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Three Teesside schools named within top 10 in the North-east
The Sunday Times Parent Power list was released at the weekend :: It looks at GCSE and A Level grades
Yarm School pupils celebrate their GCSE results (Image: Keith Taylor)
Three Teesside schools have been ranked in the top 10 of their kind in the North-east.
According to the Sunday Times Parent Power list, Yarm School and Teesside High School are among the best 10 independent secondary schools in the North-east, and Egglescliffe School was named as the second best state secondary school in the region.
Egglescliffe headteacher Simon White said: "We are delighted with the success of our sixth form and when you look at the top 250 state schools in the country, we are 38th.
"We are non-selective and that's a big message. There's a real sense of commitment in the sixth form to make sure every student reaches their full potential.
"We've got specialists in every area and the students have a real desire to succeed. I would like to thank the children and families for their hard work and the staff for their utter dedication."
Yarm School was named the second best independent secondary school in the North-east, behind Newcastle's Royal Grammar School.
It moved up to 130th nationally, with an 81% pass rate at A-Level A* - B.
Headmaster David Dunn said: "We are thrilled with the results of this report. It is testament to the hard work of our staff and pupils that we have moved up the league table nationally and that Yarm is the leading independent school in Tees Valley."
Top 10 Teesside state secondary schools listed in the 2016 Real Schools Guide
"This year we celebrated record A* A Level results but that is not the whole story," the headmaster added.
"At Yarm we are committed to developing pupils' skill beyond the classroom, from cultivating interpersonal and leadership skills to developing a 'have a go' attitude. These are the abilities leading universities and employers look for, coupled with excellent results."
Teesside High School also made the list, and was ranked the 10th best independent school in the region.
Andrew Wilson, headteacher, said: "We are delighted to have been named as one of the best performing independent schools in the North-east region.
"To be recognised for our high level of academic attainment is testament to our dedicated and talented staff, who work tirelessly to achieve outstanding results with children of all abilities.
"Whilst exam statistics and league table positions are important, they do paint only part of the picture of Teesside High School. We are committed to providing an inspiring education based on the development of the whole child; outstanding pastoral care and an exceptional array of co-curricular activities are just as integral to our story and success."
Teesside High School headteacher Andrew Wilson
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The guide contains the top 2,000 state and independent schools, ranked by their latest academic results.
The rankings in the secondary school league tables are determined by the percentage of examination entries gaining A* to B grades at A-level this summer, which is given double weighting, and the percentage of entries returning A* and A grades at GCSE.
They are published several weeks ahead of the official Government tables for secondary school performance.
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Q: Remove millisecond part of created_at in SQL to compare with other datetime I want to find duplicates on my datetime. Since my created_at is not equal with any rows because of the milliseconds, I want to remove it so I can now display all the duplicates with the same created_at. But this syntax returns an error that datetime column does not exist in my CONVERT
SELECT
sd.global_code AS sd_id,
sm.tag AS tag,
SUM(sm.quantity) AS quantity,
CONVERT(datetime, CONVERT(varchar, sm.created_at, 120), 120) AS date ## returns an error ##
FROM stock_distributions sd
INNER JOIN stock_movements sm ON sd.id = sm.stock_distribution_id
WHERE (sm.tag = 'Shelf Transfer' OR sm.tag = 'Transfer (Put-Away to Shelf)')
AND sl.site_id = 4
GROUP BY sd.global_code
HAVING SUM(sm.quantity) < 0
AND COUNT(convert(datetime, convert(varchar, sm.created_at, 120), 120)) > 1

am I doing the right thing? Is there a faster way on SELECTING sm.created_at with the same date and time until the seconds only so the output would be something like 2019-03-31 4:08:33?

A: you could use string comparisons by converting the dates to strings
to_char( mydate, 'rrrrmmddhh24ss' )

A: Your code looks like SQL Server.  And it needs a lot of fixing.  The SELECT is inconsistent with the GROUP BY keys, for instance.
If you want to find global codes at the same time, but ignoring milliseconds, I would recommend datetimefromparts():
SELECT sd.global_code AS sd_id,
       datetimefromparts(year(sm.created_at), month(sm.created_at), day(sm.created_at),
                         datepart(hour, sm.created_at), datepart(minute, sm.created_at), datepart(second, sm.created_at),
                         0
                        ) as dt
       SUM(sm.quantity) AS quantity
FROM stock_distributions sd INNER JOIN
     stock_movements sm
     ON sd.id = sm.stock_distribution_id
WHERE sm.tag IN ('Shelf Transfer', sm.tag = 'Transfer (Put-Away to Shelf)') AND
      sl.site_id = 4
GROUP BY sd.global_code,
         datetimefromparts(year(sm.created_at), month(sm.created_at), day(sm.created_at),
                         datepart(hour, sm.created_at), datepart(minute, sm.created_at), datepart(second, sm.created_at),
                         0
                        )
HAVING SUM(sm.quantity) < 0 AND COUNT(*) > 1;

In Postgres, this is much simpler:
SELECT sd.global_code AS sd_id,
       date_trunc('second', sm.created_at) as dt,            SUM(sm.quantity) AS quantity
FROM stock_distributions sd INNER JOIN
     stock_movements sm
     ON sd.id = sm.stock_distribution_id
WHERE sm.tag IN ('Shelf Transfer', sm.tag = 'Transfer (Put-Away to Shelf)') AND
      sl.site_id = 4
GROUP BY sd.global_code, dt
HAVING SUM(sm.quantity) < 0 AND COUNT(*) > 1;

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Great iPhone customisation from Eden
Check out this awesome customisation and packaging for your iPhone. Read more.
Check out this awesome customisation and packaging for your iPhone.
If, like me, you're not so keen on having an iPhone that looks like everyone else's, and if, like me, you're a sucker for attractive packaging, meticulously designed and with a nod to being friendly to the environment, you'll like (and perhaps love) this new brand from Germany, Eden.
Sourced from sustainable sources, the new wood panelling you can order for your iPhone4 (currently no iPhone 5 option). First spotted over at Fast.Co Design.
Posted by Bronwyn Penhaligon in Packaging and Fashion.
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THERE Founder walks the talk at SEGD
CEO Simon Hancock talks at SEGD's international Asia Pacifc Webinar. Read more.
Simon Hancock, co-founder THERE, talks at SEGD's 'EGD Down Under' Asia Pacifc Webinar. During this session he will reveal insights, thoughts and process, stemming from over 10yrs of signage experience.
For years now, Australian design firms have been prominent winners in the SEGD Global Design Awards program.
Their bold use of color and typography, elegant integration of cultural influences, and innovative applications of scaled graphics have created some amazing public spaces and attracted worldwide attention.
What are the secrets to their success Down Under? Is it all about big budgets? More design freedom? Less regulation? You may be surprised at some of the answers next Thursday, February 21, when award-winning design firms THERE and Heine Jones share their work.
You'll see pretty pictures, for sure. But you'll also gain insights about the ideas, budgets, client relationships, and processes behind their award-winning work.
This international webinar is being held at a special time — Feb. 21 in North America, 5:00pm EST/2:00pm PST Feb. 22 in Australia, 9:00am EDT/Sydney For more information and to register, click here.
What is SEGD?
Society for Environmental Graphic Design
The global community of people working
at the intersection of communication design
and the built environment.
Posted by Paul Tabouré in Environmental, News, Architecture, People and .
How you speak, not just how you look
In branding, it's not just how you look that counts — increasingly brands are using tone of voice as an effective way to differentiate, connect with an audience and gain competitive advantage. Read more.
Whilst we're designers, or visual people, at heart, more and more copy is king. We're helping our clients figure out what's being said, and how to say it, rather than simply 'flowing it in' at the last minute.Â
Tone of voice, verbal identity, brand personality — there's lot's of buzz words and jargon to describe it. Increasingly of late, it's become a key offering of any self respecting brand consultancy. It's a badge of honour in some agencies to have writers on staff, turning out columns, pages and slides of crafted, honed and perfected copy that evokes a brand's values, creates a personality around a brand and connects in it's audience in an authentic way.
For me, the words on the page, and the design that visualises and arranges them, have always been inseparable. One of my earliest 'big briefs', working solo on an annual report, went a little bit pear–shaped as I couldn't stop changing the copy - everything from the headlines, pull quotes down to the tiniest details in body copy. My own creative process actually revolves around key words and semiotics, rather than colours, texture or symbolism. Once I have the words right, the message, then I can design.
That's not to say one is more important than the other – they're both two halves of the whole, equally important and necessary for the success of any brand in our increasingly complicated, diverse and fast moving world. For many years, agencies neglected the other half - dominated by visual designers, visual thinkers and marketers or client teams who considered the words to be their domain, supplied to their design team to 'flow in'.
Thankfully, creating an ownable and distinct tone of voice has become considered part of the branding agency's remit, and we at THERE are seeing the effects of this industry shift in our own work. Increasingly we're being called upon to not only design a visual identity, but also to name a brand, to create it's key messages and narrative, and then to articulate, define and document a tone of voice, or verbal identity. It's both a pleasure and an enormous challenge to take so much responsibility on behalf of a client in shaping the fundamental building blocks of their brand.
Below, we've collected a few great examples of verbal identity, the organisations represented are varied and diverse, from large mega corporations, small boutique juice company, to a 'dry bar', providing a place to socialise for people battling addiction. The tones of voice are equally rich and diverse, but tellingly feature wit or humour. This was by no means intentional, but it was interesting to notice how brands that have a little fun, embrace humour and share a smile with their audience rise to the top and create impact, are memorable and in many cases, more successful.
Nudie Juice, Australia
Nudie have mastered a naive, almost childlike tone of voice that masks a sophisticated intent, to change our way of thinking about our fruit juice, the manner it which it is made, and the contents within. Their verbal identity is thus defined by the tone of their voice, as well as the substance of what they talk about. Nudie have a purpose or mission, they're direct about it, but they have a disarmingly authentic cuteness in the way they express themselves.
Credit: Jack Watts Currie, Sydney
Air Asia X / Virgin Blue, Australia
Virgin have built a global business based on their 'Robin Hood Rebellion' business strategy and brand positioning. They find markets with entrenched, monopolistic leaders, and enter as an irreverent, value option that champions the customers needs — leading the rebellion against the status quo. This gives them incredible license to be cheeky, funny and sometimes just plain naughty.
Macmillan Cancer, UK
A common strategy for building a recognizable verbal identity, is a repeatable, adaptable messaging structure — or to put it simply, let's call it a catch phrase. Macmillan appended 'We are' to the beginning of their brand mark, transforming it from a logo to a bold declaration, a proud statement of belonging. The rest of the identity utilises these 'We are' statements almost too repetitively, but the bold visual approach balances the phrases and gives the whole identity a strong, punchy feel not often seen in the not for profit health sector.
Credit: Wolff Olins
Apple, USA
The world dominating tech company from Cupertino has never been afriad of creating memorable, distinctive communications - from the iconic 1984 super bowl commercial, to the long running and beloved 'I'm a Mac' campaign. Increasingly Apple has lost it's edge with regards to it's tone of voice, becoming a monotonous parade of superlatives – and the satirists have taken advantage of this hubris. But every now and then Apple's copywriters get a gem out the door, and this headline from the iPod Touch site is a great example.
Credit: Apple Inc.
The Brink, UK
The last example is probably my favourite of the round up. The Brink in Liverpool is a 'dry bar' — a safe, welcoming and lively place for people battling adiction. Somewhere to hang out, socialise and enjoy yourself, where the strongest drink on hand is a coffee. The use of these catchy little sayings borders on the poetic, creating an optimistic, fun verbal identity that also rolled out to aspects of the branded environment.
Credit: SB Studio & Reed Words.
Posted by Clinton Duncan in Advertising, Branding and Identity.
Desktop Mag - Identity Insights
THERE's Clinton Duncan delves deep into the psyche and understanding of 'identity' Read more.
In the world of academia, it is known as 'Publish or Perish'! Thankfully in the design world it's not about survival, but explaining your design ethos, rationale and where you place your flag in the earth.
Our team at THERE have a myriad of talents and outside of work interests that keep the juices flowing. Thankfully we also happen to have a Creative Director - Clinton Duncan, who thrives on writing and commenting on identity, branding and design.
In the latest issue of Desktop Magazine, Clinton has delivered a deep and thought provoking piece on identity, both of self and in the context of our field of operation in graphic design. Drawing references on the writings of Plutarch and Heraclitis, Freud and that iconic identity of the 20th century Andy Warhol, we're taken on more of journey than a commentary. Clinton muses on our descent into the superficiality of 'everyone' having their own 'identity and brand' to promote for their 'God given' right of 15 minutes, and where this leaves us as an industry- purveyors of expertise on corporate identity and branding. Best get yourself a copy...
Posted by Gordon Eckel in Branding, Corporate, Insights and Views.
Justus & THERE
THERE have just been interviewed and featured in the latest Justus Magazine showcasing the very best of Australian design Read more.
THERE were invited to be featured in Justus Magazine – an invitation only industry magazine that showcases the best of Australian agencies and stand-out talent.
Taking the common unity that is design and forging a community of print designers, studios, suppliers and students of design, this quarterly journal goes out to a limited number who have been personally invited to subscribe to and showcase their work.
The launch of Issue 3 was a huge success, with both industry peers and designers attending in hordes, indulging in the flowing bubbles and being the very first to delve into this beautifully produced publication.
Thanks to Larissa and her team at Justus for a job well done… Keep up the good work!
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Posted by Paul Taboure in Views, Print, Press and News.
Is Apple a design company?
Like many others, I spent some time today looking over the suite of new and updated products from Apple at this years WWDC. Most interesting of all, however, was a new brand ad, communicating the pride they have in signing their products 'Designed by Apple in California'. Read more.
Like many others, I spent some time today looking over the suite of new and updated products from Apple. The new Mac Pro is cool, the new iOS look and feel was very, let's call it, "new", and the other stuff they shared was one, the other and often both at once.
I try not to bring up Apple too much in discussions with my clients, as most times I do, it's dismissed. It seems many people in marketing and business don't think the laws of the real world apply to the Cupertino based company and the enviable brand they've built - as if by magic Apple are able to play by a different set of rules.
I spend a fair bit of time thinking, reading, learning about and admiring Apple. I'm also using at least one and often a few of their products every waking hour of my day; from listening to music from my iPhone in my car driving to work, working on a Mac to reading on my iPad Mini before bed. I admire the company greatly. Most people roll their eyes when I say that, and I understand why; I sound like a fanboy, as if I've been seduced into the cult.
But what I admire about Apple is their culture - a way of thinking, working and making things that, as far as I can tell, has been indelibly marked by the force of will, personality and values of their charismatic founder, Steve Jobs. Steve was fond of saying in many of his keynotes that Apple sits at the intersection of the liberal arts and technology, and in a Forbes article he probably hit upon his most eloquent expression of the ideal;
"It is in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough – it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing."
It wasn't until today I realised Steve wasn't just talking about Apple - the above metaphor, of an intersection of liberal arts and technology, is the perfect expression of what design is. The different disciplines of design are distinguished along technocratic lines - architects and interior designers understand a mullion from a spandrel, industrial designers learn the myriad tolerances of different materials, web designers know PHP from CSS, and graphic designers know all sorts of stuff like how to export a PDF.
Technological differences define and separates design disciplines, be they the productivity software we use, our technical jargon, the production or construction methods. But all design disciplines can speak the language of less is more, of balance and form, of composition. We can all admire and appreciate each other's output, we all have a favourite painter, illustrator or photographer. From my experience, most people in the design industries are socially progressive, politically aware and have read a book or two.
Often in my work I try to distill a 'brand idea' - a snappy two or three word expression of the core idea that underpins a business, the products they put out to the world, what they value, their culture and heritage.
Probably seems obvious - Apple is, at it's core, a design company, free from clients and budgets. A design company where perfection is the only goal and how much your work changes the world is the true measure of success. Today I realised, again, why I love Apple so much - they're the perfect design company; they have colleagues not clients, incredibly high standards, and a huge impact in making people's live better - which sounds to me like any designer's dream job.
Posted by Clinton Duncan in Advertising, Branding, Design, Identity, and Digital.
Ryoji Ikeda @ Carriageworks
Contemporary art in Sydney's larger public institutions can often be a hit and miss affair, but Carriageworks currently has on show a particularly good work with Ryoji Ikeda's Test Pattern #5. Read more.
Contemporary art in Sydney's larger public institutions can often be a hit and miss affair, but Carriageworks currently has on show a particularly good work with Ryoji Ikeda's Test Pattern #5.
Consisting of a series of celing mounted projectors pointed directly down upon the viewer, Ikeda's Test Pattern #5 is a sensory overload of sound and light. Monochrome linear visuals morph in reaction to the stochatto rhythm of the electronic music. Drums pound against the high pitched squeal and crackle that only sound from a digital source seems to deliver.
Viewers are invited to walk amongst the field of light, engaging with their whole being with the artists' forceful, seemingly malicious intent. A cursory glance at this work would read dark and foreboding; a cavernous, ominously darkened room, violent music and no colour at all. And yet, watching other members of the audience, from the young to the old, the reaction is delight, joy. Many jump and skip in time to the racing lines of light, as if playing a game of rope, while others lay flat, relaxied and calm amongst a cacophonous audio visual assault.
Art is often hung on a wall, or mounted on a plinth - precious, unapproachable, "do not touch!" - the penalty of breaking these rules can be painful for all concerned, often most acutely the artist themselves. I'm reminded of a story of an unfortunate German tourist who sat on James Angus' delicately intricate wooden sculpture 'Seagram Building' at the MCA in Sydney a few years back.
It's interesting to note, and heartening for a designer like myself who likes to bend the rules and ignore obviousness, that such an uncomprimising, apparently brutal work like this could be such a crowd pleaser.
Posted by Clinton Duncan in Art, Design, Digital, Environmental and .
Beyond the Signage Surface
A recent study following the implementation of a new signage strategy for pilot programs in London and South Hampton A&E departments reveals a huge decrease in the incidence of violence towards staff. A 50% reduction in fact. Read more.
When discussing signage and communication strategies the focus has to be on creating a meaningful connection to the users of the space, delivering an experience which moves beyond just legibility and circulation objectives. Gordon Eckel takes a closer look.
A London studio were commissioned by the Department of Health and the Design Council to assemble a multidisciplinary team including psychoanalysts, service designers, A&E consultants and social scientists to identify the main reasons why patients become agitated enough to physically or verbally abuse hospital staff.
"A lot of the frustration that leads to anger is just a lack of knowledge and a lack of understanding about how things work," explained Lloyd. "It's caused by patients not understanding the clinical language or the process or why someone who arrives after them is seen before them."
The design was trialled over the past year at a hospital in London and another in Southampton, and PearsonLloyd director Tom Lloyd told Dezeen the results have been overwhelmingly positive: "We were shocked by the fact that there was a 50 percent reduction in the aggressive incidents across the two hospitals after the implementation."
The proposed solution focuses on placing key information in relevant locations within the waiting room and consultation areas so patients are constantly aware of where they are and how long each part of the process might take.
A process map in the waiting room guides patients arriving at A&E through the process, from check-in to assessment, treatment and next steps, and is supplemented by a leaflet with more details.
Vertical panels throughout the department explain the activities that take place in each space and their consistent appearance makes them easily identifiable.
Live information about how busy the department is and predicted waiting times for different assessments are displayed on monitors and the designers have proposed a mobile app that could direct patients to the nearest A&E with the shortest waiting times.
"It's about providing information and it sounds so simple but we wanted to create something that was cheap because if we'd designed the perfect waiting room, with great chairs and great lighting, then the chances of that being able to be rolled out in any hospital was next to zero," explained Lloyd. "We wanted a system that could be retrofitted at very low cost and quite high speed in almost any department in the country."
Extracts from Dezeen where you can read the full article
Posted by Gordon Eckel in Design, Interiors, , Insights and Views.
A low-fi quirky look at Happiness in Design
Check out this amazing TED Talk: by industry legend Stefan Sagmeister. A low-fi quirky look at Happiness in Design Read more.
Here is a great little talk about one man's 'Happiness in Design'. A Low-fi, quirky and entertaining look at the relationship between design and happiness by graphic design heavy-weight Stefan Sagmeister
Posted by Paul Taboure in Design, Insights, Views, People and News.

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Previous Clubs - Solihull Moors, Leamington, Banbury, Kidderminster Harriers, Worcester City, Daventry, Stratford, Redditch United.
The 23-year old signed for the Valiants with a good record at non-league level where he had scored 17 goals in 23 games in the Southern Premier Division.
Angus, started his career off with National League side Solihull Moors and enjoyed loan spells with Leamington and Banbury before joining Kidderminster Harriers as a 19-year old.
He since turned out for the Harriers as well as Worcester City, Daventry and Stratford before joining Redditch United.
The striker enjoyed an impressive stay at The Valley where he was drumming up quite a bit of attention, before making the step up into the Football League.
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Students, Residents Warned to Stay Indoors After Bear Sighting
By Queen Muse	• Published May 28, 2014 • Updated on May 28, 2014 at 4:49 pm
Students and staff at a Pennsylvania school are taking precautionary cover inside a school building awaiting more information about the whereabouts of a bear that was sighted outside the school on Wednesday morning.
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Representatives at St. Jude Catholic School in Chalfont, Bucks County, say there were numerous sightings of the bear in the area surrounding the school.
According to the school's secretary, Terry Crowley, the bear was spotted twice on Wednesday morning; once at around 7:30 a.m. near an entranceway to the school, and a second time, headed towards the St. Jude Church building at around 9 a.m.
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St. Jude is a Catholic elementary school in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, serving pre-school through 8th grade students.
Crowley says the school has notified parents of the bear sighting, and have cancelled all outdoor activities for the day.
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Multiple bear sightings have been reported in areas throughout Bucks County over the past few weeks.
Last week, a near 200-pound bear was captured and euthanized after rummaging through neighborhoods in the Bensalem area of Bucks County for several days.
Hilltown Township Police say another bear was sighted north of the Hilltown Village section of the Bucks County township this week on Tuesday.
Hilltown Police are encouraging residents to report any bear sightings by calling (215) 453-6011.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission, the agency responsible for managing the state's wild animals and habitats, recommend the following safety tips for residents who encounter bears on the loose:
- Do not knowingly approach any bear.
- Do not feed bears.
- Secure trash receptacles & store pet food, bird food, etc. inside.
- Let the bear know you are present by making loud noise and shouting at the bear to scare it away.
- If you find yourself in close proximity to a bear, avoid eye contact and back away slowly.
- In the extremely unlikely and rare instance of a bear attack, people are advised to fight back.


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Serious Case Reviews (SCRs)
Chapter 4 of Working Together to Safeguard Children (DfE, 2015) sets out the criteria for a Serious Case Review. A Serious Case Review should be carried out for every case where abuse or neglect is known or suspected and either a child dies; or a child is seriously harmed and there are concerns about how organisations or professionals worked together to safeguard the child. Other learning reviews can be carried out by the LSCB if the criteria is not met.
It is important for the multi-agency network to understand the learning from reviews and take the necessary steps to address the issues identified in order to make Greenwich a safer place for children to live. Any review should enable local partner agencies to be clear about their responsibilities, to learn from experience and improve services as a result.
The GSCB have a Serious Case Review Work Group which considers how to review a case, how lessons will be shared and monitors the implementation of the action plan agreed by the Board.
At the end of each Serious Case Review, a SCR Final Report is agreed by the GSCB and published. The most recent reports are listed below:
Serious Case Review - Child X
In May 2017, Young Person X fell from a building in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and died. In March 2018, the Inquest found and concluded that tragically, Young Person X had died from multiple injuries and the reason for his death was suicide. The Inquest also found that no public authority failed in their duty to protect Young Person X.
The Serious Case Review (SCR) found that this was an unforeseeable incident and that his actions on that day could not have been predicted. However, the SCR did identify that when responding to such complex situations there are lessons to be learned from this tragedy when agencies respond to similarly complex situations in the future.
All agencies involved in his care have already put a number of actions in place. This includes new protocols about how to respond, and an on-going programme of suicide awareness training for Greenwich schools, and for professionals in organisations who work closely with young people.
Download the Child X Serious Case Review report
Download the Child X factsheet
Serious Case Review - Child V
Child V's mother did not engage with antenatal services during her pregnancy other than one scan before the baby was born in August 2016. Child V was born in a hospital outside of London as her mother went into labour whilst visiting her sister. No concerns were noted during her labour and she was discharged soon after the birth to her sister's address before moving back to her home address in Greenwich. Her stated intention however, was to move to be nearer her sister.
In November 2016 Child V was briefly in the care of her father. The parents were not living together and (at the request of the mother) the father had come to the home of the mother and the baby to care for the child whilst she went shopping. Child V's father noticed that Child V appeared lifeless and he called a friend for advice. Together they took Child V to a local health centre, where emergency life support commenced and the London Ambulance Service were called. Child V underwent CT scans that diagnosed a non-accidental head injury and rib fractures. Following brain stem tests medical care was withdrawn and Child V sadly died.
A number of key learning points have emerged from this case review:
The importance of systems that do not rely on the presence of individuals.
Professionals must be alert to disguised compliance and demonstrate curiosity around children's wider social and family circumstances, particularly the role of fathers.
Appreciation of the impact that parental mental ill health and social isolation can have on children.
A number of actions have already been put into place as a result of this review, including strengthening the pre-birth referral pathway and protocols in relation to follow up for pregnant women who present at hospitals they are not booked at.
Response from the GSCB Independent Chair
Nicky Pace, Independent Chair of the Greenwich Safeguarding Children Board, said: "Our thoughts are with the family following the sad death of this young baby. The recent court proceedings found the child's father not guilty of causing this tragic death, and the source of the fatal injury remains unknown.
"The Serious Case Review (SCR) found that this was an unforeseeable incident and that the injury to the child could not have been predicted. However, there were a number of learning points which arose during the review process, and the SCR did identify that more could be done to ensure that all parents of babies born in Greenwich are aware of the potentially catastrophic impact of shaking a young child.
"All agencies involved in the care of Child V have already put a number of actions in place. This includes a new system for processing pre-birth safeguarding referrals and a more proactive response to pregnant women who access ante-natal services at hospitals they are not booked at."
Download the Child V Serious Case Review report
Download the Child V factsheet
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Statement by the GSCB Independent Chair
Nicky Pace, Independent Chair of the Greenwich Safeguarding Children Board, said: "Our review looked at all the circumstances of this case, and in particular the involvement of housing, health and other public sector agencies with the family. While the Board concluded that it is unlikely that these deaths could be considered either preventable or predictable, there are always lessons to be learned.
"This is a tragic case and our thoughts and sympathies are with all those affected by the very sad death of this mother and her two young children."
From the findings of this independent review, there are lessons to be learned regarding the understanding of the impact of a mother's mental health on the children and how professionals should 'Think Family' first, in order to better understand and consider the possible wider impact and risk within the family unit.
Further learning involves understanding the impact on a family of the housing situation, particularly homelessness and the level of stress under which people may be living. The report also considered how agencies reach out to people who have expressed suicidal thoughts.
The Board has shared its findings with all the relevant agencies and can reassure the public and others that the learning points outlined in the Report have not been delayed and that all the agencies have implemented changes as recommended in the report.
Nicky Pace, Independent Chair of GSCB, 17 January 2018
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GSCB SCR Child S
GSCB SCR Child S briefing
GSCB SCR Child S – summary of action plan
GSCB Serious Case Review - Child T
GSCB SCR Child T - Statement by the GSCB Independent Chair
"This is a tragic and distressing case and our thoughts and sympathies are with all those affected by Child T's death.
"As both the review and the Inquest concluded, it was clear that Child T felt she was no longer able to carry on living While the review found that with hindsight there were missed opportunities for services to coordinate better, there is no way to conclude with certainty that the outcome would have been different.
"For Child T's family members and friends – as well as for her teachers and others who had regular contact her - this has been, and remains, a distressing case. Our review reached the firm view that Child T found her secondary school to be a safe and nurturing environment in which she had been flourishing.
"Our review looked at the final three years of Child T's life and made a number of recommendations in relation to how professionals working with young people can better understand some of the issues that can lead to self-harm and suicide.
"At the inquest into her death the Coroner concluded that Child T had committed suicide. She found that there had not been any failings by the agencies involved with Child T leading up to her death that had caused or contributed in any way to the suicide. The coroner also found that Child T had been appropriately responded to and well supported by professionals working with her.
"She further acknowledged that through the Serious Care Review and other individual agencies' reviews there had been intensive investigation into the situation and therefore did not find it necessary to duplicate this work by making additional recommendations.
"I hope that those affected by her loss are able to take some comfort from both the findings of the Serious Case Review and from the outcome of the Inquest."
Nicky Pace, Independent Chair of GSCB, 18 February 2016
GSCB SCR Child T Report
GSCB SCR Child T Briefing
GSCB SCR Child T Summary of Action Plan
Learning from Serious Case Reviews: We regularly hold seminars for front line professionals and volunteers working with children and families in Greenwich to present the recommendations from local and national case reviews, and consider how they can be used to improve outcomes for children locally.
Please visit our Learning and Development section for more information on these training opportunities.


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Wyman-Gordon is a company that designs and manufactures complex metal components. Founded in 1883 as a manufacturer of crankshafts for looms, it has a long history of making forged metal components, particularly for the aerospace industry. Wyman-Gordon is now a subsidiary of Precision Castparts Corp., and is based in Houston, Texas. It has 13 plants in five countries, and employed about 2,500 people as of 2012.

History

Early years

The Worcester Drop Forge Works was founded in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1883 by Horace Wyman and Lyman Gordon. It was later renamed the Wyman-Gordon Company.
The company began with eight people in a small wooden factory building, forging crankshafts for looms.  A 50-horsepower steam engine provided power for the drop hammers and other equipment.
The fathers of the founders were both managers at the Crompton Loom Works and helped their sons' business win contracts for the crankshafts and for pistol and micrometer components.

The company won contracts from railroads for automatic couplers and from bicycle manufacturers for sprockets, spindles, and pedals, having gained a reputation for the high quality of its early work.
From around 1902, it also began filling orders for crankshafts from manufacturers of the recently invented automobile.
Horace Wyman died in 1905 and Lyman Gordon in 1914;  George F. Fuller (1869–1962) succeeded to the company presidency upon Gordon's death.
Fuller had joined the company as an accountant, but had invented several ways to improve the quality of the forged metal components.
The company grew steadily under his leadership.

Growth with the aerospace industry

When World War I broke out, the U.S. government contracted with Wyman-Gordon to supply forgings for the 90-horsepower engines of Curtis Jenny biplanes.  This was followed by contracts to produce airframe and engine forgings for almost all U.S. military aircraft. Wyman-Gordon maintained a close relationship with manufacturers of commercial and military airplanes after the war, making growing numbers of parts for engines, crankshafts, propellers, airframes, and landing gear. The company expanded the Worcester factory and opened a new plant in Harvey, Illinois.

During World War II (1939–1945) the company expanded again to supply many types of forged components to airplane manufacturers.  Every American plane in combat service included Wyman-Gordon components.

In 1944, Wyman-Gordon was chosen to receive an 18,000-ton closed-die hydraulic press, the largest in the United States. The War Production Board had found from captured airplanes that Germany had larger presses than U.S. engineers had thought practical, and was using that equipment to forge large aircraft components from lightweight magnesium. Seeking to replicate this capability in the U.S., the War Production Board contracted with the Mesta Machine Co. of Pittsburgh to fabricate a new large press to be operated by Wyman-Gordon. A new plant was built around the press in North Grafton, Massachusetts, completed after the war in 1946.

The introduction of jet engines in the years after World War II caused a drastic switch in requirements, demanding fewer forgings, but forgings that were larger, lighter, stronger and more tolerant of heat than anything made so far. The new components produced by Wyman-Gordon were of much greater value, compensating for their decreased number.

The Korean War stimulated demand for new airplanes, requiring even larger components than could be built by the North Grafton press.  In 1951, construction began on a plant that opened in 1955 with two presses, one with 35,000 tons of force and the other 50,000 tons. The 50,000-ton press was the largest machine in the world at the time, 10 stories high and with foundations extending  into bedrock.  In 1983, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers designated the 50,000-ton forging press in North Grafton as a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark.

Wyman-Gordon was a pioneer in forging titanium, with the first main use being for compressor disks in Pratt & Whitney engines.  Westinghouse and General Electric also used the company's titanium forgings, and its products were used in building the engine of the LGM-30 Minuteman missile. Demand continued to grow during the 1960s and 1970s, with military demand due to the Vietnam war and growing demand from commercial civilian airplane manufacturers.  The support beam for the Boeing 747 landing gear was larger than any closed-die titanium forging that had ever been made in the past.

In 1980, Wyman-Gordon was hit by a severe shortage of titanium that hurt its ability to fulfil orders for hundreds of types of aircraft. In the early 1980s, the company bought International Titanium, a company based in Moses Lake, Washington, built a state-of-the-art facility for International Titanium to produce titanium sponge, and built a new facility in Millbury, Massachusetts, to alloy the sponge with other metals. Because the company now had complete control of its supply chain, customers were more certain of Wyman-Gordon's delivery capability, leading to increased orders.

Other aspects
Harry G. Stoddard became a vice president of Wyman-Gordon in 1911 and was appointed President in 1931.  He also had interests in banking and was part owner of the Worcester Telegram.
His son Robert Waring Stoddard joined the company in 1929 and succeeded Harry G. Stoddard as president in 1955, holding that position until being elected chairman in 1967. He was one of the founders of the right-wing and anticommunist John Birch Society.
Stoddard was opposed to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would make racial discrimination illegal.  In 1964, the company employed black workers only as janitors.  Abbie Hoffman was the press officer for a group of civil-rights agitators who targeted the Worcester plant for picketing.  Later, they filed petitions with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the U.S. Air Force.  In July that year the company agreed to change its hiring practices.

As late as the 1970s, Wyman-Gordon was a major player in automotive forging. Due to growth of international competition in this market, the company decided to focus on aerospace.
Wyman-Gordon India, a joint venture, went public in February 1962.
In 1964, Wyman-Gordon India started mass production of forged steel crankshafts and other components for an Indian-made jeep that Mahindra & Mahindra was manufacturing.  This was the first time crankshafts had been produced in India.
Later the company changed its name to WG Forge & Allied Industries Limited.
In the long run, the company was not successful.  It was referred to the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction, which tried to revive it, but without success.
In 1992, it went into liquidation.

Difficulties and acquisition

In the late 1980s, the need for military components was reduced as the Cold War ended, coupled with a decline in demand for commercial aircraft parts. By 1993, the aerospace industry was just 60% of its size in the mid-1980s. Wyman-Gordon had to lay off employees.
Despite financial difficulties, in March 1992, the company announced a joint venture with Pratt & Whitney and Perth, Western Australia-based Western Aerospace to form Western Australian Speciality Alloys.  The new company would process Australian ores into nickel-based superalloys at a new plant at Canning Vale, near Perth. These alloys are designed to handle extreme heat (as in jet engines) and are extremely durable.
Wyman-Gordon also acquired PFI investment cast facilities (1988), Arwood investment cast facilities (1990), and Cameron Forge (1994).

In May 1999, Precision Castparts Corporation agreed to pay $721 million for Wyman-Gordon, while also assuming $104 million in debt.  The combined company would be able to supply both castings and forgings for airplane engines.
The purchase would have potentially reduced competition in the industry.
To gain approval for the deal from the Federal Trade Commission, PCC was required to divest two of Wyman-Gordon's foundries, one in Albany, Oregon, and the other in Groton, Connecticut.
The acquisition was completed on 12 January 2000.
At least in the short term, it was planned that Wyman-Gordon would retain a separate identity.

Recent years
In April 2000, PCC announced that it was closing Wyman-Gordon's Buffalo, New York, pipe-making plant.
The 12,000-ton extrusion press would be moved to the Wyman-Gordon facility in Houston.
By consolidating production in one plant, the company would cut costs and speed up the production cycle.
Wyman-Gordon purchased the UEF aerospace division of United Engineering Forgings in May 2000 for £22m, calling the new subsidiary Wyman Gordon Lincoln.
The division based in Lincoln, England, makes forged engine discs, engine shafts, and components of airframes and landing-gear.
Its main customer is Rolls-Royce.

In 2000, Wyman-Gordon built a manufacturing facility in Plzeň, Czech Republic.
The  plant makes titanium, nickel, and steel alloy rotary parts for the power generation and aerospace industries,
using immersion ultrasound to test the products.
In December 2000, Wyman-Gordon acquired the Drop Dies and Forging Company, which had been founded in 1919 by Joseph F. Rice.
In January 2011, it was reported that Wyman-Gordon had expressed interest in a joint venture with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited  to manufacture boiler tubes in India.

Wyman-Gordon serves the marine, aerospace, power, fuel, and construction industries. It uses forging and extrusion presses that are among the world's largest, including a 35,000-ton press in Houston and a 30,000-ton press in Livingston, coupled with custom-made dies to produce various complex components. Its plants process steel, titanium, and nickel-based materials, among others.

See also
Heavy Press Program

References

External links

Historic American Engineering Record in Massachusetts
Manufacturing companies established in 1883
Manufacturing companies based in Houston
Metal companies of the United States
2000 mergers and acquisitions

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CIJA rejects clarification for Ethiopian contraception story
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) has rejected Radio-Canada's clarification of a report that the Israeli government administered controversial birth control to Ethiopian women in that country, calling it misleading and a distortion of the facts.
On March 5, journalist Khady Beye reported on the Radio-Canada radio show Médium large that Israel had forced Ethiopian immigrants over a period of years to be injected with a form of long-term birth control without their consent.
In a letter sent to the French-language public broadcaster on the same day, CIJA requested that the radio show make a correction, given that the journalist had presented "contradictory allegations as facts."
On April 1, Sylvie Julien, content chief of Première Chaîne Radio-Canada, replied that the journalist had used respectable sources, such as Le Point, Jeune Afrique, Slate Afrique and The Times of Israel, although CIJA points out that she didn't mention these on air.
CIJA presented Radio-Canada with additional sources, such as Associated Press, the BBC, the London Telegraph, the Montreal Gazette, Ha'aretz and The Times of Israel, which reported denials by Israeli authorities and representatives of the Israeli-Ethiopian community of such events ever having taken place.
In acknowledgment, the radio show posted links to these articles on its website, without making a correction or apologizing for it journalist having presented disputed allegations as facts, said CIJA spokesperson David Ouellette.
CIJA responded to Julien stating that if the show did not make a correction on air, Radio-Canada would be ignoring its own policy with respect to the correction of errors.
"This policy states that in the interest of accuracy, integrity and equity, the organization will not hesitate to correct an important error when it is established that one was made," Ouellette explained.
The next day, Julien informed CIJA that the show would make clarifications on the air.
On April 4, Médium large published a clarification on its website and Beye explained herself on air in an exchange with host Catherine Perrin.
Beye said, "Yes… I cited articles which were published by Le Point, Slate Afrique and Jeune Afrique, which reported these allegations, but there were also articles published which provided another view of the situation.
"According to, among others, l'Agence de Presse Reuters, the BBC and the website Israel Info, the Israeli authorities denied adopting such policies to control the birth rate among Ethiopian immigrant women, and the BBC reported that Israel intends to create an investigation committee composed of officials of the Health Ministry, an independent doctor and a representative of the Israeli-Ethiopian community, to confirm that the policy of forced contraception never occurred."
However, Ouellette said, during the original March 5 broadcast, Beye never mentioned which sources she was relying on, or that her sources merely " alleged" that the Israeli government had administered long-term contraceptives to Israeli women without their knowledge.
In fact, he said, she stated that, for eight years, the Israeli government forced Ethiopian women immigrants arriving in Israel to take a long-term contraceptive injection, which they were told was a vaccine.
"It is regrettable that a month after broadcasting false information, Radio-Canada can do no better than to treat the faulty sources used by Ms. Beye as equally credible and legitimate as media reports that are factually accurate and complete," CIJA said in a statement.
"The public is entitled to receive from Radio-Canada a clear and unambiguous correction of this seriously flawed piece of journalism. Once again, Radio-Canada disappoints and leaves us not alternative but to pursue our complaint with the public broadcaster's ombudsman."
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Triumf Frederika Hendrika, princa Oranskega, je slika flamskega baročnega slikarja Jacoba Jordaensa, podpisana in datirana spodaj levo »J JOR fec / 1652«.

Zgodovina

Huis ten Bosch, danes nizozemska kraljeva rezidenca, je bila zgrajena na lokaciji blizu Haaga, ki ga je Republika Nizozemska leta 1645 podelila Frederiku Hendriku, princu Oranskem. Leta 1647, preden je bila dokončana, je princ umrl, njegova predana vdova Amalia Solms-Braunfels pa je želela bistveno spremeniti obliko in jo spremeniti v spomin na svojega pokojnega moža. Pridobila je tudi sliko Artemizije, ki je postavila Mavzolej v Halikarnasu kot spomin na svojega pokojnega moža Mavzola.

Posvetilo palače Huis ten Bosch spominu Frederiku Hendriku je mogoče videti tudi v glavni dvorani Oranjezaal, ki vsebuje ogromen cikel slik, ki slavijo njegova dejanja in vrline, navdihnjena s ciklom Marije Medičejske Petra Paula Rubensa v Parizu in alegorične stropne slike Jakoba I. Angleškega v Banqueting House v Londonu. K ciklu je prispevalo več slikarjev, tako iz Republike Nizozemske kot iz Španske Nizozemske. Triumf je bil vrhunec cikla - Jordaens je že prejel naročilo za Alegorijo časa v sobi leta 1650. Po Rubensovi in smrti Anthonyja van Dycka je bil Jordaens zdaj vodilni slikar Španske Nizozemske.

Amalia je prevzela nekdanjega moževega tajnika Constantijna Huygensa in arhitekta Jacoba van Campena za nadzor nad slikanjem cikla v Oranjezaal. Od Jordaensa do Huygensa so ohranjena pisma, ki kažejo, da je Van Campen slikarju poslal načrt sobe in da je predlagal številne spremembe svoje prvotne ideje. Preživele so tudi tri Jordaensove oljne skice za strop, ki so jih verjetno izdelali za odobritev Amalije in Van Campena. Nobena od skic se popolnoma ne ujema s končno sliko, kar verjetno kaže, da niso bili odobreni vsi slikarjevi predlogi. Od Jordaensa Amaliji je ohranjeno še eno pismo, ki razlaga alegorične pomene končanega dela.

Opis in slog

Glede na številne podobnosti med ikonografijo obeh del je bil Jordaensov verjetni model grafika Salomona Saveryja po risbi Davida Vinckboonsa. Ta risba je bila Alegorija zmagovitega vstopa Frederika Hendrika v Haag po zmagah za Wesel in 's-Hertogenbosch, njegovih dveh velikih uspehov v osemdesetletni vojni.

V Jordaensovem delu je princ prikazan v oklepu in globoko rdečem ogrinjalu (ki spominja na starodavno rimsko slavoločno obleko), ki sedi na prestolu v zmagoslavni kočiji. Zlata skulptura Zmage ima za seboj dve kroni, eno položi z njeno desno roko na glavo Friderika Hendrika, drugo pa nasloni na njegovega sina Viljema II. Oranskega, prikazan kot mladi konjenik spodaj desno. Goli Himen za Viljemom ga okrona z zlatim vencem, ki ga obdaja krona - znotraj tega venca sta dve roki, ki simbolizirata Viljemovo poroko s hčerko Karla I., Marijo.

Kočijo Frederika Hendrika vlečejo štirje beli konji z zlatimi vpregami. Moška figura, oblečena samo v psevdo-turško obleko, zajaha enega od njih in ima rog izobilja s sadjem in klasjem, simbol obilja. Poleg konjev Minerva (levo) in Merkur (desno, s krilatim klobukom in sandali) delujeta kot ženina in simbolizirata modrost, borbeno krepost in zvitost Frederika Hendrika. Konji pod svojimi kopiti poteptajo dve strašni kači (Neskladje) in postavo, ki grize srce (Zavist). Dva leva pred konji simbolizirata hrabrost in pogum, medtem ko štiri Muze skrajno levo simbolizirajo štiri province Nizozemske.

V ozadju je slavolok, ki ga obdajata dva zlata kipa na podstavkih, ki predstavljata Frederika Hendrika očeta, Viljem I. Oranski in njegovega polbrata Mavricija Nassau (desno), ki sta bila pred njim kot Statolder. Ljudje se zbirajo okoli kipov in si ogledujejo zmagovito povorko. Nad konji krilata figura s trobento (Slava) premaga okostjaka, višje pa ženska v beli halji v obeh rokah drži palmove veje. Obkrožena je s putti, ki razvijajo dolg zvitek z napisom ULTIMUS ANTE OMNES DE PARTA PACE TRIUMPHUS (Najbolj poštena od vseh zmag je tista, s katerim se doseže mir), kar je razvidno iz pisma v Nizozemski narodni knjižnici, ki ga je izumil Huygens. Nanaša se na Münsterski mir, del Vestfalske pogodbe iz leta 1648, ki je Nizozemski zagotovil neodvisnost in opustil vse španske zahteve do njenih dežel  - Frederik je umrl pred pogodbo, vendar so njegove vojaške zmage odločno utrle pot do nje. Številni drugi putti na samem vrhu slike držijo dolgo girlando, polno sadja, drugi pa čez Frederika Hendrika nagnejo še en rog obilja s  kovanci in nakitom, ki simbolizira bogastvo in blaginjo.

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From Galileo to the L'Aquila earthquake: Italian science on trial
I have a new story published on my Across the Universe blog over at The Guardian.
"The Italian earthquake trial, in which six seismologists and a civil servant were found guilty of manslaughter, has an eerie resonance with the Galileo trial of 1633
Europe to begin search for habitable planets in our cosmic backyard
"The European Space Agency has approved the first of its small science missions. Don't let the description fool you, there is nothing small about the goals of Cheops. It's a step towards finding habitable planets
Royal Mail stamps celebrate Britain's contribution to space exploration
"The Royal Mail's latest stamps feature close-up views of alien worlds captured during European Space Agency missions
Radio 4: The Museum of Curiosity
I can't tell you how pleased I was to be invited onto the Radio 4's Museum of Curiosity. I was one of three guests. My partners were the orchid collector Tom Hart Dyke and comedian Jo Brand. John Lloyd was the presenter and the guest curator was Jimmy Carr.
Why Einstein never received a Nobel prize for relativity
As part of my research for The Day Without Yesterday, the third volume of The Sky's Dark Labyrinth trilogy, I have become fascinated by Einstein's fractious relationship with the Nobel Institute. This week, the 2012 prizes are awarded and it afforded me the opportunity to write about Einstein's Nobel Prize for my Across the Universe blog for The Guardian.
"Nobel prizes often attract controversy, but usually after they have been awarded. Albert Einstein's physics prize was the subject of argument for years before it was even a reality
How dangerous is space debris?
'Extremely' is the answer. Being hit by a 'sugar-cube' of space debris is the equivalent of standing next to an exploding hand-grenade. And the problem is only getting worse.
Canadian Lecture Tour 17-26 October
I cannot tell you all how pleased I am that The Sensorium of God is soon to be published by McArthur Books in Canada. It has already been chosen by Quill and Quire as one of the fall's biggest books.
Quill and Quire say: "The second book in the Sky's Dark Labyrinth trilogy by Stuart Clark once again delves into a world in which science and religion go head to head. In The Sensorium of God (McArthur & Company, $24.95 pa., Aug.), astronomer Edmond Halley visits Isaac Newton to help find mathematical proof of Kepler's Law of Planetary Motion - a meeting that catapults their lives into crisis and pushes Europe headlong into the Enlightenment. ..."
To celebrate the release, I shall be in Canada for 10 days, later this month. All my Canada trip jigsaw pieces have fitted together perfectly to promote the publication of The Sensorium of God by McArthur Books in Canada. The official publication date is 30 October. You can pre-order from Chapters or Amazon. We very much hope to have copies at the events as well.
I have an extremely exciting programme of events coming up and I look forward to seeing some of you in either Toronto or Montreal.
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Water on Mars has a long history
Curiosity's discovery of a dry river bed adds to a 40-year-old body of evidence for once-flowing water on Mars
Solar maximum? Oh, you just missed it
Regular readers will know of my interest in solar activity. I'm excited to say that things have taken a new twist. I have a new story published over at New Scientist that explains all:
"WAITING for solar fireworks to reach a grand finale next year? Um, sorry, looks like you already missed them. Structures in the sun's corona indicate that the peak in our star's latest cycle of activity has been and gone, at least in its northern hemisphere.
Was Newton a scientist or a sorcerer?
"Isaac Newton's belief in spirits and alchemy may have been essential to achieving his towering scientific achievement: gravity. A new science and arts festival begins this weekend to explore this complex man
Hot on the heels of Isaac Newton's apple appearing at the Paralympics comes a new celebration of his life and achievements. The Gravity Fields Festival begins on Friday in Grantham, Lincolnshire. For eight days, Newton's life and times will be commemorated by more than 100 events around the town, during what could become a biennial event.
Grantham lies close to Newton's birthplace, Woolsthorpe Manor, and contains the King's School, which the young Isaac attended. On Saturday at 3pm a blue plaque in his honour will be unveiled by the Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees.
Often wrongly portrayed as a cold rationalist, Isaac Newton is one of history's most compelling figures. It is true that he was capable of the most precise and logical thought it is possible for a human to achieve: his three years of obsessive work that gave birth to the Principia, containing his theory of gravity, stand as the greatest achievement in science.
Just as certainly, though, he was also consumed with what we would now view as completely unscientific pursuits: alchemy and biblical prophesy. ..."
I will be talking in the Angel & Royal at 12.15 on Thursday 27th. Details here.


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Curtis Edward Presley Jr.
Published 12:00 pm Tuesday, November 10, 2015
OXFORD — Curtis Edward Presley Jr., 87, died Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015. A memorial service will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at First United Methodist Church in Clarksdale. Visitation will be today from 5-6:30 p.m. at Christ Presbyterian Church in Oxford and on Wednesday from 11 a.m. until service time at First UMC in Clarksdale. Meredith-Nowell Funeral Home in Clarksdale is in charge of arrangements.
A native of Rena Lara, he graduated from Clarksdale High School before joining the U.S. Navy aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge. He attended Ole Miss one year before attending and graduating from Auburn University. He farmed in and around Rena Lara and also worked at First National Bank in Clarksdale until his retirement. He and his wife settled in Oxford in 2010. A long-time member of First UMC in Clarksdale, he loved teaching Sunday school, and later became a member of Christ Presbyterian Church in Oxford.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Mary Eva Crumpton Presley; daughters Mary Brownlee Couch and Grace Sandlin; son Curtis Edward Presley III; and eight grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions to the First Methodist Church, P.O. Box 1303 Clarksdale, MS 38614 or to the building fund of Christ Presbyterian Church building fund, P.O. Box 921 Oxford, MS. 38655.
Waymon Montgomery


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5 Tips for Broadcast TV This Summer (and Beyond)
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Last week, without any fanfare, ABC premiered a quirky little nature series titled When Nature Calls. Cheekily narrated by Dame Helen Mirren — acting legend and Nevada resident — the show takes footage from the BBC's myriad documentaries and adds in the imagined, hopefully comedic musings of the animals involved. It's a little weird, and very cheesy. Purists will no doubt be aghast at turning Planet Earth into a mid-level DreamWorks Animation production. But When Nature Calls is also not something you see very often on American broadcast TV, and apparently audiences were interested: The debut of When Nature Calls drew just over 4 million viewers, making it one of the ten most-watched non-sports broadcasts last week. Not bad for a talking-animal show.
Now, it's entirely possible those Nielsen numbers will drop sharply over the next week or two, particularly since summer ratings can be highly variable. (Lots of folks bailed between the first and second half of last week's episode.) And yet even if Nature Calls ends up a quickly forgotten flop, its mere existence is encouraging to those of us who want to see broadcasters rally and figure out how to make themselves relevant in the digital age. Not because the world necessarily needs more anthropomorphic slapstick, but because it's a sign the networks heretofore known as the Big Four are starting to figure out how to adjust to their diminished role/standing/status in the TV universe. Seven years ago, during the 2014-15 television season, more than 25 entertainment shows on the networks attracted an average weekly audience over 10 million viewers. This past season, that number was down to six. It's really hard to come up with those blockbuster hits everybody wants to watch, and I think broadcast execs have adjusted their expectations accordingly.
This doesn't mean networks should stop creating entertainment that, in theory, has broad appeal. CBS shouldn't be doing Adult Swim–style animation, and Kevin Can F**k Himself wouldn't work on ABC. But for the longest time, broadcast execs condescendingly wrote off far too many ideas as "too cable." Shows like Dr. Pimple Popper or Queen of the South were seen as fine for a TLC or USA Network, but were deemed too "niche" for the networks. That was always ridiculous, since the only reason many — though obviously not all — cable shows generated smaller audiences was because their respective networks didn't have a big enough marketing budget, or they lacked the sort of tentpole programming (sports, local news, Wheel of Fortune) that allows broadcasters to more easily reach casual viewers just browsing around the dial. It's even more ludicrous now, at a time when the biggest franchises on cable have the same sort of brand awareness and cumulative audience as network shows. Heck, even with cable-news ratings sliding post-Trump, Fox News or MSNBC primetime shows regularly reach more eyeballs than some broadcast series. And in the young-adult demos that networks still try to target, there are nights when a random rerun of Friends on cable notches the same rating as a first-run broadcast show. (It's rare, but it happens.)
Of all the big networks, ABC was arguably the first to abandon, in earnest, the old-fashioned notions of what makes a "broadcast" show. A few years ago, the network followed the shocking success of Celebrity Family Feud by adding more and more revivals of game shows such as Pyramid, Match Game, and Press Your Luck. That promoted rivals to start joking about how the Alphabet was turning into the Game Show Network. I remember one source scoffing that it seemed liked ABC was "giving up." But while none of the sequels proved as popular as Feud, ABC's so-called Summer Fun and Games programming proved to be a consistent draw, keeping the lights on during the slow summer months at a relatively cost-effective rate. Encouraged by this, and maybe a little desperate to fill some holes in its schedule, ABC next started shifting those summer games into the regular season, and once again, audiences showed up. Some at-bats, like the primetime Wheel of Fortune and the champions edition of Jeopardy!, have even been legit hits. Now all of the networks are swimming with gameshows (maybe too many, which is not something this die-hard gameshow lover says lightly). ABC didn't invent the idea of low-cost programs or trying untraditional formats, of course. Fox is the king of out-there ideas, whether it's current smash The Masked Singer or long-ago eye-poppers such as Joe Millionaire. But the Alphabet did change the game, as it were, in terms of how much to rely on alternative formats.
The takeaway from what ABC has done is not that network TV should be nothing but cost-effective unscripted series, or that broadcasters shouldn't aim for big hits. Fox's 9-1-1 and CBS's The Equalizer prove audiences will still show up for traditional network-style shows if they're well-cast and well-executed. And the fact that social media goes into a tizzy whenever a broadcast network kills a show that's done well on Netflix (think Good Girls or Manifest) is a sign networks clearly still know the formula to create programming millions of folks feel passionately about. There may have to be more sharing of costs with sibling streaming platforms, but network comedies and dramas aren't going away anytime soon, even if I think there will be fewer of them five years from now.
As much progress as networks have made the past couple of years evolving their program strategy, I'd argue the former Big Four haven't gone far enough in shaking things up. What networks need to do now is to throw out even more rules about what belongs on a network primetime schedule, or how those shows get scheduled. They need to take a page from the Elizabeth Warren playbook and go for big, bold structural changes — stuff that goes against all the lessons they've learned over the decades about how to successfully run a TV network. And they should start ASAP, by rethinking how they program the summer.
Summertime has long been network TV's season of experimentation, in part because the stakes are so much lower due to lower ad revenue and viewership. In years past, summer is how we got shows such as Seinfeld and Northern Exposure and Survivor — ideas once seen as far too out there to put on during the regular TV year. Nielsen numbers have sunk so far in recent summers, I honestly think there's never been less downside, ratings-wise, to just going wild and doing stuff that's the opposite of a sure thing. Few folks even notice when a network show comes on and barely cracks one million viewers. Cable ratings have sunk to even more embarrassing lows, but I'm not even sure the Hollywood trades bother to cover those numbers. Doing something flashy and different probably won't result in notably worse ratings than the usual mix of reruns and reality shows, and there's the chance a few ideas could break out.
To be sure, my throw-caution-to-the-wind strategy falls apart if all you're looking to do is maximize short-term revenue. A low-rated rerun or reality show makes a lot more money than an ambitious idea which simply matches the ratings of something it replaced. But I don't think being more creative means networks need to start packing summertime with massively expensive original productions. I think there are ways to get clever and build buzz with some modest, strategic investments that don't break the bank. More importantly, the goal should be not to dramatically boost summer ratings, but to use the season as a testing ground to identify ideas that might translate well to the regular season and help in broadcasters' bigger battle — not just to survive, but to thrive.
As anyone who follows me on Twitter knows, I'm a bit of a frustrated programming exec. So it's not surprising that I actually have some ideas about how the nets can spice up their off-season:
Summer would be a great place to figure out how to bring back TV movies for broadcast. The genre died because it was impossible to justify the production costs versus the relatively low ratings that telepics produced for just one telecast. But networks can now immediately monetize movies by selling them to streaming platforms (or putting them on their own services). You don't need to aggregate a lot of viewers in one night. As it happens, ViacomCBS is planning a major push into TV movies for its former cable networks (now known as "brands"). By next year, you'll start seeing films based on various Comedy Central and MTV-related properties pop up on the cable channels and Paramount+. As of now, however, there have been no plans announced to make such movies for CBS — and that makes zero sense to me given the rich catalogue of IP available to the network via CBS Studios.
Reboot Diagnosis: Murder with Neil Patrick Harris or reimagine The Love Boat as The Love Boat Mysteries, with Issac now moonlighting as a crimesolver. Instead of committing to a full series revival — and all the risks entailed — do two or three movies of each title, and rotate them weekly in the same slot over the summer. (This sort of "wheel" format worked really well in the 1970s to launch shows such as Columbo and Quincy.) NBC could do something similar, perhaps launching some spinoff TV movies revolving around minor characters in the Dick Wolf Cinematic Universe. If all that is too ambitious for the summer, the networks could get the folks who do Hallmark and Lifetime telepics to churn out some cost-effective pulp fiction or quickie biopics for the summer.
Speaking of films, CBS had some success last year mining the Paramount vault to revive the network movie night. It was a great idea, but I don't think the Eye realized its full upside. While the network tried to cut back the number of ads on some titles, most were still loaded with commercials. For audiences now used to streaming movies ad-free on Netflix or Disney+, or with small ad breaks on a free streamer, sitting through 20 or 30 minutes of commercials for one movie is a deal-breaker. The solution, I think, is to do what local TV stations (and sometimes networks) did back in the 1970s and '80s, which was to present movies with "limited commercial interruptions." There would be just two or three breaks for the whole film. Networks could bring that concept back by finding sponsors willing to pay a bit more for exclusivity: Think The Matrix brought to you by State Farm Insurance. Or perhaps a movie night could be sponsored by a streaming service connected to a network. Pluto or Peacock, for example, could tout their lighter ad loads by sponsoring a movie on CBS or NBC. Streamers seemingly have cash to burn for marketing, so why not spend some of it in-house on your broadcast partner?
And while there was certainly some logic to making last year's CBS movie of the week rely on the biggest of blockbusters, I also wonder whether there might not be more upside from programming titles that don't fall into the "seen it 20 times" category? I'm not suggesting ABC air My Dinner With Andre, but instead of Frozen II, maybe it pulls Sister Act from the Disney vault — and has Whoopi Goldberg film an intro, or even reunite with some of the cast. You don't need to commission a full-on documentary to accompany a film, but something as simple as a celebrity host and taking part in a livetweet during the broadcast could make it into an event.
Soap operas long ago disappeared from primetime and are barely clinging to life in daytime. But I'd love to see a network use summer to figure out a way to reboot the genre by using beloved brands. For example, why not revive Generations, the landmark sudser which featured a mostly Black cast, as a six-week, 30-episode limited series which lived on both NBC and Peacock? Instead of thinking in terms of a new series which would go on for years, the revival could be refashioned as an American telenovela, with a fixed end to the main story. Generations is admittedly a show which was never a big hit during it short life, but NBC, ABC, and CBS all have legacy soap brands whose resurrections would become an instant event. And while you'd probably want the production values to be a bit better than daytime, soaps producers are experts at keeping costs down. But I think the success CBS has had over the years with Big Brother, and its dogged attempt to make Love Island a bigger hit in the States, hints that audiences will embrace shows that air multiple nights per week. Plus, at the end of the run, the streaming partner for the show will have the equivalent of a three-season binge to offer subscribers.
NBC's 2009 attempt to have Jay Leno do his show at 10 p.m. was a legendary failure. That said, given how much has changed in the TV landscape over the past dozen years, I think networks should experiment again with having their hosts appear earlier in the evening during the summer. For example, why not give James Corden six or eight weeks off from his nightly CBS show and instead let him do six 90-minute primetime editions packed with the variety-show stuff he does best? Book some big guests, do a few more musical numbers than usual, and air it after Big Brother or Love Island. Will the numbers be massive? Probably not. ABC's NBA Finals–adjacent primetime editions of Jimmy Kimmel didn't set any records. But a 12:35 a.m. host such as Corden would gain some extra exposure for his regular series, and CBS would gain some insights into whether the viewers who aren't staying up until 12:30 a.m. might tune in for a weekly primetime talkshow.
Similarly, there's no reason daytime talkshow hosts — specifically,I'm thinking of Kelly Clarkson — can't stay up later during the summer. The singer was born to host a full-on variety show, with production numbers and sketches. I know, I know: The format has been largely extinct for 30 years, and attempts to revive it in recent years have been a major bust. (Maya Rudolph deserved more time.) Unlike a Corden or Kimmel, Clarkson can't simply shift her daytime show to nights: NBC produces it, but the show is actually syndicated to local stations, not all of which are affiliated with the network. Because of that schedule, it's highly unlikely she'd have the time to do a regular weekly variety series, too. But why not give her a three- or four-night primetime residency? Have her host an hour for multiple nights over the course of a week. Let her fill it with supersized Kellyoke, a few SNL-style sketches (maybe Lorne Michaels produces it?), and as many celebrity friends as she can book.
This would not be a cheap idea, and the risk factor would definitely be higher than some of the things I outlined earlier. But imagine this variety show residency airing just before the start of the new season of her show (and NBC's primetime launch). More than just filling time, NBC would be creating a marketing event around its new season. Seems like a better investment than bus-shelter ads and billboards.
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'The Best Man Holiday' is a Winner
November 21, 2013 12:00 am by Jake Threet
Fans have been waiting 14 years for the sequel to the 1999 sleeper hit "The Best Man". I, too, am a huge fan of the movie, but I've been waiting a shorter amount of time than some, because I didn't watch the original until years after its release. When the news broke back in 2011 that Malcom D. Lee was developing a sequel to his successful predecessor, I was instantly filled with excitement. As time progressed, all nine original cast members joined the project and it was a go.
The sequel, "The Best Man Holiday" opens with a quick recap leading up to the time of the current film. It helps those moviegoers who may not be familiar with the original see how the group of friends got to the point from which the new movie opens. From there, we dive right into the present day lives of every cast member and quickly see what each have been up to in the time since the first film. The first hour of the film jumps right into establishing the plot and getting everyone back together.
From there, all hell breaks loose. Secrets, deceptions, and deep emotions all come out to play. Don't let the commercials fool you, this movie is not all lollipop, rainbows, and filled with laughter. There is laughter, and it's abundant at times. There is also plenty of drama, gut-wrenching moments that will drive a knife into your heart, and feel good moments that will warm your soul.
My favorite thing about this film is the way that it feels real. It is unafraid to show a mixture of raunchy comedy, foul language, and devout faith all wrapped into one film. I appreciated that, maybe more than anything else, because it felt genuine to me. That is real life. That is how people react, deal with, and grow from events in his or her life. The relationships and the trials and tribulations this group of friends goes through shines through like a real life experience. The film deals with relationships between spouses and friends in an exceptional way, yet shows their imperfections beautifully.
It was wonderful to see the entire original cast reunited and back in action. Each character is so different in his or her unique way. The chemistry between all of them is still incredible. I know it's hard to imagine nine cast members all having great chemistry, but it was true in 1999 and it is true now. Terrence Howard's character, Quentin, is my favorite. Just when you think the drama is getting too high or the sadness is too much, he is there to hysterically lighten the mood. Monica Calhoun gives a strong, uplifting performance that stole my heart and emotions in the movie, and when you watch you will see why. I could go on about everyone else, but that could be a separate article in itself. They are all marvelous and, when watching the film, you will see why.
It is hard to write this review and not give away the details, plot, and ending. I will say this, though. From beginning to end, the film is absolutely outstanding and is pure joy to watch. It is everything fans wanted and more for the sequel, but there a lot of surprises in store that ultimately help this group of friends story evolve into something wonderful.
Sure, there are things that audiences may see coming with hints of foreshadowing in the film, but, when it's all over, that was really the only way to end this movie correctly. From a fan of the original, I give this film an A- rating. If the ending is set up like I think it's supposed to, I cannot wait to watch what happens next with this group of friends. I recommend watching the first film before going to see the sequel because it will make you appreciate this new film so much more.
"The Best Man Holiday" is rated R for language, sexual content and brief nudity.