I've always had a lot of time for Frank Lampard – as a player.
He always played on the edge and could never be faulted for lacking in wholehearted endeavour.
Yet he rarely overstepped the mark – for West Ham United, Chelsea, Manchester City or New York City.
You knew what you were going to get from ever-reliable Frank – a tough but clean contest.
And when he retired last year, his brief farewell "tour" in the Big Apple done, Lampard showed flair and aptitude as a television pundit, too.
Articulate, analytical, concise – a welcome antidote to some of the former players who now earn a living due to little more than their crass buffoonery.
OK, I guess you can predict a big "but" coming here … and you're right.
After a glittering playing career and a brief flirtation with the media, Lampard took over as manager of Derby County at the start of this season.
A fair point, though I guess it's easy to be magnanimous when you've just secured a dramatic late victory.
Over the next month, "Lamps" conducted himself pretty well as he carefully guided Derby to a decent fourth place in the Championship.
And then came the big "but" – when he imploded towards the end of Derby's surprise 1-0 defeat at Rotherham United.
He was angered by the dismissal of Derby midfielder Tom Lawrence, the award of a Millers penalty – which was converted – and the non-award of a possible Derby spot kick.
Lampard stomped off down the touchline to confront one of the linesmen.
Referee Peter Bankes had seen enough and sent Lamps to the stands, showing him a red card – as under the new rules – to compound the embarrassing exit.
Frank's post-match reaction to the incident, naturally, involved blaming the officials for ignoring him "the whole game" and a "lack of communication".
He also said that he needed to "go back to the rulebook" – as if he didn't know that it was wrong to leave his technical area to harangue a lino.
Those were snide remarks, a sort of "Don't you know who I am?" response to anyone who has not obediently complied with his wishes.
It was conduct unbecoming to Lampard – on the side of the pitch and away from it – and out of character, too.
At least he accepted the subsequent charge of improper conduct from the FA and the pathetic, pocket-money fine of £2,000.
Whether a controlled and composed player and pundit in the past, it perhaps does not prepare you for the unique demands as a manager.
When you're frustrated and essentially powerless on the periphery as all is apparently unravelling around you.
Anyway, Frank, please learn the lesson. Try to stay calm in future.


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Dr Stefanie de Silva Clinical Psychologist
Stefanie works with young people and adults who are experiencing mental health difficulties such as depression, anxiety, grief, self-harm behaviours and emotional dysregulation. She also supports people with their adjustment to significant life changes such as parenthood or to a major medical diagnosis like cancer. Her doctoral thesis focused on the impact of maternal depression on the child, and she has a particular interest in supporting mothers and fathers through the perinatal period.
It is important to Stefanie that the people she works with feel respected, safe, and heard when they see her. She has a warm, calm, and considered approach, and believes that everyone has a story worth trying to understand. She recognises the strength in people and enjoys working collaboratively to help clients realise their potential to think flexibly and develop ways to live a life that is meaningful, fulfilled, and consistent with their values.
Stefanie uses evidence-based approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.
Stefanie has previously worked in an early psychosis team, and in psycho-oncology, renal services, and perinatal mental health in major hospitals across Victoria. She is also experienced working with young people with borderline personality disorder.
Outside of her clinical practice at Birch Psychology, Stefanie is also a university lecturer and Research Fellow. She believes that her involvement in these roles helps her keep up with the field of psychology and ensures she is providing clients with treatment that is current and evidence-based. She has also written several mental health resources commissioned by the Commonwealth government (such as clinical practice guidelines and factsheets) and her articles and reviews have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Stefanie is a registered Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator. Circle of Security is an evidence-based parent education program designed to enhance attachment security between parents and children. Stefanie can provide this in individual, couples, or group sessions. Please contact Birch Psychology if you would like further information.
Stefanie consults from our Fitzroy North clinic.

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Our aim with this project is to get people to connect up with one another independently, without the automatic assumption that modern communication methods will always be present, and without the daily convenience and ease with which we use the mobile phone, e-mail etc. In Africa the mobile phone is the device for trying out your ingenuity. Whereas we, with the complex contents of our heads, barely have the space left to think creatively. Despite the multiple forms of information exchange at our disposal there is no guarantee that they will generate socially communicative behavior.
We want to see how a connection with one another can be accomplished by means of these varying media. To see if it is possible to share our daily experiences with people in parts of Africa where the communication possibilities are limited.
Ultimately the collection of impressions and reactions (mobile phones, films, faxs, e-mails, the spoken word of a "runner" etc. can be shot on video to represent eight days from the participants' lives.


What is your research all about?
I'm a second year graduate student in UCSD's Bioengineering program, and I mainly work in an orthopedics lab. The three-word answer is: "lower back pain". Specifically, I use novel MRI techniques to study kinematic and biomechanical changes that occur in the lumbar spine in active duty Marines with varying levels of pathology. I am also working on a method using high strength MRI to make non-invasive measurements of muscle physiology.
Where did you grow up/what was your athletic background?
I grew up in the suburbs just north of New York City. I started playing tennis when I was two years old until I was forced to quit at age 17 due to a partial rotator cuff tear. I was really good at running 15 feet in either direction, none of this long distance stuff. Just after I injured my shoulder and was deciding what to do from there, a science teacher in my high school convinced me to race in a local Duathlon that her tri club Toga Multisport held. I came home excited to do a race and my family's reaction was, "You won't even run down the block, how are you going to run 3 miles!" True I thought. But somehow I finished, randomly won a raffle for entry into The New York City Triathlon, and the rest is history.
What made you join the tri team originally?
After racing New York City Triathlon the summer after I graduated high school, I became addicted to the sport. I joined the Boston University Triathlon Team and raced for 4 years as an undergrad in the NECTC and at Collegiate Nationals in Lubbock, TX and Tuscaloosa, AL. When I got into UCSD, I immediately contacted the tri team to say I was interested and planning on joining in the fall. Racing as a collegiate has always been way more fun/competitive than racing as an age grouper.
What is your favourite sport of the three?
Biking. I also raced for the Boston University Cycling Team for two years in college.
What is your best race experience?
Wildflower 70.3 in 2013. It also doubles as my worst race experience. I was hit by a car and knocked off the road at mile 30 on the bike. I kept going another two miles and realized that my front skewer had been knocked open from the crash and my front wheel was shaking back and forth. I bonked going up nasty grade. For whatever reason I decided going and running 13.1 miles in 90 degree heat after that was a good idea? Two miles into the run my body started rejecting fluids. I almost stopped when I ran by my campsite but the race energy and finishing the race (and earning that expensive medal) kept me going. I finished, and collapsed. One hour and two IV's later walked out of the medical tent still feeling like crap. Why is that my best race experience? Because I managed to keep myself going, even though I should have probably stopped. It was a real humbling/learning experience. Wildflower 70.3 2014 Ill see you in 6 months!
What's your favorite workout (any sport)?
What race are you most proud of?
I am typically happy just to be able to race and my overall goal is always to finish. I ran the Philadelphia Marathon in 2010 in 3:22. I didn't realize until after I tore a ligament in my ankle at some point after mile 20. Once again, just happy to race. Also did I mention I used to have a sweet afro!
What was the most embarrassing rookie mistake you made?
In my first collegiate triathlon, Mightyman Sprint in Montauk NY, there was a four-way intersection (top-center) that you were supposed to turn right at every time you hit it (apparently). The second time I continued straight through the intersection and saw people racing on the other side of the road. I didn't turn around until the road looped back at the 4-way 1 mile later. Lesson Learned: ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS look at the course map.
What are your goals for this academic year and triathlon season?
At least one first author paper and to run a sub-39 minute 10k at nationals.
What is one thing no one would guess just looking at you?
So how did you get involved in beer making/what is your favourite recipe?
I became interested in beer during a 6-month stint in Germany where I worked as a bartender at a bar called The Gutz. Back in the states, I met someone who had been brewing their own beer and said there was a homebrew store nearby. The next day, I woke up and decided, "Yea why not, I'm going to do this and make it work." 4 years and many "learning experiences" later, I am most proud of a Rye PA I made last year.
How does racing in San Diego compare to Boston?
Two things stand out in my mind: 1.) December Tan Lines 2.) In Boston I didn't see a pro every time I went for a ride.
Do you have any hobbies outside of triathlon/beer?
I like to go out on my shred-plank and shred the aquatic undulations at La Jolla Shores when the aqua-fauna isn't in bloom. (Colloquially known as pretending how to surf).


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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1910s → 1912 → May 1912 → 7 May 1912 → Written Answers (Commons) → ROYAL NAVY.
Tailors' Strike (London).
HC Deb 07 May 1912 vol 38 cc361-3W 361W
§ Mr. LESLIE SCOTT
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the present industrial dispute in the West End tailoring trade; whether he is aware that numbers of employés, both men and women, who are content with their wages and the conditions of their employment and anxious to work are being prevented by large gangs of so-called peaceful picketers who are both using and threatening violence to those who wish to work and to the property of the employers; and what steps he has taken or intends to take to preserve the liberty of the individual to work if he wishes to, and to protect lives and property?
§ Mr. McKENNA
The matter has been receiving the attention of the police. It is impossible to give the number of strikers who have assembled in the streets for peaceful persuasion, but not more than fifty strikers in small groups have been362W seen in any one street, and an adequate number of police has always been present. Arrangements have been made for the protection of those anxious to work, and where there has been violence or disorder arrests have been made.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to a speech of the secretary of the London Society of Tailors and Tailoresses, in which he said that if the present strike continues he would not be surprised to see sewing machines come hurtling through the window; and what steps, if any, he proposes to take to stop incitements to violence in connection with the present dispute?
The Commissioner of Police reports that nothing is known of the speech beyond what appears in the Press. There will be police present when there is reason to anticipate violence.
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has caused inquiries to be made for the purpose of furnishing himself with detailed information as to the acts of violence which have already taken place, and of the numbers of strikers who have collected for the purpose of peaceful persuasion in the various streets which have been picketed in connection with the West End tailoring trade industrial dispute; and whether he can inform the House of the result of his inquiries?
As already stated, it is impossible for the police to give the numbers of persons collected for peaceful persuasion, but not more than fifty, in small groups, have been noticed in any one street. The Commissioner reports that when there has been disorder or violence arrests have been made.
§ Mr. GEORGE ROBERTS
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the Tailoring Trade Board have passed a resolution to the effect that, providing it can be shown that an employer pays the minimum rate to 80 per cent, of his female workers on any piece rate, then it shall be considered that he is not liable to be prosecuted for not paying the minimum; and whether he proposes to sanction this proposal?
Mr. BUXTON
I am informed by the chairman that the Tailoring Trade Board have under consideration the question of framing a working rule for their own 363W guidance in regard to the meaning to be attached to the term "ordinary worker" in Section 8 of the Trade Boards Act for the purpose of proceedings taken by them under the Act. I understand that the question of adopting a rule for this purpose, based on a percentage of workers employed, has been discussed by the Trade Board, but that no conclusion has, as yet, been arrived at. In the event of a resolution being passed by the Trade Board, as Suggested by my hon. Friend's question, it would, of course, have no binding effect in law, and it would not therefore need the sanction of the Board of Trade.
Back to Ecclesiastical Commission and Queen Anne's Bounty (Grants).
Forward to Visits of Civil Service Officers (Dominions).


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Q: Shape and orientation of liquid surface in accelerating rocket tank I have a hard time explaining myself what would be the shape and the orientation of the liquid surface inside a rocket tank during acceleration (while the rocket motor are in operation). an example would be the surface of the Liquid oxygen inside the LOX tank of the Falcon 9 rocket first stage: is the surface perpendicular to the axis of the rocket (perpendicular to the thrust) or perpendicular to the relative acceleration (meaning including the gravity acceleration)?
The intuition from the ground would say that it is perpendicular to the relative acceleration. for example a car fuel tank when the car is linearly accelerating on an horizontal plane: the fluid surface tilts toward the direction of the acceleration and settle at an angle $\theta$ whose tangent is equal to the ratio of the horizontal acceleration over the gravity: $\tan(\theta) = \frac{a}{g}$

(picture taken from http://www.codecogs.com/library/engineering/fluid_mechanics/fluid_masses/accelerated-horizontally.php)
However, the rocket itself is submitted to the gravity, without any support to counteract it: if we stop the motor, the rocket is in free-fall (if we discard the air friction). So if we start our reasoning from the free-fall state, the fluid inside the tank doesn't see any forces acting on it. it is in a state of weightlessness in the tank and without any perturbation will stay where it is (with respect to the tank). Now if we apply the thrust, this is the only force that the liquid will see and will thus settle perpendicularly to this force, without any impact from the gravity. if this reasoning is correct, it means that the previous intuitive example of the car doesn't apply here. Most likely because the gravity is taken into account somewhere else.
I strongly think the right answer is the 2nd case, meaning the fluid will settle perpendicular to the axis of the rocket. I just cannot get around the equations to make up my mind correctly.
Does anybody could help me settle this problem? maybe with other examples or even the equations of the movement (that would be the best! I'm a bit rusted with non inertial frame...)?
thanks in advance!
Bastien

A: You are right to consider the rocket-fuel system as in free-fall.
The moment the rocket leaves the ground, the only force that dictates the positioning of the fuel relative to the rocket is the engine's thrust. The only reason (as you explained) that the fuel sits flat on the ground is because it is being pulled down towards the earth and is forced to lie flat because it cannot move the rocket out of the way as the earth is holding it up.
The thing to consider here is the relative forces acting between the fuel and rocket, not the acceleration.
From the reference frame of the rocket, the moment it leaves the ground suddenly the acceleration that was pushing it up has increased. The thrust of the rocket replaces the electrostatic (contact) force and then some extra to enable a net acceleration. So long as the rocket was vertical to begin with, the direction of the net force has not changed.
The electrostatic force is what stops the rocket from falling through the ground, and as such is equal to the force of gravity. To overcome gravity, the rocket must first reach a thrust that can cancel gravity, this is the replacing part, and then to accelerate the rocket it must be come greater than gravity.
Thus even as the rocket turns over the fuel must remain perpendicular to the direction of thrust.
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Tried to work out the mathematics for it. The easiest way is to show that the only way for the liquid to be disturbed within the rocket is for the fuel tank to actually push against it. As both the fuel and rocket have the same acceleration due to gravity, there is no way for gravity to press the tank and fuel together. Only the thrust which accelerates the rocket, and through contact forces, accelerates the fuel can have an effect on it's shape/orientation. Therefore when considering it's shape the only force that should be considered is the one that moves the fuel by moving the rocket against the fuel.
When it's on the ground you can think of the ground as pushing the rocket upwards towards the fuel.
Incidentally the equation for this contact force is: F(rocket on fuel)=Ma
Where, a is the acceleration of the rocket and fuel combined due to the thrust, and M is the mass of the fuel.

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Million-dollar embezzlement sparks reforms at DHSS
A year after a food stamp embezzlement scheme came to public light, Delaware social service officials have transformed how they guard against fraud.
Million-dollar embezzlement sparks reforms at DHSS A year after a food stamp embezzlement scheme came to public light, Delaware social service officials have transformed how they guard against fraud. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2017/08/12/million-dollar-embezzlement-sparks-reforms-dhss/556553001/
Karl Baker, The News Journal Published 2:56 p.m. ET Aug. 12, 2017 | Updated 3:59 p.m. ET Aug. 12, 2017
A year after a food-stamp embezzlement scheme came to public light, Delaware social service officials say they have transformed how they guard against fraud. Wochit
The Lewis Building at the Delaware Health and Social Services Herman Holloway Sr. campus in New Castle, Del. The agency has implemented a number of anti-fraud measures to prevent employees from stealing from the system. (Photo: Jerry Habraken, The News Journal)Buy Photo
A year after a politically explosive, food stamp embezzlement scheme came to public light, Delaware social service officials say they have transformed how they guard against and root out fraud.
And, to do so, they are looking over the shoulders of their own employees with a beefed-up team of as many as 20 quality-control investigators.
The Delaware Department of Health and Social Services adopted a litany of anti-fraud measures after seven social workers between 2008 and 2015 stole nearly $1.3 million worth of social service benefits, including about $900,000 of food stamps.
The culprits, who since have pleaded guilty and been sentenced to prison or probation, created fake accounts in the names of fictitious homeless people with no mailing addresses. The resulting benefit cards were sent to DHSS field offices in New Castle and Kent counties, which the culprits then collected for themselves.
"We had controls in place but, obviously, our controls were not sufficient," said Ray Fitzgerald, director of the Delaware Division of Social Services, who described the crime as stealing from "poor people."
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Two years ago, an employee during a regular case check noticed suspicious information within a file, Fitzgerald said. The discovery led to a broader investigation, which unraveled the million-dollar fraud.
It wasn't disclosed to the public until a year later, after seven suspects were indicted.
In many instances, the culprits had entered all zeros into the Social Security Number line on food stamp application forms, Fitzgerald said. Some also were captured on video using the ill-gotten benefit cards at grocery stores, he added.
After the fraud came to light, a federally contracted consultancy team descended onto Delaware to investigate vulnerabilities in state operations. In an investigative report, the team said the food stamp program had been at risk because supervisors didn't think their employees would steal from the state — and instead focused fraud investigations on benefit recipients.
"Efforts were not heavily focused on internally-falsified documents," stated the investigators from Georgia-based Teracore in a report, obtained by The News Journal through an open records request.
Fitzgerald now has more than doubled the size of a fraud oversight team at the division, which today fluctuates between 15 and 20 employees — and includes seasonal and temporary workers, he said.
"They review the cases for quality and integrity to make sure nobody's doing any funny stuff," Fitzgerald said.
Teracore in its report also issued recommended reforms, which today have resulted in automated checks of Social Security Numbers listed on files, shifts in food stamp cases between social workers over time, physical inspections of state employees' desks and the prohibition of social workers from the mail room.
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The reforms, Fitzgerald said, make it nearly impossible for thieving employees to keep a single case on their desk in an attempt to thwart others from finding fraudulent activities.
"That can't happen anymore," Fitzgerald said, punctuating every word with a strike of his pen on a table.
In the intervening years since fraud was discovered, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials have been conducting regular inspections of Fitzgerald's food stamp operations.
An agency spokesman in an email said officials during inspections have found "no major violations of federal requirements."
Pressed about minor violations, the spokesman said they "found some cases were missing documentation related to the (food stamp) recertification action."
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$214 million and 15 percent of the state
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service funds the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known colloquially as food stamps, in reference to the physical form the credits once took.
With origins in a food program enacted during the Great Depression, when millions of needy people didn't have enough to eat, assistance dollars today are loaded onto Electronic Benefits Transfer cards and then mailed to recipients.
The state Division of Social Services distributes those dollars to people in need and manages their cases.
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The division also manages eligibility for Medicaid, the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, and two state assistance programs.
Approximately 145,000 Delawareans, about 15 percent of the state, received food stamps in July, nearly double the number in the program in 2008, before the full weight of the Great Recession descended upon Delaware.
In 2016, the program distributed roughly $214 million worth of food assistance in Delaware.
Fitzgerald's team of nearly 200 case managers — working at 18 field offices in all three Delaware counties — have not been bothered by "us looking over their shoulders," he said.
Ray Fitzgerald, director of the Delaware Social Services Division, sits in his office near New Castle. He has overseen anti-fraud reforms within the department. (Photo: Karl Baker/THE NEWS JOURNAL)
But one social worker, who spoke with The News Journal on the condition of anonymity, said some members on the new oversight team are temporary workers not sufficiently trained.
Still, when asked if a malicious person could get away with stealing money with the more robust anti-fraud system in place today, the social worker said, "there is more of a chance that they would catch it now."
The oversight team in August included 11 seasonal or temporary employees. Fitzgerald said temporary workers go through the same training as full-time employees.
Temporary workers are necessary in this role because state government is operating under a general hiring freeze, he added.
Asked if his division is understaffed, Fitzgerald said, "we don't complain."
It was a perfect storm of societal chaos that confronted the Social Services Division during the aftermath of the Great Recession, said Fitzgerald, who was deputy director of the office at the time.
An economic collapse led to surging applications for Medicaid and food stamps — at precisely the same time declining tax revenues contributed to cuts in state operations. Managers were overwhelmed.
Additionally, the Social Services Division was negotiating the rocky first years of implementation for the federal Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, said Jill Fredel, the DHSS spokeswoman.
"They were getting used to this new interface, which was a pain," Fredel said. "That computer system had problems from the get-go."
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Those problems occurred just as the fraudsters were fine-tuning their scheme.
They started small.
Just one fake account was opened in 2008, then three more in 2010 and an additional 13 in 2011.
Each fake account cost taxpayers, $22 each day or $8,162 in a year on average, according to the Teracore report.
Seemingly more confident as the years progressed, the social workers opened 68 cases in 2012, another 13 in 2013 and 13 more in 2014.
Investigators found no emails sent between the seven culprits documenting evidence of the theft during the time, Fredel said.
It was during a random quality-control check in the 2015 fiscal year that a supervisor attempted to pull case files but was unable to find all necessary information.
Officials became suspicious.
After examining the electronic form of the case, the supervisor found that it had no documentation uploaded into the digital imaging system, a safeguard against fraud.
The case also had been opened and closed a number of times, and an invalid Social Security Number had been entered.
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A second similar case also was discovered, and the two were compared. Both listed the applicants as homeless, and consequently, the EBT cards were sent directly to Social Services field offices.
Evidence mounted after supervisors noticed that, despite automated systems designed to assign social workers to cases randomly, the fraudulent files each had been worked on by only one social worker throughout their lifespans.
When Fitzgerald was told about the evidence, initially he was skeptical of the claims. As evidence mounted, his feeling turned to sadness.
"You're disappointed that the people who work here who know the struggles that everybody's going through in the community. You're disappointed," he said.
Fitzgerald confronted the then-suspects and presented them with an initial-suspension letter. The reactions were muted, he said.
"It wasn't like a Perry Mason moment. Nobody jumped up and said, 'I did it.' Mainly, they just sat there quiet, accepted the letter," he said. "One person said, 'Wow.' One person said, 'I can't believe this is happening.'"
Shortly after, the workers were fired.
The seven social workers are Detrich Simmons-Heath of Chestertown, Maryland; Kamilah Laws of Wilmington; Jo Ellen Edwards of Felton; Shirlene Davis of Newark; Nicole Stevens of Dover; Allison Rivera of Dover; and Angelette Brown of Camden.
Edwards was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $378,880 in restitution. The others face between one and two years of probation and also were ordered to pay restitution between $296,172, for Simmons-Heath, and 8,092, for Stevens.
Detrich Simmons-Heath (Photo: COURTESY OF DOJ)
Suspicions and politics
From his corner office in the Lewis Building at a DHSS complex near New Castle, Fitzgerald said that despite the anti-fraud focus, he is resigned to the possibility that some of his employees may again try to steal from the system.
"I wouldn't go on record saying this is never going to happen again because people are people. It's just our job to try and catch them," he said.
Earlier this year, in fact, there was some sort of malicious incident, involving Social Services employees "doing things they weren't supposed to do," which caused a loss of hundreds of dollars, Fitzgerald said.
He declined to disclose more details, but called it a "one off."
The offending employees had been fired, he said, adding they were apprehended because of the new oversight.
The division is focused on minimizing the risk of anyone siphoning funds from the multimillion-dollar assistance program, partially because the resulting negative press fuels political scrutiny, which could harm people who depend on the program, FItzgerald said.
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But many conservatives say there should be fewer people using food stamps.
For years, they have argued that too many taxpayer dollars are spent on government assistance programs, such as food stamps. President Donald Trump's first budget proposal released in May included a 25-percent cut to the program.
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney noted that food stamp rolls haven't fallen back to pre-recession levels.
"Isn't it reasonable for you to at least ask the question, 'Are there people on that program who shouldn't be on there?'" he asked.
Countering those critics, Fitzgerald said, on average, between 60 and 80 percent of food assistance recipients are working-age adults and are not disabled, have a job or have worked within the past year.
"People think that our benefit programs are like a giveaway," he said. "They're really not."
Fallout after the crime
The fallout from the crime was swift.
DHSS officials requested help from the federal government and Teracore, the private investigative team contracted by the United States Department of Agriculture, came to Delaware.
Agency Secretary Rita Landgraff "at the time was angry," Fredel said. "That there are people who would steal from their neighbors who are so vulnerable. That is really just the lowest of the low."
Rita Landgraf, who was secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services (Photo: .)
From April to June in 2015, the team from Teracore interrogated employees and scrubbed their workplace practices.
The News Journal requested through the Freedom of Information Act a copy of Teracore's contract with the USDA. Federal officials provided the contract but redacted the total amount paid to Teracore for its Delaware work.
Officials from Teracore did not respond to requests to comment on the case.
Also in the wake of the discovery of the crime, DHSS officials scrambled to figure out how best to describe the situation to the public.
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A series of emails obtained by The News Journal through an open records request shows how in early 2015, USDA spokesman Chris Kelly worked with Fredel to "craft a message" about the case.
"As you can imagine, this is extremely sensitive," Fredel wrote in an email to Kelly in April 2015. "We have not made a decision on when/if to send out the release, but we need to be prepared in case news of the investigation/fraud leaks out."
DHSS employee Gwen Griffith sent an email to DHSS supervisors, including Kevin Kelley, director of the Division of Management Services, conveying to them that Social Services employees with whom she had spoken, implored top-management to immediately disclose the case to the public.
They "feel that this will be a big story when it hits given the new Congress," Griffith said. "The department could break the story themselves, touting the documented successes of the" auditing team.
State officials never disclosed the information to the public at that time.
Emails between Delaware Department of Health and Social Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture show how officials worked together to craft a public message about a million-dollar case of fraud. (Photo: Karl Baker/THE NEWS JOURNAL)
A year after the emails, the Delaware Department of Justice issued a press release about the indictments of the seven former state employees.
Today, when asked about what the public should takeaway from the story about the fraud and resulting reforms, Fitzgerald said, he doesn't want them to be distracted from the value his team brings to society.
"Folks reading this article, they don't know me, they don't know Jill, they don't know anybody," he said. "We don't want the limited resources we have for helping vulnerable people, we don't want any bad light shed on that, so we are committed to ensure something like that doesn't happen again. But if it does happen again, we're committed to addressing it immediately."
The Teracore team in closing its report warned that thieves will become more sophisticated in the future, and therefore Delaware's social workers must remain vigilant about protecting the integrity of its $214 million program.
Limiting "fraud is not a static process. Over time, perpetrators of fraud may develop more sophisticated methods," the report stated.
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Kentish dialect
This article is about the dialect of Modern English. For the dialect of Old English, see Kentish dialect (Old English).
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Location of Kent within England.
The Kentish dialect combines many features of other speech patterns, particularly those of East Anglia, The Southern Counties and London. Although there are audio examples available on the British Library website and BBC sources, its most distinctive features are in the lexicon rather than in pronunciation. As Estuary English is considered to be spreading in the area since at least 1984, some debate has emerged as to whether it is replacing local dialects in Kent, Essex and Sussex.
2 Examples of the Kentish Dialect
3 Dialect words and phrases
Modern Kentish dialect shares many features with other areas of south-east England (sometimes collectively called "Estuary English"). Other characteristic features are more localised. For instance some parts of Kent, particularly in the north west of the county, share many features with broader Cockney. Typical Kentish pronunciation features include the following:
Yod-coalescence, i.e., the use of the affricates similar to [dʒ] and [tʃ] for the clusters /dj/ and /tj/ in words like dune and tune.
Diphthong shifts, e.g., the use of open [ɑɪ] or rounded [ɒɪ] for /aɪ/ in words like pie, or the use of [æɪ~aɪ] for /eɪ/ in words like take.
A lengthened [æ]. This appears often before voiced consonants such as in ladder.
H-dropping, i.e., Dropping [h] in stressed words (e.g. [æʔ] for hat). This is thought[by whom?] to have first started amongst Londoners some 300–400 years ago.
Vowel shortening in certain words, e.g. /iː/ becomes [ɪ] in words like seen (but not scene, which regularly uses the shifted diphthong [əi~ɐi]).
Examples of the Kentish Dialect
The pattern of speech in some of Dickens books pertain to Kentish Dialect, as the author who lived at Higham familiar with the mudflats near to Rochester, and created a comic character Sam Weller who spoke the local accent, principally Kentish with strong London influences.[1] The character name of "Miss Havisham" sounds like the small town on the Rochester/Canterbury road, Faversham.
Dialect words and phrases
The Kentish dialect appears to have been[weasel words] very colourful in the past, with many interesting[weasel words] agricultural words appearing. Many of these seem to have[weasel words] disappeared in the modern age:
Alleycumfee - a non-existent place.
Better-most - the best, something superior
Dabster, a dab hand - somebody very skilled at something
Fanteeg - to be flustered
Ha'ant - "Haven't." For example, "Ha'ant yew sin 'im yet?"
Jawsy - a chatterbox
March-men - people from the borders of two counties
'Od Rabbit It! - a blasphemous utterance
Ringle - to put a ring in a pig's nose
Scithers - scissors (clippers may have been "clithers.")
Twinge - an earwig
Wrongtake - to misunderstand
Yarping - to complain, applied to children
Kentish (Anglo-Saxon)
^ Parish 1888, p. vii
Parish, W.D.; Shaw (1888). The Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms (PDF). Lewes: Farncombe & Co.
Major, Alan (2011). "Guide to the Kentish Accent". Historic Kent . com. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
"Kent Voices". BBC. 2005. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
Kent Archaeological Society, online dictionary of the Kentish Dialect (378 pages)
http://www.kentarchaeology.ac/cassets/KentishDialect.pdf
Links to Charles Dickens and Kent:
http://www.information-britain.co.uk/culturedetail.php?id=26
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/CD-Kent.html
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Come to think of it, it is a great compliment to babies that despite the frequency of their appearance they retain their popularity. The Class of '55 is expected to run well over 4 million in the United States alone. Babies are strictly wonderful. If you disagree, look at the faces of the adults during viewing time in the nursery of the Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia. There isn't a sour expression in the lot, but there is awe, joy, wonderment, thoughtfulness and an over-all spirit of welcome. So, a toast in homogenized milk to the Class of '55 — the inheritors of 6000 years of recorded human history with all its mistakes and triumphs; sixty centuries which encompass wars and philanthropy, soaring ideals and thermonuclear "devices," love and cruelty, millions of daily kindnesses and intercontinental missiles, of patriotism and treason and flying saucers. Recommended reading for you young people (when you get around to it): Alice in Wonderland.
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When parents drop their children off at daycare, it's a moment full of mixed emotions. Will he play well with others? Will he miss me during the day? Surely, the last thing that should be on a mother's mind is whether or not her kid will be well taken care of. But sadly, that wasn't the case for several families in Texoma, Oklahoma. According to KTEN, their community daycare is currently under investigation for drugging babies with Benadryl to put them to sleep.
Allegations arose after one of the daycare workers observed other employees giving Benadryl to small children — some less than a year old — as well as children just over that age. She notified the Department of Health Services' Child Welfare Department, who contacted local authorities to open the ongoing investigation.
Benadryl warning labels state that the medicine should not be given to infants unless ordered by a doctor. But Dr. Ian Paul, professor of pediatrics and member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Drugs, told TODAY that "Benadryl should never, ever, ever, ever be used to sedate a child, period," as it can make breathing dangerously slow to the point that it stops entirely.
"We've had some other employees come forward saying that they were giving the children Benadryl under the supervision of Beverly Sue Stair, the owner," said Jeff Wilson of the Bryan County Sheriff's Office. "They've … confessed to what was going on … and all stated that they were ordered to give this by the owner."
Wilson added that Stair is facing criminal charges for child abuse, and the daycare was closed by the Child Welfare Department on Friday pending further notice. Although seven victims have been identified, no children have sustained serious injuries.
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The wind blew, pulling dry bits of vegetation from the low, rust-colored shrubs and sending them dancing over the rocky floor of the tundra. Snowless, but frozen. When the wind didn't blow, it was nearly silent. The only noise would be the shifting of the earth, reacting to the pull of gravity, the noise of dirt stirring beneath nearly still water.
The vantage point the angel had chosen wasn't a high one, but there weren't many options for high vantage points.
Shape wasn't a mandatory thing for him. He could be all things, if he needed to be, but no one form completely fit. He wore three at the same time. A great white bear on his hind feet, a shaggy-haired wolf, and a man, neither young nor old, with hair and beard that had never been cut. The white of the hair and fur were so pure as to be shining.
He thrummed, though utterly still, a part of all he interacted with. The motes of sun that touched the tundra made it reverberate like a skin stretched tight, and that reverberation reached all the way to him.
Once, he had built. He had been a theme, spelling out a thousand narratives simply by being, like so many pens touched to an endless scroll of paper. He inked out paths and behaviors on the broadest scale.
When man had come about, he had been reflected in man's thoughts and behavior. As man became intelligent, so had the angel. He had guided man and been guided in turn, a symbiotic relationship.
Man, however, created its own demons. Some were obvious, while others stirred in the midst of the noise and chaos and took form. Sentiments became figures, fears took form, and in some cases, man abandoned his kind to join the storm of thoughts and ideas. To become the monster.
The creating ended, and man took the center stage, bringing change to that steady, stable creation. Born from chaos and noise like anything else, a chance configuration of molecules, man carried that change and chance with him. Each movement brought change, like a stirring of dust swelling and spreading out from underfoot.
As man's power waxed, the creators' power waned.
Soon, man's power would wane, and it seemed ruin would follow.
Once the angel had created. Now, he only maintained. He mended that which had been destroyed, and he watched as the world spiraled to an end. A distant end, yes, but an inevitable one.
A great distance away, glaciers cracked and erupted, and they fell into the oceans.
Here, in a small inlet, the local fauna was suffering, as the salinity of the water rose.
He left the area behind, but he traveled a specific path as he did. The creeks feeding into the inlet changed.
The fix would be slow, but it would mend itself. A small change, compared to the damage that was being done. At this stage, it was only man. Only change, carrying the world from one state to another. In time, there would be more to be done, and the changes would not be so easy. He would go to war and he would die.
His day had passed. Things would change, they would find ruin, and the ruins would settle.
There was no emotion at this, no concern, no anxiety. It simply was.
People milled through the streets. Every one different, every one a harbinger of change, given the opportunity.
Collectively, more powerful than he was.
He counted the individual faces he saw. Four hundred and twenty thousand, two hundred and eleven unique individuals had passed along the busy street since his arrival. Brightly dressed, drab, young, old, male, female, happy, sad. There were the locals, their skin a rich brown, and there were the foreigners and tourists, with skin and hair covering every natural human variation, and some colors that weren't natural.
Most moved with purpose. All but a small few moved in straight lines, once he corrected for the small changes, moving around people or letting people move around them.
In other places, the very light of the sun striking earth and the response of the earth to the pull of sun and moon could be deafening.
Here, amid so many footsteps, a storm of being, he wondered if mankind could take him to pieces simply by going about their day.
The wind stirred his fur. He sat on a balcony, the railing around him rusting, the paint that had once covered it now peeling. A woman sat in the shade of an umbrella, hands in her lap, mouth wide open. Sleeping on a warm day, oblivious to the roar of the milling humanity below her.
If she woke up, she would only see a disheveled white cat perched on the little table at one corner of the balcony. Dirty, but with enough white fur visible to suggest it could be beautiful, if left pristine.
A small child, riding on her father's shoulders, happened to spy him looking over the railing, and waved.
Four hundred and twenty thousand, two hundred and ninety-six unique individuals, now.
He began adjusting paths. Alterations to space, to placement. One change, willed into being. A car moved one inch this way. More room for a car to park forward, making it harder for the men coming down the street in their great garbage collection truck to enter the alley and pick up the cans there.
Some trash should remain behind, but it wouldn't be much. The longer-term effect would be greater. He could return in a week and do a similar thing. The same men were liable to keep coming for the same patrol.
The rodent population would increase, and the monsters that lurked beneath the city would be encouraged to come up for the food and the comforting presence of the rats and filth.
There was an ecosystem here that needed balancing, too. The monsters would run aground with the local goblin population. Both would be weak when the practitioners at the nearby church stepped in, they would be ruined, but not entirely destroyed.
In a year, the angel could return. If the practitioners were too strong, their direction dangerous, the angel could tease them into action by stirring the pot. Distract and weaken.
A subtle change to the pathway slowed the movement along one street, to benefit one store, and subtly alter the course of business throughout this section of the city.
A growing date tree was guided so it might grow into the surroundings, fixing it in place, a curiosity that might inspire, and perhaps lead to the tree being allowed to flourish in its unique fashion.
More small changes were made. To enhance growth, to rein in destructive elements, and sow seeds for future possibilities.
A figure appeared, standing opposite the angel, at the mouth of an alleyway. His skin was a deep brown, his eyes dark but gentle, but his face worn. He wore a dress shirt with the collar unbuttoned, and had a suit jacket folded over one arm.
The angel atop the balcony hopped down, just as the old woman beside him awoke. She startled, trying to follow him despite the disorientation of recent sleep, but he was already gone.
Already at the side of the man at the mouth of the alley. His brother's side.
"Harith," the angel greeted the man.
"Faysal." Harith took his hand. They walked together, hand in hand. "What news?"
Faysal shook his head. He used the fingers of his free hand to brush hair away from his face, then smoothed his shirt as he dropped his hand to his side. "No news. The world turns."
"We'll encourage it to continue doing so," Harith said.
They were in the midst of the crowd now. People milled around them. Each one a contained storm of events, of history, and untapped potential.
It was heady, distracting, to be in the midst of this. Harith was a source of calm in the midst of a storm.
"Humanity surges in strength," Harith observed. "It surprises me at times."
"Me as well. I've wondered for some time if I should encourage it or discourage it."
"Makes little difference."
"It makes all the difference in the world," Faysal said. "Assuming we want to stave off the end of things, supporting humanity could make all the difference."
"Or we could only be adding fuel to the fire, giving them the strength they need to speed along their way to the end of their road."
"Yes. I've wondered which it might be. This would all be so much easier if we knew."
"It makes little difference, because we can't and don't know. We must ignore humans and look to balance. Stability. If the demon's destruction is analogue to our creation, then stability is the balm to mankind's change. The humans are strong, and have seized the reins, taken to taming wild things. Including us. With a little help, they've willingly taken to engineering their own balance. They are best left to their own devices."
Faysal nodded.
"The demons are strong too. They lurk in the background of things, and perhaps they always have. When the age of humans ends, they will be best positioned to bring about an age of their own. I feel we shouldn't leave them to their own devices, as we mean to do with man."
"Yes," Faysal said. He laid a hand on a child's head as she ran by.
"Two problems have arisen in one place. I'm otherwise occupied, and you're not. I thought to ask your help."
"What problems?"
"One is a demon. It is freshly bound and may not be bound forever, as the bloodline that did the binding may now be disintegrating. It has been called a few times, and in answering the call, it is traveling a path. Wearing down the road, if you will. I know paths are your specialty, gatekeeper."
"The other problem?"
"A man. A practitioner. He is building something."
"Building? Buildings are your specialty, Harith. The third choir's."
"But the building is a subtle one, and subtlety is your specialty. He is laying the groundwork for something big, that much is clear, but here we stand, off to one side, watching and wondering how he can build so very quietly. Or why."
"No sound of hammers, nor sawing wood?"
"In a sense."
Johannes glanced over his shoulder.
Two bogeymen, a foo dog guardian, a ghost, and a faerie with a great rat pelt drawn over her shoulders stood ready.
Help, borrowed, bought, and coerced.
"Now or never," he murmured to himself. He glanced at his followers. "Be ready."
He turned forward once again. His finger tapped. His eye reread the page on Demesnes for the thousandth time.
Drawing in a deep breath, he spoke with confidence. "I, Johannes the piper, the sorcerer, the vagabond, hereby-"
"-Stop," a voice spoke out, soft, almost as if it were completing the sentence for him.
Johannes turned.
The man that stood in the doorway was beautiful, slight in build, white hair and beard cut short. He wore a gently rumpled shirt and khaki pants, and his feet were bare.
Looking at the man with the sight, Johannes could see how the man fed into everything around him. Where other connections were straight lines, the man shimmered, as if connections tied him to every speck of dust, every splinter of wood. When he looked, he could see connections to more distant things. To himself. There was no tension, no rigidity to the lines. The rules, very plainly, were different, where this man was involved.
The gleam of the countless individual connections made the man appear to shine, in the lobby of this partially built apartment complex. He made everything around him radiate with something just as fundamental as light.
Johannes found his pipes in hand when he reached down.
His minions stirred, tense.
"I was expecting challenges and interruptions, but not before I started the ritual."
"The ritual starting is what concerns me. It's very possible you've made a mistake," the shining man spoke.
"No," Johannes said, "I don't think I did."
"I can see it from here. I'm not quite aware how, and I can't say whether it's to your benefit or detriment, but you're about to act, and your actions will upset the balance. That's enough for me to take notice."
"You say that like it's a bad thing," Johannes said.
"In this case, it may well be," the shining man told him.
Johannes spread his arms. "I've invested a lot into this. Even the timing is pretty important. A good few of the neighbors are off on summer vacation, or off in Toronto. First weekend of summer, after all. Unsporting, but what are you going to do?"
The shining man made the step from the doorway into the room. He glanced around, then paced the perimeter, studying the circle and the boy.
Johannes was only fifteen, but his demeanor was one of someone older. His long hair was tied back into a ponytail, flush with the nape of his neck, and his face had yet to grow scruff. A gun, a laptop, and a set of papers sat on the top of the bar. A cheap construction of wood that put everything at chest level, without Johannes having to sit down. The laptop screen glowed, showing the same text that appeared in the book.
"The practice is about dealing," Johannes said. "Everything has a price. The trick is to skew the deal in your favor. I don't see how this is different."
"It defies convention."
"To hell with convention!" Johannes said, raising his voice. "Who or what the hell are you to come here and dictate what I can and can't do?"
"One of the architects of convention," the shining man spoke.
Johannes frowned. "Ah."
"And, it likely goes without saying, one of the protectors of convention."
"That's problematic."
"Not if you put this matter to rest," the stranger said. "I could destroy you, I'm being gracious enough to offer you safety instead."
"Thank you," Johannes said.
He grabbed the book, then threw it to the nearest Other. The childlike bogeyman caught it.
Johannes collected his laptop and gun.
"You're taking this opportunity to leave," the shining man said.
"Yeah, seems like the best option," Johannes commented.
"I'm not oblivious to the fact that you intend to resume the ritual as soon as you get a chance."
Johannes paused mid-stride.
"Fuck," he said.
"Now please-"
"Attack," Johannes said. "Arthild."
His pet Faerie went on the attack. Her features distorted, and she swelled in size. A rat, big enough to fill a smaller room, hair sparse, flesh purple with the veins just beneath the surface, stomach bloated and writhing.
One of the darker faerie, a lucky find, his ace in the hole. He'd spent four months screwing with the rat population until something took notice. He'd expected a spirit, he'd picked up the faerie instead. One from the winter court, the sunless court.
The shining man dodged her charge. She was mad, frenzied, and there was a deeper instinct driving her actions. On colliding with the wall, her bloated stomach was compressed. Fluids and rodents spewed from her nether regions, flooding much of the room.
Johannes was already heading to the door. He turned, laptop held to his chest, and managed to grasp at the pipes while still holding his gun. He paused for only a fraction of a second to make sure he wouldn't accidentally shoot himself in the head before he raised the pipes to his mouth and blew. A tune.
He'd had to learn the pipes to use the artifact's power. With the tune, he was able to sway the otherwise senseless swarm of rats. What might have been a distraction or psychological weapon became a tool. The rats swarmed the shining man.
He pushed on the door with his shoulder blades, spun, and ran.
His Sight told him that the combined collection of faerie and rats didn't last any longer than it took him to run the length of a city block. The connection between the pipes and the controlled was cut by the simplest, most inevitable means. Death.
Johannes startled as the shining man entered the lobby of the hotel that was still in construction. He had his laptop open, and a cable stretched behind the front desk he was sitting on.
He tapped the top of his screen. "Architect of convention? You wouldn't be an angel, would you?"
"I am. You're trying my patience."
"You have other things to look after?"
"Things of structure? The construction of elements, convention, I imagine?"
The angel shook his head.
"Okay, well, with that in mind-"
Johannes swung his legs over the front desk and shouldered his way through the door behind it.
A short hallway, a turn, passing through some double doors-
There was a flash from the room behind as the door swung closed.
A flash in front, as he passed through the double doors.
The angel waited for him in the convention room of the hotel.
"Ah," Johannes said.
Before he or the angel could say another word, he raised the gun and fired.
The angel stepped back. Blood welled from a hole in the abdomen.
"Your weapons of war don't work against me," the angel said.
"Okay," Johannes said, backing up. "Angels… opposite elements are strongest. You create, bullets destroy."
"Bullets change, they affect structure, even if that is tearing down blood, muscle, and bone," the angel said.
"Right. Interesting! Learn something every day," Johannes said. He continued to retreat, not to the door, but to the wall.
"You're edging toward the light switch. I assure you, whatever you intend, it's not going to stop me."
"I only need to delay," Johannes said.
He hit the light switch, one light on, one light off.
The blacklight lit up the room.
It was now lit up lines and diagrams, words in script and spots of bodily fluids that had been given to power the working.
The angel stopped, taking it all in.
Johannes ran, sprinting from the blacklit room into the hallway.
He'd set up traps and tools all around. He'd worked it so he had this entire section of town to play around and prepare in. At least until tomorrow.
Trouble was, he hadn't known who or what he was up against. If he planned too broadly, he risked something powerful simply striding through and ignoring the effect. If he was too narrow in having certain traps for certain foes, he risked having the wrong weapon at the wrong time, or simply not having an answer to a given threat.
He'd plotted that room and that trap with that in mind.
The binding wasn't for the enemy. It was for the bullet, which he had gone to great trouble to give a name.
The angel was free. Nine brief meetings to date, nine skirmishes. He hesitated to assign labels to beings as powerful and abstract as this angel was, but he was pretty sure that it was pretty close to getting pissed.
Around the fourth encounter, he'd stopped trying to start up the ritual and resigned himself to being chased. His pursuer could travel anywhere instantaneously and couldn't be delayed for long. It was very possible the pursuer simply knew where he was.
But with that knowledge and the dogged pursuit, Johannes had formed a hunter-hunted connection with the angel. He had a sense of where the angel was, and what tricks were working better than others.
Most were inducted into the practice as they entered puberty. Johannes had been a part of it since birth. He'd inherited it, and he'd inherited very little else.
He'd seen the good, he'd seen the bad, and he'd seen the ugly.
He'd done practitioners and others an awful lot of favors, and collected scraps of knowledge in pay.
He had, in a roundabout fashion, grown to loathe the status quo. He'd found his mission, and very recently, he'd reached the point where he couldn't postpone it any longer.
Now the status quo was coming for him in the form of an angel.
He was nearly out of tricks to use. His pockets were light.
Time for the old standbys, he thought. Back to basics.
Blood was power.
He drew slips of paper from his back pocket, and scattered them into the air.
Each was inscribed with a name. Vestiges of people. Each one appeared in turn. Imperfect. His work in this field was better than most, but it was still crude.
Vestiges were fragile. There was a chance this wouldn't work.
He cut the back of his hand, and he touched the blood to each vestige's forehead.
Of the seven, only two shattered on contact with the blood. The rest at least looked more or less human, albeit with an eye or other feature slightly askew.
Blood was power, and if the angel was following the most obvious source…
Let them be distractions. He only needed a minute to get set up again.
"Scatter," he said.
"I, Johannes the bard, the sorcerer, the miscreant, hereby make a statement. Let this be my claim."
There was a flash of light. The angel appeared opposite Johannes.
"I claim only those places and spirits as far as the reach of my voice," he said. "I claim this space and only this space. I claim the connections here and only those connections."
He watched the angel, tense, waiting for the attack.
The angel remained where it was.
"I name this space my demesnes, a place where convention doesn't hold, beyond those conventions which I openly decide to be fair and right. I claim this alone, with no bloodline of note behind me, and no intend to mark a bloodline after me. This demesne is forfeit when I have passed from this mortal coil."
He exhaled slowly.
"I claim this space as mine, as I dislike that which lies elsewhere. I would return to old times, stable times, and let this place be a sanctuary, both for Others that would come here, and for myself. For I do not like where things are going elsewhere, and I would hope to change the destination."
"Or delay it?" the angel asked.
"…Or delay it," he said, eyeing the angel warily. "Let this be my challenge. All who would deny me this demesne, declare your right to challenge me, and find me here."
The words were ominous, and they held power.
But so very few heard, and many of the ones who did were slow to grasp their import.
Johannes had retreated to a broom closet, lit only by the glow of his laptop. The angel was only a few feet away, looming over him.
"The device?" Faysal asked.
Johannes nodded slowly.
He worked his way to a standing position, facing the angel.
The angel reached out to touch the microphone.
Johannes spoke, "Why didn't you stop me?"
"You'd already begun. It was done."
"Ah. If you wanted to protect convention, mauling the person who tried to pull a stupid stunt is a good way to discourage others."
"Martyring you? I could be discreet, but I couldn't be sure. I'll see this to its conclusion, first. Some powerful beings did hear you."
"What? Who, where?"
"The bridge. It's a place where local goblins dwell. They're on their way now."
Johannes grit his teeth. He'd used up too many tools evading the angel. He'd been forced to start earlier, rush it. He'd wanted to be more careful with wording.
"There are others," the angel said. "Many will challenge you for even a small, closet-sized space. Some Others do not want neighbors."
"I made the speakers quiet," Johannes said. "Had to make it my voice, all the same. Needed the quality to be top notch. Should've been whispers, but it's hard to test, spur of the moment."
"Your voice was quiet, but they heard all the same."
Johannes nodded, already weary. The battle hadn't started yet, and he was exhausted.
"I liked the declaration," the angel said. "The sanctuary. Returning to old ways. So much of humanity is focused on rushing forward. Shall we discuss in the moments between your challenges?"
"Sure," Johannes said. "Sure. But can we do it while moving? Let's get out of this closet, first. If it's goblins, I have things I can do."
Johannes' breaths were ragged. He coughed, and he felt how one tooth didn't quite sit right. Probably loose, knocked ajar.
Damn goblins.
He struggled to stand, but one leg was in ruins.
His eye had been given away to one powerful goblin, a goblin queen turned partially into a goblin.
His arm was a ragged mess, and might have to be amputated.
He sat there, the entirety of his being focused on maintaining consciousness.
"Will you stop me?" Johannes managed to ask.
"I'll leave you be, provided you don't disclose how you did this."
"Yeah," Johannes said.
"Make your claim, and then take me for your familiar. We'll see this happen," Faysal said.
Johannes didn't act surprised. He simply sat there, a heap, bleeding. His voice was a croak. "Deal."
"Finish," Faysal pushed him.
Johannes couldn't even nod in response.
"My last challenge met," the sorcerer spoke, and his voice was just as raw as before, even as he found a surge of strength. "I claim territory as far as my voice reached to the west, to the large stone tree…
"I claim territory as far as my voice reached to the southwest, to the base of the condo sign…
"I claim territory as far as my voice reached to the south, the bridge, goblin's bridge…
The bell tolled. Faysal watched from above.
The beings that dwelled in the abyss were emerging. Areas were shifting. Quite interesting to watch, given his vocation. One who created paths.
He studied the practitioners. Studied Johannes.
He felt no fondness for the man. No fear, anxiety or worry.
But Johannes was crafty, and had been irritating enough with scraps of knowledge and meager amounts of power. Now he had a great deal of power, and he hadn't let his guard down, nor abandoned his canniness.
Faysal wasn't a warrior. He was a planner. So long ago, he'd anticipated Johannes' failure, and steered events so he might take advantage of it. To deal with the demon, among other things.
As familiar, one part of a whole, he could exert his power, stretch his wings and lay claim simply by being more.
For the time being, he seized all that Johannes was, in body, mind, and spirit.
None of Johannes' temporary companions noticed his brief falter, the stagger, the hand that went to his head, as he fought and failed to resist.
The fallen house on the hill continued to sink, nearly as fast as they climbed. If they slowed or faltered in the slightest, they might lose their chance to escape. He was a gatekeeper, and he sat so he blocked the place that bridged the sinking house and the rest of the city.
"Stay," he said, and the idea communicated along the loose, waving threads that bound Johannes to him.
Johannes accepted the order, and at Faysal's bidding, passed it on to the others.


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Elizabeth Anne Voigt (née Speed) was director of the McGregor Museum in Kimberley, South Africa, and, as an archaeozoologist, served a term as president of the South African Archaeological Society. In retirement, Voigt was appointed a research associate of the McGregor Museum. She was born in Cape Town on 26 April 1944 and died on 7 April 2010 in Kimberley.

Education and early career
Voigt was born and brought up in Cape Town, where she attended the Rustenburg School for Girls in Rondebosch. Her undergraduate majors at the University of Cape Town were in archaeology, social anthropology and Latin. With a First Class archaeology Honours degree, she embarked on a career in which she would eventually specialise in the study of faunal remains from archaeological sites. She obtained her master's degree from the University of Pretoria.

Archaeozoology
Voigt studied coastal molluscan fauna, particularly at Klasies River Mouth, and conducted ethnoarchaeological research on shellfish diets. The main thrust of Voigt's subsequent faunal work, however, was wide-ranging analysis of animal bones from Southern African Iron Age sites dating between A.D. 200 and 1800, and especially at Mapungubwe, with a focus on diet, economy and domesticated breeds. Her publications include both journal articles and a number of less formal pieces for popularising the findings of archaeozoology. Her Masters dissertation at University of Pretoria was published as a book by the Transvaal Museum under the title, Mapungubwe: an archaeozoological interpretation of an Iron Age community. Latterly Voigt analysed a number of assemblages from Karoo Later Stone Age and colonial era contexts.

Museums
Apart from studying the diets, climates and economies revealed through the seashells and bones of the past, Voigt increasingly devoted attention to matters museological. While she held junior and part-time lectureships at the Universities of Cape Town and Pretoria, it was primarily in museums that she developed her subsequent career. She played an important role in the various activities of the South African Museums Association. In 1996 she and the staff at the McGregor Museum in Kimberley, of which she was appointed director in 1987, organised and hosted the Diamond Jubilee conference of the Association which had been founded in Kimberley sixty years previously. She served on the Council of the Association for several terms, was editor of its journal SAMAB, and was the hard-working chairman of its education committee. She played a vital role on the committee which promoted professional standards and produced the graded museum accreditation scheme for South Africa in 1996. From 1997 to 2003 she served as a trustee of Iziko Museums. Liz Voigt obtained a Nagraadse Diploma in Museologie from the University of Pretoria and also the diploma of the Museums Association of the United Kingdom. "Once museums get into your blood," she observed, "they are there for life."

Archaeological Data Recording Centre
Earlier, she had helped set up the Archaeological Data Recording Centre at the South African Museum (1967–68), for which she also published The South African Archaeological Site Recording Manual. At the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria, where she worked from 1969 to 1987, initially in palaeontology, she established an Archaeozoology Department in 1981 – the first of its kind in Southern Africa.

McGregor Museum
Subsequently, she built up a comparative osteology laboratory at the McGregor Museum. Her Kimberley career was primarily administrative, with major projects that she supervised including the opening of the restored Rudd House (1988), the completion of the new Humanities Block (1990), the declaration of Wonderwerk Cave as a National Monument and its opening with public displays (1993), the Northern Cape Frontiers and Ancestors Galleries at the McGregor Museum (1997–2000), the further development of Magersfontein for the Anglo-Boer War centenary (1999), the establishment of the Sol Plaatje Museum and opening both of the Barkly West Museum and new displays at Victoria West. In a period of momentous change in the immediate post-Apartheid era, Voigt went some way to negotiating transformation in the museum.

Retirement
In retirement, Voigt returned to her first love, engaging in archaeological and archaeozoological projects alongside a continuing involvement in museums. Amongst these was a joint effort to research the little-known Black concentration camps that were set up in the Northern Cape during the Anglo-Boer War. She also carried out faunal analyses on assemblages from Swaziland, Botswana, the Karoo and nineteenth-century sites near Kimberley.

As president of the South African Archaeological Society, 2000–2002, Voigt sounded the alarm on diminishing museum capacity in archaeology. This was in her presidential address on Archaeology under siege: the dilemma of archaeology in museums in South Africa. A particular concern of hers was the creation of entry-level positions and qualifications for technicians in museums, an issue which she pursued when appointed as a member of South Africa's Qualifications Authority (SAQA) Standards Generating Body for Archaeology.  Traditionally as centres for research and for engaging the public in displays and in other ways, museums most crucially fulfil a curational role for archaeological and other collections. This made museums a key sector, she maintained, under-girding archaeology as a going concern.

In the community, Voigt was actively involved in various spheres for the common good. She served as chairman of the St Cyprian's Guild and on the Council of St Cyprian's Cathedral in Kimberley, while Rotary honoured her with a Paul Harris Fellowship.

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The most effective programs are comprehensive and involve the entire school community. They include interventions at the school, classroom and individual level.
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The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP) is the most researched and best-known bullying prevention program available today. With over 35 years of research and successful implementation all over the world, OBPP is a whole-school program that has been proven to prevent or reduce bullying throughout the school setting.
The program attempts to restructure the existing school environment to reduce opportunities and rewards for bullying. Staff members receive training from certified OBPP trainers to learn and implement the program within the school community. Administration, faculty, staff, students and parents each have a role and participate in the program.
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Dealing with discipline problems related to bullying incidents can take a good deal of administrators' and educators' time during a school day.
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After implementing OBPP on a wide-scale basis in Norway and during the 1990s, Dr. Olweus worked with Dr. Susan Limber and other colleagues in the United States to implement and evaluate the program. Today, OBPP is one of the most successful bullying prevention programs and Dr. Olweus has been named "the world's leading authority" on bullying prevention programs.


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As for all EE packages you get unlimited minutes and unlimited texts (plus a number of other goodies like Tethering and VoIP). The data allowance though is fairly small though at only 500MB but then, nobody is offering 4G at the moment so things might change in a near future.
As for the BlackBerry Z10, it is currently the top of the range smartphone at the Canadian company together with the Q10, its keyboard-equipped alter ego. It is a 4G compatible handset, runs the new BB10 OS (now available in 10.1 flavours), has a 4.2in display with a 1,280 x 768 pixel resolution, a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8960A system-on-chip clocked at 1.5GHz, 2GB of RAM, 16GB onboard storage, an 8-megapixel rear camera plus all the freebies one can expect from Blackberry like BBM video with screen share.
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She said her Administration looks forward to working with the new government.
Dr Rowley will be sworn in as Prime Minister of the twin island republic on today.


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