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Venchi: passion and quality from 1878
Innovate, experiment and craft chocolate in all its forms to offer unforgettable tasting experiences has been Venchi's mission since its foundation in 1878, when 18-year-old Silviano Venchi opened his dream shop in Turin, the cradle of Gianduja and Italian confectionery. More than a century later, Venchi is still committed to excellence and produces its broad range of chocolates with unvaried passion and artisanal attention to detail. Every day, selected raw materials are crafted by expert hands to create unique recipes where tradition and innovation come together. Centuries-old recipes like the Gianduja – a fine mix of chocolate and hazelnut paste invented by Italian chocolatiers in 1806 – the Nougatine and Cremino 1878, go hand in hand with more innovative flavours, such as the balsamic Vinegar of Modena chocolate, the exotic Colonial chocolates and the sweet and savoury Chocaviar crème pistachio. By producing in small batches, Venchi guarantees maximum quality control, craftsmanship and freshness. Several recipes, such as the Nougat and Prendivoglia chocolate, are still made by hand. Venchi uses only natural, wholesome ingredients of controlled origin: fine cocoa from selected plantations in Latin America and Western Africa, Piedmont hazelnuts, Sicilian pistachios and almonds, cocoa butter and olive oil. Each product is a unique tasting experience where the best and most genuine ingredients selected all over the world get together with authentic Italian flavours to reach the perfect balance. All products are free from hydrogenated fats, palm oil, preservatives, colourings, additives and artificial aromas. The Chocogelaterie, luxury chocolate boutiques designed with a fresh Italian touch, showcase Venchi's 360° chocolate experience at its best. Chocolate is explored in all its nuances and forms through an experiential journey spanning from classic chocolates, pralines and chocolate bars to hazelnut and chocolate spreads, different flavours of gelato, hot chocolate and other hot or cold drinks like Bicerin and Affogato. A broad offer of daily treats to please all palate. Venchi has been working with local farmers in Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru to produce its exclusive organic single origin chocolate range: Ecuador Intense, Venezuela Full Taste and Peru Pleasant. This comes as part of the company's commitment to search for unique as well as sustainable raw materials. The cacao growers of the Tena region of Ecuador, for instance, still cultivate the land following an ancestral method of farming that fosters biodiversity and produce for Venchi one of the world's finest cocoas: the Fino Aromatico. Venchi products are sold in more than 70 mono-brand shops and are selectively distributed in delicatessen shops and luxury retailers, high-end department stores, malls and airports across 70 countries, including the US, Brasil, Far East , China, Japan, Korea, the UK and Germany.
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The school is located at a prime location in Behala, Kolkata. The school is affiliated to West Bengal Board. The students appear in Xth and XIIth standard examinations from this school. All three streams (Humanities, Commerce & Science) are available for the students of X+II level. The school is a Girls' school. The school is funded by the Deptt. of Education, Government of West Bengal.
The library and laboratories of the school maintain fairly high standard. There is no canteen facility for the students of the school. There is no hostel attached to the school. The academic standard of the school is good and has been improving every year. The medium of instruction is Bengali, but the students can also write the answer-script in English. The teachers are experienced and the standard of teaching is praiseworthy.
The school is located at a prime location. So, the accessibility is good. But the school does not have its own transport facility. Due to space crunch, students get less opportunity for sports and other extra-curricular activities.


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More respiratory therapists needed at NRGH
The Health Sciences Association of B.C. wants Vancouver Island Health Authority to hire more respiratory therapists for Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.
VIHA says it wants to raise staffing levels, but can't find people to fill the positions.
"There have been times at Nanaimo where one respiratory therapist has been on for a 24-hour period," said Reid Johnson, association president. "So the respiratory therapists at Nanaimo have filed several grievances about dangerous workloads and dangerous conditions."
Johnson said respiratory therapists - health-care professionals specially trained in setting up and operating oxygenation equipment, ventilators and other devices, plus specific medications used in respiratory therapies - are fatigued. Dangerous conditions for patients and staff are created, which could lead to a situation where a single therapist on a shift might have to choose between treating a heart-attack patient in the emergency ward and a patient in respiratory distress in another ward.
"Those are the kinds of things that are happening," Reid said. "They are hugely busy all the time because there's a critical shortage of respiratory therapists at Nanaimo and other places as well."
Regular staffing at NRGH sees two respiratory therapists on day shift, two therapists on night shift, plus one extra therapist for six hours Monday through Friday.
Colleen Butcher, director of medicine for VIHA, said all respiratory therapist positions are filled at NRGH, but two therapists have been off work unexpectedly for the last four to six weeks.
"If someone is off because of illness or injury then we need to shuffle people again to fill in the shift," Butcher said. "We have posted one regular position to help us recruit someone. As you can imagine, it's difficult to hire people for casual work because casual work isn't guaranteed work, so we have posted one full-time position."
Because there are no casual respiratory therapists available on the Island to fill vacant shifts, regularly scheduled therapists are swapped in where possible.
"We have been made aware that there have been two or three occasions when an RT elected to stay for an additional shift, because they felt there was a need to do so," Butcher said.
WorkSafe B.C. investigated, ordering VIHA to have a plan for adequate staffing in place and a stated range of duties for the staff.
"We do take workplace safety very seriously and we work very closely with WorkSafe B.C. to provide a healthy workplace," Butcher said. "We don't require staff to work excessive hours or risk their safety due to fatigue and we certainly appreciate the patience and support of people who are impacted by this situation."
The association is citing the shortage of respiratory therapists at NRGH as a localized example of a provincewide issue. Johnson said B.C. is short 2,000 health science professionals provincewide, adding that not only can health-care professionals earn more money elsewhere, but also not enough new health-care professionals are being trained in B.C.
"For the last 10 years, this government has been committed to doubling the number of training spaces for doctors and nurses and also regionalized those training spaces around the province and they've been successful at that," Johnson said. "We haven't had the same political will to do the same for health science professions ... We do have a problem in that we're not training enough health science professionals and we're not paying them competitive wages. We're not able to retain them."
B.C.'s health science professionals have been without a contract since March. Contract bargaining broke off Oct. 31.
The association issued 72-hours strike notice Friday after the Health Employers' Association of B.C. - the provincial government's bargaining agent - called the unions back to the table Thursday, but failed to appear itself. It could not guarantee it would appear until Friday (Nov. 30).
Johnson said strike notice does not mean British Columbians will find health- care facilities behind picket lines. Job action could range from limiting administrative duties, to a ban on overtime or study sessions, to a full withdrawal of service.

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When Ponce de Leon landed on our state's eastern shore, in 1513, he found a "land of flowers." He named the territory La Florida, for the Spanish word flor. Flowers continue to inspire us with their delicate beauty and promise of growth and hope. (conceptualized in 2013, installed in 2014)
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Xavier Cortada, "Flor," stone mosaic, 2013
A public art project at Collins Park Apartments (Miami-Dade Housing Authority), Miami, FL
In 1513, when Ponce de Leon exited his galleon and stepped foot on a Florida beach, everything changed. With that one step Old met New.
Every resident that comes through this front door will also bring change. They bring with them a lifetime of experiences.
This piece welcomes people to the building. A building named after one of our community's pioneers. Since Collins' arrivals, others have made their homes here.
For our family, the children of two Cuban refugees who met and married in Miami, our first home was across the street. It was then 3701 NW 19th Ave. We arrived in Florida in the summer of 1967; I took my first steps there. I planted my first garden there. And lived there until I was ten.
After that, the 1926 Mediterranean-style home with three mango trees in the back and a coconut tree in the front was purchased and knocked down by the school board to make room for the high school's expanding foot print.
History marches forward…
One might view the artwork I created for these public housing sites as simply conveying an outward beauty. However, all of these works are layered in history, connecting pioneers from the past with pioneers of the present. Connecting the residents with a child whose first footsteps were across the street. The artwork asks you to think of your role in history, it invites you to an open conversation about our impact on those around us. My role has been one of object making, but more importantly as a conceptual artist, in creating points of reflection.
A painting I saw by Salvador Dali, in St. Petersburg, of a young Christopher Columbus taking his first step into the New World still resonates with me. The idea of a first step carries a significance, like Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon. For the White House, I created a mural called "Stepping Into the American Dream." Similarly I created a painting of Juan Ponce de Leon taking his first step in Florida among a bunch of mangroves.
I created a piece at the entry point of this building that basically acts as a welcome mat. In many ways this threshold is transformational. In the physical sense, this building transformed my old city block into something completely different. As a child, the last thing I could imagine as I looked out my front porch window is this large apartment building. But, 40 years later, here it is. It is transformational for the community.
Lastly, it's a transformation for anyone who steps across the stone mosaic. These residents and their families can find comfort in being housed, not in a dilapidated housing unit, but instead in a building that could be a condo on Collins Avenue on Miami Beach. All the residents who have arrived here are taking a step to transform their lives.
The whole community can take pride in seeing this modern building, giving low income residents a path forward. A beautiful building, laden with art created by an artist who as a child lived across the street and whose low-income household was also shown a path forward. A path to finding the American Dream.
Every time the tenants step into this building, the mosaic can be a reminder of the first steps they have taken in life. Just as Ponce de Leon's first step onto our shores changed the course of history, I want the people who step on this flower to realize that they too can begin a sequence of change.
Conceptually, by placing a flower dedicated to the person who discovered our state, named it after flowers, and initiated the events that lead us to today, I hope that this building acts as a first step for the transformation of my old neighborhood. And in the lives of all who, as I did once, call it home.
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John McAfee Says the Feds Seized All His Assets: 'I Have No Hidden Crypto, I Have Nothing, I Regret Nothing'
Antivirus tycoon John McAfee says he has no hidden cryptocurrencies, no assets left as there were all seized by the Feds, no friends, and no regrets. He has shared his story from prison, where he says he has "never felt more free."
McAfee Says He Has No Cryptocurrencies, No Assets, No Friends but Also No Regrets
John McAfee is still in a Spanish prison after he was arrested in October last year. He was charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with fraudulently pumping initial coin offerings (ICOs) and was indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for "tax evasion and willful failure to file tax returns," fraud, and money laundering conspiracy crimes. Early this month, the National Court of Spain suspended his extradition hearing.
McAfee tweeted from prison Wednesday:
The US believes I have hidden crypto. I wish I did but it has dissolved through the many hands of Team McAfee (your belief is not required), and my remaining assets are all seized. My friends evaporated through fear of association. I have nothing. Yet, I regret nothing.
Last month, he shared what his prison life in Catalonia was like via Twitter. "Imagine preschool where the kids use drugs, carry makeshift weapons and the teachers tase you for asking questions." During his early days in prison, he was still pumping his ghost cryptocurrency.
In a different tweet, he described: "I speak no Catalan and little Spanish so human contact is limited. There are no entertainments – no escape from loneliness, from emptiness, from myself. This has been the most trying period of my life."
He tweeted in May:
I am almost 76 and have been in prison, without bail, for seven months. Not much for a younger man in his 40s or even 50s. But for me, its likely a significant percent of my remaining days on this earth. A lesson in our system of justice.
McAfee noted that "The worst thing about Spanish prisons is the food. If I never again have to eat stale bread and a cold hot dog my life would be complete … Most prison food in Spain is indistinguishable from rat shit in motor oil. The single exception is potato pie, which is only served on Saturdays."
The antivirus tycoon further opined:
I once had everything. After uncountable lawsuits and the reach of the Fed's, I now have nothing. But inside these prison bars, I have never felt more free. The things you believe you own, in reality own you.
McAfee's wife, Janice, tweeted on May 26 that Tesla CEO Elon Musk "has moved the crypto markets with his tweets far greater than John McAfee could ever have and he continues to do so, with impunity, while John faces the real possibility of dying in prison for allegedly engaging in similar activities."
What do you think about John McAfee's situation? Let us know in the comments section below.
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The Committee Stage Debate or the Debate on the Third Reading of the 2019 Budget is due to get underway for a 12th day today in Parliament.
Accordingly, Expenditure Heads of Ministries of Public Enterprise, Kandyan Heritage and Kandy Development, Digital Infrastructure and Information Technology, Science, Technology and Research are due to be taken up for debate today.
Minister Arjuna Ranatunga meanwhile says there should be an immediate change with regards to the present situation of cricket in Sri Lanka.
Speaking during the Committee Stage Debate in Parliament yesterday, Minister Ranatunga said the recent disorganised administration negatively impacted cricket in Sri Lanka.
Minister of Sports Harin Fernando joining the debate said that the national players cannot play cricket according to Facebook experts.
In a defiant tone, Sports Minister Fernando said the public cannot expect Sri Lankan cricketers to play according to Facebook experts nor can the Facebook experts be appointed as coaches.
The Minister said he believes that the cricket administration should set up a happy dressing room and help unite the team.
Accordingly, the Sports Ministry is expected to launch an orientation program for all sports teams in the country.
Minister of Sports Harin Fernando added that more than the outcome of the game, the players should learn discipline adding that Sri Lanka will also benefit from disciplined players.


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UO Administration Addresses Demands from Black Students
Published December 16, 2015 at 2:16 PM PST
Last month black students at the University of Oregon met with President Schill to discuss challenges African-Americans face on campus. After that meeting, the Black Student Task Force published a list of demands addressed to UO's administration.
Demands from the Task Force include hiring more black Faculty and increasing scholarship opportunities for African-American students.
Dr. Yvette Alex-Assensoh is the Vice President for Equity and Inclusion at the U of O. She says these requests are reasonable.
Alex-Assensoh: "After engaging with the students the president immediately began to think about what are the demands and who in the University can I charge with the responsibility for moving forward in thinking about how we address these things."
Alex-Assensoh says the administration established a 13 person committee; one person for each of the student demands.
One issue involves the oldest building on the U of O campus, Deady Hall. It's named after Matthew Deady, who, in 1857, supported a constitutional ban on black people moving to Oregon.
The vice president says what's happening here is part of a larger movement.
Alex-Assensoh: "Issue of poverty, issues of educational attainment, especially inequalities in the educational arena, are part of discrimination that go back, really go back to slavery."
Alex-Assensoh says universities are essential in researching and addressing entrenched racism. She's hopeful the U of O's response to the list of demands is suitable.
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Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware the rake was different. You are correct that I need a 2" rake fork and I do have one I'm going to paint yellow if I can't find a Fat Chance fork. The one I have isn't marked and I'm not sure what it came off of.
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Nice boat! What's the bridge clearance?
I actually don't know. I don't have any bridges near me. Let me do some digging and find out.
Bump- looking for a 30-32 cc.
Aruba is a little far for me...lol.. Will be posting it with broker to handle all the request on Monday. Just pending installation of sea deck and Llebroc seats that were already paid prior to decision to sell.
What is total fuel capacity?
i have a scout 280 sportfish with 2017 Suzuiks 200 with 183 hours.
there is a trailer. It's only used once a year so it's not in the greatest shape. But works well for short trips, it's an aluminum trailer. I am sorry I am really looking for a center console not a sport fish. Also fuel capacity is 355.
Scout 280 sportfish is a center console I am not sure why they named it sportfish.
Is the boat still for sale. Is there any rear seating and is there cushions for the front boxes? Pictures if possible.
Boat is is under contract as of today. If it falls thru will advice. Yes the front has cushions they are just not used and stored in my garage. Non are ripped.


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Mozambique: UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom meets the child cyclone survivors who've lost everything
May 30, 2019 Village Reporter
During the week, the actor travelled to the coastal city of Beira, one of the areas worst-affected by Cyclone Idai, which killed over 600 people and destroyed nearly 240,000 homes when it made landfall in March.
Sitting on the sandy floor of a tent at the Samora Machel site for internally displaced people, named after the country's founding president, Mr. Bloom listened to children recount devastating stories of how they lost everything in the cyclone.
Thirteen-year-old Alzina Lopes described the moment Cyclone Idai made landfall, leaving her stranded in waist-deep floodwaters. Now she wants to go back to school, and dreams of becoming a traffic officer.
"It's remarkable to see children, who have been through so much, gain a sense of normality in the safe spaces set up by UNICEF, where they are free to sing, dance, play and just be children," said the Goodwill Ambassador.
"These are children and young people with dreams, they want to be in school", he continued "but almost everyone I've met here has lost their classrooms, their books and crucial identification documents due to the cyclones".
Mr. Bloom said that it was "heartbreaking" that without IDs "they are unregistered, almost invisible and vulnerable to exploitation".
In the aftermath of tropical cyclones Idai and Kenneth, 1.1 million children remain in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
UNICEF is supporting families affected by the cyclones to either return home or relocate to safer places. It is also providing healthcare, nutrition, education, sanitation and protection services.
In the days following the storm, UNICEF and its partners restored water supplies to thousands of people in Beira and procured and administered one million doses of the cholera vaccine, curbing a large outbreak.
At the Mutua resettlement area in the city, currently home to around 1,500 cyclone-affected people – half of whom are youth – Mr. Bloom danced and sang with young children and spoke to them about their hopes and dreams.
The actor also visited a primary school in Beira, which the students themselves repaired after the cyclone.
Wrapping up his trip, Mr. Bloom spent an afternoon with young volunteers at an interfaith group on the beachfront – a poignant venue, as the deadly storm barrelled in from the sea. They told him that the pain and suffering they saw after the cyclones, had strengthened their resolve to help others.
"Thousands of children and families in Mozambique have seen their lives upended by these devastating cyclones and it's going to be a long road back," said UNICEF Mozambique Representative, Marcoluigi Corsi. "We're working on the ground with our partners to help get children and their families back on their feet by providing support in healthcare, nutrition, education and protection".
Mr. Corsi pointed out that as part of the recovery effort, "we're also trying to help affected communities become more resilient to future weather-related events that could happen more often because of climate change".
UNICEF has launched an appeal for $122 million to support its humanitarian response for children and families devastated by the storm and its aftermath in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
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Paraprotomyzon est un genre de poissons téléostéens de la famille des Gastromyzontidae et de l'ordre des Cypriniformes.

Liste des espèces
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 Paraprotomyzon bamaensis Tang, 1997
 Paraprotomyzon lungkowensis Xie, Yang & Gong, 1984
 Paraprotomyzon multifasciatus Pellegrin & Fang, 1935
 Paraprotomyzon niulanjiangensis Lu, Lu & Mao, 2005
 Paraprotomyzon yunnanensis Li, Lu & Mao, 1998 - non reconnu par M. Kottelat

Notes et références

Références taxinomiques

Gastromyzontidae
Cypriniformes (nom scientifique)

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Campus of the future
Stephen Hoare
Tue 4 Dec 2007 18.57 EST
Enter the 3D virtual world of Second Life for the chance to live out your dreams - own a huge mansion with a swimming pool, sail a luxury yacht, and possess Hollywood good looks. Critics accuse Second Lifers as self-indulgent fantasists but some universities are discovering instead that immersive games technology encourages students to explore and experiment in ways that would be impossible in the real world.
In May 2007 the education charity, Eduserv Foundation, held a symposium on Second Life entitled Virtual Worlds: Real Learning. The event highlighted the fact that 15 UK universities had bought virtual land in Second Life and that hundreds of UK academics were actively experimenting and exchanging information through online networks.
Front-runner Edinburgh University has already introduced classes in Second Life as part of its MSc in e-learning. And this month as part of its ongoing Second Life: Advanced Learning (Seal) project, Leicester University launches Media Zoo, a Second Life cyber forum where academics can see applications showcased. "We have 600 members of our online 'Beyond Distance' forum - a group of academics looking at future pedagogy," says Leicester's Gilly Salmon, professor of elearning and learning technologies.
The student experience is potentially more intense than current e-learning portals. Andrew Jinman, a final year BSc in digital art and technology at Plymouth University, did his dissertation on Second Life. "A website is a very isolated place where learning is one way," he says. "But with web 2.0 and Second Life, 40 people could come together to experience the same set of events. It's much more collaborative."
Jinman came to the virtual world through his passion for gaming and a keen interest in the dungeons and dragons virtual reality site, World of Warcraft. "When I was doing my dissertation I met this American academic in Second Life and we have been working collaboratively ever since."
Jinman now works for the new media production company TwoFour Communications and is helping to design Leicester's Media Zoo.
The Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc) predicts that Second Life applications will have a major impact on HE pedagogy. Subject areas such as medicine, architecture, philosophy, maths and physics are keen to use 3D visualisation. Leicester's department of ancient history is using Second Life to get students to imagine what life was like for the Saami - a nomadic tribe of Lapland. Students' avatars meet each other in Second Life and try to build social relationships. Prof Salmon is delighted with the results. "We get students to talk and interact. By experimenting what the Saami society might have looked like, students are excited and engaged."
Jisc programme manager Lawrie Phipps says: "We're going to see some very interesting Second Life projects as part of Jisc's £4m users and innovation programme which we're funding till March 2009." Jisc expects to announce around 20 projects for funding, of which up to half will be Second Life applications.
Coventry University claims to be the first to use Second Life as a vehicle for problem-based learning. Launched this academic year, Coventry's new online distance learning MSc in health and social care management requires students to undertake three problem-solving assignments a term in Second Life.
Student avatars enter Second Life to find themselves confronted by a situation demanding instant decisions. It might be a phone ringing and a voice describing a life or death situation that calls for some serious counselling. Or it could be a social casework scenario told in pictures or a virtual patient suffering from hallucinations and withdrawal symptoms as a result of treatment for drug addiction.
The new format for MSc teaching is the brainchild of Maggi Savin-Baden, professor of higher education research and an expert in problem-based learning. Savin-Baden, a reassuring figure with brown curly hair and glasses but whose avatar is freaky goth with purple and black big hair (right), says: "Much of higher education is text-focused. But Second Life requires problems to be visual. Students can engage in complex activities where there isn't necessarily a right answer.
"The problem-solving approach has been gathering momentum over the past five years and is being used in subjects as diverse as medicine, physics and English."
Coventry started getting serious about Second Life this year when it teamed up with the regional development agency, Advantage West Midlands, to launch the Serious Games Institute to promote Second Life and web 2.0 technologies in teaching. In fact, Coventry has just bought its own "island" from Second Life creator Linden Lab (a Silicon Valley software house) for £9,000. And it has hired students to help build a virtual campus known as the Edge project.
Over at Oxford University, the department of continuing education and lifelong learning is experimenting with Second Life to strengthen the bond with adult distance learning students on short courses. Once again what Oxford is doing is a "first". David White, manager of technology-assisted lifelong learning (Tall) explains: "We're creating a virtual campus using Open Sim, a open source version of Second Life. This is free, home-grown software which anyone can access." So, no need to fork out Linden dollars to buy an island!
According to White, higher education applications for Second Life are coming so thick and fast that the virtual world is spinning out of Linden Lab's control.
"Developers are modifying Second Life and finding new ways to connect with it. We are looking at using a Wii mote (a games console joystick) to move avatars around faster. The benefit is ultimately control.
"If we can push up the open source version of Second Life, we can control what server it's on, who has access to it, whether it's upgraded or not and who owns the intellectual property rights of stuff that's built in it."
As yet Oxford's campus remains unpopulated but soon distance learning students could be enjoying virtual debates and meeting in a 3D version of a college junior common room.
Coventry, too, is developing like mad. It has hooked its Second Life island up to the university virtual learning environment using a home-grown application developed by Daniel Livingston of Paisley University called Sloodle (a second life "moodle"). "As we use Web CT and Blackboard, we're calling our interface 'Slackboard'," says Coventry's Savin-Baden.
Coventry University: coventry.ac.uk/researchnet
Edinburgh University: education.ed.ac.uk/e-learning
Leicester University: le.ac.uk/beyonddistance/mediazoo
Oxford University: tall.ox.ac.uk


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All My Enemies
Baron, Stanley
New York: Ballantine Books, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Small Octavo [8], 247, [5] pages, hardcover in dust jacket. Communist agent arrives in the U.S. to persuade a scientist to defect to the Soviet Union. He also gets involved with some American women who suspect he's up to.....	More
The Climate of Treason: Five Who Spied for Russia
Boyle, Andrew
London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1979. First U.K. Edition, Third Printing. The book that led to the unmasking of Anthony Blunt as the "Fourth Man" in the Cambridge spy ring. Octavo, 504 pages. Corners bumped, especially at top of both front and rear, leading to some creasing of pages.....	More
The Clandestine War in Europe (1942-1945). Remarks of William J. Casey on receipt of the William J. Donovan Awards at Dinner of Veterans of O.S.S., December 5, 1974
Casey, William J.
No place of publication stated: [Veterans of the Office of Strategic Services], 1974. No edition stated. Small 4to (10 1/2 inches / 267 mm), [12 pages] in stapled wrappers. Governmental department stamp and log-in number on front wrapper, two horizontal folds for mailing. A Very Good copy.Transcript of a speech.....	More
An Expensive Place to Die
Deighton, Len
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. First American Edition, 1st Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 215 x 142 mm), 252 pages, in quarter cloth over boards, gold titles to spine. With the dust jacket and the scarce "In Transit Docket."Strange things take place in a Paris brothel.....	More
The Lights of Skaro
Dodge, David
New York: Random House, Inc., 1954. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 248 pages, in quarter cloth over paper boards, titles to upper board and to spine. Very Good or better in a Very Good dust jacket. Some light toning to.....	More
Déricourt: The Chequered Spy
Fuller, Jean Overton
Salisbury, U.K. Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd., 1989. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (9 1/2 inches / 240 mm), viii, 407 pages, in publisher's original blue cloth. Foxing and a bit of soiling to top and fore edges. The dust jacket has some minor edge wear. A Very Good copy.The author.....	More
Absolute Friends
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 155 mm), 455, [1] pages, in red and black boards, title to spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Boards rubbed, dust jacket shows light edge wear.Two friends.....	More
The Honourable Schoolboy
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1977. First Edition. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm), 532 pages, blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket.A John Le Carré thriller set in Asia, once again featuring George Smiley. End papers feature Asian maps. CONDITION..... More
The Looking Glass War
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1965. First American Edition, 1st Printing. 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 218 x 145 mm), 320 pages, black cloth, gilt titles to spine, in a price-clipped illustrated dust jacket.The Russians are secretly putting missiles in East Germany. Or are they? British spies attempt to.....	More
The Clandestine Muse
LeCarre, John
Portland, Oregon: Charles Seluzicki Fine Books, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (230 x 9 x 5 1/4 inches; 230 x 130 mm), [22] pages, in brown wrappers bound into marbled paper wrappers. SIGNED by John LeCarre on the colophon. The text of an entertaining talk by.....	More
The Innocent
McEwan, Ian
London: Jonathan Cape, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 231 pages. SIGNED by Ian McEwan on the title page. His fourth novel, a spy thriller set in 1955 Berlin. CONDITION: Fine in a Fine dust jacket.	More
Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War
Murphy, David E.; Kondrashev, Sergei A.; Bailey, George
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo, pp. xxv, 530 pages.An insiders' account of the espionage battle in Berlin between the CIA and the KGB from the end of World War II to the building of the Wall in 1961. These authors certainly know.....	More
I Led 3 Lives: Citizen,"Communist," Counterspy
Philbrick, Herbert A.
New York: Capitol Hill Press, 1972. Revised Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front end paper: "Many thanks - / to / Tom Moran / Herbert A. Philbrick / 1972." Philbrick's account of his nine years in the Communist Party working as a spy for the FBI. Originally published.....	More
Rotten With Honour
Robinson, Derek
New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1973. First American Edition, 1st Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm), 244 pages, in light gray boards, titles in black to spine, silhouette of a spy to upper board, pink topstain. Tiny ink mark near top of fore.....	More
Into the Mirror: The Life of Master Spy Robert P. Hanssen
Schiller, Lawrence [Mailer, Norman]
New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2002. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Lawrence Schiller on the title page (under which the word "and" has been written and then marked through). Based on research and interviews by Lawrence Schiller and Norman Mailer, the book presents a psychological portrait of FBI agent.....	More
Breaking With Moscow
Shevchenko, Arkady N.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. A high-level Soviet diplomat working at the United Nations seeks asylum in the U.S. This is his story, along with vivid portraits of Soviet leaders and a look at what takes place in the Politburo and in the world of espionage. Octavo.....	More
The Spy Who Got Away: The Inside Story of Edward Lee Howard, the CIA Agent Who Betrayed His Country's Secrets and Escaped to Moscow
Wise, David
New York: Random House, 1988. Book club edition. A riveting look at the case of Edward Lee Howard, who worked for the CIA and defected to the Soviet Union in 1985. Two years later, Howard secretly met in Budapest with the author, David Wise, to tell his version of events.....	More


Waddington Airfield opened as a Royal Flying Corps training station in 1916, its primary task to train new pilots. In 1920 the station was put on care and maintenance. During the next few years the station was enlarged and new buildings and hangars were added.
Waddington was also the home to No. 503 (Bombing) Squadron manned by part-time volunteers. It was equipped with the Fairey Fawn, which was a light day-bomber.
In 1929 the squadron re-equipped with the Handley Page Hyderabad heavy night-bomber, which was partially wooden.
In 1933 the Hyderabad was replaced with the Handley Page Hinaidi, which was of all-metal construction.
In October 1935, 503 Squadron changed its role once again and became a day-bomber squadron with the Westland Wallace aircraft.
These aircraft were then replaced with the Hawker Hind which the squadron operated until they disbanded in 1938.
No. 50 Squadron reformed at Waddington in May 1937 with the Hawker Hind biplane which were replaced by the Bristol Blenheim and were later replaced with the Handley Page Hampden in December 1939.
As time went by the Hampdens were replaced with the Avro Manchester, in fact Waddington was the first station to operate the Manchester.
In December 1941 the Avro Lancaster entered service with 44 Squadron and one of their pilots, Squadron Leader John Nettleton, was awarded the Victoria Cross for his part in an attack on a German U-boat engine factory.
During 1943 concrete runways were laid and when these were finished two Lancaster squadrons from the Royal Australian Air Force arrived. After the Second World War had ended Waddington was home to other squadrons flying aircraft such as the Avro Lincoln and B-29 Washington.
In 1953 Waddington was yet again put on care and maintenance while being readied for new heavier aircraft.
Waddington then became the home to Canberras from 21 and 27 Squadrons but both these squadrons were disbanded in 1957 when Waddington became a Vulcan base.
The Avro Vulcan was stationed at Waddington for over twenty-five years and included No. 44, 50, 83 and 101 Squadrons.
No. 50 Squadron was the last squadron to operate the Vulcan. It reformed at Waddington on the 1st August 1962 and was still operating the Vulcan B2s at the time of the Falklands War. Two crews from 50 Squadron were selected for Operation Black Buck missions and with the continued need to operate flights to the south atlantic after the Falklands Conflict it was decided to convert six 50 Squadron Vulcans to single-point tankers, and these aircraft remained in service until No. 50 Squadron disbanded on the 31st March 1984.
The last flying Vulcan, XH558 continued to operate from Waddington thrilling the crowds up and down the country with its spirited flying displays. In 1993 XH558 was herself retired to Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire, but several years later after extensive engineering work was once back in the air thrilling the public at major air shows.
In 1995 Nimrod R1 aircraft of 51 Squadron arrived at Waddington having relocated from RAF Wyton where they had been in residence for over twenty years.
In fact Nimrods from 51 Squadron operated from Waddington up until 2011.
With the imminent retirement of 51 Squadron's Nimrods RAF Waddington hosted the Nimrod parade, which was the chance to say a final farewell to the Nimrod. Air Chief Marshal Sir Steven Dalton Chief of the Air Staff was the reviewing officer. Nimrod R1 XW664 was used as a backdrop for the parade which was attended by squadron members past and present as well as invited guests, friends and families. At the end of the parade Nimrod R1 XV249 overflew XW664 and the guests in a poignant farewell.
On Tuesday 12th July Nimrod R1 XW664 left Waddington inbound for its new home at the East Midlands Air Museum, after a final flypast XW664 landed and backtracked past the waiting crowds watching from the museum on the other side of the airfield. Awaiting the aircraft were the airport fire trucks who were the guard of honour for XW664's arrival, which taxied through the water jets before coming to a halt and shutting down the engines for the very last time. The aircraft was decommissioned and positioned in the museum at a later date.
Nimrod XV249 made history when she left Waddington on Friday 29th July. This was the last Nimrod flight and after several flypasts, XV249 departed Waddington and headed down south to Kemble Airport to be dismantled and taken by road to Cosford Air Museum.
RAF Waddington continues to be the home to the Boeing E-3 Sentry Early Warning Aircraft and the Sentinel R1 of No. 5 Squadron and looks forward to receiving the Boeing RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft in due course.
Many thanks to RAF Waddington's media team and the station Heritage Centre for their help compiling this page.


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ON HUMANLY BY STEVIE EDWARDS
SMALL DOGGIES PRESS, 2015
REVIEW BY ARIELLA CARMELL
Somewhere up there, Anne Sexton is nodding her head with approval; Stevie Edwards's Humanly takes its cues from the canon of confessional poets, trawling through the depths of depression, misogyny, and mania. These weighty matters are often placed against the backdrop of folklore and the swirling gray of winter, juxtaposing the ephemeral element of her bare body with transcendental forces. In "To Houdini," Edwards empathizes with the magician's illusions and false escapes, noting, "There's a theatrics to escaping ruin/that has to be honed./The world wants to see you struggle/loosening the straitjacket's hold" (12). Her collection comprises this act of dramatics, as she shapes her own compressed form of ruin into a menagerie of verse and lyricism.
Throughout the rhapsody, Humanly is embedded with sleek metal razors of doleful observations. Its most potent moments are often the most prose-like—sharp, declarative statements that are all the more piercing because of their surrounding abstractions. In "Theory of Time," Edwards sets up a challenging and sardonic voice that barks through nearly every poem, saying, "Try this: my bed is covered in Kleenex and late bills" (10). For someone who can deftly pen a winding turn of phrase ("Which witch this scuttling is: I am and have been/what goes drown in the night, what lost fathoms spit back/dripping magic, some of it good, most of it obscene" (51)), these frank moments come as surprises that both moor the rest of the poems and give us a glimpse of the poet as reflected in a mirror of the psyche.
The focus of these poems, as the title suggests, never quite leaves the body but does transcend self-involvement, often musing on womanhood as a concept, as well as pop culture and current events. The bite of Edwards's narration is at its keenest with "Blurred Lines," a response to Robin Thicke's misogynistic mantra of the same name, in which she draws the parallel of the women as the animals the song makes them out to be. Only in her vision, these animals are not to be "domesticated" but are world-weary, learning to run from predators symbolized by men in department stores.
We, the predators, lost and hungry,
we, the big teeth, the hard shoulders,
we, the body, we the spirit of fast,
are licking the salt off necks again ("Blurred Lines," 1-4, p. 34.)
Edwards also reflects upon at length her own sense of womanhood that she tries to shape in spite of constant scrutiny. She projects a vision of fortitude, not passivity, on the daughter she wishes she could have, and in doing so aches for the same qualities for herself; "Let it be said that her mother/was a butcher. That she knew how/to gut a mammal without waste./That she never looked back" (49).
Edwards's poems are like gnashed teeth, gritty and taut. In drawing from the mystical even as she deals with the corporeality of her life, she surrounds herself with a self-created mythology, one in which women are wolves and Ithaca, New York is haunted with the ghost of her uncle as she watches The Walking Dead. The poems in Humanly are unbound by constraints of genre or even a unifying use of meter or structure, but they each ring in different pitches of Edwards's elegiac and oftentimes sardonic voice, woven together like the course of a single meandering thought.
Stevie Edwards is a poet, editor, educator, and advocate for mental health awareness. She is currently Editor-in-Chief at Muzzle Magazine, Acquisitions Editor at YesYes Books, and a Lecturer at Cornell University. Her first book, GOOD GRIEF (Write Bloody Publishing, 2012), won an open manuscript contest and received the Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze in Poetry and the Devil's Kitchen Reading Award from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale. Her poems have appeared in Verse Daily, Rattle, Devil's Lake, Indiana Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Cornell University and a BA from Albion College.
Humanly
by Stevie Edwards
Small Doggies Press, March 2015
$14.95 paperback, ISBN: 978-0-9848744-8-4
94 pp.
Ariella Carmell is a senior at Marlborough School in California, where she is Editor-in-Chief of the school literary magazine and Head Copy Editor of the newspaper. A Foyle Commended Poet of the Year and a recipient of three 2015 National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, she has published work in Cadaverine, Crack the Spine, Eunoia Review, and Canvas Literary Journal, among others. She has studied writing at the Center for Talented Youth, the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and Kenyon College, and hopes to pursue creative writing in all forms as much as she can in the future.


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We're at the heart of the global movement for a net-zero, climate-resilient future. A future where the greenhouse gas levels in our atmosphere are stabilized and where we take active steps to help people and nature adapt to the impacts of the climate crisis. A huge global effort is required to meet the challenge but we remain positive.
Putting pressure on governments
We're pushing governments to set ambitious policies that favour climate-resilient, net-zero development, energy efficiency, and clean renewable energy for all – and holding them to account.
Working with business
We're supporting businesses to cut their carbon emissions on a scale never seen before, and helping to reduce their impact in areas like agriculture, forests and water. We are also working with finance institutions to get money out of fossil fuels and into climate solutions such as renewable energy technology and forest restoration.
Helping people adapt
We're helping people and nature, from the Arctic to Antarctica, adapt to the changes caused by climate change that are no longer avoidable.
Creating strong alliances
From local government, universities and civil society organizations to indigenous peoples and faith communities, we're building alliances for a net-zero future.
The WWF Climate & Energy Team
With teams in over 80 countries, our experts work together to tackle the global climate crisis. Leading the team – called the WWF Climate & Energy Practice – is Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, who has 30 years' experience in environmental law and policy, serving as Minister of Environment of Peru (2011 to 2016) and President of the UNFCCC's COP20.
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Climate & Energy Practice Leader
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By 2030, an equitable and just transition is underway that limits warming to 1.5°C, protects people and nature, and builds a climate-resilient future.
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