offered strange fire on the altar.
was the Golden Candlestick while on the right side was the Table of Shewbread.
had to come from the Brazen Altar out in the Courtyard.
coals were on the Altar of Incense had to come from the Brazen Altar.
in the censer their own fire. They did not take the fire from the Brazen Altar.
burned the incense with their own fire.
wanted the fire on the Altar of Incense to come from the fire of the Brazen Altar.
old stuff for them to see the Tabernacle.
from the bloody Brazen Altar to the Altar of Incense.
has now become a textbook.
here longer than you" and the result was that God killed them.
critique the Holy Words of an almighty God are walking in dangerous territory.
occur in a college atmosphere where a large college dominates the local church.
Temple of Longview, Texas, I would have had 33 deacons knocking on my door.
after being captured by the Philistines was brought back to the city of David.
Covenant to stay in his house.
he became use to its presence. He couldn't touch it but he knew it was there.
of God, rested in Uzzah's house.
the other furniture of the Tabernacle.
it sounds to you. God said He wanted men to carry it by their hands.
old-fashioned preaching, soul winning, and standards of holiness again!
God doesn't need a new cart!
being pulled by some oxen. "But preacher is looks so much better on the cart!
way to do it." The trouble is it doesn't matter what you and I think, or like.
It only matters what God likes and God thinks!
to become too familiar with that which is sanctified.
that the young people and children build their lives around their local church.
have fun with God's people.
become too familiar with the work of God.
but is sanctified can lose its sanctification if God's people are too familiar.
That is why, in my opinion, gym-auditoriums are dangerous.
house of God. It is sanctified!
disobey God. Be careful familiarity gives no one the right to disobey God!
felt liberty because of familiarity. After all their daddy was the High Priest.
is not a building made with hands.
He dwelt in the Holy of Holies over the Ark of the Covenant in the early days.
I'm being sanctified as I grow in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
cocktail, or has acid rock blasting over a boom box what would have happened?
someone entering smoking a cigarette or come in there drinking liquor?
look like businessmen! Boy have things changed in America!
every area of life. I am not Father Gray but I am sanctified Gray!
given you make sure that there is a respect for the position.
more than they are themselves.
body of the believer, the leader, the Scriptures, the Gospel, and the nation Israel.


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Osama bin Laden's son calls for attacks on Jewish targets
American and NATO targets are appropriate where there are no Jewish targets, Hazma bin Laden said in a video released over the weekend.
British Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn: Osama bin Laden was framed for 9/11
In 2003, Corbyn said the U.S. and Britain made it look like the al-Qaida chief was responsible to allow the West to go to war against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
'Chained' Orthodox women and 4 other forgotten Jewish stories from Sept. 11
14 years after the devastating attack, here are five Jewish-related stories that have slipped from public memory.
U.S. Jewish institutions alerted after call for attacks by bin Laden's son
Osama bin Laden's reading list included book by Holocaust denier
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Q: How to define specific coefficients for each input feature to increase and decrease their influence in loss function calculation? I have a regression neural network with ten input features and three outputs. But all ten features do not have the same importance in loss function calculation (mean square error). So I want to define specific coefficients for each input feature to increase their role in the loss function.
Consider we define coefficients in an array: coeff=[5,20,2,1,4,5,6,2,9,15]. When mean squared error is measuring the distances of input features, for example, if the distance of the second feature is '60', this distance is multiplied by coefficient '20' from coeff array.
I guess I need to define a custom loss function, but how to pass the defined "coeff" array and multiply its elements with input features?
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I guess my idea is similar to this code and this code, but I am not sure. however, I was unable to run the first one and got errors.
from numpy import mean
from numpy import std
from sklearn.datasets import make_regression
from sklearn.model_selection import RepeatedKFold
from keras.models import Sequential
from keras.layers import Dense

# get the dataset
def get_dataset():
    X, y = make_regression(n_samples=1000, n_features=10, n_informative=5, n_targets=3, random_state=2)
    return X, y

# get the model
def get_model(n_inputs, n_outputs):
    model = Sequential()
    model.add(Dense(20, input_dim=n_inputs, kernel_initializer='he_uniform', activation='relu'))
    model.add(Dense(n_outputs))
    model.compile(loss='mse', optimizer='adam')
    return model

# evaluate a model using repeated k-fold cross-validation
def evaluate_model(X, y):
    results = list()
    n_inputs, n_outputs = X.shape[1], y.shape[1]
    # define evaluation procedure
    cv = RepeatedKFold(n_splits=10, n_repeats=3, random_state=1)
    # enumerate folds
    for train_ix, test_ix in cv.split(X):
        # prepare data
        X_train, X_test = X[train_ix], X[test_ix]
        y_train, y_test = y[train_ix], y[test_ix]
        # define model
        model = get_model(n_inputs, n_outputs)
        # fit model
        model.fit(X_train, y_train, verbose=0, epochs=100)
        # evaluate model on test set
        mse = model.evaluate(X_test, y_test, verbose=0)
        # store result
        print('>%.3f' % mse)
        results.append(mse)
    return results

# load dataset
X, y = get_dataset()
# evaluate model
results = evaluate_model(X, y)
# summarize performance
print('MSE: %.3f (%.3f)' % (mean(results), std(results)))

A: If you use the functional api, then you could add a custom loss function with the model.add_loss function, within the model. Your loss function can then use the model inputs and outputs and anything in your model.
The problem with this approach is, that in the model you don't have the 'true' y values. So you would need to add an additional input to your model, and pass the y values to the model – but just for the loss calculation.
Something like this:
inputs = Input(shape=(n_inputs))
x = Dense(20, ...)(model_inputs)
outputs = Dense(n_outputs)(x)
y_true = Input(shape=(n_outputs))
modelx = Model(inputs=[inputs, y_true], outputs=outputs)
modelx.add_loss(your_loss_function(y_true=y_true, y_pred=outputs, inputs=inputs)

Since you already added the loss to the model, you compile it without any loss:
modelx.compile(loss=None, optimizer='adam')

When you fit the model, you need to pass the y values to the model inputs.
modelx.fit(x=[X_train, y_train], y=y_train, verbose=0, epochs=100)

When you want a model with just the X values as input, for example for prediction, you can create it like so:
model = Model(modelx.input[0], modelx.output)

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British Actress Lydia Backhouse joins The Beer Connoisseur for the next installment of Crafty Celebrity Stories, which features the best tales of ale (and more) from leading actors, celebrities and persons of interest.
Backhouse has starred in 2016 TV series This Is It as Jess, and wrote, executive produced and starred in Pretty Hurts, a TV mini-series from 2017.
Beer drinkers like to laugh. What's the funniest drinking story you can share with us?
I do love a laugh and have plenty of funny drinking stories... some maybe not suitable for the mag but the one I remember the most was probably when I was in Bruges last Christmas and we went to this Italian restaurant in the square. I ordered a Hoegaarden beer, and the rest of my family ordered Brugse Zot beers. We had a subpar meal and then got the check, which ended up being around €400 (so expensive!). We were then told that each Brugse Zot beer was €20 each for a half-pint (which was made in the brewery less than a mile away) and my beer was €40 for a large stein (of which I had two). €80 for 2 beers!!!
We tried to argue this, but, in the end, we paid. Of course, after a full day in Bruges drinking beer we were a little tipsy to say the least, and we all know Brits can get a bit rowdy after a few drinks, so we left before we ended up burning the place down for the expensive check. On the way out, I was throwing everything I could find in my bag and down my coat including candles, ornaments, cutlery and flowers... I wanted more for my money!!
We left and hid all the stuff in a bush and then looked next door to the restaurant we were just in to see a sign saying "€1 for 1 beer." We all looked at each other and said, "I bet it's some nasty beer!" We went inside and found out that the beer we had been drinking in the restaurant next door for €20-€80 was being sold just one door down for just €1. Let's just say we took advantage of that deal, staying there all night and didn't wake up the next afternoon until about 2 p.m. – it was a rough night! The saying for the rest of the holiday was 1 EUROOOOOOO!! Maybe this was a "you have to be there moment," but, hey, we had fun!
Who is the coolest person you've had a beer with?
My dad! I know that might seem boring, but he loves his beer and he's the one that got me into drinking it. I probably would never have tried it yet if it wasn't for him! I don't really get starstruck so no one impressed me much... accept for the inimitable Sir David Attenborough, he would deffo be the coolest.
What are a few of your favorite craft beers and why?
I love Bread and Butter from Vocation Brewery in England and Moonshine from Abbeydale Brewery in Sheffield, which is where I'm from. My favourite American beers would be Sierra Nevada Pale Ale... it's a classic and is so refreshing, the celebration edition is unreal too! I honestly love any Belgium blonde beers, they all taste amazing... you cannot go wrong!
Do you have a favorite (craft) brewery or breweries and why?
I loved the Bruges brewery De Halve Maan, which is where they brew Brugse Zot. It's a really nice, thirst-quenching brew. The brewery was very small and run by a family, but it was just so interesting, and you got to see every element of the process. Plus, you got to try so much beer as you strolled around – which was a nice bonus. It's a really cool and very intimate brewery, and if you're ever in Bruges you should check it out!
Have you attended any beer events or festivals that you particularly enjoyed? What made them stand out?
My favourite day of the year is the 3 Valleys Beer Festival in Dronfield, Derbyshire. Now if there's one thing that people should know all over the world, it's that Yorkshire people can drink... and drink... and drink. The whole entire town is turned into a huge festival and every pub is involved, a bus goes around from pub to pub to take the public anywhere they like on the route. There are so many beers to choose from at each pub, some local and some very distant breweries are all on cask pump.
There are loads of different food stands top selling burgers and other delicious cuisines. This isn't a place for lager drinkers because they just wouldn't be welcome!! They also have loads of live music and activities going on! By the end of the day, I'd probably drank around 20 different beers from around England and the world. I ended up stranded in a fish & chip shop on my own at the end of the night with a sprained wrist and a big lump on my head from my best friend slamming a port-a-loo toilet door on my head. It's honestly the best day of the year... if you're in England get yourself there for the start of the festival on June 2!
Has throwing a few beers back ever helped you get ready or loosen up for a certain role?
Well that would be unprofessional! Once I got an audition on really late notice for a self-tape, and I'd been drinking in the morning/early afternoon for a friend's birthday. I went ahead and did the self-tape anyway, and I actually booked the role, so they must've liked tipsy Lydia.
I will say there was a time on set when I'd been offered to drink with the cast and crew and we all may have had a few too many. We still got the job done and it became a great project (I won't say what it is though!). I did forget that I was driving that day and had to get an expensive Uber back to Hollywood. That's the great thing about London, the Underground goes everywhere so you can drink as much as you want – anywhere, anytime!
I like the pun! I do have a very exciting project coming up; it's a film about a Russian free diver who is a female record holder. She went missing near Ibiza while free-diving in 2015 unfortunately and was never found. I play the British record holder in the film. That will be filmed in Malta in May/June so stay tuned!
Mind you, I don't think I'll be drinking any beer on-set, seeing as I will be diving in the open water. I'm a good swimmer, but I've never swum after downing an 8 percent ABV Belgian blonde ale! I would probably end up going missing as well!


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International Climate Change Update: Paris 2015 and beyondWith the United Nations Climate Change Conference meeting in Paris in early December, CEDA will lead this critical discussion on where Australia sits in terms of international climate policy.
Hon. Jay Weatherill MP, Premier of South Australia
Fergus Green, Research Adviser to Professor Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics
Dr David Cruickshanks-Boyd, Regional Director South Australia WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff
Sandy Pitcher, Chief Executive, Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
Later this year, one of the most important United Nations meetings in history will be held to deliver agreement amongst countries on the critical issue of climate change.
The 2015 UN Climate Change Conference, will be held from November 30 to December 11, 2015 in Paris. It simple, yet challenging objective is to for the first time in over 20 years of UN negotiations, set a binding and universal agreement on climate, from all the nations of the world.
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Kia Clarus (type GC) var en stor mellemklassebil fra den sydkoreanske bilfabrikant Kia Motors, baseret på den koreanske Kia Credos. Modellen var Kias første store mellemklassebil i Europa. Clarus blev produceret mellem maj 1996 og november 2001, og derefter afløst af den allerede i september 2000 introducerede Kia Magentis.

Historie
Kia Clarus blev introduceret i Europa i juli 1996. Forbilledet var Mazda 626, som modellen delte en hel del tekniske- og karrosseridele med. Clarus adskilte sig kun marginalt fra den koreanske Credos, og fandtes med benzinmotorer på 1,8 liter med 116 hk (SLX) og 2,0 liter med 133 hk (GLX).

Den første model fandtes kun som sedan. Optisk adskilte SLX- og GLX-modellerne sig gennem kølergrillens design. Begge udstyrsvarianter havde som standard to airbags, el-ruder foran og centrallåsesystem. GLX-modellen havde derudover kromgrill, el-justerbare sidespejle, el-ruder bagi, velourindtræk og tågeforlygter. ABS-bremser blev kort efter introduktionen føjet til listen over standardudstyr. Klimaanlæg og læderkabine var blandt de få muligheder for ekstraudstyr.

2,0-litersmotoren fra Mazda 626 GT ydede i Clarus på grund af strengere udstødningsnormer 7 hk mindre. Kabinens design var ligeledes hentet fra 626. 1,8-litersmotoren var derimod udviklet af Kia selv. T8D-motoren var den (formodentligt) eneste motor fra T-serien og kom på markedet sammen med Clarus i juli 1996. D'et i motorens typebetegnelse antydede de dobbelte, overliggende knastaksler (DOHC) og 8-tallet for motorens slagvolume (1,8).

1,8'eren havde tandrem og var den eneste friløbsfiretaktsmotor i det daværende Kia-modelprogram. Motoren udviste ved tests gode præstationer, en rolig motorgang og et for daværende forhold acceptabelt brændstofforbrug (ca. 10 liter), men efter faceliftet en utidssvarende udstødningsnorm (Euro2).

I 1999 blev der præsenteret en version med direkte benzinindsprøjtning, som på grund af motorfabrikantens insolvens ikke gik i produktion. Først i 2010 kunne de første GDI-motorer fra Hyundai også leveres i serieproducerede Kia-modeller.

Facelift
I maj 1998 introducerede Kia den modificerede udgave af Clarus, hvis interne typebetegnelse GC blev bibeholdt.

Det ændrede frontparti blev også monteret på den samtidigt nyintroducerede Clarus stationcar, og 2,0-modellen fik antispinregulering. Ligesom den første serie adskilte andenseriesmodellerne sig på kølergrillen i forhold til motor- og udstyrsvarianter.

På hjemmemarkedet fandtes Clarus også med en 2,0-liters V6-motor, som ydede 147 hk og ligeledes kom fra Mazda.

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Litteratur
 Kia Clarus instruktionsbog. © Kia Motors GmbH, juli 1998 (på tysk)
 Automobil Revue. Katalog 2000 (på tysk og fransk)

Eksterne henvisninger

Clarus
Store mellemklassebiler
Stationcars
Forhjulstrukne biler
Biler introduceret i 1996
Biler fra 1990'erne
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For journalists and others interested in open access to government records and proceedings, e-mail poses unique obstacles. Two recent developments, one in New Jersey and another in Massachusetts, help clarify this sometimes muddy issue.
In New Jersey, the state's Government Records Council, the agency that oversees the New Jersey Open Public Records Act, has ruled that e-mail messages that discuss government business are public records open to public review -- even if they are on an official's personal computer, the Courier-Post reports. "The definition of a government record is not restricted by the location of the record," the council concluded in a decision earlier this month. The ruling requires the mayor of the borough of Fair Lawn to turn over all borough-related e-mails stored on his personal computer to a citizen who requested them.
In Massachusetts, the district attorney for Middlesex County issued a warning to local officials that careless use of e-mail to discuss town business runs the risk of violating the state Open Meeting Law, according to the Metrowest Daily News. In response to a complaint filed by the Daily News against the school committee for the town of Wayland, the DA cautioned that "members should limit e-mail communications to matters of a purely housekeeping or administrative nature, and should maintain copies of all e-mail communications in a central file."


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Swiss private banks BSI and EFG International are working to devise a transfer plan that will allow them to effect an orderly closure of BSI's unit in Singapore.
The move involves Zurich-based private bank EFG taking over BSI, a deal that has been approved by Swiss and Singapore regulators and is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will allow the transfer of the Singapore subsidiary's assets and liabilities to EFG in Singapore, or to BSI in Switzerland.
"Both BSI and EFG are currently working on a transfer plan to be submitted to MAS," it told The Straits Times.
EFG is also helping address staff morale in the wake of BSI's closure notice, an EFG spokesman said, but she declined to comment on the firm's plans for BSI's staff.
An MAS spokesman said: "Customers are however assured that BSI Bank would not be closing down immediately.
"The bank remains solvent and has the full support from its parent bank in Switzerland."
The moves come after MAS ordered the closure of BSI's Singapore unit over anti-money laundering rule violations while its Swiss parent faces criminal proceedings amid a deepening probe into troubled Malaysian state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
Although no deadline has been mentioned on the timing of the closure, Switzerland's Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) approved the takeover of BSI by EFG on condition that BSI be completely integrated and dissolved within 12 months.
In addition, none of BSI's top management associated with its misconduct can take leadership positions in EFG. BSI Singapore said it is "operating normally" and working to ensure a smooth and quick integration with EFG.
BSI said in a statement yesterday: "The decision by MAS to withdraw the bank's status as a merchant bank will take place only at a future time given that MAS 'will allow the transfer of the Singapore subsidiary's assets and liabilities to the Singapore branch of EFG or the parent entity, BSI SA'."
The bank here is not affected by the financial penalties levied by MAS and Finma as they will be paid from BSI's general reserves.
Mr Renato Cohn, acting chief executive and a member of BSI's group executive board, is managing the Singapore operations in the transition.
EFG is controlled by the Greek Latsis family. Its purchase of BSI from Brazil's BTG Pactual will create Switzerland's fifth-largest private bank. BSI, which began in 1983, had net client outflows of 9.3 billion Swiss francs (S$13 billion) last year and its global assets under management declined 16 per cent to 87.7 billion Swiss francs. It has 1,900 employees worldwide, including over 200 here, while EFG International has a headcount of 2,200 worldwide, with 354 here.


SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Jakob Poeltl had 21 points and nine rebounds to power Utah past California 73-64 on Wednesday night.
Brandon Taylor and Kyle Kuzma added 15 points apiece for the Utes (16-5, 5-3 Pac-12), who have won four straight games.
Jaylen Brown matched his career-high with 27 points and Ivan Rabb had 12 points and 12 rebounds for the Bears (14-7, 4-4), who again struggled on the road – falling to 1-5 away from home.
Poeltl was a focus of the Cal defense but he still went 7 for 10 from the field.
Down five in the second half, the Utes went on a 23-4 run to take control. During the surge, Taylor made back-to-back 3-pointers, Poeltl had a dunk and then a 3-point play and Kuzma completed the spurt with six consecutive points. Utah led 58-44 with 10:24 to play.
Utah shot 48 percent from the floor in the game to Cal's 38 percent. Poeltl was only 7 for 14 from the free throw line.
Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak said his team's defense was the difference.
Utah closes out its two-game home stand this Saturday, Jan. 30, hosting Stanford (11-8, 4-4) at the Huntsman Center. Tip-off is set for 3 p.m.


Farewell Messages for Boss: How time flies, the boss is leaving and there are quite a number of emotions and reactions, while some would miss him/her, some really are not fazed, but either way, it would be really nice of one to send a message to the boss, wishing him/her farewell as they depart. These messages would make them happy and who knows, though he is no longer your boss today; he/she might be the stepping stone you need to catapult your career tomorrow.
So if you are at a loss on what to write then this article would help, it contains a number of wonderful an creatively crafted messages which you can give to your soon to be ex-boss, these messages can be used exactly as they are or you can use them as guides in creating yours.
It is guaranteed that there is a suitable message in there for every departing boss.
Beloved boss, though you made us very angry with your ability to scold and nag us and your perfectionist ways have driven us insane, we will still admit that we would miss you very much. Farewell boss, we wish you better opportunities in life.
You were less of a boss and more of a leader, at other times you were like a colleague to us, a friend, you understood our plights and shared in our celebrations, as you leave us today, we wish you all the very best. Farewell boss!
Sincerely, I am delighted that you can no longer nag me, but I am still very much unexcited and terrified about to prospect of getting a new boss. Farewell amazing boss!
You are a respectable person, an intellectual and wise person and your ability to relate well with everyone regardless of race, creed or status would be always respected. We fare thee well boss!
You inspired us to greatness, you made us believe in ourselves, and you taught us to derive strengths from our weaknesses. From the onset you have let us know that you were grooming us to be able to handle all the work when you would leave us, we promise not to disappoint you, and as you leave, we promise to keep your legacy alive.
As you leave us we know it is all for the best but we cannot help to say that the office will not be the same without your esteemed self being on premises to make things feel normal. Farewell boss, may you get happier days and better opportunities.
You were a superb boss, you gave us directions and chose to lead us instead of bossing and ordering us around, you chose to smile at us and encourage us even when it was clear that what we deserved was to be scolded endlessly.
You helped shape my career, you helped me make the right choices and you provided the solid foundation to place my feet. You are a special breed of boss and you would always be cherished, farewell boss!
We bid farewell to you and we say sorry to your new colleagues because they have no idea the kind of boss they are about to get, you would grill them and make them put in extra hours, but at the end of the day they would be smiling to the bank and at all their success stories.
Boss, you infected us with your determination to succeed, your positivity even in the worst times and your ability to find a solution to any problem. Now that you are leaving us, we would work very hard to keep the flag up high and the legacy you built alive.
Now that you have stepped down as the boss, please leave a guide book for your successor so that it would not be difficult for him/her. Farewell boss, until we find an avenue to meet again.
I believe that though we had a boss-employee relationship within the office walls, now that you leave us and cease to be my boss we can successfully cultivate a warm and friendly relationship. I wish you all the very best as you leave this company, may you have better opportunities.
You taught us that when we loved our jibs we were more efficient and you helped us learn to love our jobs no matter how stressful we got. Thank you for being an excellent boss, may you always have employees and colleagues who love you and respect your efforts, and may you always be rewarded for your efforts and amazing nature.
Considering that our relationship started off on the rough foot, I am glad that we have become such great friends, I would miss working in the same place as you, I would miss our cheerful banter and your witty replies, your desire for perfection and your ability to push anyone to work better. I wish you all the very best as you leave us today.
As you prepare to leave this firm, I want to give you a billion reasons not to because I cannot imagine working for another boss; I believe no one would be as superb as you are at this job. Farewell and all the best in your new job.
Your constant presence, though imposing and sometimes scary, was always awe inspiring, your words were always motivating, encouraging and reassuring, totally capable of relieving us of our stress words. Indeed on behalf of the entire firm, I bid farewell to a boss extraordinaire, superb and eloquent, hardworking and patient, one who would be dearly missed.
It probably surprises you that we would all miss you so much, considering how many times we managed to frustrate you, we have learnt so much from you and we appreciate that you were our boss. Thank you very much and fare thee well, more grease to your elbows and more success to your activities.
Boss, you are delighted and excited to leave us and work elsewhere, this message is to say that we will really miss you and to warn you that though we might have been difficult, your new employees would make you really miss us, because I doubt they would be as nice as us. Farewell boss.
It is impossible to quantify your impact in my life and in the lives of a number of my colleagues, it is not just about the perks and promotions you gave us but also about the character development, the encouragement and the inspiration, you are invaluable to us and our careers have come this far thanks to you. So I say farewell boss and I believe that you would get more laurels and achievements.
Finally, you cannot yell at us and scold us anymore, we might also miss you too, but as you leave this firm and stop being our boss, we pray that there would be only wonderful days, more blessings and more achievements for you.
Boss, brainstorming sessions, intense arguments and boardroom discussions would be different without you, but farewell and best wishes.
I really want to leave with you because in truth you were the reason why my job was amazing, but as you cease to be my boss today, I want to push away all the sadness and instead be happy for you and with you because this is a big step in your career and I do not want to be selfish. Farewell boss!


A recent newsletter from the Association for Talent Development included an article called "9 Bad Manager Mistakes That Make Good People Quit." They cited a statistic from Gallup that you've probably heard before – 70% of an employee's motivation is directly tied to actions by his or her manager.
People don't quit organizations, they quit managers. So how can you be the sort of manager that doesn't send good employees job hunting? Here are some tips from the article, which was reprinted in Huffington Post.
Manage workloads – I've heard many employees say that they appreciate the work/life balance provided in their job at Minnesota State. That not only supports motivation, but it's effective management. Overworked people are not as productive and are significantly less engaged.
Recognizing contributions – Everyone likes to be acknowledged for their good work, and high performers often value it even more. Figure out what type of recognition your employees need, and then provide it on a regular basis.
Provide development opportunities – Our environment is about learning and growing. Not only do our employees want to provide that for students, but they also want a chance to keep their own skills current and develop new ones.
Honor commitments – Highly engaged employees usually report that they work for a manager who is reliable and trustworthy.
Engage creativity – Encourage people to use their talents to improve the work they do. It will engage their creative problem-solving skills and tap into their passions.
Care about your employees – Effective mangers know how to balance professionalism with being human. They understand that people have lives outside of work – they help celebrate successes and are supportive of difficult issues.
Bigger goals are more motivating than smaller goals.
Fewer goals lead to higher performance.
Based on this research he describes a four step process to set goals with your people to help them perform at the highest level.
Align – individual goals need to directly contribute to what is most important to your institution's success.
Promise – limit individual goals to those important few that an individual is emotionally committed to and willing to "promise" to complete.
Increase – individual goals need to focus on concrete improvement in performance.
Frame – write the goals so they are clear, easy to understand and succinct.
Not everyone gets to score a goal in the World Cup but you can help all your people be star performers in their own way.
Over the last few weeks I've been conducting annual performance reviews with my staff. In preparation for our conversations, I ask my staff to not only document their accomplishments and performance goals, but to think about their professional development goals as well. Helping my staff grow and learn is highly satisfying. And according to career development expert and author Beverley Kaye, it is essential to retaining high performing individuals.
Listen attentively. Let your employees do 90% of the talking in your personal sessions.
Be curious and encourage curiosity. You do not need to have all the answers.
While professional development conversations between supervisors and their direct reports shouldn't be limited to once a year, I find annual performance reviews a helpful time to focus on professional development conversations. It gives my staff an opportunity to discuss how they are wanting to grow their careers and it gives me a chance to encourage them and provide additional ideas for development that might include stretch assignments, new work projects, professional certifications, continuing education, and service opportunities.
It's performance review time – how do you feel?
Annual performance reviews can be a useful tool in building organizational talent. On the other hand, if it's not done well it can be like going to the dentist or getting an immunization – necessary to maintain health but not particularly fun.
From the employee's point of view it's a chance to focus on what we've done well this year and where we'd like to go in the future. I was having a bad day on Monday morning, and receiving my review from Anita actually made it much better. It's very engaging to hear what your supervisor appreciates about you and to think about possibilities for development.
From the manager's point of view performance reviews are a chance to reinforce things that are going well and develop goals for the next year. It's much easier to hold people accountable for their performance if you've both agreed on what successful performance looks like. In my review, Anita and I created a set of goals that I will be able to report on in our ongoing conversations.
As an HR professional, I see the value in having the annual review meeting. I'm also well aware that they are going out of favor in many organizations, with the focus shifting to more frequent ongoing conversations. Since many of us at Minnesota State are starting a new cycle, here are some tips to make next year's reviews effective.
No surprises – the annual review should be a summary of conversations that you've had throughout the year. It's a chance to focus on what's gone well and what should happen in the future.
It's not about the form – whatever the process is at your institution, focus on having a meaningful conversation, not on filling out the form and selecting ratings.
Don't rely on memory – If your employee does something extraordinary in the next month, it will be nearly impossible to remember that a year from now. Keeping notes will make the process easier and more accurately reflect the full year.
Take it seriously – I've heard way too many stories about people who don't get a review at all, or who are asked to fill out their own form, which the supervisor then signs without comment. That's demoralizing for the employee and can come back to bite the manager. It's really difficult to manage a performance problem if the employee has a track record of reviews that exceed expectations.
Making the annual review the capstone to a year of effective performance management will help it feel more like getting ready for a 4th of July party than a medical appointment.
Whatever your role, knowing how to be a transformational leader and how to be a transactional leader is important. While you may spend more time doing one or the other, it's important to understand and use both skill sets.
A distinction is often made between "leadership" and "management." In my mind, this is similar to being "transformational" and being "transactional." For example, this 2011 article in an international management journal described some of the differences.
As management expert John Kotter points out in this conversation, organizations need both superb leadership and superb management. In your leadership role, sometimes you have to be a transformational leader who can create a vision and inspire people to follow it. Other times, you may need to be a transactional leader who can provide specific feedback to help people get the day-to-day work done.


There were 9 pairs entered but 1 pair had to pull out on the day, leaving 8 pairs to contest a single group. Each match consisted of two games to 21 points with no setting.
There were some inevitably close games and a number ended one game each, but overall Jacob and Amy proved too strong for everyone else, finishing clear winners. Everyone else were on a par with each other, providing some very close games. Mark and Helen were awarded 2nd spot having won the same number of games as Lindsay & Jane but doing better in the head-to-head between them.


Mexico clinched their third consecutive World University American Football Championship title after beating Japan today in Harbin.
Mexico and United States each enjoyed big victories today at the World University American Football Championship in Harbin in China.
Shaquem Griffin has become the first player with one hand to be drafted by a National Football League (NFL) team after being selected by the Seattle Seahawks at the recent 2018 NFL Draft.
Mike Rowbottom: Athletics 1, Football 0. But it is never that simple, is it?
The schism within the International Federation of American Football (IFAF) has deepened after a breakaway group held an Extraordinary Congress in Paris.
American football player Nate Ebner is to take a break from the sport in a bid to be selected for the United States' rugby sevens team at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
San Francisco 49ers head coach Chip Kelly will join a tour of American military bases in Europe and the Middle East as part of a programme organised by Military Appreciation Partnerships (MAP).


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Deciphering Electronic Lab Results a Challenge for Some Patients
By Fran Kritz • Sep 4, 2014
Researchers at the University of Michigan have found that some people, particularly those with poor number and health literacy skills, may not be able to understand the numbers on lab reports, or what steps may be needed as a result of the test results.
The study is important because since last February, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has allowed patients, or their designated representatives, to have direct access to lab test results without prior review by a doctor. And some doctors and insurers now include test results in electronic health records that can be accessed directly by patients.
The researchers say there are advantages to the direct access by patients, such as not having to wait for a doctor to get in touch or return a call. But they are also concerned that patients who don't understand the results may not take any needed next steps such as follow up with their physician if results indicate a new or continuing health problem.
Since lab tests are reported as numbers and percentages above and below reference ranges, the researchers say understanding what the numbers and percentages mean is critical.
To test whether patients could identify laboratory blood test values outside reference ranges, the researchers created an online survey, which was accessed by just over 1,800 adults ages 40-70. Participants were asked to review the results as though they had type 2 diabetes (about half actually did.)
The lab tests were shown in a standard table format the way patients might see them as part of their electronic health records, and hemoglobin A1c levels—a standard lab test that assesses glucose control – was set at either 7.1 percent, slightly outside the reference range, or 8.4 percent, which is moderately outside the reference range. Other test results were also shown as within or outside reference ranges so that patients would have to determine on their own whether their test results required further follow up.
The researchers said that, based on responses to the online survey, they assessed whether the participants could understand whether the A1c levels were outside the reference ranges, how they rated their own glucose level control and whether they would follow up with their doctor. They also added other tests to assess the number and health literacy of the participants.
The researchers found that 77 percent of those considered to have higher health literacy and number skills were able to determine tests scores that were outside of the standard range, but only 38 percent of those with lower number and health literacy scores were able to determine tests scores that were outside the reference range.
They concluded that poor health literacy and math skills are barriers to patients being able to understand lab test results the way in some electronic health record formats and that people with poorer skills would be less likely to follow up with their doctor.
Brian Zikmund-Fisher, associate professor of health behavior and health education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and the lead author of the study said, "if we can design ways of presenting test results that make them intuitively meaningful, even for people with low numeracy and/or literacy skills, such data can help patients take active roles in managing their health care."
The study was published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
by Fran Kritz, California Health Report

Deciphering Electronic Lab Results a Challenge for Some Patients

by Fran Kritz, California Health Report
September 4, 2014

Researchers at the University of Michigan have found that some people, particularly those with poor number and health literacy skills, may not be able to understand the numbers on lab reports, or what steps may be needed as a result of the test results.

The study is important because since last February, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has allowed patients, or their designated representatives, to have direct access to lab test results without prior review by a doctor. And some doctors and insurers now include test results in electronic health records that can be accessed directly by patients.

The researchers say there are advantages to the direct access by patients, such as not having to wait for a doctor to get in touch or return a call. But they are also concerned that patients who don't understand the results may not take any needed next steps such as follow up with their physician if results indicate a new or continuing health problem.

Since lab tests are reported as numbers and percentages above and below reference ranges, the researchers say understanding what the numbers and percentages mean is critical.

To test whether patients could identify laboratory blood test values outside reference ranges, the researchers created an online survey, which was accessed by just over 1,800 adults ages 40-70. Participants were asked to review the results as though they had type 2 diabetes (about half actually did.)

The lab tests were shown in a standard table format the way patients might see them as part of their electronic health records, and hemoglobin A1c levels—a standard lab test that assesses glucose control – was set at either 7.1 percent, slightly outside the reference range, or 8.4 percent, which is moderately outside the reference range. Other test results were also shown as within or outside reference ranges so that patients would have to determine on their own whether their test results required further follow up.

The researchers said that, based on responses to the online survey, they assessed whether the participants could understand whether the A1c levels were outside the reference ranges, how they rated their own glucose level control and whether they would follow up with their doctor. They also added other tests to assess the number and health literacy of the participants.

The researchers found that 77 percent of those considered to have higher health literacy and number skills were able to determine tests scores that were outside of the standard range, but only 38 percent of those with lower number and health literacy scores were able to determine tests scores that were outside the reference range.

They concluded that poor health literacy and math skills are barriers to patients being able to understand lab test results the way in some electronic health record formats and that people with poorer skills would be less likely to follow up with their doctor.

Brian Zikmund-Fisher, associate professor of health behavior and health education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and the lead author of the study said, "if we can design ways of presenting test results that make them intuitively meaningful, even for people with low numeracy and/or literacy skills, such data can help patients take active roles in managing their health care."

The study was published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

This article first appeared on California Health Report and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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Moonbeam of Fife
About this Yacht
The story of the Moonbeams began in 1858 with Moonbeam I & II. In 1902 Charles Plumtree Johnson, an eminent London lawyer, decided to go back to William Fife for the creation of his 3rd yacht. Taking into account his revised sailing plans, he wanted to race under the new RORC rule which included sailing vessels with fitted-out interiors. Moonbeam III (now Moonbeam of Fife) was launched as a yawl in 1903, hull n° 491 to leave the Fife yard.
The result was a magnificent yacht which has now become one of the most successful and recognised classics in the world. Her streamlined shape, handy size and large sail area make for an extremely beautiful, comfortable and fast vessel.
MOONBEAM, MORE THAN A CENTURY OF HISTORY
• 1903 - The birth of Moonbeam III N°491 with Charles Plumtree Johnson.
• 1920 - The yacht is sold on to Mr Fernard Maroni a Parisian businessman who owns two other boats Thaïs (ex Bamba) and Nixie. She is then re-named Eblis. After just a season of regattas in Brest, she leaves Brittany for the Mediterranean and Cannes becomes her home port. The yacht continues to take part in numerous regattas and wins the Mediterranean Cruising Race in 1928.
• 1928 - Eblis participates in cruiser racer events in the Mediterranean and wins on
several occasions.
• 1930 - At the beginning of the 1930's, Mr Fernand Maroni sells Eblis to Mr Raymond
Philippe. The yacht stays in Cannes.
• 1947 - The yacht is then sold to Mr Félix Amiot, the famous aeroplane constructor.
She then goes to the Cotentin region (North West of France, near Cherbourg) where she lies on the hard for 24 years in CMN, the owner's ship yard.
• 1971 - Repurchased and restored by Mrs Anthony, the yacht is based in the
Aegean Sea, where she is put out for charter in 1974.
• 1979 - Doctor Poncia becomes the yacht's new owner. Moonbeam is taken by
cargo ship to England where she will spend almost 10 years being restored at the Camper and Nicholson shipyard. It is now recognised that this authentic restoration is the 1st of the new approach to preserving the history of yachting.
• 1988 - From now on Moonbeam becomes a gaff cutter. The helm is now fitted with a wheel and she is equipped with winches and electronic navigational equipment. Down below there is little change to the beautiful mahogany interior.
• 1989 - Moonbeam is sold at auction by Sotheby's. She passes through the hands of several owners of different nationalities, celebrating her 100th birthday in grand style in 2003 on the island of Porquerolles.
• 2005/6 - Moonbeam returns to the Southampton yard famous for its work on Fife yachts, Fairlie Restorations, and has a lot of good work done. This included, but not limited to: New Deck; stem; some frames, planks and floors; electrical and plumbing work; s/s Tanks; Perkins engine; Covering board; Bulwarks; All cabin soles; galley; all varnish work; Boom, Gaff etc., all replaced new by their superior craftsmen.
• 2016 - Moonbeam of Fife is again purchased at auction by the present custodian, and a new and happy chapter in her long and eventful history begins. She participates in many regattas over the years with the following results:
• 2016 - 3rd
• 2017 - 2nd
• 2016 - 1st
• 2018 - 11th
Port Grimaud, France
Moonbeam of Fife is a 30 metre gaff cutter from 1903. She is the 3rd in a series of 4 Moonbeams built for the eminent London lawyer Charles Plumtree Johnson. She has spent many years in Mediterranean waters both cruising and racing and is kept to the highest standards. A beautiful Fife design she boasts grace and elegance both for those on board and for those viewing from afar.
https://www.edmiston.com/yacht-brokerage/yachts/moonbeam-of-fife-iii
William Fife III
William Fife & Son, Fairlie
Type of Rig
Sail Type
Keel Type
30.0 metres
Length on Waterline
4.72 metres
Sail Area
344 sq.m
Hull -Steel floors, oak frames & Pitch pine planking
Superstructures - Teak
Carvel planked hull and teak decks
Contact the Owner/Agent
Johanna Jacoba
Designer: --- Other ----
Rig: Schooner
Length: 27 m
Marigan
Designer: Charles Livingstone
Rig: Cutter
Designer: Alfred Mylne
Rig: Ketch
Berths: 6
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Q: Decomposing an orthogonal matrix as a rotation and reflection in $\mathbb R^4$ Suppose that $X\in O(4)$ and that $\det(X)=-1$. Let $F$ denote the reflection map $(w,x,y,z)\mapsto (w,x,y,-z)$.
I've read that we can write $X=Y\circ F$ for some $Y\in SO(4)$.
However, I can't see why exactly. Could someone please explain?

A: $F\circ F=I$, the identity, so $Y=X\circ F$ iff $X=Y\circ F$.
But $\det(X)=\det(Y\circ F)=\det(Y)\det(F)=(-1)(-1)=1$, so $X\in SO(4)$.

A: More generally, if $G$ is a group, $S$ a subgroup of index$~2$, then $S$ is always a normal subgroup, with two cosets (left and right) $C_0=S$ and $C_1=G\setminus S$. If one picks any $r\in C_1$, then  (left or right) multiplication by $r$ will interchange the cosets $C_0$ and $C_1$ (this is just saying that the quotient $G/S$, having just two elements, necessarily is a cyclic group of order$~2$). Multiplication by a fixed element always being a bijection, this means that every $x\in C_1$ equals $y\cdot r$ for a unique $y$, with $y\in C_0=S$.
Apply this with $G=O(4)$, $S=SO(4)$, and $r=F$ (the hypothesis $\det(X)=-1$ gives you $X\in C_1$).


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The Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association ("BESLA"), a nationally recognized leader in legal education and professional development for diverse lawyers and professionals in the entertainment, sports and related industries, held its 35th Annual Conference from October 21 – 15, 2015 in Montego Bay, Jamaica. NBCUniversal was honored at the event, receiving the 2015 BESLA Corporate Diversity Award for its efforts to be an industry leader in recruiting, retaining and developing diverse employees and executives. Tamara Woolfork accepted the award on behalf of NBCUniversal. The video tribute in NBCUniversal's honor focused on its diversity and inclusion efforts and made it clear that NBCUniversal employees work for one of the most diverse companies in the entertainment industry.
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In July 2019, PSM Makassar announced their commitment to take part in the inaugural season of Liga 1 Putri, a first professional women's football competition in Indonesia and formed 25 players including 3 players taken from Palembang, Indonesia. The player was selected by trial match by selection campaign 3 days in a row at Telkom Pettarani football field in Makassar.

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Green Zone: good flick, if you take it for what it is
Just in case I haven't provoked my anti-war friends on the blog enough lately…
I saw"Green Zone" over the weekend, and it was a corking good thriller. Just as long as you don't take the premise seriously.
No, wait — I need to refine that: As long as you don't take too seriously the one spectacular conceit that does the most to drive the action, which is this… There's this Iraqi general who is sort of the movie's Great White Whale, only there's no one Ahab — EVERY character is frantically pursuing him, with each character having a different motive for doing so. Matt Damon's character wants him because he thinks he knows where the WMD are, and it's his (Damon's) job to find them (he plays a chief warrant officer named Miller). An idealistic one-legged Iraqi (his other leg is in Iran) wants to find him because of what the general and his ilk have done to his country. A CIA officer wants to find him because he believes the Army is the key to preventing the insurgency. A Wall Street Journal reporter wants to find him because he is the mysterious source Magellan that a Pentagon official has told her has provided intel on where the WMD are — reports that she has passed on uncritically in the paper. The Pentagon official, played by Greg Kinnear, want to find him and kill him before he tells everybody the truth.
What truth? This "truth" (SPOILER ALERT!): We eventually learn that before the war, Poundstone (Kinnear's character) had secretly met the general in Jordan, where the general told him there WERE no WMD. And Poundstone returned to Washington and told everyone that the general had told him the exact opposite, even telling him where to find the weapons. So we invade Iraq, and Miller's unit risks their lives going to these supposed WMD sites and coming up empty.
This makes Poundstone the Great White Whale of all those antiwar folks who believe "Bush lied" — the perfect representation of the supposed great misrepresentation. He, Poundstone, KNEW the truth and deliberately lied. No mere wishful thinking. No making a mistake (the mistake made by pretty much the whole world — the debate about the invasion wasn't over whether the WMD existed, but about the best way to get them out of Saddam's hands). A big, fat, montrous lie.
Which, of course, didn't happen. If something like that had happened, someone of the millions of people who would love to find out such a thing and tell the world — from the antiwar Democrats who now control our government and have access to all its secrets, to Julian Assange, to the director of this movie — would have let us know by now.
So… the bad news is that people will see Green Zone and think that such a thing happened. And that's bad even if you are deeply opposed to the war and want to avoid such conflicts in the future, because it keeps you from confronting whatever REALLY happened and realistically assessing how to keep it from happening again. Politically attractive fantasies are just dangerous all around — as the antiwar folks would no doubt say about the delusion that there were WMD.
The good news, though, is that it's a great action flick. And the other questions the movie raises — including some serious ones that deserve answers — are intelligently, provocatively and even realistically portrayed. Where the movie falls down is wherever it touches upon the Poundstone character. And I mean this in an artistic, esthetic sense as well as political: Kinnear's character is cartoonish, the portayal more suited to low farce than to serious drama. When he's on screen, the quality drops. NO ONE would believe this guy; if he told you your mother loved you, you'd say "What's his angle?" He's just ridiculous. He might as well be wearing a black cape, stovepipe hat and Snidely Whiplash mustache.
Everybody else is credible; everybody else feels real. While comparisons to the Bourne movies are inevitable (with Damon and the director of the second and third films in that trilogy on board), this film is far more believable, in that there are no superheroes like Bourne in it. (The flaw that it shares with those films is the aforementioned fantasy plotline about a vicious government conspiracy — a great plot device, as long as you don't start thinking stuff like that really happens.) In fact, the closest thing to Jason Bourne is the Special Forces guy who promptly beats the stuffing out of Damon's character when he fails to give him what he's after. And that violence is realistic, not balletic.
Other things that are good, and deserve more explication, are such things as the issue of whether we should have worked with the Iraqi army rather than banishing it into insurgency. If the director wanted a political point, that would have been an excellent one to stick with.
Perhaps the most provocative questions raised surround the frantically earnest one-legged Iraqi, "Freddy." He tries to approach harried soldiers to give them critical information, and gets knocked around for his trouble. He is forced into suicidally dangerous (for a guy who has to live there) situations in order to help the Americans. In the end, (MAJOR SPOILER ALERT) he raises the film's most provocative question when he takes matters into his own hands with deadly force. Damon's character, persuaded by the CIA that the general must be found so we can work with him to prevent the insurgency (I REALLY MEAN IT — MAJOR SPOILER ALERT!), manages to get to him before the Special Forces guys who have been sent to kill him. You think Damon has won the day. Then out of nowhere comes Freddy with a pistol and blows the general away. Freddy then says to Damon — and I don't have it in front of me, so this might not be verbatim — "YOU don't get to decide what happens here."
If you want a good antiwar message, one you can chew over productively, that would be it. But the whole Poundstone thing is offensively ridiculous. You want to talk about a Big Lie, suggesting that anything that clearly duplicitous happened qualifies.
That's particularly insidious since we are told this story is based in nonfiction. Oh, and if you don't want to believe me, believe Richard "Monty" Gonzales, upon whom Damon's character Miller was based, and who acted as technical adviser on the film:
"Green Zone" contains several messages, an unavoidable consequence of making a film of this genre. Critical blunders preceding the invasion, chiefly the bad intelligence that led us to war, made certain that no quick victory would be achieved and certainly undermined U.S. credibility around the world. Later, the U.S. directed a de-Bathification policy which disenfranchised a massive section of the population and helped fuel an insurgency. Consequently, any hope of victory in Iraq was made vastly more complicated and costly — as the last 7 years have proven. I believe this is true.
However, "Green Zone" also suggests that we were lied into the war in Iraq; a subtext that is unfortunately being twisted by some in order to give credence to a bumper sticker I deplore, the mantra which has become the left's version of the war — which is well on its way to becoming the Iraq conflict's official history — "They lied; people died." As intriguing as that idea may be, it's simply not true.
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2 thoughts on "Green Zone: good flick, if you take it for what it is"
Phillip December 8, 2010 at 8:13 pm
I heartily recommend "Restrepo" if it's available yet on netflix…I think it's pretty powerful and illuminating on a lot of levels, and can probably be appreciated that way whether one thinks we are doing basically the right thing in Afghanistan, or whether one has a more skeptical view on our involvement there.
Nick Nielsen December 8, 2010 at 9:20 pm
I can see it now. Green Zone becomes to the Iraq war what JFK has become to the Kennedy assassination: the thing that "everybody knows"…
It scares me.


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Pictured above are several cars parked up in Old Maple. Drivers coming out of Wootton Drive risk a collision with cars turning left into Old Maple as they are forced to drive on the other side of the road.
Okay, so parking has become a problem everywhere. I don't mean everywhere in Grovehill. I mean everywhere nationally. Various councils including DBC, have had verge-hardening schemes for some years. While such schemes have helped in some areas, it's very difficult to keep up. Children live at home with parents a lot longer now-a-days, due to higher property prices. We're all expected to travel to work and quite honestly, estates that were designed fifty or sixty years ago, simply can't cope with the increased demand for parking. Garages that were built in the sixties and seventies weren't designed for modern cars and are often just too small.
BUT... does this mean that we drivers have no option other than to be stupid, selfish and inconsiderate?!?!? I'd like to think not.
There have been reports of cars being parked across driveways preventing the car on the driveway from exiting. We've even heard of an ambulance being seriously delayed in attending an emergency due to inconsiderate parking. It's not at all uncommon to find cars and vans parked in the central driveway of Henry Wells Square forcing others to drive around them, despite the fact that there may be many vacant parking spaces. What the hell?!?!?
Yes, it's difficult. Yes, we'd all like to park outside (or as close to) our home, as possible. But things have changed and we all need to be aware of the consequences of mindless parking.
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