Milner's book, published by Barrington Stoke, follows a young boy as he and his mother set out from their home to find somewhere safe to live.
For the first time in the Klaus Flugge Prize's three year history, the judges chose to award a Highly Commended certificate, which went to Victoria Semykina for her book The Real Boat (Templar).
Awarding Kate with her prize, Lauren Child highlighted the collaborative nature of picture book creation and the work of editors, art directors and designers in the creation of successful picture books. A picture book is a collective work, she said.
Julia Eccleshare, chair of the judges, pointed to the success of former winners, Nicholas John Frith and 2017 winner Francesca Sanna. Frith has published two more picture books since winning in 2016; Sanna's new book Me and My Fear, is published this month. It was revealed at the ceremony that Barrington Stoke has signed Milner's new book, provisionally entitled Lucky and the Food Bank.
Alongside Ecclesshare and Child, the judges were Goldy Broad, Charlotte Colwill, of Foyles bookshop and 2017 Klaus Flugge Prize winner Francesca Sanna.
Pictured (l-r): Lauren Child, Kate Milner, Klaus Flugge and Victoria Semykina.


I have completed post graduation in computer applications. I have been in the teaching for the past 10 years however in computer science teaching of one year experience. I love to make my students think to explore the language and I believe in conceptual education and Innovative thinking (Out of Box thinking). The time of repair the roof is when the sun is shining!!!
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This picture shows what an artist thinks Phoenix will look like on Mars. The flat, round, dark objects on each side of Phoenix are the spacecraft's solar panels. The solar panels make electricity for Phoenix. The robot arm is shown reaching out to the left to scoop up soil samples. A thin green laser beam shoots up into the sky. The LIDAR instrument uses the laser to measure dust in the Martian atmosphere.
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Phoenix Mars Lander - Mission Overview
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NASA has a new spaceship on Mars. The robot is called the Phoenix Mars Lander. Phoenix landed near the North Pole on Mars. This page tells about the mission of Phoenix. It also describes the instruments on the robot. Click here to read some basic info about Phoenix on another page.
Phoenix is not a rover that moves around. Phoenix will stay in one place now that it has landed. It has a robotic arm that it is using to scoop up soil. It is looking for ice in the Martian soil and checking for other chemicals. Phoenix is using its instruments to "taste" and "smell" the soil its arm digs up.
There might be life on Mars. If there isn't, maybe there was in life there in the past. Life on Earth needs water. Life on Mars would probably need water too. Phoenix is looking for ice... frozen water! If it finds ice, that might tells us whether there could be life. If the robot does find ice, it will use its instruments to help us learn more about the ice and water on Mars.
Phoenix has a robotic arm. The arm is digging into the ground and scooping up soil and maybe ice. It puts the stuff it scoops up into some mini-laboratories inside of Phoenix. The mini-labs test the samples for minerals, carbon dioxide, ice, and other materials. The labs also check to see if the soil is too salty or has too much acid in it for life. Phoenix also has a weather station on it. It checks the temperature and air pressure every day. The weather station also has a laser sensor to measure dust in the Martian atmosphere. Finally, Phoenix has three cameras. Two of the cameras are on the main body of the robot. The third camera is on the robot arm.
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Ready, Set, SCIENCE!: Putting Research to Work in K-8 Science Classrooms
What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators teachers, teacher leaders, science specialists, professional development staff, curriculum designers, school administrators need to know to create and support such experiences?...more
Martian Soils
The first analysis of Mars' soil from Viking landers found no evidence of life, instead showing that organic molecules are even more scarce than on the Earth's moon. The Viking missions did confirm the...more
Can there be Life in the Environment of Mars?
In spite of the fact that Mars has an atmosphere, the environment of Mars seems unfriendly toward life as we know it on earth. Mars has little atmosphere . This means that the temperature above the surface...more
A Look at the History of Mars
This is probably what happened to Mars: an early warm period the inside of Mars cools off very fast volcanoes appeared, and the Tharsis Bulge is created there are changes in climate every once and awhile,...more
Martian Water
Mars doesn't seem to have very much water. If Mars had lots of water life could survive there. There seems to be *some* water because clouds, fog, and icy polar caps are seen on Mars today. There are also...more
Salinity - Dissolved Salts, Measuring Salinity
Salinity is the measure of how much salt is in water. Ocean water has a high salinity and fresh water has a very low salinity. Sometimes, salinity is measured in parts per million (ppm). Ocean water has...more
Pressure is an idea scientists use to describe how gases and liquids "push" on things. The atmosphere has pressure. This pressure changes if you go different places on Earth. Imagine your home is very...more
Martian Global Dust Storms
This image shows a local dust storm near the edge of the south polar cap. Viewing of this image at high resolution is recommended. This fascinating image shows dust swirling over a large area. Martian...more

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The Development and Public Affairs Department understands the importance of community service. Being a part of Raytown organizations helps us understand our community better. Brenda Gustafson, Public Information Officer and John Benson, Director of Development and Public Affairs were sworn in as President and President-Elect of Raytown Three Trails Kiwanis Club. Both Brenda and John were also added to the Shepherd's Center Board of Directors. Both clubs contribute to the community in many ways. It is a privilege to serve them.
Brenda Gustafson, Public Information Officer, has been named Missouri Chair of E-RAPIO (a group of regional PIOs who respond to regional emergency situations) and will have a seat at the Regional Homeland Security Committee. She and Scott Peterson, Permit Technician also have been trained on the regional WebEOC (Emergency Operation Center). This Website helps connect communities during emergency situations.
Planning & Zoning Commission met November 13, 2014 and recommended approval for auto repair within a new tire and wheel store called Rent and Roll at 8910 E. 350 Highway. They also continued an application for a conditional use permit for auto sales at Rick's Auto Repair at 8216 Westridge Road.
Raytown EMS will be hosting a Community Center Blood Drive at the EMS station on December 15th from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. You may sign up for an appointment at esavealifenow.org and use the sponsor code raytownems. Please call Kim at 737-6030 if you have questions. Thank you for saving a life!
November 17 – Municipal Court – 6:00 p.m.
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Greve Erik Melcher Shering (Ted) Wachtmeister af Johannishus, född 14 juli 1892 på Tistad slott i Bärbo församling, död 18 december 1975 på Nääs säteri i Bärbo församling, var en svensk greve, jurist och reservofficer.

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Wachtmeister var son till universitetskanslern, greve Fredrik Wachtmeister och friherrinnan Louise af Ugglas. Han tog studentexamen på Lundsbergs skola 1911 och tog juris kandidatexamen i Uppsala 1918. Wachtmeister var attaché vid Utrikesdepartementet (UD) 1918–1922. Han tog reservsofficersexamen 1915 och var fänrik vid Kronprinsens husarregementes (K 7) reserv 1915. Han befordrades till underlöjtnant 1918, löjtnant 1923 och var ryttmästare i kavalleriets reserv 1942–1959.

Han var ägare av och bebodde Nääs säteri. Wachtmeister var styrelseordförande i Jönåkers häradsallmänning från 1933, Södermanlands läns brandförsäkringsbolag 1946–1963, Skandinaviska Bankens avdelningskontor i Nyköping 1954–1963 och hade olika kommunuppdrag till 1951.

Wachtmeister gifte sig första gången 1920 med Margaretha Huitfeldt (1900–1926), dotter till kommendörkapten Hugo Huitfeldt och Signe Stang. Han gifte sig andra gången 1929 med Adrienne De Geer (1908–1996), dotter till major Wilhelm De Geer och Thomasine Funck. I första äktenskapet var han far till Bengt (1921–2006) och Nils (1923–2003), i det andra till Thomas ("Tom") (1931–2011), Ian (1932–2017), Georg (född 1940) och Sten (född 1945).

Shering Wachtmeister är begravd på Bärbo kyrkogård tillsammans med sina båda hustrur.

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Artist Paintings (Gallery 5): Artwork by E. Gilpatrick.
Italy was the first country I visited when I started to travel abroad, so it was the first country that inspired me to paint. Here are my memories of Italy. The paintings are signed and dated on the back. If you are interested in any of the art in this gallery, please click on the thumbnail to see where each can be purchased online. I send a letter of provenance, which increases the value of the work; I ship free in the United States.


Since I'm about five chapters into the rewrite of Fortune's Fight, I figured it was time to start uploading it for critique. If you're interested in reading (critiques not necessary, comments appreciated!) you can find it on Deviant Art or on Fiction Press (the latter version has better formatting, FYI, because I'm currently at war with Devart).
I finally started the second of Missouri's socks (bout time I put those on Ravelry, don't you think? I'll have to add them later this week). Not too far into it because I've been working the last few days and I've been focusing my free time on the rewrites.


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A Jazz Singer Fights Niagara Bottling
By Alexis Okeowo
The singer Rebecca Martin helped keep Niagara, a water-bottling company, from tapping a reservoir near her adopted home, in upstate New York. "What's more important than drinking water? Nothing," she says.
Photograph by Pat Kepic
For years, Rebecca Martin was used to being transient, without a permanent home or commitments. As a jazz musician who performed both solo and with a band named Once Blue, Martin spent much of her time on the road touring and performing, while being loosely based in New York City. When she decided, almost fifteen years ago, to move to Kingston, ninety miles north of the city on the Hudson River, she felt a sense of relief. She had "really lost touch with the idea of community and responsibility to one another," she said, and took the chance to grow her family and settle down. She started noticing ways that her new town could improve. There was a shop in her neighborhood that was selling large knives, big enough to be called swords, near two schools.
After contacting the local alderman and not hearing back, she organized a public meeting that was attended by her neighbors, the mayor, and other officials. The police soon confiscated the knives; they turned out to be illegal. "Most people had no idea at the time how the city government was set up," Martin said, of her neighbors. She got into community organizing, helping to found a group called KingstonCitizens.org (which now has upward of thirty-five hundred members) that set up urban gardens, worked to protect African-American heritage sites, and planned other ventures in the town. So when she began to see items in the local paper, in the fall of 2014, saying that Niagara, a water-bottling company, was coming to the area, she panicked at first, but then decided to fight back. "We knew that Niagara probably didn't care about any environmental arguments," Martin said. "What was unusual about the fight is that we went after all the different avenues of revenue they stood to gain. When we looked closely at tax incentives, grants, and other public funding Niagara stood to gain, it turned out to be tens of millions of dollars. The economic-development sound bites of those proposing Niagara would be a good business for our region turned out to be a bucket of holes."
To Martin and the other, mostly women activists, including the environmental lawyer Kate Hudson, Niagara's plan to source water from Kingston's Cooper Lake reservoir, in the town of Woodstock, and sell it in stores was a personal affront. "Our group's initial objection was that an enormous amount of the city of Kingston's public water supply—1.75 million gallons per day—was to be sold to a bottling company to bottle and to sell without enough evidence that our water source could maintain that amount over the long haul," she explained. "We were also disturbed that a multimillion-dollar corporation was allowed to purchase our water at a fraction of what local residents and businesses pay." Generations of families in the area had invested in the local water infrastructure for a century, but, without warning, a water board could decide what would happen to a public resource without consulting the community. Martin and her fellow-activists began organizing public meetings to make residents aware of what was happening, and they went to meetings of the Kingston Common Council and Kingston Water Board to interrogate members on their decision-making. "That's what we were managing—from my bedroom," Martin said, laughing. It worked: in February, Niagara dropped its proposal. (In a statement to a local paper at the time, the company did not give a reason for pulling out, saying that "we intend to continue our site selection process in search of communities and sites that meet our project criteria.")
The increasing preciousness of drinking water around the world—due to drought and human and agricultural stress—has raised the stakes about who has control of this shrinking public resource. Martin was upset about how the bottling plants always seemed to move into towns in ways that were not transparent; their water-attraction applications would suddenly appear on a local board's agenda. Since few protections have been placed on the use of drinking water, communities could easily be taken advantage of. Besides concerns about plastic waste and poisoned water streams, privatizing public drinking water could leave a dangerous legacy that puts profit ahead of communal need. Earlier this year, during the drinking-water crisis in Flint, Michigan, it was revealed that Nestlé, the world's largest bottled-water company, was extracting up to four hundred gallons of water per minute from aquifers that fed Lake Michigan. The company was not paying anything beyond a minimal state permit fee and a lease to a private landowner, while Flint residents were being forced to pay for poisoned water. But critics of the decision to resist Niagara say that the plant could have helped finance much-needed repairs to the local water-system infrastructure, a burden that will fall to taxpayers. It also potentially scares away other manufacturers interested in operating in the area; the economically depressed Kingston could use more jobs.
Though they succeeded in killing the bottling plant, Martin and the other activists knew that another company could try to move in. Because Kingston's water department was separate from city government, it could make decisions on its own. Water sales were often not held accountable. To that end, they pushed for legislation to allow public oversight on water sales that occur outside of the city's corporate limits. The charter amendment passed during a referendum. The actress Rachel Weisz, who is a friend of Martin's, described her as "a very talented musician and a devoted mum who, as a concerned citizen, educated herself in the very complex details of local politics." Martin, she went on, "can't look away, like most of us." Martin and her fellow-activists have continued their fight. "We literally followed Niagara around the country. Wherever they were showing up, we would send our timeline"—the ordered list of actions they took to fight Niagara—"to the community," Martin said. "These things happen so fast, and they really will go after you as being against business, against jobs, that it intimidates people." After learning, in December, that Niagara wanted to build a plant in Bloomfield, Connecticut, they contacted elected officials there, some of whom were receptive, and drove down to help residents set up their own town-hall meetings in a debate that is still ongoing. Months earlier, they helped a community in San Antonio resist a Niagara plant; their city council voted against the plan. Nestlé has since withdrawn another water-extraction application from the township of Eldred, Pennsylvania, after local resistance.
Martin woke up recently to news that Nestlé was looking into sourcing water from springs around Milligan Well, the main water source of her home town of Rumford, Maine. She went into autopilot. She called friends there, and then organized a town-hall meeting, in late June, for interested residents and the water-department superintendent. "I don't think anyone was counting on this at all, this kind of organized effort. And now it is what it is, and we keep going," Martin said. "What's more important than drinking water? Nothing."
Alexis Okeowo is the author of "A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa," for which she received the 2018 PEN Open Book Award.
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The Crisis in Flint Goes Deeper Than the Water
The pollution scandal raises questions about accountability in America's most vulnerable places. How does the public check those who govern in its name?
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Camera IconTony Saleeba's proposed ocean pool is on hold while quotes are sought by Cottesloe Council for reports on its Aborigianal heritage and environmental impacts. Credit: Supplied/Jon Bassett.
Aboriginal heritage makes councillors wary of ocean pool at Cottesloe Groyne
Jon BassettWestern Suburbs Weekly
COTTESLOE ocean pool proponent Trevor Saleebasays there is now "high risk" the proposal could fail.
But Mr Saleeba said he would work with the council after it deferred in-depth investigation of his site, preferred by councillors, south of Cottesloe Groyne.
"I think what they have decided is reasonable," Mr Saleeba said,
At Tuesday'smeeting, councillors decided to not spend $76,000 on the second stage of a feasibility study by consultants Advisian, which initially narrowed down three sites, including north of the groyne and North Cottesloe, to Mr Saleeba's proposal this month.
If approved and funding is secured, the pool could be built over an adjacent reef ledge and sit just west of the Aboriginal site of Mudurup Rocks.
Instead, the council will ask for quotes from the consultants on the cost of separate reports on the Aboriginal heritage and environmental issues affecting the site.
Mr Saleeba said his report to the council showed there were no issues, but the council needed the correct approach to tackle any heritage concerns.
"With the right people involved, and I deal with the Aboriginal people all the time across the State, it's a matter of negotiation and reaching and understanding so sensitivities are met," he said.
Councillors were concerned about the pool's potential impact on Mudurup Rocks.
"If I read an anthropologists' report, it is one of the last significant mythological, heritage and indigenous fishing sites left on the metropolitan coast," Cr Rob Thomas said.
Cr Thomas said councillors should know whether the rocks' claimed significance could stop a pool before they decided on the second stage of the feasibility study, after $50,000 was spent on the first part.
The second stage would have included an architecture plan, including building and shelter designs, costs, geotechnical, coastal engineering and environmental studies, and community consultation for the site south of the groyne.
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Gov. to Consider Clemency for Killer
By Eric Malnic
Nov. 26, 2005 12 AM PT
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will hold a private hearing at his Sacramento office Dec. 8 to consider whether to grant clemency to convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams, co-founder of the Crips street gang.
Margita Thompson, the governor's press secretary, said Schwarzenegger's decision to hold the private meeting with lawyers representing Williams and the families of his victims did not indicate which way he was leaning on whether to commute Williams' sentence from death to life in prison without possibility of parole.
"The governor reviewed the material in the case this week," Thompson said late Friday. "He decided the best route is a private clemency hearing, so he can hear directly from counsel."
Prosecutors are urging that Williams be executed by lethal injection as scheduled on Dec. 13 for the killings of four people during robberies in 1979. Williams' lawyers say he should be granted clemency because of his work as an anti-gang activist during his incarceration on death row.
Last weekend, a peaceful multiracial crowd including religious leaders and rapper Snoop Dogg jammed a street outside San Quentin Prison to urge that Williams' life be spared. His lawyers have also submitted what they said were signatures of 32,000 people supporting Williams' petition for clemency.
Williams, 51, has denied he committed the murders and has asked the California Supreme Court to reopen his case, contending that he was wrongly tied to the crimes through shoddy forensics. The court has not ruled on his petition.
The governor decides clemency requests on a case-by-case basis and is not required to hold either public or private hearings on an inmate's request, Thompson said.
She said that after thorough study of the materials presented to him, the governor rejected the only two previous requests he had received from death row inmates seeking clemency.
Last year, Schwarzenegger denied a hearing of any kind for convicted murderer Kevin Cooper. But Cooper's execution was later stayed by a federal appeals court.
In January, the governor referred the clemency request of murderer Donald Beardslee to the California Board of Parole Hearings and decided against clemency on the recommendation of the board.
Thompson said that under state law, Beardslee's case had to be referred to a public hearing by the board because Beardslee had been convicted of felonies twice previously.
Williams had been convicted of a felony once previously, so the governor had the option of a private hearing, a public hearing or no hearing at all, Thompson said. She said he decided that a private hearing was most appropriate.
On Wednesday, Williams' attorneys asked the state Supreme Court to grant them access to a broad array of trial evidence in an effort to show that Williams' conviction in the four murders had been unconstitutional.
"Discovery must be granted to avoid an egregious miscarriage of justice," Pasadena attorney Verna Wafeld wrote in her request.
She is seeking information under a 2003 California law enacted in the aftermath of the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart corruption scandal. She said she was looking for ballistic and crime scene evidence, witness records and medical evidence that might show that Williams was forcibly drugged while in jail awaiting trial.
In response to an earlier defense motion, Deputy Atty. Gen. Lisa J. Brault said Williams had been provided with appropriate material through the court discovery process.
Prosecutors are required to turn over anything that might help a defendant prove his innocence.


So you finally decided that learning 'X' thing was going to be your thing. Next step is to figure out how you're going to learn it. I found that this was a hard step for me, and it seems like it's a hard step for many. It's easy to stand where you're at and go, I don't know 'X', and I want the goal of knowing 'X'. It's not so easy seeing all those millions of steps in between, or much less how to do it.
I find that it was like knowing you needed to be in Iowa, and you know your feet are in Florida. But without a map, what the heck are you suppose to do? What vehicle are you suppose to take? People have spent a lot of time out there developing maps and guides on how to get where you need to be. So, there are Airplanes, buses, boats, cars, ect… you get the picture. Vehicles are your method of studying and a map is the progression of content, the experience in getting there. Studying doesn't have to be a boring thing either. You can plan that road to go through fun stuff like sightseeing! Not all of your trip has to be flat boring interstate, or sitting next to stinky people in a crammed airplane.
There are tons of stuff out there on how to study. I mean, you can go through classrooms, self teaching books, tutors, you name it. But just because all of those options are out there, doesn't mean you have to use any exclusively or any at all. You can always make your own. ultimately you also have to choose one that is right for you.
Take the time to consider just what you want. Not everyone wants to be Japanese 100% like a native, or move to Japan. Maybe your interests lie in just enough to get gist of stuff. Maybe you don't want to read/write but just to communicate spoken. Whatever your desires are, you need to figure them out. It's hard to map to a location that you don't even have.
So once you figure out your true destination (your desired level of proficiency, how many hours you're willing to study a day, how much of your lifestyle your willing to part/change, ect.) you can decide much better which mode of transportation and map to take. You also have to consider just who you are. Not everyone can study on their own. Some people need support, a team, a partner, a hand-holder, ect. It's not bad to be these things either, but you shouldn't choose a program for a class environment if it's not right for you, just as you shouldn't choose a self-study method if you can't motivate yourself to do it. Nothing is more discouraging as looking at stuff you never do, spending money on something you don't need, or wasting time with something that is ineffective for you.
Now I'm not here to pick out programs for you :). That's something only you can do. Most every method out there will have tons of followers. You can research what people are saying about the method, and see how many of those people have gone on to speak fluent Japanese. You'll find a lot of programs out there give people jump starts, then give nothing at all. Some programs start off really, really slow, then pick up speed, and some just go bumbling along at one speed. Don't forget to research well.
Now the big one. CHOOSE. I know, I know, just that simple 6 lettered word seems soooo easy. But I honestly can't tell you how many people I see in the language learning ways never make this step. Farting around is good and all, it gives you a sense of what's out there, what you can do, what you do or don't like. However, never choosing a program and sticking to it in length is a bad thing. (modification is another story) There are tons of forum (and forum whores) out there wasting life away contemplating, arguing, "trying" out all sorts of methods but never actually choosing and succeeding. People love to argue about why this or that won't work, while only a few are actually out there getting their hands dirty in Japanese. This site is just another one of those methods put out there for people to see and think about and maybe try themselves. Ultimately, you must make the choice and stick with it. Good luck with it.
Of course, once all that is said and done, all that is left to do, is DO. It won't do itself. Just 'DEW it man'! haha. Then, before you know it, you'll be gaining proficiency in your target language. This step is the second most hardest step. It's realizing on a daily basis what you want, and making decisions that get you there. While you may be tempted to leave your chosen path, don't prematurely jump off the wagon.
Detours on trips aren't always bad. Sometimes that flat tire takes you on an unexpected journey of growth. Sometimes your car breaking down sends you back to square one, but that's okay. Every step, including backward ones, are steps taken. Of course, you don't want to spend all your time in broken vehicles or on wrong roads. Most of that can be avoided by making sure you're choosing something for you.
Modifying your path is just fine. Once you've chosen your method of studying and kept at it, or even right from the start you may find that you like it, but want it just a tad different. You might find that you even want to add another method along side it. This is perfectly good and normal. In fact, I believe it's the best. Everyone is different and no one method will work for everyone. In fact, some random internet lady once said something along the lines of "the only method that will work 100% is for its creator". It's completely normal for people to modify their paths. My only word ofcaution lies in this: certain methods do not work if you modify them too much.


As many of you know, head contact and concussions are a serious problem in the sport of Ice Hockey. There are many efforts being put forward to educate our players, coaches and parents on the seriousness of the issue. Team Comcast has even taken the extra step to test all of their players prior to the start of the season, so they will have a baseline result should any player be concussed during the season.
I applaud that effort and I am encouraging all member clubs to consider doing the same. We will gather more materials and will be asking the AMHL Board to make preseason testing a requirement for Peewee classification and above.
Please see the attached video that was created by the IIHF and passed onto us from Mike Litchenberger of the USAH Coaching Program.
I encourage you to share this with your coaches, managers, parents and players.
I am sure you can see the seriousness of this issue and will support a comprehensive effort within your club.


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Diamond Crystal seeks fee exemption
By Christopher Pratt;
A request from Diamond Crystal owners for Mitchellville to exempt the manufacturing plant from a local franchise fee gained little support from City Council members at a meeting last month.
"The worry for the council is once they grant an exemption for one business in town, it would be the tip of the iceberg and all sales-tax-exempt properties would expect the same," Mitchellville chief financial officer Tammi Dillavou wrote to Hormel Foods Corp., the plant's owners.
Diamond Crystal and other manufacturers are exempt from paying sales tax in some instances if the companies meet state criteria.
Hormel is seeking a similar exemption from the city on its franchise fee.
"Several cities and counties in Iowa offer exemptions for taxes owed on utilities consumed in manufacturing," according to an email from Rick Williamson, manager of external communications for Hormel.
In an email to the city, the Austin, Minn.-based company requested reimbursement of $293.45 already paid through the franchise fee and asked that invoices be altered to remove the fee going forward.
The city expects to reap about $23,000 a year — about 4 percent of its general fund budget — from the franchise fee, Dillavou said. Diamond Crystal's contribution would be a fraction of that total.
Mitchellville established a 3 percent franchise fee last year. The fee is assessed on utility bills and the local utility company then sends the payments to the city.
Many governments use the franchise fee as a way to generate revenue without increasing property taxes. The fee affects all utility customers regardless of tax-exempt status, allowing the city to collect the fees on churches, hospitals, government buildings and other properties that would not be subject to property taxes.
After controversy about a franchise fee in Des Moines arose several years ago, Iowa lawmakers granted cities the authority to collect franchise fees up to 5 percent on natural gas and electrical services.
The city has invited Hormel officials to discuss their concerns at a future meeting, but Hormel has yet to express an interest in attending, City Administrator Ruth Norton said.
"We're not doing anything further," she added.
Public works director search
Mitchellville is accepting applications for the public works director position through Feb. 28.
The department is responsible for maintaining the city's water system, sewers and streets.
Former director Tim Brandt retired last year. Wayne Patterson has served as interim public works director.
The city hopes to fill the position by April 1.


Chicken - The Dangerous Transformation of America 's Favorite Food.
"I used to eat chicken without much thought about where it came from, or how and by whom it was raised and processed. Life was much easier then." So states Steve Striffler at the beginning of his book Chicken, The Dangerous Transformation of America 's Favorite Food.
Similar thoughts are beginning to resonate in the minds of millions of people living in the developed world, who like Steve Striffler, have no particular interest in animal rights. In fact, Chicken, apparently the only recent book to deal exclusively with birds reared for the broiler industry, is just one response among many to the growing public interest in how their food is produced.
Striffler provides the reader with a fascinating account of today's broiler chicken industry. It lays bare the facts about how the highly processed, branded and elaborately packaged chicken products are produced and marketed as part of a fast food industry with an annual outlay of $33 billion to spend to promote its products.
In 1928 Herbert Hoover promised impoverished Americans "a chicken in every pot". By the 1970s the health effects of eating red meat were coming under question. People were turning to chicken as a health food. With the development of chicken nuggets and other processed chicken products in the 1980s, chicken has become unhealthy for all concerned, whether they are workers, farmers or consumers. "Six chicken nuggets contain the same amount of fat (21 grams) as a fat-filled double cheeseburger with condiments and vegetables. Order a chicken fillet sandwich and you get about one-third more fat than that same burger."
The result is a disaster of titanic proportions. "Nearly two out of every three Americans (130 million) are overweight, and almost one-third (60 million) are obese, an epidemic that has implications for heart disease, cancer, stress diabetes, and a wide range of other serious health problems".
What seems most shameful (to me, as an ethical vegan) is the fact that Government, supposedly set up "by the people, for the people" also pumps $20-billion a year into promoting unhealthy products, with only a tiny portion of outlays going to promote grains, fresh fruits and vegetables.
Steve Striffler could be categorized as a subtle reformer. His book sets out the fundamentals of a system in which there are no villains or good guys, simply problems of worker injustice, poverty, poor public health, and environmental degradation, all of which can and must be addressed.
For those readers who share a passion for reform, whether it be in the field of labour relations, environmental degradation, human rights, and yes, even animal rights, Striffler has provided a wealth of references for further study most of which is easily accessed on the Net.
THE SIERRA CLUB, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, VERSUS "BIG CHICKEN"
For example, The Sierra Club's Rap Sheet on Factory Farming, and the 2005 Human Rights Watch report on the meat and poultry industry make fascinating reading, neither of which pulls any punches as this quote from the latter suggests: "Nearly every worker interviewed for this report bore physical signs of a serious injury suffered while working in a meat or poultry plant. Automated lines carrying dead animals and their parts for disassembly move too fast for worker safety. .. They often receive little training .not always given the safety equipment they need. They are forced to work long overtime hours under pain of dismissal if they refuse. Meat and poultry industry employers set up the workplaces and practices that create these dangers, but they treat the resulting mayhem as a normal, natural part of the production process, not as what it is - repeated violations of international human rights standards".


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Alliance and the Peace Process
The Alliance Party was formed in 1970. It is the largest cross-community party in Northern Ireland, and receives 6-8% of the vote. In the Northern Ireland Assembly, its members have designated themselves as 'centre', but more on group designations later. The Alliance Party Leader is David Ford.
I thought I might start with a quick background to the Alliance Party itself, before moving on to the party's involvement in the peace processes. I'll concentrate on what I see as the Party's unique contributions to the Good Friday Agreement, and then describe some of the challenges that we all face. Of particular concern to Alliance is the requirement for sectional designations, the voting system at the NI Assembly, and realising the potential of devolved power.
The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland was founded on 21 April 1970. As Alliance viewed the situation, the major problem of Northern Ireland was the division between Protestant and Catholic. The turmoil had it origins in that division and not in the partition of Ireland; partition was the result of the divisions and not the cause of them.
The place to start in understanding Alliance is with its conception of society. The distinguishing feature of the party is its belief in the legitimacy of a distinctive Northern community. Furthermore, this distinguishing community has more in common that what divides it.
Alliance does not view unionism and nationalism as distinct communities but as historical traditions. Alliance has offered itself as a 'third tradition', which includes those who, whether in politics, culture, religion or private life, have refused to be categorised as exclusively Orange or Green.
Alliance's perspective has been to emphasise NORTHERN Irishmen. Alliance would have as much contempt for intransigent Northern Protestants who do not want to share with fellow Catholics, as it would have for an Irish government with a dominant Catholic ethos.
THE ROLE OF ALLIANCE IN NORTHERN IRELAND POLITICAL DIALOGUE
What Alliance set out to achieve was an acceptance by Protestants and Catholics of an agreed Northern Ireland, providing a cross-community consent for its constitutional status.
A key motivation of Alliance, as a new party, was to become the largest party in Northern Ireland, i.e. receive greater than 50 per cent of the vote. It is important to consider that into its first elections, Alliance did not advocate power sharing for Northern Ireland. Instead, the party itself represented power sharing internally.
Alliance did not become the largest elected party in the 1973 Assembly elections; the party recognised that it would unlikely ever be Northern Ireland's largest party. Furthermore, the party also recognised the need to include 'a Catholic party' as part of a power-sharing arrangement.
The emphasis shifted early, from supporting one party, a 'catch-all' party, which could represent a wide spectrum of identities with a common interest (i.e. reforming Northern Ireland), to the recognition that reform was going to require the co-operation of a number of political party elites. Alliance adapted, and became part of the parliamentary power-sharing executive under the Sunningdale Agreement.
A key event in the erosion of Catholic support for Alliance were the 1981 hunger strikes. They had the effect of exacerbating the conflict, as well as enlargening the participating electorate. Significantly, much of a previously-abstentionist nationalist electorate became active.
Also in this situation was the case of 'soft Nationalist' Alliance supporters (i.e. those voters who floated from the SDLP and Alliance, and give Alliance secondary preferences in PR elections). Such supporters would have felt compelled to give primary support to moderate nationalism. This is an example of societal polarisation squeezing cross-community support.
When the Anglo-Irish Agreement was announced in 1985, the difficulty within Alliance was not between Alliance Catholics and Alliance Protestants: it wasn't like that at all. Instead, what Alliance particularly objected to was the secrecy involved in its creation. Alliance's demand was that any agreement affecting Northern Ireland should be based on cross-community consensus, and that the Anglo-Irish Agreement was not fair because it did not genuinely attempt to involve both sides in its creation. Having said all this, Alliance supported the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
The Anglo-Irish Agreement posed a challenge to Alliance's 'soft Unionist' support (i.e. those unionist voters who floated between Alliance and the UUP, and would give Alliance secondary preferences in PR elections). Such supporters would have had difficulty with the agreement's incorporation of the Irish government's role in the affairs of Northern Ireland. But Alliance's vote actually increased at the next General Election. This can be attributed in part to 'soft Unionist' voters who did not approve of the UUP's hard-line behaviour in the protests after the declaration of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Unlike the situation of the 1981 hunger strikes, because the UUP did not display relative moderation, 'soft Unionist' voters did not abandon support for Alliance.
Alliance blamed the failure of the 1982-86 Assembly on both Nationalist abstentionism and Unionist intransigence. Alliance recognised the changes brought about by the Anglo-Irish Agreement, and in 1988 produced a substantive policy document, 'Governing with Consent', which explored how administrative devolution could command widespread support.
Up to the Hume-Adams Talks, Northern nationalists were divided between those who would attempt to make a Northern Ireland government work (for their constituents only, it must be said), and those whose efforts were directed at making Northern Ireland ungovernable. Alliance sought reconciliation with the former, knowing that their consent was necessary for a working devolved government, and frequently criticised unionist parties for not recognising this, and that a failure to reconcile with the minority community would give succour to those who sought to destroy or prevent an agreed Northern Ireland.
Seamus Mallon, member of the SDLP and previous Deputy First Minister, remarked that the Good Friday Agreement was 'Sunningdale for slow learners'. However, there are significant differences in the form of the two agreements.
It was the Hume-Adams Talks that altered the type of agreement that would be reached. First, while the DUP may have ultimately participated in an executive government with the SDLP, it was always improbable that it would consider being in any government with Sinn Finn, whose participation would now be a sine qua non.
The second change was the acceptance of a minority/mutual veto mechanism as part of any new agreement. This would mean that the Nationalist community would have to grant explicit consensus to decisions made in government. The principle had been established with the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, and even de facto by Alliance, by its early recognition of the need for a 'Catholic party' in any cross-community coalition. But Alliance has always opposed segmental institutionalisation; its preference is for weighted majorities, without reference to communal identities.
When the Good Friday Agreement was announced, Alliance warmly embraced it. For many long-serving party activists, it represented the culmination of 28 years of effort: an agreed Northern Ireland with the prospect of peace and stability. Much of the Agreement's ethos can be derived back to Alliance Party principles, some specifically from 'Governing with Consent', e.g. in the establishment of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation.
Three unique contributions Alliance made during the Multi-Party Talks that led up to the Agreement are: (1) serving a policing function, in upholding the democratic integrity of the negotiations, especially in regard to the Mitchell Principles; (2) serving as a weathervane on the feasibility of any proposals made, including any overall agreement; and (3) establishing the designation of 'other' in the Agreement itself.
It was Alliance who found itself, more than any other actor, playing a role of policeman to ensure the integrity of the Mitchell Principles. Alliance believed that the democratic mandates of the 1996 Forum elections to the Multi-Party Talks should be the only mandate for the parties to negotiate; the use or threat of use of force was incompatible with a democratic process and a democratic outcome. Alliance was concerned that if the Mitchell Principles were compromised, then other parties could achieve undue influence and/or gains.
Consequently, Alliance tabled indictments against the UUP and DUP for their actions at Drumcree in July 1996, where they brought the threat of civil disorder; against the UDP for a breach of the UDA cease-fire in January 1998; and against Sinn Fein for a breach of the IRA cease-fire in February 1998. While Alliance tabled the indictments, it was the decision of the British and Irish governments whether to expel the parties, and for how long. Alliance didn't table indictments with any desire to see parties expelled from the talks. Instead, the motivation was to ensure the basis of non violence and the rule of law.
The price the Alliance paid for tabling these indictments was a perception of putting up obstacles to the talks process. However, the democratic principle of the Mitchell Principles was vitally important to the party, and it was willing to sacrifice popularity for the sake of what it saw as the long-term interests of society. The party hoped that it at least served as a deterrent to the greater use of violence to alter the course of negotiations.
The second contribution Alliance made during the Multi-Party Talks was to serve as a weathervane in gauging the broad acceptability of any proposal, including those the party made itself. Alliance believed that its proposals would not be rejected immediately by Unionists or Nationalists, in that it would not be seen as representing either.
The key moment this was put to the test was when Alliance rejected the 'Mitchell draft' of the Agreement (for more on how the 'Mitchell draft' came about, I would recommend Senator Mitchell's own account, in his book). Party Leader, John Alderdice, publicly declared that Alliance could not support the 'Mitchell draft'. Now, Alliance could have lived with the terms of the draft agreement, particularly the proposed North-South arrangements, but saw a higher weathervane responsibility. The Alliance talks delegation decided that the draft agreement could not be sold to unionists, was not a realistic basis in which agreement could have been found, and consequently rejected the 'Mitchell draft'.
Alliance would have equally spoke out against any document perceived as being particularly pro-unionist, or 'Orange'. However, there are many other defenders of nationalist interests: e.g. the Irish-American political lobby and the wider international community; Alliance would not have been the only ones objecting to an 'Orange' document.
The third unique contribution Alliance made was in achieving in the final Agreement political space for 'others', or those who do not exclusively define themselves as 'unionist' or 'nationalist'.
The reason the issue of segmental designations (i.e. 'unionist' and 'nationalist') is so important to Alliance is the same as it always has been: segmental institutionalisation entrenches the very divisions that Alliance is attempting to transcend. Not considering itself either unionist or nationalist, Alliance sought political space for itself, and any other of like perspective, in any final agreement.
To do this, the party had to make a direct appeal to British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. Alderdice had made a public appeal for Blair to come to Belfast to salvage the talks process, when Alliance rejected the 'Mitchell draft'. The Prime Minister came, though he was likely coming over anyway. His offices were keen to have Alderdice make a complimentary statement, which he did, along the lines that now that Blair had arrived, the situation was under control. Whether or not there was a quid pro quo, Alliance attributes the achievement of the allocation of 'other' to its direct appeal to the British Prime Minister.
CHALLENGES OF THE AGREEMENT
Now I would like to highlight specific issues particularly relevant to Alliance and its vision for society.
Keeping in mind the themes I have briefly outlined on cross-community consensus and devolution for a distinctive Northern community, much of the challenges posed to Alliance emanate from the internal structures of the Northern Ireland Assembly, as prescribed in the Good Friday Agreement. Namely, they are the requirement for sectional designations as well as the over-rigorous voting procedures.
The Agreement stipulates that 'members of the Assembly will register a designation of identity–nationalist, unionist, or other.' Furthermore: 'Arrangements to ensure key decisions are taken on a cross-community basis; (i) either parallel consent, i.e. a majority of those members present and voting, including a majority of the unionist and nationalist designations present and voting; (ii) or a weighted majority (60%) of members present and voting, including at least 40% of each of the nationalist and unionist designations present and voting.'
One effect of the designations, as well as the minimum thresholds of unionism and nationalism in the weighted majority procedure, is that it grants less political rights to 'other' members. The votes of 'others' only count towards attaining an overall majority. 'Other' Assembly members have less voting powers than 'unionist' and 'nationalist' Assembly members.
The designation of 'other' itself is derogatory and offensive to Alliance. The party sees the use of designations as a corporatisation of society and institutionalisation of divisions.
What the designation issue has produced is a more rigid form of power sharing. A more integrative model of power sharing would not require a mutual veto through designations, or the minimum thresholds in a weighted majority voting procedure.
Indeed, this whole matter came to a head last November, with the vote to elect a new pair of First Ministers (Mark Durcan replacing Seamus Mallon as Deputy First Minister). The first vote failed because the votes of 'others' did not count towards the cross-community consensus required. (Isn't it a bit ironic that the votes of a cross-community party don't count in votes that require cross-community consensus!)
The Alliance Party was split over whether to redesignate as 'unionists', as it was that group bloc that did not have sufficient votes. A compromise was reached: three Alliance MLAs–Sean Neeson, Eileen Bell and David Ford–would be able to temporarily redesignate, vote as 'unionists', then be able to revert back as 'centre'.
Why did these Alliance MLAs redesignate? They were prepared to redesignate in order to protect the political stability that the Agreement has given. There was a very real danger of a return to violence if the redesignation had not occurred. The reward was political progress and stability.
However, there is no question whether Alliance MLAs are prepared to repeat the exercise. They are not, and will not.
The Good Friday Agreement represents a real compromise between the traditional sectional powers that have opposed each other for years. But shortly after the Agreement was reached, political leaders started to backtrack on what they had pledged, and began producing their own interpretation of the Agreement. For four years we have seen limited steps forward matched by multiple steps backwards.
This is an illustration of what has been wrong with the implementation of the Agreement. For most parties, the Agreement represents a ceiling of their ambitions, as far as they can go to reach an accommodation before reverting to traditional tribal positions.
For Alliance, the Agreement is a foundation upon which to build a united community, a liberal, open and mixed society that celebrates diversity and is progressive in outlook.
Thank you for listening. I'm happy to answer any questions.


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The Bidding For The 2022 Olympics Is A Disaster Because Everyone Figured Out That Hosting Is A Total Waste
Tony Manfred
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The 2004 Olympic softball stadium in Athens.
Researchers have known for years that hosting large sporting events like the Olympics always costs more than expected and always yields less revenue and useful long-term infrastructure than estimated. Now voters and politicians in democratically elected countries are starting to realize the same thing.
Potential host cities are dropping out of the bidding process for the 2022 Winter Olympics like crazy.
Deadspin's Barry Petchesky has a breakdown of the cities that have scrapped their campaigns to host the event.
Krakow, Munich, and Davos/St. Moritz all withdrew their bids after the public voted against hosting. Stockholm withdrew after the city's government said that "revenues will likely be lower and costs higher" than estimated.
Oslo's bid is on life support amid mounting public opposition. And Lviv, Ukraine's bid looks to be all but finished in the face of widespread unrest in the country.
Bidding on the Olympics has been justified for years by one big economic lie: investing in hosting Olympic Games will lead to long-term economic growth.
It doesn't.
In a 2006 paper, "Mega-events: The effect of the world's biggest sporting events on local, regional, and national economics," Holy Cross economics professor Victor Matheson took this idea to task:
"Public expenditures on sports infrastructure and event operations necessarily entail reductions in other government services, an expansion of government borrowing, or an increase in taxation, all of which produce a drag on the local economy. At best public expenditures on sports-related construction or operation have zero net impact on the economy as the employment benefits of the project are matched by employment losses associated with higher taxes or spending cuts elsewhere in the system."
Matheson also argues that Olympic economic impact reports often ignore the significant costs for things like security and conflate "general infrastructure" with "sports infrastructure."
The things you need to stage a two-week bobsleigh event are different than the things you need for daily life.
The most obvious representation of this is "white elephants" — costly Olympic stadiums that now sit empty. From Sarajevo to Athens to (some fear) Sochi, former host cities are full of examples of buildings that served a specific purpose for two weeks during the Olympics and then immediately fell out of use.
Countries, at least democracies, are no longer buying the economic benefit argument. As a result, we could be headed into an era where only non-democratic governments will want to host the Olympics.
After dropping out of the bidding, Stockholm's ruling party issued a statement saying they had no use for Olympic infrastructure:
"Arranging a Winter Olympics would mean a big investment in new sports facilities, for example for the bobsleigh and luge."
"There isn't any need for that type of that kind of facility after an Olympics."
The final two bidders for the 2022 Olympics are Almaty, Kazakhstan — who's first and only president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, won 95% of the vote the most recent election, which was roundly criticized by international monitors — and Beijing, China.
The International Olympic Committee will vote for a 2022 host city on July 31, 2015.
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The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy. This is the nineteenth contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Lorraine Keller.
Ants Doing Math and Kids Doing Linguistics?
It is probably no surprise that the desert ant, Cataglyphis, has already been mentioned several times on this blog (see here, here, and here). As previously discussed, these ants have an extraordinary ability to find their way home in conditions that apparently require triangulation. Cataglyphis has been described as "mentally representing" time, distance, and their location in 3D space (Goldman 2012). More surprisingly, these ants are described as performing simple mathematical calculations that are approximations of the kinds of vector summations that human navigators would use (see Müller and Wehner 1988).
Human navigators use fairly sophisticated mathematical models to describe the ant's ability to navigate—what we might call the ant's 'navigational competence'. But what exactly does possession of this competence entail? Is it plausible that ants possess some sort of mathematical knowledge—if not to the level of sophistication of their human investigators, then at least an approximation of this? Do they, in some sense, mentally represent the various environmental facts that they apparently need to continuously update in order to find their way home?
1. John is easy to please.
2. John is eager to please.
3. It is easy to please John.
4.* It is eager to please John.
is not an acceptable transformation of 2. How do they know this? And what precisely is it that they know?
Chomsky's famous poverty of the stimulus argument starts with the claim that young children's linguistic competence cannot be explained by their exposure to the primary linguistic data (see, inter alia, Chomsky 1965). Very roughly, the linguistic data to which children are exposed (viz., the speech of members of their linguistic community) are too impoverished to account for children's discriminatory grammatical abilities (among other things). If children were "empiricist learners"—i.e. if they didn't have any "innate language-specific knowledge or biases"—they wouldn't be competent with their languages (Laurence and Margolis 2001: 221). But they are. Linguists and philosophers have wondered: what explains this competence? However, an even more foundational question needs to be answered: in what does such competence consist? What do children "know" when they know the grammars of their languages, if it even makes sense to describe what underlies their ability as knowledge?
Noam Chomsky in thought… about ants?
Chomsky's controversial answer was that children have innate knowledge of the abstract, general grammatical rules that underlie all human languages (Universal Grammar). Exposure to the primary linguistic data then enables them to learn the particular grammars of their native languages. In the face of strong criticism from philosophers, Chomsky backed off from his initial use of 'knowledge' to describe children's linguistic competence and started using the technical term 'cognize' (Chomsky 1980, see Cowie 2008 for discussion). But what exactly is it to cognize grammar? Linguists following Chomsky seem to agree that cognizing one's grammar entails mentally representing one's grammar, whatever else it might involve.
The basic idea is that children mentally represent these structures as part of their understanding of sentences 1 and 2, which is why they are able to correctly interpret them as saying, in essence, 'John is such that he is easy for someone to please' and 'John is eager that he please someone'.
As with our description of the ants' navigational competence, we use highly complicated, mathematical representations to describe children's linguistic competence. If it is implausible that children have knowledge of the information encoded by these representations, it is at least equally implausible that ants have knowledge of the information encoded by trigonometric representations. But both children and ants have some sort of cognitive connection—call it 'cognizing' or whatever—to the information encoded by these representations. After all, their behavior is, in some sense, guided by this information. We can, if we like, say that they mentally represent this information, but it is still far from clear what this means.
So, are ants doing trigonometry? Are kids doing minimalist syntax? Obviously not in the sense that mathematicians and linguists are doing these things. But their behavior is guided, in some not very well-understood way, by the information that is part of the content of mathematicians' and linguists' theories.
—. 1980. Rules and Representations. New York: Columbia University Press.
Laurence, Stephen and Margolis, Eric. 2001. The Poverty of the Stimulus Argument. British Journal of Philosophy of Science 52 (2001): 217-276.
Müller, Martin and Wehner, Rudiger. 1988. Path Integration in Desert Ants, Cataglyphis Fortis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 85 (14), 5287-5290.
Dr. Lorraine Juliano Keller usually teaches philosophy at Niagara University and works at the intersection of philosophy of language and metaphysics, but spent the past year researching divine ineffability at the University of Notre Dame's Center for Philosophy of Religion. She was first introduced to Cataglyphis by her advisor, Marian David, who has a fondness for ants.
As a member of the Arachnophilic Community I note with interest some recent (valiant) efforts to extract Philosophick Value out of the perambulatory Cataglyphis but cannot fail to point out that conceptual nourishment of a higher quality (not to mention quantity) can be found among the predatory (mostly tropical) twenty or so species of jumping spiders consisting the genus Portia.
In his Magnum Opus, Distinguished Professor Tyler Burge remarks with barely concealed disapproval that ants "…lack…subindividual capacities for objectification necessary to instantiate representational kinds." (Origins of Objectivity, 2010, 517). In contrast, "Portia's is a thoroughly studied case in which representational capacities infuse navigational capacities." (516).
Arachnophiles of a less charitable disposition stress with characteristic Shadenfreude that Jumping Spiders enjoy a dedicated subsection (514-518). Blindfolded Dogs (in an experimental setting I prefer to pass over in silence – a case of science gone too far?) only get a very short paragraph (499).
In a (somewhat) conciliatory mood, I inform Dr. Keller (and other Myrmecophiles) that Portia is not a threat to the peripatetic Cataglyphis. Portia is Araneophagic.
Clarification: The above comment is about your Baylor talk and the discussion that followed.


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Q: Use CSR in Next.js as fallback when SSR path is not available So I have this blog, with dynamic url for posts (blog/[postId]). Posts are being added through keystone.js cms. It worked fine via CSR, but i came to a necessity to add proper meta open graph tags for each post (for correct share snippets).
I added getStaticProps and getStaticPaths to my post page, and now my meta tags are working fine, but now i get 404 when trying to access any post, that was added after build. Meaning, now i have to rebuild after each new post. My question is - is it possible to set Next to render component as CSR, if it fails to find path for it with getStaticPaths? I've tried to use try catch, but that didn't work. Now i came up with this concept of using container, but it does not seem to be the right way to use fallback. Or is it? I am fairly new to Next, so i am a bit confused.

const PostContainer = (props) => {

  const [postData, setPostData] = React.useState(null);

  const router = useRouter();

  React.useEffect(() => {
    if (router.query?.id) {
      getPost();
    }
  }, [router.query]);

  const getPost = async () => {
    const postData = await getPost(`${router.query.id}`);

    if (postData) {
      setPostData(postData);
    }
  };

  if (router.isFallback) {
    return <Post data={postData}
                 metaProps={defaultMetaProps}
           />
  }

  return (
  <Post data={postData}
        metaProps={props}
  />
  );
};

export const getStaticPaths = async () => {
  const list = await getPosts();

  if (list?.length) {
    const paths = list.map((post) => {
      return {
        params: {
          id: post.id,
        },
      };
    });

    return {
      paths,
      fallback: true,
    };
  }

  return {
    paths: [],
    fallback: true,
  };
};

export const getStaticProps = async ({ params }) => {
  const { id } = params;
  const post = await getPost(id);

  const {title, description, previewImage} = post

  const props = {
    props: {
      title,
      description,
      url: `https://sitename./blog/${id}`,
      image: previewImage,
    },
    revalidate: 1,
  };
  return props
};

export default PostContainer;

And one more thing - do i understand correctly that if fallback option is true, it takes only one visit to the page by ANY user, after which new path is generated on the server permanently and is accessible for anyone who comes next, therefore fallback always fires just once for this first visit of first user?


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Radhika Apte entered HT Style awards looking ravishing in the yellow Gaurav Gupta Creation and a Silver gown which is a Falguni Shane Peacock creation. The actress wore a Mustard Yellow strapless ruffles gown at the awards night as she walked the red carpet.
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The London Underground not to be confused with the London Underground is the world first and oldest Underground system. It probably wasn't constructed by about 300,000 moles or just one fucking huge one, but about 300,000 men known as workmen, all of whom would most likely be dead by now. Later, Undergrounds were set up in all the major cities of the world, apart from Delhi.
1 Underground Overground
1.1 Undeground Economy
1.2 Underground Branding
2 Mind the control
3 Get Down
Underground Overground[edit]
The Underground was set up as a front for the Wombles' baby recycling scam, the main entrance is located on Wimbledon common. Victorian ladies were enticed in with promise of a machine that would show you pictures of boobs and buttocks for a penny. While visitors were ogling the peep-show their babies were confiscated and sold on E-bay (previously known as the London Stock Exchange). When accused of unethical business practices as senior womble gave the following statement:
Branded like a pig
"We're just making good use of the things that we find, the things that the everyday folk leave behind."
~ Uncle Bulgaria on Corporate responsibility
Undeground Economy[edit]
When people realised they could make babies by making sweet love, the business ran into trouble so the Wombles branched into drug dealing, prostitution and general racketeering. To keep up with demand for the fruits of the underground the Wombles expanded their premises, gradually tunnelling a vast network that extended from the bright lights of Tooting as far as the back room of a corner shop in Finsbury park.
Underground Branding[edit]
Next the 'Underground' brand was franchised out to various crews of hoods, often to competing gangs. This sparked several turf wars including the French revolution, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and world war two. These vicious battles raged until the invention of Soundsystem clashes and breakdancing, which were used to settle disputes. So was born Underground music, which was later re-branded as 'Dance music' when it started appearing in the sex shops from Soho to Amsterdam and Hamburg.
Mind the control[edit]
The Gap: A chain clothing outlet
The London underground has made major contributions in the field of psychology. The London Transport psy-ops department is located at 'Station X', the last stop on the northern line. The work at station X is done by women as Scientific studies have proved conclusively that women have a higher capacity for mental torture than normal people. The phrase 'Mind the gap', which was created at station X has the following practical applications:
Commuters are subtley hypnotised by the suggesting that there is a gap in their minds which needs to be filled.
Later additional phrases such as 'Stand clear of the closing doors' and 'Please do not leave luggage unattended on the platforms, as it may removed and destroyed', which also have the function of suggesting a mental vacuum to the unsuspecting tube jockeys.
The constant repetition of these mantras and the illusion of missing mind content they engender leaves the traveller defenceless against the barrage of advertising which fills the tube system.
This benefits everyone as the affected individual becomes aware that they desperately want products and services they may never have considered before, or have considered and rejected because they do not need them or think they are overpriced.
The advertising spaces are all highly lucrative and generate the majority of London Transport's income.
Get Down[edit]
Many inventions and products were invented tested on the mutants of the Underground before being released into the wider world...
Gin Palaces
Ginger Hair
Kidderminster and Tokyo Underground Railway
The Underground FSMer's of Westford
Underground turtle racing
Retrieved from "https://uncyclopedia.com/w/index.php?title=Underground&oldid=4397412"


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Campioni

Singolare

 Tomáš Berdych ha battuto in finale  Ivan Ljubičić, 6–3, 6–4, 3–6, 4–6, 6–4

Doppio

 Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan hanno battuto in finale  Daniel Nestor /  Mark Knowles, 6–4, 6–7(3), 6–4

Collegamenti esterni

ATP Tour 2005


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For the last days of the 2017 they've organized several gigs in northern Greece and now they are back with two more gigs in the south, Athens and Larissa.


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Q: Show a component on hover in reactjs I've created several sections with the heading of the specific content.
I want to show a short sneak preview on hovering above the different section.
Does anyone knows how to create a hoverActionHandler with conditional rendering of a react component?

A: You can use onMouseOver and onMouseOut to change the state and render a component conditionally based on the value of the state.
See it in action:

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*Hooks Implentation: https://codesandbox.io/s/react-hover-example-hooks-0to7u

*Class Implemntation: https://codesandbox.io/s/XopkqJ5oV
Hooks:
import React, { useState } from "react";
import { render } from "react-dom";

const HoverableDiv = ({ handleMouseOver, handleMouseOut }) => {
  return (

      Hover Me

  );
};

const HoverText = () => {
  return (

      Hovering right meow!

  );
};

const HoverExample = () => {
  const [isHovering, setIsHovering] = useState(false);
  const handleMouseOver = () => {
    setIsHovering(true);
  };

  const handleMouseOut = () => {
    setIsHovering(false);
  };

  return (

      {/* Hover over this div to hide/show <HoverText /> */}
      <HoverableDiv
        handleMouseOver={handleMouseOver}
        handleMouseOut={handleMouseOut}
      />
      {isHovering && <HoverText />}

  );
};

Class:
import React, { Component } from "react";
import { render } from "react-dom";

const HoverableDiv = React.memo(({ handleMouseOver, handleMouseOut }) => {
  return (

      Hover Me

  );
});

const HoverText = () => {
  return (

      Hovering right meow!

  );
};

class HoverExample extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.handleMouseOver = this.handleMouseOver.bind(this);
    this.handleMouseOut = this.handleMouseOut.bind(this);
    this.state = {
      isHovering: false
    };
  }

  handleMouseOver() {
    this.setState(() => ({
      isHovering: true
    }));
  }

  handleMouseOut() {
    this.setState(() => ({
      isHovering: false
    }));
  }

  render() {
    return (

        {/* <HoverText /> gets shown when mouse is over <HoverableDiv /> */}
        <HoverableDiv
          handleMouseOver={this.handleMouseOver}
          handleMouseOut={this.handleMouseOut}
        />
        {this.state.isHovering && <HoverText />}

    );
  }
}


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