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2020 has been a year that we will never forget with so many challenges and changes. Looking back over the news, just for Orpington Ojays, reminds us of the ups and downs that we have come through. 2021 will soon be here and there is no telling what it has in store for us. Like 2020 though, I'm sure Orpington Ojays will be ready and able to come together, physically or virtually, and positively, creatively and inclusively deal with it all. Merry Christmas everyone, have a lovely and safe time.
2020 reminder
Sue Hancock
Wednesday 25th November 2020
It is with great sadness that we hear of the passing away of Sue Hancock on the morning of the 24th of November. Sue volunteered so many of her hours to Orpington Ojays whilst her daughter Shauna and son Cameron swam. Sue was our Treasurer for nine years between and 2007 and 2016; a job she did with passion and skill. She was part of the team that worked so hard and successfully to give us a strong financial base to help the club withstand difficult times. Our thoughts are with her children and family and we wish them all our love and support.
Monday 23rd November 2020
Here is the November newsletter with information from Swim England and our committee plus details and stories of what our team have been up to.
November 2020.pdf
Taking a break from the pool
Monday 2nd November 2020
In the continued world battle with Coronavirus, swimming is shutting down for at least a month from Thursday 5th November. It is down to all of us to continually play our part to help everybody in the local, national and the world population. Whilst group activities are not permitted, you can still exercise outdoors with your household or alone with one person from another local household at arms length. (Best to check first though as guidelines are reviewed and updated). From UK Government "to exercise outdoors or visit an outdoor public place - with the people you live with, with your support bubble or, when on your own, with 1 person from another household (children under school age, as well as those dependent on round-the-clock care, such as those with severe disabilities, who are with their parents will not count towards the limit on two people meeting outside)." Whatever you do, stay safe and stay sensible.
National Restrictions from 5 November
The Return to the Walnuts
On Monday 12th of October we will be returning to our home pool. Swimming hats are now compulsory at the Walnuts. Please don't forget your hat! You will not be able to swim without one. Please don't rely on being able to find or buy one once at the Walnuts. If you don't have your own, please borrow one so you know you have one to wear for your session. The new timetable for each squad is available from the Information menu, so please take a look to see when you are training. As with the summer training we had, the Walnuts training will not be the same as it was. Please watch the video from our captains who have again done a great job of explaining and show what you need to know. Please follow this instructions carefully so that we can continue to enjoy the use of the Walnuts pool. 🏊♂Swimmers must swim ready arrive 10-15 minutes before the session. 👪Spectators are not permitted, unless the swimmer is under the age of 8. 🙅♀Do not enter poolside by climbing over the wall. 👜No belongings can be kept on the seats. If you are having trouble with the video please try on a non iPhone device or click on the YouTube link.
YouTube version of video
Last Open Water Event of 2020
For most, also the first. On a grey, windy and cold 27th September, TriSwim organised a 3.2k end of season event. It wasn't advertised as a race, but when the hat and goggles go on... The swimmers were released into the water in groups of three to swim the course 5 times. Masters swimmers Matt Steere and Steve Morris were joined by ex Orpington and Orpington Ojays swimmer Iain Jameson and new comers to the outdoors Sam Ryan, Ellie Brown and Blythe Jolley-Ellis from Top Squad. With wetsuits and the club silicone hat underneath the event hat for extra head warmth all the swimmers entered the water quickly and settled in for the 3.2k swim. Ex Top Squad swimmer Justin Strover was on a safety kayak and was a welcome sight on each lap. All our swimmers swam brilliantly, using the techniques they had been practicing through the summer and made their way through the field of swimmers, even lapping some of them. Results are not available, yet, but we believe that Matt Steere won the event, followed by Iain Jameson probably in third, then Sam Ryan closely followed by Steve Morris in fifth, then Blythe Jolley-Ellis and Ellie Brown also with top ten places. Congratulations to all the swimmers who entered and thank you to TriSwim who organised the little end of season event. Photos will be added to the gallery on Monday (28th)
Victoria's relay team swims the Channel
Wednesday 16th September 2020
Massive congratulation to Vicky from Masters squad who put the work in and completed the challenge of being part of a relay team to swim the channel. She swam three times in the crossing and was the swimmer who landed on the French coast! Here is her story from her Facebook post. "Re-wind to Autumn 2018, I had just placed third in the UKBFF masters bikini competition, sadly my dad passed away the same week (but got to see me raise my 🏆 . A week after my show, I swam 1K in the Serpentine in memory of my best friends sister. I swam in a wetsuit and the water temperature was 19 degrees...it's hard to comprehend now, but my body frame was 3 stone lighter .. to cut a long story short I learnt that body building is not conducive to open water swimming (even with a wetsuit I suffered from mild hypothermia). This and copious amounts of googling 'when does hypothermia set in' what are the risks and can it be life threatening .. led me to develop a massive fear of open water swimming. Prior to this event I had held no fear and had contacted Aspire who raise money for people with spinal cord injuries wanting to know if I could attend the assessment centre for a channel swim. "I had been given a date for the assessment but decided after this event and not having processed my dad passing properly, this was a stupid idea. I contacted the Aspire organiser Andrew to say I couldn't attend. Andrew must of known I had unfinished business even if I didn't at the time and said you can attend the assessment next year .. yeah alright I thought, pushed it to the back of my mind and got on with work and caring for my mum. "Fast forward a year and I received an email from Andrew asking if I was still interested in taking part in a channel relay swim. My head said NO, but I ended up saying Yes, having not swam since the Sepentine, I thought I'll make my excuses soon to opt out ...once I've worked out what they were! "Now the thing with doing a sporting event for a good charity ...Is you have a Why, and having that why and knowing you are helping others makes it a lot harder for you to cut and run. I'm also someone who likes to face their fears and I didn't want to let my fear of the cold put me off something, I used to enjoy. But even on the day of the assessment... I worked out I needed to leave at 0800 hrs to get to the assessment on time... at 0755 hrs I was still smoking a cigarette deciding to go or not to go. I even rang Laura Joanne Roberts to ask if she thought I should go.. we both came to the conclusion I should go to at least find out about the process if I didn't I might regret it. "I attended the well ran assessment day and listened and took notes.. and of course swam. I remember hoping that I hadn't got a place.. then I could tell myself well I would have done it if I made the cut 😂. "At work I received the news that I had secured a place.. and promptly decided I should take myself to Hamstead Heath ponds and do a few laps ..I took my wetsuit and by chance channel 4 were filming an open water documentary .. not wanting to be the only person in a wetsuit on TV I did a very fast lap of the pond in skins and climbed out. iT dawned on me that this was going to be a slow process of overcoming my fear of the cold. Being all or nothing in approach I ditched my jumpers walked round in T-shirt's, tore off the bedclothes ran cold baths and thought I was the next Wim Hoff and accomplished nothing but a cold 🥶 . "I was lucky enough to meet the most chilled out man in NATO who soon became my training partner (Kev) we started attending parliament hill lido for swims and giggles (who knew temps of 6 degrees would make me laugh). I think the first time we went we did a length and thought we were ice swimmers ! Kev forgot his towel and stepped into a what he thought was a warm shower but turned out to be a cold one when he didn't warm up 😂 "Trips to the beach became a regular feature on the agenda albeit for ten minute swims -all I could manage without being scared of losing my dexterity - more Googling! I decided to rejoin Orpington Ojays Masters squad which was the club I swam for in my childhood .. I gradually developed some endurance and even managed to move to the middle lane, it was great seeing some familiar faces but I never got as far as the elite lane home of Kirsten Iddiols-Bunclark and Steve Morris. "I was now armed with the fact I could swim for an hour with out stopping which was nice!. Aspire have an excellent training programme in place which comprises of three boot camp type weekends at Dover Harbour .. (we had since learnt who our team mates were and looked forward to more bonding .. after our first meet in London). "Covid 19 hit and we were faced with the reality that we wouldn't be able to have the scheduled weekend training sessions and at times with changes in regulations we were unsure if any crossings would take place at all. Coupled with the closure of swimming pools I reverted to pounding the pavements and attempted to retain my new found cardiovascular fitness (I had given up smoking at this juncture) by running. Apologies Bromley council for any cracks in the pavement. "After the lock down restrictions were lifted myself and my training buddy went to various beaches and slowly ...very slowly increased our cold water acclimatisation and fish and chip consumption ! The next challenge was to achieve our two hour qualifying swim in less than 16 degrees before July. Surprisingly the day before the non planned attempt I had only managed 30 mins. To say i was pleased was an understatement! "I roped my mum into writing me session plans to follow ..she said at 80 she didn't remember how to d them until she went to bed and she had a dream about what to do and remembered 💖 although I think she may have thought I was Jo Mullins as they were tough ! "From various training venues I met some amazing people Joanna Wood who had me in stitches and of course made excellent lemon drizzle cake Aaliyah Roughley said it was better than mine ! "Due to Covid planned fundraising events were shelved but I was overwhelmed by the generosity of everyone who donated thank you. Sadly my mum passed away during the pandemic but being a swimming coach, I like to think she had my back in the channel yesterday particularly when I landed in the dark with tinted goggles on (school girl error)😂on fraggle rock! "This post is now taking on a life of its own .. so if you have read this far and not fell asleep well done! This has been an amazing journey...having the privilege of raising money for an amazing charity, meeting my awesome team mates Jill Hill Andrew Short Neil Young Chris Lovett Luke Collins Dave and boat leader Catherine Hamilton-Plant. The budgies Sarah Hicks Dani Cameron Caroline Rudge Gemma Bloor @Joanna Wood. "Big thanks also to Tracey Edwards for telling me to Breath and Jackie Singleton for Dog sitting Sue Sheeres for the offer of accommodation. He says I could have done it without him ..but I suspect training wouldn't have been half as much fun without Kev and I thank him for his patience, wit "And listening to all of fears associated with this challenge 💖."
Vicky's JustGiving Page for Aspire
Gina Wins in the Sea
Congratulations to Gina from Masters Squad, who travelled to Folkstone at the weekend to compete in the Channel Triathlon. It was her first time competing in the sea and thankfully she had nice calm waters. Gina finished first in her category and the females and was thirteenth overall in a time of 01:30:49. Sadly trophies were not being handed out due to coronavirus but she got a lovely medal.
Lauren competes in the Dock2Dock
Lauren Bond today competed in her first open water competition, the 1.5k race at Royal Victoria Dock by the Excel Centre in London. Like many of our swimmers, Lauren tried out open water when the pools closed and training was put on hold. All the pool training over the years once again paid dividends and Lauren finished 2nd in the under 20's category, which she is well under, and 4th place across all age groups. A fantastic debut performance in a new world of swimming; congratulations and well done.
Dave Barnes Volunteer Award Winner
Sunday 6th September 2020
It is with great pride and joy that Steve Morris has won the prestigious Dave Barnes Volunteer Award Winner award from Swim England London. From www.swimming.org "This award recognises a volunteer who has shown commitment to volunteering at their club, county, region or nationally. Their volunteering is making a positive impact and this volunteer is a great example of a role model for others. "Steve became a member of Orpington Ojays in 1980. He is a Master swimmer he also competes in open water. Recently, he has supported swimmers who have been trying open water while the pools have been closed, advising on equipment and even writing an introduction to open water for the club website. He runs the club shop, website, twitter account, club email accounts, and he photographs all our teams. He attends open and league events supporting our swimmers on poolside and is a natural in motivating the children and improving their self-esteem. He is a revered role model to our members and their adults. We can't remember a time when he has not put the swimmers at the centre of any decision or action. He has been brilliant throughout the recent pandemic, uploading regular training videos on behalf of the coaches and helping the club captains organise online social events to keep the swimmers in touch with friends. Lastly many years ago, Orpington Ojays found themselves in an exceedingly difficult situation and the club was thought lost. Past members report that it was Steve who took the reins of a flailing club and steered it through, refusing to let the club die and he clearly succeeded because Orpington Ojays is here today. He has provided our members with a club that is competitive, but at its core, a friendly nurturing environment that allows swimmers to progress, form lifelong friendships and to enjoy the glorious sport of swimming. Of course, he plays all of this down, which is why we do not think there is a more deserving Ambassador for the Sport, Swim England and for our Club than Steve Morris." Well deserved and well done Steve
Award Nomination.pdf
Wednesday 12th August 2020
Attached is the August Newsletter with a statement from our chairman David, D of E, Returning to swimming and more.
August 2020.pdf
Return to Training
Sunday 26th July 2020
Please watch this video from our captains about what to expect as we return to training this week. Thanks to them for producing, directing, starring and editing. Great job. Venue & Times: Eric Liddle Sports Centre in Eltham This opportunity gives us exclusive use of the pool and has been booked from Monday 27th July from 10.20 to 12.20 every Monday to Friday. The times have been split into 2 session each an hour long. This includes entrance & exit from the centre and pool. The actual swimming times will be slightly shorter. Squad Schedule & Coaches: We have tried to schedule as much time for every squad as we can. The more we book in, the firmer the dates become. The Committee have been working with our main coaches to ensure every session is covered by at least 1 fully qualified Level 2 and experienced coach. We have done this to ensure the swimmers are not rushed back into training. There will be a full training schedule built around the squads, providing consistency across the days and will be aimed at getting swimmers back up to the correct levels of fitness and technique. In line with the Covid guidance (see below) we have capacity for only 6 swimmers per lane. Covid Guidelines: In the second attachment (Eltham guide) we have enclosed a copy of the Covid-19 guidelines that you should read and become familiar with. As you can see, Orpington Ojays and Eric Liddle have been very thorough and we are going above and beyond the Swim England guidance to ensure the safety of our swimmers and members. We have every confidence that these guidelines will give the best protection against the spread of infection while swimming. Booking Process: The process of getting back into the pool means we have a few Covid related forms to complete. As per the enclosed – without these forms being returned prior to swimming – you will not be allowed to swim. Therefore it is imperative you complete and submit both of these forms ASAP. Again, if the forms have not been submitted you will not be allowed into the pool. There is a separate booking form for Masters Squad. Can you please complete one form for all of the sessions you wish to attend across the 5 weeks and submit it. Cost & Payment: The cost is £4 Per session. You can book as many sessions for your squad as you wish. Once the schedule has been confirmed we will then confirm your booking and then seek payment.
Eltham guide.pdf
Covid-19 and Risk Awareness Declaration
Masters Booking Form
Pre-training Covid-19 health survey
Saturday 18th July 2020
Congratulations to Matt Steere and Gina Charleton for competing in one of the few open water events around at the moment on Friday 17th of July. The event consisted of multiple waves to keep swimmers apart and then all the times are ordered to determine the winner. The course was a 1600m (1 mile) swim at Canary Wharf. Matt made the call that he could complete a wave and be back and ready to swim again, so he entered all three available waves; the first setting off at 06:30! Matt therefore finished 2nd by just four seconds, but then lined up again, and then again, so he also finished 6th and 7th overall. Gina took the later wave, getting another hour of sleep and she came in 29th out of 104 entries. Well done to you both, and great to see some competitions returning.
I'm sure you were as pleased as the Committee to hear the Government's confirmation that they have given the green light for pools to reopen for training. While this is fantastic news we are still at the mercy of the actual pool providers, whether that's one of the school pools we use, Crystal Palace, Eric Liddle Sports Centre or MyTime. As of writing we know the school pools will not be used over the summer school holidays, Crystal Palace is closed for some much needed refurbishment and MyTime have still not announced when they will be reopening. However – we have been working closely with Eric Liddle Sports Centre (Eltham) and we have managed to secure a 5 week booking of their pool starting 27th July 2020! This opportunity gives us exclusive use of the pool and has been booked from Monday 27th July from 10.20 to 12.20 every Monday to Friday. The times have been split into 2 session each an hour long so that we can give everyone a chance to train over the 5 week period. There will be a much more in-depth message sent to every squad which gives more information on the times and which squads are scheduled when. And, more importantly an update on our very comprehensive Covid-19 guide and the measures we will have at every session of swimming. As we have the opportunity to return as many swimmers to the pool as possible we would like to confirm that the voluntary contributions are no longer required. We would like to thank everyone who has supported Ojays over the last few months. We really do appreciate your support. When we have a better idea of the full return to training then we will advise you that the subs should be reinstated and what they will be. Once again, thank you for your support and we hope to see as many as possible book into the training sessions… Thanks and regards David Ryan Chair – Orpington Ojays
Captains for 2020-21
Wednesday 1st July 2020
The captains have been selected for 2020-21. Well done and thank you to all who applied and congratulations to our new captains and vice captains.
Regrettably we have to announce that our Head Coach, Sergio Catania will not be returning to OOJSC when we are able to resume training. These are challenging and unsettled times for us all and consequently we have all had time and opportunity to reflect and re-evaluate. Now that Swim England have released their guidance to return to the pool The committee are working hard on our own strategy for that. We will ensure that all sessions are covered by our very competent coaching team. As soon as we have more details on what the return to swimming will look like for us as a club we will communicate with you. In the meantime we wish Sergio the best for the future and thank him for his years of service to our club.
Eve Powis
Monday 4th May 2020
It is with great sadness that we hear that our ex head coach Eve Powis passed away in hospital on the 3rd of May at the age of 82. Eve started coaching with Orpington Swimming Club in 1982 taking a widths squad. Two years later with just 19 swimmers she founded and was head coach of Orpington Juniors Swimming Club, known verbally as O.J.'s and when this club merged with Orpington Swimming Club Eve became the first head coach of Orpington Ojays Swimming Club, which she held for many years. Eve's qualifications for teaching and coaching included ASA Preliminary Teacher, Teacher, Advanced Teacher, Assistant Club Coach and Coach and in 1997 Eve was awarded by Bromley Council the Coach of the Year award. In 2008 she was awarded the Jack Petchey leader award for outstanding work with young people. At the age of 65 she stepped down as head coach but not ready to retire completely she took over Gold squad until she was physically unable to continue. She was a phenomenal coach, enabling swimmers to reach their potentials with one swimmer making it to the Common Wealth Games after winning Gold at Nationals in the 100m and 200m 12 years old Breaststroke. Like all head coaches she was determined and persistent in her vision and passion for swimming and success. This is also evident in the fact that a number of her swimmers still hold our club records. Our thoughts are of thanks and gratitude to Eve for all she did and achieved and of compassion and condolences for her family; her daughter recently returned to our club in our Masters Squad.
Pass the Pull Buoy
With no training and no competitions to keep us busy we decided to make a little video as a way of saying hello and to see some of our team. Enjoy. 😁
Pass the Pull Buoy, on YouTube
Club Quiz
Our club captains have videoed a quiz which has been uploaded to YouTube. The video goes live at 7pm this evening if you would like to play. All you need is a pen and paper, and probably the pause button to give yourself a bit more time to answer. Enjoy.
OOJSC Quiz
Steve makes 40 years
Tuesday 7th April 2020
Today, 7th April 2020, marks Stephen Morris' 40th year as a member of the club, according to his ASA membership date anyway. Steve has swum in every squad during his time, and was one of the co-founders of Masters squad with his Best Man, and our most captained swimmer, Simon Mullinger. Over the years Steve has helped out in a number of roles. He has been Social Secretary and Chairman, he has developed and maintained our website since 2001, he has run our club shop for over 10 years, he has been a chaperone on the October camp since 2013 along with his wife Kerry and in February 2014 he qualified as a Level 1 Coach to help out all squads when necessary. After watching Keri-anne Payne swim in the Great North Swim, Steve tried open water swimming in July 2012 at Leybourne Lakes and has since represented the club in many races alongside a handful of other Masters squad swimmers who he has talked into trying out non chlorinated water. These include lake, river and sea swims, some at night, with distances up to 10k. His most recent pool racing was the European Masters event held at the London Aquatic Centre in 2016.
Friday 3rd April 2020
Here at Orpington Ojays, our team take pride in helping wherever we can; and so we would like to say a big well done to our parents in the front-line in the battle against Covid-19. Gold Squad parents Bernie and Andre Maganagan, mum and dad to Andrew and Aaron, both work at the Princess Royal University Hospital in Locksbottom. Bernie is a senior staff nurse on a Covid ward, and Andre is a team leader in anesthetics and scrub, redeployed as standby for patient intubation. They sent out an appeal via the club officials for more personal protective equipment for their medical colleagues; and we answered. Wendy Peel, mum to Max and Eve in Top squad, got in touch with a connection at Harris Orpington and asked the school if they had any goggles. The staff there got busy donating three crates of goggles, two boxes of masks and one of gloves. Wendy asked if her number could be passed round to other schools and she was soon busy picking up donations of boxes of sterilised goggles, 400 aprons, masks and a 5l tub of hand sanitiser, from Harris Bromley, Ravens Wood and Hayes schools. Kevin and Myra Brown, parents to Ellie in Top squad, secured a donation of gloves, and Amanda Jackson, mum to Top squad swimmer Samantha, donated some protective visors. The equipment has all now gone to help protect staff at the Princess Royal University Hospital while they continue their vital work. What an amazing effort from everyone involved! And it's still ongoing, so if anyone can help in anyway – there is a particular need for aprons - please email oojscnewsletter@gmail.com and we can put you in touch with the right people.
Princess Royal University Hospital
London Spring Championships
Sophia and Samantha both attended the London Spring Championships at the London Aquatic Centre representing Orpington Ojays. The girls both had ups and down swims but we had a Bronze Medal from Sophia O'Neill in the 200m Backstroke and we had some great pbs from Samantha Jackson in the 200M Breaststroke and 50m Freestyle. Well done to both girls.
Tuesday 17th March 2020
Monday 16th March was Damian's last coaching session with Orpington Ojays. Damian has been a very popular coach with our club for almost five years and has coached most of the squads at some point, and was interim head coach for a short period. Before becoming a coach, Damian was a swimmer himself, joining the club as a young child in the late 80's and swimming up through all the squads. You can see some his early results from the competition menu which goes back to 2002. Damian's experience in the pool and on poolside has prepared him for his new opportunity at Erith & District Swimming Club as their head coach. Congratulations Damian on your new position and we look forward to seeing you again at future competitions.
Charity Meet
On the 7th and 8th of March Orpington Ojays co-hosted the annual charity meet with our friends from Erith & District Swimming Club. It was great to see so many swimmers taking part and lots of parents helping to run the event. Orpington Ojays had record numbers of competitors this year – 74 swimmers in 380 events who achieved many PBs, medals and rubber ducks. We finished second on the medal table achieving 44 golds, 26 silvers and 34 bronze medals. It was a full-on weekend filled with successes, joy and laughter. Thanks to all involved for making this a great event. It wasn't just the swimmers who had a successful weekend. Congratulations to officials Mandy Jackson, Gary Spicer, Rid Stevens and Jeremy Ellis who passed J1, Myra Brown who achieved her J2, and Wendy Peel, who passed her timekeeping assessment. Big thanks are also due to the parent volunteers who stepped up to help make the day run smoothly, especially Myra Brown and Michelle Frisby. We also had swimmer volunteers Sam Ryan and Samantha Jackson, Ellie Brown who combined swimming with volunteering, and Ben Langdown, Amelia Frisby and Ellie Harden who gave all the volunteers much needed support, too. We always need more parent volunteers at galas, so if you didn't help this time, please consider it for next time. Well done to everyone for their great efforts.
Kent Relays
Thursday 5th March 2020
The last event of the 2020 Kent County Championships took place on Saturday 29th February with the team relays event. Orpington Ojays celebrated its most successful performance in recent years, making seventeen out of 20 finals and showing the depth and breadth of talent within the club. Swimmers participating included Aaron and Andrew Magcanan, Xian Ming Li, Joshua Hill and Samuel Spicer in the Boys 12&Under events; Charlotte Bloodworth, Charlotte Field, Ava Hickey and Nabilah Ismail in the Girls 12& Under events; Vaatsalya Swarup, Thomas Barrett, Louis Taylor and Samuel Ryan in the Boys 13/14 events; Sophia O'Neil, Joella Binns, Amie Lawrence, Grace Tume and Lauren Bond in the Girls 13/14 events. Older swimmers competing in the Junior events included James Yuen, Harvey Bushby-Knight, Ben Langdown and James Somerville-Cotton and for the Girls Juniors Hannah Strover, Lilli-Mae Cooper, Samantha Jackson, Blythe Jolley-Ellis and Ellie Brown. Our Senior open swimmers included Club Captains Max Peel and Alice Leng, Vice-Captain Abigail Leeves, Ellie Harden and Daniella Shipley, who returned from university to compete. Special recognition goes to Sam Ryan and Samantha Jackson who did their team-mates proud by swimming in many age-group events including the mixed relays and Senior events, digging deep to give their best. Congratulations to James Yuen, Joella Binns, Grace Tume, Samuel Spicer and Ellie Brown who all competed in their first Kent County competition! The Girls' Junior 200 Free team and the Women's Open 400 Free team both made the podium, achieving Bronze medals. The remaining final results were one 4th, four 5ths, five 6ths, two 7ths and three 8th positions. Thanks to all the swimmers, parents cheering from the gallery, and coaches who had a very busy day organising the swimmers, and to Mark Leman for the photos. Fantastic results from a great team!
Photos from Mark Leman
Results from the Kent Swimming website
Josh is chosen for County Development
Wednesday 26th February 2020
Congratulations to Joshua Hill, whose performance in the recent Kent County Championships has won him a place on the 11-year-old county development pathway. Josh, along with the other top 11-year-old boys and girls in Kent, will be taking part in three training camps during the year. He'll be given some top coaching in the pool and some fun land-training sessions too. Well done, Josh! It's a great achievement.
Presentation Evening
Swimmers, coaches and parents from Orpington Ojays donned their gladrags on Friday evening to celebrate the last year at the annual Presentation Evening. It was a lively evening with lots of laughs as awards and trophies were handed out for the swimmers' achievements in the club champs, and throughout the year. All the swimmers who took part in the club champs got an award, and there were trophies for the top performers. There were some special awards, too. Nabilah Ismail scooped the Martin Fowler trophy for giving the best at training and galas. Vaatsalya Swarup took home the Powis trophy for showing great promise. Zoe White was awarded the Wendy Westpfel trophy for masters, and Joshua Hill was so pleased with his Jill Ivory Memorial trophy for most promising potential, that he didn't let go of it all evening Sophia O'Neill took the Jo Mullins trophy for being the top u14, and Sam Ryan took the John Daniels trophy for all-round excellence. In the Crofton & Guides trophy for performance during the year, Samantha Jackson was awarded the girls' trophy and Aaron Magcanan took the boys' trophy. Aaron's brother Andrew won the head coach trophy, along with Charlotte Field and James Yuen was given the Commitment trophy for his performance in training and galas. Committee member Myra Brown was a very deserving recipient of the Ruth West trophy for contribution to the club, and Andrea Richardson, our tireless membership secretary scooped the Derek Robinson trophy for a committee member who has made a significant contribution to the club. Last year, the club introduced a new trophy in memory of masters swimmer Meg Forbes, who passed away in 2019, aged just 28. It's to reward someone for trying something new, or facing a challenge and this year was given to Gina Charleton. Masters swimmer Gina has recovered from a nasty accident on her bike earlier this year and has got back to full fitness showing real determination. Once the awards had been given out, it was time for the fun. Everyone enjoyed the game of Heads and Tails, which revealed that many of us know very little about swimming trivia, despite spending so long in or next to the pool! The coaches then took on each other in the Battle of the Coaches with the kids all cheering them on wildly. Gold squad coach Sam Gaster scooped the prize to come out top – by a massive margin. Sergio and Damian are likely already in training for next year! It was a fabulous evening of celebration and thanks must go to social secretary Zahida Parveen for organising it all so brilliantly, to Martin Scobie for stepping in as photographer, and to Julie Strover for rising to the challenge of organising all the trophies.
All the photos from the evening are here
Kents Weekend 3
Wednesday 5th February 2020
The first weekend in February was the third and final round of the Kent County Championships at Crystal Palace. We were proud to have 28 Orpington Ojays swimmers competing in a total of 74 events. Ready to swim fast once again were: Aaron Magcanan, Abigail Leaves, Alice Leng, Amelia Frisby, Amie Lawrence, Andrew Magcanan, Ava Hickey, Ben Langdown, Blythe Jolley-Ellis, Carys Bond, Charlotte Bloodworth, Charlotte Field, Ellie Harden, Eve Peel, Hannah Strover, Harvey Bushby-Knight, James Somerville-Cotton, Joshua Hill, Lauren Bond, Lilli-Mae-Cooper, Louis Taylor, Matilda Barrett, Max Peel, Samantha Jackson, Sam Ryan, Sophia O'Neill, Vaatsalya Swarup, and Xian Ming Li. It was another successful weekend in the pool for our swimmers. We started with Samantha Jackson finishing 4th in 200 IM and Sam Ryan winning silver in 400m freestyle. Joshua Hill followed with a 4th place in both the heat and final of 50m fly with a 3-second PB from his converted entry time. And another good PB and a fantastic performance saw Sam Ryan achieving another silver in 50m fly. In the fastest event of the championship – 50m freestyle – Samantha Jackson managed to gain a place in the final and achieved 6th overall in her age group. There was an early start for the first of the Sunday sessions with Joshua Hill and Sam Ryan each achieving another fourth in their age group for 200 individual medley, swiftly followed by Amie Lawrence who came 8th and Samantha Jackson who came 5th in the girls 400m freestyle. In the afternoon our swimmers tackled the boys 50m backstroke and girls 50m butterfly, where we saw Samantha Jackson achieving 8th, Aaron Magcanan finishing 6th, Joshua Hill gaining another silver medal and Sam Ryan another gold. All great swims and PBs. The evening session included girls 50m breaststroke and boys 50m freestyle where there were many more PBs. Charlotte Field achieved a 2-second PB and a bronze medal, and Alice Leng made the final where she came 6th. Joshua Hill achieved 4th place in the 50m freestyle, and Sam Ryan improved his position from third in the heat to take gold in the final. It was a great championship with our swimmers giving their best in every race. We enjoyed three weekends of great swims, hard work, PBs, banter and laughter. Orpington Ojays finished this year's Kent County Championships with six gold medals, six silver medals and two bronze medals, which placed us in 8th for the boys, 17th in the girls and 11th overall in the medal table. We also had five 4th places, six 5th, four 6th, six 7th and seven 8th places. This saw us in 8th in the boys table on points, 14th in the girls, and 13th place overall. Well done to all the Orpington Ojays swimmers and coaches for another successful Kents! And thank you as always to the parents, officials and volunteers who helped make this year's competition run smoothly. Photos used with the kind permission of Mark Leman @leman_mark
Photos from all three weekends
Orpington Ojays swimmers were at Crystal Palace last weekend for the second round of the Kent County Championships, working hard to make their coaches and parents proud once again. This weekend the swimmers were taking on 400 IM, 100m and 200m back and 100m and 200m free. Sam Ryan opened the first session with a silver medal and an amazing 11 second PB in the 400 IM. Next up was the girls 100m backstroke, where Sophia O'Neill finished 7th and Hannah Strover 8th in their finals. Then it was time for the boys 200m freestyle with Sam Ryan achieving another silver medal. After a short break and warm up we were back with the boys 100m free. Achieving finals and PBs were Andrew Magcanan (8th), and Joshua Hill (5th). And there was a podium for Sam Ryan, who finished first and achieved PBs in both his heat and the final. Billy Birchmore also made the podium, achieving another gold medal to add to his collection. Hannah Strover achieved 8th place with a well-paced swim in the 200m backstroke in the last event on Saturday. Sunday began with the girls 400m IM. Well done to our three girls for achieving a place in the hardest event of the programme and for pushing themselves to perform well. Some great swims saw Amelia Frisby come in 9th and Charlotte Field in 7th. Samantha Jackson made the podium and finished 3rd. In the boys 100m backstroke we saw a strong swim from Joshua Hill who finished 5th, and there was another gold for Sam Ryan and Billy Birchmore Both Joshua and Sam also swam well in the 200m back when Joshua came 5th and Sam made the podium again with another silver medal. Well done also to Max Peel who achieved 7th place in the 17+ 200m backstroke. The weekend also saw many other great swims by Ellie Harden, Aaron Magcanan, Xian Ming Li, Vaatsalya Swarup, Charlotte Bloodworth, Ben Langdown, Matilda Barrett and Blythe Jolley-Ellis. Congratulations to all swimmers for another successful weekend full of great races, PBs and banter. Thanks also to the parents and officials who helped the events run smoothly. Photos used with the kind permission of Mark Leman @leman_mark
On the 18th of January our team travelled to the London Aquatic Centre to participate in the first weekend of the Kent County competitions. The event included 100m and 200m breaststroke and fly for boys and girls. The poolside was busy with many swimmers participating in this event and Orpington Ojays managed to cover a good corner to sit and enjoy the competition. New faces were welcomed in Kent circuit: Aaron and Andrew Magcanan, Dylan Cosgrove, Vaatsalya Swarup, Carys Bond, Lily-Mae Cooper. The weekend ran smoothly with swimmers showing a good competitive spirit accompanied by a great team support and cheering. While the weekend progressed Orpington Ojays proved to be worthy opponents with their performances across all our swims which were well paced and around pbs. Well done to our athletes competing: Carys Bond, Ava Hickey, Matilda Barrett, Amie Lawrence, Charlotte Field, Samantha Jackson, Alice Leng, Amelia Frisby, Lily-Mae Cooper, Andrew Magcanan, Aaron Magcanan, Joshua Hill, Dylan Cosgrove, Louis Taylor, Ben Langdown, Vaatsalya Swarup and Sam Ryan, At the end of the two days Orpington Ojays came home with Sam Ryan holding two great pbs and golds for 100m and 200m fly, Billy Birchmore matching his pb obtaining a gold in 100m fly. Charlotte Field achieving fourth in the final improving again on her previous pb swam in the heat. Charlotte also achieved 5th in 200m Breaststroke. Fifth also for Joshua Hill in 100m fly with 7 sec pb on his entry time. Congratulations also go to Matilda Barrett 6th in 200m fly, Samantha Jackson in 800m free and Alice Leng in the final of the 100m breaststroke finished 7th. Ava Hickey was 8th in the 200m fly and Samantha Jackson was 8th in the 15 200m breaststroke. Well done everyone! Photos used with the kind permission of Mark Leman @leman_mark
Tudor League
Sunday 19th January 2020
Orpington Ojays went to Beckenham Spa in good spirit for the first round of the Tudor League where we came a respectable 5th. We had a total of 7 1st places and a lot of good swims from everyone. Well done to all the swimmers that competed for the club and a massive well done to all the swimmers who attended there first gala for the club. Thank you to all the captains, helpers on poolside and all parents who came along to support.
Monday 6th January 2020
Well done to all our swimmers who, on the first weekend of the year, competed in the Icebreaker at the new Dover pool. It was great to see the team spirit and support from our swimmers. Great attendance with some mixed results but a few pbs just after the Christmas break and many good swims. Official results to follow.
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HKM Professional Association is pleased to announce the selection of our President and senior trial lawyer, William L. Moran, among America's Top 100 Civil Defense Litigators® for 2018. Selection to America's Top 100 Civil Defense Litigators® is by invitation only and is reserved to identify the most exceptional Civil Defense Litigators in the nation.
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BBC America Unveils 'Doctor Who' 50th Anniversary Special Poster
BBC America unveiled a key piece of art, and the title, of the upcoming Doctor Who 50th Anniversary special.
Airing Saturday, Nov. 23, the 75-minute special will be called "The Day Of The Doctor" and will, as we previously knew, current Doctor Matt Smith, current companion Jenna Coleman, former Doctor David Tennant and former companion Billie Piper (returning to the franchise for the first time since 2010). Of course, it will also star John Hurt as an incarnation of our favorite Time Lord.
The image released today with the title is dominated by Smith and Tennant, back-to-back, with a smaller version of Hurt emerging from an explosion between them. But it's Hurt, and what's behind him, that catches the eye. Hurt is striding away from obliterated Daleks (casualties of the Time Wars?), and what appears to be wreckage from the TARDIS. Also, the words "Bad Wolf" are spray painted on a wall to Hurt's left -- which of course calls to mind the entity that inhabited Rose Tyler (Piper) in Season One of the revived "Who" series, and was the sign spread throughout time and space, and foretold the end of the universe.
Gallifreyan language appears in the background of the explosive element, and I could be reading way too much into this, but it looks like Hurt is wearing Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor leather jacket. And does Hurt's shark-fin faux-hawk hair remind you of Tennant's old 'do? What clue do I not see? Any mention of Peter Capaldi, who will be taking over for Smith in the Christmas Special. Smith announced his departure earlier in the summer, and there's a rumor that Capaldi might pop up in the 50th special.
Anyhow, let the speculation begin, but in a press release, Smith promised, "There's lots more coming your way, as the countdown to the 50th begins now."
As an added bonus, "The Day Of The Doctor" (and Doctors) premiers Nov. 23, just a few days before Thanksgiving, so you'll have a lot to talk about with your relatives to avoid conversations about religion, politics and football.
-Aaron Sagers
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Exploiting nature for money is a thing of the past. Yeah not really; but it should be. All across the globe humans are furrowing their brows, concerned about the sustainability of and our effects on wildlife.
Muscles were tingling, cinching up somewhere inside as I was surrounded by the "typicals" swiping from photo to photo on their phones at the harbor in Ushuaia. We had just gone from hut to hut elbowing past swaths of people lining up beside business signs on the walkway. The signs had crouching humans taking selfies with Magellanic Penguins. "Visit Penguin Island!" they said. This was where crouching people turned into an encroaching species. I hurt for the animals.
Watching the wildlife in the Beagle Channel was what I was most excited about during our stay in The America's southernmost city.
"Which one are we going to pick?" Andrew asked nodding toward the tour huts.
I was at a crossroads of what I wanted to do, and what I knew we should do.
"I don't really want to go" I said unsure. To his credit, he was totally supportive and on board as to why. We opted out for the better choice, conservation friendly Parque Pingüino Rey.
We saved one of the most, if not the most, exciting part of our Patagonian backpacking trip for last. Parque Pingüino Rey is the only colony of King Penguins on the South American mainland. The park is managed by the Chilean government who does a surprisingly good job balancing the education of the public with respecting the privacy of the penguins. The big factor is keeping a responsible distance behind a bird blind.
King Penguins are the second biggest species in the world. They look very similar to their cousins, the Emperor Penguins in Antarctica.
The colony felt surprisingly inland. It felt kind-of strange to see penguins in the middle of field in summer. But they were next to a river that jetted out to a bay.
The first moment of wonder was being entranced by how alien-esq penguins look like. I never really got past just how weird they were, but impressive. Their gold throats caught the sunlight. Their silver frosted feathers did too. They cooed then swashbuckled each other with their needle beaks. Eggs protruded out of their parent's bellies. We observed the rule makers and the outcasts. Each penguin had a different personality. A pair courted and mated on the outskirts of the huddle and folded necks. A chick pestered its mother (who was smaller than he) for feeding. Clearly she was annoyed.
Dogs guarded the grounds to protect the penguin chicks from foxes.
If you're like me, you think of penguin chicks being tiny and adorable like the character from Happy Feet. No one ever thinks about the ugly teenager chicks that look like Chewbacca– ugly future bearing fuzzballs.
Penguins waddled over to the bay for fishing trips. It took me so long to arrive at this little sanctuary, years waiting to visit Patagonia and many miles backpacking around the region. But for as long as it took me, they bobbled out into the surf and disappeared back into the wild just as quick.
So far from the crowds at the Ushuaia harbor, I stood in the bird blind with 8 fellow photographers. No, I wouldn't have a penguin hop into my lap. No penguin selfies here. My mid-grade camera lense didn't zoom quite as far as I would have liked. But I left with the feeling that I had observed something truly wild and unspoiled. And there aren't many places like that left on Earth.
Which is the perfect end to my 5 part Patagonian Chronicle. There just aren't many unspoiled places like Patagonia left on Earth.


Forum > Technical Help and Questions > HC might soon be open source!
you have about this big step in HC's history directly to Veit.
So, could you explain a li'l bit more what do you plan to do?
I also wonder what you mean! What is open source?
process. As i posted before - i don`t think that money is a problem.
So I'm excited about this announcement and I am willing to help and to assist.
Add me to your list if you set up an email list.
starting from scratch with clean code.
It would be a great news.
would suite well the HC concept .


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Free Reading: Triumff by Dan Abnett – Excerpt #4
In conjunction with Angry Robot, the new global publishing imprint from HarperCollins,
we are pleased to present five daily excerpts from their upcoming Fantasy novel, Triumff by Dan Abnett (which sounds gloriously good and we will be reviewing in the future):
Sir Rupert Triumff. Adventurer. Fighter. Drinker.
Saviour?
Pratchett goes swashbuckling in the hotly anticipated original fiction debut of the multi-million selling Warhammer star.
Triumff is a ribald historical fantasy set in a warped clockwork-powered version of our present day … a new Elizabethan age, not of Elizabeth II but in the style of the original Virgin Queen. Throughout its rollicking pages, Sir Rupert Triumff drinks, dines and duels his way into a new Brass Age of Exploration and Adventure.
Day Four Excerpt:
The Third Chapter
which doth contain a most engaging
discourse upon modern issues
of discovery, and also
a visit to the bath-house
Almost every day, a ship of the Royal Unified Navy leaves one of Britain's harbours bearing Letters of Passage that grant it the majestic right to discover, explore and, frankly, pillage less fortunate or well-known parts of the globe. On that St Dunstan's Day alone, Sir Walter de File sailed out of Portsmouth on the Peacespite to see if there was anything of merit between Florida and Argentina, Lord Archimboldo cast off from Southampton aboard the Golden Shot in search of the South Indies, and Thomas Pickering, mariner, sailed his cog the Batty Crease into Toamasina and discovered Madagascar* (and stayed there, which is why Madagascar didn't appear on charts until 2046. But that really is another story).
Letters of Passage, granted by the Queen, were potent tools that gave the seafarer virtual copyright over anything he discovered in the name of the Unity. They were sweeping powers, but necessary. Without such an incentive, it was doubtful anyone would voluntarily spend two or three years in a badly caulked, leaking, unhygienic, overgrown barrel, adrift on the stormiest oceans of the world, braving corsairs, sea-serpents, kraken, bull whales, foreign powers, Scurvy, Rickets, Dutch Wart, hostile native peoples, famine, thirst, drowning, marooning, becalming, casting-away, mutinying, keelhauling, slipping off a topgallant in icy conditions and braining yourself on the taffrail, acting as a human lightning conductor whilst on watch in the crow's-nest during a freak electrical storm, choking on a ship's biscuit, scalding to death in the ship's kettle, being operated on by the surgeon's mate after grog-rations, smoking in the Orlop next to the Powder Room, going back to check on a lit 32-pounder, happening to mention out loud that you fancied some albatross soup, or, of course, falling off the edge of the world**.
Voyages of Discovery were a dirty, dangerous and complicated business and no mistake***.
The procedures surrounding a victorious return however, were simple. The explorer, bearing his Letters of Passage, was given a respectable length of time to rest, recuperate and get his land-legs back, before he was required to present a report of his discoveries to the Queen. The explorer would be celebrated, paid a considerable sum known as "a Regarde" to acknowledge his achievement, and would probably have the discovered place officially named after him. In return, he would formally hand the Letters of Passage over to the Queen, and, in so doing, bequeath the territory to the Unity.
Only then could further expeditions be arranged. This second wave of voyages would hurtle off along the trail blazed by the original explorer, and, using his notes, maps and gathered intelligence, thoroughly plunder, despoil and exploit the new-found corner of the world. It was the way things were done.
However, until the explorer had made his report and handed back the all-important Letters of Passage, none of that could take place. There was huge money in new discoveries, not to mention honour, prestige, fame, governships and nubile local women, and the Unity's huge Exploitation Industry therefore waited with eager anticipation for the green light on a new Continent, as did the Church, which was hungrier for fresh sources of Cantriptic power than they cared to admit.
All of this explained the mounting frustration felt at Court over Rupert Triumff. He'd been away. He'd come back, flushed with success, explaining that he had discovered new lands in the Southern Oceans. He'd brought with him many astonishing finds and trinkets, including four hundred and six new species of plant, a lot of non-placental fauna, and a noble, dark-skinned autochthon as an ambassador of the Meridional Climes. Then, months had passed, months in which he showed no signs of making his report, months in which the Letters of Passage idled in his desk under lock and key, long, slow months, which the Unity's reavers, exploiters and churchmen suffered with increasing impatience, hives, palpitations and stress-induced migraines.
No one had ever taken so long to deliver his report, not even Captain Jacob Tavistock, of the Blue Beagle, who came back from discovering Bermuda with amnesia, and had to have his memory gently nursed back by a team of specially trained Spanish inquisitors.
No one knew what to do about it. There just wasn't provision in the statutes to deal with a holder of valuable Letters of Passage who was backward in coming forward. They were usually all so anxious to get their hands on their Regarde, buy a big place in Oxenfordshire, and marry a girl who was either a minor Royal or blonde or, best of all, both.
When a full six months had elapsed with no sign of Triumff, the Privy Council began to look into the matter, scouring the many volumes of regulations for a loophole. They consulted the Navy, the Church and the various lords that might know. Solutions there were none. The ball, it appeared, was firmly in Triumff's court. It was up to him to take the initiative, and up to the rest of the government and other interested parties to lump it.
However, the interlude was now long enough for even a busy Queen to start noticing it, and that, as the Privy Council soon found out, was the one thing they hadn't thought of. The simple way to get around the legal thicket protecting Triumff was to erase the laws, and the one person who could do that was the Queen.
The only thing that ever weighed heavily on Her Majesty was about half-a-ton of lace, silk, gauze, kapok, sequins and pearls. Nothing else troubled her or slowed her down much, particularly not minor foibles like statutes or civil laws. It was the matter of a moment, and the work of a scratching quill, to ascribe new Letters of Passage to another explorer and expunge the life, property, rights and memory of Rupert Triumff from the land.
Triumff might have been the only person who had actually been expecting as much for a while. He knew it was just a matter of time. He'd stalled for as long as he could, hoping the Court would swallow his ploy, but now he needed something else, some more active course to follow. He needed a new ploy.
That was exactly what he'd been afraid of, because, unfortunately, if there was one thing he really didn't shine at, it was ploys.
Considerations of the possible size, shape, colour and cost of a potential new ploy, as well as how he might recognise it, filled Triumff's mind as he paid a shilling to the doorman and entered the warm, damp embrace of the Dolphin Bath House at twenty past four. There was the best part of another hour before they shut for the night, and late-afternoon bathers, seeking a restorative for agued limbs made rheumy by a week of heavy rain, jostled about the place. Their pallid, portly shapes could be glimpsed in the steamy atmosphere, lurking under the green-shadowed colonnades, slapping across the tiled walks, or sliding walrus-like into the pools.
The warm, wet air smelled of soaked stonework, body odour, antiseptic and wrinkled skin.
A meaty attendant with arms like hams and a tight blue bathing cap came over and handed Triumff a clean towel.
"Changing over there," he said, pointing to the doorways in the shadows of the western colonnade, marked variously "Miladies" and "Migents", as well as three marked "Sauna", "Jacuzzi & Cold Plunge" and "'Assail". The attendant turned his moon-face back to Triumff. "No carousing, no splashing, no bombing and no pissing in ye pool. We close at six."
"Thank you so much, I know the rules," Triumff said, glaring. The attendant shook his rubber-capped head at Triumff and wandered away. The cap was so tight, he looked like a bald man with a frost-bitten scalp.
The Migents changing area was vacant, except for hooks full of unlaced doublets, capes, canions and wrinkled hose. Triumff stripped off swiftly, and then, with his towel knotted around his waist, crossed to the frosted window in the west wall. It was high up. He had to climb up on a bench to reach it, and in doing so knocked somebody's slashed applique pansid slops and heavily bombasted codpiece into the puddles on the floor.
Steam had swelled the window's frame into wedged plumpness, but three smart blows with the ball of his hand finally knocked it out. Cold, evening air rushed in and stung his flushed face.
"Uptil!" he hissed into the dark of the alley beyond. "Uptil!"
"Give us a hand up, mate," muttered Uptil from outside. Triumff obliged by heaving the large man up and in through the window. It wasn't easy, and it took a good few moments. Triumff prickled with agitation as he strained to counterbalance Uptil's weight, expecting an interruption at any second.
Finally, he was in. Uptil was shrouded in a hooded serge cloak. He produced Triumff's scabbarded rapier from beneath its folds, asking, "Want this?"
"Right, where am I going to conceal that?"
Uptil winked, and said, "Exactly. That's why I fished this out of the garbage."
He held out the Couteau Suisse.
"Okay, that's actually quite a good idea," Triumff admitted. "Now, stay out of sight, keep your eyes peeled, and if you hear me whistle, move like the clappers."
Uptil nodded.
"And," he added, "if anyone does see you, remember the Ploy."
Uptil nodded again.
"The Ploy. Right," he said, making his "lamps on, nobody home" face.
Triumff wandered out into the Bath Hall. No one seemed to spare him a second glance. Already, many of the bathers, sensing the approaching end of the day, were climbing from the pools and heading for the shower stalls. Triumff dropped his towel, wrapped the Couteau Suisse in it, and left it on the edge of the pool. Then he waded down the steps into the warm waters of the main bath. There was a stone seat against the side, beneath the water level, which one could sit on to bask in the relaxing heat. Triumff sat, wiped his face with a palm-scoop of water, and leant back, surveying the place with apparent disinterest.
Minutes passed. Triumff's hawkish vigil relaxed somewhat as the gently lapping, tepid environment lulled and soothed away his aches and cares. He breathed deeply and shook his head, fighting away the drowsy weight that seemed to have suffused his brain.
When he next opened his eyes, he was alone.
Triumff stiffened with a start. The steady drip of water resounded from somewhere, but nothing else: no voices, no sign of life. He wondered how long he had been asleep. Surely the attendants would have woken him if it had passed closing time? That implied that it was still before six o'clock. Yet where were the attendants?
Triumff tried to whistle, but his lips refused. He was up to his chest in many thousands of gallons of water, and his mouth was dry.
Then he saw the line of bubbles. They were crossing the centre of the pool and heading his way. He caught his breath.
Plip plip plip plip plip, they went.
They were ten yards away, coming straight for him. The steps out of the pool were ten yards to his right. He fancied the idea of clambering out of the pool where he was, using the seat as a leg up, but his limbs felt dull and heavy, and didn't seem strong enough to support him.
Plip plip plip plip plip, came the line of bubbles.
He became aware of how fast he was breathing.
"This is silly," he whispered out loud. "I can't just sit here, waiting to be harried by a line of bubbles."
Five yards away from him, with a last, ominous plip, the bubbles vanished.
Triumff opened his mouth and then closed it again. He considered submerging to take a look-see. By the time he had decided not to, it was academic anyway.
The swordsman exploded out of the water in front of him like a breaching whale. He was heavily muscled, and dressed in a greased breastplate and leather shorts. His face was hidden by a fierce, full-visored helmet that had been reworked to incorporate a trombone-pipe snorkel and leaded glass eye-holes. A rapier glinted in his hand, and the space between Triumff's naked body and the razor edge of the sword was diminishing alarmingly.
"Gniumpff!" raspberried the assassin tinnily through his snorkel, "Gie! Gie, goo girty gastard!"
Triumff threw his body to the left, thrashing against the slowness of the water. The stinging blade described a glittering arc, and rebounded loudly off the lip of the pool, against which Triumff had just been leaning.
"Gile get goo!" gurgled the assassin, turning after Triumff.
"Pardon?" yelped Triumff, heading out into mid-pool in a mix of headlong flight and doggy paddle.
"Gile get goo, goo girty gastard! Gore gonna gie gorrigly!"
The assassin's snorkel tube sucked and farted out the words. Water jetted out of the top of the air-pipe.
"What?" asked Triumff desperately.
The assassin ground to a halt some yards from the fleeing Triumff and waved his arms in frustration.
"Gook! Gook!" he snorted. "Gie…" he tapped himself on the breastplate.
Triumff looked uncertain. "You?"
The assassin nodded eagerly. "Gess! Gie gam gonna gurder…" he pointed to his rapier and then to Triumff "…goo."
"M-me?"
"Gess!" bubbled the assassin, clapping his hands. "Gorrigly," he added.
* And stayed there too, which is why Madagascar didn't appear on charts until 2046. But that really is another story.
** No one still believed that the Earth was flat, but there were still many adherents to the notion that it might be unfinished in remoter areas (presumably areas where the hills and valleys still had some scaffolding up, the rivers had yet to be plumbed-in, and cherubic workmen lounged about smoking rollies out of sight of the Foreman). There were also quite a few reluctant ex-flat-Earthers around, who couldn't quite go the whole hog and conceive of an Earth that was spherical, and therefore favoured the recherché "conical" theory.
*** Lord Marmaduke Latimer, Privy Seal to Elizabeth XVIII, was famous for drawing up his "Compendium Of The Relative Dangerf Of Sum Profeffionef". "Nautical Exploration" came third, between "Being An Heretic" and "Being Out Of Favoure", and "Generale Seafaring" came seventh over all, behind "Fightinge In An Foreigne War On The Lofing Side" and "Contractinge Ye Buboef". Top of the list, of course, was "Being An Potentate Of The Southern Americaf".
End of Excerpt #4. Come back tomorrow to read the fifth and final excerpt. And don't forget to check out the book's page: Triumff by Dan Abnett.
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Years ago you sent me the heart meditation of . . .
not good at charades, either. Aha! His first name was Robert.
Wonderful - it's not as if we have forgotten. - we have just filed it in the wrong drawer and it takes a wee while to find it. Thank you for a good laugh over breakfast. Now to try and remember where I put the marmalade!
Authentic and beautiful read... Now I want to research Robert (Aha!) Sardello!
A man and poem of great courage and perspicacity.
Nils' memoir is a culmination of so many of his wonderful poem made now into prose. It's such a beautiful read. I hope you read it; it will be an experience.
Although I'm 70, I relate...alas.
Perfect, Nils. You make it funny, and it really is!
The best way to approach it Nils. Humor helps. Really like your poem.
old age is not for sissies--good words!
Humor is the greatest way to attack a thing over which we have no control. Love the poem, Nils!
Going over to breakfast with my local buddies, to play a game of charades. They're good. It's the expansive vocabulary that is the problem, don't you think? Fine poem.
Wonderful! Now all I have to do is post my Comment. Did you say I didn't have to post it? Really? I am in the same boat and loved your poem.
I need a long thin wooden thing with a soft bit at one end and a pointy darker bit sticking out of the other end - oh, you know what it is... I could give this poem a double, treble... you know... mark you make with a long thin wooden thing to show you think something is good... oh, you know what I mean!


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Young India (April 1918)
The April 1918 issue of Young India (Vol. 1, No. 4) featured the following articles: "The International Importance of India" and "The New Internationalism" by Lajpat Rai, "Routes to India" by N.S. Hardiker, "India, a Self-Governing British Dominion" by Henry Hotchner, "Liquor and Christianity" by J.T. Sunderland, and "Humanism in Hindu Poetry" by Benoy Kumar Sarkar. "The New Internationalism" by Lajpat Rai is a speech that was delivered at the International Dinner organized by the People's Council of America with the Conference of Radical Socialist and Labor organizations, held in New York on February 16 and 17, 1918. A poem by Satis Chandra Roy titled "In Love with Terror," and a section on "Economic Notes" by Dixi are also printed in the issue.
The Officers for the India Home Rule of America for 1918 are listed as follows: Lajpat Rai (President and Treasurer), J.T. Sunderland (Vice-President), K.D. Shastri (Organizing Secretary), N.S. Hardiker (Executive Secretary). Councillors for the year are also listed: Henrietta Rodman of the India Group of the New York Civic Club, J.A. Setna, K.B. Kichlu, R.L. Bajpai, A.P. Warrington, H.K. Rakshit, and Sajjan Sing Sarna.
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Dino discoveries
When news breaks of the discovery of a new species of dinosaur, you would be forgiven for thinking that the scientists who set out in search of the fossils are the ones who made die find. The reality tells a different story, as Cavan Scott explains.
The BBC series Planet Dinosaur used state-of-the-art computer graphics to bring to life the most impressive of those dinosaurs whose remains have been discovered in the past decade. One of these is Gigantoraptor erlianensis. Discovered in 2005. it stands more than three metres high at the hip and is the biggest bird-like dinosaur ever unearthed Yet its discoverer. Xu Xing of Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Paleoanthropology, was not even looking for it at the time. He was recording a documentary in the Gobi Desert. Inner Mongolia.
'The production team were filming me and a geologist digging out what we thought were sauropod bones.' says Xu. 'when I realised the fossils were something else entirely.' Gigantoraptor, as it later became known, turned out to be an oviraptorid, a therapod with a bird-like beak. Its size was staggering. The largest oviraptorid previously discovered had been comparable in size to an emu: the majority were about as big as a turkey. Here was a creature that was probably about eight metres long, if the bone analysis was anything to go by.
Sometimes it is sheer opportunism that plays a part in the discovery of a new species. In 1999. the National Geographic Society announced that the missing link between dinosaurs and modern birds had finally been found. Named Archaeoraptor lianoingensis. the fossil in question appeared to have the head and body of a bird, with the hind legs and tail of a 124-million-year-old dromaeosaur - a family of small theropods that include the bird-like Velociraptor made famous by Jurassic Park films.
There was a good reason why the fossil looked half-bird, half-dinosaur. CT scans almost immediately proved the specimen was bogus and had been created by an industrious Chinese farmer who had glued two separate fossils together to create a profitable hoax.
But while the palaeontologists behind the announcement were wiping egg off their faces, others, including Xu were taking note. The head and body of the fake composite belonged to Yanornis martini, a primitive fish-eating bird from around 120 million years ago. The dromaeosaur tail and hind legs, however, were covered in what looked like fine proto feathers. That fossil turned out to be something special. In 2000. Xu named it Microraptor and revealed that it had probably lived in the treetops. Although it couldn't fly. its curved claws provided the first real evidence that dinosaurs could have climbed trees. Three years later. Xu and his team discovered a closely related Microraptor species which changed everything. 'Microraptor had two salient features.' Xu explains, long feathers were attached not just to its forearms but to its legs and claws. Then we noticed that these long feathers had asymmetrical vanes, a feature often associated with flight capability. This meant that we might have found a flying dinosaur.'
Some extraordinary fossils have remained hidden in a collection and almost forgotten. For the majority of the 20th century, the palaeontology community had ignored the frozen tundra of north Alaska. There was no way. scientists believed, that cold-blooded dinosaurs could survive in such bleak, frigid conditions. But according to Alaskan dinosaur expert Tony Fiorillo. they eventually realised they were missing a trick.
The first discovery of dinosaurs in Alaska was actually made by a geologist called Robert Liscomb in 1961.' says Fiorillo. 'Unfortunately, Robert was killed in a rockslide the following year, so his discoveries languished in a warehouse for the next two decades.' In the mid-1980s, managers at the warehouse stumbled upon the box containing Liscomb's fossils during a spring clean. The bones were sent to the United States Geological Survey, where they were identified as belonging to Edmontosaurus. a duck-billed hadrosaur. Today, palaeontologists roam this frozen treasure trove searching for remains locked away in the permafrost.
The rewards are worth the effort. While studying teeth belonging to the relatively intelligent Troodon therapod. Fiorillo discovered the teeth of the Alaskan Troodon were double the size of those of its southern counterpart. 'Even though the morphology of individual teeth resembled that of Troodon. the size was significantly larger than the Troodon found in warmer climates. Fiorillo says that the reason lies in the Troodon's large eyes, which allowed it to hunt at dawn and at dusk - times when other dinosaurs would have struggled to see. In the polar conditions of Cretaceous Alaska, where the Sun would all but disappear for months on end, this proved a useful talent. Troodon adapted for life in the extraordinary light regimes of the polar world. With this advantage, it took over as Alaska's dominant therapod.' explains Fiorillo.
Finding itself at the top of the food chain, the dinosaur evolved to giant proportions.
It is true that some of the most staggering of recent developments have come from palaeontologists being in the right place at the right time, but this is no reflection on their knowledge or expertise. After all, not everyone knows when they've stumbled upon something remarkable. When Argentine sheep farmer Guillermo Heredia uncovered what he believed was a petrified tree Irunk on his Patagonian farm in 1988. he had no way of realising that he'd found a 1.5-metre- long tibia of the largest sauropod ever known to walk the Earth. Argenlinosaurus was 24 metres long and weighed 75 tonnes. The titanosaur was brought to the attention of the scientific community in 1993 by Rodolfo Coria and Jose Bonaparte of the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Buenos Aires. Coria points out that most breakthroughs are not made by scientists, but by ordinary folk. 'But the real scientific discovery is not the finding; it's what we learn from that finding.' While any one of us can unearth a fossil, it takes dedicated scientists to see beyond the rock.
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1 TRUEFALSENOT GIVEN Xu Xing went to the Gobi Desert to check fossil evidence of the existence of Gigantoraptor erlianensis.
2 TRUEFALSENOT GIVEN The announcement made by the National Geographic Society in 1999 was based on false evidence.
3 TRUEFALSENOT GIVEN Like Gigantoraptor, Yanomis martini was first discovered in China.
4 TRUEFALSENOT GIVEN The bones originally discovered by Robert Liscomb changed the attitude of palaeontologists towards north Alaska.
5 TRUEFALSENOT GIVEN According to Fiorillo. the name Troodon means 'wounding tooth'.
6 TRUEFALSENOT GIVEN Guillermo Heredia had suspected that his find was a dinosaur fossil.
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In this episode of HPR I present the workflow I use to contribute to opensource projects using git. I have no idea if this workflow is something that is commonly used, but it is working for me, so I thought I'd share it with the HPR community.
The first thing I do is fork the project I want to contribute to. This is done on github most of the time, although this workflow can work on gitlab, bitbucket, or even some self hosted git platform.
Git automatically names my remote project origin.
Now my local repository references my fork under the name origin and the original project under the name upstream.
And now, my local repository is even with both origin and upstream, and I can start again.
$ git commit -m "Awesome commit message"
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Q: Asking about os.path.basename(root) in python I want to understand why every time I print out my os.path.basename(root) from a sub-directory folder, it always shows an empty list at the beginner of the list. Is there any way to avoid this?
My data folder:
dir_1:
-subdir_1:
  -img1.jpg
-subdir_2:
  -img2.jpg

My code:
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
    print(os.path.basename(root))

My output:
['','subdir_1','subdir_2']

My Expected output:
['subdir_1','subdir_2']

A: The official documentation explains this:

Return the base name of pathname path. This is the second element of the pair returned by passing path to the function split(). Note that the result of this function is different from the Unix basename program; where basename for '/foo/bar/' returns 'bar', the basename() function returns an empty string ('').

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Aggressive Tanker Scrapping during 2018
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By Baibhav Mishra -January 7, 20190
(Image Courteys: Tanker Shipping & Trade)
Tanker scrapping started in 2018 with a bang, as a combination of low freight rates, high scrap prices, an aging tanker fleet, and the impact of upcoming vessel regulations combined to create a feasible environment for scrapping.
Companies around the world have scrapped a record number of large crude tankers in 2018. A prolonged bear market for crude oil tankers have resulted in the deletion of triple the number of ships sold for scrap, compared to last year.
About 100 vessels of the industry's main crude carriers have been sent to India and Bangladesh for demolition, according to data from Clarkson Research Services Ltd., the statistical and research service arm of the world's largest shipbroker.
As of September the vessels, which transport 40 percent of the world's crude, were on course for the worst charter rates in three decades. In an August report, Bloomberg stated that the implosion of charter rates was due to a two-year reduction of OPEC cargoes and environmental regulations.
Morgan Stanley estimates the global fleet of large crude carriers could lack 100 million barrels of transportation capacity in the first half of 2020. "It prolongs the period of profitability after the turnaround," said Fotis Giannakoulis, a New York-based shipping analyst at the bank.
"The more you scrap, the more you bring the recovery forward and accelerate its speed. The market will strengthen with high scrapping even with smallest growth in demand."
In other words, today's scrapping of vessels is seen as a deleveraging period to clear excess and rebalance the industry.
Average earnings for 2 million barrel-hauling VLCCs crashed by 65 percent to $6,159 a day in 2018, the lowest since the financial crash according to data from Clarkson. They were $17,794 for all of last year, $41,488 for 2016 and $64,846 in 2015.
For companies who did not scrap, rates recently moved higher more threefold from late September to mid-December, according to Clarkson figures.
"What those demoralized owners perhaps failed to foresee was a sudden surge in cargoes. With the U.S. poised to impose sanctions on Iran earlier this year, producers including Saudi Arabia and Russia began adding barrels to the market.
The number of VLCC removals have so far exceeded deliveries of new buildings as just 26 VLCCs have entered the market between January and August. Gibson points out however, that some of the tankers reported for demolition had been absent from the trading market for quite some time, while for many others trading opportunities were limited.
Between May and November, the world's largest and second-largest exporters lifted their combined output by about 1.5 million barrels a day. American shipments are also soaring. As well as adding demand for vessels, the increased oil supply also drove down fuel prices — the industry's single biggest expense.
Up in the North Sea, ships that move 600,000-barrel cargoes earlier this week were earning $72,664 a day, the highest in 3 1/2 years, according to data from the Baltic Exchange in London. At the start of December, giant 2 million-barrel carrying vessels were making $58,000 from delivering Middle East oil to China, the most since at least the start of 2017. West African rates also surged," said Bloomberg.
Regarding transportation capacity, this year has been the most substantial scrapping period of crude vessels since 1985. The end of year surge in charter rates does not mean owners were wrong to demolish; it is quite normal to clear the excess vessels to rebalance the industry.
US tanker brokers Poten and Partners notes in a recent report that the threat of sanctions on Iran has been very effective. Iranian exports have started to decline several months before the deadline with average exports of of 2.35 million barrels per day (MB/D) by tanker in the first 5 months of 2018 dropping to an estimated 1.77 MB/D in August. Poten adds that Korea seems to have stopped Iranian imports completely accounting for about half of the decline in Iranian exports and Japanese imports have been reduced as well. Both India and China have also reduced their Iranian crude purchases.
The trading fleet is ageing however, and more vessels could be sold for scrap this year, given the high scrap prices being achieved and the poor returns from the market. A total of 55 vessels in the existing VLCC fleet were built in 2000 or earlier says Gibson, adding that due to their age profile, low industry returns and limited trading opportunities, these tankers are the most vulnerable to demolition pressure in a run up to 2020 when the introduction of a worldwide ban on high sulphur bunker fuel would make the ships uneconomical. An older VLCC will burn close to 70 metric tonnes of heavy fuel oil per day for propulsion.
The recent increase in scrapping was anticipated, however the volume of vessels scrapped has exceeded all expectations. This elevated scrapping should be a positive for the tanker market as we move through 2019. The recent increase in scrapping was anticipated, however the volume of vessels scrapped has exceeded all expectations.
(References: Bloomberg, Oil Price, Freight Waves, Gibson, Teekay)
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Q: How can i make a for loop work in a calendar in php? This is the script
 <?php

//$choix_Id= 521
//Partie SQL
//$sql = "SELECT noperiode FROM Reservations WHERE ref_Choix = //$choix_Id;

//$nopériode= $période+10;

// Fuseau horaire de Toronto (le plus près surpporté selon manuel php)
date_default_timezone_set('America/Toronto');

// Passer d'un mois à l'autre
if (isset($_GET['ym'])) {
    $mois = $_GET['ym'];
} else {
    // Le mois consulté
    $mois = date('Y-m');
}

// "strtotime  Transforme un texte anglais en timestamp" - manuel php
$timestamp = strtotime($mois . '-01');
if ($timestamp === false) {
    $mois = date('Y-m');
    $timestamp = strtotime($mois . '-01');
}

// Aujourdhui
$aujourdhui = date('Y-m-j', time());

// Titre calendrier/mois
$titre_mois = date('Y / m', $timestamp);

// lien du mois suivant ou précédent
 $précedant = date('Y-m', strtotime('-1 month', $timestamp));
 $suivant = date('Y-m', strtotime('+1 month', $timestamp));

// Nombre de jours dans le mois
$nb_jours = date('t', $timestamp);

// 0:Dim 1:Lun 2:Mar ...
$str = date('w', $timestamp);

// Création du calendrier
$semaines = array();
$semaine = '';

// Création de cellules vides
$semaine .= str_repeat('	', $str);

$nosemcal= 3;
$noperiodecal=array(2,3,5);
$len_noper = count($noperiodecal)-1;
echo $len_noper;

for ( $jour = 1; $jour <= $nb_jours; $jour++, $str++) {
//for($i=0; $i<=$len_noper;$i++){
    $date = $mois . '-' . $jour;

    $semainecal = date("W",strtotime($date))-13;
    $periodecal = date("w",strtotime($date));
    //for ($i=0; $i<=$len_noper;$i++){
    if ($nosemcal==$semainecal and $noperiodecal[2]==$periodecal) {
        $semaine .= '' . $jour;
    }else {
        $semaine .= '' . $jour;
    }

    // Fin de la semaine ou du mois
    if ($str % 7 == 6 || $jour == $nb_jours) {

        if ($jour == $nb_jours) {
            // nouvelle cellule vide
            $semaine .= str_repeat('	', 6 - ($str % 7));
        }

        $semaines[] = '
' . $semaine . '
';

        // Début d'une nouvelle semaine
        $semaine = '';
    }

}
?>

<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Calendrier Disponibilités</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-BVYiiSIFeK1dGmJRAkycuHAHRg32OmUcww7on3RYdg4Va+PmSTsz/K68vbdEjh4u" crossorigin="anonmoisous">
    <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Noto+Sans" rel="stylesheet">

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            <?php
                foreach ($semaines as $semaine) {
                    echo $semaine;
                }
            ?>

This is the result
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What i want is all the days in the array $noperiodecal to be in red not just one and without repeating the days of the calendar or the calendar itself. So the 19th, 20th and 22th of April 2022 but not manually like I did for the 19th. I've tried to move the for($i) loop but it changes the whole calendar each times.