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Hakea Trail
Start - Quoin Head
Finish - Cave Point
Length - 23.5km (One Way)
Grade - Red
Terrain - Single Track, 4x4 Track, Beach
Vertical Climb - 372m
Time - 6-10 hours
Signed - Yes
Cost - National Park Fees Apply
Date Hiked - 2nd May 2018
Best Time - All Year Round
Directions - Located within Fitzgerald River National Park, there are a few access points for the Hakea Trail to break it up into sections. The easiest place to access the trail is Cave Point, which can be reached using the paved roads from the eastern entrance of the park.
View Hike on Google Street View
The second access point is at Hamersley Inlet, also reached by paved roads, but will require walking an additional trail down to the beach. The last access point is Quoin Head but this is a 4x4 track only and the last section to Quoin Head is very steep and rough so only tackle this if you have a proper low range 4x4 with plenty of ground clearance (Rav4s and X-Trails won't be enough). This road is closed after rains so always check with the ranger before planning a visit to the park.
The Hike - With an Easter road trip visiting Fitzgerald River National Park under the belt, I was fortunate to be contacted by Parks and Wildlife asking if I would like to volunteer for a special project. The project in question was a collaboration with Google to map and photograph the trails and campsites of Fitzgerald River National Park using the backpack mounted Google Trekker so they could appear in the Street View format. I would accompany Research Scientist Michael on the trip and we would share the Trekker duties as the entire 15 camera, two processor contraption weighed in at 16kg plus our own gear such as radios, water, snacks, first aid etc. Apart from being one of the best national parks in Australia, the reason I wanted to return to Fitzgerald River was that this trip offered me the chance to get the two trails I hadn't yet completed, the Hakea Trail and the Mamang Trail.
After spending day one of the week long trip exploring the campsites on the eastern side of the park along with a trip up East Mount Barren, day two would see us tackling the 23.5km Hakea Trail, one of the best overnight walks in the state. I say overnight because ideally this would be an out and back hike utilising the campgrounds available but because we had access to the resources of Parks and Wildlife we would be dropped off at the start point by the local ranger (thanks again Paul) so we wouldn't have to carry camping gear for two along with the Trekker. We met Paul at sunrise and after dropping our car off at Cave Point, he took us on the unsealed roads leading to Quoin Head. While the track starts off as gentle sand tracks, it gets very rough and steep towards the end so unless you have a proper 4x4 with low range, diff locks and the expertise to drive it then don't attempt it. Also remember to let air out of your tyres and take it slow to limit further damage to the track. Be aware that the unsealed tracks can be closed after rains to stop the spread of dieback so I think the best option for this trail is to treat it as an overnight adventure starting at Cave Point.
Quoin Head to Whalebone Campsite (5.5km)
On our trip out to Quoin Head, Paul the ranger had been praising the beach below the starting point as one of the most underrated parts of the park and when we arrived I would say I agree. While the Hakea Trail officially starts/ends before the nearby lookout, as soon as we hopped out of the car we went to take a look and it reminded me of a cove that the Famous Five would describe during one of their smuggling/treasure adventures. Saying goodbye to Paul for now (he would be doing maintenance at the campsite along the trail so we would bump into him again), we extracted all our gear and prepared to set off. As I mentioned earlier the Trekker isn't light and with no place to store extra items other than attaching a small first aid kit, it was left up to the second person to carry everything else we would need such as water (x2), lunch, snacks, more first aid, spare Trekker batteries, a Spot tracker, GPS, maps and other items. This meant that taking a rest from the awkward, top heavy weight of the Trekker was still no walk in the park but slightly easier on the legs and back.
Michael elected to take the Trekker for the first stint and we would judge how long it was possible for one person to carry it before it became too much. So the Trekker images didn't contain a person in every single shot we had a couple of short band radios so one person could run ahead of the Trekker and we could still communicate. I headed off on the first leg and was immediately amazed at just how breathtaking and serene this place is. To think that not many people visit this treasure is both a comfort and a sadness but as the trail sweeps along the cliffs, it was hard not to fall in love all over again with Fitzgerald River. The trail markers guide you along the contours as you get glimpses of wild ocean spray pounding the rocks below and every now and then a peak at the glowing turquoise water that people often remember this coastline for. I was expecting this section to be mostly flat walking along the cliff but as we came over a small hill the landscape changed slightly and a rocky valley appeared.
With our route taking us east, the lighting was in favour of looking behind towards the ever present Mid Barrens and from either side of the park these peaks are a delight to photograph. It was in taking these photos that I noticed the presence of rain in the distance so warned Michael it may be headed towards us so we could stop and prepare the excellent weather proofing for the Trekker (a garbage bag). We stopped in the rocky valley and although we had experienced a dry summer and autumn, there were still patches of water deep in the crevice carved by nature over the eons. The rain ended up missing us with only a few spots here and there so we climbed out of the valley and onto the 4x4 tracks leading to Whalebone Campsite. As luck would have it did start to rain so I rushed back to help Michael with the Trekker and stood there while the windy shower passed. With these small time delays it was going to be an effort to make it to the finish with the right lighting. The Trekker works best when there are no long shadows so optimal light is between 9am and 4pm, the reason we had to start later in the morning rather than at first light.
With the shower over we started up again and trekked the flat lands adjacent to the cliffs. This was not the most interesting part of the day given it was on 4x4 tracks and you couldn't see the cliffs but one saving grace was skirting around the southern most hills of the Whoogarup Range. Having said before on Real Trail Talk that a trail following around the bases of the peaks of the Stirling Range would make for a great walk, this felt like a similar experience but on a much smaller scale. Mercifully you leave the 4x4 track and return to the rocky single track path as it snakes its way closer to the ocean and the coastline views become more prominent. It isn't long before you turn back towards the north but with views down the valley to Whalebone Campsite, the first rest spot was in sight and looking amazing set amongst the seemingly endless heathlands. You rejoin the 4x4 track as it descends into the valley and the trees start to become a little taller, a welcome relief after a lot of coastal walking. The campsite itself was a great surprise given the description in the brochure was stated it as being "simple composting toilet facilities and raised sleeping platforms with no potable water". What we found was almost a luxury abode compared to the Bibbulmun Track campsites with Munda Biddi style sleeping quarters, lovely deck with two tables and not one but two water tanks that were full.
Whalebone Campsite to Hamersley Inlet (8km)
Stopping at Whalebone Campsite we were joined by Paul the ranger again as he had some maintenance to do here and we expressed our disbelief at how small the visitor numbers were to this campsite (at least those that walked in and signed the book). He mentioned 4x4s come in occasionally and knock out the gates so they can come in and drink/carry on but remarked that the reason it is not well visited is because many people simply don't know about it. After a snack we said goodbye to Paul and I loaded up with the Trekker for the first time today. The trail out of the campsite takes you along the creek line running between the ocean and the campsite and was another welcome section of taller trees although I had to duck quite a lot as the top of the Trekker sat a few feet above my head so was easily caught on branches. With a dry summer the creek was bare but I imagine in spring this would be alive with colour and water. It isn't long before you reach another wow spot on the trail, Whalebone Coast Lookout. There is a small track leading off the main Hakea Trail and given we were here with the Trekker we decided to capture it and I am thankful we made that decision.
With sunnier skies around and the winds starting to pick up, the power and beauty of the ocean was on full display. Standing next to a sharp, angular rocky outcrop on the point provided views of the small cove and beach being pounded by the relentless waves blown in from the Southern Ocean. From this vantage point you can see right along the eastern coastline with glimpses back towards the peaks to the west. I could have stayed there a lot longer but we had to keep moving and onto one of the more enjoyable sections in my view. Firstly you are treated to more epic coastal scenery with a walk along the cliffs above Whalebone Beach looking out over the turquoise waters and then the trail takes you inland. Here you are provided with a different viewpoint as the heathland blocks out the oceans and forces your gaze to the north and the expanse of green leading towards the horizon. Switching between looking at the Whoogarup Range to the north-west and the tiny peaks in the distance to the north-east that is the Eyre Range, I thoroughly enjoyed this stretch. With the clouds providing some excellent shadows on the hills both Michael and I were enjoying the change in lighting as we progressed.
The "horizon stretch" continues for a couple of kilometres before the trail ducks back into the thick scrub as you approach Central Whalebone Point and the opportunity for more great coastal shots. Switching between open heath and thick bushes as we headed towards the Tamala Karst Lookout, this is where the trail gets a bit confusing with different paths veering off and open sandy sections providing multiple options. This is where Michael called over the radio that he thought he was off track. I was behind him and thought I was on trail so kept going to the lookout where I would wait for him. Eventually Michael found the path again and we were reunited at the lookout where I had taken off the Trekker and was trying to get some arty shots of it with the coastline in the background. Given it was after midday this seemed like a great spot to enjoy lunch and we tucked into some rolls provided by the lovely ladies at Hopetoun Bakery. With Hamersley Inlet within sight and only being at the halfway point we once again swapped over the Trekker duties and made our way downhill to the first of the beach sections.
A set of wooden logs guides you down the landscape and to the narrow passage above the beach west of Hamersley Inlet. Being down at sea level on the pristine white sands was a lovely break from the heathland and here was my first encounter with the jagged rocks thrusting out from the beach. Having seen a photo that Donovan posted from the Mamang Trail, I was looking forward to seeing them in Fitzgerald River NP and sure enough along the Hakea Trail there are sections too. These jutted features ranging in colour from dark black to cream provide a great contrast against the iconic turquoise waters and were a privilege to photograph. With Michael entering the beach and me not wanting to get in the Trekker shots I sadly had to move on but more interesting rocks caught my eye here that I labelled Star Wars boulders due to the colour palette reminding me of the prequels design language (a weird connection I know). Here I ran into some bright green birds playing on the rocks but I only managed one shot of them before they flew away. Passing through the Star Wars boulders and onto Hamersley Beach presents the vast openness of sand in front of you and thanks to the dry summer, a passage not blocked by an open inlet.


How would you rewrite Endgame?
Discussion in 'Star Trek: Voyager' started by chris of nine, Jan 21, 2019.
I would have had them get home in the first two minutes instead of the end. A group of Starfleet security officers beams aboard and immediately arrests Chakotay, Belanna and the other Maquis and ships them off to prison for their time as Maquis. Just because the crew had to forgive and forget in order to survive doesn't mean Starfleet is going to. They also send Paris back to prison to finish his term there. The Doctor is taken out of sickbay and sent to a lab somewhere so the scientists can see the effects of his program having been on so long. Seven is also arrested, but sent to a lab to be dissected so Starfleet can learn how to beat the Borg once and for all. Janeway, Tuvok and Kim spent the episode trying to get their friends out of trouble. In the end, they get their friends off, Janeway reassembles the crew on the Voyager and they fly off to have normal Star Trek type adventures.
As dark and sad RandyS 's scenario is, it is certainly realistic.
Indeed, we must not forget that it is not because Janeway and her crew have become accustomed to see Chakotay and his Maquis crew, the Doctor and Seven as friends that the situation had to be imposed on Starfleet/the Federation. That's why I truly think that the "after-Endgame" could not necessarily mean a happy end for everyone (after the Voyager's reunion party, of course! ). Never underestimate the force of resentment that people can have sometimes, especially in high spheres like Starfleet and the Federation were.
As for Harry Kim, I don't know why but I don't see him live (and prosper) a longtime in Starfleet institution!
without weighing all the consequences. => or he would be killed in a mission or he would resign further to a mission which would gone wrong because of an error of assessment/miscalculation from his part, causing many casualties.
Indeed, he will not always have a Janeway, Paris, Torres or Seven with him for reason him, when the situation will be complicated!
I didn't mean that their circumstances had to be "dark and sad" forever, only that their pre "Caretaker" circumstances had to be adressed before they could move on. Whch is why Janeway's part in the episode would be to get them off, and she would succeed.
I was basically appealing to the Ron Moore--"everything in life is a downer-negative" fans.
Make her friends out of jail permanently is one thing and I'm sure that Juneway will succeed in this task, that they may have life of their dreams is another one. Let's be honest, their past (Maquis in particular for Chakotay and Torres => as during WWII, there was people who supported the Maquis and their activities and others who despised them) and/or differences (Borg implants for Seven : given all the harm inflicted by the Borg in different quadrants, there would be nothing surprising to see people wanting to keep their distance. As for being a hologram and enjoys the same rights as living being, there will always be opponents) will always haunt them because there will always be people/medias around to remind them. Janeway cannot force people to accept her friends, right? And it is not being negative but realistic!
I wouldn't change much. I'd just show a bit of what happens after they all return home and some hints of what they plan to do next.
I didn't love Endgame, and part of the reason why was it felt very selfish on Admiral Janeway's part to upend reality just to bring Seven of Nine home. Plus, I didn't like the out-of-the-blue Seven and Chakotay romance either. I did think the Janeway-Tuvok scenes were touching and well-done, and I was fine with the futures of the other Voyager crewmembers, though "Joe" as the Doctor's name wasn't that funny to me.
All that being said, if I stay with the Borg idea and not change too much, I would have had Seven of Nine as the person who goes back in time to save Janeway. Janeway doesn't make it out of the Delta Quadrant in the past and Seven is forever haunted by that. Admiral Janeway's actions felt more like something Seven would have done.
I also wouldn't have made future tech Voyager so powerful. The 1989 Batmobile look was a bit too much.
Other thoughts I've had were to bring them home in Season 6 and have Season 7 deal with the aftermath of that. And perhaps do something with Species 8472, the Vaadwaur, or another opponent coming to the Alpha Quadrant. The Voyager crew back home for a season allows them to explore new relationships, but also could be a way we could learn what happened after the DS9 series finale as well.
Get rid of the time travel part of it, for 2 reasons. Well, 3 actually.
1 - The original Voyager made some changes to the Delta Quadrant around them by the time they reached home. They changed some lives perhaps (maybe Harry Kim even found a girlfriend!). Is it right to undo those changes just because Admiral Janeway wants to save a few of her crewmembers?
2 - I half expected Captain Braxton or some other time policeman to stop them and send them back to where they were supposed to be no matter how close to Earth they appear to be in the final shot.
3 - If Admiral Janway could time travel, why pick that point in time? Why not go earlier and save more crewmen or go back to the beginning and undo it all or later or whenever? Was that Borg warmhole/corridor/whatever it was the only one in existence? Couldn't there have been another they could have taken far earlier had they known about it?
Instead, I'd prefer it if when contact with Starfleet was established, a gradual "Steafleet comes up with an idea to bring them home. Voyager tries it. Doesn't work fully but it brings them a bit closer" until they're practically at the gate. Do the writers want a Borg fight? Let's keep it, with the Voyager hitting them from behind while Starfleet hits them from the front and let Voyager emerge victorious like it did in the show.
Mostly I would just build up to it in previous episodes. And find a better reason for Janeway to change history than "her three favorite people got screwed by life but everyone else is fine."
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That's what cheesed me off most about the episode...the utter disregard for anything Voyager might have accomplished after the point where Janeway chose to jumpstart the trip. Are we supposed to believe that nothing else they did mattered to anyone?
More snarkily there's the "Why not go back a week earlier and keep Carey from dying pointlessly?" argument, but I digest.
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Turns out that "subspace divergence field" in Deadlock was actually an opening into the Mirror Universe. New Harry is in fact 100% pure evil. As soon as they get back to Earth he seizes control of Voyager and quickly conquers the unsuspecting planet.
At this point a triumphant Kim finally finally promotes himself to Lieutenant (jg).
find a better reason for Janeway to change history than "her three favorite people got screwed by life but everyone else is fine."
They were a sacrifice The Island Voyager demanded.
Or the sacrifice needed for the Maquis to plug in good/vital positions of the ship and make them work together easier. The scene in the bridge was like musical chairs! Janeway sat and was saved, Tom sat and was saved, Cavitt was without a chair and oops,he died!
More closure would have been nice. People getting back together with their families.
I always thought the entire concept behind "Endgame" was fatally flawed. The only thing I would definitely retain is a final confrontation with the Borg and the Queen.
I wish they had ended DS9-style, with an arc. I wish they had gotten home not just earlier in the finale, but 4 or 6 or 10 episodes before the series ended. There is SO MUCH story to tell with what happens when they get home, and they left it all on the table (they did show us some of this in the future timeframe, but it felt empty once the time travel erased it).
They could have even split the crew up -- half of them get home with several episodes to spare via Insert Technobabble Here, then they have to figure out the way to get the rest of the crew home while playing out whatever their personal "Return To Earth" drama is. At the same time they could have been waging a two-front final war with the Borg. It just feels like a more authentic approach to the story than the time travel gimmickry they opted for.
And it really seems like someone should have properly died in the finale. The setup of this show seemed to demand a climactic sacrifice of that nature.
That's because the writers chose to focus on a completely contrived relationship between a young woman and a guy old enough to be her father, who were not even remotely interested in each other before this, along with Tuvok getting some weird disease that was also never even remotely hinted at before, culminating in a Janeway from the future who hates her life and yet doesn't seem to care that everyone else's life is just fine and for some reason feels the need to wipe out decades of history just so the aforementioned disturbing daddy-daughter relationship can continue.
You think that's a fairly good assessment of Endgame?
Oh, Doctor Joe and wife?
And she's a soft core actress.
No. I was referring to Seven of Nine and Chakotay.
I would have put it midway through the season, or at least have it not be the last episode. Have the final three episodes deal with the aftermath.
And so he will go in history as "The evil Lieutenant (jg) - Emperor"... though those revisionist scholars that don't recognise his authority to promote himself will stubbornly call him "the Evil Ensign-Emperor", or EEE for short.


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Oral Roberts vs. North Dakota State - 1/26/19 College Basketball Pick, Odds, and Prediction
North Dakota State at Oral Roberts
Mabee Center
The Line: Oral Roberts +2.5 -- Over/Under: 145.5
Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports
The North Dakota St Bison and Oral Roberts Golden Eagles meet Saturday in college basketball action at the Mabee Center.
The North Dakota St Bison look for a spark of consistency after splitting their last 10 games. The North Dakota St Bison are averaging 73.1 points on 45 percent shooting and allowing 73.8 points on 47.2 percent shooting. Deng Geu is averaging 11.9 points and 5.4 rebounds while Tyson Ward is averaging 11.5 points and 2.5 assists. Vinnie Shahid is the third double-digit scorer and Rocky Kreuser is grabbing 3.4 rebounds. The North Dakota St Bison are shooting 34.2 percent from beyond the arc and 79.2 percent from the free throw line. The North Dakota St Bison are allowing 36.4 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 32.2 rebounds per game. The North Dakota St Bison have lost all eight road games this season.
The Oral Roberts Golden Eagles also need a win here after splitting their last 10 games. The Oral Roberts Golden Eagles are averaging 71 points on 45 percent shooting and allowing 77.3 points on 45.3 percent shooting. Emmanuel Nzekwesi is averaging 15.4 points and 1.1 assists while Kevin Obanor is averaging 12.5 points and 6.4 rebounds. Sam Kearns is dishing 3.1 assists and D.J. Weaver is grabbing 2.6 rebounds. The Oral Roberts Golden Eagles are shooting 35.9 percent from beyond the arc and 65.5 percent from the free throw line. The Oral Roberts Golden Eagles are allowing 35.2 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 36.1 rebounds per game. The Oral Roberts Golden Eagles have won four of their last six home games.
The Bison are 17-39-2 ATS in their last 58 road games, 3-10 ATS in their last 13 Saturday games and 8-20-1 ATS in their last 29 games overall. The Golden Eagles are 2-7 ATS in their last 9 Saturday games. The Bison are 1-5-1 ATS in the last 7 meetings in Oral Roberts. The over is 47-22 in Golden Eagles last 69 overall. The over is 6-1 in Bison last 7 overall.
The home team has won eight of the last nine meetings between North Dakota St Bison and Oral Roberts, which includes covers in three of the last four meetings. The North Dakota St Bison are just 2-9-1 ATS on the road this season and 6-12-1 ATS overall. The Bison are also losing by an average of 19 points on the road this season while allowing 53 percent shooting. The Oral Roberts Golden Eagles have been at their best at home where they've won four of their last six and are shooting nearly 47 percent from the field. The wrong team may be favored here. I'll take a shot with the free bucket and the Golden Eagles.
Oral Roberts +2.5

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Venus hides life? How NASA discovered 'flowing rivers' on the planet – 'Just like Earth' | Science | news
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As the second planet of the Sun, because of its similar size, mass, and mass, Venus is often referred to as Earth's "sister planet." Although similar from afar, the close up case could not be more different. The atmospheric pressure on the planet is 92 times that of the Earth or about 900 meters below our surface.
Venus is by far the hottest planet in the solar system, with an average surface temperature of 500C, although mercury is closer to the Sun.
After the birth of the solar system, things could not have looked different, as Brian Cox revealed in his new BBC series. " The planets.
He said in May: "The surface temperatures on Venus are hotter today than on Mercury.
Planet, the sun itself has evolved.
Venus had flowing rivers in his distant past (Photo: GETTY)
Brian Cox unveiled the NASA find (picture: GETTY)
Rivers of water flowed and Venus became an ocean world
"As the sun ages, the star always burns hotter and hotter.
"That means that in the past, when the sun was younger, the sun needed to have been cooler and that had a big impact on the planets."
Dr. Cox went on, revealing how cooler and wetter the Venus was with all the proper features to support life.
He added, "By the time Earth's life just started, three and a half to four billion years ago, the sun was weaker and that meant Venus was cooler.
"In fact, the temperatures on Venus at that time would have been like a pleasant spring day here on Earth.
"Joke After a few million years of its formation, the surface of Venus had cooled and the planet was just at the right distance from the faint young sun so that Venus could experience a familiar sight here on Earth.
"The sky opened and great streams flooded the surface, streams of water flowed and Venus became an ocean world.
"The atmosphere of the planet allowed him to keep the oceans as a blanket and to keep the surface temperate thanks to the greenhouse effect."
Dr. Cox also revealed in the same series how alien life could thrive on Saturn's moon Titan in the future.
He stated, "The Cassini [satellite] was still in orbit around Saturn and flew high above the Titan's North Pole a year after Huygens landed and discovered something nowhere to be seen anywhere else in the Solar System.
Venus is the second planet of the sun (Image: GETTY)
Venus cools down over time. (Photo: GETTY)
"Liquid accumulates in not just one, but countless great lakes."
"Cassini discovered lakes with liquid methane and the earth has a strange cold twin.
"Fascinating and indeed tempting is also that titanium has a complex chemistry and that chemistry is carbon chemistry – the chemistry of life."
Dr. Cox went on to explain how this chemistry might work to make it possible for the moon to grow
He added, "So we found molecules like hydrogen cyanide, the building block of amino acids, and we found molecules called vinyl cyanide, which chemists and biologists speculate could form a kind of cell membrane."
And so all the ingredients for life on Titan are present.
"Now, very few scientists believe that there will be life on Titan today – it's at -180C on the surface, after all."] But because of the presence of all these ingredients, it could be a whole different story if you had Titan
In about 5.5 billion years, the sun will reach the end of its present life cycle, leaving the main sequence and becoming a red giant, engulfin g of mercury, Venus and possibly Earth as well.
It is then expected that it expands and doubles in size and power, which means that sunlight reaches the extreme corners of the solar system.
Dr. Something special for Titan.
He continued, "Given the old expanding sun the vast areas of the solar system receive more solar energy.
"The atmosphere of the Titan will warm.
" Mountains ice will shrink and melt, when the temperatures rise, and the frozen water it contains replaces the liquid methane.
"Mountains become oceans of water, and in a strange turn of fate, at the end of the life of the sun, the last oceanic world of the solar system will awaken to its own biological potential."
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If you're staging all 37 of Shakespeare's plays, in 37 different languages, then you sure as hell better get the surtitles right. Unfortunately, rather than translating the text, the surtitles used for the Globe to Globe season, simply – oh so simply – summarise each scene. It's a bit like reading those awful York notes, alongside the production: 'Richard pretends to be modest, making a show of refusing to accept power'. Not only does this reduce each scene – and give the sense that it is over before it has even begun – but it means the English section of the audience is left feeling a little abandoned, feeding on the scraps of meaning those scant surtitles provide.
This dubious decision has made it very hard for the visiting companies: do they go for broad, panto style theatre – in order to draw everyone in – or do they stick to their guns, teasing out subtleties and hoping those who only speak English will somehow keep up? The National Theatre of China has an even tougher task, since their costumes are still floating out at sea, in a rather Twelfth Night-esque twist. Essentially then, they must translate 'Richard III, without language and with very few visual aids. An Olympian challenge, indeed.
The company must also reinterpret Shakespeare, without relying on his natural rhythms. Mandarin is quite a hard-hitting language – packed with monosyllabic words – and the cast's delivery sounds a little monotonous. It's hard to make out those elegant swoops, dips and swerves in Shakespeare's text. The company works hard at finding other ways to break up the script. Sometimes, the actors sing their speeches. When Lady Ann mourns her husband death, she sounds like a desolate nightingale. When Margaret predicts Richard's downfall, she is one of the few actors to really shout; a foghorn of despair.
Director Wang Xiaoying also breaks things up, by teasing out some interesting physical performances. There is an arresting moment, when Ann laments her marriage to Richard, and circles the stage in a solemn dance. It feels like she's marking out the boundaries of her new and horribly limited life. Xiaoying also explores Richard's character, through the actor's movements. This Richard III (possibly played by Zhang Donghyu. though the programme is unhelpfully vague) might not have a hump – but he is thoroughly twisted inside. After certain pivotal moments, Donghyu twists up his limbs, freezing them in ugly contortions. The on-stage musician also helps accent the play, with ingenious riffs on his mystical array of instruments.
But for all these elegant solutions, there are also a number of overblown touches. The comic sections really grate: it's as if the director has gone through the script with a massive highlighter, fiercely slashing through all the j-o-k-e-s. Richard's hired executioners are re-imagined as two comic, gymnastic sidekicks, who express their reservations through back flips, camp tiptoeing and flippant fights. The audience is encouraged to laugh at death and the play's intensity – and Richard's power – diminishes rapidly with every chuckle.


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    /// a very basic semantic analysis to make text following in one the categories below:
    ///     - regular code,
    ///     - developper comments,
    ///     - strings / character.
    /// The output of this class is used by CSharpCodeFormatter to achieve the basic syntax coloring.
    /// </summary>
    public class TokenClassifier
    {
        #region SMSTATE code

        // the list below contains constant values defining states for the finite
        // smState machine that makes all the work of converting LexToken into ClassifiedToken.
        // for instance, Lexer can send inputs like:
        //
        //   [Text][Separator][CommentC_Open][Text][CommentC_Close]
        //
        // This LexToken sequence can for instance be converted that way by TokenClassifier.
        //
        //   - [Text][Separator]                     => [Code]
        //   - [CommentC_Open][Text][CommentC_Close] => [Comment]
        //

        /// <summary>
        /// State code for the smState machine.
        /// State when reaching a code block.
        /// </summary>
        public const int SMSTATE_CODE = 0;

        /// <summary>
        /// State code for the smState machine.
        /// State when reaching a C comment block.
        /// </summary>
        public const int SMSTATE_CCOMMENT = 1;

        /// <summary>
        /// State code for the smState machine.
        /// State when reaching a C++ comment block.
        /// </summary>
        public const int SMSTATE_CPPCOMMENT = 2;

        /// <summary>
        /// State code for the smState machine.
        /// State when reaching a char surrounded by single quotes.
        /// </summary>
        public const int SMSTATE_CHAR = 3;

        /// <summary>
        /// State code for the smState machine.
        /// State when reaching a string surrounded by double quotes.
        /// </summary>
        public const int SMSTATE_STRING = 4;

        #endregion

        /// <summary>
        /// A finite smState machine where states are: SMSTATE values and
        /// transitions are LexToken.
        /// </summary>
        private StateMachine _sm;

        /// <summary>
        /// The current StateMachine's SMTATE code.
        /// </summary>
        private int _sm_output;

        /// <summary>
        /// Makes a link between SMSTATE code and ClassificationTag.
        /// </summary>
        private Dictionary<int, ClassificationTag> _tags;

        /// <summary>
        /// Contains the list of C# keywords.
        /// </summary>
        private Dictionary<string, bool> _keywords;

        /// <summary>
        /// Indicate whether Lexer is in escaping mode.
        /// This flag is set to true when parsing "\\" and
        /// can influate on the following LexerTag value.
        /// </summary>
        private bool _escaping;

        /// <summary>
        /// Build a new instance of TokenClassifier.
        /// </summary>
        public TokenClassifier()
        {
            string[] words;

            _sm = new StateMachine();

            _tags = new Dictionary<int, ClassificationTag>();
            _tags.Add(SMSTATE_CODE, ClassificationTag.Code);
            _tags.Add(SMSTATE_CCOMMENT, ClassificationTag.Comment);
            _tags.Add(SMSTATE_CPPCOMMENT, ClassificationTag.Comment);
            _tags.Add(SMSTATE_CHAR, ClassificationTag.String);
            _tags.Add(SMSTATE_STRING, ClassificationTag.String);

            // build the list of predefined keywords.
            // this is from the official msdn site. Curiously, some keywords
            // were ommited from the official documentation.
            //   For instance "get", "set", "region" and "endregion" were
            // not part of the official list. Maybe it's a mistake or a misunderstanding
            // whatever... I want them paint in blue as well!

            words = new string[] {
                "abstract", "event", "new", "struct", "as", "explicit", "null", "switch",
                "base", "extern", "object", "this", "bool", "false", "operator", "throw",
                "break", "finally", "out", "true", "byte", "fixed", "override", "try", "case",
                "float", "params", "typeof", "catch", "for", "private", "uint", "char",
                "foreach", "protected", "ulong", "checked", "goto", "public", "unchecked",
                "class", "if", "readonly", "unsafe", "const", "implicit", "ref", "ushort",
                "continue", "in", "return", "using", "decimal", "int", "sbyte", "virtual",
                "default", "interface", "sealed", "volatile", "delegate", "internal",
                "short", "void", "do", "is", "sizeof", "while", "double", "lock", "stackalloc",
                "else", "long", "static", "enum", "namespace", "string", "partial", "get", "set",
                "region", "endregion",
            };

            _keywords = new Dictionary<string, bool>();
            foreach (string key in words)
                _keywords.Add(key, true);

            Reset();

            return;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Tells whether TokenClassifier is currently in escaping mode. When true,
        /// this flag causes TokenClassifier to override the final classification
        /// of a basic entity (such as: ") to be treated as normal text instead of
        /// being interpreted as a string delimiter.
        /// </summary>
        public bool Escaping
        {
            get { return (_escaping); }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Reset the StateMachine to default value. (code block).
        /// </summary>
        public void Reset()
        {
            _sm_output = SMSTATE_CODE;
            _escaping = false;

            return;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Classify the given LexToken into a ClassificationTag.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="token">The token to be classified.</param>
        /// <returns>The smState value.</returns>
        public ClassificationTag Classify(LexToken token)
        {
            int classTag;

            UiExceptionHelper.CheckNotNull(token, "token");

            classTag = AcceptLexToken(token);

            if (classTag == SMSTATE_CODE &&
                _keywords.ContainsKey(token.Text))
                return (ClassificationTag.Keyword);

            // Parsing a token whoose Text value is set to '\'
            // causes the classifier to set/reset is escaping mode.

            if (token.Text == "\\" &&
                _sm_output == SMSTATE_STRING &&
                !_escaping)
                _escaping = true;
            else
                _escaping = false;

            return (_tags[classTag]);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Classify the given token and get its corresponding SMSTATE value.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="token">The LexToken to be classified.</param>
        /// <returns>An SMSTATE value.</returns>
        protected int AcceptLexToken(LexToken token)
        {
            int smState;

            if (_escaping)
                return (SMSTATE_STRING);

            smState = GetTokenSMSTATE(_sm_output, token.Tag);
            _sm_output = GetSMSTATE(_sm_output, token.Tag);

            return (smState);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the SMSTATE under the "transition" going from "smState".
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="smState">The current smState.</param>
        /// <param name="transition">The current LexerTag.</param>
        /// <returns>The new smState.</returns>
        protected int GetSMSTATE(int smState, LexerTag transition)
        {
            return (_sm.GetSMSTATE(smState, transition));
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets a token SMSTATE under the "transition" going from "smState".
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="smState">The current smState machine.</param>
        /// <param name="transition">The LexerTag to be classified.</param>
        /// <returns>The LexerTag's classification.</returns>
        protected int GetTokenSMSTATE(int smState, LexerTag transition)
        {
            return (_sm.GetTokenSMSTATE(smState, transition));
        }

        #region StateMachine

        /// <summary>
        /// Defines a transition (of a state machine).
        /// </summary>
        class TransitionData
        {
            /// <summary>
            /// The current transition.
            /// </summary>
            public LexerTag Transition;

            /// <summary>
            /// The SMSTATE code reached when following that transition.
            /// </summary>
            public int SMSTATE;

            /// <summary>
            /// The TokenSMSTATE reached when following that transition.
            /// </summary>
            public int TokenSMSTATE;

            public TransitionData(LexerTag transition, int smState)
            {
                Transition = transition;

                SMSTATE = smState;
                TokenSMSTATE = smState;

                return;
            }

            public TransitionData(LexerTag transition, int smState, int tokenSmState) :
                this(transition, smState)
            {
                TokenSMSTATE = tokenSmState;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Defines a state (of a state machine) and its associated transitions.
        /// </summary>
        class State
        {
            public int InitialState;
            public TransitionData[] Transitions;

            public State(int initialState, TransitionData[] transitions)
            {
                int i;
                int j;

                UiExceptionHelper.CheckNotNull(transitions, "transitions");
                UiExceptionHelper.CheckTrue(
                    transitions.Length == 8,
                    "expecting transitions.Length to be 8",
                    "transitions");

                for (i = 0; i < transitions.Length; ++i)
                    for (j = 0; j < transitions.Length; ++j)
                    {
                        if (j == i)
                            continue;

                        if (transitions[j].Transition == transitions[i].Transition)
                            UiExceptionHelper.CheckTrue(false,
                                String.Format("transition '{0}' already present", transitions[j].Transition),
                                "transitions");
                    }

                InitialState = initialState;
                Transitions = transitions;

                return;
            }

            public TransitionData this[LexerTag transition]
            {
                get
                {
                    foreach (TransitionData couple in Transitions)
                        if (couple.Transition == transition)
                            return (couple);
                    return (null);
                }
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// A finite state machine. Where states are SMSTATE codes and
        /// transitions are LexTokens.
        /// </summary>
        class StateMachine
        {
            private State[] _states;

            public StateMachine()
            {
                _states = new State[5];

                // defines transitions from SMSTATE_CODE
                _states[0] = new State(
                    SMSTATE_CODE,
                    new TransitionData[] {
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.EndOfLine, SMSTATE_CODE),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.Separator, SMSTATE_CODE),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.Text, SMSTATE_CODE),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.CommentC_Open, SMSTATE_CCOMMENT),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.CommentC_Close, SMSTATE_CODE, SMSTATE_CCOMMENT),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.CommentCpp, SMSTATE_CPPCOMMENT),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.SingleQuote, SMSTATE_CHAR),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.DoubleQuote, SMSTATE_STRING),
                    });

                // defines transitions from SMSTATE_CCOMMENT
                _states[1] = new State(
                    SMSTATE_CCOMMENT,
                    new TransitionData[] {
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.EndOfLine, SMSTATE_CCOMMENT),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.Separator, SMSTATE_CCOMMENT),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.Text, SMSTATE_CCOMMENT),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.CommentC_Open, SMSTATE_CCOMMENT),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.CommentC_Close, SMSTATE_CODE, SMSTATE_CCOMMENT),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.CommentCpp, SMSTATE_CCOMMENT),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.SingleQuote, SMSTATE_CCOMMENT),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.DoubleQuote, SMSTATE_CCOMMENT),
                    });

                // defines transitions from SMSTATE_CPPCOMMENT
                _states[2] = new State(
                    SMSTATE_CPPCOMMENT,
                    new TransitionData[] {
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.EndOfLine, SMSTATE_CODE),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.Separator, SMSTATE_CPPCOMMENT),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.Text, SMSTATE_CPPCOMMENT),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.CommentC_Open, SMSTATE_CPPCOMMENT),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.CommentC_Close, SMSTATE_CPPCOMMENT),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.CommentCpp, SMSTATE_CPPCOMMENT),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.SingleQuote, SMSTATE_CPPCOMMENT),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.DoubleQuote, SMSTATE_CPPCOMMENT),
                    });

                // defines transition from SMSTATE_CHAR
                _states[3] = new State(
                    SMSTATE_CHAR,
                    new TransitionData[] {
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.EndOfLine, SMSTATE_CHAR),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.Separator, SMSTATE_CHAR),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.Text, SMSTATE_CHAR),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.CommentC_Open, SMSTATE_CHAR),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.CommentC_Close, SMSTATE_CHAR),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.CommentCpp, SMSTATE_CHAR),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.SingleQuote, SMSTATE_CODE, SMSTATE_CHAR),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.DoubleQuote, SMSTATE_CHAR),
                    });

                // defines transition from SMSTATE_STRING
                _states[4] = new State(
                    SMSTATE_STRING,
                    new TransitionData[] {
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.EndOfLine, SMSTATE_STRING),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.Separator, SMSTATE_STRING),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.Text, SMSTATE_STRING),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.CommentC_Open, SMSTATE_STRING),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.CommentC_Close, SMSTATE_STRING),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.CommentCpp, SMSTATE_STRING),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.SingleQuote, SMSTATE_STRING),
                        new TransitionData(LexerTag.DoubleQuote, SMSTATE_CODE, SMSTATE_STRING),
                    });

                return;
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Follow "transition" going from "smState" and returns reached SMSTATE.
            /// </summary>
            public int GetSMSTATE(int smState, LexerTag transition)
            {
                foreach (State st in _states)
                    if (st.InitialState == smState)
                        return (st[transition].SMSTATE);
                return (SMSTATE_CODE);
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Follow "transition" going from "smState" and returns reached TokenSMSTATE.
            /// </summary>
            public int GetTokenSMSTATE(int smState, LexerTag transition)
            {
                foreach (State st in _states)
                    if (st.InitialState == smState)
                        return (st[transition].TokenSMSTATE);
                return (SMSTATE_CODE);
            }
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

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HMS Ekins (K 552)
Frigate of the Captain class
Type Frigate
Class Captain
Built by Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Ordered 10 Jan 1942
Launched 2 Oct 1943
Commissioned 29 Nov 1943
Assigned USN penant DE 87 but not named.
HMS Ekins (Lt. A.R. Tandevin, RNVR) was severely damaged by a mine in the North Sea some 13 miles north-west of Ostend, Belgium on 16 April 1945, declared a total loss.
HMS Ekins is not listed as active unit in the October 1945 Navy List
Scrapped in the Netherlands.
Former name DE 87
Commands listed for HMS Ekins (K 552)
1 T/Lt. George Graham Bonner-Davis, RNVR Nov 1943 16 Oct 1944
2 Lt. Anthony Richard Taudevin, DSC, RNVR 16 Oct 1944 mid 1945
3 T/Lt. Robert John Slater, RNVR mid 1945 mid 1945
Notable events involving Ekins include:
HMS Terrapin (Lt.Cdr. D.S.R. Martin, DSO and 2 bars, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Larne with HMS Cooke (Lt.Cdr. L.C. Hill, OBE, RD, RNR), HMS Domett (T/A/Lt.Cdr. S. Gordon, RNVR), HMS Duckworth (Cdr. R.G. Mills, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) and HMS Ekins (T/Lt. G.G. Bonner-Davies, RNVR). (1)
HMS Clyde (Lt.Cdr. R.S. Brookes, DSO, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Larne with HMS Duckworth (Cdr. R.G. Mills, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) and HMS Ekins (T/Lt. G.G. Bonner-Davies, RNVR). (2)
HMS Terrapin (Lt.Cdr. D.S.R. Martin, DSO and 2 bars, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Larne with HMS Cooke (Lt.Cdr. L.C. Hill, OBE, RD, RNR), HMS Duckworth (Cdr. R.G. Mills, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) and HMS Ekins (T/Lt. G.G. Bonner-Davies, RNVR). (1)
HrMs O 9 (Lt. R.W. van Lynden, RNN) participated in A/S exercises off Lough Foyle together with HMS Ekins (T/Lt. G.G. Bonner-Davies, RN), HMS Nasturtium (T/A/Lt.Cdr. W.N. Bishop-Laggett, RNR) and HMS Abelia (A/Lt.Cdr. O.G. Stuart, RCNVR). (3)
German U-boat U-212 was sunk in the English Channel south of Brighton, in position 50°27'N, 00°13'W, by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Curzon (Lt.Cdr. A. Diggins, RN) and HMS Ekins (Lt. G. Bonner-Davies, RN).
The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War
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Here's how the new 988 crisis helpline will work in Massachusetts
By Jason Law, Boston 25 News
March 02, 2022 at 10:47 am EST
NORWOOD, Mass. — Laura Hamilton has a red binder with pages and pages of phone numbers and websites, a collection of all the health care providers and call centers she's accumulated over the years. That binder is her resource when she's experiencing a mental health crisis.
"You just need one person to pick up the phone," Hamilton said.
The 40-year-old Norwood resident said she's been hospitalized for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She's battled mental health issues since she was a child, and has had trouble navigating Massachusetts' health care system, which critics describe as complex and cumbersome.
"In the past when I was going through a really hard time, I've called over a hundred numbers looking for resources in my community," Hamilton said.
There is a new helpline coming that could make things a lot easier. The Federal Communications Commission designated 988 as a nationwide suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline. The number goes live on July 16.
"I think 988 will make a tremendous difference in providing an alternative to 911," said Danna Mauch, president, and CEO of the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health.
According to the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, there will be five 988 call centers in Massachusetts: Call2Talk, Samaritans of Cape Cod & the Islands, Samaritans of Merrimack Valley, Samaritans, Inc. and Samaritans Southcoast. Only centers that are members of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Network will answer 988 calls, and when the helpline becomes active, anyone who calls with a Massachusetts area code will be routed to a trained counselor.
"The move to 988 will provide a number that is simple and easy to remember, and will hopefully lead to more opportunities to support residents in need of these services," the EOHHS spokesperson said.
Massachusetts lawmakers Rep. Marjorie Decker and Sen. Julian Cyr filed separate bills to implement 988 in Massachusetts, H.2081, and S.1274. Decker said one of the goals with 988 is to take police out of the equation when someone is in need of mental health treatment.
"They do not need to be the first responder to every mental health crisis and sometimes it's actually a lot safer if they're not," Decker said. "The research does, in fact, affirm that when somebody calls a crisis hotline often that can literally be the lifesaving line."
Mauch said 988 will make it much easier for people to get help.
"It will replace the suicide hotlines, Mauch said. "Massachusetts has a lot of resources, but when you have a lot of resources it's harder to navigate the system. This creates a much simpler way into the system."
Hamilton is looking forward to the day when she can replace all the numbers in her binder with that simple, three-digit helpline.
"I think it will make all the difference in the world," Hamilton said.
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Written by: Don Leypoldt on Friday, October 2nd, 2009. Follow Don Leypoldt on Twitter.
C.B. South DB Matt Welk might make for a great film critic after graduation.
It paid off. "The plays" were the three interceptions he snagged in leading his Titans to a 17-7 road win against C.B. West.
South scored first with a six play, 39 yard drive late in the second quarter. Quarterback Matt Johns (8 for 15, 97 yards) ran for nine on a keeper and then completed three straight passes to the CBW-20. Josh Williams (66 touches, 44 yards), who caught two of those passes, booted a 37 yard field goal as time expired to give the Titans a 3-0 halftime lead.
It might have been worse had West not posted their own 3-0 in the first half. Three times in the first two quarters, the Titans moved the ball inside the West 29…twice even reaching the CBW-3. All three times, the Bucks stopped there.
South fumbled the pitch out on a fourth and goal at the one in the game's opening drive. On their next series, linebacker Liam Houck hurried Johns and his fourth down pass over the middle fell incomplete.
While West's defense was effective, Titan junior Bobby DiPasquale finally broke a 42 yard run on a quarterback draw, taking it to the CBW-3. But on third and goal, Buck LB Tyler Maconaghy sacked DiPasquale. The Bucks pushed and blocked Williams' first field goal attempt.
"Our defense has had problems in the first four weeks of giving up the big play and for the most part, we controlled that tonight," observed West coach Brian Hensel. "Unfortunately for us, we didn't capitalize on that from the offensive side of the ball. We've got to come back and drive the field and we just didn't do it tonight.
Despite the tight score, South ran 35 plays to West's 12 and outgained their hosts 175 to 27 in the first half.
West quarterback Ward Udinski passed 20 times in the last two quarters after airing it out just three times in the first. He would probably want to have back one third quarter deep ball that Welk picked off at the W-8 and returned to the W-22.
A Chris Ebertz sweep picked up 25 yards. South then marched 52 yards via five plays and two West penalties; Jon Eisemann (10 carries, 42 yards) knifed in from the one to give the Titans a 10-0 lead.
Johns connected with Dan Brown (8 touches, 81 yards) on a 36 yard long pass that put South up 17-0 lead midway through the fourth quarter. West rallied; Udinski (13 for 23, 121 yards) hit six of eight passes on their 50 yard drive, capping it with a four yard toss to Robert Reynolds in the right flat for a touchdown.
Both C.B. West (1-4, 0-2) and C.B. South (1-4, 1-1) struggled out of the gate. Yet both programs have shown signs of turning a corner.
West opened with a Gigli-bad blow out opening loss. But since then, they notched a win against William Tennent, were tied at the half against an athletic Wissahickon team and lost by just six to Souderton.
The Bucks have a very balanced offense- coming into the South game, their rushing and passing yards on the season were virtually equal. Six different Bucks have caught four passes while five different Bucks have at least 20 carries.
The Titans committed eight turnovers in their first three games. But against North Penn on 9/25, quarterback Johns managed an offense that committed only one turnover. The Knights won 27-7; but seeing as North Penn beat the defending state champs by 32 earlier this year, the result is respectable.
The 2009 Titans do not have a Mike Doty or Eric Reynolds standout- two Titan offensive skill players given Division 1 scholarships. But like West, they have balance and an offense which shares the wealth.
South entered Friday's game averaging over 120 yards per game both on the ground and through the air. Eisemann leads the Titans rushing attack with 245 yards while Josh Williams' 18 grabs are tops on the team.
Both coaches too witnessed glimpses of the future. Two sophomores- the 6'3" Johns and West running back Jake Poeske (9 catches, 86 yards) – turned in distinguished performances.
"He's a special kind of kid," Szarko starts on Johns. "He has intangibles, not just the physical skills. He's come from a long winning background. He's got that personality where he carries himself that way and that uplifts everybody in the huddle.
Hensel had equal accolades for Poeske. "Jake is a kid who is really coming along well for us. We're proud of the efforts that he is putting forth. He impressed us so much (on the scout team) that we kept moving him up.
Extra Point: The paradox of rivalry games is that they can unite a community as strongly as they can divide their fans. The Dunn family is an example.
The C.B. West Stars and Stripes Club has adopted 1st Lt. Tim Dunn as their honorary soldier for this school year. During the game, the Club collected donations to encourage and support our overseas troops. Please contact Marialyce Keane (mkeane@cbsd.org) to contribute.
Tim and his younger brother Kevin played football at both West and West Point. Their youngest brother Tom suited up for South and currently plays rugby for Army.
Tim currently serves in Iraq; Kevin is slated to join him in January while Tom will likely be assigned to the Middle East after his graduation and officer training.
While the Dunns will likely needle each other over the outcome of Friday's game, at the end of the day every one us can soundly support the three brothers' current team.


How are teachers performing in the new TKT?
A study of teachers taking the new TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test), a badge of professional knowledge, has revealed its growing importance as a refresher among experienced teachers.
Cambridge ESOL first launched the TKT a year ago as a new addition to its range of teaching awards. The test has been developed for both pre-service and practising teachers, and consists of three free-standing modules, each relating to a different aspect of knowledge about the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. The challenge for the test producers has been to ensure TKT could be relevant to the wide range of teachers, in terms of both age, experience and location.
TKT is a flexible test, created to fit in with busy working lives. The three modules (Language and background to language learning and teaching; Lesson planning and use of resources for language teaching; Managing the teaching and learning process) can be taken together in one session or separately, as well as in any order. There is no compulsory course component or teaching practice in TKT: candidates can choose to prepare for the test through self-study or by following a guided course of study. Results are given in bands (from Band 1 up to Band 4), with the opportunity for both inexperienced and experienced teachers to demonstrate their particular level of knowledge.
So far TKT has been offered in more than 25 countries around the world. Each module has been taken by many thousands of candidates, with the large majority of the candidates taking more than one module. At every examination session, candidates were asked to fill in a Candidate Information Sheet (CIS), which provides, among other things, information on their age, gender, country of origin, teaching qualification and experience, their level of English language competence and reasons for taking the test. This information gives us a chance to look at who's taking the test and how they're performing.
In TKT's first year, most of the test takers were female (82%). Eighty-seven percent of the candidates were between 26 and 50 years of age, with the majority belonging to the 31–40 age group.


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The Central Park 5 and the Rise of Donald Trump
by Glen Ford June 23, 2019 September 23, 2020
The Central Park/Exonerated 5 case is a horrifying example of the injustices committed against marginalized youths in the criminal justice system–and it has a deep connection to the rise of Donald Trump.
JACQUELINE LUQMAN Hi. I'm Jacqueline Luqman with The Real News Network. In 2014, when the city of New York finalized the $40 million settlement for the false arrest, malicious prosecution, and racially-motivated conspiracy to deprive Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam, and Antron McCray— then between 14 and 16-years-old— of their civil rights, Donald Trump wrote an op-ed in The New York Times condemning the settlement saying, "settlement doesn't mean innocence. My opinion on the settlement of the Central Park jogger case is that it's a disgrace. A detective close to the case and who has followed it since 1989, calls it the 'heist of the century,'" Donald Trump went on to say in his op-ed. Trump's unsolicited commentary on the settlement received nationwide attention. And his original 1989 ads in five New York City newspapers called for the death penalty for the accused, and that's highlighted in a recent docudrama about the case called When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay. But what people don't have a clear understanding of are the connections between this case, the inner workings of white supremacy as a system, and how that system contributed to the rise of Donald Trump today.
Here to talk about these connections and other issues is Glen Ford. Glen is the Executive Director of the highly-regarded publication Black Agenda Report. Thank you so much for joining me today, Glen.
GLEN FORD Thanks for having me.
JACQUELINE LUQMAN A lot of people, especially black people, have said that this is a difficult miniseries to watch and I completely understand that because it was difficult for me to watch. But why was it important for this docudrama miniseries to be produced and to be released today? And, why should people watch it?
GLEN FORD Well, I have to say, this was a superb production both as a film, but particularly as a political event. We're very fortunate that the director was a young, black woman, Ava DuVernay, because I believe that it really took a young black woman to tackle this subject of young black men accused of rape, and two of their principal antagonists were young white women. I don't believe that anybody but a woke, young black woman could have handled this subject— this politically, very sensitive today, very sensitive subject, better than Ava DuVernay has. You know, she said that she didn't want to be typecast or type-director-cast as a maker of controversial black issue films, but she's done a superb job handling this black issue. I think of her in terms of a 21st century Ida B. Wells-type figure. Ida B. Wells was the crusading journalist and activist whose lifelong mission was to expose lynching of black people as in fact a political crime. Lynching was packaged as retribution or a necessary evil in order to control black men who had an insatiable lust for raping white women, but Ida B. Wells exposed the fact that of the thousands of black lynching victims around the turn of the 20th century, only very few were even charged with rape. They were actually lynched, politically murdered, in order to terrorize the rest of the black community.
JACQUELINE LUQMAN But the political underpinnings or overtones of this very case—Can you expound on that a little more, especially in the context of DuVernay's ability to depict who the villains were in her production, as opposed to how people may have remembered who the villains were in the case, or who the villains were portrayed in the original case?
GLEN FORD Well, we come away from this film with a profound sense of who the victims were. The victims, besides the jogger herself who was not victimized by the Central Park Five, but the victims here are the five young black men and the entire black community. And that this is not an isolated crime. And that the victimization, the framing in fact of these five young black men for rape, was also part of the larger picture in which the entire black community, but especially young black men, are pre-convicted for a kind of perpetual and ineradicable wilding. That is, and this term "wilding," which became part of the father of the corporate media during this period, really is a code word for uncontrolled black youth— predators who need to be brought to heel. Well, this vocabulary, this racist political vocabulary that was later picked up by the likes of Bill and Hillary Clinton and a host of other politicians on both sides of the political aisle, this comes into great prominence with the Central Park Five and the players here, and I'm going back to the two top prosecutors— Linda Fairstein and Elizabeth Lederer. These were young, youngish, white women, firmly part of the Democratic political establishment in New York City. You see, Trump, the Republican— and I think he was not really a Republican at that time— but Trump is not the only political villain.
The crime that was perpetrated was one of the mostly Democratic administration in this city, and we have these white females who are taking the lead. Fairstein, in particular, made her bones, she became prominent as a defender of victims, but her ideology of victimology portrays white people as the victims, and the perpetual perpetrators as black people. Yet, she traveled, she had great upward mobility after her star performance in the Central Park Five trial as a paragon of liberal white woman virtue. She's said to have been the inspiration for Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, the hit television program. She went on to write 21 mystery novels. She was a member of the boards of prestigious civic organizations and to her alma mater, Vassar College. She climbed her political ladder on the backs of the prosecution of the Central Park Five, so it's not just Donald Trump coming from what's seen as the far-right that's part of this societal victimization of the black community. All kinds of players are involved here. And that's why this is such an important film. It's not the usual suspects. We all know that the cops beat confessions out of people, but the role that's played by respectable political folks like Lederer and Fairstein, that was exposed in this film.
JACQUELINE LUQMAN And what was also a reality that was not exposed in this film, but I think speaks to, maybe I hope you can talk to the role of the media. You did mention Donald Trump and his role in stoking anti-black sentiment with his $85,000 ads in five New York papers calling for the death penalty of the accused, who were just children at the time. There was no physical or any evidence connecting them to the crime. The case was ongoing. There was a questionable press conference that the NYPD had that precipitated these ads by Donald Trump, but everyone remembers the ads by Donald Trump because he took these ads out in newspapers.
But what people do not remember so much of— and this is the other political player and I think this speaks to your comment about the Democratic institutions that are involved in this kind of injustice— was that Mayor, at the time, Michael Bloomberg actually was responsible for denying the settlement of the case in 2003 when it was first filed and agreed upon, so this is why the settlement didn't actually happen until later. Bloomberg was quoted as saying that no one's civil rights were violated, the city of New York did nothing wrong, violated no one's civil rights, and that he further went on to say that the NYPD and the detectives in the case acted in good faith. What is your response to that kind of comment, when the evidence by 2003 was very clear that these young men were framed not only by the NYPD, but as you said, by the prosecutor's office, by players in the prosecutor's office?
GLEN FORD None of the white institutions of New York City acted in good faith during this episode. They had no good faith regarding the Central Park Five, but they didn't show good faith even in terms of their own institutions— a good faith in terms of due process of law for those on the legal side, and good faith in terms of just exercising journalistic integrity on the corporate media side. What marked this case was that very few stories on the Central Park Five— and there was a torrent; It was the biggest story of its era— very few stories even used the word "alleged" [laughs] crime. They were convicted before they ever faced trial by the media, by the newspapers, and by the electronic media. These were not alleged perpetrators. They were made to be guilty in the eyes of the public through the corporate media. And that's one of the reasons that Donald Trump had to spend tens of thousands of dollars to get his "give them death" demand out there. He had to spend that kind of money to rise above the lynch mob, the den of the lynch mob that was coming from the corporate media itself, and he had to up the stakes by calling for the death penalty while the corporate media was just condemning them as guilty before trial.
This case really set the stage for the 90s. The incident occurred in 1989, but it paved the way for the rise of another prosecutor, Rudolph Giuliani, who went on in the next election cycle to become Mayor of New York and introduced what all of us on the street called "Giuliani Time," which meant that the cops could do whatever they wanted. Giuliani hired William Bratton as the top cop in New York and he introduced the "broken windows" philosophy of policing, which basically said that the cops needed to establish law and order in all the minutia and details of life in those crime-prone communities— the code word for the black community— or else, people, volatile elements, meaning young black men, would just get out of control. And so, the police became as they said, another code word, "proactive," and we saw the beginnings of stop and frisk on a gargantuan scale in New York City. But you can't understand the coming of stop and frisk on that kind of scale without the context of the Central Park Five, and the media lynch mob that created the political environment in which Giuliani would win.
JACQUELINE LUQMAN Now, there are so many connections, political connections, that you have repeatedly mentioned that connect this case to the 2016 elections with the resurgence of Hillary Clinton's lobbying for the 94′ Crime Bill that her husband was a champion of, that Joe Biden actually helped co-author, that we are now relitigating again. And the connection there is this report by a college professor, John Dilulio Jr., called The Coming of the Superpredators. This report was what precipitated this term "superpredators" being used in relation to these so-called gang of unrepentant, uncontrollable thugs. Superpredators is a term that Dilulio coined, but the connection is clear between the roving gang of wilding youths or thugs, as the Prosecutor Fairstein called them when she was investigating the Central Park Five case.
The connection is clear between the way black youth and Latino youth, mostly poor, were characterized in the Central Park case and how they were characterized by John Dilulio in his Coming of the Superpredator study, and how that continued throughout White House policy. We see that thread even today as we are watching now video camera footage of police officers not just handcuffing children, but also tasing children— children who are toddlers, children as young as five and six, black children, Latino children, and even shooting and killing them. Is it a surprise that given these connections between the Central Park Five case, the super predator mythology that rose through the Clinton administration, the connection with Rudy Giuliani and the broken windows policing, stop and frisk, and now the hyper-militaristic, hyper-weaponized, very racialized re-election campaign of Donald Trump? Is it a surprise that we are facing the fascist police state that we have now?
GLEN FORD No. We are part of the mass black incarceration state, which the Central Park Five is just one chapter in this long saga. It's a saga that begins at the end of our mass black movement of the 60s and the defeat of legal apartheid, and the US rulers in society were faced with a quandary with the defeat of US apartheid by the Civil Rights movement. Black people were no longer confined by law as a class and had no intention of being on the bottom and a second-class citizenship anymore. So the ruling class's problem was, how do we contain them by other means? The answer was, well we'll do it with the police and the rest of the criminal justice system— which had to then be hugely expanded and heavily militarized. But you have to have another story in order to create this mass black incarceration state and that is the story, to put it in a word, of black folks "wilding." That this new regime of militarized policing is necessary because it's all that will keep these volatile and otherwise uncontrollable elements in check and keep white society safe.
The press, by the way, played much the same role in the Central Park Five case as they historically have done since back in the days of Jim Crow when newspapers would routinely write headlines like "Black Buck Runs Amok," which was a prelude almost to call for the lynch mobs to come out. Some newspapers in the south would even run headlines announcing when the lynching was scheduled for. Well they don't operate that blatantly today, but they do so quite effectively, and their reach is just as pervasive as it was in the old days of lynching. But lynching, of course, was a method of social control and it was based on the presumed savagery, if uncontrolled, of the black population. So it's really no different in today's mass black incarceration state in terms of how it is justified, than the lynching state down south was.
JACQUELINE LUQMAN Well, there is so much more we could talk about with this docudrama, with the release of this docudrama, with this continuing examination of this extremely important case and moment in time and history, but we have to leave it here because we are simply out of time. But we will continue to examine how policing in black communities is not only a reflection of our history, but it's an accurate indicator of our future to come. So thank you, Glen Ford, for joining me today.
GLEN FORD Thank you.
JACQUELINE LUQMAN And thank you for watching. This is Jacqueline Luqman, and this is The Real News Network.
Glen Ford is a distinguished radio-show host and commentator. In 1977, Ford co-launched, produced and hosted America's Black Forum, the first nationally syndicated Black news interview program on commercial television. In 1987, Ford launched Rap It Up, the first nationally syndicated Hip Hop music show, broadcast on 65 radio stations. Ford co-founded the Black Commentator in 2002 and in 2006 he launched the Black Agenda Report. Ford is also the author of The Big Lie: An Analysis of U.S. Media Coverage of the Grenada Invasion.
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