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Control Data Corporation (CDC) - американський виробник обчислювальної техніки, комп'ютерної периферії та суперкомп'ютерів. У 1960-х CDC була однією з дев'яти основних виробників комп'ютерів в країні, поряд з IBM, Burroughs Corporation, DEC, NCR, General Electric, Honeywell, RCA і UNIVAC. У 1960-х в компанії працював Сеймур Крей, під керівництвом якого було створено кілька найшвидших суперкомп'ютерів тієї епохи. У 1970-х титул виробника найшвидших комп'ютерів перейшов до Cray Research, заснованої Креєм в 1972 році, з яким CDC конкурувала аж до кінця 1980-х років.

В кінці 1980-х, CDC прийняла рішення припинити випуск комп'ютерів, відповідні підрозділи компанії були закриті або розпродані в 1988 році; в 1992 реорганізація закінчилася створенням Control Data Systems, Inc.. Частина колишніх підрозділів CDC нині входить до складу Ceridian.

Історія
Заснована 8 липня 1957 року в Міннесоті. 14 серпня 1957  був обраний президентом.

У 1970-х компанія розробляла навчальну систему PLATO спільно з Університетом штату Іллінойс.

Сеймур Крей покинув компанію в 1972 році, створивши Cray Research.

У 1980-ті роки CDC здебільшого займається виробництвом жорстких дисків SCSI.

Норріс залишив посаду президента та CEO компанії в 1986 році.

Підрозділ з виробництва жорстких дисків було продано в 1988 році, у 1989 його власником стала Seagate Technology.

У 1992 Control Data Corporation розділена на Ceridian Corporation і Control Data Systems, Inc.

Продукція

 1960 - 1604, 1604-B
 1961 - 160
 1962 - 924
 1963 - 160A, 1604-A, 3400, 6600
 1964 - 160-G, 3100, 3200, 3600, 6400
 1965 - 1604-C, 1700, 3300, 3500, 8050, 8090
 1966 - 3800, 6200, 6500, Station 6000
 1969 - 7600, 6700
 1970 - STAR-100
 1971 - Cyber 71, Cyber 72, Cyber 73, Cyber 74, Cyber 76
 1972 - 5600, 8600
 1973 - Cyber 170, Cyber 172, Cyber 173, Cyber 174, Cyber 175, System 17
 1976 - Cyber 18
 1977 - Cyber 171, Cyber 176, Omega/480
 1979 - Cyber 203, Cyber 720, Cyber 730, Cyber 740, Cyber 750, Cyber 760
 1980 - Cyber 205
 1982 - Cyber 815, Cyber 825, Cyber 835, Cyber 845, Cyber 855, Cyber 865, Cyber 875
 1984 - Cyber 810, Cyber 830, Cyber 840, Cyber 850, Cyber 860, Cyber 990, CyberPlus
 1986 - ETA10 (дочірня компанія ETA Systems)
 1987 - Cyber 910, Cyber 930, Cyber 995
 1988 - Cyber 960
 1989 - Cyber 920, Cyber 2000

Примітки

Література

 Misa, Thomas J., ed. "Building the Control Data Legacy: The Career of Robert M. Price." Minneapolis: Charles Babbage Institute, 2012 ISBN 1-300-05818-8

  - книга про компанії ERA, CDC, Cray Research і докладна біографія Сеймура Крэя

 Price, Robert M. The Eye for Innovation: Recognizing Possibilities and Managing the Creative Enterprise. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-300-10877-X

 Worthy, James C. "William C. Norris: Portrait of a Maverick". Ballinger Pub Co., May 1987. ISBN 978-0-88730-087-5

Посилання

 Корпоративні папери компанії Control Data Corporation на сайті Інституту Чарльза Беббіджа, Міннесотський Університет, р. Міннеаполіс; папери CDC були надані Інституту компанією Ceridian Corporation у 1991 році; в паперах можна знайти:
 історична довідка ,
 вихід продукції за роками ,
 список придбань компанії , і
 список спільних підприємств
 Фотографії продукції компанії CDC на сайті Інституту Чарльза Беббіджа
 Oral history interview with William C. Norris - спогади Білла Норріса на сайті Інституту Чарльза Беббіджа
 Reminiscences of computer architecture and computer design at Control Data Corporation - спогад 18 інженерів CDC на сайті Інституту Чарльза Беббіджа
 Information about the spin-out of Commercial Credit from Control Data by Sandy Weill
 Information about the Control Data CDC 3800 Computer-on display at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy near Center Washington Dulles International Airport.
 Private Collection of historical documents about CDC
 Control Data User Manuals Library @ Computing History
 Computing history describing the use of a range of CDC systems and equipment 1970-1985

Виробники комп'ютерів США
Суперкомп'ютери
Не існуючі нині компанії


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Q: How make child components of a child component have refs that the first-level child can use? If I have the following JSX, the Child's refs are empty:
<Parent>
    <Child ref="first">
        <GrandChild ref="parentSeesThisNotChild" />
    </Child>
</Parent>

I want the Child component to get the GrandChild in its refs. How do I do that?

A: You would have to modify the Child component code:
const Child = React.createClass({
  render() {
    const childrenWithProps = React.Children.map(this.props.children, (child) => {
      return React.cloneElement(child, {
        ref: child.ref,
      });
    });

    return (

Child

        {childrenWithProps}

    )
  },
});

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Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust which provides community health, mental health and learning disability services across Hampshire. It is one of the largest providers of such services in England.

History
The trust was formed on 1 April 2011 following the merger of Hampshire Community Healthcare NHS Trust and Hampshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Operations
The trust runs Eastrop House and Parklands Hospital in Basingstoke, Hollybank and Elmleigh in Havant, Postern House in Marlborough, Melbury Lodge and Leigh House in Winchester, Crowlin House and Forest Lodge, Woodhaven, Western Community Hospital, Antelope House and Moorgreen Hospital in Southampton, Fareham Community Hospital and Ravenswood House in Fareham, Jacobs Lodge in Hounsdown, as well as Chase Community Hospital, Alton Community Hospital, Fordingbridge Hospital, Romsey Hospital, Petersfield Hospital and Gosport War Memorial Hospital.

The Trust is one of eight in a partnership of NHS mental health trusts to provide acute mental health inpatient services for military personnel. The Trust retained the contract to provide mental health beds for military personnel in the South of England.

In July 2016 it was announced that the trust would transfer community learning disability services in Oxfordshire to Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust as part of a plan to reduce the area served and the disparate services provided.

It took over five General practices in Gosport in 2016.  The practices merged to form The Willow Group, which holds a general medical services contract jointly with the Trust.

Performance
The Trust's Going Viral programme won the Leadership Innovation category at the first Guardian Healthcare Innovation Awards in November 2013.

In November 2013 the Care Quality Commission issued an enforcement notice to the trust after inspection of the Headington site found it to be in breach of six essential standards. Slade House was found to be unsafe for patients.

The trust was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015.  At that time it had 6662 full time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 4.95%. 64% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 53% recommended it as a place to work.

Oxfordshire County Council's adult social care director and local Clinical commissioning groups decided that the trust's contract to run specialist inpatient services and community teams in Oxfordshire should not be renewed when it expired on 31 December 2015 after regulators and commissioners had raised "quality and performance concerns" about inpatient services. The Care Quality Commission rated the trust's learning disability inpatient services as 'requiring improvement' in March 2015 though community learning disability services were rated as 'good'.

It is one of the Multispecialty community providers established under the Five Year Forward View and is setting up a contract with a GP practice whereby 10 practice employees - the non-clinical staff, the salaried GPs and two out of the four partners - will become trust employees. The two remaining doctors will continue to own the practice, which will be the joint owner, with the trust, of a company which will hold the General Medical Services Contract.

It achieved an operating surplus of £0.2 million for 2017/18 but a deficit of £8.8 million after non-operating
costs (financing costs and gain on asset sales) were taken in to account.

A report by Mazars for NHS England looked at all 10,306 deaths at the trust between April 2011 and March 2015.  According to a draft version of the report leaked to the BBC, 1,454 of these deaths were unexpected, and only 195 were treated as a serious incident requiring investigation.  The reports were criticised for being late and of poor quality.  Very few deaths of people with learning disability or dementia were investigated and there was little family involvement. Southern Health accepts that its investigations needed to improve, but disputes the report's interpretation of the data. The trust maintains that it is not an outlier in respect of any mortality indicators and that it investigated the deaths which were its responsibility. 143 deaths were suicide or suspected suicide - comparable with other similar trusts. The vast majority of deaths were of patients for whose care the trust was not primarily responsible.

Trust chairman Mike Petter and Mark Aspinall one of the public governors resigned in April 2016 shortly before the trust was condemned by the Care Quality Commission for  "continuing to put patients at risk" and failing to put in place "robust governance" to investigate incidents, including deaths, and to respond to concerns raised by patients, their carers and staff.  Aspinall said the Council of Governors ought to regard itself, as part of the leadership of the Trust, equally culpable. John Green another public governor resigned in July 2016 citing the board's "farcical" response to last year's Mazars report

In 2016 the Trust was subject to a number of Enforcement Undertakings required by Monitor, the last being issued on 30 June 2016.

The learning disability services in Oxfordshire were transferred to Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. Some specialist learning disability services are to be transferred to Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.

Katrina Percy, the chief executive, resigned in 2016. In March 2017 all four non-executive directors resigned.

After the deaths of Connor Sparrowhawk and Teresa Colvin the trust was fined £2 million for "serious systematic" management failings in proceedings under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

534 patients were injured in 2016-17 through use of restraints on psychiatric patients in Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.  This was the largest number in England.  Critics say restraints are potentially traumatic, and even life threatening, for patients.

See also
 List of NHS trusts

References

External links

 Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust on the NHS website
 Care Quality Commission inspection reports
 Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust Quality Report 20/21

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«Down Rodeo» es un sencillo promocional de la banda de rap metal estadounidense Rage Against the Machine enviado a varias estaciones de radio a finales de 1996. Esta canción iba a ser el tercer sencillo de Evil Empire, aunque un sencillo "doméstico" y un video nunca fueron lanzados. La razón de esto puede ser la excesiva cantidad de conciertos que RATM daba en este periodo.

La letra describe la diferencia social entre los ricos y los pobres de América, y los problemas que surgen a partir de esta diferencia. El verso dice "So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun, these people ain't seen a brown skin man, since their grandparents bought one" ("Camino por Rodeo con una escopeta, esta gente no ha visto a un hombre de piel café desde que sus abuelos compraron uno"). Estas líneas son una referencia a Rodeo Drive, un distrito de Beverly Hills famoso por tener las boutiques y tiendas más caras del mundo. La línea "Fuck the G-rides, I want the machines that are making them" (Al carajo con las rejillas, quiero las máquinas que las están haciendo) es una referencia a la autogestión. Hay especulación de que tenga que ver con los Disturbios de Los Ángeles en 1992. La canción también puede tener que ver con el Partido Pantera Negra, y una táctica que usan en la que llevan escopetas por las calles de California. Además hay una referencia al activista Pantera Negra Fred Hampton.

Contenido
 «Down Rodeo»

Enlaces externos
 Sitio oficial de RATM (en inglés)
 Down Rodeo en Allmusic.com

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Canciones en inglés
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Judy Foote seen as frontrunner as federal cabinet representative
Nfld. & Labrador·Analysis
While prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau has several options he can pick from, party insiders say Judy Foote has the edge, David Cochrane writes.
David Cochrane · CBC News · Posted: Oct 21, 2015 3:45 PM NT | Last Updated: October 21, 2015
Liberal Judy Foote has been an MP since 2008. (Susana Mas/CBC)
With seven Liberal MPs in a Liberal majority government, Newfoundland and Labrador will have a regional cabinet minister from this province for the first time in years.
And while prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau has several options he can pick from, party insiders say there's a clear frontrunner.
"What choice does he have? It's Judy Foote," said one federal Liberal.
Liberal Judy Foote re-elected as MP for Bonavista-Burin-Trinity
One factor in Foote's favour is that Trudeau has committed to gender parity in his cabinet. The Liberals have 50 women MPs compared to 134 men. And with Trudeau expected to appoint a cabinet of about 25 ministers, one in five female MPs will get cabinet positions.
What gives Foote the edge over Labrador MP Yvonne Jones is the length and depth of her political experience.
Foote is already the Liberal caucus whip. At the provincial level, she held senior cabinet posts in the Brian Tobin and Roger Grimes governments. Prior to that she worked as communications director for Liberal Premier Clyde Wells. She has the longest and strongest political resume of any of the province's MPs.
O'Regan: Personal connection, but less experience
St. John's South Mount Pearl MP-elect Seamus O'Regan has the closest personal relationship with Trudeau, but he lacks significant political experience.
Seamus O'Regan acknowledged during his victory speech Monday night that he entered the campaign with little political experience. (CBC)
O'Regan worked for Tobin and Ed Roberts in the 1990s, but in his victory speech Monday night O'Regan admitted that he was as green as unseasoned wood when the campaign began.
O'Regan is well educated and good with policy. But the challenge for the regional minister in Newfoundland and Labrador isn't running the department they get, it's managing the volatile political relationship this province has with Ottawa.
Coast of Bays-Central-Notre Dame MP Scott Simms is also close to next prime minister. Simms ran Trudeau's leadership machine in this province during the last Liberal leadership race.
But party sources say that Simms is more interested in a parliamentary role and may offer his name as a candidate for speaker of the House of Commons (which is elected by a vote of MPs). He would have to improve his French. But a source close to Simms says his French "can get there pretty quick."
Read more articles by David Cochrane
Party insiders expect the cabinet pick will come from that short list of four: Foote, Jones, O'Regan and Simms.
But all of the key indicators point heavily to Foote. Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday that he will swear in his first cabinet on Nov. 4.
David Cochrane
David Cochrane is a senior reporter in CBC's Parliamentary bureau. He previously wrote for CBC Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Q: Append a string to a List in Ansible I'm trying to append a string to a list in ansible , so basically i'll be building a payload to delete few of the topology records in the F5 GTM network gear.
I was able to create one single list which includes all the output of the respective topology record. For the each line of the output i need to append with a string 'delete'.
- name: Lookup Topology Records
  bigip_command:
    user: admin
    password: password
    server: gtm.abc.com
    commands: "list gtm topology | grep -i '{{ item }}'"
    warn: no
    validate_certs: no
  register: topology_info
  delegate_to: localhost
  loop: "{{ gtm_pool }}"

- debug: var=topology_info

- name: Sanitize the Topology records of the Pool
  set_fact:
    clean_topology_info: "{{ clean_topology_info | default ([]) + item.stdout_lines  }}"
  loop: "{{ topology_info.results }}"

- debug: var=clean_topology_info

- name: Sanitized Topology Info
  vars:
    topology_item: "{{ item }}"
   set_fact:
     sanitized_topology_info: "{{ sanitized_topology_info | default ([]) + topology_item }}"
  loop: "{{ clean_topology_info }}"

- name: Build payload to delete the Topology Record
  set_fact:
    topology_payload: "{{ topology_payload | default([]) + ['delete'] + item }}"
  loop: "{{ clean_topology_info }}"

- debug: var=topology_payload

------------------------------------------------------------
Debug outputs(stdout_lines) as below :-

"gtm_pool": [
        "test-poo1",
        "test-pool2"
    ]

debug of "topology_info" :-

"stdout_lines": [
                    [
                        "gtm topology ldns: subnet 10.10.10.0/24 server: pool /Common/test-pool1 {",
                        "gtm topology ldns: subnet 10.8.22.0/24 server: pool /Common/test-pool1 {"
                    ]
                ]

"stdout_lines": [
                    [
                        "gtm topology ldns: subnet 0.0.0.0/0 server: pool /Common/test-pool2 {"
                    ]

debug of "clean_topology_info":-

"clean_topology_info": [
        [
                        "gtm topology ldns: subnet 10.10.10.0/24 server: pool /Common/test-pool1 {",
                        "gtm topology ldns: subnet 10.8.22.0/24 server: pool /Common/test-pool1 {",
        ],
        [
            "gtm topology ldns: subnet 0.0.0.0/0 server: pool /Common/test-pool2 {",
        ]
    ]

debug of "sanitized_topology_info":-

"sanitized_topology_info": [
             "gtm topology ldns: subnet 10.10.10.0/24 server: pool /Common/test-pool1 {",
                        "gtm topology ldns: subnet 10.8.22.0/24 server: pool /Common/test-pool1 {",
           "gtm topology ldns: subnet 0.0.0.0/0 server: pool /Common/test-pool2 {"
        ]

debug of "topology_payload":-

"topology_payload": [
        "delete",
        "gtm topology ldns: subnet 10.10.10.0/24 server: pool /Common/test-pool1 {",
                        "gtm topology ldns: subnet 10.8.22.0/24 server: pool /Common/test-pool1 {",
        "delete",
       "gtm topology ldns: subnet 0.0.0.0/0 server: pool /Common/test-pool2 {"
    ]

Expected output of topology_payload should be like :-

Basically i need to append a string 'delete' infront of the each output.

"topology_payload": [
        "delete gtm topology ldns: subnet 10.10.10.0/24 server: pool /Common/test-pool1 {",
                        "delete gtm topology ldns: subnet 10.8.22.0/24 server: pool /Common/test-pool1 {",
       "delete gtm topology ldns: subnet 0.0.0.0/0 server: pool /Common/test-pool2 {"
    ]

Expected output of topology_payload should be like :-
Basically i need to append a string 'delete' infront of the each output.
topology_payload:
  - "delete gtm topology ldns: subnet 10.10.10.0/24 server: pool /Common/test-pool1"
  - "delete gtm topology ldns: subnet 10.8.22.0/24 server: pool /Common/test-pool1"
  - "delete gtm topology ldns: subnet 0.0.0.0/0 server: pool /Common/test-pool2"

A: You can use the product filter to prefix or suffix list of item:
---
- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false
  vars:
      string: "prepend "
      list: ["value1", "value2", "value3"]
  tasks:
    - name: "prefix"
      set_fact:
          prefix_list: "{{ ["prefix_"] | product(list) | map('join') }}"
    - debug:
          msg: "{{ prefix_list }}"
    - name: "suffix"
      set_fact:
          suffix_list: "{{ list | product(["_suffix"]) | map('join') }}"
    - debug:
          msg: "{{ suffix_list }}"

A: You can use the map filter to apply a function to each element in a list. Combining it with regex_replace you can achieve your desired result:
---
- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false
  vars:
      string: "prepend "
      list: ["value1", "value2", "value3"]
  tasks:
    - name: "append string to each element in a list"
      set_fact:
          list: "{{ list | map('regex_replace', '(.*)', '{{ string }}\\1') | list }}"
    - debug:
          msg: "{{ list }}"

A: Q: "Prepend a string 'delete' in front of each item."
A: Is this what you're looking for?
- hosts: localhost
  vars:
    info: ['a', 'b', 'c']
  tasks:
    - set_fact:
        payload: "{{ payload|default([]) + ['delete ' ~ item] }}"
      loop: "{{ info }}"
    - debug:
        var: payload

gives (abridged)
payload:
  - delete a
  - delete b
  - delete c

The same result can be achieved without iteration (credit @Romain DEQUIDT)
- hosts: localhost
  vars:
    info: ['a', 'b', 'c']
    payload: "{{ ['delete']|product(info)|map('join', ' ')|list }}"
  tasks:
    - debug:
        var: payload

Q: "Prepend a string 'delete' in front of each output that starts with 'gtm topology'."
A: Use the test search
- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false
  vars:
    info: ['a', 'gtm topology', 'c']
  tasks:
    - set_fact:
        payload: "{{ payload|default([]) + ['delete ' ~ item] }}"
      loop: "{{ info }}"
      when: item is search('^gtm topology')
    - debug:
        var: payload

gives (abridged)
payload:
  - delete gtm topology

The same result can be achieved without iteration
- hosts: localhost
  vars:
    info: ['a', 'gtm topology', 'c']
    info_gtm_topology: "{{ info|select('search', '^gtm topology') }}"
    payload: "{{ ['delete']|product(info_gtm_topology)|map('join', ' ')|list }}"
  tasks:
    - debug:
        var: payload

Q: "In addition to the conditions above, process the list till 'test-pool1' is found."
A: Use the test search also to find the index of the last item
  hosts: localhost
  vars:
    info: ['a', 'gtm topology 1', 'c', 'test-pool1', 'gtm topology 2', 'd']
    stop_regex: '.*pool1.*'
    stop_items: "{{ info|select('search', stop_regex) }}"
    stop_index: "{{ info.index(stop_items.0) }}"
  tasks:
    - set_fact:
        payload: "{{ payload|default([]) + ['delete ' ~ item] }}"
      loop: "{{ info[:stop_index|int] }}"
      when: item is search('^gtm topology')
    - debug:
        var: payload

gives (abridged)
payload:
  - delete gtm topology 1

The same result can be achieved without iteration
- hosts: localhost
  vars:
    info: ['a', 'gtm topology 1', 'c', 'test-pool1', 'gtm topology 2', 'd']
    stop_regex: '.*pool1.*'
    stop_items: "{{ info|select('search', stop_regex) }}"
    stop_index: "{{ info.index(stop_items.0) }}"
    info_gtm_topology: "{{ info[:stop_index|int]|select('search', '^gtm topology') }}"
    payload: "{{ ['delete']|product(info_gtm_topology)|map('join', ' ')|list }}"
  tasks:
    - debug:
        var: payload

As a side note, you can create custom filters. See filter_plugins
shell> cat filter_plugins/list_search.py
import re

def list_search(l, x):
    r = re.compile(x)
    return list(filter(r.match, l))

def list_index(l, x, *i):
    if len(i) == 0:
        return l.index(x) if x in l else -1
    elif len(i) == 1:
        return l.index(x, i[0]) if x in l[i[0]:] else -1
    else:
        return l.index(x, i[0], i[1]) if x in l[i[0]:i[1]] else -1

class FilterModule(object):
    ''' Ansible filters for operating on lists '''

    def filters(self):
        return {
            'list_index': list_index,
            'list_search': list_search,
        }

The play below
- hosts: localhost
  vars:
    info: ['a', 'gtm topology 1', 'c', 'test-pool1', 'gtm topology 2', 'd']
    stop_regex: '.*pool1.*'
    stop_items: "{{ info|list_search(stop_regex) }}"
    stop_index: "{{ info|list_index(stop_items.0) }}"
    info_gtm_topology: "{{ info[:stop_index|int]|select('search', '^gtm topology') }}"
    payload: "{{ ['delete']|product(info_gtm_topology)|map('join', ' ')|list }}"
  tasks:
    - debug:
        var: payload

gives the same result
payload:
  - delete gtm topology 1


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Alan Dee: It's never great to decide not to punctuate
So its crunch time tomorrow on whether councillor's in Mid Devon decide to banish apostrophe's from street signs.
Wednesday, 27th March 2013, 6:48 am
Opinion - Alan Dee
If you read the preceding paragraph without tutting, or even realising something was amiss, then you'd probably best move on to something a little less complicated. A Spot The Dog book springs to mind.
The councillors down in the West Country who will be debating what they thought was a little local housekeeping issue have doubtless been taken aback by the global interest in whether or not they use apostrophes or not. After all, there are only actually three streets in the Tiverton area that require them,
Apparently that's because they've been avoiding them for years rather than make a mistake which would cause language pedants to snort and write critical letters to the local paper.
But now they're thinking of making it official policy there's been uproar.
To me the good burghers of Mid Devon have been correctly applying rule one of apostrophes, and much else in life: If in doubt, leave it out.
It makes much more sense to avoid them if you're unsure, rather than blithely press ahead with that expensive new shop sign or important leaflet without checking, and making yourself look like a right divot.
Misplaced punctuation marks of this sort have become known as greengrocer's apostrophes because of their prevalence among the fruit and veg. Grocers have claimed that they only do it to grab attention, and that may be true on a hastily handwritten sign, but if that was true major multinationals would be at it on their expensive ad campaigns, too. Oh, sometimes they are... Mmmmm.
But apostrophes exist for a reason, they are jolly useful and the rules take about five minutes to grasp – they're certainly less confusing than the operating instructions of your new mobile phone, and most people seem to cope with them.
I hesitate to blame the teachers, as I am required to share duvet space with one, but this one is down to them.
Failure to correct basic grammar and spelling throughout 13 years of compulsory education leaves people so lacking in simple communication skills that they boob and blunder, and don't even realise what they're doing. It's the language equivalent of walking around with your flies undone.
But although I believe that anyone who struggles with these simple rules could be quickly sorted out with a programme of remedial education backed up with electric shocks when they get it wrong, I'm not advocating that this should be introduced.
After all, if everyone knew how to use an apostrophe, picky pedants like me wouldn't be able to look down our noses at those who get it wrong, would we?


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Rohit to lead India in Asia Cup as Kohli is rested
AFPUpdated September 02, 2018
NEW DELHI: India's selectors on Saturday rested prolific skipper Virat Kohli for the upcoming Asia Cup one-day cricket tournament in the UAE where arch-rivals Pakistan are also competing.
Batsman Rohit Sharma will lead the 16-member squad in Kohli's absence during the regional six-team competition to be held from Sept 15 to 28.
"Considering the workload, we have given him [Kohli] rest," chairman of selectors M.S.K. Prasad told reporters in Mumbai. "He has been playing continuously for quite some time. He's on the road since the IPL (Indian Premier League)... we need to preserve some of the precious players, who are playing in all three formats."
Kohli, 29, is currently leading the Indian side in a five-Test series in England where he has scored 486 runs so far including two centuries.
The England series ends on Sept 11, four days before the start of the Asia Cup.
And in less than a week after the Asia Cup final, India are set to play against the West Indies in a home Test series.
Before the England series, Kohli was forced to miss out on a stint with Surrey due to a neck injury and in the Lord's Test he suffered a lower-back strain.
The selectors also picked 20-year-old uncapped left-arm seamer Khaleel Ahmed who has impressed in the shorter formats of the game.
Middle-order batsmen Ambati Rayudu, Manish Pandey and Kedar Jadhav were brought back after missing India's ODI series against England.
Pacemen Jasprit Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar Kumar were also included with the duo having recovered from their injuries.
Among those who missed out were batsman Suresh Raina and bowler Umesh Yadav.
Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are the other teams in the fray in the 50-over contest. The sixth team will be decided through a qualifier being held in Malaysia.
Squad: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, K.L. Rahul, Ambati Rayudu, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Khaleel Ahmed, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah.
Published in Dawn, September 2nd, 2018
Discarded veterans Hafeez, Malik recalled for T20 series against Bangladesh
Finch wary of India's fightback in second one-dayer
Sep 02, 2018 10:08pm
Looks like Kohli is scared of playing Pakistan
Which side will not have a player like Kohli not playing ,but it looks like BCCI is confident that team without him is also formidable
Well done Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid. You are indeed great assets for your team and have proved your mettle time and again against the most media-hyped team of the world currently visiting the United Kingdom and Ireland, with many so-called world class players but nobody who could be match winner, especially on foreign soils.
@Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad, yes understood, this is your celebration time.
Good maneuver by indians to placate internal anger, in case india loss against Pakistan, bcci will sell the idea to naive indians that things would have been different had there been kohni incharge of the team, in case india wins bcci will tell pakistanis that indian team is capable to win against pakistan without their mainstay. but it is a game not politics, they should have put the best squad to come against all contestants and try to win but adopting such loser approach is negative for longer run.
hyderali
@Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad - its indeed a good thing for England to have players like moen ali and adil rashid. they preferr to play for england and not pakistan. had they been in pakistan they would not have got selected in the team due to politics.
@Asad Do u even watch cricket?. First Kohli has been struggling with injury since past 3 months due to back and neck strain. he missed playing for the county in June for Surrey. Still he gave the importance to national test team leading from the front in difficult batting condition in Engalnd test. he was struggling in 2nd test against england due to back strain. The schedule for ASIA cup is just 4 days after the england 5 test match series. with back to back matches on 18- 19th Sept, kohli has been right to rest as there is an important test series agaist Aus in Nov Dec. Without Kohli , India can win ASIA cup, but not test series in Australia. Have some sense before criticizing.
@Jay We know Indians, they always like to hide through blame games and concocting things to favor them, what i had wrote is the best way to describe Indians, if you really have courage then start playing Pakistan and keep repent on the outcome of angers from inside due to repetitive loss.
@hyderali Dr Salaria never implied they want to Play for Pakitan?? or Pakistan wanted them? They are English players. Not quite sure what you mean?
@Asad check Asia cup records India won 6 times Pakistan 2
JACKJONES
India cricket management and Kohl are smart, they need to rest their best player. They are preparing for the world cup in 2019 and eliminating the single point of failure risk. I wish Pakistan team management rested Sarfraz and gave an opportunity for a junior player to captain and lead the team.
@hyderali And you know that because you are a politician?
@Asad the famous conspiracy theories already started. Indians are not naive, they are better informed than you.
Mahen
@Asad " repent on the outcome of angers from inside due to repetitive loss." Let me refresh your memory about how the 5 meetings went prior to Pakistan's solitary victory: Apart from 14 straight wins in world cups,- Champions Trophy - India won by 124 runs T20 World Cup - India won by 6 wickets Asia Cup - India won by 5 wickets World Cup - India won by 76 runs Asia Cup - India won by 6 wickets


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The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization
CHAPTER XXXVI
The Adventure of Reason
I. THE SCHOOL OF CHARTRES
HOW shall we explain the remarkable outburst of philosophy that began with Anselm, Roscelin, and Abélard, and culminated in Albertus Magnus and St. Thomas Aquinas? As usual, many causes conspired. The Greek East had never surrendered its classical heritage; the ancient philosophers were studied in every century in Constantinople, Antioch, and Alexandria; men like Michael Psellus, Nicephorus Blemydes (1197?–1272), George Pachymeres (1242?–1310), and the Syrian Bar-Hebraeus (1226?–82) knew the works of Plato and Aristotle at first hand; and Greek teachers and manuscripts gradually entered the West. Even there some fragments of the Hellenic legacy had survived the barbarian storm; most of Aristotle's Organon of logic remained; and of Plato the Menoand the Timaeus, whose vision of Er had colored Christian imaginations of hell. The successive waves of translations from the Arabic and the Greek in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries brought to the West the revelation and challenge of Greek and Moslem philosophies so different from the Christian that they threatened to sweep away the whole theology of Christendom unless Christianity could construct a counterphilosophy. But these influences would hardly have produced a Christian philosophy if the West had continued poor. What brought these factors to effect was the growth of wealth through the agricultural conquest of the Continent, the expansion of commerce and industry, the services and accumulations of finance. This economic revival collaborated with the liberation of the communes, the rise of the universities, the rebirth of Latin literature and Roman law, the codification of canon law, the glory of Gothic, the flowering of romance, the "gay science" of the troubadours, the awakening of science, and the resurrection of philosophy, to constitute the "Renaissance of the twelfth century."
From wealth came leisure, study, schools; scholê at first meant leisure. A scholasticus was a director or professor of a school; the "Scholastic philosophy" was the philosophy taught in the medieval secondary schools or in the universities that for the most part grew out of them. The "Scholastic method" was the form of philosophical argument and exposition used in such schools. In the twelfth century, barring Abélard's classes in or near Paris, Chartres was the most active and famous of these schools. There philosophy was combined with literature, and the graduates managed to write of abstruse problems with the clarity and grace that became an honorable tradition in France. Plato, who also had made philosophy intelligible, was a favorite there, and the quarrel between realists and nominalists was mediated by identifying the "real" universals with the Platonic Ideas, or creative archetypes, in the mind of God. Under Bernard of Chartres (c. 1117) and his brother Theodoric (c. 1140) the school of Chartres reached the height of its influence. Three of its graduates dominated the philosophical scene in Western Europe in the half century after Abélard: William of Conches, Gilbert de la Porrée, and John of Salisbury.
The widening of the Scholastic ken is startlingly revealed in William of Conches (1080?-1154). Here was a man who knew the works of Hippocrates, Lucretius, Hunain ibn Ishaq, Constantine the African, even Democritus.1 He was fascinated by the atomic theory; all the works of nature, he concluded, originate in combinations of atoms; and this is true even of the highest vital processes of the human body.2 The soul is a union of the vital principle of the individual with the cosmic soul or vital principle of the world.3Following Abélard into a dangerous mystery, William writes: "There is in the Godhead power, wisdom, and will, which the saints call three persons."4 He takes with a large grain of allegory the story that Eve was created from Adam's rib. He answers vigorously a certain Cornificius and other "Cornificians" who condemned science and philosophy on the ground that simple faith sufficed.
Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason…. But we say that in all things a reason must be sought; if reason fails, we must confide the matter… to the Holy Ghost and faith….5 [They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so….6 Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.7
This was too strong for the stomach of William of St. Thierry; the zealous monk who had set St. Bernard to hound Abélard hastened to denounce this new rationalist to the watchful abbot of Clairvaux. William of Conches retracted his heresies, agreed that Eve had been made from Adam's rib,8 abandoned philosophy as an enterprise in which the profit was not commensurate with the risk, became tutor to Henry Plantagenet of England, and retired from history.
Gilbert de la Porrée (1070–1154) managed the dangerous business more successfully. He studied and taught at Chartres and Paris, became Bishop of Poitiers, and wrote a Liber sex principiorium, or Book of Six Principles, which remained for many centuries a standard text in logic. But his Commentary on Boethius suggested that the nature of God was so far beyond human understanding that all statements about it must be taken as mere analogies, and so stressed the unity of God as to make the Trinity seem but a figure of speech.9 In 1148, though he was now seventy-two, he was charged with heresy by St. Bernard; he stood trial at Auxerre, baffled his opponents with subtle distinctions, and went home uncondemned. A year later he was tried again, consented to burn certain passages torn from his books, but again returned a free man to his diocese. When it was suggested that he should discuss his views with Bernard he refused, saying that the saint was too inexpert a theologian to understand him.10 Gilbert, said John of Salisbury, "was so ripe in liberal culture as to be surpassed by no one."11
John might have spoken so for himself, since of all the Scholastic philosophers he possessed the widest culture, the most urbane spirit, the most elegant pen. Born at Salisbury about 1117, he studied under Abélard at Mont Ste.-Geneviève, under William of Conches at Chartres, under Gilbert de la Porrée at Paris. In 1149 he returned to England, and served as secretary to two archbishops of Canterbury, Theobald and Thomas à Becket. He undertook for them various diplomatic missions, visited Italy six times, and stayed at the papal court eight years. He shared Becket's exile in France, and saw him killed in his cathedral. He became bishop of Chartres in 1176, and died in 1180. It was a full and varied career, in which John learned to check logic with life, and to take metaphysics with the modesty of an atom judging the cosmos. Revisiting the schools in his later years, he was amused to find them still debating nominalism vs. realism.
One never gets away from this question. The world has grown old discussing it, and it has taken more time than the Caesars consumed in conquering and governing the world…. From whatever point a discussion starts, it is always led back and attached to that. It is the madness of Rufus about Naevia: "He thinks of nothing else, talks of nothing else; and if Naevia did not exist, Rufus would be dumb."12
John himself settled the question simply: the universal is a mental concept conveniently uniting the common qualities of individual beings; John, rather than Abélard, proposed "conceptualism."
In the best Latin since Alcuin's letters, he composed a history of Greek and Roman philosophy—an astonishing evidence of the widening medieval horizon; a Metalogicon which lightened logic with autobiography; and a Polycraticus (1159) whimsically subtitled De nugis curialium et vestigiis philosophorum—"On the Follies of Courtiers and the Vestiges of Philosophers." This is the first important essay in political philosophy in the literature of Christendom. It exposes the errors and vices of contemporarygovernments, delineates an ideal state, and describes the ideal man. "Today," he consoles us, "everything is bought openly, unless this is prevented by the modesty of the seller. The unclean fire of avarice threatens even the sacred altars…. Not even the legates of the Apostolic See keep their hands pure from gifts, but at times rage through the provinces in bacchanalian frenzy."13 If we may believe his account (already quoted), he told Pope Hadrian IV that the Church shared liberally in the corruption of the times; to which the Pope in effect replied that men will be men however gowned. And John adds, wisely: "In every office of God's household [the Church], while some fall behind, others are added to do their work. Among deacons, archdeacons, bishops, and legates I have seen some who labored with such earnestness in the harvest of the Lord that from the merits of their faith and virtue it could be seen that the vineyard of the Father had been rightly placed under their care."14 Civil government, he thinks, is far more corrupt than the clergy; and it is good that the Church, for the protection of the people, should exercise a moral jurisdiction over all the kings and states of the earth.15 The most famous passages in the Polycraticus concern tyrannicide:
If princes have departed little by little from the true way, even so it is not well to overthrow them utterly at once, but rather to rebuke injustice with patient reproof until finally it becomes obvious that they are obstinate in their evil-doing…. But if the power of the ruler opposes the divine commandments, and wishes to make me share in its war against God, then with unrestrained voice I answer that God must be preferred before any man on earth…. To kill a tyrant is not merely lawful, but right and just.16
This was an unusually excitable outburst for John, and in a later passage of the same volume he added, "provided that the slayer is not bound by fealty to the tyrant."17 It was a saving clause, for every ruler exacted an oath of fealty from his subjects. In the fifteenth century Jean Petit defended the assassination of Louis of Orléans by quoting the Polycraticus; but the Council of Constance condemned Petit on the ground that even the king may not condemn an accused person without summons and trial.
We "moderns" cannot always agree with the moderni to whom John belonged in the twelfth century; he talks now and then what seems to us to be nonsense; but even his nonsense is couched in a style of such tolerance and grace as we shall hardly find again before Erasmus. John too was a humanist, loving life more than eternity, loving beauty and kindness more than the dogmas of any faith, and quoting the ancient classics with more relish than the sacred page. He made a long list of dubitabilia—"things about which a wise man may doubt"—and included the nature and origin of the soul, the creation of the world, the relation of God's foresight to man's free will. But he was too clever to commit himself to heresy. He moved among the controversies of his time with diplomatic immunity and charm. He thought of philosophy not as a form of war but as a balm of peace: philosophia moderatrix omnium—philosophy was to be a moderating influence in all things; and "he who has by philosophy reached caritas, a charitable kindliness, has attained to philosophy's true end."18


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Age 83, formerly of Natrona Heights, passed away Friday, July 16, 2021, at the Allegheny Valley Hospital Emergency Room, Natrona Heights. She was born on April 11, 1938 in Natrona Heights and was the daughter of the late Michael and Josephine (Nyga) Kolwicz. Barb was a graduate of Har-Brack High School Class of 1956. When Barb was a young girl, she always dreamed of someday working at Disneyland. For 20 years, she was an assistant buyer for the Walt Disney World Company at the Disneyland Distribution merchandising center. Barb absolutely loved her job and one of her most cherished memories was singing in the annual Disneyland candlelight next to her fellow Anaheim cast members and the many actors she interacted with. Barb and her late husband, John "Sarge", moved to California in 1961 and lived in Cerritos, California for 32 years before returning to Natrona Heights in 1993. Barb recently moved to an apartment in Tarentum. She and Sarge enjoyed driving to many places, especially Walt Disney World. This past February, she and her niece, Robin, enjoyed another trip to Disney in Florida together. Barb also loved traveling with her sisters. Barb was a Disney Vacation Club member and a platinum Disney Castaway Club cruise member. Barb and Sarge cherished their time spent decorating their Christmas train display at their home, an annual tradition. She was a member of Guardian Angels Parish, Saint Ladislaus Roman Catholic Church, Natrona. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 45 years, John S. Malicki, who passed away on April 6, 2003, her brothers, Edward and Michael Kolwicz, her sisters, Marie Abate, Marcella "Tooky" Jenkins, Irene "Renee" Kreminski, and Eleanor "Ellie" DeAngelis, her niece, Carlotta Schrup, and her great-niece, Erica Walker. Survivors include her niece, Robin (Clark) Shoemaker of Natrona Heights, many other nieces and nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, great-great nieces and great-great nephews, and her sister-in-law, Pat Kolwicz of Tarentum. Relatives and friends will be received Monday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. in the Paul R. Ajak Funeral Home, Inc., 2 Pine Street and River Avenue, Natrona until parting prayers at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in the funeral home. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. in Saint Ladislaus Roman Catholic Church, 48 Spruce Street, Natrona. Entombment will follow in Mount Airy Cemetery, Natrona Heights. Your condolences may be shared with the family at www.ajakfh.com.
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Is it the President's or the Presidents' day?
As innocuous as President's Day seems, it actually has quite a sordid history.
So where did the confusion arise?
The holiday's origins are harmless enough. In 1879, Congress added Washinton's Birthday to four existing bank holidays that Congress had implemented in 1870. At the time of its enactment, though, the holiday was observed on February 22, George Washington's actual birthday, and was the first such federal holiday to single out one individual's birthday.
The confusion over the title of the holiday began in 1968, when Congress decided that the federal holiday system needed an overhaul. This motivation stemmed from a belief (unsupported by any facts or data) that federal worker absenteeism could be minimized by such changes.
The act moved four federal holiday observances to Mondays: Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day (which, after public outcry, was changed back to its original date in 1978), and, of course, Washington's Birthday.
The Congressional Record in 1968 revealed debate about the true purpose of the changes. House Judiciary Committee member Representative Robert McClory, a Republican from Illinois, purported the benefits as helping families and reducing mid-week holiday interruptions in the workplace.
Conversely, Representative Harold Gross, a Republican from Iowa, countered that the change was intended to benefit retailers, and that the holiday would not extend to those employees. Gross's assertion, buttressed by the endorsements of the change from various business-related organizations, seemed to be on the right track.
Of course, a move to increase retail traffic would not, by itself, be responsible for the name confusion. It was McClory who originally tried to rename the holiday to "President's Day" to gain the recognition of a national holiday for his home state of Illinois's Abraham Lincoln. Such a change was met with distaste in committee since not all Presidents were held in the same esteem as Washington, and the change was dropped.
Nevertheless, McClory gained a victory in the end. The date for observance was set as the third Monday in February, which always falls between February 15 and 21, never on Washington's actual birthday. This positioned the day of observance between Lincoln's birthday (February 12) and Washington's birthday.
Over time, and with help from, among other things, retailer marketing pushes in the 1980s seeking to extend the length of sale periods, Washington's Birthday became Presidents Day in the public's mind.
How truly significant is this dilution? Is it a sign of America's increasing commercialization or simply a series of coincidences?
Either way, there's an irony at the end. While the public holiday is actually a President's Day (i.e. Washington's), you'd be hard-pressed to find a publication or writing guide that considers that singular form to be the correct usage.


The St. Mary's University School of Law will host a first-of-its-kind conference on Friday, March 17, and Saturday, March 18, to share best practices among the increasing number of Master of Jurisprudence programs across the nation.
The Master of Jurisprudence (M.Jur.) program at St. Mary's is a 30-credit-hour program designed for those who do not wish to practice law, but who are interested in gaining a broader understanding of the American legal system.
The M.Jur. degree is primarily for professionals practicing in areas that intersect with the law, such as human relations, regulatory agencies, county and municipal government, health care, business and other professions that directly interact with the legal system.
The two-day conference at the School of Law campus will cover providing career services for graduates to maximize program benefits, fine-tuning student expectations and outcomes, incorporating M.Jur. students into learning environments with J.D. students, and additional topics. More detail is available on the complete schedule.
Two years ago, St. Mary's launched the first M.Jur. degree at a Texas law school. To meet the needs of the regional economy, St. Mary's has rapidly expanded the concentrations available to students to include compliance law, business and entrepreneurship law, commercial law and tax law.
"Administrative and regulatory oversight is constantly expanding, which makes the need for managers and administrators to have a grounding in law ever more important," said Colin Marks, J.D., Professor of Law and Director of St. Mary's M.Jur. Program.
Find out more about the Master of Jurisprudence programs at St. Mary's Law.


The Bitter Southerner surveys five great indie booksellers to bring you a list of nine new Southern books — and one monumental reissue — for your vacation reading season.
Thunder is shaking the rafters and rain is blowing sideways through the windows. Everything is wet and I don't really care. I'm trying to convince myself this might actually be better than mopping.
I love how summer storms wash the sticky off of everything. I feel lighter after the earth gets a good soaking. It's also the only time in the South's hard-core hot months when you can catch a breeze.
Mostly though, when it's raining cats and dogs, I want to read.
There's nothing like a stormy summer afternoon for getting lost in a book. The truth is, summer is reading season no matter what — when it's hot as Hades, in the early evenings, in the middle of the night as buzzing insects bounce off window screens. At the beach, in the bed, in the mountains, on a plane, on a train ... anywhere.
Whether we read constantly or only "in season," sometimes we all look around and feel a bit intimidated by the stack of unread books. When that happens, we're probably just out of the reading rhythm and a good choice is all we need to get our groove back. Sometimes, we feel behind because we've missed so many of the greats. Why should I buy this new book when I've got so much catching up to do? Well, I say, this summer, let's not think like that. Instead, let's dig into a few new books we can love and enjoy and rave about to our friends. Let's read the good stuff. The juicy. The delicious. The funny.
So, as The Bitter Southerner does annually, we've made you a list of great Southern reads for the summer. I've called five independent booksellers around the South and we've rounded up some books with real potential.
I talked with Frank Reiss at our old standby, A Cappella Books in our hometown of Atlanta, Jamie Kornegay at Turnrow Books in Greenwood, Miss., Tom Lowenburg at Octavia Books in New Orleans, Matt Nixon at The Booksellers at Laurelwood, a 30-year institution in Memphis, and to Rachel Watkins at Avid Bookshop over in our beloved Athens, Ga. From their recommendations, we present our Top 10, based on the consensus choices.
I bet there's a summer book in here for most all of you. Take a look. Decide what fits, and go buy one or two from your local independent bookstore.
Don't wait for a rainstorm.
Two other authors whose work have appeared in The Bitter Southerner have books that would also make great additions to your summer stack. Joe Samuel Starnes, who wrote the great "A Boy, His Granddad and the Monumental Courage of Henry Aaron" for us last year, has a great new novel set in the world of sports: "Red Dirt: A Tennis Novel." And "Big Fish" author Daniel Wallace, who gave us his essay "Killings" earlier this year, has his 2013 novel "The Kings of Queens of Roam" out in paperback.


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Community Interview: Chris Williams
What happens when Wiz Kids has license to a ton of Intellectual Property and a pile of dice? Well they get Michael Elliott and Eric M. Lang to design them a dice building game that makes use of DC, Marvel, WWE, D&D and many more IPs to create a snappy dice rolling fun time. I have gotten to catch up with Chris Williams of The Ministry of Dice. Chris is half of the team that runs the Ministry of Dice with is a community based around Dice Masters. We talk to Chris about building the community and what Dice Masters means to him.
Hi there! I'm Chris and I am one half of The Ministry of Dice. We create fan-made content about the Wizkid's collectible card & dice game Dice Masters.
I've been a tabletop gamer for a good 30 years now. I got my start with dice rolling with the Jackson/Livingston Fighting Fantasy books as a young lad in the 80s and have never looked back.
Dice Masters has been the game I've been most passionate about through all that time, and we've (the Ministry of Dice) been at it for around 6 years now. We have a website, a YouTube channel and a podcast entirely dedicated to the game. Me & my friend Andy started it out of a shared love of the game and a desire to support and grow the UK-based community around the game.
What brought you into Dice Masters
It's a convergence of many interests and passions.
To begin with: in addition to being a gamer I am also a big comic book nerd. I've been reading comics since I was just a whippersnapper and will largely always take a look at a game that is comic book IP themed.
Otherwise, like many of your readers I suspect, I just can't get enough of rolling dice. Rolling lots and lots of dice is just a joy to me. Who doesn't love the sound of a handful of dice rolling through a dice tower?
I've also been a fan of collectible card games since my teenage years in the 90s. You name it, however obscure, if it was a CCG in the 90s I probably gave it a go for a hot minute. I love rolling dice, but I also love filling cards away in a binder and seeing a card collection on display LOL .
However, after playing at a handful of organised events and competitive tournaments I began to get a little frustrated with the "gotcha" elements of these games and, frankly, the smarmy, cut-throat attitude this element would engender in some players I'd meet along the way. It just wasn't my pace and
Then, my best gaming buddy Billy came round for a games night back in 2014 and had brought a starter set for Dice Masters Uncanny X-Men. It was a mix of collectible card game AND a dice game that was comic book themed! I mean… talk about hitting the trifecta for me. AND it was all open information with no hidden hand involved just waiting to "gotcha", leaning right out of my frustrations with past CCG experiences.
All of this is all great – but the fact that the game is a really elegant, strategic pvp game that has room for both casual fun AND more competitive approaches meant it had longevity for me, with lots to explore and new play experiences to be had.
And finally: Dice Masters hands down has the best community of players I've ever encountered in all my years of playing these types of game that makes it very easy to be a fan of the game.
What is currently your favorite game to play that isn't Dice Masters?
There are other games than Dice Masters?
Ha! I've got a few faves,. The main focus of the tabletop gaming outside of Dice Masters is with my family, particularly with my kids, so you'll forgive me if I cheat and name a few family faves.
The current front-runners that I enjoy with my children Disney Villainous, Exploding Minions and Beasts of Balance. My Wife & I play quite a bit of Smash Up and Azul. When it's all four of us you'll likely find us going for a bit of Cockroach Poker, Fantasy Realms or Canine Kleptomaniacs. We like a lightweight card game that can come with us on trips or occupy the kids at a restaurant (Remember those? When we used to out to eat sometimes?) while we wait for the food to be served.
If you absolutely insist on one though – I'm a big fan of solitaire games and can be found playing Warp's Edge most often of late, when everyone's gone to bed and I'm looking to entertain myself.
How have you worked to build the community around the Dice Masters series?
It's definitely been a challenge over the years, particularly in recent times (as I'm sure it has been in many other communities). Anyone who has tried their hand at community building around a game with a small cult following will empathize.
I've always been a believer in having "a bit of hustle" though, and that if things aren't where/how you want them to be then you should hustle around it. My favorite game is niche, and if I want Wizkids to keep printing it, and people to play it with, then I think there's a mindset of it being a symbiotic relationship with the publisher, FLGS' and player bases that I can contribute towards as a Content Creator. Too many games get bogged down with the expectation that the publisher or the stores should be doing more, and its their fault if it goes wrong. So, taking some ownership for keeping the thing I love going was the first step.
So… I've networked; getting to know game stores here in the UK, introduced myself to new players and play groups, reached out the publisher with feedback, and kept active online within the wider international community. I find it doesn't take a whole lot of time or effort to write a short e-mail or, in this day & age, fire off a Facebook Message or a Twitter DM to just say "Hello, I'm that Dice Masters guy from the Ministry of Dice" in a warm & friendly way.
One thing that's happened off the back of that is that I've run events on behalf of stores or at conventions. It takes a bit of the pressure off the store owner/convention organizers and gives me the opportunity to keep the game relevant and the player base a place to play. I'm well equipped to better understand game nuances like what attractive prizing looks like and where best to publicize the event. (Although, admittedly, I do have my content as a mouthpiece to help publicize it and attract players)
That does remind me of another point: I think there's also something to be said about creativity when it comes to community building, or at least some research for inspiration. A little bit of experimentation around how event prizes are awarded, how you promote some organized play, how you share your passion about the game to attract new players etc can work wonders. Prizing for organized events is a great example – by drawing inspiration from the classic British Summer Fete tombola's we were able to make prizing more accessible to less-experienced or less-skilled players, making the barrier of entry that is "why bother?" much smaller. This philosophy of prizing has become a bit of staple for fan-organized Dice Masters events now, something Andy & I are very proud of.
Something else: about how folks in the community approach being active online in general – answering questions on Reddit, responding to posts in Facebook groups, and helping out in a non-judgemental way. Also – one for content creators here - when someone is a newcomer and posts a question answer the question first and tout your content second, even if your content has the answer. It's more personal and positions you in a much more approachable and personable way. I'd recommend anyone looking to strengthen and build a gaming community invest time into how they contribute through social media and services like Discord. It makes conversation about the game more immediate and engaging on platforms such as these and gives players a place to go. Online conversation can be intimidating for some, so anything I can do to make it feel warmer and
Clearly, creating fan-made content helps me contribute towards community building too. I'm able to hear all about, and share, ideas & best practices that are being used by others across the world when it comes to their contribution to community building. Little ideas come out of local communities at FLGS' and gaming clubs and curating & sharing them can be really helpful sometimes.
In the last few years, while we've been a home, we heavily promoted online play as a means of keeping community game play going through lock-downs. Playing Dice Masters virtually, using webcams and the physical game components, was already an approach adopted within the community, so we used our platform to turn the volume up a bit by dedicating segments on our podcast to the idea, writing guides, and facilitating online organized play events. This brought with it a fresh depth of community building, as we now see a truly international community of Dice Masters players who have never met face-to-face but have played and forged virtual friendships through the promoting of "getting involved" with the online scene.
Why do you enjoy building the community?
I get a lot of personal joy & satisfaction from being a part of a community in this way.
I think it's an important point actually; you have to honestly ask yourself sometimes if you're the right person to position yourself this way in a community. I've seen too many content creators and tournament organizers behave like it's a chore, and the is a BIG turn off for players. I'm just about gregarious enough, and
As I mentioned before; some of my reasons are entirely selfish LOL. I'm invested in the game and wish for it to continue, and so some of my enjoyment comes from those little wins where I've helped support and maintain the game's existence.
Honestly though: seeing the fruits of labour, such as when players turn up to an event I've organized, send me a little note of thanks when a dumb vid I've made makes them laugh, or hear about how I've helped someone understand the game, is a buzz I can't get enough of. It's fun to be a contributing member of a community and I like being a part of it all, known to people, someone who's appreciated.
So basically, I enjoy it because I'm a selfish Dice Masters junkie who craves attention. LOL
How do you encourage social engagement?
We just don't take things too seriously at the Ministry of Dice and are more than happy to self-deprecate! Thankfully I'm unburdened by the self-conscious, embarrassment voice in my head and am quite happy to be a bit silly with things most all of the time.
I know it sounds like I'm joking but, going back to the point I made earlier about the first steps into a community being intimidating sometimes, it's important to show folks that the community is place where fun can be had and its not taken too seriously. I think role modelling examples of this type of behaviour is vital to making players feel they can relax, be themselves, and, for example, ask questions in a non-judgemental environment.
We like doing things to expand the experience of being a Dice Masters player beyond the game itself too. I'm always good for a meme-storm, or to get my guitar out and re-write the lyrics to a song with Dice Masters references.
Keeping things balanced is important too. It's fun to complain, but we are careful to see both sides of something and keep it as positive as possible. The best example of this is when we are discussing a community concern on the podcast; we'll air different views and look at some angles whether we agree with them or not. It's just fair and reasonable to do so, we think, and broadly keeps things friendlier.
Dice Masters is poised to potentially have a big year in 2022. After something of a period of hibernation we are finally seeing new releases coming down the pipeline and we've sensed renewed levels of interest from some returning players and some new players. Only a little, but enough to get ready to push. So – the community is on a recruitment drive – we're very keen to welcome new players and show them the ropes.
The new sets are looking really good. They've got something for new & old players alike. Most of the set imminently due for release: The Dark Phoenix Saga, has been revealed and the game play potential is massive and going to be a lot of fun. With a new starter friendly set due in the Summer too (The Fantastic Four Vs Galactus) there's a moment of opportunity to capitalize upon to grow the player base. With a well-established online play scene too, folks can get up & running quick, without having to wait until a local scene has picked up pace or you can get to a convention for a game.
Oh, that reminds me, one thing I'm working on for the UK community right now is an organized play event at the UK games Expo, so that's taking up a bit of my hustling time, as you can imagine. Help keep the game public and in gamer's consciousness, y'know. We're hoping to go on the road too and facilitate some local level events through the year as well, get the game seen around some UK FLGS' and hopefully attract some lookie-loos.
What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?
I could do with a bit more info to answer that one. Is it an African Swallow? And will it be carrying a coconut?
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Pokémon Goes on tour
By: Chris Thompson
South Australian Kanga Coachlines are in with a chance to capitalise on the latest craze
People of all ages have been out in public catching the small digital creatures. Photo: Matthew Corley / Shutterstock.com
It's hard to ignore the incredible popularity of the augmented reality mobile game, Pokémon Go, as people of all ages have been out in public catching the small digital creatures.
Despite its success, the dangers of driving and playing Pokémon are becoming more apparent, and an Adelaide photographer has come up with a solution.
Poké Bus is the work of Benjamin Liew, a professional photographer from Adelaide, who is hiring Kanga Coachlines for the specific purpose of touring the city to play Pokémon with likeminded fans.
Because of Pokémon, a strange new opportunity has arisen for Kanga CEO Julian Roeger.
The sheer popularity of the game – which has overtaken apps like Instagram and Twitter – means operators could benefit from the need to travel while playing the game.
Roeger says the Pokémon tour is an odd move for him, but he's happy to take on something new.
"I think it's a bit of a fad thing at the moment, I don't know how long it'll last, so I'm not sure if bus tours will become a big thing," Roeger says.
"Even if it's just one time, or a couple of times, I'm happy to do the job."
Liew says this week's inaugural tour could kick of a new way for people to hunt the electronic monsters.
"The best thing about this is that it will hopefully be an awareness raiser, because I'd like to do this again," Liew says.
"I've heard vague rumours of party buses being used in the US, but nothing about a specific Pokémon tour."
Liew says Kanga were the most receptive to his idea, citing their willingness to make a specific bus available for his tour.
"Kanga actually have a brand new coach with USB ports, which was a huge priority for me."
While buses could prove valuable to the Pokémon community, Roeger says many coaches might not be up to the task.
"I don't know how many people would be able to do a job like this."
"Not many operators have buses fitted with USB ports, which was something Ben specifically requested."
Despite the uncertainty, Liew says if all goes well he will be a repeat customer for Kanga.
"They seem keen to do this with us, there were a few concerns but they've managed to sort it all out.
"If all goes well, I would like to keep using Kanga as the operator of choice for the tours."


This article is about the shape. For the cough tablets, see Throat lozenge. For the heraldic element, see Lozenge (heraldry).
"◊" redirects here. For other uses, see Diamond (disambiguation).
A lozenge (◊), often referred to as a diamond, is a form of rhombus. The definition of lozenge is not strictly fixed, and it is sometimes used simply as a synonym (from the French losange) for rhombus. Most often, though, lozenge refers to a thin rhombus—a rhombus with acute angles of less than 45°. The lozenge shape is often used in parquetry and as decoration on ceramics, silverware and textiles. It also features in heraldry and playing cards.
Sown fields in an open field system of farming.
The lozenge motif dates as far back as the Neolithic and Paleolithic period in Eastern Europe and represents a sown field and female fertility. The ancient lozenge pattern often shows up in Diamond vault architecture, in traditional dress patterns of Slavic peoples, and in traditional Ukrainian embroidery. The lozenge pattern also appears extensively in Celtic art, art from the Ottoman Empire, and ancient Phrygian art.
The lozenge symbolism is one of the main female symbols in Berber carpets. Common Berber jewelry from the Aurès Mountains or Kabylie in Algeria also uses this pattern as a female fertility sign.
In 1658, the English philosopher Sir Thomas Browne published The Garden of Cyrus subtitled The Quincunciall Lozenge, or Network Plantations of the Ancients where he outlined the mystical interconnection of art, nature and the Universe via the quincunx pattern. He suggested that ancient plantations were laid out in a lozenge pattern.
Lozenges appear as symbols in ancient classic element systems, in amulets, and in religious symbolism. In a suit of playing cards, diamonds is in the shape of a lozenge.
In IBM 026 punched card code it is ⌑ (12-8-4), DOS code page 437 (at character code 4) and Mac-Roman.
The TeX command for the lozenge is \lozenge.
In modal logic, the lozenge expresses that there is "possibility." For example, the expression expresses that it is possible that is true.
In axiomatic set theory, the lozenge refers to the principles known collectively as the diamond principle.
On equipment, especially calculators, the lozenge is used to mark the subtotal key. It is standardized in ISO 7000 as symbol ISO-7000-0650 ("Subtotal"). Similar, the (square) lozenge (⌑), part of the BCDIC code, was often used on tabulation listings to indicate second level totals in banking installations in the 1960s.
During the First World War, the Germans developed Lozenge-Tarnung (lozenge camouflage). This camouflage was made up of colored polygons of four or five colors. The repeating patterns often used irregular four-, five- and six-sided polygons, but some contained regular rhombi or hexagons. Because painting such a pattern was very time consuming, and the paint added considerably to the weight of the aircraft, the pattern was printed on fabric. This pre-printed fabric was used from 1916 until the end of the war, in various forms and colours.
The lozenge in heraldry is a diamond-shaped charge, usually somewhat narrower than it is tall. A mascle is a voided lozenge—that is, a lozenge with a lozenge-shaped hole in the middle—and the rarer rustre is a lozenge containing a circular hole. A field covered in a pattern of lozenges is described as lozengy; a similar field of mascles is masculy.
Cough tablets have taken the name lozenge, based on their original shape. According to the Oxford English Dictionary the first use of this sense was in 1530.
In Finland, the lozenge is associated with salmiak, through Apteekin Salmiakki. Thus, the lozenge is commonly called salmiakkikuvio "salmiak shape". The pattern is often used even if the candy is not actually lozenge-shaped.
To implement 10 U.S.C 773, the Secretary of the Navy has prescribed the following distinctive mark for wear by members of military societies which are composed entirely of honorably discharged officers and enlisted personnel, or by the instructors and members of duly organized cadet corps.
The distinctive mark will be a diamond, 3½ inches long by 2 inches wide, of any cloth material. A white distinctive mark will be worn on blue, green, or khaki clothing; and a blue distinctive mark will be worn on white clothing.
The distinctive mark will be worn on all outer clothing on the right sleeve, at the point of the shoulder, the upper tip of the diamond to be ¼ inch below the shoulder seam.
The lozenge is used in the Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force on the insignia of their respective First Sergeants. It is also used in the cadet programs of Army ROTC, Army and Marine Corps Junior ROTC, and the Civil Air Patrol as rank insignia of cadet officers corresponding to the military pay grades of O-4 to O-6 (C/Major, C/Lieutenant Colonel, and C/Colonel).
In Finnish military ranks, the lozenge is found in the insignia of conscript officer students (one lozenge) and conscript officer candidates (two lozenges).
The lozenge (technically a mascle) can be used on public roadways in the United States and Canada to mark a specific lane for a particular use. The lane will usually be painted with a lozenge at a regular interval, and signage will be installed to indicate the restrictions on using the lane. This marking is most often used to denote high-occupancy vehicle lanes or bus lanes, with accompanying signage reading "◊ HOV LANE" or "◊ BUS LANE" and giving the requirements for a vehicle to be accepted. Prior to 17 January 2006, lozenges could also be used to mark bicycle-only lanes, often in conjunction with a bicycle icon. In New Zealand and Japan, a lozenge marked in white paint on the road indicates an upcoming uncontrolled pedestrian crossing.
A hollow lozenge is also used in the signage of waterways to identify a hazard. A cross is placed in the lozenge, dividing it in four, to mark a restricted area.
Several flags feature lozenges, including the Brazilian flag, which contains a yellow lozenge at the center. One official flag of Bavaria is entirely made of blue and white lozenges.
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↑ Berber Carpets of Morocco: The Symbols Origin and Meaning, by Bruno Barbatti, ACR Edition, ISBN 978-2-86770-184-9.
↑ Moore, Charles (1988). The Poetics of Gardens. The MIT Press. p. 161. ISBN 0262631539.
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MPs Are Demanding UK Tax Authorities Explain Why They Refused To Raid A Tory Donor Accused Of Money Laundering
"(D)isturbing questions" about an "extremely troubling" letter leaked to BuzzFeed News.
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The UK Refused To Raid A Company Suspected Of Money Laundering, Citing Its Tory Donations
"It is of note that they are the biggest corporate donor to the Conservative party led by Prime Minister Theresa May and donated 1.25m Euros to the Prince Charles Trust."
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Key Evidence Disappeared From Police Custody During Investigation Into Russian Whistleblower's Death, Court Hears
Police gathered evidence of mysterious business deals, threats, and links to a Kremlin-linked money laundering case from Alexander Perepilichnyy's computer. Then that evidence vanished.
Jane Bradley • 3 years ago 3 years ago
Russian Whistleblower Fell Ill After Eating "Bad" Food The Night Before His Death, Secret Lover Tells Inquest
A tense dinner. Bad food. Vomiting back at the hotel room. Scenes from Russian whistleblower Alexander Perepilichnyy's last night alive, as the woman he spent that evening with finally told authorities her story after being tracked down by BuzzFeed News.
The Secret Lover Of An "Assassinated" Russian Whistleblower Will Testify At His Inquest After BuzzFeed News Tracked Her Down
The UK inquiry into the death of Alexander Perepilichnyy on British soil will hear key evidence from the woman he met secretly on the eve of his death. She was asked to testify only after BuzzFeed News tracked her down in Paris.
The US Death Of Putin's Media Czar Was Murder, Trump Dossier Author Christopher Steele Tells The FBI
The author of the famous Trump dossier provided a secret report to the FBI asserting that RT founder Mikhail Lesin was bludgeoned to death by thugs hired by an oligarch close to Putin. Three other sources independently told the FBI the same basic story, contradicting the government's finding that Lesin's death was accidental.
Jason Leopold • 3 years ago 3 years ago
A Former Russian Spy Is Critically Ill In The UK After Being Exposed To An Unknown Substance
Former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and a woman reported to be his daughter were found unconscious in the English city of Salisbury on Sunday. Police said counterterrorism resources are involved in the investigation.
Patrick Smith • 3 years ago 3 years ago
MPs Call For Change After BuzzFeed Reveals Hidden Homeless Slaves
"It's shocking that we can walk down the street and not know that this is happening, that it's hiding in plain sight."
Inside Britain's Hidden Homeless Slave Trade
Recruited from soup kitchens and street corners with the promise of cash, drugs, or drink. Locked in squalid conditions, beaten, and forced to work brutal shifts to pay spiralling debts. A BuzzFeed News investigation reveals how hundreds of Britain's homeless people are being trapped into modern slavery – and Theresa May's flagship anti-trafficking initiative is failing to protect them.
The Last Two ISIS "Beatles" Have Been Captured, Report Says
Two members of the notorious ISIS cell known as the "Beatles", first unmasked by BuzzFeed News, have been captured in Syria.
Police File Exposes Holes In The Investigation Into US Death Of Putin's Media Czar
The heavily redacted report reveals nothing about how RT founder Mikhail Lesin sustained the blunt force injuries that killed him. And the Washington, DC, police won't say whether they reviewed three critical hours of hotel security footage between when Lesin was last seen alive and when he died.
High-Profile Russian Death In Washington Was No Accident — It Was Murder, Officials Say
The US government ruled Mikhail Lesin's death an accident, but multiple intelligence and law enforcement officials suspect it was a Russian hit. The government is withholding information, so today BuzzFeed News has filed a lawsuit to pry the records loose.
Scientist Who Helped Connect Litvinenko's Murder To The Kremlin "Assassinated" In Britain
His nuclear research helped a judge determine that former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko had been assassinated – likely on Putin's orders. Just months after the verdict, the scientist himself was found stabbed to death with two knives. Police deemed it a suicide, but US intelligence officials suspect it was murder.
From Russia With Blood: 14 Suspected Hits On British Soil That The Government Ignored
Lavish London mansions. A hand-painted Rolls-Royce. And eight dead friends. For the British fixer Scot Young, working for Vladimir Putin's most vocal critic meant a life of incredible luxury – but also constant danger. His gruesome death is one of 14 that US spy agencies have linked to Russia – but the UK police shut down every last case. A bombshell cache of documents today reveals the full story of a ring of death on British soil that the government has ignored.
MI6 May Be Ordered To Turn Over Intelligence Linking Financier's Death To Russia
In the wake of a BuzzFeed News investigation, a judge is considering forcing MI6 to hand over secret files containing explosive intelligence that the Kremlin ordered the assassination of a Russian whistleblower on British soil.
The Death Of The Spy In The Bag Is Linked To Russia By Secret Intelligence Files
After the dead body of an MI6 spy was found locked in a sports bag, London police said the death was "probably an accident" – but British and American spy agencies have secret intelligence suggesting he may have been assassinated over highly sensitive work on Russia.
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Revealed: Explosive Evidence Of A Russian Assassination On British Soil That The Government Doesn't Want You To Read
When a financier dropped dead in Britain shortly after exposing a vast Russian crime, police said it was not suspicious. But with his inquest now underway, BuzzFeed News has uncovered explosive evidence of a suspected Kremlin assassination plot – and a secret assignation in Paris on the eve of his death – that the British authorities have sidelined.
RBS Found Guilty Of Systematic Mistreatment Of Small Firms – But Regulator Says It Can't Act
The Financial Conduct Authority has sparked fury by saying it lacks the power to take action against the Royal Bank of Scotland, while a £400 million compensation scheme has been branded "wholly inadequate" by victims.
Treasury Committee Demands Urgent Publication Of Regulator's RBS Report
The chair of the Commons Treasury committee called on the financial regulator to speed up its long-delayed review following the "Dash for Cash" revelations.
Revealed: Treasury Given Confidential Information About RBS Investigation Ahead Of Share Firesale
"This information is not in the public domain and we would be grateful if you could ensure it is kept confidential."
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Boston Bombing Survivor Adrianne Haslet Runs BAA 5K Just 3 Months After Car Strike
"This is way more than 3.1 miles. This is 98 days in the making."
By Derek Call
Adrianne Haslet has been a symbol of hope and perseverance since the national spotlight was forced upon her in April 2013, when she lost her left leg at the Boston Marathon bombings.
Tens of thousands of followers on social media have been inspired by her journey, from when she completed her first marathon three years after losing her left leg to her current partnership with Nike. It's a role she has embraced.
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On the rainy morning of April 13, however, Haslet was nervous: She was prepping to run the BAA 5K, her first race since she was struck by a car while in a crosswalk in January.
Haslet smiled through her anxiety, hugging Boston Athletic Association staffers and taking photos with volunteers. She entered the start corral of the BAA 5K ahead of most of the race's 10,000 participants, though further back in the pack than she'd like to be. Her pace is slower than it was just three months ago—and don't get her started on her current mechanics.
"Is it called form still?" she asked Runner's World. "It's a form of something."
Her right arm pumps as if she's sprinting around a track, overcompensating as the left arm stays close to her chest, elbow never extending beyond a 35-degree angle.
Haslet's form has drastically changed since shattering her shoulder in January 2019.
Derek Call
Haslet is still getting used to this unique stride. She had already started her Boston Marathon training cycle when the car struck her back in January. Her prosthetic leg took the brunt of the car's impact. When she came to two car lengths from the collision, her left shoulder was shattered; she also had a separated elbow and bruised ribs.
She says the pain from simply breathing was excruciating. The former dancer feared paralysis in the upper part of her amputated leg; she would undergo two surgeries over the following three days.
The injuries would keep her from lining up in Hopkinton on Patriots' Day. Haslet was devastated. But her resiliency ("stubbornness, if you ask my mom") placed her on a trajectory for a different blue and yellow start line.
"I had decided already that I was going to do a mile before I ever saw my physical therapist, because they might tell me 'no.' I didn't want to hear that," she said. "I had already become faster, so when I went in to physical therapy, I was just like, here's my plan, make this work. I don't have time to slow down."
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At the beginning stages of her recovery, the 3-plus miles seemed "daunting" to the 2016 Boston Marathon finisher, who ran a 10-minute PR at the 2018 5K with a time of 28:14. A perfectionist, it took some time for Haslet to convince herself she was running the 2019 edition for fun, not time.
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"I think I am just determined to be better than—you can fill in the blank, whether that's terrorist or a delinquent driver, I just want to be stronger than," Haslet said. "Stronger than I was yesterday, stronger than I was in the hospital, stronger than maybe someone thinks amputees can be."
That mindset carried her through the first mile, out of Boston Common and onto Commonwealth Avenue. The course crosses the scene of the accident just after the first mile. Before the race, Haslet thought she would be emotional passing the intersection. Instead, she took no notice to it, distracted by cheers and high fives from the Heartbreakers, the running club she belongs to.
The course was actually part of the race's appeal to Haslet. Runners complete a mile-long segment through the Back Bay familiar to participants of the event's 26.2-mile sister race: the Massachusetts Avenue underpass on Commonwealth, right on Hereford, left on Boylston. Though the race ends in Boston Common, runners pass over the iconic marathon finish line in the final half mile.
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Haslet had instituted a walk/jog strategy for the race. She was walking as she passed the site of the bombing. Overcome with emotion, Haslet cried briefly, looked up to the sky, then sped up briefly to an 8:30 pace—a full minute faster than her average pace for the day.
Adrianne Haslet crosses the Boston Marathon finish line during the 2019 BAA 5K.
She attempted to raise her arms in bliss, which re-aggravated pain in her left shoulder. Haslet shrugged it off.
"I'm hard on myself because of time, not because of pain," she said. "Some people go from couch to 5K. I went from great marathon shape to a hospital bed, complete muscle atrophy, to 5K, which I'm damn proud of."
Haslet let out a loud "yes" as she finished the race in a time of 32:30.
"This is way more than 3.1 miles. This is 98 days in the making," Haslet said as she put on her medal. "I wanted to run this race so badly. I may have walked, but I never gave up."
Adrianne Haslet proudly displays her BAA 5K medal.
As for what's next for Haslet? She will be lining up in Hopkinton in 2020, when she will will compete in the debut of the race's Para Athlete division.
"That's just my competitive spirit," she said. "I think having gone through this latest tragedy, I have no doubt that I'll be stronger."
Derek Call Video Producer Since becoming a video producer for Runner's World in 2014, Derek has captured such historic moments as Meb Keflezighi and Desiree Linden's Boston victories and Amy Cragg's win at the 2016 U.S.
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