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Family sold house, lived on the road in RV for nearly a year during pandemic
Updated: 11:43 PM EDT Sep 13, 2021
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JIM: AS THE MASK DEBATE PYSLA OUT IN FLORIDA CLASSROOMS, ONE FAMILY FROM ORLANDO TOOK SCHOOLING DURING THE PANDEMIC INTO THEIR OWN HANDS BY LIVING OUT OF AN RV AND TRAVELING THE COUNTRY. SUMMER: THE CLEMONS FAMILY HAS BEEN ON THE ROAD FOR ALMOSAT YEAR. WE SH 2'S MARLEI MARNETIZ SHOWS US WHERE IN THE U.S. THEY ARE NOW AND WHY THEY SAY, THEY WON'T EVER BE GOING BACK TO AN ACTUAL BRICK AND MORTAR SCHOOL AGAIN. ♪ MARLEI: IT W AAS PASSION THAT TURNED INTO A LIFESTYLE. LIKE SO MANY OF US THE CLEMONS , FAMILY WAS STUCK AT HOME IN ORLANDO LAST YEAR, WORKING AND STUDYING WHILE WISHING THEY WERE TRAVELING. SO THEY DECIDED TOAK ME THREI DREAM, A REALITY. >> I LOST MY MOM IN 2020 AFTER BEING A CAREGIVER FOR MANY YEARS. >> AND THEN A MONTH LATER, MY DAD PASSED AWAY IN THE PANDEMIC HIT. >> WE WERE LIKE, WHY NOT JUST SELL EVERYTHING AND I'LL HOMESCHOOLED THE KIDS? WE WILL JUST TRAVEL? >> ORLANDO IS FANTASTIC AND I GOT TO SEE THAT BUIT WANTED TO SHOW THEM THE REST OF THE WORLD. MARLEI: SO THE CLEMONS SOLD THEIR HOUSE OF NEARLY 20 YEARS. >> THIS IS WHAT OUR CAMPGROUND LOOKS LIKE FOR THIS WEEK. MARLEI: AND MOVED INTO THEIR NEW HOME ON WHEELS. >> WHEN IT IS BAD OUTSIDE, THIS IS MY OFFICE. I LITERALLY WORK IN THE BED. MARLEI: THEIR NEW DIGS BOTH HOME AND SCHOOL. >> TODAY IS THE 13TH. MARLEI: WHERE THEY SAY TIGHT QUARTERS MAKE FOR A TIGHT-KNIT FAMILY. >> WE MOVED IN ON OCTOBER 1, AND WE'RE COMING UP ON OUR YEAR AND IT'S BEEN FANTASTIC. >> IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE LOOKING AT -- TAKING OUT -- WHICH STATE ARE YOU IN? >> MARLEI: MONTANA. MARLEI: THIS WEEK THEY ARE IN MONTANA BUT CONSTANTLY HITTING THE ROAD. >> OK GUYS, WE ARE IN ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK. MAEIRL: SO MUCH SO, IT CAN BE TOUGH TO KEEP TRACK OF. >> WE HAVE BEEN TILL LIKE 17 STATES NOW. WE HAVE BEEN TO 14 NATIONAL PARKS. >> WE ARE AT 18 A. >> >> OK. SO 18. MARLEI: JENN AND MARK ARE COLLEGE SWEETHEARTS WHO MET AT UCF AND HAVEHR TEE KS.ID NOW, THEY'RE ON THE NEXT GREAT ADVENTURE AND AREN'T LOOKING BACK. >> HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE PANDEMIC, WOULD THIS BE YOUR LIFESTYLE NOW? >> PROBABLY T.NO THE AMERICAN DREAM DOESN'T HAVE TO BE OVERBOOKING YOUR KIDS AND WORKING 60 HOURS AK.EE W IT CAN MEAN TAKING THE KIDS AND OWSHING THEM THE WORLD BAUECSE READING IT IN THE BOOK IS JUST NOT THE SAME AS SEEING IT IN PERSON. MARLEI: IN ORLDOAN MARLEI MARTINEZ WESH 2 NSEW SUMMER: THE CLEMONS SAY THEY PLAN TO STAY ON THE ADRO INDEFINITELY. BUT CHECK THIS OUT, THEIR ORIGINAL PLAN WAS TO ACTUALLY TO SAIL AROUND THE WORLD BUT SIENC THERE WAS A RUN ON CATAMARANS LAST YEAR, THEY ENDED UP IN AN RV. BUT TAKING TO THE WATER IS THEIR NEXT BIG
A Florida family took schooling — and living — during the pandemic into their own hands. The Clemons family has been living out of an RV and traveling the country. They've has been on the road for almost a year, turning their passion into a lifestyle. Like so many of us, they were stuck at home last year working and studying while wishing they were traveling. So they decided to make their dream a reality. "I lost my mom at the beginning of 2020 after being a caregiver for many years," Jenn Clemons said.Her husband, Mark, lost his father a month later. And then the pandemic hit. "So we were like, why not just sell everything, and I'll homeschool the kids. And we'll just travel," Jenn said. Clemons said he was not only on board, he could not wait to get their three kids on the road. The Clemons sold their house of nearly 20 years and moved into their new home on wheels. "We moved in on Oct. 1, and we're coming up on our year and it's been fantastic," Mark said. This week, they are in Montana. But they are constantly changing locations. So far, they've visited 17 states and 18 national parks. Jenn and Mark are college sweethearts who met at the University of Central Florida and have three kids. Now, they are on their next great adventure and are not looking back. "The American dream doesn't have to be overbooking your kids and working 60 hours a week," Jenn said. "It can mean taking the kids and showing them the world because reading it in the book is just not the same as seeing it in person."The Clemons plan to stay on the road indefinitely. Their original plan was actually to sail around the world. But since there was a run on catamarans last year, they ended up in an RV. So taking to the water is the next adventure. Watch the video above for the full story.
A Florida family took schooling — and living — during the pandemic into their own hands. The Clemons family has been living out of an RV and traveling the country.
They've has been on the road for almost a year, turning their passion into a lifestyle. Like so many of us, they were stuck at home last year working and studying while wishing they were traveling. So they decided to make their dream a reality.
"I lost my mom at the beginning of 2020 after being a caregiver for many years," Jenn Clemons said.
Her husband, Mark, lost his father a month later. And then the pandemic hit.
"So we were like, why not just sell everything, and I'll homeschool the kids. And we'll just travel," Jenn said.
Clemons said he was not only on board, he could not wait to get their three kids on the road.
The Clemons sold their house of nearly 20 years and moved into their new home on wheels.
"We moved in on Oct. 1, and we're coming up on our year and it's been fantastic," Mark said.
This week, they are in Montana. But they are constantly changing locations. So far, they've visited 17 states and 18 national parks.
Jenn and Mark are college sweethearts who met at the University of Central Florida and have three kids. Now, they are on their next great adventure and are not looking back.
"The American dream doesn't have to be overbooking your kids and working 60 hours a week," Jenn said. "It can mean taking the kids and showing them the world because reading it in the book is just not the same as seeing it in person."
The Clemons plan to stay on the road indefinitely. Their original plan was actually to sail around the world. But since there was a run on catamarans last year, they ended up in an RV. So taking to the water is the next adventure.

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Title 20. EDUCATION
Chapter 31. GENERAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING EDUCATION
Subchapter II. APPROPRIATIONS AND EVALUATIONS
Part 2. Planning and Evaluation of Federal Education Activities
Section 1228a. Equity for students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries
20 U.S. Code § 1228a. Equity for students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries
(a) PurposeThe purpose of this section is to assist the Department in implementing the Department's mission to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the Nation, by—
ensuring equal opportunities to participate for all eligible students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries in any project or activity carried out under an applicable program; and
promoting the ability of such students, teachers, and beneficiaries to meet high standards.
(b) Requirement to develop steps to ensure equity
The Secretary shall require each applicant for assistance under an applicable program (other than an individual) to develop and describe in such applicant's application the steps such applicant proposes to take to ensure equitable access to, and equitable participation in, the project or activity to be conducted with such assistance, by addressing the special needs of students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries in order to overcome barriers to equitable participation, including barriers based on gender, race, color, national origin, disability, and age.
(c) Establishment of criteria
The Secretary may establish criteria and provide technical assistance for meeting the requirements of this section.
(d) Effect on other laws
Nothing in this section shall be construed to alter in any way the rights or responsibilities established under the laws cited in section 1221(d) of this title.
(Pub. L. 90–247, title IV, § 427, as added Pub. L. 103–382, title II, § 236, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3917.)
Prior Provisions
A prior section 427 of Pub. L. 90–247 was renumbered section 434, and is classified to section 1231d of this title.
Another prior section 427 of Pub. L. 90–247 was renumbered section 429, and was classified to section 1231f of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–382.
Section effective July 1, 1995, for noncompetitive programs in which funds are allocated on the basis of a formula and for programs that are conducted on a competitive basis, with respect to appropriations for use under such programs in fiscal year 1995 and in subsequent fiscal years, see section 3(a)(2) of Pub. L. 103–382, set out as an Effective Date of 1994 Amendment note under section 1221 of this title.


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Fonda, who is 82 years-old, made the comment during a virtual sit-in with the US Working Families Party last week, though it was only spotted by netizens on Wednesday.
"I just think Covid is God's gift to the Left," Fonda said in the clip, quickly adding that she knows "it's a terrible thing to say." She reasoned that the pandemic had "ripped the bandaid off" Trump and shown people "what he stands for and what is being done to average people and working people in this country."


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It is a known fact that the sales of smartphones and tablets are growing all over the world. However, the spread of tablets is leading to a sale decline netbooks and laptops. Most people who own tablets can satisfy all their needs in communication, info search, photo and video management, etc. And a very interesting question arises: will tablets replace notebook, netbooks and even desktop PCs?
Ease of use of tablet systems. The operation systems of mobile phones and tablets are developed in such a way that a user intuitively knows how to use them. Computer OSes can't boast of such "feature".
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According to the polls about 46% of adult Americans think that tablets will replace laptops in the future.
There are some very serious grounds to think so. Just have a look at the advantages of tablets mentioned above. And taking into consideration that more and more information is stored in the cloud today, you don't need to have a device with great storage capacity to work with huge amount of docs. All you need is a device with high speed of work and processing the information. Tablets are becoming such devices.
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The Lockheed Model 33 Little Dipper, also known as Air Trooper, was an American single-seat monoplane, designed by John Thorp and built by Lockheed at Burbank, California. Flown in 1944 and offered to the Army as a "flying motorcycle", it was evaluated as a potential entry for Lockheed into the civilian market, but the program was cancelled before the second prototype was completed.

Design and development
The design of the Model 33 originated with a private venture for a two-seat light aircraft by John Thorp, a Lockheed engineer. In April 1944, the company agreed to build the aircraft as the Lockheed Model 33. Due to wartime restrictions on materials, the company gained the interest of the United States Army in the aircraft as an "aerial flying motorcycle" to equip a "flying cavalry" under the name Air Trooper. The Army, willing to entertain the concept, authorized Lockheed to build two prototypes of the Model 33.

The Model 33 was of ordinary light-aircraft design, with a low-mounted cantilever monoplane wing and conventional empennage; powered by a  Franklin 2A4-49 engine, it was fitted with a fixed tricycle landing gear and proved to have STOL performance.

Operational history

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Thorp, the aircraft's designer, would go on to develop the Thorp T-211 with lessons learned from the Little Dipper project.

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External links
Little Dipper project on YouTube

Little Dipper
1940s United States civil utility aircraft
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Ben West, Rest in Peace.
From The West Family:
With heavy hearts the West family is sad to announce that today March 30th 2019 Ben West Jr. passed peacefully of natural causes in his Hermitage home. He will be greatly missed by his wife Phyllis West and all of his children grandchildren and great grandchildren, along with many others who loved him dearly. Funeral arrangements will. be posted as soon as they are available. Thank you for respecting the privacy of the family during this time of grieving. God Bless you all!!
If Ben could post he'd definitely say "say good night Ben" to all of us.
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I never knew Ben West well, but knew him. He had a warm personality and really cared about people and was someone you liked immediately. He was a good man who loved his country and community. He was well-respected by everyone. He was a Democratic member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, representing the 60th District from 1985 to 2010. District 60 is the Donelson, Hermitage and Antioch area. West was the son of Nashville Mayor Ben West who served as mayor of Nashville from 1951 to 1963.
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Q: Calculate average price and number of unique buyers for each seller and visualize I have the following data frame:
      seller_id| buyer_id| quantity| price | transaction_date

          1432 | 344     |   40    | 3420  | 2015-02-01
          1432 | 356     |   41    | 3420  | 2015-02-01
          1432 | 354     |   41    | 3420  | 2015-02-03
          1456 | 354     |   41    | 3420  | 2015-02-04
          1498 | 354     |   41    | 3420  | 2015-02-04

For every seller I want to find the number of unique buyers and the average purchase price across all the unique seller's sales. I then want to visualize this data, as I have 200 unique sellers, to see the distribution of all sales for all the sellers in the system.
So for seller_id 1432 the average sales would be $3420
I tried df.groupby(['seller_id', 'buyer_id'])['amount'].transform(avg)
It is not returning the results I want.

A: Create your pandas DataFrame
import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO

data = \
"""seller_id|buyer_id|quantity|price|transaction_date
1432 | 344     |   40    | 3420  | 2015-02-01
1432 | 356     |   41    | 3420  | 2015-02-01
1432 | 354     |   41    | 3420  | 2015-02-03
1456 | 354     |   41    | 3420  | 2015-02-04
1498 | 354     |   41    | 3420  | 2015-02-04
"""
df = pd.read_csv(StringIO(data), sep='|')

Then create your statistics per 'seller_id'
sellers_stats = df.groupby(['seller_id']).agg({'price': 'mean', 'buyer_id': pd.Series.nunique}).reset_index()
sellers_stats.columns = ['seller_id', 'avg_price', 'unique_buyers']
sellers_stats

Then you can plot
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

x = [str(x) for x in sellers_stats['seller_id']]
y = [x for x in sellers_stats['unique_buyers']]
ax.plot(x, y)
ax.set(title='Unique buyers per seller')

plt.show()

and
fig, ax = plt.subplots()

x = [str(x) for x in sellers_stats['seller_id']]
y = [x for x in sellers_stats['avg_price']]
ax.plot(x, y)
ax.set(title='Average amount per seller')

plt.show()

or you can make a single plot
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

width = .35 # width of a bar
sellers_stats['avg_price'].plot(color='blue', kind='bar', width=width)
sellers_stats['unique_buyers'].plot(color='red', secondary_y=True)

ax = plt.gca()
plt.xlim([-width, len(sellers_stats['seller_id'])-width])
ax.set_xticklabels([str(x) for x in sellers_stats['seller_id']])

plt.show()

A: *

*df.groupby(['seller_id','buyer_id']).count() <- number of unique buyers per seller

*df.groupby(['seller_id','buyer_id']).mean()['amount'] <- average buying amount per buyer per seller
Oh I thought this is what you want, this should do the work for you
data.groupby(['seller_id']).buyer_id.nunique()

A: Here is a minimum complete example that returns the two requested data frames:
import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO

data = \
"""seller_id|buyer_id|quantity|amount|transaction_date
1432 | 344     |   40    | 3420  | 2015-02-01
1432 | 356     |   41    | 3420  | 2015-02-01
1432 | 354     |   41    | 3420  | 2015-02-03
1456 | 354     |   41    | 3420  | 2015-02-04
1498 | 354     |   41    | 3420  | 2015-02-04
"""
df = pd.read_csv(StringIO(data), sep='|')

nbs = df.groupby(['seller_id']).buyer_id.nunique()
print("Number of buyer per seller")
print(nbs)

avgpp = df.groupby(['seller_id']).mean()['amount']
print("Average purchase price across all the unique seller's sales")
print(avgpp)

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Pastor Jay is ordained in the Evangelical Free Church of America. He and Becky have been in full time ministry since 1987. They previously pastored two different churches—one in Balaton, Minnesota (3 years) and one in Midland, Michigan (for 23 years). They have been at EFCCL since October 2013. Jay earned a B.A. from Cornerstone University, and an M.Div. and Doctor of Ministry from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has published articles in Leadership Journal, Preaching, Evangelical Missions Quarterly, The Evangelical Beacon, Engage, and The Leading Edge. Becky enjoys speaking at women's events and conferences, and has an active ministry discipling women.
FAMILY LIFE:
Pastor Jay grew up in southern California and then moved to Michigan as a teenager. Becky grew up in Boulder, CO, where she and Jay were eventually married. Jay also served on staff, at the Free Church in Boulder, as an intern for 7 months. They have three children: Ben (married to Ellie), Stacy (married to Andrew), and Heidi (married to Shawn). Jay and Becky also have six grandchildren.
PERSONAL LIFE:
In their free time, Pastor Jay and Becky love to hang out with friends, eat junk food, and watch epic movies like the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Gettysburg. Jay and Becky also enjoy traveling, leading study tours to Israel and visiting missionaries around the world. Some of their favorite countries they've visited include: Malaysia, India, Greece, Ireland, Bosnia, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.
GOD AT WORK:
Jay writes, "I love the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible). It contains such diverse material and stories of God working among His people. I thoroughly enjoy reading the historical books and then meditating in the wisdom books. The theology of the Old Testament is rich and nourishing. The prophets are also fascinating to read, as they summoned God's people back to surrender to their holy God. I also love to read books on just about any topic."
Some of Pastor Jay's favorite authors include: Tim Keller, D.A. Carson, Louis L'Amour, Rodney Stark, Al Mohler, John Piper, R.C. Sproul, and Martyn Lloyd Jones. Becky is also an avid reader. Some of her favorite authors include: Elizabeth Elliott, Carolyn Curtis James, John MacArthur, John Piper, Jerry Bridges, Joni Eareckson Tada, and A.W. Tozer.
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This year will be Doug Friesen's 23rd anniversary at EFCCL (he joined the staff in 1995), and he has been in full-time ministry for 27 years. Doug oversees both Worship and Children's Disciple-making ministries. He previously served as Worship Pastor at Evangelical Free Church of Moline, Illinois, where he met his wife, Lisa. Doug holds a Bachelor of Church Music from Wayland Baptist University (1989) and two Masters of Music degrees from the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO (Choral Conducting and Piano Pedagogy/Accompanying, 1991). Doug is ordained by the EFCA with a Certificate of Ministry License (2000).
Doug and his wife, Lisa, recently celebrated their 22nd wedding anniversary. Pastor Doug grew up in California, Minnesota, and New Mexico, where he graduated from high school. He and Lisa have two children, Katelyn (22) and Joshua (21). The Friesen family loves to cook, watch basketball and enjoy
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"I love the book of Isaiah and find great comfort and encouragement in the truths found in this book. Recently, Isaiah 43:1-2 holds great meaning for me (emphasis added): 'Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you.'"
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Ron Kirkeeng | Pastor of Student Ministries
Pastor Ron has been called to be a disciple-maker of students. He has served with NEXUS Student Ministries for the last 20 years at EFCCL (Ron joined our staff in 1998). Ron has a B.A. in educational ministries with a focus on youth ministry from Moody Bible Institute, a Masters in religious studies with a focus in disciple-making from Trinity Divinity School in Deerfield, and a Certificate of Christian Ministry from the EFCA.
Pastor Ron is among the fourth generation of his family to be involved at EFCCL. He has grown as a disciple and disciple-maker in this church. He and his wife, Mystele, have two boys—Isaiah and Logan. If he and Mystele were in American Idol, she would win and he would lose! The Kirkeengs enjoy sports, pizza, and movies as a family.
In his free time, Ron enjoys the outdoors and keeping active. He is involved in Crystal Lake baseball and coaching. His sons enjoy baseball, football, and Nerf wars. The Kirkeengs also enjoy fine food like donuts, chocolate, coffee, steak, brisket, and pizza!
"It is my passion to live out the Great Commandment and Commission as a disciple-maker. It is my prayer
to live out Proverbs 3:5-6 every day, 'Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.'"
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Pastor Tim has had the privilege of serving full-time in ministry since 1986. His first position was Pastor of Youth & Education at a church in Chicago; he then served as a senior pastor in two churches in Ohio and Illinois. Tim joined our staff in December 2008 as the Pastor of Children's Ministries. He moved into his current role in the Fall of 2017. He has a B.A. from Moody Bible Institute and an M.A. in religion from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Tim was ordained by his home church in 1991 and is licensed with the EFCA.
Pastor Tim and his wife, Margie, both grew up in Chicago. They first met while in high school, dated a few years later, and were married in June of 1986. Their oldest daughter, Betsy, and son-in-law, Meda, were married in November 2011. Their second daughter, Merry, graduated in 2013 with a degree in criminal justice. Their son, Tim, graduated from Trinity in December 2015. As a family, they enjoy playing games and watching movies together. Tim and Margie have two grandchildren, Ramon and Mia.
Pastor Tim loves to read (especially U.S. history, biographies, and biblical & theological topics). He and his wife enjoy taking walks and going to places like Brookfield Zoo, downtown Chicago, and the Art Institute.
"If I had to pick one verse, it would be Ephesians 2:8-10. It is a great description and promise of God's amazing grace for salvation and spiritual growth. Books of the Bible that I turn to often are Psalms and Proverbs - appreciating the theme of wisdom and identifying with the honest emotions of the writers."
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Each year, the Human Rights Press Awards invites prominent figures in the fields of media, law, academia, and human rights volunteers to read and watch more than 400 entries, from both professional and students, as part of its judging panels.
Geoffrey Yeung
Geoffrey Yeung is a barrister developing a practice in constitutional and administrative law, human rights law, discrimination law, as well as general civil and criminal work. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong, and pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Geoffrey is also an advocate for LGBT rights and welfare in Hong Kong, focusing on law and policy issues.
Shirley Yam
Shirley Yam has been a financial and political journalist since the 80s. She is the vice-chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists Association.
Serenade Woo
Serenade Woo is a veteran journalist. She is a former Chairperson of Hong Kong Journalists Association. She is a member of the executive council of Amnesty International Hong Kong and a project manager of the International Federation of Journalists Asia Pacific Office. Currently, she is a freelance journalist.
Icarus Wong Ho-yin
Icarus Wong Ho-yin is a human rights campaigner and the founder of Civil Rights Observer. He earned a Master of Laws in Human Rights from the University of Hong Kong in 2017. He has been actively involved in advocating human rights protection against police brutality at both local level and the United Nations since 2009. Icarus is also known for his advocacy against inequality and adverse impacts brought by urban redevelopment.
Douglas Wong
Douglas Wong is an editor at Bloomberg Intelligence and was previously a journalist at Bloomberg News, the Financial Times and The Straits Times. A former FCC president and treasurer, he has been an HRPA judge since 2012.
Bettina Wassener
Bettina Wassener spent 20 years working as a business and economics correspondent, for the Financial Times and the New York Times/International Herald Tribune among others. Based in Hong Kong since 2008, she now works in corporate PR.
Corinne Vigniel
Corinne Vigniel is a TV producer, filmmaker and educator. She spent three decades covering TV news in Europe, Africa and Asia. She's worked for CBS, Reuters TV and as Asia-Pacific editor for AFP TV. She's also lectured journalism at University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University.
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National Chef of the Year 2015, Russell Bateman, said it was a 'huge honour' to claim the culinary title.
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The Craft Guild of Chefs has launched its search for the UK's National Chef of the Year 2016.
The competition is open to chefs from all sectors of the industry, who will be tasked with creating an innovative menu for four people.
Entrants have until 10 April to submit their menu for paper judging, with 40 selected to go through to the semi-final heats at Sheffield College on 11 June and Le Cordon Bleu on 24 June.
Eight chefs will be chosen to go through to the National Chef of the Year final at The Restaurant Show on 6 October 2015, with the winner crowned National Chef of the Year 2016.
This year's judging panel will be chaired by Clare Smyth, chef patron at the three Michelin starred Restaurant Gordon Ramsay. Entrants will be marked on technical skills as well as the seasonality and sustainability of their menus.
David Mulcahy, vice president of the Craft Guild of Chefs, said: "The National Chef of the Year is a benchmark for chef talent in the UK today and a career-enhancing challenge for anyone who takes part. Not only is the award highly respected but the competition process itself provides an unrivalled platform for testing your culinary skills to the max."
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The National Chef of the Year competition was established in 1972 and past winners include Gordon Ramsay, David Everitt-Matthias, Mark Sargeant, Steve Love, Simon Hulstone and Hrishikesh Desai.
"It's amazing to think my name has been added to that list of wonderful past winners," he said. "To be recognised by the fantastic line up of judges was a massive boost for me personally. I look forward to seeing the competition go from strength to strength."
Bateman's prizes for winning the final last October included a study trip to Dubai and a study trip to France with dinner at a 3 Michelin-starred restaurant, as well as vouchers, product and equipment from the competitions sponsors.
Sponsors for this year's competition include KNORR, Lockhart Catering Equipment, RARE, Nespresso, Continental Chef Supplies and Churchill China.
To enter the National Chef of the Year 2016, visit The Restaurant Show website and fill out an entry form by April 10
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During a recent visit to Hong Kong I facilitated a chat cafe with students so they could practice their English with a native English speaker. During the session a recording crew were present as they needed footage to place in a new promotional video for the College. It is now available on Youtube through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4coiqi4p2e0.
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Support for Change UK hits ZERO percent as group refuses to bring down Boris Johnson
Anna Soubry, leader of the Independent Group for Change, formerly known as Change UK. Photograph: Kirsty O'Connor/PA.
Support for Change UK in one poll is so small it does not register in charts of Westminster voting intention.
Support for the Change UK party - now known as the Independent Group for Change - is now even smaller than support for UKIP, a party recently beaten by the Official Monster Raving Loony Party at a by-election.
The poll by BMG research for the Independent found the Conservatives have a six-point lead over Labour with the Tories on 31%, Labour on 25%, Lib Dems on 19%, Brexit Party on 12% and UKIP on 1%.
But group leader Anna Soubry has vowed to fight on.
Soubry told the Independent: "We are on a much firmer footing, I don't think I'm being over-optimistic."
She continued: "We are recruiting members and we are the people, looking at the alternatives, who combine the Labour Social Democratic and One Nation Conservative traditions."
She said her hopes for a successful party "may take longer than we hoped", but said: "I don't think I'm being over-optimistic. We have five MPs, but literally every vote counts now and we are now very strong, because the five are as one."
The Independent Group for Change has been criticised for refusing to support Jeremy Corbyn over Boris Johnson in a no-confidence vote, which could have postponed Brexit and led to a general election.
At the European elections the party gained just 3.3% of votes and no seats in the European parliament, and suffered a further blow when six of its MPs left to sit as Independents.
Two of those MPs - Chuka Umunna and Sarah Wollaston - have since joined the Liberal Democrats.


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Some people, especially children, think that history is simply dates, battles, kings and queens, but history is far more than that. It is all around us, in our local areas, in the buildings, the businesses, shops and streets where we live. Street, district, town, city and area names, especially the unofficial names that local people use, can tell much about the history of the country and much about the history of the places where we live and work.
Bexhill on Sea, in Sussex, UK, for example, the name Bexhill comes from Old English, byxe meaning a box tree or thicket, so Bexhill means a box tree or thicket on a hill. The modern town gives no indication of its rural beginnings. Epsom, in Surrey, was originally Ebbes Homestead, the old English hamm meant a cultivated land hemmed in by water or marsh. Epsom today is a built up and very busy dormitory suburb of London, would have thought that it was once a homestead or farm?
One can easily trace the history of any English settlement through its name, for example the suffix or prefix cester chester, port, street in the name of a city, town or village indicate that they were Roman settlements. The prefixes and suffixes Aber, baille, ben, cair, pen and tre, indicate older Celtic origins. Tre and Pen are particularly prevalent in Cornish place names such as Penrhyn, and Tregaron. Ham, ford, cot, ton, and hurst indicate Anglo Saxon settlements. By, ey, and with indicate Viking settlements. French names including suffixes and prefixes such as beau and mont indicate Norman settlements.
Aldgate in London was simply the oldest city gate. The Strand may seem strange, until you realize that the old word for a beach was strand. Marble Arch is self-explanatory. Some London streets derive their names from the people who lived there such as Albemarle Street. Road names in other places also indicate their history, Gander Green Lane, in Cheam Surrey, derives its name from the fact that it was once a green lane or path along which geese were driven to market in London, very likely Smithfield.
Sometimes residents ask for street names to be changed because they perceive the name to be rude or because they do not like it. Residents in Bladder Lane asked for their street name to be changed to Boniface Lane, a perfectly reasonable request you might think. until you realise that the street was originally called after the bladderwort plant, not a bladder. Brewery Lane was changed to University Close after the college on the street complained to the council. However, changing street names risks losing their character and history and breaks our links with the past and our own roots and our sense of belonging.
Place names are intriguing, and tell so much about the history of a place and its people. Thank-you for visiting, taking the time to comment, and for your kind words.
I always make a point of delving into the history of places I live.


If the marketers that make up the Catalog Age 100 are any indication, search engine optimization (SEO) hasn't been a top priority. That's the conclusion of Netconcepts, an interactive agency specializing in e-commerce and search engine marketing.
Although copy rich with relevant and popular search keywords is critical to ranking well in search engines, 74% of the sites surveyed had home pages made up predominantly of graphics. What's more, a mere 6% of sites used H1 tags, which Spencer and Klais say are also key to obtaining high search engine rankings.
Among other findings, 24% of the sites used frames, which can be difficult, if not impossible, for search engines to spider. Fourteen percent used pop-up boxes, which search engines don't index. And 6% practiced keyword stuffing — repeating keywords excessively or adding a meta-tag that is hundreds of words long. Some search engines "punish" sites that use keyword stuffing or even ban them altogether.
Statistically, the average Catalog Age 100 Website has roughly 1,200 pages indexed across the major engines, with Google indexing four times as many pages per site than any other engine. But while some heavyweights such as Dell Computer Corp. have more than 50,000 pages indexed in Google, nearly 75% of catalogers have fewer than 1,000 pages indexed.
For more from the Netconcepts report, as well as advice on how to improve your search engine marketing and a collection of articles on search engine optimization, visit www.searchenginesinfo.com, a Website produced by Catalog Age and sister magazine Direct.


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The UK's first parent to parent social platform found two thirds of primary and secondary school parents don't know the name of their child's school friend's parents. Fathers were nearly three times less likely to know. Three quarters of parents don't feel as involved in their child's school life as they would like to be.
A recent study has found that many parents are increasingly remote from their child's social world at school. Modern work and life pressures are weakening the school gate community, where long lasting friendships between parents and families are often created.
Classlist, 'the world's first virtual school gate', commissioned a survey of 1,540 parents and discovered that two thirds of parents (71%) can't name their child's school friend's parents. Fathers struggled the most.
When asked why they didn't know, more than three fifths (61%) said it was due to their child having 'multiple friends' whilst a third (35%) said it was because they never drop off or pick up their child/children from school.
One unexpected finding was that nearly one in ten parents (8%) said they never discuss school with their child.
Parents of secondary school-aged children were less likely to know, with 74% admitting they didn't know other parent's names.
Classlist's free mobile-friendly service for connecting parents has seen demand take off with more than 500 schools signing up since the summer. Classlist was created by mums and friends Susan Burton and Clare Wright after experiencing in person the difficulty in linking up with other parents. It recently raised over £900,000 in crowdfunding investment, and its Board is led by former Whittards, Tie Rack, Jack Wills and Heals Chairman Will Hobhouse.
Susan Burton, co-founder of Classlist, said:
"This striking survey shows how difficult it can be to connect with other families – who can play a major role in your child's social life. Individual exam results and attainment are important, but the wider school community also deserves attention. Classlist's service makes it far easier to build and grow parent communities"
Clare Wright, co-founder of Classlist said,
"This survey shows parents trying to juggle the responsibilities of modern life. Work and other pressures mean it's a struggle to get to the school gate and meet other families. OFSTED's new metric on 'parental engagement' is very welcome, and some of Classlist's tools should help schools improve this."
About Classlist
Classlist aims to connect parents in a world where they spend less time at the school gate than ever before. Classlist's free, mobile-friendly service enables parents to get to know one another personally through organising social and fundraising events, lift-shares, playdates and birthday parties. Alongside social planning, the platform lets parents to communicate about homework, manage lost property and post classified ads.
Parent Teacher Associates and Class Reps are major beneficiaries, with the platform saving them weeks of effort through instant calendaring and ticketing of events; sharing newsletters, and finding volunteers. Most Classlist sites are managed by the school PTA, who also authenticate joiners. The school itself has limited involvement or liability. Parents can simply search for their school name at Classlist and once authenticated, join their community.
Classlist differentiates itself from existing broad-based social networks through a strong emphasis on security, moderation and management. It also has a multitude of purpose-built tools designed to help parents and Parent Associations carry out everyday school related tasks.
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The Rio Grande Valley, often referred to as Rio South Texas, offers many choices for both global business location and generous economic development incentives.
With a dynamic young labor force, great weather, low cost of living and plenty of recreational activities year round, the Rio South Texas region is an ideal location for companies looking to expand or relocate.
For several decades, business leaders across the Rio Grande Valley have advocated taking steps to combine the Metropolitan Statistical Area designations for McAllen-Mission-Edinburg with Brownsville-Harlingen into a Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area. The idea behind combining the two Valley MSAs is rooted in the theory that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
The McAllen MSA, with a 2015 population of 842,304, is the fifth largest MSA in Texas. It ranks ahead of El Paso and 66th in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis. The Brownsville MSA ranks eighth in Texas as well as 103rd nationally, based on the U.S. Census 2015, with a population estimate of 422,156.
With a total estimated population today of approximately 1.35 million in the two MSAs, a combined McAllen-Brownsville area would move up the rankings to 46th in the nation. This is without including Starr or Willacy counties in the equation.
The combined MSA would still rank fifth in Texas, but would put substantial distance between the Valley and sixth-ranked El Paso.
The potential impact of combining Valley MSAs on business and government is difficult to measure, but the data does shed light on the merits of the case.
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget defines MSAs according to published standards that are applied to Census Bureau data. The general concept is to identify a core area with a substantial population consisting of adjacent communities that have a high degree of economic and social integration.
Within Texas the Valley competes with the rest of the state for government dollars to fund everything from economic development to infrastructure improvements. The data reflected in an MSA includes not only population but statistics on the workforce, transportation, income and much more.
That information paints a picture of a region that can conceivably give it more clout to influence decisions made by the public and private sectors. The statistics also provide valuable demographic data to businesses looking to enter the South Texas market.
In looking at retail sales as a measure of relative ranking of a combined Valley MSA, one need only look at the Valley Retail Sales graphic. Notice how the Valley totals compare to El Paso, Corpus Christi and Laredo in 2015 and 2016.
The Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority commissioned a study in 2010 to illustrate the potential impact on the binational region, including both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas.
The data presents a compelling picture of what the region might look like in 2040. At this time, the population is projected to reach seven million people, 3.5 million more than we have here today.
There are some South Texas officials that worry in a CMSA, individual communities would lose some degree of influence and get lost among their larger neighbors, proponents argue that all of South Texas would become more competitive for private sector investment and government funding.
The Rio Grande Valley is poised for growth. It has a young and able workforce, in addition to expanded educational facilities at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Texas A&M, Texas State Technical College, South Texas College and Texas Southmost College.
The Valley boasts ample land available for development, water resources, interstate highways, improved electrical grid. It now ranks seventh in cross-border trade among the nation's 165 land ports of entry.
With the 2020 Census just around the corner, the time has come for the Rio Grande Valley to give a hard look at combing the McAllen and Brownsville MSAs to fully establish the region as the economic powerhouse it has become.
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Public should have more say in oil and gas lease sales, federal judge rules
Idaho court ruling raises questions for Colorado's upcoming lease sales
Joe Amon, The Denver Post
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By Judith Kohler | jkohler@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: September 25, 2018 at 12:42 pm | UPDATED: January 25, 2019 at 2:37 pm
A federal judge in Idaho has ruled that the public should have more say about upcoming oil and gas lease sales in greater sage grouse habitat in Western states, raising questions about the effect on a Dec. 6 auction in Colorado.
Chief U.S. Magistrate Ronald Bush in Pocatello, Idaho, issued a preliminary injunction Friday that temporarily replaces part of the Trump administration's policy on the leasing of public lands with one by the Obama administration that gives the public more time to comment on and protest federal oil and gas leases. The decision will affect lease sales in December and beyond as the court considers a lawsuit by environmental groups that claims the Bureau of Land Management violated federal laws when it revised the policy earlier this year.
In Colorado, the BLM is offering oil and gas leases on a total of 224,341 acres of public lands in the December auction, mostly in the western part of the state. The state BLM office has said it is considering deferring action on some of the parcels and is still assessing 102,242 acres of the total.
The state BLM office doesn't have information on what the impact might be of Bush's ruling in Colorado, spokesman Steven Hall said.
"We're reviewing the court's ruling and evaluating how it may affect individual parcels in upcoming oil and gas lease sales," said Derrick Henry, acting spokesman for the national BLM office.
The lands singled out in Bush's ruling are encompassed in state and federal plans from 2015 aimed at conserving greater sage grouse, whose numbers have been declining for decades. The Center for Biological Diversity, one of the lawsuit's plaintiffs, said roughly 203,000 acres up for bid in Colorado could be affected.
The other plaintiff is the Idaho-based Western Watersheds Project.
"There are a bunch of ways the BLM could try to comply with the ruling" including postponing the lease sales, said Michael Saul, a Denver-based attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. "I think it definitely has potential implications both for sage-grouse habitat in particular and for BLM leasing policy more generally."
Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, a Denver-based trade group, said her organization will encourage the federal government to appeal the Idaho judge's ruling. The organization and the state of Wyoming filed as interveners on behalf of the federal government in the lawsuit.
"This is definitely a case of an activist judge who is trying to assert policy and the law be damned," Sgamma said. "The administration has the discretion to set policy."
If the opportunity to bid on oil and gas leases is put on hold it will add needless delay to the leasing process for oil and gas companies, Sgamma said.
The lawsuit by the environmental groups in part challenged changes the BLM made in January that shortened the time periods for public comment and revised requirements for environmental review to try to streamline and speed up the leasing process.
In his ruling, Bush said the BLM has discretion in setting policy as long as it complies with federal laws requiring public involvement in decisions. However, he said, when it revised the Obama-era policy there's evidence the "BLM made an intentional decision to limit the opportunity for (and even in some circumstances to preclude entirely) any contemporaneous public involvement in decisions concerning whether to grant oil and gas leases on federal lands."
Earlier this month, Gov. John Hickenlooper and Sen. Michael Bennet sent letters to the Colorado BLM asking the agency to postpone sale of the parcels up for lease in December because of concerns about the potential impacts on wildlife, including sage grouse, and a lack of opportunity for public participation.
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"This new process is insufficient to allow for meaningful input into a sale that currently includes 224 parcels and 230,944 acres across Colorado," Hickenlooper wrote in his Sept. 11 letter.
But Sgamma said there are plenty of chances for the public to weigh in.
"There are three or four rounds of public comment before any development is done on public lands," Sgamma said. "The public has multiple bites at the apple. The Trump administration is just saying let's get on with it."
Saul with the Center for Biological Diversity has a different take.
"The BLM went even further to codify the administration's energy dominance agenda and eliminated almost all public participation in the leasing process," Saul said.
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Ferrovial SA : Ferrovial lands 108.8 million euro contract to build a section of Spain's high-speed railway to Galicia
The company will build the railbed between the Padornelo Tunnel and Lubián, a section measuring 7.6 kilometers which passes through the municipalities of Requejo and Lubián (Zamora province). The contract includes the construction of a tunnel and two viaducts. This section, which is part of the Madrid-Galicia high-speed railway project, is worth 108.8 million euro.
Madrid, 19 April 2012- Ferrovial Agroman, a construction subsidiary of Ferrovial, has been awarded a contract to build the Padornelo Tunnel-Lubián section of the Madrid-Galicia high-speed railway line, for 108.8 million euro.
This section of line, which is 7.6 kilometers long and will have a single-track 8.5-meter wide bed, crosses the Requejo and Lubián municipalities, in Zamora province.
The project includes the construction of the right gallery of the Pardonelo Tunnel (6,407 meters long) and galleries connecting with the existing tunnel, which will be upgraded as part of a different project. Ferrovial Agroman will also build the Leira viaduct (168 meters long) and the Pedro viaduct (295 meters long), both for the right-hand track. This project will be completed by the end of 2015.
This section is part of the 99-kilometer route between Puebla de Sanabria (Zamora) and Orense (Galicia) and is one of the most complex segments of the Madrid-Galicia high-speed railway line because of the area's rugged terrain.
High-speed railway projects in Spain
Ferrovial Agroman has extensive experience in high-speed railway projects in Spain. The company recently built the Elche-Carrús section of railway and completed assembly of an Iberian gauge line on the Albacete-Variante de Alpera section, both part of the high-speed railway connecting Spain's east coast. Ferrovial Agroman is currently building the railbed for the Venta de Baños junction as part of the North-Northeast corridor and the Rialiño-Padrón section of the Atlantic Route.
Ferrovial Agroman also has a cooperation agreement with Adif for R&D and innovation at the Málaga Rail Technology Center.
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Malaria caused by several species of Plasmodium is major parasitic disease of humans, causing 1-3 million deaths worldwide annually. The widespread resistance of the human parasite to current drug therapies is of major concern making the identification of new drug targets urgent. While the parasite grows and multiplies inside the host erythrocyte it degrades the host cell hemoglobin and utilizes the released amino acids to synthesize its own proteins. The P. falciparum malarial M1 alanyl-aminopeptidase (PfA-M1) is an enzyme involved in the terminal stages of hemoglobin digestion and the generation of an amino acid pool within the parasite. The enzyme has been validated as a potential drug target since inhibitors of the enzyme block parasite growth in vitro and in vivo. In order to gain further understanding of this enzyme, molecular dynamics simulations using data from a recent crystal structure of PfA-M1 were performed. The results elucidate the pentahedral coordination of the catalytic Zn in these metallo-proteases and provide new insights into the roles of this cation and important active site residues in ligand binding and in the hydrolysis of the peptide bond. Based on the data, we propose a two-step catalytic mechanism, in which the conformation of the active site is altered between the Michaelis complex and the transition state. In addition, the simulations identify global changes in the protein in which conformational transitions in the catalytic domain are transmitted at the opening of the N-terminal 8 Å-long channel and at the opening of the 30 Å-long C-terminal internal chamber that facilitates entry of peptides to the active site and exit of released amino acids. The possible implications of these global changes with regard to enzyme function are discussed. © 2011 Jones et al.