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History In the Majors
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Order of Merit Actual Placings
Order of Merit 2020 Standings
2019 Season Review
Caribbean Golf Society 16/11/2019 2019 Season Review2020-02-13T11:47:24+00:00 Charity, Information, Presentation Night
Another year passed and already into February, the year is 2020! It sounds like something from a science fiction movie, the old films from back in the day used to reference years such as this, who'd have thought we'd be here to live in these times, but time keeps moving it's the epitome of perpetual motion.
So it's 2020, and with the start of another CGS season almost be upon us. The first event the Fix-UP Cup which gets its name from the business title of the man who donated the trophy to the CGS many years ago Mr Neville Rhoden who was once a frequent visitor to CGS events until priorities changed and was no longer in a position to attend. Anyway we are thankful for Neville's generous donation. It's an event which as seen many memorable moments.
Last year saw the event played at Willesley Park Golf Club in Leicestershire, a new venue for the CGS and one that's made it onto the roster for the 2020 season. The attendance for this event was high a rarity for the first event of the season, however those numbers would be the norm throughout the season. So with 32 members and guests in attendance play started on a course which was in reasonable condition considering the rain that fell the night before. Of the visiting guests Tony Blackwood and Errol Murray would both be familiar faces throughout the season both becoming full members, with Errol also winning two events and contending in the Order of Merit.
The scoring at Willesley wasn't the highest with just 11 of the 32 scoring 30 points or more, however the winning score was better than average. Working on his game during the winter break had paid dividends for Paul Ramsey whose solid play rewarded him with the 2019 Fix-Up Trophy after a score of 38 points which was four better than second place and showed practice is essential in this game. The event also saw the return of Keith Riley after several months out with injury, Keith is one if not the eldest in the CGS so it was great to see him back on the course playing. Keith's wife Mary was also out recovering from a hip operation but she would make a return a few events down the road.
The 2019 season was the first season that saw some major changes in the CGS organisation, Denny Senior who had been the CGS secretary from its inception had decided to step down, also Roan McLeod who had also been on the committee throughout the CGS 12 years as the Handicap Secretary also stepped back. This paved the way for Chris Powell to take up Denny's duties and Keith Salmon to take up the job of sorting the handicaps. It's definitely made an impression, the introduction of WhatsApp as a way to respond to event attendance as significantly made a difference to attendance figures. Although email is a good medium the CGS WhatsApp group the committee created for event attendance has been a revelation, the immediate response to the call for attendance has worked, no longer is there a need to continually send reminder emails to members, WhatsApp reminder messages get a much quicker response, so a big thumbs up to the committee.
The next event was held at Telford Golf Club for the Captains Trophy, a venue the CGS have been visiting for the last four years. It was in 2015 the CGS first visited Telford Golf Club where Junior Harris scored 40 points beating the other 35 CGS members in attendance. On this occasion a field of 30+ CGS members and guests were subjected to the start of a 2019 run of form for Eddie Wedderburn which would see two victories in the season, the first with a winning score of 38 points, was enough for Eddie to lift the Captains Trophy.
The CGS holds an event every year to remember the day when it all started. It was Good Friday back in 2007 where that first event took place and has since been known as "Founders Day", that small bunch of guys who got together to play a game we all enjoyed many of which are still members of the CGS. Back then the venue was Licky Hills municipal golf course and the winner was Junior Harris who shot a gross score of 84 playing off 18 handicap. Although the event was first played on a municipal (muni) course the CGS have moved on to better venues. The venue of choice for the 2019 Founders Day event was Harborne Golf Club in Birmingham. In attendance were 23 CGS members and guests. From inception this event has been played as medal, so a good test for all. The first event back in 2007 saw in attendance Don Carter who for many years played with the CGS. Don was and is a member of Harborne, so playing at Harborne Don was at home. Playing off 6 handicap he posted a score of 76 gross which was the best gross score on the day. Winning the event was CGS past Captain Elford Douglas who posted a gross of 86 to win the event with a net score of 70 winning the event on count-back from Don.
Next came May's event which was held at The Worcestershire Golf Club for the Chairman's Trophy. There were 34 members and guests in attendance on a warm day in the Malvern Hills. It was a mixed bag of scores which reflected the same attribute attributed to the greens. The scratch score on the day was set at 30 stableford points which just showed how difficult the members found it. As we always say about this game you never know what can happen on the day and this day proved that statement to be correct. Whilst most struggled to score 30 points Emrys Karemo was the only one who didn't like scoring in the thirties so decided to branch out into the forty point bracket. With the nearest player only managing to score 32 points Emry's was in another league of his own.
Up next was the Caricom Cup in June at Lingdale Golf Club. With yet another attendance figure in the thirties these numbers were now becoming a standard for the 2019 season. The Lingdale course which is situated in Leicestershire was well received by all in attendance, it's a very challenging course with many long par fours and difficult par three's. The last time CGS played Lingdale Chris Powell won with 37 points and on this occasion 37 points was again the winning total but this time it was new CGS member Errol Murray who won his first CGS Major and in the process collected the Caricom Cup.
The season was now in full flow, the CGS then moved onto an old favourite Swindon Golf Club which is now called The Staffordshire. Once again over thirty attended a venue that was last played by CGS members in 2015. The weather was great and as it turned out it was good weather and also good for Wedderburn, that's Eddie Wedderburn who won the second of his two victories this season with 38 points. The win sent Eddie to the top of the Order of Merit.
Olton Golf Club was the venue in August for the CGS Players Trophy. Once again attendance was high, 38 members and guests attended the venue in Solihull. The course wasn't in great condition, the main gripe were the greens which had been hollow tined but good scores were still available and Chris Powell was the man to produce one. Chris managed 39 points on the day which could have been much better especially with only a par on the par 5 11th having driven the green. It's at this point that the run for the Order of Merit starts to get serious but this year Eddie Wedderburn had amassed such a lead at the top that it was becoming very difficult to topple him. The few remaining events would give those near the top a small but a mathematical possibility of taking the title, so the next event would go some way towards achieving that.
It was for the TNCM Trophy where those with a shot at the title would be able to give chase to Eddie. The competition was held at Walsall Golf Club and has been the trend throughout the year attendance was in the thirties 36 to be exact. The course was in reasonable condition apart from some bad greens but on the whole it was very playable. The scoring at the top was very close but no one could stop Errol Murray from securing his second win of the season with 37 points. It had been a very successful season for Errol, two wins in a CGS season is not easy to achieve but also doing it in the same season he became a member.
With Errol's victory it almost assured Eddie Wedderburn would take home the Order of Merit title, it was only a matter of finishing up the last golfing event of the season. The "Charlie Sifford Memorial Trophy" was the last event and it was held at the Cotswald Hotel and Spa in Chipping Norton Oxfordshire. Once again over thirty attended and for an event which is held over two days with Hotel stay this was the icing on the cake for what's been one, if not the best attended seasons. It was a great weekend of food, drink, banter and of course Golf. With Eddie so far out front the Order of Merit had already been wrapped up before we even started. It was a very nice venue and with only one course it gave us all a chance to make amends for any poor play on the first day. With a score of 35 on day 1 and 33 on day 2 Vassel Brown was the man to show the most consistency over the two days and was the man to lift the Charlie Sifford Memorial Trophy.
With all the golf now done for the year the committee got straight onto planning the CGS Annual Presentation Dinner and Dance which was once again held at Sandwell Golf Club in West Bromwich. It was a great night of food and drink with great entertainment provided by comedian Rem Conway, DJ Deadly (from Stoneheart Family) and CGS very own Eddie Wedderburn who performed under his stage name Eddie K. He not only tore it up on the course in 2019 but the man can sing and entertain which he did, he was excellent.
It was all about the entertainment and a chance for guests and members to enjoy themselves. It's also a chance to raise money for our chosen charities and for everyone to remember the achievements of the CGS members throughout the year with the trophy presentation for the season's winners. So amongst all the major events played there is also the Birdie winner's trophy for the player amassing the most Birdies in the season. This year the first prize was a joint effort with Ian Higgins and Roan McLeod both scoring 10 birdies in 2019. There is also the different handicap Category winners, Rodney Dillon won the 3rd Division title, Ludlow Stewart won the 2nd Division title and Roan McLeod was the winner of the 1st Division title. With all those prizes presented there was only room for one more and that was for the Order of Merit Champion. As it's already been mentioned throughout this report Eddie Wedderburn was the man mid-season his consistent golf was the key to him securing the title with one event remaining. It was not only the two wins but also the two second places which allowed Eddie to take the title. So congratulations to all the winners and especially to Eddie who not only entertained us on the links but also on the mic.
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WHY CHINESE FOOD IN THE WEDDINGS?
We can see the inclination of people towards Chinese food .
From weddings to the parties, we could see amazing variety of Chinese food on the menu. Children have started loving Chinese food a lot.
There were times when North Indian food used to be everybody's go to choice and favourite but with time the flavour has been changing , people love Chinese so much that they do not want anything else if they have Chinese on the menu. Chinese food like chowmein and chilli potato has been very much in the demand lately. There have been opened up a lots of stalls, food trucks, vendors and outlets at every corner which serve you Chinese food.
Now if we talk about the weddings, people are more attracted towards the Chinese cuisine. More number of people are seen crowded near the Chinese stalls and the outlets in the weddings.
Do you remember your school and college days when you used to eat chilli potatoes for your friends? Crispy chilli potato are almost loved by every person these days. How can we forget the palatable spring rolls? They are too enjoyed by everyone.
Overall, there has been increasing demand of the Chinese food in the youth.


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Serapias ionica
S. ionica is a rare member of the S. vomeracea group whose name reflects its distribution centre in the Ionian islands of Greece. It was first described from Cephalonia by Baumann and Kunkele as recently as 1988 though it was originally recognized and named S. nglecta ssp ionica by Nelson some years earlier.
Its range is disjunct and poorly understood and whilst it was originally thought to be exclusively an orchid of the west coast and islands of Greece and Croatia, it is becoming clearer that it may well venture further into mainland Greece, possibly as far as the eastern end of the Gulf of Corinth and perhaps even Attica. S. ionica exhibits a preference for coastal habitat and this has put it in danger from agricultural development and urban sprawl, particularly in areas with high economic reliance on tourism. For this reason it's to be hoped that the species is indeed rather more widespread than at first thought.
S. ionicashows a marked partiality for lightly wooded country on alkaline soils and the illustrations feature plants that were growing in just such a situation, in a small area of limestone pavement. It should be stressed that the illustrations do not depict typical examples of the species and it's conceivable that there has been genetic interference. They do however illustrate very well the extremely hairy epichile, characteristic of this species.
The photos come from the western Greek mainland and date from the 20th of April 2007.

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Q: How to invoke on the UI thread of a WinForm Component? I'm coding a WinForm component where I start a Task to do the actual processing and trap the exception on a continuation. From there I want to show the exception message on a UI element.
Task myTask = Task.Factory.StartNew (() => SomeMethod(someArgs));
myTask.ContinueWith (antecedant => uiTextBox.Text = antecedant.Exception.Message,
                     TaskContinuationOptions.OnlyOnFaulted);

Now I get a cross-thread exception because the task is trying to update a UI element from a, obviously, non UI thread.
However, there is no Invoke or BeginInvoke defined in the Component class.
How to proceed from here?

UPDATE
Also, please note that Invoke/BeginInvoke/InvokeRequired are not available from my Component-derived class since Component doesn't provide them.

A: You could just add a property to your component, allows the client to set a form reference that you can use to call its BeginInvoke() method.
That can be done automatically as well, preferable so nobody can forget.  It requires a bit of design time magic that's fairly impenetrable.  I didn't come up with this by myself, I got it from the ErrorProvider component.  Trusted source and all that.  Paste this into your component source code:
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.ComponentModel.Design;
...
    [Browsable(false)]
    public Form ParentForm { get; set; }

    public override ISite Site {
        set {
            // Runs at design time, ensures designer initializes ParentForm
            base.Site = value;
            if (value != null) {
                IDesignerHost service = value.GetService(typeof(IDesignerHost)) as IDesignerHost;
                if (service != null) this.ParentForm = service.RootComponent as Form;
            }
        }
    }

The designer automatically sets the ParentForm property when the user drops your component on a form.  Use ParentForm.BeginInvoke().

A: You can use delegates to do this.
    delegate void UpdateStatusDelegate (string value);

    void UpdateStatus(string value)
    {
        if (InvokeRequired)
        {
            // We're not in the UI thread, so we need to call BeginInvoke
            BeginInvoke(new UpdateStatusDelegate(UpdateStatus), new object[]{value});
            return;
        }
        // Must be on the UI thread if we've got this far
        statusIndicator.Text = value;
    }

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WILLARD — The Galion Tigers boys soccer team saw their first season come to an end Tuesday night in sectional tournament play against the Willard Flashes. Willard's season continues after defeating Galion 8-0.
The match started well for the Tigers.
With first-team, Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference athlete Stephen Thompson at the goal, Galion finished off the first half down just 1-0 to the Flashes. Thompson had 12 saves in the half, but found himself sidelined for the second half after taking a knee to the side of the face. His injury changed the complexion of the rest of the game for the Tigers squad.
Galion was unable to get things going for the rest of the game and their season was over.
"I wish this one was different but sometimes things don't work out," said coach John Stewart of the final game's outcome.
In addition to Thompson's first team all-conference honors, Matt Sparks was named to second-team MOAC team and Lucas Connor earned honorable mention honors.
The team will lose six seniors after this season, which will leave a lot of weight to be picked up by the underclassmen in season number two next fall.
"It was a good season with a great group of guys," Stewart said. "The team made it through the season with relatively few injuries. We had fun along the way and learned some things about soccer. We also grew as individuals, and as a team, throughout the season. I'd consider it a successful season.


Relationships don't exist in a vacuum. They exist between two emotional human beings who bring their own past experiences, history, and expectations into it. Two different people also have different levels of skill when it comes to communication. But better communication, because it is a skill, can also be learned.
The most popular myth about communication in relationships is that since you talk to your partner, you're automatically communicating. While talking to your partner is indeed a form of communication, if it's primarily about everyday, "surfacey" topics ("How were the kids?" "How was work?" "How's your mother?"), you're not really communicating about the important stuff. This article is primarily about how to talk in a more open and rewarding manner with your significant other.
Communication either makes or breaks most relationships. You can improve your relationship today, right now, by putting into practice some of these tips for improving the communication in your relationship.
2. Force yourself to hear.
3. Be open and honest with your partner.
4. Pay attention to nonverbal signals.
Someone who's turned away from you when talking to you may mean disinterest or being closed off.
All the while you're reading your partner's nonverbal signals, be aware of your own. Make and maintain eye contact, keep a neutral body stance and tone to your voice, and sit next to the person when you're talking to them.
5. Stay focused in the here and now.


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Another day, another dollar. Louise Hamilton was here, present, accounted for. Sidling into the conference room, she moved her hand to cover her mouth as she yawned. Breaks were never long enough, it seemed. Why couldn't they have like a two month vacation as back in school days?
"Morning, Mai. Mr Phora," she said, fixing herself a cup of tea and taking a seat.
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Mai was surprised no one else had shown up yet. Had they not seen the memo? she thought. Maybe they're just having a hard time getting away from work. she reasoned with herself. She didn't have much work on her own table yet, but that was alright. She was hoping maybe Conley would be able to introduce her to the representatives of Japan and France. That would be very helpful.
"It was lovely, thank you. I got to spend a couple days catching up with my parents back home, but I came back and got settled in quickly." Mai didn't want to appear as if she was slacking off, she wanted to make a good first impression. That was for sure.
While they were waiting, he might as well give Mai the documents he was holding for her. Internalizing a sigh, because, well, his time was money too and he had things he needed to do as well, he slid over two manila file folders (one orange, one blue) containing some paperwork. Inside were curriculum vitaes and short biographies on the French and Japanese plenipotentiaries.
"Information on your charges," He said with a smile. "Haruto is rather easy to deal with. But Valentin?" Conley raised an eyebrow and resisted the urge to whistle. "A little…high strung." He had faith that Mai could handle him though. "If you have any problems with him. Let me know. He and I..." he was about to say 'had history together,' but thought better of it. They did have history together, but a phrase like that could be taken a few different ways and he didn't want rumors to start roaming around the office. "Worked together once upon a time."
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Conley had leaned back after passing the files over to Mai. Taking another sip, he watched Louise walk in. Well, there was a least another person here. "Ms. Hamilton," he said pleasantly in greeting.
A few more people filtered in and Conley finally felt confident enough to start this meeting. He took one last sip of his tea and then placed the empty teacup back on the saucer before flicking open his notebook and picking up his quill. "So, welcome. Good morning and I hope everyone had a good holiday." He smiled, perhaps a bit too widely, as thoughts of his own holiday briefly popped into his head. He forced them away. It was time to work. "We've a few new faces here, Ms. Ainsley will be our new French and Japanese Relations Officer." He motioned to the young lady with a welcoming smile. "And Mr. Wallce," he motioned to the new coordinator. "Is our new jack-of-all trades. He'll be available to help with planning events, meetings, mail, guests, and anything else that may pop up. But please, don't abuse his help. He maintains the right to tell you all no." He smiled, hoping the joke went over well, while providing Wallace with an out if he should get overwhelmed.
"Now, down to business." His index finger tapped lightly against his notebook. "It has come to my attention that the audit I requested be done a few years ago, did not actually happen. Therefore," His smile faded. "We have a quite a few people in the county on expired VISAs. They will all need to be contacted and informed that their paperwork is expired. If they do not respond or complete new paperwork in a timely manner, we will unfortunately have to get Law Enforcement involved." He scribbled down a note. "I personally don't want to have anyone expatriated so, let's get this done as quickly as possible." He felt that it went without saying that if this wasn't done, people would also be disciplined, possibly fired.
"Next," He put a check mark next to his first note. "There has been an increase in lost or stolen passports reported. Foreign Relations," he glanced at Mai and few of the other officers who were seated around the table. "Please reach out to your plenipotentiaries and see if there has been any other activity reported or if they too are having issues. Please inform me immediately of any other issues you happen upon in regards to these issues. Again, if the issue persists, Law Enforcement will have to get involved and I would rather not have to deal with the aurors." Wow, that was a lot of use of the word 'issue.' He mentally rolled his eyes at himself.
He glanced over at Louise. "Ms. Hamilton, if the reporters start sniffing around, please inform me immediately."
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Wallace checked the refreshments once more, making sure there was plenty for all. Especially those muffins, the lemon poppy seed was his personal favorite so there were a few extra of those. As the last few people straggled in and Conley started the meeting, Wallace made his way to a spot near the door.
He settled into his chair and pulled out a small note pad from his pocket followed by his favorite pen. Conveniently his glasses were still hanging from his pocket, not lost in the office some where. No squinting for Mr. Wallace, not now at least.
Department All Staff Meeting - Lead by Department Head Conley Phora
- Ms. Ainsley - French and Japanese Relations Officer
- Mr. Wallace -
At the mention of new people Wallace raised his head to look out at the people gathered. So many faces, so many names to learn. All with time. He smiled in Ms. Ainsley's direction at her introduction and made a mental note to formally introduce himself. At the mention of his name Wallace smiled again, raised a hand in a short wave and nodded to Conley. Yes, Wallace could say 'no' and there was no problem with him saying it either.
Back to his notes Wallace continued as Conley spoke. I need a bigger notepad. Wallace thought to himself.
gritandgrace
DoM & DIMC
Bonjour, je m'appelle Eniola Abara.
Sixth Year
Xin chào, tôi tên là Mai Ainsley.
Hello, name is Lucien Wright.
Mai gladly took the files, it was a relief to know a bit more about her charges. Haruto and Valentin? Sounds good enough. Mai had put up with all sorts in her old jobs.
It seemed Conley had his fair share of practice with them too by his wording.
She smiled at everyone upon her introduction and again at Mr. Wallace when he was introduced. Maybe they'll have a chance to talk as the newbies. But for now, down to business.
Stolen passports? That's unfortunate. "Yes, sir. Should we also work alongside Transportation and notify them of any irregularities?"
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Two-time Indian Super League champions Chennaiyin FC will begin their maiden AFC Cup group stage campaign with a match against Indian rivals Minerva Punjab in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
Chennaiyin became the first ISL side to enter the AFC Cup group stage after getting the better of Sri Lanka's Colombo FC in South Zone qualifying play-off on 1-0 aggregate last month.
Jeje Lalpekhlua scored the winner for Chennaiyin in the second leg here after the first leg had finished goalless. The Mizo striker, who is the senior-most player in the Chennaiyin squad, has two goals in his last two appearances, having also netted in the club's 2-0 Super Cup round-of-16 win over Mumbai City FC last week in Bhubaneswar.
Chennaiyin are also boosted by the return of defensive midfielder Dhanpal Ganesh from a long-term knee injury along with Jerry Lalrinzuala who was also out of action.
Ganesh got some valuable game time in the win over Mumbai City, having come off the bench in the second half. Ganesh and Jerry are integral additions to Chennaiyin's defensive setup, that has kept three clean sheets in their last three games in all competitions.
The CFC backline will be motivated to add to that tally when they take on Minerva. The CFC's young full-backs Laldinliana Renthlei and Tondonba Singh have also put in confident performances, with the latter having assisted two goals in the last two games which included Jeje's winner against Colombo FC.
"The team morale and confidence are high. We are raring to go for the AFC Cup group stage. It is important to get off to a good start against Minerva, who we will not underestimate," Chennaiyin head coach John Gregory said at the pre-match press conference.
Along with Chennaiyin, this will also be Minerva's maiden group stage campaign in the AFC Cup.
Minerva come into the group stage after defeat to Iran's Saipa FC in the AFC Champions League preliminary round in February.
The 2017-18 I-League champions have recently made loan signings of midfielder Samuel Lalmuanpuia from Shillong Lajong FC and Nigerian defender Kareem Nurain from Aizawl FC.
The Punjab side have also brought in Trinidad and Tobago defender Robert Primus ahead of the AFC Cup group stage campaign. Interestingly, CFC midfielders Anirudh Thapa and Germanpreet Singh may feature against their former club, having played for Minerva Punjab in 2016-17 I-League season.


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Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted that his government may shut down Facebook and YouTube after March 30 local elections to what he says avert negative effects of internet on society, a move would likely spark public backlash given the mounting social unrest and uneasiness over government's growing encroachment on people's lives and media.
Erdogan raised the issue when he was talking about the controversial internet law, which has drawn wide criticism and condemnation from critics and the EU, in a live televised interview jointly aired on A Haber and ATV late Thursday and said the government would consider shutting down popular video sharing website YouTube and social media network Facebook.
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The paper presents results of investigations of bottom sediments in Hornsund, Wijdefjorden and Isfjorden as well as of the shelf around the Bjornoya. carried out in 1982—1985 by a continuous seismic profiling. Geophysic structures and bottom sediments on the bedrock to a depth of 170 ms have been recognized, particularly in the Hornsund region. The following seismoacoustic units have been distinguished: unit A — bedrock, unit В — till and/or compacted glaciogenic deposit, unit С — glaciomarine ice-front deposit, unit D — glaciomarine mud. These results allowed to present a model of glaciomarine sedimentation in a fiord, fed by warm tidewater glaciers.
The specific activity of natural gamma emitters like actinium (228Ac), bismuth (212Bi, 214Bi), lead (212Pb, 214Pb), potassium (40K), radium (224Ra), thallium (208Tl) and artificial radioisotope caesium (137Cs) was measured in 2005 in the surface layer of marine sediments in the northern Svalbard: Wijdefjorden, Woodfjorden, Vestfjorden and Bockfjorden as well as in the freshwater reservoirs in Andre Land. Nonuniform spatial distribution of these radionuclides was found. Sediment sample from Bockfjorden had the highest specific activities of all natural radionuclides. The specific radioactivity of 137Cs was much lower than specific radioactivities of natural radionuclides but there were differences between investigated locations. The distribution of 137Cs is similar to persistent organic pollutants of the lake sediments in the area.
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The research aim was to determine the long-term impact of the mine waste stored at the coal waste dump Hałda Ruda on the content of heavy metals in the bottom sediments of the Bytomka River. It is a watercourse flowing along this coal waste dump and has been under its influence for over fifty years. The research also attempted to determine the seasonality of changes (2 years) and mobility of selected elements. The article presents total contents of Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Cd and Pb in the bottom sediments collected from the Bytomka River. It also focuses on the distribution of these elements in particular geochemical fractions determined with the Tessier's sequential chemical extraction procedure. Total element contents were determined with an EDPXRF (Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence) technique. The extractants of particular Tessier's fractions were determined quantitatively with an ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry) spectrometer. The research results show that the stored waste significantly influences the contents of heavy metals in the Bytomka River bottom sediments. The lowest concentration of heavy metals was observed at the B1 spot (above the dump), while the highest one was measured at the B3 spot (below the dump). Sequential chemical extraction of the bottom sediments indicates that the Zn content in the ion-exchange and carbonate fractions diminished within a year. Nevertheless, Zn bound to Fe and Mn oxides acted in the opposite way. Mn, Zn and Pb are the most dangerous elements from the viewpoint of environmental hazards, as their total concentrations were high. Moreover, their high contents were observed in the most mobile (ion-exchange and carbonate) fractions. Extremely toxic Cd was bound to the oxide fraction to the largest extent. Cu was mainly bound to the organic fraction while environmentally hazardous Cr was bound to the residual fraction.
The object of the investigation was metal contamination of bottom sediments of the Skroda and Chwaliszówka rivers, which are the right contributaries of the Lusatian Neisse river, draining the territory of the so called "anthropogenic lake district". The district came into existence as a result of mining activities in the border of Silesia and Lusatia, which date from the half of 19th century to 1974. The district includes about 100 reservoirs, of the total area of over 150 ha, which are from about 30 to 100 years old. The rocks accompanying the Miocene coal-bearing formations were deposited on waste dumps. The dumps form embankments of the aquifers arising as a result of post-exploitation mining subsidence. The streams dewatering waste dumps inflow directly or indirectly to the Chwaliszówka and Skroda rivers. The pyrite is the mineral present in mine waste material. The pyrite weathering products inflow into surface waters and affect adversely the water quality. In the last stage of migration the pollutants are accumulated in the bottom sediments of rivers and lakes. The samples of bottom sediments of the two rivers were analysed by means of a five-step sequential extraction procedure performed for the partitioning of selected trace metals (Fe, Mn, As, Cr and Al). It was determined that the bottom sediments of the two analysed rivers contain significant concentrations of aluminium and iron. The concentrations of other metals (Mn, Cr and As) are in the range of geochemical background of water sediments in Poland. Concentrations of arsenium, chromium and manganese, which are bound to easy-available fractions (I – exchangeable and II – bound to carbonates) are not significant, so it could be assumed that they are not expected to be released and they do not threaten the river ecological system. There is, however, the possibility of the aluminium and iron re-mobilisation, taking into account the high concentrations of easy-available fractions of these metals in the sediment. Fe and Al are potential source of water contamination, and re-mobilisation of these metals will produce the aggravation of quality parameters of river waters.
The buoyant hypopycnal flow of brackish water and suspended sediment transport and settling were studied in two sub-polar fjords: the glacial Kongsfjörden and the outwash (non-glacial contact) Adventfjörden, Svalbard . The data presented indicates faster water mixing on the tidal flat in comparison to the englacial runoff, which leads to faster horizontal density gradients decreases in the non-glaciated fjord. The fast settling of particles in the narrow zone of the steep slope at the edge of the tidal flat leads to the removal of 25% of the surface suspended sediment. The rapid settling is due to increasing salinity, decreasing velocity, and flocculation of fine particles. The fast settling of suspended particulate matter (SPM) in the tidal flat area causes sediment redeposition and resuspension followed by sediment transport along the bottom with hyperpycnal flows. This leads to grain sorting in the fjord head. In contrast, at the glacier front, SPM is transported farther into the fjord, where tidal pumping and water mixing lead to the removal of 71% of total SPM. The fjords investigated represent two different sedimentological regimes. In the glaciated Kongsfjörden, the buoyant hypopycnal flow of brackish water is the main sediment transporting factor. In the non-glacial Adventfjörden, hyperpycnal flows transport sediment along the bottom.
Sediment samples and hydrographic conditions were studied at 28 stations around Iceland. At these sites, Conductivity−Temperature−Depth (CTD) casts were conducted to collect hydrographic data and multicorer casts were conducted to collect data on sediment characteristics including grain size distribution, carbon and nitrogen concentration, and chloroplastic pigment concentration. A total of 14 environmental predictors were used to model sediment characteristics around Iceland on regional scale. Two approaches were used: Multivariate Adaptation Regression Splines (MARS) and randomForest regression models. RandomForest outperformed MARS in predicting grain size distribution. MARS models had a greater tendency to over− and underpredict sediment values in areas outside the environmental envelope defined by the training dataset. We provide first GIS layers on sediment characteristics around Iceland, that can be used as predictors in future models. Although models performed well, more samples, especially from the shelf areas, will be needed to improve the models in future.
The aim of the presented research was to analyse the pollution of the Kozłowa Góra Dam Reservoir with PCBs (28, 52, 101, 118, 138, 153, 180) and heavy metals (Zn, Cu, Ni, Cd, Pb, Cr). The investigated water and bottom sediments were sampled from two sampling points in November, 2009. The sampling points were located in the southern part of the Kozłowa Góra Dam Reservoir. The samples of bottom sediments were taken from the surface layer of 5 cm thickness. The extraction of PCBs from the bottom sediments was performed according to the EPA 3550B standard. For the sequential extraction analysis of metals from the sampled bottom sediments, the method suggested by Tessier was applied. Based on the obtained results the water and bottom sediments from the Kozłowa Góra Dam Reservoir were polluted with polychlorinated biphenyls. The highest concentration of the investigated PCB congeners in bottom sediments was determined in the sampling point No. 1 (2.78 µg/kg d.m.), whereas in the sampling point No. 2 this level was over 20-fold lower which might result from the inflow of these compounds with the waters of the Brynica river. In both sampling points the investigated bottom sediments were predominated by higher chlorinated PCBs with comparable contents of 86% and 85%, respectively. The level of pollution in the investigated bottom sediments (calculated per dry matter) with polychlorinated biphenyls did not exceed the level of TEL (< 0.02 mg/kg). The PEL value (3.5 mg/kg) was exceeded in the case of cadmium in the bottom sediment from the sampling point No. 2 and also lead (91 mg/kg) from both sampling points. The first two fractions with the mobile forms of metals are the most sensitive fractions to any changes of the environmental conditions in the benthic zone. In those fractions significant contents of lead, cadmium, nickel and zinc were observed.


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The Daily Acca: Brighton to see off Pompey
Can Graham Potter get Brighton into the top half this season?
It's a 7/2 Daily Acca for Paul Robinson today, which features two matches from the Carabao Cup. Here are his selections:
- Back Wolves @ 1/2
- Back Brighton @ 6/10
- Back Marseille @ 17/20
The Acca pays approximately 7/2
Second-string Wolves to be strong enough
Bet 1: Back Wolves @ 1/2 - KO 19:00 BST
There is no chance that Nuno Espírito Santo will field his strongest XI for this League Cup tie, but they have home advantage against Stoke, and I expect them to prove too strong for the Championship side.
Wolves looked good in their Premier League opener against Sheffield United, and there was plenty of strength on the bench in the shape of Ruben Neves, Diogo Jota and new signing, Fabio Silva.
The Potters, meanwhile, could only draw with Millwall, and with Bristol City coming up on Sunday, I don't expect them to play their strongest team either.
Brighton to win the South Coast battle
Bet 2: Back Brighton @ 6/10 - KO 19:45 BST
The Seagulls showed plenty of promise against Chelsea, despite losing 3-1. They play some good football under Graham Potter, and with some shrewd signings made, I doubt that they will be involved in a relegation scrap.
Like Wolves, it is doubtful that the Premier League side will play all of their stars ahead of a trip to Newcastle at the weekend. However, the same can arguably said of opponents, Portsmouth, who make the short trip to the Amex, coming off the back of a 0-0 draw with Shrewsbury in League One.
L'OM to make it three from three
Bet 3: Back Marseille @ 17/20 - KO 20:00 BST
We finish in France, where PSG's conquerors are too much of a big price to leave out, at home to St Etienne.
André Villas-Boas' men beat the reigning champions in an event filled match on Sunday, and while they will be without the suspended duo of Amavi and Benedetto, last year's runners-up are on a roll at present.
The visitors could only finish 17th last term, and while they have won their opening two matches of this campaign, they were both at home, and came against Lorient and Strasbourg - neither of whom are in Marseille's class.
Daily Acca 2020/21 P/L
Wagered: 17pts
Returned: 0pts
P/L: -17pts
2019/20 P/L: +35.3pts
Back Wolves @ 1/2
Back Brighton @ 6/10
Back Marseille @ 17/20
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Norman MacAfee The Song of the Earth
poem-drawings from the Chinese
From 1965 to 1967, I was at the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop. While the Workshop provided courses in writing poetry and fiction, a student was encouraged to take other classes. Thus I had the great pleasure of reading Remembrance of Things Past with the Proustian Chilean novelist José Donoso, who in another course introduced us to the world of Latin American writing—most memorably, Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo and Pablo Neruda's poetry.
And then there was Ch'eng Hsi, who taught Chinese poetry, painting, and opera. It was the time of the Vietnam war, the draft, and President Johnson. Our country was in torment and turmoil. The experience of ancient China had resonances for us. The poems were about war and disagreement with the emperor and exile. Ch'eng—probably then in his forties—would recite, emote, really sing a poem in ancient Chinese, as we took up his sweet-smelling, narcotic ditto sheets with their purple letters and silently read the poem in three versions: in calligraphy, in transliteration, and in rough translation. I still remember the vivid sounds of the originals.
When I left Iowa for New York, I brought along my notes and ditto sheets, planning to make something of them someday. It was not until 1990, however, after more than two decades of writing, editing, and translating, that I felt ready to tackle the material. A hundred pages finally became a nine-poem sequence of moods and themes, of history, greed, bitterness, ecstasy.
I have always loved both drawing and writing but gave up visual arts in my twenties to concentrate on writing. In the 1980s I started drawing and painting again, usually in connection with some performance work, like the dance libretto to music of Olivier Messiaen The Re-Creation of the New World, recently published in Scene4, and Helen Adam's ballad opera San Francisco's Burning, recently published in Jacket2. In May 1996 I made the drawings for "The Song of the Earth" using a Chinese inkbrush that I had bought thirty years before at Ch'eng's suggestion. The aim was to make a visual, calligraphic, representational image of each poem, if possible conveying the music and movement of the original material.
Norman MacAfee: forthcoming: The Death of the Forest, opera to Charles Ives; Gloucester's Eyes, dance-theater work to Shakespeare and Monteverdi; Man at the Crossroads, poem-opera to Diego Rivera; Life Begins Tomorrow, play about Sartre with music of Messiaen; The Music of Ezra Pound, for actors and musicians.
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Have you ever been so hyped up about something only to discover that you might have set your expectations too high? Well, you're not alone. Everyone has been there, and it's normal. We sometimes get so enthusiastic about something that we forget to stop and remind ourselves that things don't always go the way that we planned.
The 'expectation vs. reality' discussion is not a new one. It has been proven countless times that expectations do breed disappointment, and that's just reality.
It is therefore vital to teach ourselves to understand and accept the fact that people and situations are unpredictable and sometimes we can do nothing to change it. Some situations are beyond our control, and all that's left is for us to accept reality and move on. Feeling disappointed and annoyed won't change the reality. Trying to force things only makes it worse for ourselves.
The best thing to do is to remain positive and open-minded about life. Be flexible enough to invest in the present as opposed to people.
No one is saying that you should not have expectations at all. You should have things to look forward to, but before you do that, here are a couple of things you should think about before having those expectations.
People are different, and by virtue of them being so, they are bound to have different opinions. Do not expect people to have the same opinions as you. If you do, you will be setting yourself up for disappointments. Take different opinions as a learning opportunity. It is a great way to better yourself.
How happy you are is totally dependent on you. The sooner you realize this, the sooner you stop relying on other people to make you happy. If you are in a relationship, do not let your partner's happiness or lack thereof determine how happy you are. We are responsible for our own happiness, not our partners.
Everyone strives to be the best version of themselves and sometimes this urge to be perfect leads us down the wrong path. Trying to make someone else perfect for you can be quite disappointing and most often impossible. Do not impose your will on someone as you struggle to make them perfect. It is a sure way to get disappointed. Work on yourself instead, you deserve it.
Sometimes we expect our loved ones to do the things we want exactly the way we envisioned them do in our minds. This is where most misunderstandings come from. You cannot expect someone to read your mind and do exactly what you saw them do. Instead, communicate clearly to them what you expect them to do. They cannot read your mind.
What works for you might totally fail to work for someone else. You, therefore, cannot force someone to act in some sort of way simply because it works perfectly for you. The result may be a total disappointment.
This is the ultimate way to avoid disappointments. You have to accept that you will continue being disappointed because that is simply part of life. It's not unfair to us; it happens to everyone. Accept that no one is perfect, accept that all people are different, accept, accept, accept.
Take a look at all the times you got disappointed by someone or something and try to implement what you have just read. You will see that had you expected a little bit less, you would have avoided getting disappointed. If you practice the advice mentioned above, you will see that you will have a lot less to be disappointed about.


Odissi is an Indian classical dance form, which originated in Orissa in India. The history of the dance form is traced back to the days of Bharata Muni, who in his text Natya Shashtra, mentions about this dance form. It can be then roughly estimated to be around 200 BCE-200 CE that the origin of Odissi can be found.
However, apart from this, the evidence of the presence of the dance form in history can be seen in the sculptures present in the various archaeological sites in Orissa. As represented in these sculptures, the dance form is an expression of love, passion, and desire and often performed religious stories and spiritual ideas talking about the human-divine connection. Earlier, in the beginning, these performances were done by women, and in fact, Odissi has its origin in the Devadasi tradition.
Let us first know about the development of Odissi.
But, with the passage of time, this dance form saw some developments which brought about changes in its structure. These were encapsulated within the three schools of Odissi dance, which were namely Mahari, Nartaki and Gotipau. The Mahari tradition has its roots in the devadasi tradition. Nartaki was the developed dance form which took place in the royal courts. And The Gotipau tradition includes young boys dressing up as women and performing women roles. The most important feature of this dance form is tribhangi. It means the division of the body into three expressive parts- head, bust, and torso.
It is a distinguishing feature of this dance form which aims at audience engagement with rhythmic musical resonance. Odissi is a performative art which includes performances based on religious narratives and myths found in the Hindu scriptures. They are usually tales of love and passion and are performed through the use of symbolic costumes and body movement, which includes Abhinaya (facial expression) and Mudras (hand gestures or sign language). The five key elements of the structure of the dance form are basically invocation, nritta (pure dance), nritya (expressive dance), natya (drama) and moksha (the climax expressing the freedom of the soul).
The dance form, however, faced a history of violence: during the Muslim rule, almost every Indian traditional art form faced an attack from the plunderers; and later in the British rule, Odissi was seen as defamatory to art with its women dancers, who were considered as prostitutes. As this art form was performed mostly around temples, during British rule, the dancers were seen as idol worshipping prostitutes and were banned from performing such rituals in front of the temple.
The anti-dance movement of 1892 launched by the Christian missionaries is a clear example of the status of degraded art form Odissi received in the past. Yet, it thrived and witnessed a revival in the 20th century which saw famous practitioners of this dance form who took it to a different level. Some of its leading practitioners were Guru Deba Prasad Das, Guru Kelu Charan, and Guru Mahadev Rout, to name a few. They, with their earnest devotion to this dance form, helped to promote Odissi with its artistic elegance to the world and helped revive this age old tradition of expressive devotion to the Gods through dance and music.


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Urban Operations: Technology Trends
GlobalData Thematic Research
The Contested Urban Environment experiment in Montreal, Canada. Credit: Crown copyright.
Urban operations are not just another part in the spectrum of warfare. It is found in every part of it, ranging from high-intensity to low-intensity warfare. As such, there are plenty of historical examples such as those from Stalingrad, Aachen, Hue city and Fallujah, to Grozny, Panama City and the effort to clear Iraqi urban areas from ISIS combatants. Warfare in an urban environment is still important for military planners and will be of extreme importance due to the increasing urbanisation and the potential of a near-peer confrontation between major powers, in densely populated areas of the world.
Listed below are the key technology trends impacting the urban operations theme, as identified by GlobalData.
Multi-mission platforms
In the confined spaces of an urban environment military forces need platforms that will be able to provide additional capabilities in order to maintain tempo and the initiative against the enemy. The industry is showcasing products that address urban operation needs. For example, MBTs and armoured vehicles, which have been upgraded with additional armour protection, an RWS (Remote Weapon Stations), active-protection systems, cameras that provide the crew with 360 degrees situational awareness, hybrid electric energy management systems and engineering systems such as earth movers to reduce the need for mission specific engineering vehicles.
As threats are evolving, modularity can provide the necessary "ground" for the integration of additional capabilities that would be able to be supported by the architecture. For example, a modular vehicle architecture will allow the user to modify it according to the mission requirements. If it will operate in a low-threat environment, it could feature a lighter armour and weapons, making it less intimidating to the population. In case of high-threats, it can be equipped with additional ones, thus reducing the need and the cost for mission-specific platforms.
Joint effects
Considering the government spending shift that followed the end of the Cold War towards social welfare, COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) systems, components or even platforms are increasingly offered to make the acquisition of systems affordable and shorter.
Digital soldier systems
The complexity of the urban environment is such that no single military service or arm can tackle the threats and the requirements of safeguarding a city by itself. Jointness on a higher level and combined arms approaches is the way to success. Coordinating all these stakeholders requires the necessary C2 equipment that will improve the exchange of information and the decision-making process.
Digitisation is increasingly finding its way into every system and platform. The nature of the urban environment puts soldiers and small units (squads, platoons) in the epicentre of the battle, thereby increasing the need for situational awareness. Digital soldier systems provide such capabilities. Their cost has impeded their wider use by armies. However, parts of those programs are being implemented in an effort to introduce such technologies incrementally.
Collateral damage reduction in urban operations
The obstacles of the urban terrain reduce observation and make communication harder. Unmanned systems (ground, maritime, aerial) will provide the necessary persistence in ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) missions and communications relay, at a fragment of the cost of their manned counterparts. Unmanned systems can also expand the capabilities of platforms, further enhancing the versatility characteristic at an affordable price.
This is an edited extract from the Urban Defense Operations (Urban Warfare) – Thematic Research report produced by GlobalData Thematic Research.
Urban Defense Operations (Urban Warfare) - Thematic Research
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2018 - December - Are you Finished?
The Thanksgiving holiday found me in Arizona spending time with my mom and extended family. While there, my husband and I celebrated 10 years since he proposed and I pushed my envelope by participating in the Hot Chocolate 15K in Scottsdale, AZ. Got to do it with my mom who did very well! I'm thankful for quality time spent with family and all the projects you entrust to me in partnership with your own concepts and efforts. As we finish up this year of 2018, may you enjoy the season in which I like to celebrate Christ and what He has done for each of us --His gift of eternal life is free, you just need to accept it.
Have you got all your projects finished for 2018? I'll be in the shop a lot through Dec. 21 working on your projects. Due to some commission project delays, I may have a couple more spots available if you need something quilted before Christmas.
I've continued to add new products, not just to the website but in the shop too! Please check out the new arrivals online or make an appointment to stop by the shop and ask to see new arrivals. Beautiful new collections from Wilmington have arrived ...10" stacks and coordinating yardage.
--Bohemian Dreams and Day at the Lake .
Supplies for jelly roll rugs (pre-cut batting rolls and lots of jelly rolls to choose from) or a phone charging caddy (pick your fabrics and select coordinating grommets) are also now in stock. Photos have been posted on the Facebook page. Shipping is free when total purchase exceeds $75. Order ahead and select 'pick up in shop' if you're running tight on time but would like to pick it up in person.
Shop Calendar --I'm doing better at maintaining the online calendar. Haven't seen it? Check it out here.
Proposing Sunday Dec. 9 at 10am. RSVP by Dec. 7.
Get e-pattern here which includes several other holiday themed quilts.
A quick holiday themed runner but any coloration could work with this design. Scrappy from your stash or come in and pick just the right fabrics for your own holiday table or the perfect hostess gift. Length of design can be adjusted in 9" increments.
December 10 -- Show & Share --Bring what you've been working on and/or share a holiday treat; stay and sew if you'd like.
PREVIEW - A Poinsetta Winter - from In The Beginning Fabrics - limited quantity BOM kits will be available starting May 2019. Let me know if you'd like to reserve one.
OTHER CLASS OPTIONS TO CONSIDER FOR 2019 -- jelly roll rug; bag; patterns from Barbara Persing, Elizabeth Hartman, Violet Craft (english paper piecing--all by hand or foundation paper piecing), Sew Kind of Wonderful (new book with lots of seasonal wallhangings and curved ruler), Turning Twenty and Strip Therapy. Many options to choose in the shop from these last 6 designers. Make an appointment to come check them out and help me plan a schedule for classes. Check the 'patterns' category on the website for just some of the possibilities --come in for the rest!
If there are any particular techniques or projects that you'd like to have as a class, gather your friends who are interested and we'll schedule a class for this fall/winter/spring that works for you. Costs will be determined based on number of students and time needed for the project.
Aurifil has extended a great deal and I'm offering it right here in Grand Coulee. $14.99 gets you a spool of white thread and a box to put it in--your own brand new box! Typically here in Grand Coulee, I offer the spools at $12.50/spool and if you buy a whole case (12 spools) at one time, you get the case for $125. This offer will let you buy them at one or more a month until you reach 10, then you'll get the last 2 (to make 12) free. You can do this as often as you'd like, but is available only to the first 30 customers or if purchased by January 6, 2019 whichever is first. Spool prices will go up to $13.35/spool on January 7, 2019, but all Thread Box Club Members will continue to be able to get spools for $12.50 until they have completed their case. Stop in and get your numbered box or order online by January 6, 2019. We'll track your spool purchases that qualify for the thread club discount.
Current prices will be going up to $9.75/yd as of January 7, 2019 -- get your orders in now for the best prices--$8.50/yd. Orders placed by Dec. 20 will ship immediately. All orders placed between Dec. 21 and January 6 will be shipped January 7.


Sources of water affected by drought may have higher concentrations of pollutants, which can lead to contaminated fish, harmful blue-green algal blooms, and increased levels of bacteria.
Water bodies can become stagnant, providing breeding grounds for mosquitos. This can lead to increased rates of mosquito-related illness, such as West Nile Virus.
Drought can cause crop failure and can lead to food shortages.
Dry, dusty conditions can lead to wildfires and dust storms, which can increase the amount of particulate matter in the air. This can worsen chronic lung problems, such as asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In addition, dust storms can spread bacteria, viruses, and fungi that can cause illness.
Stress from economic or job losses may lead to increased anxiety and depression.
The types of health effects depend upon drought severity, geographical location, existing health and sanitation infrastructure, and available resources to alleviate drought-related health impacts. For more information, visit CDC's Drought and Health website.


Northwest Ladybug: What's Wrong with This Picture?
Love that bug! I would so need that if I ever move back to the west coast. As someone who use to commute back and forth from Baltimore to DC on the 295 parkway... putting on makeup, men shaving, and people reading and doing crossword puzzles just drove me nuts!
That bug is suuuper cute!!!
Maybe thats why it's defensive driving school.
I thought it was the WOF numberplate. It looked as if the car was barking at you.


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by Lauri Donahue on August 15, 2017
West Virginia Supreme Court Rules Hate Crime Law Doesn't Protect Gays
The West Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that the state's hate crime law doesn't apply to anti-gay attacks.
As the New York Times reported,
The case hinged on whether attacks based on sexual orientation could fall under a hate crime law that does not explicitly mention sexual orientation. Prosecuting lawyers in Cabell County, where the attack took place, argued that "sex," which the law lists as a protected category, includes crimes committed on the basis of sexual orientation.
According to the court's three-to-two ruling, the defendant, Steve Butler was riding in a car with friends in the early morning hours of April 5, 2015. While the car was stopped at a light, Butler saw two men kiss on the sidewalk.
Butler allegedly yelled homophobic slurs in their direction, then got out of the car and punched both of them, knocking one of them to the ground.
One of the victims was able to record the attack using his cell phone camera.
Hate Crime Law
Butler was incited for battery and for violation of an individual's civil rights under West Virginia's hate crime law.
Butler was also kicked off the Marshall University football team.
The state law provides:
If any person does by force or threat of force, willfully injure, intimidate or interfere with, or attempt to injure, intimidate or interfere with, or oppress or threaten any other person in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him or her by the Constitution or laws of the State of West Virginia or by the Constitution or laws of the United States, because of such other person's race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, political affiliation or sex, he or she shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
The lower court found that "sex" did not include sexual orientation, and the state appealed.
Does "Sex" Include Sexual Orientation?
The state argued that the word "sex" was ambiguous and should be interpreted to include sexual orientation.
The state also argued that even if sexual orientation was not covered under the hate-crime law it should still be allowed to prosecute Butler on the basis that the crimes would not have occurred if one of the victims had been female.
The state supreme court ruled that the word "sex" in the law was unambiguous "and clearly imparts being male or female, and does not include 'sexual orientation.'"
According to the Times,
West Virginia is one of only six states with a hate crime law that includes sex in its protections but not sexual orientation or gender identity.
Hate Crime Victims
Federal hate crime law explicitly protects against crimes committed on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
FBI statistics show that about 20% of hate crime attacks — including assault, murder, and rape — are made against gay, lesbian, and transgender people.


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ATV business owner welcomes island-wide input
Published Feb 22, 2018 at 8:00 am (Updated Feb 22, 2018 at 9:52 am)
Buddy Hollis ATVs
Trying the trail: Shane Hollis, son of owner Rudolph Hollis, gives a demonstration on an ATV yesterday (Photograph by Blaire Simmons)
Shane Hollis, owner of the new ATV tours (Photograph by Blaire Simmons)
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All of Bermuda deserves a say on controversial plans to run commercial quad bike tours in sensitive areas of the West End, one of the men behind the proposal said yesterday.
Rudolph "Buddy" Hollis said: "It's a venture that is designed specifically to cater to a new tourist market and input from people from all over the island is significant."
All-terrain vehicles, or ATVs, are under consideration to conduct tours along the Railway Trail and protected areas in Sandys.
The plan came under fire from residents, farmers and environmental groups last year.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, Minister of Public Works, said this month: "If you live east of White Hill, you don't get a say in this."
Mr Hollis, the former director of planning, said that he thought Colonel Burch's comment had been "misinterpreted".
He said he was told by the minister that there had been 600 objections received to the scheme, with about two thirds from people outside the West End.
Mr Hollis said he was advised that the concerns of residents outside Sandys were the same as people who lived in the parish.
He added: "I believe that part of what he was saying is that if you are writing to say that these vehicles are going to be noisy and they're going to disturb my amenity and you live in St George's, for example, how it is going to disturb you?"
Mr Hollis, 63, who lives in Sandys, said: "There have been some people who have spearheaded a lot of the objections."
He added that the idea that the tour proposal is shrouded in secrecy was wrong.
He said: "We went through every legislative process that was needed."
Mr Hollis showed The Royal Gazette a list that detailed a dozen presentations that he said were provided on the proposal dating back to June 2015.
The presentations were made to representatives from organisations including the Bermuda Tourism Authority, Transport Control Department and the Parks Commission.
Mr Hollis said: "There's something about Bermudians that they feel there is an entitlement to be able to know everything that is going on. My response to that is that we don't have to come to you to ask your permission when I have to go to the Government to seek permission.
"When you go through the government system, they have a proper structure in place which solicits objections."
Mr Hollis added the ATVs would be regulated to keep speeds below 10mph.
He said a maximum of eight vehicles would be in use at any time — six tour participants and two guides.
Mr Hollis said his son, Shane, 34, who is also involved with the business, had measured the noise created by an ATV at 10mph at about 80 decibels.
He added: "He said that his bike was louder."
Mr Hollis said: "We're not going on any trails that are not currently being used by motorised traffic."
He added that some people believed legislative changes were being sought to allow ATVs to operate on the Railway Trail.
He said: "That's not what we're looking to do."
Mr Hollis added that a presentation made to the Ministry of Public Works explained that the business would be prepared to make sure certain areas of the Railway Trail were maintained.
He added: "We told them we weren't going to maintain the whole trail, but we would work in conjunction with them to ensure that they are kept maintained. That commitment still exists today."
Mr Hollis said that the ATVs were about exciting young visitors.
He explained: "Now you've got their interest, you take them to Fort Scaur, and then you start explaining how Fort Scaur was built and why it was built.
"You take them to the Heydon Trust property, for example. You can now tell them this is an example of traditional Bermuda architecture."
Mr Hollis said that generations of his family had shown tourists around the island — from his grandfather using a horse and buggy, to his father using a taxi.
Mr Hollis, who also has a taxi licence, said that he took a family of four, including an 18-year-old, out for a tour in his cab last September.
He added: "The 18-year-old just sat in the back completely bored.
"It dawned on me that an 18-year-old on vacation with his parents is not going to want to sit in a taxi all day.
"The minute I told him what we were trying to do, and I showed him one of these pictures, he said, 'Yeah, I would do that'."


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In the last 3 years, Saudi hanged 8 Nigerians for drug-related crimes
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior special assistant to the president on diaspora, says in the last three years, Saudi Arabia has executed eight Nigerians for drug-related offences.
The latest of the executions was carried out on Monday, involving a Nigerian woman.
Speaking with state house correspondents on Tuesday, Dabiri-Erewa described the execution as tragic.
She said 20 other Nigerians were on death row while some have been sentenced to various jail terms in the country.
She disclosed that some airlines had been working with drug syndicates to put drugs in the bags of unsuspecting passengers.
She appealed to Nigerians to abide by the laws of Saudi Arabia when travelling there.
"So we have had cases where truly they didn't commit the offence. We have appealed to the Saudi authorities to make the trials fair, open and ensure that justice is done," she said.
"Even if you are going to die, you will know that you die for an offence you committed. So, while we appeal to Nigerians going to Saudi Arabia, we know it is tough, obey the laws of the land. Even Kolanut is treated as a drug.
"So we will continue to appeal to the Saudi authorities to treat some of the cases with some form of leniency.
"Like I said, we have 20 of them in Saudi, this is the eighth to be executed and we are hopeful that maybe we will be able to save the others.
"It is pathetic, it is tragic but we will continue to appeal to Nigerians to obey the laws of the land where you are.
"However, we expect the trial to be fair, open and ensure that justice truly is done because somebody is sentenced to death."
She also described as disgraceful the involvement of five Nigerians in the robbing of a bureau de change of different currency worth Dh2.3 million (N226,182,000) in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
She listed their names as Chimuanya Ozo, Benjamin Ajah, Kingsley Nwonka, Toochukwu Arise and Chile Ndumodu.
"These five boys are a disgrace to this country and an embarrassment. So if UAE decide to be hard on Nigerians then we will complain that they are hard on us," she said.
"But we will continue to say that one bad apple should not spoil the whole bunch. Nigerians are hardworking, intelligent so these few should not spoil the whole bunch because this has made news all over the UAE now.
"We are going to continue to name those who disgrace the country anywhere in the world and we will continue to appeal to Nigerians to be good ambassadors wherever they find themselves."
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Originally photographed by Alfredo Valente. Image is courtesy of the Alfredo Valente papers, 1941-1978, in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Painter, printmaker. Born in Lewiston, Maine, Hartley followed his family to Cleveland, Ohio, where he won a scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art. In 1899 he moved to New York, studying first under William Merritt Chase and F. Luis Mora and the next year at the National Academy of Design. With financial assistance from Alfred Stieglitz, Hartley went to Europe in 1912, spending much of his time in Germany, where he met Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and other members of the Blaue Reiter group.
On the advice of Charles L. Daniel, a gallery owner who had earlier sponsored Paul Burlin's stay in New Mexico, Hartley visited Taos and Santa Fe in 1918 and 1919. He was attracted by the landscape, which he thought "magnificent" and "austere," by the primitive simplicity of local santos, and by Indian dances, which he proclaimed the one truly indigenous art form in America.
In the early 1920s, while living in Berlin, Hartley recalled the New Mexican landscape in a series of paintings far more turbulent and brooding than any he had done on location. The next decade he divided his time between Europe and America, but his last years were spent mostly in his native Maine, painting the rugged coastline and "archaic portraits" of local fishermen.
American Federation of Arts. Marsden Hartley. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1960.
Udall. Modernist Painting in New Mexico, pp. 29-52.
Born in Lewiston, Maine, Hartley embarked on a lifelong search for family after his own dissolved in his youth with the early death of his mother and his father's remarriage. When Hartley was twelve years old, his father and stepmother left the boy with his older sister for four years. He was an introspective and isolated child, and these traits, in addition to his homosexuality, were a source of tension all his life.
Hartley's attachment to the landscape of Maine was an important element of his painting career. Simultaneously attracted and depressed by the scenery, he returned every summer during the years he studied in New York (first with William Merritt Chase and then at the less expensive National Academy of Design) and lived there with his father and stepmother during his twenties and thirties. Hartley's early pictures, aggressively brushed impressionist landscapes painted in North Lovell, reveal his efforts of find his own style.
His first critical success came with an exhibition at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 Gallery in New York in 1909. Subsequent years were spent painting in Europe, New York, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Mexico, Bermuda, and Nova Scotia. At the end of his career, Hartley returned to Maine, whose wild landscape he considered unique and whose people, he believed, "practiced values of directness and trust." His later Maine paintings were to some dregree a means of resolving his artistic and personal struggles. He invested the landscape, particularly Mount Katahdin and the shore, with a spiritual significance informed by his belief in the transcendentalism of Whitman and Emerson. He experienced a degree of success in the early 1940s, when several museums acquired his work.


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TWI Fiction: When the Dawn Comes
Posted by editortwi on January 14, 2022 January 17, 2022
A short story on a mother's pensiveness
Madhurima Vidyarthi
It was a chink of the first light squinting in through the curtains that woke her. At first she didn't know where she was. Was this the big bed she shared with her sisters? No, that was softer – this bed was small, hard. And who was this? Not Moni – the maid who slept just outside on the landing. Moni would never dare to come in. Or sprawl on the floor in her sleep, half-in half-out of Meera's bed. And she wasn't wearing a sari. Or any sort of cast-offs, for that matter. Pants of some sort – silk pyjamas? And what a lovely pearl grey. Just the right shade in the fuzzy light.
Meera put a hand tentatively on the sleeping figure. On the head because it was nearest. The form shifted, mumbled, then with a deep sigh nestled her cheek comfortably in Meera's palm. Like a child, without waking, only to nuzzle the withered hand in her sleep, leaving driblets of spit as she did so.
Meera sighed. Of course, it was Naina. As a child she would leave wet trails on her pillow. And on her mother's hands. Obstinately, she would sleep with her face on Meera's warm palm, both hands clasping her mother's wrist. Nearly twenty years later, neither habit had been broken. Meera felt a stab of pain that had nothing to do with her illness. Anger at the silent savage malevolence that had emptied her from within and made her into a hollow shell.
Twenty years without her little girl. Twenty years and thousands of miles apart – who had Naina turned to? And now? What would she do now?
Because this was Delhi. And the bungalow in Defence Colony where Shyam had brought her home. Because Naina was now a grown woman, not a precocious brat.
Because Meera was dying.
Creeping slyly around the curtains, the pale fingers of dawn just caught her tears as they trickled down her cheeks. Hot, salty, now worthless. Gently, so as not to wake Naina, she reached for her handkerchief with her free hand. Meera had no use for the tissue box. Among her very few indulgences were these fine organdie and muslin handkerchiefs collected over the years. Some monogrammed, some plain. Finely edged, French-knotted or otherwise daintily embroidered. Either by herself or at the unobtrusive little place where she bought them. She dabbed at her cheeks, remembering. Shyam had teased her one day when he had come upon her embroidering his handkerchiefs. "Have you run out of patients then?" In mock indignation she had held out the exquisitely finished square, "Do you think I can only stitch up patients?"
But Shyam had gone. Left her. You cheated, she said silently, as she had said to him so many times before; you cheated and left me alone. She drew out another white square from under the pillow. This was one of Shyam's. Plain, sturdy, neat. Much like the man himself. Meera smiled. Every day Shailja would put two freshly laundered handkerchiefs under her pillow. One of hers and one of Shyam's. She had unearthed a big box of them while turning out Meera's cupboard and thought them ideal for her bedbound charge.
At first Meera had protested. Two years had passed and Meera had not yet had the courage to disturb any of his things.
"But why not?" replied Shailja, unhampered by memories, "No one else is using them."
"No," said Meera briefly. His cologne; she could smell it still, even from a distance. She forced a smile, "It's a pity none of you girls is married to an 'S'".
"Here look," Shailja hadn't been paying attention, "I'll put two together – one of yours and one of Mamaji's. Like this – see. And you can put them under your pillow."
Meera looked up – Shailja had arranged the handkerchiefs one on top of the other. Her fine wisp of organdie with its bullion stitch roses and fancy edging, and underneath, his larger solid square, the initials touching, almost intertwined.
"Alright," she acquiesced. It wouldn't be long now. If she met him, like everyone said she would, she could explain. They could laugh about it. Together. Like always.
But now she was in now, as Naina used to say in her childhood. I am in now, she would stamp her feet, not in what will happen later. Headstrong, wilful, living in the perpetual present. Like the tense, thought Meera smiling, present continuous. She raised Shyam's handkerchief to her cheeks. Tears were annoying, a weakness, a form of self-pity, self-indulgence. "Don't cry about every little thing," her mother used to say when she was little, "You spill water like a tap. Learn to control yourself – you're the eldest daughter of the house."
And she had learnt. Slowly, over the years, she had trained her emotions to stay where they were. Never to show themselves. Never to spill over. Tears that had contained themselves, then withered away through lack of use. Still reluctant to return. Self-restraint. Meera was famous in the family for her self-restraint. "You should have seen her," they had whispered at Shyam's death, "standing like stone – not one tear."
And yet, here were her tears again as she looked at her sleeping daughter. This was Naina grown. Yet her hands had come up to clasp her mother's wrist in that old childhood gesture. Naina had no use for self-restraint, bless her. She was an abundance of emotion – of tears, of laughter, of impulse – that Meera had never seen fit to curb. Even the impetuosity that was so alien to her own nature and so inherent to Naina's. Even now, even at thirty-six.
Please, she breathed upon the cold morning air, please look after her. The end was now in sight. She knew – both by training and by the instinct that overrides all else – that it was not too far away.
The word. Shyam's death. The memory. The memory that had stayed with her every day for the last two years. How she had known it was coming and how she had fought within herself to be only the wife, not the doctor. How he had smiled through his pain and stroked her cheek, comforting her, "Soon, I'll see you soon."
Was she still afraid? She was dying of a growth in her stomach. Mortality – thought and reality. She had lived with their twin selves all her life. Her life as a surgeon. She smiled a weak smile. The irony was almost humorous in its seeming paradox. But then, so was life. Her thoughts moved randomly back to Sarita – vibrant, lively, exquisite. One needless violent death and the reckless squandering of four lives.
They were all crowding in now – all the dead – jostling her thoughts into disarray. Her mother, crippled and deformed with the arthritis that had turned her into a gnarled, knotted superfluity. Bedbound, waited on hand and foot. And her final grievous illness, so terrible in its affliction that those nearest to her prayed hourly for her release. Prayed for her death.
Please, she whispered, please make it quick.
An urgency in her prayer that had more to do with the limits of her daughter's endurance than the cessation of her own suffering. For Naina smiled and joked and scolded very much in the old manner, but the teapot trembled in her grasp when she lifted it and the fingers that smoothed her mother's forehead weren't quite steady anymore.
Darling Naina! So much better that she should be free to fly as she had always done. It had started young. Very young. Thirteen when she had run away from boarding school. Travelling down from Shimla in a second-class carriage and arriving at their doorstep in a triumphant tonga. The one and only occasion in her life when she had smacked her daughter.
Meera put a hand on the smooth head. Already showing grey, she thought with some surprise. But then Naina had always been precocious. After the Shimla escapade, mother and daughter had struck a deal. Meera had pointed out – clearly – that Naina needed to finish school and earn a living. Naina had promptly gone through school with flying colours and had agreed to college with one proviso – she wanted a holiday first. A holiday in London with some family friends before she buckled down to more hard labour. Shyam and Meera had agreed and Naina had set off on her adventures. She had not bothered to return.
Till now.
Did she blame her daughter, thought Meera? Had she herself not done much the same in her turn? Marrying Shyam against her parents' wishes after that one tumultuous YMCA party? At the Camden registry office with only a handful of friends because it was 1946 and a sea voyage from London to Calcutta would be too dangerous? Did she blame herself that she – the eldest daughter – had not visited her father on his deathbed as distances lengthened because she chose to make Delhi her home? That his last letter to her had arrived a full month after his last rites? That her sisters' jealousy of her and their undisguised animosity towards Shyam kept her away from her crippled mother in Calcutta and her childhood home? Could she have done more? Should she have tried harder?
Meera sighed. Everyone was dead. And with them had died anger, jealousy, resentment. She would remember only the love. The love of her parents as they fulfilled her girlhood whims, Shyam and his quiet unconditional love, Naina's fierce devotion to the mother she idolised.
A tear slid down her cheek and sparkled as it dropped on her daughter's head.
Soon she would be dead, Meera smiled; but her love would prevail.
In her day job, Madhurima Vidyarthi is an endocrinologist; trained in Kolkata and London and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) and have always been a passionately committed writer, writing for The Statesman, Calcutta regularly from 1995 to 2000. Her first book will be published by Duckbill (Penguin Random House India) in early 2022 – it is a chapter book for younger readers. She has also been selected to be part of the Italian Consulate initiative 'Bridge of Stories' – an anthology of short fiction by Indian and Italian writers.
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Music therapy is an evidence-based therapeutic application for the treatment of brain and psychological injuries such as traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). TBI and PTSD can be life-changing events that cause physical, cognitive, sensory, and/or emotional impairments. However, a trained music therapist can use music to activate injured areas of the brain involved in the control of movement, cognition, speech and emotions.
Substantial scientific evidence supports how and why music therapy works, but it also can be understood intuitively. Music evokes emotions and influences mood, whether happy or sad, relaxed or pumped. Music also inspires movement: Think how a good beat can induce foot tapping or dancing.
Injured nerve pathways actually can be stimulated by music. Music also can be used to stimulate speech and facilitate cognitive function. In those with PTSD, music can arouse memories that need to be accessed and processed during the healing process. Music can help to promote movement affected by TBI. Watch this video from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and DoD to see music (and other arts) therapy helping injured service members.
Music therapy is part of the rehabilitation process at places such as NICOE, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and VA centers around the U.S. The VA also sponsors the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival, where veterans showcase their work. This TBI Creative Forces fact sheet describes the NEA Military Healing Arts Network and lists several creative arts therapy locations.


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Feeling good and looking good are two extensions of health that go hand in hand.
And nothing speaks of this more than good hair health. Thick healthy hair is a fundamental part of your appearance.
The manufactures are spending millions of dollars in developing effective hair health products.
Ancient herbal traditions have found some amazing botanicals that are backed by scientific research that aid in promoting hair health.
Here are four of the most popular herbs that have been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicines to treat hair loss and promote better hair growth.
Also known, as Fo-ti is an herb from Asia. Scientifically known as Polygonum multiflorum, it belongs to the plant family of buckwheat and Japanese knotweed and is used in many traditional healing medicines.
Its rich in antioxidants and phytochemicals that reduce free radicals making the hair follicle to regenerate more efficiently leading to thicker and faster growing hair. Its also rich in minerals like zinc, copper, iron and manganese that encourages thickness, strength, and length of hair and even restores hair color when applied topically.
Also called "mushroom of immortality" Reishi mushroom has been in use for thousands of years as a healing ancient herb.
Packed with antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties, it helps provide strength to the hair follicles, promotes stimulation making the hair strong and long.
Promoting better circulatory system, this herb helps to restore hair color and fight premature graying.
Rich in phytosterols, tannins essential fatty acids and vitamin A, burdock root helps to promote hair growth, maintain a healthy scalp and even treat dandruff and other dry scalp conditions like itchy, irritated scalp.
Ginseng root has been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicines. Besides it's other health benefits, ginseng root is also aids in promoting hair growth.
It's believed to increase the number of dermal papilla cells in the scalp by preventing the natural death of the cells. It also encourages the hair growth by stimulating the scalp in turn strengthening the follicles and roots of the hair.
Besides promoting hair growth, it also helps prevent breakage and thinning of the hair.
For hundreds of years, these traditional Chinese medicines have been used to treat hair loss and other hair problems. Now these herbs are getting their well-deserved recognition among the scientific world and are therefore widely used in the hair care products.