Future proof: Mitsubishi is previewing what could be the next-generation Pajero off-roader with the GC-PHEV concept at this year's Tokyo show.
MITSUBISHI will rip the covers off three concept cars at next month's Tokyo motor show, previewing next-generation versions of its Pajero SUV and ASX crossover as well as revealing a new compact MPV.
The Japanese car-maker said the concepts would showcase the look of its next generation of vehicles featuring a new design language, as well as providing a look at future powertrain technologies.
A full-sized SUV concept called the GC-PHEV will use a next-generation plug-in hybrid system, and have "genuine SUV off-road capability and sure-footed driving dynamics" supported by Mitsubishi's Super All Wheel Control (S-AWC) system.
The GC - short for "Grand Cruiser" – looks set to preview the fifth-generation Pajero off-roader, and will highlight a number of future preventative safety features and driver support aids using mobile connectivity.
The current Pajero arrived in Australia in late 2006 with a refresh in 2008, but it shares a number of mechanical components that were introduced on the NM-series that launched in 1999.
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation head of product and strategy development, Ryugo Nakao, hinted at the development of a hybrid drivetrain at March's Geneva motor show, saying the Pajero was still at least two years away from release as work focussed on making it significantly lighter than the current model.
The XR-PHEV SUV concept that Mitsubishi says will feature a lightweight and "super-efficient" plug-in hybrid system will preview the design of the next ASX compact crossover.
The XR – which stands for "Cross Runner" – will feature sports coupe-like styling, with a sketch provided by Mitsubishi hinting at a low slung, chunky SUV design in the vein of the Range Rover Evoque.
Mitsubishi launched the ASX in 2010, pre-empting the explosion in sub-compact SUVs that has sparked a rush of rival crossovers, including the Holden Trax, Nissan Juke, Peugeot 2008 and forthcoming Renault Captur and Ford EcoSport.
There is no word yet on when a production version of the next-generation ASX will arrive, as the current model is only three years into its lifecycle.
The final piece of Mitsubishi's concept puzzle comes in the shape of the Concept AR, or "Active Runabout" compact MPV, powered by a small-capacity, direct-injection turbocharged combustion engine, unlike the two hybrid SUV concepts.
Mitsubishi says the Concept AR combines the practicality of an SUV with the cabin space of an MPV and it features a "cocoon-like interior and seating configuration" that delivers "superior comfort for all passengers".
The last people-mover from Mitsubishi was the seven-seat mid-size Grandis that sold from 2004-10. However, the Concept AR seems to point to a model that will compete with the likes of the more compact Kia Rondo.
Sketches released by Mitsubishi reveal shared design elements across all three concepts, including a clam-shell bonnet, slimline LED headlights and a grille integrated with the headlights, while chrome-like surrounds feature on the lower air intake.
Some of these design cues have already featured on the GR-HEV utility concept from this year's Geneva motor show that previews the 2014 Triton.
Mitsubishi will release more information about the concepts ahead of the Tokyo motor show's opening on November 22.


The National Assembly swiftly passed controversial new measures yesterday to effectively ban former opposition leader Sam Rainsy from the political arena or from bolstering the opposition's firepower ahead of next year's elections.
The amendments to the Law on Political Parties are the second round of changes this year, following an earlier amendment that forced Rainsy to resign as the president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party in February to avoid the possible dissolution of his party, just months ahead of the commune elections.
But the sustained attack on Rainsy – who is currently in self-imposed exile in France, and would face jail time if he returned to Cambodia due to a slew of politically tinged criminal cases – will strengthen rather than diminish the potency of his political rhetoric, Rainsy and some political analysts said yesterday.
Rainsy yesterday goaded the premier over the latest changes, which he branded the "Anti-Sam Rainsy Law".
Rainsy also suggested there were "millions of Sam Rainsys" in the Cambodian citizens who fight for freedom and justice, and claimed he had attained near-mythological status.
"As in any religion, legend or myth, the more you strive to kill the central figure, the more he remains alive and becomes more and more vibrant and popular," he said.
After less than an hour of debate, the amendments were passed by the assembly with 66 votes, though Prime Minister Hun Sen and Interior Minister Sar Kheng were conspicuously absent from the session. The CNRP, which holds 55 seats to the ruling Cambodian People's Party's 68, boycotted the vote.
CNRP Deputy President Mu Sochua yesterday defended her party's decision not to attend the National Assembly and argue against the laws.
"It's the same question asked each time we decided not to be there. Would there be a true democratic debate?" Sochua said in an email, adding she doubted the law would have its intended effect.
The new amendments ban parties from "using the voice, image, written documents or activities of a convicted criminal . . . for the interests of the party", and from "accepting or conspiring with a convicted criminal to do activities in the interests of the party". Currently Rainsy appears – along with his successor Kem Sokha – on thousands of party billboards across the country and is a regular presence, via Skype, at opposition events.
The new law also prevents political parties from "supporting or organising any plans or conspiracies with any individual to undertake any actions against the interest of the Kingdom of Cambodia".
Any parties who violate the law could be banned from political activities for five years and disallowed from competing in elections, or even dissolved.
Though the premier was absent yesterday, his youngest son, CPP lawmaker Hun Many, made an impassioned speech advocating for the changes, saying they were a matter of "national security". "We should consider if some views or some words can affect the security of the nation and affect the interests of the nation," Many said.
Sebastian Strangio, political analyst and author of Hun Sen's Cambodia, said while it might be smarter for the CPP to ignore Rainsy rather than launch a new legal offensive, the changes were likely sparked by frustration that – through Facebook – Rainsy continues to enjoy a political platform.
"It does seem to be an instance of overkill," Strangio said, saying the ruling party were driven by "fear and paranoia" over foreign intervention and losing power.
Strangio said he believed the CPP was "trying to remove Sam Rainsy by the root from the CNRP" in order to avoid a repeat of the opposition momentum Rainsy garnered in the 2013 national election.
Meanwhile, the Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights yesterday called the ruling party's move to reconfigure the law as "legal harassment" of the major opposition.
The changes still must be approved by the Senate and Constitutional Council before being signed by the King into law.


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Q: Using the ps command to list users who do not have processes running I have prepared a file with a list of my system's user names using a standard file from the /etc/ directory. What script can I write to list names of users who do not have any processes running right now using the ps command and this file specifically?

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James K.A. Smith reshapes the very project of Christian education, focusing around the themes of liturgy, formation, and desire. The author contends--as did Augustine--that human beings are "desiring agents"; in other words, we are what we love.
To fully explore the topic of worship in church, the authors gathered a team of worship leaders from various church backgrounds. This book broadens today's "worship wars" into a bigger, richer discussion that moves from arguments over musical tastes to good thinking about the overall purpose of worship in relation to church life and God.
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The trial for the accused shake-down mistress of Yankee GM Brian Cashman isn't even in the first inning yet, but both sides are sounding as if they need an umpire to straighten them out.
Neathway, a curvy blonde, is charged with extorting $6,000 and attempting to extort $15,000 more last year from the then-married Cashman by threatening to go public with their fleeting affair.
She sat at the defense table looking indignant as FitzGerald chided her lawyer, Lawrence LaBrew, for a private e-mail back-and-forth with prosecutors.
In his e-mails, which were referred to but not made public, Neathway's lawyer accuses prosecutors of improperly getting their hands on sealed arrest warrants that Neathway's ex-husband, Jason Bump, took out against her.
Prosecutors recently forwarded the e-mails to Bump's lawyers for use in the couple's ongoing custody battle over their 15-year-old daughter, Neathway's side alleges in motions filed yesterday. The warrants have been in the public domain at least since November, when prosecutors included them in a pretrial filing.
Both sides agreed that plea negotiations had reached a standoff, given that prosecutors were unwilling to reduce the charges low enough to spare Neathway from the prospect of being deported back to her native UK.
Any trial on the Cashman extortion charges would have to wait until Neathway is first tried on unrelated allegations that she lied on New York state paperwork to qualify for a below-market rent for her apartment in a luxury building in Tribeca.
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North Shields FC have confirmed the signing of three new players for the coming season.
Tuesday, 18 June, 2019, 12:14
Midfielder Nick Cassidy is joined in the Robins' dressingroom by striker Scott McCarthy and defender Ben Christensen.
Cassidy, who can also play at right back, joins after an impressive two-season spell with Consett AFC where he played a pivotal part in the Durham Challenge Cup success in 2017.
Upon his release from the Heed at the end of that season, Consett didn't hesitate in securing his services on a permanent basis.
McCarthy has experience of playing at a high level after coming through a Middlesbrough academy side in 2015 which at the time competed in the U21 Premier League.
He went on to score two goals in nine appearances before leaving the Boro for Bishop Auckland in 2015. He then joined Newcastle Benfield and became an important part of their first team.
Christensen is a solid and experienced defensive player who likes to get stuck in and will not shy away from a battle on the pitch.
He is comfortable playing anywhere across the defence and has often been described as having real leadership qualities.
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Canada: After the federal election - the dangers and challenges that lie ahead
By Pierre Beaudet and Richard Fidler
November 9, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Life on the Left — It is still early to interpret fully the results of Canada's October 21 federal election. But behind the immediate results some trends are clear.
'Dual Power,' then... and now?
By Richard Fidler
September 7, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Life on the Left — Global capitalist crisis, impending ecological disaster, and new responses by popular movements in some regions, particularly in Latin America, inspire radical thinking about the need to go "beyond capital." But how to attain the desired "system change" — today, an ecosocialist regime in place of capitalist rule — continues to be a matter for debate and experimentation.
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Kashmir, solidarity and the Canadian state
August 19, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Socialist Project — In his essay, "India's Kashmir Crackdown Poses Risk of War," John Riddell argues that India unilaterally revoked the autonomy of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, flooding the region with troops, imposing a curfew, and shutting down all communications, and imposing direct rule by New Delhi, India's Hindu nationalist government, under the leadership of Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), radically increased the dangers of regional war. The Indian left immediately denounced the measures and called Jammu and Kashmir occupied territories (further drawing parallels to Occupied Palestine). In turn, this raised questions of international solidarity for the anti-war movement, and in Canada the demands to be placed on the Canadian state. Here Richard Fidler and John continue to discuss the Indian intervention into Kashmir and solidarity responses in Canada.
Trudeau government gives dangerous new powers to Canada's political cops
July 12, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Life on the Left Blog — Canada's spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), is engaged in massive surveillance of environmentalists and Indigenous opponents of extractive energy projects. And it is sharing some of its "intelligence" with the oil industry and its regulator, the National Energy Board.
Québec solidaire vows to fight CAQ government's racist bill
April 27, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Life on the Left Blog — As it had threatened during last fall's election campaign, the newly-elected Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government has introduced legislation to prohibit a wide range of persons "in authority," including teachers, from wearing symbols of their religious beliefs while exercising their functions.
Those affected include judges, prosecutors, police, and jail guards, but also teachers, childcare providers, public transit operators, health and social service workers, municipal and administrative tribunal and board officials, etc.
Rethinking some dominant approaches to climate change
March 26 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Life on the Left Blog — Climate change is the most visible, most threatening expression of a larger, planetary ecological crisis, the result of an economic system (capitalism) with an inherent growth and profit dynamic which ensures that the exploitation of natural resources (both renewable and non-renewable) exceeds the carrying capacity of nature. You have read the almost-daily scientific reports, each more alarming than the ones before, on the scope of the crisis. I won't belabour the point.
Our approach must be informed by, and congruent with, the challenge that crisis poses to the way society must be organized if we are to halt and reverse the ecological catastrophe toward which we are now hurtling.
Canada: A paragon of democratic national self-determination?
May 8, 2018 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Life on the Left — Madrid's stubborn refusal to allow Catalans to vote on their independence prompted some commentators, paradoxically, to praise Canada's support for Quebec self-determination.
"Quebec got off light," wrote Louis Bernard,[1] a former top official in Parti québécois governments, referring to the Supreme Court of Canada judgment in the Reference re Secession of Quebec. After the almost-victory for the OUI in the 1995 referendum, he recalled, the federal government asked the Court to declare that Quebec had no right in Canadian or international law to choose unilaterally to "become a sovereign country, separated from Canada."
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Imperialism today: a critical assessment of Latin American dependency theory
Introduction and translation by Richard Fidler
March 31, 2018 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Life on the Left — Brazilian economist and sociologist Ruy Mauro Marini (1932-1997) was a prime exponent of what became known as dependency theory, an attempt to explain the systemic unequal relations of the Latin American countries in particular with the developed economies of the imperialist "North." He was a close collaborator of, among others, Vânia Bambirra and the recently-deceased Theotónio Dos Santos. Marini's best-known work, first published in Spanish in 1972, is Dialectics of Dependency.[1]
Marini was a founder of the Brazilian Marxist organization Política Operária and later, during his Chilean exile, a member of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR). Forced into exile again after the Pinochet coup, he taught at the UNAM in Mexico for many years, returning to Brazil shortly before his death from cancer in 1997.
In the following essay, Argentine Marxist Claudio Katz analyzes Marini's work in light of contemporary developments in global capitalism. He assesses Marini's attempt to understand and explain the initial developments in neoliberal globalization and suggests some ways in which dependency theory might now be renewed and updated. And he comments critically on the work of some current proponents of versions of dependency theory.
Québec solidaire: No to an electoral pact with the PQ, Yes to a united front against austerity and for independence
May 29, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Life on the Left — As expected, the 500 delegates to the congress of Québec solidaire (QS), held here May 19-22, voted to work toward a fusion with Option nationale, debated and adopted the remaining part of the party's draft program with few major amendments, and elected a new leadership headed by "co-spokespeople" Manon Massé and Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois.
Les socialistes et la guerre au vingt-et-unième siècle – Le cas de la Syrie
[Original in English here.]
Par Richard Fidler
23 novembre 2016 — Traduction française par Pierre Beaudet, Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières — En Syrie, les villes rebelles qui se sont soulevées à partir de 2011 contre la brutale dictature de Bashar El-Assad, subissent maintenant un siège génocidaire. Chaque jour, elles sont visées par l'aviation syrienne et les bombardiers russes. Leur combat, s'il échoue, brisera pour une longue période les espoirs du Printemps arabe pour une alternative démocratique et anti-impérialiste dans cette région du monde. Dans ce contexte, les socialistes et les militant-es pour la paix partout dans le monde doivent appuyer le peuple syrien et s'opposer à la guerre.
Socialists and wars in the 21st century – The case of Syria
November 14, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — In Syria the rebel cities that rose up four years ago in revolt against the brutal Assad dictatorship are now under a genocidal siege, bombed and assaulted from the air by Assad's military aided and abetted by Russian fighter jets and bombers. Their desperate fight for survival, if unsuccessful, will put paid to the Arab Spring and with it the potential for building a democratic, anti-imperialist governmental alternative in the Middle East for an extended period to come. Socialists and antiwar activists everywhere have every interest in supporting the Syrian people and opposing that war.
But where is the antiwar movement?
Naomi Klein-inspired 'Leap Manifesto' shakes up Canadian left
Canada: Leap Manifesto unites broad forces, builds climate justice campaigns
"The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has acknowledged shocking details about the violence of Canada's near past. Deepening poverty and inequality are a scar on the country's present. And Canada's record on climate change is a crime against humanity's future." —The Leap Manifesto
by John Riddell
April 3, 2016 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Climate and Capitalism -- Five hundred Toronto-area supporters crowded into a west-end school auditorium March 29 to support the Leap Manifesto, launched early this year in support of a rapid, "justice-based" energy transition to a renewable economy.
The movement was launched in January 2016 to popularize the ideas of Naomi Klein's influential book on climate change, This Changes Everything. Klein pointed to the need for a mass social movement addressing both the urgent need for climate action and an agenda for social justice.
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'Venezuela defines the future of the progressive cycle' An interview with Claudio Katz
Introduced and translated by Richard Fidler, article original published in Spanish in La Llamarada
July 14, 2013 -- Life on the Left, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- Two recent events — the second-round victory on November 22 of right-wing candidate Mauricio Macri in Argentina's presidential election, and the December 6 victory of the right-wing Democratic Unity Roundtable,[1] winning two thirds of the seats in Venezuela's National Assembly elections — have radically altered the political map in South America. In the following interview, Argentine Marxist Claudio Katz discusses what these setbacks for the left mean for the progressive "process of change" that has unfolded on the continent over the last 10-15 years. My translation from the Spanish.
Katz is a professor of economics at the University of Buenos Aires, a researcher with the National Council of Science and Technology, and a member of Economists of the Left.[2]
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Coinbase appoints Brian Brooks as its chief legal officer
Coinbase, digital currency exchange based in San Francisco, California has made another addition to its top senior executives. The company has appointed Brian Brooks as its chief legal officer. He was executive vice president and corporate secretary of Fannie Mae since 2014.
The hiring has been done to expand the company's compliance and legal teams. Brian Brooks replaces Mike Lempres, who was heading this position till now. He will be shifted to another department to handle the role of chief policy officer. Coinbase has been the leader of cryptocurrency platforms since seven years of its inception. "We've engaged proactively with regulators as we built products and services that allow people to buy, sell and use cryptocurrency all over the world," said Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. As the cryptocurrency industry has expanded rapidly in the recent years with the explosion of customers' demands, it is the right time for the cryptocurrency companies to expand and grow. "As this trend continues, it is more important than ever that we contribute to a public policy and regulatory environment that fosters innovation while protecting investors," he further added in his statement.
Before working at Fannie Mae, Brooks used to work for a law firm O'Melveny & Myers as its vice chairman of OneWest Bank and a managing partner. Many notable hiring has happened at Coinbase in 2018 including Michael Li, VP of data, Tim Wagner, VP of engineering, Jeff Horowitz, chief compliance officer etc.


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Samsung Galaxy Note 5 vs Galaxy S7 – Release Dates, Specs and Features
Rumors about the Note 5's specs started appearing months ago, but we relied only on speculations, because there were no leaks yet, but recently, Android Authority got their hands on a series of images of the upcoming phablet and they've also listed the specs of this phablet, which will be released next month.
In this article, we'll talk about the next Galaxy S7 as well. Tech Radar claims that the flagship will make its appearance earlier than expected, at the beginning of 2016, because the current phones aren't selling very well.
The Note 5 has been exposed on a post on reddit, where someone is holding the original box in which was shipped the phablet, and he presented the back and front of the box, to make sure that we can see the specs of the new device. Then, he took the phone out of the box and photographed it from all angles.
So, the Note 5 features a 5.7inches QHD AMOLED display, it's powered by a 64 Bit Octa-core SoC, most likely an Exynos 7420, which is backed by 4GB of RAM and has a 16MP camera on the back with OIS, and a 5MP front camera. Also, it was specified that its height is 143.9mm, but we don't know the capacity of its battery.
However, on the box was mentioned only the addition of the wireless charging capability, but the users need to get a charging pad. Most likely, the battery will be smaller than the one from the previous model, supporting 3000mAh.
The internal memory is fixed, as expected, and starts from 32GB. Most likely, there will be two other variants of 64 and 128GB. The S Pen stylus will pop out when pushing on it, just like when pushing the SIM card or the microSD. The Note 5 appears to have a glass black likewise the Galaxy S6, and in the images we've seen the black variant along with the Galaxy Tab Edge, which is rumored to be released in the same time as the Note 5.
According to rumors, the phone will come with a 5.1inches 4K display and previously, it was said that the screen will measure 5.2inches or 5.4inches. At the end of May, many IT websites were writing that the rear camera will be upgraded to 30MP, while others limited the resolution to 20MP. As for the front camera, it will be either 7MP or 10MP, but we'll see about that.
The processor will be integrated into a much more advanced 64bit Exynos SoC or maybe Samsung will take into consideration the return to Qualcomm's famous Snapdragon. By the end of this month, the Snapdragon 820 will be launched and the tests showed that it's a real beast.
It isn't certain yet, but we're guessing that the phone will house 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and the rumors are suggesting that Samsung will switch to USB-C and will add a body fat scanner.
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Vertex Pharma narrows quarterly loss
Published: July 27, 2016 at 4:50 p.m. ET
Tess Stynes
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. said its second-quarter loss narrowed, as sales of its cystic fibrosis drugs continued to grow.
The Boston-based biopharmaceutical company's top- and bottom-line results beat expectations.
Its drug Orkambi, which received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval roughly a year ago, treats patients with a genetic mutation that is the leading cause of the disease. The drug combines Vertex's Kalydeco, which treats a different genetic type of cystic fibrosis, with another Vertex compound.
Orkambi second-quarter sales rose to $245.5 million from $223 million in the first quarter. Kalydeco sales grew 16% to $180.2 million.
Analysts and investors likely will be listening on the conference calls for any details on the progress of new drugs in the company's research-and-development pipeline and on expanding access to its current drugs to more patients.
Overall, Vertex reported a second-quarter loss of $64.5 million, or 26 cents a share, narrowing from a year-earlier loss of $188.8 million, or 78 cents a share. Excluding stock-based compensation and other items, per-share earnings were 24 cents, compared with a year-earlier loss of 54 cents. Revenue increased to $431.6 million.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected a per-share profit of 21 cents, excluding items, and revenue of $428 million.
Vertex also affirmed its 2016 sales guidance for Orkambi and Kalydeco.
Write to Tess Stynes at tess.stynes@wsj.com
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Google on Saturday challenged searchers to a puzzle in homage to what would have been Alan Turing's 100th birthday.
Turing, a brilliant British mathematician and codebreaker, worked for the British government during World War II. His work cracking German code and improving technologies used to do so earned him an Order of the British Empire after the war. According to the New York Times, Turing's contribution "changed the outcome of the war because it gave the Allies an ear into German planning."
Among his many accomplishments after the war, Turing in 1936 laid the groundwork for modern computing when he presented algorithms, rules for solving mathematic calculations, along with a hypothetical "Turing machine" that could read these rules.
In the 1950s Turing developed a test to measure the intelligence of early computer systems and argued that machines can think. The Turing Test is an imitation game in which a human and a computer input binary data into a terminal, and a human judge determines which participant is man and which is machine.
Turing "provided the blueprint for building a machine that could do any computation that a person could, marking the first step towards the modern notion of a computer," according to a post on the Official Google Blog written by Andrew Eland, Google U.K.'s director of engineering.
Turing's life took a tragic turn in 1952, when the British government convicted him of indecency for acts of homosexuality. He ended his life in 1954 after undergoing chemical castration as an alternative to prison.
Google's home page doodle features a challenging game modeled after the Turing machine. The user must follow the device's instructions to spell out "Google" in binary. A helpful YouTube user has uploaded a couple instructional videos that walk you through the game's six easy levels (above) and the six hard levels (below). Can you solve them all?
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Fire control centres join forces
Tuesday 10th May 2016 9:04 am
A NEW single command-and-control-system for Devon and Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire and Hampshire fire and rescue services has gone live.
The single system which covers a population in excess of five million is estimated to save the three services £16.91m by 2024.
The system is underpinned by new technology by Capita Communication and Control Solutions, which has been working with the fire services – all members of the Networked Fire Control Services Partnership (NFCSP) – for the past two years.
A spokesman said: "The partnership was established to provide a collaborative approach to the future provision of fire control services across the region.
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"Capita's communications and control technology has enabled a single system networked to serve control rooms in Exeter, Devizes and Eastleigh.
"The integrated system allows the three services to work closely together, sharing resources during busy periods or a major incident, helping to enhance service levels while improving public and firefighter safety."
"The NFCSP will benefit from increased efficiencies through the deployment of a secure, shared infrastructure for telephony, airwave radio and data centres."
The region's call operators will also have combined training to standardise working practices and network knowledge, skills and experience.
John Aldridge, chairman of the NFCSP strategic board said: "The partnership will now be using the latest in control and command technology, which provides the platform for an enhanced service across the region.
"It will provide the three services with an awareness of overall operational activity and resource use across the control rooms.
"This will enable the quickest, most appropriate response to an incident – regardless of geographical boundaries – and provide our communities with better protection. By sharing a technology platform, we are able to increase resilience across the region – if one service is under pressure for whatever reason, the others will be able to provide full support."
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You know you've found a product that you love when you can't wait to recommend it to everyone. Last week I coloured my hair using an at-home dye and I accidentally left it on for a little longer than I should have. Anyway long story short, it ended up being far too dark for my liking and I had to do something about it STAT.
I was very excited to try the John Frieda Brilliant Brunette Visibly Brighter in Shower Lightening Treatment as it claims to lighten the hair by up to one shade in a single wash. This hair treatment comes in three varieties: one is to lighten up brunettes, one is to deepen and enrich brunettes and lastly to lighten up blondes.
The packaging design is very innovative and the treatment comes in an easy to use dual squeeze tube. This time around I followed the instructions and left it on for the recommended time which is only 5 minutes btw and I am very pleased with the outcome.
My hair looks warmer, healthier and lighter, it didn't turn my hair colour orange and I couldn't be more happy with the results. See below for before and after photos.
Have you tried the Brilliant Brunette Visibly Brighter Subtle Lightening Shampoo and Conditioner? Let me know your thoughts on these products.
Wow, i'm surprised that it actually worked! Thats such a cool concept for a product.. Now if only it would work on my jet black hair, haha.
My thoughts exactly, Lise. I can't believe the difference for something that only works in 5 minutes.
Thanks Urbantutu, I am very impressed with it.
Great post! I recently colored my hair also, and it came out a bit dark. I'm blonde so I think I may give this a try.
Yes, the sheer Blonde Go Blonder In-Shower Lightening treatment would be perfect! Please let me know how it works for you.
I wonder if the darkening one will work if the lightening one worked on you. I have the issue of even permanent hair color fading after three weeks. This made me curious to try the other formula!
Yes! If you try it please let me know how it goes, they also make the Brilliant Brunette Color Deepening Shampoo and conditioner that works in conjunction with the treatment.
Oh this is brilliant, i was looking for a way to ever so gently lighten my hair, now that its summer here in Europe. Can't wait to give it a go.
Thanks for the great review..I wonder if the results are temporary or permanent?


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Life at a gaming company isn't always fun-and-games. It's also a demanding IT environment with a huge amount of data to manage. Using various Hadoop open source tools, the gaming company behind League of Legends supported hypergrowth and delivered more timely analytics.
Building a software infrastructure that can support hypergrowth isn't easy under the best of circumstances. But add to this the business need to move from a traditional SQL database to Hadoop, and to develop better real time monitoring tools; These are some of the challenges faced by Riot Games last year.
The company, which has offices in Santa Monica and St. Louis, is the maker of the very popular online game League of Legends. Launched four years ago, the game regularly has 32 million monthly active players who accumulate more than a billion hours of game play each month.
But the game's popularity was causing their software development team fits. "It was taking us too long to gain insights into our software performance, and our database servers were getting bogged down," said Barry Livingston, Director of Engineering at Riot Games. "You wouldn't think a five-year-old company would have legacy software issues, but we did because we have grown very rapidly," he explained in a presentation at the St. Louis StampedeCon conference in July.
Riot Games began its operations with a monolithic SQL platform for its data warehouse. It required a great deal of manual, custom-coded processes. Queries were written in MySQL and most of the reporting was done in Excel.
The company had several reasons to change from that approach.
Part of Riot Games' mandate is to provide the best game play possible to its end users. To that end, the company releases new gaming virtual worlds and in-game content every two weeks.
The company's staff also wanted to be responsive to their gaming customers by quickly resolving problems or removing cheating players. The old system wasn't working; it wasn't designed to operate at the current level of players. As a result, several critical processes would bog down. For instance, the daily data extract update was approaching 24 hours to complete. Plus, debugging software errors meant digging deep into log dumps to figure out what went wrong.
Last year, Riot Games senior staff realized that they were at a breaking point and needed a new software data infrastructure. "The time to arrive at insights was taking too long, and our solution required too many dev team members to make changes to our data schemas or other updates," he said.
They also wanted to accomplish two other goals. "First, we wanted to democratize our data access, making available player statistics and game play analysis to a wider portion of our staff. We also wanted to create actionable insights into the underlying software components of the game, so our staff could more readily do upgrades and fix problems," said Livingston.
As they added to their seven PB Big Data collection, the staff kept in mind how they could leverage the Hadoop APIs to tie them together and provide the automation to link the different tasks.
The new infrastructure took three months to build, with a lot of help from different open source communities as well as hiring a former Netflix developer who had worked on Honu. "We couldn't have built this from scratch without relying on the open source forums and knowledge base to put all the pieces together," said Sandeep Shrestha, a Riot Games developer who also presented at StampedeCon.
Riot Games used Honu as a key technology in its software development pipeline.
As a result, the company process to push out software updates went from taking two weeks to less than ten minutes, and removed most of the software downtime as well. Their processes are very elastic and scalable to ten times their current game play traffic, and, Livingston said, they are looking to do further automation and extend their platform further in the future.
Riot Games transition to Hadoop wasn't easy, but the gaming firm found some serious lessons after they have implemented their various Big Data technologies.
1. Be vigilant about upgrading your Hadoop stack to the most recent version.
Given that things change quickly and new versions are released continuously, it is important to stay on top of the changes. "The community is constantly making updates and you don't want to be the one asking about a bug in the forums that has already been fixed in a later update," said Matt Goeke, one of Riot Games' developers, who also presented at StampedeCon.
2. Make your software pipeline as automated and easy as possible.
Complexity creates lag and confusion and introduces error. They now process more than seven billion pipeline events daily, something that would be impossible without this automation.
3. Extend when you can.
Do this even if the existing APIs do not support what you need. "Don't be afraid to roll up your sleeves and write some code to fill in where there are no APIs," said Goeke. "That is what open source is all about." Riot Games has contributed more than 70 programs to GitHub on various Hadoop add-ons. They want to share more of their innovations in the future, too.
One of the advantages of using the various Hadoop tools is that there are extensive and well-developed communities that you can turn to when you are stuck. "You should look at the docs in the wikis and archived listserv responses. Chances are, someone else has already asked and answered your question," said Goeke.
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Neighbors say 'no' to piglet factory
By: Ton Winter - Updated: 3 months ago
WHEATLAND – The pig farms out north of town are causing controversy again. A new company wishes to use an old, closed down property belonging to Wyoming Premium Farms to open up a new farrowing facility where there once was a feeding facility. The Special Use Permit was submitted to the Platte County Zoning and Planning Board and was discussed at last week's public meeting.
The Permit pertains to turning a feeding facility into a farrowing facility. Tearing down some buildings and adding new ones. Promising fewer pigs than before, and therefore, less odor to surrounding neighbors and the town. In the past there was litigation over the smell that permeated the area and the company was required to enact several measures to try and mitigate the problem. This went on for several years until the property was eventually shut down.
Landowners Richard and Bonnie Johnson were there to present their objections and the history of the property and lawsuit.
"We are not in opposition to the pig farm, we are in opposition to a site. This site hasn't changed since we filed our legal business with it. The pig farm sits at about 4661 feet. To the east of it is a range of hills that go up to 4900 feet, our house sits at 4519 feet down the draw from this pig farm. So on calm, clear nights we get odor coming down the creek," Richard explained. "This is a new hog farm. It does not conform with the existing county zoning regulations and it needs a special use permit. We fought the odor from this thing for five years."
The Johnsons went on to explain the legal steps they have taken over the past several years. They first filed a nuisance lawsuit against Wyoming Premium Farms back in 2001. The farm added covers for their liquid manure lagoons and a methane digester, but it still smelled. They even sued the DEQ (Department of Environmental Quality) for not making the farm to adhere to permits and air quality regulations. At one time the farm was up to 21,000 pigs. They were eventually forced to scale down and depopulate, but as of May of 2006 there were still over 13,000 and the stench continued. This site has been shut down for five years now and the Johnsons still have residual odor occasionally. The permit asks for the facility to house 8,400 animals. Adding the pigs back will make it rise again, even if they are just baby pigs.
"It's impossible to control the odors, Wyoming Premium Farms found that out," Richard relayed with frustration. "And here we're going to allow another one with a special use permit to come in there. I'm going to have a war for the rest of my life."
DEQ was invited to attend the meeting, but they refused stating it was a county issue. However, Bonnie mentioned work is already being done at the site and when she spoke with the DEQ they admitted they have been working with the company for a year to get their permits in order with the department. She asked them, "How can they do that? They don't even have approval from the county? Why didn't you let us know? We're a part of the consent decree. He couldn't answer me."
"They can gag a maggot, those smells that come down the ridge," said fellow nearby landowner Norb Olind. "It's terrible."
It's not just surrounding landowners who are opposed to the farm. Dan Brecht spoke about the smell permeating the town and spoke of an instance when he was at Lewis Park with his son and visitors from Rawlins asked how they could stand the smell of the town. The smell was the hog farm. It's worse on calm days, when people wish to spend time outside.
"Please vote this down," said Brecht. "It has such a stinking track record."
The board decided to table the decision as the owner of the company was not able to attend the meeting due to weather.
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Q: Blackbird Advanced Content Manager 2 - Get date created/published/modified in php template? I'm using this module 'Blackbird Advanced Content Manager 2' for blog posts.
I want to get the date created / published / modified and output it in the php template.
There is no mention of this anywhere in the docs. Has anyone worked out a way of doing it?
Such a simple / common / necessary thing for blogs, can't believe there doesn't seem to be a function for it :/ Judging by the lack of information online I'm guessing no one uses this plugin because it's rubbish?
If I try their method to 'get all raw values'
$content->getData()
Annoyingly I always get a 'php memory exhausted' error (Even when I set memory_limit to 50Gb!). So I don't know if there is a 'date' field available in there. I've also searched the module php in app/code looking for any mentions of date variables but couldn't find anything useful.

A: Found it! (gleaned the 'field_identifier' from 'blackbird_contenttype_entity' database table). Derp!
$content->getData('created_at');
$content->getData('updated_at');


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — And so a crazy college football season ends with one last crazy scenario, so close you can almost smell it. With a win on Saturday in the SEC championship — and some help from Michigan State or Duke — Missouri can stake a claim for a berth in the Bowl Championship Series national title game.
But first things, first, Chase Daniel warns.
And the first thing on this particular table is an 11-1 Auburn squad with some big-time pelts of its own up on that big, bad War Eagle wall.
"They're already in the (BCS title) conversation," Daniel, the former Mizzou quarterback and current Kansas City Chiefs backup, told FOXSportsKansasCity.com. "If (the Tigers) can just take care of business, let the rest take care of itself. If it's meant to be, they will (do it).
Daniel has been down this path before, only his led to San Antonio. As a junior in 2007, Daniel's Tigers were 11-1 and No. 1 in the country, fresh off a historic win over then-No. 2 Kansas at Arrowhead Stadium, when they met Oklahoma in the Big 12 title game on Dec. 1 of that year.
The Sooners won, 38-17, handing Mizzou its second loss, a setback that also cost the Tigers a shot at a BCS at-large berth. Mizzou instead dropped to the Cotton Bowl, where it thumped Arkansas, 38-7.
That team finished the season ranked fourth in the AP poll and ranked fifth by the coaches. Daniel's Tigers the next year went 10-4 and finished 19th in the AP poll, 16th in the coaches after a win over Northwestern in the Alamo Bowl.
Daniel set nearly every major quarterbacking record at Mizzou from 2005-08, ending his collegiate career as the Tigers' all-time leader in lifetime passing yardage (12,515), passing touchdowns (101) and passing efficiency (148.9). His Tigers won the Big 12 North in '07 and '08, but were beaten by Oklahoma in the conference title game on both occasions. On Nov. 9, redshirt freshman quarterback Maty Mauk tied Daniel's school record by throwing five touchdown passes against Kentucky.
"It was awesome to see, man," Daniel said of the SEC East champions. "(I'm) just so prideful for us, for every Mizzou alum out there.
It might have been Pinkel's most incredible coaching job, too, given the dance card — which included trips to Georgia and at Vanderbilt; Mizzou won at both places — and the fact that the Tigers were coming off a 5-7 campaign in 2012 that had left fans and pundits disgruntled.
In the meantime, it makes for some pretty good dessert talk, doesn't it? According to Sports-Reference.com's Simple Rating System, which takes into account point differential and strength of schedule, the current Tigers are in the middle of the third-best season in school history (SRS: 21.11) and the program's finest in 44 years; the '07 team was seventh-best (SRS: 16.77).
The site ranks Dan Devine's 1969 Orange Bowl team (23.71) and 1960 Orange Bowl squad (21.88) as the two best seasons ever at Mizzou.
Well, the best to this point, anyway. Check again after Saturday night.


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Local Philanthropists Join Forces to Support EHP Cares
Upper left: Joy Scott (L) & Molly Agras (R); Upper right: Katie Kaufman; Bottom: Joy Scott. All photos by Sunny Scott
In October 2015, EHP was the recipient of a generous donation, a result of the combined efforts of two Stanford community philanthropists who offered their handmade jewelry for sale during a two-day fundraiser earlier that month.
When Molly Agras met an EHP board member last summer and heard firsthand about the food and clothing distribution, as well as the many other EHP programs that help people in need, she stepped right up. "I'd like to hold a jewelry sale fundraiser in my home and donate the proceeds to EHP," she proclaimed. "I could be ready by October."
Molly, a retired businesswoman who for the past several years has supported various organizations with an annual fundraiser, delivered on that promise. She started by adding several pieces to her inventory of beautiful handmade jewelry. Later she met with EHP's Executive Director, Lesia Preston, to coordinate publicity efforts. "I was delighted to meet Molly," said Lesia. "Her jewelry is amazing, and we're so grateful for her enormous efforts to support EHP!
Molly also enlisted her friend Joy Scott, another skilled jewelry maker and philanthropist, to participate in the sale benefitting EHP. "I'm happy to share my proceeds with EHP," said Joy, a retired librarian, whose next fundraiser, which will be in her own home studio, will benefit Doctors Without Borders.
On October 16 and 17, Molly opened her home studio on the Stanford campus to an enthusiastic group of people eager to support EHP and purchase jewelry made by Molly and Joy.
"We need to get the word out about EHP," Molly declared at the end of her successful fundraiser. Her charitable spirit always active, Molly was already thinking ahead, assuming that the more people know about EHP, the more likely it is they will become supporters and volunteers.
We are the Gordon Family
First and foremost being a Gordon no matter the last name difference, means EVERYTHING to the children that we come into contact with whether biological, extended or adopted. It was a miracle for us, to have come into contact with EHP program/resources and their caring staff. The high spirits within EHP staff is so admirable an appreciated. Through the years they have blessed my family in our times of need (food, clothing, appliances, furniture etc), and whenever any member of my family birthday came about, they made calls to us an sent their wishes of happy birthdays, as well as invited the children to their monthly celebrations. And for the holidays they bless the children in my Family with gifts, which always warms their hearts with appreciation. When we come to EHP, whether a need or just to say hello and thank you, they are always so welcoming. EHP isn't just a program or resource they are an extended family to us. When you have an organization that checks in with their families they help throughout the year and shows great passion for the work that they do and treat you as they would treat themselves, its a beautiful thing. So from the Gordon Family: Randy, Psalmoniac, Jamea, Clint, Jamari, Azariah, Mykahla, A'rmoni, and Randy JR we thank you EHP, we are forever grateful!


Ballerina Rose is blanketed in stunning pink flowers with yellow eyes and white centers at the ends of the branches from late spring to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green foliage throughout the season. The oval compound leaves turn yellow in fall. The fruits are showy orange hips displayed from early to late fall. The spiny brick red bark adds an interesting dimension to the landscape.
Ballerina Rose is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.
Ballerina Rose will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 4 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.


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7 Things You Should Know About Sign Language
BY Arika Okrent
Based on the tremendous reaction to this recent piece about sign language interpretation, we thought you might like to know more about it. Here are seven things about sign language that might surprise you.
1. Different countries have different sign languages.
This is the sign for the word "math" in two different sign languages—American Sign Language on the left, and Japanese Sign Language on the right. Why should there be more than one sign language? Doesn't that just complicate things? This question would make sense if sign language was a system invented and then handed over to the deaf community as an assistive device. But sign languages, like spoken languages, developed naturally out of groups of people interacting with each other. We know this because we have observed it happen in real time.
2. Given a few generations, improvised gestures can evolve into a full language.
In 1980, the first Nicaraguan school for the deaf opened.
Students who had been previously isolated from other deaf people brought the gestures they used at home, and created a sort of pidgin sign with each other. It worked for communication, but it wasn't consistent or rule-governed. The next generation who came into the school learned the pidgin sign and spontaneously started to regularize it, creating rules for verb agreement and other consistent grammatical devices. Over time, it stabilized into a full-fledged linguistic system, ISN, or Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua.
3. Sign language does not represent spoken language.
Source: Photo 1; Photo 2
Because sign languages develop within deaf communities, they can be independent of the surrounding spoken language. American Sign Language (ASL) is quite different from British Sign Language (BSL), despite the fact that English is the spoken language of both countries. The above picture shows the sign WHERE in BSL (on the left) and ASL (on the right).
That said, there is a lot of contact between sign language and spoken language (deaf people read and write or lipread in the surrounding language), and sign languages reflect this. English can be represented through fingerspelling or artificial systems like Signed Exact English or Cued Speech. But these are codes for spoken or written language, not languages themselves.
4. Sign languages have their own grammar.
There are rules for well-formed sentences in sign language. For example, sign language uses the space in front of the signer to show who did what to whom by pointing. However, some verbs point to both the subject and object of the verb, some point only to the object, and some don't point at all. Another rule is that a well-formed question must have the right kind of eyebrow position. Eyebrows should be down for a who-what-where-when-why question (see ASL WHERE picture above), and up for a yes/no question. If you use the rules wrong, or inconsistently, you will have a "foreign" accent!
5. Children acquire sign language in the same way they acquire spoken language
The stages of sign language acquisition are the same as those for spoken language. Babies start by "babbling" with their hands. When they first start producing words, they substitute easier handshapes for more difficult ones, making for cute "baby pronunciations." They start making sentences by stringing signs together and only later get control of all the grammatical rules. Most importantly, as seen in the above video, they learn through natural interaction with the people around them.
6. Brain damage affects sign language in the same way it affects spoken language.
When fluent signers have a stroke or brain injury, they may lose the ability to sign, but not to make imitative or non-sign gestures. They may be able to produce signs, but not put them in the correct grammatical configurations. They may be able to produce sentences, but with the signs formed incorrectly, creating a strange accent. They may be able to sign quickly and easily, but without making any sense. We know from studying speaking people that "making sounds" is quite different from "using language" because these functions are affected differently by brain damage. The same is true for signers. Neurologically, making gestures is quite different from using sign language.
7. Sign language is a visual language.
This one is pretty obvious, but it's important to mention. Sign language is just like spoken language in many ways, but it's also different. Sign can be very straightforward and formal, but it can also take full advantage of its visual nature for expressive or artistic effect, as shown in the story in this video. Which, when you think about it, doesn't make sign language all that different after all. For expressive purposes, we can take full advantage of spoken language's auditory nature. We can also take advantage of facial expressions and gestures when we speak. Everything that would be in an artistic spoken performance—the words, the ordering of clauses, the pauses, the breath intake, the intonation and melody, the stressing or deemphasizing of sounds, the facial and vocal emotion, the body posture and head and hand gestures—come through together in sign language. It looks amazing not because it shows us what sign language can do, but because it shows us what language does.
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Set the Stage for a Snow Day…at School with some quick and easy classroom hacks and activities!
We are finally feeling the winter here in the Northeast, which means my students will be yearning for a snow day every time it flurries. Which also means that if those flurries do not stick, students are stuck at school and forced to watch the snow from the classroom. Bummer!
Here are some quick and easy ways we celebrate a snow day (while still being in school) with the added bonus of helping students get those extra wiggles out that snow flurries seem to bring!
There are lots of fireplace videos on Youtube. Most are an hour long which means you can use them to time subjects too. My favorite video available here is of an actual fireplace, which even shows a random person stoking the fire occasionally. I leave the volume on as well since the cracking logs adds to the atmosphere.
If you want to have your fire going for longer than an hour, I recommend copying the URL of the video and pasting it into the website Infinite Looper. Click search then set the video as full screen. Infinite looper basically loops the YouTube video so when it comes to the end, it will automatically replay. This is perfect for setting and forgetting a background video like the ones I have shared here.
If it isn't snowing, but your students REALLY wish it was, I also love this Snow Falling video. You can paste this URL into Infinite Looper for a full virutal snow day!
There is just something about a mug – they are Demi Lovato's favorite dish after all – that feels cozy.
I keep a stash of disposable plastic mugs just for a snowy non snow day at school. Write student names with sharpie on the side and distribute. We fill ours with water and students sip from it during read to self or independent work. I like the plastic mugs because they are reusable all year, but if you are concerned about spills, the paper ones work well too – especially if you use the sleeves Starbucks-style.
However, you may also want to consider having students bring a mug from home or keep a collection of thrifted ceramic ones on hand. Using the real deal will make students more likely to buy-in.
The best part of a snow day are the snow balls! While there are kits of fake snowballs you can purchase, you can make your own set (or have students help) using just white nylons and poly fill. I followed this tutorial to create a class set. Each nylon sock will make about 3 snowballs.
White athletic socks turned inside-out and filled with cotton balls work great in a pinch too. If you are somewhat crafty, you can sew the opening shut or use velcro.
Have students keep these in their desk as a fidget, or if you have a Smartboard, they can toss these at the board to answer questions. Once you make a set, you can bring these out all winter long.
So this one isn't that special, just literally tell you students to get on the floor and make a snow angel. Obviously remind your students to spread out at least an arms-length apart.
This is a silly but oh-so-fun energizer brain break students will love. One year a student told me it was like being a turtle flipped on his shell doing jumping jacks. You will never not see that!
Have students use their big bulky jackets, scarves, hats, etc. and chairs for this mini STEM challenge. I had students work in pairs or teams of 3. The challenge was to build a fort where they could read for independent reading time. They had 10 minutes. I was not strict about it having roofs or 4 walls or anything in particular.
This quick team-building activity got students communicating, working together, and problem solving all while getting some of that extra energy out. Plus they ended up with a pretty rad place to read.
I hope this gives you some ideas for making a chilly winter day a little different and fun (without changing the whole routine) and for giving students some built-in breaks from the cabin fever that can set in on cold, snowy non snow day! Even if you live somewhere warm, have a snow day at school just because!
What fun this would be! Such clever ideas. My favorite is the looping fire. There's something about it that just soothes the soul.


Rapid City Nursery School open house Wednesday September 5th 2012. Open to all children aged 3-5. Medical number and first months fee required upon registration.
Please use North Door, located off back alley at rear of Library.