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Opinion of Lord Hodge in the liquidation of quantum distribution (UK) limited
Recent Court judgement
Insolvency practitioners need to give careful consideration on whether or not it is appropriate to engage the services of the solicitor acting for the petitioning creditor as is demonstrated by the Opinion of Lord Hodge in the Liquidation of Quantum Distribution (UK) Limited. Lord Hodge remarked that insolvency practitioners are required to act in the best interests of the creditors as a whole. He was also concerned that the supervisory procedures of the court through the Court Reporter process had not been followed properly and requested that the Professional Bodies should bring the lessons of the case to the attention of their Members.
Housing (Scotland) Act 2010 - Insolvency appointments in respect of registered social landlords in Scotland
Although in the main insolvency remains a reserved matter for Westminster the Scotland Act 1998 (the Act) contains provisions which effectively allow the Scottish Government to legislate on insolvency when the "business association" relates to Registered Social Landlords (RSL). Insolvency Practitioners are aware that Housing is a devolved matter and therefore it is competent for the Scottish Government to enact primary legislation in relation to housing.
The aim of the legislation is to offer protection to the tenants of RSLs and to allow the Regulator to mount a rescue package which will safeguard the housing stock for the future. The Regulator has statutory powers to direct a transfer of housing stock where appropriate to Another RSL.
RSLs will mainly be industrial provident societies though a number will be companies. A Register of RSLs is maintained and can be accessed on the Scottish Housing Regulator's website.
Part 7 of the above Act, specifically S73 – Notification of step towards insolvency etc. contains a requirement on the following parties to notify the Scottish Housing Regulator both prior to taking the step and, (i.e. notification is required twice) as soon as reasonably practicable after as follows:
Responsibility for notifying
A step to enforce a security over a RSL's land The person taking the step
Presenting a winding up petition of a RSL company The petitioner
Notice of the proposal of a resolution to wind up The RSL
Applying for, or making, an administration order of a RSL The person who applied for the order
Appointing an administrator to a RSL company The person making the appointment
This two stage notification applies to each party with responsibility for notifying the Regulator.
Failure to issue the required notification before a step is taken means that the relevant step has no effect therefore if an insolvency appointment is made it is imperative that the Insolvency Practitioner checks that the required notifications have been made, and checks the validity of the appointment before taking any other action.
As soon as a step is taken a moratorium on the disposal without the Regulator's consent, of land belonging to the RSL comes into effect. The moratorium ends 56 days after the second notification has been made to the Regulator under section 73(1)(b) unless the moratorium has been extended or cancelled. Where the consent of the Regulator has been obtained for the disposal a cancellation of the moratorium should be sought at the same time. This period can be extended by the Regulator. The moratorium does not prevent the appointment of an IP but it effectively limits his ability to act without the Regulator's consent.
The detailed provisions are set out in Part 7 of the Act from Section 73 onwards. They include provisions whereby the Regulator may appoint an interim manager to carry out whatever functions are deemed necessary (other than the disposal of land) thus there could be another party acting for the business to which an insolvency practitioner has been appointed. As the Regulator can make proposals about the ownership and future management of the assets the insolvency practitioner will need to work closely with the Regulator and with any interim manager. Proposals will need to be agreed with the secured lender and the Regulator, and once they are agreed they are binding on all parties.
Insolvency Practitioners should take heed of the provisions of the Act so as to protect their positions in the event of being appointed to a company which is a Registered Social Landlord as failure to notify the Regulator calls into question the validity of the appointment and the ability to deal with the property or properties. Where appropriate separate legal advice should be sought.
Insolvency (Scotland) amendment rules 2010
New Insolvency (Scotland) Amendment Rules became effective from 30 May 2014. Click below to view more details.
Insolvency (Scotland) Amendment Rules
Code of ethics for insolvency practitioners
The ICAS Code of Ethics has been revised and becomes effective from 1 June 2014.
In Part D of the Code, which relates to Insolvency Practitioners, the only revision is that the Joint Insolvency Committee has removed the second sentence of paragraph 400.3. This is illustrated below. The text included in bold has been removed from the Code.
400.3 It is this Code, and the spirit that underlies it, that governs the conduct of Insolvency Practitioners. Failure to observe this Code may not, of itself, constitute professional misconduct, but will be taken into account in assessing the conduct of an Insolvency Practitioner.
You can view the Code by clicking on the link below.
ICAS Code of Ethics
Guidance for insolvency practitioners
Failure to comply with the legislation or with SIPs may result in disciplinary action against the insolvency practitioner being taken…
Member - facing insolvency
If you personally are, or your company is, experiencing financial difficulties you should seek professional advice from an Insolvency Practitioner…
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Keith Vaz and Moral Decay
This is a cross-post by James Snell
Keith Vaz, the Member of Parliament for Leicester East, has done something objectionable – morally, ethically, whatever you want to call it. And beyond personal taste, there's the suggestion of real wrongdoing, and something resembling real moral decay hanging about his person. This particular characterisation could be made in reference to innumerable things the man has done. But his past is past; all that seems to matter right now are the contents of a tabloid tale or two.
Vaz has been accused by the Sunday Mirror of a litany of transgressions, ranging from the purely moral to the likely illegal; there is the suggestion of his procuring drugs for prostitutes and all that comes with that. I am not going to detail the fundaments of the story; you can read those, as many millions no doubt have done, in newspapers and on the internet.
What surprised me, as I read the results of the Mirror investigation, was the real inanity of the story at hand. These things are always terribly pedestrian, I suppose. But this was especially banal: people – even those in public life – have shady aspects to their characters. Still, the drug angle gives this particular piece of tabloid fare a more genuine connection to the public interest. There's no point, therefore, in saying that it's a non-story, or that those who reported on it should have let it slide. To do that is to misunderstand both the essentials of journalism and what the public wants to read.
That said, I was slightly amazed by my own ambivalence. To be honest, I felt rather conflicted about this whole thing.
I've never liked Vaz. He seems genuinely difficult to admire or even respect, and not just in a presentational way. Rather, he appears to be a person whose entire public persona is built upon the pursuit of something not immediately understandable: is it an unvarnished desire for fame, for example, which made him call Russell Brand – an inherently unserious person – to give evidence before the Home Affairs Select Committee on the fairly serious subject of drug rehabilitation?
Did his bizarre and self-regarding decision to greet Bulgarian and Romanian immigrants at the airport at the beginning of 2014 originate as an attempt to be considered noble, or was it an organic wish to appear welcoming? Was it a desire to be appreciated by his constituents which compelled Vaz to deck his office and person out in Leicester City garb when they won the Premier League last season, despite never having shown any interest in the club before?
Was all this just the hunting of publicity for its own sake, spurred on by the dictates of vanity? Or was there a deeper reason at work – something motivated by a sincere wish to do his best for the causes and people he believes in? With Vaz, that just seems rather unlikely.
But even after considering the massed events of a faintly tasteless career, this latest scandal seems, well, a bit much, really. Who cares about his sexual predilections? My day was worse for having read about them. Sexual impropriety is such a human failing, I thought; it's not like he's embezzled money, or done anything to compromise the safely of the realm. (There's little point in trying a 'who among us' point here – especially for vulgar rhetorical purposes – but there is something to be said about how, even among public figures, we cannot expect all of them to be immune, and distinct, from the dissolute and the debauched.)
I must admit, though, that after the initial outpouring of pity, my heart hardened somewhat.
Vaz can still be 'got' for hypocrisy; that's pretty clear cut. And for being duplicitous in general: that much is in evidence by any number of comments like that of Patrick Mercer, a fellow MP, who called the former 'a crook of the first order'.
The full quote, as rendered in a report by the House of Commons Committee on Standards reads:
You've got some right bad boys there, you really have. … [Vaz is] a crook of the first order and you have to be careful because his name carries mixed reactions but I have never met an operator like him. … I mean it's not always completely ethical but it's stunning, he is an operator.
Mercer defended his comments during an investigation into his own person by relating that '[h]ere was a man [Vaz] who – pun – who was extremely cold, there was no warmth of character with this man. I found it impossible to form a relationship of any sort with him'.
It would be wrong to derive an entire character study from these two instances, which contains, after all, one man's opinion. But here is another example, a dishonourable episode drawn from a trying time: the Rushdie affair – February 1989 to the present – where the novelist Salman Rushdie was condemned to death by a foreign and theocratic dictator, a leader whose name only held authority in Britain because of his ability to decree the rightful murder of a writer of fiction.
The role of Keith Vaz in this episode is particularly ignominious. First he rang up Rushdie to, in the latter's telling, say 'that what had happened was "appalling, absolutely appalling" and promised his "full support".' Then, after the weight of public opinion had been assessed and found ambiguous, Vaz reinvented himself not as a defender of the life and liberty, but rather as a vulgar rabble-rouser. 'A few weeks later', Rushdie writes in his memoir Joseph Anton, Vaz 'was one of the main speakers at a demonstration against The Satanic Verses attended by over three thousand Muslims, and described that event as "one of the great days in the history of Islam and Great Britain".'
If there's anything to be criticised about Vaz – and there seems to be a lot – it's this: a remarkable moral flexibility in the face of questions of extreme importance and simplicity. He was willing to whip up murderous sentiment against a novelist for no reason, it seems, other than the possibility of improving his own image. If his political career is ended by this scandal, let us hope that the story of that betrayal is not lost amid a haze of lurid details and contrarian defences of his character.
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Vote over at TWC and you can...see the thumbnails again! Because I'm out of town and don't have time to make more incentives. But hey, now you can officially compare and contrast with the finished pages! It would figure that the week that I'm leaving town, I end up having a page that contains SO MANY WEREWOLVES. SO MANY. Here's the whole damn Ross family, minus their dad (don't worry about it!), but including the dog, Pumpkin. Figure that Marin is 26 or so here, and Elias is about 17. Maggie is the oldest, then Ezra, Elias, and Patty. In current timeline, Maggie is raising two kids, Ezra has one, and Patty is off to college...leaving Elias and his mom to hold down the fort (and Pumpkin!). I colored this page so quickly! Which meant that the bottom panel became monotone out of necessity, due to lack of time...but I think it turned out to be a really solid artistic decision lol. I could not tell you who all those people are, but assume about 90% of them are in the Ross pack, and most of them are werewolves. (There are a few witches and humans in there, probably.) I drew them all randomly, but now they're official, I guess? Marin is left handed, thus she mostly fights with her left side. Technically, even though the middle three panels look continuous, there'd be quite a bit of other movement between those panels to throw Elias off into the distance using her left hand lol. But whatever, it looks nice this way. A few people wanted to see Marin go full werewolf! I don't have plans for that in this chapter, but I've got a really good moment where I want to use her in full, tall wolf form later on. When I get a chance, I'll try and make some art of her all wolfy for Patreon, because my sweet, Marin-wolf moment won't show up until like, chapter 9 :|. I think Chapter 8 will end up being a bit shorter, so at least the wait won't be as long? Trees are purple now. I wanted this page to be really purple, because that's how I saw it in my head. Very saturated, very purple and yellow. I don't usually have much luck working more saturated, but I really like this page!


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Islands To Play Intimate Shows At CMJ 2011
Acclaimed modernist pop band Islands will be performing at this year's 2011 CMJ Festival in New York City. The band will be playing two very intimate seated shows on October 22nd and 28th at The Dominion Theater and Lounge in Manhattan along with comedian Max Silvestri and ex Rapture member Mattie Safer.
Islands and their charismatic front man-songwriter Nick Thorburn, have become increasingly renowned for their ever evolving brand of adventuresome and infectious state of the art pop music. Paper Magazine referred to the band's last album Vapours as, "lush, pop goodness." The group's recently finished a brand new album which will be released via Anti-Records early next year.
Islands, 10-22 and 10-28 @ The Dominion Theater and Lounge. Doors open at 8 PM.
Tor purchase tickets go to: http://everfinepresents.inticketing.com/events/173507
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The Rouyn-Noranda Huskies defeat the Brandon Wheat Kings
May. 22, 2016 4:09 a.m.
HEATED - From left
A late third period push by the Brandon Wheat Kings wasn't enough to help them overcome the QMJHL champions.
The WHL champs opened the 2016 MasterCard Memorial Cup tournament with a loss Saturday night, falling 5-3 to the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies in round robin play at the ENMAX Centrium.
"I thought we did too many things tonight that you can't do and expect to win," said Wheat Kings' Head Coach/GM Kelly McCrimmon after the close defeat, which saw Huskies score five straight goals in the first and second periods and ultimately hold on for the victory.
The Wheaties started the game out on the right foot early in the first period when Reid Duke jammed a loose puck past Huskies' goaltender Chase Marchand to give his team a 1-0 just 2:44 seconds into the game.
"I didn't think we did a good job with the lead. We had a power-play when we were leading the game 1-0 and we didn't generate anything and when they scored their first goal, for me, that had been coming for a few shifts," McCrimmon said of his team's play in the first period.
Brandon managed to hold on to the lead until the midway point of the first when Huskies' forward Anthony-John Greer slotted one past Wheaties' goaltender Jordan Papirny to knot the game up at one goal a piece.
From that point until the third period it was all Huskies.
The Wheat Kings managed to hold the pressing Rouyn offense at bay until the final two minutes of the first, when Gabriel Fontaine found the back of the net for the Huskies to give the Quebec team their first lead of the game.
Just 1:03 later, Huskies' star Timo Meier potted his first of two on the night to give the Huskies a 3-1 lead heading into the second period.
"We didn't respond well enough getting to the intermission. Instead of 1-1 or 2-1, it was a 3-1 game by the time we were done the first period," McCrimmon said.
"He's a very important player for us for sure. He brings for us a lot of speed. He's strong physically, good at puck protection, good shot," said Huskies' Head Coach/GM Gilles Bouchard of Meier, whose two goals earned him first star honours on the night.
The second period didn't go a whole lot better for Brandon, as Rouyn potted two more markers to take a 5-1 lead heading into the final frame.
McCrimmon said a lack of discipline played a key role in the Wheat Kings' struggles in the second period.
"We actually had a pretty decent start to the period. I thought we were better. And then we took three straight minors. So when you talk about the things that you can't do, you can't do all of those things."
But the Wheat Kings didn't quit, holding the Huskies scoreless through the final frame and striking back with a pair of goals of their own.
The first came halfway through the second when Tyler Coulter managed to find the loose puck in a jumble in front of the Huskies' net and slide it in in the process.
But it was the second Wheat Kings goal of the period that will end up making the highlight reels, as Brandon forward John Quennville was sprung by a long pass out of the Brandon zone.
The Edmonton product made no mistake on the ensuing one-on-one as he head-faked Marchand, put his stick between his legs and flipped it into the top shelf.
It wasn't enough, though, as the Wheat Kings eventually fell 5-3 despite outshooting Rouyn-Noranda 41-29.
The Wheat Kings aren't back in action until Monday night when they face off against the London Knights. The Huskies are back in action tomorrow when they take on the host Red Deer Rebels. That game gets underway at 5 p.m.
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With the new rise of popularity in Discord, we Villagers are in the process of moving from Skype to Discord. With over 35 members and steadily rising, it's been a success thus far. And you can be a part of it.
We highly encourage any Villager player that wants to learn more about the Villager metagame, get better with Villager, or even simply hang out with other Villagers, to join the Discord.
And find any character discord chat you want to enter! No need to wait for me to send you the link for a good month or so.
Remember if you were already in the other Villager discord, there is an invite waiting for you inside it.
I haven't really been in the villager board, but I secondary him, so it'd be great if I could join.
I'd like a link as well, please.
I'm new to villager, I would love to join so I can improve my skill!
Definitely interested, hope to get an invite!
I am also extremely interested!
Can I get an invite ?
I just got into playing Smash 4 a month ago. Played a lot of Brawl though.
I like Villager a lot, he reminds me much of Snake and his mind games with the mines, as well as the up smash being a disjointed projectile like attack. On top of that, his ledge guard game and gimping potential is through the roof. Oh and Pocket is such a cool move.
That said, I'd like to join if you'll have this noob on.
Send me an invite too. I'd love to toss around playstyle ideas and MU thoughts.
Please send the invite! My name in the skype group is kekemba!
I am a yoshi/villager main. Formerly 3D!
Looking forward to improving my game and bringing vill to tournaments!
I would also like an invite! Please and Thank you!
I'm reading the Villager board a bit longer now. As Villagermains in Germany are unfindable (really, there are like 3 Villagermains out there), i would love to join.
Been not as active on SB recently due to the holidays, but Im back. Currently sending a link to everyone I haven't sent a link to.
Villager main from NorCal here, can I be added please?
I asked before, but I logged on too late to catch it (I didn't know there was a time limit for accepting an invite), would anyone mind sending me another?
hey guys so i made a discord. and have an account and everything, just don't know how to use it that well.
I as well would like an invite!


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Jehan d'Estaires était un seigneur médiéval du , qui vécut principalement en Flandre.

Le chevalier

Jehan d'Estaires était le  de la ville d'Estaires. À la suite du concile de Clermont (1095), il répondit à l'appel d'Urbain II et prit part à la Première Croisade. Suivant Godefroy de Bouillon et Baudouin de Boulogne, il participa à la prise de Constantinople et de Jérusalem.

À la fin de la Croisade, il rentra en Flandre. Son blason devint celui de sa ville, Estaires.

Le géant

À la fin du , les habitants d'Estaires décident de fabriquer un géant comme de nombreuses villes voisines du Nord de la France. Pour rendre hommage au chevalier qui a fait honneur à la cité, ils choisissent de le créer à l'effigie de Jehan d'Estaires.

Ce géant d'osier porté à épaules d'homme participe aux festivités de la ville, notamment à la Cavalcade et la Ducasse.

Malheureusement, comme presque la totalité de la ville, Jehan d'Estaires sera détruit lors de la Première Guerre mondiale.

Croisé du XIe siècle
Noble du Moyen Âge

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In 1915, Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, now recognized as two of Sweden's leading twentieth-century architects, won a competition to expand the South Stockholm Cemetery. The commission would span their entire careers, reflecting stylistic developments and shifts over a twenty-five-year period.
Asplund's early sketch of the Woodland Chapel, which he was directly commissioned to design, reflects the influence of Swedish Romanticism. His proposal—"a synthesis of temple and hut," according to the architectural historian Caroline Constant—was directly inspired by a vernacular cottage in Liselund, Denmark, which he visited on his honeymoon in 1918. The chapel is set in a pine forest. A path leads through the wood to the entrance, where the dominant form is a steeply pitched shingle roof, a massive shape like a truncated pyramid supported by columns. The deep portico continues the darkness of the forest. Only when the doors to the chapel are open is the visitor presented with a light-filled interior.
This preliminary sketch has a childlike quality, but nevertheless captures the essence of the building's strong geometric forms. It also reflects Asplund's initial interest in making the form of the chapel follow the terrain, so that where the land dips it exposes a visible and directly accessible basement level. He later changed this design in order to reinforce the cubic volume of the chapel itself.
Publication excerpt from Matilda McQuaid, ed., Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from The Museum of Modern Art, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002, p. 47.


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Msgr. Bruno B. Heim, envoy of Pope John Paul II, presented his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II today, formally ending four and a half centuries in which the Roman Catholic Church lacked full diplomatic representation in Britain.
The Vatican has maintained an unofficial representative here for more than 60 years, but only in 1979 was he accorded diplomatic privileges. After Britain's envoy at the Vatican, Sir Mark Heath, was upgraded to Ambassador, Monsignor Heim, a Swiss, was elevated Jan. 16 to the equivalent status of Pro-Nuncio.
Pope John Paul is to visit nine British cities from May 28 to June 2. Last Friday in Liverpool, 100 militant Protestants disrupted a service led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, because of his plans to welcome the Pope.


Wendy Palmer is the founder of Leadership Embodiment, a process that uses principles from the Japanese martial art of Aikido and mindfulness to offer simple tools and practices to increase creativity and resilience in leaders. Wendy holds a sixth degree black belt in Aikido and has practiced mindfulness for 45 years.
She has worked with executive teams and individuals for Twitter, Genentech, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, The Gap, NASA, Salesforce.com, McKinsey &Co, Oracle, Unilever, The BBC and The Daimler Chrysler Group. She is the author of three books, Leadership Embodiment, The Intuitive Body and The Practice of Freedom.


In the discussions about the quality of education, an important place have the questions about the academic curriculum, skills of search, interpretation and creative usage of the information. Therefore there are increased demands on the teachers in higher education and on their skills to work with texts. Teacher should critically and creatively work with variety of texts and information and also be able to teach the students to work in this way. There is also a need to be effective in the work with information, to create texts and be able to use tools of ICT as a part of education and functional literacy. The study brings besides the theoretical overview also some practical examples from the higher education and thoughts about selected questions.


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The Association of Midwest Academic Anesthesia Chairs, Inc. (AMAAC) is comprised of the Chairs of 33 Anesthesia Departments in the Midwestern United States and Canada, ranging geographically from northern New York to central Kansas.
The mission of AMAAC is to facilitate and support the Midwestern Anesthesia Residents Conference (MARC). This yearly meeting, which began at the University of Iowa in 1961, has grown into the largest anesthesia resident's conference in North America and in the world, with attendance approaching (and sometimes exceeding) 700 individuals each year. The MARC meeting is hosted by AMAAC member departments on a rotating basis, and the AMAAC member-chairs meet yearly at the MARC meeting.
The mission of the MARC meeting is to encourage and support resident research and scholarly activity in their home departments and to allow residents to share their work among their peers in a friendly, educational atmosphere.


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Glover Cirque () is a cirque occupied by a glacier in the south part of the Mount Boreas massif; the cirque is bounded on the northeast side by a ridge connecting Mount Boreas and Mount Thrace. It was named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (2004) after Robert P. Glover, cartographer, Geography Discipline, U.S. Geological Survey; five field seasons in Antarctica up to 2003–04.

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Ferdinand questions England manager Southgate's philosophy
June 11, 2019, 10:31 pm Updated: June 11, 2019, 11:07 pm
Gareth Southgate's philosophy has been questioned by Rio Ferdinand (UEFA via Getty Images)
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Former England captain Rio Ferdinand has questioned whether Gareth Southgate's philosophy will lead the Three Lions to Euro 2020 success.
Despite reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup and Nations League in the past 12 months, Ferdinand feels the players at the manager's disposal may be better suited to a different style.
Holland beat Southgate's side 3-1 in their Nations League encounter last week, with defensive errors at the heart of the defeat.
John Stones had an evening to forget against Holland (Mike Egerton/PA)
John Stones, in particular, endured an evening to forget as he was caught out trying to play out from the back.
The defender plays a similar style at Manchester City under Pep Guardiola – but Ferdinand reckons adopting a similar approach to Liverpool, rather than the Premier League champions, could see England secure long-awaited success.
"A lot of my mates are football guys at all levels and we've probably had two or three hundreds of texts about John Stones and England in general, about the way they are playing," he said.
"John Stones is trying to play that same way for England as he plays for Manchester City. Are the other players good enough in the positions they are receiving the ball, to play like that through to midfield?
Rio Ferdinand would prefer England to play at a quicker pace like the Liverpool side of Jurgen Klopp (Martin Rickett/PA)
"Are they coached the way that John Stones understands to play that role? And so there are a lot of different elements. Is the team shaped up to play like that? So there are a lot of different question marks.
"But I still think England are kind of finding their right system that suits their players. Are their players perfect for the Pep style of football, playing from the back through the whole pitch the way Pep's teams play, the way that England seem to want to play?
"Is this team primed up to do that? Is it perfect for them players? I don't know. Are they more akin to a team that plays a little bit like (Jurgen) Klopp's team plays?
"I would lean a little bit more that way. High energy, aggressive, on the front foot, play the ball through the team quicker, not as patient but play the ball to the front three quicker.
"You look at the front three that played the other night, Sterling, Sancho and Rashford. I wouldn't want to play against that, against that pace."
Ferdinand has praised Gareth Southgate for being consistent with the style of play he wants his players to adopt (Mike Egerton/PA)
Ferdinand did praise Southgate for having a clear way to set up his teams, something that has not been the case under former managers and sympathised that – unlike a club manager – he cannot simply buy a player to suit his philosophy.
"You are starting to see a trend in the way his team plays," he added.
"But when you look back at the Holland game especially, is that the best way to play with the players that you've got.
"The way it is going, he seems very adamant that this is what he is doing and I respect and admire that because I think for far too long we have flitted between this and that or had a very blurred vision for how England should be playing, whereas at the minute he seems to have a clear idea.
"The players have a clear idea of what they are being coached which is great to see because it hasn't been like that for years.
Southgate does not have the option of buying players like Bernardo Silva (Mike Egerton/PA)
"So, for all I've said, I still think we are going in a good direction it seems, but is it going to get us to where he wants to get, which is obviously get his hands on a title, get to a final?
"I think, sometimes the shape of your team, you are only as good as the players you have got to do that and Pep can go out and buy a Bernardo Silva, with England you have got what you have got so you have got to work to what you have got a little bit."
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Johannesburg - The graduation rate among undergraduate students in South Africa's 23 public universities is 15 percent.
The rate for Master's students is 20 percent and for doctoral students 12 percent.
These figures are contained in the Department of Higher Education and Training's first annual statistical report, published this year, which looked at the "size and shape of post-school education and training in South Africa".
Nicolene Murdoch, the executive director for teaching and quality at Monash South Africa, said the graduation rates have ranged from 15 percent to 20 percent for several years now.
She said the reasons for these low rates include financial constraints – where students enroll for courses but don't have funding to see them through – lack of academic preparedness and students not getting enough support from their universities.
Murdoch, who is also the president of the South African Association for Institutional Research (SAAIR), said the highest failure rates were in the maths and science programmes which covered medicine, science, technology and business studies. She said students tended to struggle with "anything with a maths component".
Students who hopped from one course to another also contributed to low graduation rates because they moved to new courses without finishing the ones they had started.
She said students who weren't well informed on the different career opportunities and those who didn't fully appreciate what studying towards their chosen field entailed, also lead to low output rates as they struggle with learning areas they're not suited or skilled for.
Murdoch said things such as student accommodation and adjusting to university life were some of the non-academic factors that had a huge impact on students' academic achievements.
A review report on student accommodation at the county's 23 universities published in February 2012 found that only 5.3 percent of first year students, those arguably in the greatest need of accommodation, were in university residences. Of the total number of contact students across all the universities, only 20 percent were accommodated at university residences.
In the South African national budget, about 20% of the total budget is allocated to education. The government has been trying to emphasise how well matric students are doing in their final years of high school, lauding themselves for getting the pass rate up to 75.6% - but what they don't tell you is that the pass mark (lowest possible mark a student must receive in order to "pass") is as low as 30%. See here.
So we know that throwing money at education is not enough to actually create an educational system that is beneficial to students. Teachers have no idea how to teach, so kids end up wasting away their youths sitting in rooms.
Some blame the curriculum. Some blame the government. Some blame the teachers. Some blame apartheid. The reality is that in any school, whether it is successful or not, there are a few "bright" students who do very well, and the majority of the students are either average or below average. Looking at the education system in this light shows us that the problem is not just one thing, and not limited to those underprivileged schools and students.
The status of our schools should tell us that the way we are teaching children is simply not effective if only a few excel. It is highly unlikely that there is only one area that could be named the culprit, but there surely is only one party responsible: humanity. We are each responsible for the world we create and the society we create - we are the ones who created and now maintain an inferior education system. We are the ones who made the choice to accept the system without question. We are the ones who send our children to school knowing that its purpose and effectiveness has long since faded from memory. The educational system is now merely a shadow of what is should be, but we refuse to acknowledge that it is a part of the larger problem of our society.
We attribute importance and value to uniformity, so we design our schools so that the children will become all alike, copies of their parents and copies of each other. Schools have just become production lines, churning out more of the same: undisciplined, uncaring, inconsiderate, illiterate and irresponsible people who have no issue with the way the world is.
Schools should teach us how the world works, how everything that forms a part of our lives functions. We should be shown how to grow food. We should be shown how to be the directors of our own minds and bodies. We should be shown how to build and fix household items. We should be shown how the economic system works. We should be shown where our food comes from that we buy in stores. We should be shown to use our critical reasoning. We should be shown how to ask questions and think for ourselves, really. We should be shown how to stop ourselves from becoming possessed and obsessed with thoughts and ideas. These are some of the practical things that affect all of us which should be understood by all of us. Instead we are taught things that, most of which, will be forgotten within one month of writing exams.
We choose our education. We choose to remain ignorant. We can also choose a new way that will prepare our children to make a better life for everyone.


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Q: Getting error about "differs in level of indirection" Hi I just completed coded my project, but when I trying to compile I kept getting this error. Which is '<=': 'int' differs in levels of indirection from 'int *', i don't know what is happening, and I already check for the pointer and already put it when defining variable type and still cannot compile it safely.

    #define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
/* C Program to find Shortest Distances or Path */

#include<stdio.h>
#define WORD 200

int main(void) {
    int path, point = 1;
    int* ncity[WORD];
    char* cityname[WORD][WORD];
    float distance[WORD][WORD];
    float total[WORD];

    printf("This program will input 5 path and calculates the minimum between KL Sentral, KL & Jurong East, Singapore");
    printf("\n\t\t-------------------------------------------------------------");
    printf("\n\t\tMinimum Path between KL Sentral, KL & Jurong East, Singapore");
    printf("\n\t\t-------------------------------------------------------------");

    printf("\nPlease enter the total path that you want to calculate: ");
    scanf("%d", &path);

    for (int i = 1; i <= path; i++) {
        printf("\n\n----Path %d----", i);
        printf("\nState the number of city that the path cross: ");
        scanf("%d", ncity[i]);
        for (int x = 1; x <= path; x++) {
            for (int y = 1; y <= ncity[i]; y++) {
                printf("\nCity %d named : ", y);
                scanf("%s", &cityname[x][y]);
                printf("\nEnter the distance to the city %d: ", y);
                scanf("%f", &distance[x][y]);
                total[x] = +distance[x][y];
            }
        }
    }
    //Find the minimum path
    for (int x = 1; x <= path; x++) {
        if (total[x] < total[point]) {
            point = x;
        }
    }
    printf("\nThe minimum path between KL Sentral, Kuala Lumpur & Jurong East, Singapore");
    printf("\nPath: Path %d", point);
    printf("\nTotal Distance: %f", total[point]);
    printf("\n\t\tCity Name");
    //Loop for 42
    for (int z = 1; z <= ncity[point]; z++) {
        for (int x = 1; x <= path; x++) {
            for (int y = 1; y <= ncity; y++) {
                printf("\n\t\t %s", cityname[x][y]);
                printf("\n\t\t %f km", distance[x][y]);
            }
        }
    }
}

This the error that had been listed once i started compiling my code

A: By using z <= ncity[point] inside your loop you compare 'z' to the actual number of the address where your ncity[pointer] value is stored. Usually it is a big 'int' value. I can't get why you need an array of pointers here, but to get the first value of the ncity[point] you need to derefence that: *ncity[pointer]. The same happening inside your third loop: y <= ncity. You compare 'y' variable with the number of address of your ncity variable. Again, pretty big number, so most likely 'y' variable will be outside of 'cityname' and 'distance' and then you will get 'segmentation fault' error. To get the whole size of 'ncity' you need to iterate though all values or just use path valiable inside your third loop
for (int y = 1; y <= path; y++) {
  printf("\n\t\t %s", cityname[x][y]);
  printf("\n\t\t %f km", distance[x][y]);
}

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I suggest you pick and choose from the long list, adapting it to your needs.
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Hobby Lobby Decision Created Special Religious Rights
Not only did the recent Burwell v. Hobby Lobby US Supreme Court Decision give corporations religious rights that only individuals had under the 1st amendment, but the decision confirmed the religious have extra-consitutional rights. It's all because of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that was passed in 1993.
Dave Niose, from the American Humanist Association, explains:
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Great Time At The Ohio Secular Summit
Secular Summit 2.0 Welcome Sign Greeted Participants
On January 28th, a bitterly cold Tuesday morning, approximately 20 people gathered for the second annual Secular Summit in the Museum Gallery in the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus. The summit was organized and hosted by the Center for Inquiry Northeast Ohio (CFI NE Ohio) but included people from the various secular groups in Ohio. In the morning we had several speakers, some training in lobbying, and then the afternoon was when participants visited their Representatives and Senators to introduce themselves and the issues of importance to seculars in the state. The extreme cold couldn't keep us from talking to the legislature, most of whom have completely opposite views.
The Secular Summit was held in the Museum Gallery on the ground floor of the Ohio State House.
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Heartbeat Bill Returns In Ohio
Quiverfull proponents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar as props at the heartbeat bill press conference
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Religious Extremist Group Protests Church For Not Being Extreme Enough
Minutemen United is a religious fundamentalist group whose previous claim to fame is supporting illegal religious activities in public schools. Now it seems the group is going after a church for not acting extreme enough toward same-sex marriage and abortion. The group has been protesting at Vineyard Columbus since October 2012. The church filed for a restraining order against the group claiming it was trespassing on church property. Minutemen United is trying to twist the complaint as an attempt to violate their 1st amendment rights while it as all the looks of a publicity stunt.
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If It Involves Money, The Catholic Church Doesn't Care So Much About A Fetus
It should be no surprise that the Catholic Church has been working hard to stop abortions in the US by supporting laws that would prevent women's reproductive choice. The church seems to care about the fetus more than the mother. That's except when the issue of money comes up. As defendants in a malpractice lawsuit in Colorado the church is trying to hide behind a state law that says a fetus is not a person which is the opposite of its general view point on abortion.
Lori Stodghill was seven months pregnant and weighed close to 400 lbs, on New Years Day 2006, when she didn't feel well. It was a holiday and her obstetrician told her to go to the emergency room at nearby Catholic run St. Thomas More Hospital in Cañon City. By the time her husband, Jeremy, had parked the car and returned to the ER, his wife was struggling for life due to cardiac arrest and a pulmonary embolism. Later, Lori and her unborn twins were pronounced dead. A couple years later Jeremy sued the hospital and doctors.
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Biden And Ryan Debate Offers Snapshot On Church And State
VP Joe Biden & Rep. Paul Ryan
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This is from a transcript hosted by the website Plunderbund but I did view the debate and vouch for the text in this transcript:
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Surcharge on sweets may not trim many waists
By Stephen Smith
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When Governor Deval Patrick proposed a 5 percent premium on sugary treats this week, his administration presented it as a sin tax with a bonus: Imposing such a levy, a briefing paper pledged, "is a critical first step in discouraging the consumption of these empty calories."
But there is little evidence that an extra nickel or two for a bottle of soda or a bar of chocolate would significantly dampen demand for products blamed for fueling the nation's obesity epidemic.
Chicago researchers who studied the effects of state tax policies on consumer behavior concluded that modest fees on candy and soft drinks produce equally modest effects on waistlines and consumption.
"If the state's purpose of a 5 percent tax is to drive down the obesity rate, then that's an overstatement of what it's likely to do," said Frank Chaloupka, director of the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "The bottom line is that the taxes are really too low to significantly affect obesity."
States big and small, from California to Rhode Island, tack a surcharge onto soft drinks and candy. In all, 33 states had sales taxes on soda or candy as of Jan. 1, 2008, the Chicago researchers found, with most rates hovering between 4 and 6 percent.
John Auerbach, the Massachusetts public health commissioner, acknowledged in an interview that the main objective of the sugar tax is revenue generation, not behavior modification.
The $43.5 million the state expects to collect annually from taxes on candy and soft drinks - both regular and diet varieties - would go to a fund for public health services, including community health centers, dental care, and violence prevention.
"I think it is possible that it will affect consumption," Auerbach said. "But when we've looked at past studies, it is difficult to document that."
Public health authorities widely hail cigarette taxes as an example of how boosting prices can curb consumption. But, they concede, there is a big difference between a state tax of $2 or more for a pack of cigarettes - most Northeastern states, including Massachusetts, impose at least that much - and a few pennies for a snack.
"There's no question that raising taxes on tobacco changes behavior, particularly for children because children are very price-sensitive," said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, the nation's largest group of public health specialists.
"But I don't know if 5 cents is going to make a difference in whether someone is going to buy a Coca-Cola or Pepsi," said Benjamin, who supports the taxes as a way to pay for endangered public-health services.
An experiment by a Harvard School of Public Health researcher suggests that boosting soda prices can tamp down demand - if the increase is steep enough. Last spring, Dr. Jason Block arranged for a temporary 35 percent price increase in regular soft drinks sold in the Brigham and Women's Hospital cafeteria. The result: Sales of those drinks plummeted 20 percent, while diet drinks, which weren't subject to the price change, became more popular.
"To me, soft drinks are kind of like the cigarettes of the food world," Block said. "Most people don't think soft drinks are healthy. They just like them."
Soft drinks have been identified by researchers as one likely culprit in the nation's surge of overweight and obese adults and children. A 2004 study by Boston scientists, for example, found that women who drank at least one sugar-laden soda every day gained significantly more weight and were substantially more likely to develop diabetes than women who didn't.
Even in Massachusetts, a state recognized as being among the healthiest in the nation, nearly three of every five adults weighs too much, and one-third of middle school and high school students are overweight.
"So I actually think a tax on these sugar-sweetened beverages would be very reasonable," said an author of the 2004 study, Dr. JoAnn E. Manson, chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine at the Brigham.
The Patrick administration capped its proposed levy at 5 percent in the hope that it would prove palatable to tax-averse legislators, Auerbach said. And public-health authorities do not believe the health threat posed by candy and soft drinks rises to the level of cigarettes, which Massachusetts taxes at $2.51 a pack.
"The preponderance of evidence regarding the damage that's done by any consumption of cigarettes is such that it is in a class by itself," the commissioner said.
Some specialists argued that even a modest tax on sweets could reduce consumption and, in turn, yield health benefits. Dr. David Ludwig, director of the Optimal Weight for Life Program at Children's Hospital Boston, said that could be especially true as the country slogs through a recession; consumers are already pinching pennies, so adding a few more to the price of a soft drink might be enough to deter impulse purchases.
Others who have studied food sales taxes are more dubious. Jamie Chriqui, a senior research scientist at the University of Illinois at Chicago health institute, noted that unlike cigarette excise taxes, which are usually included in the posted price, sales taxes on candy and sodas aren't rung up until consumers reach the register - after the decision to buy has been made.
Stephen Smith can be reached at stsmith@globe.com.


Football players can (and should) improve their 40-Yard Dash speed during the season with these drills.
Football offers a long season of wear and tear. Yet in this day and age, there is no off-season, and every day presents a new opportunity to improve. This includes increasing speed year-round, both for the 40-Yard Dash and overall game speed.
Now, the 40-Yard Dash should certainly not be a priority in-season; however, that doesn't mean athletes cannot continue to improve their technique and lower their times throughout the season. Why wouldn't you want to get faster during the season and peak when it matters?
The key is to use low-impact, technique-oriented drills that reinforce correct movement patterns, activate the muscles needed for speed, and ingrain speed into the neuromuscular system while avoiding potential injuries or overtraining.
Low-impact drills do not place high amounts of force into the ground or high levels of reactive forces into a joint or muscle group. Sprints with heavy sleds, resisted bounds, and sprinting an all-out 40-Yard Dash are high-impact examples of how not to train for speed during the season.
Instead, include the speed drills below into your dynamic warm-ups or directly afterward to get some quick, low-impact speed work in during the season and continue to develop breakaway speed. Watch the video above to learn how to improve your 40-Yard Dash drive phase with former Olympic Gold medal sprinter Michael Johnson.
One of the simplest and most effective methods to improve speed is to implement correct foot placement on the ground. It is alarming how many athletes don't run on the balls of their feet, or do not understand the concept of dorsiflexion to enhance the stretch-shortening cycle. Pogo Jumps can be incorporated into your dynamic warm-ups to reinforce this crucial skill and ingrain correct neuromuscular patterns.
Curl the toes up and lean slightly forward so that both toes and heels are off the ground, balancing strictly on the balls of the feet.
Keep the legs completely straight with the body in an upright posture throughout.
Put both arms in front at 90-degree angles.
Maintaining the foot and arm position, bounce up and down explosively off the balls of the feet, pumping the shoulders to generate momentum. The key is to maintain dorsiflexion of the feet throughout the exercise.
Sets/Duration: 3x30 seconds should be sufficient to get your calves burning, warm up the ankles for practice and develop explosiveness off the balls of your feet.
Arm Action is one of the simplest and most neglected techniques to improve speed. As a general rule, the more power and speed you generate through your arms, the more power and speed you'll generate through your legs. I encourage athletes to practice arm action for five minutes every day.
Get into a good athletic stance. Keep both arms locked at 90-degree angles, with hands open and wrists relaxed.
Bring one arm forward so the hand is at eye level, and drive the other arm back, maintaining a correct 90-degree angle, just past the hip.
Explosively switch arms, focusing on maintaining form.
Exhale with each switch, then work up to switching two, three or four times per rep.
This is a classic drill for improving acceleration, and it can be done with minimal impact or risk of injury if performed correctly and with appropriate volume. The keys are to focus on form, keep the volume low and incorporate it into your workouts after a thorough dynamic warm-up but before any major field or strength work, so that fatigue is not a factor.
Lean against a wall or fixed surface at a diagonal angle, making sure to extend the hips and maintain a straight body posture from head to heel, with toes up to ensure you remain on the balls of your feet.
Maintaining the correct posture and hip extension, bring one knee up toward the chest until your shin is parallel with your body.
Quickly switch positions, driving the forward leg back to full extension and driving the rear leg forward to the shin-parallel position.
Emphasize correct form throughout and keep ground impact low by focusing on the knee drive forward and full extension back rather than force production into the ground.
The speed of the 40-Yard Dash is primarily determined in the first 10 yards of the sprint. A bad start or poor acceleration are hard to overcome later on, in transition or top speed. Also, most speed-related movements on the field happen in increments of 10 yards or less. Thus, a great start and a 10-Yard Dash are crucial for both a good time in the 40 and great game speed.
A great way to continue to improve speed throughout the season is to practice the first three to five steps of the sprint, either from a 40-Yard Dash stance or your game stance, depending on position. If you have warmed up effectively and have no nagging injuries or especially tight muscles, the 10-Yard Dash is safe and effective.
I recommend using a variety of starting positions while continuing to emphasize the proper drive mechanics developed with Pogo Jumps, Arm Action and Wall Drives. Starts from a push-up position, 40 stance, or position-specific stance are all effective if technique is monitored and you begin decelerating safely after 10 yards or three to five strides.
To continue to develop team speed throughout the year, I encourage coaches to work these basic drills into their practice plans. They are simple and effective, but only with attention to detail! The following is a general template to illustrate how they could be worked into practices.
Learn more football speed drills to improve your 40-Yard Dash.


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