamed U.S. officials said.
Iran denied the Ukrainian airliner had been hit by a missile, with government spokesman Ali Rabiei saying in a statement that such reports were "psychological warfare against Iran."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Friday that the possibility a missile downed the airliner had not been ruled out but that it had not been confirmed yet. The Ukrainian government said Thursday it was investigating reports of debris from a Russian-made Tor-M1 missile.
— Franz Klintsevich, member of the defense committee in Russia's upper house of parliament, the Federation Council:
"It looks a lot like [the result of an] external impact, indeed. But this requires verification. We must wait."
"Looking for a Russian footprint in the Boeing crash is foolish."
— Leonid Slutsky, head of the foreign affairs committee in Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma:
"Any statement on the causes of the Ukrainian Boeing 737 crash made before the investigation ends is premature and could be used for political purposes."
"We need facts and concrete evidence, not imaginary references to intelligence. So far, it's all unfounded."
— Vladimir Dzhabarov, deputy chairman of the Federation Council's foreign affairs committee:
"The West has blamed Iran in advance for this tragedy."
"I believe that there are no grounds [for Trudeau] to make such statements. Anything is possible, but I don't see any proof thus far."
"There is no and can be no Russian trace."
I would say a Russian missile can be counted as trace. As far as I know, nobody has suggested Muscovy was involved in bringing this plane down. It looks very suspicious though when Muscovy start whining before they are accused of anything.
Moskali selling weapons to rabid terrorists is a trace even before they use the weapons. Also, if an investigation is needed to make a trace then an investigation is also needed to dismiss a trace but the Moskali have already dismissed any possibility of their involvement.
I think Russia are right. It appears shortly after take off the engines just fell off, drunk ukrainian crew members accidently pissed on a glowing cigarette butt in the pot and blew up the toilet, the pilots were drunk and asleep, and finally a pravi sektor nazi detonated a bomb to bring down the plane, shouting 'heroyam slava!'…
grumpycanuk
Very funny mike.
I think the possibility of accidental shoot down is there considering 2 hours previously Iran had fired missiles at 2 US air bases in Iraq. They would be expecting retaliation, but that is a bit quick. Idiots with low level education and training, in control of these weapons is dangerous, especially when they have an attitude problem.


Students Can Save Serious Money on Home Energy Online!
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Whilst students may well want the control that comes with the first option of contacting all the various suppliers individually, this can be very laborious. In addition to this, due to the fact that the average Joe is far from an energy expert, they may not be familiar with the prudent negotiation tactic and end up not making as much of a saving as they would like.
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The Growing Up in New Zealand study has given us a vast array of insights into what it means to be a child growing up in 21st Century New Zealand.
Below we've summarised some of the key findings from the reports we release every two or three years.
You can take a look at our reports page to read these in more detail and get more context about these findings.
We're looking forward to learning even more about our Growing Up children over the next decade when we will really get the opportunity to hear the children's voices, thoughts, feelings and experiences.
Key findings from:
Before We Are Born
Now We Are Born
Now We Are Two
Residential Mobility
Vulnerability and Resilience
Now We Are Four
Who Are Today's Dads?
Transition to School
Key findings from Before We Are Born
Our families are increasingly diverse. They are very different from those of previous generations.
We interviewed parents while pregnant and began to see more of this diversity and what it means for the next generation of New Zealand children.
Parental relationships and home environments
Mothers and fathers are having children later - the average age is 30.
Children live in a range of family structures. Many are living in extended family environments, or with adults they are not related to.
One in three children have at least one parent who did not grow up in New Zealand and who is multilingual.
Only one in 20 parents speak Te Reo Māori.
40% of children are born into families living in our most deprived areas.
Almost half of all families were living in rental accommodation when their child was born.
Families are highly mobile and more than half of families have moved more than twice in the past five years.
Both mothers and partners would like to take more leave around the time baby is born.
Many parents in the most deprived areas were not aware of government support programmes.
The majority of pregnancies were planned (60%).
More than half of the children in the cohort have older siblings.
Families are more likely to have two or three children rather than 4 or more.
During pregnancy most mothers were able to find a Lead Maternity Carer and few had problems registering with their first choice of maternity carer.
Not all mothers follow all the guidelines around pregnancy, especially with respect to food and drink. In particular:
More than 90% of mothers made changes to their diet in pregnancy, most frequently avoiding alcohol, caffeine and raw or highly processed foods. However, a considerable number continued to eat these items and consume alcohol in pregnancy.
Mothers who reported their pregnancies were unplanned were less likely to take folate in the first trimester than mothers with a planned pregnancy. However, 16% of all mothers did not take folate at any time before or during their pregnancy.
Despite a reduction in smoking rates overall during pregnancy, around 10% of mothers continued to smoke. These mothers were more likely to be Māori and live in the more deprived areas.
Mothers who were physically active prior to pregnancy were most likely to continue to exercise throughout pregnancy. However, mothers who were not physically active prior to pregnancy were unlikely to take up exercise at any time during their pregnancy.
Parental intentions
Parental intentions for the ethnic identity of their children were more diverse than the ethnic identities identified by the parents themselves. This largely reflects the mixed ethnicity of the parents and their wishes for their children to identify with all the ethnicities that they identify with.
The majority of mothers and partners intended to breastfeed their child until at least six months of age.
The majority of mothers and partners intended to fully immunise their child.
Key findings from Now We Are Born
This report introduced the children in the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort for the first time.
The babies were born between 3 March 2009 and 14 May 2010. More than three-quarters were born in Auckland, Middlemore, or Waikato hospitals.
The cohort was made up of 6662 singletons, 89 pairs of twins and two sets of triplets. The sex ratio was 52% male and 48% female.
Nearly one in four (25%) babies were delivered by caesarean section.
Early infant feeding
The vast majority of the Growing Up in New Zealand babies were breastfed for at least some time.
The study found exclusive breastfeeding generally stopped at around four months.
By nine months of age, the babies had been introduced to a wide range of solid foods, most commonly baby rice, fruit and vegetables.
Plunket was the most commonly reported source of information about infant diet and nutrition for mothers.
When their babies were nine months old, 54% of the families were living in their own house, with 39% living in a private rental, and 7% in public rental accommodation.
On average, families experienced a drop in income after the birth of baby.
An unexpected finding was the nearly one-in-five families were receiving income from four or more sources.
Immunisation and health status
Nearly all babies had received their six week (95%) and three month (94%) immunisations. However, coverage dropped to 90% for the five month immunisations.
Most mothers reported that their babies were either in excellent or very good health at the age of nine months
Almost 91% of the cohort children received all of their Well Child/Tamariki Ora checks in their first nine months.
When primary health care was required, most babies were taken to either a single known doctor (67%) or to one of several doctors at one practice (27%).
Parental health status and health-related behaviour
Around 11% of mothers had symptoms suggestive of postnatal depression compared to 16% of mothers who had symptoms suggestive of depression in late pregnancy.
Being a young mother or having high levels of financial or relationship stress increased the chances of a mother having poorer mental health postnatally.
New Zealand European mothers were more likely to be drinking alcohol than mothers of any other ethnicity.
Almost one in three of the cohort children were living in a household where someone smoked cigarettes.
Family stability and family environments
Around 90% of children had parents who were in a stable relationship over the past 12 months.
Mothers under the age of 20, those without secondary school qualifications, and those living in the most deprived areas were most likely to have experienced a change in their relationship status.
Around one quarter of the cohort were growing up in an extended family situation and one in 12 children were being brought up by a mother without a current partner.
Parental work and leave
More than 80% of mothers in paid employment while pregnant, took some form of leave. The leave taken by mothers was most likely to be a combination of paid parental leave (87%), unpaid parental leave (55%) and annual leave (34%).
Around 30% were still on leave when their babies were nine months old.
More than 2000 of the mothers had returned to work by the time their children were nine months old, with the majority (83%) returning to work for their previous employer.
Returning to work or study was the main reason for cohort children being looked after by someone other than their parents (an average of 20 hours per week) at nine months of age.
Of those in childcare for more than eight hours per week, 40% (685) used an early child care centre such as daycare, Kohanga Reo, or Pacific Islands early childhood centre, 32% were being looked after by their grandparents, and a further 6% were with another relative.
Key findings from Now We Are Two
The personalities and skills of New Zealand two-year-olds
One-quarter of the Growing Up in New Zealand children are identified as Māori, 20% as Pacific, and one in 6 as Asian. Multiple ethnicities are also very common (almost half of the children).
Two-thirds of the children knew they were a boy or a girl, and the same proportion used their own name or expressed their independence by typically saying 'do it myself'.
Tantrums were the norm for children at two years, with four out of five often expressing themselves this way.
Bananas were the most common favourite food; and saying 'mum', 'mummy' or 'mama' was the most common first word.
More than 40% (around 2,500) of our children understand two or more languages.
Te reo Māori was understood by 12% of children in the cohort.
Around 80% of the cohort watched TV or DVDs daily, a greater proportion than the 66% who had books read to them every day.
One in seven had already used a laptop or kids computer system.
86% of children were described as in very good or excellent health.
92% of children were fully immunised at two years of age.
Just under half of the cohort had had an ear infection and 14% a skin infection since they were nine months old; tummy bugs and chest infections were also common at this age.
10% of children had been told by a doctor that they had an allergy of some kind, with egg and dairy being the most common allergens.
Working smoke alarms were only present in 79% of the children's homes and 38% of children were living in a house without a fully fenced off driveway.
Just under one-third of children had had a significant accident requiring medical help.
One-fifth of children had experienced at least one hospital stay by the time they were two years old.
69% were living in a household with two parents present (and no other adults, but possibly other children), and 20% were living in an extended family household (including one or two parents).
Around 6 were living in a household with their parent(s) and non-kin (such as flatmates. About 5% were living with a single parent (without other adults, but possibly with other children).
Of those living with extended family: Approximately 43% were Pacific, 27% Asian, 27% Māori, and 14% were European.
Just over half (55%) of the children lived in family-owned accommodation. The remaining 45% lived in rented accommodation, the majority of which (86%) was private rental accommodation.
There were high levels of mobility, with around one-third of families having moved house since their child was nine months.
While they were recruited from the Auckland, Counties Manukau and Waikato District Health Board regions, the Growing Up in New Zealand children are now living from Kaitaia to Bluff, and many overseas.
Employment and childcare
Half of the mums of the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort were not in paid work when their children were two, but almost all of the fathers were in paid work at this stage. On average, the mothers in paid work were working 29 hours per week.
More than half of the children were in regular early childhood education and care, predominantly because of the work and study commitments of their parents but also because their parents were interested in the positive impact that this education may have on the social and language development of their children.
56% of children were being looked after regularly each week by someone other than their parents. This had increased from the 35% of children in regular formal or informal early childhood education and care at nine months of age.
The average length of time that two year olds were spending in their main child-care type was 24 hours per week. The average cost of childcare per week was $160 (median $144). A childcare subsidy was knowingly received by 879 families (23% of the families using childcare).
Key findings from Residential Mobility Report 1: Moving house in the first 1000 days
This report highlights the diverse and complex nature of residential mobility in New Zealand. This report shows that residential mobility is an important feature of life for pre-school New Zealanders and as such it will continue to play an important part in future analyses.
Moving house is a frequent event in the lives of New Zealand families.
Residential mobility during the first two years is associated with parental demographics, employment, housing tenure and structure, and neighbourhood level characteristics for New Zealand children.
Families living in private rental accommodation are the most likely to move in this early period of life. Improving the security of housing tenure in New Zealand, particularly in the private rental market, may protect families from undesired moves.
In the first 1000 days of life, residential mobility is higher for those cohort children who are first children, and those children who are living in less traditional household structure types (with their parent(s) as well as additional adults such as extended family members or non-kin).
Those children who had parents whose partnership ended, or whose households moved to a lower household income were more likely to have moved.
Those children in families who increased their income during the second year of a child's life, or who had experienced a change in partner status, were more likely to have moved during that time period than those children in families whose household income had not changed.
Key findings from the 'Vulnerability and Resilience' series
These two reports explored aspects of vulnerability and resilience within the context of our unique population and the New Zealand environment.
Risk factors used to define vulnerability tend to cluster in the New Zealand context, notably according to:
Maternal characteristics and behaviours
Features of the home environment
Pregnancy specific conditions, including poor maternal mental wellbeing and poor physical health in late pregnancy.
Clustering of vulnerability risk factors is common, but risk factors do not cluster uniformly across the population. Certain subgroups are more at risk, with marked variation according to maternal ethnicity.
Relative exposure to vulnerability can be estimated by summing the total number of risk factors that children are exposed to at any one time point or over time.
Māori and Pacific children tend to be exposed to a greater number of risk factors for vulnerability than New Zealand European or Asian children at each time point and across multiple time points.
Exposure to multiple risk factors for vulnerability at any one time point increases the likelihood that children will experience poor health outcomes during their first 1000 days of development.
Cumulative exposure to multiple risk factors throughout infancy increases the likelihood of experiencing common childhood infections such as ear infections as well as more serious respiratory illnesses requiring hospitalisation.
Not all children who are exposed to risk factors for vulnerability experience specific poor health outcomes, although they are at increased risk compared with those experiencing few or no risks.
Children who are exposed to no or few risk factors for vulnerability may also experience poor health outcomes during their early years.
Identification of solutions to reduce the effects of early exposure to risk factors for vulnerability is likely to require cross-agency interventions as risk factors tend to cluster and exist across multiple domains.
At an individual level exposure to risk factors for vulnerability during early life is not necessarily constant, and exposure profiles may change significantly over time.
Now We are Four: Describing the Pre-School Years
This report provided insight into the health, wellbeing, social and emotional status of New Zealand four-year-olds. It also looked at changes in the children's home environment, participation in early childhood education, household mobility, socio-economic situation.
Fourteen percent of the cohort meet the criteria for being overweight or obese at the age of four years.
The majority of children complied with current Ministry of Health guidelines related to hours of sleep at night.
More than 10% of the children were not enrolled in the free dental service at four and a half years of age.
More than one in eight children had never been to see either a school dental therapist, or a
dentist by age four. This rate was higher at one in five for Māori and Pacific children.
Approximately four out of five cohort children were regular media users, with the average
time "on screen" for four year olds being just greater than two hours per day.
Children who were overweight or obese engaged in more screen time than children of
normal weight.
Bullying behaviour starts early and for around one in ten children experienced being bullied or picked on consistently since they were two years old.
Growing Up in New Zealand's household structure data continue to reflect a diversity of
family and household living arrangements.
Fewer children were living in an extended family household and more children were living
in a single parent household at four years than at two years of age.
Parents reported they always or very often express affection for their child (99% of mothers).
However, one in 12 parents reported that they regularly struggle with knowing how to discipline their child.
Two thirds of mothers reported that they never use physical punishment.
One in ten parents reported that they frequently managed their child's misbehaviour by smacking.
A small group of the children (3%) regularly witness arguments between their parents, including episodes involving physical violence.
By age four, almost all children receiving non-parental care are attending an ECE centre or
organised home-based care (94%). This engagement (measured in 2013 and 2014) is slightly
below the current Government target of 98% of preschoolers.
Nine out of ten mothers were confident that their child would be socially ready to transition
to formal schooling.
Six out of ten mothers reported that they felt confident that their child had the reading and
writing skills needed to start school.
Two thirds of mothers were in paid work when their children were four years old, up from approximately half of mothers when the children were two.
One in five households that were not receiving income in the form of wages, salary or
business income were experiencing five or more hardships.
In terms of debt and savings, one in three mothers had a student loan and six in
ten mothers had a KiwiSaver account.
Six in ten children (3652) had their own bank account.
This report provides an overview of more than 4,000 fathers, stepfathers, adoptive and foster parents, co-mums, grandparents and other family members who are "dads" to Growing Up in New Zealand children.
95% work full time (more than 30 hours a week), while 63% work more than 40 hours a week.
47% report that it is often possible for them to have flexible work hours and 32% work at the weekend.
6% have more than one paid job (up to 9 jobs).
Participants work an average of 47 hours a week
91% are satisfied with their (main) job and 90% feel secure in their present job arrangement(s).
75% of participants want to be able to change some aspect of their work situation, either working fewer hours, working from or closer to home, or working more flexible hours.
61% of employed participants say their work has a positive effect on their child and family life generally.
56% say that working makes them a better parent.
50% say that because of the requirements of their job, they miss out on home or family activities they would prefer to participate in.
36% say that their work leaves them with too little time or energy to be the kind of parent to want to be.
1 in 7 participants has had a mental health problem diagnosed and/or treated at some time in their life.
1 in 25 participants reports that they have had more than one type of mental health problem at some time (though not necessarily at the same time).
Eight out of ten participants who have had mental health problems say that they are in good health.
A substantial number are at risk of future cardiovascular diseases (CVD): heart or blood vessel diseases or stroke.
39% of participants experience some problems or stresses in their lives.
43% say they sometimes feel they need support or help but can't get it from anyone.
54% are coping with life very well.
Nearly half (47%) of participants say that the way they are feeling sometimes affects their ability to parent their child.
Most participants (86%) often support their child's feelings and emotions.
This report focuses on children's experience of embarking on formal schooling.
98% had completed a B4 School check by the time they were at school
98% had attended Early Childhood Education in the six months before starting school
97% of mothers had actively engaged in school transition activities with their child, e.g. school visits
76% felt their child was ready for school, 68% said their child was happy to go to school and 64% said their child was excited about going to school.
The most common sources of advice for parents choosing a school were trusted friends and the school prospectus or website.
96% of mothers rated educational resources as the most important factor for choosing a school, followed by a 'good reputation' (92%).
"Fitting in socially" and "making friends" were mothers' main concerns for their children starting school.
It took most children less than a month to adjust to school.
70% of mothers and 72% of children had no diffculty when starting school.
More than 2/3 were satisfied the current school was meeting their child's needs across key areas
51% had experienced the Milk for Schools programme and 10% of children had experienced a breakfast club
99% were attending primary school by age six.
85% were attending a state primary school and 26% had experienced a Modern
Learning Environment in their first year at school.
10% were in classes of 15 children or less and around 6% in classes of 30+ students. The most common class size was 20-25 children.
12% had moved school at least once before they were six. 25% of mothers also reported their child had had at least one change in classroom teacher.
24% attended after school care, 8% attended before school care.
More than 3/4 lived within five kilometres of their school but only a quarter of children used active forms of transport such as walking, biking or scootering. 68% travelled to/from school by car.
20% of mothers were still experiencing diffculties more than six months after their children started school