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Crash fatalities down in 2010
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Figures published by the DfT in 'Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain 2010' show that 1,850 people died as a result of road crashes in 2010; a fall of 17% compared with 2009.
The report (released 29/09/11) also reveals that 208,648 casualties from road crashes were reported to the police in 2010, a 6% reduction compared with 2009; and 22,660 people were seriously injured, down 8% since 2009.
The number of fatalities fell for almost all types of road user: 21% for car occupants; 19% for pedestrians; and 15% for motorcyclists. However, pedal cycle fatalities rose by 7%.
Other statistics show that in 5% of all road casualties the driver was over the legal alcohol limit; 'failed to look' was a contributory factor in 40% of crashes reported to the police; and the economic welfare cost of reported road accidents was estimated to be around £15bn.
Kevin Clinton, RoSPA's head of road safety, said: "In 2010, road deaths on Great Britain's roads fell well below 2,000 for the first time. This was a fantastic achievement. However, there is still more to be done; if all the reported road accidents in 2010 had been prevented, this would have saved almost £15billion – crucial given the current economic climate.
"During the last three years we have had unusually large drops in the number of deaths and serious injuries on our roads. This very welcome result is due to the focus we have had on road safety, but also to some external factors such as the economic downturn, falling traffic levels and heavy snowfalls over the last two winters.
"We need to consider how we can ensure that the major reductions in death and injury do not stop or, even worse, start to increase if the economy picks up and we have milder winters."
Simon Best, IAM chief executive, said: "The value of preventing each fatal crash on UK roads is around £1.8 million, and approximately £200,000 for each serious injury – it's clear that effective road safety initiatives not only save lives but also save the nation money. The government should think about the real value of road safety initiatives when it considers its expenditure plans.
"As more and more driver aids are introduced we need to re-think the way we approach safe driving. Vehicle technology requires new thinking and an even greater emphasis on the driver as the decision-maker. The challenge now is for us all to treat driving as a skill for life and embrace post-test training."
Thank you for clearing that up, Roy!
I can't spend too much time on this as a Stirling chap working (in the main) for the "Bairns". 🙂
Seriously, though, I think we should be working hard to bring the "others" round to the view that clear thinking is essential to achiveing our common goal – and that demands, in the first place, the most careful use of terminology.
At a very basic level, the LAW refers to road traffic ACCIDENTS (RTAs) and to road traffic CASUALTIES (RTCs).
It's not difficult to see why, even if they were suitable, substituting collision or crash, is a recipe for confusion, never mind anything else.
Kind regards to you all.
Andrew Fraser STIRLING
Another factor is the government's scrappage scheme. Removing older "less safe" vehicles from the roads, and replacing them with newer vehicles, often economic models of vehicle were chosen which were less powerful.
I'm surprised no analysis has been undertaken to assess the safety impact of the scrappage scheme.
Adam, Hants
I can agree with Kevin Clinton's comments about the external factors affecting casualty figures, especially the economy and the winter weather which meant that drivers stayed off the roads. However, one other factor I think is in need of investigation is the recording and reporting procedure of these collisions. I no longer believe my local data as actually reflecting what is going on on the roads. I have seen my local data for Sheffield 'crash'; Serious casualties in the first 6 months of the last 4 years are on average 37% down on the figures for the same period of 2000 to 2003; The 2011 figures are the lowest on record; slight casualties in the first 6 months of the last 4 years are 25% down on the same period of 2000 to 2003. SY Fire & Rescue are now doing road safety education in schools and one commander has claimed that this is the reason casualties are at the record low (he issued a press notice to this effect as well !). I will call for an investigation at my local STATS19 meeting.
John Wright, Engineer (Statistician), Sheffield City Council
Oh no! My comment about dross is hitting all the wrong targets. Sorry Andrew, would I, a good Falkirk bairn, be so cruel to a lad from Stirling. No, like Dave, please consider yourself unlisted when I speak of "others".
Roy Buchanan, Epsom
As far as I can see, Dave Finney and Dr James Whalen are crystal clear on the complexity of the road accident problem and the wide range of factors that lead to them. So the dross must be mine – unless we're all mistaken.
If not, I would appreciate further details.
Sorry Dave, I did not have you in mind at all when I wrote that but a few "others" whom I will leave unnamed.
On this occasion I am sure you will be happy to be excluded.
"Others", plural? So not just me then?
Is it the collapse 1994-2006 that you'd prefer remained unmentioned? It did happen.
Is it the observation that the current improvements started in 2007, the start of the recession? But that is what is happening.
Of course "fatalities are influenced by many factors" but it is the job of a safety engineer to determine the effect of each factor with reference to the evidence.
But it is not possible to find a cause of a problem if the problem is ignored, or even denied!
Dave Finney – Slough
Dr Whalen has made the point that some of us have been labouring for years, that accidents/collisions/fatalities are influenced by many factors emerging in a variety of circumstances. It would be comforting to think that his qualifications would add weight to the argument but, after 44 years of working in road safety, I am not optimistic. A pity, but at least we can be thankful for his contribution as it helps to redress the imbalance caused by the dross presented by others.
The elephant in the room, I'd suggest, is a political creature.
A particularly sharp change in the rate of reduction of fatalities is clear in the Scottish data (from 24 fewer per year to 8 fewer per year).
I am acutely aware of the elephant trap of equating correlation with causation, but what do people imagine would happen if those bodies, made sufficiently large enough in 1975 to be able to attract and sustain staff of high calibre and have better resources for dealing with roads and their problems, including their responsibilities for studying road accidents and taking various measures to prevent them, had their organisations first ripped to shreds by political interference and then shortly afterwards, were scrapped altogether?
How can it be a surprise when the very people who design and maintain the roads are no longer able to do it?
We are constantly being exhorted to "take responsibility", but how can we take responsibility in circumstances such as these?
I distinctly remember asking Lord James Douglas-Hamilton what would happen to the accident reduction effort when the Scottish Regions were dissolved – the subsequent and continuing failure of government to address the matter leads me to only one conclusion. I hope to be proved wrong, some day.
Thank you, Dr Whalen.
But that's the opposite of most theories of behaviour I've seen. Generally an immediate effect is expected, wearing off over time. Eg SAS claim lower re-offend rates after courses in the 1st period (6 months I think), rising over the following periods.
Plus, if there was no test, you'd expect a very high crash rate with new drivers immediately, dropping as they gain experience. A test should improve that immediate crash rate, and a tougher test improve the immediate crash rate further.
The improvement over 8 years that you mention is surely the effect of experience that occurs with a test, a tougher test or even no test?
The fact remains that we are now seeing a return to pre-1993 levels of road safety improvements after the collapse 1994-2006.
Thank goodness for that!
In my post I was mainly pointing out that road user behaviour is very complex and one should factor in many variables, including the delay that will occur will a variable is developing its impact.
My theory is that, having passed a tougher test, because of the biological maturity of the brain and young people's experience & attitudes it is reasonable to expect a delay to occur before any effect may be observed. From 2007 to 2010 drivers in the age group from 25 to 29 as a casualty group dropped by an average of 1389 per year.
While we're talking about variables – what about the contributory factor of failing to observe properly (the most commonly recorded factor)? A driver could fail to look properly and emerge safely from a junction but 20 seconds later the exact same error could have resulted in a fatal collision. Chance is a factor in road safety as well.
Dr James Whalen (Wolverhampton)
Dr James Whalen, could you explain your delay due to tougher 1999 test?
New drivers were more dangerous before the new test than experienced drivers (surely true) therefore a tougher test should immediately reduce the No of new drivers (more fail) and immediately improve the quality of the new drivers that do pass. Any change in safety should have been seen immediately, certainly over the next 3 years, and any other outcome suggests the tougher test was a total failure?
Yet 1999 to 2003 was appalling for road safety.
So did something much more influential wipe out that benefit, something that started around 1993/4?
There is an elephant in the room here!
It's virtually impossible to point to one factor to explain a reduction in collisions. The interaction of driver behaviour, vehicle technology and road design makes for a multi-factor causation scenario.
The current economic climate may well be affecting driver behaviour but what about the tougher test introduced in 1999? I would expect a delay of about 8 years whilst drivers mature (from 17 to 25) both in terms of physiological development and attitude so maybe this aspect of driver behaviour began to kick in 2007 as well.
The bottom line is we should be pleased less people were killed last year. We won't know until we come out of this recession if it was a real factor and then people can always point to other variables and make sound arguments for those – I suspect vehicle technology is playing a bigger role now than many people suspect.
Dr James Whalen PhD (Driver Behavior), BSc (Psychology), DSA ADI (car) (Wolverhampton)
It's fantastic news that fatalities are down, continuing the trend that started in 2007, but let us not be fooled about why that's occurred.
The clue is in the year it started, 2007, the start of the recession. Every time an economic downturn occurs, road safety improves more than normal so we would expect the largest recession in our lifetime to be accompanied with the largest improvement in road safety in our lifetime. And that seems to be happening.
Previous to 2007 (and ever since 1994), we had the worst safety improvements since the 1950s with a stubbornly consistent number of fatalities almost every year. It seems that the trend of the period prior to 1993 is finally returning after the collapse in road safety for the intervening 12 years.
The evidence suggests that the recession must be the major factor, not a possible minor other factor.
Also, the "value" of a collision is not the same as the "cost" to society and people seem to get very confused over the difference. The value of your TV may be it's cost to buy, but the value of your wedding ring may be many orders of magnitude of it's cost.
Accidents in 2010 did not COST £15billion, that's their estimated VALUE.
I am sure that the DfT's 'Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain 2010' actually refers to casualties resulting from ACCIDENTS, since these are the phenomena that are the subject of the Minister's requirement.
It is important to realise that in an ACCIDENT, there may or may not be one collision (as they are normally understood), slightly after which a crashing noise may or may not be heard.
It is difficult to see how the lack of clarity being introduced in this announcement will help in the ACCIDENT reduction effort.
I hope the DfT will correct the announcement – it must be aware of the damage that has already been done.
Andrew Fraser


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Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer
By Andy Palmer
↳ ARTS, Books, Visual Arts
On the legacy of Peter McLeavey, the charismatic, pioneering art dealer who since the 1960s has shaped—even transformed—New Zealand art.
Jill Trevelyan has written about many of New Zealand's best and most important artists (Toss Woolaston, Rita Angus, Frances Hodgkins) and has now turned her pen to arguably New Zealand's most important art dealer, Peter McLeavey.
The book opens with a 1967 plea to investors from McLeavey which sets up the whole premise of the book: "I believe I have the ability and judgement to create both financially and artistically the best art gallery in the country. One day I will do it."
By the end of the introduction, Trevelyan has perfectly described the Peter McLeavey I have known as an occasional visitor to his gallery—a quiet, welcoming, generous man, who is excited to share the art with anyone, whether it is on the wall or in the stock room, whether you have bottomless pockets or no pockets at all.
This really is the story of the Peter McLeavey Gallery, still going strong after close to 50 years, firstly in a flat on The Terrace and since then at 147 Cuba Street. This is also the story of New Zealand contemporary art, the evolving New Zealand art world. The artists whose works have graced the walls of his gallery represent a who's who of post-war New Zealand art from Toss Woolaston to, at the time of the book launch, Ben Cauchi.
The first couple of chapters cover McLeavey's childhood and early adulthood, introducing us to recurrent themes—Catholicism, introversion, thirst for knowledge—and discusses his discovery of art and artists, both here and overseas, his early purchases, and the impetus for becoming an art dealer.
From there on it's all about art, and a little about family, much like McLeavey's life. Regarding the family, there is an openness in discussing relationships, and their ups and downs, and Peter's feelings and failings in marriage and fatherhood. Quotes from interviews with McLeavey's wife and children don't shy away from the reality of things which is refreshing, but also important in painting a full picture of who Peter McLeavey is and how he operates.
But the real focus is McLeavey's relationship with art and his artists. Hugely beneficial in this is the extensive quoting from McLeavey's letters and recent interviews with artists, clients, and friends, which really add to the storytelling, giving genuine insight to his thinking throughout his life. There is a beautiful poetic quality to much of the correspondence, especially between McLeavey and McCahon.
What continually comes through is McLeavey's belief in the artists he showed, and the importance of art over commerce. He showed great support for artists—including in the early years McCahon, Walters, and Woolaston, even when their works weren't selling—and was known to not go through with sales if he thought the buyer was not the right fit, or worse still, wanting to buy as an investment. I suspect there are very few of his kind anywhere in the art world these days.
Rather than being purely chronological, chapters tend to focus on one or two artists over a brief period, which occasionally means some events are repeated, but allows for a greater consideration of the relationships. With many of the artists having died, much of the detail comes from letters, though Trevelyan did interview many artists and clients, and fortunately was able to speak to both Ian Scott and Don Binney before their recent passings.
Interspersed amongst the text we get one fantastic artwork after another every few pages, from the famous to a nice collection of McLeavey's own Hockney-inspired photos of artists and exhibitions. As much as anything else these show just how important McLeavey has been to helping us understand and appreciate contemporary New Zealand art. And that really is the story of this book. I don't think it would be much of an exaggeration to say that without one man's decision to exhibit some paintings in the bedroom of his flat in 1966 the local art scene would be quite different to what we have today.
The only real disappointment for me was the fact that the first couple of decades of the gallery take up the bulk of the book. Undoubtedly they were interesting times, and the main artists (principally McCahon, Walters, and Woolaston) have proven to be extraordinarily important to our art history and culture, but the later years also stars important artists, many of whom have also earned their place—Killeen, Dashper, Reynolds, Hammond, Robinson—and these years could have been expanded upon.
That aside, this was undoubtedly an important story to tell, and whether McLeavey achieved his aim of creating "the best art gallery in the country" is largely irrelevant when you consider the legacy of the artists he has represented. Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer really is a must-have for anyone interested in New Zealand art and New Zealand art history.
Peter McLeavey:
The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer
Jill Trevelyan
Te Papa Press, $64.95
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How can I purchase Coastal Spirit merchandise?
You can purchase Coastal Spirit branded playing and training apparel, and other accessories by checking out our Coastal shop,.
What programmes do you offer for 3-8 year olds?
We offer First Kicks and Fun Football on a Saturday, and run after school programmes 4 days a week during terms 1 and 4. Please check out the junior section on our website for more information.
Myself / my child has never played football before. How do I join a team?
Great, its never too late to start! Email admin@coastalspirit.nz to get started.
Can exisitng teams join Coastal Spirit?
Yes! Coastal Spirit have teams in all grades, and are always looking for new teams to join the club. Please email admin@coastalspirit.nz for more information.
Can I play for Coastal Spirit if I don't live in East Christchurch?
Yes! Our members come from all 4 corners of Christchurch and beyond.
I am interested in volunteering for the club. How do I do this?
Coastal Spirit has a great group of volunteers, and we are always looking for more to help us out at club events and tournaments. Please contact admin@coastalspirit.nz for more information.
Who should I call if I have any queries / concerns?
Who do I contact regarding coaching a team?
We have coaching opportunities available from our First Kicks level, through to senior. Please email admin@coastalspirit.nz.
Can I bring my family / friends along to my game, and to the clubrooms?
Of course! Coastal Spirit welcomes all members of the public to Cuthberts Green, and to join us for a drink in our clubrooms from 4.00pm on Saturdays.
What facilities are at Cuthberts Green?
We have 6 Senior Fields, 2 Junior fields and changing room facilities at Cuthberts Green. There is food and drink available to be purchased on Saturdays from 9.00am, and our clubrooms are open to the public from 4.00pm. For a field map, cilck here .


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NN MAN CHARGED IN WEEKEND KILLING
Police have made an arrest in the Friday killing of Newport News resident Demareo Donte Hardy, 22.
As the result of a "tenacious investigation," working around the clock since the murder occurred, Newport News Police Department homicide detectives arrested Raymond Ernest Brown, 20, of the 1100 block of Fabus Drive in Newport News.
Brown was arrested Saturday night and charged with one count each of murder and robbery and two counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Brown is being held in the Newport News City Jail without bond.
He is scheduled to appear in court today. About 11:25 p.m. Friday, officers and medics were dispatched to the 5300 block of York Circle to a report of a shooting victim lying nude on the ground outside.
Hardy was transported to a local hospital where he died a short time later. Hardy had been the victim of a robbery attempt and detectives determined he had been beaten and forced to remove his clothing before being shot, according to Newport News police spokesman Lou Thurston. The investigation is ongoing and police anticipate additional arrests, according to Thurston.
Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call the Newport News Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP. Information can also be sent by e-mail to nocrime@nngov.com
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Michelle Kantrow-Vázquez August 14, 2020
The new Mental Health and Recovery Center will complement services offered at the Veterans Hospital in San Juan through several programs.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will break ground later this year on what will be a new Mental Health and Recovery Center in Hato Rey, at a cost of $46.6 million. The facility is slated to open in November 2022, this media outlet confirmed.
The facility will be part of a mixed-use complex planned for the former Sears property, which until 2018 was part of the government's real estate portfolio. The property was sold to Puerta de San Juan, LLC, which will in turn sell portions of the plot to third parties for different concepts, said Jacobo Ortiz-Blanes, who represents the developers.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will lease 51,831 square feet from San Juan Psychological Recovery and Rehabilitation LLC — the owners of that lot — for nearly $4.6 million a year for a 20-year term, for a total of $92 million over the life of the contract. The lease includes 177 parking spaces.
The new Mental Health and Recovery Center will complement services offered at the Veterans Hospital in San Juan through several programs:
A Mental Health-Residential Rehabilitation and Treatment Program consisting of 40 residential beds in lease space away from the medical center. The program is designed to function as a Long-term General Domiciliary program "for veterans to promote the development of new skills and attitudes needed to live independently in the community," agency officials said. A three-pronged approach will be offered to residents focusing on treatment of physical and mental health care needs including substance abuse; training in community living skills; and vocational rehabilitation.
A Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center, which will provide community based, recovery oriented, skill building interventions and support for veterans with serious and persistent mental illness and/or substance abuse.
The VA Caribbean Healthcare System serves veterans in the geographic area of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, including close to 23,000 mental health patients. It is projected that the new clinic will serve about 700 veterans per year, which is about five times the number currently served, agency officials confirmed.
"The Mental Health-Residential Rehabilitation and Treatment Program is expected to serve approximately 85% to 90% male population, but the program would be structured to accommodate women veterans as well and would ensure their privacy through private rooms and safety by around the clock staff supervision," the agency stated.
"Discharge from the program is mutually determined by the veteran in treatment and the Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center treatment team. Following successful discharge from the program, the veteran may participate in any element of the program on an as-needed basis in the future," the agency added in response to questions from this media outlet.
The new residential services for veterans will enable to VA Caribbean Healthcare System to keep these patients in Puerto Rico, rather than refer them to other facilities in the U.S. mainland, "in many instances depriving our veterans from their family support and limiting their ability to profit fully from the services received due to cultural and language barriers," agency officials said in a statement.
During the construction phase, the project will generate more than 250 direct and 500 indirect jobs. Once operational, the facility will create 95 permanent positions within the Veteran Affairs system, including, physicians, nurses, social workers, therapist, pharmacist, dietitians, and food service, security and administrative personnel.
The new clinic will be part of a complex that will also include three elderly housing buildings, and two student housing structures.
"We substituted the middle-class housing aspect of the project with the clinic, which will be built first," Ortiz-Blanes said. "When we purchased the lot from the government, we participated in the Veteran's clinic bidding process. That was a project that had been pending since 2010."
"We're working on a master development plan to sell parts of the Hato Rey property to different developers so they can bring in their own ideas, while retaining a similar look and feel," said Ortiz-Blanes, of the five-year vision for the property that has access to the Urban Train and is nestled between two main avenues in San Juan — Muñoz Rivera and Ponce de León.
The facility will be part of a mixed-use complex planned for the former Sears property, which until 2018 was part of the government's real estate portfolio.
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Business reporter with 27 years of experience writing for weekly and daily newspapers, as well as trade publications in Puerto Rico. My list of former employers includes Caribbean Business, The San Juan Star, and the Puerto Rico Daily Sun, among others. My areas of expertise include telecommunications, technology, retail, agriculture, tourism, banking and most other areas of the economy.
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January 2015 we received a Warn ZEON 10S Platinum winch to test, review, and see how it handled the rigors of off road life. Warn's latest generation winch was updated with more power, less draw, and new features. The perfect upgrade to arguably the most recognized Winch brand. How has the year gone, and did it live up to the Warn name?
We are going to dive right into how it performed, the Tech Specs are at the bottom of the page so you can compare it against other brand winches. Numbers, as always, don't tell the entire story.
When most people hear the name Warn they think quality, reliability, and price. As in expensive. There are lower priced winches out there that perform very well, we won't even try to argue with you about them.
Where the Warn excels is warranty, and durability. Our Warn winch has been on the front of our primary Jeep the entire time. There is some fading to the plastic parts but the overall body, accessories, and aesthetics are as good as when we first installed it. That's with minimal maintenance, no special covers, and plenty of trail mud.
Reliability is another key factor. Many of our wheeling friends run low priced and discount winches. Some are very good others are not. The key really is to get lucky and find a good one in the bunch. With those budget winches you have to get lucky to get a great one, with Warn you have to be unlucky to get a bad one.
We already discussed how the fit and finish are pretty perfect. The winch also looks good, tucked into the frame rails with a low and wide body it stays out of the way, doesn't impede engine cooling, and just looks good. The wireless controller means you never have to go back to the winch to make a clutch change. You can stay at a safe distance at all times and control the winch with ease. We have witnessed a few winches fail on the trail when you most need it, the Zeon 10S has never let us down.
I know directly above this we said we liked the wireless controller. We don't truly dislike it, we just want a wired backup option. On the off chance the controller sees a ton of use and the battery goes dead it would be nice to have the ability to direct connect and take control like a traditional winch. It has not happened to us and hopefully it won't, but it is the one concern we have with this setup.
At $1749 the ZEON 10S Platinum is not for everyone. The argument we hear most often is that you can buy three of"budget brand" for that price. Again we won't disagree, what we will say is that piece of mind, trust, and knowing the winch will perform when you need it the most are worth more than saving a few dollars in our book.
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First: Thank you for commenting. There are certainly stories of issues with products from all brands. The experience I have had testing products and using WARN products even before has always been positive.
One thing that has changed is the owner of the WARN brand in the last several years. It has not been a private company but part of a conglomerate for awhile. Has that hurt quality? Some say yes, others say no. I do know that not every WARN winch is US made anymore. We have tested both and the VR series to the Zeon has performed for us.
You are correct that it's often foreign sourced parts. The US made was supposed to mean tighter quality control. WARN actually changed hands again last year.
That's a lot of winches in use. What's your take on other brands like Ramsey?
Appreciate the honesty. We have tested a few winches and have liked all but the really cheap ones. Mike Marker is one we'd like to review. They make a hydraulic setup for smaller trucks that's really interesting.


THE PANTHERS' Jon Letsen takes on a crowd of Skyline defenders in last Friday's win at Panther Stadium.
On a summer-warm evening last Friday (March 23) at Panther Stadium, the Rappahannock boys' soccer team achieved its second win of the season against Skyline High School, 3-2 – only to fall, 8-0, in Manassas Park on Tuesday (March 27).
"Our first two official matches of the Panthers' soccer season were against Skyline," Lofton said, "first at their field [the 4-0 shutout], and then at home on Friday. Skyline has about 1,200 high school students and is in the larger AA grouping of Virginia schools, compared to RCHS's position as one of the smallest schools (fewer than 300 students) in the A group.
"I am pleased that our players have shown that they can hold their own this season against much larger schools, and I'm glad to have gotten the win," Lofton said. "We want to be standard setters. We want to be consistently striving for excellence.
"I didn't think the performance versus Skyline was particularly solid. There were flashes of greatness, and a few players played well, but generally we didn't play that way for 80 minutes. We have grown a lot though, and I think being consistent has a lot to do with time spent together. We are a new group. We'll continue to develop. And I do think the group is special. They have invariably shown a high degree of character in both games and scrimmages, and I continually see unbounded potential in practice. The key is hard work. We have to work harder than ever, because the teams from Northern Virginia, notably perennial district winners George Mason and Manassas Park, will always demand that we play as we never have before.
On Tuesday, the Panthers traveled to Manassas Park, where they were shut out by last year's Single A state champion Cougars. "It was a tough match for us," Lofton said, "but I'm looking forward to playing them again and proving to each other and proving to the community and proving to all the people who matter that we can play with a team as good as Manassas Park.
"Our intention throughout the season will be to overcome the high individual skill level of the northern Virginia players with tight, seamless teamwork and a doggedly determined attitude," Lofton said. "I think this team will get to the point that it can constantly perform at a high level. The mark of a good team is being able to have an off day and still beat a good team. We're not there yet, but, with work, we will be.
"We ended up losing in a tough fought game," said coach Andrew Weyer of last Friday's JV boys 3-0 loss to Skyline at Panther Stadium. "If the balls were bouncing in the net in our favor, it could have been a closer scoring game. The opportunities were there, we just had a little trouble finishing. Our starting sweeper was sick all week, and with an already small roster, the subs were scarce. I felt as if they played better as a team in this game. There was more passing and talking than there had been in the previous one. We were just unlucky with our shots on goal, and their shots on goal went right in.
This Friday night (March 30), JV and varsity Panthers travel to William Monroe.


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It was late in the evening when I decided to check Facebook. As I casually scrolled through posts one caught my eye and in that second the world stopped spinning on its axis.
I frantically reread the words again but stopped after the first sentence.
Alex, our whole family was devastated to learn of your Dad's passing today.
"What's wrong," he asked, clearly concerned by my frantic searching.
I could barely get the words out.
Moments later I'm on the phone with my best friend of 32 years… hoping that the Facebook post was a silly prank or some such thing.
"Mabe….is everything OK?" I ask in a hushed voice.
"No." came the quiet reply.
Her husband is gone. Harry is gone.
I couldn't stop crying. Rocket-man had his head in his hands as the news was confirmed.
Harry is gone. I simply cannot wrap my head around the news.
This cannot be! We have plans for next year for God's sake. We are all going to walk the Camino De Santiago together. We ran miles and miles together…He found me on the ground, in a heap of tears, after my first marathon. Too spent to walk two steps he guided me home like a proud father. We hiked the Grand Canyon together….We cycled in Canada together….We drank gallons of wine and went on countless volksmarches through Germany together. My kids called him "Uncle Harry" even though he was not a blood relative. Harry even pushed me over the edge to marry Rocket-man….
…and on and on. Thoughts of Harry and his family rolled through my head, long into the night.
Again, the tears come. He cannot be gone.
My heart breaks into a million pieces for my best friend Mabel and her boys…and all the grand kids…and their large circle of friends. They are a close-knit bunch and without Harry, the sun will never shine quite the same again.
I met Harry and Mabe thirty-two years ago. We hadn't been stationed in Germany long when my then husband said we needed to help one of his colleagues (That would be Harry) move a few things from his quarters on post to a house on the German economy. It sounded like fun outing to meet someone new so, with our two-year old son in tow, off we went. By the end of that night a lifelong friendship was born.
Harry served his country and his community all of his life. He'd give you the shirt off his back. Extremely well read and smart as a whip, he was also quite the character. His jokes, often off-color, made us laugh until our sides ached and tears rolled down our cheeks. Every time I visited their home there was always something new to learn and much fun to be had, even when things took a serious turn (and they often did because that is life). There was always love, laughter, gregarious conversation, and plenty of wine, chips and salsa. I seriously craved visits to Harry and Mabel's house. I craved the laughter, silliness and general simplicity of how they lived their lives. Our many get-togethers with Harry and his family through the years enriched my life in ways too many to count. Foremost, I learned love and self-acceptance.
Harry and Mabel opened their hearts and their home to me and my family all those years ago, showing me the true meaning of family and friendship. Until they came into my life, my seriously dysfunctional upbringing was the brick wall that defined me. Laughter chipped away at that wall, literally knocking out huge chunks of melancholy and insecurity, turning them into bits of dust. Their love, loyalty and friendship have carried me through both darkness and light and I will cherish each and every one of those moments until my last breath.
We're gonna miss you Harry. And though there are tears now, there is some comfort in knowing that you're another angel in heaven. I'm raising a glass of good Cabernet to you as I'm sure you are already joking up a storm as you pass through those pearly gates. Please Don't stop. I'll be expecting them when it's my turn.


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Q: Is it possible to enforce DbContext.MyTable.Local members to have auto ID assigned before DbContext.SaveChanges() execution? (EFCore + SQLite) So I was trying to access my local (or you may call it "temporary/runtime/RAM") database (using SQLite with EF Core) before actually saving it on hard-drive. Found out that I can access to local myTable with DbContext.MyTable.Local but the problem is the auto-increment for ID was not assigned yet. So can I enforce my local table members to have auto-assigned ID before executing DbContext.SaveChanges()? If not, what is the alternative?
Here's my codes:
using System.Linq;

class Program
{
    private static MyDbContext _myDbContext = new MyDbContext();

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        MyClass newClass = new MyClass() { Name = "MyName", Amount = 10 };
        _myDbContext.MyClasses.ToList();    // forcing to have all members in "_myDbContext.MyClasses.Local". Otherwise only changed/added etc. members appear.
        _myDbContext.MyClasses.Add(newClass);

        int myNewID = newClass.ID;
        // I need newClass.ID that has been auto-assigned here, but it's currently integer default so myNewID value is 0

        _myDbContext.SaveChanges();
        int myNewerId = newClass.ID;
        // now have new auto-assigned newClass.ID value but It's too late
    }
}

My model:
class MyClass
{
    public int ID { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int Amount { get; set; }
}

My DbContext:
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;

class MyDbContext : DbContext
{
    public DbSet<MyClass> MyClasses { get; set; }

    private static bool _created = false;
    public MyDbContext()
    {
        if (!_created)
        {
            _created = true;
            //Database.EnsureDeleted();
            Database.EnsureCreated();
        }
    }

    protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionbuilder)
    {
        optionbuilder.UseSqlite(@"Data Source=..\TestDB.db");
    }
}

A: In EF, if a model has an ID property as an int, it should automatically set it to PK and auto-increment, unless you specify otherwise. If the question is simply "can I obtain an auto-generated ID without saving to the DB," the answer is no, you cannot.
In order to get the ID for an auto-generated ID column, you must save the changes to the database first. After that, the new record's ID property will be set.
MyClass newClass = new MyClass() {
  Name = "MyName",
  Amount = 10
};
_myDbContext.MyClasses.Add(newClass);
_myDbContext.SaveChanges();

//newClass.ID will be set here.

If you're using an auto-generated column, this is just the only way to do it. If you want to set the ID yourself - like using a uuid - you could make that change to the ID column. In the case of a uuid that would involve changing the type of the ID column to string, and you'll want to set a MaxLength to whatever the length of the thing you choose to use.
class MyClass
{
    [MaxLength(50)]
    public string ID { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int Amount { get; set; }
}

Then you can manually assign the ID before the DB changes have been written.
Also, in this line
_myDbContext.MyClasses.ToList();    // forcing to have all members in "_myDbContext.MyClasses.Local". Otherwise only changed/added etc. members appear.

I'm not sure I understand your logic here, but there's no reason to do this just to save a new record to the database, and doing so will drastically slow down your application as your database grows. As it stands, you're requesting a list of every item in the table, but you're not even saving it to a variable, so this line is doing nothing more than to slow down your program.


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Q: toggle class on ul to change font I'm very new to javascript & jQuery and I'm having trouble with toggling a class when a button is clicked. The desired output is to have the user add items as they click a button. That works fine. However when they want to check an item off their list, I can't get the font to change to be strike-through when the user clicks the button that is inside the
.
I think I'm close but there's something amiss.
Any help is appreciated.
CODE:
function checkItem(element) {
    // toggles the class shopping-item__checked when button inside the parent
 is clicked
    element.parent('li').toggleClass('.shopping-item__checked');
    console.log(element);
}

// Event listeners
$(document).ready(function () {
    console.log("ready!");
    $('#js-shopping-list-form').submit(function (event) {
        event.preventDefault();
        addItem(state, $('#shopping-list-entry').val());
        renderList(state, $('.shopping-list'));
    });
    $('ul.shopping-list > li').click(checkItem($(this).closest('shopping-item')));
});

HTML:

Shopping List

    <form id="js-shopping-list-form">
        Add an item
        <input type="text" name="shopping-list-entry" id="shopping-list-entry" placeholder="e.g., broccoli">
        <button type="submit">Add item</button>
    </form>

            apples

                <button class="shopping-item-toggle">
                    check
                </button>
                <button class="shopping-item-delete">
                    delete
                </button>

A: remove the '.' from the toggleclass,
function checkItem(element) {
    // toggles the class shopping-item__checked when button inside the parent
 is clicked
    element.parent('li').toggleClass('shopping-item__checked');
    console.log(element);
}

also u can try the following as alternative
function checkItem(element) {
    // toggles the class shopping-item__checked when button inside the parent
 is clicked
    if(element.parent('li').hasClass('shopping-item__checked')){
        element.parent('li').removeClass('shopping-item__checked');
    }else{
        element.parent('li').addClass('shopping-item__checked');
    }
    console.log(element);
}

A: You are binding event handlers the wrong way.
$('ul.shopping-list > li').click(checkItem($(this).closest('shopping-item')));

You need to pass the event information in the following manner.
function checkItem(event) {
    //event information is passed. target contains the target element on which the event was fired. in this case the check button
    var element = $(event.target);
    // toggles the class shopping-item__checked when button inside the parent
 is clicked
    //element.parent('li').toggleClass('.shopping-item__checked');
    element.closest('li').find('span.shopping-item').css('text-decoration','line-through');
    console.log(element);
}

// Event listeners
$(document).ready(function () {
    console.log("ready!");
    $('#js-shopping-list-form').submit(function (event) {
        event.preventDefault();
        addItem(state, $('#shopping-list-entry').val());
        renderList(state, $('.shopping-list'));
    });
    //bind each check button with the check item function
    $('ul.shopping-list > li > div.shopping-item-controls > button.shopping-item-toggle').on('click', {event_data:this}, checkItem);
});

and modify your html to remove the span inside the button, coz it it's unecessary.

Shopping List

    <form id="js-shopping-list-form">
        Add an item
        <input type="text" name="shopping-list-entry" id="shopping-list-entry" placeholder="e.g., broccoli">
        <button type="submit">Add item</button>
    </form>

            apples

                <button class="shopping-item-toggle">

                    check
                </button>
                <button class="shopping-item-delete">
                    delete
                </button>

the .closest() method finds the closest matching ancestor, while the .find() method finds the closest matching child.
https://coderwall.com/p/wxjljq/jquery-find-and-closest-are-your-best-friends

A: First things first you are adding the callback function wrong for the jQuery click event.
$('ul.shopping-list > li').click(checkItem($(this).closest('shopping-item')));

You are actually passing in undefined as a callback function because you are calling checkItem() right away and that function returns nothing. So everytime you click on the li elements they do nothing.
Lets fix that by just adding in the function name without any paranthesis. So we are not calling it we are just passing it through as a parameter.
$('ul.shopping-list > li .shopping-item-toggle').click(checkItem);

I have also targeted the check button for the click in this example. Now everytime the button is clicked it will call checkItem and pass in an event object like so: checkItem(event);
Looking at your checkItem function it is expecting an element to be passed through, well lets change that part:
function checkItem(event) {
    // toggles the class shopping-item__checked when button inside the parent
 is clicked
    $(this).closest('li').toggleClass('shopping-item__checked');
    console.log(this);
}

I changed a few things here. I changed the parameter name from element to event and I changed element.parent('li').blah.blah to $(this).closest('li').blah.blah
this is going to represent the element clicked and I wrap it in a jquery selector so I can chain some stuff to it like the closest and toggleClass methods.
Now I noticed that this is going to work for the first element but its not going to work for elements that you add later. This is because you would have to add a click event to the new list item everytime you call addItem. There is an easier way to do that and it would require us to modify how we add the click event in the first place.
$('ul.shopping-list').on('click', 'li .shopping-item-toggle', checkItem);

This technique that we are using now is called Event Delagation. Now I am actually adding the click event on the entire shopping list and its going fire on all li .shopping-item-toggle items that were clicked inside the shopping list. This means the elements don't yet need to be added at this point for them to have a click event work on it. They can be added later and it will still work. Now when you add new items you can click on them and they will have the click event fire.


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Relying on the kindness of strangers after a mass shooting
By Tyler Pratt • Aug 7, 2019
KCBX news intern Briana Willson (second from left) and her Cal Poly teammates with the couple who housed and fed them for two days.
Briana Willson
Among those who survived the recent mass shootings in the U.S., some relied on the kindness of strangers in the aftermath. KCBX news intern Briana Willson was one of those people. She was at the Gilroy Garlic Festival at the end of July when a gunman opened fire.
"We were getting ready to pack up talking to the last few customers when we heard loud shots go out," Willson said. "We all stopped and said to each other, 'wow, I hate loud noises because it reminds me of a shooting.'"
Willson is a Cal Poly student and a member the university's triathlon team. She and some of her teammates were working at a booth selling olive oil on the last day of the festival. She said the shooter opened fire about 80 feet away from her and she watched people fall to the ground.
"I crawled under a table and then crawled out the side of the booth and met up with my friends about a 100 yards away, and we ran together for about a mile and a half," Willson said.
The triathletes left their belongings, vehicles and car keys behind. Not knowing where to go, they ran into a gated community where they saw a man watering his lawn. They asked to hide in his backyard.
"He said yes immediately and they gave us water and Gatorade and said we could stay there as long as we needed to, which ended being about two days," Willson said.
There was confusion in the community in the aftermath of the shooting, and Willson said local police and FBI agents sealed off the festival grounds and nobody knew when they would be let back in. The students had already checked out of their hotel, and weren't sure when they would be able to get their things back. They felt stranded, Willson said, so they stayed. The couple, who asked to remain anonymous, had plenty of spare bedrooms as empty-nesters.
"They just took care of us," Willson said. "[The wife] gave us candy, pizza and tea. She cooked for us in the mornings, she drove us around when we needed it, they were super supportive, nice and calming and they said it was their duty to help us, if they could do something to help people, that's what they were going to do and they did it."
When they weren't watching the news to find out what happened, the group and the couple talked—about the student's sports lives, plans after graduation, and their faith.
"It was interesting to have a spiritual discussion when everything seemed to be falling apart around me," Willson said.
Eventually Willson's mother came to pick her up, but it would be almost a week before people were allowed back into the grounds to retrieve personal items and vehicles. She said she has kept in contact with the couple, who went from strangers to family in a matter of seconds.
"I'm sending them a gift in the mail, Christmas cards forever [and] newsletter updates," Willson said. "They are part of my life now. They are part of that horrible, horrible time."
And what do you give someone who houses you in a time of crisis?
"There's nothing adequate you can give them, but we are going to give them something from the Cal Poly triathlon team," Willson said. "We have shirts that says 'Tri-Team Parent,' because she kept on saying she was our Gilroy mom."
Willson is just now returning to work and regular life after the shooting. Her family drove from Sacramento to spend the weekend together in Pismo Beach. She said processing her feelings after this ordeal, and the two other mass shootings that followed, will take time.
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It's almost Halloween and I'd like to share with you my ghost story, A Part of Me.
In the middle of the snow on their way to get home for Christmas, Connor Williams crashed his car into a tree. He was badly injured but his boyfriend that was also in the car, Zach Tyler, was barely alive. How then, that morning in Connor's room, was Zach by his side, waiting for him to wake up?
Who is the ghost, Connor or Zach? Well, you have to find out for yourself. :) Or, you can comment on this post to get an e-book of this short story plus some other stories of mine, Just a Little Unwell and Release Me. You also get a chance to win a $5 Amazon Gift Card and an e-book of my newest short, A Midnight Caller.


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Budget 2021 Expectations: Angel Tax norms should be further eased to benefit startups, say experts
Financial Express |
Santosh Maheshwari, Partner
M&A Tax and Regulatory |
Union Budget 2021 Expectations for Startups: Angel Tax is levied on non-DPIIT registered startups receiving investments from angel investors if the consideration for the issue of shares exceeds the Fair Market Value (FMV) of such shares.
Union Budget 2021-22 Expectations for Startups: Recovering from a bleak 2020, players in the startup ecosystem have been a hopeful lot ahead of the budget. The key asks by the startups and experts have centred around broad themes of tax relief and enabling more engagement between fintech startups and banks & other financial institutions to support other sectors through organised lending. Arguably, the controversial Section 56(2)(viib) of the Income Tax Act, also known as Angel Tax, was the biggest hurdle for not just fintech startups but across sectors. While the government has already reprieved startups registered with the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) from the 30 per cent Angel Tax but there's more to it to be addressed, according to experts.
For instance, Angel Tax doesn't exempt startups that have invested in residential or non-residential land and building other than used by the business itself, loans and advances unless the startup is in the lending business, capital investment in any other business, purchase of shares, and securities and others. "There should be an exemption from the restriction of investing into shares and securities and capital contribution to other entities to avail the Angel Tax benefit. This will provide contentment to startups in utilising their funds," Santosh Maheshwari, Partner – Transaction Tax, BDO India told Financial Express Online.
Angel Tax is levied on startups receiving investments from an angel investor if the consideration for the issue of shares exceeds the Fair Market Value (FMV) of such shares. The valuation of early-stage or angel level startups is derived by investors using the discounted cash flow method as it involves projecting cash flows of the company in the future that may or may not be achieved by the company. However, the tax authorities value the company on its current business, which remains way less than what investors ascribe understanding the future growth of the company.
Moreover, for startups, "angel investing norms can be broadened to include debt investing in startups as the startup ecosystem matures in India," Anurakt Jain, Founder & CEO of growth capital provider Klub told Financial Express Online.
Startups working with financial institutions and banks are looking at enabling policies to strengthen their engagement on different fronts such as lending, digital services, and more. For example, ToneTag, which uses encrypted sound waves to make offline, proximity-based contactless payments on any device, seek "fiscal policies that encourage banks and financial institutions to work more closely with their Fintech partners to expand their digital service suite and integrate Fintech to provide end-to-end processing instead of piecemeal service," Kumar Abhishek, CEO and Founder, ToneTag told Financial Express Online. The company had partnered with Yes Bank, Infosys Finacle, the UAE's First Abu Dhabi Bank, FreeCharge, HDFC Bank, Mastercard, and more to offer sound0based payment acceptance service.
Likewise, to support small businesses and startups with growth capital, Klub seeks policies to "ease credit flow through fintechs to MSMEs and startups. It would provide a significant push to startups if the regulator could include startups registered with DPIIT as a priority sector for lending," added Jain. The balance-sheet focused products don't work for startups, most of which are asset-light. Hence, the government should look at pushing "cash-flow focused lending products that can also be adopted by the banks. This, in turn, will also make the customer database of banks available to the fintech companies."
Lending startups, which are engaged in business-to-business lending, have MSMEs as their majority customers who otherwise do not meet the eligibility criteria of financial products offered by traditional banks and NBFCs due to lower incomes or lack of well-defined credit histories. For startups engaged in offering digital financial services including lending seek, "adequate concessions like low-interest credit to work on the technology and help spread it to India's 60 million small business owners. The budget should also allocate funds to R&D in the fintech space so that advanced technology can be built indigenously and help support the Government's vision of AtmaNirbhar Bharat," Vipul Sharma, Founder and CEO of small business-focused neobank Chqbook told Financial Express Online.
Google had recently taken down several loan apps from Play Store "based on flags submitted by users and government agencies." It said in a company blog post. "Google Play Developer Policy requires financial services apps that offer personal loans to disclose key information such as the minimum and maximum periods of repayment, the maximum Annual Percentage Rate, and a representative example of the total loan cost. To help further ensure that users are making sound choices, we only allow personal loan apps with full repayment required in greater than or equal to 60 days from the date the loan is issued," it had said.
The announcement was made a day after the Reserve Bank of India announced setting-up a Working Group to regulate digital lending amid "recent spurt and popularity of online lending platforms/ mobile lending apps ('digital lending') has raised certain serious concerns which have wider systemic implications," the RBI had noted.
Source: https://www.financialexpress.com/budget/budget-2021-expectations-angel-tax-norms-should-be-further-eased-to-benefit-startups-say-experts/2174363/


There's a Garry Winogrand documentary in the works. The film, in post-production now, focuses on the life and work of a quintessentially American street photographer.
His "snapshot aesthetic," once derided by the critics, is the universal language of contemporary global image making. When he died suddenly at age 56 in 1984, Winogrand left behind more than 10,000 rolls of film – more than a quarter of a million pictures! He produced so many unseen images that it has taken until now for the full measure of his artistic legacy to emerge.
Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable TRAILER from Pieshake Pictures.
It makes for a fun read, even if you're not a photographer. Eric's website is loaded with interesting content, and well worth a visit.


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By Andy Burns Posted on March 16, 2012 March 15, 2012
Will Audiences Run To See 21 Jump Street? Biff Bam Pop's Box Office Predictions, Weekend of March 16th, 2012
It's going to be an interesting weekend at the box office – not because we're getting a whole bunch of new releases. Instead, there's only one biggie that hits theatres. Will it knock The Lorax from the top spot? And where will John Carter wind up in its second weekend out? Here are our prediction:
Opening this weekend is 21 Jump Street, the remake of the sort-of classic teen cop show that first aired on FOX in the late 80's and introduced the world to Johnny Depp (and Richard Greico, it must be noted). While the original was a drama, this big screen incarnation of 21 Jump Street is being played for laughs, staring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. Trailers have been entertaining and both Hill and Tatum are coming off solid scores at the box office with Moneyball and The Vow, respectively. Meanwhile, so far reviews have been strong for the film. However, like The A-Team and Dukes of Hazard before it, I'm not sure if nostalgia is going to turn into big dollar signs for this 80's retread. With all of these factors, look for 21 Jump Street to open in second place with $25 million.
As for the rest of the top five, I'm predicting that Dr. Seuss' The Lorax is going to continue it's stellar box office run this weekend by claiming top spot for the third week in a row with a gross of $30 million. The underachieving John Carter will drop to third place, but decent word of mouth could give it a gross of around $20 million. There's no way this film will be deemed a success, regardless, but while other pundits are calling a steeper fall, I'm going out on a limb with my prediction. Project X will wind up in fourth spot with $6 million while Act of Valor will round out the top five with $4 million.
1) Dr. Seuss' The Lorax – $30 million
2) 21 Jump Street – $25 million
3) John Carter – $20 million
4) Projext X – $6 million
5) Act of Valor – $4 million
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"Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)" is a song by American hard rock band Van Halen from their 1995 album Balance. It is one of four singles issued for the album, and was the only one to reach #1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, where it stayed for three weeks.

Chuck Klosterman of Vulture.com ranked it the 67th-best Van Halen song, calling it "the best song off the worst Van Halen album that isn't Van Halen III."

Theme and references

The song's main theme is about the power of universal love. Sammy Hagar says in his autobiography that he wanted the song to be uplifting, for the chorus to be 'I wanna show you what love can do', but that his relationship with the Van Halen brothers was becoming strained and that they were very critical of the lyrical treatment, wanting something with more attitude.

In addition, the story about the death of Nirvana's frontman, Kurt Cobain, is also told in the song through the lyrics "Is it right to take the easy way" and ends with "I can't tell you what's right for you" with the bridge, repeated towards the end of the song, saying "I see the damage done, yeah/oh Lord, I heard the shotgun".

Music video
The music video for the song was shot in December 1994; it was completed on December 12.

The video tells of the young husband from the video of "Can't Stop Lovin' You" during his prison sentence. The scenes show him and his friend doing a store robbery, along with his arrest, sentence to prison, his time there, activities and his brawl with an Asian inmate which ends with a brutal wrestle by the prison authorities and inmates who are close friends of the Asian inmate. The young man is then comforted by a man who visits him and the last scene of the video shows that he's due to be released. Interspersed are victims who, along with neon signs, display the attacks they survived such as that of gunshot, drive-by shooting, sexual assault, knifing, and more while the band is shown playing the song.

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1995 singles
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Song recordings produced by Bruce Fairbairn
1995 songs
Songs written by Alex Van Halen
Songs written by Eddie Van Halen
Songs written by Michael Anthony (musician)
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"Breaking overnight, on edge. New violence erupts in the Middle East....The opening of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem fueling outrage, with more protests planned today," announced co-host Hoda Kotb at the top of NBC's Today show. In a report moments later, Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel declared "another day of rage" for Palestinians.
...they are not talking about a peace process at all. They say there can be no peace process with President Trump, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. And then, what happened, moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, they say it takes away their hope of having Jerusalem as their capitol as well. So not only is there no talk of peace process now, there's not even talk of peace.
Most of the dead were killed along the border fence that separates the tiny poverty-stricken Gaza strip from Israel, where tens of thousands of Palestinians held angry demonstrations yesterday, furious after the U.S. embassy was moved to Jerusalem. Israel responded with deadly force. Live ammunition aimed at those, it says, got too close to the fence.
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: And we've got a lot to get to. Let's start in the Middle East. It's a volatile situation there.
RICHARD ENGEL: Good morning. This is one of the main conflict areas here in the Gaza Strip. What's been happening here is Palestinian protesters have been crossing this open stretch of land, they've been heading toward the Israeli fence, which is right behind me. And when they've reached that Israeli border fence they have been shot at. And today is another day of rage.
There are many funerals in the Gaza Strip today, and they are angry. 60 Palestinian protesters, hospital officials say, were killed, nearly all shot dead by Israeli forces. Among the victims, seven under the age of 18. 2,700 others were injured when Palestinians rushed toward the closed and heavily fortified Israeli border.
The Gaza Strip, run by Hamas, is sealed off. Palestinians have been protesting here against their lack of freedom for weeks, but their fury boiled over on Monday, when the U.S. embassy was officially moved to Jerusalem with President Trump's blessing. The Palestinians saying it negates their claim to the city.
The goal of the protests, to show their outrage. Some say they can't take it anymore. Israel says it will and must defend its borders, and blames Hamas for pushing people to violence. At the U.S. embassy opening ceremony, the American ambassador, David Friedman, also blamed Hamas.
[TO FRIEDMAN] People here, including yourself, talked a lot about peace, how this could open the door to peace. But today we saw a lot of violence, a lot of death in Gaza. How do you square the two?
DAVID FRIEDMAN: Hamas has to end its siege on Gaza. It's a terrorist organization that's besieging its own people, forcing its own people to act against their own interests.
ENGEL: President Trump says moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was long overdo and will open the door to peace. So far, no sign of it.
GUTHRIE: And Richard, I mean it's hard to summarize the views of an entire people, but Palestinians in Gaza that you've been speaking to, seeing what happened in Jerusalem, are they saying there's no hope for a peace process now?
ENGEL: In a word, yes, they are not talking about a peace process at all. They say there can be no peace process with President Trump, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. And then, what happened, moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, they say it takes away their hope of having Jerusalem as their capitol as well. So not only is there no talk of peace process now, there's not even talk of peace, Savannah.
GUTHRIE: Richard Engel, thank you very much.
ROBIN ROBERTS: Overseas now to another day of protests along Israel's border with Gaza. Dozens killed Monday, the deadliest day there in years. A dramatic contrast to what was happening just 40 miles away as the U.S. opened its embassy in Jerusalem. ABC's Chief Foreign Correspondent Terry Moran is in the West Bank with those details. Good morning, Terry.
TERRY MORAN: [audio cut out] We're just about eight miles outside of Jerusalem on the outskirts of the city of Ramallah. This small skirmish has been going on all morning. No fatalities, but here, as in every Palestinian community today, there is shock and sorrow and rage at that decision by President Trump to move the embassy to Jerusalem. It feels, for the whole region, like a fateful step.
This morning, more clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians. And a general strike has shut down both the West Bank and Gaza. These communities still seething with rage and despair over the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. It was all smiles there, as First Daughter Ivanka Trump did the honors.
IVANKA TRUMP: We welcome you officially and for the first time to the Embassy of the United States here in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.
MORAN: President Trump speaking via video, beaming with pride.
DONALD TRUMP: Our greatest hope is for peace.
MORAN: But peace seemed a pipe dream at the Gaza border. An unforgettable scene there, tens of thousands of Palestinians marched towards the border, urged on by their leaders. Israeli forces used tear gas at first, then opened fire. At least 58 Palestinians were killed. At least 2,700 wounded. Jerusalem, claimed by both Palestinians and Israelis as their capital, has long been one of the most emotional issues in this conflict.
The White House refusing to criticize Israel at all for the violence, declaring that the bloodshed is the fault of the Palestinian group Hamas.
RAJ SHAH [WHITE HOUSE DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY]: This is a gruesome and an unfortunate propaganda attempt.
MORAN: So you can see behind me here a small fire, some tear gas. Earlier, the Israelis were firing a lot of tear gas in this direction, but the wind has shifted, and so they've calmed down on that.
President Trump believes that moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem will actually make peace more likely by taking the city off the table. But for the people here and for virtually every single Palestinian that makes no sense. They feel Jerusalem [audio cut out] ...long way off.
ROBERTS: Alright. Terry, we apologize for the technical difficulties. But everyone taking precaution there, it was good to see him wearing the flak jacket as he was.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: He has to be protected.
NORAH O'DONNELL: The leaders of deadly anti-Israeli protests in Gaza say today is a day for funerals. There were new demonstrations in the West Bank after yesterday's repeated clashes along Israel's border. The White House blamed Hamas, the radical group that runs Gaza, for the deadliest day of violence in nearly four years. The United Nations condemned the appalling deadly violence. Holly Williams attended one of this morning's funerals in Gaza. Holly, good morning.
HOLLY WILLIAMS: Good morning. They have just buried two Palestinian men who were killed at yesterday's protests here at Martyr Cemetery in the Gaza Strip. The death toll, according to officials here, is now more than 60. And that is a stunning loss of life for many Palestinians.
They're carrying their dead to be buried here in Gaza, including several children. The youngest, an 8-month-old baby, Lela al-Ghanduor, who died of teargas inhalation. Today, Lela's grandmother cradled her tiny body.
The Palestinians hope East Jerusalem will one day be their capital if they ever get their own state. And they are furious over what they say is American bias towards Israel.
WILLIAMS: Hakam Abushanab is a financial analyst and was one of the protesters. Are you willing to die here?
ABUSHANAB: We don't have any other method that we could use instead of, you know, dying here is the only way.
WILLIAMS: The Israeli military says it also launched air strikes yesterday targeting a camp run by Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip. And Israeli media is reporting that Israel has threatened to assassinate Hamas leaders if the violent protests continue.
There were more protests planned for today to mark the 70th Anniversary of what Palestinians call their day of catastrophe, following the founding of the state of Israel. But so far, very few demonstrators have gone to the border fence today. Gayle?
GAYLE KING: Holly Williams reporting from Gaza, thank you very much.


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6. Click on 'Journey Information' and you will see details of the journey including whether it is scenic etc PLUS you'll discover which train/trains* you will be travelling by.
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I made a promise to myself that I will try with the best of my ability to update this blog frequently and yeah I failed HAHA. A late post, sorry. So here we go.
Since we've been almost boring holes in our sofa for quite sometime this summer, my Ate Sunshine thought of going to Enchanted Kingdom. Yep, it's not Disneyland :( but hey my chances of going to EK are very minimal since my family aren't used to going out of town whenever dad isn't here, so yes let's go!! And since it is her treat, who am I to reject that offer? We got out of Manila around 12 noon and the good thing is, Mr. Sun has been thoroughly cooperative, his rays aren't that scorching. Ok, so driving through SLEX we exited at Sta. Rosa and once there we almost lost our way going to Balibago. The funny thing is we are blaming it to the poor direction signs posted in the road, really if it stated 'Enchanted Kingdom Next Right', you would assume that after this right it is the next one that they are referring to. But NO! They meant to say that it is actually the coming right. OK so it's quite confusing no? HAHA. But thank God, we finally reached our destination, a big thanks also to the locals who have been very grateful teaching us the right directions. Ang bait talaga ng mga PINOY!!
Funny smile of Mama. And oh see that gorgeous lady holding her phone? Sobrang ganda niya as in. HAHA.


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World Rugby has announced that Vancouver will join the global line-up of major city destinations for the Sevens World Series from 2015/16.
A renowned international tourism, business and major sports event destination, the event will take place at the impressive and innovative indoor BC Place stadium in the heart of the city.
Rugby Canada's successful Vancouver bid follows an extensive and competitive tender process that saw 25 destinations bid to host the Olympic sport and comes with the full support of national and provincial government that reflects rugby sevens' enormous appeal in the global sports hosting marketplace.
"As we move towards Rio 2016, the Olympic sport of rugby sevens is going from strength to strength and the World Rugby Sevens Series has been at the heart of the global sevens success story with its winning brand of high-octane competitive and broadcast- friendly action, global locations and festival atmosphere," said World Rugby Chairman Bernard Lapasset.
"Vancouver is world-renowned event location and a city with a tremendous track record of hosting incredible events, like the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Its inclusion within a stellar Series hosting line-up is great for players, great for fans and great for the ongoing prosperity and development of rugby in Canada and around the globe.
The successful brand positioning behind the bid New Place, New Face, New Force reflects Rugby Canada's bold vision for the growth of the sport and fan base through the dynamism of rugby sevens. The World Rugby Sevens Series brings a unique fan experience leveraging entertainment, and an unrivalled atmosphere that is proving to be a hit in major cities around the globe.
"Rugby Canada is incredibly excited to be hosting an official stop on the World Rugby Sevens Series in 2016," said Rugby Canada Chief Executive Graham Brown.
The first of a series of announcements outlining the 10 locations and dates that will comprise the World Rugby Sevens Series and the Series commercial programme, the news was marked in style in Vancouver today as Canada's men's and women's national teams combined with children to relay a rugby ball from Victoria to Vancouver.