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10 Native birds of New Zealand that rule the roost
May 10, 2018 • 1 Comment
Considering people from New Zealand are often referred to as "Kiwi's" (I'm not sure if this has stemmed from the fruit or the bird) – and due to the fact that Haka Tours use a Kiwi bird as its brand symbol, it seems natural that we do a bird blog. Here are 10 birds that you should be flying to see!
The kiwi is a flightless bird, a quality that contributes to its growing endangerment, as the kiwi is particularly susceptible to being crushed and eaten (think possums, rats, mice, dogs, pigs and stoats). If any animal needs a helicopter parent, it's this wee fluff ball.
The Kiwi was known as the hidden bird of Tane and Māori traditionally hunted the Kiwi (albeit sparingly and with great ceremony) for its meat, skin, and feathers that were turned into cloaks for Māori chiefs.
Toroa / Albatross
This graceful giant is the largest seabird in the world, usually mates for life and breeds only in New Zealand. There are fourteen varieties throughout the country and they spend most of their lives at sea, before returning to land to breed and raise their young.
To Māori, the Toroa represented beauty and power and wearing albatross feathers or bone pendants transferred these qualities onto the wearer.
Endangered, highly intelligent and the world's only alpine parrot. Generally the kea mate for life. The orange feathers can also be seen in the UV spectrum – light waves that aren't visible to the human eye but are detected by birds and insects.
The Kea is found in the South Island and around alpine environments – it's very difficult to tell males and females apart, other than male kea are slightly bigger with a curved beak.
Kererū / Pigeon
The pigeon has a widespread distribution throughout the country, but is predominantly found in Northland. The Kererū is important because it's the only bird large enough to eat big fruit from trees like tawa, karaka, taraire, miro and puriri. The bird spreads the seeds of over 70 native forest plants, including kahikatea, rimu and nikau.
In one Māori tradition, the kererū's feathers were originally white. The legendary trickster Māui wanted to find out where his mother, Taranga, went during the day. He hid her skirt to delay her, but she left anyway. Māui changed into a white kererū to follow her, still holding the skirt, which became the bird's beautiful multicoloured plumage.
Morepork / Ruru
This bird is known for its haunting, melancholic call that led to Māori naming the bird 'ruru' that is strongly associated with the spirit world in Māori mythology.
It is believed that if a morepork sits near or enters a house that there will be death in the family. It is thought that owl spirits can act as guardians and protect and guard families – with a high pitched 'quee' warning of bad news and its 'more-pork' call communicating good news.
The Tui is found across New Zealand, commonly within forests and suburban areas.
From a distance they look black, but on closer inspection, they have a black, blue and green sheen, especially on the head and wings, with a white bobble, similar to a pom pom, on their neck.
Kākā
Generally heard before they're seen, with a loud "kaa-aaa" or "kraaaak" when disturbed, this fine specimen, formally endangered, is currently in recovery. The kākā is a forest dwelling parrot, found across the country but predominantly in offshore islands where there are less mammals and less predators, specifically stoats. Māori associated the colour red with a high rank, turning the kākā's feathers into cloaks for high-status people.
Kākāpō
The kākāpō, a flightless nocturnal parrot, is critically endangered with fewer than 160 known surviving birds. The kākāpō was used for food, and its beautiful yellow-green and brown feathers were used to make cloaks for high-born people.
Pīwakawaka / Fantail
This critter is one of the few native bird species in New Zealand that has been able to adapt to an environment altered by humans. In one Māori tradition, the fantail caused Māui's death and is viewed as a symbol of death when seen inside a house.
Pukeko / swamp hen
Pūkeko are found in abundance across the country – around dumps, swamps and across roads (they notoriously lack road sense). The bird, despite its clumsiness and lack of webbed feet, are good runners, wadders and swimmers, and average fliers.
Māori viewed the pūkeko as pests and public perception remains – a native bird nonetheless. After halving the pūkeko population on Great Barrier Island, the brown teal population stabilised (the brown teal/pāteke is New Zealand's rarest waterflow species – this small dabbling duck is still in recovery).
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The devil is in the data--and in this case, in the clicks. Google and third-party auditors disagree on whether click fraud--the practice of inflating pay-per-click ad fees with automatic clicking software--is at bay or on the rise. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has dismissed click fraud as "immaterial." Even paying $90 million last March to settle a class-action lawsuit by online advertisers over claims of fraudulent clicks hasn't flustered Google.
Not all outsiders are reassured. A report in July from Click Forensics, an Austin, Texas-based click-fraud auditing firm, contended that click fraud is growing, particularly on content networks like Google Adsense and Yahoo! Publisher Network. The report, drawn from more than 4,000 sites' advertising data, asserted that the rate of fraudulent clicks was 15.8% in the second quarter of 2007, up 1% from three months earlier. Within online content networks, Click Forensics estimated that more than 25% of all clicks were fraudulent, up from about 22% in the previous quarter.
Whose numbers are more believable? In this online debate, Google's Shuman Ghosemajumder and Click Forensics Chief Executive Tom Cuthbert spar over their different methods of counting clicks, how open Google is about sharing data, and who has a broader perspective on what happens when somebody--or some bot--clicks on an ad.
Forbes: Click Forensics reports that click fraud is increasing--you disagree. Why?
Ghosemajumder: The big problem with third-party auditors is that they continue to count "fictitious clicks," clicks that Google doesn't count as clicks at all, in click fraud estimates. Here's one major example: Users click on a Google ad on Google.com or an Adsense site. When they land on the advertiser's site, they click on products, hitting the "back" button to go back to the landing page. Many browsers reload the landing page each time. We don't count those as clicks, but third-party auditors actually register each click on the "back" button as another click on an ad, which grossly overestimates the number of ad clicks.
The other important point is that auditors like Click Forensics estimate the amount of click fraud that's being attempted, not how much is going undetected and is charged to advertisers. That means they're counting the clicks that we throw away as invalid, not just the ones advertisers pay for.
But click-fraud auditors argue that there's a discrepancy: They say you throw away no more than 10% of clicks, while they estimate click fraud rates at as much as 25%.
That's just one particular set of numbers. The auditing firm, Fair Isaac, for example, estimated in May that on Google's content network, 10 to 15% of clicks are fraudulent. On ads placed next to search results, they said that there was a negligible rate of click fraud, less than 1%. That implies an overall click-fraud rate of around five to 7%. The number of clicks that we proactively throw out is less than 10%. So then the question is really: How much are advertisers getting for free thanks to our detection methods?
Most auditors have realized this is very difficult to do from the point of view of a third party and have changed their business model to focus on other kinds of analytics. Click Forensics is one company that has continued to publish numbers, but I don't hear much about them anymore. You need a lot of data to do any sort of statistical analysis, and auditors don't have nearly as much as we do.
What data do you see that third-party auditors don't?
The primary data set that third parties don't have access to is the impression data--not just when the ads are clicked, but how often they're viewed. A very simplistic fraudster might just click on ads, over and over. But of course, we've learned to recognize spikes in the click-through rate, the number of times the ad is clicked on for every time it appears. Any sophisticated fraudster has to keep their click-through rates at a reasonable percentage by creating the right number of false impressions.
From a third-party perspective, you can't even see the click-through rate. Since we know exactly how many times an ad appears, we have much more data than the third-party auditors for any given advertiser.
Have you seen an increase in click fraud in recent months?
It's difficult to say. We filter out fewer than 10% of clicks as invalid, but you can't draw a very precise line between malicious activity and invalid clicks that might have been made with malicious intent. Anyone spending time looking at the percentage changes in something where you can't draw a precise line doesn't understand the issue.
One metric we do have is the number of cases in which we refund advertisers for click fraud, and that has remained stable at less than .02%, quarter after quarter.
Some have accused Google of turning a blind eye to click fraud or underestimating the problem because of the revenue it generates. Is Google really motivated to stop click fraud?
That's one of the biggest misunderstandings about this. We have a very direct financial incentive to detect bad publishers--the ones engaged in click fraud--and remove them from the system.
Google is also a publisher itself. When we display ads on Google.com, we get 100% of the revenue for those ads. When you have bad publishers introduced into the system, the effect is to reduce advertisers' return on investment, because they cost money and don't generate sales. When you reduce [return on investment (ROI)], the rational thing for advertisers to do is to pay less for clicks. That doesn't just mean that the clicks that go through our good publishers' sites make less money. It also means the clicks on Google.com make less money for us.
That incentive for us to stop click fraud is actually part of a broader incentive: We're trying to create the greatest ROI possible for advertisers. That's what makes us the most competitive in terms of attracting advertisers and competitors. We wouldn't invest a lot of money improving ROI in one respect, and then let it degrade in another.
Has Google's approach to click fraud changed since its $90 million settlement with advertisers last year?
We weren't required by the settlement terms to change anything. But we did have a third-party analyst, Alexander Tuzhilin, come in and spend time with the click-quality team. He wrote a report that concluded our approach was reasonable. We've felt we've done a very effective job of protecting advertisers, even though we have fraudsters constantly trying new angles of attack.
Are you investigating and taking legal action against particularly egregious cases of click fraud?
We are trying to do that more, and we're looking at a few cases at the moment. But I'm afraid I can't talk about them.
What are the giveaways that make click-fraud detectable?
There aren't any silver bullets. There are some very simple things, like watching the click-through rate. It's easy to catch someone who clicks a million times in a minute. But we also have anomaly detection that allows us to spot more sophisticated kinds of click fraud.
We monitor signals like Internet protocol addresses and the kinds of browsers people use--for traffic to look real, it has to have the right proportion of visitors using the Firefox browser, Internet Explorer, et. cetera. But the real power of our detection systems lies in the fact that we analyze hundreds of different factors, the majority of which are secret.
Does that mean that Google faces a transparency dilemma? You can't reveal these metrics because they'd help people get away with click fraud. But if you reveal too little, advertisers will have a hard time believing that you're really capable of stopping the problem.
We can't talk about these things in detail, but we talk about them at a high level. We try to promote as much understanding of these issues as we can in forums, blogs and academic articles. And we're the only search engine to have had a third-party come in and publish a report.
What advertisers can see and what they're constantly giving us feedback about are the actual results from their ad campaigns. The metric we really compete on is our advertisers' return on investment.
Some critics have also accused Google of unfairly banning innocent publishers accused of click fraud. Does that happen?
We do take it very seriously. We have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to click fraud from publishers.
But when it comes to accounts that have been wrongly terminated or sabotaged, we're always monitoring that too, and it generally comes to a very low number. We never hear back from the vast majority of publishers terminated. When publishers say they weren't engaged in click fraud, we have an appeals process.
But more generally, it's a good sign that we're being criticized by both advertisers and publishers for opposite reasons. That means we must be doing something right.
Forbes: You say that click fraud is increasing, while Google's Shuman Ghosemajumder says that click fraud is under control. Are you accusing Google of hiding the extent of the problem?
Cuthbert: You'll notice in your Q&A with Shuman that he doesn't actually answer the question of whether click fraud is getting worse. That's because he knows from Google's own data that the problem of click fraud is getting worse and will continue to get worse.
Are your estimates inflated by "fictitious clicks"--clicks that Google doesn't count?
In our analysis, we use Google Click ID, a tool that matches our data back to Google's. A Google Click ID simply provides a tag, a random number that Google adds to each individual click that comes in through Adsense or Adwords. An advertiser can enable a setting so that third parties can also see and use that number to tie back those individual clicks to Google's data. That way, advertisers who submit invalid clicks are able to identify exactly which clicks were invalid.
All of our data is also based on Google Click ID, and Shuman knows that. He may be correct about other auditors in this space, but what he's said and the way he said it is misleading.
How do you handle "click-backs," situations in which a user reloads an advertisement's landing page? Do you and other auditors count the page's reloading as another click on the ad?
Absolutely not. Using Google Click ID prevents us from counting click-backs, and even when we have analyzed the number of click-backs compared to the overall problem of click fraud, it's a very small percentage. Regardless, using Click IDs and other methodologies means there are no fictitious clicks in our data.
If I sound somewhat aggravated, it's because I am. Shuman knows very well that we use Google Click ID. But he has a tendency to talk about fictitious clicks and then bring up our name to try to link us with that, even though he knows it's not true. We're a bit frustrated with that.
Are click-fraud auditors hamstrung in their efforts to assess click fraud accurately because they lack data that Google has, particularly click-through rates (the number of times an ad is clicked for each time it appears)?
Actually, we have access to several kinds of data that Google doesn't have. Most importantly, we see what happens on an advertiser's site when a click leaves Google's page and goes to the landing page. We see how deep the clicker goes in the site and whether the click converts into a sale. Having that ad-side data is really critical in exposing click fraud.
For example, we often see a user that lands on an advertiser's site and then browses 10 pages deep. That appears at first to be a human visit. But in fact each of those page visits might last exactly 2.1 seconds, meaning it must be click software imitating human behavior. That's a very common trait in bot traffic that Google simply can't see.
Why doesn't Google analyze this kind of site-side data?
Advertisers on the Click Quality Council don't want to give Google conversion data because Google's pricing system is a black box. Defining the price per click for certain keywords used to be an auction-based system. Now it's based on many factors that are built into Google's algorithm, which is constantly changing.
Because of that approach, advertisers worry that keyword prices could be inflated if Google knew the exact value of the click, including the rate of conversion for the advertiser. And that means Google ends up with very little site-side data.
The second kind of data that Google doesn't have is cross-search-engine. Because our clients are using multiple search providers, not just Google, we're able to see data from many different search providers in different markets and different countries. Google sees data from Google. We see ads on Google, Yahoo!, MSN, LookSmart, etc.
On a larger scale, this community approach is similar to how companies deal with spam and malware: They're finding commonalities across the market and apply that logic to protecting individual victims. So seeing what's occurring across multiple search platforms gives us a big advantage.
Is Google really motivated to end click fraud?
Every time a fraudulent click occurs and is billed, Google profits and advertisers lose. So they do profit in the short term.
But Google clearly has an interest in building trust with advertisers long term, and that trust is diminishing as click fraud continues to grow. If Shuman really believes that it's in Google's interest to end click fraud, he should embrace a third-party system and make use of our data, rather than try to discredit us.
Google says that it has hundreds of metrics it can use to identify click fraud but that it can't reveal them for fear of tipping fraudsters off on how to skirt their safeguards. Does that create a transparency problem for Google in its relationship with advertisers?
There's no doubt that Google has a transparency problem. They've been extremely guarded about what they're willing to talk about. The only way to resolve that is to involve a third party in the discussion that has the interest of the community at heart.
In traditional media, companies exist to make sure that advertisers get what they pay for. Nielsen does this in television, Arbitron in radio, circulation auditors in print. As the online ad market matures, the same kind of companies will develop. No matter how much Google tries to diminish the role of click fraud in advertisers' campaigns, it's here to stay, and a third-party system is necessary to build trust and help grow the industry.
Editor's note: Shuman Ghosemajumder responded to Cuthbert's comments by noting that while Click Forensics' use of Google Click ID is encouraging, the auditor's numbers were likely skewed by inaccuracies in how it counts fictitious clicks on Microsoft's and Yahoo!'s network. He repeated his assertion that Click Forensics has access to only a tiny fraction--about 1%--of the data that Google uses to analyze click fraud, and again underscored that Google has no incentive to allow fraudulent clicks.
Finally, Ghosemajumder defended Google's cooperation with auditors, saying the company has "excellent relations" with third-party companies and "supports them with more tools than any almost any other advertising network."


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Medic accused of murdering baby son
PUBLISHED: 13:07 10 June 2010 | UPDATED: 18:00 25 August 2010
ON TRIAL: Gavin Gibbs.
A MOTHER wept in court as she described the horrific injuries to her baby son who was allegedly murdered by her paramedic husband.
Gavin Gibbs, 41, of Brook Vale, Erith, left three-month-old Charlie Gibbs with fractures to his skull, upper arm, left leg and ribs, the Old Bailey heard this week.
The London Ambulance paramedic is also accused of causing four rib fractures to his son's twin sister.
On October 23, 2008, while the father was home alone with Charlie, he called 999 and told them his son was dead. The baby was taken to Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, where he was given Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation but died two days later.
Charlie was found to have suffered brain damage and bleeding within the skull on a least two occasions, one old and one recent, and fractures to his left leg at the knee and ankle were caused about one to two weeks before he died, the court heard.
On Tuesday his wife Joanne Gibbs, 38, took to the witness stand and told jurors she was "horrified" when she only learnt a year after the death that Charlie had suffered a skull fracture when he was just two-months-old.
She told the court: "I just couldn't understand why there was a skull fracture. I was horrified.
"Gavin kept asking me if Charlie had hit his head on anything or if there was anything I could remember."
Jurors were told that in January this year he returned from a meeting with his solicitor with a new explanation.
Ms Gibbs said: "He said Charlie had fallen off the sofa. He said he wanted to take a picture so he went to get a camera.
"He turned around and heard a thud and Charlie was on the floor.
"I was horrified. I felt all these emotions.
She also said she had noticed something wrong with Charlie in the early hours of October 6, and when he was taken to hospital she was told he had a fracture to the upper arm. She told the court: I was absolutely horrified,'
"I couldn't understand why my baby had a fracture. Gavin was really upset. I remember him crying."
Mr Gibbs had worked a night shift before his son's fatal injury on October 23, 2008. While on duty, he received a call from his wife to say that his twin sister was having difficulty breathing.
The father logged it as a 999 call and took his daughter to Queen Mary's Hospital where she was diagnosed with inflammation of the small airways in the lungs.
His wife went to the hospital while the father took Charlie home. The child was being looked after by a friend whilst he got some sleep.
He collected his son at approximately 4.10pm and two hours later took him to stay with neighbours whilst he returned to Queen Mary's Hospital.
He took his son home at 9.30pm. An hour later he called 999 and said: "He's dead."
Charlie was taken to Queen Mary's and was treated with Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation and a blood transfusion and a head scan revealed that he had fluid around the front of the brain.
The baby was transferred to Kings College Hospital in Camberwell at 3.30am, where an MRI scan revealed bleeding within the skull and abnormalities in the brain.
His ventilator was switched off two days later when he was declared brain stem dead.
Prosecutor Richard Whittam, QC described what happened after the death.
He said: "Charlie was handed to his parents. Gavin Gibbs was heard to whisper 'please forgive me'.
Mr Gibbs denies the boy's murder and also causing grievous bodily harm to the twins in 2008.
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Q: Not able to fetch json data from a "SINGLE-TYPE" content-type in strapi I used strapi as my backend for all my data flow, I created single-type content, this single type has different components attached to it. After configuring all the single-types, I tried to fetch the data through rest Api, But I didn't got the json data as a response.
This is my json response

This is my single-type structure

A: So to get back all the data from the "single-type" the following procedure are:

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*After creating the single-Type content, Go to the settings of the strapi admin page and then click the Role option.

*Click on the public tab.

*locate permissions tab and search for the single-type you created and click on the single-type tab.

*Then you will find the permissions for that single-type, tick on find option, there are other option too, tick it as per your needs.

*After that you will see a api endpoint on the right side of the screen for that particular single-type.

*Copy that endpoint.

*Use your browsers or any api client like Postman etc to test the api endpoint.
Now the Main Trick comes here
To get the result of the end point you have to type something like this:
http://localhost:1337/api/"your single-type name"?populate=*
This above code will list all the components and all its data inside of it will be displayed in the json response.
NOTE:
If there is any image data or any other media files inside the component it won't be displayed, so to to get that also along with other data you need to type:
http://localhost:1337/api/"your single-type name"?populate[your component name which contains that image data][populate]=*
When you type the api endpoint url your single-type name should be without double quotes
Follow this link : For More Information regarding how to handle the rest api in strapi

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Arctosa keumjeungsana este o specie de păianjeni din genul Arctosa, familia Lycosidae, descrisă de Paik, 1994. Conform Catalogue of Life specia Arctosa keumjeungsana nu are subspecii cunoscute.

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OTT 101: What you Need to Know About OTT
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To reach your target audience, it's essential to use multiple platforms to improve your ability to influence and connect with them. On average, omnichannel marketing shows 91% greater customer retention. Marketers advertising across multiple channels also note an average 9.5% year-over-year increase in sales compared to those that do not.
One excellent strategy you should include in your multi-channel marketing plan is OTT.
What Exactly is OTT?
Many people hear the term OTT but don't understand that they're already using an OTT service. OTT, or "over the top," is a streaming service initially referring to devices that go "over" a cable box to give the user access to TV content via the internet. Services include Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max and a host of others, many of which are customized to consumers' specific viewing patterns and needs.
Today's consumers are streaming more content than ever. More than 2 out of 3 US households that use broadband services subscribe to at least one streaming service. The average American now streams around 8 hours of content daily and subscribes to approximately four streaming services.
The Power of OTT
OTT has the power to reach a wide number of consumers and offer immense value for your marketing dollar.
Who uses OTT?
Everyone! Well, almost. OTT use spans across every type of demographic. Parents with young children stream educational content that keeps their kids happy and entertained. Adults may stream content related to their hobbies or preferred shows. Some users even choose to stream sports or news on the go through an OTT platform rather than traditional cable services. Even many senior adults are choosing to stream content, especially as more shows are added to platforms. Bottomline, it doesn't matter which demo you're trying to target, OTT can reach them.
How many people can you reach?
Viewers can consume OTT anywhere at any time. As a result, it can often reach wider groups of people. Unlike TV ads, OTT ads don't run in specific time slots, which means you have the potential to reach people regardless of when they choose to consume that content. Ultimately, OTT ads can add immense power to your marketing plans.
Benefits of Advertising on OTT Platforms
Advertising through OTT can offer several benefits to your brand. Many brands find that OTT has immense reach while still allowing you to target your ideal audience. What benefits can your business see?
Expands Your Reach
OTT allows you to reach more people than traditional TV ads alone. Using OTT in tandem with other marketing tactics can increase ad recall by an average of 34%. OTT ads also allow you to reach consumers who may have cut the cord with traditional cable services, as well as those who might not watch the channels where you advertise.
It's a Cost-Effective Medium
OTT is a cost-effective advertising medium. To save on ad spend, you can repurpose your television ads or creative from video ads and reduce production costs. Depending on your target audience, you may find that OTT ads are less expensive than you think.
You Experience High ROI and Effective Targeting
Often, OTT offers a high ROI. On an OTT platform, you can more effectively target the exact audience you're hoping to reach. Marketers can target OTT ads based on past consumer behaviors, including whether they have previously visited your site. You can also target consumers based on the types of content they're most likely to watch. OTT is an excellent tool for reaching niche categories, which may be harder to get to than other, more common segments of your target audience. With your OTT ads, you can make sure your ads go directly to those targets, rather than casting a wide net through broadcast TV ads.
Allows for Clickable CTAs
OTT ads also offer a clickable CTA option. This offers several advantages. First, it means that viewers can take action immediately. They don't have to change devices or remember information from your ad to come back later. It also means that you can track results in real-time, allowing you to instantly see your ads' effectiveness.
OTT has immense power, especially when used in combination with your other advertising strategies. A media partner can help you create the right content for the platforms you've chosen, narrow your target audience, and provide vital advice about where and when to disperse your ads. They can also help create an effective multi-channel marketing campaign, integrating your OTT ads into your existing marketing strategy for a better return on your overall investment.
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The Day the Music Died: Remembering Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper 62 years later
The upper Midwest braces for another arctic winter this year. As it does, the tragic plane crash that occurred in 1959 and claimed the lives of a 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 17-year-old Ritchie Valens and 28-year-old J.P. 'The Big Bopper' Richardson turns 62.
It's widely regarded as 'The Day the Music Died', a phrase coined by Don McLean's 1971 autobiographical song 'American Pie'. McLean's retrospective track is said to symbolise the end of American innocence. For McLean, this reaches back to his own experiences as a newspaper delivery boy. He was just 13-years-old when the headlines ran.
McLean's memories—and his song—colour the American consciousness. The United States was on the cusp of radical social and political change and the music that would define the era was about to change with it. Outside of a few poignant references, 'American Pie' doesn't linger in the present. Instead, it stays lodged in the past, like a time-capsule lost to a bygone era, stuck on the loop of its infectious chorus. You know the one I'm referring to.
'American Pie' commemorates the purity of a moment in rock and roll and in time. It's illustrative of a generation on the verge of adulthood and revolution, before the revolution. It's the coming of age tale that never comes of age. The narrative from the night that Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper lost their lives has been played and replayed. The three stars were on a flight that Holly chartered after a gig in Clear Lake, Iowa, a gig that was added at the last second to fill a vacancy in the Winter Party Dance Tour.
The Tour From Hell
The three week, 24 date tour, organised by General Artists Corp, had zero regards for logistical planning. The dates zig-zagged across the upper Midwest, often backtracking over the previous day's journey, all in reconditioned school busses. Two-lane highways, 400-mile treks and -30º temperatures were standard. Holly historian Bill Griggs estimates that the musicians changed buses five different times before reaching Clear Lake.
The February 1st bus breakdown has received attention over the years as the final straw for Holly and his decision to charter the ill-fated plane. The tour was headed back through Minnesota on Highway 51 after a stop in Duluth.
The show finished at 11pm—a concert that Bob Dylan attended—and the band members loaded their equipment into the bus and set off. Just 100 miles into the 440-mile journey, a piston punched a hole through the engine block and the bus stalled in the middle of the pitch-black highway. Band members took to burning newspapers in the aisles for warmth. Some jammed in tightly huddled circles in the back of the bus to pass the time.
Dion, of Dion and the Belmonts, recounts his experience for Rolling Stone, explaining: "Buddy and I huddled together under a blanket, and just to pass the time, I'd tell him stories of the Bronx—about Ralphie Mooch, Frankie Yunk Yunk and Joe BB-Eyes—and he'd tell me stories about Baptists in Lubbock, Texas. One of the Belmonts had a bottle of scotch, so we'd all take a shot. We were laughin', and to me it seemed like a field trip! I didn't know 30 below zero."
They waited for several hours before a trucker spotted the bus and alerted a local sheriff who then arranged four cars to rescue them. They boarded another bus in Green Bay, Wisconsin to make the 340-mile trek to Clear Lake. When the heaters failed, they were forced to stop off in Prairie du Chien to repair them. They arrived in Clear Lake at 8pm, just in time to take the stage at the Surf Ballroom.
It's here where Holly asked the club manager to charter the plane.
Holly offered one of the seats in the four-seat, single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft up to Dion, who baulked at the $36 price tag. Crickets band members Tommy Allsup and Waylon Jennings were next up. Jennings handed over his seat to Richardson who was struggling with the flu, and Valens won a coin flip for Allsup's seat.
When Valens joked with Allsup, telling him to enjoy the bus ride, Allsup jabbed back, saying "I hope your plane crashes". A remark that likely still plagues Allsup to this day.
At 1am, 21-year-old pilot Roger Peterson set out of Clear Lake, Iowa for Fargo, North Dakota. Claire Suddath of Time Magazine observes:
"The plane stayed in the sky for only a few minutes; no one is quite sure what went wrong. The best guess is that Peterson flew directly into the blizzard, lost visual reference and accidentally flew down instead of up. The four-passenger plane ploughed into a nearby cornfield at over 170 mph, flipping over on itself and tossing the passengers into the air. Their bodies landed yards away from the wreckage and stayed there for ten hours as snowdrifts formed around them."
The Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa will celebrate the 62nd anniversary of Holly, Valens and Richardson's final performance like it does every year, by taking a trip back in time, albeit in a far less elaborate affair given the social distancing regulations in place amid the global pandemic. The festivities stretch across three days, embracing the fashion and the music of the era, and include dance lessons, a sock hop, film screenings, and live music.
The Surf Ballroom's 50th anniversary's line-up featured Graham Nash, Bobby Vee (who was on the 1959 Winter Dance Party Tour), and Los Lobos. In more recent years, sold-out crowds from four countries and 36 states joined Albert Lee, Chubby Checker, The Chiftons, and Johnny Tillotson to celebrate the 60th anniversary. Sure enough, the festivities include a bus tour to the memorial site for $8. Last year the tour sold out weeks in advance.
It feels morbid to even consider visiting the cornfield that claimed the lives of the men that cold February morning, but it speaks to a cultural fascination celebrity deaths. Moreover, it illustrates a desire to come to terms with it and, perhaps, pay tribute to a piece of ourselves that we lost long ago.
This year, as fans stand at the foot of the sculpture that resembles Holly's black horn-rimmed glasses, they'll undoubtedly reminisce about the story that began 62 years ago.
As they retrace that narrative, I'm willing to bet they'll pepper it with little pieces of their own lives and experiences. After all, that's the real reason we make these kinds of pilgrimages, to find a little bit of ourselves in the rubble.


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Grêj (tudi izvirno , [grêj]; simbol Gy) je izpeljana enota mednarodnega sistema enot za absorbirano dozo. Enota je poimenovana v čast britanskemu fiziku Louisu Haroldu Grayu.

Definicija

En grej ustreza enemu džulu energije, ki jo visokoenergijski delci ob prehodu skozi snov predajo enemu kilogramu te snovi; 1 Gy = 1 J/kg.

Ob greju je za merjenje absorbirane doze v rabi še stokrat manjša stara enota rad.

Glej tudi
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Izpeljane enote SI
Louis Harold Gray


Performance Modifications: None, as yet.
External Modifications: sidestrips and badges removed, clear marker lights, Startech grille, tints on rear windows, private plate.
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Q: Another Topology on the Prime Spectrum of a Ring Let's fix a commutative ring $R$. We'll write $X = \operatorname{Spec}R$ for the set of prime ideals of $R$. Finally, let's write $\beta X$ for the Stone-Čech compactification of $X$.
We can define a function $\lim  : \beta X \to X$ using the following recipe:
$$ f \in \lim \mu \iff \mu(\{p \in \operatorname{Spec} R : f \in p \}) = 1$$
Indeed, $\lim \mu$ is prime by Łoś's theorem, or an easy direct verification.
I believe this function actually endows $X$ the structure of a $\beta$-algebra.  In other words, this endows $X$ with a compact Hausdorff topology. In particular, it must be distinct from the Zariski topology.
My questions: does this topology have a name? Is there somewhere I could read about this?

A: This is the constructible topology, the topology generated by both the Zariski open sets and the basic Zariski closed sets (i.e., the closed sets defined by principal ideals).  Another way to say it is that it is the topology generated by declaring the distinguished Zariski open subsets $D(f)$ to be clopen, rather than just open.  Or, it is what you get by considering $\operatorname{Spec} R$ as a subset of $\mathcal{P}(X)\cong \{0,1\}^X$ and giving it the product topology, where you put the discrete topology on $\{0,1\}$.  (This description is immediate from your description of what limits look like, since you are just taking pointwise limits in $\{0,1\}^X$.)
It can also be described purely topologically from the Zariski topology: it is the topology generated the sets that are compact and open in the Zariski topology, together with their complements.  This topology is useful in the abstract theory of spectral spaces (spaces that are homeomorphic to the spectrum of a ring with the Zariski topology); see https://stacks.math.columbia.edu/tag/08YF for instance.  It is also of interest because the constructible sets (in the sense of algebraic geometry) are exactly the clopen subsets in the constructible topology (so the constructible topology makes $\operatorname{Spec} R$ the Stone space of the Boolean algebra of constructible sets).


A poet of poise and power. No Way Out but Through, Schwartz's third collection of poems, showcases some of this writer's many strengths. She's a stubborn anti-sentimentalist who can write wrenching elegies. She's an archivist of memories, a celebrant for the forgotten or nearly forgotten, who also writes eloquently of the undertow of oblivion. She's an anthologist of anxiety dreams. Irritated by Cordelia and partial to the Fisherman's Wife, she's a contrarian reader. At all times, Schwartz's poetic voice is piercingly honest. Her tough-minded intelligence leaves plenty of room for questions and regrets.
One marvels at the force of seeing in Schwartz's No Way Out But Through and cannot help but feel a particular gratitude for her abundant humor. Go all in with these poems; you'll reap unknown rewards. She possesses a quick-witted imagination that sanctifies memories and makes room for the wondrous nature of our cosmopolitan lights.
Can mournfulness be wry? Can irony be heartfelt? Yes, when the writer is as insightful as Lynne Sharon Schwartz, her voice urgent with life even as she speaks about death. From Veronica Lake to her old boyfriends to lost family members, a whole peopled world is created for us here, at the intersection of memory and dream.
From dreams uncannily composed of real life oddities to sharply etched memories of a New York consumed by change and stark encounters of family deaths and portraits of enduring presences—Lynne Sharon Schwartz has given us a collection of lithe poems empowered by fierce attention, honesty, and ruefulness. These poems have the immediacy and poignance of the best photographs, clear, haunting, trustworthy. A book to read—and then keep near to return to again.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of two previous poetry collections: See You in the Dark, and In Solitary. Her twenty-three books include the novels Disturbances in the Field, Leaving Brooklyn, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Rough Strife, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has also published non-fiction, short stories, a memoir, essays, and translations. Schwartz is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (in fiction and translation), and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She has taught widely in the United States and abroad, and currently teaches at the Bennington College Writing Seminars and the Columbia University School of the Arts.


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More info on Shyama Sangeet
Shyama Sangeet: Wikis
Shyama Sangeet is a genre of Bengali devotional songs dedicated to the Hindu goddess Shyama or Kali. It is also known as Shaktagiti.
Shyama Sangeet appeals to the common man because it is a musical representation of the relationship of eternal and sublime love and care between the mother and her child. It is free of the common rituals of worship and also the esoteric practice of the Tantra.
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During the 12th-13th centuries when Shaktism grew in Bengal, it inspired a number of poets to compose poems on Kali. Mukundarāma, known as Kavikaṅkaṇ or 'gem of poets,' wrote his chief poem, the epic Chaṇḍī, in 1589. Towards the middle of the 18th century, the poet Ramprasad Sen instilled new life into it and turned it into a distinct genre of Bengali songs.
Ramprasad was succeeded by number of composers like Kamlakanta Bhattacharya (1772-1821), Rasikchandra Ray (1820-1893), Ramchandra Datta (1861-1899), and Nilakantha Mukhopadhyaya. In modern times both Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam have composed poems of Shyama Sangeet genre.
The term 'Shyama' refers to the skin color of Kali (usually depicted in black or deep blue.) Literally, it means dusky (or wheatish).
Shyamasangeet can be divided into two streams: devotional or metaphysical and Umasangit, Agamani or Vijaya songs. The first category of songs is inspired by devotion and spiritual thoughts. The second category which is based on themes of daily family matters or social events, is known as Padavali, Umasangit, Agamani or Vijaya songs.
Shyama Sangeet conceptualizes Goddess Kali as a loving human mother and the singer is longing for The Mother's love. The songs have become popular not only for it's devotional side, but also for it's human appeal.
The theme and occasion of Āgāmanī and Vijayā songs are as follows. Umā or Gaurī, daughter of Himālaya and Menakā, was married to Śiva, the Lord of Kailāsa. The Goddess Durga comes to see her parents from her in laws every year. The goddess is portrayed here as an ordinary girl living far away from her mother and feels joyous to come back home after a long stay at her in laws' place. These songs too are highly popular because of their human appeal and as they are easily identifiable with any married girl living far away from their parents.
What Edward Thompson wrote in 1923 is true even today.
But the Śākta poems are a different matter. These have gone to the heart of a people as few poets' work has done. Such songs as the exquisite 'This day will surely pass, Mother, this day will pass,' I have heard from coolies on the road or workers in the paddy fields; I have heard it by broad rivers at sunset, when the parrots were flying to roost and the village folk thronging from marketing to the ferry. Once I asked the top class in a mofussil high school to write out a song of Rabindranath Tagore's; two boys out of forty succeeded, a result which I consider showed the very real diffusion of his songs. But, when I asked for a song of Rāmprasād's, every boy except two responded. Truly, a poet who is known both by work and name to boys between fourteen and eighteen, is a national poet. Tagore's songs are heard in Calcutta streets, and have been widely spread by the student community and the Brahmo Samaj; but in the villages of Bengal they are unknown, while Rāmprasād's are heard everywhere. 'The peasants and the paṇḍits enjoy his songs equally. They draw solace from them in the hour of despair and even at the moment of death. The dying man brought to the banks of the Ganges asks his companions to sing Rāmprasādī songs.[1]
^ Thompson, Edward. J. and Spencer, Arthur Marshman, Bengali Religious Lyrics, Śākta, Oxford University Press, London, 1923. p 19
Thompson, Edward. J. and Spencer, Arthur Marshman, Bengali Religious Lyrics, Śākta, Oxford University Press, London, 1923. [1]
Categories: Bengali culture | Hindu music
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Bengali Religious Lyrics, Sakta, by Edward J. Thompson and Arthur Marshman Spencer.


An Tutu latest 4.0 version changes a lot of test items, so the score with the old version does not have a comparative value, the machine twenty thousand multisection not low, but it does not reflect the actual control experience.
AnTuTu 4.0 changes a lot of testing, so this new score can't be compared to the old one. Although this tablet scores in the 20,000-range, that does not reflect the real-world user experience.
This is the first acknowledgement of the A31s score inflation versus real-world performance in a review.
With AnTuTu 3.x, the Allwinner A31s scored in the 11,000-12,000-range. It seems the actual user experience remains the same, despite the — possibly fraudulent — score inflation with 4.0.
The tablet itself is yet another with too little RAM — just 1GB, with sometimes as little as 200MBs free. Web pages spontaneously close or the browser crashes altogether. There are also problems with some large games.
If tablet makers can't get 9.7-inch Retina-class tablets right, do you really hold any hope for Retina-class iPad Mini clones?
Voyo A18: The First Retina-Class Android Tablet Worth Buying?
why do they continue making retina screen with A31 CPU? it clearly is too underpowered for retina..


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PBS News Hour: Edward Hirsch reads another excerpt from "Gabriel: A Poem"
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Edward Hirsch reads a second excerpt from his new book, "Gabriel: A Poem," an elegy for his son, who died in 2011. ABOUT
A Poet On Losing His Son: 'Before You Heal, You Have To Mourn'
On a stormy night in 2011, poet Edward Hirsch lost his 22-year-old son, Gabriel. After taking a club drug, Gabriel had a seizure and died of cardiac arrest. In life, Gabriel was exciting and energetic, but he also struggled, as his father remembers in his poetry: I look back at the worried parents Wandering through
Reading at the Free Library of Philadelphia
Over the course of eight collections of poetry, four books of criticism, and the long-running "Poet's Choice" column in the Washington Post, Edward Hirsch has cemented his reputation as an attentive reader and an elegant poet, capturing what the Romantic poets called "the true voice of feeling." His many honors include the National Book Critics Circle
Poet-to-Poet Edward Hirsch, "Fast Break"
Edward Hirsch reading "Fast Break," as part of Poet-to-Poet, the Academy of American Poets' educational project for National Poetry Month 2014. Pellentesque a massa nec massa laoreet iaculis. Nam fermentum porta velit. Aenean mattis bibendum dictum. Nulla convallis egestas risus. Curabitur a nisi in urna rutrum euismod at eget arcu. Nam turpis justo, luctus
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Edward Hirsch was born in Chicago in 1950 and educated both at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph.D. in folklore. His first collection of poems, For the Sleepwalkers, was published in 1981 and went on to receive the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets and
PEN Bravery in Poetry Lecture: Joseph Brodsky
Edward Hirsch discusses the life and work of Joseph Brodsky at the Bravery in Poetry event at PEN's 2013 World Voices Festival
Hay Festival Reading and Interview
Edward Hirsch is an American poet and critic who captivated audiences with the acclaimed 'bestseller' How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry, in which he brought the pleasure of poetry to readers. Author of eight compilations of poems and six books on poetry, Hirsch is currently the president of the John Simon
An Interview with Edward Hirsch by Judith Harris
Judith Harris: I assume that in the years between high school, when you first started writing poetry, and the publication of your first book, when you were thirty-one, your work was changing as you developed your craft. What were the earliest poems that appear in For the Sleepwalkers, and at what point did you write them?
Rattapallax Feature: Edward Hirsch
Interview and short film about poet Edward Hirsch.
Folger Shakespeare Library: O. B. Hardison Poetry Series
Stranger by Night
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Q: Invoking Powershell from Java is executes infinate I am trying to invoke powershell commands from java program and i am able to achieve it with below code. But the problem is code wont stop after the execution of the powershell command.
This code prints the powershell command output . but it is executing infinate[execution not stoping after printing output].
Does anyone know what is the bug here ?
Java code :
public class PowerShellHelper
{
public ProcessBuilder processbuilder = null;
public Process process = null;

public PowerShellHelper()
{

}

String execPowerShell()
{
    String command = "Get-WmiObject Win32_Process -filter ProcessId=5988";
    String[] cmds = {"powershell.exe",command};
    String result= null;
    try
    {
        processbuilder = new ProcessBuilder(cmds);
        processbuilder.redirectErrorStream(true);
        process = processbuilder.start();
        BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));
        String line = null ;
        while (true)
        {
            line = r.readLine();
            if(line == null) {break;}
            System.out.println(line);
        }
        process.getOutputStream().close();

    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
        System.out.println("Exception "+e);
    }
    return result;
}

public static void main(String[] args)
{
    PowerShellHelper psh  = new PowerShellHelper();
    psh.execPowerShell();
}

}

A: Just add:
process.getOutputStream().close();

after opening BufferedReader.
This should do the trick.


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NAS Pensacola holds first base-wide active shooter training since Dec. 6, 2019, shooting
Annie Blanks
On a chilly, sunny February morning, shots from a fake gun rang out in the halls of the main medical building at Naval Air Station Pensacola.
Sailors donning fake bloody bandages came stumbling out of the building screaming, as sirens from naval police units blared in the distance. An announcement came over the base's "Giant Voice" intercom system: "Exercise! Exercise! Exercise! Active shooter. Take cover."
It was just a drill. A necessary one, the start of a two-week, all-base comprehensive crisis training that will prepare the base for active shooters, hostage situations, terrorist alerts and other disasters.
But still, Capt. Tim Kinsella, the base's commanding officer, stood silently by and observed the feigned commotion with a somber bowed head as police units rushed into the building brandishing fake purple assault rifles.
"Just myself, even standing here, and watching all these folks run out of the building and hearing the gunshots, it makes my heart run faster and it brings back a lot of very uncomfortable memories," Kinsella said. "(Active shooter training) has extra meaning on this base."
NAS Pensacola, after all, hasn't just been through the training before — it's been through the real thing.
Timeline of events:NAS Pensacola attack: A minute by minute timeline of the 15 minutes that changed Pensacola
One year later:NAS Pensacola heals from tragedy, stands resilient a year after terrorist attack
On Dec. 6, 2019, just before 7 a.m., a Saudi flight student opened fire inside a classroom building at NAS Pensacola, killing three people and injuring eight before being killed by sheriff's deputies. The terrorist attack sent ripples throughout not just the Pensacola community, but the Navy as a whole, and has left an indelible impression on Kinsella and others who were there that day — an impression that becomes more of an open wound watching the reenactments this week.
This was the first wide-scale active shooter training to happen on base since the attack itself more than a year ago. The drills are usually scheduled months in advance every year in around the February or March timeframe, but Kinsella put a pin in last year's exercises because the actual attack had just happened.
"It was my decision not to do active shooter training base-wide last year because it was too raw. It was too traumatic, I didn't want to re-traumatize the people on the base so soon, only four to six weeks after the event actually happened," he said. "We did a very, very small training, we still had an active shooter event, but it was just within the security department so we could pass on lessons learned from that day to folks within the security department."
This time, the base is gearing up for the start of its normal crisis drills, a two-week process that tests the base's protocols, lockdown procedures, gate closures, building evacuations, police details and more in the event of a man-made disaster like a shooting or a terrorist attack.
Tuesday morning's active shooter drill took place in the medical building to simulate as real-life a scenario as possible: in the acted-out crisis scene, a sailor was just discharged from the Navy because of medical reasons, and he became enraged, shooting hundreds of people in the building. The constant drill of automatic assault rifles firing rang from the doors and windows as groups of "injured" sailors and medics ran outside to a staged triage area across the street.
A LifeFlight helicopter landed on top of the building as hundreds of military personnel fanned out across the parking lots and yards around the building, helping the "injured" and "wounded." Kinsella communicated with other officers via radio to relay the coordinates of the shooter inside the building.
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Ultimately, the shooter was "arrested" and led out of the building incident-free by base police.
In a separate training incident earlier that morning, two actors played out a hostage situation in a public restroom by the Barrancas Beach area, in which a man was holding a woman hostage at gunpoint inside the restroom. Base police officers arrived to "talk down" the crazed gunman to no avail; a base K-9 unit, a Belgian Malinois named Dollar, was ultimately brought in and freed the woman before attacking the assailant (who was appropriately wearing a padded dog attack suit.)
"In this scenario, we had a barricaded suspect, and so rather than having one of our security members answer the door first we had this guy, Dollar, enter the door first to make sure that it was safe for us to come inside," K-9 handler Jonathan Koop said after the exercise as Dollar pawed at his vest for a treat. "It's less use of force, less lethal, saves bullets and gets our guy in custody without endangering any of our staff members."
The training exercises will continue over the next several days and will get even bigger and more elaborate. Kinsella said next week's training will be "varsity" compared to this week's "junior varsity" scenarios.
But while he acknowledged it's "hard to replicate" the actual feelings and adrenaline that take place during a real-time active shooter situation, training exercises like these are important because they give people training to fall back on when their adrenaline is going too fast.
"You cannot simulate going through an event like this. All you can do is create muscle memory so that you know what to do so that you can fall back on your training. … That's what you do when you're in combat, when you're in a high-pressure situation, you want to have muscle memory," he said. "That's what we try to do here, get that repetition up and that muscle memory. But it is hard to replicate."
Annie Blanks can be reached at ablanks@pnj.com or 850-435-8632.


The School Council is the governing body of the school and may comprise people from all sectors of the school community - parents, teachers, the Principal, community and student representatives.
School Councils have assumed an increasingly important role in the school as government policies have vested in it more responsibility to determine the school's education policy, goals and priorities which suit the needs of the school community, and to manage the resources available for meeting those goals.
Representing the school community in compiling the School Charter - a formal documented agreement between the school and the Department of Education and Training outlining the school's goals and priorities over a three-year period.
Formulating and maintaining documented education and management policies, including the student dress code and code of conduct.
Maintaining and improving the school's facilities – i.e. buildings and grounds.
Making recommendations to the Department of Education on the appointment of the school's Principal.
The School Council operates through regular meetings that provide the forum for issues to be discussed and decisions made. Annual minimums of eight meetings (two each term) are held and are generally convened on the third Tuesday of the month.
Facilities - our school is sited on approximately 4 Ha of land. Whilst the buildings & grounds are generally in good condition they do require regular attention. This is mostly achieved through regular working bees with the involvement of parents, teachers, children and other community members, though a contract exists for some general garden maintenance.
Finance - the finances of our school are under regular scrutiny to ensure spending is in accordance with the school budget. The formulation and recommendation of the annual budget is a major task for this committee toward the end of each year.
Public Relations - makes recommendations to council in relation to special events and school publicity promoting all aspects of our school within our own community and beyond.
The School Council encourages all parents to become actively involved in their child's education, whether it be in an official capacity as a member of one of the various school groups, assisting teachers with reading or at home.
It is important that every parent has the opportunity to express their concerns or their satisfaction with their child's education - you are encouraged to approach a School Councillor, the Principal or your child's teacher if you have a query.


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Throughout the past few years Modern has identified areas of improvement from our discussions and has continued to upgrade the software side of the machine to improve the ease of programming and provide additional capabilities of the machine. We just received our third Modern machine a 3 station pressure former that has been running since October 2012, four days after its arrival. Built to our custom requirements this is by far the best machine I have ever purchased. My congratulations to Modern for their outstanding performance in building Ray Products the best thermoforming equipment available in our Industry!"
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Best BuildFire Apps of 2021
The new year is finally here. Like many of you, I use this time to reflect on the past 12 months and set goals for the future.
As I look back on 2021, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to highlight some of my favorite apps created with BuildFire. Every app on this list had a significant impact on revenue for their companies in 2021. Read on to learn the reasons why each app made the cut for the Best of 2021.
Kidz Bop Live
Kidz Bop is a name that you've likely heard of—and for good reason. As the number one music brand for kids, Kidz Bop has sold over 22.5 million albums and generated more than 6.5 billion streams worldwide.
Only three artists in music history – The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Barbra Striesand – have sold more top ten albums than Kidz Bop.
For those of you unfamiliar with the brand, the concept is really simple. Kids sing covers of popular music. The songs, music videos, and albums are available on all major streaming services, including Apple Music and Spotify.
In addition to selling albums in record numbers, the Kidz Bop brand also sells out arenas worldwide for concert tours. These concerts inspired the launch of Kidz Bop Live, the mobile app created with BuildFire.
The app gives the Kidz Bop core fan base a way to interact with the brand 365 days a year. Parents can find out about upcoming shows, buy concert tickets, purchase merchandise, get access to music, and watch videos directly from their smartphones.
Unfortunately, most of the Kidz Bop 2021 tour was canceled due to the pandemic. But this only made the Kidz Bop Live app that much more important to the brand and its fans.
The app makes it easy for parents and children to watch exclusive Kidz Bop videos from anywhere. So while they can't attend any concerts, they can still have fun and engage with the community every day.
Rob Decker, Kidz Bop Director of Marketing, explains why the app has been so popular over the past year. "The most used feature in our app is the video section. People are looking for a way to find and consume our content. While fans are stuck at home, they're looking for some entertainment."
2022 looks to be a better year for live music and concert tours, which means the Kidz Bop Live app will help to grow the brand and entertain fans even more in the new year.
Sticking with the music theme, this list wouldn't be complete without the 311 mobile app.
311 has been making rock music for more than 30 years. With 13 studio albums and over 8.5 million records sold in the US, this band has created some of the most recognizable rock songs of the past few decades.
311 has a very loyal fan base. That's where the 311 mobile app comes into the equation.
The app has everything you'd expect from a band. Fans can find tour information, buy tickets, get 311 gear, and see news about the members. But unlike the average music app, 311 has one of the most active fan communities on the planet.
Fans love the in-app message board.
With BuildFire, implementing this feature was as simple as installing a plugin from the BuildFire marketplace. The rest is history.
Fans use the message board feature on a daily basis to talk about the band and music. They discuss past shows, upcoming events, and share some of their favorite 311 stories. The app has essentially become the ultimate fan community hub. App users even use these message boards to coordinate post-concert meetups and after-parties.
It's truly incredible to see how the app evolved from something so simple into a must-have app for every 311 fan.
Amputee Walking School
The Amputee Walking School was founded in 1988 by Todd Schaffhauser. Todd lost his leg to bone cancer when he was just 15 years old.
But that didn't hold him back. As a Paralympic Games gold medalist and world record holder, he revolutionized the way athletes can run with prosthetic legs. Todd's story is truly inspiring.
Today, The Amputee Walking School has over 30,000 members, and they help more than one thousand amputees every year.
Enter the Amputee Walking School Mobile app. Created with BuildFire, the app has become a lifeline for amputees and healthcare professionals.
To summarize its top features, the app offers:
Resources for amputees and people considering an amputation
Help for people struggling with the mental aspects of amputations
Physical therapist training videos
Patient training videos
Direct access to the Amputee Coalition of America
Walking challenges for app users
Arguably the most impactful feature of the app is its physical therapist training. The Amputee Walking School works directly with hospitals, prosthetic companies, and outpatient services programs across the country. This role includes training for physical therapists who work with new amputees during the rehab process.
But an afternoon of training isn't always enough for a physical therapist to retain information. The mobile app solves this problem by giving therapists direct access to walking videos, exercises, and techniques from anywhere.
So when a patient comes in for a rehab session, the therapist simply opens the app on a smartphone or tablet. They can play a video, and the patient just needs to mimic the movements on the screen.
This mobile app has single-handedly bridged the gap between physical therapist training and patient care for amputees. The walking challenges and in-app leaderboard helps inspire the amputee community. It gives people motivation to get out there and walk, so they can post their step counts in the app.
In 2021, the Amputee Walking School mobile app was used to connect doctors, patients, educators, and even prosthetic companies. The sky's the limit for this app in 2022.
Kids Learning Tube
Kids Learning Tube is an education tool for kids. It teaches subjects through animated videos and songs. With over 1.25 million subscribers and more than one billion video views, Kids Learning Tube has been used by teachers and parents worldwide as a resource to make learning fun.
The app was initially launched out of necessity. After YouTube faced some compliance issues related to online ads in children's videos, Kids Learning Tube needed to pivot.
They came to BuildFire and launched an ad-free platform where teachers, parents, and kids could access all of the videos.
The app has proved to be extremely useful in 2021. Countless parents across the globe were navigating unfamiliar waters. All of the school closures and uncertainty forced parents to teach their kids at home. This is far from an easy task.
First, you need to get your kids excited to learn. Then coming up with teaching materials and a way to convey those lessons can feel impossible for parents.
But Kids Learning Tube solves all of those problems.
While the app was obviously built for kids, it's actually used by students and educators at all levels. In fact, a Stanford University student wrote their thesis about how they used Kids Learning Tube to get an A in a college anatomy course.
Here at BuildFire, we saw a significant increase in the demand for educational mobile apps in 2021. I expect that demand to continue in 2022 and beyond.
Grief Refuge
Many people across the globe experienced loss in 2021.
Losing a loved one is always difficult, and everyone deals with loss in different ways. But once you learn to cope with your grief, it can make a significant difference in your life.
The Grief Refuge mobile app offers tools and guidance to ease the pain and deal with grief head-on.
This unique app offers comfort and support to individuals who are often at their most vulnerable. It gives them the opportunity to reflect on their grief, share personal stories, and track the entire grief journey.
Grief Refuge provides these support resources on the go. So whenever someone feels like they need some extra support, the app is just a click away.
The daily journaling feature is one of my favorite features of this app. It allows users to take notes and share thoughts about how they're feeling that day or in the moment. App users can even listen to daily audio recordings to help ease pain and stress.
Sadly, we all need to deal with grief at some point in our lives. The Grief Refuge mobile app is one way to get through our pain.
Savannah Bananas
Savannah Bananas is unlike any baseball team you've ever seen before. The homepage of their website says it—they make baseball fun.
This unique team based in Georgia has sold out every home game since it was founded back in 2016, and they have thousands of people on the waitlist for games.
The Bananas have been featured in ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Good Morning America, and Cosmopolitan for both on-field and off-field performances. Here are just a handful of the wacky antics put on by the Bananas:
The players wear kilts
The team performs choreographed dances at every game
Post-game interviews are done in the shower, ice baths, or other unconventional places
The owner wears a yellow tuxedo to every game
Players run through the crowd when the team scores
You get the idea. It's LOTS of entertainment, with a little bit of baseball mixed in there as well.
The Savannah Bananas mobile app takes that fun and excitement on the go. Fans can use the app to buy tickets, buy merchandise, view rosters, chat with other fans, and even access tickets on game day. The app has parking information, food and beverage maps, and digital game programs.
Since the games are always sold out, fans can also use the app to watch highlights at any time. These highlight videos include on-field action, as well as the wacky off-field antics.
PepTalks
PepTalks is one of my favorite BuildFire apps of 2021 for two main reasons:
The app itself is awesome, and it's designed to help people.
The app creator is even more awesome, and she's a DIY entrepreneur that built the app on her own—without any prior technical experience.
Before we dive into the app, I want to give you a quick backstory on the owner and creator, Lindsey Eryn Clark.
Lindsey has her own branding studio and also hosts a weekly podcast for entrepreneurs. Unlike other entrepreneurial content, her podcast focuses more on the heart and soul of entrepreneurship.
Out of necessity in her own life, Lindsey began writing daily pep talks to herself. These were just simple words of motivation to get her through the day. Realizing how much these words were making an impact on her, she decided to share them with friends as well.
As the list of friends turned into a list with thousands of strangers, she eventually found a platform to text people daily words of encouragement.
That's when the entrepreneurial spirit in Lindsey kicked in. She wanted to scale her words of wisdom while simultaneously monetizing her content. That's when the PepTalks mobile app was created.
Not only did the app allow Lindsey to scale her list and make money, but it also improved the experience for her subscribers. Rather than getting a text message, which wasn't always supported on different devices, the app allows Lindsey to reach her subscribers with daily push notifications.
Users can customize these settings to control how many notifications they get per day and what type of inspirational quotes they want to receive.
Furthermore, app users no longer have to wait until a specific time each day to get a daily pep talk. They can access the app 24/7/365 for motivation on-demand.
Lindsey is also using the PepTalks mobile app to promote her podcast and personal brand.
In a year when so many people needed advice, words of wisdom, and motivation, the PepTalks mobile app was there for support.
More than 10,000 apps have been created with BuildFire. So coming up with this list of my favorites for 2021 was no easy task. But each app above stood out to me for at least one or two significant reasons when I was reflecting on the year.
As you can see, BuildFire's platform is extremely versatile. Individual users, businesses, musicians, and even baseball teams have used our platform to create something special. From videos for physical therapy training to event sales, words of wisdom, and fan hubs, the BuildFire apps on this list are truly unique.
Do you have a creative idea for a new app? Start building it today, and maybe you'll make my list of the top BuildFire apps next year.


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Jeff Zucker's successor is…Chris Licht
last night i mentioned This is the president of Warner Bros. Discovery David Zaslav He had focused on being chosen as the next president of CNN. I have also reported on the star executive producer Chris Lichtprevious to morning Atmosphere And the CBS this morning, And now the person in charge The late Show with Stephen Colberthas emerged as a major contender for the position he previously held Jeff Zucker. I can now report, based on conversations with sources who spoke directly with Zaslav, that Licht is indeed the person Zaslav chose to run CNN.
A source familiar with the matter said Licht will run CNN as head of news at Warner Bros. Discovery. Unlike Zucker, his competence will not extend to sports. Licht has a deal with CBS that expires in April, according to people familiar with the matter, but his appointment is likely to be announced at or before the Discovery shareholder meeting on March 11. Not responding to a request for comment. Yacht also did not respond to a request for comment.)
There are two immediately interesting components to this development. First, on some level, this makes sense. As I explained last night, the other names in this mix all have some notable flaws. Ben SherwoodThe former president of ABC TV and ABC News has had the most experience, but has had critics among the many former ABC executives who now occupy the top tier at CNN, including interim president and programming specialist. Amy Intellis and Senior Vice President for News Gathering Virginia Moseley. Most cited internal candidate, Andrew MorseHe had digital chips and insight into everyday things but was not seen as capable of filling Zucker's shoes as a master programmer and entrepreneur. (Also, let's be honest, with the notable exception of Casey Blues On HBO, the in-house candidate rarely gets the nod in these situations.)
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Meanwhile, the UTA agent Jay Sewers He had contacts but no broadcasting and journalism experience. (Disclosure: I am a UTA customer.) David Rhodes It always sounded like a name taken from Spencer Stewart's hat – A nameSure, but someone who shined in a bygone era. Josh Terangel It looked like a car filter. Anyway, I've since learned that Zaslav never spoke to any of the above names about the job.
Licht, on the surface, also doesn't look like a specially designed filter. Nominally a super producer, he's run software but not a department. Also, his Colbert Seems like the kind of liberal-inspired content that supposedly Zaz wants CNN to evolve away from as he turns him back into a mediocre news machine. I remember, of course, the strong Discovery board member John Malone Public comments a few months ago about hoping to bring CNN back toward the center, away from trump-era #resistance playbook- Comments that upset Zucker and his inner circle, I was told.
But despite these issues, hiring a yacht already has serious strategic logic. He was co-creator and original executive producer for MSNBC morning atmosphere, a huge franchise that Zucker would envy, and still among the most influential shows in satellite news today. From there he went to CBS this morning And he ran the show during what is likely to be remembered as his best years. Few had seen how a rebooted and smarter morning show could compete GMA And the Today. To be fair, it didn't, but he did become a very respectable third place holder with a much smaller budget.
His current success on top in late Time of night Another unusual example of how a news product can be elevated to cultural mainstream. Furthermore, after rocky Colbert made his CBS debut, it was Licht who saved the network's massive investment – a move that made all his bosses look great in the process as well. Licht may not be Zucker, but he is without a doubt the great producer of his generation with the ability to capture talent and see value where others don't.
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In the end, it looks like Licht could also be an exemplary Zaslav CEO. Despite spending the past several months in Hollywood glamour, crowding his booth in the Polo Lounge, buying Robert Evans"Old estate, Zazlav built his fortune and created massive corporate value from uninteresting assets, often out of the spotlight. One imagines that Licht could represent the kind of press-shy workaholic who would fit right in with Zaz's new Warner Bros. Discovery culture. May Hiring an outsider also helps re-calibrate the network toward its middle assets.It is also sure to mark the talent within CNN that a new mayor is in town.
How will CNN staff respond? Time will tell. But Licht's last success with Joe and MikaAnd the Gail KingAnd the Nora O'Donnell, Colbert notes that he knows how to work with elite talent, not a semi-creative kind of bean off the Wharton conveyor belt. Almost immediately, one supposes, he will focus on his first signature – figuring out who will replace the one who has recently been abandoned. Chris Cuomo At 9 p.m., whether Licht picks an insider or someone entirely new will likely go a long way toward identifying his relationships with the talent in the building, and the high-level agents who help summon the picks three thousand miles away.
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Over 100,000 objects have to be moved before the new National Museum can open in 2020.
The National Museum's collections include paintings, sculptures, drawings, works of applied art, design objects, architectural models and installations. They all have to be documented, conserved and carefully packed before being transferred to their new home in a pristine new museum.
The National Museum's collections will be moved from five current locations to the new building at Vestbanen. More than 5 000 works of art, objects and models will be on public display in the new museum's 91 exhibition rooms. Others will be safely deposited in internal and external magazines.
The magazines at the new National Museum have 7 000 square metres of floor space, which, together with an exhibition space of 14 000 square metres, will be enough to accommodate most of our collection. A total of 300 transport trips will be needed to move the entire collection to its new surroundings.
Click here to read more about the National Museum's specialist logistics staff!
The road to the new National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design passes through the conservator's workshop.
The Museum of Contemporary Art closed 3 September 2017. The process of moving the collection of contemporary art to the new National Museum has begun.
The National Museum's library and archive are moving!


A wonderful afternoon was had a Whitecliff where we held a Teddy Bears picnic.
Children from the community came for an afternoon of games, activities and a picnic tea which they enjoyed with our residents.
The interaction between our residents and the young visitors was a delight to see.
It was such a positive, happy afternoon, one we hope to repeat soon.


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Queens Park 2 - 2 Aberdeen
Kick Off: 2:40 PM Maclean, Dixon Lennie, Lennie.
Venue: Hampden Park, Glasgow
Aberdeen visited Hampden Park, Glasgow, and met the Queen's Park Club. The ground was hard and slippery, and the weather was foggy. There were about 7000 spectators present when Dickson started for Queen's Park. Aberdeen for some time had the best of the game, but Queen's broke away and McLean scored a fine goal. Afterwards there was little to choose between the teams, both being handicapped by the state of the ground. Dickson added a second goal, and then Lennie scored twice in quick succession for Aberdeen. Queen's Park pressed and forced a corner, but nothing came of it, the score at half-time being :- Queen's Park, two goals; Aberdeen, two goals. In the second half Aberdeen forced the pace, but although they bombarded the home goal, they were unable to score. A corner against Queen's Park was cleared, and the home team transferred play to Mutch's end, but they too were unsteady in front of goal. A fine shot by Anderson grazed the bar. Play fell away somewhat towards the finish and there was no further scoring, the final result being a draw - Two goals each.
Source: The Scotsman, 28th December 1908
The return league match between Aberdeen and Queen's Park was played at Hampden Park, Glasgow, on Saturday. A keen frost prevailed throughout the day, and at the hour of starting the ground was so hard that it was only after consultation between the referee and the officials of the two clubs that it was decided to go on with the game. The Aberdeen team rearranged, Halkett, McNair, and O'Hagan being a prominent absentees. At 2:20 the teams lined up as follows, before fully 10,000 spectators:-
Aberdeen: Mutch; Colman, Hume; Wilson, McIntosh, Low; McEchern, Simpson, Niblo, Murray, Lennie.
Queens Park: Adams; Thompson, Richmond; McAndrew, Murray, Henderson; McLean, Bowie, Dixon, McColl, Paul.
Referee - Mr. R. T. Murray, Stenhousemuir.
Play opened quietly, the hard nature of the ground and the uncertain foothold troubling the players. For fully a quarter of an hour the game was practically devoid of incident. It was quite evident that the players did not intend to run any risks, with the result that play failed to create the slightest enthusiasm among the spectators. Aberdeen had the best of matters at the start, the Queen's Park forwards being seldom across midfield. First McIntosh and then Hume dropped the ball in front of Adams, but the Queen's Park backs had plenty of time to clear. A clever pass by Murray, Aberdeen, said Lennie agoing, the left winger being blocked near the goal line and a corner resulting. Lennie placed the ball beautifully, and it was with difficulty that the Hampden team ultimately managed to clear their lines. Aberdeen again attacked, when a misunderstanding between Niblo and Simpson allowed Richmond to clear. The Queen's were rarely dangerous, any attempt at breaking through being checked by Hume and Colman. A surprise shot by McEchern, who sent the ball across from near the touch line, was easily cleared by Adams. Play on the whole was lacking in interest, although Aberdeen were undoubtedly the better side, played clever football, but rarely attempting to force matters near goal. The players could scarcely be blamed for refusing to take risks on the hard ground, although the Queen's Park gradually forced Aberdeen to act on the defensive, mainly as the result of the ring play on the part of Paul and Anderson. McColl came very near scoring with a fast shot on the run, the ball passing close to the upright. This attempt by the famous inside left helped to enliven matters. Niblo raced away in the centre, and finally passed out to Lenny on the wing. The last named was presented with a fine opening, but slipped near the goal line, his shot going harmlessly past the outside of goal post.
QUEEN'S PARK SCORE: ABERDEEN EQUALISE
Fully 20 minutes of the game had gone when the Queen's Park opened the scoring. Up to this point Aberdeen had had by far the best of the game, and that therefore came as a surprise when the amateurs took the lead. The ball came across from Paul, on the left, and Hume, in attempting to clear, completely missed his kick. Maclean was left with a clear opening, and he had no difficulty in beating Mutch. A minute later the Queen's were two up. McColl and began the movement that led up to the goal. From near midfield, the inside left sent out a capital pass to Paul, who beat Colman at close quarters, and finished with a terrific drive. Mutch saved, but the ball was returned, and during a fierce scrimmage in the goalmouth, Dixon got the ball and drove it into the net. This in rapid scoring had a marked effect on the Aberdeen men. The Queen's Park, however, redoubled their efforts, Dixon and Maclean being prominent with good shots. A dash to the other end of the field by the Aberdeen forwards was capped by a clever goal, scored by Lennie. Murray, the Queen's centre half, failed to get the ball away when pressed, and was beaten by Simpson in a tussle for possession. The inside right crossed to the left, and before the Queen's backs could recover on the slipper a ground, Lennie burst through and beat Adams with a fast drive. With only a goal of difference between the teams, played brightened up considerably. Aberdeen improved all along the line, their half-backs - McIntosh in particular - being specially good in their tackling. Aberdeen equalized as the result of smart work by the right wing. Simpson passed out to McEchern, who dashed along the touch line, beat the left half, but subsequently crossed to Niblo. The laughter in turn gave the ball to Lenny, who, with a clear course towards goal, made no mistake with a terrific drive along the ground. Thus the teams were on a level footing, although the visitors had enjoyed the bulk of the play. Close on half-time Niblo lost a capital chance near goal. Three of the Aberdeen forwards got right through the Queen's defence. Niblo had the ball at his feet, and was within a yard of goal. For some reason or other, he lifted the ball right into the goalkeepers hands instead of turning it to one side of the net. Aberdeen continued to have the best of the game up till half-time.
Some capitol play was witnessed during the second half, play all over being remarkably good considering the dangerous nature of the ground. The Queens Park players threw off all restraint, and forced matters as soon as the game was resumed. A promising run by the three inside forwards almost brought a goal, Bowie being stopped by Hume within a few yards of Mutch. Colman also checked a dangerous movement by the Queen's left wing. Paul lead the way, and was just stopped in time by the Aberdeen right back. The Hamden men were working with great determination for the leading goal, but were met by a resolute defence, in which the Aberdeen half-backs took a prominent part. The game was fast, and always interesting to watch. Indeed, the display given by both teams was wonderfully good considering the slipper a nature of the pitch. The Queen's forwards took a lot of stopping, McColl and Paul being specially prominent.
A clever run - half the length of the field - by Simpson and McEchern transfer to play to the other end, but the Queen's goal was seldom in danger. Murray, Aberdeen, after a smart run, back-heeled the ball to Lenny, who shot went skimming over the bar. A fast drive by Murray just missed the net, while a corner to Queen's Park a few minutes later was splendidly cleared by Wilson. A clever overhead kick by Dixon was cleared almost under the bar by Mutch, while McIntosh got rid of a dangerous cross from poll just as Dixon was rushing in to shoot. Occasional bursts along the left wing by Lennie and Murray improved Aberdeen's prospects, but Niblo was somewhat slow in the centre, and failed to take advantage of any crosses that came his way. Still, he exhibited many clever touches in passing out to the other forwards. Queen's Park were undoubtedly the more dangerous side, and on several occasions the Aberdeen goal narrowly escape downfall. Colman and Hume were continually on the move, while Wilson, McIntosh, and Low rendered great assistance in keeping out the strong-going Queen's Park forwards. The visiting front rank were held in check by the opposing half-backs, with the result that an additional strain was put upon the Aberdeen defence. Time was wearing on, with the home team pressing Aberdeen on all sides. A sudden break-a way by McEchern, followed by a neat cross to the left, almost brought a goal to Aberdeen. Lennie dashed ahead, finishing with a rare drive, which was accidentally stopped by Richmond, the ball rebounding off the left back within a few yards of goal. A free kick to Aberdeen close to the penalty line was successfully cleared by Thompson, all of free kick at the other end of Colman, almost on the penalty line, was blocked by McIntosh. End-to-end play rolled for a time, but towards the finish the Queen's came away in irresistible fashion. Anderson, left half, sent in a great shot - the best of the match - the ball just grazing the bar at the far corner. Keeping up the pressure, Queen's Park appeared likely to score at any moment. Nine minutes from time poll lost a comparatively easy chance of scoring. The left winger, in company with Dixon, run right through between the Aberdeen backs. While at full speed, Paul sent in a stinging shot, which just missed the net. It was, indeed, a close thing, and would probably have settled the game for his side had the left winger's shot been straight. Both teams made praiseworthy efforts to get on the lead near the close, but the end came with the scores - Aberdeen, 2 goals; Queen's Park, - goals.
The result is a fair indication of the game. The ground was all against good football, but the play was wonderfully good, especially in the second half.
Up the gate amounted to £207 18s 2d.
Source: Aberdeen Daily Journal, 28th December 1908
Frost-bound Hampden.
The pitch at Hampden, though not actually unplayable, was decidedly on the hard side, and needed little more to make it dangerous. As it was, the players found it difficult to keep their feet, and many awkward slips were made throughout the game, which might have cost the side points. Aberdeen left for Glasgow at Friday afternoon, and were consequently refreshed for such a stiff tussle as they had to engage in. Two changes were made on the side, Halkett and McNair were left out, Wilson taking the former's place, and Bert Murray partnering Lennie, with Niblo in as centre. The Queen's were at full strength.
The opening movements of Aberdeen promised well, and but for the treacherous ground they could have opened the scoring - at least there was more than a passing chance of their doing so from a fine cross by the right wing. Play became very fast, the defence at both ends having to clear good work by the forwards. After having the greater share of the play, Aberdeen were doomed to see their citadel fall first, a faulty clearance by Hume letting McLean pounce on the ball and net it, with Mutch left powerless. This did not end the tale of disasters, for the Queen's put in some good forward work, which ended in another splendid goal. With two goals to the bad, it looked as if Aberdeen were to be sent home pointless, but they also buckled to, and some of their runs were thrillinog, while their shooting was straight. It was no surprise when Lennie put on first goal, which came from the right wing, who had worked the ball up the field. MacEchern crossed and Lennie gave Adams no possible chance. Simpson was almost through shortly after, Richmond pulling him up in the nick of time, while Niblo had a shot which lacked sting. Aberdeen were taking a firm grip of the game, and pressing home their attacks for all they were worth. It was left to Lennie to put on the second goal, which was the best effort of the afternoon. On the run of play Aberdeen ought to have led at half-time, instead of which they had to stand equal, with two goals. It was evident that both teams were impatient to get on the lead in the second half, for the Queen's forwards were really reckless in their shooting, and the visitors were just a trifle ever-eager in their efforts. It would be difficult to chronicle the number of chances both sides missed, but on the run of play Queen's Park were more aggressive, but found the defence in better mood than at the opening stages. On the other hand, several of the Aberdeen forwards seemed to tire perceptibly, and did not work for the ball in the same determined manner as they had previously done. There was no further scoring, and the game ended two all.
The compliments of the season to our readers.
Aberdeen have come out well in their Christmas games.
The total drawings in the Falkirk game was £55 all in. Not bad for a new venture. Aberdeen's victory over the "Bairns" puts them into the final for the North-Eastern Cup. When will the tie be played?
The general opinion in the city was that Aberdeen had done well in dividing the points at Hampden.
There was a reshuffling of the forward line on Saturday, which for a time did not work well, but on the Queen's scoring, a very marked improvement set in.
Herbert Murray is the best catch of the new players on trial. As yet, Niblo has not set the heather on fire.
Everyone admits that there is splendid football in the internationalist, but as yet, he has not tumbled to the methods and tricks of his partners.
O'Hagan was missed on Saturday, and in our opinion, the left wing will be the poorer till his return.
The local press and the general opinion we have heard is that O'Hagan has been harshly treated for his share in the Dundee episode.
The problem is, will he be allowed to play in the cup-ties - the first round of which is due on January 23.
J. W. Baker, who was to have played a trial at Pittodrie on Saturday, found himself unable to strip on account of sickness caused by the long journey north.
This player expects to be able to come north nest Monday, and will play against Maryhill.
The "A" Team have only one fixture during the holidays, when they play Maryhill (Glasgow) on the Monday.
Don't forget the Inverness City Boys v. Aberdeen City Boys' game at Pittodrie on Saturday forenoon.
The Second Division Scottish League clubs have been refused permission to take part in the Consolation Cup competition.
It is quite on the cards that more League games will be arranged in Scotland in the future than has been in the past.
Dundee's tour in the west last week turned out financially on the right side, but the results were disappointing.
Every precaution is being taken to have Ibrox in proper condition for the game with Celtic tomorrow.
The pitch was covered with straw last Satururday,and as a consequence of this, the Partick Thisle and Hibs could not play their League game.
Greenoch Morton are making a diligent search for talent to assist them in their cup ties.
How long will the present storm last? is the problem down Pittodrie way.
It will cost a few pounds to get the present depth of "beautiful" snow removed from the enclosure.
Source: Bon-Accord, 31st December 1908
Queens Park Teamsheet: Thompson, Richmond; McAndrew, Murray, Henderson; Maclean, Bowie, Dixon, McColl, Paul
Aberdeen Teamsheet: Mutch, Colman, Hume, Wilson, McIntosh, Low, MacEchern, Simpson, Niblo, Murray, Lennie.
Referee: Mr. R. T. Murray, Stenhousemuir


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