As barbecue season begins enjoy this delicious rendition of the classic New York steak.
Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Season the steaks generously with freshly cracked black pepper and truffle salt. Grill steaks covered for 5 minutes on each side. Remove the steaks from the grill and allow to rest. To make the sauce, start by reducing half a bottle of Petite Syrah in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add shallots and garlic. Rinse and drain the green peppercorns with cool water. Once the peppercorns have been drained, add them into the boiling wine and allow to reduce by three quarters, leaving an aromatic wine syrup. Add the whipping cream and allow it to reduce by half again. Add Crimini mushrooms and cook for 4 more minutes and remove from heat. Place your grilled steaks on a baking dish and bake in the oven for 4 minutes while turning your sauce back up to very high heat. Add chopped parsley and softened butter to the sauce and whisk until the sauce has a luscious sheen to it. Remove your steaks from the oven and plate. Spoon mushroom sauce over piping hot steaks and serve with a bottle of 2007 Ponte Petite Syrah.


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We're super excited to announce that we have opened our brand new office in Sydney, Australia! To celebrate, we caught up with it's Associate Director David Leadbitter on how he ended up there, and what to expect from life down under!
What brought you to Australia? What's your story?
"In 2015 my (now) fiancé and I decided that before life became too serious and we had 'real' responsibilities (like kids!) we would take time to travel and potentially see what living and working in Australia would be like. It was tough to leave Client Server at the time as I had built up some great relationships, both internally and with clients and candidates, but if we didn't do it then, we never would!
Beyond our first week in Sydney in January 2016, we had no fixed travel plan – in the end we travelled around Australia, South East Asia, New Zealand and west coast USA, returning to Sydney in December. After a short-term contract internal recruitment role at Tabcorp, I rejoined Client Server to launch their Sydney office!"
What are the benefits of working in Australia?
"Let's start with the obvious – the weather! It's generally fantastic – brilliant sunshine and sparkling blue skies! The Sydney CBD is relatively compact so most places are within walking distance, including Hyde Park and Circular Quay - it really is quite something to be within metres of the glistening Sydney Opera House on your lunchtime run!
Public transport is great and commuting times are relatively short – a lot of people get a boat from places like Manly and Rose Bay to the CBD, which is a spectacular way of getting to work!
There are similar opportunities to London in terms of the types of companies that are based here, the after-work social life and the general feel of the CBD, just with a little less traffic and cleaner air! The cost of living in Sydney is high but in my view, similar to London, and salaries here more than allow a good standard of living.
Finally, being able to get home and jump straight on the beach, in the ocean, on the barbie – I feel very lucky to be living here."
How is setting up the Client Server Australian office going?
"It's going well – we have a great office in the heart of Sydney's CBD and a new Consultant joining the team later in the year. We're establishing relationships here with some of our current clients in UK and beginning relationships with new clients – it's a busy and exciting time!"
How can people get in contact with you about working with our Australia division?
"The best way to contact me is on my mobile – 0401 758 402 – or at dleadbitter@client-server.com.au ."


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Date sent: Friday 11 January 2019
Sent to all Somerset GPs and Practice Managers This and previous updates are available here
Influenza Outbreaks
Subject Access Request (SAR)
Rapid Response Service
Consultation engagement webinar
Coagucheck Meters
Cases of extensively drug resistant gonorrhoea in England
International GP Recruitment
Influenza Outbreaks: Colleagues will have seen that our esteemed Chief Medical Officer has declared the influenza season officially open and noted the communication from Public Health England (sent around by Shaun Green) about the prescribing of antivirals. Some practices have even been contacted by PHE and asked to deal with suspected flu outbreaks at care homes. However the CCG has commissioned Devon Doctors Ltd (since 17/12/18) to deliver a service in response to these situations and PHE should contact Devon Doctors directly. The service incorporates the following elements: to be the first point of contact for Public Health England (PHE) – 24 hours a day, seven days a week; the clinical review and assessment of those 'at risk' patients; prescribing of prophylaxis antiviral drugs and taking swabs. GP practices will, of course, manage any symptomatic patients. The LMC has requested that the CCG confirm that PHE is aware of this welcome local arrangement.
Subject Access Request (SAR): A practice has received a helpful communique from the Information Commissioner's Office which both parties are happy for us to share. "A SAR is an individual right under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) therefore it is the individuals request rather than the solicitor's. It is for this reason that you, as a data controller, will need to be assured that the individual has given consent for the third party, in this case a solicitor, to act on their behalf. As you have highlighted in your email we would also recommend that the information is given directly to the individual where the individual may not understand the information that would be disclosed under a SAR. It is then for the individual to make the decision as to what they share with the third party. In some cases the data controller may be able to provide the information directly to the third party where the data controller is satisfied that they are able to pass on that information. However, ultimately a SAR is an individual's right [and] therefore can be provided to the individual. If the solicitor believes that their client's rights under the GDPR have not been complied with they have the right – on behalf of the client - to make a complaint to us as supervisory authority, or to seek an alternative judicial remedy. Please bear in mind, however, that such avenues are only available to individual data subjects …and the solicitor could only pursue such options on behalf of the client and with his or her consent. If the data subject has declined to consent to the solicitor being provided with the entire medical records in the first place it is unlikely that the solicitor would be able to raise a complaint as it is not their request, it is the individual's and the individual has outlined that they do not consent to the solicitor accessing the information. In relation to how the information is provided to the individual we would advise that if the request was made electronically, and unless otherwise requested by the data subject, that the information is provided in a commonly used electronic format.
The LMC's view is that this strengthens GPs' hands against the frank bullying of some solicitors: always check that patients understand what is being requested on their behalf. The final sentence shows the ICO's lack of understanding about how practices work at present but the ultimate aim of allowing patients online access to their records will help solve this problem.
Rapid Response Service: We have been asked to remind you about this new HCA-led service which can help keep patients in their own homes when, in your opinion, they really do not need to be admitted for diagnosis or medical management. This week both acute Foundation Trusts have been in OPEL 4 (we are not allowed to say "Black Alert" any more so we will not use this term) with up to 40 medical outliers in T&S alone which is unsatisfactory for everyone. We continue to find colleagues who are unaware of the service or don't think it is available to them: it is, through Somerset Primary Link, and around 140 GP referrals have come in since November.
Consultation engagement webinar: Webinar for GPs and other prescribers on Items which should not be routinely prescribed in primary care. This will take place on 16 January 2019, between 2pm – 3pm.
Latest consultation on items which should not routinely be prescribed in primary care NHS England and NHS Clinical Commissioners are hosting a webinar (online meeting) to outline proposals for updated CCG guidance, including more effective, safer and/or cheaper alternative items. It will also provide GPs and other prescribers with an opportunity to ask questions and share their views on the proposals. Please visit the NHS England website to book your place.
Coagucheck Meters: We are in conversation with Roche to negotiate a further deal on new CoaguChek meters for practices , in order to do this we need an idea of how many could potentially need replacing, and would be grateful if you could complete this short survey to inform us in our discussions. The survey will close on Friday 1st February at 12 noon.
Cases of extensively drug resistant gonorrhoea in England: Public Health England have reported that In the last three months, two cases of infection with extensively-drug-resistant (XDR) Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Ng) have been confirmed by the PHE Reference Laboratory. These cases are not linked, and are from different PHE Centre areas in England. Both are female and all reported partners are male. Full details here.
International GP Recruitment: The LMC Medical Director spent a most agreeable day in Plymouth in October helping to interview international GPs wanting to work in the West Country. Although the focus is, inevitably, on Plymouth itself (where some 80,000 have no regular GP owing to practice collapse) one of the five recruited that day is planning to live and work in Somerset. It was a well organised day with some inspiring GPs to talk to as part of an interview panel of three. NHSE even pays for time and travel keeps you fed and watered throughout the day which was a civilised 10am to 4pm. The next round is on Friday 1st March and the MD cannot be there. NHSE is keen that a Somerset GP be involved and if anyone is willing to go please contact Barry Moyse b.moyse@nhs.net via the LMC office.
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New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India, the Broadcast Editors Association (BEA) and the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) on Friday condemned the information & broadcasting (I&B) ministry's decision to take Hindi language news channel NDTV India off air for 24 hours for broadcasting "sensitive details" on the 2 January Pathankot terror attack.
In a statement, the Editors Guild, an organization of editors across media, said it "demands that the order be immediately rescinded".
"The decision to take the channel off-air for a day is a direct violation of the freedom of media and therefore the citizens of India and amounts to a harsh censorship imposed by the government reminiscent of the emergency," the Guild said.
While BEA demanded that the order be withdrawn immediately and said that it would come out with a comprehensive report on the issue, NBA asked the government to re-consider its decision in the interest of freedom of media.
"It is surprising to note that NDTV India has been singled out by the IMC (inter-ministerial committee)/ MoI&B (ministry of Information & Broadcasting), when the rest of the media also did cover the terror attack and all such reports were available in the public domain. The IMC and the MoI&B should have seen it from the prism of freedom of the media," NBA said in a statement.
The strong reactions came a day after an inter-ministerial committee set-up by the I&B ministry found NDTV India to have violated the programme code set under the Cable Television Networks (Amendment) Rules, 2015.
In a live telecast, the channel revealed the exact location of the suspected Pakistan-based terrorists involved in the attack on the Pathankot air base, the committee said in its recommendations, released by the I&B ministry on Thursday.
According to the Cable Television Networks (Amendment) Rules, 2015, "No programme shall be carried in the cable service which contains live coverage of any anti-terrorist operation by security forces, wherein media coverage shall be restricted to periodic briefing by an officer designated by the appropriate government till such operation concludes."
The I&B ministry ordered NDTV India to go off air for 24 hours starting on 9 November after the inter-ministerial committee found the channel had disclosed details about the location of an ammunition depot and the place where terrorists were holed up as well as the location of a school and residential areas. The committee said the coverage could have jeopardized national security and the lives of civilians and defence personnel.
Seven troopers and all five attackers, suspected to be Pakistan-based terrorists, died in the Pathankot attack.
"This first-of-its-kind order to impose a blackout has seen the central government entrust itself with the power to intervene in the functioning of the media and take arbitrary punitive action as and when it does not agree with the coverage," the Editors Guild said.
"The Editors Guild of India calls for an immediate withdrawal of the ban order," it said.
Earlier on Friday, NDTV said the channel had been singled out. "Every channel and newspaper had similar coverage. In fact NDTV's coverage was particularly balanced. After the dark days of the emergency when the press was fettered, it is extraordinary that NDTV is being proceeded against in this manner," the broadcaster said in a statement.


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A mission to produce top quality local coaches
LUIS CUNHA, Athletics
Group has been assembled across sports to set up system to groom top-notch Singapore trainers
Shamir Osman
Sports Correspondent
The Republic's swimmers are slowly but surely hoisting themselves up onto the world stage, with Joseph Schooling fronting the charge.
But behind the headline acts of the swim team, are coaches, working hard to propel their charges forward.
Swimming is blessed by the world-class coaching know-how of Sergio Lopez, who was named Coach of the Year at the Singapore Sports Awards last night.
And the Spaniard is part of a group tasked with helping local coaches to also step up to international level, in a bid to create a self-sustaining system that will push Singapore sports to the next level.
SERGIO LOPEZ, Swimming
"The aim is to bring all coaching education under a single umbrella, a coaching development programme that will eventually see the setting up of a coaching academy here," said Troy Engle, Sport Singapore's (SportSG) director of coaching development.
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The 53-year-old has roped in the some of best foreign coaching minds in the country, with hockey's Solomon Casoojee and athletics' Luis Cunha joining Lopez, along with Alex Weaver, who guides defending S.League champions Warriors FC.
"For the first time, we've given our international hires key performance indicators of making an impact on local coaches. The most visible impact so far is Sergio and (his assistant) Gary Tan," said Engle.
Engle's aim is to create an informal network of coaches in an environment, where learning is the baseline, while also forming opportunities for local coaches to step out of their comfort zone.
ALEX WEAVER, Football
"The network acts like a critical friend, who can say something about your work, without leaving you offended - it is difficult in a competitive environment, but it is important to build this community of coaches," he said.
"We also need to create opportunities for them to gain international exposure, to raise that bar, so it's not just stuck at the level you see in Singapore," he added, pointing to bowling's Remy Ong, a former world champion who is now grooming more world champions.
"It is a lofty task, one that requires a shift in mindset."
The mindset shift is already happening, at least with Tan, who has been working closely with Lopez.
Tan received the Coach of the Year award on behalf of Lopez, who is currently in Kazan with the swim team at the Fina World Championships.
"One thing Sergio will tell me is, 'If I can do it, so can you'," said Tan, in reference to the award.
Lopez's impact goes even deeper.
SOLOMON CASOOJEE, Hockey
"He's inspirational and has got the team to dream big, and honestly I am dreaming big myself," added Tan, who is already speaking optimistically about having the Republic's swimmers making a statement at the next two Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro next year, and Tokyo in 2020.
SportSG chief executive Lim Teck Yin has big hopes for Engle and his team, but is aware of the challenges.
"When we hire a coach, we're not asking if he's local or foreign, we're only asking if he's the best man for the job. The question is can a local coach say he's the best man for the job," mulled Lim.
He concedes that changing mindsets is the biggest challenge and for hints at how to get around that, he is closely following the progress of Football Association of Singapore's (FAS) new technical director, Michel Sablon.
"The first thing I'd like to know is how he aligns the FAS coaches with the larger pool of coaches," said Lim.
"It's one thing being a leader in the field - and he is definitely that - it's another, to win hearts and minds.
"I want to watch how he does that."
Engle asserts that the time is ripe now for local coaches to start to make the step up.
"We've got a great opportunity now, with the great success that we've had at the South-east Asia Games, where several Singapore coaches have started to prove their mettle," he said.
"There is no need to eliminate bringing in foreign expertise, but the long-term goal is to not have to need to hire foreign coaches.
"If I do my job, in a handful of years, I'd have written myself out of a job, but that is the end goal of having a self-sustaining system."
If I do my job, in a handful of years, I'd have written myself out of a job, but that is the end goal of having a selfsustaining system.
— Troy Engle, SportSG's director of coaching development
Double joy for swimming and shooting
Alexandria Schoon
ACCOLADE: Singapore Swimming Association coach Gary Tan (with trophy) receiving the Singapore Sports Coach of the Year award on behalf of Sergio Lopez from Ministers Tan Chuan-Jin (second from far left) and Lawrence Wong (near left) and a guest at last night's awards ceremony.TNP PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
A host of local sports stars descended on the Marina Mandarin Hotel last night, although the hottest name of them all was missing.
Joseph Schooling, the Republic's latest swim darling, was absent from the Singapore Sports Awards 2015 celebrations, as he continues to do battle at the world championships in Kazan, Russia, but his name was no less prominent.
The 20-year-old was the clear favourite for the Sportsman of the Year honours after his outstanding achievements last year, when he became the first Singaporean to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games after his silver finish in the 100m butterfly in Glasgow.
He capped off a stunning year by winning gold, silver and bronze in the 100m, 50m and 200m fly events, respectively, at the Asian Games in Incheon.
Tan Chuan-Jin, Minister for Social and Family Development and President of the Singapore National Olympic Council, was guest of honour for the event and along with Lawrence Wong, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Second Minister for Communications and Information, presented the awards to the winners.
In a double celebration for Singapore swimming, Sergio Lopez was named the Coach of the Year, after guiding Schooling to his unprecedented success last year.
There was also double joy for Singapore shooting, when last year's Commonwealth Games gold medallist Jasmine Ser, 24, and 15-year-old Martina Lindsay Veloso were crowned Sportswoman and Sportsgirl of the Year, respectively.
Martina won gold in the 10m air pistol at the ISSF World Cup in Munich, Germany, last year.
"We are very happy for Jasmine, she sacrificed a lot for shooting. It's not easy, but she has done well. We're proud of both of them because they've set world records," said Michael Vaz, president of Singapore Shooting Association.
Both are currently competing in the ISSF World Cup in Gabala, Azerbaijan, where they will be fighting for quotas to qualify for next year's Rio Olympics.
"The goal is of course to bring back an Olympic medal for shooting," added Vaz.
As expected, Aloysius Yapp, 19, was named Sportsboy of the year. Yapp clinched gold at last year's World Junior Pool Championships in Shanghai.
He also finished first at the International Junior Pool Invitational Championship 2014 in Hong Kong and the APBU Asian Junior Championship in Taipei, putting him on the map as a rising champion.
Sportsman of the Year:
Joseph Schooling (Swimming)
Sportswoman of the Year: Jasmine Ser (Shooting)
Sportsboy of the Year:
Aloysius Yapp (Cuesports)
Sportsgirl of the Year:
Martina Lindsay Veloso (Shooting)
Coach of the Year: Sergio Lopez (Swimming)
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The fate of proliferating cells in the injured adult spinal cord
Dana M McTigue1,2 &
FRezan Sahinkaya2,3
Endogenous cell proliferation and gliogenesis have been extensively documented in spinal cord injury, particularly in terms of proliferating oligodendrocyte progenitor cells. Despite the characterization of different proliferating cell types in the intact and injured spinal cord, the exact sources of new glial cells have remained elusive. Most studies on cell fate within the spinal cord have focused on following the progeny of one specific population of dividing cells, thus making it difficult to understand the relative contributions of each mitotic cell population to the formation of new glia after spinal cord injury. A recent study from the Frisen laboratory is the first to quantitatively and qualitatively characterize the response of ependymal cells, oligodendrocyte progenitors, and astrocytes in parallel by using transgenic reporter mice corresponding to each cell type. The investigators characterize the distribution and phenotype of progeny, along with the quantitative contributions of each progenitor type to newly formed cells. Their findings provide valuable insight into the endogenous cell replacement response to spinal cord injury, thus paving the way for advances in modulating specific populations of progenitor cells with the goal of promoting structural and functional recovery after spinal cord injury.
Over the last several decades, determining the extent to which endogenous cells within the spinal cord can replace neurons and glia that are lost following spinal cord injury (SCI) has generated increasing interest. While it is known that neurogenesis occurs regularly in certain regions of the adult brain, this process has not been identified within the adult spinal cord. Interestingly, this is likely to be a factor of the spinal cord microenvironment because cells isolated from adult spinal cords can generate neurons, oligodendrocytes, and astrocytes both in vitro and when transplanted into a neurogenic region of the brain [1]. What clearly does occur after SCI is marked gliogenesis [2–5]. SCI leads to significant and protracted proliferation of endogenous cells, which contribute to the replacement of oligodendrocytes and astrocytes. Indeed, the oligodendrocytes formed along the lesion borders significantly outnumber those found in naïve tissue, revealing that the spontaneous oligogenic potential of the adult spinal cord is quite robust [2].
The source of the new glia after SCI has been more difficult to nail down. In the uninjured adult spinal cord, there are two major populations of dividing cells: the slowly dividing ependymal cells surrounding the central canal and the NG2+ glial progenitors distributed through-out the gray and white matter. Much work has been done to track the fate of NG2+ progenitors after SCI, and reports suggest that in vivo they contribute to robust oligodendrocyte replacement and potentially make some new astrocytes [2, 3, 5]. Studies have also used cell lineage mapping or specific markers to track the fate of dividing ependymal cells after injury; these studies suggest that ependymal cells proliferate after SCI, migrate away from the central canal, and differentiate into new astrocytes [6–9]. A final possible source of new cells after SCI is mature astrocytes, which divide after injury and thereby increase overall astrocyte numbers.
Most of these studies, though informative, have been limited by the types of cells that could be followed over time and have focused mainly on the progeny of one single population of dividing cells. Thus, it has been difficult to discern the relative contributions of each dividing cell population to the formation of new glia after SCI. A recent study from the Frisen laboratory attempted for the first time to quantitatively and qualitatively compare the response of all three proliferating cell types after SCI [10]. The investigators achieved this by performing dorsal spinal hemisections in three different tamoxifen-dependent Cre recombinase (CreER) reporter mice under the control of nonoverlapping promoters highly specific to each of the cell types. The FoxJ1 promoter was used to delineate ependymal cells, connexin 30 promoter to delineate astrocytes, and Olig2 promoter to label oligodendrocyte lineage cells. The investigators thoroughly characterized the recombination frequencies and the phenotypes of recombinant cells for each mouse line prior to SCI and then characterized the distribution and number of progeny from each population at different times post-injury.
The Barnabe-Heider report confirms work by others that NG2+ oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) display the highest level of baseline proliferation in uninjured condition. However, despite their dominance in noninjury conditions and increased proliferation after SCI, OPCs come in third place for net cell contribution after SCI. At 2 weeks post-injury, the period in which the astrocytic glial scar is being established, astrocyte duplication is the main type of cell renewal, with ependymal cells also contributing a substantial 30% to new astrocytes. At more chronic times, ependymal cells give rise to more than half of newly formed astrocytes. Therefore, it appears that ependymal cells and astrocytes demonstrate similarly robust astrocytic properties subacutely and chronically after injury, and this is also consistent with previous reports [7, 8, 11]. These findings also demonstrate that astrocytes and OPCs are restricted to their own lineage phenotype after injury whereas ependymal cells display bipotential differentiation in vivo. This contrasts somewhat with a previous study, which used a retrovirus expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) under the NG2 promoter and which suggested that cycling NG2+ progenitors give rise to astrocytes, at least very early after dorsal hemisections [5]. The Frisen study examined more chronic times post-injury and therefore gives insight into the NG2 cell progeny that survive long-term.
Thus, their study provides important information on the relative contributions of different pools of cells in the adult spinal cord to cell replacement after injury. It also defines the final distribution of the cell progeny, with ependymal-derived astrocytes mostly within the lesion, astrocyte-derived astrocytes forming the lesion borders, and OPC-derived and, to a lesser extent, ependymal-derived new oligodendrocytes present in spared tissue surrounding the lesion. A fruitful line of future investigation may be to determine ways in which to enhance ependymal-derived oligogenesis, which may aid in remyelination after SCI and eliminate the need for transplanting exogenous cells.
A potential limitation of this study in terms of clinical relevance is the use of a dorsal hemisection model, which is rarely seen clinically. Instead, most patients with SCI sustain a contusion-type trauma, which results in a central cavitating lesion surrounded by a rim of surviving but dysfunctional tissue. In these injuries, the central canal is usually destroyed at the injury site, and this would mean that the potential for ependymal cells to contribute to cell replacement may be restricted to the lesion poles rather than the epicenter region. It will be very interesting to see whether the Frisen laboratory or others perform similar fate mapping studies using spinal contusion models next.
OPC:
oligodendrocyte progenitor cell
SCI:
spinal cord injury.
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Horky LL, Galimi F, Gage FH, Horner PJ: Fate of endogenous stem/progenitor cells following spinal cord injury. J Comp Neurol. 2006, 498: 525-538. 10.1002/cne.21065.
Sellers DL, Maris DO, Horner PJ: Postinjury niches induce temporal shifts in progenitor fates to direct lesion repair after spinal cord injury. J Neurosci. 2009, 29: 6722-6733. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4538-08.2009.
Namiki J, Tator CH: Cell proliferation and nestin expression in the ependyma of the adult rat spinal cord after injury. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 1999, 58: 489-498. 10.1097/00005072-199905000-00008.
Mothe AJ, Tator CH: Proliferation, migration, and differentiation of endogenous ependymal region stem/progenitor cells following minimal spinal cord injury in the adult rat. Neuroscience. 2005, 131: 177-187. 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.10.011.
Meletis K, Barnabe-Heider F, Carlen M, Evergren E, Tomilin N, Shupliakov O, Frisen J: Spinal cord injury reveals multilineage differentiation of ependymal cells. PLoS Biol. 2008, 6: e182-10.1371/journal.pbio.0060182.
White RE, McTigue DM, Jakeman LB: Regional heterogeneity in astrocyte responses following contusive spinal cord injury in mice. J Comp Neurol. 2010, 518: 1370-1390.
Barnabe-Heider F, Goritz C, Sabelstrom H, Takebayashi H, Pfrieger FW, Meletis K, Frisen J: Origin of new glial cells in intact and injured adult spinal cord. Cell Stem Cell. 2010, 7: 470-482. 10.1016/j.stem.2010.07.014.
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Q: Table with fixed layout 100% width cannot have unequal column widths I have a table set to 100% width whose columns I would like to acquire defined widths. However, all my columns seem to get equal widths.

.table {
  table-layout: fixed;
  width: 100%;
}

.table th[colspan=4] {
  /* width: 100%; */
}

.table td,
th {
  border: 1px solid #AAA;
  text-align: center;
}

.table td.one {
  width: 10%;
}

.table td.two {
  width: 20%;
}

.table td.three {
  width: 50%;
}

.table td.four {
  width: 20%;
}

      All Four

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      A
      B
      C
      D

If I remove the width property on the table, it honours the individual column widths. If I change the layout to table-layout: auto, then also it works. But I just cannot get the widths to be what I want them to be if I have a row that spans multiple columns as the first row.

A:
If I remove the width property on the table, it honours the individual
  column widths. If I change the layout to table-layout: auto, then also
  it works. But I just cannot get the widths to be what I want them to
  be if I have a row that spans multiple columns as the first row

That is how the table-layout: fixed works.
From here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/table-layout

Table and column widths are set by the widths of table and col
  elements or by the width of the first row of cells. Cells in
  subsequent rows do not affect column widths.

And from here: https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#fixed-table-layout

In this manner, the user agent can begin to lay out the table once the
  entire first row has been received. Cells in subsequent rows do not
  affect column widths.

So, in effect:

*

*If you change the layout to auto, it will use the automatic table layout and your column widths take precedence over the content size.

*If you remove the width property on a table, then it ceases to use the fixed table layout and is as good as auto.

The other answer works because the width property is removed (just as you mentioned in your question). If you refer back to the specs linked above, it says:

The table's width may be specified explicitly with the 'width'
  property. A value of 'auto' (for both 'display: table' and 'display:
  inline-table') means use the automatic table layout algorithm.

Solution:
The solution to your problem is to somehow get the table layout to ignore the first row. This is done by the colgroup / col elements. Remove the classes which define the widths on the td, and specify those on the cols.
Snippet:

.table { table-layout: fixed; width: 100%; }
.table td, th {
  border: 1px solid #aaa;
  text-align: center; padding: 4px;
}
.table col.one { width: 10%; }
.table col.two { width: 20%; }
.table col.three { width: 50%; }
.table col.four { width: 20%; }

 <colgroup>
  <col class="one"/>
  <col class="two"/>
  <col class="three"/>
  <col class="four"/>
 </colgroup>

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      B
      C
      D

A: To be honest, I can't exactly you tell you "why". But if you change the width: 100%; to min-width: 100% you get the desired result. I guess it's because if you set the width to 100%, the overall width of each column can not be calculated.

.table {
  table-layout: fixed;
  min-width: 100%;
}

.table th[colspan=4] {
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Froome disqualified from 2010 Giro d'Italia
Michelle Arthurs-Brennan May 29, 2010 1:13 am
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Team Sky's Chris Froome ended his Giro d'Italia today after the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) communicated it disqualified him for holding onto motorbike during the 19th stage to Aprica.
"One of our commissaires saw him holding on to a motorbike on the Mortirolo climb," Jury president, Vincente Tortajada, told Cycling Weekly.
Froome held on to a police motorbike, according to another UCI source. The UCI issued the communiqué after the stage, referring to article 12.1.040.18, which also said that it fined him 200 Swiss Francs (£120, €140).
Riders regularly take long pulls from their sports directors when grabbing a water bottle out of the team car. The UCI jury typically ignores this sort of assistance and only focuses on the more serious violations.
"I was already off the back on the first climb and then I decided to quit," Froome told Cycling Weekly. "I was trying to get to the top."
"I was so close to the end of the Giro d'Italia, but I am still happy with my work."
He had been suffering from knee problems and complained of this today.
"I have a little issue with my right knee," he said earlier in the Giro, "there is something pulling on one of the tendons."
Sky's sports director, Sean Yates, confirmed that Froome had been suffering from knee problems. He said that he had done a large amount of work in yesterday's stage to Brescia for Greg Henderson.
"He was trying to get up to the soigneur at the top of the Mortirolo. He knew the Giro was over for him," Yates told Cycling Weekly.
"Though, we would never encourage our riders to hold onto a motorbike."
Froome helped Henderson by pulling in the first part of the stage yesterday to Brescia. He finished the day 104th in the overall classification.
Sky brought him to the Giro d'Italia was to help Bradley Wiggins for the overall classification and to help Wiggins prepare for the Tour de France.
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'Sasquatch' accused of spray-painting slurs
A man nicknamed "Sasquatch" and a woman are facing charges in connection with spray-painting racial slurs and male genitalia.
'Sasquatch' accused of spray-painting slurs A man nicknamed "Sasquatch" and a woman are facing charges in connection with spray-painting racial slurs and male genitalia. Check out this story on ydr.com: http://on-ydr.co/2fiwnrj
Ted Czech, tczech@ydr.com Published 11:20 a.m. ET Nov. 3, 2016 | Updated 3:33 p.m. ET Nov. 3, 2016
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West York Borough Police say Dylan Robert Inch, 23, also goes by the nickname "Sasquatch."
Dylan Robert Inch(Photo: Submitted)
A man nicknamed "Sasquatch" and a woman are facing charges in connection with spray-painting racial slurs and male genitalia on several garages and street signs, according to charging documents.
Dylan Robert Inch, 23, and Brittany Danielle Fuller, 22, face charges of ethnic intimidation and criminal mischief. Inch also faces a charge of corruption of minors.
READ: Man continues 'war' from his prison cell, police say
Police reviewed surveillance video, which showed at least four individuals spray-painting the words and pictures on garages and street signs in the 1500-1600 block of Mason Avenue in September.
One of those individuals, a juvenile, was identified, and he gave police three names — another juvenile, Fuller and man he knew as "Sasquatch," who police later concluded was Inch, of the 2700 block of Prospect Avenue, York.
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Inch's mugshot — taken from a previous stay at York County Prison — depicts him with a full beard, and his height, according to the chart behind him, appears to be about 6 feet, 5 inches tall.
The two juveniles, 17 and 13, both from West York, were also charged, police said.
READ: 'One-man crime wave' pleads in lizard theft, vandalism
Police also interviewed Fuller, of the 1300 block of West Market Street, West York, who said she was with the other three while they were spray-painting buildings and signs.
"She stated she did not spray paint anything, however she did nothing to stop them or remove herself from the situation," documents state.
Damage to the street signs and garages was estimated at $150.
Inch and Fuller could not be reached for comment Thursday. The charges were mailed to them, and they are scheduled for a preliminary hearing before District Judge Jennifer J.P. Clancy on Dec. 19, according to online county dockets.
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QUICKEN LOANS ARENA, CLEVELAND — Defiant as always, and with his always greasy hair glimmering in the spotlight, Sen. Ted Cruz (TP-Texas) spoke for 20 minutes yesterday on the third day of the Republican National Convention, steadfastly refusing to endorse Donald Trump, and encouraged the Trumpites in the audience to vote their consciences in November.
Cruz' payback against Trump overshadowed the speech by Trump's hyper-conservative running mate, Mike Pence, who looked, as always, pretty much like a ghost. Pence explained that he is proud to be from Indiana.
A solitary reporter feared for his own safety as the Trumpites kept chanting "Lock Her Up!," clearly referring to the most qualified Democratic presidential candidate in many years.
Associate solitary reporter John Jones managed to insinuate himself into Cruz' inner circle and was told by Cruz' wife, Heidi Cruz, that Cruz plans to filibuster all of Trump's nominees after Trump takes the oath of office as president. "And we are going to establish a new party, the Lone Star Party," she told Jones. "We will be the party which will take America much further to the right than Donald Trump has even thought about, because Donald Trump has committed a hostile takeover of the Grand Old Party." For her own safety, security guards then escorted Mrs. Cruz into an undisclosed location away from the raucous and unhappy crowd.
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Derek Hanekom defends meeting with EFF to oust Zuma
Politics / 25 July 2019, 2:19pm / Getrude Makhafola
East London 2018-01-09 ANC NEC member Derek Hanekom ahead of NEC first meeting at the ELICC in East London Picture Ayanda Ndamane African News Agency ANA
Johannesburg - Former tourism minister Derek Hanekom has defended his meeting with the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) where the removal of former president Jacob Zuma was discussed, saying parliamentarians meet all the time.
"I had a meeting with one member of the EFF at the time and when you're in Parliament you have such meetings all the time. I sat down and had coffee with one prominent member the EFF at the time, a meeting he requested, I should say. We discussed how to deal with difficult time in the country's history and there was no way I would refuse discussions of that nature. 2017 was a year in which we saw mass action...our country was in a crisis and we know all that centred around our then president," Hanekom told SABC news.
He said many political parties discussed issues centered around Zuma's leadership at that time and that it was well known that the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee also discussed the former president in its meetings.
"We requested that he step down in 2017 and we did not succeed and the NEC first meeting in 2018, it was the ANC that instructed Zuma to step down from office which was the right thing to do. In the course of 2017, the matter was in Parliament and we had to discuss how to best handle the matter. I must say it's a bit about much to do about nothing...parliamentarians speak to each other. I don't know what the fuss is all about."
He denied EFF leader Julius Malema's allegations that Hanekom planned to form a new party if Nkosaza Dlamini-Zuma beat Cyril Ramaphosa to the ANC presidency at the Nasrec elective conference in 2017. Hanekom further refuted Malema's claims that he furnished the EFF with a list of ANC MPs who would vote for Zuma's removal in Parliament.
"That I certainly didn't do, he will have to provide that list. There was an assessment of what we can achieve, and if done through parliamentary means, what the ANC attitude would be at that time...that was the nature of the discussion. Those discussions were happening and that is well known. Civil society, which I am also part for as chairperson of Ahmed Kathrada Foundation was demanding that Zuma step down at that point. I supported that demand and it happened."
Hanekom came under fire on Wednesday following Malema's revelations to supporters in Pretoria. ANC secretary general Ace Magashule, a staunch Zuma supporter, fired a salvo at Hanekom through a statement issued at midnight, calling he ex-minister a "charlatan and wedge driver" on a mission to divide the ANC.
"The agenda of the EFF by their own admission as an opposition party is to displace the ANC. They work fearlessly to divide the ANC and have a number of sleepers in the ANC proactively ensuring that divisions in the ANC are deepened. The ANC is working to unite its members and in our midst is Derek Hanekom, a wedge driver and on a mission to divide the ANC. Indeed, this charlatan is making his mark through his ownership of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation. Hanekom does not have the capacity to form a new political party, but he has shown remarkable agility in his efforts to divide the ANC," Magashule said.
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Make sure you purchase enough ingredients so every guest can make at least two tacos. Our taco bar serves enough for about 10 people.
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We decided to stick to a tropical theme. We used the Kale trayOpens in a new windowset to hold our bowls of vegetables and condiments. They made it easy to transfer the food from the kitchen to the outdoor space.
When laying out the taco shells and tortillas, we used theJamari tray setOpens in a new window. These trays work perfectly and they also have an antique Caribbean flare.
You can't have a taco bar without the appropriate accessories to create the desired atmosphere. Because Mexico is full of bright colors, we decided to display bold red flowers in our beautiful vasesOpens in a new window.
Well there you have it, the essentials for creating a tropical inspired taco bar. Now grab a plate, create your tacos and enjoy.


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If you could say anything to faculty about academic integrity…
October 12, 2021 October 12, 2021 ~ Stephanie Bell
Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 2021)
Stephanie Bell, Associate Professor, York University Writing Centre; co-founder, CWCR/RCCR
A clear-cut strategy for undermining the writing centre's relationship with student writers is to become reporters, adjudicators, or punishers of plagiarism and cheating (Bell, 2018).
In its heavy-handed discourse around academic dishonesty, the institution draws a divide between itself and students. Students arrive on campuses to find themselves positioned as likely criminals, and their work is policed by AI that scans it for infractions. Ironically, the institution's academic dishonesty rhetoric can so undermine the institution-student relationship that it fosters academically dishonest student behaviour (see Strayhorn, 2012). To fulfill their missions, writing centres must carefully navigate the issue of academic dishonesty and the institution-student divide it constructs.
However, it's not always easy to do this dance. Writing centres are often called upon to supply resources — tutoring, workshops, online modules, courses — in the form of educational sanctions for students who've been found "guilty" of the "crime" of plagiarism. Refraining from participating in sanctions can be difficult when the pressure to do so comes from those who approve one's budget and manage one's existence.
Recent pressure from a YorkU senate committee has lead to discussions among writing centre faculty about the potential ramifications of supplying educational sanctions; whether we'd have control over their form and content; why the writing centre's role is being dictated by senate rather than being self-constructed; and whether there are greater opportunities for us to reshape our institution's approaches to academic dishonesty as it pertains to student writing.
The answer to the last question had us thinking about the fact that we want to be supporters rather than punishers of students. We want to be connecting with them while they're not in trouble with policy, and the best way to reach them at that stage might be in our work with faculty. What do we want all faculty to know about academic integrity as it pertains to student writing. It turns out, I knew exactly what I want to say. It came into words quite easily. The question is why I'm not out there saying it more loudly.
Prompted by this exercise, I wrote and produced a series of videos with my writing partner in crime, Brian Hotson, and supplied a worksheet that includes the statement I drafted for faculty. I am gearing up to write a proposal for an internal teaching-release grant to produce more resources for student writers along these lines. Fingers crossed.
I'm interested in how you've been navigating the tension between maintaining a strong relationship with student writers while responding to the demands for educational sanctions from the administration. What would you want all faculty to know about academic integrity as it pertains to student writing? I've created a document here for your answers. You can read the comments from your colleagues, as well.
Bell, S. (2018). Addressing student plagiarism from the library learning commons. Information and Learning Science, 119(3-4), pp. 203-214. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-10-2017-0105
Strayhorn, T.L. (2012), College Students' Sense of Belonging: A Key to Educational Success for All Students, Routledge, New York, NY.
Pandemic Graduate Student Writing and Transition Support: Reflections and Predictions (Part 1)
June 17, 2021 June 21, 2021 ~ Canadian Writing Centres Association
Vol. 2, No. 5 (Spring 2021)
Liv Marken, Contributing Editor, CWCR/RCCR
This three-part series looks at how the pandemic affected both graduate student writers and graduate student writing support.We speak to Jill McMillan, a Learning Specialist at the University of Saskatchewan, and Nadine Fladd, a Writing and Multimodal Communication Specialist at the University of Waterloo.
Part I: In the Thick of It
Here, in part one, we learn about Jill's and Nadine's roles and work, and how the pandemic has supported intercampus collaboration and better use of resources to benefit the overall student experience.
Liv: Thank you, Nadine and Jill, for speaking with me about your experiences this year.
Could you tell me a bit about who you are and what you do at your institutions?
Nadine: Sure. I am one of several Writing and Multimodal Communication Specialists at the Writing and Communication Centre at UWaterloo. My role, in particular, focuses on supporting graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty, so a lot of the work that I do focuses on developing programs for graduate students, such as Dissertation Boot Camp, a program called Rock Your Thesis that is designed to help students start their dissertation or thesis writing process on the right foot, and orchestrating and coordinating writing groups and writing communities. In between these activities, I also do a handful of appointments with grad students, postdocs, and faculty each week.
Nadine Fladd, Writing and Multimodal Communication Specialist, University of Waterloo
Jill: I'm a Learning Specialist, and I work with Student Learning Services. And yes, there's a lot of overlap in terms of Nadine's and my dossiers; there is a focus on programming—facilitating workshops, designing new workshops, trying to think of new initiatives that are going to have value for our graduate student population. I've also been hosting virtual writing groups and offer one-to-one appointments, though the majority of the one-to-one support comes from our amazing writing help centre. I also offer a course for international grad students. But otherwise, the focus is on designing new programs, creating new initiatives, trying to connect to other campus partners, and thinking of how we can pool resources, which I think is especially important these days as we just try and figure out how we can offer support without replicating services.
Liv: Have either of you have you found that moving online has helped to reduce that duplication and increase communication between communication units?
Nadine: Maybe, but I feel like every university does have that compartmentalizing of units.
Liv: Has that lessened during the pandemic, stayed the same, or intensified?
Nadine: I think that the Writing and Communication Centre had pretty strong collaborative relationships with campus partners before the pandemic, and that has been a blessing. What I've seen is more communication between those campus partners and each other than I've seen in the past. So, for example, our Student Success Office has traditionally hosted an orientation for graduate students and during the pandemic the Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs office helped design and took the lead on building an infrastructure for an online orientation program and has since handed that program over to the Student Success Office. So there's collaboration there that didn't exist before that I think has been really useful.
Liv: That's positive. Jill, what have you noticed?
Jill: It's certainly helped me as someone who is relatively new to campus to make some of those connections a bit more easily. Of course, you still encounter some of these instances where there is duplication popping up, but then you reach out and make that connection. And so, it's possible that that duplication will eventually turn into a collaboration at a future point. So, I think that in some ways I do recognize that there have been some strange benefits to how everything has happened over the last year in terms of the shift to remote teaching and learning. I think it really has forced people to think, "oh, how do we make use of the limited resources that are currently available to maximize the student experience?"
Jill McMillan, Learning Specialist, University of Saskatchewan
Nadine: We have an incentive system. So, students have a digital coffee card that they can fill out every time they attend a writing session. And when you've attended 12 writing sessions, you earn a mug that has a #WaterlooWrites logo on it. We see a lot of repeat members in our writing community, and people get to know each other and talk to each other during the breaks and help each other. We see a lot of regulars in those communities for sure.
Liv: Interesting. Now, in terms of your own work, how have you kept up professionally or what's really helped to you in your job?
Nadine: I'm lucky because unlike a lot of writing centres, I have a team I work with of full-time permanent staff who do the same work I do. I've learnt a lot from other members on the team as we navigated this together. A lot of my professional development this past year has been technological. One of my colleagues, Elise Vist, our digital guru on the team, has taught me how to do things like build online asynchronous workshops through Rise 360, and so now we can build these really slick looking modules full of videos and interactive elements. And that's not something that I ever would have even considered trying to attempt a year and a half ago. It wasn't on my radar.
So, in some ways, the pandemic has been a push to expand my range of teaching tools. And in a lot of ways, at the beginning of the pandemic, we were focused on trying to recreate what exists in our in-person programming in an online format. And I think that worked for a while. But what students have needed after a year in isolation and after a year of video calls has changed. I think my approach to teaching has really gotten back to the very basics of starting with what is the goal, what is the objective and building from there rather than trying to transfer an in-person equivalent to an online environment.
Jill: We have an academic integrity tutorial now and we're currently just beginning to work on some new writing modules. So, you know, it's been good to learn all about Panopto, WebEx and other online platforms.
In part two, posted next week, Jill and Nadine share their thoughts on accessibility, especially around international student writing support.
Supporting students for interview assignments
April 15, 2021 June 21, 2021 ~ Canadian Writing Centres Association
Vol 2., No. 1 (Spring 2021)
Brian Hotson, Co-Editor, CWCR/RCCR.
Google slides for presenting this material as a workshop.
Interviewing gives students greater intimacy with an event or subject in a way not otherwise possible with secondary research. In interview assignments, students connect first-hand to an individual's accounts of, for instance, their participation in a protest event or reflections on their career in ways that support their understanding of course content. Interviewing is a process that is very much like writing; it involves stages of researching, outlining, writing, rewriting, and editing. For this reason, writing specialists and tutors situated within locations of writing support have much to offer students as they prepare for and write about interviews. Continue reading "Supporting students for interview assignments" →


Before I begin the long awaited hacking portion of this feature, Id like to take some time out to express my gratitude to fellow hacker MarkGrass. As most of you know Mark has been a long time member of the Bioflames forums and has found many new and interesting discoveries on the discs of various Resident Evil's. He is one of the communities greatest assets right now and it is with his help that this portion of the feature will really shine, so please be sure to thank Mark.
With that done Id like to go into brief detail of what this feature will attempt to cover. Using a method that hit both Mark and I during our discussions, We are able to activate the debug menu in various builds of Resident Evil 4 / Biohazard 4. I wont go into detail as to how to do this, as Mark and I would like to keep it under wraps currently since a good portion of blood sweat and tears went into getting it all working 100%. There are also possible negative effects that would happen in the community which would result if this method would be released. I cannot go into detail there either however there are plans to release the method but we would like to get a comprehensive list together first of what everything does. So with that, I am booting up my copy of Resident Evil 4 Trial Edition (GCN) with the debug menu active!
As you can see there are quite a few options available right from the main menu. Its also worth noting that the game skips directly to the main menu with the debug menu active. If you press the Z button the menu disappears, allowing you an unobstructed view of the main menu image. Moving your C Stick around moves the Debug Menu around the screen. Below I will start documenting all these options as seen above in an easy to understand format.
Mori is simply the name of a map you are about to load. Presumably this is in Ramanji (Japanese text using Roman characters). This option changes depending on what you set the STAGE, ROOM, and POINT options to.
Using this option allows you to start a "Debug Game" with the character of your choosing. You can adjust the Character with your thumbstick or D-Pad doing so adjusts both the DEBUG GAME paramater as well as the NEW GAME parameter. The options are LEON, ASHLEY, ADA, LEON + ASHLEY. Its worth saying that the game will NOT boot unless only Leon is selected, presumably because none of the other characters models are present on this disc.
This option is the same as above essentially except it starts a "NEW GAME". This however doesn't work in this version, and crashes the game.
This option is where things get interesting, It has four options. 0,1,2, and 3. You can think of STAGE as a folder. Specifically there are four folders which all house different maps in the game. St0 covers beta and test rooms. Some rooms in this category are obviously from the Biohazard 3.5 build however none of the St0 maps will load, as they are not present on the disc. St1 covers the begining of the game and the various Village areas. St2 covers the Castle area and finally St3 covers the island maps up to the final battle. We will go in depth with this once I explain the other options which rely on it below.
Room works in conjunction with STAGE. It has various settings depending on what STAGE is selected. Think of ROOM as a map selector. It will load a specific map from a specified folder (STAGE).
Point essentially allows you to jump to various locations in a map (ROOM). Usually its option is either 0 (default spawn point) or 1 (somewhere further in the map).
As stated, STAGE, ROOM and POINT all work together. So with that in mind I am displaying a full list of the available options from these settings on the next few pages.


I am extremely proud to have Glamaig Reflection featured alongside so many amazing images from around the world, in the latest Outdoor Photographer of the Year book; a competition run by the UK's Outdoor Photography magazine.
This is an amazing achievement, as the competition had over 17,000 images entered, from over 50 countries, with the book featuring only around 200 images.
On the 8th February, I received a phone call from The Scottish Landscape, Photographer of the Year (SLPOTY) organiser Stuart Low, informing me that I had been awarded the title of overall winner for the 2016 competition.
Last year I was awarded runner up, which was an amazing achievement in itself, what with it being my first time entering; so to be awarded overall winner this year, well this is on another level, of which words cannot describe.
With this being the third year of SLPOTY, and new categories being added to the competition; the number of entries increased incredibly. With the competition growing each year, I knew the standard of entries this year would be second to none. So, having submitted my own fifteen images, I had my fingers crossed that I would at least get one published in the book which accompanies each years competition.
An email followed the phone call confirming my award, as well as the usual wording which accompanies these type of competitions, informing me that I could not share this information with anyone until the official announcement was made today (22nd February).
It was hard enough last year, not being able to tell anyone, so you can understand how much worse it was this year. The past two weeks have been rather agonising, however I knew that telling anyone could jeapordise my award; so have remained tight lipped until now.
Below are the three images from my portfolio, which earned me the runner overall winner award, along with a little bit of information behind the image.
This photograph was taken in April 2016, whilst doing some location guiding for a client of the Isle of Skye.
The weather forecast for this particular morning was suggesting that there was going to be next to no wind, so with some fresh snow atop Glamaig and the red Cuillin, I knew it would be a great opportunity to get reflections in this loch.
Initially as the sun started to head up to the horizon, all of the colour in the sky was to our left, which left the scene in front of us rather uninteresting; however patience was the key, and all of a sudden these lovely soft colours appeared.
This photograph was taken at the end of October 2016, during a visit to the Cairngorms, in hope of capturing the autumn colours.
Arriving at Loch Garten for sunrise on this morning, I was greeted to rather low temperatures, and a lot of mist hanging over the water. After spending my first hour there, I headed toward Aviemore. As I approached Loch Pityoulish, which is a stones through from the road, the conditions were rather lovely. The mist was dancing above the water, and the sun was managing to break through to light up the grasses coming out of the water.
With this shot I knew at the time of capturing it that I wanted to crop it down to a square to focus in on the grasses and their reflections, with a small amount of autumnal trees out of focus in the background.
This photograph was taken at the end of October 2015, whilst I was attending a one to one workshop with Mark Hamblin.
It was a damp day in Glen Affric, which allowed a small amount of mist to form in places, as well as boosting the autumnal colours.
As we drove through the glen towards Loch Affric, we would keep stopping to photograph various scenes in front of us. Here I was rather drawn to the various colours of the bracken and woodland floor, as well as that of the remaining leaves on the birch trees.


We have spent 5 nights at this campsite with our caravan and 3 kids (9-6-4) and were immediately sold to the location, friendliness of the new (March 2015) operators, plumbing, tranquility and especially beautiful location. We are not beach guests, so the fact that the campsite was not directly on the beach, but connected to a swamp with the sea, gave us the big advantage that the D-Day crowds were far away! The swimming pool was in perfect condition, not covered, which caused a fresh wind above the water, but did ensure peace. The playground is somewhat small, but especially the green location and the freedom to play at the campsite was great!


where the existing rule enforces a height restriction for each floor. In additional, an extra room can also be set up in a mezzanine level for other storeys in the house for those who want flexibility and creativity in interior design.
Revision of the guidelines also affects the topmost floor, or the attic as it is limited to 3.5 meters in height. A 45 degree line also has to be defined from the front and rear of the building facade. Flexibility is also given to attic to be designed without a sloping roof, which is currently a requirement. To facilitate more ventilation and light to the basement space, it will now be allowed to protrude above ground beyond the current one-meter limit.


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MLP Online Demo Update 8/21/11
MLP Online Website
MLP Online is a fan made My Little Pony Friendship is Magic MMO, currently being produced by Urimas, Salty Justice, and their team of programmers, spriters, and other members in a custom made C++ engine. The project has been in development for a while now, and when finished, will be 100% free to play.
The MMO is still in its early stages, but a lot of the features are already nearing completion The game currently has eight different movement directions, functional NPCs, flying, bucking (Kicking objects around) and several maps.
Currently, the sprites are a major developing point in the project, many different sprite sheets have been made for the mane cast and many other ponies who will be in the game. You can find a demo showing the current progress of the game HERE.
The battle system is currently being worked on, you can play a short demo of what it might look like HERE.
The team is also working on scripted events, allowing for small cut-scenes to take place, as seen below.
A short video demonstration of the battle system
Currently, only Ponyville and Sweet Apple Acres are the two completed maps, and Fluttershy's cottage is being worked on. There will be many other maps in the near future, allowing players to fully explore Equestria.
MLP:Online Alpha 009 Demonstration
MLPOnline Physics Demonstration
Urimas has released a small Sprite Test game, though he says the test is not an actual part of the game engine itself, and is just a temporary way of showing people what the team has achieved so far.
The Sprites shown are the walking and running sprites, though there are trotting, jumping, flying and bucking sprites also completed.
The Flying Sprite Test Game can be found here
If you're looking to join the production team for this game, there is a section on the forums HERE that lists all the different open positions, though if there's something that's not there that you want to help with, sending Urimas a friendly message asking about it probably wouldn't be a bad idea.
The game is in its early stages, so feeback is welcome, you can give some feedback about already implemented features HERE or suggest new ideas for the game HERE.
Salty Justice also does daily reports on the game's progress, if you want to follow up with that, the topic can be found HERE.
- Strawberry Spice
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Maddie Ziegler Is Writing A Memoir And Series Of Young Adult Novels
And she's only 13! - by Megan Pustetto
Maddie Ziegler may be just 13-years-old, but the Dance Moms star has already revealed her plans to release a memoir.
The teen, who shot to fame on the reality dance show and has since starred in several of Sia's music videos, will release The Maddie Diaries with Gallery Books in March 2017, WHO can confirm.
The memoir will chronicle her rise to stardom, sharing advice and life lessons, saying, "I'm honored to be given the chance to write about my journey.
"My hope is to inspire others to always keep dreaming and push through the hardships because it's so worth it to find something you are truly passionate about in life. Always be brave enough to live out your dreams."
The So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation judge will also try her hand at fictional stories: Aladdin Books will release a trilogy of YA novels about competitive dance, written by Ziegler.
"I've always been the type of person who really enjoys writing stories," Ziegler tells WHO. "So when I found out I would be writing books, I was so excited that I got started right away!"
The first book in the series will hit bookstores in fall 2017, with new additions coming out each following year.
As for your chance to see Ziegler on-screen, the teen will try her hand at acting alongside Jacob Tremblay in The Book of Henry, out in September.
Dancing, writing and acting: Talk about a triple threat!
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PARIS — Serge Hefez, a practicing psychiatrist, has identified a new mental illness among the French: obsessive Sarkosis, an unhealthy fascination with the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy.
The French project themselves onto Mr. Sarkozy, too, Dr. Hefez said.
A year after taking office, Mr. Sarkozy can appear to be everywhere, at least in the world of television and print. The daily newspaper Le Figaro counts at least 100 books devoted to the French president, his life and loves, with more than a million sold, for $25.1 million.
Dr. Hefez analyzed this obsession in an article and then in his own book, "Obsessive Sarkosis," in which he identifies related illnesses, like Sarkophrenia and Sarkonoia.
The newspaper Libération ran a photo spread of models who looked like Mr. Sarkozy and his third wife, Carla, "at home" in the Élysée Palace. Mr. Sarkozy's double exercises in Ray-Bans and a sweaty New York Police Department T-shirt, while Mrs. Sarkozy's, in tight jeans, watches him adoringly, a guitar across her lap. In another of the photos, by Bruce Gilden, a preoccupied president lies with his head on his wife's miniskirted lap, while she gazes into the distance.
In the last of the photos, the president, in boxers and socks held up by garters, his bare chest looking soft, sits on the edge of the bed, staring into the void, while his wife, standing in a silk nightgown, stares down at the back of his head.
Mr. Hefez's article on the public's "strange fascination-repulsion" with Mr. Sarkozy's life and loves.
For Dr. Hefez, Mr. Sarkozy's quick marriage to the rich, beautiful model and pop star is telling. "She is the perfect feminine equivalent — very fascinating, very narcissistic, very occupied with herself," Dr. Hefez said.
For the French, it was all too much, too fast. Mr. Sarkozy's new relationship, first made public in the very unpresidential, un-French EuroDisney theme park less than two months after he and Cécilia, his wife of 11 years, announced their divorce, was seen in the collective consciousness as a kind of "betrayal of intimacy, of friendship," with the French people, Dr. Hefez said.
With his opinion poll ratings at historic lows, Mr. Sarkozy has followed advice, including that of his wife, to appear more presidential in public, and to appear less often. The "bling-bling" of rich friends and extravagant, chunky watches has been largely replaced by discretion, seriousness and carefully managed appearances.
The French feel an intimacy with him as someone like them, but they also want a semi-royal president to represent the country. "So there was this slight misalignment between this man they identify with and this expectation they have of the president, any president," the friend said. "Then couple this with too much money, or too many visible signs of it, which relates to the funny relationship the French have with money." The result, the friend said, was disappointment.
As yet, there appears to be no cure.
An article on May 24 about France's obsession with the life of President Nicolas Sarkozy misspelled the surname of the editor in chief of Le Canard Enchaîné, a weekly newspaper, who said the obsession had turned negative "like a bad love affair." He is Eric Emptaz, not Empatz.