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City firm did not unfairly dismiss employee, tribunal rules
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DAC Beachcroft: Good faith
City firm DAC Beachcroft acted with "conspicuous good faith" when dealing with a pregnant employee facing redundancy, a tribunal has ruled.
Employment Judge Gaskell said "no decision had been taken" on the future of Lisa Creaney's role at the time she began her maternity leave.
Judge Gaskell said the law firm "expressly (and principally for the claimant's benefit so as to enable her to receive her enhanced maternity payments)" left the consultation process in suspension.
The judge said the final decision "was not to be made until the end of the consultation process", which would resume when the claimant returned to work after maternity leave.
"An employee in the claimant's position would justifiably complain if the decision had in fact been taken in advance of the conclusion of the consultation process."
Judge Gaskell said that was "not the position here" as DAC Beachcroft "acted with conspicuous good faith" and "it remained an option that the claimant's role would be preserved indefinitely".
Ms Creaney claimed that DAC Beachcroft's conduct towards her amounted to a fundamental breach of her employment contract, entitling her to resign and claim 'ordinary' unfair dismissal.
She claimed that the treatment she complained of, which prompted her resignation, was "by reason of her pregnancy and/or maternity leave" and her constructive dismissal was therefore automatically unfair.
Ms Creaney further claimed that at the time of her resignation, DAC Beachcroft was in breach of the Maternity & Parental Leave Regulations. The law firm denied the claims in their entirety.
Judge Gaskell said Ms Creaney was recruited as a service delivery manager in 2012 after it was decided that the claims validation team needed its own audit function. Ms Creaney and her more junior colleague's roles were unique "as no other service line had its own audit function".
In 2014 discussions were held at DAC Beachcroft about streamlining the business, by centralising audit in Quality Support Services.
The judge said Ms Creaney informed the law firm she was pregnant in January 2016, and that April she was told that her role was at risk of redundancy. She had her first redundancy consultation meeting the following month.
Later in the month, at a second meeting, Ms Creaney raised a grievance, alleging, among other things, that she had been selected for redundancy because she was pregnant.
The tribunal heard that in June 2016, Ms Creaney attended a formal grievance meeting, following which her grievance was rejected, and in July she went on maternity leave.
Ms Creaney appealed against the grievance finding in September 2016, but her appeal was rejected in March 2017.
Judge Gaskell said that in August 2017, while she was still employed, Ms Creaney's solicitors sent a letter to DAC Beachcroft referring to claims for pregnancy and maternity discrimination, and constructive and unfair dismissal. Ms Creaney resigned the following month.
Judge Gaskell described the claimant as an "unsatisfactory witness who appeared willing to present a false picture to the tribunal to enhance her case".
The judge said that "of principal concern" were the contents of her resignation letter and witness statement, suggesting there had been "no communication" between her and the law firm after the end of July 2017.
Judge Gaskell said the tribunal was "further concerned" that in March and May 2017 the claimant said she was unwilling or unable to attend interviews "because of health concerns" applying to her and her husband, but had attended an interview "with a potential alternative employer" in June.
The judge concluded that the requirements of regulations 10 and 18 of the Maternity & Parental Leave Regulations were not met, and the tribunal made an "express finding" that the suspensions of the consultation process and the decision on her future were genuine.
On the allegations of constructive dismissal, Judge Gaskell rejected all the claimant's alleged breaches of contract, finding that DAC Beachcroft had acted in good faith and had attempted to arrange for Mr Creaney's return to work and a consultation meeting – attempts rejected by her solicitors.
The judge said it was unnecessary to consider the further question of automatic unfair dismissal under the Employment Rights Act, but it had "certainly not been established" that the conduct complained of occurred because of the Ms Creaney's pregnancy or maternity.
DAC Beachcroft declined to comment.
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7 questions every CEO should be able to answer
By Brian Tomlinson Brian Tomlinson, Research Director, Strategic Investor Initiative at CECP
This article first appeared on The World Economic Forum.
Companies are being asked by both investors and customers to better articulate their plans for making a profit and doing so in a way that doesn't damage the planet. These demands are taking on new urgency as the implications of climate change become more severe and disruptive technologies transform industries.
Successful corporations endure for decades, yet tend to communicate in quarters – through the earnings call they make with some of their investors. Many long-term investors don't listen to these earnings calls, as the time-frame they address isn't that relevant to their investment outlook.
This leaves a gap in the market: long-term focused information for long-term investors. This type of information about a corporation could not be more important, both for corporations and for the societies they operate in. Investors need to understand how a corporation's management and board frame its strategy and think about applying its capital in order to respond to the mega-trends impacting its business. Can the company describe a business that is truly sustainable? Over decades, that is, not just quarters. What is needed is a "fifth earnings call" – focused on the long-term – to tell this story and help investors support it.
Talking about the long-term
A group of investors, convened by the Strategic Investor Initiative, have called for corporations to deliver long-term plans. So far, 14 leading companies representing around $1 trillion have delivered long-term plans – with many more to follow, including Unilever and UPS.
Long-term plans are a relatively "new" tool for corporations to communicate with their investors. To help them navigate providing a strategic framework for long-term value creation, this group has set out seven key questions for corporations to reflect on when they're preparing their long-term plans, so that the CEOs can help meet the needs of these crucial holders of patient to permanent capital.
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These questions highlight that, in order for a corporation to meaningfully talk about the "long-term" – which for our investors means at least five years forward – it has to address mega-trends; environmental, social and governance criteria; purpose and human capital; shareholder engagement; and the board's role and composition.
Several companies that have presented at CEO-investor forums have sought to address these issues. Mark Bertolini of Aetna dealt with the culture of health and pay-equity for employees as keys to long-term business performance. Kevin Clark of Delphi highlighted how the major disruptions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution were causing major shifts in technology and human capital investments, as AI and electrification changed the nature of the automobile as we know it. Vince Forlenza of Becton Dickinson described how capital allocation and business-relevant stakeholder investments were the keys to the long-term success of his business.
To succeed in an economy of extreme disruption and environmental uncertainty, corporations need to think long-term and to communicate this thinking to their investors. Constructive and regular dialogue about the long-term will achieve the best results – both for investors and corporations and the societies in which they operate.
The seven questions for CEOs
1) What are the key risk factors and mega-trends (such as climate change) your business faces over the next three to seven years, and how have these influenced corporate strategy?
2) How do you identify your financially material business issues and which frameworks do you use for reporting on these issues?
3) How do you describe your corporate purpose and how do you help your employees share your vision for the company's role in society?
4) How do you manage your future human capital requirements over the long-term and how do you communicate your future human capital management to your investors?
5) What is the corporation's framework or strategy for interacting with its shareholders and key stakeholders?
6) How will the composition of your board (today and in the future) help guide the company to its long-term strategic goals?
7) What is the role of the board in setting corporate strategy, setting incentives for and overseeing management?
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Nets Blow 7-Point Lead With 1:45 Left, Fall To Heat
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Any win on the road is a good one, though Jimmy Butler really liked the way the Miami Heat got their latest.
Down seven with 1:45 to play, they had to play almost perfect — and on defense, they sure did.
"I think we finally showed ourselves what we're capable of when we guard," Butler said. "If we don't make shots the way we normally make shots, there's still a way to win and we have to find that way to win. Tonight was a prime example of that."
Goran Dragic scored 24 points, including a three-point play that kicked off a closing 10-0 burst, and Butler added 20 as the Heat rallied to beat the Brooklyn Nets 109-106 on Sunday.
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Bam Adebayo had 17 points and 16 rebounds for the Heat, who trailed 106-99 but pitched a shutout from there and got the victory thanks largely to the aggressiveness of Butler. He kept attacking the rim and had five free throws in the closing run, overcoming his 5-for-17 shooting from the field.
"What it shows is the mental toughness of great players," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "The ball was not going in all night long but when it really gets to crunch time, when you need a bucket or it is going to be game over, he can put it aside, compartmentalize, and make the big plays. He did that."
Spencer Dinwiddie scored 29 points and Joe Harris had a season-high 25 for the Nets, who had won six of their previous eight games. But this was one in which they missed the playmaking of Kyrie Irving, who missed his ninth straight game because of a right shoulder injury.
Without their All-Star guard, they couldn't get into anything against the tough Miami defense down the stretch and had just one basket in the final 4-plus minutes.
"A few key possessions kind of got away from us," Harris said. "We didn't do just as good of a job as they did down the stretch to execute."
There were 24 lead changes and 12 ties in the game, with the Nets leading 65-58 at halftime after David Nwaba's 3-pointer with 1.1 seconds left.
Brooklyn's lead was one midway through the fourth quarter before Harris made two 3-pointers in less than 30 seconds. Butler answered with a 3 for Miami, but Dinwiddie scored five straight to make it 103-95, the largest lead for either team all game.
It was 106-99 after another 3 by Harris with 1:45 to play, but that's where the Nets' scoring finished.
"We had opportunities, tons of opportunities. They made the plays, we didn't. Just one of those see-saw games," Nets coach Kenny Atkinson said.
Heat: Dion Waiters was with the Heat but inactive, a day after returning to practice following his 10-game suspension for an incident on the team plane. He has not played this season but will travel on Miami's three-game road trip. … Spoelstra said rookie KZ Okpala (strained Achilles tendon) was nearing a return and would hopefully begin working soon with their G League affiliate in Sioux Falls.
Nets: Atkinson said he hadn't decided whether Dinwiddie would return to the bench when Irving returns, or continue to start alongside him until Caris LeVert (right thumb surgery) is healthy. "Lot of things to juggle there, but I think we've got to focus on this group right now and cross that bridge when we get to it," he said.
GOOD GRADES
The Nets went 9-6 in November, their first winning record in the month since 2012. Atkinson praised the way the responded to losing its starting backcourt during a five-game road trip early in the month.
"You start going into your 13th guy, 14th guy, 15th guy, can those guys come and help you win games?" Atkinson said. "And I'd just give our guys, our program, a B+, A in that sense, that we've come out of this thing with the injuries we've had looking in a positive direction. So I feel good about it in that sense."
THOSE GUYS IN GREEN
Among the travelers in New York on the holiday weekend were two NBA teams who had games Sunday. Boston was visiting the Knicks and was too close for comfort for Spoelstra.
"It's awkward. We were staying in the same hotel as the Celtics. I wanted to walk right by them," he said with a smile. "But that's this league. Going to talk about our travel coordination and changes."
Heat: At Toronto on Tuesday night.
Nets: At Atlanta on Wednesday night.
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Los Angeles Lakers forward Lebron James (6) shoots the ball against San Antonio Spurs forward Keita Bates-Diop (31) during the second quarter at Staples Center in Los Angeles, on Dec. 23, 2021. (Richard Mackson/USA TODAY Sports via Field Level Media)
Keita Bates-Diop Scores 30 as Spurs Beat Lakers
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Keita Bates-Diop scored a career-high 30 points on a perfect 11-of-11 shooting as the visiting San Antonio Spurs used a balanced attack to roll to a 138–110 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday.
Derrick White added 23 points and Lonnie Walker IV had 21 for the Spurs, who finished a 3–1 road trip. Keldon Johnson scored 16 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, while Doug McDermott and Jock Landale added 13 points each.
San Antonio's leading scorer on the season, Dejounte Murray, had nine points with 13 assists on a night when the Spurs had 33 assists on 46 made field goals. The Spurs led in bench points 69–20.
LeBron James totaled 36 points and nine rebounds for the Lakers. Russell Westbrook added 30 points and seven boards as Los Angeles' losing streak reached a season-high four games.
The Lakers continued to be short-handed with Trevor Ariza, Kent Bazemore, Malik Monk, Avery Bradley, and Austin Reaves in COVID-19 health and safety protocols. Head coach Frank Vogel missed his third consecutive game in protocols.
The Lakers also were without Anthony Davis for the third consecutive game, and he is expected to miss four weeks with a knee injury.
The Spurs took advantage of a makeshift Lakers lineup early as Los Angeles had Dwight Howard as a starter for just the fourth time this season. The game was tied with 3:38 remaining in the first quarter before the Spurs went on a 12–3 run to take a 33–24 lead at the end of the period.
The Spurs had their first double-digit lead at 38–28 on a Landale dunk with 10:52 remaining in the first half. The Spurs led 66–55 at halftime and pushed the advantage to 105–92 through three quarters.
Talen Horton-Tucker scored 13 points for the Lakers, who hit just 5 of 27 attempts (18.5 percent) from 3-point range.
The game was the final one played with the venue known as Staples Center. The downtown Los Angeles arena that is shared by the Lakers and Clippers will be called Crypto.com Arena starting Saturday.


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The Rural Life
Lili LeGardeur,
Ed. note: With this issue we introduce a new column, "The Rural Life" by Melissa H. Bienvenu. Ms. Bienvenu (no relation to food writer Marcelle Bienvenu), lives with her husband and family on a farm near Franklington in Washington Parish. She is an accomplished magazine writer who won a Silver Award in the International and Regional Magazine Association's General Feature category in 2006. The winning entry, entitled "Diary of A Mad Watermelon Farmer's Wife" appeared in this magazine's Autumn 2005 issue.
I'm not sure how I pictured the future back during my formative, suburban years. But whatever I had in mind, I'm positive it didn't involve the word "teats," the ambition to operate heavy equipment or a desire to have anything in my wardrobe bearing the slogan: Nothing Runs Like A Deere.
So whenever I have to explain how I went from being an Atlanta journalist to being a Louisiana farmer's wife, sometimes even I have to wonder, "What was I thinking?" And sometimes – just being totally honest – what in the [bleep! bleep!] was I thinking?
Needless to say, my life has followed one of the least predictable trajectories of just about anyone I know, or at least of any farmer's wife-slash-magazine-writer that I know (a very exclusive group to be sure).
Since my arrival 15 years ago on what was then a dairy farm near Franklington, a town of about 4,000 in Washington Parish just north of Lake Pontchartrain's Northshore, I've embraced the duality of my town-come-to-country existence. I'm at peace with the fact that I'll always be a fish out of water, no matter which pond I'm inhabiting. After all, it's not every day you run into city magazine journalists in a place like Franklington. Nor do you meet many magazine journalists who can climb into the cab of a John Deere 4040 pulling an 18-foot wagon stacked 12 feet high with four tons of hay, crank the engine and not only drive it, but back that sucker up.
It makes for one bipolar resume, that's for sure. In my journalist's hat, I've interviewed musicians, TV stars and famous athletes, flown in hot air balloons and descended deep into coal mines, dined with politicians and socialized with novelists. In my agricultural persona, I've rounded up and milked 120 cows in a freezing rain at 3 a.m., ridden tractors until my butt went numb, harvested okra until I was clawing myself like Lucy in the itching powder episode, delivered calves, laid shingles, shoveled manure, hauled hay and peddled watermelons by the side of the road. I have yet to cut off any tails with a carving knife, but never say never.
Like nearly everyone who meets us, Harvey and I are mystified by how we managed to choose such vocationally incompatible and geographically inconvenient mates for ourselves. As you might imagine, magazines and magazine writers traditionally tend to be found in large, sophisticated, densely populated urban centers. Farms and farmers? Not so much.
Our career-crossed union dates back to Fort Walton Beach, Fla., on Labor Day Weekend, 1990. He was a vacationing 30-year-old dairy farmer born and raised in Louisiana. I was a vacationing 27-year-old senior writer for Atlanta magazine who'd grown up in a suburb of Birmingham. Other than infrequent, early childhood visits to my late grandparents' farm, farming played no part in my day-to-day reality. Like most city dwellers, I guess I was vaguely aware that all that stuff at the grocery store had to come from somewhere but that was about the extent of my agrarian awareness.
Then I met Harvey through a chance encounter on the beach. We sat in the sand talking until the sun dawned over the Gulf of Mexico. When we're old and gray, I'll tell our children and our children's children about a watershed event in their history, when a pair of far-flung soulmates found each other, connected by an attraction as ancient as the stars and bound by a destiny as inexorable as the tide. Well, by that and the gigantic bottle of Scotch Harvey was packing.
In truth, my latent attraction to men who associate with livestock probably had something to do with my daddy, the former farm boy. During my single years, as I speed-dated through one boyfriend after another (or so it now seems after 17 years with the same man), Dad only ever had one thing to say about my love life: "What you need is a good old farm boy." At the time, needless to say, this piece of advice struck me as utterly useless. After all, I wasn't exactly tripping over good old farm boys in the middle of Birmingham or Atlanta.
But after meeting Harvey I began to understand what Daddy meant. From an early age, farm boys (or at least the ones of my husband's generation) learn to be hard-working, resourceful and self-reliant. After all, if you had to hire a veterinarian, mechanic, electrician, botanist, carpenter, roofer, plumber, fence builder, welder, heavy equipment operator or biologist every time something goes wrong on a farm, you'd go bankrupt the first month. This tends to create men with a kind of quiet self-confidence, a rugged pragmatism, a reassuring Me-The-Provider vibe that even independent career women find irresistible. Or maybe it's nothing that fancy. As a Trace Adkins song puts it – and much more succinctly – "Ladies Love Country Boys."
For two years after we met, my country boy and I played "Your state or mine?" including a brief period when Harvey made a noble but doomed attempt at finding happiness with me in Atlanta. Hilarity, but not much happiness, ensued. When they write our life story, the chapters from this era will include: "A Straight Country Boy Tries to Use the Men's Room at an Indigo Girls Concert," "Container Gardening and Turnip Greens: Don't Try It," and, my personal favorite, "When the Dairy Farmer Met the Militant Vegetarian."
Slowly, it became apparent that Harvey would never be truly happy caged in a tiny apartment in the middle of 4 million strangers in a culture so different from the one he'd always known. After six months, I issued his Get Out of Jail Free Card, sending him back to Franklington with my blessings and the agreement that we'd keep looking for a solution to our long-distance predicament. A month or so later, I drove over from Atlanta to visit him. Only then did I fully comprehend just how miserable the poor thing had been in the city. After a few weeks back on the farm, the man literally glowed. The color had returned to his face. An aura of joy and robust good health surrounded him. I was taken aback, even shocked, by his physical transformation. Suddenly, I realized Harvey had been slowly wilting in Atlanta, like a houseplant you keep forgetting to water. I understood right then and there that I couldn't ask him to come back.
Short of splitting up, that left us with one other option. Still, it took me a while to wrap my mind around the prospect of ditching my dream job, saying adios to a vibrant, exciting city that offered everything a young, single professional could possibly want and disappearing to the sticks of Louisiana where glamorous, well-paying, full-time staff jobs for city magazine writers were non-existent, meanwhile causing the people in my life to wonder if I had contracted Mad Writer's Disease and might even pose a danger to society.
Other than that, my decision to quit, leave Atlanta, marry a farmer and attempt to launch a freelance magazine journalism career from the middle of a cow pasture three states away was a no-brainer. It is good to be 30 and insanely optimistic.
As for the culture shock everyone predicted, let's just say that there was definitely an adjustment period after I came to the farm. Instead of pantyhose and heels, I started dressing for work in coveralls and knee-high, black rubber boots. Partly because it looked like fun but mainly because Harvey needed the help, I learned to drive tractors, milk cows, deliver calves and a whole bunch of other things they didn't cover at journalism school. (Eventually, I got smart and learned to avoid learning "fun" new skills.)
The author, Melissa Bienvenu, right, with her farming family: husband Harvey and sons Matthew and Andy (back).
Then there was the transition from city life to small-town culture, only part of which was learning to cope with the lack of goods and services. When I arrived in 1992, believe it or not, the town had recently gotten its first McDonald's. In the last 15 years, we've added a few more national retailers but lost many more family-owned businesses. Yet, I'm still looking at a minimum 20-mile roadtrip in any direction to find many of the items on my shopping list. We in Franklington are living proof that it's possible to survive without easy access to Wal-Mart, Starbucks or bikini waxes.
Two years after our 1992 wedding, we purchased the 225-acre dairy farm from Harvey's retiring parents. As business moves go, this was akin to pouring your life savings into a Mom and Pop grocery the week before Wal-Mart announces it's building a supercenter next door. Little did we know that, over the next 10 years, sweeping changes in the dairy industry would all but wipe out the small and medium-sized dairy farm in Louisiana.
Still, in 2003, we were one of the lucky few who were able to escape with the shirts still on our backs. After that, we tried truck farming. For three years, our main business was growing and selling famous Washington Parish watermelons, both to the wholesale and retail market. On the side, we sold garden vegetables and hay, as well as U-Pick turnip and mustard greens, with peas and butterbeans in the fall.
But the first summer was too wet for watermelons and the next two were too dry. In other words, our watermelon venture wasn't very sweet. Then Katrina came along and made what was already a severe shortage of reliable farm labor about 250 times worse. We gave the produce business a whirl for three years before it dawned on us that there has to be a better way for two college graduates to run themselves ragged, worry themselves sick and go broke than trying to operate a vegetable farm with too little rain and hardly any help.
But as a friend recently pointed out, I'm married to the stubbornest farmer in Franklington, which actually means that I'm married to a hopeless gambler. So now we're gambling on hay – growing and selling our own, as well as baling hay for other local landowners. Proper rainfall is still going to be an issue but manual labor much less so. Either way, it's farming, so the odds are only slightly better than what you'd find at Harrah's. Whether the challenge proves to be weather, fuel prices, weeds, insects or some other lurking calamity, the hay business isn't exactly a sure thing, either.
Then again, what is? People who live in the suburbs and work 9 to 5 lose jobs every day. Loved ones get sick. Economies falter. Hurricanes happen. The challenges facing farmers and city folks aren't all that different. We just have a lot more grass to cut.
When I look back at our long, strange trip from the farm to the city to the farm, I can't decide which is more remarkable – what it took to get us here or what it will take to keep us here. And even though I never saw it coming, it's hard to imagine a life anywhere else.
Besides, there's no going back now – we have way too much money invested in John Deere T-shirts.


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Bill Gates Says Khan Can Lead the Way
Salman Khan teaching photo courtesy psfk.com
We've written about Khan Academy before, and this time we are writing about it because Bill Gates has held up Salman Khan as an example of the future of teaching.
Khan Academy, with Khan as the only teacher, appears on YouTubeand elsewhere and is by any measure the most popular educational site on the web. Khan's playlist of 1,630 tutorials (at last count) are now seen an average of 70,000 times a day — nearly double the student body at Harvard and Stanford combined. Since he began his tutorials in late 2006, Khan Academy has received 18 million page views worldwide, including from the Gates progeny. Most page views come from the U.S., followed by Canada, England, Australia, and India. In any given month, Khan says, he's reached about 200,000 students. "There's no reason it shouldn't be 20 million."
One of the things that needs to be said about the work that Khan and others are doing is that it's really not like work. I think that our education system prepares people to work. They put you through an industrial process that expects you to be able to make widgets in a factory world. But we live in a knowledge economy now. The best future we can be preparing kids for is a future in which they are helping other people, by working with them, and doing what they believe is fun and worthwhile.
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How to cite: Noble, M. Genealogy as a Solution in Education. Preprints 2018, 2018020181 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201802.0181.v1). Noble, M. Genealogy as a Solution in Education. Preprints 2018, 2018020181 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201802.0181.v1).
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Genealogy contributes to learning by developing critical thinking skills. A review of three classics of genealogical literature, matched against modern tutors, confirmed that the validation and evaluation of information and the management of hypotheses have long been the core skills for family historians. A consultation with 100 genealogists revealed a preference for task orientated learning, often alone, in a self-contained environment. Reference to learning theory suggested that Genealogical Studies could be usefully offered to under achieving students in general education who respond to these conditions.


Village Cardiff is a stylish hotel offering you fabulous accommodation and fantastic facilities. Imagine everything you could wish for all under one roof including: cutting edge comfort and small lovely details in all rooms, dedicated meeting and conference facilities, a cracking gym with the latest state-of-the-art gym equipment, a large heated swimming pool, uber stylish dining at the all day pub and grill, an on-site Starbucks Coffee Shop and free parking.
Each room at this modern, sleek and stylish hotel is contemporary in design and extremely comfortable and comes equipped with a super-comfy Sealy bed, ultra modern en-suite, free Wi-Fi, SAT TV, Hairdryer, Ironing Board and Tea and Coffee Making Facilities. Why not treat yourself to a Club upgrade – the must-have room with genuinely good extras. Every Club Room includes free access to Health and Fitness, free access to Business Club, great bed and premium bedding, large flat screen TV with full Sky HD Package, Tassimo Coffee Machine, upgraded toiletries and bottled water.
Village Cardiff is just off the M4 - Junction 32. Nearby attractions include the Millennium Centre, Millennium Stadium, Caerphilly Castle, Cardiff Castle and Brecon Beacons.
Come and enjoy the wonderful amenities and great service at Village Hotel Cardiff.


The road to Anime Festival Orlando 12 BEGINS HERE!
Propeller Anime Club and A Comic Shop are teaming up to bring Central Florida an exciting night of anime! On Friday, July 1st we'll be hosting Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy: Cyberpunk Revolution!
With Anime Festival Orlando 12 coming soon, we thought it would be awesome to have a theme night that compliments their Conquerors of Neo-Orlandia interactive convention experience. A big part of the story and theme for their main event is inspired by the cyberpunk genre of anime.
The fun starts at 7:30PM at A Comic Shop at 114 S. Semoran Blvd in Winter Park, FL. Restaurants such as China Garden and Gizmo Sushi are in the same plaza so you can bring in outside food. A Comic Shop sells a variety of unique soft drinks and energy drinks.
This event is free to all. We hope to see you there!
Next Propeller Anime Club meeting on Sunday, June 19th!
The next Propeller Anime Club meeting will be on Sunday, June 19th at Full Sail University in Building 3F in FS3F-112 at 1:00PM. Here is a map.
We have a change of plans for the feature based on the less than stellar response to it at the last meeting. This time, I will bring in five anime movies that EVERY ANIME FAN SHOULD SEE and we will watch the one most of the people at the meeting have not seen. That sounds pretty simple, right?
In Diebuster, we found out during a battle with aliens that Nono is a GODDAMN BUSTER MACHINE. Not just a buster machine but the LEGENDARY one. So we'll finish this fun series as well.
We'll be completing the first arc of Durarara!! In these episodes, the owner of Celty's head will be revealed along with who founded Dollars.
Waldo's Birthday and Going Away Birthday Party this Saturday!
Hell yeah! We need to party and bowl! Because that's fun! Propeller Anime Club is getting together for another fun time! But most important, we say goodbye to a friend and long-time club member.
Corey "Waldo" Waldusky has been in Propeller Anime Club for over three and a half years. After me, he is the longest active member of our club. For that reason, I would like all of you to come out and wish him a final farewell.
We'll be at the Aloma Bowling Centers once again. We plan to do two games so with shoe rentals, it's about $14 a person.
Aloma Bowling also has an arcade, pool tables, a bar, and they serve food. Outside desserts can be brought in.
Feel free to bring friends and other cool people to say hello and goodbye for what may be the last time.


From the graves of Egypt to the carnivals of Venice, masks hold a rich place in our history. Both decorative and useful, masks range from simple to extremely intricate. Historical use of masks include amusement, attempts to frighten, to hide or to celebrate and other personal uses. Whether you want to decorate your home, attend a costume party or just participate in a fun craft, create your own, unique personalised face mask.
Place a thin layer of newspapers on your table and lay a plastic face mask in the middle of the papers. If you don't want holes in the areas of the eyes or mouth, cover the plastic face mask with tape in those areas. Coat the top of a the mask with a layer of petroleum jelly. Cover the entire shell liberally.
Cut 1/2-inch wide and 2-inch long strips from a roll of craft plaster cast. Dip the plaster cast, one piece at a time, into a bowl of water. Start at the top of the face mask and lay the strips on top of the petroleum jelly. Overlap each piece and press down any edges that stick up. Let the layer dry and repeat the process at least two more times. Once the top layer is in place, wet your fingers and smooth the plaster cast, working out the rough places. Leave the face mask in a warm location for at least 48 hours. Remove the plaster face mask from the plastic mask.
Poke a pencil point-sized hole on both sides of the mask in the area of the temple. Make the hole 1/2-inch from the edge of the mask. Add a piece of wire or string if you are making a wall decoration, elastic if you plan to wear the face mask. Make the wire or string long enough to tie it on both sides by tying a knot on the inner side of the mask. Make it long enough to reach the centre of the forehead when suspended by a fingertip in the centre of the string for hanging.
Paint your face mask. Add facial features or hair to make it look more realistic, or paint the mask a solid colour like the Volta or Larva masks at the Carnival of Venice. Paint on designs and glue on additional decorations like faux gem stones or feathers to complete your face mask.
Add features you want to see on the mask as you build it up. For example, add more plaster cast over the eyes for heavy eyebrows. Clean the plastic mask and reuse it.


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Join us on a 3 hour afternoon excursion to visit the Topnaar community in the Kuiseb river and its delta and experience the fascinating history of the Topnaars, who are often referred to as "Namibia's forgotten people".
The Topnaar people (ǂAonin) are a clan of the Nama people in Namibia. Topnaars began settling in the area of Walvis Bay and along the Kuiseb River during the start of the 19th century. They first occupied the area at the mouth of the Swakop River, today the city of Swakopmund, and moved south beyond Walvis Bay to the Kuiseb mouth between 1820 and 1830. The Topnaars near the sea lived from hunting game – including seals, fish and sea birds. They kept some cattle and small livestock and ate mussles, ostrich eggs and eggs from seabirds. They traded their fresh produce like fresh water, meat, goat's milk and Nara for goods from passing ships, among them tobacco and glass bead. The beads they turned into jewellery. A small faction moved upriver to Sandfontein but was attacked and driven away by British colonial troops. They receded to Rooibank (Scheppmannsdorf during Germany's colonial rule of South-West Africa). Today, a community of about 350 live along the lower Kuiseb River and its delta in fourteen small settlements southeast of Walvis Bay, the most important being Utuseb.
Check-in at our offices at the Walvis Bay Waterfront is at 12h15 for a 12h30 departure.
We proceed on a 40 minute drive south east to Rooibank, where our first stop is Scheppmannskirche – the church in the desert. In 1845 the Rhenish missionary Heinrich Scheppmann founded a mission station, which was named Scheppmansdorf in his honour, and built the first church nearby. Measuring only 8 by 4 meters, this tiny building constructed from reed and wood was built in only four days and inauguratedon 28 June 1846. A small Church bell from Cape Town was fitted into a huge Ana tree close by. On 13 December 1846, the first Holy Communion was celebrated in the new mini-church. Attended by only seven people, it was nevertheless the beginning of the parish of Walvis Bay. In 1895 the old church had decayed so much that a new church had to be built. Today, the church has been renovated with bricks and cement and is used occasionally for weddings.
We briefly stop over at a monument that was built in honour of missionary Scheppman nearby. The original monument was washed away, but in 1971 was replaced by a new monument, which can be seen under the huge palm trees. The name Scheppmannsdorf, however, didn't stick, and the settlement was renamed Rooibank.
The survival and self-sufficiency of the Topnaar community historically also centred around a fascinating desert plant, the !Nara, which produces prickly melons with juicy flesh and valuable pips. Significant data exist that intimate a long history of use. Fossilised plant roots occurring in Tsondab Sandstone suggest that !Nara may have existed for as long as the Namib dunes. The earliest evidence of human use was documented through the identification of seed coat fragments from an archaeological site at Mirabib Hill shelter near Gobabeb, dated at approximately 8,000 years old. Several millennia after the initial introduction of pottery to Namib inhabitants, the appearance of wide-mouthed, soot-covered clay pots at 800-year-old archaeological sites indicates local innovation of cooking !Nara fruit.
As evidenced by special praise songs that extol its virtue, !Nara has a long association with and is central to the culture of the Topnaar people. While the Topnaars' living habits changed in the last hundred years due to colonisation, the !Nara plant still remains important for them. We therefore do a short walk to experience a demonstration of how !Nara melons have traditionally been processed, during which we can also taste the flesh and pips.
We also hear more details about the traditional way of life of the Topnaar people.
From here we proceed to a look-out point on top of a small dune to take in the expansive vistas of the area. Here we serve a selection of oysters and snacks with sparkling wine, beers and cooldrinks.
Our excursion continues eastward along the Kuiseb river. Within the Kuiseb Delta and river a low number of plant species occur which are adapted to very dry conditions. Apart from the !Nara, the vegetation includes Salsola shrubs in the west, dune grass, the dune succulent shrub, riparian vegetation of camelthorn, anaboom, wild ebony and tamarisk trees in the Kuiseb, and reeds. A diversity of lichens is found on some of the trees and on the stones of the gravel plains. Mammals include jackals, a few springbok, and domestic dogs, goats and donkeys.
On the way back to Walvis Bay, we pass Armstraat with some of the current settlements where the Topnaar community now lives. We arrive back at the Walvis Bay Waterfront at about 15h30.
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Departure Times: 12h30
Dropoff Time: 15h30
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Visit Scheppmanns church inaugurated in 1846
Experience the fascinating desert plant, the !Nara
Enjoy oysters, sparkling wine and snacks on top of a majestic dune
Scenic drive through the Kuiseb river
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Las Vegas is an iconic city. It gets visitors from all over the world on business and pleasure. Some people might be surprised to learn that home prices in Las Vegas are actually affordable. The median price of the current listed properties is $244,900. While there is affordability, appreciation rates are also high. At one point, appreciation levels soared for three years and the appreciation rate was 65.4% in 2013. This has cooled down and the appreciation rate was reported 11.6% early 2016.
Investment properties in Las Vegas can be obtained at an affordable price but rents are high, which is why many people buy homes instead of renting. Interestingly though, the unemployment rate is above the national average. This could present challenges for investors.
However, with the tourism the city receives, an Airbnb investment property can be much more lucrative. While short-term rental regulations are strict in this city, North Las Vegas does not have any ruling on such rentals.


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Active filter: Series: Galatians: In Search of Freedom (x)
Date: 1994 (13), 1995 (6)
Dying to be Free - Galatians 6:11-18 - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 06/11/1995
Working out Freedom in Community - - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 05/28/1995
The Freedom to Say Yes - Galatians 5:16-26 - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 05/21/1995
The Freedom to Say No - Galatians 5:16-26 - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 05/14/1995
The Purpose of Freedom - Galatians 5:13-15 - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 05/07/1995
Choosing Freedom - Galatians 5:1-12 - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 04/30/1995
The Mystery of Freedom - Galatians 4:21-31 - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 12/18/1994
Passion for Freedom - Galatians 4:12-20 - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 12/11/1994
The Danger of Losing our Freedom - Galatians 4:1-11 - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 12/04/1994
The Results of Freedom - - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 11/27/1994
How Law Leads to Freedom - Galatians 3:15-24 - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 11/20/1994
The Beginnings of Freedom - Galatians 3:6-14 - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 11/13/1994
The Key to Freedom - - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 07/31/1994
Evaluating our Freedom - Galatians 3:1-5 - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 07/24/1994
Threats to Freedom, II - Galatians 2:11-21 - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 07/17/1994
Threats to Freedom - Galatians 2:1-10 - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 07/10/1994
The Apostle of Freedom - Galatians 1:10-24 - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 07/03/1994
Why is Freedom so Hard? - Galatians 1:6-10 - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 06/19/1994
What is Freedom? - Galatians 1:1-5 - John Hanneman - Galatians: In Search of Freedom series - 06/12/1994


Leaves are blazing, apples are crisping and temperatures are dipping. It can only mean one thing "" road trip!
Fall's the time to pull on a sweatshirt and fire up the car, meandering from pumpkin patch to apple orchard. Southwest Ohio, with broad swatches of fall color flamestitching up the hillsides, is veined with backroads for the taking.
Heading north to the Dayton Art Institute, let's skip I-75 and slow things down on state Route 741. The more leisurely pace into the art institute seems to match the tone of this imposing Italianate building on a knoll in Grafton Hill.
The institute is celebrating a century of African American art with 70 sculptures, prints and drawings from the Arthur Primas Collection.
"Of course, no one show could cover 100 years of African-American art," Chief Curator Will South says. "These are top works of art."
The exhibit often juxtaposes images to signal the sweep of creativity. The opening display pairs a portrait of Frederick Douglass on an 1883 Harper's Weekly cover with a 2004 woodcut of the hero by Elizabeth Catlett.
"Identification of heroes and role models," South says, "is very important in the African American community."
No one personifies the artistic role model in Dayton more than Willis "Bing" Davis, who taught in the Dayton Public Schools for 42 years. DAI will show his Ancestral Spirit Dance series, large pastels on black paper that Davis has been creating for decades.
456 Belmonte Park North, Dayton.(937) 223-5277 or www.daytonartinstitute.org.
East of the art institute, another grand collection unfolds at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. And since we're talking airplanes, we're talking acres.
The Air Force museum can keep you enthralled for days, but many people zero in on the Presidential Collection. They want to see the Sacred Cow that carried Franklin Roosevelt and Air Force One that carried a vibrant John Kennedy to Dallas in November 1963 and his body home that night.
Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to fly while in office, aboard a commercial Boeing 314 Clipper Ship to Casablanca in 1943. Douglas Aircraft built an aircraft specifically for him, VC-54C, nicknamed the Sacred Cow.
President Kennedy's Boeing VC-137C/Air Force One was the first jet made specifically for the Commander in Chief. The president flew this to Berlin in 1963, and to Dallas in November 1963, where he was assassinated. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in onboard. This Air Force One went on to carry eight presidents, through Bill Clinton.
The Presidential Gallery is on the active part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, so you'll take a shuttle bus from the main museum "" sign up early.
110o Spaatz St., Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. (937) 255-3286 or www.nationalmuseum.af.mil.
Leaving Dayton, it's back to the asphalt along Route 4 toward Springfield. Next stop, some of the state's richest architectural history.
David Snively and his wife built Pennsylvania House in 1839, after the National Road/Route 40 was cut through the wilderness. Travelers l looked for its sign tacked on an oak tree. Even Charles Dickens found his way to a bed here.
No one knows if Snively chose the name for his native state or to attract wayfarers from Pennsylvania, but it's stuck for 171 years.
Beautifully restored by the Lagonda Chapter of the DAR, Pennsylvania House is a weekend stop to marvel at the architecture, plus a collection of 100,000 buttons and a Federal doll house. Don't miss the artifacts unearthed during archaeological excavations: pottery, clay pipes, and children's marbles from the inn's earliest days.
Nearby in Springfield, another American treasure opens its doors at the Westcott House. Frank Lloyd Wright designed this Prairie Style home, his only one in Ohio, for Burton and Orpha Westcott in 1908. Today, its foundation leads daily tours.
Westcott owned Westcott Motor Co., which hand-assembled touring cars. Orpha, hearing about an avant-garde architect in Chicago, invited Wright to Springfield.
The Westcotts and Wright were determined to set the house in permanent green space, and you can't get more permanent than next-door Greenmount Cemetery. The leaves flash, and visitors are welcome to wander. Look up through the kaleidoscope of gold and orange in the fall tree canopy.
1340 E. High St., Springfield. (937) 327-9291 or www.westcotthouse.org.
This meandering is thirsty work "" time to answer the siren call of apple cider at Peifer Orchards south in Yellow Springs. This roadside market pours a mean cider, and who can resist their Winesap and Crispin apples to take home?
And speaking of resistance, it's absolutely futile when you realize you're next door to Young's Jersey Dairy (pictured). Generations of drivers have found that their cars automatically turn in to Young's.
The dairy rolls out fresh flavors of ice cream each week. The new taste on Oct. 4 is Chocolate Chunk Black Cherry, followed Oct. 11 by chocolate gelato, Oct. 18 butter pecan and Oct. 25 peanut butter cup.
Getaways should be guilt-free, but just to work off a few calories, take a turn solving the mystery of the corn maze, three acres of twists and turns. Then hop on a wagon to pick the perfect pumpkin.
Peifer, 4590 U.S. Route 68 N., Yellow Springs. (937) 767-2208 or www.peiferorchards.com. Young's, 6880 Springfield-Xenia Road, Yellow Springs. (937) 325-0629 or www.youngsdairy.com.
Autumn days dim more quickly, and it's time to settle in. Grinnell Mill B&B in Yellow Springs has turned down the quilt.
This massive red building reflects Ohio's earliest days of statehood. Andrew and Robert Moody built the mill in 1813 and rebuilt it on the original limestone foundation in 1821 after a fire. Mills once lined this stretch of the Little Miami River, but now Grinnell and its big cousin, Clifton Mill, are the main survivors.
Its water power diverted, Grinnell Mill welcomes guests in two upstairs rooms. Hardy cyclists roll in from Cincinnati and Columbus to bunk down inside Glen Helen Nature Preserve.
A trail from the inn's front door leads deeper into the woods. It's especially inviting after one of innkeeper Donna McGovern's big breakfasts: scrambled eggs, challah French toast and a wicked apple frapple from the pride of Peifer Orchards crop. "I always use Honeycrisp apples," McGovern says. "Why bother with anything else?"
3536 Bryan Park Road, Yellow Springs. (937) 767-9108 or www.grinnellmill.com.
After a good stretch along the trail, it's back in the car. How about a little detour north along state Route 41 into Troy, stitching a route through quilt country?
Miami County has 66 quilt patterns painted on its barns, a legacy from the 2007 bicentennial. Just ask for a brochure, or print out a map at www.visitmiamicounty.org, and head out to spot the vibrant blocks. There's the Ohio Schoolhouse block in Piqua and the Weathervane and Sunbonnet Sue in Covington. Look for Mariner's Compass in Troy, pointing the way back home. www.visitmiamicounty.org.
Betsa Marsh is a Cincinnati-based travel journalist who has reported from all the continents. She was recently voted president-elect of the Society of American Travel Writers.


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or somewhere else for the script, or you could just type it in in a search engine.
Not to go off topic but on this subject I find the mouse trailers to be very annoying.
visitors wanting to get some ideas while taking a break from the rat race. But, there may be instances where those mouse trails could come in handy.
I am in total agreement here. Again this is one of those tricks usually used by the absolute beginners to attempt show off capabilities. Unfortunatly, it defeats the most important of website rules and that is usability.
It can also scare off those with a little more savvy, but without enough to keep them from confusing it with "Comet Cursor" and the Spyware that they install.
Also remember everyone may not have as fast of a c as you so if you have alot of graphics then it will make it harder for them to view.
Some people won't stay to watch a site upload. So keep in mind the more graphics the less chance of people being able to view the site as easy.
Remember also that there are some people browsing just to waste time and see what's interesting on the net. And, younger kids love those fancy, schmancy extras that waste the time of more serious visitors. The internet is not all about business, research, promotion, selling or other 'serious' endeavours.
but, were i can't afford alot of web space it seems pointless for me to use alot of graphics on my site and i think i have a small trffic resource thinggy. lol. i can't really afford to do that but on my free sites i have tons of animated pics etc... and graphics just for fun.


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Huwebes, Disyembre 17, 2015
LP's solons will desert Roxas after kickbacks
A veteran politician and a successful contractor of government projects told me that those congressmen who did not only swear to high heaven their support to lethargic presidential wannabe Mar Roxas but even campaigned for him whenever he barnstorms in the provinces will desert him 45 days before the May 9, 2016 election.
Why? Because the bidding of the projects awarded to the chosen and favourite contractors of these congressmen would be finished before that time as mandated by election law," he told me.
As you know solons who are allied with the Aquino Administration move heaven and earth to look for hundreds of millions of pesos of projects at the Departments of Public Works & Highway, Social Welfare & Development, Education, Agrarian Reform, National Irrigation Administration, and others and then look for the intercession of Malacanang patrons like Roxas to funnel these to their districts.
With the projects budget already allocated at the Department of Budget & Management, their favourite contractors give them advance sum to be deducted to their kickbacks they call S.O.P from the 20 percent or more of say P100 million highway concreting projects so they can use the monies for their electioneering.
But with Roxas' pathetic poll performance, these congressmen would just use him for the meantime and run to their popular presidential bet after they get their S.O.P so they can maintain their racket in the next administration.
Who said pork barrel was already abolished?
Compared the Ramos and Arroyo Administrations to the present Aquino Administration, which among them was the best in expanding the growth of our economy?
According to the December 7 Merrill Lynch's report, President Benigno Aquino, Jr. was responsible for the 6.5 percent spike of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in his last five years against President Gloria Arroyo's 4.8 percent growth GDP in the nine years in office and President Fidel V. Ramos' 3.1 percent hike under his six years' term.
But it doesn't mean that Aquino was much better than Arroyo. The research penned by analysts Jojo Gonzales and Claudio Piron said.


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Newcastle United and Kevin Keegan – when the Sky fell in
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Disintegration. It's not a word usually prescribed for football managers, at least not in public anyway. With the Sky cameras rolling, however, something peculiar happened to Kevin Keegan. The year of our Lord 1996, the month April and with the Premiership title reaching scalding point between Alex Ferguson's relentless Manchester United and Keegan's Geordie swashbucklers, a throwaway comment from the Scot is about to send Kev over the edge. It may have more to do with the fact that the Manchester club have whittled away what seemed an unassailable 12 point lead, but Fergie's tongue in cheek comment that the likes of Nottingham Forest and Leeds United are going to try harder against his team of superstars is about to turn Keegan into a cross between Colonel Kurtz and a drunk hairdresser lambasting a bouncer because he won't let her mate in. By the time he's finished, a stunned silence will break out in living rooms all over the country. Only a faint Glaswegian belly laugh will be heard over the barricades. That and the sound of a psychological fishing rod being reeled in having hooked its target.
Rewind to January of that season and all had been seemingly rosy at St. James' Park. With a brand of hugely entertaining football, Newcastle United had finally risen up as a football force their fan base deserved. At their helm was Kevin Keegan – seen as an almost metaphysical force by the Toon Army faithful. Most on the terraces still remembered his time spent playing in the black and white shirt and for those that didn't, they'd been brought up on the stories. His arrival in 1982 had spurred a return to top flight football after six seasons in the wilderness. They'd felt a kinship with Keegan on the Gallowgate that hadn't quite dissipated by the time he'd returned as a manager. He in turn knew what they craved – flair, fire, a detachment of the football senses to hold off the drudgery of the upcoming working week. Busily, Keegan had then gone after the targets he wanted to fulfil the prophecy. Crucially, he had an understanding chairman to back him.
With those components in place for the start of the 95-96 season Newcastle had exploded out of the blocks. In a seemingly wide-open Premiership, which had been won in the previous year by Blackburn Rovers, their spate of early wins had them on course to at least qualify for the European places. Theirs was a team of flair and steel. Players that rolled easily over the eye like Peter Beardsley and David Ginola combined with the more combative and solid elements of English football. Physical competitors like Rob Lee and David Batty, who knew a good pass and a bad tackle too. They also had a pretty special one up top as a secret weapon. The enigmatic Les Ferdinand was a striker that had everything. Powerful and athletic one minute, elegant and intelligent the next, he was a constant danger to any defence at that time in the Premiership. Crucially, he could also mix it when he had to. On those unglamorous away trips when centre halves went medieval on star frontmen, big Les could handle the interference. He didn't go hiding when the studs and the bullets flew.
The fact that Newcastle would roll their imperious form into the New Year would make the rest of the Premiership suddenly sit up and take notice. As a club they had always been viewed as the drunk uncle of the elite division. Full of character and passion but utterly harmless when it came to the business end. Now, both on and off the pitch, the pressure was on. The hysteria that surrounded a potential Newcastle title win in the city itself only added to the mainline. No major city in England had been starved of as much success as Newcastle had. To land there in early 1996 was to experience a mixture of wild excitement and rising nervousness. No one seemed to feel that more than Keegan. A passionate, emotional man, an interview with the Newcastle manager around this time was an exercise in suppression. A smile like a nervous Downing Street politician, casting bombastic rhetoric for the cameras whilst secretly worrying that his house was about to be blown in.
Keegan's problem was two-fold. Newcastle were due a stutter in form and when it arrived did they have the character to quickly address it. He responded with the marquee signing of Colombian international maverick Tino Asprilla, but it seemed to affect the team's expressionism rather than enhance it. From February they seemed a team blinded by the headlights. Unfortunately, that lack of momentum also coincided with the brutalist architecture of a Manchester United winning streak; the machination of that great, nineties team picking off the teams in the Premiership, including Newcastle, like the wings of a stricken moth. With every week they crept closer, and with every point dropped the spectre of Ferguson seemed to haunt the Newcastle coach like one of Marley's cruel faced visitations.
There was to be a huge irony to play out too. Newcastle's real spiritual demise wouldn't come at the hands of Ferguson at all but at the ground of their bitter rivals Liverpool. In a game at Anfield that April, the coda of English football would be transformed into some sort of frenzied exhibition. It would also be a death knell for Newcastle. Despite scoring three goals and playing their part in what has since been described as the greatest Premier League game of all time, they would have their flair extinguished and exposed by both pace and clinical finishing. In Fowler and Collymore they found their true executioners – a last minute goal by the latter had King Kev slumped over a hoarding like a grieving parent. In many ways that's what he was. It was as if he'd had all the optimism and air let out of him.
He wouldn't give up of course. That wasn't King Kev's way, but he must have known it was futile after that, a disappearing dream. All that was left was that infamous Sky cameras rant. That, and the realisation that his cavaliers were the greatest side never to win the premiership title. His Newcastle United miracle had been tantalisingly close to being realised.
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CARRABASSETT VALLEY, ME (March 25, 2017) – Laurenne Ross (Bend, Oregon – U.S. Ski Team) and Ryan Cochran-Siegle (Starksboro, VT – U.S. Ski Team) claimed the top of the podium in Saturday's super G at the U.S. Alpine Championships at Sugarloaf.
After some fresh snowfall Friday night, the course crew at Sugarloaf had their work cut out for them for Saturday's super G. Though the fresh snow and fog led to delays, it didn't seem to bother Ross – who snagged her second U.S. Championship title in super G – or Cochran-Siegle, who grabbed his first career title.
For both the men and the women, it was the U.S. Ski Team athletes who shined bright, with no big podium surprises and some really good skiing. Rounding out the podium for the women were Stacey Cook (Mammoth Lakes, CA – U.S. Ski Team) and Megan McJames (Park City, UT) – tying for second, 1.05 seconds off the pace, and Alice McKennis (New Castle, CO – U.S. Ski Team) – reigning Sugarloaf 2015 National Champion – in fourth. Nina O'Brien (Edwards, CO – U.S. Ski Team), who won the U.S. national giant slalom title in 2015 in Sugarloaf, finished fifth and won the junior women's U.S. national super G title.
For the men it was a tighter race, with Jared Goldberg (Holladay, UT – U.S. Ski Team) taking second, .26 off the pace and Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley, CA – U.S. Ski Team) in third, .44 second out. All eyes were on Sugarloaf local Sam Morse (Sugarloaf, ME – U.S. Ski Team) – Carrabassett Valley Academy grad and 2017 Junior World downhill champion – who ended up fourth, just 12 hundredths off the podium. He'll walk away as top junior of the day, which is an honor not foreign to Morse.
The U.S. Alpine Championships continues Sunday in Sugarloaf, Maine with men's and women's slalom.
Laurenne Ross won her second U.S. national super G title Saturday in Sugarloaf.
East coaster Ryan Cochran-Siegle, of the famed Cochran ski family, won his first U.S. national super G title.
Current Junior World Downhill Champion and Carrabassett Valley Academy grad Sam Morse finished fourth and was the top junior for the men.
Nina O'Brien, who won the U.S. national giant slalom title in 2015 in Sugarloaf, finished fifth and won the junior women's U.S. national super G title.
Normally when I approach nationals I try to tell myself that I don't care. But ultimately, I do. I want to be the fastest person. I want to be the fastest skier out there, so it still does mean a lot to be able to be the national champion and win a race. It doesn't matter if it's a FIS race or a World Cup – just being the fastest racer is really special. Even though it's U.S. nationals, it's a big race for a lot of people and to be able to win a race in my home country is awesome.
I remember my first U.S. nationals. It was in Mammoth Mountain, California. It was so windy. I remember in the slalom the gates were on the ground, backwards, pointing at me. I thought, 'I don't know how to do this – I guess I'll cross block down here' – it was kind of a shock. I'm pretty sure I started 80th in GS and 70th in slalom. It was a huge eye opener, being able to be there with Lindsey Vonn, Jules [Mancuso] and all of the big skiers – Bode and Ted – having those guys there was huge for me when I was that young. Here I am, hopefully helping to inspire the next generation of skiers. I am getting older, so my time will come to be done with this sport and be able to hang out with the young kids and get them to step up and start skiing fast is important in our sport.
The conditions were really good today. I'd love to go ski it again. It was really fun to have a perfect surface like that at an event that's not a World Cup. I gave away a little bit in the middle – we were getting some mixed reports about how that middle section was running, and I think I listened a little too well and was a little too cautious in some of the problem areas. But I still had a lot of fun, and I'm amazed by how perfect it was on the slope.
Nationals still means something to me. You have a long season on the World Cup, you go to World Championships and the Olympics a few times and it's really easy to forget about this event – it's the lowest level event that we have in the year – but for most people here it's the highest level event. But the title still means something, and I take that to heart. I remember the first time I went to nationals and how meaningful it was to race against the best and measure up. So, I want those girls in the back to be able to measure up to my best. You know, I'm not going to give anything away. I want them to see where they need to get to, and that's probably the most powerful tool at that age – to race against people that are faster. I definitely am trying my hardest out here. I'm trying not to give anything away.
I think the really cool thing about U.S. nationals is that you get to see all of your friends. Because I've been on the tech side I don't get to see the speed girls that often – or the men's team – so it's just great. The ski world's such a tight-knit community so it's good to see everyone.
Being a national champion is really great. As a World Cup athlete you always focus so much on World Cup podiums and how you do on the World Cup, and – at the end of the day – it's still nice to finish as a national champion. That's something you'll carry with you the rest of your life, and you can have that title and know that that one day you were the best in the U.S., and that's something to be proud of. I'm happy to have a title in both downhill and super G now.
It's great to be at nationals and have all of your friends together – you're reunited, and we don't see some of the tech girls all year and then you come out here and you get to hang with Julia Ford and Megan [McJames], and it's so fun to be reunited with all of your peers that you've known for 10 years. So, it's a fun environment.
I always love coming back to the east coast. I haven't been back here since 2010, I guess. I didn't even think about that, but being in familiar territory is always an advantage. Like, Sam Morse had a really good run, and I've skied this hill quite a bit so it's always fun to have east coast conditions. Knowing what the hill is going to give you is a pretty big advantage, and then just trusting your skiing. This is a hill where you have to find flow and I think I did a pretty good job with that.
I think it means a lot to win a national championship. My family has a lot of national titles to their name – Robby [Kelley] has one, Jimmy [Cochran] has a ton, Robby's mom has a ton – so it'll be cool to get in that club.
It feels good to wrap up the season here. Racing at U.S. nationals is relaxed compared to what we've been doing all year with big races – World Cups, World Championships – coming here is really relaxed and we know everybody on the hill, all the coaches and we see a lot of coaches we've grown up with on Western Region team and stuff.
It's sweet to come out to nationals to see all the kids and everyone's all fired up to see ski racing again. They've been watching us on TV all year, so they can see us now in person, and get some face time with us. It's fun to come and do one last race of the year – a fun run to end the season; no pressure.
For me, nationals is more about just coming out and seeing all of my teammates I haven't seen all year that have been doing NorAms and Europa Cups, and then seeing all the kids – it's more of the goal here.
Racing at home is a ton of fun. I've been telling people this week that there's a little bit of an ignorant bliss you have when you go to a hill for the first time. Obviously there's advantages of running on a hill I know, but there's also disadvantages. I know where the difficult parts are, where it's going to stack up, how it's going to run, so sometimes you find yourself pulling back in those areas because you know it's going to be close. But if you had no idea, then you'd just send it.
It's so much fun racing in front of the home crowd. Pushing out of the gate today at the start, there are fans all across the cat track cheering for me. That's so much fun. They're excited to see one of their own competing with some of the best guys.
Being top in the country is cool – being top in the world is even cooler. To be part of the next generation of American Downhillers is really exciting. I've been super fortunate to have older guys who are really friendly – they could be jerks, but instead they're always really accommodating to us – teaching us and showing us, so I'm really thankful to them for making it an enjoyable process.
For all things U.S. Alpine Champs, make sure to check out the event website.
Carrabassett Valley Academy can claim that they helped guide Bode Miller into being one of the best in the world. Now they can also say they helped Sam Morse get on that path too.
At two years old, McJames learned to ski at Alta Ski Resort in Utah. She grew up doing many outdoor activities, including mountain biking, hiking, camping, soccer, and tennis, but especially fell in love with skiing.


VR & AR has the potential to become one of the most disruptive technologies we have seen in the retail sector since the launch of the Internet. Goldman Sachs forecasts the market for AR and VR in retail will reach $1.6 billion by 2025. VR lounges offer customers the ability to immerse themselves in a virtual environment and engage and customise your products. That may be in deciding interior design finishes for a new home or by helping visualise how a particular finish will look inside your new car. The 'virtual showroom' is a cost-effective and powerful tool in aiding your customers decision making.
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About Stoney Bank
Precision. Artistry. Experience.
We are trained to see the promise of your landscape. We combine practical knowledge and creativity with your hopes and dreams. Using the technical aspects of composition and the very best natural materials, we build one of a kind, once in a lifetime surroundings, for generations of enjoyment.
Our Founder, Jack Blandy, has been a well-known, creative force in the industry for decades. His inherent talent, and years of hands-on experience, set the tone for exceptional design on properties along the Mainline and throughout the Delaware Valley. As Jack shared his skillset, he was also acquiring new technologies in conceptual design from his son Joe. Now as President, Joe provides a rare perspective of their integrated experience with a demonstrated record of excellence.
Selecting plant materials to thrive in each environment has been the bedrock of every plan. On location at the 24-acre nursery in Glen Mills, we cultivate rare specimen trees, plants and shrubs. There we also grow distinct and unusual trees, shrubs and perennials for wholesale purchase by other landscape professionals.
AT Stoney Bank Nurseries, WE ARE pulled INTO THE pleasure of gardens.
EVERY plant, EVERY material, EVERY angle, EVERY detail.
J. Joseph Blandy, RLA, ASLA
As principal landscape architect, Joe utilizes his deep rooted experience in the landscape construction and design industry to create unique and innovative design solutions for the most challenging projects. Growing up in the landscape industry has provided Joe with more than 25 years of experience and a unique and comprehensive understanding of the natural environment. Working closely with each client, Joe is dedicated to listening and understanding the client's vision for their property and strives to create exceptional landscapes of uncompromised quality. Under his leadership Stoney Bank Nurseries, Inc. has won 'Best In Show' honors at the Philadelphia Flower Show in 2003, 2004, 2014, 2016 and 2018 along with an International Gold Medal in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. In 2013 Stoney Bank Nurseries, Inc. won the Gold Medal award for the historic restoration and preservation project at Rose Valley Farm in Rose Valley, PA. from the Pennsylvania Landscape and Nursery Association. He has been recognized along with his father Jack Blandy, with their induction into Temple University's Gallery of Success for their individual and combined achievements in the landscape design and construction field. They were the first father and son duo to receive this honor. Joe is a registered landscape architect in Pennsylvania and Delaware as well as a current member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and Men's Garden Club of Philadelphia. He has published articles in Green Scene magazine and has lectured at Longwood Gardens and numerous other venues. Joe holds his bachelors of science degree in Landscape Architecture from Temple University obtained in 2000. He is currently serving as a board member for Jenkins Arboretum.
Hannah Deputy, RLA, ASLA
As a Pennsylvania registered Landscape Architect at Stoney Bank Nurseries, Hannah develops unique and personal outdoor spaces reflective of local architecture and natural characteristics through multimedia sketches, perspectives, 3D models, and plans. She graduated Magnum Cum Laude from Temple University with a bachelors of science in Landscape Architecture and an Art minor. She was presented an Award of Merit in 2011 by the Pennsylvania/Delaware Chapter American Society of Landscape Architects and is the recipient of the 2011 John Collins Drawing Award. As an integral part of Stoney Bank Nurseries' design team, she has worked to design and install award winning exhibits at the International Philadelphia Flower Show and provides assistance to international guest designers, coordinating their exhibit designs into stunning displays.
Jack Blandy, PCH
Stoney Bank Nurseries' founder Jack Blandy is widely recognized as one of the Delaware Valley's premier landscape designers and horticulturalists. He began forging his path in the landscape and nursery business more than thirty years ago with a Temple University degree in ornamental horticulture. Since then, Jack has been a major exhibitor in the Philadelphia Flower Show—and has won six Best In Show awards, multiple Philadelphia Flower Show Awards, The Buckley Award, The Governors Trophy, and The American Horticultural Society Citation for Garden Design. A Pennsylvania Certified Horticulturalist and an Accredited Pennsylvania Nurseryman, Jack also served on the Flower Show Executive Committee, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Council from 1995-2001, and is a past board member and vice chairman of the Pennsylvania Landscape and Nursery Associations' Foundation of Ornamental Horticulture. He served on the board of the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society. Jack was awarded the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's highest honor in 2015, "The Distinguished Achievement Gold Medal." He was a judge at the 2016 Singapore Garden Festival.
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Place salad leaves, spring onions, mandarin and capsicum in a large mixing bowl. Toss to combine.
To make dressing, place ingredients in a small bowl and stir to dissolve the sugar. Set aside.
Add dressing, noodles, cranberries and chicken just before serving. Gently toss. Divide among 3 bowls.


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import React from 'react';
import { IonContent, IonHeader, IonPage, IonTitle, IonToolbar, withIonLifeCycle, IonButton, IonList, IonItem, IonIcon, IonToast, IonImg, IonLoading, IonLabel } from '@ionic/react';
import { RouteComponentProps } from 'react-router-dom';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';

import { Settings } from '../models/Settings';
import { TmpSettings } from '../models/TmpSettings';

import './Pages.css';
import { arrowBack, bookmark, shareSocial } from 'ionicons/icons';
import Globals from '../Globals';

var displayItems = [
  { field: "類型", key: "animal_kind" },
  { field: "性別", key: "animal_sex" },
  { field: "體型", key: "animal_bodytype" },
  { field: "毛色", key: "animal_colour" },
  { field: "年紀", key: "animal_age" },
  { field: "狀態", key: "animal_status" },
  { field: "是否絕育", key: "animal_sterilization" },
  { field: "是否施打狂犬病疫苗", key: "animal_bacterin" },
  { field: "流水編號", key: "animal_id" },
  { field: "區域編號", key: "animal_subid" },
  { field: "所屬收容所名稱", key: "shelter_name" },
  { field: "地址", key: "shelter_address" },
  { field: "聯絡電話", key: "shelter_tel" },
  { field: "尋獲地", key: "animal_foundplace" },
  { field: "實際所在地", key: "animal_place" },
  { field: "開放認養時間(起)", key: "animal_opendate" },
  { field: "開放認養時間(迄)", key: "animal_closeddate" },
  { field: "資料異動時間", key: "animal_update" },
  { field: "資料建立時間", key: "animal_createtime" },
  { field: "所屬縣市代碼", key: "animal_area_pkid" },
  { field: "所屬收容所代碼", key: "animal_shelter_pkid" },
  { field: "網頁標題", key: "animal_title" },
  { field: "資料備註", key: "animal_remark" },
  { field: "其他說明", key: "animal_caption" },
  { field: "圖片名稱(原始名稱)", key: "album_name" },
  { field: "異動時間", key: "cDate" },
];

interface Props {
  dispatch: Function;
  settings: Settings;
  tmpSettings: TmpSettings;
}

interface State {
  showToast: boolean;
  toastMessage: string;
}

interface PageProps extends Props, RouteComponentProps<{
  tab: string;
  animalId: string;
}> { }

class _DetailScreen extends React.Component<PageProps, State> {
  constructor(props: PageProps) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      showToast: false,
      toastMessage: '',
    };

  }

  get animal() {
    return this.props.tmpSettings.animals.find((a) => a.animal_id === +this.props.match.params.animalId);
  }

  addBookmarkHandler() {
    this.props.dispatch({
      type: "ADD_BOOKMARK",
      bookmark: this.animal?.animal_id,
    });
    this.setState({ showToast: true, toastMessage: '書籤新增成功!' });
  }

  render() {
    var rows = [];
    if (this.animal != null) {
      rows = [];
      for (var i = 0; i < displayItems.length; i++) {
        rows.push(<IonItem key={i} className='textFont'>{displayItems[i].field + ":" + (this.animal as any)[displayItems[i].key]}</IonItem>);
      }
    }

    return (
      this.props.tmpSettings.isLoading ?
        <IonLoading
          cssClass='uiFont'
          isOpen={this.props.tmpSettings.isLoading}
          message={'載入中...'}
        />
        :
        <IonPage>
          <IonHeader>
            <IonToolbar>
              <IonButton fill="clear" slot='start' onClick={e => this.props.history.goBack()}>
                <IonIcon icon={arrowBack} slot='icon-only' />
              </IonButton>

              <IonTitle className='uiFont'>詳細資訊</IonTitle>

              <IonButton fill="clear" slot='end' onClick={e => {
                this.addBookmarkHandler();
              }}>
                <IonIcon icon={bookmark} slot='icon-only' />
              </IonButton>

              <IonButton fill="clear" slot='end' onClick={e => {
                Globals.shareByLink(this.props.dispatch, decodeURIComponent(window.location.href));
              }}>
                <IonIcon icon={shareSocial} slot='icon-only' />
              </IonButton>
            </IonToolbar>
          </IonHeader>
          <IonContent style={{ textAlign: 'center' }}>
            {this.animal == null ?
              <IonLabel className='ion-text-wrap textFont'>此認養動物資料已不存在。</IonLabel>
              :
              <>
                <IonImg src={this.animal?.album_file || ''} className='detailScreenImg' alt='無圖片' />
                <IonList>
                  {rows}
                </IonList>
              </>
            }

            <IonToast
              cssClass='uiFont'
              isOpen={this.state.showToast}
              onDidDismiss={() => this.setState({ showToast: false })}
              message={this.state.toastMessage}
              duration={2000}
            />
          </IonContent>
        </IonPage>
    );
  }
}

const mapStateToProps = (state: any /*, ownProps*/) => {
  return {
    tmpSettings: { ...state.tmpSettings },
    settings: { ...state.settings }
  }
};

//const mapDispatchToProps = {};

const DetailScreen = withIonLifeCycle(_DetailScreen);

export default connect(
  mapStateToProps,
)(DetailScreen);