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Eupen v Waregem – Jupiler League
Eupen v Waregem - Jupiler League
All AS Eupen players are at Jordi Condom's disposal, as there are not any injuries in the team at the moment. Eupen had a decent pre-season and the atmosphere in the team is good. A few Eupen players have recently stressed that a good start to the season is very important and that everyone at the club is fully committed and determined to win on Saturday. The host's defence was the second worst in the league last season and they managed to keep their place in the Jupiler Pro league chiefly due to the prolific duo, Sylla and Onyekuru. However, both of these players have been sold over the summer, so the 0 handicap is not very appealing. Without their two main strikers from last season and having failed to bring in players of similar quality, Eupen are expected to struggle with being as effective as in the previous campaign, and 2.75 goal line may be really difficult to beat seeing as they could struggle for goals.
Bossut of Zulte Waregem is doubtful as he picked up a minor injury in a friendly. All other players are fully fit and at the manager's disposal. Zulte have recently signed an Italian goalkeeper, Leali, who joined on loan from Juventus and should be a valuable addition to the team. Morale could be slightly better as Zulte lost the Super Cup match to Anderlecht. Zulte-Waregem was very impressive last year and finished the regular season in the 3rd position. They have lost two key midfielders over the summer, but also brought in some quality replacements, so the 0 handicap looks really beatable as they have more potential as a team overall, and should defeat Eupen on Saturday. The visitors' attacking department was doing really well last season, although, there were several teams that scored more goals. Zulte haven't signed any spectaculars strikers during the current transfer window and with Eupen who will play without Sylla and Onyekuru, the 2.75 goal line will be difficult to get over.
Verdict & Prediction
Losing their first game of the season brought team morale down, although Zulte fans did not really expect their team to win the Super Cup as Anderlecht have much more potential than their team. The visitors will be motivated to start the season by winning three points and will try to take the advantage of the fact they plenty of key players left AS Eupen, especially in the attacking department. Zulte-Waregem are favourites in this game as despite losing some players, they still have more experience and quality within their team. Also, it is important to notice, that Eupen have a new manager, and some players will still struggle to understand his philosophy.
Prediction: Zulte Waregem +0.00 Asian Handicap (same as Draw no bet option)
Odds: 1.85 Pinnacle
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Grounds & Environmental Committee - Monday, 6th September, 2021 7.30 pm
Agenda reports pack
Equipment for Grounds and Environmental Services (Item 17) PDF 156 KB
Printed minutes PDF 330 KB
Venue: Council Chamber, The White House, Hockliffe Street, Leighton Buzzard LU7 1HD - TBC
Note: Please note space is very restricted to mitigate for Covid-19 risks; attendance in advance must be registered to ensure space
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Schedule 12 of the Local Government Act 1972 requires a record be kept of the Members present and that this record form part of the minutes of the meeting. Members who cannot attend a meeting should tender apologies to the Town Clerk.
Apologies for absence had been received from Councillor B Spurr (substituted by Councillor A Dodwell).
(i) Under the Localism Act 2011 (sections 26-37 and Schedule 4) and in accordance with the Council's Code of Conduct, Members are required to declare any interests which are not currently entered in the Member's Register of Interests or if he/she has not notified the Monitoring Officer of it.
(ii) Should any Member have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in an item on the agenda, the Member may not participate in consideration of that item unless a Dispensation has first been requested (in writing) and granted by the Council (see Dispensation Procedure).
Councillor V Harvey declared a personal interest as a member of South Bedfordshire Friends of the Earth and the Leighton Buzzard Society.
Councillor C Palmer declared a personal interest as a member of the Friends of Leighton-Linslade in Bloom and an interest in item 16 Allotments Update as his wife was an allotment holder.
No pecuniary interests were declared.
APPOINTMENT OF VICE CHAIR FOR 2021-2022
It was proposed and seconded that Councillor S Jones be appointed Vice Chair of the Committee for 2021-2022. There were no further nominations.
RESOLVED to appoint Councillor S Jones Vice Chair of the Grounds & Environmental Services Committee for the municipal year 2021-2022.
QUESTIONS FROM THE PUBLIC
To receive questions and statements from members of the public in respect of any item of business included in the agenda, as provided for in Standing Order No.s 3(f) and 3(h).
Members of the public are very welcome to attend the meeting but are asked to note that attendance numbers are limited. Please contact us to advise if you wish to attend before 4pm on the day of the meeting. Written representations may also be submitted before 4pm on the day of the meeting.
A member of the public and representative of The Wharf Mangement Limited spoke about a proposal for planting a hedgerow along the length of the south side of the fence in Linslade Memorial Playing Field. This hedge would act as a barrier to balls constantly being kicked at the fence which had caused damage to at least one panel which had to be replaced. This would also potentally provide shelter for small animals and insects and enhance the look of the area. Any maintenance needed for the hedge would be carried out by a gardening company already employed by The Wharf Management Limited.
This would be discussed later in the meeting agenda.
MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING PDF 325 KB
(a) To receive and approve as a correct record the minutes of the Committee meeting held on 8 March 2021 (attached) in accordance with Standing Order 12.
(b) To receive information updates on matters arising from the previous meeting (if appropriate).
(c)To formally note the decisions taken since the previous meeting by delegation to the Town Clerk with email approval from a majority of committee members (attached).
5. (C) RECORD OF APPROVED DECISIONS , item 122/GE PDF 148 KB
The Committee received the draft minutes of the Grounds and Environmental Services Committee meeting held on 8 March 2021.
RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Grounds and Environmental Services Committee held on 8 March 2021 be approved as a correct record and were signed accordingly.
(b) Minute reference 102/GE Questions from the Public – a question was raised regarding whether the ownership of the perimeter fence at the rear of Linslade Memorial Playing field had been established. It was confirmed that discussion with the Canal and River Trust had taken place and a proposal that costs be shared for the removal of the old fence and installation of a new fence had been suggested. The Head of Grounds informed the Committee he had been asked to lead on the replacement and costs involved and would then go back to the Canal and River Trust to seek their agreement before being brought back to Policy & Finance for funding approval.
(c) The Committee received a record of decisions made in the period May-August 2021 by delegated authority in accordance with the scheme of delegation approved by Council, with email approval by a majority of committee members. A question was raised regarding the link between countryside access and health map and whether the downloadable map had been created by Central Bedfordshire Council's Countryside Team following the proposal on 26 July 2021.
PAGES PARK PAVILION HIRE PDF 147 KB
To receive a report in respect of the potential use of Pages Park Pavilion by Rangers Boxing Club whilst it seeks a more suitable permanent venue (attached) and to consider the recommendation/s contained therein.
Members received and considered a report to seek direction in respects of Pages Park Pavilion being used for the purposes of boxing club hire. Two members of the Boxing Club attended the meeting to inform the Committee of their request to continue to use Pages Park Pavilion for boxing coaching as a temporary base for their club. Members agreed the boxing club provided an important inclusive club for young people in the town and agreed to the temporary use of the Pages Park Pavilion until a permanent facility could be found. The Town Council would aim to assist the boxing club in locating a new premises where their equipment could be set up and stored on a permanent basis given the high intensity of the activity. It was universally agreed that the Pavilion was not ideally suited to this activity due to the potential for damage to the facility caused by the constant moving of heavy equipment and the nature of the activity, given that the building was also used by a variety of other hirers throughout the week.
The Head of Grounds and Environmental services had been in contact with Assets at Central Bedfordshire Council and after discussion the Committee agreed to keep the Boxing Club hire of Pages Park Pavilion as a standing item on the agenda to monitor the situation and agreed that a letter should be written to Assets at Central Bedfordshire Council if no communication received by the next meeting of the Committee.
(i) To endorse the hire of sessions at Pages Park Pavilion by the Boxing Club for a twelve month period (to be formally reviewed at nine months), in accordance with standard Town Council terms and conditions of hire.
(ii) That the Town Council uses its reasonable endeavours to support the boxing club in finding a more suitable permanent venue that is more appropriate and capable of meeting its needs.
(iii) That this remains a standing agenda item for the quarterly meetings of the Committee, to review the status of the hire arrangements and the progress with sourcing a more suitable permanent venue for the club.
THE WHARF MANAGEMENT LIMITED PDF 261 KB
To consider a request from The Wharf Management Limited in regards to a proposal for planting along the length of the south side of the fence in Linslade Memorial Playing Field (attached).
Following the request made by The Wharf Management Limited Committee, Members agreed, in principle, with the proposal to plant a hedge along the boundary with Linslade Memorial Playing Field. A legal agreement would need to be drawn between the Town Council and The Wharf Management Limited. Costs for this document to be borne by The Wharf Management Limited. The representative from The Wharf present agreed to put this to the commitee and get back to the Town Clerk as quickly as possible. Once this agreement had been reached planting could go ahead.
RESOLVED to endorse, in principle, the planting of a hedge on the boundary with Linslade Memorial Playing Field, subject to a legal agreement specifying that this would be managed and maintained by The Wharf management Limited in perpetuity.
SUB COMMITTEES AND TASK AND FINISH GROUPS PDF 208 KB
(a) To receive the draft minutes of the Concessions Task and Finish Group meeting held 8 April 2021 (attached).
(b) To determine whether the work of the Task and Finish Group has been completed.
(c) If so, to approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held 8 April 2021.
The Committee received the draft minutes of the Concessions Task & Finish Group 8 April 2021.
RESOLVED to receive the draft minutes of the Concessions Task & Finish Group 8 April 2021.
(b) It was confirmed the Concessions Task & Finish Group had now been completed.
(c) The Committee approved the minutes of 8 April, 2021 as a correct record.
RESOLVED to approve the minutes of the Concessions Task and Finish Group meeting held 8 April, 2021 as a correct record and that these be signed accordingly.
COMMITTEE OBJECTIVES AND WORK PLAN PDF 308 KB
To receive and consider the Committee Work Plan for 2021-2022 (attached)
The Committee received and considered the Committee Work Plan for 2021-2022.
A question was raised regarding number 48 on the plan - restoration of the Henry Finch Memorial Fountain in Linslade Recreation Ground and whether this should be looked at as a priority. The memorial was an important part of Linslade Heritage and a modest cost effective restoration would be appreciated by the residents. A suggestion was made to bring this back to the December meeting of the Committee.
Another suggestion was made to look at the recycling point at the top of Parson's Close Recreation Ground. At present this was owned by Central Bedfordshire Council and it needed to be refreshed or repainted. The Head of Grounds and Environmental Services would look into this for the December meeting.
RESOLVED to note the Committee Objectives and Work Plan.
THREE MONTH BUDGET MONITORING REPORT PDF 29 KB
To receive a three-month budget monitoring report the period April-June 2021 (attached).
The Committee received a three-month budget monitoring report the period April – June 2021.
RESOLVED to note the report.
PARSON'S CLOSE RECREATION GROUND
To receive a verbal update on the play area refurbishment project.
Members received a verbal update on the refurbishment project of Parson's Close Recreation Ground. Planning permission had now been received after a delay and this meant the project would be later in starting than had originally been anticipated. The play park would now be open during October half term until the equipment was available for the redevelopment to begin. An update would be given at the December meeting but it was hoped that the project could be completed by March 2022.
RESOLVED to note the information.
RoSPA ANNUAL PLAY INSPECTION REPORT PDF 161 KB
To receive the annual play area inspection report recommendations. (attached).
The Committee received an update and findings from this year's annual independent playground and equipment inspections.
A question was raised asking whether the facilities listed as 'high risk' needed urgent action and would be exposing us to unwarranted risk. It was confirmed that the higher risk category could not be lowered as the increased risk was related to the type of equipment and facility in these parks.
GREEN FLAG RECOMMENDATIONS
To receive a verbal update on the 2021 Green Flag report and consider recommendations (if received).
No update had been received for Green Flag recommendations yet.
LINSLADE MEMORIAL PLAYING FIELD PDF 118 KB
To consider a request to move the Multi Use Games Area facility from its current location to another in Linslade Memorial Playing Field.
Committee received a report regarding the potential re-siting of the Multi-Use Games Area in Linslade Memorial Playing Field, due to complaints received from neighbouring residents regarding footballs on their premises. It was proposed that contractors be employed to move the facility to a location on the eastern side of the park, facing into the park.
RESOLVED to endorse the relocation of the Multi-Use Games Area within Linslade Memorial Playing Field and for the maximum cost of £6,000 to be met from the play area improvements budget (Future Projects earmarked reserve 9500/925) (Currrently £62,655 available).
PRIORITY PROJECTS FOR 2022-2023
To receive a presentation regarding potential priority projects for 2022-2023 and to consider the recommendation/s contained therein.
The Committee received a presentation regarding potential priority projects for 2022-2023 and considered the recommendations contained therein.
Two projects were introduced –
1. H M Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee celebrations 2nd June 2022. The Grounds and Environmental service area would be taking the lead on the organisation of this event which would include a parade, lighting of a beacon and fireworks, subject to committee approval.
2. The purchase of an oak shelter for Parson's Close to replicate the historic Coronation Shelter from 1937, together with oak benches on the site of the original shelter at the top of the park.
The Committee expressed positive support for both suggested projects and the Head of Grounds and Environmental Services would bring more detailed proposals to the December meeting of the Committee.
RESOLVED to note the information and to await further information
on proposed projects for 2022-23.
REVIEW OF PARTNERSHIP PROJECT LIST PDF 137 KB
As part of the review requested by Partnership Committee in April 2021, to review the Partnership Project List (attached) and consider any recommendations to Council in respect of potential changes. The review terms endorsed by Partnership Committee were:
The review will focus on removal of outdated objectives and aim to provide direction in terms of priority projects. Any additions to the list will only be permitted further to an endorsement by either Leighton Linslade Town Council or Central Bedfordshire Council and/or where clear evidence of public consultation can be demonstrated.
To aid Committee in its review, information received from Central Bedfordshire Council in respect of Leisure is attached.
15. s106 Categories Leisure Contributions , item 133/GE PDF 504 KB
The Committee received a request from the Partnership Committee to review the Partnership Project List and to consider any recommendations to Council in respect of potential changes. The Committee also received information from Central Bedfordshire Council in respect of S106 developer contributions for public open space matters.
Members agreed the list needed to be refined and looked at in detail and it was suggested that numbers 24 and 26 be removed at present.
RECOMMENDED to Council to remove numbers 24 (Provision of a clubhouse and launching site for Canoe Club) and 26 (a woodland cemetery, adventure play area, campsite and parking at Rushmere Country Park) from the Partnership Project List.
ALLOTMENTS UPDATE PDF 139 KB
To receive an update report regarding Allotments and to consider the recommendation/s contained therein.
The Committee received an update on the waiting list for the town council owned allotments. The demand for allotment plots was still high and the waiting list was currently higher than the national average. A plot would be allocated to the first person on the list when available and it remained the objective to allocate as soon as possible. The possibility of more plots on the new eastern development was still not confirmed by Central Bedfordshire Council.
Councillor Harvey reiterated she was unhappy about the size of the waiting list and the delay with the transfer of new allotment sites on the eastern developments to the town council from Central Bedfordshire Council.
EQUIPMENT FOR GROUNDS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES PDF 34 KB
To receive a report regarding equipment for Grounds and Environmental Services (to follow) and to consider the recommendations contained therein.
The Committee received and considered a report to approve the purchase of equipment fit for purposed by the Grounds & Environmental Service team.
(a) To endorse the purchase of 1 x LWB Double Cab Tipper for £30,000.
(b) To endorse the purchase of 1 x New trailer for a maximum value of £5,000.
(c) All Town Council expenditure to be met from 950/9000 with available funds of £35,795.
It was proposed and seconded that in order to continue the meeting past 2200 hours, Standing Order 3(x) be suspended for a maximum of thirty minutes.
RESOLVED to suspend Standing Order 3(x) for a maximum of thirty minutes.
NON DOMESTIC RATE BILLS FOR UNIT N/T ROWAN CORNER PDF 134 KB
To receive a report regarding back dated non domestic rate bills payments for the Town Council depot from Central Bedfordshire Council and to consider the recommendation/s contained therein (attached).
18. Non domestic rate bills for Unit NT Rowan Corner , item 136/GE PDF 144 KB
The Committee received a report regarding back dated non domestic rate bills payments for the Town Council depot from Central Bedfordshire Council and considered the recommendations contained therein.
(a) To endorse that £6,248.98 be paid to Central Bedfodshire Council for back dated non-domestic rate bills for 2019/2020–2020/2021, payment to be made from 9024/950 with available funds of £34,444.
(b) To endorse that 2022/2023 Grounds and Environmental Services budget has monies made available for future non-domestic rate bills for Unit N/T Rowan Corner.
OUZEL VALLEY PARK STEERING GROUP PDF 140 KB
To receive the minutes of the meeting held 4 May 2021 (attached) and a verbal update from the Group's Chairman regarding the meeting held 2 September 2021.
The Committee received the minutes of the Ouzel Valley Park Steering Group held on 4 May 2021 and a verbal update from the Chairman regarding the meeting held on 2 September 2021.
Councillor Morris, Chair of the Ouzel Valley Park Steering Group, updated the Committee on the main points of the last meeting.
1. Councillor S Stock would shortly sign off the Green Wheel Masterplan once all amendments had been made.
2. BuzzCycles Cycling Strategy submitted to the Group for information.,
3. Concerns were raised regarding the land clearance at the rear of the Travelling Showman's site and to ensure the protection of the riverbank and possible installation of a boundary fence.
4. Recommendation to include Tiddenfoot Masterplan on the Partnership Project List.
COMMUNITY TREE AND SHRUB PLANTING PDF 6 KB
To consider the (attached) Motion by Councillor Harvey
The Committee received and considered a motion submitted by Councillor Harvey to endorse the offer of funding for tree/shrub planting from the Tree Council, with the detail of what could be planted and where being delegated to the Town Clerk.
RESOLVED to endorse, in principle, the offer of funding for tree/shrub planting from the Tree Council and that the detail of what could be planted and where be delegated to the Town Clerk.

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MEXICO SPLITS WITH TOP-RANKED JAPAN IN OSAKA
The Mexican National Baseball Team currently sits sixth in the World Baseball Softball Confederation's latest rankings, but they entered the lion's den last weekend when they traveled to Osaka for a two-game series against the number one team in the world, Japan, in the Samurai Series. The set served as a warmup of sorts for both teams months ahead of November's Premier12 tournament, which will be a qualifier for next year's Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.
As host team, Japan will have a berth in the 2020 Games regardless of how they do next winter, but the series was a crucible for the Mexicans and new manager Dan Firova, who replaced Enrique "Che" Reyes at the helm after the Puebla Pericos would not allow their new skipper to make the trip to the Far East. When the dust settled, Mexico had won one of the two tilts along with an added measure of respect from baseball observers around the globe.
Mexico won Saturday's opener, 4-2, in come-from-behind fashion. Japan took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first when Masataka Yoshida singled in Seiji Uebayashi and added another run in the fourth when Takuya Kai pushed Yoshida across with a singleton. The Verdes Grande put their first score on the board in the top of the sixth after Victor Mendoza crossed home plate on a Luis Juarez single to make it a 2-1 contest but the game really took a turn in the Mexicans' favor one inning later.
An Ali Solis double in the top of the seventh brought in Jose Juan Aguilar to knot the score at 2-2. Solis then scored Mexico's go-ahead run on a single by Chris Roberson, a naturalized Mexican citizen who was not on manager Dan Firova's original roster. The Mexicans plated an insurance run in the eighth on a Luis "Cochito" Cruz single that drove home Joey Meneses, who'll be playing his first season in Japan this year with the Orix Buffaloes in Osaka after winning MVP honors in the AAA International League last summer. Reliever Javier Cota earned the win for Mexico while Jake Sanchez held the hosts scoreless to pick up the save.
Japan turned things around Sunday with a 6-0 shutout over Mexico to earn the series split. The key blow for the home team came early when Yoshida belted a first-inning grand slam off Verdes Grande starter Manny Barreda as Japan staked opener Juri Hara a 5-0 lead heading into the second frame. Hara, who got the win, combined with six relievers on the six-hit whitewash and Barreda absorbed the defeat. Mexico got two-hit nights from Mendoza and Juarez while Roberto Lopez and Xorge Carrillo each contributed one hit apiece.
The Samurai Series was well-attended, with good crowds both nights at the 36,000-seat domed stadium. Saturday's contest brought in 28,933 spectators while another 28,622 fans clicked the turnstiles Sunday night, very respectable numbers for an exhibition series a month ahead of the regular season.
According to Puro Beisbol writer Bambino Sedano, one of the off-field highlights for the visitors came when a Japanese fan, 24-year-old Ryu Ishibashi, traveled about 500 miles from Sendai to Osaka to meet Juarez, his Mexican baseball idol who had three hits in the series. Juarez invited Ishibashi (who hopes his favorite someday plays for his Rakuten Golden Eagles) to have dinner with him and teammates Mendoza and Aguilar. In return, Juarez received a shirt featuring a drawing Ishibashi made of the Yucatan slugger.
EX-NCAA PITCHER OF YEAR HEIMLICH SIGNS WITH TECOS
The NCAA's 2018 Pitcher of the Year, Luke Heimlich, has signed a free agent contract with the Mexican League's Dos Laredos Tecolotes. While the presence of a left-handed hurler with such bonafides represents a baseball coup of sorts for the Tecos, the Oregon State University product also brings no small amount of controversy to the border team.
On the field, there's little question that Heimlich has the chance to be a Mexican League standout. After turning in an 11-0 record with a 0.66 ERA as a senior at Puyallup (WA) High School, he was named Washington's 2014 Gatorade Player of the Year. Playing collegiately for west coast powerhouse Oregon State, Heimlich was selected the Pac 12 Pitcher of the Year in 2017 as a Junior after leading the nation with an 0.81 ERA, and he followed that up with a standout Senior campaign last year in which he was named NCAA Pitcher of the Year on the heels of a 16-3 record with a 2.42 ERA (also winning his second consecutive Pac 12 POY award).
However, Heimlich is bringing considerable baggage to Nuevo Laredo with him. During the 2017 season, it was discovered that he had pled guilty as a 15-year-old to sexually molesting his six-year-old niece. The revelation created a firestorm that resulted in Heimlich being left behind in Corvallis when the Beavers travelled to the College World Series in Omaha, where Oregon State was eliminated by Louisiana State in the semifinals. He did make the trip to the CWS last June, when the Beavers won their third NCAA title, but lost both his decisions to North Carolina and Arkansas, the latter in Game One of the title series (which would prove to be the final competitive game he's pitched to date).
After slipping through the MLB amateur draft in both 2017 and 2018, Heimlich began looking for work as a free agent. The Kansas City Royals considered signing him last year, but backed off after protests were raised. He did eventually sign a contract with the Latigo Monkeys of Taiwan last August, but the Chinese Professional Baseball League voided the deal due to his criminal record and may be facing the same outcome with the Mexican League office.
LMB president Javier Salinas told the New York Times, "He's not registered in the league. We have to analyze his case." Salinas added, "It's very difficult to see him registered in the Mexican League." Tecos owner Jose Antonio Mansur says the Liga took the unusual step of requiring Heimlich to sign a letter vowing good behavior. "I'm not a judge," Mansur told the Times. "I'm just a businessman and I'll give him an opportunity. If he was guilty, he's already been judged. I'm just looking from here on forward."
For his part, Heimlich (who has since said he was innocent but pled guilty to spare his family from a drawn-out public legal process) had one of two charges dropped, was placed on two years' probation, took court-ordered classes, wrote a letter apologizing to his niece (now 14) and had to register for five years as a Level I sex offender, in which he is considered a low risk to the community and unlikely to become a repeat offender.
ROCKIES, D-BACKS PLAY TWO EXHIBITION GAMES IN MONTERREY
The Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks were south of the border over the weekend for a pair of Major League Baseball exhibition games at Estadio Monterrey, home of the Mexican League Sultanes.
In Saturday's opener, Mike Tauchman went 3-for-4 with a pair of RBI singles and a run and Roberto Ramos hit a run-scoring double and a solo homer to lead Colorado to an easy 5-1 win. Four Rockies pitchers combined on a four-hitter as reliever Jeff Hoffman tossed four scoreless innings to earn the victory, allowing just two hits and striking out five Arizona batsmen. Diamondbacks starter Taylor Clarke was tagged with the loss after giving up a pair of runs on five hits over 3.1 frames. The game was far from a sellout, as 9,372 fans were in the stands of the 22,061-seat ballpark.
Arizona came back Sunday with a 5-2 triumph. This time, it was the Snakes' pitchers who shone on the mound as the Rockies were limited to three hits. D-backs starter Matt Koch allowed one run on one hit in four innings, striking out three with no walks. Nick Green came on for three more strong entradas, giving up one run on two hits while Braden Shipley pitched two perfect innings and struck out four for the save. The game was tied 1-1 in the bottom of the third when Arizona's Eduardo Escobar lashed a double to right that brought in Tim Locastro with the go-ahead run. The Diamondbacks picked up a pair of insurance runs in the eighth on Idelmaro Vargas' two-run homer off Rockies reliever Ben Bowden. Koch took the win for Arizona while Colorado starter Tyler Anderson was tagged for the loss. Attendance was a little better Sunday as 10,746 watched the action.
A pair of Mexican-born former MLB performers served as "ambassadors" for the two teams. Oaxaca native Vinny Castilla, who is currently a special assistant to Colorado general manager Jeff Bridich after a successful playing career as a third baseman and will manage Hermosillo in the Mexican Pacific League next winter, was on hand as the Rockies ambassador. Erubiel Durazo, born in Hermosillo and a one-time Sultanes first baseman who hit .364 in the 2001 World Series for Arizona's only championship team, represented the Diamondbacks. He was joined by another D-Backs '01 hero, Luis "Gonzo" Gonzalez, a Tampa product who hit .325 with 57 homers and 142 RBIs that year.
The visit of two Major League teams to Monterrey was not all sunshine and lollipops, however. The Hitazo website (edited by respected Mexican baseball writer Hector Bencomo) says the occasion also served as a platform for about 50 fans who appear to have purchased lifetime passes to events in Estadio Monterrey when the facility was completed in 1990. Through legal representative Oscar Martinez, the group claims that the contracts they signed 29 years ago gives them free entry to any event held at the ballpark for fifty years, including the Colorado-Arizona series. Instead, they say, the Sultanes, who hosted last weekend's two-game set, are charging them 9,900 pesos (about US$500) for two annual box tickets and another 5,000 pesos (US$250) for parking in 2019. According to Hitazo, Sultanes co-owner Jose Maiz has refused to comment on the impasse.
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* {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

header {
  background-image:linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5),rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5)), url(uptown.jpg);
  height: 65vh;
  background-size: cover;
  background-position: center;
}

.logo img{
  width: 190px;
  height: 65px;
  float: left;
  margin-top: 18px;
}

body{
  font-family: 'Abel', sans-serif;
}

.row{
  width: 1200px;
  margin: auto;
}

.hero{
  position: absolute;
  width: 1200px;
  margin-left: 0;
  margin-top: 0;
}

h1{
  color: white;
  font-size: 40px;
  text-align: center;
  margin-top: 210px;
  margin-left: 55px;
}

.buttons{
  margin-top: 15px;
  margin-left: 490px;
}

.btn{
  border: 1px solid white;
  padding: 10px 30px;
  color: white;
  text-decoration: none;
  margin-right: 10px;
}

.buttons a:hover{
  background-color: #cdc9c9;
  transition: all 0.5s ease-in;
}

.about{
  width: 100%;
  height: 300px;
  color: #F4F7F8;
}
.about h1{
  color: black;
  margin-top: 60px;
  margin-left: 2px;
  font-family: 'Signika Negative', sans-serif;
  font-weight: 500;
  font-size: 35px;
}

.paragraph-about{
  color:black;
  font-family: 'Signika Negative', sans-serif;
  margin-left: 70px;
  margin-right: 60px;
  margin-top: 30px;
}

.section{
  width: 100%;
  height: 350px;
  background-color: #F4F7F8;
}

.card-pic{
  background-color: #fff;
  width: 300px;
  height: 300px;
  position: absolute;
  left: 60px;
  top: 870px;
  box-shadow: 0 4px 8px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
  transition: 0.3s;
  border-radius: 10px;
}

.card-pic h4 {
  text-align: center;
  font-size: 25px;
  margin-top: 20px;
}

.card-pic p{
  text-align: center;
  margin-left: 20px;
  margin-right: 12px;
}

.card-pic-two{
  background-color: #fff;
  width: 300px;
  height: 300px;
  position: absolute;
  left: 485px;
  top: 870px;
  box-shadow: 0 4px 8px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
  transition: 0.3s;
  border-radius: 10px;
}
.card-pic-two h4{
  text-align: center;
  font-size: 25px;
  margin-top: 20px;
}

.card-pic-two p{
  text-align: center;
  margin-left: 20px;
  margin-right: 12px;
}

.card-pic-three{
  background-color: #fff;
  width: 300px;
  height: 300px;
  position: absolute;
  left: 900px;
  top: 870px;
  box-shadow: 0 4px 8px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
  transition: 0.3s;
  border-radius: 10px;
}
.card-pic-three h4{
  text-align: center;
  font-size: 25px;
  margin-top: 20px;
}

.card-pic-three p{
  text-align: center;
  margin-left: 20px;
  margin-right: 12px;
}

#main-nav {
  float: right;
  list-style: none;
  margin-top: 30px;
}

#main-nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}

#main-nav li a {
  color: white;
  text-decoration: none;
  padding: 5px 20px;
  font-family: 'Signika', sans-serif;
  font-size: 19px;
}

#main-nav li.active a {
  border: 1px solid white;
}

#main-nav li:hover a {
  border: 1px solid white;
}

.footer-distributed{
    background-color: #292c2f;
    box-shadow: 0 1px 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12);
    box-sizing: border-box;
    width: 100%;
    text-align: left;
    font: bold 16px sans-serif;

    padding: 55px 50px;
    margin-top: 80px;
}

.footer-distributed .footer-left,
.footer-distributed .footer-center,
.footer-distributed .footer-right{
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: top;
}

/* Footer left */

.footer-distributed .footer-left{
    width: 40%;
}

/* The company logo */

.footer-distributed h3{
    color:  #ffffff;
    font: normal 36px 'Cookie', cursive;
    margin: 0;
}

.footer-distributed h3 span{
    color:  #5383d3;
}

/* Footer links */

.footer-distributed .footer-links{
    color:  #ffffff;
    margin: 20px 0 12px;
    padding: 0;
}

.footer-distributed .footer-links a{
    display:inline-block;
    line-height: 1.8;
    text-decoration: none;
    color:  inherit;
}

.footer-distributed .footer-company-name{
    color:  #8f9296;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-weight: normal;
    margin: 0;
}

/* Footer Center */

.footer-distributed .footer-center{
    width: 35%;
}

.footer-distributed .footer-center i{
    background-color:  #33383b;
    color: #ffffff;
    font-size: 25px;
    width: 38px;
    height: 38px;
    border-radius: 50%;
    text-align: center;
    line-height: 42px;
    margin: 10px 15px;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

.footer-distributed .footer-center i.fa-envelope{
    font-size: 17px;
    line-height: 38px;
}

.footer-distributed .footer-center p{
    display: inline-block;
    color: #ffffff;
    vertical-align: middle;
    margin:0;
}

.footer-distributed .footer-center p span{
    display:block;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-size:14px;
    line-height:2;
}

.footer-distributed .footer-center p a{
    color:  #5383d3;
    text-decoration: none;;
}

/* Footer Right */

.footer-distributed .footer-right{
    width: 20%;
}

.footer-distributed .footer-company-about{
    line-height: 20px;
    color:  #92999f;
    font-size: 13px;
    font-weight: normal;
    margin: 0;
}

.footer-distributed .footer-company-about span{
    display: block;
    color:  #ffffff;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-weight: bold;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
}

.footer-distributed .footer-icons{
    margin-top: 25px;
}

.footer-distributed .footer-icons a{
    display: inline-block;
    width: 35px;
    height: 35px;
    cursor: pointer;
    background-color:  #33383b;
    border-radius: 2px;

    font-size: 20px;
    color: #ffffff;
    text-align: center;
    line-height: 35px;

    margin-right: 3px;
    margin-bottom: 5px;
}

/* If you don't want the footer to be responsive, remove these media queries */

@media (max-width: 880px) {

    .footer-distributed{
        font: bold 14px sans-serif;
    }

    .footer-distributed .footer-left,
    .footer-distributed .footer-center,
    .footer-distributed .footer-right{
        display: block;
        width: 100%;
        margin-bottom: 40px;
        text-align: center;
    }

    .footer-distributed .footer-center i{
        margin-left: 0;
    }

}

.twitter{
  width: 42px;
  height: 42px;
}

.facebook{
  width: 42px;
  height: 42px;
}

.instagram {
  width: 40px;
  height: 40px;
}

.icons{
  margin-top: 20px;
}

.adress{
  width: 30px;
  height: 30px;
  margin-right: 40px;
}

.email{
  width: 40px;
  height: 40px;
}

.phone{
  width: 20px;
  height: 20px;
}

.adress-sec{
  margin-bottom: 25px;
}

.phone-sec{
  margin-bottom: 20px;
}

.logo-text{
    color:  #ffffff;
    font: normal 36px 'Cookie', cursive;
    margin: 0;
    margin-top: 12px;
    float: left;
}

.logo-text span{
  color: #5383d3;
}

if I remove the float: right command on the main-nav, it works but then it's not on the right place.

A: Your class hero has a  position of absolute and the h1 tag inside has a maring-top of 210px. This makes the hero div to overlay the buttons therefore making them un-clickable.
A tip is to get to know your browser's devtools, it is a really powerful debugging tool.
Since hero is a absolute element,use the css property top Instead of using margin-top. This will not influence with the other elements. Have a look in your developer console:
.hero{
  position: absolute;
  width: 1200px;
  margin-left: 0;
  margin-top: 0;
  top: 210px;
}

h1{
  color: white;
  font-size: 40px;
  text-align: center;
  margin-left: 55px;
}

with margin

With top

A: i believe your problem starts in this part in css file:
.hero{
  position: absolute;
  width: 1200px;
  margin-left: 0;
  margin-top: 0;
}

you defined hero div to cover over the li's so you cant hover over them anymore.whenever you put the mouse over them its on the .hero div and not emitting the hover event needed for CSS.
my advice is whenever you are stuck like this right click and start using "inspect element". next time you will see it on your own.
you can remove the "position:absolute" and it will work then.

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Urban Eat overhauls food-to-go offer with £5m investment
Nisa, Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
Food to go in convenience may be high reward, but it involves a lot of work. While the gains are decent margins and customer loyalty, all this doesn't come without some effort. If you don't put the work in, you'll soon find that sales aren't what they should be and your time is wasted. So it's refreshing to talk to a management team that is dedicated to making their food to go offering the best it can be.
Nisa Local in Highams Park, London, part of the LA Foods UK group of stores, has a food-to-go set-up that's been overhauled to take advantage of its high street location and meet demand from busy customers wanting food on the move. However, according to group director Haroon Hussain, the store wasn't always hitting its potential for the category.
When the store was due to undergo a refurbishment last May, Haroon decided that the opportunity was there to increase the focus of food to go and make the most of the space available. "It was the perfect time, really, as we had the opportunity to work around the category - we wanted to create something that would be perfect for our customer base," says Haroon.
Haroon reports that the store had suffered from having management that wasn't focused on food to go. "Before the refit, the person managing the store wasn't as keen on food to go and as a result the offering wasn't as strong in this site as it was in our other stores," says Haroon. "Once we put in place a new store manager who was willing to embrace food to go, it really started to take off."
The decision proved a good one. Haroon says that food-to-go sales grew 400% in the first six months following the refit and now makes up just under 10% of the store's overall turnover. With a footfall of more than 4,500 customers a week, food to go is an important category for this business and one the LA Foods team was keen to get right.
One of the first things for Haroon to do was to ensure that his customers were aware of the changes to the store's food-to-go offer. As well as massive vinyl signs in the store's windows, there's also a Cuisine de France sign outside to ensure that passing customers can't possibly miss what's inside.
Another decision was to select the right person to oversee the section. Haroon's focus on food to go meant a new direction for one member of the team. Majid Khan had been working at the store for three years and after the refit took ownership of the food-to-go area.
"Majid had always been a hard worker," says Haroon, "and this helped to take him to the next level. At first, the new way of doing things was difficult for the entire team as they had been used to doing it one way under the old manager. But once we started involving Majid in the ordering process, giving him responsibility to manage the area himself, he really started to shine and is now one of the company's star performers."
Majid says he enjoys the challenge of a busy food-to-go offering. "It's a challenge, but it's very interesting," he asserts. "You have to get the timings right for each time of day, or else you're stuck with a load of wastage."
The store is close to a school and a college so it's kept busy in the morning and early afternoon with a constant flow of customers. Majid has the systems needed to meet that demand down to a fine art, knowing exactly the right time to start baking and merchandising the products. "The hot food has a four-hour shelf life so you need to make sure that there's enough products ready to go for the lunchtime rush," he explains. "Once they go past the four-hour mark the food has to be thrown out, so it's about getting the balance right to minimise wasted food. Bread is easier - it has a 24-hour shelf life so there is more flexibility with that."
Haroon and Majid took an interesting approach to stocking when they first revamped the store's food-to-go offering. "For the first couple of weeks you have to overlook wastage and pile the products high," says Haroon. "It's no good running out of stock when you're trying to engage customers with the offering. Nobody wants to take the last product from the display - customers think it's the last one left for a reason!
"It's better to have some products left over for the first couple of weeks so you can gauge the level of demand," he says. "If it sells, then keep making it, but if it's not selling out, stop stocking it and find something else. There's no point in doing it halfheartedly - the offering needs to be managed properly."
Although Majid knew how to bake bread before he took over the section, Cuisine de France provided training to help him perfect the process. "I knew how to work the ovens so it was more about training on merchandising the products to get them looking their best for the customers," Majid says. "The training was very helpful as it makes the food look more appealing to the shoppers."
Majid says that Cuisine de France reps call in every week or so to make sure that everything is going okay, "but they seem happy with how I'm doing it," adds Majid. "The reps don't usually have to change a thing with our displays so we're obviously doing something right."
Cuisine de France doesn't just offer training, says Haroon - the company provides continual support to the store. "They've really upped their game in the past year and the area reps have worked with us more to drive the category forward," he says. "They want us to really grow our food-to-go offering as it obviously benefits everyone."
He does, however, wish that Cuisine de France would think bigger. "There are other suppliers out there with a shop-within-a-shop concept that I think would be fantastic here," says Haroon. "If Cuisine de France was to start offering this, it would do very well. People like the theatre of a counter and I think we would sell a lot of sandwiches that have been made in store."
Haroon praises the company's innovation in products, though. "Some of the recent products have been very popular, especially the Toblerone pasty - that sold really well," he says. "The countertop unit with confectionery snacks is also great. We have a promotional deal running with that and our hot beverage machine, which is really popular with customers."
The unit has been positioned beside the till and fits in perfectly with the store's philosophy towards making food to go as prominent as possible. The counter, which stretches almost the length of the store, has three food-to-go displays, the confectionery snacking unit, a hot food display, and a top-of-the-range Nescafé hot beverage machine that wouldn't look out of place in a barista's coffee shop.
"So often customers will be queuing up with their groceries and they'll pick up a treat on impulse," says Haroon. "It's a great way to grow basket spend without having to work too hard at it."
As well as the Cuisine de France range of products, the store stocks a wide selection of Nisa Heritage sandwiches and snacks to tempt customers. The team has sited them alongside the soft drinks in order to attract additional impulse purchases. "We want people to pick up a sandwich or snack and then grab a soft drink in one go," he says. "It's important to make it as easy as possible for customers. If the products are there in front of them, they'll buy them and it'll grow your sales."
Cuisine de France unveils new range
Cuisine de France has launched a new range of products designed to capitalise on consumer trends.
West Midlands family opens Nisa store on site of former business
A Nisa Local store in the West Midlands has opened under the ownership of Pal Singh, more than 30 years after his father sold his business on the site.
Nisa to lure retailers with incentives on Independents' Day
Independent retailers will be offered financial incentives to join Nisa on 4 July, to mark the group's support for Independents' Day UK.
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Last year a ram raid caused £200,000 worth of damage to Spar Lindford and left owner Julian Taylor-Green facing an uphill battle to keep his store trading whilst making endless calls to contractors, suppliers and his insurer to ensure the future of the business.
Two armed robberies in the space of a fortnight have failed to dent the resolve of Sukhbinder Kaur and her son Raj Kahlon not to let crime rob them of their livelihood.
Crime special: Co-op Dedham, Essex
When a ram raid left their store unsafe to work in, the team at Dedham Co-op set up shop in a barn, braving a fierce winter and a scorching summer to serve customers while the store was rebuilt and refitted.


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Q: python regex finditer I have question about re, I tried to look answer on re documentary but I think I am to newbie for this.
I have string like this
string = "id=186 s_id=0  channel_name=[cspacer0]---BlaBla--- number=2"

I want to retrive all result after '=' so I used
re.finditer("=[\w]*", string)

My result was as follow

*

*186

*0

*empty space <-- there should be a [cspacer0]--BlaBla--

*2

How should my pattern look to get the channel_name as well?

A: The \w token only matches word characters, to allow metacharacters I would use \S (any non-white space character) instead. Also, instead of finditer you can use findall for this task:
>>> import re
>>> s = 'id=186 s_id=0  channel_name=[cspacer0]---BlaBla--- number=2'
>>> re.findall(r'=(\S+)', s)
['186', '0', '[cspacer0]---BlaBla---', '2']

EDIT

The orginal string looks like this, I want to get everything starting with = skip =ok and idx=0

>>> s = 'error idx=0 msg=ok id=186 s_id=0 channel_name=[cspacer0]---BlaBla--- number=2'
>>> re.findall(r'(?<!idx)=(?!ok)(\S+)', s)
['186', '0', '[cspacer0]---BlaBla---', '2']


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Q: Formula that takes on all integers Given two integers $a,b$, how to prove that for every integer $z$, there exist integers $x,y$ such that $z=ay+bx+xy$
And how does one in general prove or disprove that a formula in one or more variables takes on every integer?

A: The statement is false, since $z$ is necessarily divisible by $\gcd(a,b,m)$, which may not be $1$. Thus the equivalent statement in the comment is likewise false. For instance, the set of products of two numbers with remainder $2$ modulo $4$ only contains odd multiples of $4$.

A: The question has changed. We answer the changed question, which asks us to prove that for any integers $a$, $b$, and $z$ the equation $z=ay+bx+xy$ has a solution in integers $x$ and $y$.
Note that $ay+bx+xy=(x+a)(y+b)-ab$.  Thus
the equation $z=ay+bx+xy$ is equivalent to $(x+a)(y+b)=z+ab$. This equation is simple to solve. Indeed, it is not hard to describe all solutions.
If $z+ab=0$, the solutions are $x=-a$, $y$ anything, and $y=-b$, $x$ anything. If $z+ab \ne 0$, express $z+ab$ in any way as a product $uv$, where $u$ and $v$ are integers, not necessarily positive. Then $x=u-a$, $y=v-b$ is a solution of the original equation, and all solutions can be obtained in this way.  In particular, if we know the prime power factorization of $z+ab$, we can find an explicit expression for the number of solutions.


I appreciate all of you, but my backlog coupled with personal obligations and an ever shifting list of priorities means that I can't take on any new work until 2019.
I will be working on what I have in the shop now and clearing up the cases in my backlog before taking on anything new.
Thank you for understanding and I'll keep you posted when the backlog clears. Meanwhile, please feel free to browse my website.
Thank you for visiting the brand new AcousticBox.com! Here you will still find a lot of how-to information on building and repairing guitars, banjos, mandolins and many other musical instruments. I am a full-time Luthier and performer in Chesterfield County, Virginia, 18 miles southwest of downtown Richmond, Virginia.
I perform luthier work ranging from routine maintenance and repair like changing strings and detailed quality setups to Martin and Gibson Guitar Neck Resets, repairing broken necks, repairing holes in guitar sides, and replacing tops on guitars, building conversion and replacement necks for banjos (like the neck shown on this page), guitars and mandolins. I am always busy with a backlog in the shop but I am truly grateful for that. So, from inlay work to repairing a broken guitar bridge, we here at Acoustic Box LLC have you covered!
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Lolol the ending! Loved the puzzles btw.
It looks good, but there is still a lot of bugs...My character kept disappearing, I had to refresh the page to restart all over thrice, and then, I get bored and stopped. It would have been great if the character was faster.
Last thing : I closed the windows, and the music is still playing...weird...Oh wait, it stopped.
i don't know if this was the intention but a lot of the collisions didn't work so i was just walking and jumping through walls every level. sometimes i'd restart and spawn outside the level or inside walls (which would make things easier). it made me feel like i was good at games though so i kind of enjoyed that.
The character walks too slowly, I think. It's a nice concept, but the controls (and music) could use a little work.
Good level design, I bet you spend time on it. LD reaaly need a vote category for that.
It's a great game, but there are some bugs and room for improvement. The level design is great, but it is hard to solve the puzzles when there are no light "outlines" to check. Also, the player is a bit too slow, which slows down gameplay.
A few minor bugs (walking inside platforms) but overall a neat little game. Yes, level design was very good.
As a few others said, I had the issue with music continuing even though the page was closed. Had to kill off java through the task manager to get it to stop.


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The David Parr House Film Project
October 17, 2022 January 12, 2020 by Krisztian Hofstadter
by Cathy Elliott and Norma Silva
In 1886 a small house in Gwydir Street, Cambridge was bought by David Parr, a working-class decorative artist. So began his forty-year project to decorate his modest home in the style of the grand interiors he worked on every day. After Parr's death in 1927, his granddaughter Elsie Palmer came to live in the house and stayed for the next 85 years, preserving the house in its original state as best she could. In 2014 a charity was set up to save the house as a museum. Parts of the house were very well conserved but some areas were badly deteriorating due to damp. A two and-a-half year project to conserve and stabilise the precious interior began – and the process was filmed by Cathy Elliott and Norma Silva. The resulting films (the David Parr House Film Project) both inform the visitor and also contribute to the archive themselves: they have become part of the story of the evolvement of this remarkable house.
The David Parr House Film Project also explores the role of film as record keeper, following on in the tradition of Cathy's 25 years of making documentaries and her exploration of truth and reality. It contributes to her work which upholds Nichols' truth claim that "In fiction, realism serves to make a plausible world seem more real; in documentary, realism serves to make an argument about the historical world persuasive" (Nichols, Representing Reality, p.165). So it is not just what you film, but what techniques you use, such as story-telling, film aesthetics, music and commentary, to persuade the audience that what they are seeing is accurate or "truthful". There were issues of selectivity and emphasis: there were many experts involved in the process, but not everyone could be filmed. As the filmmakers, Cathy and Norma had to decide not just which process was the most important, but which expert would be the more interesting "character" to engage with the audience and to capture the essence of the house itself.
Dr Cathy Elliott spent over 20 years in British television covering documentary, drama, drama-documentary, children's and education. Her passion is observational documentary. She has directed and series produced on a broad range of award- winning single films and documentary series for the BBC, Channel Four and Thames Television on flagship strands such as Cutting Edge, Modern Times, Inside Story, Dispatches and Rough Justice. Prior to joining ARU, she was a senior staff producer/ director at the BBC's Documentaries and Specialist Features Department. Her research interests include the documentation of social history through film; ethics and informed consent in film making; women as documentary makers and the future of observational documentary.
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Michelle Chen: How Humanitarian Aid Weakened Post-Earthquake Haiti
More than four years after Port-au-Prince crumbled to the ground, last month's meeting with a delegation from the American Chamber of Commerce seemed to mark Haiti's steady new pathway to recovery. Business elites posed for photo-ops and affirmed President Michel Martelly's goal to "make Haiti an emerging country by 2030."
Elsewhere on the island, tens of thousands had yet to emerge from the ruins of the 2010 earthquake and were clustered in makeshift encampments, still frozen in the aftermath of the catastrophe.
It was on behalf of these Haitians that human rights activist Antonal Mortime paid a visit to Washington, DC, the same week that the AmCham shmoozed in the Haitian capital. In collaboration with the American Jewish World Service, he came to tell US activists that Western aid efforts had harmed far more than they had helped. More than four years since Haiti was flooded by aid money, the chaotic rebuilding effort has widened the country's social rifts, bringing the first emancipated black republic under the yoke of a new kind of imperialism.
Amy B. Dean: Free-riding on the labor movement
American communities depend on collective action. Fire and police departments are great examples: They can function successfully because all of us pay in – not only those whose houses have burned down or been burglarized.
These institutions work on the principle that the most effective way to protect individual interests is for all to contribute a little for the common benefit. When someone doesn't contribute, everyone suffers. If someone didn't want to chip in for firefighters or police officers but still expected the benefits of these collective protections, they would be considered freeloaders, and their behavior would be rightly vilified.
Yet when it comes to the labor movement, free-riding is exactly the response that conservatives are encouraging.
Zarin Banu: Erosion of Hong Kong's core values
Hong Kong is a sideshow in Beijing's main act: securing its status as a rising superpower.
Hong Kongers are used to being a pawn in the game of superpowers. In 1997, Britain handed the city over to China under the "one country two systems" principle leaving it "Special Administrative Region" status. The principle was enshrined in the Basic Law, the legal framework for how Hong Kong would be governed from that point on.
The recent ruling by the National People's Congress (NPC) on the fate of Hong Kong is just a staging post in China's advance to consolidate its status as rising superpower. The decision is best viewed through this lens. Hong Kong is a sideshow in the main act: President Xi Jinping's ambition to cement China's economic and geopolitical stature as a superpower.
Dean Baker: Public should speak up before Fed clamps down on jobs
With the bank's policy taking cues from the financial industry, a vocal citizenry must push back to sustain growth
The media often cover debates over Federal Reserve Board policy as though it is arcane and technical subject matter beyond the understanding of ordinary people. In this context we are supposed to take the statements of Fed officials as though they are pronouncements from Dr. Science, who "knows more than you do."
In reality, the basics of Fed policymaking are fairly straightforward. The main question the Fed is considering right now is whether it should have its foot on the accelerator to try to promote growth and jobs, or alternatively whether it should have its foot on the brake to try to stop inflation. In the latter case, the economy will grow less rapidly and we will have fewer jobs and higher unemployment.
Richard Brodsky: Cuomo Wins!/Loses!
Conventional political wisdom has New York Governor Andrew Cuomo winning the Democratic primary and the November general election handily. The same wisdom has him badly damaged in New York and nationally. What gives?
The objective measures of political success show Cuomo on a roll. He's raised over $35 million. His opponents are starving. His poll numbers are good. Most voters don't know the opposition. He's dominated the political news as a candidate in the same manner that he dominated the government.
That may be the rub. His political operation was never satisfied with winning. Opposition was to be crushed and the methodologies were simple and punishing. It worked. Republicans voted for gay marriage and gun control. Democrats folded to an austerity economic agenda that cut taxes for the rich, cut spending, and gave billions to corporations as "economic development."
Paul Waldman: The Stupidity of Hating Your Senator for Living Where You've Sent Her to Work
Should we really get mad if our representatives spend too much time in Washington, where they're supposed to be doing their jobs?
This year, not one, but two, incumbent senators up for re-election have been dogged by the "issue" of the precise location where they rest their heads at the end of a weary day of lawmaking. First it was Republican Pat Roberts, who, we learned in February, lists the home of some friends as his official residence in Kansas; apparently he crashes there when he's in the state. And now it's Democrat Mary Landrieu, whose heretofore unimpeachable Louisiana roots (her father Moon was the mayor of New Orleans in the 1970s, and her brother Mitch holds that office today) are now being questioned. It seems that although Landrieu owns a home in Washington, she's registered to vote in the New Orleans house she grew up in, where her parents still reside (even though it's technically owned by Mary and her eight siblings, all of whose names begin with "M"-make of that what you will).
The opposition researchers have certainly been earning their keep. But should the rest of us care? The easy answer is, of course not; this is the kind of inane faux-controversy that consumes campaigns, where one side pretends to take umbrage at something with no importance, then the press pretends it means something because a candidate is "on the defensive." But as far as phony issues go, this one is actually revealing-not because of anything it says about the senators, but because of what it says about the often absurd and contradictory expectations we have of our representatives. We berate them for being lazy and not getting enough done, but at the same time, we get mad if they spend too much time in the place where they're supposed to be working
TBC: Morning Musing 9.3.14
by poligirl
I've got 3 interesting article this morning for you all.
I think that we ought to do automatic DNA testing on evidence from crimes where there is anyone convicted of them on Death Row. And throw in the life without parole folks too. I abhor the death penalty in and of itself and it seems cruel and unusual to not just make sure in this day and age.
2 Convicted in 1983 North Carolina Murder Are Cleared After DNA Tests
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On This Day In History September 3
This is your morning Open Thread. Pour a cup of your favorite morning beverage and review the past and comment on the future.
September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 119 days remaining until the end of the year.
On this day in 1783, the Treaty of Paris is signed ending the American Revolution
The treaty document was signed at the Hotel d'York – which is now 56 Rue Jacob – by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay (representing the United States) and David Hartley (a member of the British Parliament representing the British Monarch, King George III). Hartley was lodging at the hotel, which was therefore chosen in preference to the nearby British Embassy – 44 Rue Jacob – as "neutral" ground for the signing.
On September 3, Britain also signed separate agreements with France and Spain, and (provisionally) with the Netherlands. In the treaty with Spain, the colonies of East and West Florida were ceded to Spain (without any clearly defined northern boundary, resulting in disputed territory resolved with the Treaty of Madrid), as was the island of Minorca, while the Bahama Islands, Grenada and Montserrat, captured by the French and Spanish, were returned to Britain. The treaty with France was mostly about exchanges of captured territory (France's only net gains were the island of Tobago, and Senegal in Africa), but also reinforced earlier treaties, guaranteeing fishing rights off Newfoundland. Dutch possessions in the East Indies, captured in 1781, were returned by Britain to the Netherlands in exchange for trading privileges in the Dutch East Indies.
The American Congress of the Confederation, which met temporarily in Annapolis, Maryland, ratified the treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784 (Ratification Day).[1] Copies were sent back to Europe for ratification by the other parties involved, the first reaching France in March. British ratification occurred on April 9, 1784, and the ratified versions were exchanged in Paris on May 12, 1784. It was not for some time, though, that the Americans in the countryside received the news due to the lack of communication.
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The real news, as well as this week's guests and a friendly duck below.
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Rutgers School of Social Work's Transitions for Youth and Price Family Fellows within the Institute for Families are supportive programs for students already accepted into the University who are current or former foster care youth with experience in the child welfare system as an adolescent. Youth take part in skills workshops, research, and goal setting for financial and personal needs. Watch the video below to learn more about Amanda, an alumna of Transitions for Youth.
To help support our foster care youth, follow this link and select the "Transitions for Youth Program" gift designation. Your generosity will provide direct assistance to students.


The Epicurean Board Scraper Slate / Natural makes it easy to scoop your chopped foods from the cutting board to a bowl or pan. These can also be used for quick chopping and as a dough cutter.
Dimensions: 4 x 6 in.


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Q: How to get information on which resource actually breached cloudwatch alarm I have setup a cloudwatch alarm for RDS "By Database Engine" for postgres for "FreeableMemory" metric and assign an alarm when the Free Memory is less than 1GB. When an alarm is raised, is it possible to get the information on which specific RDS resource/instance actually breached the alarm?.
I could specify "Per Database" metric but then I have to setup one for every instance of db I got. Is it possible to set alart for broader category like "By Database Engine" and when alarm is breached, just look at the event payload and get list of resources that actually breached the alarm?

A: I don't think you could include that information in your Database Engine level alarm. However, once the alarm is raised, you can easily see which DB has that metric crossed your threshold. Just go to CloudWatch metrics and select FreeableMemory metric and then select all databases from the list. In the diagram you can see any instances above the threshold.
As you mentioned, you could also create an alarm for each DB instance. That may be a tedious task if you do it manually, but you can easily automate it using a script which iterates through the list of your DB instances.


The first feature film from director Mathieu Mortelmans will get its press preview in Namur tonight.
The Namur Film Festival has given us the honor of screening our movie.
that took place 2 years ago.
Good luck to the cast and producer tonight!


Karen Norton-Sinell is a credited photographer, fiction and non-fiction author, and designer, with two books currently published. She has 27 years of photographic experience, exhibiting in the Bay Area and Northern California galleries and shows since 1996. She has won several local and international awards for her photography. Her work is on permanent display in Northern California at the Chico History Museum, Stoner Jeffers & Associates, in Southern California at the corporate headquarters of Norton Packaging, and in the book 7-Color Cuisine.
With degrees in education and design, and continued membership in writing groups since 1977, Ms. Sinell is committed to education through the visual arts. She has worked on several educational products as a writer, developer, editor, designer, and assistant film producer.
Sinell grew up in rural Montana and graduated from the University of Montana with a BA in Education and a second degree in Design. She was exposed to art history in Vienna, Austria, and developed her photography on journeys across America and continued studies with New York Institute of Photography. In addition to Frescoes by the Bay: Art, Artists and their Stories, Sinell is currently writing and illustrating the children's book, Hodge Podge Lodge. After graduating from California State University, Chico, with a Masters in Reading/Language Arts and working with students diagnosed with Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD), she saw the need for literature with a neurolinguistic approach emphasizing the sounds of the language. It is evidence of her commitment to learning through visual art. She currently lives in Sonoma County, California.


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Five Sons at Sea
by admin • 7 June 2010 • Featured Notes, Military & Police, WWII • 0 Comments
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During the Second World War, five Macdonald brothers from the village of Valtos, Uig, Isle of Lewis, served at sea. The five sailors were sons of Donald and Christina Macdonald 22 Valtos.
Their mother Christina (nee Maciver), formerly of 25 Valtos, had lost two brothers in the first World War. Norman Maciver serving on a destroyer was swept overboard and lost in 1915 and Murdo Maciver in the Canadian Seaforths was killed in action in France 1916. Donald Macdonald, the father of the five young seamen had served in World War One and contracted malaria, which recurred often. Their uncle John Macdonald, who was in the Merchant Navy in 1939-45, was also a veteran of the 1914-18 war.
Two of the five brothers were lost at sea. Donald Norman, who was called up at the beginning of the war, was lost on HMS Gloucester off Crete in 1941 aged 23 and Murdo who had joined the Merchant Navy, was lost on the SS Empire Comet off Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1942 aged 21. This was the only family in Uig to lose two sons.
The family's eldest son Duncan worked long hours as a labourer hauling stones to the many croft houses under construction in Valtos at the time. Duncan joined the Merchant Navy in 1935 at the age of twenty one and later as a reservist, was called up at the start of hostilities and was awarded the DSM (Distinguished Service Medal) while serving on HMS Welshman during the relief of Malta in 1942. HMS Welshman was sunk later that year in North Africa and Duncan joined the HMS Orion. After the war Duncan was a weaver and settled in Bragar, Lewis.
Norman Macdonald served on the Silicia and HMS Trouncer, an aircraft carrier built in America in 1940. Later when one of his own sons joined the Merchant Navy in 1966, his first ship was the Benrinnes he was amazed to find it was his father's old ship the HMS Trouncer coverted back to a conventional cargo ship. After the war Norman returned to Uig and worked, at first, as an insurance agent, then for the Hydro, when the electricity came to Valtos in 1952. After that he worked on the building of the RAF Camp at Aird Uig and worked in the camp as a civilian until the camp closed in 1955. Norman was married in Valtos and died in 1989.
John Macdonald (Tochaidh) lived at the family croft at 22 Valtos and said: "I had an enlisting deferment for nine months as Donald Norman and Murdo had been lost, then I was enlisted in 1943. Murdo was called up and never returned, Donald Norman had one leave before he was lost. The only time I met my brother Norman during the war was in Glasgow, in my cousins house, Norman was going on leave and my leave was over.
"I remember the D-Day landings in France. I was on the Emphatic at Arromanches the part of the coast where the British were landing. I had been up all night and went to get my head down, suddenly the loud firing started and I couldn't sleep. I went up on deck and saw the Orion about 20 metres away, my brother Duncan was on it. Another time the Orion was going into Malta and passed us on the way out. That was as close as I got to meeting Duncan during the war years.
"Duncan and Norman were demobbed at the end of the war, but as the Emphatic was an American tug crewed by British Merchant Navy men they didn't send replacement crews and we were sent to the Philippines. It took me two years to get back, I was in Burma and Singapore and came back to Lewis in February 1947. I spent some time in the Merchant Navy, after that I was weaving at home. Then for ten years I worked on the road for the County Council until I retired. There is nobody left on the Valtos peninsula that served in the war except myself. There were no good times then."
The picture shows Donald Macdonald (Domhnall Daoighear) and his wife Christina nee Maciver with their five sons, who served in World War Two. The picture was taken by a relative on 3 September 1939, the Sunday afternoon war was declared. This was to be the last time the family were together.
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EP022 - Tommy Caldwell on rock climbing, adventure parenting, and assessing risk 0
In this episode,we talk with one of the greatest rock climbers to ever live, Tommy Caldwell. We talk about his long-time involvement in Team RWB, rock climbing as a post counter-culture sport, and how being a family man has changed his outlook on life.
We cover a ton a really exciting topics including:
The Epic Rope Swing
He and Alex Honold completing The Fitz Traverse
His ground breaking free climb or the Dawn Wall
Tommy's biggest fear
EP021 - Brian Stann on attitude, fighting, and how to get up off the mat 0
Brian Stann is the CEO of Hire Heroes USA, an organization that has helped thousands of Veterans find high-quality careers. He is also one of the toughest and most accomplished people you'll ever meet. Brian played football at the US Naval Academy before being commissioned in the United States Marine Corps, where he would earn the Silver Star during one of his tours in Iraq. Never one to slow down, Brian became a professional fighter, eventually becoming the heavy-middleweight champion of the World Extreme Cage Fighting Championship and a top middleweight contender in the Ultimate Fighter Championship. In addition to all of this, he holds down one of the world's hardest jobs as the father of three young daughters.
We cover a lot of ground in this podcast, including:
Finding a passion outside of work
How to promote your abilities without being arrogant
The importance of a great attitude
Who he'd like to fight again
Brian is an incredibly inspiring guy and we guarantee that this episode will leave you ready to run through a brick wall.
EP020 - Simon Sinek on Leading in a Virtual Space and Owning Your "Why" 0
In this episode, we talk with best-selling author and leadership expert, Simon Sinek. We have a great conversation about ideas like: applying the "Circle of Safety" in the virtual world, why digital relationships will never replace actual relationships, and how 3/4 of an answer is better than an answer and a half.
Simon was a pleasure to talk with and he's been a long-time supporter of Team RWB.
We cover a ton of content in this podcast, including:
Leading in a virtual/distributed environment
The "Circle of Safety"
How knowing your personal "why" is critical to effective leadership
Why in-person meetings are vital, and often overlooked
EP019 - Theresa Larson on being a woman in uniform, overcoming perfectionism, and the importance of owning your story 0
Theresa Larson is a woman with many titles and one inspiring story. She's played college and professional softball, served as a US Marine, and is now a doctor of physical therapy in San Diego. In her recent memoir, Warrior, Theresa bravely shares her story of being platoon commander in Iraq and battling some inner demons.
We have a very raw and honest conversation about:
The issues that come with being a perfectionist
The challenges of being a female Marine officer
How movement and exercise helps us overcome trauma
The importance of owning and sharing our stories
EP018 - Nate Boyer on Lifelong Learning and Football 0
In this episode, we talk with Nate Boyer - relief worker, Green Beret, Texas Longhorn football player, and all-around great guy. He is a pleasure to talk to and we are thrilled to have him as both a long-time member of Team RWB and a guest on the show!
We cover a ton of ground of this one, including:
Lifelong learning and having a growth mindset
Texas Longhorn football
Breaking the 10,000 hour rule
Bringing Veterans to Hollywood


Today, children in some 100 countries are walking out of school to push for global action on climate change. Over the last four months, hundreds of thousands of young people from many countries participated in demonstrations against climate change.
Make art about children leading the way. Or about climate change.
Read more details on the Global Youth Climate Strike here.
Make art about the river rising, about what the flood takes with it, what it leaves behind.