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Brenden Jaimes, OT, Nebraska – NFL Draft Player Profile
By Oliver Hodgkinson
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An experienced and versatile offensive lineman, can Nebraska offensive tackle Brenden Jaimes hear his name called in the 2021 NFL Draft?
School: Nebraska
Current Year: Senior
Wingspan: 81 1/8″
Arms: 32 3/4″
Hands: 10″
Positives: Versatile offensive lineman who was used at guard and tackle. Quickly gets into blocks, stays square, and works his hands throughout the action. Patient, keeps his head on a swivel, and possesses outstanding vision. Properly places his hands into opponents and rides them from their angles of attack. Makes great use of angles and body positioning to seal defenders from the action. Starts with good knee bend, plays with a nasty attitude, and attacks assignments. Also works well with linemates and shows excellent recognition.
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Negatives: Bends at the waist and overextends, which hurts his balance. Lacks great footwork off the edge. Not a natural knee bender and does not sink his butt at the line of scrimmage.
Analysis: Jaimes was a terrific blocker for Nebraska and had three outstanding days of practice at the Senior Bowl. Though he's not the greatest athlete, he gets the most from his ability, has a feel for blocking, and also comes with the versatility to line up at several positions. He's a Day 3 pick who could be a steal and eventually develop into a starter at the next level.
Brenden Jaimes began his football journey at the same Texas high school that produced former number one overall pick, Baker Mayfield. At Lake Travis High School, he made a name for himself as the anchor of the offensive line. Even as a sophomore he was attracting attention, earning an All-District honorable mention.
His junior and senior seasons were incredibly successful. Lake Travis went 30-2 over two years, ending his junior season as state runners up before clinching a Class 6A Division I title as a senior.
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A Second Team All-State honoree as a junior, Jaimes was named the District Offensive Lineman of the Year as a senior. He helped the Lake Travis offense to an average of over 500 yards per game. In addition to flexing his strength on the football field, he was twice a regional finalist in the discussion.
A three-star recruit and the 44th offensive tackle in the class, there was only ever one destination for him. Despite offers from multiple programs, he only ever took a visit to one school. He committed to Nebraska in April 2016, enrolling as a Cornhusker a little over a year later.
Brenden Jaimes' college football career at Nebraska
Four years and 40 starts later, Brenden Jaimes heads to the NFL Draft as one of the most experienced Nebraska offensive tackles of all-time. However, he very nearly didn't play at all as a freshman.
The Nebraska coaches considered a redshirt year, but he went on to become only the fifth true-freshman offensive tackle starter in Nebraska history. Furthermore, with nine starts at right tackle, he now holds the record for true-freshman starts by a Cornhuskers' offensive lineman.
After being named as an Honorable Big Ten All-Freshman at right tackle, he switched to left tackle for his sophomore season. Displaying valuable versatility, he helped protect the blindside as Nebraska had its first 1,000-yard receiver in program history. Jaimes earned a spot on the Honorable All-Big Ten Team after the program also recorded its first 1,000-yard rusher since 2014.
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Following his success at left tackle as a sophomore, Jaimes remained there for the rest of his Nebraska career. As a junior in 2019, he was named the team's Offensive MVP in a year that the program put together their most total yards in a conference game. Once again, he'd earn an Honorable All-Big Ten mention, a feat he would accomplish again as a senior.
Despite the disruption of the 2020 college football season, Jaimes added another eight starts to his résumé. His 40th and final start put him just one game shy of the program record.
Prior to the final game of the season, Nebraska offensive tackle Brenden Jaimes opted out to focus on the 2021 NFL Draft but first received an invite to the 2021 Reese's Senior Bowl.
A relatively under-the-radar prospect prior to the Senior Bowl, Nebraska offensive tackle Brenden Jaimes increased his 2021 NFL Draft stock in Mobile. He impressed Pro Football Network's team on the ground in Mobile, showcasing well-timed hands and functional play strength. Meanwhile, he lined up at guard throughout the week to showcase his versatility.
His experience and versatility will prove attractive to a team looking to address the offensive line later on. His ability to take snaps at guard in Mobile points to his potential use in the NFL where he could be influential in the ground game. Some teams that would be a good fit include the Baltimore Ravens, Tennessee Titans, and the Miami Dolphins.
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Oliver Hodgkinson is a staff writer for Pro Football Network. You can follow him on Twitter at @ojhodgkinson.
Oliver Hodgkinson is an NFL Draft and College Football Analyst for Pro Football Network. Check out the rest of his work here, and you can find him on Twitter @ojhodgkinson.


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IKEA is without a doubt one of the greenest large corporations on the planet. It has some flaws, but it is miles (or kilometers) ahead of just about every other large corporation that isn't specifically selling green products. It plans to get 100% of the energy it uses in its stores and buildings from clean energy by 2020 (and we're not talking about purchasing credits, but actual production). It recently announced a wind farm near Chicago that is projected to produce enough electricity that it could theoretically power 165% of its US operations, or 18% of its global operations. It also banned plastic bags back in 2008, long before that became a trend, and it will grow more wood than it uses by 2020.
IKEA has also been a leader when it comes to selling clean technology. It now offers solar panels in the UK and it started phasing out incandescent light bulbs way back in 2010, replacing them with CFLs and LEDs. Now it's adding an electric bike to its catalog.
Admittedly, the FOLKVÄNLIG electric bicycle IKEA is offering is only going to be available in two Austrian stores to start, but let's hope it doesn't take long for IKEA to bring it to more countries. With fast growth in electric bicycle sales around the world, I'd assume that's the plan.
The cost of the FOLKVÄNLIG in the Vienna stores will be €749 (~$1,026). If you're an IKEA Family member, then you get €100 off. "Male" and "female" versions of the bike will be available. With a lightweight aluminum frame, the bike will come in at just about 27 kg (60 lbs). With light pedaling, the bike will have a range of 60 to 73 kilometers (37 to 45 miles). Sounds like a good electric bike, and I think it looks attractive as well.
I'll be honest: because of its world-leading clean energy aims (and installations), its installation of electric vehicle charging stations at some locations (and presumably many more in the future), its cleantech offerings, and its plan to grow as much wood as it uses by 2020, I'm a big fan of IKEA. However, it does still sell a lot of non-green products, unfortunately, and it does have one other very notable Achilles heel. As Lloyd noted back in 2009, IKEA's stores are "big box stores" located out in auto-dependent suburbs. In other words, it is quite difficult to get to an IKEA without driving a car quite a distance. But perhaps if you buy an electric bike at IKEA you will be inspired to also ride it out there next time?
Want to see this electric bike at your "local" IKEA store? Be sure to let IKEA know.
IKEA is on its way to being powered 100% by renewable energy. It now sells solar panels in the UK. It has led the way with LEDs. And now it is adding electric bikes to its catalog... well, at two stores.


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14-18 June 2022, National Squash Centre Manchester
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August 2, 2021 Matt Coles
With the British National Championships taking place this week at Manchester's National Squash Centre, who will be the main contenders for the titles come Friday evening?
There are three previous winners of the event in the field, including the two reigning champions in Sarah-Jane Perry and James Willstrop. Welshwoman Tesni Evans is the other victor of the Nationals playing this week, and the three will be challenging once again.
You can secure your tickets for the British National Championships at Manchester's National Squash Centre right here.
Here are the main contenders for this year's British Nationals crowns.
James Willstrop
Four-time champion James Willstrop will be aiming to defend his British National Championship crown this week, having won the title in 2007, 2008, 2019 and 2020.
Those four victories at the tournament have come against four different opponents, in John White, Lee Beachill, Daryl Selby and Joel Makin, who he beat in the final last year.
The Englishman has not been in the best of form this season, but as an 11-time finalist of the tournament, he is not one to be forgotten about this week in Manchester
Joel Makin
Welsh No.1 Joel Makin will be the top seed for the British National Championships this week, and he will arguably be the favourite for the winner's trophy on current form.
Last year, Makin made it to the final of the tournament, before losing out in the final 3-1 to James Willstrop, but that is his best result at the event.
The Welshman is in good form, having made the quarters or better of four events this season. Those results included making the last four of the CIB PSA Black Ball Squash Open earlier this year, his best finish at a major tournament.
Adrian Waller
Former English No.1 Adrian Waller will be the No.3 seed for the men's event, and he will be hoping to recapture the form that saw him win to Challenger 30 level tournaments in 2019.
Since then, the Englishman, who has been as high as World No.17, has not been on a great run over the last 18 months, but his best result came at the National Squash Centre.
Waller made it to the second round of the Manchester Open in 2020, and he will hope that that is a good omen for the week ahead.
Greg Lobban
Greg Lobban, the Scottish No.1, will be his nation's leading hope of glory this week in Manchester, and he will be the No.4 seed for the men's tournament.
The Scot has been unlucky with first round draws over the course of the last year, coming up against Fares Dessouky, Mohamed ElShorbagy and Gregory Gaultier to name a few.
Lobban will be aiming to become the first Scot to reach the final of the British Nationals since John White did so in 2007.
Sarah-Jane Perry
The top seed for the women's tournament will be English No.1 Sarah-Jane Perry, with the World No.6 aiming to claim her third Nationals title.
The Englishwoman first won the crown in 2015 with a massive five-game battle against Laura Massaro. Perry is also the reigning champion, having won the title in 2020, beating Jasmine Hutton in the final.
The World No.6 already has a major title to her name this season, having claimed victory at the CIB Black Ball Squash Open in December. Since then, she has reached the quarters of three more major tournaments.
Tesni Evans
Two-time British National Champion Tesni Evans will be aiming to secure her third crown at the event, following her victories in both 2018 and 2019.
Evans, who became the first Welshwoman to win the British Nationals with her victory over Alison Waters three years ago, and has seen an improvement in her recent form.
Following her return to the sport after an injury she suffered at the J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions in 2020, the World No.11 has reached the quarter-finals in Manchester and at the Black Ball Open.
Emily Whitlock
The second Welshwoman in the top three seeds of the women's event is World No.24 Emily Whitlock, who will be the No.3 seed for this week's event.
Whitlock lost out to fellow Welshwoman Tesni Evans in the final of the British Nationals in 2019, and will be aiming to get back to the final once again this year.
Whitlock has not been in the best of form so far this season, having made it no further than the second round of any major tournament, but she has recorded quarters and semis appearances on the Challenger Tour.
Georgina Kennedy
She might be World No.74, but Georgina Kennedy is certainly one of the contenders for the title this week after her recent form.
Kennedy, who spent four years at Harvard University alongside the likes of Victor Crouin, has been flying up the rankings recently after five wins on the Challenger Tour over the course of the summer.
She also has top 20 scalps under her belt, with wins over Joshna Chinappa and Sabrina Sobhy in the last month. She could certainly be an outside shot for victory come Friday.
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Ready for the staged reading of Foothills Park!
One hour before the reading of Foothills Park starts!!! After an intense morning and afternoon, we're ready for it!
In the meantime, we take a second to review some moments of today's workshop!


1).India has created a new world record by forming largest human flag at?
2).To develop the Land Parcels Air India has signed a MoU with ________ ?
3).Who is the first Indian to become the member of International Shooting Sport Federation?
4).Name the publication that declared PM Narendra Modi as 'Asian of the Year'?
5).What is the name of the Indian Navy Ship that carried drinking water to Male?
7).Where did the first match of Hockey Champions Trophy 2014 was held at?
8).RBI has reduced the norms for PPIs, here PPI stands for?
9).Name the Institute that organized Second National Lok Adalat which was held across the country on 6thDecember?
10).UN has decided to declare ________ as World Yoga Day?


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Undergraduate Bulletin Majors, Minors, and Certificates History, Languages, Critical Race and Women's Studies
The Department of History, Languages, Critical Race and Women's Studies offers majors in East Asian Studies, History, Social Studies, Spanish, Spanish Education, Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language and Women's and Gender Studies. Minors are offered in East Asian Studies, History, Spanish, Spanish Education, Teaching English as a Second Language, and Women's and Gender Studies. Certificates in Women and Science, Academic English Proficiency, and Proficiency in International English are also offered.
Department Chair of History, Languages, Critical Race and Women's Studies: Annette Morrow
History and Social Studies
MacLean Hall 374, (218) 477-2812
Faculty: Yolanda Arauza, Nathan Clarke, Paul Harris, Steve Hoffbeck, Annette Morrow. Jomo Smith, Sean Taylor
Social Studies Program Coordinator: Steven Hoffbeck
The History Department offers courses in U.S., European, South American, African, Asian, and World History to meet the varied needs and interests of our students. History courses can be found that fulfill requirements in several areas of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Curriculum. Upper-division courses in History also prepare students for careers as teachers or in such diverse areas as law, government, libraries, museums, and business. The study of history at MSUM involves much more than the memorization of names and dates. Our students learn to think analytically and critically about the past and to understand history as the experiences of real human beings.
Successful completion of the Social Studies major leads to certification from the State of Minnesota to teach in grades five through twelve.
The major has four components:
Core requirements, also known as distribution requirements. These courses expose majors to the various disciplines that comprise Social Studies. All students must complete the 27-29 credit requirement listed below.
Emphasis. Majors must choose one discipline as their emphasis. Requirements for each discipline are listed below.
Secondary emphasis. Majors must choose one discipline as their secondary emphasis. Requirements for each discipline are listed below.
Teacher licensure requirements. These requirements are common to all secondary education majors and are listed under Secondary Education. Students should carefully study and understand all of these components and choose their course of study in consultation with their advisor. In selecting primary and secondary emphases, students should consider their own interest and aptitudes and the needs of the job market in secondary schools. While History is the foundation of Social Studies in the schools and is the most frequently taught subject in Social Studies, other areas are also taught at the secondary level, often depending on the size of the school. In Minnesota, high schools must commonly offer courses in Geography, Political Science, and Economics.
It is also worth noting that students can enhance their appeal as teacher candidates by qualifying themselves to coach a sport. Consult with the Health and Physical Education Department to learn more.
Faculty: Nathan Clarke, John Hall, Michael Martinez, Linda Houts-Smith
The department offers a B.A. major and minor in East Asian Studies. Students who major in East Asian Studies may select one of three areas of emphasis: business, humanities, or language and culture. The core requirements for this program consist of:
Four semesters of Chinese or Japanese;
Chinese 132 (Chinese Culture) and Japanese 142 (Japanese Culture);
Two East Asian history courses.
For detailed requirements, see B.A. Degree in East Asian Studies. Three year courses of study are offered in Japanese and two years in Chinese.
The department offers B.A. and B.S. majors and minors in Spanish. In our Spanish program, students first focus on becoming proficient in their use and understanding of the language then they begin to take courses in culture and civilization, literature, linguistics, and translation.
The Department of History, Languages, Critical Race and Women's Studies is affiliated with Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society. Our chapter of the Society, Upsilon Sigma, has been nationally recognized for Honor and Merit.
Proposed course of study for B.A. Spanish majors:
fall semester SPAN 201 and SPAN 211
spring semester SPAN 202 and SPAN 212
spring semester SPAN 302, SPAN 321 (odd years) or SPAN 322 (even years)
spring semester SPAN 341 (even years) or SPAN 342 (odd years), SPAN 351
fall semester any 3rd or 4th year elective
spring semester any 3rd or 4th year elective
Students who are seeking a B.S. degree in Spanish Education will need to work closely with their advisor in order to make the proper adjustments to the program outlined above. Students who begin their Spanish studies at a level below Spanish 201 will also need to make adjustments to the above schedule, in consultation with their faculty advisor.
All transfer students and incoming freshmen must take a placement exam before enrolling in Spanish courses.
Students may obtain minors in French, German, Norwegian, and Scandinavian Studies through Tri-College coursework.
Students who are studying in the department are strongly encouraged to take advantage of the opportunity to study abroad. We have exchange programs and connections with other study abroad programs in Japan, Spain, and Ecuador. Students who wish to study abroad should work closely with their faculty advisor in order to plan a course of study that will apply to their major or minor coursework. For further information, contact the department. Organized trips usually take place in the spring or right after spring semester.
Several departments/programs, —including Art History, Biology, Chemistry, English, History, Mass Communications, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology—either require or strongly recommend that their B.A. majors study at least one foreign language, especially if they intend to pursue graduate degrees. International Business and International Studies require two years of a foreign language.
Teaching Foreign Languages
Students who plan to teach foreign languages in elementary or secondary public schools should elect the B.S. major or minor.
All students, including transfer students, who apply for the B.S. degree with a language major must have completed a minimum of 14 credits of upper-level coursework in the department, including LANG 471 and LANG 472. Candidates for teaching licensure must be able to pass a number of proficiency tests that meet the standards of the State Board of Teaching before the application for teaching licensure can be approved. All students seeking a B.S. major or minor in the department should establish and maintain close contact with a departmental advisor to be certain that satisfactory progress is being made toward the degree. Consult with the department chair concerning an advisor.
Graduate Study in Foreign Languages
A reading knowledge of a second foreign language is essential to graduate study in languages. A student who expects to seek a graduate degree is advised to plan an undergraduate curriculum with a minor in a second language or with a double major. It is also advisable to take more than the minimum credits required for the major.
Teaching English as a Second Language or Foreign Language
Program Coordinator: Linda Houts-Smith
Faculty: Aimee Hilgers
MacLean Hall 279B, 218-477-4059
The Bachelor of Science in Teaching ESL is a degree for individuals who wish to practice teaching ESL/EFL in a classroom setting overseas or in U.S. K-12 schools. It is specifically intended to provide individuals with the initial preparation for a teaching certificate in Minnesota. Since licensure requirements vary from state to state and country to country, students should consult licensing boards in the locations where they wish to work to determine whether the B.S. in TESL will meet the requirements in the location of the student's choice.
The Bachelor of Arts in Teaching EFL is geared towards individuals, such as international students, who wish to teach English as a foreign language in countries where English is not the dominant language. It may also lead to limited possibilities in the U.S., such as working in adult ESL programs where only a bachelor's degree is required. It can serve as a foundation for teaching ESL in community colleges and universities in the U.S., but is not enough for working at those levels. Students who wish to work at those levels should expect to continue beyond the bachelor's degree to an M.A. in TESL. This degree is inappropriate for those who hope to teach English in k-12 schools in the United States, as it will not lead to a k-12 teaching license. Students who wish to obtain that credential should enroll in the B.S. in TESL, which is approved by the Minnesota State Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board requirements for teachers of ESL and has been accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).
Faculty: Yolanda Arauza, Kim Park Nelson
American Multicultural Studies courses develop students' knowledge and understanding of the diverse heritage of the United States in the past and present. Grounded in the historical experiences, cultural practices, literary traditions, artistic production, intellectual contributions, political struggles, and voices of Native American Indian, African American, Chicano/Latino and Asian American peoples, American Multicultural Studies courses provide an increased level of knowledge about the multicultural foundations of the United States. By emphasizing these perspectives, we challenge misperceptions derived from the social construction of race and use interdisciplinary methods to situate these histories and viewpoints into contexts that highlight interactions with the American mainstream. As a result, students learn theoretical and applied skills central to a liberal studies education, while cultivating a greater respect for the diversity of our common humanity.
American Multicultural Studies courses are particularly appropriate for career fields where a broad and diverse knowledge of American society is desirable, such as in history, education, human and social services, public service, business, communications, sociology, health professions, women's studies, global studies, law and the arts.
MacLean Hall, 175 (218) 477-4075
Program and Affiliated Faculty: Anna Arnar, Laurie Blunsom , Steve Bolduc, Marilea Bramer, Karen Branden, Ellen Brisch, Rebecca Gardner, Brittney Goodman, Paul Harris, Geri Hendrix-Sloan, Susan Humphers-Ginther, Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, Jennifer Kupferman, Annette Morrow, Carol Okigbo, Raymond Rea, Larry Schwartz, Sherry Short, Chris Walla, Patricia Wisenden, Deborah White
Women's and Gender Studies Curriculum
The Women's and Gender Studies program at MSUM has been ongoing since 1971. Students can earn a major or minor in Women's and Gender Studies, a minor in Women's Health, and a certificate in Women and Science. Women's and Gender Studies uses diverse historic and contemporary sources to examine the intersections of gender with racism, classism, heterosexism and other oppressions. Courses in the program use theoretical frameworks from social science, history and humanities plus other disciplines grounded in anti-oppression and social justice work to analyze the social and political locations of diverse identities. The program combines an interdisciplinary understanding of social structures with specific analyses of women's experiences both locally and globally. Students are challenged to understand and analyze complex current and historic realities and to enact social change through activism.
For further information about the Women's and Gender Studies Program, please visit our website:
https://www.mnstate.edu/academics/majors/women-studies/.


I've been a Republican all my life–a loyal Republican. The problem is, our party has not been loyal to its own principles. That is why I am running for the United States Senate.
The Republican Party faces an identity crisis. What do we really stand for? Conservatives within the party, like myself, believe we should re-embrace the Constitution and stand unapologetically for the divinely-inspired American Idea of individual liberty, limited government, and free-market values.
The GOP establishment, on the other hand, believes we should stand simply for the letter "R." They claim that America's problems will be solved if we just elect more people with Rs behind their names, but their own history shows otherwise.
Since the Reagan Revolution gave way to the "kinder, gentler" GOP (translation: surrender Republicans), conservative victories have been few and fleeting. Even the 1994 Contract with America is no exception. Within six years, the cumulative budget of the 95 major government programs slated for elimination had increased by thirteen percent. And that's when spending really took off.
The harsh realities of the 2000s give lie to the current GOP establishment claims. Voters gave Republicans the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and even the Supreme Court, and what did we get in return? The largest expansion of spending, borrowing, regulations, and debt our nation had ever seen. These Republicans–who call themselves conservatives–delivered the largest expansion of government in the history of America until Barack Obama came along.
The GOP establishment claimed in the 2000s that we were on the verge of a permanent Republican majority if we would just coopt the Democrats' issues (translation: surrender to Democrats). And so, it was the GOP establishment that gave us the largest expansion of Medicare in the history of the program. It was the GOP establishment that gave us "No Bureaucrat Left Behind" for our schools. It was the GOP establishment that gave us the bank bailouts. And it was the GOP establishment that opened the White House doors for Barack Obama.
The letter "R" did not save America.
Today, America is in serious trouble because the establishment members of the GOP have, at best, proven themselves ineffective at stopping the Democrats' unbridled expansion of government. In reality, these Republicans have been complicit with tax hikes, earmark spending, endless borrowing, and debt ceiling increases.
This senate race in Kansas exemplifies the larger choice that the Republican Party faces. Is it enough to call yourself a Republican or even call yourself a conservative but still vote with and give aid and comfort to the Democrats whose singular mission is to expand government?
America's fate hangs in the balance, and so does yours. As government expands, liberty contracts. And as liberty slips away little by little, prosperity contracts as well. We are witnessing this in America today. As the government reaches deeper into your doctor's visit, into your gas tank, into your mortgage, into your children's school, and into the rest of your life, it also reaches deeper into your paycheck and deeper still into your prospects for a better future.
Freedom itself is the most powerful engine of prosperity in human history. That's the American story. Those poor souls throughout the ages who have been denied freedom have suffered immeasurably, and it does not matter if it was taken from them by force or voluntarily surrendered upon the altar of false utopian promises. History remains unmistakable: Freedom works. And yet, the GOP establishment cannot summon the courage or demonstrate the ability to effectively fight for it.
Dr. Milton Wolf is a constitutional conservative and practicing physician running for the United States Senate in Kansas. His website is miltonwolf.com. Follow him at @miltonwolfmd.


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It seems that the GPS is now considered to be a part of the essential outdoor kit, and most of the people I meet 'out there' seem to have one (the other day I saw someone 'navigating' the towpath along the Forth and Clyde Canal using one). The experts even assure me that it is possible to program in hazards to keep me safe!
With all this technology keeping us on the straight and narrow, I wonder, have we stopped being explorers and became followers of (other people's) tracks? When does adventure stop being adventure and becomes haulage? And is it really keeping me safer?
I learnt the rudimentary outdoor 'craft' in summer camps on the 'evil' side of the Czech - Austrian border. For many years each July, together with some thirty other boys, four weeks of camping in the woods, no running water, no electricity, doing everything for ourselves, parental visits discouraged and resented by those who's parents dared (few did), the 'seniors' of an age that these days I barely think of as 'adult'. These were some of the happiest times of my childhood, like when we … I am getting sidetracked, and that would take for ever.
We had this game we played, sort of a rite of passage into teenagehood. It had a legend that I can't recall too well, something to do with British commandos airdropped into occupied France (these were not the camps the Party leaders would have approved of, and now that I am old enough to understand, I am grateful to those who took such personal risk to make these things happen for us, but I am, again, digressing). The game went like this: you got woken up in the middle of the night, blindfolded, frisked to ensure you had nothing on you other than an ID card, bundled into a car … and dropped off in the middle of nowhere. Your task was to be back in camp in time for the daily conditional at 7am, avoiding any human contact.
This part of Southern Bohemia was covered by beautiful deep forests, where deer and wild boar roamed. To say it was underpopulated would be to imply that somebody lived there. With just a few kilometres separating us from the 'depraved' West, the only vehicles on the roads at night were the military and the police, and there were plenty of them, for those were tense times when the Wicked Witch and the Evil Thespian plotted bad things. To be delivered to the camp in the back of a police car would have been the ultimate failure and shame (not to mention a lot of awkward explaining).
Once the sound of the engine died down and you took of the blindfold (for those were the rules), you could be sure there wouldn't be the slightest glimmer of artificial light, and you would have no idea where you were, the lads who dropped you off made sure of that with great dedication and pride. But you knew you were long way away from the camp, you would count yourself lucky if you ended up walking less than 20k by the morning.
The game generated its own lore passed down the 'generations', stories of boys climbing trees like Hans of Hans and Gretle, boys walking for hours at brisk pace in the wrong direction, boys hiding in stinky ditches from passing cars, boys taking till lunch to return. Lore, nostalgia, and H&S aside, it occurred to me recently that after that first time of finding my way back through the spooky forest, I never again felt threatened by being lost. The game taught me that in these micro-wildernesses of ours, the 'problem' of being lost can always be solved by walking for a few hours, and if worst comes to worst, for a few hours more.
It seems to me that nowadays we put lot of emphasis on location accuracy, while the biggest threats in the outdoors, come, I think, from not being prepared (physically, mentally, equipment-wise) for the environment we venture into. Sure, walking of a cliff is a problem, but it is not one that the GPS magically solves, the accuracy is not that good, and neither is the accuracy of the maps we use to program our routes.
Over the years I have found the most important navigation skill to be, for my needs at least, the ability to read terrain, to be able to judge how far things are, how tall, how fast I am likely to be able to move forward, upward, downward, backward. Different plants like different things, it is often possible to make an educated guess about what ground lies ahead from the colour of the vegetation, and suddenly venturing off a beaten track is less of a gamble. In Scotland being able to identify Sitka at a distance can save hours of time and ton of effort; not all rock is made equal, especially when wet, etc.
When the ability to read terrain is combined with an ability to read a map, much of day to day navigation can be done without any other tools, at least in good visibility. That is not to say I don't need a compass – compass is my lifeline, especially in a place like Scotland, where poor visibility is common, dare I say, even the norm. (If it was up to me, I would make proficiency with map and compass part of the Scottish school curriculum!) But what I think makes the biggest difference to my safety is situational awareness, which becomes progressively more critical as conditions grow more 'awkward' – being spot on the planned route will do me f*** all good if that spot is a loaded snow slope about to avalanche – and situational awareness comes from paying attention to my surroundings, here and now, and over days, weeks, years.
Long time ago the philosopher Michael Polanyi coined the expression personal knowledge to describe type of knowledge that can only be acquired first hand. A simple example is 'pain'; it is not possible to teach someone what pain is, that knowledge can only be acquired by undergoing pain first hand. I think situational awareness is also a type of personal knowledge, we can teach people about terrain and hazards, and we can point out specific hazards, and techniques for dealing with them, but we cannot make them aware on an ongoing basis in a constantly changing environment; that requires first hand personal knowledge which builds up over time from first hand exposure to the 'out there'.
And here lies my problem with the GPS. Being little lost all the time is a way to learn to 'find' myself, it forces me to keep working out where I am, and, through the process of trial and error, I get better at it, and, while I am doing so, I become more acutely aware of my surroundings. Navigation becomes an instinctive, ongoing, nearly subconscious state, rather than an occasional, discreet, disjointed activity – when I rely on GPS for day to day navigation, I am depriving myself of learning opportunities, not developing my more rudimentary navigation skills, which, nevertheless, remain critical, because gadgets get broken or lost, batteries run out, signals get disrupted, etc.
It is tempting to think that I might, in fact, use that accurate information at my fingertips to learn inversely from it to achieve the same, i.e., that I can test my independent judgement against that referential knowledge. But in my personal experience at least this simply doesn't work. If I tell my brain 'you are here, where did you think you were?' it will invariably answer, 'I knew that, of course', but if I make it commit itself before hand, it will often be wrong, at which point I start analysing why it was wrong, so I can be right the next time.
So, does it make me safer? I think that is, in fact, a wrong question to ask. There are many things that, viewed on their own, make me safer; if I were to bring with me all the things that can make me safer, I'd need a caravan of Sherpas to accompany me each time I head for the hills. The questions that need to be asked instead are 'by what margin does it improve my safety?' and 'how good investment to improve the safety margin is it?'.
I have an inkling that when it comes to the GPS, the answers might well be 'small' and 'not the best' respectively. As long as I still have to be able to navigate competently when the batteries run out, then the gain is convenience, rather than safety margin. And in that case, would the same money spent on better waterproofs / boots / sleeping bag, or a course on using map and compass, not, in fact, provide a greater improvement to my safety margin?
I am also under no illusion that there are significant commercial pressures at play. Safety sells; safety products have naturally bigger profit margins. It is in the interest of the industry to make the GPS about safety. But when it comes to gadgets, I expect there are ones that score higher on the safety margin improvement scale. Why, for example, are we, in Scotland, not talking more about avalanche transceivers? There is a gadget with a proven track record (but with a smaller market …).
And so, I am back where I started; to me the GPS is little more than a way of sharing and following tracks, and at the end of the day, I don't want to turn into a haulier, I like being lost, a little bit at a time.


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Q: Finicky Inline SVG,  with  fails to display/render I pulled a tip from @codepen recently and trying my hand at more portable svg using <symbol/> and <use/>. Mostly it doesn't render but in some places it does. Consider:

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Where row is about 5 levels deep in the DOM (fwiw).
FF and Chrome refuse to render - I've checked ad-blockers are disabled, etc.
Opera happily renders.
I can pull "componentDiv" out into a bare-bones htmlboiler page and it will render.
I also tried locating the symbols block as a body > child with no effect.
Any thoughts?

A: Workaround:
Seems this FF, Chrome issue has affected many for some time.
My workaround simply involved sourcing the .svg on an  tag rather than the inline <svg/> block. Therein, the xling:href value changed.
From:
<svg>
<symbol id="symbol-id">...</symbol>
...
</svg>
<svg>
  <use xlink:href="#symbol-id></use>
</svg>

To:

<svg>
  <use xlink:href="path/to/svg-markup#symbol-id></use>
</svg>

A: I had a very similar problem, but there was a url() inside symbol, that was inside svg tag with the "display: none" style.
Possible workaround: use special rules set to hide the original svg tag instead of display: none:
.visuallyhidden {
  position: absolute;
  overflow: hidden;
  clip: rect(0 0 0 0);
  width: 1px;
  height: 1px;
  margin: -1px;
  padding: 0;
  border: 0;
}

Here is an example with two classes: try to change class "hidden" to "visuallyhidden": https://codepen.io/mcmimik/pen/RyXNQR

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A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed a top Pakistani police officer and one of his guards on Friday in the city of Peshawar, police said.
Additional Inspector General Ashraf Noor was leaving his home for work when the bomber rammed into his vehicle, city police chief Tahir Khan said.
Noor's vehicle was engulfed in flame, killing him on the spot, Khan said. One of his five guards died in hospital, the police chief said.
No group has officially claimed responsibility for the attack.
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi condemned the attack.
"Our resolve to eradicate the menace of terrorism can not be shaken," he said.
Peshawar is the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on the border with Afghanistan.


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Joey Essex's girlfriend: Who is Celebrity Ex on the Beach star Lorena Medina?
Joey Essex introduced his beautiful new girlfriend Lorena Medina to the world at the 25th anniversary of the National Television Awards – but who is the brunette beauty?
Joey Essex stepped onto the red carpet at the 25th anniversary of the National Television Awards with a beautiful lady in tow, who turns out to be the stunning Lorena Medina.
The 27-year-old brunette bombshell was pictured arm-in-arm with TOWIE star Joey Essex after the glamorous pair met on the latest instalment of Ex On The Beach – but who exactly is Lorena Medina?
Finding fame as a model
Before starring on the 2020 edition of Ex On The Beach, Lorena worked, and still works, as a singer and budding clairvoyant. She's originally from Mexico but since moved to Los Angeles.
Joey and his girlfriend Lorena met on the 2020 series of Ex On The Beach (Image: 2020 Mike Marsland)
Lorena's fame kicked into action after she was scouted for a modelling agency whilst working as a waitress. Now, she's represented by Elite Model Management Miami and No Ties Management.
Her shoots include ones with Playboy and Victoria's Secret.
NTAs 2020: Joey Essex says he's 'in love' with Ex On the Beach co-star Lorena Medina as pair pack on PDA
Joey Essex opens up on fall out with Dan Edgar as he blasts him for being untrustworthy
Lorena has 130,000 Instagram followers and regularly shares modelling shots on her feed. The beauty is evidently well-travelled, snapping photos in the likes of Venice, Mykonos and Ibiza, and is often posing in a bikini or lingerie.
During the NTAs, Lorena stepped out in a sensational mermaid-style Finique London green dress for her red carpet debut with beau Joey.
Lorena starred alongside her now boyfriend Joey Essex on Celebrity Ex On The Beach, which is airing this year.
It didn't take the couple long to find love on the show with Lorena and Joey hitting it off from the start and now the pair are in a long-distance relationship.
Inside Joey Essex's £1.6million home complete with huge pool and three dressing rooms as he's set to appear on new series of MTV Cribs
Joey recently showed Lorena around Essex, including a stop-off at his favourite restaurant, Sheesh.
Reality star Joey shared a video to his 1.6 million Instagram followers of the first day he met Lorena, captioned "love at first sight".
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"So tell me about you," Lorena says, and Joey replies: "Like I really, really feel that I want to commit someone now and share my life with someone. I want to find someone and I've just found you babe. I think this date has gone pretty well."
Celebrity Ex On The Beach stars open up on being joined by past lovers — EXCLUSIVE
Joey Essex and Ellie Brown open up on 'sour' reunion during Ex On The Beach filming — EXCLUSIVE
Joey continues: "Do you know what's really mad about me and you? It's so crazy that we only met about five hours ago. It's just obviously meant to be."
The couple then shared a passionate kiss, despite meeting only a few hours prior.
Joey told OK! online that he's "in love" with Lorena, saying: "We fell in love at first sight. Did you not watch the first episode? That was it. Game over... Except I won."
When asked whether he's in it for the long haul now, The Only Way Is Essex star replied: "Well yeah, I guess so."
Looking around, Joey emphasised how serious their relationship is by adding: "[We're] on the red carpet at the NTAs."


Human rights activists have criticised the British ambassador to Saudi Arabia after he was filmed in the recently besieged eastern province city of Awamiyah praising the government's defeat of "terrorists".
Awamiyah, located in the Shia-populated Qatif province, was the site of clashes between Saudi security forces and locals last year after attempts were made to demolish the historic Musawara district.
"This morning I am visiting Musawara in Awamiyah," said Simon Collis in the video, released on Twitter by the Saudi news site Al-Sharq Al-Awsat on Thursday, after he visited the area that morning.
"This is a place where the Saudi authorities defeated terrorists last year and where they have begun to rebuild the community."
He hailed the "investment" going on in the town as a sign that the community was being rebuilt following the siege.
"You can see that there's been problems here in the past, but that now there is a drive to renew the community based on the return of security to Awamiyah," he said.
"It's a pleasure to visit and to see this under the arrangements made by the Saudi authorities."
Ameen Nemer, a human rights activist originally from Awamiyah, said the ambassador was seeing "things through the Saudi authorities' eyes".
"It is disgraceful to sweep under the carpet the Saudi state violence," Nemer, who is now based in the UK, told Middle East Eye.
"The problems in Awamiyah can't be solved by taking security measures or through some artificial investment.
"There are many peaceful activists behind bars since 2011. Security presence and raids are still ongoing in Awamiayh. We need a political solution."
Although the Saudi government said that builders and security services had come under fire from armed groups, dozens of civilians were killed in fighting in the town, including a three-year-old boy who died after a Saudi armoured vehicle fired on his family car, according to locals.
As many as 30,000 people were thought to have fled, while essential services were prevented from entering the town.
Dozens of people are thought to be in hiding since the siege, fearing execution by the Saudi authorities. Locals reportedly avoid leaving their homes and face regular harassment from security forces.
Last August, Saudi Arabia announced that the redevelopment of Musawara would include a "public market, heritage shops, heritage area, cultural centre, public library, gymnasium, cafeterias, restaurants and halls".
But both locals and international bodies have criticised the "renovation" of the 400-year-old district.
In April 2017, the United Nations called on the Saudi government to halt the project, warning that it threatened "the historical and cultural heritage of the town with irreparable harm".
"Residents have been pressured in many ways, including through power cuts, to vacate their homes and businesses without adequate alternative resettlement options, leaving them at best with insufficient compensation and at worst, with nowhere to go," said the UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Leilani Farha.
Nemer said the demolition of Musawara was "cultural cleansing".
Awamiyah was originally home to the popular Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr who led protests against the Saudi government, calling for more personal freedoms and an end to discrimination against the kingdom's Shia minority.
Nimr was arrested and then executed on 2 January 2016 for "terrorism" offences.
The town has long been a flashpoint for protests against the Saudi family, especially following Nimr's execution.
Hundreds have been executed in Saudi Arabia in recent years, despite the ascension to power of self-proclaimed reformer Mohammed bin Salman.
According to Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia executed 146 people in 2017, representing 17 percent of all confirmed executions in the Middle East for that year.


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Building Bridges: Canadian Volunteers and Schools in Need
In 2006, Afghan educator Ehsan Ullah spoke with Toronto Star reporter Mitch Potter about the struggles he faced educating Afghan women in Kandahar. He described the fear the female students felt while attending school, and the threats that he himself had faced for daring to help women receive an education. He said, "We have hope, but it is fading."
Potter's article, Behind the Burqa, had a profound impact on Ottawa residents Ryan Aldred and Andrea Caverly. The pair reached out to Ehsan and asked how they could help. Though they had only intended to make a modest donation, Ryan and Andrea were so inspired by Ehsan's passion and dedication that they agreed to help him found a new school to help provide a safe and secure place for women to receive an education.
The new partnership quickly provided results. The Afghan-Canadian Community Center opened its doors to women in January 2007. There were no signs to mark its presence, and only a small group of students knew of its existence. But those students eagerly spread word of this small school in residential Kandahar, and soon it was packed with Afghan women eager to learn.
Ryan and Andrea, along with a small group of friends, founded the Afghan School Project (www.theafghanschool.org) to provide further support to the school. With the generosity of donors in Canada and computers provided by the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team, the school continued to grow and thrive. With the help of the Afghan School Project, women at the ACCC were enrolled in online business management studies with the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.
Within a few months, the school had grown from a handful of people to over three hundred students. The business management and computing courses were in high demand with international organizations and local businesses, and many of the students received jobs soon after they enrolled.
At the request of the community, the school soon established an evening program for local men who would pay what they could to attend. A local Maulvi (religious leader) enrolled his daughter in the school, and then his son, and then himself. Before long, so many students wanted to attend school at the ACCC that the small house in residential Kandahar was at capacity and Ehsan was forced to turn students away.
Their hopes for a larger building were answered when the Government of Canada approved a capacity-building grant for the school through the CIDA-administered Kandahar Local Initiatives Program. With these funds, the ACCC was able to hire more teachers and move to a 15-room facility in an even safer area of the city. No longer hidden, word of the ACCC continued to spread, and hundreds more students have enrolled since then. At the same time, a growing number of talented, dedicated volunteers have joined the Afghan School Project.
The ACCC enjoyed sustained growth over several years and now provides skills education to over 1,500 students, the majority of whom are women. In late 2012, the U.S. State Department announced a new development grant and as part of its mission to entrench itself as a local institution, the ACCC changed its name to the Kandahar Institute of Modern Studies (KIMS).
In January 2009, Ryan Aldred, Andrea Caverly and the dedicated volunteers of the Afghan School Project founded the Canadian International Learning Foundation, a registered Canadian charity which provides and promotes education for students in areas affected by war, poverty and illness.
The Canadian International Learning Foundation has rapidly grown to more than 40 volunteers with a wide range of skills and experience. From high school students to Project Managers with Research in Motion, we are united in our belief that education for those who need it most can build a more peaceful and prosperous world for us all – and that we can all play a very important role in bringing education to those in need. Our second project began in late 2009, and has already proven highly successful.
We are proud of what we've done to support the Kandahar Institute of Modern Studies and the Kabira Adult Attention and School of Orphans and look forward to helping offer the same opportunities to students in need around the world.


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Ukraine reinforces its Azov and Black Sea border guards with Special Forces
Friday, September 14, 2018 12:00:00 PM
Ukrainian border guards working in the waters of the Azov and Black Seas will be reinforced with Naval Special Forces, said Head of the State Border Service of Ykraine (SBSU) Petro Tsyhykal, reported the press service of the SBSU.
Tsyhykal explained that apart from law enforcement responsibilities, the Border Service's task is to strengthen efforts in the east of the country in response to Russia's actions, including in the waters of the Azov and Black Seas.
"I think we will have about a thousand Special Forces personnel by the end of the year. We are strengthening the efforts of the naval Special Forces, and about 270 people will serve in the units in the Azov and Black Seas," Tsyhykal said. "We should understand that the aggressor, so to say, is not sleeping; he is strengthening his forces and we should give an adequate response," he added.
This week, the Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, Serhiy Popko spoke about strengthening the military presence in the Azov Sea. He also explained that the decision was a response to "the aggressive actions of Russia in the Azov Sea." The Commander specified that the group is strengthening in order "to ensure full control of the situation in the region" and "to ensure a decent defense of the sea coast."
Kyiv decided to strengthen its forces after disputes with Russia in this region escalated. The situation worsened in March when Ukrainian border guards detained the Crimean-registered ship Nord and accused the crew of violating the Ukrainian border because Kyiv considers the peninsula its "temporarily annexed territory."
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God responded to Moses' prayer.
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Topson Downs today announced that it has purchased a majority share of the Rachel Roy brand. Under the terms of the agreement, Topson Downs, a privately-held apparel and manufacturing company, will form a partnership to develop, market and license the New York-based fashion brand Rachel Roy. Topson Downs will relaunch the Rachel Roy designer brand and expand upon the contemporary RACHEL Rachel Roy collection. In the agreement Ms. Roy will retain 100 percent creative control of her name.
Ms. Roy launched her eponymous luxury brand in spring of 2004. The debut collection featured a modern assortment of chic, ready-to-wear staples. Pieces such as the classic trench, perfect blouse and easy, day-to-night dresses were touchstones of a vision Ms. Roy built upon season after season. In 2009 Ms. Roy launched contemporary line RACHEL Rachel Roy in an exclusive partnership with the Impulse Division of Macy's, which features apparel, shoes and jewelry that embody the same effortless point-of-view as her namesake line. Off the runway, Ms. Roy is a tastemaker in her own right, having topped international best dressed lists, as well as earning membership into the Council of Fashion Directors (CFDA) in 2007. Her work has also been recognized by the Accessories Council - in 2010 she won Best Brand Launch at its annual ACE Awards. Ms. Roy is a favorite designer of the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama as well as countless powerful women, such as Oprah Winfrey, Iman, Sharon Stone and Diane Sawyer. She's also been a permanent judge on the "Project Runway" spin-off show, "Under the Gunn" with Tim Gunn.
The Rachel Roy brand will continue its close partnership with Macy's, via the RACHEL Rachel Roy collection.
"We look forward to strengthening our close relationship with Rachel Roy, and to the continued development of a very successful RACHEL Rachel Roy brand sold exclusively at Macy's," said Jeff Gennette, president of Macy's, Inc. "Rachel is an extraordinarily talented designer with a creative vision that resonates with the Macy's customer. She and her team are committed to defining a style that is fresh and differentiated. We are confident that the RACHEL Rachel Roy brand will excel in the context of the Topson Downs organization."
Denise Johnston has been named president of Rachel Roy and RACHEL Rachel Roy. Ms. Johnston will oversee all aspects of the lines, including growth and future licensing opportunities. She has over 25 years experience running iconic companies such as Liz Claiborne, Emma James, Jack Rogers and Gap Adult North America. Her extensive background in both wholesale and retail has been cultivated from early management positions at Macy's, Neiman Marcus and Dayton Hudson.
Based in Los Angeles, Calif., Topson Downs is a global leader in the apparel and manufacturing industry. Over the last 42 years it has built a roster of independent fashion brands and private label collections that ship to major retailers internationally, such as Macy's, Nordstrom, Bloomingdales, Target, Walmart and Kohl's. With its strong network of retail partners and a vast global infrastructure, it maintains an unparalleled standard in production and quality control. Its core values remain the same since 1971, centering on quality, sustainability and community.


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China"s latest trainer aircraft, delivered recently to the People"s Liberation Army Navy, is expected to help improve the training of pilots based on aircraft carriers.
The PLA Navy said in a statement last week that its Naval Aviation University in Shandong province had held a commissioning ceremony for a new type of trainer jet at an unidentified naval airport along the Bohai Sea.
The statement said the aircraft is a third-generation trainer jet developed by the Aviation Industry Corp of China"s Hongdu Aviation Industry Group in Nanchang, Jiangxi province.
Rear Admiral Wang Jundong, political commissar of the university, was quoted in the statement as saying at the ceremony that the service of the new trainer jet will complement the university"s trainer fleet and enable pilots to get more realistic experience for air combat.
Though the statement did not identify the new aircraft, pictures published by the university showed that it is a Hongdu Aviation Industry L-15 advanced trainer jet. At least 12 L-15s were delivered at the ceremony.
According to AVIC, a leading aircraft maker in the country, the domestically developed L-15 has two engines, a streamlined aerodynamic design and integrated avionics.
The L-15 has two types - one for advanced jet training and the other for lead-in fighter training, the State-owned defense giant said.
Trainer jets for advanced application teach student pilots how to operate supersonic aircraft and how to carry out sophisticated aerial maneuvers, while those for lead-in fighter training are enhanced versions of advanced jet models and focus on familiarizing trainees with combat maneuvers and skills.
AVIC also noted that the L-15 has a maximum speed of 1,200 kilometers per hour and a maximum flight range of 2,600 km.
Before the L-15, the PLA Navy lacked a third-generation trainer aircraft, so it had to rely on its second-generation JJ-7 trainer jet and that aircraft"s upgraded version, the JL-9, to conduct advanced training for student pilots.
Currently, a Navy flight student will fly the CJ-6 pistonengine basic trainer, followed by the JL-8 intermediate trainer jet. When pilots begin the advanced training stage, both the JJ-7 and JL-9 will be used to simulate real fighter aircraft.
Wang Ya"nan, editor-in-chief of Aerospace Knowledge magazine, said the use of the L-15 will help shorten the time required for Navy aviators" training before they become qualified to operate modern fighter jets. The trainer jet will be especially useful for carrier-based pilots, Wang said.
"The L-15 has advanced design and equipment, and its capabilities are very close to those of a genuine fighter jet. Compared with its predecessors, it is more suitable for carrier-based pilots" flight training," Wang said.
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To the Stars is a 2019 American drama film directed by Martha Stephens from a screenplay by Shannon Bradley-Colleary. It stars Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Shea Whigham, Jordana Spiro, Lucas Jade Zumann, Adelaide Clemens, Malin Åkerman and Tony Hale.

It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2019. It was  released on April 24, 2020, by Samuel Goldwyn Films.

Plot
Iris Deerborne is a teenager living in a rural Oklahoma town in 1960.  The shy and mousey Iris is emotionally abused by her mother Francie, who wishes her daughter were more glamorous.  At school she is bullied by many of the other kids, especially Clarissa Dell, the popular but insecure "queen bee" of the school.  Iris shares a mutual attraction with Jeff Owings, a fellow student who works for her father, but is too shy to act on her feelings.  Iris frequently sneaks out at night to swim in a local pond, wishing that she could "disappear".

One day, while walking to school, Iris is accosted by several boys.  They are chased off by Maggie Richmond, a new girl in town who throws rocks at them until they leave.  At school the other girls are intrigued by the conventionally pretty Maggie who piques their interest by telling them her father is a glamorous photographer for Life magazine who has photographed movie stars and dignitaries.  That night, Iris finds Maggie swimming in the pond.  Maggie admits that her father is not a glamour photographer, but instead works for an agricultural trade publication.  When Maggie returns home, her stern father beats her for being out late.  The family had moved to this small town to escape trouble caused by Maggie's behavior in the past.

Iris and Maggie become fast friends and Maggie has them skip school so they can get makeovers, including new hairdos from the local stylist Hazel Atkins.  Iris' new looks and more confident attitude begin to gain her more acceptance from the girls in her school, most of whom are obsessed with finding dates to the upcoming school dance.  At the dance, Iris finally gets the nerve to dance with Jeff, surprising the rest of the girls.  Later, Maggie's family is thrilled to find out that she has been asked to the prom by popular football player Craig Butler.  Maggie's mother takes her out dress shopping for the occasion.  Maggie then visits Hazel Atkins for a new hairdo.  Maggie learns that the photograph which everyone believes to be Hazel's dead husband is really her brother.  After sharing a tender moment, Hazel sensually touches Maggie's cheek.  Maggie warms to Hazel's touch, but suddenly flees.  She finds Craig Butler and has sex with him that night by the pond.  Afterwards, a distraught Maggie goes to see Iris, and drunkenly kisses her before apologizing and running away.

The next day, Iris learns that Craig has given Maggie a promise ring.  Maggie invites the other girls and their dates to go skinny dipping in the pond, angering Iris who considered the pond their special place.  Iris and Maggie have a big fight, where Iris accuses Maggie of lying to everyone else and not being herself.  Maggie, in turn, derides Iris with the "stinky drawers" nickname the other kids bullied her with.  Ashamed of what she's done and the people she's with, Maggie flees to Hazel's house.  The two kiss and Maggie enters.  Late that night, one of the girls comes by Hazel's to pick up a hair product meant for her mother.  Through the window curtains she sees Hazel and Maggie having sex.  She hurries home hysterically and tells her parents.  The lesbian behavior between Hazel and Maggie quickly circulates among the locals.  A group of men vandalize Hazel's car, threaten her, and she leaves town.  Maggie's father beats her again, then breaks down in tears over his idealized image of his daughter.  Maggie apologizes to her parents, tells them that they won't have to worry about her anymore and flees into the night.

The next morning, Iris learns about what happened.  She finds Maggie's father and the police by the pond, a place locally known as the site where Jeff's mother committed suicide.  A distraught Gerald Richmond asks Iris to tell Maggie to come home and that he doesn't care about her being "bad" anymore.  Iris stands up for Maggie and tells him that she was never "bad".  The police are unable to find Maggie, either alive or dead.  When a group of boys harass Iris on the road again, she throws stones at them to chase them off, just like Maggie did.  When she hears her mother gossiping with a friend, Iris insists that Maggie isn't dead, and that she has fled far beyond the reach of the narrow minded townsfolk.  She then informs her mother that she is going on her first date with a boy.  Iris and Jeff kiss by the pond and then go swimming.

Cast
 Kara Hayward as Iris Deerborne
 Liana Liberato as Maggie Richmond
 Jordana Spiro as Francie Deerborne
 Shea Whigham as Hank Deerborne
 Malin Åkerman as Grace Richmond
 Tony Hale as Gerald Richmond
 Lucas Jade Zumann as Jeff Owings
 Adelaide Clemens as Hazel Atkins
 Madisen Beaty as Clarissa Dell
 Sophi Bairley as Hattie McCoy
 Lauren Ashley Stephenson as Rhonda Robertson
 Matt Coulson as Craig Butler

Production
In June 2018, it was announced Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato,  Malin Åkerman, Shea Whigham, Tony Hale, Lucas Jade Zumann, Adelaide Clemens and Jordana Spiro had joined the cast of the film, with Martha Stephens directing from a screenplay by Shannon Bradley-Colleary. Kristin Mann, Laura D. Smith, Erik Rommesmo, Carlos Cuscò, Emerson Machtus, Kerri Elder and Black Elder will serve as producers and executive producers, respectively, under their Northern Lights Films, Foton Pictures and Rockhill Media banners, respectively.

Filming
Principal photography concluded in June 2018, in Oklahoma. The film was shot simultaneously in Black and White and Color.

Release
It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2019. In October 2019, Samuel Goldwyn Films acquired distribution rights to the film. It was released on April 24, 2020.

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of  based on  reviews, with an average rating of . The site's critical consensus reads, "Its reach may occasionally exceed its grasp, but To the Stars uses its period setting as an effective backdrop for an insightful look at female friendship." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 60 out of 100, based on reviews from 15 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

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2019 films
2019 drama films
2019 independent films
2019 LGBT-related films
2010s American films
2010s coming-of-age drama films
2010s English-language films
American coming-of-age drama films
American independent films
American teen LGBT-related films
Lesbian-related films
Films set in 1961
Films directed by Martha Stephens
Samuel Goldwyn Films films

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What is Arts Twenty Thirty?
Arts Twenty Thirty is a flagship initiative of SDSN Youth that brings together artists from around the world, with a common goal to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through the use of music, literature, visual arts, theater, and dance, Arts Twenty Thirty offers unique perspectives and solutions towards today's most pressing global challenges.
How does Arts Twenty Thirty work?
Through our online network, Arts Twenty Thirty artists can exchange ideas, share lessons learned, and offer opportunities to collaborate, using art to work express the many aspects of sustainable development.
We then showcase selected pieces online and at international events to promote local discussion, learning, and action on the SDGs.
From Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to Picasso's Guernica, the arts have been used to impart humankind's morals, values, and condemned injustices, and expressed new perspectives on society's well-being. The SDGs are the world's most comprehensive way to achieve economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. By blending rational and emotional expression, the arts serve as the ideal medium to convey the SDGs and inspire audiences to take action.
Arts Twenty Thirty was launched at Columbia University during the International Conference for Sustainable Development (ICSD).
Since then, Arts Twenty Thirty artists have performed at the Vatican Youth Symposium, the VII Congreso Universidad y Cooperación al Desarrollo in Madrid, the European Arts Forum in Brussels, and the Inovasi Summit in Indonesia.
How can you support the Arts Twenty Thirty Initiative?
Arts Twenty Thirty recognizes the power of the private sector and individuals in actualizing its overarching vision to use art to communicate the SDGs and inspire global audiences to take action towards a more sustainable future. As the initiative grows, Arts Twenty Thirty will engage people from different walks of life with passion and zeal to make a change, linking inspired audiences with the practical efforts behind the 17 SDGs, to turn emotion into impact. You or your organization can support Arts Twenty Thirty in any of the following ways: join the Network, host an event, submit a piece of art, corporate sponsorship, media patron, or as individual patron.


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Posted on February 7, 2017 by morrowcountysentinel
Highland's Denton off to URI
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By Rob Hamilton - MCSSports@civitasmedia.com
Satchel Denton of Highland (center) signs his letter of intent to play football for the University of Rhode Island. Sitting with him are his parents, Krista (l) and Mike Denton.
Rob Hamilton | Morrow County Sentinel
While Satchel Denton's college search took a long time, when the University of Rhode Island entered the picture, the Highland senior quickly decided that was where he would continue his athletic and academic careers.
Denton noted that one day, the Ram coaching staff invited him up to see a game and then he was offered on the way back home. Since he liked the campus and area, it was an easy choice.
"It reminds me a lot of Ohio," he said. "I thought it'd be harbors and fish, but it's so rural."
Denton, a standout kicker and punter for the Highland football team who will punt for Rhode Island, noted it was a lot more difficult getting to that point.
"It was a very long search that started my freshman year," he said. "It looked like I was going to Toledo, but their coaches went to Iowa State, so that was out of the picture. After that, I went to every MAC school."
Denton had the opportunity to wind up competing at the FCS level of Division I due to putting in a lot of work over several years at kicking. While most kickers at smaller, rural schools are position players helping out on special teams, he's specialized in that role for the Scots over the past four years. He said that he played soccer as a youth, but eventually moved on to football.
"I played soccer until seventh grade," he said. "And then thought I might as well give football a try. I hooked up with Tim Williams (former Ohio State kicker), who coached me up to where I am today."
As a result, Denton found himself get invited to various kicking camps, which also got his name out to prospective colleges, as did his success with the Scots. As a placekicker, he has the school record of a 47-yard field goal. As a punter, he notes that he has hit 70-yard punts and feels he can average 40-45.
One thing he is confident in is that he'll put in the necessary work to be a valuable member of the Rhode Island team, adding that being on a team with coaches dedicated to the kicking game will do nothing but help him down the road.
"I've always liked working hard and getting better," he said. "With kicking, you either know it or you don't, so it'll be exciting to have a coach who really knows about it."
The Highland athlete has a lot of fond memories of his time with the Scots after finishing his football career as a three-time first-team All-Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference pick.
"Definitely my teammates," he said when asked what he'd miss about high school. "I have good friends and it basically will be tough not seeing them for a while."
While at Rhode Island, Denton has hopes of progressing as a punter enough to reach the NFL, but is planning to major in education, noting he would prefer to teach physical education or history in high school, while also coaching.
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2017/02/web1_satcheldenton.jpgSatchel Denton of Highland (center) signs his letter of intent to play football for the University of Rhode Island. Sitting with him are his parents, Krista (l) and Mike Denton. Rob Hamilton | Morrow County Sentinel
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Dr Polina Baum-Talmor
Faculty of Sport, Health and Social Sciences
polina.baum-talmor@solent.ac.uk 023 8201 6145 ext. 6145 Room no. RM121
Polina is a postdoctoral researcher in social sciences, with a particular focus on employment in the shipping industry, in Solent's Faculty of Sport, Health, and Social Sciences.
She completed a PhD project (2018) entitled: 'Careers and Labour Market Flexibility in Global Industries: The case of seafarers', which focuses on the flexibilisation of labour among seafarers. Part of the SIRC-Nippon fellowship (2012-2016), Polina was generously funded by the Nippon Foundation throughout her studies in Cardiff. Polina also holds an MA in Anthropology (2012) from the University of Haifa, obtained by completing a written dissertation entitled: 'From sea to shore: An ethnographic account of seafaring experience'. Additionally, she completed a BA in Sociology, Anthropology and Human Resources (2009) at the University of Haifa and a PGDip in SSRM (Social Sciences Research Methods 2013) from Cardiff University.
She developed a genuine interest in seafarers after finishing her BA, which almost led to her joining the maritime industry as a Merchant Navy officer. However, her eagerness to pursue an academic education as well as contribute to seafarers' welfare resulted in Polina embarking on the study of seafarers as her main research subject.
Polina is an associate fellow at the Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC), Cardiff University; and a research associate at the Haifa Research Center for Maritime Policy and Strategy, University of Haifa, Israel.
Polina speaks Russian, Hebrew and English and has basic knowledge of Spanish and Arabic.
Polina is a guest lecturer on several courses in sociology and maritime studies, including 'Big Questions in Sociology' (2019/20, 2020/21), 'Contemporary Issues in Social Sciences' (2019/20, 2020/21), 'Sociological Imagination' (2019/20, 2020/21'), and 'Maritime Management and Operations' (2018/19, 2019/20).
Polina's research interests include:
The shift from bureaucratic to flexible employment in the global labour market, focusing on recruitment, training, and retention of employees.
Skills transferability - intra-occupational, cross-sector and intra-sector transferability of skills.
Various aspects of employment in the global shipping industry, especially concerning the global labour force of seafarers, for example precarious employment among seafarers and multinational work environments.
Qualitative research methods, including ethnography, participant/non-participant observation and semi-structured interviews (individual and group interviews).
Qualitative data analysis, including the use of CAQDAS (Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software), eg, Nvivo, atlas.ti.
Food on board ships (excluding cruise ships).
The impact of globalisation on precarious employment.
View Polina's LinkedIn profile
Follow the link below to see a list of Polina's recent publications.
Baum-Talmor, P. (in press). Careers at sea: Exploring Seafarer Motivations and Aspirations. World of the Seafarer (Book), edited by Gekara, V. and Sampson, H. (Open Access)
Kitada, M. and Baum-Talmor, P. (2019) Maritime Digitisation and Its Impact on Seafarers' Employment from a Career Perspective. Conference proceedings from the 20th Annual General Assembly (AGA) of the International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU), October 2019, Tokyo, Japan. (Submitted on 1 July 2019) Published as conference proceedings for the IAMU conference, MK is the corresponding author, pp. 259-267.
Baum-Talmor, P. (2019). It's okay even if you are a spy: Issues in researcher positioning on board a cargo ship, Journal of Organizational Ethnography. Manuscript accepted for publication on 1 November 2019, published online 25 November 2019, Type: Research Article, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-12-2018-0047, ISSN: 2046-6749. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, vol. 9, issue 1.
Baum-Talmor, P. (2018). Careers and Labour Market Flexibility in Global Industries: The Case of Seafarers. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/109438/ (Available online, as of 8/4/2019 the thesis was downloaded 307 times).
Baum-Talmor, P. (2014). From sea to shore: Ethnographic account of seafarers' experience on-board merchant ships. Sage Cases in Methodology, 17. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/978144627305013508492.Baum-Talmor, P. (2012). From Sea to Shore: An Ethnographic Account of Seafaring Experience. (Masters of Arts Dissertation), University of Haifa, Haifa. https://www.academia.edu/10513171/From_Sea_to_Shore_An_Ethnographic_Account_of_Seafaring_Experience_Hebrew
Conference papers, guest lectures and invited talks
Polina has contributed to a number of conference papers, guest lectures and has been invited to speak on a number of occasions. Follow the link below to find out more.
Adventures on the High Seas: Researching the Shipping Industry. Invited talk as a guest lecturer International Trade and Commercial Law for Dr Pengfei Zhang, Warsash School of Maritime Science and Engineering, Solent University, 6 November 2018.
Until Death Us Do Part: Seafaring as a Lifelong Occupation? Invited as a key speaker in a seminar for Nautical Institute Members, Nautical Institute – Plymouth Branch, Plymouth University, Plymouth, 16 January 2018.
Adventures and Misadventures on the High Seas: Researching the Shipping Industry. Invited as a key speaker in a seminar for students, Nautical Institute – Plymouth Branch, Plymouth University, Plymouth, 16 January 2018.
'Until Death Us Do Part': Seafaring as a Lifelong Occupation? (Image Presented). In: Images of Research Competition. Cardiff University, Cardiff, 12 December 2017.
Pulling the ship's weight safely ashore. (Image Presented). In: Images of Research Competition. Cardiff University, Cardiff, 6 December 2016.
For Better and for worse: Seafaring as a career for life? In: Liverpool Management School Annual Ethnography Symposium. UWE (University of West England), Bristol, 26 August 2016.
(Mis)adventures in the field: Reflections on Risk management in Social Research (with Llangco, M.O.S.). In: Breaking Boundaries conference. Cardiff University, Cardiff, 21 April 2016.
(Mis)adventures in the field: Reflections on Risk management in Social Research. In: Postgraduate Café annual conference (with Llangco, M.O.S.). Cardiff University, Cardiff, 5 May 2016.
'Even if you are a spy…': Some challenges in researcher's positioning aboard a cargo ship. In: 10th Annual Symposium on Current Developments in Ethnographic Research in the Social and Management Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, 25-26 August 2015.
A Storm is brewing: Life on board continues despite rough seas (Image Presented). In: Images of Research Competition. Cardiff University, Cardiff, 3 December 2015.
'Sailing through life at sea: Physical and emotional aspects of seafarers' welfare'. British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA), 3rd BUIRA PhD Symposium, Cardiff University, Cardiff, 5-6 November 2015.


This is the collaboration that many of us didn't even know we needed – but it makes all the sense seeing as Bruno is a huge fan of Janet's and has been influenced by her work for years.
Janet – who recently delivered her first live TV performance in over nine years at the Billboards Music Award – is in the studio recording her next album and is enlisting the help of the 24k Magic hitmaker, our source tells us.
The insider exclusively told Metro.co.uk that Bruno was over the moon when he found out his icon was a fan of his work.
The source said: 'The pair have been friends for a while but decided now is the perfect time for them to collaborate after catching up at the Billboard Music Awards.
'Bruno was raised on Janet's music and was floored when he found out that she was a fan.
Janet, who recently revealed Bruno's music is the first her one-year-old son Eissa connected with, currently lives in London and is expected to record the single with the singer in the city with Grammy Award-winning producing duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
'Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are to produce and it's set to be a single,' the source added.
Janet made her a triumphant return to the public eye with her appearance at the Billboards on 20 May, where she picked up the Icon Award – becoming the first black female artist to do so.
After making a speech which called out domestic abuse and solidified her support for the #MeToo movement, the 52-year-old returned to the main stage to perform after Bruno's introduction.
Performing a mash-up of some of her biggest hits, Janet kicked things off with a rendition of her 1986 song Nasty – with her family members, including mother Katherine and nephew Prince Michael, shown on screen at various points during the performance proudly beaming up at the singer.
She then performed If and Throb – both of which featured on her self-titled fifth studio album – to round off a stellar return to from the younger sister of the late singer Michael Jackson.
Heartbreak ahead for Robert and Aaron in Emmerdale?
The Poetic Justice actor's swagger and confidence on stage made for a welcome return to the stage after a lengthy period away – and hopefully, a collab from Bruno will add to the sparkle.
Metro.co.uk have contacted reps for a comment.


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