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Welcome to St Andrew's Wallace Green and Lowick
In the light of the current lockdown and concerns for the safety of worshippers and their families, we have reluctantly decided to cancel in-person worship for the next two Sundays, the 10th and 17th January. The situation will be reviewed thereafter. We will still, however, be publishing online worship videos, which can be accessed below.
As we enter into a new year, we do so with a mixture of uncertainties and hopes. None of us can know for sure what the next months will hold. We do, however, step into the future with the conviction that God goes with us and that, as we hold on to God's hand, this will be better to us than a light and safer than a known way.
Keep well, Adam
Worship for the 17th January 2021
Our SAWG worship video for the 17th January 2021 is available by clicking here.
The service for the 17th January is also available as a phone recording by calling 01289686650.
The Kirk's online worship community, Sanctuary First, has a live service every Sunday@6.30pm. Click here.
The Presbytery of Edinburgh website lists a number of congregations who are providing online worship. Please click here for further details.
Church leaders invite all to join together in prayer at 7pm this Sunday, 10th January, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Click here for information.
New Hymn Sing-a-Long for January 2021. Please click here for the new Berwick Sing-a-Long produced by Rena.
Thanks to the folk of Berwick Parish Church, who put together a Crib Service nativity video, which features contributions from a number of churches in the town including St Andrew's Wallace Green. The video was shown outdoors on Christmas Eve and is now available online by clicking here.
The Berwick-Upon-Tweed Hymn Sing-a-Long for December is now available by clicking here.
Churches Together Big Christmas Sing - normally at this time of the year we host a schools' event in support of Christian Aid. This year it has not been possible to host the event, due to the pandemic. Instead, a Big Sing video has been put together with the support of two schools - others were keen, but circumstances prevented their involvement. To access the video please click here.
Further information, as well as items previously posted on this page, can be found under notices. Please click here.
See also our Church on Facebook - thanks to Dale for running this.
The church was pleased to publish a few years ago, particularly for visitors to the town, a guide for a reflective tour around Berwick. This was authored by Bea Nicholson. Please find a link to the booklet HERE.


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A Brief History of The Royal Family
This video by CGP Grey illustrates and explains the line of succession of the British Royal family from 1066. Those who watch this video will have a brief introduction as to which Kings and Queens reigned, conspired, invaded, died, murdered, and fought their way to the ultimate position within the Realm – Sovereign. In less than 9 minutes, one-thousand years of British Royal history will unfold in a completely abridged, comprehensive, interesting, and amusing history lesson for those who like history on the go!
The True Cost of the Royal Family Explained
This video by CPG Grey is interesting and amusing, but not completely the exact truth as to the question of Royal finances, however, it is the best animated and comprehensive video to be found. CPG Grey wrongly states that tax money is given to the Queen, when in fact none of the money from the tax-generating efforts of the government is given. The Crown Estate profits cover the cost of the Crown, with the exception of Security. The Crown Estate pays over £3ooM per year to the Treasury, from which £40M is then returned to the Palace to cover official expenditure, thus making any money spent by the Palace self-funding through the Crown Estate. This is a fact that has been omitted from the video. Despite this and our correction, we still think the overall message of the video is good.
How to Become the British Monarch
In this fun and interesting video by CGP Grey, viewers will learn the importance of succession through male primogeniture in relation to The Crown, changes to this in 2013, historical rules for the succession of the Crown through force and the size of ancient armies, and even the importance of one's religion which dictates whether or not one can become the Monarch.
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UPPER CUMBERLAND – It's the land of falling water, winding rivers, regal forests, mountain foothills, moonshine and melodies. Music makers across two centuries have meandered from the Upper Cumberland's luscious landscape, leaving a multi-genre mark on music history. Others have passed through and stayed, nesting comfortably along the trails of a region replete with tradition.
Some are revered – though never made rich by their craft. Some are wildly successful.
The popularity of Smith County native Uncle Jimmy Thompson's first live radio performance in 1925 on the WSM Barn Dance convinced WSM Radio officials to later launch the Grand Ole Opry. Fellow Smith Countian DeFord Bailey became the first solo performer, first harmonica player and first African-American on the Grand Ole Opry. Benny Martin of White County was an Opry member, singer, songwriter and Bluegrass Hall of Fame fiddle player.
Lester Flatt, also of White County, was a pioneering bluegrass musician, guitarist and vocalist who was part of the famous Flatt and Scruggs duo that sang the iconic theme song for "The Beverly Hillbillies." He was posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor.
Born in Warren County, Dottie West's successful singing and songwriting career earned her numerous awards and honors, including a Grammy, two CMAs for her duos with Kenny Rogers, four BMIs for songwriting and membership in the Grand Ole Opry.
Frazier Moss, born in Jackson County and a longtime resident of Cookeville, was an old-time fiddle player who performed on the Grand Ole Opry, won many national competitions, including first place awards at the National Fiddling Championship, the Southeast Fiddling Championship and the Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers' Association championship.
Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle, who survived the airplane crash that killed some of his bandmates, spent summers and holidays with family members around Pall Mall in Fentress County and occasionally plays venues in the UC with local musicians.
Bluegrass prodigy Sierra Hull of Byrdstown is an internationally acclaimed musician, singer, songwriter and recording artist. Hull began playing the mandolin at the age of 8 and at 15 recorded her first album. Boston's Berklee College of Music gave her the school's most prestigious award, the Presidential Scholarship, a first for a bluegrass musician.
Jamie Dailey from Gainesboro has sung back up with Dolly Parton, Ricky Skaggs and others as well as being lead singer and guitarist with Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver. His duo partnership with Darrin Vincent has earned the pair numerous International Bluegrass Music Awards and several Dove Awards as well as multiple Grammy nominations.
Crossville native Mandy Barnett held the titular role in the musical "Always… Patsy Cline," a musical based on the life of Patsy Cline. Her album, "I've Got a Right to Cry," was a huge critical success, named by Rolling Stone magazine as 1999's top country album. She appeared on David Letterman and The Tonight Show after raving reviews in People, Newsweek, Interview and other national publications.
Rodney Atkins, who attended Tennessee Tech and maintains property in Putnam County, has received six nominations from the Academy of Country Music and two from the Country Music Association, winning Top New Male Vocalist from the former in 2006. His album, "If You're Going Through Hell," produced four number one singles and was certified platinum, selling more than one million copies.
Others with UC connections who are making their careers performing are Cookeville's Doug Derryberry, who plays with Bruce Hornsby; former Crossville/ Cumberland County resident and Tennessee Tech alumnus Randy Threet performed with the Southern rock/country rock band the Outlaws and is now with country music group Blackhawk; Dweezil Zappa's tribute act of his father Frank Zappa's music Zappa Plays Zappa includes keyboardist Chris Norton of Cookeville; and folk/Christian band Judah and the Lion, whose lead vocalist and songwriter grew up in Cookeville.
Some musicians have made the UC their home while they continue to perform worldwide. Country singers Aaron and Thea Tippin and John Anderson relocated to DeKalb County, where each of them has invested in the community by opening businesses and participating in philanthropic efforts.
For several years singer Alan Jackson owned a home on Center Hill Lake. Award winning songwriter and multi-instrument performer Darrell Scott, who has written some of country's best known hits and recently toured with Robert Plant and the Band of Joy, owns a home and farm in Overton County.
Music provides a direct economic component for some former and current Upper Cumberland individuals and businesses.
Roy Roberts is a blues musician who grew up in Livingston. In addition to performing on stage and recording, he owns Rock House Records, which has earned worldwide recognition for its award-winning music production and update of the STAX Records sound. Roberts has received Producer of the Year, Artist Most Deserving of Wider Recognition and Best Blues Album awards from Living Blues Magazine.
Livingston native Nathan Smith founded Mainframe Recording Studio in Nashville. Clients have included Little Big Town, Lorrie Morgan, Sara Evans, Kathy Mattea, Steve Wariner and many others.
Jim Grainger owns and operates Custom Fretted Instruments and Repair in Sparta, which has been building and repairing fretted instruments more than 40 years. Zebulon Turrentine builds classical guitars operating out of a small shop in Cookeville. Collectors and performers alike buy his handcrafted guitars. Gene Horner is a noted maker of violins and mandolins who operates from his native Cumberland County. Horner's fiddles and mandolins have long been sought out and played by celebrities' top-tier professionals in bluegrass, country and symphony musicians.
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This past weekend, on October 28th, Frank Ocean celebrated his 30th birthday with a lavish party, inspired by the seminal 1990 documentary, Paris is Burning.
On top of the Eiffel Tower cake, the evening hosted a drag ball, appearances from bestie and longtime collaborator, Tyler The Creator (sporting a mean, royal green suit) as well as SZA and Joanna The Scammer, who can be heard belting out over the gathering as attendees sang happy birthday to Ocean.
Ocean has previously referenced the film by sampling a snippet of monologue in his Endless track, "Ambience 001," released just days ahead of his other 2016 project, blond(e)d and its accompanying, Boys Don't Cry magazine.
Watch Tyler The Creator make an appearance in the clip above and scroll on for other scenes from Frank Ocean's birthday party below.


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The last edition of the tournament was scheduled to be played in Sri Lanka during November 2006, however, it was cancelled due to the political situation in the host country. The tournament for the title was transferred to Hong Kong and it became the final pool for the 2007 Rugby World Cup – Asia qualification teams, which involved Japan, Korea and Hong Kong. The rest of the tournament ("Plate" and "Shield") was played one year later in Sri Lanka.
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Q: Solving the schrodinger equation in cylindrical coordinates I'm trying to solve the Schrodinger equation in cylindrical coordinates using this potential $V=\frac{c}{\rho}$ where c is a constant.
$$\psi(\rho,\phi,z)=R(\rho)\Phi(\phi)Z(z)$$
The $\phi$ and Z part are simple to solve but in the radial part I get this:
$$ \rho\frac{1}{R}\frac{\partial}{\partial\rho}\left(\frac{\partial R}{\partial\rho}\right)-\frac{2m}{\hbar^2}V\rho^2+l^2\rho^2=m^2 $$
Where $l^2$ and $m^2$ are the separations constant when I separate the Z and $\phi$ part.
I think the solution must be in terms in Bessel function like the H atom but I'm not sure and I don't know how to try to solve this.
Thanks in advance for your help.

A: $$\frac{1}{r}\frac{\partial}{\partial{r}}\Big(r\frac{\partial\Psi}{\partial{r}}\Big)+\frac{1}{r^{2}}\frac{\partial^{2}\Psi}{\partial\varphi^{2}}+\frac{\partial^{2}\Psi}{\partial{z}^{2}}+\Big(E-\frac{2mc}{\hbar{r}}\Big)=0$$
Let $\Psi=e^{in\varphi}e^{iqz}\rho(r)$ with $q\in\mathbb{R}$, $n\in\mathbb{Z}$.
$$\frac{1}{r}\frac{\partial}{\partial{r}}\Big(r\frac{\partial\rho}{\partial{r}}\Big)-\frac{n^{2}}{r^{2}}\rho+\Big(\frac{2mE}{\hbar}-q^{2}-\frac{2mc}{\hbar{r}}\Big)\rho=0$$
$$r^{2}\rho''+r\rho'+\Big(\Big[\frac{2mE}{\hbar}-q^{2}\Big]r^{2}-\frac{2mc}{\hbar}r-n^{2}\Big)\rho=0$$
Let $\rho(r)=r^{n}\chi(r)$, then
$$r\chi''+(2n+1)\chi'+\Big(\Big[\frac{2mE}{\hbar}-q^{2}\Big]r-\frac{2mc}{\hbar}\Big)\chi=0$$
Now, by letting
$$\chi=\exp\Big(\Big[\frac{2mE}{\hbar}-q^{2}\Big]r\Big)\eta(r)$$
you get the confluent hypergeometric equation
$$r\eta''+\Big(2\Big[\frac{2mE}{\hbar}-q^{2}\Big]r+2n+1\Big)\eta'+\Big((2n+1)\Big[\frac{2mE}{\hbar}-q^{2}\Big]-\frac{2mc}{\hbar}\Big)\eta=0$$
The solution is
$$\chi=\exp\Big(-2\Big[\frac{2mE}{\hbar}-q^{2}\Big]r\Big)\mathcal{L}^{2n}_{k}\Big(2\Big[\frac{2mE}{\hbar}-q^{2}\Big]r\Big)$$
$$k+\frac{2n+1}{2}=-\frac{2mc}{\hbar\Big[\frac{2mE}{\hbar}-q^{2}\Big]}$$
$$E_{q, n, k}=-\frac{2c}{2k+2n+1}+\frac{\hbar{q}^{2}}{2m}, \ k\in\mathbb{N}$$
Here $\mathcal{L}^{b}_{a}(z)$ is the assosiated Lagurre polynomial. This solution was chosen with this particular energy, for the wave-function not to be singular and for it to form a basis for the Hilbert space.

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Shawn Dunbrack Named New 911 Director For Pocahontas
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Marlinton, WV – Pocahontas County has a new 911 Director. County Commission President David Fleming made the announcement during the Commission meeting Tuesday night.
"All very good candidates, it was a very tough choice; that's why it took longer than we thought it would" he says. "At this point we wish to extend the opportunity to Shawn Dunbrack to be the Director for 911. We'll have more information on that as we work out the details."
Dunbrack was one of four candidates interviewed for the job. The other three are Randy Stemple, Mark Jonese, and James Lewis. Dunbrack has been serving as the Deputy Director for the Pocahontas Office of Emergency Management under Director Melvin Martin. Current 911 Director Bill McLaughlin is retiring.
In other business, Commissioner Fleming presented a draft of a letter to the Bureau of Land Management. This follows a letter of response sent to the Commission from National Forest Supervisor Clyde Thompson, regarding the possibility of gas drilling on National Forest land.
"So I drafted a letter in accordance with Mr. Thompson's response" says Fleming, "that essentially indicated that the Forest Service has jurisdiction over surface rights, but the Bureau of Land Management has jurisdiction over down hole drilling operations; and therefore the Forest Service has no jurisdiction in this matter."
"That's a way of just sort of passing the responsibility on down the line" says Commissioner Martin Saffer.
Thompson's letter can be found at this website in the news archive. After reading the letter, Fleming made a motion to send it to Bob Abbey, Director of the Bureau of Land Management. The motion passed unanimously.
In a related action, the Commissioners also voted to send a letter to other County Commissions throughout the state urging them to assert their authority as county representatives whether they support gas drilling or not. Copies of both letters can also be found at this website.
Commissioner Martin Saffer says an expert in the legal ramifications of this issue will address the Commission next week
"The Commission's going to have a special meeting with Professor Bob Bastress who's coming from the West Virginia [University] College of Law to advise us on all the legal aspects of the Marcellus Shale" says Saffer. "And to advise the County Commission on its rights and authority, if any, that it might have and any actions it might take."
That meeting is Tuesday, August 23rd at 9am. Dr. (See-la) Cyla Allison also gave the Commissioners a copy of the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Monroe County Commissioners and Texas based Gordy Oil Company to drill for gas in Monroe County. She asserts that the document contains misleading information about the impacts of drilling on that county.
The Commission also took the following actions:
Approved the transfer of Milestone Communications to the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks Telephone company
Passed a motion allowing Prosecuting Attorney Donna Meadows Price to order an onsite storage unit to store overflow records from her office
Wrote a letter in support of Region 4 Planning and Development, and passed a motion to designate the county's Safe and Secure Rural School funds go to the regional Resource Advisory Council for funding of county projects – Commissioner Saffer voted against both items
And authorized Commissioner Saffer to place advertisements in the local newspaper for the the sale of several storage tanks at the East Fork Industrial Park in Frank.


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SHIPROCKED 2018: Interview with Joe Cotela of DED
Tara Shea March 4, 2018
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It's kind of a big deal when a band raises a ruckus with their debut release. Arizona quartet DED released their first full-length album Mis•an•thrope July 2017 and have been a showstopper since. With their high-energy performances, hardcore sound, and mesmerizing stage presence, there's no doubt the band will continue to make waves in the rock scene.
Vocalist Joe Cotela sat down to talk about his first Shiprocked experience in the Bahamas.
ANTIHERO: Good morning! We woke up on the beach of Half Moon Cay. Can it get any better than this?
Joe Cotela: (sighs) Probably not. No, it's pretty awesome. Now, if I woke up in a swimming pool full of millions of dollars, that'd be pretty kickass. But other than that, this is priceless.
ANTIHERO: What has been your favorite experience so far on Shiprocked?
Joe Cotela: The whole thing. The whole thing has been a highlight. I've never been on a cruise before. Being with a bunch of my friends, befriending other artists. It's just dope. The food is great, the people are great. My jaw has been hitting the floor.
ANTIHERO: You guys had a killer set in the Victoria Lounge.
Joe Cotela: Thank you. It was so much fun.
ANTIHERO: It was packed, man. Like sardines in there. People were even rocking out in the foyer area and watching you all perform through the glass walls. Were you expecting that amount of engagement?
Joe Cotela: Oh, no. We try to be realistic about shows and never expect anything. You just see how it goes every time. It's been awesome to have that support and have so many other bands coming and chilling. The fans… Shiprockers. It's been one of my favorite shows we've ever played. The energy was off the roof. I can't wait for our set tomorrow. That one will be outside.
ANTIHERO: You guys have had a lot of success with your debut album, having "Anti-Everything" on Sirius XM and your new single "Hate Me" is on airwaves. What's it like from your perspective seeing fans singing along and your fanbase growing?
Joe Cotela: It's been awesome for a couple of reasons. Obviously just to see people knowing your music. We were a band for a long time… we had already started playing shows and touring. It was a real challenge with just one or two singles to get people to enjoy your show. Which is awesome, we like the challenge. But it's so gratifying now to have people listening to more and knowing the lyrics to the songs. Like one of my favorite things growing up listening to punk rock… I love sing-a-longs. I love putting the mic out there and people grabbing it. I love that energy.
ANTIHERO: What are some driving forces for you or inspirations that drive that mentality? Who do you look up to?
Joe Cotela: There's a lot of them; I could name a list for forever. I have a Bob Marley tattoo… Every Time I Die is one of my favorite heavier bands. Deftones. I listen to all kinds of stuff.
ANTIHERO: You guys have been on the road with In This Moment and P.O.D. How has that been going?
Joe Cotela: Going great! They've both been amazing. All of the crew have been awesome and super intertwined, always helping each other out. It's been super smooth. Everybody in the bands are super chill, super rad. The shows have been great, and the bands have been awesome.
ANTIHERO: Have you had a most memorable show yet?
Joe Cotela: I really dug St. Petersburg. It was an outdoor venue in a courtyard with almost like a Mad Max feeling. We'd never played in Florida, actually. Good reactions.
ANTIHERO: What's your favorite lyric from Mis•an•thrope and why?
Joe Cotela: Oh man, that's a pretty good one. There's a lot of them. If you ask me this tomorrow, I'd probably give you a different answer. "What I say goes / No control" from "Architect." "Architect" itself is a big one.
ANTIHERO: What plans does DED have for 2018?
Joe Cotela: A bunch of touring. We've got some stuff coming up that we haven't announced yet. We're looking to go overseas as well. We've got the Las Rageous festival coming up with Ghost, Underoath, and Atreyu. A Perfect Circle will be there, too. There's a bunch of stuff, we just haven't announced it yet. It's really hard to say. We're going out with Islander and P.O.D. after In This Moment. New stuff should be announced by March, but until then, come out of one of the shows.
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Fast Fashion Vs Slow Fashion
Fast fashion has been a trending topic for a while and many are aware of the environmental and social damages it causes. In order to spread more awareness, we want to explain the meaning and differences between fast fashion and slow fashion, and how the latter is better for the planet and people.
Fast fashion is a business model where a clothing brand produces as many collections as possible and as quickly as possible. This is exactly how major clothing brands manage to sell large volumes at low prices: by creating excessive numbers of unnecessary trends and collections in order to sell more.
However this hunger for profit has an environmental and social price. In terms of the environment, producing such large amounts of clothes has a heavy impact because from start to finish, the process of making clothes pollutes the environment. Fashion production makes up 10% of humanity's carbon emission, uses up resources, and pollutes water sources such as rivers and streams. What's more, all these clothes produced don't even end up being properly used as 85% of all textiles end up in landfills each year. There is also a significant trade-off fast fashion makes: quality. Making such a large amount of clothes in a short period of time requires companies to cut corners and makes clothes that aren't of good quality and therefore not long-lasting. Fast fashion brands opt for the cheapest synthetic fabrics which happened to be the most polluting: polyester, acrylic and nylon for example. Moreover, many believe that cotton is eco-friendly when it is not the case. Its production has a heavy environmental cost as it uses large amounts of pesticides and water. Cotton is considered one of the world's dirtiest crop as it uses 16% of the world's pesticides, which contain very harmful chemicals known as nitrates and phosphates, which leak into stream systems and pollute the rest of the environment. There is also a heavy human cost as working in cotton fields with harmful pesticides has its toll on farmers' health. India, the largest cotton producer, is sadly known to have cotton farmers with the highest suicide rate in the world with more than 270,000 that have killed themselves since 1995. This is why it is important to look out for clothing with "organic cotton" instead of regular cotton, as it is naturally grown without harmful pesticides.
Another tragic aspect of fast fashion is the human lives that are exploited and sacrificed in factories. In order to satisfy the large and fast demands of clothing brands, garment workers are forced to work excessively. Fast fashion brands manage to keep up with their business model by forcing factory workers to keep up. Approximately 80% of garment workers are women, and being a woman often implicates issues including sexism and discrimination. It is a not so hidden truth that garment workers are not paid enough, abused and forced to work excessively for long hours without sufficient break. Stories regularly come out in the news with women being abused and even murdered in factories. Only a few days ago, a 20 year old woman working at a H&M supply factory in India was raped and killed by her supervisor. Women are also made to work in unsafe conditions as it can be seen with the infamous Rana Plaza incident in Bangladesh where factory workers' complaints about the unsafe building were ignored, which led to its collapse in 2013, killing over a thousand workers. And only recently in February 2021, 28 garment workers were killed in an illegal factory in Morocco due to a flood. The building was unsafe and unequipped, lacking basic emergency exits and indoor plumbing.
In addition to this, the pandemic revealed even more on already existing problems. As Covid-19 began to hit countries worldwide, major clothing brands including Primark, Levi's, Nike, Victoria's Secret and many more simply cancelled their orders and refused to pay factories who already made their orders. This left countless garment workers across the world vulnerable with no money to feed their children and families. Many garment workers from countries such as Cambodia and Myanmar took to the streets and protested.
As opposed to fast fashion, slow fashion is a business model that produces clothing by taking into account environmental and social impacts. It prioritises a slow mode of production, understanding that factory workers are first and foremost human beings and not merely tools to be exploited. By lowering the demand and giving more time to factories to produce clothes, factory workers are less likely to be exploited and abused. Production is also often carried out with local manufacturers in order to shorten the supply chain, and these are more likely to offer better salaries and working conditions that some in developing countries. In terms of the environment, slow fashion brands ensure that the production processes are environmentally friendly by using the least amount of energy, resources and harmful chemicals. Slow fashion is also naturally better for the environment as it prioritises producing a limited number of collections of good quality, while ensuring that the fabrics used are eco-friendly.
The fashion industry still has a long way to go, however at Miskie London we aim to be conscious by thinking of our social and environmental impact. As a brand we focus on producing a limited number of collections of high quality and long-lasting. We also work with a local manufacturer that is right here in the UK. If you want to learn more about ethicality and sustainability in the fashion industry, we highly recommend to check out and follow the socials of the organizations listed below:
fashionrevolution
remake.world
cleanclothes
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/01/worker-at-hm-supply-factory-was-killed-after-months-of-harassment-claims-family
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/oct/08/worlds-garment-workers-face-ruin-as-fashion-brands-refuse-to-pay-16bn
https://www.business-humanrights.org/de/von-uns/media-centre/fashion-brands-bring-us10bn-pandemic-profits-thousands-their-garment-workers-face-wage-theft/
https://www.business-humanrights.org/es/%C3%BAltimas-noticias/morocco-28-garment-workers-killed-in-sub-contracting-factory/
https://politheor.net/killer-cotton-fashions-parasitic-relationship-with-indian-farmers/
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2014/may/05/india-cotton-suicides-farmer-deaths-gm-seeds


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TOPIC: Hyperion
RE: Hyperion
This image of Hyperion was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on July 23, 2007, when it was approximately 331,726 kilometres away.
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The image was taken using the CL1 and IR3 filters.
Date: Jul 6 18:48 2007
This ultraviolet image of Hyperion was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe during the September 2005 close flyby. The view shows topographic and compositional variations on the surface of the moon. The bright regions are exposed water ice on the rim of the main crater.
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This is a colour map of a 75 kilometres square piece of Hyperion's surface, and was made by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Hyperion in September 2005.
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Blue shows the maximum exposure of frozen water, red denotes carbon dioxide ice, magenta indicates regions of water plus carbon dioxide, yellow is a mix of carbon dioxide and an unidentified material.
Scientists on NASAs Cassini mission to Saturn now have a better understanding of why the odd moon Hyperion has such an unusual appearance.
The crucial factor in creating the strange, sponge-like appearance of Hyperion appears to be its extremely low density, say Cassini scientists in a research paper being published in the July 5 issue of the journal Nature. The researchers examined Cassini spacecraft images and other data on the moons mass acquired during encounters with Hyperion over the past three years.
Astronomers examining close-up pictures of Hyperion, a large moon of Saturn, say the spud-shaped rock has a "sponge-like appearance" unlike anything seen before.
As much as 40 per cent of Hyperion could be porous, they reported in this week's edition of Nature, the British science journal. High-resolution images of Hyperion were sent back to Earth last year and in 2005 by the US space probe Cassini. The probe swooped to within 618 kilometres of the surface.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed for the first time surface details of Saturn's moon Hyperion, including cup-like craters filled with hydrocarbons that may indicate more widespread presence in our solar system of basic chemicals necessary for life.
Hyperion yielded some of its secrets to the battery of instruments aboard Cassini as the spacecraft flew close by in September 2005. Water and carbon dioxide ices were found, as well as dark material that fits the spectral profile of hydrocarbons.
A paper appearing in the July 5 issue of Nature reports details of Hyperion's surface craters and composition observed during this flyby, including keys to understanding the moon's origin and evolution over 4.5 billion years. This is the first time scientists were able to map the surface material on Hyperion.
This map shows the composition of a portion of Hyperion's surface. Blue shows the maximum exposure of frozen water, red denotes carbon dioxide ice ("dry ice"), magenta indicates regions of water plus carbon dioxide, yellow is a mix of carbon dioxide and an unidentified material.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/Ames/Space Science Institute
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Giant pits cover the impact-eroded face of Hyperion, giving it a spongy appearance. The chaotically tumbling moon is extremely porous, like the moons orbiting in and near Saturn's rings.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 12, 2007 at a distance of approximately 1.1 million kilometres from Hyperion and at a Sun-Hyperion-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 46 degrees. Scale in the original image was 7 kilometres per pixel. The image was contrast enhanced and magnified by a factor of two.
Chaotically tumbling and seriously eroded by impacts, Hyperion is one of Saturn's more unusual satellites. Scientists believe the moon to be quite porous, with a great deal of its volume being empty space.
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Impact blasted Hyperion is 280 kilometres across. Only part of the moon is visible in this image, the rest being hidden in shadow.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centred at 930 nanometers. The view was acquired on Feb. 15, 2007 at a distance of approximately 224,000 kilometres from Hyperion. Image scale is 1 kilometre per pixel.
Date: Nov 14 22:04 2006
This colour view of Hyperion shows off the dark pits that cover this strangely shaped moon.
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Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural colour view. The images were obtained by the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 10, 2006 at a distance of approximately 998,000 kilometres from Hyperion. Image scale is 6 kilometres per pixel.
Unlike most of the dull grey moons in the Solar System, Hyperion's colour is a rosy tan, as this view shows.
The origin of the moon's unusual hue is not known. Some scientists suspect the color comes from falling debris from moons farther out. A similar origin has been suggested for the dark reddish material on Saturn's moon Iapetus.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural colour view. The images were taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 28, 2006 at a distance of approximately 291,000 kilometres from Hyperion. Image scale is 2 kilometres per pixel.
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Jackrabbits QB Gronowski ready for different Fargodome feel in 2nd Dakota Marker start
SDSU sophomore quarterback Mark Gronowski had a 1-0 record as a starter against NDSU in the Dakota Marker game.
South Dakota State quarterback Mark Gronowski has a 1-0 record against North Dakota State in the Dakota Marker game. He started in Fargo as a true freshman during the spring 2021 season. Gronowski missed last season due to injury.
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By Eric Peterson
FARGO — South Dakota State sophomore Mark Gronowski has led a team to victory in the Fargodome against North Dakota State, but that success came under much different circumstances than he'll face this weekend.
Gronowski guided the Jackrabbits to a 27-17 victory against the Bison during the 2021 spring season before a limited crowd of 8,762 fans due to COVID-19. More than double that crowd size is anticipated at 2:30 p.m. Saturday when the rival Missouri Valley Football Conference programs play for the Dakota Marker at Gate City Bank Field.
"There was only half the crowd as there is going to be this (game)," Gronowski said. "I learned a lot from that game how tough of a team they are and they're always going to fight back. We've just got to stay on our pedal the entire game and not let up ourselves."
Gronowski had a game-changing performance in that spring Dakota Marker game, completing 10 of 14 passes for 149 yards and a touchdown. He also rushed for 126 yards on 16 attempts.
After starting all 10 games as a true freshman and leading the Jackrabbits to the Division I FCS national championship game, Gronowski sat out last fall due to a knee injury.
"Physically, I actually even feel better than I did my freshman year," said Gronowski, from Napervlle, Ill. "I feel faster, I feel stronger. It took a couple weeks to get that juice flowing and getting back into that rhythm as I did my freshman year."
South Dakota State quarterback Mark Gronowski breaks away from the North Dakota State defense on Saturday, April 17, 2021, at the Fargodome.
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The 6-foot-3, 220-pound Gronowski has completed 91 of 151 passes (59%) for 1,119 yards and 10 touchdowns through six games. The Jackrabbits' (5-1, 3-0 MVFC) only loss came to Big Ten Conference member Iowa in their season opener in early September. The Hawkeyes earned a 7-3 victory.
"That Iowa game was great for us in the sense that we've been in that situation," SDSU head coach John Stiegelmeier said, referring to an expected raucous Fargodome atmosphere.
"We learned a lot from that (Iowa) game and the crowd there," Gronowski added.
The Jackrabbits have scored at least 24 points in the five games since Iowa, all victories. They're coming off a 28-3 victory against in-state rival University of South Dakota last weekend.
"He looks like he's throwing it and spinning it and has great command of what they're doing offensively," Bison head coach Matt Entz said.
Gronowski completed 12 of 20 passes for 136 yards and a touchdown with one interception against USD, and added 43 rushing yards on nine attempts.
"I think he's had a good year," Stiegelmeier said. "I don't think he's playing necessarily to the level he did when he was a true freshman, there are a lot of factors with that."
Gronowski likes the chemistry he has with SDSU offensive coordinator Zach Lujan, who is in his first season in that role for the Jackrabbits. Lujan, a former Jackrabbits quarterback, is in his fifth season as an offensive assistant at SDSU.
"I feel good in the pocket, trust the linemen up front, it's been good so far," Gronowski said. "I think our offensive line has been playing really, really great so far this year. I really like how coach Lujan is calling the plays. I have a really good relationship with him."
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SDSU tight end Tucker Kraft had NIL offers in the the six figures to play for Power Five programs prior to this season, his final for the Jackrabbits.
South Dakota State dominates 2nd half to knock off top-ranked Bison
SDSU scored 16 unanswered points in the second half to rally past NDSU.
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The race will be held on the final Saturday in August.
Former NDSU coach Phillips says it was a 'really easy decision' to take Northern State job
ABERDEEN, S.D. — Former North Dakota State head coach Saul Phillips is back in the Dakotas. He was named the head men's basketball coach at Northern State on Monday at the Barnett Center.
By Eric Peterson / Forum News Service
Christion leads SDSU into game against Bison with different trophy ramifications
South Dakota State senior quarterback Taryn Christion has a 2-2 career record as a starter against North Dakota State.
Undefeated Colgate climbing FCS ranks, fueled by stingy defense
The Colgate Raiders have allowed its opponents a combined six points over its past six games, including four shutouts.
No. 1-ranked Bison edge No. 3 SDSU to win Dakota Marker
FARGO--North Dakota State football players raced to the northwest corner of the Fargodome as the final seconds ticked off the game clock Saturday afternoon, Sept. 29, to a grab a 75-pound hunk of quartzite.
The NFL was Plan A for Zylstra, the former Concordia receiver never had a Plan B
EAGAN, Minn -- Former Concordia wide receiver Brandon Zylstra had a single focus the past few years with no fallback: NFL or bust. That mindset was by design with no exit strategy. "If you have a backup plan, you're not putting all your energy in...
After a dramatic double-overtime victory, Northern State one win away from D-II men's national title
SIOUX FALLS, S.D.--Doubt started to creep into Northern State senior DJ Pollard's mind as the Wolves trailed Queens (N.C.) by five points with less than 30 seconds to play in overtime Thursday night.
Former NDSU athletic director Taylor enjoying Kansas State's 'special' run in NCAA men's tournament
Gene Taylor had his share of memorable NCAA moments when he was the athletic director at North Dakota State. Taylor watched the Bison make the Division I men's basketball tournament in 2009 in the first season the program was eligible to make the...
Gronowski said NDSU's defense plays a similar style as the SDSU defense and added that practicing against the stingy Jackrabbits unit has the team's offense well prepared heading into the Dakota Marker showdown. SDSU has won the previous two meetings for the rivalry trophy.
"We can't get overhyped," Gronowski said, "but since it is a rivalry game we do have to get a little more amped than normal because they're going to play better than they normally do so we've got to play a little bit better than we normally do, as well."
Stiegelemeier said Gronowski's success against the Bison in the spring of 2021 can't hurt, but added that was a unique circumstance due to how COVID-19 impacted that season.
"I think it always creates confidence when you've been there and done that and done it well," Stiegelmeier said. "He had an impactful game in the spring. We don't dwell on it much because it was a different environment, a different setting, a whole different feel really in terms of playing your season in the spring."
Gronowski could get a key target back against the Bison if SDSU tight end Tucker Kraft returns. The 6-foot-5, 255-pound Kraft has been sidelined since the Iowa game with a lower-leg injury. Stiegelmeier told WDAY-TV's Dom Izzo this week that Kraft will warm up prior to the game and play if Kraft gives the thumbs up.
Gronowski would welcome the return of Kraft, who is a highly regarded NFL prospect.
"Tucker is a great player." Gronowski said. "He's a big playmaker for us."
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Peterson covers college athletics for The Forum, including Concordia College and Minnesota State Moorhead. He also covers the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks independent baseball team and helps out with North Dakota State football coverage. Peterson has been working at the newspaper since 1996.
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Q: vscode keeps generating coverage directory I don't know what changed recently, but every time I open a folder in vscode, even without running anything (just looking at the files), a coverage folder is generated.
What happened? How do I stop that?

A: I was having the same issue and it seems to be a side effect of Mocha sidebar extension on my machine.  After disabling it, I am no longer getting a coverage directory created.


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Bayer Cropscience KK v Charles River Laboratories Preclinical Services Edinburgh Ltd. & Anr. 2011 SLT 145
In this case, Lord Malcolm considered whether or not a claim for an account of profits in respect of patent infringement can be advanced under Section 61(1) of the Patents Act 1977 in circumstances where the actual profits sought to be recovered arise from non-infringing sales made following the expiry of the patent. This case represents the first authoritative consideration of this issue by the United Kingdom courts.
The pursuer in this action is involved in the development and marketing of insecticides, including a patented product called imidacloprid. It formerly held both European and US Patent in respect of that product. The US and European patents expired in January and March 2006 respectively. The first defender is a laboratory testing company based in Scotland. The second defender is a US competitor of the pursuer.
The pursuer raised proceedings for patent infringement against the defenders in the following circumstances:- In March 2005, the second defender had sought to register an insecticide with the United States Environmental Protection Agency ("the EPA") which contained imidacloprid. Registration of the product was a necessary precursor to putting the product on the market. As part of the registration process, the second defender required to submit test data to the EPA. In order to obtain that data, it imported a quantity of imidacloprid into the United Kingdom for testing by the first defender. It was not disputed by the defenders that this importation and testing, during the currency of the European patent, amounted to patent infringement. In addition, it was admitted by the second defender that it had instructed the testing during the currency of the patents in order to be able to gain a market advantage over other competitors by achieving entry to the US market at the earliest possible date following expiry of the patents.
The pursuer sought an account of profits in respect of (i) all profits made by the defender from sale of its products during 2006 on the basis that, but for the infringement, the second defender could not have put the products on the market until December 2006, and (ii) all profits made as a direct result of early entry into the marketplace in 2006, in the form of enhanced levels of sales in 2007 and 2008.
The second defender argued that this claim was irrelevant for a number of reasons, the most fundamental of which was that its insecticide product, containing imidaclporid, was not actually placed on the market in the US until April 2006, following the expiry of both patents. As a result, the second defender maintained that the profits made from the sale of the product did not fall to be regarded as profits "derived by (the infringer) from the infringement" under Section 61(1)(d) of the Patents Act 1977. In particular, it was said that the profits arose from lawful post-expiry sales, and not from any infringing act.
However, Lord Malcolm rejected this argument and found in favour of the pursuer, allowing a Proof Before Answer. In particular, Lord Malcolm held that, albeit the sales themselves had not infringed either of the pursuer's patents, looking at the whole circumstances (including the admitted purpose of the admitted infringement), it was not easy to identify any fundamental flaw in the proposition that at least some of the profits were derived from the wrongful act and the authorities either supported, or did not undermine, that impression.
Richard Keen QC (Dean of Faculty) and Roisin Higgins, Advocate of Axiom Advocates acted for the pursuer. Heriot Currie QC of Axiom Advocates acted for the defenders.
http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/opinions/2010CSOH158.html


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Q: Wordpress Custom PHP failing at wpdb object I am trying to create a form on wordpress that automatically updates a custom table in the database. The form works with the "POST" method and calls the PHP file fine, and any code (such as echos) I enter at the beginning work fine. The problem is every time I try and use the wpdb object, the screen is just white and the code stops. It won't run anything including or past where I call wpdb. I have tried both using insert and get results and neither is working. Also, I am getting absolutely no errors in the console output even though I turned debugging on and everything.
This is my php file (which has a permission value of 755):

<?php
        global $wpdb;
        error_reporting(E_ALL);
        echo "New Plant has been submitted.\n";

        $plantname = $_POST["name"];
        echo "Before";
        $myrows = $wpdb->get_results( "SELECT * FROM wp_users" );
        exit( var_dump( $wpdb->last_query ) );
        echo " After: " . $myrows;
        $wpdb->insert('Plants',array('PlantName' => $plantname),array('%s'));
        echo $plantname . " has been submitted.";
?>

Also, this is my form:

<form action="cgi-bin/add_plant.php" method="post">
Plant Name: <input name="name" type="text" />

Lowest Ideal Temperature: <input name="IdealTempLow" type="text" />

Highest Ideal Temperature: <input name="IdealTempHigh" type="text" />

Lowest Ideal pH: <input name="IdealpHLow" type="text" />

Highest Ideal pH: <input name="IdealpHHigh" type="text" />

Lowest Ideal Humidity Level: <input name="IdealHumLow" type="text" />

Highest Ideal Humidity Level: <input name="IdealHumHigh" type="text" />

Lowest Ideal Moisture Level: <input name="IdealMoistLow" type="text" />

Highest Ideal Moisture Level: <input name="IdealMoistHigh" type="text" />

<input type="submit" />
</form>

By the way, I know I need to sanitize my code, but for right now I just want to be able to get it to work in the first place. I know that nothing is getting added because I logged in to PHPMyAdmin and there is nothing in the table. I also tried getting results from the standard wp tables, but that failed as well.
Edit 1
I have moved everything into a custom template file. I had gotten it working with the separate php file, but I moved it so that I could do form validation and everything all without switching pages. However, now I am having the same error. I had used "require_once" to include wp-load.php in the original and it worked, however now wpdb is still failing and I can't figure out how to include wp-load without it also failing. Originally loading up the page works: I can submit the form however on submit the page fails.
<?php
    require_once(ABSPATH . '/wp-config.php');
    require_once(ABSPATH . '/wp-load.php');
?>
<?php global $asteria;?>

<?php
    get_header();
?>

<?php global $wpdb;?>

<?php
    function test_input($data)
    {
        $data = trim($data);
        $data = stripslashes($data);
        $data = htmlspecialchars($data);
        return $data;
    }

    function selfURL()
    {
        $ret = substr(strtolower($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL']),0,strpos( strtolower($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL' ]), "/") );
        $ret .= ( empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) ? NULL : ( ($_SERVER['HTTPS'] == "on") ? "s" : NULL) );
        $ret .= "://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
        $ret .= ( $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] == 80 ? "" : ":".$_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] );
        $ret .= $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

        return $ret;
    }

    function submitPlant($a, $b, $c, $d, $e, $f, $g, $h, $i)
    {
        $wpdb->show_errors();
        // $wpdb->replace('Plants',
        //  array(
        //      'PlantName' => $a,
        //      'IdealTempLow' => $b,
        //      'IdealTempHigh' => $c,
        //      'IdealPHLow' => $d,
        //      'IdealPHHigh' => $e,
        //      'IdealHumidityLow' => $f,
        //      'IdealHumidityHigh' => $g,
        //      'IdealMoistureLow' => $h,
        //      'IdealMoistureHigh' => $i
        //      ),
        //  array(
        //      '%s',
        //      '%f',
        //      '%f',
        //      '%f',
        //      '%f',
        //      '%f',
        //      '%f',
        //      '%f',
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Q: Adding fields to a Django form dynamically with JavaScript & JSONField I have a model form in which I need to store an unknown number of helpers alongside a thing. The names can be serialised upon save, and that's not a problem. It's being able to clean and validate them upon submission.
The form looks like;
class ThingForm(forms.ModelForm):
    """
    Form for the Thing
    """
    owner = forms.CharField()
    helpers = forms.CharField()

    class Meta:
        model = Thing

    def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        Serialize helpers to JSON.
        """
        ...

And the model is using a JSONField to store the serialised helpers.
class Thing(models.Model):
    owner = models.CharField()
    helpers = JSONField()

I have JavaScript adding as many helpers as required with the same input name:
<input name="helpers" value="Fred" />
<input name="helpers" value="Joe" />

Which is returning a tuple of the helpers. The problem is that the if the form isn't valid - those names will be lost and the cleaning isn't working.
My first thought was to add to the form's constructor:
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(ThingForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        try:
            helpers = args[0].pop('helpers')
            for name in helpers:
                # Add a charfield, or something?
        except:
            pass

But I'm not really getting anywhere...

A: Thanks to AdamKG for the answer to this. You can just use the list in your view again:
View:
if request.method == 'POST':
    helpers = request.POST.getlist('helpers')
    form = ThingForm(request.POST)
    if form.is_valid():
        form.save()
        return HttpResponseRedirect('/saved/')
else:
    helpers = None
    form = ThingForm()

return render_to_response('my_template.html',
    {'helpers': helpers, 'form': form},
    context_instance=RequestContext(request))

Template:
{% for field in form %}
    {% if field.name == 'helpers' %}
        {% for name in helpers %}
            <input name="helpers" value="{{ name }}" />
        {% endfor %}
    {% else %}
        {{ field }}
    {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

A: I think all you need to do is do something like this in your template:
{% if form.data %}{# eg, was invalid and this is a re-render w/ errors #}
{% for helper in form.data.helpers %}
<input type="hidden" name="helpers" value="{{ helper }}">
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}

Note that this will break if you start passing a prefix kwarg to your form - but so would your original code, fixing that is a separate issue :)

A: We had a similar problem and found no ready solution. So we did ours (https://github.com/vialink/vlk-django-jsonfield).


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During the middle of the nineteenth century, a number of initiatives were started to protect the rights of the public to use open spaces and for the areas to be conserved for their specific environmental features. Some notable people of the time devoted themselves to societies such as the Commons Preservation Society, now known as  the Open Spaces Society, in order to gain protection for some clearly defined areas . One of these areas was Epping Forest on the outskirts of London. It was an area beginning to suffer encroachments of building development and enclosure. The local people of Loughton were also, by tradition, taking a limited quantity of wood from the forest under what was termed their 'lopping rights'. The enclosure of the lands within the forest bounds was threatening the performance of the annual lopping tradition and thus, a dispute also arose over the removal by private individuals of forest considered to be in public ownership. Following the intervention of a number of bodies and interested parties, some Acts of Parliament were enacted gradually bringing about the desired protections. The Epping Forest Act 1878 brought together the diverse rules and prescribed how the Forest was to be protected.  The Act formally records the Crown renouncing rights over the land and the Corporation of London, having bought acres of unenclosed Epping Forest land, named as the official conservators.

Purpose
A local Act of the United Kingdom parliament for the disafforestation of Epping Forest and the preservation and management of unenclosed parts thereof as an open space for the recreation and enjoyment of the public. The management of the forest became, via the Act, the Corporation of London. The Act removed the rights of Loughton householders to lop wood within the forest for which, in substitution, a public hall was constructed in the town. The hall was named The Lopping Hall. The Lopping Hall is maintained, and its business carried on, by the charity organization called The Lopping Endowment, a UK registered charity number 228236. Constables with special powers granted under section 43 of the Act are known as Forest Keepers in order to ensure the proper protection of the forest.

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Riccardo Massi
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Italian tenor Riccardo Massi has rapidly achieved international recognition as one of the most exciting and accomplished interpreters of the Italian spinto repertoire, earning accolades worldwide for his interpretations of Puccini's and Verdi's heroes. As a specialist in the handling of ancient and medieval weapons, before pursuing his passion for opera, Massi enjoyed a flourishing career as a stuntman; working in several films including Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, ABC's Empire, and HBO's Rome.
His 2016⁄2017 season include his role debut as Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut at the Berlin State Opera and at the Bol'šoj Theatre in Moscow, his return to the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Radamès in Aida, and as Calaf in Turandot at the Cologne Opera and his debut at the New National Theatre Tokyo as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly.
In the 2015⁄2016 season Massi returned to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London as Cavaradossi alongside Angela Gheorghiu's Tosca; he also appeared at the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour (Opera Australia) as Calaf in Turandot, at the Melbourne Arts Center (again for Opera Australia) where he debuted the role of Rodolfo in La bohème, sang Radamès in at the Teatro Regio of Turin, Calaf at the Bregenz Festival and at the Zurich Opernhaus, and Cavaradossi at the Semperoper Dresden. Furthermore, he appeared at the Barbican Hall in London in a concert performance of Leoncavallo's Zazà as Milio, which he also recorded for Opera Rara.
Highlights of recent seasons include his 2014 Royal Opera House Covent Garden debut as Cavaradossi under the musical direction of Placido Domingo, his debut in the title role of Andrea Chénier at the Royal Swedish Opera, a 2014 gala concert with soprano Anna Netrebko at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Cavaradossi and Don Alvaro in La forza del destino for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House, Verdi's Messa da Requiem at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Don José in Carmen at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Pollione in Norma at the Terme di Caracalla, and debuts as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Norwegian National Opera, Manrico in Il trovatore in Toronto and Calaf in Turandot opposite Nina Stemme at the Royal Swedish Opera.
Other career highlights include his 2012 Metropolitan Opera debut as Radamès in Aida (the same role with which he also debuted at the Houston Grand Opera in 2013), his debut as Enzo Grimaldi in a concert performance of La Gioconda at the Concertgebeouw opposite Eva Maria Westbroek, and debuts at Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper, Opéra Grand Avignon and the Berlin Staatsoper as Cavaradossi.
Massi developed his vocal technique in Rome with David Holst, who has also been his sole mentor. He was invited to join the Accademia della Scala, after which he made his operatic debut in December of 2009 as Radamès in Aida in Salerno under the baton of Daniel Oren. He subsequently made his Glyndebourne Festival debut as Malcolm in Macbeth, his German operatic debut in October 2010 as Cavaradossi at the Staatsoper Berlin, his North American debut in Tosca with the Palm Beach Opera and then at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland for Tosca conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
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In the first post of the Bullet Journal Series, you learned about the many benefits of keeping a journal and the theology of intentional living.
The bullet journal method was created by Ryder Carroll (you can preview his book for free later in this post).
A bullet journal is designed to add order to your life and to increase your productivity. It also helps you to keep a constant focus on your goals.
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Time management is necessary when trying to reach the goals I have set for myself.
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It shouldn't take a lot of time and it shouldn't feel like a burden. Ten minutes a day (at the most) is a good goal to set.
4. Meditate before you begin.
Take a few minutes to STOP and reflect before you put pen to paper.
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This creates accountability and opportunities to socialize among people with like interests.
There are lots of groups out there on Pinterest and Facebook who are in the same boat as you are.
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Violence & Deception Across Borders in 'Sicario: Day of the Soldado'
In Featured, Movie Reviews, Renard Bansale, Reviews by Impact Admin July 9, 2018 Leave a Comment
(2018—Director: Stefano Sollima)
"If you want to start a war, kidnap a prince. The king will start it for you." — CIA Agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) to U.S. Secretary of Defense James Riley (Matthew Modine) and CIA Director Cynthia Foards (Catherine Keener)
I find it premature when most mainstream viewers jump to labeling the most recent completed movie year as "the best of the decade". To that, I have always countered with the cinema of 2015, for which I have briefly mentioned my high regard in several past reviews. Whereas 2017 did not see a single five-star rating from me, 2015 alone saw five—Steve Jobs, The Big Short, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015's crown jewel for many), Sicario, and Shaun the Sheep. (Sorry, Inside Out fans, but Shaun is a modern Buster Keaton-esque masterpiece.) Down a half-star lie Son of Saul and The Revenant, followed by over a dozen strong four-star-rated films.
Yes, 2015 remains my favorite film year of the 2010s thus far. Yet while the unheralded Steve Jobs reigns at the top today, it was Sicario (Español: "hitman") that wore the crown for me from 2015's end up until the early months of 2017. The sobering and exhilarating action thriller was directed by Denis Villeneuve, written by Taylor Sheridan, and starred a determined Emily Blunt, a laid-back Josh Brolin, an enigmatic yet intimidating Benicio Del Toro, and future Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya and former Burn Notice star Jeffrey Donovan in small roles. Three years on, Sicario still teems with cinematic riches—cinematography by Roger Deakins (who would finally win his Oscar for his next Villeneuve collaboration), an unnerving score by the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, a U.S.-Mexican border standoff scene that swells with tension, and the masterstroke of shifting to Benicio Del Toro's perspective for fifteen minutes towards the end.
With the stand-alone sequel (subtitled in North America, and hereafter referred to, as Day of the Soldado), only writer Sheridan and actors Brolin, Del Toro, and Donovan return. Italian director Stefano Sollima (making his English and Spanish-language debut) takes over from Villeneuve. Hildur Guðnadóttir takes over from late Jóhannsson in the score, Dariusz Wolski from Deakins as cinematographer, and Matthew Newman from Joe Walker as film editor, among other technical craftspeople. Though it does not become The Empire Strikes Back of the Sicario saga, Day of the Soldado delivers on both intense visceral action and covert operation thrills.
When Mexican drug cartels start smuggling Islamic suicide bombers and other terrorists across the U.S. border, CIA agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) once again taps black operative Alejandro Gillick (Benicio Del Toro) to bait the drug cartels into war with one another. To do this, they assassinate the lawyer of one cartel and kidnap Isabela Reyes (Isabela Moner), the daughter of that cartel's rival kingpin, as part of a "false flag" operation. When plans to abandon her in rival cartel territory fall through due to corrupt Mexican federal police officers, CIA director Cynthia Foards (Catherine Keener) and U.S. Secretary of Defense James Riley (Matthew Modine) cancel the operation and render Isabela as collateral damage to eliminate.
For Gillick, who has become protective of Isabela, that is unacceptable.
Day of the Soldado falls into the unsurprising sequel trap of familiarity for roughly its first half. The opening pair of grisly suicide bombing scenes and Graver's interrogation of a detained Somalian (Faysal Ahmed) possibly connected to the incidents echo similar scenes from the first Sicario. Whereas the first movie's subplot of a corrupt Mexican police officer (Maximiliano Hernández) felt subtle and organic, Day of the Soldado's subplot of young aspiring gangster Miguel Hernandez (Elijah Rodriguez, in his live action debut) comes off as contrived for much of its screentime. (A husband and father draws more sympathy than a naïve teenager.) Finally, the dual inclusion of Keener and Modine as stock action genre authority figures pales next to Victor Garber's soft-spokenness in the first film.
Once writer Taylor Sheridan has finished reorienting audiences with the characters and world in the first half, he proceeds to spend the second half catapulting Day of the Soldado back to the first Sicario's high level of quality. Del Toro and the commendable Ms. Moner's race for the border is as gripping and relentless as some of the first movie's best scenes. Ms. Moner gives a strong breakout performance as the capable Isabela. At the same time, she does not take away from Del Toro's consistent command of the screen as he reprises a role that should have earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination three years ago. Be sure to pay attention to a powerful scene in which Del Toro uses American Sign Language.
Day of the Soldado is not better than the first Sicario, particularly during the moments that feel too reminiscent of its predecessor. Nevertheless, Day of the Soldado proves itself as a searing second act in a gritty, relevant, and heavily mature action thriller odyssey. Its cast is sturdy and its technical craftspeople hold to the mesmerizing template established by the first movie. Above all, Day of the Soldado benefits greatly from serving its weaker components first, before building up to a jaw-dropping finale—one that leaves me optimistic for the sequel to come.
(Parental Note: Sicario: Day of the Soldado has been rated R by the MPAA "for strong violence, bloody images, and language". It has also been rated 15 by the BBFC for "strong bloody violence" and "language", and rated O (Morally offensive) by the Catholic News Service for containing "excessive bloody violence, at least one use of profanity, and constant rough and crude language.")