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Following Wokingham Town FC home and away – a love letter to non league football
Matthew Kempson looks back at what it was like following Wokingham Town as a kid
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We spotted this brilliant bit of reminiscing on the Wokingham Town Football Club facebook page and thought it worth sharing with anyone who remembers the old Finchampstead Road ground. It's by Matthew Kempson and was written for the North Ferriby United fanzine – originally titled "Come on you super Satsumas!" – Another non-league love. Matthew has kindly given us permission to reproduce in full.
He writes: I must admit that North Ferriby is not my first non-league love. There have been others before. My first was Wokingham Town (not to be confused with Woking), a below average Isthmian Premier side from a market town in Berkshire. For 3 seasons in my mid-teens during the early/mid-90s myself and a small group of friends avidly followed the super Satsumas (they played in orange). Discovering Ferriby a few years ago when I moved up to the East Riding rekindled my love of the lower leagues and reminded me of happy (and sad) times following Wokingham years before.
It all started with a chilly mid-week cup game against Chalfont St. Peter. Wokingham pulled off a 2:0 victory in front of a crowd of 132. For me, I recall it clearly because my parents caught me sneaking out a gin-filled hip-flask hidden in my sock (!?). It was revealed as I knelt down to tie my shoe-laces and I was in much trouble. Following Wokingham almost ended before it started. Despite this, I was allowed to go to the game (but no more gin antics!). And I can't recall my last game but I do expect it was as a result of taking a Saturday job in the petrol station adjacent to the ground. In pre-internet days, friends would pile in after the game to tell me the score.
In between I enjoyed 3 fantastic seasons following Wokingham as they kept narrowly avoiding relegation. The club had achieved limited success in the 80s reaching the FA Cup 1st Round replay against Cardiff and an FA Trophy Semi-Final against Telford and were now on the slide. Success was measured on how early in the season we could confirm top flight status for next year. Compared to our recent success, following Ferriby this season has felt very familiar of my Wokingham days.
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Established in 1875, Wokingham's ground consisted of a tiny main stand (pictured) and the familiar mix of open and covered terracing. Unlike Ferriby, however, it was enclosed by, not one, but two railway lines resulting in double the amount of footballs being lost to cheers from the crowd. Often trains would halt briefly on the embankment above the ground; the vantage point giving passengers a great view of the action. Now there's a potential solution for increasing Ferriby's ground capacity 😉
For a time before I supported them, Wokingham was sponsored by a local conservatory and window manufacturer. As part of their deal they built a middle-of-the-range conservatory-cum-executive box behind one of the goals for matchday VIP entertainment. However, when Town weren't hoofing it on to the railway tracks they were smashing all the glass panes out. During the years I supported them all that remained of this unwise venture was the executive cabin (pictured) and a twisted, condemned metal structure.
Current Wokingham & Emmbrook striker Luke Scope. Photo: Graham Tabor.
So much of the fun of non-league is the away-day trips. On these Saturdays I would often wait impatiently at home in the hope of a call from my friend Tom – "My Dad's going to Hendon, Hayes, Basingstoke, Enfield, Sutton, Newport Pagnell etc". "Do you want to come?" Being a small travelling army (car-load) of lads was a great feeling. One of the best was a season's climax against Bognor Regis. We had to draw to stay up. On the way down we stopped off at an ice-cream van and bored the salesman. In the summer heat on the coast we scraped the necessary point to our excitement and relief. Returning home, orange scarfs flying from the car, we beeped and waved enthusiastically as we sped back passed him. He waved back, clearly without really knowing what he was waving at.
Home or away, our favoured vantage point was behind the goal and we'd always try, unsuccessfully, to intimidate the opposition keeper. We met our match, however, in Les Cleevely of Carshalton Athletic who, we were told by a Carshalton fan, had just been released from prison for GBH. Who knows if this was true but when Les turned around to snarl at us we soon shut up.
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I still recall the names of the Wokingham players – my then heroes. To my excitement one visited our home whilst I was at school. A local roofer by the fabulous name of Reg Leather came round to fix a few tiles. Somehow my mum realised he was a Wokingham centreback and she collected up some programmes for him to sign. Fame for a non-league star! The front line was a cracking duo of 22 year-old Elliot Pearce and former Chelsea player Tommy Langley. They were a great combination of youth and experience. Tragically, however, Elliot was killed in a car crash and I remember visiting the ground on a midweek evening soon after when there was no game. I wandered round the silent stands and tied up a lone scarf near the entrance with a note attached wishing condolences to family and friends, and committing my allegiance to the club forever – "we'll support you evermore!"
On moving to university, however, I managed to follow Wokingham only from afar and although I held on to the fond memories I gradually lost touch of their performances. By the late 1990's, following successive regulations and escalating debts, the ground was sold for housing. Then, after a series of ground-shares and with fading prospects of a new purpose-built ground on the edge of the town, Wokingham was sadly wound -up entirely. More positively, a phoenix club, Wokingham & Emmbrook FC was established to continue the Satsuma tradition further down the pyramid, and continues to grow from strength to strength.
Fortunately, in my brief Wokingham days, despite coming very close, I never experienced relegation. As hard as Ferriby battled last season against all odds we were relegated and now, this season, we seem to be in free-fall and a double relegation looms large – All this despite never previously being relegated in our 84 year history. Every effort, care and investment (albeit reduced) will be required to ensure we don't slide the way Wokingham Town did.
You can follow Matthew on twitter @mjmkempson. The article was originally published in issue 4 of View from the Allotment End – North Ferriby United's quarterly independent fanzine. It includes articles on arrange of league and non-league football interests. More information via @VFTAE on Twitter.
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Dear New York Yankees fans: It's not Shohei Ohtani, it's us
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The New York Yankees didn't get their man in Shohei Ohtani. But the last person to blame for that is Ohtani himself.
Let me just come out and say it. We, as New York Yankees fans, are spoiled.
We're used to getting what we want. We're used to success and won't settle for anything less. So when Shohei Ohtani was rumored to be posted for the MLB, naturally we assumed he would choose us. Because, why not?
We want everything. Giancarlo Stanton is the home run leader? Bring him up to the Bronx! Bryce Harper is a great player on a lackluster team? Send him a plane ticket to New York. And guess what? We're all guilty of it.
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The Yankees are possibly the greatest franchise in the history of sports. We have 27 rings to show for it and are well on our way to no. 28.
But ever since Ohtani determined the Yankees were not on his short list, fans have turned their backs and made it about how he is soft. About how he doesn't want to win and how he is too "chicken" to handle the spotlight that comes with playing in the Bronx.
No, the problem here isn't Ohtani. The problem here is us.
For numerous days, we sat and praised Ohtani and his potential to play in the major leagues, all because we assumed that he would make the "right" choice. Minutes after he made an educated decision based on his wants and needs, the entire Yankees fan base turned on him.
The problem is that fans didn't just turn on the guy they spent years fawning over. No, some fans went completely all out to defame his character and define him in a certain way, although we literally know nothing more about him besides his 100 MPH fastball and monster home runs.
Guy, this is a problem. A 23-year-old Japanese player is moving to an entirely different country to play the game he loves. Are we that blind to assume that whipping out a credit card one time would entice him enough to come play for the team in the Bronx? And if that doesn't work, we automatically assume that something is wrong with him and his character?
That is how spoiled we've become and it's not the first time. Remember when we celebrated after snagging Masahiro Tanaka from the other side of the world? Or when we dished out a monster contract to Alex Rodriguez? Or when we stole Jacoby Ellsbury from the Boston Red Sox (which has been biting us in the butt lately)?
The best of the best come to the Bronx. Even as a kid, I got used to seeing this. It's actually become immune to me. When a big-name player is on the market, you can guarantee they will want to play in pinstripes.
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But that is the problem. We're spoiled and when something like Ohtani's situation happens, we become sore losers. It almost becomes offensive when a player doesn't want to come to the Bronx and the defense mechanism is to trash them.
We have to change that. As fans, we should be better than that. So what if Ohtani didn't choose to meet with the Yankees? We still have Aaron Judge launching home runs (imagine a home run derby featuring Judge, Stanton and Ohtani!). We still have Luis Severino putting up Cy Young-worthy numbers. We still have a rocking bullpen featuring Aroldis Chapman, David Robertson and Chad Green.
Ohtani made his choice and we just have to get over it. Sure, it's upsetting, but this is about Ohtani, not about us. It was his decision to make and he is welcome to make his own decisions about it.
We'll likely see Ohtani at some point this season, probably on the West Coast. He won't be wearing pinstripes but that doesn't make him a villain.
We can support our own team without crushing the dreams of another player. Trust me, it's possible. As fans, we have to be better than we've been lately.
So we're spoiled but it's not all our fault. It's just what we're used to. We can't change that but we can change our attitudes in regards to Ohtani and any future situations. Now it's time to take the sour attitude and focus our energy on the team we have now. Because that's honestly the only thing that matters.
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La finestra sul cortile è un racconto giallo di Cornell Woolrich scritto nel 1942 con il titolo It Had to Be Murder, e ripubblicato nel 1944 con il titolo Rear Window nella raccolta After-Dinner Story, in cui l'autore usò lo pseudonimo di William Irish.

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Un fotoreporter, costretto all'immobilità nel pieno della calura estiva per una frattura a una gamba, inizia ad osservare, suo malgrado, gli accadimenti nelle abitazioni dei dirimpettai che si affacciano sul proprio cortile, fino a convincersi che uno di questi abbia assassinato la moglie. Con l'aiuto della fidanzata e dell'amico poliziotto, inizialmente scettici, e sfruttando i "ferri del mestiere" (macchina fotografica e teleobiettivo) giungerà a smascherare l'assassino rischiando anche la vita.

Adattamenti
Da questo racconto nel 1954 Alfred Hitchcock trasse il celebre film omonimo.

Un remake della pellicola di Hitchcock con lo stesso titolo, diretto da Jeff Bleckner, fu prodotto per la televisione nel 1998.

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Il racconto fu pubblicato per la prima volta in Italia nel 1956 da Mondadori sull'onda del successo del film, di cui riprese il titolo, come numero de La rivista di Ellery Queen (edizione italiana di Ellery Queen Mistery Magazine), supplemento alla collana I gialli Mondadori. Una seconda pubblicazione dello stesso editore fu nel 1998 in una antologia di racconti dell'autore con il titolo La finestra sul cortile e altri racconti.

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The report outlines examples of education programmes and projects, and analyses the ways in which these examples address the stated educational aims of the companies. It also explores the factors that are seen by theatre staff to impact on their ability to provide an effective contribution to education in its broadest sense, while maintaining their wider artistic remit.


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Puls cuff severs smartphone-wearable tether
A wrist-mounted smart device called Puls that connects directly to telephone networks has been unveiled.
Puls is built by i.am+, a US design company founded by Black Eyed Peas singer Will.i.am. Commenting on the new product he says: 'This is not a watch, by any means. Watches do not have SIM cards. This is a new type of communication.'
The device can connect to the internet, send text messages and make phone calls directly following inputs to its curved touchscreen.
To emphasise Puls's difference from existing smartwatch formats, it is being marketed as a smartcuff.
As major smartphone makers like Motorola, Apple and Samsung has come to dominate the burgeoning smartwatch market they have chosen to sell the devices as interfaces to their handsets. A key component of this is to use short-range Bluetooth connections to allow the wearable device to access the Internet using the phone's antennas.
Puls has been built with its own WiFi and 3G antennas, allowing it to be independent of any such tethering. This has increased its size and critically users will need to buy a separate data plan with a service provider - AT&T in the US, or O2 in the UK.
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The Puls will be made available for sale before Christmas 2014 at a base price of $499(€390). It has 1GB of RAM, 16GB of storage and a curved battery that delivers a modest five hours of power.
The device is designed to integrate into a suite of electronically-augmented garments made by i.am+. This includes a charging jacket that when in contact with the cuff can power it for two and a half days, a back pack with built-in speakers for the pre-installed music streaming service, and shoes that incorporate a pedometer.
Producing a non-smartphone dependent smartwatch is a bold move. Tethering is a restriction, though it is not a major one as the vast majority of customers who buy a smartwatch are likely to already be heavy smartphone users. Thus an independent platform has little appeal - especially when the unboosted battery life is so limited - and may be no more successful than Will.i.am's previous hardware offering, a $475 iPhone case and camera with a slide-out Qwerty keyboard.
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John Green: Hi. I'm John Green. This is Crash Course World History and today we're going to talk about climate change.
John Green From the Past: Mr. Green, Mr. Green, that's not history; that's science, and also, I don't think that's even happening.
John Green: Yeah, two things, Me From the Past: One, uh, contemporary climate change is real. Uh, two, this isn't the first time the world has experienced disruptive climate change, believe it or not.
John Green: So, climate change, of course, can be a very controversial topic, at least here in the US, but we're not discussing today whether contemporary climate change is caused by human activity, although it is. We're talking about history, and history is never controversial.
We know that climate change can happen because it has happened. In fact, although we're living in an age of global warming today, for most of the early modern period, the globe experienced cool temperatures. Some historians have called this the Little Ice Age, which would make a great animated movie. Someone should get on that. Anyway, good job, historians, giving something an evocative name for once. I'm picturing a tiny little ice ball, like a snow globe.
Apparently, the Earth was regular-sized back then, but anyway, the Little Ice Age lasted from the thirteenth through the nineteenth centuries and it was a period when average temperatures were cooler than they are now. This doesn't mean that it was always cold, though; there were volatile shifts between bitterly cold winters and wet summers and long droughts. Also, weather conditions were not always the same in all parts of the world, kind of like how the winter of 2014 was terribly cold in the United States but still one of the warmest on record worldwide. Climate is not weather.
So, we know temperatures were colder partly because of science but also because of history. Science has shown through the study of stuff like tree rings and ice cores that it really was colder back then. But we also know this from history. I mean, records kept at the time by monks, wine-makers, and others also reported cold weather and bad harvests. Bad harvests are crucial to our understanding of the Little Ice Age because they were catastrophic events, bringing hunger and, in some cases, starvation to millions of people. And because they were so catastrophic, people wrote about them, which leaves us a historical record.
Less food meant more disease and also more crime. Poor harvests often led to civil unrest, especially bread riots. For some, a sensible strategy was to hit the road or, in the case of the Norseman, hit the sea. In fact, sometime during this period, their search for better fishing grounds led them to America.
And humans also prove very innovative when adapting to new climate extremes. One example near to my heart is the Netherlands, where people developed water control systems and experimented with new agricultural technology to make farms less vulnerable to terrible weather events like floods.
But the Little Ice Age led to unpredictable harvests around the world and without, like, Spam to fall back on, a couple bad harvests in a row was fatal.
So, the whole Little Ice Age was pretty bad but the seventeenth century was the worst. Some historians even refer to it as a period of global crisis. I mean, here are just a few examples of the political instability in the seventeenth century: the English revolutions of 1640 and 1689, Spain's European Wars and debt problems, peasant and urban worker uprisings in Italy, the fall of the Ming and the rise of the Qing Dynasties in China, a succession crisis in the Ottoman Empire, wars between colonists and Native Americans that nearly destroyed Britain's colonies, the Mughal Wars of Succession, oh, and the Thirty Years War. And that's not even to mention Shakespeare. No Little Ice Age, no Shakespeare. That's what I would argue. Totally a climate-dependant writer. I would be just as good as him if only we were in a period of climate change.
Now, obviously, we can't say that all of these upheavals were caused by cooler temperatures, but they did correlate with them, and in many cases, weather contributed to them. Unrest was often linked to food shortages and taxes. The taxes were high and the food was short because the harvests were bad.
Now, for many people in the seventeenth century, the cause of the calamitous bad weather was obvious: human sinfulness. As Welsh historian James Howell wrote in 1647, "God Almighty has a quarrel lately with all mankind, and given the reins to the ill spirit to compass the whole Earth." Others blamed bad weather on witches, always a safe bet, or on natural phenomena like eclipses, earthquakes, comets, or sunspots. And they might not have been totally wrong. Well, they were totally wrong about the witches, but- but there were fewer recorded sunspots, especially in 1617 and 1618, when the Thirty Years War began. Oh, and there were twelve volcanic eruptions between 1638 and 1644, which produced dust veils that might have made the whole planet cooler.
The weather in the middle of the seventeenth century, right around the time of the English Revolution, was especially bad, like in Massachusetts, 1642 was so cold that the bay froze, while in Indonesia, the droughts caused rice harvests to fail. Much of Africa faced droughts between 1640 and 1644 and in 1643, flooding in the Low Countries was so bad that cows and chickens ended up in trees. And Scandinavia recorded its coldest winter ever in 1641. And these changes in weather were profoundly disruptive because much more than today, people depended directly on agriculture, and thus the weather, for their livelihoods. Let's go to the Thought Bubble.
So, according to historian Thomas C. Smith, "Farming, with its allied tasks, was the principal occupation and nearly the sole source of income for most families, and its rhythms defined the annual cycle of work, rest and worship. Severe annual variations in the harvest reverberated through family life..." According to Geoffrey Parker, a fall of two degrees Celsius during the growing season, precisely the scale of global cooling in the 1640s, reduces rice harvest yields by between thirty and fifty percent. "In latitudes north of the temperate zone,' each fall of 0.5 degrees Celsius in mean summer temperature decreases the number of days on which crops ripen by 10 per cent, doubles the risk of a single harvest failure, and increases the risk of a double failure six fold." Harvest failures led to food shortages which led to everything from stunting via malnutrition to rising food prices. A 30 percent reduction in the grain harvest often doubled the price of bread, whereas a fifty percent reduction quintupled it. And when people have to spend more on food, they don't have money to spend on other stuff, which means the people who make that other stuff are suddenly unemployed and hungry. And then, hunger itself reduced the amount of available food by diminishing people's capacity to work, since a decrease from 2,500 to 2,000 calories halves our ability to work efficiently because the body's basic metabolism still requires 1,500 calories. And hungry people are also more susceptible to disease. Add together floods, droughts, harvest failures, and disease, and you get a vicious cycle leading to population decline, which is exactly what happened in the seventeenth century.
Thanks, Thought Bubble. So, all of that is pretty horrible, but human suffering in the seventeenth century wasn't just caused by cold and drought. There was also a lot of war going on. And these wars between and within states multiplied the effects of hunger as soldiers looted wherever they went. Like the Chinese even coined a word for soldiers' bad behavior: binghuo, which means "soldier calamity". And then, to add injury to injury, the costs of most of these wars were borne by the peasants, who suffered doubly as their taxes went to pay for the king's wars, which brought soldier calamity. These taxes were often on staples like bread, and so they often led to bread riots, which were not great for morale.
And yes, terrible weather could even contribute to the fall of dynasties. The 1641 drought in China was so bad that the Grand Canal began to dry up for the only time in history, which reduced rice shipments to China's capitol. Unable to feed the people, the Ming emperor surrendered to the Qing in 1644. Drought and cold had also encouraged the Qing to overthrow the Ming in the first place as poor harvests in Manchuria convinced their leaders that invading China was the only way to avoid catastrophe. And then the Qing got to China and they were like, "Where's all your food?" and they were like, "Yeah, the whole planet is colder, not just Korea." But then they were already there so they decided to have a dynasty for a while. I am your history teacher.
So, obviously, protests and rebellions were public responses to the hunger and war, but many people confronted the problem of hunger by trying to reduce the number of mouths they had to feed. They could do this by reducing the number of births through postponed marriage or, in more extreme cases, through infanticide. And the most desperate resorted to suicide. Now, we don't have many records of suicide rates, but a Qing decree of 1688 forbidding widows from killing themselves suggests that it was widespread.
And speaking of widows, wars compounded the problem by creating lots of them, like in Europe, the Thirty Years War led to a rise in the number of households headed by women. Women also took the lead in reducing the number of mouths to feed by delaying marriage. Like, whenever bread prices rise, rates of marriage fall.
And the last thing that I'll mention here is that bad weather and poor harvests also prompted migration. Like, in the first half of the seventeenth century, perhaps one half of all adult Scotsmen left Scotland. Many Chinese left for the Philippines, Indonesia, and Taiwan.
So, we have a world that's dramatically different because of the climate change of the Little Ice Age. Women head more households, many communities are more ethnically diverse, population growth slowed dramatically, and there was widespread political unrest and wars and starvation. And, of course, looking at the history of the Little Ice Age is relevant for us today as we face a change in climate and the extreme weather that comes with it.
Sometimes, we like to imagine that math and science don't really have much to do with the humanities, that, like, how we live in the world isn't really shaped by our environment. But, of course, it is. We are shaping our environment. Our environment is also shaping us.
To end on a hopeful note, the agricultural innovations that developed in the face of tremendous weather-related challenges should remind us that it is possible to adapt to change in climates if we make the effort and take the time. We don't know what the cast iron plows of the future are going to be, but we do know that we're going to need them. Thanks for watching. I'll see you next week.
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Agribusiness buzz in brief1 month, 3 weeks ago
Agribusiness buzz in brief
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Heston Blumenthal has become a shareholder in Murray Cod Australia.
A quick check on what some of the movers and shakers in agribusiness are up to
MCA cooks up celebrity deal
Riverina-based Murray Cod Australia has signed up high-profile international chef, Heston Blumenthal, as a shareholder and ambassador for the company's Aquana farmed cod products.
MCA is Australia's largest producer of Murray cod, with a series of purpose-built dams on farms in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area around Griffith.
It confirmed 1.5 million ordinary shares, currently worth about 17 cents each, had been issued pursuant to the agreement.
Appointing the British Michelin-starred restaurant owner, Blumenthal, and his The Fat Duck Group as a key advocate in a five-year deal was a milestone for the company's push for recognition as luxury food producer.
"The innovative way they have created a luxury fish produce by combining natural processes evolved over millions of years with cutting edge technology aligns with the way I approach food and cooking," Blumenthal said.
MCA chairman, Ross Anderson, said having the Fat Duck Group as a stakeholder "will further accelerate our progress in securing Aquna brand's position as a global luxury food brand".
The celebrity chef would showcase the sustainable, pond-grown fish through media networks and where appropriate, at events and in his restaurants, also advise on menu and product development.
Northern CRC funds offer
The Co-operative Research Centre for Northern Australia (CRCNA) is seeking interest in industry-led research collaborations to address issues specifically related to northern Australia.
EOIs can be submitted by industry, researchers, small to medium enterprises or community sector groups, addressing key research questions in agriculture and food, health service delivery or traditional owner-led business development in agriculture, food or health.
Applications close on June 28.
Chairman, Sheriden Morris, said the organisation wanted projects which delivered innovative solutions and challenge the status quo.
"There is a need across northern Australia to enhance agricultural supply chains, improve access to health services and better capture export opportunities."
To date, the CRCNA has committed more than $14.5 million to 41 projects with a total value exceeding $39m, including a plan to capture higher returns for Top end horticultural crops, a project improving Kakadu Plum supply chains, and work to boost by 200 per cent the export of Calypso mangoes from Queensland and Northern Territory to China.
McKillop heads CBRE
Former Hassad Australia and Clyde Agriculture boss, John McKillop, has been appointed chairman of property and investment services firm CBRE's Pacific Agribusiness group.
John McKillop
Mr McKillop has held a series of senior executive roles in Australian agribusiness, most recently as chief executive officer Hassad Australia, owner of 17 rural property aggregations.
He has also been CEO of the Sustainable Agriculture Fund, and was a senior executive at Stanbroke Pastoral Company.
He is a current board member of Marcus Oldham College and Dairy Farmers Milk Cooperative and has held non-executive roles have spanned Meat and Livestock Australia, National Farmers Federation, Dairy Australia, Cubbie Cotton, Harvey Beef the Primary Industries Education Foundation.
Regional Director of CBRE Agribusiness, Danny Thomas, said Mr McKillop's appointment would help drive the continued growth of the firm's Agribusiness platform, which comprises over 50 sales and valuation professionals.
SPC puts organic in a can
SPC Ardmona has launched Australia's first organic product in the canned tomato category - Ardmona Organic Finely Crushed Tomatoes - to help meet Australia's growing hunger for local and organically-grown produce.
The new, premium 400 gram can offering is being promoted as a "perfect addition to warming winter recipes like pastas, curries and soups with the added comfort of 100 per cent locally grown and organic tomatoes".
"We know consumers are becoming more health conscious and looking for organic products," said senior brand manager, SPC Ardmona, Gillian Kapurubandara.
The Ardmona Finely Crushed Organic Tomato line is certified by Organic Australia and available in Woolworths stores nationwide.
GrainGrowers vacancies
Nominations for three board positions with grain industry research and advocacy body GrainGrowers close at the end of May.
The northern region (northern NSW and Queensland) and Southern region (southern NSW, Victoria, Tasmania) casual directorships will fill positions on the six-seat board for an initial two-year term.
Retiring northern director, Peter Thompson is not re-nominating due to farming commitments, while the current terms for southern directors, Brett Hosking (chairman) and Julia Hausler, are also ending.
Grain Growers Limited boasts 17,000 members Australia-wide.
To qualify candidates must be members, residing in the region they nominate to represent and have a positive disposition to the further development of Australia's grains industry.
Applicants should also have a proven track record of success at board or committee level, a solid understanding of governance, a strategic mind, and behave in a collegiate manner.
More details available from theconsultant@pacificsearch.com.au


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Family: FMPD officer didn't report girl out of car seat, child dies in crash a month later
9:53 AM EDT, Tue June 09, 2020
FORT MYERS, Fla. – A Fort Myers police officer was arrested after he failed to contact the Department of Children and Families in regards to a young child's safety, according to Fort Myers Police Chief Derrick Diggs.
Officer Tyler Williams has been placed on unpaid administrative leave and could face internal charges with the department for violations.
His arrest stems from a traffic stop on January 18, 2020 at Colonial and Solomon Boulevards. Officer Williams pulled over a car for speeding at 4:50 a.m.
During this stop, it was the officer's duty to report information about a young child's safety, which put the child's welfare in jeopardy, according to Chief Diggs.
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In February 2020, 3-year-old Serenity Robinson died after her mother, Leslie Zeagler, crashed her car near MLK Boulevard and Rockfill Road. Zeagler was high at the time of the crash, with meth, fentanyl, methadone, benzoylecgonine, diazepam, and nordiazepam in her system, according to her arrest report. Serenity was not in a car seat when her mother crashed her car.
According to Leslie Zeagler's friend, Kelly Schwartz, Officer Williams pulled over Zeagler in January for speeding. She claims Zeagler got off and Williams did not report the fact that Serenity was not in a car seat during that traffic stop in January.
A month later, Serenity died.
Kelly Schwartz is also Randy Robinson's girlfriend. Robinson is Serenity's father.
According to court records, Zeagler's license was suspended in January 2019 due to failure to pay a traffic fine.
An internal investigation started in the department, the State Attorney's Office reviewed the case, and a warrant was issued for Williams' arrest.
Williams is now facing a third-degree felony charge for failure to report child abuse and neglect.
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Romania has a Muslim community coming from Syria and its neighboring countries. Unfortunately, some of these Muslims are known sympathizers of al-Qaeda-aligned groups in Syria and are recruiting new members on their behalf once in Romania. For instance, in December 2013, an al-Qaeda website announced the death of Abu Mohammad al Rumani (from Romania) on the battlefield in Syria. This paper analyzes the way sympathizers of al-Qaeda-aligned groups in Syria are trying to find new adepts within the Romanian Muslim community using the new media, mainly forums, blogs and social networks. Romania and European countries are exposed to this powerful trend of jihadist social networking. This fact, compounded by the situation in Syria, compels us to pay more attention the jihadist influence in cyberspace. Using SOCMINT, the paper identifies several potential strategies for countering the radicalization of young Muslims in Romania, including several that might also prove viable in other NATO member states.


What loves to snuggle, does the weirdest things, and has an attitude? You guessed it. It's a cat. While cats have been domesticated since ancient times, a lot about them remains unknown to humans, such as certain weird behaviors like when they roll over when you approach them. What's all that about?
when you come home from a long day of work, seeing your best feline friend waiting for you on the door is one of the best feelings ever… unless they're hiding, and it's not uncommon for them to greet you with their belly exposed, which is especially apparent in kittens, it's their way of saying hey I'm glad to see you, and that they want a belly rub and some cute love.


As a result of the election of Governor Scott Walker and new GOP majorities in both the House and Senate, many political watchers assumed Wisconsin's prospects for liberalized handgun carry legislation were brighter that ever.
That's because Walker's predecessor, two-term Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle, twice vetoed concealed-handgun licensing measures. Even when the Wisconsin legislature was under Democratic control, it came within a single vote of overriding Doyle's veto.
Just days after the 2010 mid-terms, the National Rifle Association announced it would make the passage of Wisconsin's Right-to-Carry law one of its top priorities of 2011.
And this week, those diligent efforts of the NRA and many other groups and individuals in the Badger State appear to have paid big dividends, as Wisconsin moved closer to becoming the 49th state to enact legislation allowing law-abiding citizens the right to carry concealed firearms for personal protection. In a decidedly bi-partisan 25 to 8 vote on June 14, the Wisconsin state Senate approved one of the nation's strongest right-to-carry laws, Senate Bill 93. A forthcoming floor vote in the state Assembly appears assured, as does Gov. Walker's signature.
Under the measure, the Wisconsin Department of Justice will issue permits to state residents 21 or over who receive safety training and clear background checks. Permits will cost a maximum of $50 and be valid for five years, with a renewal costing $25.
Senate Bill 93 also reverses the current laws that permitted only unloaded and encased firearms inside vehicles, now allowing loaded and uncased guns in cars.
"This is a great victory for the people of Wisconsin and for the 2nd Amendment," Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) said in a statement. "The right to protect ourselves by legally carrying a firearm is long overdue and I'm glad we're joining 48 other states with this law—finally."


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Q: SWFUpload: How to cancel an upload in Classic Form I am using the classic form demo. The link is: link text
If you try out the demo & try to upload a file, you can see once you click on the "Submit Application" button, the cancel (cross image) button does not show up in the top right hand corner of the blue box (that indicates the progress). How can I manipulate the existing code to be able to see the cancel button & cancel the upload while it is in progress?
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Thank you.

A: Call swfu method cancelUpload (ref) from a button click or something.

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Ventura OKs new rules for firearms and ammunition, votes to proceed with economic analysis
Arlene Martinez
It just got a little harder to open a store that sells firearms and ammunition in Ventura.
On Monday night, the Ventura City Council voted 7-0 to approve an ordinance that limits where in the city they can open.
Once the new rules go into effect in about a month, a business won't be allowed to open if it's within 500 feet of a "sensitive use," a designation that includes schools, parks, religious institutions, day care facilities and residential zones. Such stores will need to be at least 200 feet away from a similar business.
And instead of being allowed in any commercial or industrial zone that allows retail sales, the new rules limit them to three areas: Limited Industrial (M-1), General Industrial (M-2) and Manufacturing Planned Development (MPD). That still leaves 417 parcels where the shops can open, consultant Joyce Parker Bozylinksi told the council.
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Currently, five shops are located in zones the new ordinance places off limits to new establishments and three shops are within 500 feet of a sensitive use. They'll be allowed to remain open but "can't expand or intensify" in scope, interim Community Development Director Dave Ward said.
There were questions about Walmart off Victoria Avenue, which, according to an employee, sells ammunition but not guns.
City Attorney Gregory Diaz said the store would be treated like any other nonconforming use. Businesses that sell only ammunition had not been previously regulated but under the new ordinance will be, he noted.
A report that doesn't just sit on a shelf
Also on Monday, the council voted 7-0 to spend roughly $98,000 to conduct an economic base analysis that will be used for the general plan update and the economic development strategy.
Council member Christy Weir wanted to ensure the study took a good look at the wellness district in midtown, where Community Memorial Hospital and Ventura County Medical Center are located. She expects it to be the top economic driver for the next five to 10 years and there's significant blight in the area right around it. That makes the district a "huge economic opportunity."
She also wanted more detailed information on traffic and parking throughout the analysis.
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Economic Development Manager Estelle Bussa said all of that would be included in the study. She also said the report would really drill down into Ventura-specific data, and not be general to the region.
Weir wanted to ensure the report didn't sit on a shelf somewhere or get caught in a single department.
City Manager Alex McIntyre assured her that wouldn't be the case. It will be a great starting point, he said, but the data will need to be kept current.
"We will help other departments to find the value in this," he said.
The information generated could be used to help generate policies on code enforcement, zoning and other areas outside of just economic development, Weir said.
"Everything we think about, I think this will help."
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So, we have voted in the 2017/18 Suffolk County Council Budget having defeated Labour's financially dangerous spend, spend, spend plans and delivered on our key 2013 Manifesto pledge of 0% base Council Tax increases, making 7 year at 0% since 2010.
So, our regular survey and canvass work steps up on the streets talking to resident about our track record and plans for the future. They say all politics is local and of course that is true so as I start my campaign off as I always do in Beck Row there are a mixture of concerns from a highways parking problem at the local convenience store which I am getting sorted out, to the bigger picture of what is going to happen with Mildenhall Air Base, (its really RAF Beck Row as you can see in the picture on the left) which we are working on but will take a bit longer!
It's going to be an interesting few months as we set out our vision for Suffolk County Council's Future and Labour and the Liberals promise as they do, everything your heart's desire, just one small problem they never ever tell you that they can't deliver it. Same old Labour always spending your hard-earned money and same old Lib Dems always…well that depends what you want them to say. As for UKIP… we are leaving the EU so move on.
The battle lines are drawn and now to the campaign.
Absent Lib Dems or Financially Dangerous Labour?
Last Thursday was Budget Day at Suffolk County Council, it's the most important meeting of the year as well its sets the Council Tax and the budget for the coming year and so it's also the highpoint of the year's debates. In an election year, its also one of the final formal meeting before we go to the polls.
As I sat there during the debate I pondered the choices in May and the state of the opposition. So let's take a look firstly the Lib Dems, no doubt their election material will say 'only the Lib Dems can win here', as they always do. But their woeful performance in the chamber was typified by their Leader who could not be bothered to turn up. The dates of the Budget day meeting are set about a year in advance so he could hardly say it was not in his diary, he was on holiday, says it all really, in 12 years of opposition they have never tabled a budget amendment, not one.
So, what about Labour, you have to say their budget amendment was one of two things either the typical Corbinista fiscal denial, or shameless pure political showboating. Possibly denial? after all their shadow Finance chap at the county is quoted as saying that the financial outlook for the Council is better in the next 4 years!, trouble is there is not one single report or independent commentator who agrees with him. Presumably he is banking or gambling on a Labour Victory in 2020's General Election and the Corbin Money tree would bail them out, or frankly is it it's just political showboating. As my Cabinet member for finance pointed out, they are saying spend, spend, spend at the county when we hold a general reserve of 10% and a total, for all future projects such as new schools, planned bridges and IT projects, allocated reserves at 39% of our total revenue budget but across the road where many of the same Councillors are part of the controlling Labour group, they put up the Council Tax every year but hold 54% in their general reserve and 84% in their allocated reserves based on its total revenue budget, I leave you to draw your own conclusions but it isn't pretty either way.
In May, Suffolk Conservatives will stand on our track record of delivering 7 years of 0% raises in the base Council Tax and carefully applied the National Adult Social Care Precept to give our lowest paid, mainly care workers, a welcome pay increase and rightly so.
Suffolk Conservatives will stand on how we have radically changed the Council saving £200M since 2010 with much more to be saving to be made, given the diminishing Government grants, yet have protected front line services, such as our libraries.
Suffolk Conservatives will stand on our plans for the future where we will be innovative in our approaches and have lots of new ideas about how we go about things over the next 4 years building on the work these past 4 years but we will always, always be prudent and carefully with the budget and our reserves, ever mindful of the need to protect the most vulnerable in our communities and ever mindful it's your hard-earned money.
So people have a choice in May, us, the Lib Dems if they can be bothered to show up, or the financially dangerous Labour Party.
This Thursday is Suffolk County Council's Budget Day. It's important for two reasons, it's when we set the bulk of your, and my, Council Tax bill and we set the money each service will get to provide frontline services for the year ahead.
Budgets are important to Councils because until like the La, La, Land of the NHS finances where massive deficits mean little, in Local Government if you run out of money, wages are not paid and services shut down.
Every year the Conservative administration pour over the figures in the £500M budget starting almost as soon as the last budget is set. And whilst the figures are huge and services are vital such as protecting vulnerable children from abuse, the process is little different from how we budget at home. We save money for big projects like a house extension or in the council's case the two new Bridge projects. We have some money set aside for emergencies and the unexpected (reserves) and we plan for renewing smaller items like the computer, (major IT system changes) all of which is based on assumptions of our income in the coming years.
That may sound a bit simplistic but it's essentially it's the same process we go through at home. For Local Government, as to future prospects all the future income indicators are poor as we face less money over the next few years' from Government. So we maintain reserves to ensure we can sustain services and deal with the unexpected. It may at times be a little bit boring but we are prudent and careful with your money.
Just as in life then there are the neighbours or in our case the opposition Labour and Lib Dems. Like the neighbour's flash new car, always out there promising the world, spend, spend, spend for tomorrow never comes, we'll get more money from somewhere, why have reserves, live for today. The Jeremy Corbin view of the world, it all look like fun and of course the sun will come out tomorrow, Happy Days. But then again the last time they were allowed to be in control in Suffolk we all know how that ended, budgets not keep to, failing services and finally booted out of power, for raising the Council tax by 11.9% in one year and 18.5% in the next trying to keep the show on the road – 'What rubbish' I am told that was then this is now, but you see I don't think it is rubbish, I think it's a mind-set that has not changed one bit.
So we may be a bit cautious, we may be a bit tough in how we negotiate but, we have delivered 7 years of 0% raises in the base Council Tax and carefully applied the National Adult Social Care Precept to give our lowest paid, mainly care workers, a welcome pay increase and rightly so. I hope in May people will allow us to carry on running the council, we will be innovative in our approaches and have lots of new ideas about how we go about things over the next 4 years building on the work these past 4 years but we will always, always be prudent and carefully with the budget and our reserves, ever mindful of the need to protect the most vulnerable in our communities and ever mindful it's your hard earned money.
But remember those flash neighbours (and apologies to my neighbours who are all lovely people and not part of this reference!), if Labour and the Liberal were in power when they run out of the council's money, guess who's money they'll come after, yours!
Thursday's meeting is web cast so please log-in and have a watch.
Tomorrow at Suffolk County Council our Cabinet will debate our response to the Sizewell C consultation 2 being run by EDF now.
In the scale of things there is simply no issue facing Suffolk of this magnitude. When we look at the next biggest infrastructure projects, The Upper Orwell Crossing and the Third Crossing at Lowestoft, across both we are looking at about a £200M spend yet Sizewell C is predicted at £28B so the bridges are less than 1% of this project cost.
The scale of it is huge and I have seen it both from visiting the Sizewell B site and driving around all the roads and fields where this project will take shape.
A journalist commented to me that they felt our report reflected the mood of people locally, and I said that was not be accident as we have tried to encapsulate people concerns and feeling as this project comes forward. There is a sense that of course this will happen as the county needs safe, independent of Europe, energy supplies but we must do all we can to make sure the area is not completely blighted for the next 10 years.
The plant is due to come on-line in 2030, and will for a period generate alongside Sizewell B which is due to operate until 2035, the two plants together will generate some 10% of UK energy supplies.
So, our role is to make sure we plan to mitigate its construction as best we can and for EDF to provide a legacy benefit to the community in the doing so. We will hold them to account all the way through the process to help get it built and for that to be at the minimum costs to those living in this wonderful part of Suffolk.


Bottle collecting for Darren and I was a side affect of hiking the Bruce trails and trespassing on rural; properties where we knew we would see more wildlife. We would come across the most obvious of farmers end of field dumps. We never did find anything of significance but our screw top poisons and no return embossed bottles were the beginnings of our interest in collecting. Over time we had finished all the Bruce trails and moved into any creek or river valley we could gain access too.
The Airport farm was just a ruin with an old road, mature trees and some barn foundations. Some of what was found here is still in my collection. "Nesbitt's Of California" (10 FL OZ black style ACL), "Nesbitt's Of California" (10 FL OZ white style ACL, Ottawa Ont), "Canada Dry" (10 FL OZ ACL), "Coca Cola" 6.5 FL OZ Albany N.Y. ACL), "Pick'n Dry" (10 FL OZ ACL Toronto), "Crush" (10 FL OZ ACL Toronto), "Pure Spring" (10 FL OZ ACL), "Reinhart's Beverages" (12 FL OZ Guelph Ont embossed) and more doubles to be packed away in cardboard boxes. Darren also found several sodas plus an amber quart ACL screw top Diversey Dilac milkstone remover, a green John Collins ACL, and a Woodbridge Dairy foil milk cap.
From 1994 to 1996, numerous healthy hikes were made often stopping at the same dumps and sometimes discovering a new one. One such dump was along a hidden old road that sloped down into the valley. Our first six amber skull & cross bone "poison Liq Iodine" were found here, some with the glass stoppers (never found any since). My first two mini (6cm) "Coca Cola's" were discovered on two different hill bank dumps. Over time better versions of bottles replace what was found in the Airport valley, but the following are still in my collection: "Pepsi-Cola" (10 FL OZ Montreal Que ACL/embossing 1959), "Vernor's Ginger Ale" (8 FL OZ Windsor Ont ACL), "Walkers Beverages" (10 FL OZ Orangeville Ont ACL), "Nugrape" (6 FL OZ Toronto ACL), "Wishing Well" (11 FL OZ National Dry product embossed), "Frosty Beverages Sanderson & Porter" (12 FL OZ Toronto embossed), "Jersey Dry Beverages" (30 FL OZ ACL Toronto), "7-up" (28 FL OZ green/no return/embossed), "Registered Seltzer & Rydholm" (1 pint & 12 FL OZ aqua/embossed/Auburne M.E.), "Lysol" (Lehn & Fink Canada-on bottom/amber/10cm), "Underwood's Inks" (clear/screw top/round/7cm),"Improved Crown" (aqua/12.5cm and 16.cm sizes), "Crown" (aqua/22.5cm), "Imperial" (aqua/ Qt/19.5cm), "Joseph Campbell Camden N.J. USA Preserve Co" (clear/20.5cm), "Shirrifs Flavouring Extracts" (clear/round/9.5cm), "Guttuso Pure Olive Oil Guttuso Olive Oil Corp Montreal" (clear/19.5cm), "Hollywood Sani White Four White Shoes" (aqua/screw top/13cm), "Lepages Grip Spreader" (clear/ 8cm), " Genuine Philips Milk Of Magnesia" (cobalt/17.5cm), "Milk Of Magnesia Reg. Can. Pat. Off The Chas H. Phillips Chemical Company Windsor Ont" (cobalt / 12.5cm), "Rundle's Liniment" (non-such-on bottom/amethyst/17cm).
In the biggest and deepest of the dumps we found our first milk bottles. Darren lucked out first with a "Silver wood cream top" right near the surface. Darren also found "Brampton Dairy" (quart/slug plate) and a "Brampton Jerseys" (pint/slug plate). I was very happy to dig my first "Rosedale Dairy Brampton" (pint / slug plate / block letters), "Roselawn" (quart/R-on bottom/Toronto), "Rogers Dairy Limited" (quart / R-on bottom / Toronto), "ACME Farmers Dairy Limited" (quart / AF-on bottom / Toronto).
The Airport road valley on the east side is now a complete sub division right up to the Castle more golf club and unfortunately I was never around when they bull dozed through some of the farm settlement.


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Warm Weather Wearables
Apparel for Summer at Boutiques in Resort Locales
By Carimé Lane
Hot sunny days will be here again soon! Read on for top-selling summer and resortwear items, and sales and display strategies, from four boutiques in resort areas.
Kim Galland, owner of Kimbals in Palm Springs, Calif., said her top-selling summer apparel item is a sheer, long, halter-style dress/cover-up. This piece of apparel is a year-round best-seller. It's a one-size-fits-all, flowy fit that comes in an array of solid colors and prints.
"[They're] pretty and sexy, they fit most, and are very affordably priced," Galland said.
Displays of brightly-colored apparel at Kimbals. This 1,000-square-foot store offers items for a finished outfit, the owner said.
Her top-selling items that make for ideal resort wear all shows a little skin, are a loose, flowy, and often a one-size fit item. Grab and go merchandise is also a top-seller in this area. This merchandise is ideal for the customer and the store owner, Galland said. For the customer, they are "pretty, flattering and affordable priced." And, for the store owner, "…the one-size fit allows me to carry a broader selection without a bigger cash outlay."
Swimwear, sheer cover-ups and kaftans, bias cut print dresses, bohemian-style long, flouncy, halter-style, low-back dresses, and magic wrap dresses/cover-ups are all top selling summer items for Galland.
Showing customers a finished outfit often helps to sell apparel, Galland said.
Kim Galland, owner of Kimbals in Palm Springs, Calif.
One-size items sell well for the store.
"I have found that a lot of customers can't visualize an outfit on, or how to accessorize," Galland said. "If I place mannequins throughout the store and display outfits with coordinated jewelry, hats and handbags I can often sell the entire accessorized outfit."
At the 3,000-square-foot Frenchy's Fashions – specializing contemporary cruisewear, resortwear and swimwear – in Palm Springs, Calif., resort-themed tops and sundresses are best-sellers, according to owners Denise and Marshall Boyer.
"They are perfect for a weekend get-away or vacation," the Boyers said.
Their top-selling resortwear pieces are artist inspired. They believe this type of apparel sells well because they are unique and appeal to a wide variety of tastes.
A shoe display at Frenchy's Fashions. This Palm Springs, Calif., store is a third generation, family-owned and operated resort boutique that has been open at the same location since 1955.
When it comes selling apparel, the owners of Frenchy's recommended listening to customers and finding out what they're looking for. They also find it helpful to emphasize the many made-in-the USA and made-in-Canada products they carry.
Daniela Patino is manager at Blue Moon on Hilton Head Island, S.C. Their best-selling summer apparel item is a versatile tie-dyed set with a long-sleeved shirt and short. It's comfortable and versatile – suitable for slipping into at the close of a beach or pool day, or worn as cozy pajamas at night. Another top seller is their light blue tie-died short dress. It's primarily used as a cover up, but could also be paired with wedges or nice sandals to suit a walk around town.
howluckyAMI Owner Jane Sperlazzi with her husband. Among the store's resortwear selection, beach dresses are the number one sellers.
"We're sure it'll become one of the favorite items in [a customer's] closet because of the short length that's so convenient for the weather we have, and it's a beautiful blue that'll remind [customers] of the beach," Patino said.
Leggings–fleece for cooler weather, and workout-style leggings for warmer weather–are another favorite here.
In terms of resortwear, Patino said the dresses are the number one seller during the summer, because dresses make for a convenient piece to wear in high temperatures.
"You just have to add something nice [to the dress] like wedges or sandals and some nice jewelry, and you're all set," Patino said.
To sell apparel, Patino recommended looking into trends, especially when it comes to selling apparel to demographics like juniors or teens. Comfort is also important–for instance, itchy fabrics may not perform well, Patino said.
Tie-dyed and other types of apparel at Blue Moon. A tie-dye set is best-selling for the store, as is a tie-dye short dress, according to the manager.
Jane Sperlazzi, owner of howluckyAMI, in Anna Maria, Fla., sells a variety of merchandise for hitting the beach in style, including apparel, ranging from long and short sleeved T-shirts to beach towels to a line of drinkware– all emblazoned with their trademarked logo.
Beach dresses are the number one seller among their resortwear selection. This dress is a made-in-the-USA tank style swim dress, made of SPF 50 fabric. It's sold in a few different styles, and sports their logo. They're made with a micro bacterial fabric that's very breathable, cooling and comfortable, Sperlazzi said.
"You can sit four hours in a beach chair, walk to your rental cottage, put some lipstick on and head straight to a cocktail party," remarked Sperlazzi. "It's very island friendly and comfortable."
Jewelry and apparel displays at Kimbals. The store features a sunken-down-two-steps area called "The Jewelry Place."
To sell their merchandise, Sperlazzi said customers are drawn to howluckyAMI's branding. The sentiment: howluckyAMI, is a reminder of the memories they have from their vacation.
"There's a feeling of gratitude and happiness that [howluckyAMI] evokes," Sperlazzi said.
Amy Fleece of Pink & Navy Boutique, a beach boutique also on Anna Maria Island, said their top selling summer items are – produced by Salt Tolerant and AnnaBPaints – shirts, tanks and dry fit tops designed by local artists. These are both unique, and a practical memory of Anna Maria, Fleece said.
An apparel display at Blue Moon. Comfortable fabrics are important apparel attributes, according to the manager.
Fun sundresses are tied with these items as best-sellers Fleece said.
"Everyone loves them because you can throw them over a swimsuit or wear out for the evening," explained Fleece. "Anna Maria Island is a very relaxed place, so these dresses are truly versatile here."
The Never Wrong Sarong is a top seller at Pink & Navy that makes for ideal resortwear.
"Everyone I know has bought a sarong and couldn't remember how to tie it," said Fleece. "This one takes the guesswork out!"
To sell apparel, Fleece buys the best quality items at a reasonable price, so she can pass these on to her customers as well.
What's Your Top Apparel Display Tip?
A display of name-dropped apparel and accessories at howluckyami in Anna Maria, Fla. The owner purchases with the aim of presenting collections in the same color tones.
At Kimbal's, Kim Galland said the most important thing is to accessorize your displays.
At Frenchy's Fashions, Denise and Marshall Boyer agreed. They said the best way to display apparel is by curating the whole display from head-to-toe: the accessories, clothes, shoes and handbags–in other words: "the full look."
Daniela Patino of Blue Moon recommended displaying your most popular items in high traffic areas such as near the front door and register.
Jane Sperlazzi merchandises to create a story at howluckyami. For instance, she might have a beach dress on a face out surrounded by towels of the same color folded to show the logo, with a lap throw, pillow and beach bag–all of the same color tones. She'll also purchase with the aim of presenting collections in colors in this way.
At Pink & Navy Boutique, Amy Fleece agreed.
"Group colors that play well together, find a theme and run with it," Fleece said.
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Possessing a personal jet is no more a high-end accomplishment…….its how luxurious and stylish the interiors are that talk of your status in this world of crowding Richie-Rich folks! Following the speculation of the latest refurnished A380 for some Middle-Eastern client, its time for wealthy individuals from other continents to stand up. Boeing Business Jets approached DesignworksUSA and challenged the firm to create a conceptual 787 aircraft interior for a fictitious, affluent, Russian client in his mid-thirties. So in a pursuit to render a second luxurious home, the design team at DesignworksUSA came up with an interior with semi-translucent walls, residential-style furniture that lets space visually continue around it and vistas that let the eye travel beyond the immediate environment. More luxurious images follow……..


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Demographic Profile and Associated Psychological Factors among Patients with Erectile Dysfunction Attending Tertiary Care Centre at Raigarh (Chhattisgarh)
You are here: The International Journal of Indian Psychȯlogy > Articles > Volume 04, Issue 2, January-March, 2017 > Demographic Profile and Associated Psychological Factors among Patients with Erectile Dysfunction Attending Tertiary Care Centre at Raigarh (Chhattisgarh)
| Published: March 10, 2017
Dr. Vimal Chandra Bhagat
[MD, Psychiatry] Assistant Professor, Late Lakhiram Agrawal Memorial Govt. Medical College, Raigarh, C.G., India Google Scholar More about the auther
, Dr. Rajesh Kumar Ajagallay
[MD, Psychiatry] Associate Professor & HOD, Late Lakhiram Agrawal Memorial Govt. Medical College, Raigarh, C.G., India Google Scholar More about the auther
, Dr. Gaukaran Janghel
[Ph. D, Psychology] Clinical psychologist, Late Lakhiram Agrawal Memorial Govt. Medical College, Raigarh, C.G., India Google Scholar More about the auther
, Viyata Chanda
M. Phil Psychology, Clinical Psychologist, Lakhiram Agrawal Memorial Govt. Medical College, Raigarh, CG, India Google Scholar More about the auther
, Dr. Rakesh Kumar Agrawal
MBBS, Lakhiram Agrawal Memorial Govt. Medical College, Raigarh, CG, India Google Scholar More about the auther
, Dr. Neelam Naik
Background: Erectile dysfunction (ED) is defined as the inability to attain or maintain a penile erection sufficient for successful vaginal intercourse. ED is a common problem worldwide that affects men with increasing age. ED not only deteriorates sexual life of men but also makes them prone to experience psychological distress. Aim: Present study aimed at investigating the demographical profile and psychological factors were correlated with the ED. Methods: The cross-sectional study design with the total 197 patients in ED were selected in 18 to 60-year age groups, from Late Lakhiram Agrawal Memorial Govt. Medical College, Raigarh, C.G., India (LAMGMC) and associated hospital. The χ2 test was used for analyzing the data. Results: Total 197 patients were selected, the majority of the patients were mildly affected by ED (n=99, 50.9%). There were Significant correlations between patient's psychological factors e.g. Dissatisfaction on household income (P=0.030), Blame themselves (P= 0.001), feeling of guilt (P=0.000), less desirable (P= 0.000), feeling hurt (P= 0.000), feeling of anger or bitterness (P=0.000), depression (P=0.005), feeling like a failure (P=0.000), Worry of ED will affect closeness with a partner (P= 0.000), and worry for a future relationship (P= .001), and the association of socio demographic factors were insignificant. Conclusion: ED is a significant health problem and affect psychological well-being of patients. Besides pharmacological therapy, patient education on ED also plays an important role in the management of ED. Assessment early diagnosis and treatment of ED and psychological problems are crucial for patients, as untreated psychological problems can further worsen the ED condition as well as impair patients' overall QoL.
Erectile Dysfunction, Psychological Factors
© 2017 Bhagat V, Ajagallay R, Janghel G, Chanda V, Agrawal R, Naik N
How to cite this article: Bhagat V, Ajagallay R, Janghel G, Chanda V, Agrawal R, Naik N (2017), Demographic Profile and Associated Psychological Factors among Patients with Erectile Dysfunction Attending Tertiary Care Centre at Raigarh (Chhattisgarh),International Journal of Indian Psychology, Volume 4, Issue 2,DOI: 10.25215/0402.122,DIP: 18.01.122/20170402
Received: February 08, 2017; Revision Received: March 03, 2017; Accepted: March 10, 2017
Dr. Vimal Chandra Bhagat @ drbhagatpsyche@gmail.com


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REMOTE DESKTOP SERVICES 'WORMABLE' VULNERABILITY
By George Thomas
In Threat Horizon
REMOTE DESKTOP SERVICES 'WORMABLE' VULNERABILITY2019-05-152019-05-17https://itcsecure.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/logo-boxed3.pngITC Secure | Secure IT Network Infrastructureshttps://itcsecure.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/logo-boxed3.png200px200px
Executive Summary: Microsoft have addressed a remote code execution vulnerability found in their Remote Desktop Services (formally known as Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 and earlier) affecting older versions of Windows prior to Windows 8. The security flaw, CVE-2019-0708, allows an attacker to send maliciously crafted packets towards a device running Remote Desktop Services and achieve arbitrary code execution without authentication or user-interaction. This means that the exploit is 'wormable'; it can easily propagate between vulnerable devices. Microsoft have stated that 'any future malware that exploits this vulnerability could propagate from vulnerable computer to vulnerable computer in a similar way as the WannaCry malware spread across the globe in 2017'. Due to the nature of the exploit this future scenario is thought to be incredibly likely, and vulnerable systems should be patched as soon as possible to avoid devices becoming victim to such an attack. Microsoft have released patches to unsupported systems affected because of the severity of the situation.
Systems with Network Level Authentication (NLA) enabled are partially protected against 'wormable' forms of this malware, as NLA requires authentication before exploitation is possible. However, if an attacker has acquired valid user credentials, they will still be able to exploit the vulnerability. This is particularly problematic due to the widespread use of common passwords.
Detect: Any affected operating systems which have not already been updated will be affected by this vulnerability.
ITC customers who are subscribed to the ITC VI service can request a scan to identify affected operating systems.
Affected Products: The following operating systems are susceptible to this vulnerability:
Prevent: Microsoft have released security updates for all affected products. Downloads for supported operating systems, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, can be found in the Microsoft Security Update Guide [2].
Security fixes for out-of-support systems, Windows 2003 and Windows XP, can be found in KB4500705 [3].
It is possible to mitigate the issue by disabling Remote Desktop Services where it is not required. It is also possible to implement workarounds by enabling NLA on affected operating systems which are in-support, and by blocking TCP port 3389 at the perimeter firewall. However, it is worth noting that an attacker who has acquired valid user credentials will be able to pass NLA and exploit the vulnerability. It is also worth recognising that similarly to how WannaCry first infected machines through malicious emails before spreading across networks, malware exploiting this vulnerability will likely be bundled into a package which first compromises a single device and then spreads laterally, so blocking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access at the firewall will not prevent the spread of infection. It is therefore strongly recommended that the appropriate updates are applied, rather than implementing workarounds. Blocking inbound RDP on the firewall unless absolutely necessary is the recommended best security practice regardless of this vulnerability, but ensuring that this is the case will safeguard against any devices being exploited externally if this does become exploited in the wild.
React: The appropriate security updates should be applied to all affected systems immediately.
[1] https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2019/05/14/prevent-a-worm-by-updating-remote-desktop-services-cve-2019-0708/
[2] https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0708
[3] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4500705/customer-guidance-for-cve-2019-0708
Author: George Thomas
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Q: Is it possible to change the type of a field when storing an object in MongoDB using Morphia? I have a class named Meeting that contains some fields, one of them is timeStamp and its type is long. I want to store meetings in MongoDb, but I want this timeStamp to be stored as a Date. Is there a way to specify Morphia to store it using a different type with a mapper/convertor function?
@Entity(noClassnameStored = true)
public class Meeting {

    private String entity1;
    private String entity2;
    private long timeStamp;

    public Meeting(){

    };

    public Meeting(String entity1, String entity2, long timeStamp) {

        this.entity1 = entity1;
        this.entity2 = entity2;
        this.timeStamp = timeStamp;
    }

    public String getEntity1() {
        return entity1;
    }

    public String getEntity2() {
        return entity2;
    }

    public long getTimeStamp() {
        return timeStamp;
    }
}

A: You can use @PrePersist and @PostLoad to coerce the types.  See here for more.


...a place where you'll find lots of sunshine, and happiness, too.
my lovely children (when they'll allow me).
& me with my camera, taking it all in.
& the color of sunshine.
also mochas, smoothies, & andy's choc-o-rocos.
and just about anything health or beauty related.
in love with nature, vintage barns, and wildflowers.
& think everyone should have a sister, especially two.
& proud to be an American.
who are growing up way to fast.
i have a hubby to be proud of.


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US Navy Vietnam Saigon Pocket Hanger
Scarce Original US Navy Vietnam Navsuppact Det An Thoi BEER CAN Painted Insignia Pocket Hanger Vietnamese Made. Locally made item, which has been worn with age and service wear.
Colt Magazine 20 round
Original Colt manufactured 20 round magazines for the AR15, M16, M4 and other derivatives/clones.
An original Colt M16 / AR15 30 round magazine
An original Colt M16 / AR15 30 round magazine fully marked example in good condition.
Vietnam Era Colt 45 Shoulder Holster
A Vietnam era leather shoulder holster with service wear, maker marked Hunter Corp. Leather is supple and in good condition.
Please note the Colt 45 is not included.
US Marine Corps - Brevet Patch
An un-known Vietnam era locally made USMC patch.
Removed from uniform and with age and wear.
Measures 4" x 3 1/4"
United States Marine Corps HMM-363 Squadron Patch
A Vietnam era USMC HMM-363 Squadron patch. Fully embroidered (I think made in Japan/Vietnam)
Large size at 5 1/2" x 4 7/8"
Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 363 the "Lucky Red Lions", was activated on June 2, 1952, at Marine Corps Air Station Santa Ana, California and was designated the Marine Helicopter Transport Squadron 363 (HMR-363). It was activated as a result of the demands of the Korean War. In 1953, the unit flew the Sikorsky HRS-1 and during this period took part in Operation Desert Rock, the first atomic test to use ground troops. Soon thereafter, the squadron became the first West Coast helicopter unit to receive the Sikorsky H-34 helicopter. In December 1964, a disastrous flood struck Northern California, and on Christmas Eve, HMM-363 deployed aboard the USS Bennington and rushed northward to the disaster area. Also served in Vietnam deployed in 1965.
US Army Vietnam Bronze Star Grouping
This is a Named Bronze Star medal grouping to a Chief Warrant Officer of the 1st Aviation Brigade.
Consisting of the following items:-
1. Named Bronze Star medal with V, lapel badge. medal ribbon and WO used collar rank.
2. Official Bronze Star medal certificate dated June 1969.
3. Original Bronze Star Citation.
4. Photo of two persons in front of helicopter.
5. Medical cloth patch together with 377 Dustoff badge and a T/F Warrior tape.
I have no further information on this group.
Vietnam Purple Heart KIA Cambodia
Here we have a Purple Heart engraved and named to PFC James Arvil Green who served with C company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division.
Private First Class Green was a rifleman with Company D, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On June 18, 1970, he was on a protective reaction mission near Sre Khtum, Mondol Kiri Province, Cambodia. He came under heavy fire and was killed. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. Memorial headstone is located at Fort Gibson National Cemetery.
Vietnam Soc Trang "Tigers" 121st Aviation Grouping
A 121st Aviation Company Soc Trang "Tigers" 121st Assault Helicopter grouping consisting of the following items:-
1. Camilus survival knife, blade marked SoC Trang Tigers the scabbard has a Tigers motif added to the tip.
2. 121st Aviation patch embroidered with senior pilot wings.
3. Lighter with pilot wing and Tiger emblem made in Thailand, zippo style.
4. Photograph of a 121st Helicopter used for parts.
During the years the 121st Aviation Company served at Soc Trang (1962 to 1970) there were many accounts of dedication, skill and heroism. Many awards, both unit and individual, were given by a grateful nation in recognition of the contributions of this outstanding unit and the men who served her. Finally, in October 1970 the 121st Assault Helicopter Company (AHC) stopped reporting operationally to the 13th CAB. They started receiving missions from the local Vietnamese National Air Force (VNAF) Wing. Their primary mission was to train Vietnamese officers and enlisted men in the details of the transport side of the 121st AHC's mission (gunships were not transferred to the VNAF). In December 1970, with the transfer complete, the 121st AHC ceased operations. See 121st Aviation website for more information and unit details.
Vietnam Era U.S. Marines ERDL Boonie
An ERDL Boonie in worn condition with service wear and tear. Silk Vietnam Marines patch on the left with US Marines tape to the front. Probably an advisor.


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Following Monkey Business tradition (OK, so we only started it last year), we've knocked up another calendar for readers to print out and fold up, featuring floodlights we know and love - if only we could say that about the players of late. And for some of the chairmen.
If you print it on an A4 sheet of card or photo paper crease it and fold it up you've got a Poolie desk-type calendar. You can glue it. staple it or tape it together.
A few years back we did something similar, but it wasn't a calendar. We provided two different versions of the old Hartlepool Corporation Festive Bus (which has recently been saved from being scrapped) for you to print and cut out, and we thought it was time for a reminder.
So if anyone wants to see what that was all about, or would like to have their own festive bus model, here are links to the relevant pages of the December 2012 and 2011 editions of Monkey Business.


The IAgrE is the professional body for engineers, scientists, technologists and managers in agricultural and allied landbased industries, including forestry, food engineering and technology, amenity, renewable energy, horticulture and the environment. IAgrE's prime remit is the promotion of professionalism at all levels through IAgrE membership and professional qualifications.
Activities include branch and technical group meetings, conferences and events.
reports from national, branch and other meetings.
Members are eligible for low-cost subscriptions to the sector's learned journal – Biosystems Engineering.
Corporate members of IAgrE are automatically members of the European Society of Agricultural Engineers.
IAgrE works together with its sister charity – the Douglas Bomford Trust (DBT) to provide free membership for students studying relevant landbased engineering and technology subjects.


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5 Steps to Reduce Waste This Holiday Season
by Katherine Roth
(Source:Jacob Fox/Better Homes & Gardens via AP)
With concern about climate change growing, this holiday season is a chance to try celebrating in more planet-friendly ways. Simple changes to the way we gift wrap, send cards, decorate and entertain can cut out a lot of waste. (And often save money in the process.)
"This is the year to approach the holidays with sustainability foremost in mind. It's a great way to feel good as you enter the giving season," says Liz Vaccariello, editor in chief of Real Simple.
Think carefully about what you're buying, says Melissa Ozawa, features and garden editor of Martha Stewart Living, "and focus on things that are meaningful and last."
That often means natural and recyclable materials.
"Now more than ever, it's good to ask yourself, 'Do I really want this? Will I use it? What's the impact on the planet?" Ozawa says.
Some activities to look at:
Unease over paper waste has many people turning to reusable bags and other options. Some companies that make wrapping paper have launched recyclable lines, or removed glitter, which is not recyclable, from their products.
Vaccariello recommends stocking up on gift bags and ribbons that come your way and reusing them.
Or consider things like old maps, pages from magazines, and decorated Kraft paper as recyclable gift wrap, and embellishing them with fragrant sprigs of rosemary or evergreen, says Amy Panos, home editor at Better Homes & Gardens.
Both she and Ozawa like the Japanese tradition of furoshiki, in which gifts are elegantly wrapped in cloth. The pretty and sturdy wrapping cloths can be found in shops or online.
Or use colorful tea towels or scarves, making the wrapping cloth part of the gift itself. Better Homes features a guide to wrapping in cloth on its website.
"The tide has really turned, and it's fine to give and receive electronic cards. There are so many digital options now, and people get just as much joy out of it," says Vaccariello.
Those who stick with traditional cards might opt for ones printed on recyclable paper, and skip those featuring glitter or foil.
Cards from California-based PaperCulture.com, for example, are printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper. To offsets its carbon footprint, the company says, it works both locally and with the Arbor Day Foundation and Trees for the Future, pledging to plant a tree for every order.
"There's room, and demand, for saving the planet while having things that are inspirational in the way they're designed," says CEO Christopher Wu.
(Source: Carson Downing/Better Homes & Gardens via AP)
Again, think of reusing and recycling, says Vaccariello. Greenery left over from trimming a tree or clipped from the outdoors can be used in wreaths or garlands, for example.
Last year's holiday cards can be cut out and hung as decorations, says Panos.
If your holidays lights are old, switch them out for energy-saving LED ones, says Ozawa, at Martha Stewart Living. They use 75% less energy than incandescent bulbs according to Energy Star, and will last years longer, she says.
Artificial or real? "The greener choice would be buying a real Christmas tree from a local farm," says Ozawa.
"The trees are grown for the purpose of being cut, and new ones are typically replanted every year, so the cycle continues," she says.
"Buying local means that it didn't use tons of fossil fuels to get to you. Plus many municipalities pick up trees after the holidays and chip them to use as mulch, so you're not adding to the landfill. And you can't beat the smell of a fresh-cut tree."
If you do buy an artificial tree, she says, plan to use it for many years.
"I would also consider the material of the artificial tree. When making your decision, ask: Is it made with recycled materials? Or can it be recycled?" Ozawa suggests.
When hosting a gathering, avoid single-use plastics and go with more eco-friendly options, like regular plates and cups. If single-use seem unavoidable, choose compostable versions made from things like bamboo or sugar cane, says Vaccariello.
"Just be sure to put out clearly labeled bins for compostables and recyclables," reminds Panos. "Otherwise it'll still end up in the trash."
Instead of offering guests a plastic goodie bag or doggie bag on their way out, save takeout containers and reuse them, she suggests.
"And at the end of the party, consider donating unopened bags or cans of food to a food pantry," Panos adds.
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Make a difference in your community while immersing yourself in the arts! Great way to obtain community service hours for students!
The Grand is an amazing facility due its thoughtful development as a professional arts organization and educative center within City government, as well as an important public resource as an economic redevelopment project in downtown Tracy. Hundreds of community leaders, arts patrons, educators and parents contributed to the planning process that ultimately designed the amenities and programming of the Center.
This municipal interdisciplinary arts center is the only one of its kind in the state of California offering professional and community-based fine arts programming through arts education, exhibitions, performances and rentals of all kinds, in a single complex, and is one of only small network of similar facilities in America.
The 37,000+ square foot facility opened in September of 2007, hosts 50,000 patrons a year, and is currently celebrating its 11th Anniversary Season in 2017-18. The Center is owned and operated by the City of Tracy and managed by the Cultural Arts Division in the City Manager's Office. The Grand Foundation is a private 501.(C)3 fundraising and community partner providing annual underwriting for programming and technical support, as well as contributing to an endowment fund to provide long-term financial stability.
Would you recommend Grand Theatre Center for the Arts?


Bonnie is a lesbian author and women's history professor seeking time to work on her nearly-completed manuscript, Handwritten in Public Places, a collection of essays on journal-keeping.
Bonnie has published 13 books with two more on the way, including three Lamba Literacy Award finalists (Eden Built by Eves, Girl Reel, Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor and two first-prize winning volumes of poetry The Schoolgirl's Atlas, Sixes and Sevens). She has also published a feminist textbook, Women's History for Beginners, twice featured on national television, and in August 2016 will release a new book The Disappearing L: erasure of lesbian spaces and culture. A prolific writer, Bonnie has contributed essays and articles to over 60 anthologies of women's writing. Teaching dominates Bonnie's calendar year and in recent summers she has worked as a guest lecturer on Olivia cruises, so a residency at Maelor will give her time to focus.
Bonnie is of Welsh ancestry on her father's side (one John Morris after another back to Cardiff miners!) and she has longed to visit the land of her forefathers.