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Western Water Excerpt May 1, 2003 Gary PitzerRita Schmidt Sudman
Confronting a Legacy of Contamination: Perchlorate
May/Jun 2003
There's danger lurking underground. The threat cannot be seen, heard or felt immediately, but there it resides – in shallow pockets of groundwater and deep, cold subterranean aquifers situated hundreds of feet below the surface. The danger manifests itself through the most vital human activity next to breathing, the consumption of water. Experts know there is no such thing as pure water. Microscopic bits of a host of elements that surround us are present in the water we drink. They exist at levels that are harmless, and in fact some of the constituents found in tap water are beneficial to human health.
But large pockets of groundwater today are tainted by an array of chemicals, some manmade, some naturally occurring, that threaten the integrity of supplies and the ability of agencies to provide safe, reliable service. In some cases, the chemicals are the remnants of long-dormant industrial and military operations conducted during a time of ignorance or indifference to the environmental impacts of careless handling and disposal. Other chemicals, such as the notorious methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), are the unintended result of environmental policy enacted without enough cross-media analysis.
The wave of contaminants bear scientific-sounding names such as nitrate and chromium, or arranged into alphabet soup acronyms such as the aforementioned MTBE, TCE or PCE. Often, the sheer volume of contamination caused by decades of seepage presents regulators and responsible parties with a gargantuan task of cleanup and restoration. The amount of money spent nationwide for such an effort amounts to billions of dollars. Water sources have been cleaned to remarkable levels. Restoring eroded public confidence, however, has not always been so easy. Consumers hesitant about the quality of the water flowing from the kitchen faucet have turned to bottled water in growing numbers.
Taking its place as the contaminant du jour is perchlorate, a chemical most associated with solid rocket fuel that has been appearing with alarming frequency in sites nationwide. Like MTBE, perchlorate moves rapidly through water and soil and consequently is the fastest-growing contaminant in California's groundwater. Thanks to improved detection technology, decades of groundwater pollution are slowly being uncovered as underground plumes have shut down or threatened to shut down dozens of wells up and down California. Meanwhile, across the border in Nevada, an underground swell of perchlorate slowly percolates into Lake Mead and the Colorado River, threatening the supply for millions of people dependent on the river for drinking water.
"It's turned into much more than any of us expected," said Kevin Mayer, Superfund project manager with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region IX in San Francisco. "It's gone from a fairly localized release of a pretty unusual and specialized chemical to finding it in … many public water systems."
Perchlorate's presence in the environment has been known about for decades, but it was only fairly recently that technological develop- ments enabled its discovery in groundwater at the parts-per-billion (ppb) level. Such infinitesimal measurements are nearly incomprehensible given that one ppb is equivalent to a grain of sand in an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
Among the many chemicals that contaminate groundwater, perchlorate is particularly vexing because of its persistence and high solubility. Experts say that were it not for the threat posed to human health and the environment, perchlorate would be a good tool to track the movement of subsurface water.
"Perchlorate would be an ideal tracer if it didn't have the toxicity," Mayer said. "It stays in a solution without being attracted to soil or organic elements and moves as rapidly as water itself."
The discovery of perchlorate in groundwater has moved beyond areas that were hubs of rocket engine production during the era of the Cold War and the early years of space exploration. Subsequent investigation has revealed contamination in and around facilities tied to the production of fireworks and even the charges used to deploy airbags in motor vehicles.
"What's happened in the last two and a half years is that we now know that it's not just a question of localized drinking water contamination," said Bill Walker, West Coast vice president of Environmental Working Group (EWG). "We're not at the end of the curve in discovering where the end of the problem is."
Some say perchlorate's presence has been overshadowed by MTBE, which became such a headache because of its propensity to contaminate groundwater. Authorized by the state as a way to ensure cleanerburning gasoline, the chemical was eventually ordered out of California gasoline through an executive order by Gov. Gray Davis. Larry Ladd, a medical geographer involved with perchlorate at the Aerojet facility in Rancho Cordova, said he's been frustrated by the relative lack of attention given to the rocket fuel oxidizer.
"Perchlorate and MTBE started out at the same time, but perchlorate keeps getting put on the back burner," he said. "MTBE isn't very much of a health threat because people can taste it in the water at 5 ppb."
Yet recent headlines suggest perchlorate is getting more attention. In southern California, home to the aerospace industry, regulators, local officials and residents are grappling with plumes near Simi Valley, in San Gabriel Valley and in the Inland Empire region. The problem has spurred a sometimes contentious process of identifying responsible parties and negotiating the terms by which cleanup will proceed.
"It's a horrendously complicated issue in terms of the origin of contamination and who's responsible," said Mic Stewart, water quality section manager for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD).
Meanwhile, in the northern California communities of Morgan Hill and San Martin, perchlorate contamination traced to a highway safety flare manufacturing plant has shut down several drinking water wells and frayed the nerves of outlying residents dependent on private wells. The Santa Clara Valley Water District has responded with free well testing and bottled water while efforts are made to confirm the extent of the plume.
As more reports of perchlorate in drinking water appear, scientists continue to study the chemical's impact on the human body, including sensitive subpopulations – people for which ingestion poses unique health problems. Perchlorate is presently classified as an unregulated contaminant for which monitoring is required. Over time, estimates of an acceptable level in drinking water have steadily descended from 18 ppb in 2000 to the few parts per billion that could be settled upon by EPA and state health departments.
Perchlorate disrupts the proper function of the thyroid gland by blocking iodide uptake. The thyroid gland plays a sort of traffic cop role in the human body, regulating the release of hormones for growth, development and metabolism. Ironically, doctors once prescribed perchlorate to treat hyperthyroidism. While an iodidedeficient thyroid gland in adults can cause relatively moderate impacts such as fatigue, depression, weight gain and hair loss, it is perchlorate's effect on developing fetuses and children that has prompted the most concern among public health officials and advocacy groups such as EWG. The organization suggests the drinking water standard be set at 1 ppb.
"There are understandable disagreements on how to define a safe dosage because a lot of this involves estimates and uncertainties," Mayer said.
Part of the disagreement comes from the Department of Defense, which believes EPA has overestimated the risk posed by perchlorate while overlooking some human health data.
The final drinking water standard for perchlorate set by the state of California will be based on protective health criteria as well as technological and economical feasibility. Drinking water providers are keenly focused on the costs associated with the limits on perchlorate, given the expense of removing perchlorate from water. Agency officials already have encountered those ramifications in areas where wells taken out of service seriously hamper water delivery.
"The reliability of the local water supply is in jeopardy [and] without immediate action … we face the prospect of a clear and present public safety crisis this summer," said Michael Whitehead, a member of the Chino Basin Watermaster Authority, at a Senate select committee hearing in January.
Whitehead received a sympathetic response by lawmakers anxious to deal with the problem, including State Sen. Nell Soto, D-Pomona, who called the wholesale contamination of aquifers the "single greatest threat to our economic stability." State Sen. Mike Machado, D-Linden, described perchlorate as "a public health issue, an environmental issue and ultimately, a quality of life issue."
This issue of Western Water examines the problem of perchlorate contamination and its ramifications on all facets of water delivery, from the extensive cleanup costs to the search for alternative water supplies. In addition to discussing the threat posed by high levels of perchlorate in drinking water, the article presents examples of areas hard hit by contamination and analyzes the potential impacts of forthcoming drinking water standards for perchlorate.
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"State of Denial" is the name of a special section recently published by the local Sacramento newspaper. The writer discusses how California's environmental legacy of conserving resources at home is setting us on a collision course with its habit of consuming resources from abroad in record quantities. And often, he notes, the losers are impoverished citizens and communities - and their own spectacular ecosystems – in the remotest parts of the globe where the quest for money to survive is often more important than preserving the resources.
The author, Sacramento Bee reporter Tom Knudson, is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and he profiles several California lifestyles in terms of ecological footprints – the measure of our impact on the world and the area required to produce the resources consumed and absorb the wastes generated by each person. (You can determine your own ecological footprint at: http://www.myfootprint.org.) The national average is 24 acres but most Westerners (and Californians) rate a higher number. My footprint is about 30. According to this think tank, we would need about 7 planets if everyone on earth lived as me and my family. (We commute to work, mostly by car; we travel by air at least a couple of times a month and have a rich and diverse diet.)
The idea of "footprints" relates to this issue of Western Water. Our use of chemicals created in World War II and used into the Space Age has left a heavy footprint on our nation. In the West, large pockets of groundwater are tainted by a wide array of chemicals, many manmade, that threaten the integrity of local water supplies and the ability of agencies to provide communities with safe, reliable water service. In this issue, Writer Gary Pitzer takes a look at the footprint one particular chemical - perchlorate – has made in California and Nevada. As Gary explains in this article, much of the perchlorate contamination deals from past disposal practices in which wastewater containing perchlorate was simply allowed to drain directly into the ground.
"Prevention, prevention, prevention" is the common mantra chanted by most groundwater experts today – especially in light of the expensive and extensive efforts underway to treat the contamination caused, at many places, by past practices. The importance of this fact is that we need to learn from past mistakes. That's where the Water Education Foundation can help. Our low-cost, easily understood materials help everyone, from K-12 students to the newspaper reporter to water district customers, understand what groundwater is, how it is connected to the surface of the land (and to surface water) and how to protect it from future contamination. See page 15 for a partial list of our groundwater and water quality materials, which include videos, guides, maps, school programs, and much, much more - including an Oct. 15-17 Southern California Groundwater Tour.
Groundwater is a hidden resource, and it is important to help the public understand that underneath the ecological footprint is a source of water that supplies, statewide, some 30 percent of our annual water with some communities 100 percent reliant upon this underground water. It is vital that we use this resource wisely, and strive to protect it from pollution.
– Rita Schmidt Sudman
Judge OKs Extra Trinity Flows to Ease Burden on Lower Klamath River
Seeking to avoid the conditions that may have contributed to the deaths of thousands of salmon in the Lower Klamath River last summer, a federal judge has ordered that extra water be released into the Trinity River to help boost Lower Klamath flows. The rivers meet about 40 miles upstream from the Pacific Ocean in prime spawning habitat.
The decision was made after U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service biologists cautioned that a similar disaster could be in the making because of continued drought in the Klamath Basin.
U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger April 7 ruled that 453,000 acre-feet of water be released from the Trinity and Lewiston dams to protect salmon migrating upstream. In addition, 50,000 acre-feet of water could be available, if necessary. An estimated 33,000 salmon died on the Lower Klamath last summer. Opinions are mixed as to why the die-off occurred, with the California Department of Fish and Game citing insufficient flows.
Meanwhile, farmers served by the Klamath Project will receive near-normal water supplies this year, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau) announced. The region is again feeling the impact of a drier-than-normal winter, meaning that 299,000 acre-feet of water will be available, about 7 percent less than the 323,000 acre-feet delivered in past dry years.
In issuing its annual Klamath Project Operations Plan, the Bureau classified the water year as "dry." Buttressing the plan is a temporary water bank in which willing farmers are paid to fallow fields in order to limit diversions. "The combination of the water bank, efficient water management and some help from Mother Nature will all be needed to get us through this hole," said Dan Keppen, executive director of the Klamath Water Users Association.
Critics of the region's water management say the problem of overallocation has yet to be properly addressed. "What is most disappointing is that in spite of years now of ongoing federal water crises throughout the basin, so little has changed," said Glen Spain with the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA). "Federal mismanagement put both farmers and fishermen in this mess by promising too many irrigators water that was never really there."
PCFFA is the lead plaintiff in a federal case that alleges the Bureau is violating the Endangered Species Act by not releasing enough water from Iron Gate Dam on the Upper Klamath. A hearing before Wanger was scheduled for April 29.
Citing the water woes of the Klamath, a conservation group named the river as the second most endangered in the country. "The Klamath River and its fisheries are the real victims when too much irrigation demand chases little water," said Rebecca Wodder, president of American Rivers, which recently issued its annual list of the top 10 endangered rivers. "These chronic water shortages in the river are compounded by the hydropower dams that block many miles of salmon spawning habitat."
U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., and Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., have introduced the Klamath River Basin Restoration & Emergency Assistance Act, which would provide $200 million for water conservation and economic assistance for communities affected by last year's fish kill.
– Gary Pitzer
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New Solar Powered Electric Speed Boat From Blue Innovations Group
(DailyDig.com) – Blue Innovations Group (BIG), created by former Tesla CEO John Vo, will unveil a solar-powered boat at CES 2023. In a future where electric vehicles will dominate and governments will soon cease emissions-producing means of travel, the boat uses solar panels to create and consume clean energy instead of traditional fuels.
Vo explained why electric boats are ready to revolutionize boating. "Ten years ago, starting an electric car company made sense. But now it is established. But electric boats on the other hand are a no-brainer. I want to bring a revolution to the industry," Vo said.
Vo explained that BIG will use EV-like materials and production procedures, unlike other electric boats. Mass producing the R30, an electric speed boat, is the target. The business wants to make the boat accessible instead of appealing to an elite market. However, the R30's pricing will initially make it less desirable than its cheaper non-electric competitors. It will cost US$300,000, like other high-end electric boats, and it's closer to gas-powered luxury boat prices. Vo anticipates mass manufacturing will eventually lower costs, even if $300K matches today's market.
The R30's aluminum frame houses lithium iron phosphate batteries, according to Electrek. The shell and batteries are designed to last longer and make mass manufacture possible. BIG's website states the R30 is 30 feet long, has a dual-motor drivetrain with 800 horsepower and a peak speed of 45 mph, can seat 12 people, and has an eight-hour runtime.
Vo said the R30 features a 221-kilowatt-hour battery pack with solar panels that can generate 2.7 kilowatts of solar energy. The boat can be manually charged, but if the owner doesn't use it daily, the R30 may operate on solar alone.
This isn't the first electric boat to create waves. X Shore, a Swedish business, released the Eelex 8000 in 2021 and the X Shore 1 this year which costs $139,000. The Eelex 8000 costs $329,000, more than the BIG R30. However, Blue Innovations Group expects mass-production reductions to lower the cost of an all-electric watercraft. Delivery is planned in 2024's second quarter.
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John was born about 1845, the son of tailor Donald MacDonald and Joan MacCrimmon of Pabbay. During the 1850s his parents moved to a newly built home at Ardmaree on the island of Berneray.
John entered the army as a volunteer based at Inverness, later working as a fisherman and stone mason. The house at Ardmaree passed to him following his parents' death. His son Donald was born in 1890. John married Mary MacInnes in Glasgow in 1896, with whom he was to have a daughter, Christy Mary.
A story about John is recounted on page 9 of The Place Names of Berneray:
There is a story of one John MacDonald, a native of Pabbay whose family had moved to Berneray from that island when John was a young boy. Apparently John had been endeavouring to seaweed a piece of ground ... to grow potatoes but everywhere he went with the heavy creel of seaweed on his back, he was told,
"You cannot use that part, it belongs to Donald the Smith."
Eventually John threw the loaded creel on the ground in disgust and said to them in Gaelic, "The earth belongs unto the Lord and all that it contains, except the Red Knoll which belongs to Donald the Smith."
There is a further description of him on page 60 of Sea-Names, relating to the rock with his name, Bodha Iain Dòmhnullaich, which had previously been named Sgeir Mhic Asgaill:
MacDonald had a fishing smack as well as being an excellent stone-mason. During the fishing season he sailed as far as Wick. As his fishing smack was quite large, on his way home from the east coast he used to jettison his stone ballast at MacAskill Rock in order to gain entry to the shallow harbour at Borve [Pol an Oir]. … Iain was a big man in every way, and his nose was equal to his other dimensions, so much so that he invariably joked about it. When people passed him on the roadway, he used to push his nose to one side to allow them to pass. The following is a little ditty he used to sing about his nose:
'S i 'n t-sròn mhòr a nàirich mi,
A nàirich mi, a nàirich mi,
A h-uile ait san robh mi riamh,
Bhiodh i as an spàin agam,
An spàin agam, an spàin agam,
Mu'n tàrainn a cur na mo bhial.
From the book Coille an Fhàsaich:
John MacDonald didn't have a croft but there was a big high wall all the way round his house, and I remember him digging it over with a spade when he as an old man. Though he was such a good mason, he was also a master mariner, and owned a big powerful fishing-boat...
John's masonry skills were in demand. He helped construct the house at 3 Borve and built the Free Church Manse with the help of free local labour.
Title: John MacDonald
Gaelic Name: Iain Dhòmhnaill Iain
Occupation: Stonemason; Soldier; Fisherman
Isle of Pabbay, Sound of Harris
Joan MacCrimmon
Sea-Names of Berneray
Coille an Fhasaich
3 Borve, Berneray
Free Church Manse, Backhill
Sgeir Mhic Asgaill or Bodha Iain...


So guys what is your workflow doing volume preservation? I mean knees, elbow and most important clavicle, shoulderand buttocks.
Like most of you I use smart joint which push when the arm is bended (The smart joints are controlled by a drivenKey).
The cons of using corrective blenshape is when you have a cartoony character and the animators are tearing apart the rig (scaling + translate + rotate on most of the controls) Then you can't drive your blendshapes even with RBF.
Judd Simantov used to have a really good video on his Game Character Academy website which demonstrated how to setup smart joints, unfortunately the website no longer exists except for an archived version from 2014 which doesn't contain the video, the video was called "Introduction to Rigging: Arm Deformations Part 3", maybe you could contact him and ask the to see it.
Great, I wouldn't have thought about that. I always rely on corrective blendshape to do that, which is a pain.
Haven't played with blended weight yet. But it seems I only need to paint DQ only on cumbersome areas.
My version of 'smart' joints have some initial offset from the child's pivot and has parameters to weight the rotation from 0 to 1 (from parent to child) on each axis. So with this offset it can be mirrored and with these parameters it can be tweaked after skinning. On average cases it works well for non-hero characters.
Labelling joints can also give a clue on mirroring, copying.
Thanks guys! I'm using only DQ. But some times, if character type is cartoony and animator is forcing the pose it breaks the volume. Corrective shapes are time consuming. Can you give me some clue or doc's links about "smart joints" rotation?
Corrective sculpts are difficult to beat because they're easy to create and very art directable, the only thing you have to figure out is how to active them, it's fine to activate an elbow or knee corrective with a rotation axis if you choose the a good rotation order but areas like the shoulder and hips are harder. In newer versions of Maya you have the Pose Editor, I don't know what type of interpolation it uses but radial basis functions (RBF) are a popular type of interpolation in the community but they can be tricky to understand at first. Obviously if your working in a game engine then you'll want to primarily use joints but you can still use RBF interpolation to drive them.
Yeah, I'd say similar to Zolla, but I never add inbetween joints with 50% rotations, just because I am not fond of the workflow when painting and mirroring the skin weights with them.
In fast paced productions I rely entirely on DQ and, to be honest, it does seem to give me about 90% of the preservation I need (of course, it does occasionally cause other issues). If I have the time, I'd put in the extra 10% as blendshapes.
Im too curious to see any clever solutions, though!
Hi Cyberika! Most of the times I'm using angle driven "smart joints", rotating half way with the child joint and pushes out if it bends. Sometimes I just paint on some weighted dual quaternion of the skin deformer. Pose based blendshapes are the lasts I would use. Not so fast in action but gives nice result if you can sculpt with correct anatomy. Anyone has another solution?


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Q: Where is Ogden Nash's "piece of cake"? Prompted by the answers to my EL&U question, Pinpointing its origins is not a "piece of cake", I endeavoured to find out who was right. Did the idiom begin life in the US, in a poem written by Ogden Nash, or was it coined by the British RAF around 1938-1940?
For over two hours I tried to find the precise poem where Ogden Nash allegedly wrote the line

Her picture's in the papers now,
  And life's a piece of cake

It should be in his 1935 book, The Primrose Path, the OED and Phrase Finder claim it is the first time the idiom, a piece of cake, appeared in print.
Well, you would think it would be easy as pie to unearth the doggerel in its entirety. We are, after all, on the Internet but you would be sorely mistaken. Try as I did, I did not find the line that preceded or followed the cited verse. I Googled, scoured the net, and followed promising leads all of which lead to nothing.
I tried via Internet Archive but no preview is available, I have since registered and I am currently on their waiting list

I used Google Books to search the exact phrase, but that too failed miserably. Here are the screenshots that show my failed attempts:

Entering "cake" in the search box pulls up two results, both of which are unrelated to the idiom "a piece of cake".

To give users an idea of Ogden's poetry, here is the only verse I found online that was published in The Primrose Path, it is about a pig.

Sigmund Freud
Who's afreud of the big bad dream?
  Things are never what they seem;
  Daddy's bowler, Auntie's thimbles,
  Actually are shocking symbols.
  Still, I think, a pig's a pig –
  Ah, there, symbol-minded Sig!

Source: http://www.porkopolis.org/pig_poet/ogden-nash/
I searched for "pig" in the Google Books search box, and a snippet appeared, although it says "Daddy's Derby, Auntie's thimbles." Yet, I cannot find the verse or the title of the prose that proves Nash first used the idiom, a piece of cake, and not the RAF. It is baffling that Ogden's poem, used as supporting evidence by innumerable sources, is unfindable.
Simple Question

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*Has anyone got the book? Can anyone find the light verse where Nash wrote  "piece of cake"?

A: Ogden Nash was a twentieth-century American poet, who authored over 500 poems. One of his books of poems was The Primrose Path,
The OED seems to be the source of the original citation of Nash's The Primrose Path as the earliest identified figurative use in print of "piece of cake". The online entry for piece1 includes, under Phrases, this entry and attestation:

piece of cake n. colloq. something easy or pleasant.
  1936   O. NASH Primrose Path 172  Her picture's in the papers now, And life's a piece of cake.

The citation details given are

Ogden Nash · The primrose path · 1936.
  London

According to WorldCat (an online catalog of libraries around the world), there were at least two editions, one published in 1935 in New York by Simon & Schuster and the other in 1936 in London. They seem to be rather different; the US edition is 354 pages of apparently all original works, while the UK edition is listed as a slim 218 pages and apparently contains "A selection from 'The primrose path' & 'Happy days': also a few other verses ..." (although the WorldCat entry for that version lists 354 pages).
These differences may explain why, of the twelve words and phrases that the OED attributes to Primrose Path, I was only able to locate six in the 1935 book, not including "piece of cake".2 Of these, only one was on the page listed; the rest were randomly redistributed. On page 171, which is the cited page for the "piece of cake" quotation, there is a poem "The Strange Case of Professor Primrose" about an absentminded professor who accidentally becomes a Pullman Porter.
Interestingly, where the OED has "tank" (of beer) the version I have has "mug". This is similar to the "derby"/"bowler" difference raised in the original question. If Nash's British editors made a practice of suggesting (or unilaterally making) changes to the text, perhaps to make it more accessible to British readers, that could explain how an allegedly British phrase turned up in a book of poems by an American author.3

1 "piece, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, January 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/143547. Definition P.15. Unfortunately, the OED is a subscription service; many people, including most UK residents, can access the OED online through their local or institutional library. Check with your librarian for more information.
2 Clicking on the link to "find more citations from Primrose Path" leads to quotations for the following twelve words and phrases; my findings or lack thereof are in parentheses:

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*Adamless, adj. 1936
...1936 O. Nash Primrose Path 218 Lonely Eve in an Adamless Eden. (Not located)

*beskirted in be-, prefix 1936
...1936 O. Nash Primrose Path 165 And all the trim and not so trim ladies who have been be-trousered begin thank God once more to be be-skirted. (Not located)

*beep, v. 1936
...1936 O. Nash Primrose Path 101 Beep the horn and howl the klaxon For Hebrew, Latin and Anglo-Saxon; Howling klaxon, beeping horn. (YES, "Beat That Light", p. 343)

*divot, n 1935
...1935 O. Nash Primrose Path 1936 105 The wretched golfer, divot-bound. (Not located)

*hellgrammite, n. 1935
...1935 O. Nash Primrose Path 1936 122 This human hellgramite that I think we could all dispense with. (Not located)

*over-inflate, v. 1936
...1936 O. Nash Primrose Path 14 Jonathan over-inflates his lungs. (YES, "Tell It to the Esquimos, or Tell It to the Esquimaux", p. 60)

*phooey, int., adj., and n. 1936
...1936 O. Nash Primrose Path 185 And I'll say, 'Phooie!' or something of the sort. (Not located, but there is a poem entitled "Weather Clear, Track Fast, Horses Phooie!" on p. 303)

*piece of cake in piece, n. 1936
...1936 O. Nash Primrose Path 172 Her picture's in the papers now, And life's a piece of cake. (Not located)

*setting-up exercise in setting, n.1 1935
...1935 O. Nash Primrose Path 37 A few setting-up exercises. (YES, "There Is No Danger Line", p. 37)

*symbol-minded in symbol, n.1 1936
...1936 O. Nash Primrose Path 55 Still, I think, a pig's a pig—Ah, there, symbol-minded Sig! (YES, "Sigmund Freud", p. 141)

*tank, n.8 1936
...1936 O. Nash Primrose Path 46 What can a man..Ask..More than a pipe..And a modest tank of beer? (SORT OF, "Home, 99 44/100 % Sweet Home", p. 117: What can a man, can a family man Ask in the way of cheer More than a pipe, and a reading lamp, And a modest mug of beer?)

*third baseman in third adj. (and adv.) and n. 1936
...1936 O. Nash Primrose Path 38 Long have I wondered why a locomotive engineer should be so much nicer than an ambassador or a novelist or a banker or a third-baseman or a quartermaster or a lancer. (YES, "Ding Dong, Toot Toot, All Aboard!", p. 108)
3 In fact, @Sven Yargs was able to track down a very similar line to the OED's "piece of cake" quotation, but without the phrase in question:

Her picture's in the papers now, And everything is jake.
—Ogden Nash, Many Long Years Ago, 1941 (snippet view)

A: So the book arrived today and I found the sentence, exactly on the page stated in 1006a's answer (page 172). I added some more links to photos at the end of my answer.
I also recommend reading the comments (both on the question and the answers), there are some interesting references to earlier versions of the poem in which "And everything is jake" took the place of "And life's a piece of cake". It remains unclear whether the change was made by the author himself or a (British) editor.
The poem starting at 'Mrs. Sonia Katzenstein':

Links to full-size photos
First page of the full verse
Second page of the full verse
Freud poem
Title page
Publication information
Attribution: Nash, Ogden. The Primrose Path. London: Bodley Head, 1936.

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How to View Old Instagram Stories
The way that Instagram Stories are set up—they only last 24 hours—gives the impression that they disappear after that period, but that's not entirely true. The notion of expiring content was introduced by Snapchat, and it proved to be very popular among social media users.
TechJunkie's Fast Answer
Go to your Archive section in your profile
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Stories don't actually go away, be they will remove from your feed after 24 hours, but they remain archived. Keep reading to learn how to view older Instagram Stories and some options for seeing other people's expired Stories.
Accessing Your Expired Instagram Stories
Stories feature introduces users that have lamented the inability to keep their stories past the standard 24 hour period. In response to this, Instagram added the Highlights and Archive features back in 2017. Highlights allow you to group story elements and post them on your profile as a regular post. They're labeled as Highlights, but they behave the same as a regular Instagram post.
The other feature, Archive, save your stories for future use. It's important to note that your stories get archived for your use only. For other people, they usually behave and will disappear after 24 hours. The archiving feature should be turned on by default, but if it isn't, you can turn it on in your Settings. Find the "Stories" panel in your Privacy Settings and toggle on the option that says "Save to Archive."
To view your older Instagram Stories, navigate to your profile screen, and tap on the hamburger icon in the top-right corner to access the menu. From that menu, you should tap on "Archive" to access your Stories Archive. From there, you can re-share, highlight, and otherwise interact with your Stories. That's the gist of accessing your old Stories, but seeing other people's old Stories is an entirely different matter.
Seeing Other People's Expired Stories
By design, Stories are only accessible for 24 hours. There's really no way to bypass this, as it builds into the app. However, if you're acquainted with the person who created the Story, you could request that they share it with you by saving it from their Archive.
If you' don't know the poster or simply don't have that kind of rapport, you could try a slightly underhanded way to go about it. Everyone loves a compliment, and if you make a note of how impactful their Story is, maybe you can convince them to Highlight it. Remember, Highlights can be interacted with and saved.
In terms of seeing other users' Stories that have already expired, that's about as far as you can go. The feature was never intended as a permanent record. However, if it's a recurring issue for you, there are some options you can use for future Stories.
Saving Other Users' Stories
The good thing about Stories—as opposed to Snaps—is that they last a whole 24 hours. This gives you plenty of time to decide whether you want to save one.
Some websites are designed to save Instagram Stories. The most minimalist and approachable of these is storiesig. All you need to do is enter someone's username, and the website will detect all their active Stories. From there, just select the Story you want to save and click "Download." This isn't the only option, as many other websites can do the same. However, this is the most hassle-free way to do it.
This won't give you access to expired Stories, but if you catch them within the 24 hours since they were published, you're good to go. This website also works on mobile devices, but there is another option for your phone. You can get a screen recorder app and simply record the story. AZ Screen Recorder is a good option for both Android and iOS. All you have to do is start recording, view the Story, and then save the recording.
Again, these methods don't give you access to past Stories, but they do allow you to retain active Stories on your device for future use.
That pretty much sums up the resources you have when it comes to viewing and saving Instagram Stories. Your own stories archive for future use, but the Stories posted by other people are a little trickier. You can't really see them once they expire, but you can save them while they're active. Use a website made for saving IG Stories or a screen recorder on your mobile device.
How often do you feel like saving a Story you see on Instagram? If you could easily view old Stories at will, do you think it would defeat the purpose of Stories altogether? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
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Start your week right by checking your weekly dose of love horoscope.
What a difference a few days can make and in this case, those few days were over the weekend. It was just a day after last Friday's Full Moon in your relationship sector that the Moon not only left, but the Sun left Aries as well, defusing any tension. It was only after both were gone that Venus, the planet of love returned to Aries, ready to wave her magic wand over troubled water. With Mercury, the planet of communication in his first full week in Aries and Mars still on a mission to break through communication barriers, a turnaround is already underway. Yet you don't have two back to back Full Moons, both with the same message and then ignore that message. It is having Venus and Mercury, the planets of love and communication in Aries that allows you to turn that message into something more authentic. And what was that message? It was of a need for balance between your personal and relationship needs.
While you might just catch the tail end of the Moon's influence in your relationship sector on Monday, for the most part, this was a visit that played out over the weekend. The Moon was here when the Sun returned to Taurus over the weekend, with last week's Full Moon narrowly missing falling here. Instead, it is when the Moon comes full circle next month that it will return as a Full Moon. Yet what you have had a glimpse of, in the early days of your birthday month and new solar year, are the lines between your personal and relationship needs. In the meantime Venus, the planet of love's return to a nostalgic part of your chart over the weekend has brought a sense of romantic nostalgia into play. This is always Venus' last stop before returning to Taurus, with a chance first to take your heart on a nostalgic trip down love's memory lane.
After making an impact as a romantically charged Full Moon last Friday, the Moon has since moved on and on Monday makes a different but important return to your relationship sector. This is the Moon's first visit your relationship sector since Jupiter and Ceres both turned retrograde here and the timing is a mixed blessing. The Moon returns just as Mars, moving through Gemini moves into opposition with Ceres in your relationship sector, creating the potential for some relationship tension. The Moon's emotional responses will exacerbate this, but at the same time get everything out in the open. What Mars is fighting for is your own needs, but in the process, this might clash with your relationship needs. Yet this will also exacerbate the support, both from romantic forces and from Venus and Mercury, the planets of love and communication.
While the Moon will leave your romantic in the early hours of the week, it was over the weekend that the real impact was made. Those romantically charged lunar vibes brought a chance to push the reset button and here as Venus, the planet of love left an adventurous part of your chart over the weekend, this enhanced a mix of romance and adventure. In a week where things that a more professional turn, both the Moon and Venus as asking you to hold onto the magic they created over the weekend. In the meantime, the Moon's return to your relationship sector midweek comes with perfect timing. This will put the Moon here and your emotional responses engaged as Pluto turns retrograde here less than 24 hours later. With Saturn in his last full week in retrograde motion here, the Moon will ensure you are emotionally engaged as the doors begin opening to the past and second chances.
The Moon's return to your romantic sector on Monday gets the week off to a romantically charged start, but it is the timing that makes this auspicious. After her return to an adventurous part of your chart over the weekend Venus, the planet of love is already on a mission to bring the spirit of romance and adventure together and has already found she has stunning support. Venus returns here once a year, but it has been 12 years since she last returned to find lucky Jupiter in your romantic sector. This is the Moon's first visit since Jupiter's retrograde turn, with the romantically charged lunar vibes in the early part of the week adding fuel to a new cocktail of romance, adventure and nostalgia. The Moon might move on, but the planets of love and luck will keep this alive. It is over the weekend that the Moon will give your relationships some much needed attention.
Venus, the planet of love's departure from your relationship sector over the weekend and Mercury's four days earlier, has brought you to an important turning point. It was over a month ago that the Sun left, taking the solar spotlight off your relationships. Yet held back by a retrograde phase last year Venus was late to arrive, while Mercury's retrograde phase here last month meant he was able to wait for her to catch up. Together, the planets of love and communication have left you with all you need to keep the communication lines open and to hold onto what you want from your relationships. This gives you more time to embrace the Moon's timely return to your romantic sector midweek. Timely because this means there will be romantically charged lunar vibes in play as Pluto turns retrograde here next less than 24 hours later, opening the doors to the past and second chances.
The Sun's return to your relationship sector over the weekend and Venus' departure from your romantic sector less than 24 hours later, should have seen the focus shift from one to the other. In reality, there has been a strong relationship presence before the Sun returned and the romantic flame is in no danger of going out any time soon. After Venus left your romantic sector over the weekend and Mercury four days earlier, this has left dreamy Neptune on his own and it will stay that way for the rest of the year. This has seen any urgency drop back, while Neptune's more rose coloured influence has increased. Hold onto this, because this is the perfect counterbalance for the Sun's reality checks on the relationship front. Yet even there, the Sun's first alignment with serendipitous Uranus here in eight decades suggests that magic is at work on the relationship front as well.
There is a lot of intensity at the start of the week, but what you have is energy on the romantic and relationship fronts coming alive. At the start of the week, there could be some relationship tension as Mars, moving through your relationship sector moves into opposition with Ceres, in Sagittarius. If there is any tension it will be in the early part of the week, just as the Moon is moving through Sagittarius, which might exacerbate things. Yet as he makes his first visit to your relationship sector in two years, Mars is using this to get to the heart of what you want from your relationships and what they need from you. This is also being balanced and supported by a new romantic surge as Venus, the planet of love spends her first full week in your romantic sector. Venus only returned over the weekend and with Mercury, the planet of communication here as well, they're on hand to support both you and your relationships.
In their own way, both matters of the heart and your relationships get a boost this week. While there will be no planetary activity on the relationship front until June, this week you have the next best thing. Thanks to Venus' return to your communication sector over the weekend and Mercury's four days earlier, you have the planets of love and communication working as a team. While Mercury's focus is on opening the communication lines across the board, as the planet of love Venus is focused on giving your heart and your relationships a voice. This gives you the best of both worlds, with your relationships benefiting from having Venus and Mercury on board, but without putting too much attention on relationship matters themselves. In the meantime, as he reaches the halfway point in a nearly seven week visit to your romantic sector, his first in two years, Mars has reached a point where he is no longer accepting old excuses.
Venus, the planet of love's departure from Pisces over the weekend came with such perfect timing, that it suggests the love gods really are up to something. Venus was late returning to Pisces this year so therefore late to leave. Normally, over a month after your birthday month ended, Venus should be long gone. As the Sun doesn't return to your romantic sector until June and the faster moving planet usually return at the same time, there is usually a gap of several months before you have a chance to turn Venus' romantic desires and expectations into reality. Instead, Juno returned to your romantic sector just 28 minutes after Venus left Pisces yesterday, with zero chance of her desires and expectations dropping off. While only an asteroid, Juno has teamed up with the North Node to give what until now has been more a potential possibility some real substance.


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supporters pack second public hearing on MoCo BRT
Residents from across Montgomery County spoke in favor of building an 82-mile bus rapid transit network at the second of two public hearings about the proposal at the County Council last night in Rockville.
Upcounty residents call for more transit, not highways. Photo from Aimee Custis on Flickr.
While public opinion at the first hearing Tuesday night was more split, supporters dominated Thursday's hearing, arguing that BRT was the only way to tackle the county's growing congestion. Speakers cited the need for better transit to connect currently undeserved parts of the county, like East County, and as an alternative to proposed roads like Midcounty Highway, which would destroy parkland in Germantown and Clarksburg.
The county has been studying a BRT network for almost 5 years. This fall, the County Council will consider the Countywide Transit Corridors Functional Master Plan, which outlines what the system could look like and is required before the county can do any detailed study on a particular corridor.
Speakers urged the Council to think big about traffic congestion and the county's future transportation needs. "Do I want to live in a community that invests in a better tomorrow, or one that lacks courage and vision?" asked Jonathan Jayes-Green, a senior at Goucher College in Towson and a Silver Spring native.
Councilmembers noted that this hearing was only the beginning of a larger conversation. "Issues have to be worked out," said Councilmember Hans Riemer, "but we can't go forward without establishing whether transit is a priority on our roads."
Next month, the County Council's Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy & Environment (T&E) committee will take up the plan over several worksessions before making a final recommendation. Then, the full County Council will review the plan later this fall, though a vote has not been scheduled.
Once again, I live-tweeted the event with Kelly Blynn from the Coalition for Smarter Growth, Ronit Dancis from the Action Committee for Transit, and Geri Rosenberg from Communities for Transit. Below are some of our highlights:
[View the story "\"We cannot afford to do nothing\": BRT hearings continue in Montgomery County" on Storify]
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The clubs and activities at Heywood Prep are designed to feed our children's curiosity, encouraging them to explore new things, support their interests, improve their skills and discover more!
Clubs run during lunch break and after school, and range from sport including Fencing and Hockey, to arts and crafts and First Aid, and languages to movie making. They give our boys and girls the opportunity to broaden their interests, learn new skills, try new pastimes and increase self-confidence. Some are provided by school staff, and others by external practitioners.
We also run Holiday Club during the school holidays.
Learn the basics of animation in a creative, fun and hands-on after-school club. Using a variety of traditional and technological techniques including using both iPads and computers, pupils will be creating short animations. Children will have the opportunity to make their own short stories combining drawings, photos and sound recordings.
Art Club gives pupils the opportunity to practice and hone their artistic skills beyond what we cover during lessons. Each term we will explore a different technique and theme, pupils will then work towards building a sketchbook of ideas and producing a final masterpiece.
Children can enjoy learning the skills of basketball under the expert guidance of our sports coaches, whilst improving their ball skills and hand-eye coordination. If weather prevents play other team building activities will take place inside.
Join Brain Games and give your brain a workout! Learn how to play chess or challenge yourself and your friends with other brain stimulating activities such as Bananagrams, Cryptic Crosswords, Sudoku and Rummikub.
If you enjoy building models, then this is the club for you! Each week you will use a range of construction materials to create fantastic models. At Construction Club, children can have fun, build self-esteem and teamwork skills whilst having a chance to learn and create through play.
All children are welcome to chess club – from absolute beginners to experts! Each week we will discuss strategy and then play friendly games together. If your child has his or her own chessboard, please feel free to bring it in on chess days.
In coding club, we will be learning the basics of coding. One of the programmes we will be using is Kodu and with it we will be designing and making games.
In cookery club pupils learn to cook simple recipes and each week will take home tasty creations to share with their family. This club takes place at Corsham School.
It does exactly what it says on the tin! We don't have cooking facilities for the children to use at Heywood so Mrs McGregor will be helping the children to craft dishes that don't require cooking or those that can be taken home to be cooked. A great preparation for the Prep Department cookery sessions at Corsham School.
'After school, I want to be comfy and cozy,' said a tired Year 2 pupil. We agree, and recognise that there are days when our pupils need a relaxing space. Cozy Club allows children to relax with other children in a calming environment at the end of the day. Each session will have a non-messy Art activity, such as Playdough, Wikky Sticks or mindfulness colouring, a movie space where children can lay out and watch with their friends, together with a board game area led by the session leader, where children can cooperatively play popular games.
The club offers children the opportunity to make wonderful pieces, using different craft techniques. Projects vary throughout the year; as do the materials used. The one constant is that there will always be glitter at Christmas!
Learn and develop the skills of how to set stories and write poetry. Many themes and stimulus will be provided. Let's find the next David Walliams or JK Rowling.
The Year 5-6 training programme is led by Corsham CC Head Coach, Rob Reed. With use of our recently acquired cricket cage, children will be given expert technical advice to develop and hone their existing cricketing levels.
The Pre Prep fundamental cricket skills will be led by In2Sport. These sessions will focus on the fundamental skills of batting, bowling and fielding, in fun games like scenarios.
Nursery Dance – A fun and creative introduction to the world of dance. Classes include a warm up, gentle stretching, basic dance exercises, use of props, storytelling and improvisation.
Pre-Prep Dance – With a basis in Ballet and Modern Dance this class incorporates a variety of different dance styles and music. Pupils will gain technical dance knowledge in a fun and creative environment with some use of props to encourage creativity, improvisation to nurture individual expression and storytelling to enable them to perform with a sense of narrative structure.
Prep Dance – A fun and creative modern style dance class set to a variety of different musical styles and themes. This class gives participants the chance to explore the world of dance and involves some prop work as well as the chance to choreograph.
Run by our newly- acquired expert Mr Pugh. This club will have it all; design, creation, decoration and more!
Fencing is a unique, exhilarating and fast-paced sport and at Mr Bromley's fencing club you will play fencing-related games and activities, and learn various fencing techniques. We also hold fencing tournaments – join in and experience the fun of fencing!
Hosted by local company In2Sport, these sessions will provide players of all abilities skill-based sessions. Whether they are new to the game or experienced, they will receive high standards of technical football coaching.
A new club for Prep Children. Run by our in-house expert Miss Creighton and assisted by Mr Ruane, the club will be based in our newly developed Forest School Area. Wellies and waterproofs are a must and toasting marshmallows is a definite!
In French Club students will be expanding their horizons, looking at the traditions, history and culture of our French neighbours. Each week will cover a different topic, be it cartoon characters, famous films, artists, musicians or authors, historical figures, battles or food. A fact sheet will accompany each topic as well as the most important vocabulary. Students are most welcome to bring along anything interesting they might have to show and every week will include a different Linguascope game. Do come and join us!
Helping to design and create some new flower beds around the school and tending to the school vegetable patch. Bring your wellies and a waterproof if it's wet!
Homework Club with a twist…. Based in Mr Carr's Room this club will have a bias towards Matheletics and Nessy Fingers homework but bring your books too – help will be available!
Come and experience horrible histories where you will be given the opportunity to travel back in time! Learn how to mummify organic matter and battle as brutally as a Viking!
This club is designed for hockey enthusiasts who want to develop their stick skills and put them into match play situations. This club will be situated on the Astro. Open to both boys and girls Yr3-6.
Homework Club offers you the opportunity to complete your homework before you go home, with a member of staff available to offer help you if you need it.
An opportunity for Pre-Prep children to take part in a structured homework and reading session. Where possible the children will be listened to read and help will be provided with homework.
Maths Masters welcomes children from Years 3-6 and will focus on problem solving, working collaboratively and identifying solutions. If you like to solve a variety of problems, then this is the club for you!
Judo is an exciting Olympic sport, popular for developing confidence and fitness. Mark Burbidge, a judo Black Belt and professional judo teacher, motivates you to learn judo in a fun and exciting way and you will be able to work through the coloured belt grading system.
Each session is designed for the children to do things that make them laugh and have fun as well as take time and look after their mental health. At the beginning of each session we will spend 10 minutes meditating and then the activities to follow could include discussions about our feelings, physical exercise such as dancing, going for a walk and getting fresh air, setting realistic goals for the term and thinking about what went well that day, playing instruments and taking a break from 'screen time'.
Mini Medics is a basic introduction to First Aid & Defibrillation for children between the ages of 7 & 13. The course includes: What is First Aid, First Aid kits, Recovery position, Choking, Resuscitation (CPR), Wounds and bleeding, Burns, Asthma, Shock and Safety. The course will show complete respect for the children's ability, and make it educational, practical, instil the importance of helping someone who is poorly or injured and as important will be fun! This course runs for 4 sessions.
An opportunity for Pre-Prep children to hone their touch typing skills or to complete that all important Mathletics homework and then play activities against each other.
Are you the next Steven Spielberg? In Movie-Making Club you will learn about all the different aspects of writing and composing your very own movie. Studying and recreating scenes from modern classics will provide you with the skills to start storyboarding and directing your own short film. Develop your collaboration skills and acting ability along with technical skills such as framing and editing over the course of the term as you create your own movie from scratch!
In Multi-sports Club you will have the chance to play a variety of fun sports, some of which you may not have played before such as Dodgeball, Uni Hoc and Tennis, just to name a few.
Calling all music theory enthusiasts! Each week we will work through a section of Grade I theory and practise techniques such as reading music, sight singing and developing aural skills. You do not need to have any prior musical theory knowledge. This course is designed for beginners.
Netball club will have a positive and encouraging environment with an emphasis on skill development and having fun. There will be weekly mini matches at the end of each session, allowing the children to play in a range of positions. We will also be working towards awards, such as player of the term, defender of the term and shooter of the term.
In Pop Lacrosse club there will be the opportunity to learn the fundamental skills for Lacrosse. Pupils will learn to pick up the ball quickly and 'cradle' it to keep it secure in their sticks. They will then proceed onto passing and throwing to one another once comfortable with the ball in their stick. The pupils will even have the chance to show off their strength and accuracy when faced with shooting into a goal. Near the end of term, there will be mini matches, where they will learn the various positions and tactics when playing Lacrosse.
Each child will need to bring their own digital camera or tablet with them to take photographs (these can be securely stored in the school office during the day).
Due to the nature of the media used to take photographs, the School, nor Rob Auckland can be held responsible for the security of the images taken. There will be occasions when the children take pictures of each other and we will not be able to control how these are used outside of school. By signing your child up for this activity you agree to the points made above.
From the big stage to the small screen, this club will give pupils the opportunity to design props and stage scenery for our end of term school performances.
In Quiz Club, Prep children will have the opportunity to learn strategies for solving sudoku, cryptic crosswords and code words. They will also experience the challenge of completing logic puzzles and solving riddles. Come and join in the fun!
In recorder club, the children will begin to look at the basics of playing the recorder and playing simple tunes together. Opportunities will be given to the children to learn the basics of reading music and to develop an understanding of what music looks like on a page and what each note means. The children will also learn the difference between a crotchet, minim and semibreve and they will learn to play in harmony.
These exciting new sessions (12 in total) are delivered by a Bath RFC Community Development Coach who will be looking out for the next generation of Premiership stars for Bath RFC. Also included in the club fee, will be the opportunity for each pupil to be a Bath Flag bearer at a Bath RFC home fixture. Pupils will have a free ticket to watch the match and parents off flag bearers will be able to purchase discounted tickets for that match and others throughout the season.
Each week, we will be engaging the group in different aspects of sports performance, Improving health and skill related fitness. These skills and fitness aspects will then be applied into challenging, sporting scenarios.
Information is on a need to know basis! There may be some code work. There may be some covert activities. Cryptography and secrecy may well be covered.
A tennis club for those in Years 5 & 6. Pupils in Year 4 who play tennis to a good standard at club level are also welcome.
A club for those in Years 2-4. Mini Red tennis is played on smaller courts with lower compression balls which allow more time and control. Run by Ben Elliott, Head Coach at Chippenham Tennis Club.
The Corsham Ukulele Orchestra is a club for absolute beginners to intermediate ukulele players who are interested in playing in a group. Members will learn to play a wide range of different music genres in this all singing, all strumming club run by Mrs Williamson and Mr Fitzgerald-Jones, a professional guitarist and ukulele player. Our fabulous Ukulele Club runs in partnership with the Pound Arts Centre, where rehearsals will take place with children and families from other schools in the local area. Pupils are welcome to borrow a ukulele from school.
This is a team game which is a cross between netball (you can't run with the frisbee) and American Football (you score in the end zone). A great summer sport for all to enjoy.
Come and find out about the wildlife that lives around school and make homes to help it survive the winter. Play some games and create some fun environmental art.
Word Nerds is a fun, relaxed, multisensory workshop style club exploring language and writing. Writing is not all about sitting down at a desk! If you like the idea of playing games, acting, listening to music, hearing stories and generally having a good time, this is the club for you.


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the starfarer (the araloka chronicles book 2) by petra landon
Reviewed For The Author Resource Centre by Grant Leishman
I've said it in the past, but it bears repeating that; one of the most rewarding parts of being a professional reviewer is the opportunity to watch an author grow and develop within his/her genre. This is certainly the case, for me, with Petra Landon. The Starfarer (The Araloka Chronicles Book 2) is now the fourth Landon book I have read and I continue to watch her story-telling skills evolve and improve. Within her four books, we have two very distinct and different genres, the first being fantasy, with the Saga of the Chosen series and the second being Science Fiction in the Araloka Chronicles. While on the surface it might seem like they are two very different genres, the reality, on closer inspection, is that they are not. Landon writes about relationships, especially relationships between different and disparate people, including inter-species. This is what ultimately ties her four books together. The core of her writing is about love, commitment and the underlying ideals that underpin humanity. In two of her novels she has chosen to clothe these ideals in a background of fantasy and in two, in a science fiction background. For me, as a reader, this just makes her books more interesting and displays her innate story-telling ability.
In this latest iteration, of the Araloka Chronicles, we meet a new character along with many of the characters we met in the first of this series, The Mercenary. Star Captain Zh'hir Mu'raat is of the Ur'quay species. Once renowned and feared throughout the galaxies as one of the foremost space-travelling and honourable species, inexplicably several centuries ago, the Ur'quay chose to cut themselves off from the rest of the cosmos, in order to preserve and purify the Ur'quay line. This decision has been a disaster for the people of Ur'qia and now, short on food and facing extinction, as a species, Zh'hir has been sent out to find food sources and most importantly the fuel Ur'qia needs to survive – the ubiquitous skoal. When Zh'hir arrives in the Araloka sector of the universe, a sector his forebears were very familiar with, he discovers the sector at war with the evil Budh-Ketaari Empire, bent on galaxy domination. Linking up with the Kampuchan Alliance and the Hadari'Kor mercenary Zoran, Zh'hir is determined to use his people's advanced technology and history of warfare to rid the galaxy of the Budh-Ketaari Empire.
When gathering samples of stoal on Terra-Agri-5, Zh'hir inadvertently collects more than he bargained for, in the form of a beautiful, young terran woman by the name of Sila Gatherer. The attraction between this young woman and the massive, Ur'quay warrior is instantaneous and it soon becomes obvious that Sila, as a person, is much more than they initially thought. Sila holds some secrets, within her, that will open Zh'hir's eyes as to the wrongs perpetrated by his own forebears, centuries earlier.
I found The Starfarer (The Araloka Chronicles Book 2) to be a fantastic read, full of adventure, action and thrills, all tautly pulled together by author Petra Landon. A few things lifted this book up above the rest of the science fiction market, for me. The first of those is the underlying themes that run through the threads of the story. It is rare to meet characters such as Zh'hir and Zoran who are so beautifully drawn and also remarkably faithful to their morals and their beliefs in what is right or wrong. Warriors and fighters they may be, but they governed their lives and instincts by their respective "codes". The camaraderie of the two vastly different, but ultimately similar forces, the Hadari'Kor and the Ur'quay was wonderfully crafted by the author.
Counterpointed against the violence and the battles was this dual love affair, between species, that occurred between Zoran (a Hadari'Kor) and his love, Saakshi (a Budheyan) along with Zh'hir and his passion, the young terran, Sila. I thought the romance and love scenes were incredibly sensitively written, sensual, without being smutty and just added to the entire story beautifully. The allegory from this story of the inter-species relationships, for me, was the idea that no matter what your culture, your skin colour, your religion, your creed, your physical characteristics; love is always love and love trumps all of it. I really appreciated that in the story.
The other underlying theme that resonated with me, especially in today's increasingly separatist and isolationist world is learning the lessons the Ur'quay people had to learn the hard way – that separating yourself from the rest of the universe (read humanity here) is ultimately a self-defeating road. I almost expected Zh'hir to produce a cap from centuries ago that read – "Make Ur'Qia Great Again". The author may or may not have intended that to shine through her work, but for me it definitely did.
Petra Landon has thrilled me again and I cannot wait to read more of her work in the future. I like my science fiction with lots of story and a minimum of confusing technology and technical expertise. Petra Landon's Araloka Chronicles fills that requirement perfectly. I hope there are further sequels to both the Araloka Chronicles and the Saga of the Chosen, as I am still excited by both of these sagas however I am also anticipating where Landon's muse might lead her in the future. I have no doubt it will be successful and highly readable. Make no mistake Petra Landon is one of the top indie authors, in my opinion, in the marketplace today, for sheer readability and excitement.
Definitely do head on over to Amazon and take a look at The Starfarer here, on Petra Landon's amazon page, where you'll find her full portfolio.


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The Sun Broadcast Group is an American radio network headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida and New York City. The network covers over 5,500 affiliates and serves around 140 million monthly listeners in both English and Spanish as of 2014. In 2014 and 2015, it was listed on the Inc. 5000 list as one of the fastest-growing companies in America and the single fastest growing company in the broadcast radio industry. Programs broadcast on the network include The Marilu Henner Show, The House of Hair with Dee Snider, The Hit List with Fitz, the NCAA College Football Game of the Week, and Yahoo! Deportes, among others. Sun is also a founding member of the Shazam for Radio interactive radio platform.

History

2008–2012: Early years as Sun Radio Network
The Sun Broadcast Group was founded as the Sun Radio Network in Boca Raton, Florida in November 2008 by CEO Jason Bailey. It was designed as a nationwide programmer and syndicator of its own content while also providing programming support and sales representation to other radio networks and syndicators in the United States. In its early days, the network primarily sought small, local advertisers to fund its operation on a comparatively small network. Content produced by Sun included short product placement ads designed to fit within programs on their network. Over time, the company attracted national businesses who would use the network for advertising. By 2011, Sun's network had expanded to 3,000 radio stations covering 99% of the US population. It also officially changed its name to the Sun Broadcast Group in 2011.

2013–2015: Rapid expansion and Shazam for Radio
In 2013, the Sun Broadcast Group added The Marilu Henner Show to its syndication lineup. The show launched on September 9, 2013, and was said to be a non-political and non-confrontational alternative to typical talk radio offerings. Also in 2013, Sun began a national sales representation agreement for Ricardo Sanchez's El Mandril Morning Show, the number one Spanish language morning radio program in Los Angeles. In 2014, the company expanded its Sun Latino network—a Spanish-only, nationwide radio network—adding Yahoo! Deportes and ad and affiliate support from Envision Networks. By the end of 2014, the Sun Latino network had around 35 million monthly listeners.

In October 2014, Sun announced a partnership with music detection service, Shazam, to create an interactive radio platform called Shazam for Radio. The platform would effectively allow listeners to use the Shazam app to find information about the current radio personality, social media campaigns and promotions, and music details all during the live broadcast. Shazam for Radio would later expand by adding The Weather Channel (allowing listeners to get hyper-local, "Shazamable" weather reports from the radio to their phones) and Hubbard Radio in 2015. By the end of 2014, Sun had around 142 million monthly listeners on 5,500 general affiliate stations across the United States. The company's revenue also jumped by 520% earning them a spot on the Inc. 5000 list as one of America's fastest growing companies.

2015–present: Continued growth and beyond
In early 2015, Sun teamed with VH1 to create the VH1 Radio Network. Sun primarily handles advertising and affiliate sales for the VH1-run network. Later that year, Sun added The Hit List with Fitz to its Shazam for Radio platform, which was the first interactive country music countdown and allowed listeners to discover content and interact with the show in real time.

In August 2015, Sun again made the Inc. 5000 list as one of America's fastest growing companies with revenue increasing by 629%. Additionally, Sun was named the fastest growing business in the broadcast radio industry and the 11th fastest growing company in all of media in 2015. Sun Latino was also named the largest independent Spanish-language radio network in the United States. In December 2015, Sun CEO, Jason Bailey, was named an Honorary Trustee by the Alliance for Women in Media.

In January 2016, Sun acquired the syndication rights to The House of Hair with Dee Snider. Sun also partnered with Radio Express in February 2016 in an ad sales and affiliate agreement that brought 10 new programs (including La Piedra, La Mex-Cha, and Jacapps) to the network.

2020–present: Birth of G Networks
In February 2020, Sun Broadcast Group announced that it acquired Cleveland based Envision Networks.

Envision's Danno Wolkoff and Laura Orcan Wolkoff were named Chief Operating Officer and VP/Operations, respectively, at Sun, but were both terminated June 23, 2021, for "gross negligence and gross incompetence … in the performance of their duties."

On August 16, 2021, Sun Broadcast Group's parent company, Gen Media Partners, rebranded Sun Broadcast Group as G Networks.

In July 2021, the Wolkoff's sued G Networks alleging the firm owes them $2.1 million.

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Man absconding in hit-and-run case arrested in Delhi
Singh owns a few farms and other properties in Haryana and NCR region, the police said.
Abhishek Lohia
Aug 3 2020 12:45AM
A man who had been on the run for the past 10 days after hitting a 16-year-old boy with his speeding car in northwest Delhi's Rohini was arrested in the city, police said on Sunday.
The incident took place on July 23 near Palm City Society. The accused, Sandeep Singh, was arrested on Saturday, they said.
According to a complaint lodged by the victim's cousin brother, Harshit (22), he and Ajar Mehra were out on July 23 and their scooter broke down around 11 pm, they said.
Mehra was pushing the scooter down the road and Harshit was walking with him when a speeding Audi hit the two-wheeler from behind, severely injuring the teenager, they said.
Harshit alleged that the accused stopped the car for a moment and briefly stepped out of the vehicle before fleeing the spot. The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital where he died, they added.
DCP (Rohini) P K Mishra said the vehicle of the accused was identified as its logo and number plate fell on the road during the accident.
"Though we recovered the car from Rohini after a few days, the owner couldn't be identified because the vehicle was registered in the name of a construction company in Telangana," he said.
"Later, it was learnt that the owner had sold the vehicle," he added.
During investigation, the Delhi Police took help from its Telangana counterparts to identify the owner of the car. During questioning, the car owner told police that he sold it in August last year, the officer said.
It was found that the car was bought by Singh along with a friend. But since his friend couldn't pay his share of the amount, Singh took the car, he said.
On contacting Singh's friend, police learnt that the accused lived in Bahadurgarh in Haryana. Singh's friend was asked to call him to Delhi, following which he was arrested, the police said.
Singh told police that on the night of the incident, he lost control while speeding and hit the boy. He was scared and left his car near the accident spot before fleeing to his hometown, they said.
Assembly Election 2022: जेपी नड्डा ने किया एलान... यूपी में भाजपा का अपना दल और निषाद पार्टी के साथ हाेगा गठबंधन
ताहिर, शाहरुख समेत 6 को HC ने दी जमानत... हाथ पैर काट जलती आग में फेंक दिया था दिलबर नेगी को


RUBEN LOFTUS-CHEEK insists he's growing as a player despite Chelsea's stuttering form.
Chelsea have lost two on the bounce following Saturday's 3-0 defeat to Manchester City and sit 10th in the league with five games to play.
The 20-year-old has started the last three games and was one of the few positives to come out of Saturday's loss.
And Loftus-Cheek believes coming up against the best players in the league will help him develop.
"It's always hard to lose at home," Loftus-Cheek said.
"We came into the game with the aim to win and, like I say, it's hard, but we have to pick our heads up and go again because we've got another game soon.
"It's a tough mental challenge playing in any Premier League game, but especially against big teams like Man City.
"I'm always growing, particularly any time I'm outside my comfort zone, so I look forward to big games like this.
"Aguero has great ability and we saw that. He's got blistering pace and that's where we got done, on the counter-attack.
"It was a good experience for me to play against players like that. I am looking forward to playing more."


The Ofunato Bay in the northeastern Pacific Ocean area of Japan possesses the highest biodiversity of marine organisms in the world and has attracted much attention due to its economic and environmental importance. We report here a shotgun metagenomic analysis of the year-round variation in free-living bacterioplankton collected across the entire length of the bay. Phylogenetic differences among spring, summer, autumn and winter bacterioplankton suggested that members of Proteobacteria tended to decrease at high water temperatures and increase at low temperatures. It was revealed that Candidatus Pelagibacter varied seasonally, reaching as much as 60% of all sequences at the genus level in the surface waters during winter. This increase was more evident in the deeper waters, where they reached up to 75%. The relative abundance of Planktomarina also rose during winter and fell during summer. A significant component of the winter bacterioplankton community was Archaea (mainly represented by Nitrosopumilus), as their relative abundance was very low during spring and summer but high during winter. In contrast, Actinobacteria and Cyanobacteria appeared to be higher in abundance during high-temperature periods. It was also revealed that Bacteroidetes constituted a significant component of the summer bacterioplankton community, being the second largest bacterial phylum detected in the Ofunato Bay. Its members, notably Polaribacter and Flavobacterium, were found to be high in abundance during spring and summer, particularly in the surface waters. Principal component analysis and hierarchal clustering analyses showed that the bacterial communities in the Ofunato Bay changed seasonally, likely caused by the levels of organic matter, which would be deeply mixed with surface runoff in the winter.


The Church of Rahne studies warfare – how to prevent it, and how to win at it. The church takes on the duties of teaching the common man how to defend himself, as well as defending those unable to defend themselves. Members stockpile resources against bad times, including the creation of way stations between distant towns and cities. Priests understand that the greater good is at stake, and the survival of its congregation and the good peoples of the land is the church's primary responsibility. Knowledge is a valuable tool, and both priests and congregations are encouraged to learn as much as possible against the day such knowledge is necessary. Although 'offense is the best form of defense', the church believes in building strong defenses whenever possible, against the possibility such defenses might one day be needed.
In human depcitions, she is usually painted as a shorter woman with equally short, flaming red hair. Her green eyes seem hooded and distant, as though seeing things that no mortal could see. Rahne's bronzed skin covers thick muscles and a voluptuous endowment, and she often wears furs and leathers of a grayish color, lined with rich blue velvet. The Goddess of Wisdom is usually depicted as surrounded by peaceable wolves with grayish fur. Oddly barefoot, the best statue of Rahne lies in the monastery of Our Lady's Wisdom in the Heavensbane Mountains.
Three hundred years into the Age of Survival, the various kingdoms and city-states were falling into considerable disarray. Siege warfare continued to tear down those that remained, and true strategists were rare and few and far between one another. In the nation of Preselka, the nation's prince began to undermine his father's power. Seeing that the king's petty squabbles, useless luxuries, and lack of loyalty would destroy the kingdom, the prince set about organizing a secret set of guilds that would maintain the strength of Preselka. Slowly gathering treasures from across the land, and from his father's vault, Prince Namirka plotted the death and overthrow of his father, using his modest charisma, and his ruthless logic. As the death stroke was delivered in a coup that would shake the foundations of the kingdom, one of the treasures turned out to be a Relic – the Relic of Rahne. The goddess quickly set about instructing her first Chosen, who learned the secrets of strategy and sieges with frightening speed.
Over the next several millennia, word of the goddess spread, and gradually began to quell the various battles and wars. Where she was worshipped, uneasy peace sprang, for defensive fortifications became stronger and more resilient. Her priests and preachers brought wisdom and the long-view to regions torn asunder by wars and petty squabbles, disease and lasting anger. During the Shaping Wars, she guided members of many sides, helping them to maintain what footholds they gained. A mistress of defense, Rahne was well respected during the Age of Peace, and her thoughts and teachings were integrated with the work of Mikindim. In the Storm Wars, her followers were assassinated and targeted by Nathel, almost before the wars had begun. When Nabrol took up where Nathel had left off, Rahne was left with the uneasy task of rebuilding her hierarchy. The Church took a significant blow, and spent the next five centuries slowly recovering from that devastation. When the War of the Undead reared its ugly head, there was a resurgence in worship of Rahne, and she added two new Disciples to her church. Since that time, she has slowly grown in worship and power.
Deep within the Heavensbane Mountains, and high atop one of the highest of the mountain peaks, is a strong and well-built monastery to Rahne. Named "Our Lady's Wisdom", the monastery maintains a vast record of activities for the church, as well as Rahne's Relic. Well guarded and sitting atop nearly impossible passes, the monastery itself is virtually impregnable.
The Church of Rahne has always sought to promote the long-term view of life. Acting more for the greater good than the individual man, the church has often seemed aloof and uninviting to the lower classes. But to the upper classes and the ruling classes, the words of Rahne's teachings have carried great influence. The church also helped to defend small towns and hamlets that were unable to protect themselves, from the inhuman tribes of ograns and goblins. Providing teachers in times of war, instructors in times of peace, and long-range thinkers in times of need, the church has always served as a bastion of knowledge and power to a dark and unfair world.
The heart of the Church of Rahne is the Basilica in Karmen, where the Chosenresides and manages the church. A massive domed building with tall minarets, it is also heavily fortified, with wide grounds and thick walls. Unapproachable by siege engines, unclimbable by ladders, and unassailable by conventional forces, the Basilica has stood as a symbol of Rahne's guidance since the Age of Peace.
Rahne's Disciples travel the lands in the interests of the church, earning their pay as warriors and consultants. Often working hand in hand with other gods and their followers, Rahne plays no favorites, and promotes the general welfare however she can.


Ed Gibson is the Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft UK, and previously worked for the FBI at the US Embassy in London. In this interview he outlines some of the most significant current, and emerging, threats facing businesses in terms of security, and some of the actions that directors can take to address them. Ed identifies the two key emerging security threats: 'botnets', and the insider threat.


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It is [a crisis], and I think that the president has caused it, to be quite honest with you. He has failed to address the issues in Central America. Quite frankly, the president is lazy. He doesn't read his presidential daily briefing. He ignored this problem. We want presidents to deal with the root of problems. Central America is a mess, and we are doing nothing to stabilize that region.
Ryan went on to state that issues such as Trump's inability to fill ambassadorships to key Central and South American countries are exacerbating the problems. President Trump has reportedly expressed his own frustration over several ambassador posts going unfilled, but has cited the Democrats "dragging their feet" and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) failing to schedule key votes as the reason.
When asked how he would address the crisis, Ryan stated that the nation did need comprehensive immigration reform,.
"We can be both strong on border security — and I would say I'll be stronger than President Trump is and a lot smarter than him," Ryan said, but claimed he would do so in a more "compassionate" manner.
In a survey conducted Monday by Emerson Polling, Ryan is currently polling at 1 percent among 2020 Democratic contenders. Despite only being in the race since April, he is polling higher than five other candidates who are currently at zero percent. However, "Someone Else" is currently polling at 2 percent, while Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is leading at 29 percent.
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Ciara Teams Up With Missy Elliott And Pitbull For "That's How I'm Feeling"
Jackie is out May 4th.
By Zara Golden
It's high times to be Ciara—she's back on the dating scene, she's schmoozing with the Obamas, and her new album Jackie is due out in less than a week. So far, we have heard the vindictive ballad "I Bet" and simmering club jam "Dance Like We're Making Love" (plus a few bonus snippets via Baby Future). Today a third song, "That's How I'm Feeling," featuring the unlikely company of Missy Elliott and Pitbull, enters that rotation. A dance-R&B hybrid produced by Polow Da Don, it's a little slinky but also a little bland. Here's to hoping for more when Jackie hits May 4th.
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Private hospitals put on standby to support NHS during coronavirus pandemic
Some patients may be able to receive treatment and surgery at private hospitals
Jane Kirby
Jonathon ManningSenior Journalist
Private hospitals are being put on standby to provide support to the NHS during the pandemic.
A three-month deal has been signed, for an undisclosed sum, that will see private healthcare staff and facilities used to support the NHS should Covid create too high a level of hospital admissions or staff absences.
It means that NHS patients can now be referred to private firms for a number of procedures and treatments, including those waiting for cancer surgery.
Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said: "NHS staff continue to go above and beyond to ensure people get the treatment they need this winter and our support for the NHS through this challenging period remains at full throttle.
"This agreement demonstrates the collaboration across our health care services to create an additional safeguard that ensures people can continue to get the care they need from our world-leading NHS, whenever they need it.
"I encourage everyone to keep doing their bit to look after themselves and their loved ones and, most importantly, for all those eligible, to get boosted now."
The announcement by NHS England comes at the same time that hospitals are being pressured to find more beds for patients.
Nightingale hubs are being created in the grounds of some hospitals as part of the effort to find another 4,000 beds.
The NHS has also been asked to look at using spare capacity in gyms and education centres to create "super surge" wards.
The new agreement will run until the end of March 2022. The following private healthcare providers will be part of the scheme:
Practice Plus Group
Spire Healthcare
Nuffield Health
Circle Health Group
Ramsay Health Care UK
Healthcare Management Trust
One Healthcare
Horder Healthcare
Aspen Healthcare
KIMS Hospital
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Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: "This deal – on top of the NHS building extra capacity and assistance we have seen from the military – means there is some further support if it is necessary over the coming months.
"These emergency measures will not be a silver bullet and they should not mask the longer-term issues facing the NHS, such as huge staff vacancies.
"We know that the backlog will disproportionately impact people from poorer backgrounds and so a fair and equitable way of addressing this waiting list is critically important."
David Hare, chief executive of the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN), added: "Independent sector providers have worked shoulder to shoulder with the NHS throughout the pandemic, playing a key role in enabling vital NHS care including cancer and cardiology treatment to continue, whilst also maintaining services for private patients.
"The arrangements being announced today, in response to a call by Government and the NHS for further independent sector support during the Omicron wave of Covid-19, will help to bolster planned NHS care including cancer treatment this winter whilst ensuring that independent sector providers can continue to treat private patients.
"The arrangements will also provide the NHS with additional targeted support in the event that local NHS pressures are deemed as unsustainable."
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