Hello again, fellow members. The weather is getter warmer, daylight saving has arrived and summer is definitely on the way. I am sure everyone is looking forward to another long summer on the beach.
We are getting ready for the new season by giving the clubhouse a bit of a spring clean and tidying up the grounds. A working bee is scheduled for Sunday 26th October (during Labour Weekend), and I encourage all members to come down and lend a hand. Many hands make light work!
After the working bee we would like to invite all of the Toa community to come down to the club for an Open Day. The bar will be open, come and have a drink and meet the Committee and some of the guards. We would love to see you there!
We are also looking to make some improvements to the shade sail out the front of the clubhouse and provide shade for the new lifeguard area, also known as "The Block".
I encourage any feedback and suggestions to improve the Club, just send me an email.
With summer on its way, Labour weekend is the time to get the club ready for the upcoming season. We need your help to spruce up the club and do some maintenance tasks.
Be at the club Sunday 26th at 12pm. If you could bring buckets, mops, brooms and shovels/spades would be appreciated, we may not use them all, but better to be prepared.
After the work is done we'll sit in the sun (hopefully) and throw a few sausages on the BBQ afterwards as a small thank you.
Safe travels to Whiritoa, your Committee.
This year the Coromandel / Bay of Plenty area is being fitted out with a new digital radio network, this is to replace the current VHF radio network that we currently operate on.
3 repeater stations have already been installed at key locations in Pauanui, Whangamata and Mount Maunganui, with a 4th repeater station planned in the next few weeks.
The new network will allow emergency services and surf lifeguards to communicate further afield more effectively and pull resources together for faster response times.
Chris Stevens from Australia has been over in New Zealand helping us with the roll out, training courses have been held over the past week to teach key club members how to use the new system.
With the new system comes new radios, each club has been allocated a few new devices for the season but each club will need to invest in more handsets to phase out the current devices that they currently use.
It is envisioned once the roll out has completed that we could look to deploy our own surfcomm, much like the northern region does however this is still in the planning and development stages and it has not been decided if this is a need for the Coromandel / Bay of Plenty area.
Some exciting news from the lifesaving technology arena, keep an eye out for more details to come!
A few weeks ago a crew of Whiritoa lifeguards attended the IRB Examination course at Raglan surf club.
There were over 60 candidates and their instructors present from all over the Coromandel / Bay of Plenty area with a further 8 examiners, all of which volunteered their time to help make the weekend possible.
The weekend started out early, meeting up at Raglan surf club on Saturday morning for a safety briefing and run down of how the course was going to be run.
To begin the candidates had to prepare their IRB's, stripping them down and setting them back up again.
Those that were going for their drivers then had to demonstrate how to perform an engine reinstatement in front of the examiners.
Meals were provided to those on the course, morning tea, Lunch, afternoon tea both Saturday and Sunday and Dinner on Saturday night.
Part of the registration fees also included accommodation at the Karioi Lodge which they do every year and is well enjoyed by those on the course.
Saturday afternoon, candidates were given the chance to play around in the surf and gain further development skills. At the end of the day, once everyone had packed up a theory test was held in the surf club.
Sunday was examination day! It was lucky because the surf picked up and made for some more challenging conditions, there was of course some flips, a few people fell out but the majority of the candidates passed their awards.
Whiritoa left with 3 new IRB Drivers, 2 new Crewman and 1 new IRB Instructor! Which is 100% pass rate for the 2014 Raglan exam!
Congratulations to the candidates chosen for the Anzac exchange!
and the support of Arianna's mum Nina.
Our team will be traveling to our sister club Torquay Surf Club, near Melbourne in December where they will experience lifeguarding and club life down under. In January we will have the pleasure of hosting the Aussies at our club and showing them our awesome beach!
Come down to the Club Bar on Saturday 24th Oct to watch the Championship final of the ITM Cup between Manawatu and Hawke's Bay.
By default its a Ranfurly shield match to boot! The bar will be open at 5.00pm with the kick off at 7.30pm.The Bar will also be open on Sunday 5 to 7:30 post the club working bee.
Are you hungry for more Whiritoa news?
There is so many things to love about Whiritoa but I run into a bit of controversy (with non locals) over whether its a good fishing spot or not and further more to get to the fish you need a couple of grand worth of gear. I'm here today to dispel some myths for the doubters out there.
I was having a wee late afternoon nana nap on Easter Sunday this year down at Whiri, when my neighbor Mark Baker walks past with a couple of tourists in tow and their rods and shouts out "get out of bed, grab your gear, lets go fishing." "There is no fish mate" I reply. " "I've got some cold's packed" says Mark, "coming….." is my answer.
Next minute, my $40 rod whips over, bends my rod holder, out it pops and starts heading off down the beach with the brake full on!
So its down with brew and charging off after, dive for the rod – miss, up and dive again as its entering the sea, catch it this time, up and walking into the sea while cranking the brake off to let it run. The guys are going off like 5 year olds chasing a possum.
The rods screaming as I casually walk back up the beach, turn, (while striking a pose) and start winding the brake back on to slow the fish. The moment I wind the break on the fish turns and comes straight back to us as fast as I could wind.
As it approaches knee deep Mark (brave as all hell) charges into the surf and dives on it, gives it the big cuddle as he races back up the beach with a 97cm Kingie.
Marks saturated, I'm dry, beer and BBQ on! All this happened with an hour of leaving home.
So there you go, you don't need expensive gear and the fishing is pretty good at Whiri.


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Olympic Officials Aim to Move Marathon from Tokyo to Cooler Sapporo
California Students Caught inside the Middle
Fans of long-distance racing may not be capable of seeing the marathon occasion next year at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. Instead, they might journey to Sapporo on Hokkaido Island — 832 kilometers away. On Wednesday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) released its proposal to move the marathon and long-distance race walking activities to Sapporo. The change became announced fast — with little discussion with nearby organizers or authorities officials. Sapporo officers are excited by way of the inspiration to transport the next 12 months' events to the northern Japanese city. "We take this as an honor," Sapporo Mayor Katsuhiro Akimoto stated.
That becomes now not the case in Tokyo, however. It regarded to trap officials there with the aid of marvel. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike turned into now not glad on Thursday. "We are amazed to examine this sudden trade of direction," she said. She referred to the effort that municipal governments had made to arrange the race. Koike, however, did no longer disagree with the IOC's reasoning for the alternate. The Olympic Committee referred to Tokyo's hot weather and athlete protection. The IOC wrote: "In Sapporo, temperatures throughout the Games period are as lots as five to six stages centigrade cooler for the duration of the day than in Tokyo."
The wish is that the cooler temperatures will reduce "pressure" on the runners. Koike said, "Of route, the athletes-first method is extremely vital." Sapporo isn't always new to the Olympics. It hosted the 1972 Winter Olympic Games. The city also has expressed a hobby in retaining the 2030 Winter Games. This week's surprising might be the first step. "I assume this can pave the way for us," Sapporo's mayor said.
Why officers proposed the alternate
Olympic officials have acted due to consequences from the current World Track and Field Championships, held last month in Doha, Qatar. Mexico's Cecilia Perez, middle, collapses after competing in a girls' triathlon take a look at an occasion at Odaiba Marine Park, a venue for marathon swimming and triathlon at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, in Tokyo. Olympic officials say they've been concerned about approximately high temperatures in Tokyo at some point in the Games.
In the women's marathon event, 28 of 68 competition which started the race failed to finish. In the guys' race, 18 of 73 failed to complete the course. This happened even with the races being held in the dark while the climate was cooler. The temperature turned into nevertheless 38 stages C at the time, however. Ethiopian distance-jogging tremendous Haile Gebrselassie stated athletes "could have died" in the girls' race.
The marathons in Tokyo have been to begin at 6 within the morning to ease the warmth impact on runners. The guys' 50-kilometer race walk very last become anticipated to start at 5:30 in the morning. Tokyo governor Koike stated she wants the IOC to explain the choice "to all the video games' stakeholders, along with the residents of Tokyo."
A record released closing year through the countrywide authorities' Board of Audit said Japan would likely spend $25 billion to put together for the games. Much of the whole is public cash, besides the $5.6 billion in the privately funded operating price range. However, organizers dispute that quantity. They say it is about $12 billion. There is a heated debate over which charges are immediately related to the Olympics, and which of them aren't. Tokyo anticipated a total value of about $7.Five billion whilst it received the right to maintain the games in 2013.
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Q: Prove that the $\langle \alpha(t_0), \alpha^{'}(t_0) \rangle =0$. Suppose $\alpha : I \to \mathbb{R^2}$ is a
parameterized curve and for all $t \in I$, $\alpha^{'}(t) \neq (0,0)$ and $\alpha(t) \neq (0,0)$. If $t_0 \in I$ is so that $\alpha(t_0)$ is at its closest to the origin, then prove that $\langle \alpha(t_0), \alpha^{'}(t_0)  \rangle =0$.

A: Hint: Note that $t_0$ is the minimum of $f\colon I \to \Bbb R$ given by $f(t) = \langle \alpha(t),\alpha(t)\rangle$. What does the relation $f'(t_0) = 0$ tell you?

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The Woodward Dream Cruise is a perennial favorite here at the house of Jalop and we're happy to see the joy of the event is spreading. For the first time in the Cruise's history, the festivities will be extending below 8 mile, though not by way of the official organizers of Woodward Dream Cruise Inc, but through the work of MotorCities National Heritage Area — an affiliation of the National Parks Department. WDC shot down a plan to modify the run from its current route between Pontiac and Ferndale, to Pontiac all the way into Detroit, but this unofficial change thankfully begins to chip away at the suburban-only aspect of the cruise.
As long as we've been going to the Cruise, we've been pining for an expanded course. The route of the cruise has been powerful evidence of the overall impression suburbanites have about Detroit, many of whom haven't been downtown in years. They haven't seen the incredible changes and rejuvenations taking place along the Woodward corridor. Maintaining a route in the northern burbs seemed somehow unfair to the city which was the original source for all we celebrate during those long hot days in the summer. Well, that and Wyandotte. OK, maybe not Wyandotte.


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Future Awards 2016 : Winners Announced
Last night saw the Future Awards celebrating financial leadership by companies, the public sector and investors. Five winners were announced, including the winner of the Innovative New Idea Award which was judged on the night following live pitches from the finalists.
The Finance for the Future Awards, founded by ICAEW and HRH The Prince of Wales's Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) and in partnership with Deloitte, are in their fifth year. The awards highlight good business practices internationally by recognising the roles which the finance function, and the wider finance community, play in helping to build resilient organisations through embedding environmental and social issues into decision making.
The winners, with the judges' citations, are:
Large business award
Winner: Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company
Judges' citation: "The Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company team brought to life the vital role that the finance team can play to embed sustainability into everyday decision making. It was able to develop an approach that systematically integrated environmental and social factors into capital expenditure across the diverse geographies, changing decisions as a result."
Highly commended: Skanska UK
Communicating integrated thinking award
Winner: United Utilities
Judges' citation: "By producing clear, concise, integrated communications, United Utilities has demonstrated how integrated thinking translates to shareholder value in financial terms."
Highly commended: Novo Nordisk
Public sector and third sector award
Winner: Climate Disclosure Standards Board
Judges' citation: "CDSB has delivered something of vital importance that others have spoken about but not acted upon for years. The organisation has worked effectively as part of a collaborative network and acted as a catalyst for the development of a broad reporting framework. This framework demonstrates how traditional financial measures and new – primarily environmental – data can coexist for organisations and the institutions that invest in them."
Highly commended: HM Treasury
Investing and financing award
Winner: Bridges Ventures
Judges' citation: "Bridges Ventures has created a truly innovative, scalable market offering. The tailored impact measurement framework clearly links financial and non-financial benefits."
Innovative new idea award
Winner: The Public Services Lab
A collaborative joint venture created by Interserve, Clubfinance, Catch22 and Big Society Capital to help voluntary, community and social enterprises across Merseyside to develop the skills and business practices to deliver innovative, effective and sustainable public services by innovative procurement and delivery models.
Finance for the Future is not just an awards ceremony. Since its inception, it has also led to the development of a community of engaged finance professionals. These individuals are committed to creating more sustainable outcomes for their organisations, and share their stories with others.
The finalists really inspired the judges by showing practical ways to integrate sustainability into decision making.
Michael Izza, Chief Executive, ICAEW said:
"The organisations we are celebrating have demonstrated the highest standards and we are delighted to congratulate tonight's winners. These awards were founded to showcase the companies that are leading the way in embedding sustainability at every level through the finance function. ICAEW believes that the accountancy and finance profession has a key role to play in helping to deliver a more sustainable world as well as more resilient businesses."
Jessica Fries, Executive Chairman, A4S, said:
"The finalists really inspired the judges by showing practical ways to integrate sustainability into decision making, creating value for the organisation, the economy and society. They really highlighted the transformation underway among finance teams and the wider finance community across the globe to develop resilient business models and a sustainable economy."
Veronica Poole, global IFRS leader and UK head of accounting at Deloitte, said:
"What really stood out amongst the winners was authenticity and the way their integrated thinking shone through. Communicating in a way that truly explains what makes companies tick and the values they live by is extremely important in creating trust in business."
For more information, visit: http://www.financeforthefuture.co.uk/
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CKD Galbraith said today that a generally flat residential property market over the last few years had now created a situation where large rural houses are offering prospective purchasers 'outstanding value for money'.
John Bound, a senior partner with the firm, said: "We are now seeing signs of cautious optimism relating to the residential market. A number of recent reports and analyses are suggesting that in more desirable areas of the country, property sales could pick up this year and start moving in the direction that vendors want.
"In the rural market there is no question that large houses, with a relatively small amount of land, have suffered disproportionately over the last few years and there have been remarkably very few sales over the 1 million pound mark.
"In our view, we could be looking at 2013 as being the right climate for the big house bargain properties that would have commanded significant premiums in the past and which now offer outstanding value for money for purchasers.
"These are country houses, rather than estates which consistently remain in demand due to their unique characteristics. The most likely purchasers of country houses with an easily manageable amount of land will have the necessary capital at their disposal and will be in a position to acquire properties at what are at present very attractive prices, given their size and location."
A charming Grade B Listed Edwardian country house with a unique history located in a spectacular setting overlooking Talla Reservoir and the surrounding hills and woodland. About 5.77 acres (2.33 ha) of garden grounds including walled kitchen garden, woodland with woodland walk.
A most impressive baronial mansion house, with two holiday cottages, sitting in an elevated position within the village of Birnam. Four reception rooms. kitchen with Aga, eight bedrooms.
Superior five bedroom country house completely renovated and extended to a very high standard, with purpose built barn for granny annexe, entertaining or business use. Large garden.


Time to celebrate a month of exploring Singapore. The cocktail I have created is called the 'Singapore Thing', a delicious variation on the famous Singapore Sling, created at the Long Bar of the Raffles Hotel.
I thought it might be a good idea to explore 2 other Singapore things that have intrigued me over the last month.
The Merlion is a marketing icon trademarked in 1966 as a logo of the Singapore Tourism Board. On the 15th of September, 1972, the Merlion Statue was installed at the mouth of the Singapore River. Made of cement, its eyes are small red teacups. In 2002, it was relocated to Merlion Park at Marina Bay. Half fish and half lion, it symbolizes Singapore's old history as a fishing village called Temasek, and it's newer history as Singapore, the 'lion city'.
These unique structures are trees made of concrete and steel, but adorned with over 162,900 plants from 200 species. The tallest is 16 stories high. Travel to the top and you will experience magnificent views of the island. Some actually harvest solar energy to power the lights that adorn the structures at night. At Gardens by the Bay, 12 of the 18 are located in a grove and two are connected by a 128 meter high skyway.
The Singapore Sling is said to have been created by bartender Ngiam Tong Boon at the Long Bar in the Raffles Hotel around 1915. The Singapore 'Thing' was created 2 days ago at my house. It is, of course, a variation on the Singapore Sling, using some of the same ingredients, but topped of by an India Pale Ale and served over crushed ice in a pilsner glass.
Shake all ingredients except IPA with Ice. Pour into a pilsner glass half filled with crushed ice. Top off with about 1.5 oz. of India Pale Ale, or to taste. Garnish with pineapple wedge, and maybe a cherry.


8:39 Offside against St. Joseph (Conn.).
15:43 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Morgan Skoly, Wide.
17:01 Corner kick by St. Joseph (Conn.) Jessica Spezzano [17:01].
18:37 Offside against St. Joseph (Conn.).
23:21 Substitution!St. Joseph (Conn.) substitution: Jenna Lentini for Sarah Palko.
25:12 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Morgan Skoly, Save (by goalie) Megan Richardson.
26:19 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Jenna Lentini, Save (by goalie) Megan Richardson.
26:44 Substitution!MCLA substitution: Brooke Mangiardi for Meghan Dingman.
26:44 Substitution!MCLA substitution: Miranda Wissman for Katie Mancini.
26:44 Substitution!St. Joseph (Conn.) substitution: Rileigh Luba for Ariana Gazaferi.
26:44 Substitution!St. Joseph (Conn.) substitution: Ali O'Neill for Amanda Ghent.
29:15 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Jessica Spezzano, Save (by goalie) Megan Richardson.
30:42 Corner kick by St. Joseph (Conn.) Sierra Romie [30:42].
32:34 Substitution!St. Joseph (Conn.) substitution: Emily Remicio for Morgan Skoly.
32:34 Substitution!St. Joseph (Conn.) substitution: Melissa Lux for Olivia Norton.
35:25 Substitution!MCLA substitution: Carol Fagan for Cetera Moore.
36:32 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Ali O'Neill, High.
38:06 Substitution!St. Joseph (Conn.) substitution: Rylee Snow for Jessica Spezzano.
38:48 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Annmarie Masayda, Save (by goalie) Megan Richardson.
39:58 Substitution!MCLA substitution: Tess Gonsalves for Kayla Baker.
45:00 For St. Joseph (Conn.): #1 Megan Ricci, #4 Deidra Caruso, #5 Annmarie Masayda, #8 Morgan Skoly, #10 Jessica Spezzano, #12 Olivia Norton, #14 Rileigh Luba, #17 Ali O'Neill, #18 Sierra Romie, #23 Jenna Lentini, #27 Amanda Ghent.
48:49 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Ali O'Neill, Wide.
51:55 Corner kick by St. Joseph (Conn.) Jessica Spezzano [51:55].
52:18 Header Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Morgan Skoly, Save (by goalie) Megan Richardson.
53:35 Offside against St. Joseph (Conn.).
54:21 Shot by MCLA Meghan Dingman, Wide.
54:47 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Jessica Spezzano, Save (by goalie) Megan Richardson.
56:34 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Ali O'Neill, Save (by goalie) Megan Richardson.
61:19 Corner kick by St. Joseph (Conn.) Jessica Spezzano [61:19].
61:35 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Jenna Lentini, Wide.
64:18 Substitution!St. Joseph (Conn.) substitution: Sarah Palko for Rileigh Luba.
64:18 Substitution!St. Joseph (Conn.) substitution: Ariana Gazaferi for Jenna Lentini.
64:18 Substitution!MCLA substitution: Brooke Mangiardi for Meghan Dingman.
64:36 Corner kick by St. Joseph (Conn.) Jessica Spezzano [64:36].
66:35 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Ariana Gazaferi, Save (by goalie) Megan Richardson.
66:47 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Olivia Norton, Blocked.
68:08 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Jessica Spezzano, Wide.
69:31 Corner kick by St. Joseph (Conn.) Jessica Spezzano [69:31].
72:44 Offside against St. Joseph (Conn.).
74:36 Substitution!St. Joseph (Conn.) substitution: Rileigh Luba for Sarah Palko.
77:44 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Rileigh Luba, Wide.
80:16 Shot by MCLA Cetera Moore, Wide.
82:08 Substitution!MCLA substitution: Meghan Dingman for Brooke Mangiardi.
84:59 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Jessica Spezzano, High.
87:09 Substitution!MCLA substitution: Miranda Wissman for Katie Mancini.
87:58 Corner kick by St. Joseph (Conn.) Jessica Spezzano [87:58].
88:08 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Amanda Ghent, Team Save by Team.
89:00 Shot by St. Joseph (Conn.) Jessica Spezzano, Save (by goalie) Megan Richardson.


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Jason Aldean, Bebe Rexha, Florida Georgia Line Get ACM Slots
Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert and pop singer Bebe Rexha with Florida Georgia Line will be performing at the Academy of Country Music Awards in April.
The ACMs announced the first round of performers Wednesday, which also included Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Maren Morris and Thomas Rhett.
Rexha and Florida Georgia Line will be performing their hit crossover duet "Meant to Be," which has been a top hit on Billboard's Hot Country chart for 14 weeks straight.
The leading nominees this year include Chris Stapleton with eight nominations and Rhett with six nominations.
The 53rd ACM Awards will be broadcast live on CBS from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on April 15.


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ATF AGENT: New EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATIONS ABOUT 'FAST AND FURIOUS' AND BRIAN TERRY'S DEATH
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Featured Image: Guns and ATF thugs of the failed "Fast and Furious" operation. (Fair Use)
The secret gun running operation was intended to bring more support for the Controllers plan to bring complete gun control to Americans. It failed miserably and people are still be murdered by the guns the ATF smuggled into Mexico and turned over to the drug cartels. . . EDITOR
From The Blaze Dec. 27, 2013 7:58pm Jason Howerton
John Dodson, the federal agent who blew the lid off the Justice Department's "Fast and Furious" gun-walking scandal, claims the FBI had ties to the men who killed U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in 2010 near Nogales, Ariz. In fact, Dodson says the Mexican bandits who gunned down Terry were working for FBI operatives and had been sent to the border to do a "drug rip-off" using intelligence gathered by the DEA.
Dodson, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said he doesn't think the FBI was part of the rip-off crew, but the agency was "directing the rip crew." The explosive claims were made in an interview with The Arizona Republic this week and are already creating some waves across the Internet. . . . Read Complete Report
6/21/12 EXCLUSIVE to THEI: Fast and Furious Becomes Slow and Obvious by Dennis Crenshaw – EDITOR
Dig a LITTLE DEEPER ~ THEI.us Archive: "Fast and Furious"
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Obama Gives Part of Arizona to Mexico (video) – How the Border Patrol uses tech to combat smugglers
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Photo: Rio Grande River Crossing between Brownsville Texas and Matamoros Mexico CREDIT Dennis Crenshaw (Public Domain)
from CNET News
by Daniel Terdiman
July 5, 2012 4:00 AM PDT
Every day, hundreds of people cross the border illegally into the Arizona desert. In Tucson, the Border Patrol uses a wide mesh of technology to try to stop them. CNET Road Trip checks it out.
TUCSON, Ariz.–It's summer in the Southwest, and there may not be a hotter border anywhere in the United States. For one thing, the mercury is easily over a hundred every day. And then there's the steady flow of organized smugglers trying to sneak themselves and their substantial cargo — of migrants and/or drugs — across Mexico's long desert frontier with Arizona.
There are nine U.S. Border Patrol sectors stretching across America's southwestern frontier. And back in 2000, the agency was snagging more than 2,000 people a day for crossing illegally into its Tucson sector — which is responsible for 262 linear miles of border and about 90,000 square miles of territory — making it one of the busiest.
But these days, that number has plummeted to between 300 and 350 a day, and the Border Patrol's adoption of a broad set of new technology aimed at combating smugglers — a complex network of cameras and sensors in the ground, on towers, on the back of mobile trucks, or mobile agents, and airborne — has played a large part in the reduction. After all, if a smuggler knows that he and a group of migrants he's shepherding are likely to be spotted thanks to the technology, he's more likely to try another area. . . . Read Complete Story w/ photos
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The government is to hold a formal consultation on UK aviation – including controversial plans for a new airport in the Thames Estuary.
The study, to begin in March, will look at options for "maintaining the UK's aviation hub status".
David Cameron has ruled out expanding Heathrow but his deputy Nick Clegg is said to be opposed to the estuary idea.
The airport would be built partly on reclaimed land and could be on either an island or a peninsula. But concerns have been raised about damage to the environment.


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Guryong station is a station on the Bundang Line of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway network in South Korea. It is in the Gaepo-dong area of the Gangnam district of Seoul. The station opened on October 24, 2004.

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Visitors to www.allaboutrajni.com are greeted with a warning that "He is no ordinary man, this is no ordinary website. It runs on Rajini Power" and are advised to switch off their Internet connection to enter the website.
Only when the web is disconnected, one is allowed to explore the site. Netizens can trace the story of the legend from the beginning, read inside scoops from his films and get a glimpse of behind-the-scenes action, while browsing through famous Rajini jokes about impossible feats only he can achieve.
"The unbelievable spectacle of running a website without the Internet is a tribute to Rajinikanth's larger-than-life image," claimed Webchutney's creative director Gurbaksh Singh.
With a heady mix of foot-tapping music, vibrant splash of colours, quirky quotes and illustrations, and icons in true Rajini style and lingo, the unique website reflects Rajini's signature style.
Singh told PTI that the website is based on a complex algorithm running in the back-end that keeps an eye on the propagation of data packets between two terminals. Magic kicks in soon as the Internet speed is down to zero, which is the basic premise on which the site and the concept has been constructed.
The humour element on the website is accentuated by the error message in typical Rajini style that appears if a visitor attempts to reconnect the internet. "Aiyyo! That was unexpected. To keep browsing, switch off your Internet," reads the message.
"The website has received a phenomenal response and has gone viral with several thousand hits and counting, along with innumerable shares and mentions across the web, especially on popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter," Mr. Singh said.
"After a few iterations and testing, we cracked the code required to build the world's first website that runs without the Internet — a website that runs offline — which is as awesome and unbelievable as miracles and stunts associated or performed by Rajini himself," he said.


Dr Charles Nahimana, 31, is Health Co-Ordinator at Nyabiheke Refugee Camp in Rwanda. Dr Charles attended PCI's 'cascade training' last November. and became an 'NCD Champion' in the camp. This is part of our UNHCR project – working to roll-out clinical guidelines, build clinical and managerial capacity of medical staff to improve NCD management, monitor patient care and cascade learning to other healthcare workers.
Dr Charles and his clinic nurse Fiston have recently participated in refresher training and we hear how he has found this experience of being an 'NCD champion'.
'People in my district don't know their status [if they have an NCD], they can be sick and not aware. So many only consult us when they have pain or another serious symptom, and they are diagnosed too late. Then all we can do is to try and reduce their symptoms and stop the damage to their bodies from getting worse.
Neither is there always much knowledge or information about NCDs among health care staff – how to prevent or treat, but also many misunderstandings. Even now I can sometimes hear patients talking to health care staff and telling them typical symptoms, and the staff are not understanding and do not know what they should do.
The PCI training was very professional and I have since had a chance to train others. We were updated with knowledge and skills and to manage patients using the same protocols that will really benefit patients' health. We used this to train our clinic staff in our staff meetings in the camp clinic and on the job. We have trained 2 doctors, 18 nurses, 3 midwives and 12 volunteer refugee nurses. We have also trained 38 Community Health Workers who cover half of the villages in the camp.
After being trained about the signs and symptoms of NCDs and how to measure blood pressure we did a mass screening in these villages. It was the community health workers who sensitised the population, then they used loudspeakers to call the people for screening. They took the blood pressure and I just interpreted the results. It was really impressive: after just a few hours training they were saying things to the people as if they had attended medical school! We have a Patients' Association for people with Diabetes now. It meets monthly. They help me a lot. They tell me when someone is too sick to come to clinic so I can find them at home, and they make sure people attend regularly.
In the future we want to go above expectation, but we need more materials for testing people, once we are helped with this we can do more and more. We have so many people who need to be screened and found before symptoms so that we can treat them before they develop complications.


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House, Senate PSOB bills differ, stalling action on benefits
House adds COVID-19 infection presumption, extends benefit for 9/11-related injuries
Following May 27 passage by the House after a short debate on the Public Safety Officer Pandemic Response Act, the Safeguarding America's First Responders Act passed by the Senate two weeks earlier itself now looks dead on arrival – and first responders are still short a direct recourse to line-of-duty death (LODD) benefits.
House bill in focus
The House bill modifies the 1976 Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program (PSOB) in three ways:
The House and Senate PSOB bills differ, stalling action on benefits for first responders. (Photo/Getty)
Presumes COVID-19 infection from a positive test or evidence for PSOB eligibility;
Extends PSOB to those with 9/11-related injuries and COVID-19; and
Establishes that the COVID-19-related disability standard is based on whether a PSOB claimant is permanently prevented from performing any gainful work as a public safety officer on account of a COVID-19 diagnosis.
"If an officer was on duty during this crisis and contracts this disease, his or her illness should be considered a line-of-duty injury," explained House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.). "And officers who are disabled due to COVID-19 should be eligible for disability benefits under a less stringent standard, given the added risks they undertook during this crisis, particularly because many officers have not been given appropriate equipment to mitigate their risk."
Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.) posed the challenge for PSOB. "When this bill becomes law –and it will become law – the family of an officer who was catastrophically injured or lost their life will not have to jump through hoops or prove that it was because of the coronavirus." Rose continued: "Today, we are not cutting red tape; we are stopping the red tape from happening in the first place."
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), who knew the family of a Paterson police officer lost to the virus, co-chairs both the Law Enforcement Caucus and the Congressional Fire Services Caucus. "These are our men, these are our women in uniform. We must get this done. We cannot delay," he said.
Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.) argued in response: "House Democrats are again engaging in political games, rejecting the Senate's bill and taking up the House's bill, which includes several problematic provisions that the Senate will simply not agree to."
Senate bill had momentum
The Senate passed its bill by unanimous consent on May 14, a clear sign of broad support. No Senator objected to its passage.
Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) each sit on the Judiciary Committee. They agree on little, so their mutual effort was a signal for others in Congress. Their bill also creates a COVID-19 presumption for PSOB eligibility, but it stipulates that qualified duty is performed through 2021, and that COVID-19 diagnosis be made within 45 days of the "last day of duty" of a case.
"In firehouses across the country, firefighters have had to continue sharing confined spaces and respond to emergencies in cramped trucks," Grassley said days after passage. "While most of us are avoiding COVID at all costs, state and county EMT crews have been transporting the infected and others to hospitals for emergency care."
Booker, whose state has lost first responders to the virus, noted: "When performing lifesaving procedures like CPR, which may aerosolize the virus, you hope that the PPE you are wearing is enough to protect you. These are the daily, hourly, moment-by-moment concerns our first responders have."
Their bill had support from the entire New York and New Jersey delegations. Grassley, who worked with Pascrell on the bill, added: "Simply put, this bill is a no-brainer." Yet, aid to departments and agencies is a different matter where police/fire disparities hinder timely resourcing, Roll Call points out.
The Senate may pass the House bill or amend it, or leave it to the House, further stalling action. While that's unlikely, it's clear that President Trump could have signed a bill in May rather than June.
More about PSOB
PSOB regulations define an injury for the purposes of benefit eligibility and specifically include injuries caused by "infectious disease" and "virus."
The significance of the COVID-19 presumption is that PSOB relies on a "more likely than not" standard when claimants go to show causation of illness or death, a standard familiar to veterans. Absent legislation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance issued COVID-19 guidance in April.
For fiscal 2020, the PSOB itself is a one-time death or disability benefit of $365,670. Firefighters, law enforcement, medical personnel, department chaplains and emergency managers – paid or volunteer – are eligible with sufficient documentation.
Michael Kirby is managing editor with Federal Network, a credentialed news bureau on Capitol Hill that provides digital video and information services to news organizations across the web. Kirby graduated from the University at Buffalo in 2007 with a BA in philosophy, minoring in history. He is interested in many legislative topics, and always has an eye on public safety-related news because he grew up around the firehouse.
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Blog > Proctor and Gamble gives toothbush sex toys the brush-off
Proctor and Gamble gives toothbush sex toys the brush-off
by Richard on 11 June 2007
We do our best to keep our noses clean here at Lovehoney, so it's always a surprise - and never a nice one - when we receive a legal letter.
Most recently we heard from D Young & Co, who proudly declare themselves to be representatives of "The Proctor & Gamble Company family including Gilette Canada Company and Braun GmbH in relationship to trade mark matters."
Slightly scary.
In case you didn't know, P&G is a consumer goods powerhouse with global sales in 2006 of more than $68 billion. Its brands include Gilette, Crest, Pampers, Ariel, Bounty, Duracell and Charmin - household names that you've come to know, love and wipe your arse on.
As if we were in any doubt as to the enormity of the P&G brand portfolio, D Young & Co flexed its legal muscles - and its photocopier - and helpfully sent us not one, not two, not three but 66 supporting pages of European Commmunity trade mark registration documentation.
But why are they bothering to send all this to us at Lovehoney? What have we done to incur the displeasure of the people behind Mr Clean, Old Spice and Tampax?
As you might be able to guess from the Braun and Oral B certificates helpfully provided, they've taken umbrage at the electric toothbrush sex toys that we sell.
Or, to be more precise, they've taken umbrage at a picture we showed of the Brush Bunny Electric Toothbrush Rabbit Vibrator positioned a-top an Oral B electric toothbrush. Shocking.
Here's the offending picture, doctored so as not to cause any more offence to expensive trade mark lawyers and multi-billion-dollar mega-corporations with delicate sensibilities:
But that's not all. They also didn't much like it when we said that the Tingle Tip electric toothrush vibrator "fits directly on to your Oral B electric toothbrush".
Our legal advice is that is OK for us to say that. We're not suggesting that Oral B endorses the Tingle Tip (we wish!), but it's a statement of fact that the Tingle Tip does indeed fit directly on to your Oral B toothbrush, or any other electric toothbrush for that matter.
But D Young & Co aren't having any of it.
"Our client's trade marks should not be used to promote and sell third party products nor indeed should they be promoted by third parties for any purpose other than that for which they were intended," write the lawyers, before sombrely adding:
"Improper use of the trade marks BRAUN and Oral B in this manner is misleading to the public and could potentially result in injury."
That must be a first - improper use of P&G's trade marks could "potentially result in injury". Best be careful next time you're pulling off a few sheets of Charmin Ultra.
As it says at PG.com, "Three billion times a day, P&G brands touch the lives of people around the world."
Which is a nice thought - even if they don't want their brands touching you in that way.
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Orel-A: June 12, 2007 16:36
Braun: Sexless, comedy-free toothbrushes since 1921.
Tara Tainton: June 16, 2007 23:47
Hilarious! And I've had the displeasure of receiving a few legal letters in my time and projects as well... not fun. :) But I do love what the folks protective of the Oral B brand are staking their claim on here... 1) they're suggesting that the mere mention of Oral B (oops, I did it again!) will actually promote your own sales. Obviously, if we're here shopping from our favorite online adult shop, we're not interested in shopping oral hygiene products as perhaps oral sex protection products or how to turn the wealth of household items at our fingertips into sexual pleasure. :) 2) The "legal beagles" assume your mention of Oral B in context with the rabbit vibe might actually harm their own sales/name. Not so! If anything, you're inciting a rush on electric toothbrushes and Oral B products themselves... after all, I don't use an electric toothbrush, but I'm tempted to buy one now just for this newly presented alternative function!
I think the representatives of the Oral B brand should send LoveHoney a thank-you letter for opening up their products to a more expansive consumer market. ;)
D.J.: June 18, 2007 22:20
Yes, maybe this is just marketing strategy: "Sue them, thus get media attention, then they all buy our tooth brushes to use the sex toy..." ^^
Char-Star: August 01, 2007 15:51
O.M.G! How ridiculous! If anyone's shopping on this site, I don't think they're going to see the 'Oral-B' brand name and think "Oh, that's disgusting, how could they let this website use their brand names in association with sex toys? Oh! The new rabbit vibrator's out!!!" It's stupid. People are on this site because they're comfortable and interested in buying sex toys. Obviously someone isn't getting any at home because his wife's just found a new use for her electric toothbrush!
The only people that might find that association wrong will most definately not be shopping on this site, and need to get a life.


UPDATE: It's not just Walmart Canada that's affected by the potential breach. Several other retailers using the same third party service provider have shut down their photo web sites, including Costco, CVS, Rite-Aid, and Sam's Club.
Here's a report from the Globe and Mail about a possible 3rd party credit card breach.
Mr. Roberton said the company has disabled the website and its mobile applications and notified the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Walmart said it has "no reason to believe" its Walmart.ca and Walmart.com destinations or its in-store transactions have been affected.
A source close to the situation told The Globe and Mail that as many as 60,000 customers could be affected.
According to Walmart's website, PNI Digital Media operates its online photo centre. PNI says on its website that "leading retailers use our proven platform to offer photo prints and photo gifts," among other services. The company also says its platform handled more than 19 million transactions in 2012 and 18 million last year. It was bought by Staples Inc. in 2014.


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Climate change controversy takes a philosophical turn
By Nick Miller
October 12, 2013 — 3.00am
''One of the big harms climate change is going to do is killing people. So … how bad is that?'' It's a question only a philosopher - or a sociopath - would ask. But, like many such questions, once you stop sputtering with disbelief you realise it's harder to answer than you think.
''A[nother] problem that has been totally ignored up until now is what to think about population,'' continues Professor John Broome, an Oxford University philosopher who's recently been recruited by the world's governments to help them tackle climate change.
Philosopher John Broome: "Should we value only what affects us as humans? Is there a value to nature in its own right? Is it a bad thing when a species goes extinct?"
It's been seen as a significant change of direction for the IPCC, having a moral philosopher as a lead author (among hundreds of others) of next year's report on climate change mitigation. The Times newspaper interpreted Broome's job as being ''to rein in the economists''.
However Broome was an economist himself for 30 years. He veered towards philosophy because he believes - with many others - that most economic questions are, at heart, ethical ones: they ask us to examine what we value the most. Which seems especially true when considering climate change.
''If [climate change] gets fairly extreme it's going to cause a collapse of population because the world isn't going to be able to sustain its present population. What should we think about that? Is that a bad thing that the population collapses? That's never been thought about.''
When I meet John Broome he starts by apologising for the weather. He lives down in Lyme Regis in Devon, from whose picturesque harbour the French Lieutenant's Woman stared into the foam-flecked waves. Today it's windy and cold, and rain spits through the sea mist.
He's worried, he says, about a south-westerly storm toppling an enormous neighbouring tree through his roof - when the weather looks dicey he and his wife sleep on the other side of the house.
But he didn't get into climate change research because of concerns about the future. It was because of wounded professional pride.
He had written a quick paper for Sir Nicholas Stern's 2006 review of the economics of climate change commissioned by the UK government. The paper dealt with a technical question: how can we apply economic values to different policies on climate change?
''[Economics] is about what you ought to do, how things ought to be,'' Broome says. ''Some decision or other is good for some people and bad for others. And when you are adjudicating different people's interest: that's a moral question.
''The questions of climate change are obviously moral questions. Why should you put any effort into reducing climate change? It's not going to harm us very much - not me at any rate. The reason is, it'll do good for other people, people who haven't yet been born, poor people in the world who I don't know.
''It's quite difficult to figure out what we ought to do.''
He put some of this thinking into the Stern report. But the response really riled him. Several American economists pooh-poohed his argument - since the 1980s, most North American economists have been suspicious of anything more than ''the market knows best''. They argued Stern's sums didn't add up if you applied the usual economists ''discount'' to the future costs of climate change. And they put it really nastily.
''The [Stern] review takes the lofty vantage point of the world social planner, perhaps stoking the dying embers of the British Empire,'' wrote Yale economist William Nordhaus. ''I find the ethical reasoning … largely irrelevant.''
Broome was astonished by the aggressive response from North America. ''I actually got rather angry,'' he says. ''It's so obvious that these economists are applying ethical principles without noticing. Something needed to be done about it, they shouldn't get away with this. It was no longer a sideline, this is a challenge.''
The line between economics and philosophy has always been thin - Adam Smith was a philosopher, and John Stuart Mill. In the 1960s, philosopher-economists asked questions like: how do you measure a poor person's wellbeing against a rich person's? What rate of growth is the best to balance future generations with present generations?
Until recently, the big questions in climate philosophy were on ''burden sharing''. These were questions of fairness and justice - if we make sacrifices to do something about climate change, how should they be divided among nations, and parts of society? Politicians were interested in this. And they were interested in blame, and cause: if Western economies were responsible for the rise in temperature to date, does that mean they should bear more of the burden for mitigating it in the future?
Broome is more interested in the fundamental question of ''what should we do?'' rather than ''who should do it?''
And so he started writing on the topic, and about two years ago he was invited to write for the IPCC's next report on climate mitigation, due next year. Co-chairman Ottmar Edenhoffer is a fan of philosophy. ''There is a whole space of morally legitimate standpoints with a view to climate change,'' he told Nature magazine.
''One might legitimately argue that the fight against global warming is as morally imperative as abolishing child labour or slavery.
One might argue - just as legitimately - that poverty and diseases in many parts of the world are more imminent problems that should be addressed first.''
However, he adds, some perspectives cannot be tolerated. ''Denying out-and-out that climate change is a problem to humanity, as some cynics do, is an unethical, unacceptable position.''
Broome is not exactly full of praise for the IPCC. For example, he accuses Working Group I's new report of plucking a ''one trillion tonnes'' limit for carbon emissions out of nowhere. Technically, it's an estimate of how much carbon you emit while still having a two-thirds probability of not hitting a two-degree increase in temperature.
''It's based on two numbers which have just been pulled out of the air,'' he says.
But anyway, it's not the right way to think about things. There's ''decision theory'', which sounds like a good name for an 1980s electro-pop group, but is in fact the way philosophers deal with uncertainty.
''Thinking about the probability of going beyond some target is just not the right way to think.
''The IPCC has constantly concentrated on likelihood, on the probabilities of this happening and that happening. But what matters are not likelihoods.''
He uses the example of a household fire extinguisher. You don't get one because of what's most likely to happen. You get one because of the dire consequences of what might happen.
Broome feels guilty about the amount of air travel his job requires. He resents having chapter and even section headings imposed on the authors by the IPCC. And the work ''just goes on and on'', he says.
''There are much better ways of doing good than this.
''The best way is to send your money to curing tuberculosis, which can save whole lives for a few hundred dollars.''
But he believes solving the very real problem of climate change requires political action - and hopefully the IPCC reports will help bring that about. And within these boundaries, he's finding many interesting questions to ask.
Such as: should we value only what affects us as humans? Is there a value to nature in its own right? Is it a bad thing when a species goes extinct, or a unique ecology disappears?
And when it comes to humans: is there a value in a particular culture?
If the Inuit no longer hunt on the ice because of climate change (which is already happening), but instead visit supermarkets, have we lost something as a planet? Do cultures have value, over and above the wellbeing of the people in them?
Then there's the biggie: future value.
''There are going to be people who are going to be killed terribly as a result of climate change, through disease or starvation or war,'' says Broome.
How should we deal with that? Are people further away from us, in geography and time, less important to us? Should we care less? After all, we're fine with assuming we can care less about people on the other side of the world than our own family. Doesn't the same apply to the people of the future? Or people unborn, who may never be born if the climate changes?
The problem of future value is a vexed one, and it's fundamental to the philosophy of climate change.
Broome believes we should each offset our greenhouse emissions. He's worked this out from first principles. ''You ought not to cause harm to people for your own benefit,'' he says. ''I think you can avoid harming people by offsetting your emissions. This is not meant to be a solution to the problem. It's merely meant to be a way of dealing with the injustice that you do.''
In our lifetime, each person's carbon emissions will harm humanity to the extent of half a year of life, ''so that's a harm my emissions are doing'', says Broome.
Of course, there's a philosophical objection to this. ''[Carbon offsets] just happen to be something that we, the rich, can do at the moment,'' he says.
Take, for example, two factories pouring poison into a river. If one pays the other to stop pouring poison into the river, it has cancelled out its harm. But we still feel they are responsible for the poison.
It's a typical philosopher's paradox. And it's just the kind of question that Broome says we need to sink our teeth into if we're to decide how to tackle our changing climate.


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Phonological Data and Analysis
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Language Indices
Language now makes available two electronic indices to its contents, both of which are given below. Each one offers, for a different time period, an alphabetical listing of all titles and authors of articles, notes, reviews, and books reviewed to be found in the pages of the journal.
First, there is the Twentieth-Century Index, edited by Meghan Sumner and former Language editor Mark Aronoff, which spans the first 76 years of the journal's publication (1925-2000, thus covering all of Language in the 20th century). A bound print version of this index was published in 2002 in limited numbers, and is no longer available (though it is to be found in some libraries). Second, there is the Twenty-first Century Index, which is being compiled and updated (in electronic form only) by Hope Dawson on a year-by-year basis from the indices prepared annually for each volume of Language in this century; it now therefore covers the journal from 2001 on, and will be updated each subsequent year.
Each of these is presented here as an individual pdf file. You may download each one and open them to browse through or to print out for your use.
Note however that the Twentieth-Century Index is a large document, nearly 600 print pages long. This length means that it is also a huge file (some 5 or more mb) and thus, even though it is searchable using tools available via Acrobat, it is somewhat unwieldy to work with (and time-consuming to print). We hope to put together a more easily searchable version of this document. The nascent Twenty-first Century Index is still a quite manageable size but (obviously) will grow each year.
We are aware that the Twentieth-Century Index contains some errors and there are some omissions (in part due to the nature of the process—scanning of earlier printed indexes—by which it was created); if you notice any lapses or mistakes, you will be doing the journal and the profession a service by letting the Language office know, as a corrected version (electronic only—no new print version is planned) is in the works.
20th Century Index (Preface)
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Q: my web scraping program too long time to run, how can i make it more efficient? I started learing programming a few months ago, and i have recently been working on this web scraping program. When i run it, it searches all the news articles for keywords and picks out the ones that include them. Currently it takes around 26 seconds to scan through all 43 of them.
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Back to Coronavirus
Where can I find trusted sources of information?
Whilst media coverage of COVID-19 can help you feel informed, it can also trigger feelings of anxiety and agitation.
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Morison 'The boys are buzzing in there'
Last updated : 27 November 2021 By Michael Morris
Steve Morison rewarded for selecting captain Sean Morrison as the City skipper scores winner at Kenilworth Rd
"He was excellent," Morison said of his captain.
"It was a great team move and he was there to put the ball in the back of the net.
"I made four changes today, like I did against Huddersfield, and I'll continue to do the same," he added.
"It's imperative we have fresh legs and fresh bodies.
"Sometimes it gives you people who have a little bit extra or a bit of a point to prove.
"It keeps people involved, it keeps people interested and they've got to realise they are one game away from starting a game of football, so they can't shut off and down tools.
"There's a point to it, a process to it. We have done it twice now and it worked twice."
For the second Saturday away from home in a row Morison was playing to the crowd after the final whistle.
"They like it when I do four (fist pumps), so I did four.
"I did four last time (at Preston), but I slipped on the second one. Thankfully they cut it out of all the videos!
"When you win the games, you've got to enjoy yourself, the boys are buzzing in there! That's what it's all about.
"Wednesday night I walked down the tunnel when we lost because there was nothing to celebrate.
"Tonight we have got something to celebrate. The main thing now is that on Monday morning everyone comes back in with a smile on their face."
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Nathan Jones said: "I'm learning as a manager. I pulled people out from the team today that were excellent in midweek because I wanted to freshen it up with big and strong players. Ironically, we play three centre-halves and they scored from two crosses into the box.
"I'm better off going a little bit braver and bolder in my selection process. Some people were unlucky not to be picked today and in my mind I know they have done really well this season but we have a poor record against Cardiff here and other teams enjoying playing against them.
"They put two decent balls into the box and scored from them. We put two glorious balls into the box but we didn't score. All over the pitch, we didn't do what we do best, we weren't aggressive enough and we weren't dominant.
"We didn't deserve anything today and if I'm honest with you, it is as embarrassed I have been as a Luton manager. I know we lost 5-0 to Birmingham here but today I freshened it up, we worked hard in training, but we were a mile off."
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Anti-India US diplomat Raphel, convicted felon Fai back in business
By Aarti Tikoo Singh | Bharat Defence Kavach | Publish Date: 3/9/2020 4:31:18 PM
New Delhi/Washington: The former American diplomat Robin Raphel and Ghulam Nabi Fai, a convicted felon who worked as Pakistan's spy to influence the US policy over Kashmir, are back in business.Top sources told IANS that Raphel, a Pakistani lobbyist after her retirement and probed in 2014 by the FBI on the suspicion that she was a Pakistani asset, quietly made a comeback after investigators closed her case without filing any charges in 2016 and President Donald Trump got elected in the US.
Though Raphel remained away from the public view, she became one of the few back-channel key players who played a crucial role in facilitating the talks between the US and the Taliban in Afghanistan, sources said. Her services for mediation were sought by the Trump administration in view of her long history of being pro-Pakistan and pro-Taliban, a top source said. "Since Trump wanted to exit Afghanistan, she fit the bill," he added.
Assistant Secretary of State under former President Bill Clinton, Raphel also served in USAID in Islamabad and political counselor in New Delhi in her long diplomatic career in South Asia. She was married (later divorced) to the US Aambassador in Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, who was killed along with General Zia-ul Haq in a plane crash in 1988.
Raphel, who wielded enormous influence on US foreign policy in Afghanistan-Pakistan-India, has been supportive of talks with the Taliban when it took over Kabul and even after the 9/11 terror attacks. Incidentally, even as the US State Department designated Osama bin Laden as one of the biggest sponsors of terrorism, the Taliban regime which sheltered him in Afghanistan, was never declared a state sponsor of terrorism.
In India, she legitimized Pakistan's cross-border terrorism in Kashmir by setting up their political arm, Hurriyat Conference, which brought together pro-Pakistan and pro-independence Kashmiri separatists. Not only that, she persistently called Kashmir a 'disputed territory' and extended support to Kashmiri separatists, straining India-US relations while being an American diplomat in New Delhi.
Her influence waned as India's economic growth story created its own clout in the US and George W. Bush changed US foreign policy in the region following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. An American citizen of Kashmiri origin, Ghulam Nabi Fai, who ran propaganda against India over Kashmir under his platform aKashmir American Council', was arrested in 2011 after relations between Islamabad and Washington deteriorated in the aftermath of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
He was suddenly released from jail after two years in 2013. Many security experts at the time speculated that he was set free in exchange of vital information on Raphel. Sources said, he too, like Raphel, is now back to holding anti-India conferences on Kashmir in the US.
"The latest is on March 21-22 in Texas with guests like Lord Nazir Ahmed, a member of UK house of lords who was recently caught on social media circulating fake news about Delhi riots," a source said.The other participants of the conference are permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, Munir Akram, advocate Sultan Memood and several Pakistani journalists.
Sources said all the anti-India moves in the US Congress and at several platforms over Kashmir since August 5, when the Modi government reorganized the state of Jammu and Kashmir and revoked its special status, are an outcome of the revival of the Robin Raphel-Ghulam Nabi Fai partnership. "Even President Donald Trump's offer of mediation between India and Pakistan over Kashmir several times, since August last year, is a chapter from the same playbook," a source said.
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Chronic Killer
By Corey Hockett, Fall 2020
Bracing for a wildlife pandemic.
Humans aren't the only ones who could take a few notes on disease transmission this year; it'd behoove Montana ungulates to spread the word as well. That's right, there's another pandemic on the way, and it's coming quicker than we think. In 2017, we saw its first case, and it's only a matter of time before the larger valley reeks of its presence.
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) was first discovered in Colorado in 1967. Once it left the game farm where it was initially identified in, the neurological disease has been creeping north ever since. It attacks the central nervous system and the infectious agent is too small to be detected by normal immune responses, so if contracted, it is always fatal.
Though non-living, the misfolding protein called a prion can replicate itself, and does so reliably. Twenty-year Yellowstone Park employee Bob Lindstrom likens it to a "printer on repeat, continuing to print until it runs out of paper." Lindstrom's primary research during his career was using DNA analysis to test the Park's buffalo for brucellosis in the early 2000s. He says that at the time, both brucellosis and CWD were taboo, and no one wanted to talk about them. But now that transmission is more than a threat and spread is inevitable, management agencies are being forced to think on their feet.
Sampling a whitetail.
Since its origin, CWD has been detected in 24 states and two Canadian provinces. But mind you, those are only where tests are occurring. The regular incubation period for this is around 16 months. That means deer and elk could be walking around infected for a year and a half without showing symptoms.
The bottom line is, the disease is coming—it's already here, and in much larger capacity than the public knows. FWP is taking steps to crack down on testing this hunting season, particularly in areas that have already shown positive cases. They've broken up the state into CWD Management Zones, the majority of which are in north and southeast Montana, with a parcel up near Libby. Any deer, elk, or moose harvested in these zones must not leave the area until it receives a negative test. That means the entire carcass: whole head, brain, and spinal column.
The lengths to do this successfully seem drastic, especially considering the size of elk and moose, and the labor it takes to pack them out. But on the other hand, what else can you do? Currently, there are no cases in domestic cattle, but that's not to say it isn't plausible. Experimentally, the disease has already shown to replicate itself in livestock after direct injection.
Lindstrom says the time to solve this was years ago, but politics has a means of getting in the way of proactivity. And while humans differ on all levels, we at least have the ability to cooperate, even in the midst of a global pandemic. Widespread agreement on disease transmission is not something seen elsewhere in the animal kingdom. "There's no social distancing with elk, deer, and moose," Lindstrom says. "Once it gets in the herd, it's over."
Editor's note: Since the release of this article, FWP has updated their CWD management policy stating that no areas, including CWD Management Zones, require testing of carcasses. Though highly recommended, all testing will be done on a volunteer basis.
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Cat's out
Tom Daley just revealed a HUGE secret
By Malcolm Rhodes August 7, 2018 at 2:08pm · 28 comments
This just in: Tom Daley's been keeping a secret from us.
He and Dustin Lance Black have been quietly working on a documentary about their journey to fatherhood.
Related: Twitter is filled with hate and outrage as Tom Daley and DLB announce the birth of their son
The guys welcomed their first child, Robbie Ray, earlier this summer. He was born via surrogate.
The film, which is being produced by the BBC, features the new dads discussing the homophobic backlash they suffered, as well as their first days as parents.
Yes please. ????? #OurFamily
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In the documentary, Daley will also confront critics of same-sex surrogacy and travel to places where it is illegal. He'll also challenge U.K. laws that ban couples from placing ads for surrogate mothers or paying them.
"Surrogacy changed Tom and Dustin's life, but as proven by the backlash they received it's still a divise subject, particularly where LGBT couples are concerned," a source tells The Sun.
Related: Less than a week after becoming a dad, Tom Daley is accused of "child abuse" by trolls
The source continues: "With this documentary, Tom hopes to broaden minds, discover exactly why people are against surrogacy, and–after keeping a dignified silence so far–challenge some of his fiercest critics head on."
Production on the documentary is already underway. It is scheduled to air sometime next year.
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! ?????????
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Then again I should say rich peoples problems because very few can afford that kind of opportunity. 100 k and up.
August 7, 2018 at 2:08pm
Donston
I have an adopted kid, but I also have one with a female. So, I can't pretend I don't have any kids without my dna. But this just seems like an extremely heteronormative, ego driven, expensive, time consuming and potentially dangerous process that you're putting another person through. All so you can have a baby with your genes. You have the money and pull to adopt any baby from anywhere, including a new born. It's kinda lame to me. But I do wish them and their baby well.
JK 1984
Donston, my partner and I are thinking of going the adoption and foster route when/If we want to have children,
I understand that "having a genetic link" is really important to most people and I would be lying if I said that want something we looked into and wanted, but unless you do it "the old fashioned way" or informally with a turkey baster it is really expensive to go through surrogacy (at least in my country).
As for Tom and Dustin, good on then for making their family how they wanted to. People will always criticise parents about all manner of things (Not just gay parents but all parents) so I say ' F the haters, you do you '.
Another important thing to mention is in 2016 there were 106, 000 children that needed homes. However most will spend their time in institutions.
This kind of reminds me of a puppy mill. Ironically we condemn that but praise this.
Kyle_1983
So pathetic, why do "rich" people have to go through life apologizing for what they worked hard for? Stop bitching and do something productive with your life.
My post was more of a "this isn't the route I would go down and here's why" rather than trying to damn them for creating a family in the way they saw fit. I do feel the backlash they recieved was ridiculous and mostly driven by male homophobia (if these were two women who had a surrogate would anyone have cared?) as well as people just not liking them.
@Kyle_1983, not all rich people "worked hard" for their money. Quite a few inherit it, and do little to help the rest of society, let alone themselves.
Donston,
You said "My post was more of a "this isn't the route I would go down and here's why" rather than trying to damn them for creating a family in the way they saw fit."
But that's a lie. You did damn them. You called their actions "lame egocentric heteronormative" etc. You basically barfed all over them.
When are you going to learn to shut up and receive that not everyone is like you, and stop your addiction to attacking and complaining those who subscribed to your insulated tunnel vision? Your life is obviously not a happy one. You take it out on on the public in most every post you write.
You're the most intellectually negative person I've ever experienced on the net.
These are good people. They need our support, not derision. Think B4 you speak man, then contemplate, maybe then you'll start getting a happier life.
Josh447, when are you going to accept that I'm not a kiss-ass who will blindly supports any dude who admits that he's into dudes? Just as everyone is different, its also okay for people not to agree about everything and have sometimes at-odds discussions.
And I stand by what I said. I think it's borderline lame to have a child through implant surrogacy involving someone outside your relationship when you very much have other options. And I don't care whether it's two men, two women, a hetero couple, etc. Doesn't mean I think it should be baned, that it's morally wrong, that anyone who does it is bad a person or that I don't wish these families well.
August 8, 2018 at 9:08am
Also, while you're constantly throwing shade my way and accusing me of being too nitpicky and serious about everything (which I admit I can be) you're also very much like the thought police. That's something you might need to get in check while you're determing how others need to self-examine. Not everyone is going to align with your way of thinking. Either engage with them and tell them why you think they're wrong or don't. But you're not going to stop people from thinking how they think. Even when someone's being purposely hateful, people disagreeing with me has never moved me as much as it seems to unnerve you. Which is why I'm impossible to troll.
Many on here have commented to you about your negative attitude of which you don't seem to care. You just keep on slamming our own and we really don't like it. If you don't want to keep getting called out, chill your anger and grow up.
I think I'm going to leave it at: you're an anxiety ridden gay black man with white man issues, hence much attacking of the white gay community, and leave it at that.
August 9, 2018 at 12:08pm
broadshoulder
As someone said
It furthers his career
RobtheElder
I was heterosexually married and will be glad to share the circumstances, if anyone wants to read them, but my comment here concerns children. My wife had been married before and had a young son (5 1/2 years old when we married). We determined not to raise our son as a single and cranked up the machinery to have another. We had twin daughters 9 months later. My surrogate, I guess you could say was my wife, whose first husband had died. No one speculated, or had anything to say about my family then or now. Thirteen years after we married, we divorced. My son (whom we had adopted) came to live with me, and almost immediately went off to college. A year after the divorce, one daughter wanted to leave her mother to come to live with me. I had told my daughters they could do that. I immediately began to look for a larger condo. A year later, my other daughter wanted to join her sister and me. We moved into a huge 3 bedroom condo. My ex was fit to be tied. I couldn't worry about that, I had children to raise, and there wasn't anything she could do about it. I don't think my story will particularly help Tom and Dustin, but it should assure them that a single man can be up to the task… RobtheElder
Would you adopt me?
Russell1947
Good on you
Reading my comment, above, I realized some of you might not understand without help. My son was originally a product of his father, and had his natural father's last name. My wife and I wanted our family to be as unified as possible. I couldn't adopt my son without taking him away from his mother, so we gave his custody to the state, and then we jointly adopted him. He's his mother's natural child, and her adopted child as well. This gave all our children my last name. All the legal arrangements were made simultaneously by the same group of attorneys. There was no chance that our son could have been adopted by anyone else in the meantime… RobtheElder
Anyone interested in the laws and international politics surrounding surrogacy might want to check out this audio documentary from Radiolab:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/birthstory2018/
yup5hioop
This is really interesting. Crazy story at the start.
Hi all. A number of you have commented that it is "selfish" to go the surrogacy route. I can see how it would seem that way vs. the supposed ease of adoption, but you're perhaps only considering the situation in your country (i'm assuming majority USA?) My fiancé and I live in France, where adoption is practically impossible for gay couples. It's not like the USA here, we've been told that our only options for adoption as a gay couple are children over 6-7yrs old with serious illnesses. How incredibly prejudice is that? So, before you judge a couples choice to go the adoption route – check the facts because in 2018 the single 2 countries that allow LEGAL international surrogacy for gay couples are USA & Canada (speaking from our perspective here in France) and as far as we know we have ZERO options to adopt a child legally anywhere in the world and bring them back to France. So we are forced to save hundreds of thousands of dollars to go the surrogacy route overseas. We would've loved to adopt and give a child a home, but currently that is not a possibility for us and society is to blame for excluding loving, capable parents such as myself and my fiancé!
Greg… I'd be happy to entertain the prospect of adopting you. Why don't you tell me a little bit of your history to help me decide. Please include why you think I'd be a good candidate as a father… RobtheElder
Prax07
Breaking News, Tom Daly seeks yet more attention, becomes tied at the number one rank for fame-whore with the Kardashians.
He has the courage to come out and be a proud Gay athlete. He has actually accomplished something in his life. UNLIKE the attention crunt Kardashians.. How's about you just go away and troll some other sites??
Good for Tom Daley and his partner Dustin Lance Black. Whether they add to their family by surrogacy or adoption, the most important thing is that they shower their child with unconditional love and provide the best home and education possible.
The only real issue is protecting women from exploitation. Economics aside if a woman wants to do this I don't see the issue. Given statistics the number of gay surrogate babies will probably be lower than straight anyways. Adoption is great but not everybody is cut out for it. The US is in 7 wars, there are probably more than 25 million people being trafficked worldwide. Despite whataboutism I'm saving my outrage. Go Tom.
Reading these, either there's a lot of people n this site dropped out of school in the 4th grade OR are Russian bots…I'm thinking…the latter.
August 8, 2018 at 12:08am
Why don't you just come out and say it. Everyone that disagrees with me is a Russian bot. It would save some writing.
asby
I am one with them sharing every damn aspect of their lives…As long as they also document when they break up….
joesey
There's nothing "huge" about Tom Daly :-p
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FRS 102: WHAT'S CHANGED, WHEN AND HOW? Part 1
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The Triennial Review amendments to FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland were issued in December 2017. In part 1 of this three-part blog I'll provide an overview of the areas affected by the amendments. Part 2 details which changes can be implemented when and part 3 outlines how to apply them.
All paragraph references relate to the Triennial review 2017 amendments .
What's changed?
Many of the amendments to FRS 102 are editorial or aim to clarify, rather than change, accounting treatments. These should not - famous last words - impact entities significantly, although it will be important for the directors of each reporting entity to satisfy themselves that the clarifications do not result in changes to existing treatments.
The more significant amendments are to areas such as directors' loans to small entities, investment properties and intangible assets acquired in business combinations.
Directors' loans (para 167)
For small entities (irrespective of whether they are applying Section 1A Small Entities), loans from a directors' group of close family members may be measured at transaction price (rather than fair value), provided that group contains at least one shareholder in the entity. This relief is now also extended to small LLPs.
Investment properties (IPs) (paras 247-249)
The "undue cost or effort" exemption has been removed, meaning investment properties must now be measured at fair value. However, for IPs rented to other group entities, an accounting policy choice is introduced between measurement at cost or fair value.
Intangible assets acquired in business combinations (para 280)
Fewer intangibles are required to be recognised separately from goodwill. But separate recognition is allowed if it is providing useful information.
Other key amendments are highlighted below; this is not a comprehensive list but covers areas likely to affect a significant number of entities:
Disclosure of changes in net debt by entities preparing a cash flow statement (para 113)
Introduction of a principles-based description of a basic financial instrument to support the detailed criteria currently specified (para 161)
Clarification of the treatment of pre-contract costs in construction contracts (para 340)
Clarifications around the treatment of debt for equity swaps (para 330)
Recognition of the tax effects of gift aid payments from subsidiaries to charitable parents (para 395)
Exemption from disclosing key management personnel (KMP) compensation where KMP and directors are the same and the entity is required to disclose directors' remuneration (para 422)
Narrowing of the definition of a financial institution (para 479).
FRS 102 is the cornerstone of new UK GAAP and for most, it has only been applied since 2015. It made sense therefore to try to avoid making fundamental changes while the standard is still bedding down. Thus the amendments are intended to be targeted and pragmatic. However, they may prove very significant for some and inevitably some considerable effort will be needed to ensure compliance.
The Financial Reporting Faculty is working to provide guidance to members on the changes, including but not limited to this series of blogs. We are hosting a UK GAAP update webinar on 22 March presented by Jenny Carter, director of UK Accounting Standards at the FRC, and Danielle Stewart, Head of Financial Reporting at RSM. They will discuss the key changes and provide some practical insights.
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