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The Computer Is Your Friend
Dylan Greene
Paranoia's rebooted edition a darkly comedic dystopian romp.
While tabletop roleplaying games are often known for being about heroic adventurers or Lovecraftian horrors, there's a lesser-known game that plays more like the film Brazil or goofier versions of dystopian novels like 1984 and Brave New World. That game, Paranoia, recently received a redesign under the name Paranoia: Red Clearance Edition. I finally managed to get around to playing it.
From reading the main rulebook, one can immediately tell that the rules were designed with a twisted sense of humor. The game outright encourages backstabbing and infighting, overseen by the oppressive (Friend) Computer. Players assume the role of Troubleshooters, who are often tasked with dealing with treasonous activities in the dystopian Alpha Complex. In earlier editions of the game, communists were Alpha Complex's most feared menace. But, true to the modern anxieties of a post 9/11 world, terrorism is the Computer's biggest concern.
In Paranoia, the GameMaster will often take on the voice of the Computer, which also interfaces with the players' Cereberal Coretech modules. In a way, Paranoia is a lot like a video game, offering a glowing yellow waypoint arrow and even a lives system—should a player's clone die, another will appear in their place. Players often end up fighting over the computer's favor, which the game actively encourages.
This game is more of a light-hearted diversion than an epic narrative. It does not substitute for games with more staying power such as Fate Core, Dungeons & Dragons, or Pathfinder. Then again, it doesn't try to. It does not offer the same sense of adventure or fantasy that other games can. But it does offer a darkly humorous take on roleplaying, one that manages to remain timely and enjoyable in our own modern world.
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All readership studies assess the relative worth of one vehicle vs. another and the publishers use the data in many creative ways to market their publication in relation to another. However, all readership studies also collect a fair amount of data to facilitate inter-media comparisons. Hence, theoretically this data can also be used to promote press as a whole, in relation to other media. This is often the need as press as a whole needs to defend itself in the face of onslaughts from television and now the growing juggernaut of internet. This paper demonstrates the use of data from the Indian National Readership Study (NRS) to serve precisely this purpose – i.e. to promote press in relation to competing media or to derive marketing implications to promote press as a whole. It illustrates the findings with an actual campaign run by a leading Indian language daily to establish its strong competitive edge against television and other media.


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WASHINGTON - In a major setback to U.S. efforts to attract military help in Iraq, a Turkish official said Tuesday his country won't send peacekeeping troops without a significant change in the situation there. That makes it virtually certain the United States will have to send thousands more U.S. reservists early next year.
No additional countries have contributed forces in Iraq since the United Nations Security Council approved a new resolution last month. Bush administration officials had hoped the U.N. action would persuade reluctant allies to send more forces.
Turkey had been the best hope. But Turkey's ambassador to the United States, Osman Faruk Logoglu, said his country will not send troops without an explicit invitation from the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council - some of whose members have vigorously opposed the idea.
The ambassador said it was up to the Americans to press the Iraqi council to make the invitation - a move he said the United States seems unwilling to make.
"We felt that the Coalition Provisional Authority and also officials here in Washington could have probably persuaded the Iraqi Governing Council earlier on this issue," Mr. Logoglu said.
A spokesman for the American-led authority in Iraq, Dan Senor, did not return a telephone message. State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said the United States still believes Turkish troops would make a valuable contribution and that U.S. officials continue talks on the issue.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said more international forces would help ease the burden on the 132,000 American troops in Iraq. Right now, there are about 23,000 other troops from more than 30 countries.
Pentagon officials say an infusion of thousands more international troops could prompt a reduction in the number of U.S. forces - although Mr. Rumsfeld said last month that any Turkish troops probably would not be in place soon enough to affect the Pentagon's current troop rotation plans.
Under those plans, about 15,000 Army National Guard troops have been mobilized for possible service in Iraq beginning early next year, to replace weary active-duty troops who have been there nearly a year.
The newly mobilized troops are members of National Guard brigades from Arkansas, North Carolina and Washington state who are intended to combine with fresh active-duty troops.
In addition, the Pentagon might need to call up even more reservists in support units if Turkey or other countries don't end up sending troops, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers said recently.
U.S. officials have ruled out the idea of increasing overall U.S. troop numbers in Iraq, instead saying they will speed up the process of getting trained Iraqi security forces into the streets to deal with an increasingly sophisticated and deadly insurgency.
They also have ruled out the idea of recalling Iraq's previous army, as some Iraqi officials want, the chief security adviser to the U.S.-led occupation said in an Associated Press interview Tuesday.
Walter Slocombe said he could foresee such a recall leading to "mobs of people" responding simply to collect pay in a country where many are searching for jobs.
American officials had pressed Turkey, the only majority Muslim nation in NATO, to approve sending up to 10,000 troops. Turkey's parliament voted last month to allow troops to join the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, Turkey's neighbor to the southeast.
But progress stalled because of opposition from some members of the Iraqi Governing Council, particularly Iraqi Kurds, one of whom now serves as the council's president. Turkey has fought since 1984 with independence-minded Kurdish militants and continues to station thousands of troops just inside Iraq's northern border.
Public opinion in Turkey also remains strongly against the U.S.-led war in Iraq or sending troops to assist in the occupation, Mr. Logoglu said. He said some Turkish officials are relieved about the impasse, since it has postponed - perhaps indefinitely - the politically unpopular move of actually sending troops.
Turkey rejected U.S. overtures last winter to allow American troops to invade northern Iraq through Turkey. Logoglu said Turkish officials now recognize they missed an opportunity to help shape postwar Iraq.
"I think we would have been in a more effective position, a more influential position in Iraq had we allowed U.S. troops to go into Iraq through Turkey, but all is not lost," Mr. Logoglu said.
L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. diplomat who heads the American authority in Iraq, said Saturday that the issue of Turkish peacekeepers was between Turkey and the Iraqi governing council.
Turkey doesn't see it that way, Mr. Logoglu said.
"For whatever reason, this (Bush) administration saw fit not to put too much counterweight on the Iraqi Governing Council," Mr. Logoglu said. "If the U.S. perception of the need for Turkish troops in Iraq changes, then perhaps that could change."

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Grazing Resources - Management
The Production And Management Of Annual Pasture Legumes I...
E.D. Carter, R.G. Porter, M.H. Ababneh, F. Squella, F.N. Muyekho and R. Valizadeh
Department of Plant Science, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond SA 5064
Summary. Research work based at the Waite Institute has shown the dominance of management factors rather than species and cultivar effects in the production and survival of annual pasture legumes in ley farming systems. Management practices determine herbage and seed production, consumption of seed by grazing sheep in summer and autumn, the burial of pasture legume seed by tillage for the cereal crop and regeneration of legumes following a cropping sequence.
Australia has some 40 million ha of crop and sown pasture lands that rely on introduced legumes to maintain or improve levels of soil nitrogen and to guarantee the quality and quantity of livestock feed. These legumes, mainly the annual self-regenerating medics (Medicago spp.) and clovers (Trifoliwn spp.) are worth at least US$2,500 million each year to the crop and livestock industries (2). While these legumes are normally a renewable resource, in recent years many legume stands have deteriorated from poor grazing management, new pasture pests and other causes (13).
Ten years ago Carter et (4, 13) drew attention to the very serious decline in the standard of legume pastures in the cereal farming districts of southern Australia. Yet there has been little improvement in most districts because of the disproportionate emphasis on selecting and breeding new cultivars of clovers and medics and far too little attention devoted to management issues. Our research on the soil reserves of pasture legume seeds and the seed-seedling dynamics of medic and subterranean clover pastures has highlighted the impact of sheep grazing, tillage and other farm management practices in depleting seed reserves of medics and clovers on/in the soil in cereal crop - pasture - livestock farming systems. Improving cereal belt pastures depends on improving the legume status of these pastures; if good legume seed reserves are maintained, other problems will decline. Hence our research on annual pasture legumes is seed orientated. Better legume pastures in the cereal-pasture rotation can minimise the incidence of cereal root diseases and maximise nitrogen fixation thereby improving wheat and barley yields and profitability.
Research by Carter with technical assistance and some post-graduate students over the past 15 years involving monitoring of pasture legumes in the cereal belt has shown that typically 8090% of farms don't have sufficient legume seed reserves following a cropping sequence to regenerate a satisfactory legume-based pasture (4, 5). Some 13 reasons for the demise of pasture legumes in the cereal belt (3, 7) are:
Reduced spraying to control red-legged earth mite and lucerne flea. Reduced application of superphosphate to pasture.
Spread of Sitona weevil.
Increased cropping intensity and consequent grazing pressure. Poor grazing management and fodder conservation practices. Increased use of herbicides in the cropping phase of the rotation. Reduced undersowing of medics and clovers into cereal crops. Sowing of medics and clovers too deeply also deep tillage for crops. Rapid spread of pasture aphids (SAA, BGA, CPA).
Increased use of nitrogenous fertilizers.
Apathy and despondency concerning the value of medics and clovers. Wrong choice of medic and clover species, cultivars and mixtures. Poor seasons and droughts.
However, there are some good pastures in all districts and the aim is to transfer the technology of proven techniques and assist farmers to monitor the density and subsequent productivity of legume pastures as a guide to management decisions. Our observations, supported by research, indicate that the most common reasons for failure of legume pastures in the cereal belt are:
Inadequate legume seed reserves resulting from the cumulative effects of varying aspects of mismanagement (4).
Inadequate control of insect pests especially red-legged earth mite and lucerne flea at break of season (6).
Inadequate control of weedy grasses and broad-leaved weeds by grazing or spraying (Rovira and Carter, unpublished data).
Inadequate control of summer-autumn grazing of medic pods and clover burrs especially on hard-setting soils where sheep may consume 1 t/ha of medic seed (2) or 0.7 Vila of sub clover seed (14) in a few weeks.
Inadequate control of depth of tillage which buries excessive amounts of pasture legume seed too deep for seedling emergence in the naturally-regenerating pasture following a cropping sequence (12, 15, 18).
One objective of our research is to teach farmers how to minimise these constraints to production. In particular, with the help of district agronomists, the research aims to identify key groups of motivated cereal farmers in the various districts who can learn to monitor the legume component of their pastures and, by attention to detail, upgrade the legume content of these pastures; then by simple demonstration, show the improved cereal crops resulting from these better legume pastures in a pasture-cereal rotation.
Producing better legume pastures
Carter and Porter have further demonstrated the value of the summer and autumn in situ watering technique (11) to predict the emergence of legume pastures following a cropping sequence and also to show the relationship between pasture legume seed reserves and the level of soil nitrogen. Farmer interest in this self-help technique has been outstanding. When the legume seed bank is poor it is not necessarily a case for expensive pasture renovation. It can be much cheaper and easier to use a grass herbicide like Fusilade ® to improve the competitive ability of the legume and increase legume seed production as was the case at Tarlee in 1989 (8; Table 1) and Turretfield Research Centre in 1990 (16) where 400 ml Fusilade per ha improved the quality of both green and dry feed, decreased grass-seed problems in Merino lambs and improved both wool and lamb values.
Table 1. Botanical composition of pasture and seed production, Tarlee, 1989.
Note: Botanical composition on 3 November 1989 and seed production in December 1989 differed significantly (P<0.001) between herbicide treatments.
In terms of pasture renovation and re-establishment, there is a need for further research on cost-effective ways of establishment. Much more research is needed (replicated in time and space) on the role of seed placement in dry versus wet seed-beds and the role of compaction (using press wheels, etc.) to ensure optimal seed-soil contact for moisture exchange and germination. In view of current low wheat and wool prices, it is time to re-look in the wetter districts at the possible scope for under-sowing legumes in cereal crops as a means of saving money (reduction of crop sowing rates can minimise risk). Furthermore, the scope for 'sowing' medic pods in marginal rainfall areas needs critical evaluation. While haymaking may not affect seed production of subterranean clover, it severely depresses seed production of annual medics, expecially the taller-growing species like Medicago scutellata as shown by Carter et al. (9) in Table 2.
Table 2. Effects of haymaking in the Waite Institute rotation experiment.
More recently both Ababneh (1) and Muyeko (17) in studies of defoliation of annual medics, have shown dramatic effects of time and frequency of defoliation on herbage and pod production (4-fold range), seeds per pod (2-fold range) and seed yield (9-fold range). Ababneh (1) has re-emphasised the crucial importance of total weight of pure germinating seed in determining productivity of annual medics. In other words, a lower population of seedlings from large-seeded medic can give the same production as a higher population of seedlings from small-seeded medics. Of course, if buried deeply, the larger-seeded medics will give superior emergence to small-seeded medics (6, 15). Squella (19), in studying the ecological significance of seed size on annual pasture legumes, has shown that small-seeded legumes escape ingestion by sheep and also escape damage during the mastication process. Hence under heavy grazing, small-seeded pasture legume species gain a competitive advantage; i.e. these legumes are ecologically more fit (10).
A significant trend in the cereal-livestock zone of South Australia, is to feed-lotting of sheep during summer to protect the medic seed reserves and to reduce damage to the soil caused by grazing bare paddocks. At normal grazing pressure, sheep may consume 1000 kg/ha of medic seed in 8 weeks of summer (2). Clearly this is expensive feed. Valizedah (20) is examining the nutritive value of pods and crop residues as alternative cheap feeds for supplying a maintenance diet for sheep during summer.
There is ample evidence that sowing medic seed too deeply greatly reduces seedling emergence with consequent reduced density and productivity (6). Furthermore, tillage can bury a high percentage of seed too deep to allow emergence of seedlings (12, 15, 18). Table 3 summarises relevant data from Carter et al., (12) which show highly significant differences (P-0.001) between tillage treatments for total seed reserves, medic emergence and medic hard wed reserves in the 0-5cm and 5-15cm soil layers.
Table 3. Effects of tillage in 1986 on medic in 1987.
The impact of various management practices shown in the tables are but a few examples of the potential for upgrading the quantity and quality of annual legume pastures in ley farming systems of South Australia. Further details are given in one-page summaries of poster presentations at this Conference.
30. Ababneh, M.H. 1991. PhD Thesis, University of Adelaide.
31. Carter, E.D. 1981a. Proc. XIV Int. Grassl. Cong, Lexington. pp. 447-450.
32. Carter, E.D. 1981b. Symposium Roseworthy Agric. College, South Aust. Sept. 1981. Carter E.D. 1982. Proc. Aust. Agron. Conf., Wagga Wagga, p. 180.
33. Carter, E.D. 1985. Workshop on Tillage Systems, Rotations, Nitrogen and Cereal Root Diseases. Waite SA, Feb. 28 - March 1, 1985, pp. N-2, N-3.
34. Carter, E.D. 1987. In: Temperature Pastures: Production Use and Management. (Eds J.L.Wheeler, C.J. Pearson, G.E. Robards) (Aust. Wool Corp. and CSIRO). pp. 35-51. Carter, E.D. 1988. Regional Conference of Agricultural Bureaux, Wasleys, SA. Carter, E.D. 1990. In: Pasture Symposium No. 2. (Waite Agricultural Research Institute: The University of Adelaide), Feb 1990. pp. 50-51.
35. Carter, E.D., Armstrong, M. and Sommer, K.J. 1989. In: Biennial Report 1986-87. (Waite Agricultural Research Institute: The University of Adelaide). p. 59.
36. Carter, E.D., Challis, S., Knowles, R.C. and Bahrani, J. 1989. Proc. 5th Aust. Agron. Conf., Perth. p. 437.
37. Carter, E.D., Le Leu, K.M. and Baldwin, G.B. 1989. Proc. 5th Aust. Agron. Conf., Perth, p. 438.
38. Carter, E.D., Thomas, P., Fletcher, E. and Cotze, E. 1988. In: Biennial Report 1986-87, (Waite Agricultural Research Institute: University of Adelaide). p. 53.
39. Carter, E.D., Wolfe, E.C. and Francis, C.M. 1982. Proc. 2nd Aust. Agron. Conf., Wagga Wagga. pp. 68-82.
40. de Koning, C.T. and Carter, E.D. 1989. Proc. XVI Int. Grassl. Cong., Nice, France. pp. 1031-1032.
41. Fulwood, P.G. and Carter, E.D. 1989. Proc. 5th Aust. Agron. Conf. Perth. p. 580. Little, D.L. and Carter, E.D. and Ewers, A.L. 1992. (these proceedings). Muyekho, F.N. and Carter, E.D. and McDonald, G.K. 1992. (these proceedings). Quigley, P.E., Carter, E.D. and Knowles, R.C. 1987. Proc. 4th Aust. Agron. Conf., Melbourne. p. 193.
42. Squella, F. and Carter, E.D. 1992. (these proceedings).
43. Valizadeh, R., Carter, E.D. and Yates, N.G. 1992. (these proceedings).


Taste test the best cream teas in the Shropshire Hills this summer. Choose your favourite and help them win the Shropshire Hills 2019 Cream Tea Awards.
Travel the hills this summer on your quest for the finest cream tea in the land. The Great Shropshire Hills Cream Tea Trail will take you to some of the loveliest places to enjoy a treat worth putting your day on hold for.
Each participating venue will be competing for the prestigious Great Shropshire Hills Cream Tea Award. And your votes will help them win!
Well, it's all down to the jam. You can have your strawberry or your raspberry (and there are some that do) – but we believe, to have a truly Shropshire-licious experience, it has to damson!
We know it's controversial, but here's why. The Shropshire Prune, is a rare, local damson variety introduced to the area by the Romans. This small damson packs a big flavour, sought after by top chefs and home preservers, it has an instant hit on the palette and arguably tops other soft fruit preserves in the jam department. You can get strawberry and raspberry jam on your scone anywhere, but you can only get Shropshire damson jam here. Oh, don't worry, all the tea rooms, cafés and attractions in the trail serve other jams. But if you want to make it truly special – have your scone with damson jam. We are delighted to work with Slow Food Ludlow-Marches to promote this magnificent local fruit.
Once you've had your cream tea, help us decide which one is best. Your scores will help us shortlist the top three cream teas. The shortlisted venues will be visited by a team of highly skilled, mystery shoppers. Vote for your favourite and win tickets to the fabulous Ludlow Food Festival.(see T&C) The winning** cream tea will be announced at the Ludlow Food Festival in September.
Why not explore the glorious Shropshire Hills and treat yourself to a cream tea every day of your holiday? Post your pictures on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, to make your friends green with envy and enter our prize draw for a pair of Ludlow Food Festival tickets by adding #ShropshireCreamTea to your posts.
Our sponsors at Ludlow Farmshop can provide all the ingredients needed so you can take a taste of the Shropshire Hills home with you, lovingly crafted in their shop at Bromfield.
*Prize Draw Terms & Conditions: Winner will be notified by email at the beginning of September. There is no alternative monetary prize. Competing establishments' staff and organisers of the competition are excluded from entering the draw. One pair of tickets will be awarded at random from the voting, one pair from the pictures with the relevant hashtag.
** Competition rules: Finalists and winner will be selected by an independent judging panel. Each venue needs a minimum of 20 reviews to be eligible to be a finalist. The three finalist will be selected by the independent judging panel based on the quality of scores and comments.


Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Easter at Wheaton Bible Church 2019.
Pastor Rob Bugh's sermon from the Contemporary Service.
Pastor Hanibal Rodriguez's sermon from the Traditional Service.
Pastor Hanibal's sermon from the Contemporary Service.
Pastor Rob Bugh's sermon from the Traditional Service.


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Franco Udella (born 25 February 1947 in Cagliari) is an Italian former world boxing champion.

Amateur career

Olympic games results
1968 (as a Light flyweight)
Lost to Alberto Morales (Mexico) 0-5

1972 (as a flyweight)
1st round bye
Defeated Felix Maina (Kenya) 5-0
Lost to Boris Zoriktuyev (Soviet Union) 1-4

Pro career
Udella turned pro in 1972 and won the newly created WBC light flyweight title in 1975 with a disqualification win over Valentin Martinez in the 12th round. Udella was then stripped of the title in August 1975, for failing to defend against Paraguayan Rafael Lovera, who had never fought a professional fight.  The following year he challenged WBC light flyweight world champion Luis Estaba, but lost by KO in the 3rd round.  He never challenged for a major title again.  He retired in 1979 after a loss to Charlie Magri for the EBU (European) flyweight title.

Professional boxing record

See also

 List of light-flyweight boxing champions

External links

1947 births
Living people
Flyweight boxers
Light-flyweight boxers
World light-flyweight boxing champions
World Boxing Council champions
Olympic boxers of Italy
Boxers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Cagliari
Italian male boxers

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The renovation of the historic downtown building transformed the once run-down building into an inviting space housing a mix of tenants – an upscale retail shop, a small gallery, an independent film cinema and a second floor office. The combination of these tenants serves to revitalize this portion of downtown and bring quality tenants to the area.
The design of the mixed-use project thoughtfully inserts new materials while celebrating original historic materials. Brick, hardwood flooring, tin ceilings and wood trusses were uncovered and restored. Because of the long, narrow shape of the space, mullion-less glass is used to create division between tenants and allows daylight to extend deep within the space. A new skylight in the two-story cinema lobby provides additional natural daylighting. The second-floor office space preserves original materials and continues a simple palette for new materials. The design also includes a new vegetated rooftop terrace, a valuable amenity that tenants share.
The 114-year-old building's renewed existence successfully creates a synergy that benefits all tenants as well as the greater community.


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Alfonso Sicurani – ex calciatore italiano
 Pascal Sicurani – militare francese


As the spouse of an Air Force technical sergeant, Jennifer Primus knows the drill: Receive a PCS (permanent change of station) order, pack up, relocate, look for a new job in an unfamiliar community, repeat.
and it has already shown her much promise as a pathway to professional opportunities with the Department of Defense.
But let's back up and learn more about Primus and her journey, because ultimately Program S is about people, not the bureaucratic details of federal employment.
Years ago, Primus, her husband and their three small children were stationed in New Mexico, where she worked as a human resources assistant at a local college. Then in November 2011, they received a PCS order that took them to Okinawa, Japan, where they welcomed two more babies to the family.
"I stay home with each child until they reach preschool age, so I have a lot of employment gaps," says Primus. Of course, some private employers show understanding of military families' situations, and some do not.
The next arrival, in July 2016, wasn't a sixth child, but rather another PCS order, destination Robins Air Force Base, just outside Warner Robins, Georgia. Primus believed there would be ample professional opportunities on the base, which employs more than 25,000 civilians and military members, making it the largest industrial complex in the state.
The very next month, Primus "matched" for a job as a DoD secretary. Although Program S gives registrants "noncompetitive" status for job openings and ranks their preference very highly, there was, in fact, competition for the job: two other military spouses, one of whom was offered the position.
Late last year, Program S became even more accessible: President Barack Obama signed into law a measure striking the rule that military spouses must register with the program with two years of relocating. Now there's no time limit.
What's the bottom line for military spouses in situations like Primus'? Program S has its complexities, but if you connect with a couple of key resources, put a few critical tasks on your calendar and just keep putting one foot in front of the other, you're much likely to find success. Here's an official Program S fact sheet.
Will Primus receive an offer for the HR job she recently matched? Stayed tuned to this blog – we'll keep you posted!


One of the seaside resorts on the Isle of Thanet, Broadstairs shares many of the characteristics of Ramsgate or Whitstable. The tourism sector is strongly visible, with hotels and independent retailers a key feature of the town. The High Speed rail link has brought the town within London's commuter belt while the seaside location is a popular location to retire. These different aspects of Broadstairs make it a fantastic location for a leaflet distribution campaign, carried out by Kent Distributions.
Leaflet Distribution is an effective way of putting your brand in front of new clients. Research from the Direct Marketing Association suggests that as many as 79% of recipients keep, pass on or glance at door drop marketing material; 38% keep it for at least a few days, whilst 13% retain it for a week or more.
We can plan your campaign from start to finish, with our experienced planning teams providing advice on the best areas and times to distribute your company's message. Our team can also arrange design and print for you, so you can get everything you need for your leaflet campaign in just one call.
At Kent Distributions, it is vitally important to us to maintain the highest levels of reliability and customer satisfaction. All of our distribution staff are carefully selected to make sure that they share our values of customer service and attention to detail. All Kent Distributions' teams have a manager attached to them, making sure that our deliveries go smoothly.
Kent Distributions Ltd. © 2019 Registered in England. Company No. 07229952. All Rights Reserved.


From engineer to endjineer. Having just graduated with my mechanical engineering degree, I now start my new journey into the technology sector as an apprentice here at endjin HQ.
I will be posting regularly in this blog during my time here to document the apprenticeship process and my progress as a budding developer. Hopefully this will not only allow me to keep track of what I'm doing, but also provide an update for any other apprentices out there and help anyone in the future who ends up following this same path.
As a quick first update, this morning was spent setting up all the lovely kit (yes, that's an actual notebook on the right) that was waiting here for me when I arrived.
Next step is to learn some PowerShell and automate the new employee on-boarding process. I will post again later in the week to update how that goes and talk more on my first week at endjin.


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Quick Bite 2015-16
Quick Bite: The Sharks drop six on the Canadiens
A tale of a guy in Ohio, staying up super late to write about the San Jose Sharks.
By Sam Blazer Feb 29, 2016, 10:18pm PST
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First Period:
The puck has been dropped and uh, well, my stream went out. Great. Now what am I supposed to do? Finally when I get it back on, what do I see? Joe Thornton. An absolute vision of a human being, What is he doing? Scoring a goal. Justin Braun double clutched on his shot and Joe Pavelski redirected it. Who is waiting on the door step? Joe Thornton. It had to be one of the easiest goals of Jumbo Joe's career.
It wouldn't be very long before the Canadiens responded and did so in the luckiest way possible. After playing pinball with the puck in the Sharks zone, Brendan Gallagher finally got a handle on it as he threw it on net without much hope. Somehow he ended up scoring on the play. It is a goal that Jones surely wanted back but it got erased from his memory ASAP.
The random as hell Gallagher goal:
The action after the goal was more or less a back and forth affair. The Sharks took it to the Canadiens early and often nearly doubling them up in shots through the first period. All of that pressure wouldn't go to waste as Joe Pavelski wanted to get in on the action. It was a classic Pavelski goal, he picked a corner and didn't miss. This goal would be Pavelski's 28th of the season, another highlight reel goal to add to his ever increasing collection.
Pavelski goal:
Somehow with mere seconds remaining in the third, Paul Martin picked up a penalty. How he did it I will never know but the Canadiens started the second period on a power play.
Second Period:
The Sharks killed off the Martin penalty with gusto and shortly after the kill ended, they came roaring back with a response. Naturally, it comes from the Burns and Thornton combo. Burns goes bar down and shows why he is one of the best offensive defensemen in the game.
The laser from Burns:
Only five minutes into the second and Thornton had 3+ points on the night. What a stinking player. I wish I could give you some objective analysis but all I can do is constantly fawn over his strong play.
Joe Thornton now has 62 3+ point games as a member of the San Jose Sharks.
— Fear The Fin (@fearthefin) March 1, 2016
We are not worthy.
After the third goal was scored, the Canadiens began to fight back with continued pressure on Martin Jones. Although the pressure was getting more fierce, it didn't seem like the Canadiens would break through. Alas, that would not be the case as Torrey Mitchell made a play more fit for spring training. The hand eye coordination this took was impressive, no matter the sport.
Mitchell doing his best Buster Posey impression:
Next thing we known, during the broadcast, CSN is panning over to Aaron O'Dell and the poor guy is yawning. C'mon man. This is an exciting game. You don't see goals like this everyday.
A few minutes later in the second Melker Karlsson runs into his own teammate and falls to the ice in a very awkward fashion. He immediately left the ice and wasn't seen for the rest of the period.
As the second period came to a close. Martin Jones was putting his stamp on this game with a game saving stop after game saving stop. Other than his blunder on the early Gallagher goal, Jones had himself a solid night.
At the end of the second, shots were 22-17 in San Jose's favor.
Third Period:
As I am waiting for the period to start, I am watching CSN's highlights and I am pretty sure the background music they use is the Kroll Show theme. I am probably the only person that has ever noticed this but I at least get to share this moment with you, the readers. Thanks for your patience, everyone.
Starting the third period off, we see that Melker Karlsson has in fact returned. He wasn't going to be content just sitting around though. He decided to one up Torrey Mitchell and tell him: "Anything you can do, I can do better".
Karlsson being the hero we deserve:
Nick Spaling, the new acquisition from the Leafs added his second of his young Sharks career tonight shortly after Karlsson scored. Naturally, like many others tonight, he swatted the puck into the net. A very common theme. It looks like he will fit in quite nicely if he continues to keep up this play. Poor Mike Condon though, he looks so thoroughly defeated after this goal. Kind of just want to give the guy a hug.
Spaling doing his thing:
As the time started to evaporate, the Canadiens started to show their frustration. It seemed after each stoppage of play that a little scrum had started. This is all well and good but what exactly are they trying to prove? This seems like a team that is drained and needs the offseason just as badly as anyone else.
The Canadiens at this point of the game were resigned to the fact that they had to play in their own zone. The Sharks (who were on the back end of a back-to-back) were skating circles around them and it became only a matter of time before the Sharks would score again. Pavelski added his 29th goal on a sliding shot. Another beautiful goal from the captain.
Other then some meaningless power play time for the Canadiens, the last few minutes were largely uneventful. The Sharks defeated the Canadiens for the ninth time in ten tries in the SAP Center.
Au revoir!
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One of Ruth's paintings from the Friesian Horse Association of Great Britain and Ireland's grading inspections. The Friesian horse's expressive front leg movement often produces this lift of the forelock and this horse, called Epke, demonstrates it perfectly. Ruth chose to depict this in loose expressive marks and style to great effect!


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0:03Skip to 0 minutes and 3 secondsWelcome to the Environmental Justice Atlas. In this video, I will be explaining to you how to use this internet tool. As you will see, it is very simple and easy tool to use. The dots you see in the world map that appears on the left side of the page are a representation of all the conflict recorded to the Atlas, with different colors assigned to different types of conflicts. As shown on the top right side of the page, at the time of filming, there were over 2,000 conflicts documented. Looking down from that side of the page you will see that the Atlas can be consulted through six main categories.
0:41Skip to 0 minutes and 41 secondsIf you click on legend you will see that the Atlas is organised in ten primary categories according to the types of conflicts, each represented by colored icon. For instance, yellow is conflicts over nuclear energy, orange is conflicts over mining, brown is waste-management conflicts, and so on. By clicking in each one of the icons the map will automatically show you the geographical location of the total of conflicts found under that category. If you move down to the 'Browse maps' tab, you can start consulting the map in a more refined way, according to country, the company involved, the commodity involved and the type of conflict.
1:28Skip to 1 minute and 28 secondsFor instance, if you click by type we can see that over 50 different types of conflicts have been sub-categorised from the ten global categories mentioned before. The first on the list is land acquisition conflicts, of which, as you can see, there are over 500 cases on the atlas. This shows that land acquisition, sometimes referred to as land grabs, is one of the issues of greatest contention globally. Other categories include mineral or exploration, where there are almost 400 cases, dams and water distribution conflicts, with more than 300 cases, deforestation conflicts, with almost 300 cases, and so on.
2:13Skip to 2 minutes and 13 secondsIf you click, for instance, on deforestation in this list, the Atlas will show on the map the location each one of the conflicts listed on that subcategory. If you click on a specific case, for instance aerial fumigation with glyphosate in the Putumayo, Colombia, it will take you to its information page, where you can learn all about the conflict and the moralisation strategies used and their impact. You can also visit specific cases by clicking on the case on the map. Let us use the same Colombian case as an example. The first thing is to locate it on the map. So click home, which is top left on the screen and zoom in on the area you're interested in.
3:06Skip to 3 minutes and 6 secondsOur case is here in the southern border with Ecuador. When you click on the case, a box will pop up with some general information. If you click on 'see more' you will arrive at a detailed case study. Each case generally has some images in the top of the page, then a description of the conflict. Beneath this you can find basic data about the case, from the country and the site. Scrolling down, you can see information about the source of conflict, project details and actors, the conflict and immobilisation, impacts and outcome. In the outcomes section, you can see the question - "do you consider this a case of success?"
3:50Skip to 3 minutes and 50 secondsIn this particular case, the answer is yes because the project was stopped. And finally, if you're interested in learning more about conflicts, you can consult the sources and materials section at the bottom of the right-hand panel, which includes legislation, links to newspapers, articles web pages, etc. You can also browse the Atlas by country and company. If you go back to the home page and click on the 'Browse maps' tab again, if you click on company, for example, you will see that there are over 30 conflicts documented just involving the Chevron company around the world.
4:32Skip to 4 minutes and 32 secondsAdditionally to the 'Browse maps' tab, you can use the Atlas with a filter tab, located above the 'Browse maps' tab to combine categories according to specific information you might be interested in analysing. Also, by clicking on the drop-down maps menu found on the top left corner of the page, you can consult any of the featured maps that have been produced with information existent in the Atlas. Featured maps are a collection of similar conflicts that put into context and explain in greater detail some of the driving forces and dynamics behind them.
5:09Skip to 5 minutes and 9 secondsThe map, for instance, called 'Fracking Frenzy', done in conjunction with Friends of the Earth, refers to fracking conflicts at a global scale, but there are other regional and local maps like, for instance, the map on mining conflicts in Latin America, or the map of environmental justice in Himachal Pradesh, India. So as you can see there are many different ways you can use the Environmental Justice Atlas to get an idea of how social movements and communities are mobilising across the world. One of the most valuable things about the Atlas is that it's a public tool that has been produced in collaboration with movements, networks, groups and people across the world.
5:52Skip to 5 minutes and 52 secondsIn this sense, it's a very good example of coproduction of knowledge between academic and activists. If you want to, you also can be part of the EJ Atlas. If you have information of a case that has not been uploaded, which you think should be in the Atlas, all you have to do is register and start uploading it.
EJ Atlas tutorial
In this video, Iokine walks you through the EJ Atlas web tool.
By the end of this tutorial you will have the knowledge to explore the EJ Atlas and find out more about thousands of documented environmental justice struggles.
In the next step you will be encouraged to explore the EJ Atlas yourself, so pay close attention!
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It's always a joy to discover fresh tracks from PETE HERBERT aka REVERSO 68 when searching through the vast ocean of music. The man is a true pool party aficionado, spending summers in London + trading off for Bali in the winters where he works closely with the famed Potato Head Beach Club when he's not crafting delicious nu-disco and house jams from his villa. His latest remix for CANTOMA is a slice of pure Balearia with its glistening strums, sunset chords, and magically scattered percussion. Grab a copy, add it to your end of summer playlists and be sure to tune into his secret (not anymore) podcast that streams fresh mixes from the legend 24/7 HERE.


The night has come now, and the streets are ablaze with lights.
Have been looking for you since morning, but in my pain you delight.
And i bumped into a few nightmares.
And some of them had white hair.
I have found a new world, a new excitement beams.
And gift wrapped at the seams.
I think I am gonna stop looking now.
I will dance with the shapeles melodies.
Sing along with the tragedies.
I will look at the moon and like a fool will I smile.
Like a fool I might think of you for a while.
I will be all that you intent me to be.
I will see all that you want me to see.
And i will not gasp if a stranger holds out his hand and tries to take me somewhere new.
I will trust him and take the blind leap, cause i know that stranger is you.


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Trump adds Steve Bannon to National Security Council
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Steve Bannon, chief strategist and senior counselor to President Donald Trump (C), was named a member of Trump's National Security Council on Saturday, while the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of National Intelligence were removed. Pool photo by Win McNamee/UPI | License Photo
Jan. 29 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump reorganized the National Security Council, inviting his chief political strategist, Steve Bannon, to join the meetings.
Trump signed the reorganization memorandum Saturday.
The council is a panel of officials, most of them Cabinet level, who work with the president to determine the best course of action on security issues.
Trump also pared the council to six deputy national security advisers, compared to the 23 on Obama's council.
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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Bannon's experience as "a former naval officer" offers knowledge and experience, and suggested the benefit of the president having his top strategist in national security council meetings would be a positive for Trump.
Bannon's "got a tremendous understanding of the world and the geopolitical landscape that we have now," Spicer said. "Having the chief strategist for the president in those meetings, who has a significant military background, to help make, guide what the president's final analysis is going to be is crucial."
Previously, political operatives have been kept away from the National Security Council over concern that political pettiness would interfere with decisions about safety and security. President George W. Bush barred his chief strategist and top adviser Karl Rove from the meetings, telling him he could "never" attend one.
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"It wasn't because he didn't respect Karl's advice or didn't value his input," said Josh Bolten, Bush's former chief of staff. "But the president also knew that the signal he wanted to send to the rest of his administration, the signal he wanted to send to the public, and the signal he especially wanted to send to the military is that the decisions I'm making that involve life and death for the people in uniform will not be tainted by any political decisions."
Editor's note: An earlier version of this article indicated the Director of National Intelligence and Joint Chiefs of Staff were completely removed from the National Security Council. In fact, the two shall attend meetings if they so choose based upon if topics up for discussion affect their respective agencies, as was the case in past administrations.
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