Design…Engineer…Construct!® (DEC) is a new qualification that offers teachers and learners the opportunity to develop a range of skills and knowledge fundamental to successful engagement in technical and professional aspects of the Construction and Built Environment sector of industry.
There is little understanding of these professions and few young people aspire to a career in this important sector of the British and global economy. By embarking on the DEC programme your school can be instrumental in educating the future of construction and changing the lives of young people.
DEC counts in performance tables and can contribute to "Progress Eight" measures.
Sitting perfectly on your DT carousel or as a subject in its own right, there is a way to teach DEC that suits you and your students.
At KS4 there is no requirement for young people to take a Design Technology GCSE and current plans indicate there will be just two DT GCSEs available – one in Food and a single course covering a wide range of skills previously presented separately in a far more substantial portfolio of GCSE courses.
The proposal currently under consultation is for all work to be undertaken within a very limited range of contexts, very few of which relate directly to sectors of industry where the more serious skills gaps are.
This does not mean less choice for teachers and learners in DT – new and exciting courses such as DEC can be included in the KS4 option choices alongside the GCSE giving young people access to a wide range of meaningful pathways.
With DEC students will experience genuine Project Based Learning and work with industry. They will develop key DT skills such as research, understanding context, generation of ideas and development of solutions through to final modelling, an understanding of materials, and an insight into post construction management and behaviours.
Best of all these young people will acquire the knowledge and skills that will open many new opportunities for them to pursue a professional or technical career in the Built Environment sector. This includes aspirational and rewarding careers such as surveying, architecture, engineering, construction management, sustainability management, and many more.
Don't panic! Most of our DEC Teachers had no prior experience of the Built Environment. DEC is being taught by Design Technology Teachers, Maths Teachers, Science Teachers and Geography Teachers. Even the English department gets involved.
If you're still unsure as to whether DEC is for you, we invite you to talk to our teachers and find out how they are doing it.
We pride ourselves in training and supporting teachers until they can grab the DEC reins and 'go it alone'.
So you're going to be teaching DEC – How exciting! … but are you also a little anxious?
Would you be happier if you had someone with experience on hand, that you could fire questions at?
Someone who's already discovered what has worked (and not worked) for them.
Would you like to share their resources and explore how they have managed their partnership with industry?
You'll be pleased to know there's a virtual staffroom of DEC teachers available to you. These are real teachers, some experienced and others new to DEC, but all keen to develop a successful network where they can share experiences and support one another.
Whether your students are mad about maths, or crazy about creativity, DEC offers something for everyone. It inspires and raises the aspirations of young people to consider Construction and the Built Environment as a valuable career path.
All learners – girls and boys alike – discover real world applications of science, technology, engineering and maths and learn how to be a professional and be employable.
Version 1.0 developed with the kind support of Mott MacDonald.
Developed with the kind support of Mott MacDonald.
Prior to September 2017, the Design Engineer Construct! learning programme was named 'Designing Engineering and Constructing a Sustainable Built Environment' and was accredited by TLM.
In 2017, Class of Your moved to new Awarding Organisation TQUK. Our Education team, led by the familiar face of Liz Forrester, is assisting all DEC schools with the simple process of registration with TQUK and providing upcoming dates for moderation and assessment training. This is at no cost to existing DEC schools, and there is no impact on the way DEC is taught on a day to day basis.
With regard to performance tables and transfer of points, Class of Your Own are in discussion with the DfE and as soon as the outcome is known, all DEC schools will be advised. In the meantime, Class of Your Own is supporting teachers through this transition period so all schools will have a seamless move from TLM to TQUK.
DEC offers a new and innovative project based approach to learning that is both challenging and rewarding.
By working their way through an online workbook, learners will develop knowledge and skills by undertaking a sustainable building project and, through the complementary workshops, have guaranteed face to face engagement with industry professionals.
As a fundamental part of the curriculum programme, students undertake workshops led by industry professionals.
The Eco Classroom workshop is a fun day. Students take on the roles and responsibilities of a Building Design company to create a standalone Eco Classroom for their local community and for school use.
"I would like to express a huge thanks for last week's workshop.
All levels are based on coursework, with a multiple-choice test at Level 1 and a grading exam at Level 2 and 3.
A key outcome of the Design Engineer Construct!® curriculum is that learners undertake a project encompassing a wide range of skills, activities and experiences linked to the real world of work and the built environment.
It is essential that these learning outcomes should be organised by the learner into an e-portfolio where possible. This can then be stored in an appropriate format to enable assessment and moderation including retrieval of elements as moderation samples.
Students will produce comprehensive e-portfolios that will be ideal to showcase their skills and understanding to future employers or further and higher education. Only those parts of the portfolios that show evidence of learning against the subject criteria need be submitted for moderation and wherever possible electronic evidence is encouraged. The Student Workbook is constructed to encourage the development of the e-portfolio with lots of hints and tips about the variety of documents and formats learners may produce.
The accompanying teacher handbook identifies essential subject criteria and appropriate points in the learning where evidence can be gathered to meet them.
(EQF L2) Achievement at level 1 reflects the ability to use relevant knowledge, skills and procedures to complete routine tasks. It includes responsibility for completing tasks and procedures subject to direction or guidance. Use knowledge of facts, procedures and ideas to complete well-defined, routine tasks.Be aware of information relevant to the area of study or work. Complete well-defined routine tasks. Use relevant skills and procedures.Select and use relevant information. Identify whether actions have been effective. Take responsibility for completing tasks and procedures subject to direction or guidance as needed.
(EQF L3) Achievement at level 2 reflects the ability to select and use relevant knowledge, ideas, skills and procedures to complete well-defined tasks and address straight-forward problems. It includes taking responsibility for completing tasks and procedures and exercising autonomy and judgment subject to overall direction or guidance. Use understanding of facts, procedures and ideas to complete well-defined tasks and address straightforward problems.Interpret relevant information and ideas.Be aware of the types of information that are relevant to the area of study or work. Complete well-defined generally routine tasks and address straight-forward problems.Select and use relevant skills and procedures.Identify, gather and use relevant information to inform actions.Identify how effective actions have been. Take responsibility for completing tasks and procedures.Exercise autonomy and judgement subject to overall direction or guidance.
(EQF L4) Achievement at level 3 reflects the ability to identify and use relevant understanding, methods and skills to complete tasks and address problems that, while well defined, have a measure of complexity. It includes taking responsibility for initiating and completing tasks and procedures as well as exercising autonomy and judgment within limited parameters. It also reflects awareness of different perspectives or approaches within an area of study or work. Use factual, procedural and theoretical understanding to complete tasks and address problems that, while well defined, may be complex and non-routine. Address problems that, while well defined, may be complex and non-routine.Identify, select and use appropriate skills, methods and procedures.Use appropriate investigation to inform actions.Review how effective methods and actions have been. Take responsibility for initiating and completing tasks and procedures, including, where relevant, responsibility for supervising or guiding others.Exercise autonomy and judgement within limited parameters information and ideas.
To get involved in the most innovative, challenging and relevant secondary school curriculum development in recent years, all you have to do is get in touch.
You will be put in touch with our experienced team who will guide you through the process and answer any questions.


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Police Arrest Notorious Native Doctor Allegedly Preparing Charms For IPOB, ESN
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The police in Imo have arrested a 40-year-old man, Uzoamaka Ugoanyanwu, said to be a notorious native doctor who allegedly prepares charms for members of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB and members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN).
The Commissioner of Police in Imo, Mr Abutu Yaro confirmed the arrest in a statement signed by the command's spokesman SP Bala Alkana.
The CP said the police also arrested nine suspects who took part in the attack on the country home of Gov. Hope Uzodimma.
Yaro said the breakthrough followed a painstaking investigation carried out by the command's tactical units and urged criminal elements who are still in possession of Police arms to willingly return them.
Recall that police with the support of the military foiled a deadly attack on police headquarters on Sunday and killed five members of the ESN.
They also invaded ESN camp on Monday in Ikeduru council area, dislodged the camp and rescued a female police officer held captive.
"In consonance with the mandate given to the operatives of the command by IGP Alkali Usman to fish out all criminal elements in the state and restore normalcy to the state, we have declared war on criminal elements.
"On June 8, at about 1630 hrs, tactical teams of the command through diligent and painstaking investigations, stormed Ukwuorji, Mbaitoli Local Government area, along Onitsha road and arrested one Ezeugo Ordu, a native of Ubachima, Omuma, Oru West LGA.
"He confessed to being a member of IPOB/ESN and made useful statements to the Police as regards to the recent attacks on police stations as well as the residence of Gov. Uzodinma.
"He further led operatives of the command to the IPOB/ESN camp, a bush close to Njaba River, 9 persons were arrested at the criminal hideout while planning another attack, assorted charms were recovered from them.
"However, two out of the 9 arrested in the hideout, Chinedu Nwakaire and Uzoamaka Ugoanyawu the native doctor, were identified to be part of the hoodlums that attacked the private residence of the governor recently," he said.
Furthermore, the CP reiterated the call on members of the IPOB/ESN, or any other criminal syndicate operating in the state, especially those who stole police arms and ammunitions to voluntarily surrender themselves to enable them get a "soft landing".
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Q: MVC Textbox with float number using comma: from razor view to the controller . [Globalization?] I'm using MVC3 + Razor.
I'm sending a parameter on a textbox to a Controller.
I'm using the "es-AR" globalization.
I want a float number to have this format:  "9,99" (comma as a decimal separator)
When I put a "comma separator" number in the textbox, the controller receives NULL on the "weight"variable. When I put a "dot separator", the weight float variable is OK.
View:
@Html.TextBox("weight")

(Basically, this is a search field. )
Controller:
 public ActionResult UserQueryPage(float? weight )

web.config:
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<globalization uiCulture="es" culture="es-AR" />

Is there anything else that I can do about it?
Any tip?
Thanks!

A: The Default Model Binder doesn't take locale into account so the value with the comma will never bind correctly! You'll need a custom Model Binder for decimals
http://haacked.com/archive/2011/03/19/fixing-binding-to-decimals.aspx

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I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
(Jay Gould, American financier, railroad developer—and "gangster," 1880s)
Where it ends in the cradle of civilization [Egypt] will not be America's call.
(Timothy Egan, journalist, 2011)
The changing street
While there has been some good American reporting coming out of Egypt, frequently under dangerous conditions, the "main stream" media in this country in general is decidedly second rate and not serious journalism.
And while FOX news is simply embarrassing and largely a collection of ridiculous info-entertainers, the rest is depressingly mediocre. Frank Rich of the NYT, Wallflowers at the Revolution, has gotten it right.
AlJazeera, not carried by the American cable and satellite companies (not surprisingly) has done some superb reporting with in-depth assessment and live streaming. It has been to the Internet where people have found Aljazeera English and have watched what is taking place in the Egyptian street.
Observing the unfolding events in Egypt also says something about America and its history, both recent and distant. Many ordinary Egyptians interviewed in downtown Cairo said that they wanted what the United States fought for over 200 years ago.
On the other hand, the Egyptian government and a corrupt Egyptian elite have demonstrated an American foreign policy that overthrew democratically elected governments throughout the world in the 1950s and has bought and paid for authoritarian regimes ever since.
Congressman Ron Paul has called for an end to all foreign aid. This is hardly a radical idea and has always been popular with Americans, even though our foreign aid budget has never been generous compared with many other countries.
The sad truth is however we have spent an inordinate amount of aid subverting governments, stifling democracy and subsidizing the American armament industry. Ron Paul will get his wish—a mistake—if we can't seriously overhaul our foreign aid assistance.
America's teachable moment
Man cannot live by bread alone, but the man who cannot live on bread and water is not fit to live.
(Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, 1880s)
America largely "blew it" after the Civil War ended. Emancipation and equality for all that Lincoln called for was soon overturned by the rot of the Gilded Age. Unfortunately, the beliefs of that age never vanished. The reactionaries in America today are hoping to reintroduce them in the 21st century.
It is an immorality to fight against inequality of condition, which simply correspond with inequality of endowment.
(Roswell D. Hitchcock, Union Theological Seminary, 1870s)
Egypt could have a lot to teach the United States at the present time. At some point the word "enough" has to be taken to heart among those Americans who are not part of the privileged class. The twenty-first century Gilded Age needs to be confronted. It may come down to the street, although one quite different from what we are seeing in Egypt.
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Letter: Program proves successful
In the words of Winston Churchill, "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
Certainly, the giving is in the proof of the many teachers and students who have benefitted from the School and University Partners for Educational Renewal teacher program.
For almost 20 years, the Alabama Humanities Foundation has made this program available at no charge to fourth- through 12th-grade public and private school teachers, school librarians and administrators who wish to expand and deepen their knowledge of a particular subject or theme within the humanities.
According to AHF Programs Director Thomas Bryant, annually an average of more than 300 educators of the humanities, social sciences and arts participate in this graduate-level, multidisciplinary program, the content of which is taken back to an estimated 45,000 students in classrooms across Alabama.
Since 1991, SUPER has served nearly 3,700 teachers and 500,000 students.
The topics are varied and fascinating. Recent topics include, among others, French and Spanish language training, studying human rights issues that deal with immigration policies, gender and economic issues, genocide and poverty and protest art in the United States and Europe; history and culture of China, Japan, and Korea; and the history and culture of Mobile and Alabama's Gulf Coast.
Many educators benefited from the two-part study of Alabama's Black Belt "Prisms of Place." In the words of one teacher, "Hearing first hand from historians that lived the Black Belt history, seeing artists who created and entertained with Black Belt products, visiting places that tempted all my senses and learning from some of Alabama's leading scholars has been amazing."
The content in these programs directly addresses the courses of study as mandated by the Alabama State Department of Education.
These intensive workshops include extensive pre-institute readings, discussions, lectures, writing exercises, field trips and cultural experiences that foster relationships between Alabama's institutions of higher education, public and private elementary and secondary schools and the state's many important historical and cultural organizations.
I constantly receive letters of thanks to the Commission on Higher Education for the financial support given to the program. Recently, a new teacher wrote me saying the resources she gained from SUPER are invaluable and that she has learned such a program for teachers is rare.
Indeed, it is a rare jewel in Alabama's educational system that brings together elementary, secondary and postsecondary teachers and university faculty all wanting to learn more to expand their knowledge and, therefore, their effectiveness in the classroom.
I applaud these educators who unselfishly give of their time to participate in SUPER and enthusiastically share their new found knowledge with students. It is a successful program that Alabama can be proud of supporting, and that will pay major dividends for generations.
For more information and to apply to the Alabama Humanities SUPER program visit their website at www.AHF.net
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Going into this year's E3, Microsoft had carefully procured the coal which they were hoping would be turned into diamond in Los Angeles. After a press conference that was left spinning its wheels a little too often, it feels like what we've they've come away with is simply a slightly shinier lump of coal. While the Xbox arsenal continues to look strong for the coming year, you would not be alone in thinking the industry giant lacked that real heavyweight blow that would keep the conference at the forefront of gaming minds when all is said and done for this week's expo. Here's what went down. Read More
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Ubisoft is entering E3 with supreme confidence: and rightly so. New IP Watch Dogs has been a huge success, and with new versions of Assassin's Creed and Far Cry planned for this fall they're sure to have a very merry Christmas. But this year's E3 is an opportunity for them to show that they can break the mold: that they can do more than remake the same open world game with slightly different window dressing. Will we see true innovation from them this year, or will we see the first glimpse of their franchises going stale? Here's what we're expecting. Read More
E3 2014: What to Expect from EA
The EA conferences at previous E3s have been remembered for Battlefield, sports, and… well, not too much else. Despite this, last year's conference was one of 2013's most memorable, giving us looks at new additions to the Mirror's Edge, Need for Speed and Star Wars: Battlefront franchises, as well as the heavyweight reveal of Peggle 2. Twelve months on, and it's time to see if lightning will strike twice for the two-time Worst Company in America. Here's what we're expecting from EA at E3 2014. Read More
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Nintendo are, by all accounts, in a dire situation. The Wii U is doing dismally, and the 3DS' sales aren't good enough to sustain the company. Although they'll be somewhat encouraged by strong Mario Kart 8 sales, Nintendo's executives will be going into E3 with an air of trepidation: this could well be their last chance to save the company. As with last year, they'll be eschewing the traditional keynote speech, instead opting for a more low-key (and cheaper) Nintendo Direct briefing, but that won't stop the torrent of announcements. Here's what you can expect from the struggling gaming giant at E3 2014. Read More
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June 4, 2014 | Steven 4
Last year, Sony bounced back in a big way with both core and casual consumers thanks to its explosive E3 press conference reveals. And while we doubt anything at this year's event will top those particular highlights, it certainly seems like they'll have enough to light up the eyes of even the most jaded convention-goer. Here are some of the heavy-hitters we expect Sony to roll out at this year's E3.
E3 2014: What to Expect from Microsoft
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Here's what to expect from the currently struggling gaming giant at E3 2014. Will they be able to reclaim their crown from Sony and salvage the Xbox One? Read More
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I didn't really get Skies of Saturn. You're controlling a sail, and you can steer it through the world, catching the wind and squeezing yourself tight to fit through narrow gaps. But I didn't get what the point was. Normally this isn't an issue: I quite like games without an objective, in fact. But Skies of Saturn kept hinting that there was something more: cubes to collect, but nothing obvious about what to do with them. It was mysterious, but in a bad way: when I asked the developer if there was an objective and got the reply "You tell me", that summed up my experience with the game quite well. It's more than a little pretentious. Read More
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3DS Exclusive Shin Megami Tensei: Deep Strange Journey Revealed; First Trailer Released
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March 26, 2017 7:53 AM EST
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey retrurns to 3DS with a new and enhanced version named Deep Strange Journey.
During a livestream from Tokyo hosted today, Atlus revealed Shin Megami Tensei: Deep Strange Journey.
The game will be released in Japan in the fall of 2017, and will be exclusive for Nintendo 3DS. It's basically a remake of the Nintendo DS title Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, with new features and scenarios.
It was also revealed that this is the same title that was teased with no real details back in January, but now we finally get to see what it's all about.
The lady you can see in the screenshot above is named Alex, a mysterious new character that will come in conflict with the hero. The hero himself is part of a team sent to explore a dead zone named Schwarzwelt, which is expanding from the South Pole and risking to swallow the whole planet.
A trailer was showcased during the livestream, and you can check it out below. If you want to see more about the Shin Megami Tensei series, the publisher also showcased a super-brief teaser of the upcoming Nintendo Switch game.
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Tuscan decorating takes its inspiration from the beauty of the Italian countryside. It is a style that incorporates natural elements and simple functional pieces, built to stand the test of time. Wear and tear is seen as a sign of faithful use, while the erratic form of natural materials lends pieces a sense of individual personality.
Tuscany refers to the area encompassing the hills of central Italy and everything in the Tuscan style takes its cue from the natural beauty of that area. From crumbling stone walls to intricate wrought iron pieces, everything has a rustic quality that strives to recreate the pastoral look of the countryside.
Natural stone is very plentiful in that area, and it plays a central role in a Tuscan style. Real Italian marble flooring can create an exquisite centerpiece beneath your feet. Slate coffee tables and bistro sets can add color to the setting. Sandstone and limestone are also available to help achieve that ancient weathered look. Italy has a rich history and the Tuscan style seeks to pay homage to and draw upon that fact.
Tuscan furnishings are usually simple, with a functional designed that is crafted to stand the test of time. Irregularities are welcome as long as they come from natural materials or hand carved human detail. In some cases newer items are distressed in order to make them look well worn and lovingly used.
Water is often a feature of a Tuscan decorative style, and many homes incorporate a fountain with running water to help create a sense of living nature in the space. Other furnishings should be warm and inviting, creating a sense of hearth and home that welcomes you into the space.
A Tuscan decorated home should emphasize outdoor spaces, with lawns, patios, and decks being integrated into the rest of the home. Marble mosaics and wrought iron bistro tables are common outdoor Tuscan décor pieces.
The walls will usually be painted in a subdued white or gray color. This simplicity can then be accented by other more vibrant, traditional Tuscan hues. This includes a variety of earth tones including brick, ochre, and terracotta. Greens and golden yellows are also important as they symbolize the vigor of life and nature.
Another option is to leave the interiors with a natural finish. Materials such as hardwood, slate, and marble can all be used in a home to give it a rustic Tuscan look. This can be coupled with blues and green accent pieces to create a simulated woodland scene of colors in your home.
Kitchen are particularly inviting to Tuscan decorating styles. A Tuscan kitchen will usually feature tiling with a long kitchen table. Copper pots can be hung as accents, and shelves should be open and numerous. Food décor can be used with pasta strands displayed in glass jars and braids of garlic or onion hanging from the cabinets.
Tuscan decorating takes your home back to a simpler time. It incorporates natural elements and rustic designs to create a space that is warm and functional. In many ways it stands as an artistic opposition to the modern cookie cutter world we live in.
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Honda's Dan Cammish described his Rockingham weekend in the British Touring Car Championship as 'character building' after taking home just two top ten finishes and being involved in a controversial incident.
Having missed out on pole on Saturday and qualified in third, Cammish made contact with Motorbase's Sam Tordoff early on in race one, picking up damage and resulting in the end of Tordoff's race.
Despite that, Cammish himself was able to continue and finish in fifth – his best result of the weekend. Changeable conditions in race two caught Cammish out and he finished in 21st, before he took tenth in race three after a fightback drive.
The Leeds racer was sorry to have made contact with Tordoff – for which he received two penalty points on his racing licence and received an official reprimand.
He was also fined £1,500 for a separate incident in which he made comment that "fell foul of the regulations" in a television interview.
Those incidents left Cammish, who is now 11th overall in the drivers' championship standings, reflecting on his weekend as one in which he has to learn and move on.
"I think character building is a good way to sum the weekend up for me," said the 29-year-old. "It's clear to see that we had good pace in the car on Saturday and on another day we could have had pole and then would have avoided the incident at the start of race one, which just unfortunate.
"The field bunched up and I made contact with Sam [Tordoff], which was completely unintentional and the last thing I wanted to do.
"We carried some damage after that but managed to bring home some points in fifth place but the mixed conditions in race two didn't favour us and I found myself on a damp part of the circuit fighting for position and it cost me.


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If a faint minor planet happens to pass directly in front of a brighter star then for a short time the starlight will be blocked out and the observer will just see the fainter light from the minor planet as the shadow from the minor planet passes over the observer.
Measurement of an occultation involves recording the times when the starlight disappears and then re-appears again. This gives a lower bound on how big the minor planet is, but if several observers in different places manage to record the event it allows a representation of the shape of the minor planet to be constructed.
For this to be done well, the start and end times must be measured very precisely and this is probably best achieved by amateurs by using video equipment, taking many frames per second and with the frames timed against a reliable standard such as a GPS receiver.
Without any video equipment available, a different technique called drift-scanning is used at Great Shefford. This only requires a telescope & CCD camera but still relies on accurate exposure timing for good results.
The telescope is positioned at a point slightly west of the star to be occulted, then the equatorial drive is turned off. The stars then appear to drift west due to the Earth's rotation. An exposure is started slightly before the time the occultation is predicted to happen and is timed to end just afterwards. If the occultation is captured then the trail of the target star will show a break where the minor planet obscured it. Measurement of the start and end of the star trail and the start and end of when the star was obscured allows an accurate determination of the start and end of the occultation.
The technique is described in detail by John Broughton, Reedy Creek Observatory, Australia here and he includes links to software programs ScanTracker and Scanalyzer he developed and makes available free of charge. Scanalyzer is used at Great Shefford Observatory to determine occultation start and end times.


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This weekend's raucous party at the Superdome is over, the city is quiet and New Orleans is once again immersed in the endless process of putting itself back together.
Look closely, though, and the New Orleans Saints' presence is everywhere. From the black and gold that's now standard wardrobe to the mention of them during Mass at historic St. Louis Cathedral to the small store-window sign that says: "Faith."
The Saints' sway reaches far beyond gameday in this beleaguered city.
"We've got a lot of hard work that needs to be done. The Saints coming in and winning the way they have has just lifted all of us," Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Sunday. "It's lifted us emotionally and it's energized us.
"It's given us hope."
The Saints will play the Bears in Chicago next Sunday for the NFC championship, another chapter in the most unlikely and heartwarming story of the NFL season.
The Saints tortured their fans for most of their 40 years in New Orleans. It took 21 seasons before their first winning record, and playoff appearances were as rare as a modest Mardi Gras. Their fans may have mocked them as the 'Aints, but it didn't lessen their love for them.
When Hurricane Katrina stormed through Aug. 29, 2005, it looked as if the Saints might break New Orleans' heart once again. Dislocated like so many residents, the Saints moved to San Antonio and many feared that's where they would stay.
But the team returned, and has been the one thing that's held the city together when everything else conspires to pull it apart.
"It's just been a great diversion from the daily problems we see with the crime and the still unfixed portions of the city," said Lloyd Aucoin, who is still helping his mother-in-law repair the home they share — a home where a Saints flag hangs from the balcony.
"I wouldn't have traded last night for anything," Aucoin said. "Except maybe a new city."
Unless you live in New Orleans or have visited recently, it's hard to grasp how much the team means to the city and why.
Parts of New Orleans look much as they did before Katrina, and the city still has its uniquely eclectic air. Tourists are filling the French Quarter streets again; maybe not quite to the old numbers, but enough so the beads and booze are flowing.
But Katrina's scars remain deep and angry, and it will be years before the city fully recovers. Early Sunday morning in the Garden District, two men tackled one of the many debris piles that dot the city. A few blocks away, a man had set up sawhorses on the sidewalk and was cutting boards.
In Lakeview and the Lower Ninth Ward, two of the hardest hit areas, neighborhoods are still empty and rubble sits where houses once stood. Martin Manion had his Lakeview street pretty much to himself Sunday as he cut the grass in front of his home and the concrete slab that is all that remains of his neighbors' home.
Manion recently moved out of the FEMA trailer in his Lakeview yard, but he is no closer to being home. The house that's been in his family for 40 years will be bulldozed in the next few weeks, and Manion hopes a new home will be finished by Christmas — of 2008.
"When people see what's happened, they say, 'Wow, I just can't imagine losing your house.' But it's not just about that," Manion said. "It's about losing something really familiar. It's about losing a way of life.
"As we go about our daily lives, you don't think of your community: The people you run into at the grocery store, you run into at the bank or at church. You can't replace that."
Equally disheartening is the rise in violent crime. Already this year, 10 people have been killed, including a 22-year-old man shot to death about 12 hours before the Eagles-Saints game kicked off Saturday.
Residents are furious, and marched to City Hall on Friday to demand action.
"I have friends who came back and are thinking about leaving again because of the crime," Aucoin said.
To say the Saints are the answer to what ails New Orleans trivializes the city's vast problems. But people here are looking for something — anything — good to cling to, and the Saints are the best thing going.
At first, it was mostly symbolic. If the Saints could come home and the Superdome could be rebuilt, well, just about anything had to be possible.
But as the Saints piled up the wins, going 10-6 and winning the NFC South crown, it became so much greater.
Their victory over Philadelphia on Saturday night put the Saints one step from the Super Bowl, unimagined territory only a few months ago for such a lowly team.
"This is a bright spot," coach Sean Payton said Saturday night. "We just hope we can put a little kick in their step Monday and Tuesday, and give them something to look forward to next weekend."
The celebratory toot of car horns was heard into the early hours Sunday, and it seemed as if every fourth or fifth car was flying a Saints flag from its antenna this weekend. At Shane Bulchandani's Riverfront Gifts on Decatur Street, which features all kinds of New Orleans souvenirs, customers were only interested in one thing: How much were the Saints jerseys?
Archbishop Alfred Hughes even made a few mentions of the Saints at Mass on Sunday morning. As he chatted with people in Jackson Square afterward, several asked him to pray for the Saints.
"In a city that has experienced so much devastation, so much loss, so much struggle in the recovery, in many ways the football team has become a symbol of people's desire to rise from the devastation," Hughes said.
"It's touched the hearts and stirred hope for people that we, too, can come together as a team and play as a team."
Besides the emotional lift, the Saints are a boon for the still-struggling economy. There were lines at most French Quarter restaurants Saturday, and hotels were doing brisk business. The artists in Jackson Square were busy, and there was a pile of bills in one street performer's hat.
If not for the Saints, Bulchandani said he hates to think of what his business would be like.
"Since Katrina, business has been bad. But every home game, I've been blessed," he said. "All week, I was sitting idle. But Friday and Saturday, I was busy."
As deeply as the city has embraced the Saints, the team is equally committed.
Payton has been talking about the team's role as a leader in the community since he took over last January, and players have eagerly stepped up. Deuce McAllister delivered supplies shortly after Katrina, and has collected backpacks for schoolchildren. He and Drew Brees held a fundraiser for hurricane victims two days before the Saints' reopened the Super Dome.
Brees can often be spotted on the street, talking to residents or just checking the city out. Reggie Bush has donated money to help keep a struggling school open and restore the City Park stadium where most high schools play their football games.
"It's huge for the city," Bush said after Saturday night's win. "Hopefully, we just keep winning."
No matter what happens next weekend, though, this year's Saints are already champions in a far more important arena. They've revitalized a downtrodden city, and given it reason to hope.
"We are coming out of it. It's slow and difficult and it's painful," Blanco said. "It's rebuilding one house at a time, one neighborhood at a time, one city at a time. We're doing it, though. We're going to come out of this.
"And we've got the Saints to energize us."


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The Russians are using 'a new style of attack' against France's frontrunner candidate
Natasha Bertrand
France's centrist presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron, has been targeted by a new form of cyber attack in recent months.
A hacking group linked by cybersecurity experts to Russia's military intelligence apparatus has begun taking aim at France's centrist presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron, the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro said in a report published on Tuesday.
On March 15, the group — known as Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm, Sednit, APT28, Sofacy, or STRONTIUM — began registering domain names such as "onedrive-en-marche.fr" and "mail-en-marche.fr" in an attempt to trick members of Macron's campaign team into clicking on links that looked affiliated with his political party, En Marche.
"A huge revelation in this Trend Micro report is that Fancy Bear has significantly upped the sophistication of its cyber attacks," said Greg Martin, the CEO of cybersecurity firm JASK. "They're taking advantage of vulnerabilities in cloud-based email services like Gmail to trick people into downloading fake applications, and compromising their inboxes without even having to steal a password."
Martin said that when targeted by this kind of attack, known as "OAuth phishing," the victim can't just change their password to regain access to their account.
"It's a new style of attack is very deadly and unprecedented," he said. "It's the first time we have seen this in the wild."
A more primitive version of that phishing technique was on full display during the US presidential election. Emails stolen by Fancy Bear from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, were fed to WikiLeaks and the website DCLeaks, which is run by self-described hacker "Guccifer 2.0," who researchers believe was a persona created by Russian military intelligence.
"The cat got out of the bag in terms of the tools used in the DNC cyberattacks, so Fancy Bear upped the ante this time around," Martin said.
Fancy Bear's cyberespionage activities date back to the early 2000s, when hackers would implant malware on computers to record users' keystrokes and monitor the sites they visited. That information would then be sent back to the malware creators in Russia, according to Trend Micro.
As the firm said in its report, however, the hacking team's days of under-the-radar spying appear to be over. Spanning the past two years, the group has taken on bigger targets than ever before — including US, French, and German political parties and candidates — by deploying phishing attacks, stealing information, and then weaponizing it to manipulate events and public opinion.
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 17, 2017.
REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Cybersecurity experts caution that it is difficult to definitively trace a cyberattack back to a particular entity. Igor Volovich, the CEO of ROMAD Cyber Systems, said that the cyber artifacts used to trace hacks back to particular actors are "fungible," which makes cyberattacks difficult to attribute.
"Using an IP address or a particular code to trace a hack back to a particular actor — those things, on their own, are inconclusive," Volovich said in an interview. "But if you can correlate multiple sources of data in the attribution [of a hack], that adds a lot more credibility."
According to Trend Micro, while Pawn Storm "makes good use of webhosting providers in Western countries that offer privacy to their customers," the group still "has a clear preference for some hosting providers, DNS service providers, and domain registrars." By monitoring those service providers, the firm said, much of the group's infrastructure can be spotted and caught early.
And the fact that the hackers have consistently targeted a range of actors that could easily be characterized as Russian adversaries — including NATO, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the US Anti-Doping Agency, the Ukrainian military, and the president of Montenegro — has left researchers with little doubt that the cyberattacks were sponsored by the Kremlin.
NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg holds a news conference ahead of the NATO foreign ministers meeting at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels
In December, the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike revealed that the malware that Fancy Bear implanted on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units between 2014-2016 "was a variant of the kind used to hack into the Democratic National Committee," the firm's founder, Dmitri Alperovitch told Reuters.
Russia has been fighting a proxy war with the Ukrainian military since 2014, bolstering the likelihood that the Russia's main foreign military intelligence agency, the GRU, would have attempted to compromise and track Ukrainian artillery units sometime in the past three years.
The cyberattack, Alperovitch said at the time, "cannot be a hands-off group or a bunch of criminals. They need to be in close communication with the Russian military."
The Russians would have been similarly motivated to compromise the US Anti-Doping Agency — which, along with the World Anti-Doping Agency, investigated Russia's conspiracy to corrupt its drug-testing system and ultimately banned dozens of Russian athletes from last summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
A woman walks into the head offices of WADA in Montreal
In October, a Russian plot to overthrow Montenegro's pro-Western president — who has been negotiating the country's accession into NATO — was foiled at the last minute. State websites have since been targeted by two waves of cyberattacks. The Montenegrin government said the attacks were "planned and synchronized" but stopped short of attributing them to Moscow.
The Russian government's motivations to target France's Macron, meanwhile, have parallels to their attacks on the US election last year: a desire to boost the more nationalistic, Russia-friendly underdog (Marine Le Pen in France and President Donald Trump in the US) and undermine the more globalist, hawkish frontrunner (Macron in France and Clinton in the US).
On Sunday, Macron and Le Pen won the first round of the election in a historic upset that saw France's two traditional parties lose power for the first time in decades. The second round of voting, set to take place on May 7, will be perceived as a de-facto referendum on whether the nationalist fervor sweeping the West has continued into 2017 — a movement that propelled Trump into the White House last year and spurred Britain's exit from the European Union.
The stakes are high for Russia. Depending on who wins, the French election could set the tone for a broader European shift toward Moscow and away from Washington. As France's foreign minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, told the Journal du Dimanche, "It's enough to see which candidates, Marine Le Pen or Francois Fillon, Russia expresses preference for in the French electoral campaign."
"Whereas Emmanuel Macron, who is pro-Europe, is being targeted by cyberattacks," he added.
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Judge: Give back Clarkstown highway chief's mechanics
Akiko Matsuda
amatsuda@lohud.com
CLARKSTOWN – A judge has sided with Clarkstown Highway Superintendent Wayne Ballard in his lawsuit against the Town Board for transferring mechanics out of his department.
In 2012, the Clarkstown Town Board enacted a new law to consolidate vehicle maintenance by assigning it to a newly created garage, which handles work for the Highway Department, police, the Mini Trans service and the sewer and recreation departments. The garage is run by an appointed fleet manager, Dennis Malone, a Democrat who unsuccessfully ran for highway chief twice against Ballard, a Republican.
Ballard argued in the lawsuit that Clarkstown's law violates state highway law, which spells out that highway equipment "shall be under the control of the superintendent and be cared for by him at the expense of the town." Ballard said as an elected official, he can't effectively answer to his constituents when he isn't in charge of maintaining his equipment.
The Town Board argued that the new law merely consolidated the vehicle maintenance functions into one garage to save money, and that the highway superintendent still has control of his equipment.
In his decision, state Supreme Court Justice Robert Berliner wrote that state highway law mandates vehicle maintenance mechanics be employed and supervised by the highway superintendents, and that transferring the function to the fleet manager is "in direct conflict with the power conferred upon Superintendent Ballard."
Berliner said that while the superintendent of highways is elected, the fleet manager position is appointed. As a result, "town residents do not have the same recourse with respect to the actions of the appointed fleet manager, who is answerable only to the Town Board."
Dennis Lynch, the attorney representing Ballard, said the court rejected politics in the town's road maintenance duties.
"The now-illegal Clarkstown local law stripped an elected official of statutory powers to protect the public traveling on town roads," Lynch said. "This court decision takes politics out of a highway superintendent doing his or her job as an elected official."
Clarkstown Supervisor Alexander Gromack said the town's law aimed to save money by making vehicle maintenance more efficient. Although he was disappointed with the decision, the town complied with it immediately. He said the board had tried something it thought would be innovative, cost effective and would benefit both departments and the town.
At the time of consolidation, seven mechanics were transferred from the Highway Department and five of them still remain on the job.
Gromack said following the order, those five mechanics were transferred back to the Highway Department. Two mechanics for the Mini Trans service and four mechanics for the town garage remain under the fleet manager, said Gromack, adding that details of the transition will be ironed out through discussions among Ballard, Malone and the Town Board.
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COVID-19 and HIV: 1 moment, 2 epidemics, 3 opportunities—how to seize the moment to learn, leverage and build a new way forward for everyone's health and rights
UNAIDS
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inadequacy of investments in public health, the persistence of profound economic and social inequalities and the fragility of many key global systems and approaches.
Given the epic dimensions of the emergency, the world needs unity and solidarity—led by a large-scale, coordinated and comprehensive health response, and a focus on the needs of developing countries. Our decades-long fight against HIV offers essential lessons.
This new report by UNAIDS examines how the experience of tackling HIV can help inform and guide effective, efficient, people-centred and sustainable COVID-19 responses. In fighting HIV, the world was confronted with a new, serious and multifaceted health crisis. Successful international efforts were rooted in a focus on innovation, respect for human rights and gender equality, community-based solutions and a commitment to leave no one behind.
Decades of investment in the HIV response have created platforms that are proving useful in battling COVID-19—just as they were in responding to the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak in western and central Africa. By being smart and strategic, we can leverage the HIV infrastructure to accelerate COVID-19 responses. Just as we must use the COVID-19 response to reimagine economies and institutions to be more fair and inclusive, we must also reimagine health systems to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.
By heeding the lessons of the HIV response, COVID-19 action can be people-centred, flexible, innovative, equitable and outcome-driven. By working together, we can ensure that national health responses deliver on the promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the health and wellbeing of all.
United Nations Secretary-General
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Q: How to build a text classification model based on a non categorical target? I have a dataset with two text columns and I should build a prediction model for a float column containing a probability value (a number between 0 and 1). My difficult here is to handle the target column. Every method and example that I find are for categorical target columns, with a short range of possibilities. But in my case, my target column doesn't work in that way.
I already got some results using another numeric columns of the dataset and linear regression, but linear regression doesn't work with text features. I also tried to implement naive bayes, but I got stuck with the non categorical target.


We have just heard that we have won the E.Y.E. (Eco Young and Engaged) Christmas Tree decoration Challenge. This competition was open to all schools and Eco Groups in Worthing, Adur, Arun and Chichester area so we are delighted to have won.
There is a prize of £100 of gardening vouchers and the organiser of the project will be coming into school on Wednesday to present the prize.....well done to our artists.
The decorations are on display at Angmering train station.


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IEA Medium-Term Market Report
China coal demand peak
Golden age of coal in China seems over, peak-demand scenario possible - IEA
hina could be facing peak coal demand for the first time ever as a cooling economy and structural changes in its industry hit consumption, paving the way for India to emerge as the main driver of global coal use by 2020, the International Energy Agency said.Reuters | December 18, 2015, 08:30 IST
By Henning Gloystein
SINGAPORE: China could be facing peak coal demand for the first time ever as a cooling economy and structural changes in its industry hit consumption, paving the way for India to emerge as the main driver of global coal use by 2020, the International Energy Agency said.
China is the world's top coal consumer but its uptake of the dirty fossil fuel has waned with the country moving more towards less energy-intensive sectors. State efforts to cap consumption in a bid to clear up the choking smog that smothers the country's major cities have also hit demand.
"The golden age of coal in China seems to be over," the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday in its Medium-Term Market Report to 2020, adding that a "peak coal" demand scenario was now probable due to stagnating housing and infrastructure development.
Lower-than-expected power demand as the use of electricity drops in heavy industry will also contribute to the decline in coal consumption, the Paris-based group added.
The IEA said China's coal demand would fall to 2,640 million tonnes of coal-equivalent (Mtce) by 2020 from 2,843 Mtce in 2014 based on the group's peak-demand scenario.
As a result, global demand will dip to 5,509 Mtce in 2020 from 5,540 Mtce in 2014, the IEA said. Under a slightly less bearish outlook, however, demand could still see a 0.8 percent annual growth to 5,814 Mtce in 2020, it added.
Slowing demand, environmental policies and more alternative fuels will keep coal prices low, the IEA added. Thermal coal prices have already fallen to or near decade troughs.
"The continuous pressure from shale gas in the United States, stronger climate policies, and especially, the overcapacity and slowdown in China all contribute to the oversupply. This glut will be even more acute if a peak coal demand in China becomes real," the IEA said.
The U.S. Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), which also published a coal outlook this week, painted a gloomy picture for coal demand as well.
"The global traded coal industry is in dire straits," said Tim Buckley, IEEFA's director of Energy Finance Studies in Australasia.
"(The) outlook for the global traded coal industry remains one of declining demand, excess supply ... relentless cost down initiatives, excessive financial leverage, asset write-downs and unprecedented stranded assets (and) shareholder wealth destruction," IEEFA said.
INDIA TAKES OVER
India is expected to pick up some of the slack in Chinese demand with its coal use seen up 149 Mtce by 2020, accounting for half of the rise in world coal demand over the period, according to the IEA.
"India is the only major economy with strong coal growth (and) India will become the second-largest coal consumer in the world, bypassing the United States," the group said.
"The Indian government has ambitious plans to provide full electricity access to the 240 million people still without it and to expand the manufacturing sector ... New coal investments and further growth in coal consumption are inevitable."
But despite the strong growth, India will not be able to fully offset the drop in Chinese demand, it added.
"India and China have different governance and growth models, with energy-intensive heavy industry playing a considerably smaller role in India."
In other regions, the IEA sees demand from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) growing by 79 Mtce to 218 Mtce in the six years to 2020, accounting for more than a quarter of the global demand rise during the time.
In the United States, coal consumption will fall by 75 Mtce by 2020, given ample supplies of domestic shale gas reserves, while Europe's demand will decline 22 Mtce, it said.
On the supply-side, the IEA expects Australia to overtake Indonesia as the world's top exporter by the end of the decade.
The IEA did not include findings of the global climate change talks which took place in Paris earlier in December as the group said the report was being printed during the negotiations.
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Masaccio (born Tommaso Cassai or in some accounts Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone; December 21, 1401 – autumn 1428), was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. His frescoes are the earliest monuments of Humanism, and introduce a plasticity previously unseen in figure painting.
The name Masaccio is a humorous version of Tommaso, meaning "big", "clumsy" or "messy" Tom. The name was created to distinguish him from his principal collaborator, also called Tommaso, who came to be known as Masolino ("little/delicate Tom").
Despite his brief career, he had a profound influence on other artists. He was one of the first to use scientific perspective in his painting, employing techniques such as vanishing point in art for the first time. He also moved away from the Gothic style and elaborate ornamentation of artists like Gentile da Fabriano to a more naturalistic mode which employed perspective for greater realism.


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Mr. Salvo Croma (Part 1)
Amritpal singh
It was a cold winter evening. Mr. Croma got up from his chair, setting aside an empty cup. Walking a few steps toward the door, he put on the furry coat. It didn't made much difference to him, for the coat was supposed to protect the wearer from cold. But he never felt cold. Even on that late January evening, when mother nature's fury froze the lake, he felt nothing. But to appear normal among other people, he had to wear clothes like them. After locking the door behind him, he walked toward the sidewalk.
A couple was walking down the street, holding hands. He sharpened his ears, trying to listen to what they were saying. "The show was great, I can't wait to get home and drink some hot chocolate" the girl said, as little clouds of fog came out of her mouth every time she said a word. The guy smiled and landed a peck on her cheek "I'm glad you liked it, you have no idea the trouble I got into trying to get those tickets". The girl blushed, "Hehe, you are the best babe" she said slowly, her cheeks now being red. Mr. Croma started walking away from them, as he crossed a well maintained yard, his mind flooded with memories from his younger years. It was not easy to satisfy a girl in his time. You had to kill a guy to prove your worth, sometimes even that was not enough, there would be a line of men waiting. He remembered a king he had helped to gain control over a piece of land, which was deemed unrulable just to win the heart of a princess whose beauty was compared to that of godesses. The land was called 'Muk', named after the Mukkah people who had lived on that land for thousands of years long before the hungry king came to power. The warriors of Mukkah clan fought ferociously. Nearly ten kings have tried and failed to rule the land before him. Even though small in numbers, the natives used fighting tactics which was classified as 'Guerilla Tactics' centuries later. Mr. Croma thought about the history debate that was going on among the scholars at the time. "How were king's forces able to break the mukkah people which were presumably impregnable?" was the big question they were fighting on, only if they knew. It seemed like yesterday when the king came to him for help. "Give me the the land which they deem unrulable, and you can have anything you want from your king". Even though he already knew what the king was there to ask, he was unsure. All he ever needed was to look in the eyes of the people to know what they really wanted, but it was not the case when kings came to him for help. It was forbidden to look at the king directly in the eye. Deemed as a gesture of lack of respect, the act was punished by death. And he was well aware of the fact that people often didn't spoke what was on their mind, fearing what other people would think. Even though it was a basic human nature, not even the kings with royal blood coursing through their veins were immune to the fear of what other people thought of them. So he reasoned with the king "Your rule over Muk demands extinction of an entire race". The king looked at the ground a little far from where they were standing. Silence filled the air for the moments in which death of thousands of innocent people was decided. "I am well aware of the consequences, and have deeply thought about all other approaches, I am willing to take that burden" the king said, knowing that Croma won't be able to resist a wish, which was this much bigger in difference. The king was told that the bigger the wish was, the more effect it would have on Croma. He had laid out his stratagem perfectly, and now he waited for Croma to take the bait. Croma knew exactly what the king was doing, he thought about how alive he would feel after completing the king's wish. The death of thousands of innocents also clouded his mind, those people were doing nothing but protecting their lands and their families. "Prepare your forces and attack four days from now, you will have your victory" he finally said to the king. As the words left his tongue, the king left with his guards even without saying a word of gratitude. Croma walked toward the river after a few moments, his eyes were glued to the ground. The river was unpleasantly quiet that day, there was no wind, not even a breeze. The leaves of the trees never moved, it was as if the time was frozen. He sat on a stone and thought himself into the dark evening. Four days later the king attacked Muk and won, killing every last of the Mukkah people. Even children and infants. He was so consumed that even the pet animals and livestock was not spared by the king's wrath. The news of king's victory spread like wildfire across the lands, specially to the places he wanted it to reach. The princess of the northern kingdom 'Aisha' was on king's mind during his entire journey all the way to the her father's courtroom door. He was welcomed in by the old emperor himself. The emperor of the northern kingdom was known as 'Mountain killer', named from an incident that had happened decades ago. According to the story, the king was out hunting with his chosen warriors when they were attacked by a vicious tiger. It was said that the tiger was over a six feet tall, making the beast look like it had somehow escaped the hell itself. Villagers who often were targeted by this beast named him the 'Mountain', befitting to creature's ungodly size. The king had unknowingly entered the tiger's territory, who attacked and killed nearly a dozen of his finest warriors in mere moments. Before anybody could make any sense the tiger lunged at emperor, who intinctly pulled out his sword. When the beast landed on him, the sword went through beast's neck and killed him. The courage and valor of the old emperor was well known. Staying as a royal guest for three days, the young king finally revealed his true intention of coming there. There was a long silence between the royals, the emperor finally spoke in the young king's favour and beautiful Aisha was finally his to marry.
A siren coming from police car brought Mr. Croma back from the memory lane. He remembered reading somewhere that memories were like a box of chocolates, if you open one, you won't be able to stop at just one piece. And when you had memory like him, never forgetting or misplacing even the tiniest of details, it was even harder.
TO BE CONTINUED...............
The Marisol Deception - Part 1
By William Kovacic
Cadeyrn's Tale - Part 1
Monsters Inside Me, Part 1
By Pam Morris
Chasing the Past: Chapter 1, Part 1
By Shannon Henry
Happy_(Part-1)
By Moin Khan Muzammil
Defy Gravity Part 1
By Louise Barraco
Sting of the Scorpion part 1
By Lawrence Hebb
The Voice - Part 1
Beach Beauty Part 1
Mr. Dinger's Dilemma
By Dean Traylor
Debunked - a Serialized Novel, Part 1
By Beth Perry
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Le Poull ball est un sport collectif conçu par un enseignant belge en éducation physique. Deux équipes (mixtes) de 5 personnes s'affrontent avec un gros ballon en respectant plusieurs règles sur un terrain rectangulaire de  de long par  de large. L'objectif de chaque équipe est de faire tomber l'une des deux cibles.

Histoire
François Poull crée ce sport en 2009, alors qu'il est toujours étudiant en éducation physique à la Haute École Robert Schuman à Virton, Belgique. Le sport est intégré dans le programme scolaire d'éducation physique et santé en France et au Canada en plus d'être défendu par les différentes fédérations de sport scolaire en Belgique.

Le sport débarque en Suisse romande vers 2014, au Maroc l'année d'après, à Tahiti vers 2017.

Equipement

Matériel
Le jeu se joue avec un ballon de  de diamètre qui permet de faire tomber un des deux cubes de  situés sur un support à .

Règlement

Règles du jeu
 Le jeu se gagne avec 3 sets gagnants de 7 points,
 1 point par tir direct, 2 point par tir à la volée,

 Contact avec le porteur du ballon interdit,
 3 passes minimum avant de tirer sur une cible,
 3 pas et  maximum balle en main,
 Les deux cibles sont ciblables,
 Le dribble est interdit,
 La pénétration de la zone circulaire est interdite (cercles autour des cibles)
 Le penalty se tire dos à la cible.

Les joueurs et les joueuses

Écoles
Le sport se développe surtout dans le cadre scolaire. Plus de 300 écoles l'ont intégré à leurs plannings. Aujourd'hui, c'est plusieurs régions du monde qui s'y intéressent comme en Belgique, France, Suisse, Maroc, Canada (dans 60 écoles en 2015), Tahiti, etc.

Distinction
 En 2009, François Poull, pour son sport, obtient le prix du Fair Play dans la catégorieː association développant un projet valorisant le fair-play et l'éthique sportive, décerné par la province de Luxembourg, le Panathlon Wallonie-Bruxelles avec le soutien du .
 Prix du fair Play du Panathlon, décerné par le Panathlon Wallonie-Bruxelles, à un acteur du monde sportif faisant la promotion du fair-play dans le sport.

Voir aussi

Notes et références

Sport collectif

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Starting on Friday 4th April at Littlestone Warren and followed by the North Kent Futures at Southern Valley on Wednesday 25th July, the South Kent Futures at Weald of Kent on Monday 6th August, the West Kent Futures at Birchwood Park on Monday 13th August and the Jamboree at Littlestone Warren on Friday 24th August for the winners.
The perfect opportunity to come along and join in the fun.
Kent Golf Union was created to promote, administer and encourage the development of, and participation in, amateur golf within the county of Kent.
We exist to provide assistance to all Clubs throughout Kent in the management of the game and to act as the ruling authority on the game within the county. As part of this we arrange championships, trophy events, matches and competitions across a whole range of ages and abilities.
We also co-operate with England Golf and other county golf unions and ladies golf associations on matters relating to the administration, promotion and playing of amateur golf. Within the county, we also have responsibility for overseeing official handicaps and for rating courses under the USGA slope rating system.
All of the directors are volunteers, committing time to these objects.


Steven Greenhut: Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher has announced that he is running for mayor of San Diego, an announcement trumpeted by many Republicans, but Fletcher's rhetoric and record should be disturbing to anyone who actually believes in limited government.
He is an ally of public sector unions. His big pension-reform effort was co-authored by the San Diego police union. He said that his Assembly Bill 2510 will save the city of San Diego money, but it merely shifted the burden to other taxpayers. In fact, his bill epitomized the approach of the unions, which want to shift the investment portfolios from local, generally more conservative systems to the state system, which uses the most liberal assumptions to hide the burdens on taxpayers.
Fletcher's idea of pension reform is letting the police union and the city that is the poster child for pension abuse write legislation that actually reduces employee contributions to pay for their generous benefits. He has yet to endorse a pension reform measure coming before city voters.
Read these words he gave as he announced his candidacy: "You don't build a better city by tearing down those you need to implement a better future. Consider that a message to city workers, who are taking too much blame for problems created by politicians." That makes it clear that he will not reduce benefits, cut government or rein the costs of the city bureaucracy. It's code language — of the type cheered by unions.
Fletcher is a huge advocate for redevelopment in San Diego, and as such is in favor or eminent domain for economic development and a fan of corporate welfare. Here we see how Fletcher worked with big-government groups to expand redevelopment. Many of the bills he authored and championed expand government spending and increase government programs.
Listen to him champion corporate welfare programs.
Fletcher's announcement on Flashreport is filled with the kind of banal politician-speak that lets us know that he will be the candidate of the establishment, of the unions, of the bureaucracy.
This is the type of pabulum offered by the likes of Jerry Brown and Barack Obama. We don't have to cut our government! We can innovate our way out of our problems. Fletcher has largely avoided taking stances on tough issues, which has generated some controversy. He did have an ordinate number of bills passed by the Democratic Legislature, which suggests that his focus is more often in sync with the Democratic majority than many other Republicans.
Republicans like Fletcher because he is a Marine, and Fletcher made references to this his military service as reason that he can handle the job of mayor. That's great, but Fletcher is a non-reformer, big-government Republican who doesn't value property rights, is allied with the unions, is opposed to meaningful reform of pensions and the bureaucracy and is no champion of the free-market.
I guess that just means he is a typical California Republican, though.
For a guy that showed so much promise he has shown himself a statist. His late night redevelopment deal which would keep the Chargers at the expense of taxpayers was all I needed to write this guy off.
If I could vote for San Diego's mayor it would be for the honest and bomb throwing Carl De Miao. Fletcher represents those power forces currently in control.
While Fletcher has given us generalities and rhetoric, DeMaio has put forth specific, tough proposals that would truely trim public union excesses. He has put himself directly in the line of fire, unlike the Republican In Name Only Fletcher. Ex-Marine Fletcher is hiding in his foxhole while DeMaio is leading the charge!
Sure, Jeff — your San Diego police labor union (sorry — "association") has a long history of championing tax-saving ideas for our city. WE know you have the citizens' interests at heart. RIIGGGHHHHTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!
H.L. Mencken once described elections as "sort of an advance auction of stolen property." With the SD POA endorsement of Nathan Fletcher, the union has announced their winner in the bidding.
Mr. Rider — Your spot on channel 10 showed your lack of any knowledge on this legislation. Unfortunately, Steve, you and Chris Reed did little to no research on AB 2510 nor contacted us to discuss. Steve knows how to get a hold of me, you know how to get a hold of me and I am sure Chris knows how to get a hold of me too. Your above response shows how trite you are and in what paradigm you live in. Sadly, Mr. Rider, it has become apparent that having intellectual discourse on pension reform with you is not possible.
Steven, I'd like to see a more detailed account of the flaws in this legislation.
If accurate, this appears to mean there's no additional burden on the taxpayers. If there's any study or analysis that indicates otherwise, I'd like to see it.
Nov. 25, 2012 Katy Grimes: The government push for more domestic drones to spy on American citizens should give everyone chills.


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Q: How to access an object within another object with empty braces (no dots inside) with Javascript? This code
console.log(window.Joomla.editors);
console.log(window.Joomla.editors.instances);
console.log(window.Joomla.editors.instances.jform_core);

shows me this:

I do not understand why window.Joomla.editors.instances.jform_core is undefined. The only difference I can see is that there are three dots in the braces of window.Joomla.editors. And no dots for window.Joomla.editors.instances. How can I access window.Joomla.editors.instances.jform_core?

A: {...} means that the object has some properties. {} is an empty object. Therefore when you logged it, it had no proerties at all. The properties you see in the unfolded menu is the live view of the object, so the properties were added after you logged and before viewing the logs.
To resolve this you have to access the properties after they were added, maybe window.onload does help.


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Mužská čtyřhra Hamburg European Open 2022 probíhala ve druhé polovině července 2022. Do deblové soutěže hamburského tenisového turnaje hraného na antuce nastoupilo šestnáct dvojic. Obhájci titulu, Němec Tim Pütz s Novozélanďanem Michaelem Venusem, podlehli v semifinále Glasspoolovi s Heliövaarou.

Vítězem se stal britsko-finský pár Lloyd Glasspool a Harri Heliövaara, který ve finále zdolal čtvrtou nasazenou, indicko-nizozemskou dvojici Rohan Bopanna a Matwé Middelkoop po dvousetovém průběhu 6–2 a 6–4. Glasspool s Heliövaarou jim tak oplatili těsnou porážku ze čtvrtfinále French Open 2022 až v tiebreaku třetí sady. V Hamburku však odvrátili všechny tři brejkboly, jimž čelili. Oba si do žebříčku ATP připsali 500 bodů a z pátého společně odehraného finále získali druhou párovou trofej. Glasspool na okruhu ATP Tour vybojoval druhý deblový titul a pro Heliövaaru to bylo třetí takové turnajové vítězství.

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China plans tariffs on $60 billion of US products
China has announced plans to put tariffs of up to 25% on US products worth $60 billion, the latest salvo in ...
Posted: Aug 3, 2018 4:35 PM
China has announced plans to put tariffs of up to 25% on US products worth $60 billion, the latest salvo in an escalating trade war.
The Chinese government said Friday that it would impose duties of 25%, 20%, 10% and 5% on the products if the Trump administration follows through on threats to tax $200 billion of Chinese goods.
"In violation of the bilateral consensus reached after multiple rounds of negotiations, the United States has again unilaterally escalated trade frictions," the Chinese State Council Tariff Commission said in its statement on Friday.
China listed 5,207 US products that it would target in an effort to "safeguard its own legitimate interests."
Products in line for tariffs include meat, coffee, nuts, alcoholic drinks, minerals, chemicals, leather products, wood products, machinery, furniture and auto parts.
Related: The making of a global trade war
Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, said in a statement that "instead of retaliating, China should address the longstanding concerns about its unfair trading practices."
The United States and China trade goods and services worth about $650 billion each year, the largest trading relationship in the world between two countries.
But China exports far more to the United States than the other way round, making it more challenging for the country to hit back against US tariffs.
These new tariffs would affect about 38% of all American exports to China, which are worth about $170 billion in total.
Related: A brief history of the US-China trade war
Trade tensions between the United States and China have been on the rise since April 2017, when President Donald Trump directed the US Commerce Department to investigate whether imports of steel and aluminum from China and other countries threatened national security.
The investigation resulted in tariffs on steel and aluminum products from China and many other countries in March. Beijing responded with equal measures.
Then, in July, the United States imposed tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese goods to pressure the country into abandoning what the Trump administration describes as unfair practices such as stealing intellectual property. Beijing again responded with penalties of an equal scale, targeting American products such as motorcycles and communications satellites.
The most recent threat from the Trump administration came this week, when it warned that it could impose steeper tariffs than originally planned on another batch of imports from China.
The White House had previously asked the Office of the United States Trade Representative about the possibility of imposing a 10% tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. Under the new plan, tariffs of 25% would be applied.
Protectionist moves by the United States have drawn a response from other trading major partners. Canada, Mexico and the European Union have responded to US taxes on steel and aluminum with retaliatory tariffs.
-- Kaitlan Collins contributed reporting.
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