We are one of 24 townships in Trumbull County, Ohio. Current population (as of 2017) is 8,453 with 76% of residents in a home they own. Brookfield Township covers an area of 24.7 miles with 64 acres that are water-covered.
Masury—is a distinct area of Brookfield Township that is in the East. Masury stands out as it has its own zip code (44438). Masury is included in government, police, fire, school and emergency management services.
Brookfield Center—is at the junction of State Route 7 and Warren-Sharon Road. What makes the center distinct is the Township Green, with its park-like setting and Gazebo. It is also a historical landmark for its place as an Underground Railroad stop.
Valley View—is a neighborhood off Warren-Sharon Road named for what remains of the Valley View complex located in front of it. The Valley View neighborhood is adjacent to the main commercial area of the Township.
Brookwood Estates—is a neighborhood near State Route 82 and Bedford Road. The Brookwood area begins with professional offices then transitions into an area of single family homes, condominiums and an apartment complex. This is one of the newer housing areas of the Township.
Stevenson Heights—is a neighborhood off Bedford Road, near US Route 62. It is a small area of single family homes and three apartment complexes.
West Hill—is actually in the easternmost area of the Township. It is called the "West" Hill because it is on the western border of Sharon, Pennsylvania. The West Hill is a large area of mostly single family homes. That area experienced large growth in the early part of the 1900s and is one of the most densely populated areas of Brookfield Township.
Southeast Masury—borders Hubbard Township to the south and is mostly single family homes built in the 1940s and 1950s. Southeast Masury is adjacent to the densely industrialized area of Brookfield Township.
Outlying Areas—encompassing the largest share of land area of Brookfield, these areas are large lots mainly of single family homes. These are the areas of working family farms and some of the larger individual business complexes in the Township.
Brookfield High School offers college-prep courses to students including, Advanced Placement English for juniors and seniors, calculus, pre-calculus, four years of Spanish, Academic English for juniors and seniors, human physiology, physics, psychology, sociology and US government. Electives available to students include forensic science, mythology, film studies, health, physical education, earth science, college and career planning, marching and concert band, jazz band, choir, music appreciation, four different art classes, desktop publishing, web design, computer applications, statistics, lifetime sports, strength and conditioning, world history and US history. We also offer credit recovery using an on-line curriculum and permit high-achieving students to select courses of interest to them in the on-line catalogue that are not offered at the high school.
A variety of clubs and after school experiences is available to students as well. These include Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD), Interact, National Honor Society, Prep Bowl/Quiz Bowl, Future Teachers of America, Drama Club, Art Club, Ski Club, Tot Squad, Student Council, English Festival, Pep band and Spanish Club.
Currently, Brookfield High School participates in the following athletic programs: Baseball, Softball, Track and Field, Basketball for boys and girls, Bowling for boys and girls, Wrestling, Golf, Football, Volleyball, Cross Country, Majorettes and Cheerleading. Soccer is also played as an intramural sport for boys and girls combined.
Junior and Senior students may opt to attend Trumbull County Joint Vocational School located in Champion, Ohio. At TCJVS, they can pursue more than 40 programs of study that encompass college-level to trades-level to entry-level training programs.
Our students also participate in College-Career Plus (CCP) and attend nearby colleges and universities to get a jump start on their post-secondary education. Requirements for participation in this program vary by college/university, but include minimum scores on a college placement test (ACT or SAT) and satisfactory progress in high school.
All junior students take the ACT at no cost to them. This test is administered in the district.
In the spring of 2017, 80 students graduated with 55 indicating they planned to continue on to a college or university. Ten students enlisted in a branch of the military, and 15 indicated they planned to go into the work force after graduation.
Our high school staff participates in daily district-directed professional development in order to examine their teaching practices, hone their skills, and collaborate across and within their content areas. Their primary goal during these sessions is to become more effective teachers who understand current practices and can teach in a variety of ways in order to meet the needs of all their students. They consider the results of student work in order to better grasp what students still need to learn and what they have mastered in the standards.
Brookfield Middle School features a core curriculum that includes blocked English Language Arts classes, mathematics (with pre-algebra for advanced 7th grade students and Algebra I for advanced 8th grade students), science, social studies and several expressive arts courses, which include vocal and instrumental music, health, STEM, art, computers and physical education.
After-school groups and activities include: Prep Bowl, Art Club, Challenge 24 (a math competition), English Festival, Environmental Club, Student Council, Spelling Bee, Students Against Destructive Decisions and YSU's After-school Program. A Robotics program was also added in 2017.
Sports offered to middle schools students include: Football, Cheerleading, Boys and Girls Basketball, Volleyball, Wrestling, Cross Country and Track and Field.
The middle school staff works to educate the whole child by encouraging participation in academic, physical and social activities as the students explore their interests and discover what they truly enjoy doing. Grade-level teacher teams work together to fashion a cohesive curriculum that gives their students a chance to try new things, consider different points of view and begin to understand their role in their community and the surrounding area. Students are encouraged to take full advantage of the programs and activities available to them. The middle school staff also participates daily in district-directed professional development in order to hone their skills, improve their lessons, and create an atmosphere that is both welcoming and challenging for their students.
Brookfield Elementary School features a core curriculum that includes reading and writing using a balanced literacy approach, mathematics, science and social studies. The students also participate in variety of expressive arts courses including vocal music, art, computer keyboarding, physical education and library time.
The teachers in this building strive to educate the whole child and work to ensure that every child makes adequate progress in his/her learning journey. The staff participates in daily professional development in order to hone their skills and become better teachers for their students.
To ensure grade-level progress, the district provides Title I reading support using Leveled-Literacy practices and Reading Recovery for the most at-risk students. In addition, the staff is well-versed in best practices for instruction of students and works to find a wide variety of ways to teach material and reach all children. The elementary school is also supported by Title I funds for class size reduction purposes. This gives our teachers fewer students so they can offer each child more attention and help each and every day.
Our schools are much more than scores on a district report card. Our teachers and staff members work tirelessly to support each student, to encourage every child to work to his or her potential, and to help our families to become a part of the fabric of our school community. We work with local groups like the Brookfield Parents' Association, the Brookfield Backpack Program, Rotary Club and Brookfield Optimist Club, as well as area businesses and organizations to broaden our supports to offer as much as we can to our students and their families. We believe the intimacy of a small school like ours provides the personal touch that helps each child thrive and grow both intellectually and socially.


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Malika IV: Hürrem Sultan (Roxolana)
September/October 2016 PDF Malika (Queen)
Written by Tom Verde // Art by Leonor Solans
From Bangladesh to Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan to Nigeria, Senegal to Turkey, it is not particularly rare in our own times for women in Muslim-majority countries to be appointed and elected to high offices—including heads of state. Nor has it ever been.
Stretching back more than 14 centuries to the advent of Islam, women have held positions among many ruling elites, from malikas, or queens, to powerful advisors. Some ascended to rule in their own right; others rose as regents for incapacitated husbands or male successors yet too young for a throne. Some proved insightful administrators, courageous military commanders or both; others differed little from equally flawed male potentates who sowed the seeds of their own downfalls.
This six-part series presents some of the most notable historical female leaders
of Muslim dynasties, empires and caliphates.
Our fourth story comes from the capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople.
The reign of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I ("the Magnificent"), from 1520 to 1566, was the empire's golden age. Equally impressive was the century and a half that followed, the Kadinlar Saltanati, or the "Sultanate of Women." During this era, a succession of politically savvy royal women directed much of the government's affairs, often as regents for underage male sultans. First among them was a woman who came to the palace as a slave and eventually played a role in foreign and domestic affairs and served as an intimate political advisor to the sultan.
Europeans knew her as Roxolana, meaning "a girl from Roxolania," the medieval Latin name for Ukraine. Her Ottoman name was Haseki Hürrem Sultan, from haseki (favored wife or royal consort) and hürrem, meaning "joyful" or "laughing one." According to legend, she was born Anastasia (or Aleksandra) Lisowska, around 1505 in western Ukraine. Abducted by Crimean slavers at age 15, she arrived in Constantinople (today's Istanbul) where she was supposedly purchased by Ibrahim Pasha as a gift for his boyhood friend and soon-to-be-sultan Suleiman.
Others say Roxolana was assigned first to the royal laundry, where her skills as an embroiderer were matched only by her musicianship. As the story goes, Suleiman was passing by the laundry when he overheard her singing and playing Ukranian songs. Stumblingly conversant in Slavic, the sultan "stopped to talk with her in her outlandish speech," and was immediately smitten, as his 1951 biographer Harold Lamb recounted.
While smacking of fairly tale, the story suggests it was Roxolana's wit and intelligence that made her stand out. Indeed, Venetian ambassador Pietro Bragadin described Roxolana as "young but not beautiful, although graceful and petite."
Once Suleiman officially noticed Roxolana (laying a handkerchief across her shoulder was the court custom), she became the third most powerful woman in the palace after Suleiman's mother, Hafsa, the valide sultan, or "queen mother," and his qadin sultan, or first lady, Mahidevran, mother of Suleiman's eldest son, Mustafa.
Clashes with mahidevran were swift in coming. By 1526 the Venetian ambassadors-meticulous observers of court politics and intrigues-had noted that Suleiman favored Roxolana. Envoy Bernardo Navagero wrote that Mahidevran confronted her, shouting, "Traitor, sold meat [i.e., "bought in the bazaar"]. You want to compete with me?" as she clawed Roxolana with her nails. Later summoned, Roxolana sent word to Suleiman that she was not presentable. Baffled, he demanded to see her. She "related to him what had happened ... showing her face, which still bore the scratches." Mahidevran confessed, adding brassily that "she had done less to [Roxolana] than she deserved." This "inflamed the sultan even more," and "all his love was given to the other"—Roxolana.
"This week there has occurred in this city a most extraordinary event, one abolutely unprecedented in the history of the Sultans. The Grand Signior Suleiman has taken to himself as his Empress a slave-woman from Russia."
—a Genoese ambassador
The episode underscores Roxolana's talent for navigating palace politics. Although not an official qadin-a title that would remain with Mahidevran as mother of Mustafa-as Suleiman's favorite it was soon apparent that Roxolana was done playing by old rules, with Suleiman's blessing.
She started by defying the harem's century-old "one mother-one son" policy, preventing a royal consort from bearing more than one heir. Between 1521 and 1531, whe had a son, Mehmed; a daughter, Mihrimah; and then four more sons: Abdullah, Selim, Bayezid and Cihangir. In 1541 she defied another royal tradition by remaining in Constantinople rather than accompanying Mehmed to his first administrative post in the provinces. (Normally, only upon the sultan's death would the mother of the eldest male heir be permitted to return to the capital, where she would then assume the role of valide sultan.) She shattered another, far greater tradition by becoming the sultan's wife.
"This week there has occurred in this city a most extraordinary event, one absolutely unprecedented in the history of the Sultans," remarked one Genoese ambassador in an undated letter. "The Grand Signior Suleiman has taken to himself as his Empress a slave-woman from Russia, called Roxolana [sic], and there has been great feasting."
The wedding, in 1533 or 1534, was Suleiman's most public declaration that he was "deeply devoted" to Roxolana, wrote historian Leslie Pierce. As the Venetian Navagero observed: "There has never been a woman in the Ottoman palace who had more power than she."
The royal couple's correspondence highlights their passion.
"[M]y bright moon ... my elixir of Paradise, my Eden/I am a flatterer near your door, I'll sing your praises always/I, lover of the tormented heart, Muhibbi of the eyes full of tears, I am happy."
— Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I
"I wish for your success," Roxolana wrote to Suleiman when he was off campaign in. "However my greatest wish is to be reunited with you. You are the only cure for my grieving, sorrowful heart."
Suleiman was equally smitten. Under the alias Muhibbi (The Affectionate One), he replied: "[M]y bright moon ... my elixir of Paradise, my Eden/I am a flatterer near your door, I'll sing your praises always/I, lover of the tormented heart, Muhibbi of the eyes full of tears, I am happy."
Suleiman' devotion was both sentimental and singular. He refused "to know any other women: something that had never been done by any of his predecessors," wrote Domenico Trevisano, another Venetian envoy, in 1544.
Nevertheless, Roxolana eliminated potential rivals by persuading Suleiman to marry off the prettiest of the young women in the harem. She also (happily, no doubt) waved goodbye to Mahidevran in 1533, when the qadin followed Mustafa to his first official, provincial appointment. A year later, Hafsa died, leaving Roxolana mistress of the harem, at least pro tempore, as Mahidevran remained rightfully next in line to become valide sultan.
But another rival remained: Ibrahim, now grand vizier. Though one of Suleiman's closest confidants, Ibrahim developed his own aspirations to the throne. After a decade or so of honors, wealth and ever-increasing authority, Ibrahim grew arrogant and "was much hated," ambassador Bragadin wrote. Ibrahim ran his own military campaigns and even referred to himself as "sultan" in negotiations. His fall was swift: On March 15, 1536, servants found him with his throat cut.
While Suleiman ordered the execution, Roxolana was rumored as its architect. To historians, this remains "a matter of conjecture," wrote Galina Yermolenko, author of Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture, and yet Roxolana "might have exploited the rumors against Ibrahim and influenced Suleiman's decision." As early as 1526, Pierce noted, Roxolana informed Suleiman of tensions with Ibrahim and lost little time securing the newly vacant post for Rustem, husband of her daughter, Mihrimah.
In 1541 a fire in the Old Palace inched her closer to the pinnacle of power. Located in the center of the city, the Old Palace was the official residence for both the sultan and the harem. The newer Topkapı Palace, on a promontory over-looking the Bosporus, served as seat of the court. After the fire, Roxolana convinced Suleiman to relocate the harem to Topkapı. The move permitted her to be at Suleiman's side constantly, where she could advise him more closely on political matters. Writing to him while he was away, she informed him of plagues infesting the city and warned him of potential unrest. She also corresponded with the king of Poland regarding the suppression of the Crimean slave trade—a subject of doubtless personal interest.
Highest among Roxolana's priorities, however, was the welfare of her sons. The Ottoman law of imperial succession mandated fratricide to prevent princely inheritance squabbles. If Mustafa succeeded Suleiman, her four surviving sons were doomed. (Abdullah had died as a child.)
Wits and devotion led to her power and precedent.
Mustafa was the "envy of all the princes," as one Ottoman historian described him, beloved by the people and the army—a bit too beloved, it seemed. By 1553 rumors of Mustafa's plans to usurp his father reached Suleiman's ear, driven primarily (according to court gossip) by Rustem and Mihrimah who in turn may have been egged on by Roxolana. Suleiman reportedly watched from behind a curtain while Mustafa was strangled with a silken cord.
The dramatic downfalls of Roxolana's rivals, the tectonic shifts in government policies she seemed to inspire—plus Suleiman's unwavering devotion—all fueled inevitable jealousies, suspicions and rumors.
"[T]he entire court hate[s] her and her children likewise, but because the Grand Turk loves her very much, no one dares to speak," wrote Venetian courtier Luigi Bassano, adding that Suleiman's subjects attributed Roxolana's power over him to magic, calling her ziadi (witch).
While rational critics have since ruled this out, most early modern historians continued to portray Roxolana as a ruthless schemer. More recent scholars say this may be unfair.
In the first place, wrote Godfrey Goodwin, author of The Private World of Ottoman Women, "most of what is known is gossip fed to Europeans who had never even stepped inside the [palace] and whose informants told them what they wanted to hear but not what they really knew, which was mostly nothing." In Yermolenko's opinion, Roxolana's critics "tend to overlook the fact that she had to fight for her own survival and the survival of her children in the very competitive world of the imperial harem…. [Roxolana] was thus unjustly and harshly judged by her contemporaries for surviving and doing so brilliantly."
Despite her detractors, Roxolana held her head high and carried on with her royal duties. She established waqfs (charitable endowments) and endorsed grand-scale building projects. Her largesse included a development by the new royal architect Sinan that included a mosque, two madrasas (Qur'anic schools), a soup kitchen, a hospital (still in use to-day as a women's medical center) and an elementary school—all in Istanbul's Avrat Pazari district, site of the women's slave market where she herself had once been sold.
Here again Roxolana broke precedent. In the past, endowments of concubine mothers were limited to provincial cities, "while the sultan alone was responsible for the most splendid projects in the capital of Istanbul," noted Pierce.
Roxolana died of an unknown disease on April 18, 1558. Even in death, she defied protocol: adjacent to the newly built Suleymaniye mosque, her tomb was erected beside the place set for her husband, making her "the first woman in Ottoman harem history to have been honored in that way," wrote Yermolenko.
Suleiman lived eight more years. Roxolana's second son, Selim, succeeded him, Mehmed having died as a young man.
Yet while he and subsequent male rulers often stumbled, Roxolana established an environment where women ably took their places. They included Selim's wife, Nurbanu, as well as regents Kosem and Turhan, who ruled during the late 17th century. These and other such women stood upon the slight yet steadfast shoulders of the queen who proved she was strong enough, in character, to bear the weight of an empire.
Art direction for the "Malika" series is by Ana Carreño Leyva. Calligraphy is by Soraya Syed. The logo graphics are produced by Mukhtar Sanders (www.inspiraldesign.com).
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Malika (Queen)
Tom Verde
Tom Verde (tomverde.pressfolios.com) is a regular contributor to AramcoWorld.. His "Malika" series, on historical Muslim queens, won "Best Series" awards from both the National Federation of Press Women and the Connecticut Press Club in 2017.
Leonor Solans
Leonor Solans is an artist living in Granada, Spain.
www.leonorsolans.com
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Written by Frank L. Holt // Illustrated by Norman MacDonald
We are about a thousand years old when we heard the brazen clash of the Trojan War – muffled by meters of earth above us – but when the Boss pulled us out of the ground in 1873, he made us say we'd been on the battleground. What a joker! The Boss was chasing fame, not truth, and we've been locked up ever since. So here we are to set the record straight, all 9000 of us, in your court of public opinion.
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Born in the Nile Delta, Ahmed Zewail became the first scientist to record molecules while they were undergoing chemical reactions that take place in a few millions of a billionth of a second. This established the field of femtochemistry and earned him the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In November 2009, he was appointed one of the first three US Science Envoys to the Middle East, and he passed away on August 2, 2016.
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Across North Africa a few back-street stores still sell records pressed in the '70s and '80s. There Jannis Stürtz has been digging for local classics to rerelease on his digital-and-vinyl label, Habibi Funk, bringing them to global audiences and illuminating some the era's most vibrantly hybrid music scenes.
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From the 1860s to the 1930s, architects throughout South America and the Caribbean took inspirations from the Islamic design heritage of southern Spain, where the most inspiring building of all proved to be the Alhambra palace.
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From its first read-aloud in Jordan in 2006, We Love Reading has become one of the world's most-recognized nonprofit organizations encouraging reading among children. Behind its success stand more than 7,000 local volunteer "reading ambassadors"—mostly women—in 61 countries and its founder, a scientist whose own four children inspired her.
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The series Spice Migrations opens in Sri Lanka with one of the world's favorite spices, which once grew exclusively on that island. Traders priced cinnamon like gold, and those who could get it used it for health as much as for flavor. A storm, and a Portuguese fleet, changed everything.
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For this shot I did a simple rodeo 7, which is two horizontal spins, and added a little extra spice by throwing in a double mute grab, which is holding one ski with both hands. It was a super high-speed jump, which I needed to make the 25 meters to the landing. I was lucky to land it first hit.
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Not far from London, newly inaugurated walking routes trace some of the first Islamic patronages and cultural contributions to the UK. The trails start at the country's first purpose-built mosque and lead to two cemeteries—one dedicated to nearly forgotten Muslim veterans and the other the resting place of several dozen British Muslims, more than a few of them leaders in their fields. While the sites owe their origins to a 19th-century linguist, the trails have come about through collaborations among a local journalist, the London-based nonprofit Everyday Muslim and the town of Woking. All have teamed up so visitors can walk the paths of stories that hold "the potential to change Britain's popular historical narrative."
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Q: Replace a value with NA in an integer column while retaining the type closest to original I've got a Numpy array with arbitrary flat structural data type with some columns as integers, some as datetime64, some floats etc...
>>> import numpy as np
>>> ar = np.array([(1, -1), (-1, 2)], dtype=[('a', 'i2'), ('b', 'i4')])

A Pandas dataframe is directly created from this numpy array precisely following its schema:
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> df = pd.DataFrame(ar)
>>> df
   a  b
0  1 -1
1 -1  2
>>> df.dtypes
a    int16
b    int32
dtype: object

Now I want to say replace all -1 values in this data frame to NA while retaining the original data types as closely as possible. Basically this:
>>> df_with_na = df.replace(-1, pd.NA)
>>> df_with_na
      a     b
0     1  <NA>
1  <NA>     2

except that this does not work because the column dtypes were converted to object:
>>> df_with_na.dtypes
a    object
b    object
dtype: object

which does not match the desired result of just mapping int16 to Int16:
>>> df_with_na.dtypes
a    Int16
b    Int32
dtype: object

Is there a way to convert the int16 etc whatever blindly to the masked nullable extension types, or preferably even making the replace with NA to change to the extension type if it wasn't originally, without having to write yet another set of lookup tables with all possible extensions?

A: I suggest going ahead and converting all your dtypes to the nullable ones before you do anything to the dataframe:
>>> df.dtypes
a    int16
b    int32
dtype: object
>>> df.convert_dtypes().dtypes
a    Int16
b    Int32
dtype: object

You might want to set all those kwargs other than convert_integer to False to be on the safe side.

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Stephen Kenny insists Dundalk are out to break records as Lilywhites eye SSE Airtricity League and FAI Cup double
Kenny's men need just a point from their remaining four games to be crowned champions and are gunning for a record goals and points tally
Owen Cowzer
6:00, 1 Oct 2018
Updated: 0:13, 1 Oct 2018
STEPHEN KENNY insists that Dundalk will be on a mission to break records over the next month.
The Lilywhites booked their spot in the FAI Cup final on November 4 by beating First Division champions UCD 1-0 on Friday night courtesy of another Patrick McEleney wonder goal.
The Lilywhites are eyeing a league and cup doubleCredit: Sportsfile
With the league all but assured, Dundalk could now virtually take the month of October off.
A single point from their remaining four games will secure the title — but with a 25-goal difference cushion over Cork City, it is realistically already in the bag.
But boss Kenny says there is no danger of his team losing focus as they target a second double in four seasons — because there are records to be broken in the meantime.
Bohemians' all-time points haul of 85 points from 36 games, set in 2008, is in sight with Dundalk needing six more from their final four games to equal it.
Kenny wants his to set a new points and goals recordCredit: Sportsfile
And Dundalk should also break their own record for the most goals in the season — they scored 78 in 2015 — as they have 76 already.
Kenny said: "Mathematically we still need a point. So we'll be trying to get that against Pats and we hope to have a good home crowd for that.
"The following home game is the trophy presentation and we'll want to do well that night and two away games as well.
"We can still get the all-time points total, I think. And the all-time goals total as well, only two goals in that.
"You can't dismiss those things. You have to keep going and try to win the matches.
"I didn't envisage being in the situation we're in with four matches to go. I thought it would go to the last game or two.
"It's a great position to be in, we're delighted."
There is also the added incentive for Dundalk of setting the record straight after the last two years when they reached the Cup final and lost both times to Cork City.
Kenny added: "We're delighted to be in the final. It's a great privilege and you never take it for granted. It could be your last.
"We've been there the last three years.
"We won it and then the second year was really hard, flying in from St Petersburg and we did great in the final but lost with the last kick and then last year there wasn't much in the game and we lost on penalties.
Dundalk are on the brink of the Premier Division title Credit: Sportsfile
"That's the way it goes but it's a great privilege to be there again.
"For a lot of the players it's their first final, like Patrick Hoban who has never played in the Aviva.
"It's great for him, Daniel Cleary and people like that would have never played there so it's great."
Dundalk deserved the win over UCD though Kenny acknowledged it was one of the tougher games his side have had at Oriel Park this season.
The students were beaten by a stunning individual goal from McEleney who has hit form since rediscovering full fitness following his return to Oriel from Oldham Athletic in July.
Kenny added: "It was a brilliant goal, really, really terrific.
"Where he picked the ball up, just inside the half, and it was a fantastic finish really.
"He scored a great goal on Tuesday as well. He has found a little bit of a rhythm and it's great to get two goals like that.
"He was doubting himself when he came back, he realised he wasn't in the shape he was.
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"He was injured at Oldham and it was the off-season.
"He certainly has got himself into terrific condition now.
"He did tremendous work himself and got himself in good condition."
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The panorama is captured using High Dynamic Ranging, known as HDR, based on 21 photographs from a single nodal point. Bracketing is used to under and over expose each location, resulting in 3 images per 'click point' on the panorama.
I believe you may have meant "High Dynamic Range" rather than "High efinition Ranging" when capturing an HDR panorama.
Nice shot. How did you take this in the middle of the street? (No cars that I can see, did you use multiple exposures to erase them?) You're obviously super experienced at this; how long does it take you to set up, and then how long to take the series of shots?


In a statement about his decision, Vitti said he ordered initial water tests in the spring. He added that the analysis wasn't a response to any state or federal laws.
Citing other schools that were previously known to have potentially unsafe water, Vittti said at least 34 Detroit schools have water quality issues.
The Detroit school system's water comes from the Great Lakes Water Authority, which said the problem isn't in its water or delivery systems, but in the antiquated plumbing and fixtures in the city's school buildings.
In a joint statement with the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, the water authority said its drinking water "not only meets, but surpasses all federal and state Safe Drinking Water Act regulations for quality and safety."
The most recent testing analyzed water from all drinking fountains and sinks — something the district superintendent said made it more thorough than previous safety checks.
Vitti said the mayor's office has pledged to find a way to make the schools' water safe. In the meantime, the city of Detroit is listing school water test results online.
A review of Detroit's public school facilities found it would take about $500 million to completely repair and update all buildings, Michigan Public Radio reported. If the problems aren't addressed soon, the district said, the price tag would run to billions of dollars.


Sant Kabir Nagar is an Indian District, in the state of Uttar Pradesh state with a total population of 1715183. There are 256645 houses in the District.
There are total of 869656 male persons and 845527 females and a total number of children below 6 years in Sant Kabir Nagar.
View satellite images/ street maps of villages in Sant Kabir Nagar, India. The Map data on this website is provided by Google Maps, a free online map service one can access and view in a web browser.
The following list shows all the taluks or tehesils in Sant Kabir Nagar District.
Sant Kabir Nagar district is one of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. Khalilabad city is the district headquarters.
Sant Kabir Nagar Lok Sabha constituency (Hindi: संत कबीर नगर लोक सभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.


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Palms' Spends $50 million on Upgrades to Accomodate Aging Clientele
by Chris Sieroty / Las Vegas Review-Journal, Apr 11, 2013 | 10:00 am
Joseph Magliarditi is confident the $50 million invested in upgrades to the Palms is money well-spent.
After more than a decade of successfully luring thousands of 20- and 30-somethings and locals to the off-Strip property with its popular Ditch Friday parties and The Real World suite, the Palms needed to change its look.
So, the hotel-casino spent millions of dollars in just more than eight months, renovating 428 rooms in its original Palms Tower, renamed the Ivory Tower, and demolishing old bars, restaurants and clubs and replacing them with new experiences.
"You've got a short time to make an impact on the customer," said Magliarditi, president of the Palms. "We are always re-creating things. We think what we have done to the Palms will have the most impact."
Among the projects recently completed is a new entrance and Social, a new bar in the middle of the casino that took over the former Center Bar.
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Cantor Gaming to Take over Poker Operations at the Palms
by Dave Ferrara, Apr 5, 2012 | 3:48 am
Cantor Gaming will open a new poker room at the Palms, and hopefully get new felts for Pokerati's signature game.
The poker room at Palms Casino Resort will close on May 2, with a new room, in a new location, under new management opening May 5.
Cantor Gaming confirmed recently that an 8-table poker room will be part of the Palms' redesigned sportsbook (currently under construction) and say the new room will be state of the art in style and technology. Sources at Palms tell me that one of the tables will be equipped with hole card cams, a la Live at the Bike.
"We are honored that Palms has chosen us to manage their poker area," Lee M. Amaitis, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cantor Gaming said in a press release. "By situating poker within the sports book we can offer customers maximum entertainment and convenience."
Because of the partnership, the current staff at Palms must re-apply for new jobs with Cantor if they want to stick around. A spokesman for Cantor did not immediately respond to an inquiry seeking further details about the new poker room, and the cost of the project was not disclosed.
Late last year, the Las Vegas-based gaming company unveiled a new sports book at Venetian, the first phase of $30 million in renovations. Cantor has been taking over sportsbooks across Las Vegas — including the Venetian, Tropicana, Hard Rock, M Resort, and Cosmopolitan — but Palms will be the first location to open with a poker room as part of its design.
"Our decision to relocate the poker room to the new race and sports book was a natural one given the synergies that exist between poker players and sports bettors," said Joseph A. Magliarditi, President of Palms.
"We are confident that a sleek new poker room will be a spectacular addition to our resort and one that offers poker fans the ultimate in poker playing experiences."
Dan Michalski, who runs this site and has hosted a weekly half no-limit hold'em, half pot-limit Omaha game at the Palms for the past year, wouldn't say much about the future of Pokerati's relationship with the casino. (And he acts surprised when I can't get a corporate casino flak to answer my questions!)
"Stay tuned," Dan said in a text message.
So I guess that means there may only be a few more weeks to take his money in the Pokerati game — at least at the current past-its-prime Palms poker room.
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Thinking ahead: Why colleges need to plan long term for the effects of COVID-19
Infectious disease and crisis expert says the novel coronavirus is going to affect higher ed for some time to come, so it's time to start planning that way.
By: Chris Burt | December 20, 2021
As colleges and universities weigh the pros and cons of mandating COVID-19 booster shots and changing campus guidelines because of the fast-moving omicron variant, one question they might consider is, "What is the end game?"
Omicron's spread is undeniable. It ripped through South Africa and became the dominant strain quickly in the UK. There are still many unknowns, though early reports suggest it may not be as severe as delta and that vaccines do provide significant protection. So is the shuttering of campuses and shifting modalities necessary each time a new variant emerges?
Dr. Robert Quigley is the Senior Vice President and Global Medical Director at International SOS, which provides global access to health leaders to companies around the world, and an expert on crisis management and infectious disease. He says institutions of higher education should be assessing the cost-benefit of making such decisions and doing so frequently.
"It's a difficult time for colleges and these are difficult decisions, but I think we need to have a more holistic approach," he says. "We have to look at the emotional health of students. What are the consequences of acquiring this new variant in a fully vaccinated individual? What we know from omicron is that there has been no evidence from any country—my fingers are on the pulse every day because that's what I do for a living—that this has caused a resurgence of hospitalizations or major illnesses in the general population. Do we need to shut everything down just to stop the transmission of this new variant amongst this population? And if so, what is the end game?"
About 40 colleges and universities, including the University of Delaware and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, have opted to make booster shots part of their vaccine requirements for January, although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not made the leap to consider a third dose to be "fully vaccinated." Still others are waiting to hear more from the CDC, and it may be that the agency recommends them simply based on the tremendous spread occurring, as Dr. Anthony Fauci has suggested. But is that the right call for largely healthy 17- to 24-year-olds who are vaccinated?
"We like to make decisions, mandates, policies and procedures based on evidence as we study any phenomenon," Quigley says. "I can understand the promotion of boosters in people that are immunocompromised, who are transplant patients, those in the elderly age group with comorbid problems. But the rest of the scholastic community, most of whom are young and healthy, I haven't seen the evidence to say everybody run and get your booster. If you haven't had the three doses, you can't get back on campus? I don't know if I can go there."
Planning for the long term
The Catch-22 for institutions as they plan next steps is apparent and some are taking a guarded approach, especially given the number of faculty and staff who might fall into those categories in some form. Both Harvard and Stanford University, for example, are pushing students into remote learning when they restart in January. But could overreaching on protocols have a negative effect on vulnerable students who have gotten used to face-to-face learning? "I don't know whether [omicron] is a pivotal point or not, and I'm not sure that it should be," Quigley says. "Universities and colleges need to ask, what is going to be our reality moving forward? Is the answer going to be reverting back to the lockdowns and the virtual classes, which I personally think are incredibly unhealthy for this cohort of people?"
From multiple studies, the toll brought on by isolation and fear has severely impacted the mental health of students, who are weary from the roller-coaster of decisions and social severance of the past 20 months. As colleges continually flip-flop or react to spinoffs of coronavirus each semester, is changing guidance truly necessary? Could they wait longer and assess the landscape or is pressure to add boosters and shutting down too great? Yale University stood on its guidance and kept in-person learning going despite a case of omicron on campus last week. But even it decided shortly thereafter to mandate boosters and push final exams remotely.
Should colleges have more long-term vision given that coronavirus overall isn't going away?
"I can promise you, we will get through omicron," Quigley says. "It'll race through here, as delta has been doing. And there will be another variant. So at what point do we say as a scholastic community, enough already? We've done all the necessary mitigation that the scientists and the clinicians have recommended. We're going to have to accept the fact that there will be some endemic diseases that are going to be spreading through campuses as there are every year, whether it's influenza, meningitis or hepatitis."
Colleges, he says, might want to handle this crisis like any other one and start being far more proactive and thinking long term. "What we're promoting in the corporate arena is pandemic planning. It's no different than crisis planning," Quigley says. "Why don't we take a step back and say, as an institution that takes care of a lot of young people, why don't we have a pandemic plan that we don't just have parked on some shelf in the dean's office, but rather one that we are constantly updating and one that we do some dry runs on like we would any other crisis plan? Why are we reacting this way? Why aren't we being proactive? This isn't going away. So let's plan for it."
Quigley fears that decisions by some institutions are reactions to those made by prominent universities.
"What frequently happens, the bigger schools with the loudest voices will set the standard, but what it is based on? Is it based on true evidence? Or is it based on some leader in the specific school that's decided to draw a line in the sand?" he says. "Schools have been somewhat reactive over the last two years—masks on, masks off. Virtual and non-virtual. In-person and not in person. They're bouncing back and forth because authorities are a little wishy-washy themselves. The CDC can only do the best they can with the evidence that they're provided. But everything is still so novel. There are a couple of fundamental lessons that we've learned. One of them is that the whole world isn't going to get vaccinated and that means variants will be generated. We have to accept how are we going to live with this virus in our environment."
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