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NBR Analysis: Volume 18
New Identities, New Politics: Malaysia's Muslim Professionals
National Bureau of Asian Research
83 New Identities, New Politics: Malaysia's Muslim Professionals Bridget Welsh Bridget Welsh is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asia Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University. She is also a consultant to Freedom House and a member of the Malaysia-American Society Board. Note: Special thanks is due to Robert Hefner, Ann Marie Murphy, and Mercy Kuo, who provided constructive feedback on this report and the research. This study would not have been possible without the assistance of Siti Rahayu, Chong Wu-Ling, and Desiree Hwang, who assisted in the collection of material. The author is also especially grateful to Philip Koh and Harris Mohamed who assisted in arranging critical interviews. This report is an abbreviated version of a longer, more detailed study forthcoming in 2008. Any errors that remain are the author's. 84 Executive Summary This article examines Malaysian Muslim professionals working in law, journalism, medicine, academia, and business to assess both the degree to which Islamist capture has occurred and whether changing socio-political identities associated with Islam within professional organizations have affected democracy and pluralism in Malaysia. Main Argument: Amid a societal climate of growing Islamization, Muslim professionals in Malaysia have emerged as a new, powerful elite that has inculcated religious issues and concerns into its professional organizations. The number of Muslim professionals in Malaysia has grown, and the public engagement of this group has expanded. The emergence of this new elite has yet to translate into conservative Islamist capture, but rather has both fostered stronger networks among Malaysian Muslims and raised tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims. The creation of "Islamic space" among Muslim professionals has had a mixed effect on democracy and pluralism. On the one hand, the empowerment and growth of this educated, dynamic community of professionals has broadened political participation and expanded channels of engagement between the state and civil society. On the other hand, the views of Islamic governance articulated by some Muslim professionals have challenged the secular rights of Malaysians, contributed to ethnic tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims over the polarization of views on religious rights, and fostered racial intolerance. These conflicting trends are likely to continue as the number and importance of Muslim professionals increases in the future. Policy Implications: • Malaysia's Muslim professionals will play a decisive role in charting the country's future, particularly with regard to the political role of religion and the quality of political governance. As such, it is vital that the state engage this growing cohort in Malaysian society. • It is important to open up debate within and among Malaysian professional organizations by expanding democratic space and community networks among Muslim professionals. • Efforts to extend professional training and increase professional standards would serve to dampen the rise of inter-ethnic misunderstanding between Muslims and non-Muslims in professional organizations by providing a shared outlook and by reinforcing dialogue among professionals across ethnic groups. 85 welsh A profound deepening of religious identity has occurred among all the major ethnic groups in Malaysia. Nowhere is this development more evident than in the Malay-Muslim community that now comprises the majority of the country's population and holds political power.1 This deepening of Islamization in Malaysia began in the early 1970s, with the narrowing of political space in the wake of the 1969 racial riots and the emergence of political Islam as the populace's main vehicle for organizing and voicing concerns, and further extended from the 1980s onward as the state embraced Islam for political legitimacy.2 In 2001 Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad called his country an "Islamic state"—a label that has reinforced the contestation over Islamic and secular values as one of the country's main political issues. The role of Islam in Malaysian politics has important implications for democracy and pluralism in that Islam shapes the rights, political values, and political participation of different communities and affects relations among groups in this multiethnic society. Societal groups play a major role in shaping how this contestation over the role of political Islam will evolve. One of the most important groups in this dynamic is Muslim professionals. Throughout the Muslim world professionals play a vital role in influencing political values, often serving as a conduit that feeds into the formal political elite. From Egypt to Indonesia, lawyers, professors, doctors, journalists, and businessmen are role models and leaders in everyday life and have considerable influence in shaping norms and in setting the...

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First came the migraine, pounding behind her right eye for more than a week. Then, while being checked at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children on the last day of Grade 11, Hannah Boamah suddenly collapsed and fell into a coma. When she woke up a month later from successive induced comas, she was unable to move her left side – arm, leg or face. She had had three brain surgeries and would have to learn to walk again.
Yet if anyone could prove to be up to such a challenge, it's surely Hannah, now 18. Ever since she was in Grade 8, she has been set on becoming a registered nurse. "I like science, and I thought about what I could do with science and also help people," she says. Throughout her time at Langstaff Secondary School in Richmond Hill, Ontario, she was a passionate volunteer, fundraiser and leadership coach. Twice she received advanced placement. So it was natural that she would put all of her drive and focus into improving her damaged body with the help of two Ontario Association for Children's Rehabilitation Centres member facilities – first Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto, then the Children's Treatment Network of Simcoe-York in Richmond Hill.
But Hannah's journey has been anything but easy. It turned out she was suffering from a fierce, flu-based type of sinusitis infection that spread to the right side of her brain, disabling her left side. For months she had no bone cover on her right skull, until a plastic replacement was inserted. She began moving around in a wheelchair. Slowly, with the help of her therapists, she was able to graduate to a walker, then a four-point cane and finally a single-point cane. Her face—even her tongue—came back as well, but her left arm is taking longer. She has regained some motor control in her hand and can move her wrist, but more remains to be done. "I still have a lot of weakness," she says.
Although she was out of school for the first semester of Grade 12, she still graduated on time thanks to all the advance credits she had amassed. In fact, in one sense her affliction helped. "I did a whole presentation on my illness, and I got an A+," she laughs. "I used my situation a lot for school this year, in every course!" She also gave talks to visiting students at Holland Bloorview.


Except there is no such thing as Election Day any longer, as more than 33 million Americans had already voted as of Friday. The explosive growth in early voting has transformed presidential politics and put a premium on state-level organization. It also is a driving force in determining where the candidates spend the final days of the campaign.
Both Clinton and Trump begin their day in Florida, where early voting ends in some counties on Saturday evening.
Mrs. Clinton's afternoon rally in Pembroke Pines, an increasingly diverse community in Broward County, is aimed at driving South Florida's mix of Hispanic, black, Caribbean and Jewish voters to cast an early vote. Mr. Trump planned to use a morning rally in Tampa, one of the country's bellwether cities, to energize his loyalists and persuade the dwindling number of fence-sitters.
Analyses of the early vote suggest a highly competitive finish — fitting for the state that brought us the 2000 recount — but with Hispanics voting in far greater numbers than they did four years ago. If those voters break to Mrs. Clinton, it could be difficult for Mr. Trump to win Florida.
And that could effectively decide the election. Mr. Trump has virtually no path to 270 electoral votes without the 29 from the biggest swing state of them all.
Trump goes west in a push to win Nevada and Colorado.
Taking advantage of the time zones, Mr. Trump had evening events scheduled Saturday in Reno and Denver. Strategists in both parties were somewhat puzzled by the trip west — and not just because Nevada's early vote period ended on Friday.
Nevada and Colorado are both increasingly filled with new voters, some of them immigrants and others transplants from other states. They have made the once conservative-leaning states far more friendly to Democrats. In other words, these are not good fits for Mr. Trump's style of hard-edge populism.
Yet some recent public polling has indicated that both states have tightened, and Mrs. Clinton signaled she was at least somewhat concerned when she decided to resume airing TV ads in Colorado for the first time since summer. But if Mr. Trump loses the race because he only narrow lost the older and whiter Rust Belt states, he may regret continuing to spend time and money in Western states with more forbidding demographics.
Clinton looks to dash Republicans' Pennsylvania dreams again.
No state has been so tempting, yet so elusive, for Republicans than Pennsylvania. Mitt Romney made a last-minute trip there four years ago when it was clear he needed to find an alternate path to 270, and Mr. Trump has refused to give up on it despite every public poll showing that he's losing there.
He was there on Friday, rallying voters in Hershey. It is this central part of the state — what the Democratic strategist James Carville once cracked was the Alabama that stood between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh — that has kept Mr. Trump somewhat competitive.
Yet Pennsylvania elections are won and lost not in the "T" between the two cities, but rather in the heavily populated Philadelphia region.
Mrs. Clinton has been dominant there in the polls, benefiting from the mix of suburban moderates and liberal city voters. But there is no in-person early vote in the state so data-obsessed Democrats are somewhat uneasy about where they actually stand. In particular, they are concerned about turnout among millennials and African-Americans tapering off from Barack Obama's two wins.
The solution: Mrs. Clinton is coming to Philadelphia twice in the campaign's closing days, once with the pop singer Katy Perry on Saturday night and then, in a flashing neon sign of continuity, with the president and Michelle Obama on Monday evening for one final pre-election rally.
Will the campaigns go out on a high note or end low?
Presidential candidates typically turn away from scorched-earth attacks to a more uplifting closing message in the final hours of a campaign. But this hasn't been a typical campaign.
And given how much Mrs. Clinton has benefited from antipathy toward Mr. Trump, she may be loath to stop reminding voters what they dislike about him — especially as she looks to nudge people to the polls in the final window of early voting.
But it would be a sign of Mrs. Clinton's confidence that she has 270 electoral votes in hand if she turns away from her attacks on Mr. Trump and toward more unifying themes as Tuesday nears.
Mr. Trump, it is safe to say, will not stop blistering Mrs. Clinton.
Does a campaign full of unexpected twists have one more to offer up?
Predicting unknown unknowns, as Donald Rumsfeld called them, is impossible. One arrived on Friday that could benefit Mrs. Clinton.
After a difficult week following the F.B.I.'s decision to continue investigating her email practices as secretary of state, her campaign was happy to have a more favorable surprise: a jury's decision to convict two former aides to Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey on all counts in George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal. Mr. Christie, who has been heading Mr. Trump's transition team, canceled appearances Saturday he had planned to make on the nominee's behalf.
Further, it was a diversion from the near-daily leaks from the F.B.I. about Mrs. Clinton and the release of John D. Podesta's hacked emails by WikiLeaks.
But there may be a bigger bombshell yet to explode.
Don't forget, it was in the final weekend of the election in 2004 when a video featuring Osama bin Laden was released that reminded voters of the terror threat — and helped lift George W. Bush in a tight race.


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The Skagit Eagle Festival
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The Bald Eagles of the Skagit River (source: Joshua Johnson/YouTube).
Floating down the Skagit River in Washington state in a small boat in the winter, you will likely spot many bald eagles along your trip. With wings spreading wide, the eagles soar freely in the sky, having recently returned from northern Canada and Alaska to the Skagit River to hunt migrating salmon.
Salmon at Skagit River (source: Chuck Hilliard/Flickr).
The Skagit salmon depend on the glaciers of the Cascade Range to keep the waters of the river healthy and optimal for breeding. With an abundant salmon population, the eagle's numbers have become so plentiful during the winter season that the region runs a month-long eagle-watching festival and a year-round interpretive center dedicated to the migrating birds.
During eagle-watching season in eastern Skagit County, which begins in January, tourists and birdwatchers arrive from all over the world to track the bald eagles. First started in 1987, the Skagit Eagle Festival is now a popular annual event. Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce in the small town of Concrete, it features many activities, including local music, floating tours, outdoor walks and educational programs, including a Salmon Run along the river.
Bald Eagle feeding on salmon (source: Kenneth Kearney / Flickr).
During this year's Skagit Eagle Festival, Native American celebrations also took place along the glacier-fed river, which remains very important to the local tribes. The Samish Indian Nation's cultural outreach coordinator Rosie Cayou-James and native musician Peter Ali teamed up to organize a special "Native Weekend" at Marblemount Community Hall, featuring Native American history, storytelling and more. Local tribal elders and experts made educational presentations and performed native music at the event. Cayou-James, the main organizer of the weekend, told GlacierHub, "The eagle festival is a way to honor the ancestors. I cannot speak for the other tribes, but the Samish feel very connected to eagles and orcas."
The Skagit River runs from high in the Cascades to Puget Sound, benefiting both the people and animals that live along the river. It provides a habitat for the five major species of Pacific salmon. Consequently, the river has the country's largest wintering populations of eagles outside of Alaska. But the health of the eagle and fish populations in the Skagit River depends on the health of the glaciers of the region, which are suffering as a result of climate change.
Rosie Cayou-James (source: Rosie Cayou-James).
"Climate change has damaged the natural flow of salmon, which is the main source of survival for resident eagles and orcas," Cayou-James explained to GlacierHub. Samish history instructs members to protect the proper relationship to the land and its resources, including the Skagit River and surrounding glaciers, by teaching how the natural and spiritual worlds "cannot be separated," according to the Samish Indian Nation website.
In total, there are around 375 glaciers in the Skagit River watershed, as reported by the Skagit Climate Science Consortium. The glaciers keep the flow of the Skagit River high throughout the summer. In addition, glacier water keeps nearby rivers at low temperatures throughout the year, making them optimal for salmon. The salmon rely on the cool glacier-fed water to survive. Without glaciers, stream temperatures become higher and keep climbing, becoming lethal to adult salmon.
Because glaciers are extremely sensitive to climate change, higher temperatures have increased rates of melting, reducing snow accumulation in the winter and changing the timing and duration of runoff. Worse even, the glaciers of the Cascades have not been able to fully rebuild themselves in the winter through accumulated snowfall. The glaciers of the Cascades have shrunk to half of what they were a century ago, according to the United States Geological Survey. In addition, the average winter freezing elevation in the Skagit has risen consistently since 1948, reducing the area which receives the snow that could replenish the glaciers.
An eagle scans the water near Samish Island (source: Dex Horton Photography/ Flickr).
As climate change has put Pacific salmon in a difficult situation, the annual eagle festival and educational programs run by leaders like Cayou-James have become more important. Because of the glacier loss caused by increasing temperature, salmon habitat is dramatically changing. With a decrease of the salmon population, the eagles are also in danger. As more and more people get to know the eagles of the Skagit River through the Skagit Eagle Festival, there is hope that opportunities will arise for the people of the region to come together to combat climate change before it is too late.
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Saturday 3rd March 2012 – Tanggamus to Bandar Lampung.
Tanggamus to Bandar Lampung. 59 miles.
Feeling a lot happier today, maybe I'd over done it the last couple of days and was a bit run down! Still not happy about the sponsorship though, I'm sure everybody can afford a couple of pounds!
Still had plenty of hills today, but at least they weren't vertical and I could ride up them! I've definitely got the wrong colour shorts. Where I sweat so much it always looks like I've wet myself!
Short ride today, after the last two days I didn't fancy another ride in the dark and wanted to get a hotel with internet access, might stop two nights not too sure yet.
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"During the past four months I committed myself to a number of rewarding academic programs: I began by studying Ulpan in Tel Aviv for the first two months of my trip, after which I moved to Haifa and began studying there. As a member of the International School, I continued Hebrew Studies on an intensive basis, in addition to taking classes in Rabbinic Literature, Biblical Theology, and Israeli Art Music. I also enrolled in an honors seminar (with both undergraduate and graduate students) on the topic of European Jewish culture and civilization from the Middle Ages to modernity. Although that class will not continue next semester, I am pursuing a separate honors thesis that I will write when I return to Oberlin for my penultimate year.
"This semester, I was also fortunate enough to participate in a volunteer program in which students in the International School tutored Ethiopian children in a nearby neighborhood. I found the experience to be immensely rewarding, and I look forward to continuing it next semester.
Laura Finkelstein, a graduate student in fine arts at Boston University participating in the WUJS Arts Program.
"These last few months in Israel have not only informed my art, but also my understanding of my culture, religion and most importantly the land of Israel for which I feel a deep and committed reverence. During my time at the WUJS Institute in Arad, I have spent my days participating in Ulpan where I have quicky progressed, even through I started in only Aleph. I spend the remainder of my time either painting, participating in group seminars, or traveling independently in Israel. I have grown quite fond of Tel Aviv and would one day like to call it home. Although I have only spent a week exploring Jerusalem, I feel more spiritually connected to what I consider the most beautiful city in the world, than I have to any other place. In some ways, it is a challenge with so many things to experience here, trying to balance my language studies with painting, and general social interactions with both Israeli's and other Westerner's who have decided to make Israel their home.


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Everi to supply fintech for Resorts World Las Vegas: analyst
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A brokerage is raising by 4.3 percent its estimate on second-quarter earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for casino equipment maker and financial technology (fintech) supplier Everi Holdings Inc.
The revision – from US$74.9 million to US$78.1 million – reflected factors including "healthy regional gaming backdrop" in the United States market, with "continued ship share gains", said analyst David Bain, of Riley Securities Inc.
The analyst also noted Everi's performance in the fintech segment was "rolling" in the second quarter.
"Checks cite Everi will be the fintech provider for Resorts World's US$4.3-billion Las Vegas Strip property scheduled to go live on June 24," wrote Mr Bain.
That was a reference to Resorts World Las Vegas (pictured), a new gaming property in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the U.S., promoted by a unit of Malaysia's Genting group, which received approval for key executives from state regulators recently.
Mr Bain also noted in his memo: "We believe Everi continues in advanced-stage discussions with several multi-property, multi-jurisdictional operators about digital wallet installations."
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In early May, Everi reported first-quarter net income of just over US$20.5 million, compared to a net loss of nearly US$13.5 million in the prior-year quarter.
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Crécy-sur-Serre est une commune française située dans le département de l'Aisne, en région Hauts-de-France.

Géographie

À une quinzaine de kilomètres au nord de Laon par la route, Crécy-sur-Serre est située à l'intersection des routes départementales D 642 et D 35.

Climat
Le climat qui caractérise la commune est qualifié, en 2010, de « climat océanique dégradé des plaines du Centre et du Nord », selon la typologie des climats de la France qui compte alors huit grands types de climats en métropole. En 2020, la commune ressort du type « climat océanique altéré » dans la classification établie par Météo-France, qui ne compte désormais, en première approche, que cinq grands types de climats en métropole. Il s'agit d'une zone de transition entre le climat océanique, le climat de montagne et le climat semi-continental. Les écarts de température entre hiver et été augmentent avec l'éloignement de la mer. La pluviométrie est plus faible qu'en bord de mer, sauf aux abords des reliefs.

Les paramètres climatiques qui ont permis d'établir la typologie de 2010 comportent six variables pour les températures et huit pour les précipitations, dont les valeurs correspondent à la normale 1971-2000. Les sept principales variables caractérisant la commune sont présentées dans l'encadré ci-après.

Avec le changement climatique, ces variables ont évolué. Une étude réalisée en 2014 par la Direction générale de l'Énergie et du Climat complétée par des études régionales prévoit en effet que la  température moyenne devrait croître et la pluviométrie moyenne baisser, avec toutefois de fortes variations régionales. Ces changements peuvent être constatés sur la station météorologique de Météo-France la plus proche, « Pouilly-sur-Serre », sur la commune de Pouilly-sur-Serre, mise en service en 1959 et qui se trouve à  à vol d'oiseau, où la température moyenne annuelle est de  et la hauteur de précipitations de  pour la période 1981-2010.
Sur la station météorologique historique la plus proche, « Saint-Quentin », sur la commune de Fontaine-lès-Clercs,  mise en service en 1933 et à , la température moyenne annuelle évolue de  pour la période 1971-2000 à  pour 1981-2010, puis à  pour 1991-2020.

Urbanisme

Typologie
Crécy-sur-Serre est une commune rurale. Elle fait en effet partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Laon, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de  à moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (91,8 % en 2018), une proportion sensiblement équivalente à celle de 1990 (93,2 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
terres arables (90,4 %), zones urbanisées (5,3 %), forêts (2,9 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (1 %), prairies (0,4 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Histoire

 Toponymie
Le village est cité pour la première fois sous l'appellation  de Crissi en 1132, Villa et potesta Creciacicum puis Créceicum dans un cartulaire de l'abbaye de Foigny en 1184. Le nom variera encore ensuite de nombreuses fois en fonction des différents transcripteurs : Créci, Crechi, Territorium de Creceyo, Creciacum-supra-Seram, Crécy-et-Sepli sur Sree, Crécy-sur-Cerre, Crescy-sur-Sere et enfin l'écriture actuelle Crécy-sur-Serre sur la carte de Cassini au XVIIIe siècle
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Carte de Cassini
La carte de Cassini montre qu'au XVIIIe siècle, Crécy-sur-Serre est un bourg situé sur la rive droite de la Serre.
Il est traversé du nord au sud par le chemin de Guise à Laon. Des ponts en pierre permettent de traverser la rivière.
Un moulin à eau, encore existant de nos jours, est représenté par une roue dentée.
La mention Poste indique que Crécy-sur-Serre possédait un relais de poste aux chevaux.

Seconde Guerre mondiale
Le , la  division cuirassée, commandée par le colonel Charles de Gaulle la  Panzerdivision allemande à Crécy. Les chars français pénètrent dans Crécy-sur-Serre bien défendue par les canons antichars allemands. Trop peu nombreux, les Français se replient au soir, laissant 28 chars sur le terrain sans avoir infligé de pertes matérielles importantes aux Allemands.

Passé ferroviaire de la ville

De 1878 à 1959, Crécy-sur-Serre a été traversée par la ligne de chemin de fer Dercy-Mortiers à Versigny, qui , venant de la gare de Chalandry, e dirigeait vers Pouilly-sur-Serre.
Cette ligne servait aux transport de passagers, de marchandises, de betteraves sucrières, de pierre à chaux.
À partir de 1950, avec l'amélioration des routes et le développement du transport automobile, le trafic ferroviaire a périclité et la ligne a été fermée en 1959.  L'ancienne gare est devenue aujourd'hui une habitation.

Événement météorologique
Le , lors de gros orages qui ont touché le Nord-Est de la France, le bourg de Crécy-sur-Serre a été touché par une mini-tornade vers , causant l'effondrement d'une grange et détériorant les toitures de quatre maisons, sans faire de blessés.

Séply-sur-Serre

Séply-sur-Serre était un petit village voisin de Crécy-sur-Serre ; il n'existe plus. Auguste Matton, archiviste du Département et membre de la Société académique de Laon, écrivait en 1871 : « Le village de Ceply faisait partie de la commune de Crécy-sur-Serre et se trouvait dans la plaine vers Chalandry entre la rivière Souche et le nouveau lit de la Serre ; l'emplacement de l'ancienne église appartient encore aujourd'hui à la fabrique de Crécy-sur-Serre. Il est maintenant détruit. ». Ceply était aussi désigné sous le nom de Seply-sur-Sère (ou Seply-sur-Serre). En 1661, le curé et doyen de Crécy-sur-Serre, Mre Adrien Leclercq, inscrivait les baptêmes sur un registre intitulé : « Registre baptistaire de l'église Saint-Rémy de Crécy et de Seply sur Sère ».

Politique et administration

Découpage territorial

La commune de Crécy-sur-Serre est membre de la communauté de communes du Pays de la Serre, un établissement public de coopération intercommunale (EPCI) à fiscalité propre créé le  dont le siège est à Crécy-sur-Serre. Ce dernier est par ailleurs membre d'autres groupements intercommunaux.

Sur le plan administratif, elle est rattachée à l'arrondissement de Laon, au département de l'Aisne et à la région Hauts-de-France. Sur le plan électoral, elle dépend du  canton de Marle pour l'élection des conseillers départementaux, depuis le redécoupage cantonal de 2014 entré en vigueur en 2015, et de la première circonscription de l'Aisne  pour les élections législatives, depuis le dernier découpage électoral de 2010.

Administration municipale

Démographie

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

 La façade de l'hôtel de ville, datée du , est classée au titre des monuments historiques depuis 1928.
 Maison du , située place des Alliés, classée au titre des monuments historiques en 1931.
 L'église Saint-Rémi qui était romane fut rebâtie en gothique avant de trouver sa forme actuelle du .
 Beffroi dit tour de Crécy. Haute de , elle est mentionnée depuis le  et a été ruinée lors des guerres de Religion. Rebâtie en brique, elle fut touchée par les obus lors de la Première Guerre mondiale car elle abritait un poste d'observation et un relais téléphonique allemand. Elle est classée au titre des monuments historiques depuis 1921.

Personnalités liées à la commune

Héraldique

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Voir aussi
 Liste des communes de l'Aisne
 Ligne de Dercy-Mortiers à Versigny

Bibliographie
 Pierre Cailleux, Crécy sur Serre à travers ses archives, Laon, L'Imprimerie du courrier de l'Aisne, 1999, 352 pages
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Liens externes

 Crécy-sur-Serre sur le site de l'Institut géographique national
 Crécy-sur-Serre sur Viamichelin
 Crécy-sur-Serre sur le site de l'Insee

Commune dans l'Aisne
Crécy-sur-Serre
Ville décorée de la croix de guerre 1914-1918

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I did FT race this year. Contrary to previous years the course has been very interesting though quite tough. There was a big climb that was not included in the race for more than couple of recent races (or only part of the climb was in the course). No many zigzagas and switchbacks in the open fields section this year which made the races boring and less excting in the past.
The skiers comments were very positive about this year's course so I would advise that IAWLS praise organizers for that.
The organization of both races (both in Obertilliach) were very good and certianly Dolomitenlauf merits a letter with congrtaulations.
I agree with you sir. This is a FIS course level for a Worldloppet master with no common measures with other races. I did once before (in CT, with all the Zig and the zag, and i prefer this new kind of course where the pace in effort and ski preparation (divided in four legs: untertilliach, Obertilliach, Kartitch and the last 8Kms in Obertilliach) is the next level to renew the predictable. I was very "enchanté" after both races for this new challenge.
Instead of a write account I can offer a Video summary of the Engadin Skimarathon 2013. Race was spectacular as ever. While the crowds may slow you down in the first half, the sheer number of people also really makes the ambiance of this event. Very fast conditions this year, snow was perfect and gliding exceptionally, despite the poor forecast.


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require 'spec_helper'
require 'sinkhole/commands/command'
require 'sinkhole/commands/ehlo'

describe Sinkhole::Commands::Ehlo do
  let(:state) do
    mock()
  end

  let(:connection) do
    connection = mock()
    server = mock()
    server.stubs(:using_ssl).returns(true)
    connection.stubs(:server).returns(server)
    connection.stubs(:domain).returns("Fake")
    connection.stubs(:peer).returns("127.0.0.1")
    connection
  end

  subject do
    Sinkhole::Commands::Ehlo.new([], connection)
  end

  before do
    connection.stubs(:state).returns(state)
  end

  it "processes properly" do
    connection.expects(:reset_state)
    state.expects(:<<).with(:ehlo)
    Sinkhole::Responses::ActionCompleted.expects(:new).times(6)
    response = subject.do_process
    expect(response.length).to equal(6)
  end
end

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Lope de Ulloa y Lemos (1572? in Galicia – December 8, 1620 in Concepcion); Spanish soldier designated by the viceroy of Peru Francisco de Borja y Aragón, Prince of Esquilache, carried out the position of Captain General and Governor of Chile, and president of the Real Audiencia of Chile. His government in Chile lasted for two years, between January 1618 and December 1620, the date of his death.  It was believed that he had been poisoned.

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"less time to spend with the family"
"a shower uses less water"
"less than three years old"
(usually preceded by 'no') lower in quality.
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"in 25 words or less"
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Charging Bull: Greg Noll And The Greatest Wave Ever Surfed
Though surfing has been practiced by the Hawaiians for centuries, it was only in the 20th century that surfers began to attempt to conquer truly massive waves. Thanks to modern technology and new materials like fiberglass and balsa wood, innovator George Downing was able to create the first true "big wave" surfboard in the 1950s.
With these "big guns," pioneers like Downing, Buzzy Trent, and Wally Froiseth were able to venture out among the waves at Makaha, on Oahu, that would have been impossible to ride before. And it was a photo of those three men riding an utterly massive wave, appearing on the front page of a Californian newspaper, that sent an exodus of young California surfers to the Islands to test themselves against those behemoths.
Live To Surf
Young men like Greg Noll, Pat Curren, Micky Munoz, Mike Stang, Peter Cole, and many others, all now legends of the sport, hopped on planes with nothing but their boards a few pairs of swim trunks. They were determined to ride big waves…and do nothing else.
This wild generation of surfers lived a bohemian lifestyle that's completely unheard of today. None of them had jobs or money. They slept in cars, shacks, or even outside on the beach. They caught fish, stole from local farms; anything to get by. And every single day, they went out on the water and surfed big waves for every second possible.
These early big wave surfers lived for nothing else other than catching the best waves possible—and the greatest of them, always clad in his iconic black-and-white jailhouse trunks, was Greg Noll, the man who caught the most legendary wave in history.
Noll was just 16 years old when he made the trek to Makaha, but he was already starting to grow into the thick, powerful frame that got him known as "The Bull." Noll and the others surfed Makaha for years, but he truly made a name for himself once they made the trek to the uncharted waters of Oahu's North Shore, finding the even bigger waves that lay there.
But even when those Californians started surfing on the North Shore, the biggest prize still lay unridden: The leviathans that broke in Waimea Bay. Sure, these guys surfed big waves, but everyone knew that the monsters of Waimea were too big to be ridden. They were deadly—a fact sadly confirmed when a young surfer named Dickie Cross drowned there.
But in 1957, after years of watching the waves smash through Waimea Bay, Greg Noll finally decided to paddle out and see if they were rideable—becoming a legend in the process. Noll rode Waimea, and changed big wave surfing forever. The taboo had finally been broken, and Waimea became one of big wave surfing's holiest sites. But while many daring surfers have challenged Waimea since then, the wave that breaks there will always be, in Noll's words, his "gal."
Eventually, the Californians' Eden had to end. Believe it or not, you can't spend your entire life with no job, surfing all day, every day. Many of those early surfers stayed on the island. Some returned to California and got day jobs. But Noll was the face of the generation, and he also happened to be a shrewd businessman.
He leveraged his fame to start a successful surfboard company in the 1960s and became something of a surfing ambassador. He still surfed massive waves when he could, but the halcyon days of the 1950s were over. By 1969, they must have seemed a distant memory. Then, on December 4, at 32 years old, Noll got the chance to prove he was one of the greatest surfers to ever paddle out. His wave came in.
The Swell of the Century
While Noll was visiting Oahu in December of 69, the "Swell of the Century" hit: a legendary event that saw some of the biggest and most powerful waves in history. On the fourth, Noll was awoken at two in the morning by the distant rumble of tanks (there was an army base nearby and tanks weren't an unusual occurrence).
But, of course, these were not tanks rumbling through the Hawaiian countryside at 2 AM. The Swell of the Century was hitting Oahu with full force.
For most, the sound of those crashing waves would be a signal to head to the hills—but the butterflies in Noll's stomach were not pushing him away from the ocean. They were pushing him towards it.
After a restless sleep, Noll got up at sunrise with adrenaline already pumping through his veins. He had always dreamed of riding the biggest wave ever ridden, and he could hear his chance pounding the shore in the distance.
His first thought, as always, was to head to Waimea Bay, but as soon as he arrived, he realized that catching a ride with his gal would be impossible that day. Across the entire North Shore, the waves were just too big. As Noll put it, "Solid whitewater as far as you could see."
Noll started to worry that this day would not be his. Usually, when the waves get as big as what he was seeing, it means that they're too big across the whole island. It started to look like the Swell of the Century was too powerful, and nothing was going to be rideable.
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One Last Chance
But before giving up completely, Noll remembered something that pioneers George Downing and Buzzy Trent had told him: That sometimes, when the North Shore is too big to surf, the waves at Makaha were still rideable. And even rarer still, Makaha "does this wonderful, magical thing…"
When everything is just perfect, the waves at Makaha were said to be even bigger than the ones on the North Shore—yet they could still be ridden. Noll had spent 15 years surfing Hawaii, but he'd never been there to see it happen.
Noll got back in his car and headed to Makaha—where his big wave surfing career started a decade and a half earlier—and when he arrived, what he saw was magic: "On this day, the water was nearly as smooth as glass, beautiful, and the waves were so big that they literally put the fear of God in me."
Fear or no, Noll was not about to let this opportunity pass. Remarkably, when he paddled out, he was greeted by other surfers who had seen the perfect giants and decided to see if they had the guts. Normally, a group of big wave surfers sitting out in the lineup like that would be laughing and joking, but on that day, everyone was serious. Even when out of harm's way, the waves were crashing so hard that they made the water droplets on the surfers' boards tremble.
Noll and those other surfers sat out there on their boards for 45 minutes with no one gaining the nerve to paddle in. They had all ridden countless big waves before, and they all knew the risks of ending up on the wrong spot in one of those goliaths in the distance.
Noll: "It would be like going off Niagara Falls without the barrel."
One and Only Chance
After a while, Noll paddled off by himself, laid down on his board, and thought long and hard about the waves in front of him. He knew that his chances of surviving a wipeout were probably around 50-50—maybe a little better because of his experience, but not great.
But this was Greg Noll, the Bull, the greatest big wave surfer the world had ever seen. The first person ever to ride deadly Waimea. He was not the kind of man to let this opportunity pass him by.
He looked at the situation logically and knew that waves like this do not come around often. He was 32 at the time, and the next time they arrived, he would certainly be long past his prime and unable to ride them. This was his one chance.
Finally, he made his decision: He'd never forgive himself if he let the magical day pass without even attempting a wave.
Noll paddled into the line of fire and saw a wave coming in behind him. It looked utterly huge, and his gut told him to let it go by. Then, as he paddled over that first break, he saw it. His wave—and it was even bigger.
He turned and started paddling. The wave started to rear up, going faster and faster, and suddenly, he was on his feet. In Noll's estimation, "You could have stacked two eighteen-wheel semis on top of each other against the face of that wave and still have had room left over to ride it."
He started going faster and faster down the face, the roar of his board on the water getting louder and louder. Then, just as he was nearing the bottom, it became too much. His board flew out from under his feet and he hit the water so fast it felt like concrete. Then, the whitewater took him.
Off Niagara Falls without the barrel.
Somehow, after being thrashed about underwater for what must have felt like an eternity, the wave passed overhead, and Noll managed to make it to the surface. Maybe the ocean decided to show some leniency out of respect for what Noll had just attempted: but he wasn't out of danger just yet.
Waves do not come one at a time, and almost as soon as Noll surfaced, another one came crashing through. He had to dive twenty feet down to the relative safety of the deep and let each subsequent wave pass overhead.
Even as he managed to avoid the monsters that kept bearing down on Makaha, Noll was still hundreds of feet from shore, and the current was pushing him away to the haven of the beach and towards treacherous rocks. He'd caught the biggest wave ever surfed, survived the wipeout, and now he was facing the very real possibility of dying on the rocky shore.
Noll frantically swam for the beach and finally made it just before the rocks began. He flopped on the shore and was greeted by Richard "Buffalo" Keaulana, a legendary Hawaiin surfer and lifeguard. "Buff" immediately pushed a cold beer into Noll's hand, and said, "Good ting you wen make'em, Brudda. 'Cause no way I was comin' in afta you. I was jus goin' wave goodbye and say, 'Alooo-ha.'"
On December 4, 1969, when Greg Noll rode one of the greatest waves in history, there wasn't a single camera on hand to record it. There's no way to tell exactly how big that wave was—and with modern tow-in techniques, it's very likely that surfers have since ridden even bigger ones.
His wave at Makaha will forever be big wave surfing's big fish story. Just how big was it? Aside from the people who were there that day, no one will ever know. But that doesn't matter either. It was as big as you imagine it being—and there's no one else who could have ridden it other than Greg Noll.
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The Australian Writer's Marketplace is your guide to the writing and publishing industry in Australia and beyond. With over two thousand active listings in the our directory, we provide you with every contact you will ever need to succeed in the writing business.
The effect of the internet and digital distribution on fiction, said Miéville, would not be about creating "enhanced" ebooks, which he called "a banal abomination".
Also on the electronic front, Publishing Perspective takes a look at the differences between writing a children's book and writing an interactive mobile app for children.
Brainpickings collates A Few Don'ts for Those Beginning to Write Verse taken from Ezra Pound's essays.
Regina Brooks and Brenda Lane Richardson offer up the Two Deadly Sins of Memoir Writing.
Kill Zone Authors offers some advice on How to Write a Novella that goes beyond the usual "like a novel, but smaller" suggestions (and, once you've written it, check out this week's Speakeasy interview with David Henley regarding Seizure's Viva La Novella competition).
Those are the links that 'caught our attention this week – how about you? If you've seen a writing, publishing, or ebook post you'd like to share, let us know in the comments.
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The poll results, which are not due to be released publicly, indicate that top shareholders are increasingly getting frustrated with the performance of the London headquartered bank. This is amid HSBC's share price declining by one-third and its financial results missing several targets since Gulliver taking the lead role.
One top 20 investor in HSBC said: "Gulliver has two problems. His manner is too aggressive and he really does not like criticism. He also built the problem child of HSBC as the former boss of its investment bank." However, the investor argued: "He deserves to be given until the end of next year to see if he achieves the new targets. If he fails he should be fired."
HSBC, however, spoke in favour its CEO. It said: "Our CEO has a clear mandate from shareholders having received over 99% support for re-election at April's AGM."
A person involved in the HSBC board meeting last week also supported the bank's view. He said that management succession was not one of the concerns discussed at the recent meeting, making him believe that many of the people polled by Autonomous may not have been HSBC investors, according to the Financial Times.
With regards to management changes, HSBC chairman Douglas Flint had in March said that a hunt for his successor had begun. He had then added that the new chairman would "lead the process for selecting the next group chief executive [to replace Gulliver] in due course".
This poll comes in the wake of Europe's banking sector. Factors such as negative interest rates and a decline in investment banking income have caused several banks such as Barclays, UniCredit, Standard Chartered and Deutsche Bank to replace their CEOs over the past two years.


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Q: Use of ... all are? Is the all in "John, Bob, and Sue all are hungry" redundant? Does it mean anything beyond "John, Bob, and Sue are hungry"?

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John, Bob, and Sue all are hungry.

The "all" is separable and not part of the subject NP but an adjunct in clause structure. This is evident from the fact that when the verb is an auxiliary, as it is here, it preferentially follows rather than precedes it, as in "John, Bob and Sue" are all hungry".
Note also the possibility of inserting an adjunct after the subject NP and before the quantificational adjunct, as in "John, Bob and Sue are certainly all hungry".

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From Vision To Reality: The Innovation Process
Innovation is a collaborative process by which organizations abandon old paradigms and make significant advances. Innovative ideas come from several sources, including unreasonable demands or goals and time pressures. However, there are many blocks to innovation. An innovative idea is not helpful to an organization unless it is tested and implemented. The perfect solution is sometimes there; as a vision, a thought, a dream or just a wish. But it is often far too complex for an individual to take it into reality.
There are many examples of individuals who have great ideas but do nothing with them. Their organizations do not even know of these concepts. Unfortunately these ideas die. They die because the creator kills it! They may recognize that the idea may negatively impact their job or the job of their co-workers. They do not know how to explore the idea to take it from a vision to a reality. Furthermore, They rationalize that no one would ever agree on how to structure such their concepts or pay for them.
Just how many innovative ideas in your organizations regularly go nowhere because they are not linked to overall Business Improvement Strategies. In order to protect innovative ideas, organizations need to create a forum for the Innovation Process.
What Is Innovation?
It is not:
The result of a lone genius inventor.
Just about ideas (The problem is that people often do not know where to go with ideas or how to implement them, which is sometimes a problem with suggestion-box systems).
About individuality in thinking (which is what suggestion-box systems tend to focus on).
Rather it is:
A collaborative process where people in many fields contribute to implementing new ideas. Teams are very important to the process.
About products and reengineering and processes, both future and present processes.
Involving people who will challenge the status quo. The person who moans and groans and complains may be the source of the next great innovation.
Where Does Innovation Begin?
It begins with an idea which comes from:
Nowhere…Such ideas usually die unless a fertile ground exists to develop them. or
A goal…An outlandish or unreasonable demand or goal, one that a continuous improvement process will not reach, often may spark innovation.
How Do You Get These Ideas?
With pressure!
Being under the gun, with a deadline, adds a sense of consequence to the task and a purpose to spur it.
By facing a challenge…seemingly unreasonable!Studies show that positive thinkers rise to a challenge. The more they are likely to face defeat, the more they want to beat it.
By abandoning old paradigms!
Abandoning the status quo, like rules, policies, and set procedures. Only when you leave the rules behind, can you be free to create. This is critical to successful innovation.
Innovation Blockages
Can't do that
That's stupid
That's not in the rules
It's against our policy
We don't have the budget
We don't have the time
We'll never get it approved
That's not what they're looking for
You've got to be kidding
An organization that is innovative, creative, and willing to take risks has a higher likelihood of creating organizational effectiveness. Look at the following innovation blockages created by innovators:
In 1880, Thomas Edison said that the phonograph was of no commercial value.
In 1920 Robert Milliken, Nobel Prize winner in physics said; "There is no likelihood man can ever tap into the power of the atom."
In 1927 Harry Warner, Warner Brothers Pictures said (in reference to the desirability of adding a sound track to silent movies); "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
In 1943 Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM said; "I think there is a world market for about 5 computers". In December, 1977, Ken Olsen, President of Digital Equipment Company said; "There is no reason for an individual to have a computer in their home".
The Innovation Process — Six Stages
Stage 1: Generate Ideas
This is the exhilarating part of the process! Do this in teams rather than individually…which is what suggestion-box systems tend to promote. Innovative ideas generally come from a vision, an unreasonable demand, or a goal.
To get innovation going in your organization, ask; "What is impossible to do in your business today, but if it could be done, would fundamentally change what your business does?" Answers to this question will help you to see the boundaries of a new organization and a new you! That is where innovation begins.
This is the exhilarating part of the process!
Stage 2: Capture Ideas From The First Stage
Do this through team discussion or discussion among peers. Make sure to record the ideas. A great brainstorming technique is to ask each team member to silently brainstorm individually. Ask them to write each idea they come up with on separate sticky notes. Then have the team create an "affinity diagram" on the wall or whiteboard by collectively organizing all ideas into columns of similar ideas.
Now the drudgery begins!
Stage 3: Begin the Innovation
Review the entire list of ideas and develop them into a series of statements of ideas. The team will then need to agree on which ones to explore further.
Next, quantify the benefits of each statement of ideas to pursue. Do this in reference to the department, the organization and/or the customer.
Then describe how the statement fits with the organization's strategy, mission, and objectives.
Now you will have to estimate the business potential…the expected outcomes of implementing the idea.
Although the organization has yet to apply and think through the innovation, these steps are designed to capture ideas and agree on a statement of feasibility before trying the Innovation.
Stage 4: Develop a Business-Effectiveness Strategy
Innovation implementation begins here. It usually means a re-think of an existing process, product, or service. This is not the same as looking at an existing process and improving it. It is describing what a future process will look like.
The innovation team will first develop this "picture of the future". This is usually where the innovation resides. The easiest way to get started is to have the team members list their basic assumptions about the way things are now done (that the Innovation is intended to overcome). Then they'll brainstorm, discuss, and record every single idea that arises about a possible future process. It helps to use yellow stickies to record ideas individually first and then consolidate them all. The team will conclude by writing a full paragraph that describes the innovation and illustrating it on a flowchart. This will provide them with a look at the entire "future process".
Essentially the team will have detailed how to possibly go about the process without concern for current thinking or typical procedure. This is similar to what Mary did with her inventory system in the example at the beginning of this article.
Stage 5: Apply Business Improvement
Once the innovation is applied, it is necessary to continuously examine it for possible improvements to the process, product, or service. In the example of building a house in 3 hours, how could the team improve the process by using fewer people or less money?
The team starts this process by identifying the business process gaps between what is done in the present and what is done in the innovation. This is followed by identifying the blockages and barriers which will stop them from improving the innovation. Estimating the difficulty, benefits, costs, support required, and risks is necessary before the team can refine the innovation process. Then it will be ready to apply the improvements identified.
Stage 6: Decline
In time, it often becomes obvious that what was once an innovation no longer fits. Continuous improvement of the existing process, product, or service is no longer of value; perhaps the former innovation has now become outdated or outmoded. It is time to let it go; abandon the existing thinking, and set a new goal to start the innovation process once again. It is time for new innovations in response to external pressure.
Innovation & Organizations
Every organization undergoes innovation or else it is not successful. It is just a matter of degree. The essence of innovation is discovering what your organization is uniquely good at, what special capabilities it possesses and how it can take advantage of these capabilities to build products or deliver services that are better than anyone else's? Every organization has unique strengths. Success comes from leveraging these strengths in its own service or product market place.
Innovation & Globalization
Today, many organizations operate globally. They find that innovation can occur anywhere, in any country or culture. Traditionally, innovation has been a local issue, not transferred to other corporate locations. But today, innovation teams, similar to improvement teams, work on innovation surrounding a product or service and then develop a centrally planned roll out. For process innovations, the local organization implements them and then, because of enhanced communication, the innovation moves from location to location. This is accomplished by using the technology available today, including the World Wide Web, teleconferencing, and video-conferencing.
Take Action!!
Innovation is an action. To encourage youself to take action, let me leave you with some famous words of hope. George Bernard Shaw said,
"You see things and you say, why?
But I dream things and I say, why not?"
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STATE PREVIEW: Tularosa teams ready for first-round
Tularosa boys and girls ready for first-round of Class 3A state playoffs.
STATE PREVIEW: Tularosa teams ready for first-round Tularosa boys and girls ready for first-round of Class 3A state playoffs. Check out this story on AlamogordoNews.com: http://a-dnews.co/2mCKzhW
Peter Dindinger, Alamogordo Daily News Published 8:00 p.m. MT Feb. 28, 2017 | Updated 1:52 p.m. MT March 2, 2017
Tularosa senior Anaya Holder, left, attempts a layup at practice Tuesday afternoon at the Michael Dorame Gymnasium.(Photo: Peter Dindinger/Daily News)Buy Photo
TULAROSA — Last year's loss to Texico in the Class 3A state girls' basketball championship is still resonating through the minds of the Tularosa Lady Cats.
This postseason, Tularosa will be hosting their fifth consecutive first-round state playoff game. The Lady Cats, a four-seed, will take on the 13-seeded Santa Rosa Lions on Friday.
There's no doubt that Tularosa's schedule was one of the toughest in Class 3A. The Lady Cats are hungry to get back to that state title game after they flirted with perfection last season finishing 30-1 overall.
"I think our schedule was really good. It was a strong schedule this year," Tularosa head coach Patrick Garcia said. "We played Carlsbad, Gallup, Eunice and Texico. That makes you good. We're very glad that we played a strong schedule like that, and now that we're headed down into the playoffs we're looking forward to the Santa Rosa contest.
"You don't take anyone for granted because then there comes that surprise of that upset. We have to look at it one game at a time and we look forward to Friday. If we're fortunate to win then we'll look forward to next Tuesday afternoon."
Santa Rosa has also had a battle-tested schedule competing in District 5-3A alongside Tucumcari and Texico. Of course, history has proven that no matter the opponent or seed no one can be taken lightly in the state tournament.
This will be the Lions' fourth straight appearance in the state playoffs. Last year they were seeded 13th as they fell to Eunice in the first-round.
Thirteen of Tularosa's opponents qualified for state whether it was at the 1A or 6A level. Some notable quality wins for the Lady Cats included two victories over Class 3A's sixth-seeded Tucumcari and a 56-45 win over two-seeded Texico.
The Lady Cats took the No. 2-seed in Class 6A, Carlsbad, down to the wire losing by 10. They also battled the 11-seed in Class 5A, Gallup, to a one-point loss.
Competing in a competitive District 4-3A also helped out the Lady Cats. Four of the five teams in the district will be at the state tourney. Not to mention, Eunice earned the No. 1-seed.
"Everyone needs to bring their A-game because also the opponents that we'll be playing are a higher seed than us, and I know they're going to try their hardest," senior Cassie Vickery said. "Nobody wants to lose, nobody wants to go home and everyone's gonna give us their best shot, whether we're the 16th seed or first seed, everyone's gonna give it their all.
"That's what matters the most. We just need everyone to leave the court with no regrets. Our schedule definitely helped us when you look at other schedules. That helped us improve and that helped us mentally and physically, and knowing that we can keep up with those teams we definitely know we can keep up with teams in our class."
Offensively, Tularosa has been led by Vickery all year. She has averaged 24.2 points a game while scoring 654 total points. Vickery has tallied seven double-doubles, two triple-doubles and one quadruple-double this season.
Senior Bethany Betancur has averaged 7.4 points a game to rank second on the team. Seniors Anaya Holder and Gracie Hooten have played tough in the paint averaging nearly six rebounds a game, respectively.
For the seven seniors on the roster this is their final chance to get a shot at the coveted blue trophy.
"We got to work hard every single day in practice," Hooten said. "We know that, for seniors, it's our last chance and we want to go hard and just give it our best effort. We want it extremely bad and I think that's our mind-set — that we have a goal and we want to achieve that goal, not only as a individual, but as a team we want to achieve it."
Overall, this is Tularosa's 11th consecutive trip to the state playoffs since 2007.
"That's what we always call the tradition," Garcia said. "You're upholding the tradition here and it's your turn to step up. This is a whole different set of girls. We lost some really quality girls from last year's team and this group had to come in here and kind of mix and match and find the right combinations. They've done a great job.
"The camaraderie on the team is second to none. They gel, they really root each other on and they work hard in practice to make each other better. It's not just gonna be one or two people, it's gonna take that whole team effort. That's something that we've been stressing and working hard at in practice. The girls understand the meaning of the word teamwork and we want to make sure that we're ready for that."
Who: No. 13 Santa Rosa (11-15) at No. 4 Tularosa (21-7)
When: 6 p.m. Friday
Where: Michael Dorame Gymnasium
Tularosa boys set for first-round battle at Estancia
For the second straight season, the Tularosa Wildcats were given a tough road test in the first-round of the 3A state playoffs.
Tularosa received the 10th seed as they will travel to play the seven-seeded Estancia Bears on Saturday.
Both teams met in January as Estancia squeaked out a 62-59 win.
"We're gonna try to be more disciplined then them," Tularosa head coach Sergio Castañon said. "We're gonna try to push when we can push, and then once we get the ball passed half-court we're gonna try to slow it down a little bit and get through our offensive sets. We just need to make sure that we get back on D and we play solid defense.
"I think that if we can win the rebounding battle and just play a little bit more controlled, more disciplined then we'll be fine."
Estancia is coming out of a competitive District 6-3A with Cuba and Laguna Acoma. The Bears fell to Cuba, 76-71, in the district title game.
This will be Estancia's second straight trip to the state playoffs. Last year, as a seven-seed, they were upset at home by 10-seeded Navajo Prep.
Tularosa also had a tough field in District 4-3A alongside Dexter and Eunice.
The Wildcats have been led by senior Michael Sheridan, who has averaged 17.5 points a game. With eight seniors on the squad, the Wildcats are hungrier than ever to make a deep run.
"For the first-round we were watching film today and they run the break real well," Sheridan said. "They shot the ball real well, but we have a lot of key things we want to pick on today in practice and the rest of this week. All we have to do is hope that this works. I feel like everyone's gonna be ready. The lights are gonna be shining, everyone's gonna be ready to play that game.
"Home, away — it shouldn't matter. We got to play our game no matter where we go. We're really hungry. We have eight seniors and I know that they want to get to the Pit just as bad as the younger guys do. Everyone's gonna be just as hungry."
Back in 2014, Tularosa played in a tough Tohatchi environment and came away with a first-round win.
"I think we're ready. It was a tough schedule, but I don't think we've been blown out at all this year," Castañon said. "We've always been competitive and this team just plays hard. So, we're gonna be a tough out. Now it's just a matter of going on the road, keeping our composure and executing better than them."
Who: No. 10 Tularosa (17-11) at No. 7 Estancia (17-11)
When: 6 p.m. Saturday
Where: Estancia High School
Tularosa senior Joe Perez soars toward the basket during a layup attempt at practice Tuesday evening. (Photo: Peter Dindinger/Daily News)


Bordered on three sides by water, San Francisco is a city where most of the best places for families to visit are on the bay or the ocean—whether on a beach, in a boat or at a waterfront attraction.
The entire six-mile-long waterfront on San Francisco Bay is a succession of family-friendly attractions—from AT&T; Park where Giants players smash "splash hits" (home runs) into the bay to historic Fort Point beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Thousands flock to Fisherman's Wharf and adjacent Pier 39, where the Aquarium of the Bay and the Maritime National Historical Park's floating ships are the highlights. A few piers to the south is the Exploratorium, a hands-on museum of science, art and human perception geared to curious kids. And just a bit longer walk to the north brings you to kite-flying fields, a windsurfing beach and the House of Air—an indoor "adrenaline park" with trampolines and climbing walls for ages as young as 3 to 6.
The waterfront is also where you can depart on any of several boat trips. These include leisurely bay cruises that take you out to the Golden Gate and past Alcatraz, plus one high-speed option (May to October) that kids adore: the RocketBoat, which literally finishes with a splash. The most popular boat ride, however, is the short trip to the notorious prison island, Alcatraz, where tour choices include a self-guided day trip, a guided behind-the-scenes tour, a guided night tour and a combo tour that also stops at Angel Island—where you can hike or take a tram around that large island's perimeter.
The best way to cross the world's most photogenic bridge is not in a car. It's on the pedestrian sidewalk on a bike or on foot. Walking across the Golden Gate is easy. Start at the Welcome Center, take some selfies, then begin the walk. Biking the bridge on your own or with a guided group is nearly as popular, with most rental locations clustered around Fisherman's Wharf (Blazing Saddles alone has six). You start out with three miles of mostly easy pedaling along the bay, then climb to the iconic span, cross it, and continue on down to picturesque Sausalito where you can take a ferry back to the city. The views are constant.
Ocean Beach is 3.5 miles long and up to two football fields wide, so it's never crowded, and Baker Beach is blessed with a Golden Gate Bridge view. Both are superb for sandcastle building and big-wave watching, though rip currents make swimming perilous. Between these beaches lies the Coastal Trail, a magical three-mile roundtrip hike that follows a bluff high above crashing waves and the open sea below. Start hiking at the Lands End Lookout Visitors Center—and check out the Sutro Baths ruins just below. The 100-acre San Francisco Zoo is also an option.
Golden Gate Park stretches four miles from the two restored windmills at Ocean Beach to the middle of the city, but most of its family-friendly delights are walking distance apart. The most impressive of these is the California Academy of Sciences—an aquarium, planetarium and natural-history museum rolled into one. Tickets are $26-$36 per ticket (free for children under 4), but purchasing a CityPASS or GO Card that also includes admission to other top attractions will save you a bundle. Close by are rowboat rentals at Stow Lake, a 1914 carousel and America's oldest public playground.
United Airlines offers flights to San Francisco International Airport from numerous cities throughout the U.S. and abroad, and MileagePlus® Rewardscan help pay for your car rental and hotel room once you arrive. Go to united.com or use the United app to plan your family getaway.


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 * Triangle.
 *
 * Class Triangle calculate the area of the triangle part 001, lesson 3.
 * @author Evgeny Vorokhobko (vorokhobko2011@yandex.ru).
 * @since 05.12.2016.
 * @version 4.
 */
public class Triangle {
 /**
 * The class field.
 * Сreating point of a triangle a.
 */
	private Point a;
 /**
 * Сreating point of a triangle b.
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	private Point b;
 /**
 * Сreating point of a triangle c.
 */
	private Point c;
 /**
 * The constructor of the Triangle with the designation points.
 * @param a - a.
 * @param b - b.
 * @param c - c.
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	public Triangle(Point a, Point b, Point c) {
		this.a = a;
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 * Сalculate the area.
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	public double area() {
		double lineAB = a.distanceTo(b);
		double lineAC = a.distanceTo(c);
		double lineBC = b.distanceTo(c);
		double numberOfPperimeter = 2;
		if ((lineAB < (lineAC + lineBC)) && (lineAC < (lineAB + lineBC)) && (lineBC < (lineAB + lineAC))) {
			double pperimeter = (lineAB + lineAC + lineBC) / numberOfPperimeter;
			return Math.sqrt(pperimeter * (pperimeter - lineAB) * (pperimeter - lineAC) * (pperimeter - lineBC));
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There was more than 54,000 men & women that were killed in the war in Viet Nam. Somedays I believe that those men & women are the "Lucky Ones".
There isn't hardly a waking minute that 'Nam isn't on my mind. Then there are those nights that the War goes on all night long. For me and thousands of others the war is never over. By surviving the jungles, miserable living conditions, not being allowed to tell anyone about what I had been doing, I sentenced myself to now 30 plus years of Hell. I wish this Hell was finished.
I must tell someone, so I'm telling you..
Billy and I were boarding a plane at our little 'Mac Air' site, when a sniper shot Billy. We were coming home. He died in my arms. I wanted to get my 'baby' and go after the sniper that killed my best friend. I don't blame the sniper for Billy's death. We all were just doing a job. Yeah, I was madder than hell at the guy that shot Billy. But we all were doing a job. Doing a dirty, disgusting job. A job that has runied thousands of lives.
A few years ago I found out who Billy's parents are and where they lived. I drove over to their home and parked across the street. I had gone there with the intentions of telling Billy's parents the real story of how their son really died.
After about an hour of soul searching I left without bothering them. Why re-open 30 year old wounds?


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(PG-7) Andor: The Family Fantasy Game
by Charlie Theel • September 20, 2021 • 5 Comments
I don't really know a whole lot about Legends of Andor. I've never played it and I've never felt a strong desire to. I know it's an adventure game with some modern Euro-style sensibilities, such as deferring to optimization and puzzle solving over immersion and drama.
But Andor: The Family Fantasy Game did appeal to me. I thought the setting and theme of adventure would speak to Lila, my seven year old. Occasionally I get these things right. This was not a Space Marine Adventures redux.
The first thing she noticed was that ALL of the characters could be female. There was a kingdom in peril from a menacing dragon, but Gloria the dwarf and Suz the mage were going to save it. She giggled after deciding I would be a girl dwarf and was surprised when I played along.
These things are important even if they're not important to you.
She was also delighted to find that her wizard got a single large purple die, while everyone else got a few normal-looking small dice. Each character in Andor Family has a personal set of unique dice, offering gentle asymmetry by allowing you to specialize in certain roles. This is old hat if you're a 36 year old cynical gamer, but for a seven year old, "OMG" would be an accurate description of her facial expression.
I can only imagine her curly head exploding like a pumpkin stuffed with dynamite at the thought of something like Root. That's for tomorrow, kid.
A character! A girl!
This would be her first proper adventure game. Many titles are full of adventure but they're not actually adventure games as we tend to classify them in the table top world. Something like HABA's Dragon Tower (alternatively titled Drachenturm if you're cool or German) is a great example of a game that embraces adventure without specifically representing the adventure game genre. That is more of a dexterity game with an audacious rescue the princess setting than a game mechanically focused on the adventure structure.
A real adventure game is one where you control a character and move around a map in search of glory, treasure, or redemption. It involves exploration and conflict. Runebound is the quintessential example, but others include Mage Knight, Arkham Horror, and Dungeon Degenerates.
There is something deep in our genetic substrate that requires we organize and delineate things. This is evident especially in our hobbies and how we discuss them.
Yes, don't worry, you're in the right place. This is still an article on a children's game.
Adventure games often embrace the hero's journey more vividly than any other style of board game. This is because the scope is wide and time is expansive. It's a fantastic genre of discovery as through play we're often able to see ideals of character and personality that are valued heavily in society.
But it's a genre that's typically avoided with titles aimed at children. I believe this is because they often require more tedium than an impatient little one is able to muster. They also often possess many components and cards requiring a more full physical product. That of course means a higher price and more risky profile for a company to publish.
All of this is especially a concern when you take into consideration that, by their very nature, children's games are transient. They're relevant to a specific age and their goal is to help their players age out of them. This is very different than something like Waste Knights which you can buy and keep on your shelf in perpetuity until that day when your ancestors will be cleaning out personal effects and one of your grand children will remark, "Pops liked board games?"
"Yes, pops even wrote about them. He was a weirdo."
Inka and Markus Brand's Andor: The Family Fantasy Game is a very good title, and not simply because it's the first kid's adventure game.
You will utilize your character's unique skills to perform a set of missions. These missions are passed out by Mart, a wiley dude guarding the bridge to the old dwarven mines. His busy-work includes propositions like gathering certain types of herbs, or safeguarding an injured hawk on a journey back to town. There are a decent amount of these quests. These are variable and you can simply mix in new ones each play. I absolutely love this stuff.
Randomized content is important for this style of game. Discovery and exploration are key components of the genre and it's satisfying to lack surety of the objective until we've actually unboxed the thing and prepared our story. It also creates interesting strategic considerations as you must divide tasks between the players. This is because things can get out of control as you're on a timer.
That timer is the slovenly dragon marching towards your city of Reitburg.
You can push the dragon back by tussling with his Gor soldiers, a common occurrence requiring you to toss those character specific dice. The emergent process is reminiscent of something like Defenders of the Realm where you're concerned about a processional queue of enemies. You must juggle this pressure – albeit light and only minimally stressful – with accomplishing those story-goals.
At some point you finish your quests and can proceed to the end game. This part doesn't change.
Pushing into the darkness of the mine is perhaps the weakest aspect of Andor Family. It requires moving into spaces and then rolling torches on your dice. Certain characters, such as the dwarf, are better at this. Others can supplement their feeble search skills by purchasing torches form the shopkeeper. Either way, you're moving into spaces and flipping over tokens in submission to the chaos of randomness. You do this, repetitively, until you find three lost wolf cubs. I don't know how finding these pups abates the onslaught of a dragon and his small army of dweebs, but it does. I'm not complaining.
It's unfortunate that the climax combines randomness with repetition and that this process does not vary game to game. There is a positive aspect to this procedure as it provides a new tactical quandary. The group must divide with one portion fighting back Gors on the countryside to stem the tide while others can explore.
What Andor Family does well is that it presents a light strategic puzzle requiring cooperation and discussion, while bridging the gap between those decision points with exploration. Much of play is wandering around the countryside and flipping fog tokens. The probability of these being beneficial versus harmful are roughly equal, resulting in a tone of excitement and unpredictability. This translates to fun, particularly if you're three years shy of 10.
The difficulty is very thoughtful and deliberate. You can add more tasks to provide a tougher challenge or scale it back and ease off the pressure. Play is at its best when it requires some group planning – often initiated by the adult(s) at the table – but not to a degree that everything gets bogged down. You want to keep things moving and allow your child to naturally connect the dots. Before long they will realize that stopping at a well and replenishing their limited action points will allow for larger, more dramatic turns. They will realize that properly managing their dice will provide for greater success. They will identify quickly how to accomplish a new task and set off to do so. Seeing those lightbulbs pop into existence are some of the best moments you can hope for as a parent.
And then it's over. Everyone is smiling, or perhaps quiet in their moment of defeat. But it's not over. This brief respite is one of the best pieces of the experience. This is when you take notice of the emergent narrative. It's not a particularly scripted game when it comes to story, ending situation aside, but it yields a strong segmented arc. Sitting together in the aftermath and formalizing what just happened into a coherent narrative is satisfying and insightful.
I'm pretty happy with Andor: The Family Fantasy Game. But I'm not as happy as Lila. We played three games back to back in our first sitting, and it's returned to the table multiple times since. I can feel how valuable it has been in cementing core concepts of the adventure game genre. I imagine our transition to face-punching Carniverous Huts and Bullskog Croakers in the Würstreich will be elementary.
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5 comments for "(PG-7) Andor: The Family Fantasy Game"
West Side Wonder
I've been reading your stuff for a long time, Charlie, and while I can say I have always enjoyed your perspective on board games, this new focus on gaming with your daughter has been absolutely great as I try to bring my 5-year old son into the hobby. There is a serious drought of good writing when it comes to gaming with kids and I appreciate you lending your experiences with people like me.
Thank you! I appreciate hearing this as these articles tend to get less interest than covering something more typical. Knowing there is some value being derived is certainly motivational.
Nice review. Glad you found something to enjoy with your daughter to intro her to this style of game at her age!
Do you my girls would still enjoy this at 13 or is it really more for the younger ones?
Thanks, Ian.
I think this would be a little too simple for them. I imagine it would top out at 8-9 for most kids.
I've heard mixed things on Andor (regular edition) unfortunately otherwise that could be a consideration.