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It sometimes happens that a very valiant and resolute spirit is contained in a small body. Bet Granger's little brothers, known in the slums as the captain and the general, were as thin, as lanky, as under-grown little chaps as could be found in Liverpool. Not a scrap of superfluous flesh had they, and certainly not an iota of superfluous growth. They were under-fed, under-sized; but nevertheless brave spirits shone out of their eyes, and valiant and even martial ideas animated their small frames. The "Cap'n" and the "Gen'ral" were considered so plucky by the other boys-and girls of the neighborhood that as a rule they were asked to take the command in a fight, and to assume leading and distinguished positions in a general fray. Most valiantly then would they strike out left or right-regardless of black eyes, indifferent to bumps or blows. They looked like little furies on these occasions, and the other children applauded and admired. It was well known in Sparrow Street, and it was even beginning to be recognized as a certain fact in Paradise Row, that when both the captain and the general were engaged together in one encounter there was not the smallest chance of the opposite side winning.
These untrained and somewhat desperate little bravos had also certain instincts which taught them to espouse the cause of those weaker than themselves: and it was often a ludicrous as well as a pathetic sight to see these small champions leading the van, and eagerly supporting girls and boys a great deal bigger than themselves. Their mother had certainly told them that fighting was sinful; but it was the breath of life to them, and when Thady was once asked what he liked best in the world, he answered promptly, "Punchin' another feller's head." These small boys were quite little braves in their way; but, as there is a weak point in the most invincible armor, so were there conditions under which the general and his gallant captain would undoubtedly show the white feather. There was a presence which could effectually quench the ardor of two pairs of keen eyes, could cause two little faces to blanch to an unwholesome and sickly hue, could cause two little hearts to beat anxiously, and could so affect the moral equilibrium of two very steadfast little souls, that lies would fall glibly from their lips, and the coward's weapons of deceit and subterfuge would be gladly used by them in self-defence.
It was a father who had this effect upon his children; and the torturing and ruining of these young child-lives was being effected in the civilized England of our nineteeth century. Granger represented a not too uncommon type of man, and Nat and Thady did not suffer more than hundreds of other boys when exposed to his influence.
On the morning after Bet had written her letter to Will, she rose early, and was preparing to go to the police-court, to look her last on her lover, when the door of their one little room in Sparrow Street was burst rudely open, and Granger, his face red and bloated, and his whole manner indicating that he had reached the quarrelsome stage of insobriety, entered the room with heavy strides. He was a big man, powerfully made, and when in his present condition even Bet thought it wisest to let him alone. He entered the room and glared about him savagely. A great deal of this manner was put on, for he was acting a part under Dent's instructions; but none of his children knew this, and when striding across the room, he caught the poor little blue-eyed captain by his ragged collar, the boy uttered a scream, and the general, basely deserting his brother, rushed to Bet for protection.
"Give up that lad," shouted Granger, hoarsely. "I want the two of 'em. They are my lads, and you have played the fool with 'em long enough. I have got work as 'ull suit them, away in Warrington, and I'm going to take 'em by an early train. There-hands off, Bet-give me the lads." "Never," cried Bet. She looked like a wild creature about to be deprived of her young. Holding one arm firmly round the general, she gripped the little captain by the other hand.
"Gi' them up to me, father! You shan't have them-you shan't touch them-there! What do you mean? You take 'em away to work at I knows not what?-and they no more nor seven years old! Let 'em be-they're my lads, and you shan't harm a hair of their heads."
The boys clung to her, with white faces. The man, savage and amazed at this unexpected resistance, stood wavering for an instant. At that moment it seemed to Bet as if a thousand furies possessed her, and a thousand strengths were given to her. All the accumulated anguish of the past week seemed to gather vehemence now, and to lend iron force to her muscular arms. She wrenched the little captain quite away from the red-faced, bloated man; and then, bo
"Do you still want to run away after what happened last night?"
Their relationship changes overnight. She tries to keep her distance from him, while he comes closer and closer.
Spoiling her, he gives her everything she desires. His only wish is to keep her around. The whole world is envious of what she has.
"Never rush in a relationship," she says calmly.
th arms freed for a moment, she actually pushed him before her to the door, and, before he could utter a word, or collect his scattered forces, she locked him out.
"There! lads," she said, turning round with a triumphant half laugh, "you see as Bet's as good as her word."
"You're a born fighter," said the captain, in a tone of admiration. He recovered his spirits and his courage on the spot, and in a few moments he and the general were amusing themselves in acting the scene which Bet had just gone through.
"Boys," said their sister's voice, after ten minutes had passed, and no attack been made on the door, she concluded that Granger had for the present withdrawn himself-"Boys, I'm a wanting to go out."
"Oh, no, Bet, no-father'll come back."
"But the door's werry strong. I'll lock it from the outside, and make off with the key. I won't be long, boys; I'm a hungered to see somebody-my heart draws me, and I'm in pain. You won't be in any danger, dear lads, and I'll be back werry soon. I jest want to set eyes on one face that I'll never see no more. You won't be afeard, ef there's a locked door between you and father."
The rare tears which scarcely ever came to her stood in Bet's eyes.
"No, we won't be afeard," said the captain, running up to his sister-"there ain't nought to be afeard of. You're wanting to see your sweetheart-ain't yer, Bet?"
"No," said Bet, with an almost-cry-"I han't got a sweetheart now. All the same, I hungers for the sight of a face. And I'll be back soon. Don't you be fretting, lads. There'll be a locked door atween you and harm."
She wrapped her shawl about her, waited for no further words, locked the door on the little prisoners, and rushed downstairs. As she said, her heart was drawing her. Nothing but that passionate hunger would have caused her to forsake the children at this supreme moment. The house was intensely quiet, for most of the lodgers had gone out on their day's avocations. Not a sign of Granger was to be seen.
Bet walked fast, and presently reached the police-court, where Will was to be tried. A crowd of people were waiting outside; a few policemen stood about. The doors of the building were not yet open. Bet saw Hester Wright standing very near the entrance. She made an effort to get to her, and called her name over the heads of the crowd; but Hester, after looking at her coldly, turned her back without making any response. This action cut Bet to the quick. She found the tears again springing to her eyes. Oh! for one glance, if only the last, of Will's kind face. The minutes dragged themselves along; the crowd increased; but as the right hour had not yet come, the doors remained fast shut. At last, at the stroke of ten, they were opened, and Bet was pressing in with the rest, when she felt a hand laid heavily on her arm. She turned, to see the coarse black-eyed girl who had bought her beat from Granger.
"Ef I was you, I'd go home, Bet," said the girl.
"You mind your own business," said Bet, shaking her off roughly.
"Well-there's a mischief brewing, and I saw what I saw. Don't you say as you wasn't warned; and ef the two little chaps come to grief, it ain't Louisa Perkins' fault."
These last words alarmed Bet.
"Say out yer say at once," she answered, clutching the girl now, and forcing her back against the crowd who were pushing their way into the building,-"say your say and have done," she repeated. "What has come to the lads? I left them safe not an hour agone."
"I saw Granger making off with them."
"You didn't-that's a lie! I left them locked up safe in my room."
"Granger was hurrying off with them," repeated Louisa, "werry red in the face, and mad like. The captain was crying, and t'other chap had a red mark down his cheek-it's not a quarter of an hour by St. Giles' clock as I saw him."
"Where was they going?" asked Bet. "Tell me quick, or I'll shake you."
"Down Castle Street, making for Lime Street and the railway station, I expect."
Bet ceased to push inwards with the crowd. They went past her, and the little police-court was soon filled to overflowing. Isaac Dent almost rubbed against her shoulder as he went by. He winked at Louisa, but Bet never noticed him.
"Hester-Hester Wright!" she suddenly called out.
Hester had not yet gone into the police-court. She was standing against one of the posts of the door, watching the crowd as they filed past.
"Hester!" repeated Bet. "Hetty-Hetty! Come and speak to me for a minute! I must go, but I want to send a message. Just one word, Hetty,-Hetty, come!"
Perhaps Hester did not hear. At any rate, she neither turned nor heeded. Bet gave a low despairing cry; then, flinging her shawl off her shoulders, she ran as fast as if there were wings to her feet in the direction of Sparrow Street.
She's A Natural


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Call of Cthulhu : The Haunting
Fri, 11/11/2022 - 14:52 — TheTimCrow
Tim Crow
Boston, Massachusetts, 1920. A team of professional and amateur detectives have volunteered for the task of looking into a 'haunted' house. The pay is good, $20 a day each, and well, it'll all be sorted out with something simple.
Or so we all hope.
Call of Cthulhu is the Cosmic Horror role playing game placing players as normal people in a normal world with small, local problems. But investigation leads to discovery, and discovery leads to more mystery, as stranger and more difficult to reconcile things are experienced, the investigators question their beliefs and their very sanity.
The Haunting is the senario included with the quick start rules for 7th ed Call of Cthulhu, but no game knowledge is needed, as it's explicitly for new players.
You will need a set of roleplaying dice, pencils and notepaper. As a horror game we will be using safety tools of Lines and Veils and X Card.
Dead Man's Hand
Mon, 11/08/2021 - 19:58 — Catnip
Donna Giltrap
The Brindlewood Charity Poker Tournament is a popular annual event in the Brindlewood Bay calendar. Members of the community are sponsored to play poker with the winnings going to the charity of their choice. However, little does anyone realise how high the stakes they will be playing for will go...
Brindlewood Bay is a roleplaying game about a group of elderly women—members of the local Murder Mavens mystery book club—who frequently find themselves investigating (and solving!) real-life murder mysteries. They become increasingly aware that there are supernatural forces that connect the cases they are working on.
The game is directly inspired by the television show Murder, She Wrote, but also takes inspiration from the works of H.P. Lovecraft, "cozy" crime dramas, and American TV shows from the '70s, '80s, and '90s. Rather than a straight investigation, the players will collaborate to create many of the details of the mystery.
Brindlewood Bay
play to find out
LARP: The Hollows
Tue, 10/27/2020 - 12:50 — Lee
Lee Patrick
Everyone here had their own reasons for joining the cult. Everyone had something they wanted to escape. Everyone listened when the leaders said that all the signs had come, and the end of the world was imminent. Everyone here believed.
Now that you're in the Hollows, the closed-in cave beneath the cult compound where the leaders have promised you'll be safe, things seem a little less clear.
Everyone in the Hollows has something to hide.
It's not safe outside. Trouble is, it's becoming increasingly clear that it's not safe in the Hollows, either.
The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soulless
Sun, 08/30/2020 - 18:19 — Catnip
Written by David Morrison
Snowdrop House is a newly established B&B, which boasts the finest afternoon tea in all of Brindlewood Bay. So naturally, when an old friend invites you to tea you are quick to accept. However, Snowdrop House used to be the old Stockton Farm, rumoured to be the site of many dark secrets. Secrets some people might kill to protect...
Brindlewood Bay is a roleplaying game about a group of elderly women—members of the local Murder Mavens mystery book club—who frequently find themselves investigating (and solving!) real-life murder mysteries. They become increasingly aware that there are supernatural forces that connect the cases they are working on and, in particular, a cult dedicated to the dark, monstrous aspect of the goddess Persephone will come to vex them.
The game is directly inspired by the television show Murder, She Wrote, but also takes inspiration from the works of H.P. Lovecraft, "cozy" crime dramas, and American TV shows from the '70s, '80s, and '90s.
Mild humour
teen friendly
Adrift on Ruined Seas
Wed, 10/09/2019 - 00:43 — JulzBurgisser
JulzBurgisser
In the coastal port town of Balance, Ballentia horror lurks nearby in the creeping fog. Ships go to sea never to return and creatures slither silently by in the ocean.
The Wistal Whistles have been called in by Benedict Orez, young mayor of the town. He was recently appointed by his Grandfather and former Mayor Sirap Orez. He is determined to solve the mystery surrounding the fishing boats of Balance that don't always come back home as the town is now in big trouble.
Will the Wistal Whistles, an extraordinary mystery solving team, be able to figure out what's going on and put the town back to the bustling port town it always used to be?
A tale of curses, lost love and high seas treachery. Come aboard, me hearties as we take to the sea! Yo ho, yo ho, a pirates life .... and death ....
'Adrift on Ruined Seas' is a homebrewed one shot pirate mystery horror adventure based in The World of Isen created by Brad Zimmerman. The one shot is played over 3 to 4 hours with pre-generated level 7 characters featuring characters previously seen in another horror home brew one shot set in Isen, "The Hallowed Festival of Frights" with some new friends also in tow.
Warnings: This session is fairly fun and super welcoming of all ages, abilities and who folx are or want to be, there are one or two moments of scary. Just the usual mystery solving with monsters stuff but I like to be upfront and keep my players safety in mind at all times. Any questions regarding this, please ask. Also this session, being with level 7 characters is a bit more advanced so some basic prior knowledge is advised.
'Adrift on Ruined Seas' is set in the homebrewed World of Isen, created by Brad Zimmerman. Session DM'd by Julz Burgisser who plays Marley Kraff in the D&D 5e actual play podcast 'Fate of Isen' available for download on iTunes, Spotify and all good podcasting apps. See www.fateofisen.com for more details on Isen.
The Hallowed Festival of Frights
Mon, 09/30/2019 - 19:53 — JulzBurgisser
A manor that speaks of old money grandeur sits slowly decaying on a large overgrown section. The owners have all long ago departed in bloody circumstances surrounded by rumours and fear. Considered haunted and cursed, it's been left by the town of Wistal to fall into disrepair. No one ever goes into Schwartzkonig Manor, or if they do, they've never come back out to say so. It's the perfect place for a bunch of teens to tease each other about being too chicken to enter, especially on the day of the most spooky celebration in Isen. Until one of them actually does. Now you're standing outside the gates and you can feel the Manor's eyes on you …waiting to see what you'll do. It's up to you to save your friend. Will you be brave enough to enter? Will you survive what's inside?
Using the system Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, 4 - 6 level 1 characters will explore a Haunted House, fighting the monsters that live there, solving problems and depending on their rolls seeing visions of someone mysterious in the house. This is designed to be a session that can also teach new players how to play, so come along to learn if you want!
Warnings: While this session is fairly fun and super welcoming of all ages, abilities and who folx are or want to be, there are one or two moments of blood filled scenes. Just the usual spooky house stuff but I like to be upfront and keep my players safety in mind at all times. Any questions regarding this, please ask. I'm more than happy to adjust if we have a whole group that is uncomfortable with these things or if some kids want to play.
'Hallowed Festival of Frights' is set in the homebrewed World of Isen, created by Brad Zimmerman. Session DM'd by Julz Burgisser who plays Marley Kraff in the D&D 5e actual play podcast 'Fate of Isen' available for download on iTunes, Spotify and all good podcasting apps. See www.fateofisen.com for more details on Isen.
Hashtag the Vault of Horror
Fri, 09/27/2019 - 12:21 — Jamie
Jamie Sands
In the seventies, monsters and demons ruled supreme - killing and haunting and wrecking all sorts of schlocky horror. But that was ages ago, that was your parent's time. Sure, your mom may have been recruited as an incubator for a Satanic cult, or your Dad might've been the best exorcist known to humanity. Maybe you inherited some kind of power your mom used at a prom one time or a list of people who still Need to Pay from your dad... but it's time to make your own way in the world, isn't it?
A group of Gen X, Xennial and Millenial monster hunters with something to prove, a legacy to embrace or outrun, or possibly someone to avenge. When they rock into town to solve the latest mystery it's either to set things right or make a bigger mess.
Who will survive and what will be left of them?
Imagine Disney's Descendents but the parents were all the leads in Seventies horror movies. Time to get into the Mystery Machine and see what you can make of yourself.
Pre-made characters, knowledge of Big Name 70s horror movies recommended
e.g Rosemary's Baby
schlocky
Sick Again
Wed, 07/24/2019 - 01:18 — IdiotSavant
Idiot/Savant
"Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable." —Hippocrates
Wed, Nov 21, 2012
At 0800 hours today, CDC received an emergency call from Dr Fritz Strickland, one of two full-time physicians at Hudson's Well Catholic Hospital in Hudson's Well, AZ. In less than 24 hours, eight patients have been admitted, with suspect symptoms, including two medical staff, and three of those have died. High fever is universal, and intense headaches are also reported, along with coughing, nausea, disorientation and hallucinations.
Dr Strickland has isolated the patients and is requesting immediate assistance.
All patients have proven resistant to antibiotics including Cafepime, Levequin and Vancimycin. Tylenol failed to reduce their fevers, and cooling blankets were only marginally effective.
The responders named below are to proceed immediately to Hudson's well Catholic Hospital, identify the illness, set a treatment plan, locate the source of the infection, evaluate the crisis, and advise on contagion and containment.
A small town. A mysterious disease. A secret beyond human understanding. This scenario is from DELTA GREEN: Control Group.
Content warnings: Plague. Horror. Tentacles.
Thu, 09/20/2018 - 10:39 — Jamie
You had a plan, you were going to be safe and sound for the purification… but there's a spanner in the works, your plans didn't work out, and now you're stuck in this place with people you don't know and cannot trust. Can you survive the night?
Set in an alternate universe American city: for 12 hours there are no laws. All crime is legal, and all police, fire and medical emergency services remain unavailable for 12 hours, from 7 pm till 7 am the next day. The only rules being that government officials with authorization levels of 10 and higher are not to be disturbed and all weapons above Class 4 (all explosive devices, rocket launchers, bazookas, miniguns, etc.) are forbidden.
This is a fast paced game requiring imagination, quick thinking and a certain stomach for horror.
CW:
No rape in this universe, but creative murders and deadly traps will occur.

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First impressions count at The Leys
by Laurence Gale MSc
in Schools & Colleges
This article appeared in Pitchcare Magazine Issue 40
0 First impressions count at The Leys
I first met Matt Pullen five years ago at Whitgift School in Croydon, when I was judging him for the Cricket Groundsman of the Year competition Since then, Matt has moved on to become Head Groundsman at The Leys, an independent school in Cambridge.
I arrived at 10.30am just as the staff were enjoying their mid-morning brew. Matt introduced me to the rest of his team.
The school has a reputation for looking after its staff, with Matt's assistants, Danny Church, and Mal Lawton, both having completed over twenty years service. Matt is only the fourth head groundsman to take up the post since the 1950s. Gardener, Shaun Mahoney, and apprentice, Ashley Shipp, complete the grounds team.
The school was founded in 1875, at a time when a large number were being founded by the Methodist Church. Whilst there were already several leading schools providing an education for the sons of ministers, Methodists were asking for schools for the sons of lay members.
The Methodist Conference set up a committee to look at the possibility of starting a school at Oxford or Cambridge. Following several visits to Cambridge, a twenty acre site was discovered for sale - The Leys Estate.
The Reverend Doctor W.F. Moulton, secretary of the committee, was asked to become headmaster of the new school and The Leys formally opened its doors on 16th February 1875, with sixteen boys from English Methodist families. Within two years, this number had grown to one hundred.
Since that time, The Leys has expanded significantly. Today the school is an independent, fully co-educational boarding and day school with over 530 pupils from all walks of life.
In 1938, The Leys Governors acquired St Faith's Preparatory School and established The Leys and St Faith's Charitable Foundation. Strong links remain between the two schools.
Both The Leys and St Faith's use the sportsfields on a daily basis. Sport is an important part of the curriculum with the school continuing to improves its facilities. Since Matt's appointment, two new sand dressed full size artificial pitches have been installed.
Since its foundation, the school has acquired additional land and is now set in fifty acres near the centre of Cambridge. The sportsgrounds are divided into two sites - Main Campus and Latham Road - with pupils having to walk to the Latham Road sports pitches. There is also a superb sports complex on campus, including a sports hall, gym, squash courts, aerobics studio, floodlit astro-turf hockey pitch, a 25m swimming pool, three natural grass tennis courts, three tarmac tennis courts, netball and basketball courts.
The school's main cricket square is located on the Main campus and, during the winter months, the outfield doubles up for the senior rugby pitch. These facilities are available for hire when not being used by the school.
Latham Road offers the use of five rugby pitches, two natural turf hockey pitches and one full size artificial sand dressed pitch. In the summer, these fields provide the school with three cricket squares and an eight lane grass athletic track.
After our brew, we all walked out to the senior rugby pitch to get a team picture of all the staff alongside their trusty old grey Fergie tractor, which has been in use since the 1950s.
Like all independent schools, the condition of their grounds is paramount; first impressions of the school are often formed by the presentation of the grounds. On a mild November day, they were very tidy and well planted out with a variety of plants offering plenty of shape, form and colour.
Shaun Mahoney is the school gardener responsible for maintaining all the gardens, shrubberies and flower beds, Shaun used to grow a lot of the summer and winter bedding plants in the greenhouse. However, it was rather time consuming so, under the new regime, he now buys ready grown plants for tubs, troughs and bedding schemes. He still uses the greenhouse for making up their own hanging baskets.
The sports pitches were well laid out and presented. The senior rugby team pitches commanded pride of place on the cricket outfield. Grass is mown using rotary mowers set at 75mm, however, they have not had to mow the pitches for some time due the dry weather the east of England has been experiencing.
One of the first things Matt did on taking up his role was to review the working conditions and equipment the school had, as he believes that providing a good working environment is very important.
So, one of the first tasks completed was improving the mess room facilities for his staff. They have moved into larger accommodation, releasing much more valuable space for equipment and materials. Matt has also overhauled the machine sheds, tidying them up and beginning a programme of replacing old and worn out tools and machinery.
The school has invested in new mowers; a Jacobsen TR3 triple mower to replace the old trailed gang units, along with two new Protea wicket mowers for maintaining the squares.
All the staff gets free meals, PPE and quality outdoor clothing. Working hours are set at 8.30am-5.00pm, with some paid overtime as required.
The main cricket square has sixteen pitches, all being dressed with Ongar loam. The pitches perform reasonably well considering there is only 45-50mm depth over the indigenous soil. This was confirmed when we took some cores from the square. In both of the samples there was a distinct root break below the thatch layer.
Matt was also keen to point out that, since he took over, they have changed the method of end of season renovations, now using the Graden scarifier, contracted out to Turfcare Leisure Services, to ensure the three squares are thoroughly cleaned out. Each square is then topdressed using between 10-13 bags of Ongar loam per pitch, with the aim of building up the amount of loam. They are then overseeded with 100% rye grass mix, fed and aerated later in the autumn.
Although the wickets have improved over the last four years, the core sample clearly shows there is a need to reconstruct some of the wickets in the coming years if they want to improve their performance. Matt explains that, ideally, they need to be dug out to a minimum depth of 100mm and refilled with new loam material; not really an expensive job in the scheme of things, if you are prepared to do the work yourself.
Based on today's loam prices at around £100 per tonne, Matt reckons he will need ten tonnes of loam (2.5 tonne per every 25mm excavated) to rebuild a complete pitch, stump to stump, ten feet wide. That's an investment of £1000 per pitch. Yes, there's labour required, and the hire of machinery, but Matt believes that the long term benefits outweigh the overall cost.
Matt will endeavour to continue to improve all the squares with better maintenance regimes but, having seen the cores, he knows only too well the only real option is to dig up and reconstruct these pitches in the coming years.
Core samples were also taken from the grass tennis courts. A much relieved Matt was pleased with what he found; the sample showed good rooting depth below 200mm, no black layer and consistent loam topdressings with no root breaks. The tennis courts are very popular in the summer and get plenty of play.
Renovations on the grass courts are similar to the work on the cricket square. They are gradened in one direction, topdressed, applying about five tonnes of loam on all three courts, and oversown.
The courts are mown on a regular basis to maintain playing height and help present them in a professional way. They are fed with appropriate granular feeds - generally something like 12:0:9 summer and 4:0:10 winter NPK - to maintain vigour and colour. All court lines are marked with a transfer wheel line marker and a ready mixed paint.
As for irrigation, Matt relies on self travelling sprinklers on the sportsfields with water coming from a deep well. There is some restriction on the amount they can use but, to date, have never exceeded their extraction licence, even in the recent drought conditions.
Matt brings in local contractor, Arthur Peacock and Sons, for any specialist work such as vertidraining, end of season pitch renovations and overseeding, with Complete Weed Control carrying out weed and pest control. Eastern Trees are contracted in for all tree works.
Budgets are not excessive, and Matt has to justify to the Bursar and Headmaster the benefits of any investments made to improve the school grounds. Matt's main aim is to ensure that the grounds are fit for purpose and a safe environment for all who use them.
As for a wish list, Matt is keen for the school to invest in new cricket net facilities, along with looking to continue the investment in new machinery. He is hoping he will be given the budget to purchase a Sisis Quadraplay unit for the sportsfields, a new compact tractor and, last but not least, have funds made available for the reconstruction of the wickets on the main square.
It would seem from my visit that the school grounds are in very good hands. The working relationship between all the groundstaff is excellent, and they are all well respected by the teaching staff. Matt lives on site and has settled in to being part of a very well run school. There are plenty of challenges ahead to maximise the potential of the facilities at The Leys, but ones that Matt is up for.
What's in the shed?
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Poweroll 20 roller
Husqvarna Pro15 ride-on mower
Rally garden tractor
Jacobsen TR3
Brava sweeper
SISIS scarifier
Ransomes Marques 24 inch cylinder mowers x 2
Husqvarna hedgetrimmer S75
Husqvarna hedgetrimmer S75S
Stihl electric hedgetrimmer
Ransomes ride-on 36inch cylinder mower
Dennis ride-on 36 inch cylinder mower
Stihl 2 in1 strimmer and long reach hedge trimmer
Honda self propelled rotary mower with roller
Honda self propelled rotary mower
Husqvarna chainsaw
Ransomes Auto Certes fine turf wicket mower
Protea 510G fine turf mowers x 2
Even Spread fertiliser spreader
Countax Hurricane leaf collector
Billy Goat leaf collector
Hayter rotary mower with roller
SISIS Combi Brush
SISIS 9ft dragmat
Demco Walkover sprayer
SCH water bowser
Tractor drawn trailer with tipper
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Linemarkers x 2
Petrol pressure washer
Wolf compressor
Billy Goat Force blower
Ryobi drill det
Linemark pressure marker
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Wandering around the rambling property of Paula Bell, you might think you're on any ordinary, small farm. Ducks, geese, and kittens scamper about in the yard, and the country air is filled with all the expected sounds and scents.
Yet, this farm is anything but ordinary. While Bell puts plenty of effort into caring for her animals (she has everything from goats to llamas to turkeys), what the place is best known for is its spooks.
Bell moved back to her family acreage just outside of Worthing six years ago with her husband, eager to preserve its function as a working farm. What she found was a money pit.
"The whole concept of the family farm is dying," said Bell. Her dream is to open a farm attraction where people can get the full experience of seeing the barn, feeding animals, and learning more about life on a farm. Unfortunately, upkeep and repairs require funding. This is where the haunting comes in.
With such a creative mind, developing the Haunted Farm has been somewhat of a breeze for Bell. She collects props and materials at garage sales, finds ideas on Pinterest, and says she can make up to four scary mannequins in a morning.
"I'll make the mannequins look very real and dress the actors at the farm so they look unreal, so you never know what's going to jump at you," she said.
The main attraction at the Haunted Farm is the Loft of Lunatics. Once you step into the barn, you're transported into a maze of narrow hallways, dark corners, and roughly 10 terrifying scenarios around every turn.
So what makes Bell's farm different from any other Halloween attraction?
The eerie décor throughout the barn is either handcrafted or collected. Bell visits garage sales, DIY's fake blood and gore, and has her right-hand man, Kurt Meyer, to help with the construction and engineering of spooky scenarios, such as vampires swooping overhead, or a mannequin taking axe swings at another's decapitated body.
Aside from the Loft of Lunatics, visitors can enjoy a spook-free hayride, pet baby farm animals, grab something to eat in the Snack Shack, or, for another dose of fright, make their way through the Dark Trail or the Haunted Forest with even more eerie music and scenarios.
"You could easily spend three hours here," said Bell. Opening on Friday the 13th – ideal timing, of course – the Haunted Farm will run for three full weekends in October, with Halloween as its final night.
The Haunted Farm is for all ages. For more information, visit the Haunted Farm Facebook page.


A one-pot dinner that is fresh, healthy and easy to make. It's also a complete meal by Ayurvedic standards, with all six tastes included.—sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter and astringent. Eat it slowly, and see if you can find all six.


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Trump defends Michael Flynn after Comey memo revelations
Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves federal court in Washington on Dec. 1, 2017. Credit: AP / Susan Walsh
By Tom Brune tom.brune@newsday.com @TomBruneDC Updated April 20, 2018 10:54 AM
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday defended his former national security adviser Michael Flynn after newly released memos by fired FBI Director James Comey said that early in his presidency Trump questioned Flynn's judgment.
Trump fired Flynn in February 2017 for misleading Vice President Mike Pence about conversations Flynn had with the Russian ambassador.
"So General Michael Flynn's life can be totally destroyed while Shadey [sic] James Comey can Leak and Lie and make lots of money from a third rate book (that should never have been written)," Trump tweeted. "Is that really the way life in America is supposed to work? I don't think so!"
In one of the seven memos that the Justice Department released to House committees Thursday evening, Comey described how at a private dinner with the president in January 2017 Trump spoke about Flynn and pointed his fingers at his head.
"The guy has serious judgment issues," Trump said, according to the Comey memo, because Flynn hadn't told the president about a phone call from a foreign leader.
People familiar with the matter say that the call was from Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was the first foreign leader to call the White House to congratulate Trump after his inauguration, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The call wasn't brought to Trump's attention until he was in the middle of a lunch with British Prime Minister Theresa May and was thanking her for being the first to call him, the report said.
Flynn said it was Putin, not May, who called first and Trump was expected to return Putin's call soon, the people said, according to the report. Trump was furious, Comey's memo said, "because six days was not an appropriate period of time to return a call."
Meanwhile, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied that Putin had ever told Trump that in Russia, "we have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world," as Comey had said in a memo and his book "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership," which was published Tuesday.
Peskov told CNN that "President Putin could never say such things, and he did not say anything like that to Trump, especially since they had never spoken to one another prior to Trump becoming president."
Comey said he wrote the memos because he found Trump so unnerving that he decided he should document them in writing to defend himself and the FBI.
Trump fired Comey in May 2017, with the White House at first saying it was because of Comey's unconventional announcements about the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server. Later Trump told an interviewer he had the FBI Russia investigation under Comey in mind when he made his decision.
Comey revealed much of the material in those memos when he testified before Congress. He is now on a book tour in which he has questioned the character of Trump, who, he said, is "morally unfit" to be president.
Trump has responded by calling Comey a "liar," a "leaker" and a "slime ball."
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The area of online marketing is constantly growing and changing, and businesses need to keep on top of the most effective marketing tools in order to keep attracting visitors to their websites and, in turn, convert them into buyers or users of their services.
But with so many options out there, how do you know which ones to focus on? Here are some of the main marketing tips that businesses will be looking at this year.
The need for online content is nothing new, but there are still so many businesses out there who have websites that offer nothing new or interesting to potential customers. While it's vital to have a clear, easy-to-navigate site which includes all of your company's information, you should be offering more: this can be in the form of a frequently updated blog based around your chosen industry which will attract users in your target market. The more original, thought-provoking content you can offer them, the more time they're likely to spend on your site; build a relationship with your readers, and they will be more likely to stay loyal to your company.
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) has always been important when marketing your site, but make sure you're up to date with the best way to implement keywords into your content and other SEO techniques. Download an SEO plugin for your blog or hire a company that specialises in search engine optimisation to help you out.
Smartphones are more popular than ever before, and with more and more people relying on their mobiles to surf the net and shop online, it is imperative that your website is formatted to be able to work on any sized device, including laptops, netbooks, and tablets, as well as phones. The easiest way to do this is to choose a responsive layout for your website. This is a single design theme that works on screens of all sizes and dimensions, and actually adds more to the site when a bigger screen is in use. There's no need to pay for two separate designs, and offering a quick and easy mobile version of your website will encourage custom from people using all kinds of devices and platforms.
The popularity of websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest shouldn't be underestimated, especially if your business site includes a blog. Whereas in the past, blog posts relied heavily on SEO to attract readers, social network websites are now helping in this area due to their sharing abilities. It's quick and easy to add social media buttons onto the beginning or end of every blog post, and this encourages readers to share their favourite articles with their online friends. It is word of mouth for the internet generation, and every blog should take advantage of it.
There are many more marketing tips for increasing your website visitors, but following just a few of these should result in a more prosperous 2013.
This year will see an increase in companies focusing on inbound marketing and moving away from traditional outbound marketing processes. It's about time, too; customers no longer wish to be constantly bombarded with advertising when watching TV, surfing the web, or opening their post. In this day and age, there is simply too much of this kind of advertising to have any kind of positive effect – people skip TV adverts, put direct mail in the bin without opening it, and leave websites that have too much obvious advertising. This leads to a shift in customer behaviour, as they are more aware of the methods businesses use to target them, and are also more in control of the information they are receiving. This is where outbound marketing starts to become redundant and where the more subtle idea of inbound marketing comes into play.
Outbound marketing refers to the more traditional way of advertising to customers, such as TV adverts, direct mail, pay per click online ads, cold calling, and any other method of marketing that can be considered 'intrusive'. Communication is generally just one-way, and there is no effort on the part of the company to inform or entertain the user. Businesses 'beg' customers to pay attention to them.
Inbound marketing utilises social media sites to create an approachable online presence, as well as making use of content marketing such as company blogs, ebooks, white papers and infographics. Communication is generally two-way, encouraging interaction with and participation from customers, and the goal of the marketing is to inform or entertain, rather than going straight for the hard sell. Businesses earn their right to target customers.
What are the advantages of inbound marketing over outbound marketing?
Whereas businesses have always had to have big budgets for traditional marketing methods, the costs of inbound marketing processes are much lower, leading to a higher ROI.
Outbound marketing relies on constant work to make sure advertising is being generated and seen by their potential client base, but this isn't necessary with inbound marketing. Especially if you have created an informative blog that encourages participation, and have a strong social media presence, interested web users will share your content and get other people interested for you. Word of mouth in the internet age shouldn't be underestimated.
If you have taken the time to build your brand online and actually interact with your potential clients through social media, blogs, Youtube, and other channels, then your business suddenly seems more personal and more approachable. Also, if you provide new and intriguing insights on industry developments through these channels, people will begin to associate your business with specialist knowledge; they'll keep coming back because they trust what you are saying.
Whatever you decide to do with your marketing, if you ensure that you identify your target audience, know what your desired action is (buy a product, sign up to a mailing list etc), and can measure your success rate to see what is and isn't working, inbound marketing could help your business gain new customers and a whole new brand awareness online.
How Is Email Marketing Changing?
With all the current focus on new and exciting marketing methods for online business promotion, email can sometimes get left behind, but the truth is that email marketing is constantly changing and improving, and it can still be a useful tool in gaining and keeping customers.
So what should we expect to see from email marketing in the upcoming year? Here are just a few of the many changes that businesses will be making to this marketing method in order to keep it up to date and relevant with today's savvy web users.
Some businesses are leaning more towards social media sites as well as their own company blog to keep in contact and interact with their customers. While this is good in terms of utilising inbound marketing techniques to attract new clients, not everyone uses social media in this way. This is particularly relevant with B2B companies; some people still prefer to keep their business life separate from their online social life, and therefore ignore interacting with brands on sites such as Facebook and Twitter. By all means, use these websites to target some customers, but be aware that others will still prefer receiving information from you solely through your business mailing list.
Smartphones and tablets are getting more popular every day, and they are expected to get even more widespread this year. People want to access the web – and therefore their emails – on the go, quickly and easily and with minimal fuss. Businesses are slowly catching on to the fact that they should have mobile-friendly websites – by using responsive layouts, for instance – but they also need to focus on distributing mobile-friendly emails. This means only sending the most important information, and in a way that is easily read while on the move.
Gone are the days where videos in emails are slow-loading and a hassle to watch; this year, HTML5 is expected to be utilised by many big brands in their email marketing campaigns. Get across all of the information you need in an entertaining and informative video, instead of emailing lots of long paragraphs that no one will want to read on their mobile device.
Automated campaigns are used regularly by both B2C and B2B businesses, and they're not going anywhere in the upcoming year. Some companies have started sending automated emails based on specific individual client information – such as customers' birthdays – whereas others have been using behavioural based campaigns to target specific types of clients with their emails. 'Welcome' campaigns will continue to be just as important as ever in keeping new customers engaged with what your business has to offer.
If you make the emails you send to your clients easy to access and easy to read, as well as being informative and innovative – in the use of videos, for example – you will give your email marketing campaign the best chance to attract new customers and keep your existing clients happy.


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Uvalde school Police Chief Pedro "Pete" Arredondo comforts a woman during a vigil for the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 25, 2022. Within days, Arredondo was at the center of the controversy over the botched police response to the massacre. The Uvalde school district fired him in August. (Photo by ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)
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UVALDE — UVALDE — It had been another convulsive day for Uvalde's school district and the community.
On Oct. 6, district officials fired a newly hired school police officer, Crimson Hux Elizondo, after news outlets reported that her previous employer, the Texas Department of Public Safety, was investigating her for her role in the failed law enforcement response to the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School.
Late that same afternoon, Pedro "Pete" Arredondo was grilling in the backyard of his home on the outskirts of Uvalde. Shirtless and wearing a pair of black wraparound sunglasses, he toiled over his barbecue pit, clouds of smoke wafting into the air as an Express-News reporter called out to him from the other side of a wooden privacy fence.
Arredondo, 50, asked the reporter to "be respectful" and turned down an interview request.
Elizondo was the second Uvalde school officer to be fired. Arredondo had been the first.
Mayor Don McLaughlin (left) and District 5 Councilman Ernest King, III (right) listen to residents as the Uvalde City Council meets on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Also present were a group of families and friends of victims in the Robb Elementary mass shooting to discuss the next steps in replacing Pedro "Pete" Arredondo, the embattled school district police chief who resigned his council seat over the Independence Day weekend. The council and residents also reacted to a leaked video of the school shooting - with some expressing strong resentment about the leaked footage.
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Months after the Robb Elementary School shooting, crosses, flowers, stuffed animals and other mementos fill the grounds in front of the now defunct building Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. On May 24, 19 fourth-graders and two teachers were killed by an 18-year-old gunman.
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As the district's police chief on the day of the shooting, he had led a botched, slow-moving response to the school shooting, the second-worst of its kind in the nation. Widely criticized for his failure to act quickly, he was fired by the school district on Aug. 24.
A July 17 report by a Texas House investigative committee spread the blame around — to DPS, local city police and other law enforcement agencies, the school district and, of course, the shooter. It described the tragedy as a cascade of errors, the result of a "systemic failure." But Arredondo remained the focal point of public ire throughout the summer.
The tranquil scene in his backyard — a man alone, quietly grilling meat for his dinner — belied the hellish turn his life had taken.
DPS director Steven McCraw laid the blame for the flawed response squarely on Arredondo during an electrifying news conference on May 27, just three days after the school shooting. Since then, Arredondo has been forced to give up his Uvalde city council seat, fired from his job and bombarded with interview requests. He's been the target of at least one lawsuit and death threats.
Arredondo has been practically a ghost in this town of 15,000, rarely seen in public.
It has been a long, hard fall for Arredondo, whose arrival as the Uvalde school district's new police chief more than two years ago was celebrated with a Facebook statement welcoming home a native son and 1990 high school graduate.
The district's social media announcement drew warm greetings from well-wisher Gary Greenhaw saying, "Congratulations, big guy! They could not have picked a better person than Pete."
"Congrats!" wrote Rachel Gonzalez, who went to Uvalde High School. "Our kids are depending on your guidance."
'No one comes in'
As incident commander during the school shooting, Arredondo let more than an hour pass before a team of Border Patrol agents and others killed Salvador Ramos, 18, of Uvalde. The gunman fired a total of 142 rounds in classrooms 111 and 112 from a Daniel Defense DDM4 V7 rifle, slaying 19 children and two teachers.
Arredondo spent part of the time frantically searching for a key to the door behind which the shooter carried out his rampage — though the door was most likely unlocked. The school police chief called out to Ramos, trying, but failing, to engage him.
A police body-camera recording shows Arredondo directing other officers at one point, saying, "Tell them to (expletive) wait — no one comes in."
Other officers on the scene, stationed in a pair of hallways near the shooter and his victims, also failed to confront Ramos. Nearly 400 officers from numerous agencies eventually flocked to the school that day.
Area residents shake their heads, thinking of the murdered children some call babies.
"The one thing is, he should have protected all of the babies," said Estella Rios, 60, of Batesville, a town 20 miles southeast of Uvalde. "To me, they were babies."
One of the first officers to enter the school building, Arredondo has insisted he was not the incident commander that day, though his own department's guidelines for just such a situation required him to play that role. Arredondo himself wrote those guidelines.
Active-shooter training — by the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State University in San Marcos — teaches that any law enforcement officer can assume command, and that an incident commander can hand over responsibility during the shooting. But someone must be in charge.
No one took charge at Robb Elementary.
Arredondo's lawyer, in a 17-page letter read to the school board on the day of his firing, insisted that the police chief "could not have served as the incident commander and did not attempt to take that role as he was at the front line of the incident" because the crime began when Ramos shot his grandmother at her home several blocks from the school — an incident only the sheriff's office knew about.
In an interview with the Texas Tribune in early June — the only one he's granted to a news outlet — Arredondo said, "I didn't issue any orders. I called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door."
"The only thing that was important to me at this time was to save as many teachers and children as possible," he said.
Described by some as low-key, Arredondo is polarizing figure in this small farming and ranching community.
He is also something of a cipher.
The Uvaldians who knew Arredondo and talked with the San Antonio Express-News have relationships with him loosely knitted together by intermingling histories. Some either asked not to be identified or didn't talk at all. Others carefully chose their words.
"I knew him," City Councilman Ernest "Chip" King III said. When asked what Arredondo was like, he replied, "I prefer not to comment, but he was a nice guy."
Uvalde County Judge Bill Mitchell was mum. "So I'm sorry, but I'm also a journalism major, OK?" he said, responding to a reporter's questions. "So I know whenever someone says, 'I don't have a comment,' that that means I don't have a comment."
Diana Olvedo-Karau, a community activist who's running for Uvalde County Commissioners Court in the Nov. 8 election, thinks she knows why so many clam up when asked about Arredondo.
"Everybody knows everybody to some degree. Not everybody knows everybody intimately, but they know them or of them," explained Olvedo-Karau, 63, a Uvalde native who spent 25 years in the Midwest before returning home four years ago. "And it doesn't really matter whether it's because you support him or because you don't. Either opinion can place you in a negative light to other people."
Uvalde is indeed a small world. She is running against incumbent Commissioner Mariano Pargas, a Uvalde police officer who is currently suspended from the force pending an investigation into his response that day.
Olvedo-Karau is one of three write-in candidates; the other two are Julio Valdez and Jacinto Casarez — whose daughter, Jackie, 9, was among the 19 students killed in the rampage.
A son of Uvalde
Arrdeondo did not respond to multiple interview requests. When a reporter visited his home one afternoon several weeks ago, two big pickup trucks were parked in his garage and a couple of bags of charcoal sat on his front porch.
Purchased two years ago, the one-story house is 3 minutes, 13 seconds — going the speed limit — from Robb Elementary.
Arredondo once owned a mini-storage business a few blocks from the Uvalde Police Department and had a 2005 business registration for Arredondo Enterprises. He was married when his mother, Micaela Moreno, and father, Gilberto, died roughly six weeks apart in 2014. His dad was a Uvalde native while his mother was born in Rio Bravo in the Mexican state of Coahuila. Pete Arredondo and his wife, Sofia, were living in Laredo when his parents died, according to their obituaries.
The Arredondos divorced in Laredo in 2017.
Pedro Moreno Arrendondo is a son of Uvalde who eventually left the city for law enforcement jobs.
He slowly, methodically worked his way up the command ladder.
Arredondo landed at the Uvalde Police Department as a 911 dispatcher after graduating from Southwest Texas Junior College's law enforcement academy in 1993. He toiled in the department for 16 years, climbing from dispatcher to patrolman to detective to assistant chief.
His next job was in Webb County, working as a jailer in 2011 and the following year before being promoted to assistant chief of the sheriff's office. But he didn't last long as Sheriff Martin Cuellar's No. 2. Cuellar demoted him in 2014 to commander.
The sheriff said in an interview with the Express-News in August that he dropped Arredondo in rank because he "was difficult to get along with — with his coworkers, especially upper staff."
Cuellar said the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District never called him directly to ask about Arredondo's job performance in Laredo, the Webb County seat. Cuellar said if the school district had called, he would not have recommended Arredondo for the job.
Three years later, Arredondo moved to United Independent School District in Laredo — and then back to his hometown.
People who knew him say he was friendly. As Uvalde district's top police officer, he mixed with teachers, administrators, parents and their children every school day.
Local government, including law enforcement, and the school district are major employers in Uvalde, where one in five residents live under the poverty line, according to the U.S. Census. Many residents know some police officers personally or have one or two — or maybe more — in the family.
Last spring, Arredondo parlayed his ease and familiarity with the public into success at the polls.
A man who said he knew Arredondo but would not give his name was critical of both him and the school district. But he also said Arredondo was a respected figure in the community, and pointed to his election to the City Council — two and a half weeks before the shooting — when he netted 69.2 percent of the votes in a race against three other opponents.
"Pete got the most votes, so people in town trusted him," the man said.
Ahead of the election, Arredondo told the Uvalde Leader-News that "volunteering for my community is a way of life for me."
"I have volunteered in over 30 organizations in the last 30 years. Most of those organizations have been youth based as I feel we must invest in our future," he said. "With a strong track record of public service, I know I am prepared to serve as your District 3 representative."
After his election, Arredondo told the newspaper he walked throughout his district, knocking on doors and leaving his phone number so potential constituents could call him.
"I'm very excited, I am ready to hit the ground running, " he said. "I have plenty of ideas, and I definitely have plenty of drive."
All that was forgotten as soon as the gun smoke cleared at Robb Elementary.
At meeting after meeting, whether it was the City Council or the Uvalde school board, the families of victims, their friends and other supporters lined up to demand that the chief be held accountable.
They wanted him thrown off council.
Arredondo was sworn in as the council's newest member behind closed doors one week after the shooting and never attended a session as infuriated residents lined up to denounce him. He sought a leave of absence from council, which his colleagues rejected. Bowing to the pressure, he resigned his seat in early July.
The same crowds showed up at school board meetings, calling on the district to fire its police chief. The school district initially suspended him without pay and then fired him just before the start of the new school year.
Even before his dismissal, Arredondo was more a rumor than a presence around town. In interviews, residents say they didn't see him at City Hall, restaurants or the bustling H-E-B, places they might have crossed paths with a man who — tall, big and balding with a round face — wasn't easy to miss.
Mixed opinions, emotions
How Uvaldians respond when Arredondo's name comes up is often complicated.
Mayor Donald McLaughlin Jr. and Daryl Larson, an old friend of Arredondo, want him held to account. But they and others also insist he alone wasn't the only officer on the scene at fault.
Standing outside the local H-E-B, Daisy Huerta, 27, of Uvalde, put it simply: "I feel like it was a very tough situation."
Terry Bowen, 86, of Del Rio, said most people "think he was afraid." But Bowen wasn't so sure himself, explaining that he hadn't heard Arredondo's side of the story.
"Everyone said the guy is wrong, and it seems like he might be wrong, but I don't know what his training told him to do," he said. "I don't know why he was acting the way he acted."
Others note that a lot of police were at the school that day, including the Border Patrol, Texas Rangers, DPS, Uvalde Police Department SWAT team, Uvalde County sheriff's office, U.S. Marshals and a district attorney's office investigator. In all, 376 officers converged on the scene from 23 agencies, including 16 from San Antonio.
As the Express-News talked with people around Uvalde, the DPS revealed in early September it was investigating seven troopers for their role in the shooting response. Two of them were suspended with pay.
"In my opinion, every agency that was there that had people in the hallways needs to be reviewed — everybody," McLaughlin said.
"There was a Texas Ranger who did not move to action, who was on the phone with his supervisors. And he did not move. He froze. They all froze," said state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a San Antonio Democrat who represents Uvalde. "Are you telling me that the highest-ranking member in that hallway was Pete Arredondo?"
Many of the residents who spoke with the Express-News echoed Gutierrez. But most still wanted Arredondo held accountable.
Arredondo's old friend Larson, sitting in a pickup with his wife, Olga Cruz Morris, 59, described him as an avid hunter and fisherman. They'd known each other for 10 years or more. Larson said he helped paint Arredondo's home in Laredo.
"He was OK. At that time, he was all right," he said. "Since this happened, he should be feeling sorry for the children and their parents. Like he should be going to their meetings and talking to them instead of hiding out. That don't sound like Pete, but he changed a lot, you know."
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Who was the old Pete Arredondo?
"To me, he was good. When I needed him, he was there," said Larson, 66, of Uvalde.
Asked if Arredondo was the kind of guy he could sit and have beers with, Larson said, "Nah, I never did that stuff with Pete. I just talked to him, mowed his yard once in a while."
Another Arredondo friend, Vince Rodriguez, said they knew each other back in school, where they shared three classes in high school.
"He's a pretty good guy," said Rodriguez, 45, of Uvalde.
A bit on the chubby side, Arredondo was "kind of quiet" though friendly, never in trouble and not so popular, he said. Theirs was exclusively a school friendship, one that began in a classroom but didn't go beyond it.
A construction worker, Rodriguez didn't recall Arredondo wanting to enter law enforcement, saying, "He was too young. He didn't even know if he was going to go to college. He didn't say nothing."
The low-key Arredondo "would talk to just some groups — me and another group," he recalled.
"I haven't seen him around," Rodriguez added.
McLaughlin said he interacted with Arredondo at weekly COVID meetings that included the city manager, county judge, county nurse, police chief, and representatives of the sheriff's office and schools, but didn't know him well.
"He seemed very professional," the mayor said.
King, the Uvalde councilman, described Arredondo as jovial, "very courteous, very nice, very friendly with people," adding, "I wasn't very good friends with him by any means, but I've known his family."
The Arredondos had been around town for decades.
"Oh, he had a lot of friends here in town," said King, 56, an aviation consultant. "I can't imagine people that didn't know him. He comes from a family that is pretty well known."
King sat in on a string of council sessions where Arredondo's critics demanded his removal. He's taken the town's pulse and concedes most people here blame the former school police chief for not acting quickly enough to save the kids.
"That would be the most common statement, yeah," he said.
You hear it again and again on the streets and in the parking lots of Uvalde. A father of three young daughters, oilfield worker Rene Carrizales, 32, of Uvalde, doesn't know Arredondo and has little sympathy for him.
"It took too long to take any action to do anything," he said. "Pretty much the whole community feels the same way. As a parent, just like, you go right in and so don't sit there and wait."
At D&D Barber Shop, a woman excitedly said, "Mexicans, they are mad! They are mad!"
The people she hears from want the police officers who were at the scene of the shooting fired.
"They do nothing for more than an hour, wasting time," she said. "I'm mad, too. I don't have kids, but still it's hard for me."
Vicente Reyes, 46, of Uvalde, said one of the officers at Robb Elementary should have taken leadership.
"People could have been saved, but they panicked," he said. "No one took charge of the scene."
Exiled in Uvalde
The school massacre tears at Uvaldians in different ways.
A man who lives across from Robb Elementary but wasn't at home at the time of the shooting said his friends talk about sports, how the kids are doing in soccer and football. They can't bring themselves to dwell on the slaughter of uncomprehending children.
"Sadly, this is a day we want to put in our past," the man, who identified himself only as "J," said as he bathed a dog on a hot, muggy afternoon.
Gary Newman, an executive who moved to Uvalde last January from Colorado, said people he knows say "maybe (Arredondo) could have made a better decision." He takes a different position himself, saying it is hard to make an informed decision without all the facts.
"There's been a lack of information for sure, but again I assume there are reasons for that," said Newman, 36.
Some, however, unequivocally condemn Arredondo. Emily Johnson, a 47-year-old mother of a Uvalde middle school student, is one of them. "He's definitely a coward," she said.
A retired soldier who didn't want to be identified, fearing retribution, said someone should have taken charge. Law enforcement officers who were on the scene, he added, should find some other line of work "now that these guys know what they're made of."
"I don't know how those guys can walk around with their heads held up," he said.
On the Uvalde CISD Facebook page that welcomed Arredondo as police chief in 2020, the comments of praise from Joey Medellin of Laredo and others were crowded out by anger and vitriol in the hours and days after the shooting.
"Hope you are fired and never allowed to wear a badge again," wrote Chris Seidler. "You have no business in law enforcement. You are a disgrace to your community."
Arredondo's future in Uvalde appears bleak.
The mayor thinks he'll have to leave town if he wants to start over.
"Whether he will or not, I don't know. That'll be his decision. But I would think it'll be hard for him in Uvalde — just the pressure of people and the families and so forth," McLaughlin said. "I would think to make a living he'll probably have to move on beyond here, and I would probably bet it's not going to be in law enforcement, either."
For his part, Arredondo, in the letter written by his lawyer shortly before his dismissal as police chief, didn't take responsibility for the ill-fated police response to the shooting but appeared to acknowledge the foul mood of his hometown.
"Tuesday, May 24, 2022, will be a day of sorrow, for Chief Arredondo, and all the others impacted by this horrible event," the letter said. "All those impacted are in one or more stages of grief, from shock to denial, to anger, to bargaining, to depression, to acceptance and hope, to processing the grief. The grieving process will take time, and with time, we all hope to find understanding. Those fighting with anger lash out, trying to find a means to move on, and with anger, comes the blame game."
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She's back-lit and front facing. Well, mostly. She's kind of looking down and off to the side. She looks mildly amused. It kinda makes you wish you were the one doing the amusing.
That photo struck me, and stuck with me, for some reason.
It looks warm, if that makes any sense.
I can almost feel that sun, as the smell of coffee – purchased from a new shop espousing sustainable beliefs – wafts.
I briefly wonder what can be seen through the door behind her. Urban sprawl? Suburban nap?
Sometimes the best views are on the roads not taken.
She's got plans for the day. For us.
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I think she's the kind of woman who, if she left you whole, and returned a mere half, you'd still take her back because love isn't much into accounting, you know?
Because we can't dance to chained melodies.
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Looking at past games between these teams played at Carrow Road, they often finish in a loss for Norwich.
The tradition within football is large. Previous games traditionally end in an away upset. A a win for the visiting team should probably be the end of the event. Current shape of Norwich is rising. Looking at past games between these teams played at Carrow Road, they often finish in a loss for Norwich. Norwich has lost three straight events. Most times the following fixture is a draw for Norwich. Liverpool has played a win for ten matches in a row. Often they draw the preceding game. Liverpool has persisted very good shape lately. Lately Liverpool has been declining the table. Recent form of Liverpool is declining. Playing away Liverpool has won five consecutive fixtures. Generally they draw the preceding meeting.


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Miquel Masdeu Domènech (Reus, 21 de novembre de 1814 - Barcelona, 22 de novembre de 1888) va ser un milicià català.

Biografia
Va néixer a Reus, fill de Miquel Masdeu i Josepa Domènech.

Carreter d'ofici i d'ideologia liberal, als 19 anys s'enrolà al cos de Miquelets a les ordres del general Montoro i passà a Vic en persecució de les primeres partides carlistes. Va rebre el baptisme de sang en una acció contra el capitost "Muchacho" a Sant Quirze de Besora. Dissolt el batalló al qual pertanyia, s'incorporà al que estava manat per Pep del Po, on va servir fins a l'acabament de la Primera Guerra Carlina. En una acció de guerra a Vilamajor del Vallès, quan Joan Prim, tinent de Miquelets, va caure ferit, com que es coneixien de petits a Reus i li tenia molt d'afecte, se'l carregà al coll i l'allunyà del lloc del combat. Acabada la guerra, Masdeu tornà a Reus on va seguir fent de carreter, fins que en passar per Reus el general Prim camí de Constantinoble com a observador militar de la Guerra de Crimea, el va prendre amb ell com a assistent. Tornat d'allà, Prim li va proporcionar una ocupació. Al final de la seva vida, sabedor l'ajuntament de Barcelona de l'estima que Masdeu sentia pel general, el va nomenar guardador de la seva estàtua del Parc de la Ciutadella. La gent el coneixia com a Miquelet Masdeu, tot i que era d'elevada estatura i de constitució hercúlia.

Va morir a Barcelona, on exercia de vigilant de parcs, als 75 anys.

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Morts a Barcelona
Militars catalans del sud contemporanis

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Under his inspiring guidance, Hetero Windpower is moving forward to accomplish effective business performance and growth. He is also working towards spreading the company operations across different states in India.
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HomeFootball LeagueCaretaker spell leads to permanent Notts County appointment…
Caretaker spell leads to permanent Notts County appointment for Kiwomya
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Chris Kiwomya has been appointed as the permanent manager of Notts County.
The former Ipswich Town striker was named as caretaker manager following the departure of Keith Curle last month, having originally joined the League One outfit as development squad manager in February 2012. Of the 11 games he has had in charge, the Magpies have won three, drawn six and lost just two, leaving them seven points off the playoffs with six games remaining.
Kiwomya, who also played for Arsenal, Queens Park Rangers and the England Under-21 international side during a 15-year playing career, has now been handed a three-year contract at Meadow Lane. And chairman Ray Trew has revealed that there are no immediate expectations of the 43-year-old, with his appointment part of a long-term project.
"When making this appointment we were looking for someone who could realise our long-term vision for the club, someone that we could work with to bring progressive success alongside the development of young, homegrown talent from our successful youth setup," said Trew.
"Chris is well respected throughout the football community for his ability to develop players, as well as spotting raw talent in youngsters, something that we are confident will help foster stronger working relationships with clubs, particularly at a higher level.
"We are not putting any immediate demands or expectations on Chris. Everything will be done with a view towards building for the future, we are not demanding instant results, we see this as the start of a project, one that we are asking our supporters to get behind as we look to grow together."
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Waitomo Caves & Hobbiton Day Trip from Auckland (private vehicle and driver)
Experience 2 of New Zealand's most enchanting attractions on 1 easy tour.
In just a day, visit the otherworldly glowworm caves of Waitomo, before falling in love with the magical, film -like world of Hobbiton the filming location of the lord of the Rings and the Hobbit.
Your tour begins with a convenient pick-up from your Auckland hotel. From here, head south along the Waikato River, the longest river in New Zealand.
At Waitomo, you join a group and set off down an underground tunnel into the belly of the caves. Pass beneath a soaring subterranean ceiling with cathedral-like limestone spires. Board a small boat, which takes you down the river and through the caves. As you sail serenely through the darkness, marvel at the glowworms twinkling above you like stars.
You then continue to Hobbiton, the whimsical film set used for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. You join a guided group at Middle-earth journeying through hobbit holes and fairy-tale gardens.
Stop At: Hobbiton Movie Set, 501 Buckland Road Matamata, Hinuera 3472 New Zealand
We travel onto the real Middle-earth™ at the Hobbiton™ Movie Set, where, in the heart of the Waikato region, you step into the lush pastures of the Shire™, as seen in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. On arrival we will have our lunch at the Shire Rest Cafe and then we embark on a magical two hour guided Hobbiton movie set tour.
You will see 44 hobbit holes including Bilbo's house. "Bag End", the Mill and double arch bridge and the Party Tree. At this stunning location you can take a photo at the door of Bag End, looking out over the whole of Hobbiton to the hills in the distance. Fall in love with the Alexander family sheep farm, just as acclaimed director Sir Peter Jackson did, as you journey through the natural beauty of the land, with the Kaimai Ranges towering in the distance. Your guide will then escort you around the set, showing the intricate detailing, pointing out the most famous locations and explaining how the movie magic was made.
When you enter the world-famous Green Dragon™ Inn, where you will be presented with a complimentary, exclusive Hobbit™ Southfarthing™ beverage to conclude your own Middle-earth™ adventure.
After your tour you will have time to browse the onsite gift shop before heading back to Auckland.
Stop At: Waitomo Glowworm Caves, 39 Waitomo Village Road, Waitomo Caves 3943 New Zealand
Experience 2 of New Zealand's most enchanting attractions on 1 easy tour. In just a day, visit the otherworldly glowworm caves of Waitomo, before falling in love with the magical, film -like world of Hobbiton.
Your tour begins with a convenient pick-up from your Auckland hotel. From here, head south along the Waikato River, the longest river in New Zealand. Take in the spellbinding beauty of the countryside as you drive by mystical forests and rolling hills dotted with horses, alpacas, and sheep. Stopping for a quick morning coffee before arriving at Waitomo Caves.
After arriving in Waitomo, you set off down an underground tunnel into the belly of the caves. Pass beneath a soaring subterranean ceiling with cathedral-like limestone spires. Board a small boat, which takes you down the river and through the caves. As you sail serenely through the darkness, marvel at the glowworms twinkling above you like stars.
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JUDGES RELEASE FINALIST PER CATEGORY FOR JCI TOYP OF NIGERIA AWARD
After what has been a long nomination and review process followed by a thorough process of assessment by independent judges, a list of Finalist in the Ten categories of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award, has finally been released for the public voting segment of the award process.
The panel of judges which includes JCI Senator Jokotade Odebunmi, CEO Aqualib Limited and 2003 JCI Nigeria President;
Dr. Mukhtar Abdulkadir, past TOYP honoree and Associate Professor, Federal University of Technology, Minna;
Professor Gloria Chukwudebe, Dean, School of Engineering, Federal University of Technology, Owerri;
Dr. Gloria Udoh, Social Performance/Investment Manager, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd;
Aisha Augie-Kuta, Special Adviser on Digital Communications and Strategy to the Federal Minister of Finance, Budget and Planning; and Mr. Akin Oyebode, Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development, Ekiti State; upon assessment of the candidates, presented the top nominees in each category, to the independent auditors, UHY Maaji who have further vetted the list in preparation for voting by the general public.
According to Mrs. Kemi Irinoye, Chairperson, Central Planning Committee TOYP of Nigeria, the process of determining the final honorees is rigorous because of the commitment of JCI Nigeria to sustain the integrity of the TOYP Award. She added that some of the successful nominees also stood a chance of emerging as honorees at the global JCI TOYP event in Johannesburg, South Africa in November 2021.
The Ten Outstanding Young Persons in Nigeria Award will be presented at an Award ceremony in August 2021, to one honoree in each of the categories including Business, Economic and/or Entrepreneurial Accomplishment; Political, Legal and/or Government Affairs; Academic Leadership and/or Accomplishment; Cultural Achievement; Moral and/or Environmental Leadership; Contribution to Children, World Peace and/or Human Rights; Humanitarian and/or Voluntary Leadership; Scientific and/or Technological Development; Personal Improvement and/or Accomplishment; and Medical Innovation.
The voting portal which is http://vote.jci.ng is set to open on today 3rd of May, 2021 at 9:00 hours and it is to be managed privately by the team of independent auditors at UHY Maaji
Youth across Nigeria as well as the general public are enjoined to critically review the individual profiles showcasing the contributions of each of the nominees to society, as they cast their votes in favour of prospective winners.
Thank you for journeying with us thus far.
JCIN Amb. Kemi Irinoye
For 2021 Central Planning Committee
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How much do they invest and in how many businesses?
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Is angel investing risky?
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What is an angel group?
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In 2012, the median size for an Angel Group deal was $600,000 (often with several groups involved) per the HALO Report. Group investment was distributed across the country, with two-thirds outside the traditional venture states of California and Massachusetts.
Is there a group near me?
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