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First Graders
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My Wife Shared This with Me. It was on her Facebook Account
HUG YOUR SUPERHERO
I've lost a year with my kids battling over school and I'm done.
My seven year old and I were in the midst of our usual asynchronous day battle. I had his writing homework in my hand from school. He'd written several full, well-thought-out sentences.
But he won't do the same for me, at least not without a fight.
I told him he didn't have to write about his best day like his teacher asked, he could write about his worst. He could write about whatever he wanted as long as he wrote a few sentences.
He said he'd get in trouble. He said he was doing a bad job in first grade. He was on the brink of tears but didn't know why.
And it hit me.
Instead of getting frustrated and pushing the assignment, I sat down with him at his desk in his superhero bedroom.
I said "you won't get in trouble and you can't fail first grade. In fact, you're kind of a superhero yourself."
He sat up in his chair just a little and looked at me with disbelief.
I said, "Do you know that no kids in the history of kids have ever had to do what you're doing right now? No kids in the history of kids have ever had to do school at home, sitting in their bedroom, watching their teacher on a computer. You and your friends are making history."
A visible weight lifted from his seven year old shoulders, "What does that mean?"
I told him it means I haven't given him nearly enough credit for rolling with the punches. I told him how proud I am of him and his friends. That kids this year are doing the impossible and they're doing a really great job.
I apologized for not saying it sooner and more often. A little tear fell down his cheek.
We've thanked everyone from healthcare workers to grocery store employees but we haven't thanked the kids enough for bearing the burden of what we've put on their shoulders this year.
We've said kids are resilient, and they are. But they are the real superheroes in this whole scenario for having ZERO say in their lives but doing their best to adjust every day.
We closed his school-issued laptop and spent the rest of the day playing. This was supposed to be temporary and here we are a year later still trying to hold our head above water.
This is our home and I won't turn it into a battle ground anymore over something we can't control. Something that no longer makes sense.
Hug your little superheroes today and don't forget to cut them the slack we've given everyone else.
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Christine Derengowski, Writer
Education, Family
'Sanctuaries of Learning': Churches nationwide help students navigate virtual school
Reported By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter | Monday, November 09, 2020
Read more at https://www.christianpost.com/news/churches-nationwide-help-students-navigate-virtual-school.html?uid=03bea79789
Tutors assist students with schoolwork at the Restart Learning Center, a distance learning center set up by the Los Angeles Dream Center, a faith-based nonprofit organization based in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, 2020. | Los Angeles Dream Center
As the pandemic has forced many of America's public schools to begin the school year with remote learning, several churches and faith-based groups nationwide have opened their doors to students who don't have internet access at home or whose parents can't stay home with them. Among those institutions are 14 Houston-based churches belonging to the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church that partnered with the Houston Independent School District to serve as distance learning centers.
The distance-learning centers were attended by hundreds of children before the school district's return to in-person learning in late October. The eighth-largest school district in the United States, with the help of the UMC conference, birthed the "Sanctuaries of Learning" program to aid approximately 500 students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. The program helped the students navigate the waters of virtual learning, a new experience for most K-12 students in the U.S.
"They lived in the neighborhood, they registered through the school, they called the school to save a place, … [and] their parents were notified about it," said Rev. Jill Daniel, an elder in the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Although the program concluded in mid-October when the school district resumed in-person learning, the program's impact can be felt nationwide as some school districts have not yet returned to in-person classes.
In an interview with The Christian Post, Shannon Martin, director of communications for the Texas Annual Conference, explained that their regional church body "birthed this program."
"But then as people started hearing about it … it started catching on across the country. So there are people all over the country doing this," she said. "Other people have adopted the same name, Sanctuaries of Learning. We certainly did not copyright it. We wanted people to use it and certainly utilize the same model of working with school districts. Once there's a good model, we want other churches and other people to be able to follow along with … the same model because it's worked."
Daniel said the conference started receiving calls from all over the U.S., specifically recalling phone calls from New York City, California, Colorado, Oklahoma, the Carolinas and elsewhere in Texas. They asked: "What can we do to make this happen?"
"We probably had … well over 120 or so Zoom meetings with people all over the United States and we walked a little closer with some of them," she explained. "And it's been amazing to just watch God doing this very new thing and blessing it so mightily."
The pastor predicted that the establishment of the Sanctuaries of Learning program would lead to a "rebirth" of neighborhood churches because "during quarantine, we had all this time where … our churches have been that mission depot in the neighborhood, where we've had food distributed and people have done dinners for their neighbors and checked on one another."
While schools in Houston have returned to in-person learning, schools in California's Los Angeles Unified School District are not likely to return to in-person learning before January. This week, the district released data based on 10-week interim assessments showing that poor grades surged in the district's lower-income communities.
In addition to churches, faith-based organizations have also worked to set up distance learning centers.
The faith-based nonprofit Los Angeles Dream Center established the Restart Learning Center, a "safe, socially distanced outdoor learning environment" in the parking lot of its Echo Park campus. The parking lot contains a solar panel shed that shields against heat and precipitation.
Like the Sanctuaries of Learning in Texas, the Restart Learning Center draws in students residing within walking distance of the surrounding neighborhood. Participants include attendees of both public and private schools. The Restart Learning Center operates five days a week from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The center is free of charge.
"This will all be executed in an effort to support parents, work schedules and schooling, to cheerlead kids and to provide them a safe place and motivation center," Matthew Barnett, pastor of the Los Angeles Dream Center, told CP.
Barnett explained that about 80 children each day attend the learning center along with a "rotating group" of students that come and go. According to Barnett, the lockdowns in Los Angeles have had an adverse impact on "the poorest of the poor."
"I don't think maybe people understand how much of a gap has been left between those that are in need and those who have," he surmised.
"We had to supply more than half of the 80 kids learning tablets with our own money," he continued. "I would say 75% of the kids get them from us." The remainder of students use school-issued computers, he added.
How Sanctuaries of Learning came to be
Students gather outside as members of the Houston Texans visit a Sanctuaries of Learning campus in Houston, Texas on Houston Texans' Founder's Day. The Sanctuaries of Learning were distance learning centers set up by the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church for children in Houston, Texas, 2020. | Jill Daniel
Daniel, who serves as director of a Texas Annual Conference initiative called "We Love All God's Children," explained how the Sanctuaries of Learning program came about. The initiative aims to "change the trajectory of the lives of children from birth through the end of elementary school." It also aims to help families in underserved areas through a holistic approach that includes discipleship and early education.
"We work with all 683 United Methodist Churches in the Texas Annual Conference," she said.
"We Love All God's Children" has worked to set up UMC Children Centers, which the elder described as "state-of-the-art early childhood centers." Several United Methodist Children Centers were planned to open in 2020. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, they couldn't open this year.
"We immediately shifted from doing what we had been doing to [figuring out] how can we help our churches … in this new crazy time," she said.
"And so one of the things I tried to keep in mind was that … my ministry area focuses on underserved children. And so it would be the children who I focus on who were not going to have access to technology, who didn't have Wi-Fi in their house."
Over the summer, the pastor said she began praying and trying to figure out how churches could join together to help the public school systems since it was looking very likely schools would return for the 2020-2021 school year virtually.
"And so I worked on a proposal. I went to one of our district superintendents, who's the district superintendent over the … Central South District — that's all the United Methodist churches within Beltway 8 in Houston," she said. "And I pitched that idea to him. And he said, 'I'll tell you what … let my churches be the guinea pigs.'"
After the bishop approved her idea in early June, Daniel reached out to Dr. Grenita Lathan, the interim superintendent of the Houston Independent School District. However, she did not hear back from her right away. At the end of July, Daniel received an e-mail from Lathan, who said that she would announce the district's plans for reopening later that week and asked if she wanted to meet with her.
"I know now that the reason she never responded was because she had no idea what Houston ISD was going to do," Daniel explained.
"She kind of took the reins on our Zoom meeting. She wanted to join with us. She wanted to make use of all the United Methodist churches that she could that are near a neighborhood elementary school."
District sent support staff to churches
According to Daniel, the churches needed people to oversee the safety of the students while teachers taught live from their classrooms.
"We just needed people to oversee the safety of the kids, to help if one of them has trouble logging on or that sort of thing," the UMC elder explained.
Daniel said that the school district sent support staff to assist students at all distance-learning campuses.
"Those were people they were paying already, like cafeteria workers or bus drivers," the reverend explained. "They were paying them but they didn't have any work to do."
In addition to deploying support staff, the school district also provided breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack to all of the children participating in the program. The school district also provided personal protective equipment and a "cleaning crew that came in every afternoon" to clean the churches.
"They even came before we ever started and did a deep clean to start with. And then they also came every night and did it," she recalled.
Daniel was amazed at what the school district provided.
"We never dreamed of that or imagined that," she said. "If we didn't have enough bandwidth, they brought boosters over so that everything would be good for the kids. They also sent their safety team and their property management teams around all of our churches."
Also, the Houston Independent School District even added the churches to its liability insurance.
The Sanctuaries of Learning program was paid for in part by coronavirus relief that the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church received. Each church that participated in the Sanctuaries of Learning program received a $1,000 check.
"We were so thankful to be able to provide a safe, healthy, affirming Christian environment, positive environment for those kids to be in," Daniel said.
Every Friday was "fun Friday" for students participating in the Sanctuaries of Learning program. Daniel told CP that on Houston Texans' Founder's Day, Oct. 6, the football team came out to some of the churches. Daniel recalled one cheerleader reading a book to all the kids in that school. All the children received a free T-shirt.
"One fun Friday, we had ice cream sundaes and we gave … each child a whole library from the Barbara Bush Literacy Foundation," Daniel stated. "Each child had 25 books on their reading label to save and to take home."
The Sanctuaries of Learning program did not come without challenges.
On the second day of school, a student at one of the campuses tested positive for coronavirus. This forced the campus to close down and anyone who worked closely with the infected student had to quarantine. For the remainder of the program, no one at any of the Sanctuaries of Learning campuses tested positive for coronavirus, however.
Daniel described the Sanctuaries of Learning program as a "game-changer for our children."
"It's a game-changer for mama or for daddy or for whoever is raising that child who doesn't have to be worried every day about whether they're safe and how and whether they're going to get … what they need at school," she said.
While in-person schooling has resumed in the Houston Independent School District and other large school districts nationwide, the Sanctuaries of Learning program is ready to restart should the district decide to move to online learning again.
No end to remote learning in sight for Los Angeles
A tutor assists a student at the Restart Learning Center, a distance learning center set up at the Los Angeles Dream Center, a faith-based nonprofit based in the Echo Park Neighborhood of Los Angeles, 2020. | Los Angeles Dream Center
Barnett explained that the Los Angeles Dream Center has the resources to continue operating the Restart Learning Center for the remainder of the semester. But he is "terrified of the fact that [remote learning] could go on for a whole year."
"With the teachers afraid to go back and the union battles that are going on, this thing, I fear it will be the whole year long," he said. "So that's going to really test our ability to keep it going. But we're going to give it a try."
The Restart Learning Center program provides one tutor for every three students.
"The best thing about it is that they have somebody who's a cheerleader next to them, pulling for them to succeed and celebrating their accomplishment," Barnett stated. "So I think that's the … most important thing."
He assured that tutors are there "every step of the way" to help students with whatever questions they may have.
Barnett estimated the cost of running the center is about $300 per month per student. It costs about "$20,000 a month to operate all these stations and school."
"We've invested a lot of money that we really expect not to get back," the pastor explained. "We just did it in a labor of love. … If people want to support, they can. … It's been a kind of a missions work for us and it's almost like we just started helping people and we're trying to catch up."
Education, Religion, Spiritual
"Sanctuaries of Learning"


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Q: Wagtail-In django how to get page attributes from page id I get wagtail page id from url
https://www.example.com/results?id=14&id=15

In views.py
def get_data(request, **kwargs):
    resources = request.GET.getlist('id')

how to get relevant page attributes with the help of page id ?
In models.py
context['selected_resources'] = ??

so that i can render it in template like this
In results.html
% for resource in selected_resources %}

{{resource.title}}

{{resource.description}}

{% endfor %}

A: Use filter with an id__in lookup:
resource_ids = request.GET.getlist('id')
context['selected_resources'] = ResourcePage.objects.filter(id__in=resource_ids)

This assumes that the IDs you're passing in the URL always refer to the same page type (ResourcePage in this example). This is probably a safe assumption - if there's a mix of page types, you can't really guarantee that they all have a description field, so you can't do anything useful in the output. But if you really do need to deal with multiple different page types (which all have description defined on them), you can do this as follows (at the cost of some additional database queries):
context['selected_resources'] = Page.objects.filter(id__in=resource_ids).specific()

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Green buildings – separating fact from fiction
Carbon dioxide reduction is the 'common currency' of new construction. So why isn't it being measured properly? Is this a case of greenwash, asks Rab Bennetts
Rab Bennetts for the Guardian Professional Network
Mon 26 Sep 2011 10.47 EDT First published on Mon 26 Sep 2011 10.47 EDT
The Wessex Water HQ; one of the few buildings to have measured its carbon emissions after completion. Photograph: Mandy Reynolds/Buro Happold
A few years ago the Oxford English Dictionary added the word "greenwash", and it is now in everyday use among the sustainability community and further afield. The term needs little linguistic explanation – it embraces many of the obstacles that are getting in the way of reducing our environmental impacts, such as wishful thinking, marketing hype, misleading statistics or straightforward political naivety.
How many times is a sparkling new construction project published under the "green" banner, with no substantiating information? How often is a corporate social responsibility report dressed up with "green" facts and figures in order to avoid substantive action where it most counts? How frequently are innovative "green" buildings found to be underperforming in practice? And how frustrating is it when politicians latch on to the visible symbols of sustainability, such as windmills or solar panels, instead of far more effective things like thicker insulation?
At worst, greenwash is a deliberate attempt to disguise a potential failure and, in consequence, may actually be aggravating things like climate change; at best, greenwash reveals how difficult it is, even with the best of intentions, to precisely define sustainability and what to do about it.
The purists would argue that true sustainability requires a sensitive balance between social, economic and environmental factors, but the sheer vagueness of this concept is one reason why greenwash is so prevalent. Talk about social facilities for new inner-city developments and you're less likely to be cross-examined about the unnecessary air-conditioning.
By contrast, the pragmatists (and regulators) argue that by far the most urgent issue in the sustainability lexicon is climate change and, as we know that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are largely responsible and that buildings account for roughly half of the total emissions in westernised countries like the UK, we should focus on that. Moreover, CO2 reduction is measurable, understandable even by environmental sceptics and less prone to greenwash.
So far so simple, but how is the nation's building-stock measuring up? The alarming truth is that we don't really know, as very few people are measuring the performance of their new buildings, let alone the existing ones.
Despite CO2 reduction being established as the common currency of design and construction it is surprising to find that buildings are not routinely measured to see how they are performing once the owner or occupier has picked up the keys. Other than paying the utility bills, the performance of buildings has somehow escaped our collective attention. Perhaps we don't like to be embarrassed by the results (and there are plenty of grounds for being concerned) or possibly the notoriously litigious construction industry won't lift the lid on anything that might be construed as a mistake. Building owners, too, are disinclined to spend the first year or two analysing how their new asset is performing, which is odd as so much can be gained through relatively inexpensive analysis.
Alternatively, the root of the problem may be that many commercial buildings in the UK are erected by developers who are detached from the occupiers by virtue of an arm's-length lease. Housebuilders too are not interested in anything other than fixing defects after completion.
In short, how a building is actually functioning is someone else's energy bill. The evidence of a substantial problem is very real and there are two principle areas of concern.
First, whilst the building itself may well have been designed for relatively low CO2 emissions, very few seem to be performing as well as the original calculations promised. For the most part this is due to a combination of construction imperfections and inappropriate operation or management that could easily be fixed with some post-occupancy rectification. Second, and perhaps more serious, the performance of the building itself is nothing compared to the functions going on inside, be they computers in an office building or multiple video-games at home.
The government knows very well how to regulate the basic functions of the building (such as heating, cooling or lighting), but the simple fact is that it hasn't yet worked out a way of curtailing the CO2 emissions from the users of the building without restricting personal freedoms as well.
And that certainly isn't going to happen voluntarily. As a result, any claims that the nation is on target to hit the government's highly creditable goal of achieving an 80% reduction by 2050 are looking like, well, greenwash.
Staggeringly, the government recently vetoed plans to roll out mandatory display energy certificates to all but the smallest projects, which meant that within a few years we would have actually known how most non-residential buildings were performing. As a result, measuring the actual CO2 emissions remains a voluntary process for those who realise its importance. It seems that, for the moment, the government has failed a key test of its "green" credentials.
Despite this, there are some grounds for optimism. For example, a few major projects are at last now receiving the sort of analytical attention that could greatly increase our understanding of building performance, the foremost of these being the 2012 Olympics. Having set some massively ambitious sustainability targets in 2005 they need to be prepared for bad news as well as good but, unless projects like these are prepared to go public on their results we will be no further forward.
And, while measuring a building's emissions, wouldn't it also be a good idea to assess its other characteristics, such as comfort, productivity and absenteeism (for the workforce), ease of operation and the general sense of wellbeing? It goes without saying that the human costs of a poor building vastly outweigh the energy or the construction costs, so why not use the campaign to save CO2 as the springboard to a deeper understanding of our built environment?
It would also consign greenwash to the history books, as opposed to the dictionary.
Rab Bennetts is a board member of UKGBC, trustee of the Design Council and founding director of Bennetts Associates Architects
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Horses, horses, horses......... that's all I ever thought of when I was a girl. And, when I sat in class and stared out the window and dreamed of running away to the circus, I was always the bare back rider!
Nice bit of whimsy and great balance on the horse! She looks very proud.....! Very nice!
whoa! i don't think it's easy to do a balance act.. and on a running horse? Did u study chinese painting? you have that kind of 'stroke'..
This is very nice, Judy.


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High-altitude wind energy from kites
Clean energy from high above
Globally the number of wind turbines producing sustainable energy keeps growing. But there is also another, newer method to make use of wind energy. A Dutch team is currently changing an entire industry.
Stefan Roschi maxon Group
Johannes loves kites. The passionate kitesurfer also sails the skies in his work, and has big plans: As co-founder and CEO of the startup Kitepower, he wants to turn the wind energy sector upside down – by producing electrical energy with kites.
The principle seems simple: The system for generating power consists of a generator on the ground that is connected directly to a cable winch. The kite keeps pulling the cable upward by flying a figure eight repeatedly and thus creating a strong tractive force. This continues up to a height of 500 m. Thereafter, the cable is retracted – a step that requires only little energy – and the entire procedure is repeated.
Cooperation with the TU Delft
The idea is not new. The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands set up a team to research kite energy as early as 2004. The concept kept developing over the years and the group grew. But it took until 2016 for the startup Kitepower to be born from it. The company continues to have close relations with the TU Delft. In addition to the core team of ten people, there are always several students working on the project. "That helps us to tackle problems with an open mind and means we are always getting new viewpoints," says Johannes Peschel.
The kite drives the generator by repeatedly pulling the cable upward.
More green energy
The long history behind Kitepower helped the company to make a lot of progress in a short time. This summer, the team started up the first prototypes and tested them thoroughly. The first commercial version is scheduled for the end of 2018. It is an attractive alternative to diesel generators and even to wind turbines. The new system including 100 kW generator is mobile and needs less construction material than wind turbines. Additionally the Kitepower system can flexibly use winds up to an altitude of 500 m. According to the developers, this makes the system twice as efficient as existing technologies.
Johannes Peschel wants to use his product to contribute to a better world: "The world population is now finally taking climate change seriously. And our solution aims at generating more green energy, by replacing coal and diesel generators. For example on islands, in secluded communities or in military camps."
The steering system was developed by maxon motor in Germany and has been equipped with several drive components.
maxon brushless DC motor: EC-i 52, 180 W.
«maxon as a global player and our company as agile startup can significantly profit from each other»
Both sides profit from each other Kitepower is developing its system in cooperation with several industrial companies, among them maxon motor. The company is co-developer and supplier of the important control unit for the steered kite, once more proving its skill as system specialist. The unit, which consists of 1000 unique parts, requires perfect interaction between the motor, gearhead and electronics. According to Dominik Frey, the responsible project manager at maxon's Sexau location (Germany), it was quite a challenge to integrate the different sensors, transmitters, receivers and batteries. Additionally extreme radial forces act on the gearhead. Therefore the bearings of the drives were reinforced. The products used include the new brushless EC-i 52 in combination with the GP 42 UP planetary gearhead and an encoder. The motor is frequently used in robotics, as it has a high torque and compact design.
Kitepower CEO Johannes Peschel says: "We are happy that maxon was able to fulfill all our requirements." And he is positive about the future of the cooperation. "maxon as a global player and our company as agile startup can significantly profit from each other."
Johannes Peschel (gray jacket) and his team pose in front of the generator.
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The delivery robots are coming!
People look up at the sky and see more and more drones. Yet the breakthrough for delivery robots will take place on the ground.
Expert Blog
I have seen the future of robotics...
Felix Herger about his visit of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory.
Felix Herger Sales Manager
The invisible door opener
Elevators travel up and down all day long. Who actually stops to think about the little motors that open and close the doors?


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Q: MVC3 links SEO - how to make calls from one controller to other controller I have one problem, I am not sure how to explain but I will try.
I followed this: http://www.deliveron.com/blog/post/SEO-Friendly-Routes-with-ASPnet-MVC.aspx
And I was able to achieve what they describe.
But if I have a page where i wish to call action from other controller, it doesn't work.
It doens't show the link in this way: "this-is-my-link" in the URL.
I don't know what do I do wrong?
in Global.asax
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
        routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

        routes.MapRoute(
            "Default", // Route name
            "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
        );

        routes.MapRoute(
            "Default2",
            "{controller}/{action}/{id}/{pageTitle}",
            new
                {
                    controller = "Home",
                    action = "Index",
                    id = UrlParameter.Optional,
                    pageTitle = UrlParameter.Optional
                }
            );

    }

Views/Help/FAQ
@Html.ActionLink(FaqStrings.ContactUs, "ContactUs", "Home", new { id = 1, pageTitle = "link text".ToSeoUrl() })

It says that it can't resolve the ContactUs. Instead of the actions from HomeController, it sees the actions of the HelpController.
In HomeController
[AllowAnonymous]
    public ActionResult ContactUs()
    {
        var model = new ViewModelContactUs
                        {
                            Resultmessage = string.Empty,
                            Youremail = string.Empty,
                            Yourmessage = string.Empty,
                            Yourname = string.Empty
                        };
        return View(model);
    }

    [AllowAnonymous]
    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult ContactUs(ViewModelContactUs model)
    {
        Log.DebugFormat("HomeController-ContactUs()");

........
        var model2 = new ViewModelContactUs
                         {
                             ......
                         };

        ModelState.Clear();
        return View(model2);
    }

A: Try moving your controller into the RouteValues dictionary part of your @Html.ActionLink
@Html.ActionLink(FaqStrings.ContactUs, "ContactUs", new {controller="Home", id = 1, pageTitle = "link text".ToSeoUrl() })

EDIT
To address the logic, it has to do with the available signatures of the Html.ActionLink method.  Here is the MSDN for information but...
The method signature that you were using was Html.ActionLink("Link Text", "Action", "Contoller", RouteValues, HtmlAttributes).  Since you were not passing HtmlAttributes, it was matching up wrong and generating the wrong link.  By either moving the controller into the RouteValuesDictionary or passing a , null at the end of your call should solve it.  But, I personally don't like throwing nulls around unless I need to, so I typically just define the controller in the RouteValuesDictionary.
If you were not passing any RouteValues, then a call to Html.ActionLink("Link Text", Action, Controller) works with no issues.
Hope that clears it up a little! :)

A: The underlying problem is that:
@Html.ActionLink(FaqStrings.ContactUs,
                 "ContactUs",
                 "Home",
                 new { id = 1, pageTitle = "link text".ToSeoUrl() })

Will produce an Anchor which when clicked will produce an HTTP GET, however you're method is requiring HTTP POST:
[AllowAnonymous]
[HttpPost]  // <-----POST
public ActionResult ContactUs(ViewModelContactUs model)


HomeCurrentNewsChurchesPR Churches (USA & Canada)First PRC Edmonton, AB, CanadaRev.S.Key to Lecture on "The Reformed Worldview"
The Edmonton PRC Evangelism Committee is sponsoring a lecture entitled, "The Reformed Worldview," to be given this Friday evening, September 27, at 7:00 p.m. by Rev. Steve Key, in the church. Rev. Key is pastor of the Loveland PRC in Loveland, CO, and has been developing the concept of the Reformed worldview in a series of articles in The Standard Bearer. In the course of his lecture Rev.Key will answer such questions as, How are we to view the world? What is our calling in the world? What is the church's calling? Those in the area and beyond are cordially invited and encouraged to attend this timely lecture.


Long Beach City College is just three weeks away from hosting the South Coast Conference Championship meet and on Saturday, the Vikings traveled to San Diego Mesa College to compete at the Arnie Robinson Invitational. It proved to be a successful event for LBCC as the Vikings totaled 13 top-10 finishes.
The Long Beach women had seven of the 13 on the day while posting six season-best, team-leading marks.
Freshman Seayanna Crawford had the Vikings' best individual finish at the meet. She ran a team-best 1:01.32 in the 400 meters to win her heat and earn fifth place overall. Other season-best marks for Long Beach included Asia Muldrow in the 1500 meters (5:27.69), Marlene Contreras in the discus (25.87m), Linda Izabal in the hammer (27.62m), Francine Contreras in the javelin (21.97m), and the 4x100 meter relay team (50.90).
On the men's side, Damond Burns had a good day for the Vikings. He had the men's top individual finish, taking second in his heat and fourth overall in the 200 meters with a time of 21.68. Burns was also ninth overall in the 100 meters at 11.06. Both times were team and season-best marks for LBCC.
Phillip Powell also added a pair of top-10 showings as he was fifth in the 1500 meters (4:11.21) and sixth in the 400 meters (50.06).
Up next for both the men's and women's squads is the Cerritos Invitational on April 9 at nearby Cerritos College.


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A short history on probably the most iconic motorcycle and well-known brand in the world today…Harley-Davidson. Used Harley-Davidson Motorcycles http://goo.gl/GV9Gp2
Harley-Davidson Inc.
Harley-Davidson Inc. (NYSE: HOG, formerly HDI), often abbreviated H-D or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer. Founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the first decade of the 20th century, it was one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers (Indian being the other) to survive the Great Depression. Harley-Davidson also survived a period of poor quality control and competition from Japanese manufacturers.
From 1977 to 2014 the only motorcycles sold to the public under the Harley-Davidson brand have been heavyweight motorcycles designed for highway cruising, with engine displacements greater than 700 cc. Harley-Davidson motorcycles, or "Harleys," are noted for the tradition of heavy customization that gave rise to the chopper style of motorcycle. Except for the modern VRSC and Street model families, current Harley-Davidson motorcycles reflect the styles of classic Harley designs. While Harley-Davidson's attempts to establish itself in the light motorcycle market have met little success and have largely been abandoned since the 1978 sale of its Italian Aermacchi subsidiary, the company re-entered the middleweight market in 2014 with its Street series of motorcycles.
Harley-Davidson sustains a large brand community which keeps active through clubs, events and a museum. Licensing of the Harley-Davidson brand and logo accounted for $40 million (0.8%) of the company's net revenue in 2010.
From left: William A. Davidson, Walter Davidson, Sr., Arthur Davidson and William S. Harley
In 1901, 20 year-old William S. Harley drew up plans for a small engine with a displacement of 7.07 cubic inches (116 cc) and four-inch (102 mm) flywheels. The engine was designed for use in a regular pedal-bicycle frame. Over the next two years, Harley and his childhood friend Arthur Davidson worked on their motor-bicycle using the northside Milwaukee machine shop at the home of their friend, Henry Melk. It was finished in 1903 with the help of Arthur's brother, Walter Davidson. Upon testing their power-cycle, Harley and the Davidson brothers found it unable to climb the hills around Milwaukee without pedal assistance. They quickly wrote off their first motor-bicycle as a valuable learning experiment.
Work immediately began on a new and improved second-generation machine. This first "real" Harley-Davidson motorcycle had a bigger engine of 24.74 cubic inches (405 cc) with 9.75 inches (25 cm) flywheels weighing 28 lb (13 kg). The machine's advanced loop-frame pattern was similar to the 1903 Milwaukee Merkel motorcycle (designed by Joseph Merkel, later of Flying Merkel fame). The bigger engine and loop-frame design took it out of the motorized bicycle category and marked the path to future motorcycle designs. The boys also received help with their bigger engine from outboard motor pioneer Ole Evinrude, who was then building gas engines of his own design for automotive use on Milwaukee's Lake Street.
The prototype of the new loop-frame Harley-Davidson was assembled in a 10 ft × 15 ft (3.0 m × 4.6 m) shed in the Davidson family backyard. Most of the major parts, however, were made elsewhere, including some probably fabricated at the West Milwaukee railshops where oldest brother William A. Davidson was then toolroom foreman. This prototype machine was functional by September 8, 1904, when it competed in a Milwaukee motorcycle race held at State Fair Park. It was ridden by Edward Hildebrand and placed fourth. This is the first documented appearance of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle in the historical record.
In January 1905, small advertisements were placed in the Automobile and Cycle Trade Journal that offered bare Harley-Davidson engines to the do-it-yourself trade. By April, complete motorcycles were in production on a very limited basis. That year, the first Harley-Davidson dealer, Carl H. Lang of Chicago, sold three bikes from the five built in the Davidson backyard shed. (Some years later the original shed was taken to the Juneau Avenue factory where it would stand for many decades as a tribute to the Motor Company's humble origins. Unfortunately, the first shed was accidentally destroyed by contractors in the early 1970s during a clean-up of the factory yard.)
In 1906, Harley and the Davidson brothers built their first factory on Chestnut Street (later Juneau Avenue). This location remains Harley-Davidson's corporate headquarters today. The first Juneau Avenue plant was a 40 ft × 60 ft (12 m × 18 m) single-story wooden structure. The company produced about 50 motorcycles that year.
1907 model.
Harley-Davidson 1,000 cc HT 1916
In 1907, William S. Harley graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a degree in mechanical engineering. That year additional factory expansion came with a second floor and later with facings and additions of Milwaukee pale yellow ("cream") brick. With the new facilities production increased to 150 motorcycles in 1907. The company was officially incorporated that September. They also began selling their motorcycles to police departments around this time, a market that has been important to them ever since.
Production in 1905 and 1906 were all single-cylinder models with 26.84 cubic inches (440 cc) engines. In February 1907 a prototype model with a 45-degree V-Twin engine was displayed at the Chicago Automobile Show. Although shown and advertised, very few V-Twin models were built between 1907 and 1910. These first V-Twins displaced 53.68 cubic inches (880 cc) and produced about 7 horsepower (5.2 kW). This gave about double the power of the first singles. Top speed was about 60 mph (100 km/h). Production jumped from 450 motorcycles in 1908 to 1,149 machines in 1909.
Harley-Davidson works in 1911
By 1911, some 150 makes of motorcycles had already been built in the United States – although just a handful would survive the 1910's.
In 1911, an improved V-Twin model was introduced. The new engine had mechanically operated intake valves, as opposed to the "automatic" intake valves used on earlier V-Twins that opened by engine vacuum. With a displacement of 49.48 cubic inches (811 cc), the 1911 V-Twin was smaller than earlier twins, but gave better performance. After 1913 the majority of bikes produced by Harley-Davidson would be V-Twin models.
By 1913, the yellow brick factory had been demolished and on the site a new 5-story structure had been built. Begun in 1910, the factory with its many additions would take up two blocks along Juneau Avenue and around the corner on 38th Street. Despite the competition, Harley-Davidson was already pulling ahead of Indian and would dominate motorcycle racing after 1914. Production that year swelled to 16,284 machines.
Ralph Hepburn on his Harley racing bike in this 1919 photo.
In 1917, the United States entered World War I and the military demanded motorcycles for the war effort.[15] Harleys had already been used by the military in the Pancho Villa Expedition but World War I was the first time the motorcycle had been adopted for combat service.[citation needed] Harley-Davidson provided about 15,000 machines to the military forces during World War I.
Harley-Davidson launched a line of bicycles in 1917 in hopes of recruiting customers for its motorcycles. Besides the traditional diamond frame men's bicycle, models included a step-through frame 3-18 "Ladies Standard" and a 5-17 "Boy Scout" for youth. The effort was discontinued in 1923 because of disappointing sales.
The bicycles were built for Harley-Davidson in Dayton, Ohio, by the Davis Machine Company from 1917 to 1921, when Davis stopped manufacturing bicycles.
Harley-Davidson 1000 cc HT 1923
By 1920, Harley-Davidson was the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world, with 28,189 machines produced, and dealers in 67 countries.
In 1921, a Harley-Davidson, ridden by Otto Walker, was the first motorcycle ever to win a race at an average speed greater than 100 mph (160 km/h).
During the 1920's, several improvements were put in place, such as a new 74 cubic inch (1,212.6 cc) V-Twin, introduced in 1922, and the "Teardrop" gas tank in 1925. A front brake was added in 1928 although notably only on the J/JD models.
In the late summer of 1929, Harley-Davidson introduced its 45 cubic inches (737 cc) flathead V-Twin to compete with the Indian 101 Scout and the Excelsior Super X. This was the "D" model, produced from 1929 to 1931. Riders of Indian motorcycles derisively referred to this model as the "three cylinder Harley" because the generator was upright and parallel to the front cylinder. The 2.745 in (69.7 mm) bore and 3.8125 in (96.8 mm) stroke would continue in most versions of the 750 engine; exceptions include the XA and the XR-750.
Harley-Davidson 1,200 cc SV 1931
The Great Depression began a few months after the introduction of their 45 cubic inch model. Harley-Davidson's sales fell from 21,000 in 1929 to 3,703 in 1933. Despite this, Harley-Davidson unveiled a new lineup for 1934, which included a flathead with Art Deco styling. In order to survive the remainder of the Depression, the company manufactured industrial powerplants based on their motorcycle engines. They also designed and built a three-wheeled delivery vehicle called the Servi-Car, which remained in production until 1973.
Harley-Davidson WL
In the mid-1930's, Alfred Rich Child opened a production line in Japan with the 74 cubic inches (1,210 cc) VL. The Japanese license-holder, Sankyo Seiyako Corporation, severed its business relations with Harley-Davidson in 1936 and continued manufacturing the VL under the Rikuo name.
Harley-Davidson dealer in Texas, ca. 1930-1945
An 80 cubic inches (1,300 cc) flathead engine was added to the line in 1935, by which time the single-cylinder motorcycles had been discontinued.
In 1936, the 61E and 61EL models with the "Knucklehead" OHV engines was introduced. Valvetrain problems in early Knucklehead engines required a redesign halfway through its first year of production and retrofitting of the new valvetrain on earlier engines.
By 1937, all Harley-Davidson's flathead engines were equipped with dry-sump oil recirculation systems similar to the one introduced in the "Knucklehead" OHV engine. The revised 74 cubic inches (1,210 cc) V and VL models were renamed U and UL, the 80 cubic inches (1,300 cc) VH and VLH to be renamed UH and ULH, and the 45 cubic inches (740 cc) R to be renamed W.
In 1941, the 74 cubic inches (1,210 cc) "Knucklehead" was introduced as the F and the FL. The 80 cubic inches (1,300 cc) flathead UH and ULH models were discontinued after 1941, while the 74″ U & UL flathead models were produced up to 1948.
Harley copied the BMW R71 to produce its XA model.
One of only two American cycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression, Harley-Davidson again produced large numbers of motorcycles for the US Army in World War II and resumed civilian production afterwards, producing a range of large V-twin motorcycles that were successful both on racetracks and for private buyers.
Harley-Davidson, on the eve of World War II, was already supplying the Army with a military-specific version of its 45 cubic inches (740 cc) WL line, called the WLA. The A in this case stood for "Army." Upon the outbreak of war, the company, along with most other manufacturing enterprises, shifted to war work. More than 90,000 military motorcycles, mostly WLAs and WLC's (the Canadian version) were produced, many to be provided to allies. Harley-Davidson received two Army-Navy 'E' Awards, one in 1943 and the other in 1945, which were awarded for Excellence in Production.
Harley produced the WLC for the Canadian military.
Shipments to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease program numbered at least 30,000.[citation needed] The WLAs produced during all four years of war production generally have 1942 serial numbers. Production of the WLA stopped at the end of World War II, but was resumed from 1950 to 1952 for use in the Korean War.
The U.S. Army also asked Harley-Davidson to produce a new motorcycle with many of the features of BMW's side-valve and shaft-driven R71. Harley largely copied the BMW engine and drive train and produced the shaft-driven 750 cc 1942 Harley-Davidson XA. This shared no dimensions, no parts and no design concepts (except side valves) with any prior Harley-Davidson engine. Due to the superior cooling of the flat-twin engine with the cylinders across the frame, Harley's XA cylinder heads ran 100 °F (56 °C) cooler than its V-twins. The XA never entered full production: the motorcycle by that time had been eclipsed by the Jeep as the Army's general purpose vehicle, and the WLA—already in production—was sufficient for its limited police, escort, and courier roles. Only 1,000 were made and the XA never went into full production. It remains the only shaft-driven Harley-Davidson ever made.
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A new era in K-M wrestling: Heidt takes new role with KoMets
Legendary Kasson-Mantorville High School wrestling coach Jamie Heidt is transitioning to an assistant coach position this season, handing the reigns to longtime assistant Ryan Hill.
By Alex VandenHouten
KASSON — Jamie Heidt could see the writing on the wall for a while now.
In fact, the last few years, the highly-touted Kasson-Mantorville wrestling coach and assistant Ryan Hill talked about the next steps for the perennial powerhouse program.
It involved Hill becoming the head coach and Heidt transitioning to an assistant coaching role, so he can focus on what he truly loves doing: Coaching on the mat.
The timing for both, though, just didn't feel right.
But, about a month before the current high school season, the two circled back to those discussions.
This time, the decision was made to start a new era of K-M wrestling.
"We think it's the right time for all parties," Heidt said. "You always put the program first and make decisions that give the program every opportunity again. We felt it was the best thing for this year and moving forward for the future also."
Heidt didn't want to call the move a step back. Instead, being an assistant gives him more opportunities to use his great teaching skills on the mat. He did say the move is a win-win, as Hill has been with Heidt since 2013 and is widely-respected across not only the area, but the state.
"Ryan, who's been with me for quite a few years, is a great, young coach that has a lot of value to bring," Heidt said. "He's one of the pioneers of coaching and we want to make sure we are fully utilizing that here."
Heidt became co-head coach with Paul Mann in 2011-12, before taking over full time in 2014 when Mann stepped down.
Kasson-Mantorville head coach Jamie Heidt, center, hugs Jim Paulson after Paulson pinned Simley's Blake Holzem in the 195-pound match of the Section 1AA team championship Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018, in Rochester. Assistant coaches Jeff Patzke, left, and Broc Berge, right, also are pictured.
Utilizing the "Iowa style" that focuses on tough, nose-to-the-grindstone wrestling for all 6 minutes, the former Hawkeye took a budding K-M program to new heights.
He helped guide the KoMets to the school's first-ever state championship in any sport in 2013, before bringing home three more with consecutive titles from 2016-18. The KoMets finished runner-up to nationally ranked Simley last season. Overall, the KoMets were section champions seven times under Heidt, while the individual talent he developed was second to none.
Eleven grapplers won individual state championships during Heidt's time as head coach, with eight of those bringing home multiple state titles.
Remarkably, there have been 30 wrestlers in the history of Minnesota high school wrestling to have won at least four individual state titles. Heidt has coached three of them — Patrick Kennedy, Brady Berge and Bennett Berge — in the past six years. Bennett Berge is one of only seven to have won at least five state titles.
But as time wore on, it became clear to Heidt that he no longer necessarily had the time or energy to keep being the head guy in charge. In that time, Heidt saw the work Hill put in.
"This gives me an opportunity to still be involved and still have my time be allocated back to me a little more now about what I love to do, and that's you know, that's coaching the guys on the mat," Heidt said. "I enjoy that part of it a lot. There's a lot to running a wrestling program or high school athletic program, and, of course, every head coach out there knows all the different hats that they wear at different times. You have to be the CEO of the whole program.
"I've seen Ryan over the years and as a coach evolve into that. He's a great organizer. He's a great manager. He's spent time in the youth program, the middle school programs, the high school programs, he just has a pulse, overall on the program. When you see a guy like that, see that potential, that's something where I can make those changes and give him that opportunity to take the program to that next step. That was my goal, to put K-M wrestling in a position to be built for the long-term. It's just a next step forward."
He's not exactly sure what he's going to do with his spare time, but knows this is for the best. For him and for the program moving forward.
"I'm a pretty busy guy. I'll find stuff to do," Heidt said with a laugh. "I'm always occupied with some sort of work, whether it's wrestling or electrical work, but I'm just a firm believer that change is good. In my coaching years I really wanted to continue to make change and small change and different types of things all the time to keep things fresh. When you stop looking at new ways to get better, and certainly to stop making decisions on things to move forward, things get stale. Not to say we've been stale, but we never want to be that way. I see the opportunity there for us for Ryan to step in. Obviously, the line to step in 100% confident, he's going to do an unbelievable job. Not a lot of change as far as the foundation of the program, so it seemed like it was just the right fit right now."
Kasson-Mantorville coach Jamie Heidt talks to the team between matches during the 24th Annual Bob Swalla Memorial Team Duals on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020, at Kasson-Mantorville Senior High School in Kasson. (Traci Westcott / twestcott@postbulletin.com)
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Alex VandenHouten has been a sports reporter at the Post Bulletin since Sept. 2021. He loves to go hiking, biking, snowshoeing and just simply being outdoors with his wife Olivia. Readers can reach Alex at avandenhouten@postbulletin.com.
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Schiano announces 25-player recruiting class
Keith Sargeant • February 3, 2010 • 11 Comments
Montgomery's J.T. Tartacoff, who was among the 25 recruits signing with Rutgers on Wednesday, compiled 983 all-purpose yards and scored 10 touchdowns in earning Courier-News All-Area first team honors last fall. (Photo courtesy of Montgomery HS)
PISCATAWAY — Calling it ""the most exciting close" in his 10-year tenure, Rutgers coach
Greg Schiano stressed the importance of securing so many late commitments in the hours leading up to Wednesday's national letter of intent signing day.
""I've been part of some of these things at other places, but this was exciting and quite
frankly we needed to do it," said Schiano, who received commitments from nine high school
recruits over the last four days. ""We needed to make sure we got some of these guys. I'm
excited that we got — I'm not going to say all; you never get all — but in the end the ones we
were going after, we got just about all of them. And that is nice."
In announcing a list of 25 recruits he hopes can help Rutgers ""win that (national
championship) crystal ball," Schiano said he believes he added talented players that will fit
right into a program that's earned five straight bowl berths.
""We think we've really improved and added great chemisty to a group of guys that, as you
know, I'm really fond of already," Schiano said.
Two days after recruiting analysts panned Rutgers' projected class — Rivals.com listed Rutgers' recruiting among its top-10 biggest disappointments as late as last weekend — Schiano's crop made a meteoric rise in the rankings on signing day.
With the ink still drying on letters of intent nationally, Rivals.com rated Rutgers' class 63rd in the country and fifth in the Big East. Scout.com offered more favorable reviews, pegging Rutgers 48th nationally and fourth in the eight-team conference.
""I don't put a lot of stock in it, not that they are wrong, I am not saying that,"
Schiano said of the recruiting rankings. ""We evaluate with our own eyes and recruit the guys we think will fit Rutgers. I can't say how pleased I am with this class. It is a great class. Not a good one, a great one."
YEAR-BY-YEAR RANKINGS
A look at where Rutgers' football recruting classes have ranked in the Greg Schiano era, according to Rivals.com's annual team ratings:
Year–National–Big East
Schiano stayed true to his proclaimed ""State of Rutgers," landing nine players from New Jersey and nine from Florida (the most from the Sunshine State since nabbing 10 in the '02 recruiting class).
""The areas we recruited are our traditional areas," Schiano said. ""Put a 3 •-hour around our campus, and then the state of Florida. We've expanded a little in Florida in the areas that we're in."
The class, bolstered by Wednesday's commitments of running back Casey Turner and defensive tackle Kenneth Kirksey, fits several needs in that it includes six offensive linemen (all from New Jersey), four wideouts (all rated 3-stars or higher by Rivals.com), three highly-touted defensive backs and two accomplished running backs from the Jacksonville, Fla., area.
""It was something we needed to do — we needed to bolster ourselves at running back," Schiano said, noting both the 5-11, 190-pound Turner and the 5-8, 200-pound Jawan Jamison. ""(They) have a chance to jump in. It's the most instinctual position on the field and young guys have a chance to jump in right away."
If there's a theme in the nine skill positions players Rutgers signed, it's athleticism.
""There's a lot of speed in this class," Schiano said, pointing to New Jersey's sprint champion last spring, Tejay Johnson of Egg Harbor.
When it was pointed out that Rutgers beat Michigan, Florida State, Notre Dame and several other big-named schools for its last-minute additions, Schiano said Rutgers is ""a big school," too.
""We're all competing for the big crystal ball," he said. ""We've got to do that if we want to compete for that crystal ball — we have to win those battles. It's good, but we need a lot more of them."
Here's a full list of Rutgers' recruiting class,including bios of each player, courtesy of ScarletKnights.com:
Posted in RU football recruiting on February 3, 2010 by Keith Sargeant.
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11 thoughts on "Schiano announces 25-player recruiting class"
Rutgers Rooter
Congrats and we look forward to seeing your son enjoy much success at RU.
This class is going to be the best ever in a few years.
VietnamWarVeteran
Schiano might want to take a look at the top ten teams ranked for recruiting - teams that have won national championships and teams that will continue to compete for national championships - NONE are out of the Big East conference. Beating teams like Howard and Texas Southern and NOT beating the top teams in the Big East and losing to Syracuse - do the RU fans really think that RU will ever compete for a national championship? - really? - NEVER going to happen. Rutgers has a decent program; wins enough games to go to a minor bowl - BUT - for Schiano to promote the idea that RU is competing for a national championship - the fans would be rather foolish to believe that pipe dream! Schiano sounds like a snake oil salesman!
R-year
It's about what program does with the games it has to play. This program has a chance to get it together--the difference between a program that we want and the program we've been seeing is the people. When they find a way to take advantage of their opportunities, this team will really be something. Still has to be seen though.
RUFOOL
Schiano has a no. 30-60 ranked class according to who you read. This will not get you a National Championship and may not even win the BE. The top team is Florida along with the usual suspects so he's light years away from any Championship Teams. I'll even say this: no BE team will ever win the National Championship while there's a BCS system in place. The BE is just the worst BCS conference in the nation. Even if a BE team plays 5 quality OOC opponents, they still have to play 7 BE teams. Who is there in the BE that commands any national respect? Pitt? WV? Not lately, decent but not great. How about Syracuse or UL? The ND coach got canned after his team lost to an average UConn team last year. I heard Bill Stewart comment that by 2011 he'd have a National Championship team too. I guess he's smokin' the same stuff as Schiano. With Schiano the perception of success is all that really counts. He gets to a bowl, he and his coaches get a pay bonus, plus a trip, and his life just keeps goin' on. Despite a few real prospects in this class, the whole of it is pretty average. Being ranked between 30-60 ain't a show of confidence.
RUFOOL, you are clueless and a fool.
Rick B
The schedule was pretty weak this season, but Pernitti is scheduling some better out of conference games. Playing some weak teams has been noted about 5 billion times, and no one wants bad games, especially as a season ticket holder. Rutgers had three players that were Freshman All Americans in one poll or another, and when you have a big time QB, you can compete. The talent at Rutgers is young and we will get our first glimpse at the redshirt freshman during Spring football. The key might be whether one of the two new running backs improve the running game on competiting for Big East Championship. That is the first step before Rutgers can become a national contender. Hopefully, this will make some of the bitter posters just a little more bitter.
FootballFan
USC atually came through to be ranked #1 in recruiting with an average rating of 4.20 for its recruits. Florida was ranked #2 with an average of 3.89 for its recruits. Rutgers was ranked #63 in recruiting with an average of 2.75 for its recruits. USC had 5 - 5 star recruits. RU had none. This is per 'Rivals' ranking of the teams. Does anyone really think that RU is going to compete for a national championship? - seriously? How many games do you think RU would win playing in the SEC - the conference that has won the past FOUR national championships! This is NOT a criticism of RU's football program - BUT - it is a realistic look at it. Schiano has sold rather false expectations to the fans. Could RU beat Florida, LSU, Alabama, Auburn - or Southern Cal, Texas, Oklahoma? They are NOT even on the schedule. Beating the patsy teams that RU schedules is NOT ever going to compete for a national championships that will continue to have to go through the SEC and Big 12 conferences. Again - NOT a critcism - but - get realistic about the program.
FootballFan - you are to be commended on stating the very obvious. Hey, is that an 800 lb elephant in the room? shh. Maybe nobody will notice. If teams like TCU, Boise State and Cincinnati can get within striking distance of a title game then a team with superior recruiting, like Rutgers, can too.
gpodolski
Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I completely agree with everybody who says Schiano shouldn't tell fans we're going to win a national championship. "Strive for mediocrity in all things" is exactly the motto I look for in my coaches. I mean, come on, let's be real: Schiano has got to be the ONLY coach in the entire country telling fans that his team can win it all, right? I bet if you polled the other 119 teams, all their coaches are saying the same thing every year: "Eh, we'll be okay this year, but let's not expect too much." Good call, RUFOOL et all. Way to enlighten the rest of us with your infinite wisdom.
I agree, that a BE team will have a difficult time winning a national championship simply because of history. The other BCS converences have a rich history and tradition that is hard to overcome. Even Cincinnati with the great year they had couldn't break the barrier and get into the title game and than what happened? They got spanked so the next time a team in the BE has a run like that will they get thier shot? No, they won't and until a BE team schedules and beats a top 5 team in their OOC schedule will fans and the media give them their due. Are they the worst BCS conference? I think the BE and the B-10 are running very close.
How about a BE vs. B-10 challenge every year as the first game on the schedule? Match the top 8 B-10 vs. the BE. You could have a Oho-State vs. a Pitt, Cincy or WVU or possibly down the road a Penn State vs. RU or maybe Pitt or WVU who are close in proximity.
Any truth to the rumor that Pitt may leave the Big East for the Big Ten?


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Hunting Releases 'Gold Day' Music Video
Hunting a trio band out of Canada has just released a cover of The Sparklehorse cover 'Gold Day.'
The song showcases their wistful melancholy tone through swooning vocals, muted guitars and a driving rhythm section. 'Gold Day' is off of the band's upcoming album Whatever You Need, which is set for release November 1st.
Hunting have received extensive airplay from SiriusXM.
Hunting is barely recognizable as the same band that released a debut album five years ago: it's gone from a solo project to a trio, from folk to catchy electro-rock, and from wistful melancholy to buoyant exuberance. All this can be heard on the group's sophomore album, Whatever You Need, due out in summer 2019 via Nevado Music.
Songwriter-producer Bradley Ferguson initially intended the album as a quick follow-up to 2014's rootsy Hunting LP, but the initial sessions stalled.
Instead, Bradley put Hunting on the back burner: he produced an electro-pop LP for Vancouver vocalist Jessicka, and acted as a bassist-for-hire in an array of projects.
Hunting eventually got back on track with the addition of two new members: Jessicka came on board as a full-time backing vocalist, while songwriter Dustin Bentall joined as a co-frontman. "We went back and started the album from scratch," Bradley remembers. "We decided to approach it in a more organic way. I had been editing it to pop perfection — but then we breathed new life into it and it came together really quickly."
Dustin Bentall is a well-travelled troubadour in his own right, and he contributed five of his own songs to the recording sessions at Afterlife Studios. Dustin says, "I had this batch of songs that weren't really going to fit my next record, and I realized they worked seamlessly with Hunting."
Bradley and Dustin's songs mesh perfectly on Whatever You Need, tied together by pillowy vintage synth pads and surging rock rhythms. Returning collaborator John Raham (Destroyer) acted as engineer as well as drummer, Paul Rigby (Neko Case) added additional guitars, and Mother Mother's Ryan Guldemond co-wrote a handful of tracks.
Opener "Scenes from TV Screens" begins the album with muted '80s guitars and sly, slinky pop hooks, while "Black Shirt" cranks the distortion with heavy rock riffs, and "Better With Time" is streaked with twinkling synth orchestrations — the result of Bradley's fondness for spending hours perfecting a single sound. A swooning cover of Sparklehorse's "Gold Day" is the lone holdover from Hunting's scrapped prior sessions, acting as a link between Hunting's early days and their current iteration.
The album's tone is one of joyful, sonic exploration, marking a big departure from the lonesome folk Hunting used to be known for. "I loved making that first album, but I'm not quite as melancholy as I was back then," Bradley acknowledges. "I'm a lot more content and life is a lot more solid. I'm not constantly wandering around by myself after some terrible heartbreak."
That contentment shines on Whatever You Need. With electrifying collaborative chemistry between friends and an anything-goes approach to catchy synth-rock, Hunting has been reborn.
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Portugal's Non-Habitual Resident (NHR) Tax Code & Golden Visa Regime
Home Portugal's Non-Habitual Resident (NHR) Tax Code & Golden Visa Regime
It is not an exaggeration to say that Portugal's NHR and Golden Visa regimes offer two of the most beneficial tax and residence arrangements available in the world.
The NHR Tax Code
The NHR tax code is designed to attract foreign individuals to Portugal to entice investment and increase employment opportunities in Portugal
NHRs are Tax Residents of Portugal but they can benefit from preferential tax rates and in many cases, receive income and interest, which is totally exempt from Personal Income Tax (PIT)
Any person who has not been resident in Portugal in the past 5 years and who subsequently becomes resident of Portugal may be entitled to apply for this status
The NHR is valid for 10 years – and may well be extended in the future
Individuals who qualify must apply by 31st March in the year following registering as a resident of Portugal
Tax Treatment of *Foreign Source Income (generated outside Portugal)
Category Taxation in Portugal
Pension Tax Exempt
Real Estate Rentals Tax Exempt
Interest Tax Exempt
Employment Tax Exempt
Capital Gains Tax Exempt
Self employment Exempt-as long as obtained from abroad
* Sources of income from any of the 81 "Black Listed" territories will not qualify under the NHR tax code
Portugal Source Income
Any income generated in Portugal will be taxed at a flat rate of 20% instead of at the normal progressive rates: up to 48%.
Certain professions, such as architects, engineers, doctors, university professors, auditors and tax consultants and other esoteric occupations may also obtain a favoured tax status.
In essence then, anyone who qualifies for residence in Portugal and who can meet the NHR criteria can obtain the these tax privileges.
Importantly, as well as taking tax advice in Portugal, candidates for the NHR tax Code should ensure that they have informed their home country's tax authorities that they are leaving to avoid any risk of double taxation. Please note, however, that other countries may challenge such residency status by arguing that in accordance with their domestic rules the relevant person should be considered resident in such jurisdiction. If that becomes the case, i.e. if there is a conflict of residency where two countries consider the same individual resident in both their respective jurisdictions, the tie-break clause established under the tax treaties will apply.
In the case of the United Kingdom, the new Statutory Residence Test (SRT) "maze" can exclude a claim of non UK residence, or inhibit the number of days one can visit the UK in the first three years of non-UK Residence unless certain steps are taken.
We can advise and assist in obtaining NHR with suitably qualified Portuguese associates and assist in obtaining applying for the NHR tax code treatment
We can refer clients to our UK tax advisors who will ensure that the correct procedures are adopted so that the SRT non-resident status is met. This will ensure, with the agreement of HMRC, no UK tax returns being necessary in the future
Likewise, our qualified Portuguese associates, will provide the necessary forms under the Portugal Double Tax Agreements to ensure any UK non- Government pension income is paid gross
Who Can Apply for the Golden Visa
Third State citizens involved in an investment activity, either individually or through a company conducting, at least, one of the following operations in national territory for a minimum period of five years:
I) Capital transfer with a value equal to or above 1 million Euros;
II) Creation of, at least, 30 job positions;
III) Acquisition of real estate with a value equal to or above 500 thousand Euros.
It covers shareholders of companies already set up in Portugal, or in another EU State, with a stable residence in Portugal and with tax obligations fulfilled.
The investment function established for the Golden Visa has to made and maintained for a minimum of 5 years from the date of which the Golden Visa is established
The Golden Visa is initially valued for 1 year, renewable for each 2 year period required
Holders of the golden visa may need to provide evidence that they have stayed on Portuguese territory for at least 7 days in the first year and 14 days in the subsequent 2 year renewal periods
After the 6th year, the Visa holder is eligible to apply for Portuguese citizenship, if they so desire
How can we help?
In conjunction with our Portugal Legal associates we can guide applicants through all aspects the process of obtaining the Golden Visa permit.
The above was kindly provided by Phil Stephens from The Spectrum IFA Group and originally posted at: http://www.spectrum-ifa.com/portugals-non-habitual-resident-nhr-tax-code-golden-visa-regime/


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This is when malls are reopening in Ontario and the rest of Canada
Many are wondering when malls will reopen in Ontario and across Canada, and while there's no definitive dates in many of the provinces, major retail spaces are gearing up to reopen for a very different kind of shopping experience.
Ontario is moving through the first stage of restarting its economy, which will take at least two to four weeks if new case numbers continue to fall.
This includes allowing retailers that are able to follow health and safety guidelines to reopen for curbside pickup as of May 11.
Cadillac Fairview, which owns 19 malls across Canada including the Eaton Centre in Toronto, has been working with retailers to prepare for reopening. This includes ensuring physical distancing measures for employees and hygiene and sanitation protocols are being followed.
According to the Eaton Centre's website, select retailers with exterior entrances are available for curbside pickup, including Best Buy, Hudson's Bay and Nordstrom.
Malls consist of mostly non-essential workplaces, and the ones inside them that are deemed essential were never actually closed.
The plan to reopen malls in Canada is province-specific and since some provinces are a bit further ahead at reopening their economy, malls have already started to open in certain cities.
The Polo Park shopping centre in Winnipeg, for example, reopened for non-essential retailers on May 4.
On the east coast, New Brunswick has also started to reopen its shopping centres with physical distancing measures in place. Customers are asked to wear masks whenever possible and to follow health and safety guidelines.
Meanwhile, Calgary plans to reopen its malls this Thursday as part of the first stage of Alberta's reopening plan that varies across the province.
Retail stores inside malls in Quebec are not yet allowed to reopen but certain ones outside of the Montreal area have already been given the green light.
British Columbia's newly unveiled reopening plan suggests that it will see retail stores reopen by mid-May, but it's unclear if that will include malls.
As for Ontario, the next stage in the province's reopening plan suggests that more retail stores might soon be able to reopen.
Right now, both Cadillac Fairview and individual stores within its malls are in the process of developing plans that will allow them to reopen to the public under strict guidelines.
These measures may include reduced store hours, security, cleaning and hygiene practices, temperature checks for employees, signage, closing or modifying some amenities, one-way traffic in certain areas and dividing mall entrances into entry only and exit only doors.
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Mírové hnutí je sociální hnutí, které se snaží dosáhnout ideály jako konec určité války (nebo všech válek), minimalizovat násilí mezi lidmi na určitém místě nebo v určitých situacích, často spojeno s cílem dosáhnout světový mír. Mezi prostředky na dosažení těchto cílů patří advokace pacifismu, nenásilný odpor, diplomacie, bojkoty, podpora mírových politických kandidátů, tvorba otevřené vlády a nástroje transparentnosti, demonstrace a národní politické lobby skupiny na tvorbu legislativy. Politická kooperace je příklad organizace, která hledá spojení všech organizací mírového hnutí a "zelených" (ekologických) organizací, které mohou mít některé odlišné cíle, ale všechny mají společný cíl míru a trvale udržitelného rozvoje.

Československý komunistický režim zneužil myšlenku mírového hnutí k prosazení své nadvlády nad římskokatolickou církví v Československu (viz Mírové hnutí katolického duchovenstva).

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Reference

Literatura
 Scott H. Bennett, Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915–45 (Syracuse Univ. Press, 2003).
 Charles Chatfield, editor, Peace Movements in America (New York: Schocken Books, 1973).
 Charles Chatfield with Robert Kleidman, The American Peace Movement: Ideals and Activism (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992).
 Eastman, Carolyn, "Fight Like a Man: Gender and Rhetoric in the Early Nineteenth-Century American Peace Movement," American Nineteenth Century History 10 (Sept. 2009), 247–71.
 Elsie Locke, Peace People: A History of Peace Activities in New Zealand (Christchurch, NZ: Hazard Press, 1992).
 Sam Marullo and John Lofland, editors, Peace Action in the Eighties: Social Science Perspectives (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990).
 Caroline Moorehead, Troublesome People: The Warriors of Pacifism (Bethesda, MD: Adler & Adler, 1987).
 Roger C. Peace III, A Just and Lasting Peace: The U.S. Peace Movement from the Cold War to Desert Storm (Chicago: The Noble Press, 1991).
 Lawrence S. Wittner, Rebels Against War: The American Peace Movement, 1933–1983 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984).
 Nancy Zaroulis and Gerald Sullivan, Who Spoke Up? American Protest Against the War in Vietnam, 1963–1975 (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984).
 André Durand: Gustave Moynier and the peace societies. In: International Review of the Red Cross, no 314, p. 532–550 (31–10–1996)

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 Leading Peace Organizations in the United States
 International People's Initiative for Departments of Peace
 Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: A Documentary History
 Die Friedens-Warte, Journal of International Peace and Organization
 US Peace Memorial – Will build and maintain the US Peace Memorial in Washington DC and publish the US Peace Registry
 US Peace Registry – Recognizes and documents the peace activities of US citizens and organizations
 Chicago FreeSpeechZone – Documents the post-9/11 Chicago-area peace movement
 Cultrual Peace Group
 Character Education Resources – Program utilized by the best schools in the United States.
 Getting Local and Keeping Positive in the Anti-War Movement –Zoltan Grossman, Znet, Nov. 2, 2006
 Speaking Different Languages: How the Peace Movement Works With the Military Community – Zoltan Grossman, ZNet, Nov. 2, 2007
 Challenges for the Antiwar Movement  – Zoltan Grossman, Counterpunch, Jan. 5, 2006
 WorldWalk-Peacetour – A walking tour around the world in name of peace, friendship and brotherhood.
 Essays and speeches from the Antebellum Era peace movement

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The new Samsung Galaxy S10+ launched recently and now we have a drop test of the handset against Apple's iPhone XS Max.
In the video below from PhoneBuff we get to see the two handsets tests in a number of drop tests, lets see which one comes out on top.
As we can see from the video the iPhone XS Max did better on the back in the first round, in the second round both handsets did fine with no major screen damage when they were dropped on the corner.
In the third round both handsets had damage to the display when the two devices were dropped on their face. Overall in the tests the iPhone XS came out on top with a slightly higher score than the Galaxy S10.


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Squamish Valley Music Festival cancelled: Update
Music fans woke up to some bad news Wednesday morning with the announcement that the 2016 edition of the popular Squamish Valley Music Festival was cancelled.
"We have made the extremely difficult decision to not proceed with the 2016 festival, due to take place in August," said a statement posted on the festival's website. "This decision was not made lightly and we sincerely apologize to all the people this decision affects: the fans, artists, industry partners, corporate partners, suppliers and all of our supporters within the community of Squamish."
The Squamish Valley Music Festival also promptly deleted its Twitter account (@squamishfest), leading to further speculation that the festival may be done for good.
The District of Squamish confirmed they had been told of the decision Tuesday "around lunch time" and that the cancellation was "a business decision."
"It's obviously very disappointing for our community," Squamish Mayor Patricia Heintzman said in a phone interview. "It's been a really good partnership. The festival has done an amazing amount for our economy, for our international media impressions and the branding of (Squamish). I imagine it was such a tough decision on their part and I can only surmise the financial pressures with the dollar taking a toll on the industry."
Founded in 2010, the Squamish Valley Music Festival was a big economic driver for the Squamish area, generating a $14.8 million infusion to the local economy last year alone, and affecting everything from hardware stores to restaurants and hotels. The festival had a multi-year deal with the District of Squamish until 2021.
"The crux of it was the mounting costs and mounting competition — all of the festivals are going through a bit of a challenge right now," Heintzman said.
The 2015 Squamish festival, headlined by rapper Drake, British singer Sam Smith and folk/rock group Mumford and Sons, attracted a record 118,000 people over three days. The festival expanded its site to a daily capacity of 35,000 (up from 17,500) in 2014, the same year the Pemberton Music Festival made its return and established itself as a top competitor in the Sea to Sky corridor.
There was no shortage of major music festivals in B.C. last year.
The Squamish festival was competing for music dollars — and performers — against the Pemberton Music Festival, Rifflandia (Victoria), Rock the Shores (Victoria), Rockin' River Music Festival (Merritt) and Shambhala (Salmo River) in British Columbia, along with Sasquatch, Bumbershoot, Watershed Festival and the Capitol Hill Block Party in Washington state.
Artists that have played Squamish include Weezer, Metric, Bad Religion, The Decemberists, Devo, The Tragically Hip, Queens of the Stone Age, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Vampire Weekend, Eminem, Bruno Mars, Arcade Fire and Arctic Monkeys.
The festival was also known to host a number of B.C. and Vancouver-based acts, actively promoted by radio station The Peak 102.7.
The Peak's program director Tamara Stanners, who lives in Squamish, said she heard rumours of the event's cancellation a week ago.
"I heard from some of the groundskeepers that it would be cancelled but I found it hard to believe," she said via phone. "I'd been talking to Live Nation and BRANDLIVE last week and it was all going ahead. But they knew even then, I think.
"Personally, I'm sad for sure," she added. "I loved that festival, having been a part of it since it started in 2010. It's become such a huge event for us. For the first four years, The Peak was the exclusive station for the festival. We really grew along with it, which was amazing. I know how much heart and soul (BRANDLIVE and Live Nation) put into it. Everybody (in Squamish) cared deeply about it."
Stanners also pointed to the low Canadian dollar as a factor in the event's demise.
"When most of the artists are looking for American money and our dollar is at 70 cents, it's difficult to be competitive."
The cancellation of the Squamish festival comes two weeks after Premier Christy Clark announced a $15 million grant for the newly created B.C. Music Fund. The fund, to be administered by Creative B.C., was announced at an event attended by Michael Buble, Chad Kroeger, Sarah McLachlan and label and festival representatives who had called for more support from the province in a 77-page report.
The report used large scale events like the Squamish Festival as flagship examples of B.C.'s booming music business.
"Our record labels, recording studios, concert venues and music festivals draw people from all over the province, the country and the world," Clark said a the time. "Music develops culture, promotes talent and diversifies our strong and growing economy."
Beyond economic factors, the festival will be missed by many for the music and the community it built.
Coquitlam resident Zac LaRocque-Walker, who operates a small concert outfit named Rhombus Presents, attended a few Squamish Festivals as a volunteer, working as a production assistant on the smaller, local music-focused stages.
"It's a bummer for me because there were a lot of people there that go to those fests for the experience and they would wander by our stage to see Good For Grapes or Reuben and the Dark — these really good bands that a lot of people still don't know much about. So it stinks for the local artists that had a chance to play the festival."
Regarding the possibility the festival will make a return in 2017, Heintzman could only speculate.
"I think they needed breathing room to recoup and retool," she said. "They can speak for themselves, but we're hopeful it will come back. We'll work closely with them to see if that can happen."
Organizers Live Nation and BRANDLIVE would not comment further on the announcement.
With files from Scott Brown
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