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If there's one word that sums up the story of Hinge Inquirer, it's pivot.
Not long ago, Scout, Nolisoli, Preen, Multisport and F&B Report all embarked on a transformation that would see these homegrown niche brands keep pace with the ever evolving needs of the community they serve. This year, that same spirit of embracing change is once again taking us to bold, new places. And, as much as we've loved our old stomping grounds at Hinge, we've found a new home in Inquirer Interactive Inc., the online publisher of Inquirer.net
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With this move, we find ourselves in a stronger position to grow in the digital space—all while preserving the unique voice of each brand. Not only does this herald new possibilities and fresh paths forward, we are also able to reinforce our connection with the communities we engage with, thanks to Inquirer.net's expertise.
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Leaders' learning experiences are both formal and informal. In this section, we review evidence about both.
Fundamental criticisms of university-based programs for the pre-service preparation of school leaders have led to extensive revisions and evaluations of those programs over the past 15 years (e.g., Milstein et al, 1993; Murphy, 1993). Partly as a consequence of this work, the features of effective formal programs for entry-level school administrators are much clearer (e.g., Leithwood, et al., in press; Basom et al., 1996; McCarthy, 2002). For example, the National Staff Development Council (Sparks and Hirsch, 2000) recommends that leadership development programs have the following features: they should be long-term rather than episodic; job-embedded rather than detached; carefully planned with a coherent curriculum; and focused on student achievement. Programs should also emphasize reflective practice, provide opportunities for peers to discuss and solve problems of practice and provide a context for coaching and mentoring. Based on data provided by the University Council on Educational Administration (UCEA), Peterson (2001) argues that programs must have: a clear mission and purpose linking leadership to school improvement; a coherent curriculum that provides linkage to state certification schemes; and an emphasis on the use of information technologies. Peterson also suggests that programs should be continuous or long-term rather than one-shot, and that a variety of instructional methods should be used rather than just one or a small set of delivery mechanisms. Recommendations such as these, however, are not based on evidence of improvements in leadership leading to greater student learning as the fundamental criterion for success. Much research is still required if we are to have confidence in our knowledge about effective leadership program characteristics.
Little research to date has inquired about how practicing administrators – outside their participation in formal programs – continue their professional learning over the course of their careers. In particular, although professional common sense and some formal evidence reinforces on-the-job experience as a primary source of leaders' learning (Hamilton et al., 1996; Leithwood et al., 1992), we know little about which experiences are helpful and why. This section of our review offers some theoretical tools for use in beginning to better understand how leaders acquire, on the job, the capacities they need to improve the learning of students.
The work of district and school leaders can be conceptualized as practical problem-solving, a type of thinking embedded in activity. A significant part of the learning required for such leaders to further develop their practical problem-solving expertise is usefully conceptualized as "situated." Such learning is specific to the context in which it is learned and most likely to be learned in contexts exactly the same as or closely approximating the situations in which it is to be used, although this is a hotly debated claim.
Situated cognition requires leaders to be immersed in "authentic," nonroutine professional activity embedded in a supportive organizational culture. For experienced, expert practitioners, such problem-solving draws on a large repertoire of previously acquired knowledge. This knowledge is applied automatically to routine problems and, through reflection, in unique patterns which appropriately acknowledge the demands of more complex, novel and/or unstructured problems (e.g., Scardamalia and Bereiter, 1990; Berliner, 1988).
"Everyday thinking" or "practical thinking" are terms used to portray the mental processes engaged in, and mental models possessed by, expert, experienced school leaders, as they apply their knowledge in the solving of problems. Such thinking "… is embedded in the larger, purposive activities and functions to achieve the goals of those activities" (Scribner, 1986). Those goals, which may be short or long term in nature, are achieved given the actual facts of the situation as the practitioner discovers them (Wagner and Sternberg, 1986). Leaders' past knowledge (which also has motivational effects) is of considerable use to them when they are engaged in practical thinking in order to solve problems in their classrooms and schools.
Scribner (1984) has identified a number of characteristics of expert practical thinking within a model consisting of five components. Expert practical thinkers demonstrate a capacity to: formulate problems within a situation that can be handled using well-developed, reliable solutions; respond flexibly to similar problems using different patterns of their existing repertoire in order to fine-tune a solution to the occasion; and to exploit (positively) the social, symbolic and/or physical environment as a way of reducing the cognitive demands placed on the individual for solving the problem. Such experts also find the most economical solutions (those requiring the least effort) that are, nevertheless, effective; and make extensive use of their existing task and situation-specific knowledge for problem-solving.
These are characteristics similar to those associated with leaders' problemsolving (Leithwood and Steinbach, 1995). Expert practical problem-solving by practitioners such as principals depends on ready access to an extensive repertoire of problem-relevant knowledge. Such knowledge is about what actions to take to solve the problem as well as the social and physical context in which the problem is embedded (e.g., the particular students in the teacher's class). It is also about the larger set of activities (procedures and processes) enveloping efforts to address individual problems (Mehan, 1984). As Bransford (1993) notes, this knowledge required for practical problem-solving is "conditionalized." It includes information about the conditions and constraints of its use, much of which is tacit (Sternberg and Caruso, 1985) rather than self-sufficient abstract concepts. Furthermore, such knowledge is accessed and used in ways that take advantage of the environment as solution tools (Leinhardt, 1988). So leaders' situated knowledge connects leadership or administrative events with particular environmental features related to the district, community and individual people.
Knowledge required for expert, practical problem-solving is situated and acquired under a specific set of conditions which include participation with others in authentic, non-routine activities. The contribution of active participation in developing robust, useful knowledge is evident in Brown, Collins and Duguid's (1989) analogy of concepts as tools. Like tools, concepts can only be fully understood through experience with their use and the refined appreciations (including tacit knowledge) that occur as a result of feedback from such use. Participation with others, especially members of the field of practice who are more expert in some areas (perhaps a more experienced district leader), substantially extends the potential for individual development.
For useful, robust, situated knowledge to develop most readily, participation with others must occur in activity which is "authentic"– circumstances which involve the ordinary activities of school leadership and management. Authentic activities are situated in the social and physical contexts of the school, community, and district, and therefore must be accounted for in problem-solving and must be represented in the knowledge structures stored by the principal. Knowledge for problem-solving will be readily accessible, as Sternberg and Caruso (1985) argue, to the extent that the cues needed at the time of access were encoded when the knowledge was originally being stored. This helps explain the contribution to principal learning of on-the-job, informal experiences as compared with more formal learning activities which may be situated outside the school, community or district.
Finally, the authentic activities in which leaders participate will usually have to be non-routine, as well, if they are to contribute to further development. Non-routine activities stimulate one to examine usual practices through "fresh eyes" thereby helping to develop a capacity, as Ruddock (1988) explains, for the kind of constructive discontent with one's existing practices that will fuel the motivation for professional learning.


The perceptions of playing the lottery vs playing a slot machine are numerous, identical, and totally opposite.
Where both offer the chance of winning large prizes, neither does it in the same way. And while results for both are determined randomly, determining your win from the results is done differently.
And when it comes to myths and misconceptions about gambling, there are a multitude more for slot machines than for lotteries.
For slot machines, this means an RNG program generates a series of numbers that have been assigned to various positions on each physical or virtual reel. If that series matches one on the predefined pay table, the corresponding prize is paid.
For lotteries, either the same type of RNG program is used to generate numbers, or balls are used to pull the numbers. Players' tickets must match a minimum number of pulled numbers to be eligible for a prize.
With slot machines, results for each spin or "play" or "game" are available in about 10 seconds.
For lotteries, results aren't known until the next draw, which could be a few days to a week away.
Slot players therefore can get more entertainment value per game, however could end up spending much more money.
Lottery winnings can take weeks to months to receive depending on the information provided by the winner. Winners have to be interviewed, tickets have to be checked and validated, and other processes might be involved.
Wins on slots are either paid immediately by coin, token, or ticket, or if a jackpot is won, the machine is investigated to verify the win, which could take a couple of hours.
As for the myths surrounding both types of play, slot machines win easily in the number of false beliefs that exist.
Compare below a sample of two very common lottery myths to many more very common slot machine myths.
Always play the same numbers, as eventually you will win. As the numbers for each draw are chosen at random, whether you play the same numbers every time, or different numbers every time, any number can come up. You could win with your numbers on the next draw, or never win in thirty years.
The more tickets you buy, the better odds you have. Not really. As the amount of tickets sold fluctuate, and with thousands to millions of tickets available for any one draw, you would need to buy twice as many total tickets for each draw to have an actual chance of increasing your odds.
Surveillance cameras are used to determine who the casino wants to win the jackpot and pushes a button for that slot machine. No, surveillance cameras are used to detect cheating and for the safety and security of patrons and employees.
Security walks around and looks for who they want to be winners, then reports that in on their radio or by phone and then the player hits the jackpot. If a player hits a jackpot after a security officer passes by, it's by shear luck as security has nothing to do with slot machine results.
Jackpots are set to go off at specific times on specific dates. No can do. Slot results are due to the Random Number Generator and have nothing to do with dates or times.
If slot attendant, slot technician, or supervisor goes into your machine to "change paper," do a "repair" or "sign the book", then they are going to press a switch or turn a knob to prevent you from hitting the jackpot. However, if they are doing that to a person beside you then they are actually setting up the jackpot to hit for them. This belief is very contradictory. Either way, there are no switches or knobs inside the machine that lets anyone make a machine win or not win. The results are only decided by the RNG on the machines computer motherboard.
Jackpots are set up to always go off on end machines, and jackpots are set to never go off on end machines. Contradictory observations by players. Slot machines with higher percentage payouts, meaning more winning combinations are available on the paytable, can be place on the ends or banks or in the middle of the banks. Over a long time, players may notice that these machines may hit more pays overall. But this will be maybe one credit here, five credits there over a year or so.
Therefore, there are many differences and similarities between lotteries and slot machines. Which one you play is personal preference. Just remember to play responsibly.


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Canadian actor Tim Hildebrand stars in Steampunk sensation 'Steamwrecked'
Tim Hildebrand says he was once taught that "the secret to truthful acting is to love your character, no matter who he is." This versatile Canadian actor has stepped into many roles, always conveying sincerity with each performance, and this directly relates back to that mantra that has stayed with him throughout his formidable career. He loves every character he plays, and is committed to each and every performance.
"If I really care about the people I portray, I'll identify with them, and understand why they do the things they do, at the heart level. I'll care. I'll want them to succeed, and so I'll invest in getting them what they want through the methods that make sense to them, because of who they are, what they know, and what they've experienced," he said.
Audiences will once again have the chance to see Hildebrand in the upcoming film Steamwrecked, set to be released later this year. The film, written by Rachel Hemsley, and directed by Christopher Matista, follows a "lightning harvester" zeppelin pilot named August Morlock, in a steampunk/sci-fi world. Crashing in a forbidden zone during an exceptionally bad storm, he and his lone surviving crewmember are forced to traverse a deadly desert, inhabited by wild creatures called "scavengers", to bring their coveted cargo to safety.
"When I read the script, I was just intrigued. I'd never read anything like it. It was a Steampunk universe, which I wasn't really into, but the universe Chris and Rachel came up with was so well thought out and plausible it actually grabbed me. The film is about beating the odds and surviving. It's about unlikely alliances, learning to love someone you don't think you can, and making sacrifices for one another. Ultimately, it's about overcoming. It's inspirational," said Hildebrand.
Hildebrand plays August Morlock, a widower and a loner. He's gruff, but a softie deep down. When his ship crashes in a storm, in the worst possible place, he finds himself stuck between his young, stubborn and injured female crewmember, and the local inhabitants tracking them to kill them. August has to try to get the girl and the canisters to safety.
The character of August Morlock is wonderfully layered. A life-and-death urgency underscores Hildebrand's captivating portrayal, as he and his shipmate avoid their hunters. Hildebrand also utilizes Morlock's background with wonderful restraint, his caution and world-weariness contrasting the stubbornness and passion of his protégé, Rowe Windsor (portrayed superbly by Sarah North). This, combined with unexpected moments of softness, create an interesting mystery to Morlock that only fully makes sense when revelations come to light late in the film. To carry the truth of that unspoken backstory throughout the film, so consistently and effectively, demonstrates a unique depth and maturity in Hildebrand's acting.
"Because there was so much going on internally, this was a project where it felt appropriate to stay 'in mood', between takes: not exactly staying in character, but staying in the emotional space of the character. I don't always do that, it's case by case. But this project was right for that kind of focus," Hildebrand described.
The actor worked closely with director Christopher Matista to develop the many layers of August and accurately portray his vision for the film. Matista was constantly impressed with Hildebrand, from the moment he auditioned to the last scene they filmed. Being the male lead actor, the film is dependent on Hildebrand, and according to the Director, he did not disappoint.
"Tim is an amazing actor to work with. On camera he is talented, creative and flexible. Between takes he has a great sense of humor to keep the mood light. When filming a stunt scene that involved four other stuntmen, Tim was very careful during rehearsal to communicate his actions, while also paying close attention to the stunt supervisor. During the actual filming, Tim continued this communication, and was able to deliver great results. Tim acting performance stood out even before he was cast, actually. He wasn't able to make it to our first casting session and elected to instead submit a video audition. In my experience, actors who submit video auditions rarely make it to call backs. However, Tim stood out. In his audition, he used his teeth to tie off an imaginary bandage around his arm. This small action brought real life to his character and to that moment, and got him a spot in callbacks, and eventually the film."
"He's very intelligent. And adaptive. During one rehearsal, he and I discussed his experience with hang-gliding to connect fictional lines of dialogue to the real world. On set, a director should spend a significant amount of time with the actors, discussing the scene and rehearsing. Because of complications, this wasn't the case on Steamwrecked. I was lucky to have ten minutes to rehearse before filming a scene. Many actors would have shut down or failed to get into character but Tim kept his cool. Because of his prep, and understanding of the character, I could always rely on him to deliver," said Matista
Steamwrecked is currently starting its festival track in the United States, but may also be headed abroad to countries like China, New Zealand, and Brazil. It not only appeals to Steampunk communities, but also a wider audience, with memorable performances and a heartwarming story.
"We shot in late Fall, and the desert gets cold. Our first twelve hours were a night shoot. The winds got up to about seventy miles per hour and it was absolutely freezing. I'm from Canada, so it was kind of strange to experience air and wind that cold, but not see any snow. I remember PAs were driving to different towns trying to find those little packages for the crew that you put in your shoes and gloves to stay warm. After two days of that, the weather turned sharply and it became blazing hot; like, oven hot. So the back and forth with the temperature had an effect on some of the equipment and on people's bodies, but when it was all said and done, we knew we had been a part of something special and everyone was on a real high," Hildebrand concluded.
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Penwortham Girls' High School receives prestigious UNICEF UK Award
Penwortham Girls' High School is to be awarded the Silver Rights Respecting School Award by UNICEF UK and is the first secondary school in Lancashire to achieve it.
UNICEF is the world's leading organisation working for children and their rights.
The Rights Respecting School Award is granted to schools that show commitment to promoting and realising children's rights and encouraging adults, children and young people to respect the rights of others in school. Silver is given to schools that make excellent progress towards embedding the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into its ethos and curriculum. There are over 1200 schools across England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales that have achieved Silver and over 500 schools that have been awarded Gold, the next step up and highest accolade granted by UNICEF UK.
Sharon Hall, Deputy headteacher said: "We are very proud to have gained the Silver Rights Respecting Schools Award which recognises the hard work the students, staff and the wider community have put in to learning about the rights our students enjoy. The RRSA has a positive impact on students and the school as a whole – encouraging discussion, helping students to articulate their views and ensuring they learn about the experiences of children around the world."
The Award recognises achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child at the heart of a school's planning, policies and practice. A Rights Respecting School is a community where children's rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted.
Mrs Hall, Deputy Headteacher
Penwortham Girls' High School receives the 'Bronze Award' from Unicef
Penwortham Girls' High School is extremely proud to have been awarded the Bronze award from UNICEF. UNICEF works with schools in the UK to create safe and inspiring places to learn, where children are respected, their talents are nurtured and they are able to thrive. The Rights Respecting Schools Award embeds these values in daily school life and gives children the best chance to lead happy, healthy lives and to be responsible, active citizens. We believe at Penwortham Girls', it is vital that we educate students that the children's rights are equal and universally applicable to all.
There are four key areas of impact for children at a Rights Respecting School; wellbeing, participation, relationships and self-esteem. We will now be working hard to turn our action plan into practice despite lockdown to achieve the Silver level. This award also complements the work on the Lancashire County Council Equality Charter, where we have already achieved the 'Race' and 'Religion' equality marks for excellent practice in promoting equality in these areas. We are currently working towards achieving the 'Gender and Gender Variance' and the 'Socio-economic' equality marks as part of our ongoing mission to ensure that all our students are given every opportunity to be successful and thrive in our school community.
In addition to this, we are excited to announce that we have recently gained the status of 'Stonewall School Champion'. Stonewall is a charity dedicated to promoting equality and protecting LGBT+ rights. As school champions we are aiming to further ensure that our school is a safe and inclusive environment for all our students.
We firmly believe that it is essential that everyone at Penwortham Girls' High School should feel inspired, nurtured and able to thrive within our school community and we will continue to work to ensure that we champion equality and celebrate diversity with our students.
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Preface. In another post about critical thinking, "What percent of Americans are rational?", I list the results of 10 polls about what Americans believe. Here are the questions about Christianity. When there's more than one figure, they're from different polls:
Angels: 77%, 72%, 72% 88% of Christians, 95% of evangelical Christians
Creationism: 36%
Devil: 61%, 60%, 58%
Heaven: 71%, 75%
Hell: 64%, 61%
Jesus born of a virgin: 73%, 61%, 57%
Jesus is God or son of God: 73%, 68%
Jesus's resurrection: 70%, 65%
Life after death: 71%, 64%
Miracles: 76%, 72%
Only 48% of people agree with the statement "Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals." A third believe that our earliest ancestors were humans just like humans today. The rest believe evolution happened via the hand of God.
A quarter believe that president Obama was, or is, the Antichrist. A quarter believe in witches. Remarkably, no more than one in five Americans believe the Bible consists mainly of legends and fables.
What follows are the parts of Fantasyland that cover the early history of Christianity in the U.S.
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The Conjuring of America: 1517–1789. I Believe, Therefore I Am Right: The Protestants
America began as a fever dream, a myth, a happy delusion, a fantasy. In fact, it began as multiple fantasies, each embraced around 1600 by people so convinced of their thrilling, wishful fictions that most of them abandoned everything—friends, families, jobs, good sense, England, the known world—to enact their dreams or die trying. A lot of them died trying.
After the launch of this new Christianity, the new printing enabled its spread. Luther's main complaint had been about the church's sale of phony VIP passes to Heaven. "There is no divine authority," one of his theses pointed out, "for preaching that the soul flies out of the purgatory immediately [when] the money clinks in the bottom of the chest.
Out of the new Protestant religion, a new proto-American attitude emerged during the 1500s. Millions of ordinary people decided that they, each of them, had the right to decide what was true or untrue, regardless of what fancy experts said. And furthermore, they believed, passionate fantastical belief was the key to everything
Apart from devolving religious power to ordinary people—that is, critically expanding individual liberty—Luther's other big idea was that belief in the Bible's supernatural stories, especially those concerning Jesus, was the only prerequisite for being a good Christian. You couldn't earn your way into Heaven by performing virtuous deeds. Having a particular set of beliefs was all that mattered.
Although Raleigh never visited North America himself, he believed that in addition to its gold deposits, his realm might somehow be the biblical Garden of Eden. English clergymen had calculated from the Bible that Eden was at a latitude of thirty-five degrees north—just like Roanoke Island, they said. And there was still more fresh (hearsay) evidence of divine magic in Virginia: a botanist's book, Joyful News of the New Found World, reported that various plants unique to America cured all diseases. A famous English poet published his "Ode to the Virginian Voyage," calling Virginia "Earth's only Paradise" where Britons would "get the pearl and gold"—and plenty of English people imagined that it was literally a new Eden.
Alas, no. A large fraction of the first settlers dispatched by Raleigh became sick and died. He dispatched a second expedition of gold-hunters. It also failed, and all those colonists died.
In 1606 the new English king, James, despite Raleigh's colonization disasters, gave a franchise to two new private enterprises, the Virginia Company of London and the Virginia Company of Plymouth, to start colonies. The southern one, under the auspices of London, they named Jamestown after the monarch. Their royal charter was clear about the main mission: "to dig, mine, and search for all Manner of Mines of Gold…And to HAVE and enjoy the Gold. Two-thirds of those first hundred gold-seekers promptly died.
The gold fantasy wasn't limited to colonists in the South. Those dispatched at the same time by the Plymouth Company, 120 of them, landed up on the Maine coast, also looking for gold
Unlike their Virginia compatriots, however, the English colonists in Maine quickly accommodated reality and admitted defeat. Half left a few months after arriving, the rest six months later. They were not credulous or imaginative enough to become Americans.
But…maybe they just hadn't talked to the right natives! Or looked in the right places! In 1614 yet another Plymouth Company expedition sailed to New England, this one exclusively in pursuit of gold. They had an inside man aboard, a native who'd been captured and enslaved by an earlier Plymouth Company ship off Cape Cod. The Indian had spent his time in captivity in London learning English and the nature of his captors' shiny-metal fixation, so he concocted a story just for them: There's a gold mine on my own island, he lied, and I'll take you back there to claim it. When the English anchored off Martha's Vineyard, he jumped ship, and his tribal brothers covered his escape with bow-and-arrow fire from canoes. The Englishmen realized they'd been played and sailed home.
Down in Virginia, meanwhile, more than 6,000 people had emigrated to Jamestown by 1620, the equivalent of a midsize English city at the time. At least three-quarters had died, but not the abiding dream. People kept coming and believing, hopefulness becoming delusion. It was a gold rush with no gold. Fifteen years after Jamestown's founding, a colonist wrote a friend to request a shipment of nails, cutlery, vinegar, cheese—and also to make excuses for why he hadn't quite yet managed to get rich: "By reason of my sickness & weakness I was not able to travel up and down the hills and dales of these countries but doo now intend every day to walk up and down the hills for good Minerals here is both gold [and] silver.
But back in England the investors and their promotional agents continued printing posters, hyperbolic testimonials, and dozens of books and pamphlets, organizing lotteries, and fanning out hucksterish blue smoke. Thus the first English-speaking Americans tended to be the more wide-eyed and desperately wishful. "Most of the 120,000 indentured servants and adventurers who sailed to the [South] in the seventeenth century," according to the University of Pennsylvania historian Walter McDougall's history of America, Freedom Just Around the Corner, "did not know what lay ahead but were taken in by the propaganda of the sponsors.
The historian Daniel Boorstin went even further, suggesting that "American civilization [has] been shaped by the fact that there was a kind of natural selection here of those people who were willing to believe in advertising.
In his London circles, Bacon said, it was all "gold, silver, and temporal profit" driving the colonization project, not "the propagation of the Christian faith." For the imminent next wave of English would-be Americans, however, propagating a particular set of Christian superstitions, omens and divine judgments were more than just lip-service cover for dreams of easy wealth. For them, the prospect of colonization was all about the export of their supernatural fantasies to the New World.
Most supernatural religious beliefs aren't falsifiable. The existence of a God who created and manages the world according to a fixed eternal plan, Jesus's miracles and resurrection, Heaven, Hell, Satan's presence on Earth—these can never be disproved.
Unlike Roman Catholicism, with its old global hierarchy and supreme leader, the new Protestant Christianity was by its nature fractious and unstable,
When official leaders lose their way, pious anybodies can and must decide the new improved truth on their own—that is, by reading Scripture, each individual determines the correct meaning of the Christian fantasies. The Protestants' founding commitment to fierce, decentralized, do-it-yourself truth-finding and spiritual purity naturally led to the continuous generation of self-righteous sectarian spin-offs.
What really distinguished the Puritans from the mainstream were matters of personality, demeanor. To be a Puritan was to embody uncompromising zeal. (They were analogous to certain American political zealots today, who more than disagreeing with their Establishment's ideas just can't stand their reasonable-seeming manner.) Moreover, a good Christian life, the Puritans believed, was one consumed by Christianity. The most extreme of the
But changing where they lived didn't change who they were—sticklers and malcontents. They lived in Leiden, a place full of all the normal real-world ungodliness of a large Dutch city. Leiden was also the center of a liberal sect of Protestants. In other words, the English Puritans in Holland were surrounded by a new species of disgusting heresy. For them, hell for now was other people who didn't share their beliefs with full fervor.
America was founded by a nutty religious cult.
It's telling that Americans know and celebrate Plymouth but Jamestown hardly at all. The myth we've constructed says that the first nonnative new Americans who mattered were the idealists, the hyper-religious people seeking freedom to believe and act out their passionate, elaborate, all-consuming fantasies. The more run-of-the-mill people seeking a financial payoff, who abandoned their dream once it was defunct? Eh. We also prefer to talk about Pilgrims rather than Puritans, because the former has none of the negative connotations that stuck permanently to the latter.
The Puritans are conventionally considered more "moderate" than the Pilgrims. This is like calling al-Qaeda more moderate than ISIS.* The Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans' theology was really no less mad.
The Middle Ages are generally reckoned to have ended at least a century before America's founding. By the 1620s in the Old World, literal belief in biblical end-time prophecies was fading, along with other medieval artifacts. But not among the Puritans. They took the Bible as literally as they could, especially this most spectacular piece of it. That the Catholics had for centuries downplayed end-of-the-world prophecies was, for Puritans, all the more reason those prophecies must be true.
Christ's return and reign wouldn't be some airy-fairy symbolic spiritual thing but a real kingdom on real Earth. And ground zero of the coming Apocalypse, God versus Satan, would be in America.
The Boston Puritans' first leader, John Winthrop, was talking to his shipmates about the end-time.
His most important successor as a leader of the New England theocracy, Increase Mather, also preached "that the coming of Christ to raise the dead and to judge the Earth" might happen any minute now. Mather even had evidence: meteors or comets visible in the skies over Boston, for instance, could be signs of God's unhappiness and "presage great calamities." As the religious historian Paul Boyer says, "The Puritans really expected the end of time to come very, very soon.
Cotton, who'd been preaching sermons since he was sixteen, took over for his father as pastor of Boston's main church. The younger man soon began issuing specific dates for the end of days and kept doing so for the rest of his life. Six years from now! Okay, thirty-nine years from now—no, wait, fewer than twenty! And when that year passed normally, Cotton Mather announced it would actually be the following year.
Enlightened and emboldened, her followers took to walking out of church in the middle of sermons by ministers they weren't feeling. Anne Hutchinson, resident in America for only a thousand days, was leading a movement to make her colony of magical thinkers even more fervid. Protestantism had started as a breakaway movement of holier-than-thou zealots—and in the even-holier-than-thou zealots' state-of-the-art utopia, they now had a still-holier-than-thou mystic militant in their midst.
Once a faction of the colony's leaders signed on to Hutchinson's more magical, passionate, extra-pure Puritanism, she became problematic.
Anne Hutchinson had gone rogue. She was charged and tried for defaming ministers
When her trial resumed the next day, she let it all hang out. It wasn't just the Bible that guided her but the Holy Spirit—that is, God, speaking to her personally, just as He had spoken to people in the Bible. It was, she told them, "an immediate revelation….by the voice of his own spirit to my soul….God had said to me…'I am the same God that delivered Daniel out of the lion's den, I will also deliver thee.'?" Governor Winthrop and his forty fellow judges had assembled to convict her of something, and now she'd made it easy. Furthermore, she threatened them and their misguided regime with God's own wrath: "Therefore take heed how you proceed against me—for I know that, for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity and this whole state.
"Mistress Hutchinson," a once and future Massachusetts governor among the judges said during the trial, "is deluded by the Devil." And a witness against her, one of her fellow shipmates on the passage from England, testified that she'd made "very strange and witchlike" pronouncements when they'd landed in America three years earlier. The court might have brought a conviction for witchcraft and executed
"This is the thing that has been the root of all the mischief," Winthrop bellowed, pointing at her. And also: "I am persuaded that the revelation she brings forth is delusion." We're all irritating, self-righteous Christian nuts, he did not add, but good God, woman, even we have our limits.
Hutchinson is so American because she was so confident in herself, in her intuitions and idiosyncratic, subjective understanding of reality. She's so American because, unlike the worried, pointy-headed people around her, she didn't recognize ambiguity or admit to self-doubt. Her perceptions and beliefs were true because they were hers and because she felt them so thoroughly to be true.
Anne Hutchinson lost her battle in Cambridge but would finally win the war. For the Puritan leaders, it was their way or the highway. But in America there was an infinity of highways and new places not so far away where outcast true believers could move.
The Quakers' famous civic reasonableness—tolerant, democratic, pacifist, proto-feminist, abolitionist—tends to obscure their own founding zealotry: each person could directly commune with God, which variously took the form of prophecies, trance-like rants, and convulsions.
Individual freedom of thought in early America was specifically about the freedom to believe whatever supernaturalism you wished. Four centuries later that has been a freedom, revived and unfettered and run amok, driving America's transformation.
A Puritan minister had warned that "Satan visibly and palpably reigns" in America "more than in any other known place of the world." What? Yes, another Puritan leader explained, as Christianity had spread through Europe during the previous fifteen hundred years, taking market share, the devil at some point arranged for a swarm of Asian infidels to cross the Pacific Ocean to America—"
The American Indians, in other words, weren't merely unbelievers—they were Satan's soldiers.
For their first sustained war on Indians, however, the colonists recruited other presumed demons to help them exterminate a tribe of definite demons, the Pequots. The Pequot War's most famous episode was a one-day massacre in 1637 of hundreds of native people, including women and children. According to Increase Mather, his side won this war fought before he was born due "to the wonderful Providence of God.
Over the next two generations, as the English population quintupled, exceeding the Indians', the natives naturally grew…restless. As a result, after a half-century the settlers' long-standing fantasy of a pan-Indian conspiracy became self-fulfillingly real: the natives finally did form a multi-tribal alliance to fight back. The public case for wiping out the newly militant Indians remained supernatural, however. For Christians who imagined themselves battling satanic beasts, conventional rules of war no longer applied.
Yet another Harvard-educated minister, serving as chaplain to one of Massachusetts's military units, exhorted his soldiers to "kill, burn, sink, destroy all sin and Corruption…which are professed enemies to Christ Jesus, and not to pity or spare any of them.
Cotton Mather happened to see a cabbage root with two branches, which looked to him like swords and an Indian club—clearly a warning from God of this imminent new battle against the hounds of Hell, he preached, a "prodigious war made by the spirits of the invisible world upon the people of New-England…[by] the Indians, whose chief[s]…are well known…to have been horrid sorcerers, and hellish conjurers, and…conversed with demons.
The big piece of secular conventional wisdom about Protestantism has been that it gave a self-righteous oomph to moneymaking and capitalism—hard work accrues to God's glory, success looks like a sign of His grace. But it seems clear to me the deeper, broader, and more enduring influence of American Protestantism was the permission it gave to dream up new supernatural or otherwise untrue understandings of reality and believe them with passionate certainty.
The scientific method is unceasingly skeptical, each truth understood as a partial, provisional best-we-can-do-for-the-moment understanding of reality. In their travesty of science, Protestant true believers scrutinized the natural world to deduce the underlying godly or satanic causes of every strange effect, from comets to hurricanes to Indian attacks to unusual illnesses and deaths. For believers in the new American religion, the truth was out there: everything happened for a purpose, and the purpose wasn't so hard to suss out.
Edwards was all about obsessively believing and feeling the magic. He was, Mark Twain wrote to a pastor friend, a "resplendent intellect gone mad.
According to Edwards's reading of Revelation, the golden age of Christianity wouldn't begin for hundreds of years, and Jesus would still be the absentee overlord until he returned as the king of the remade planet another thousand years after that. Yet under such a "post-millennial" scheme, the glorious happy ending is so far in the future it might as well be…imaginary, metaphorical. Which is to say, for a lot of Americans, too boring. A religion that doesn't get the believer's blood pumping right now can be like a marriage without sex.
Edwards is known as the Last Puritan, he was also somewhat Anne Hutchinsonian, a mystic visionary, consumed by the Bible but also by the totally subjective visionary experience of holiness.
Five generations after the first Puritans arrived, the zealotry had diminished. Americans still read the Bible and went to church, but the religious boil had become more of a simmer. Reverend Edwards found he could turn up the heat, whipping proper New Englanders into ecstatic and agonizing deliriums that he and they took to be miraculous proofs of God.
More preachers awakened more congregations. Their listeners didn't just pledge to stop sinning and believe more strongly in God. They didn't just read and discuss the Bible and the sermons. In the middle of church services, respectable people felt the Holy Spirit, which produced "the Affections"—moaning, weeping, screaming, jerking, fainting.
Edwards, this sudden madness of the crowd was also evidence of the supernatural big picture manifesting. "?'Tis not unlikely," he wrote, "that this work of God's Spirit, that is so extraordinary and wonderful, is the dawning, or at least a prelude, of that glorious work of God, so often foretold in Scripture"—that is, the slow-but-sure final act. "There are many things that make it probable that this work will begin in America.
A Whitefield appearance was fabulous theater—but his was apparently authentic emotion, a channeling of the Holy Spirit, a reality show. Most of his audience arrived with disbelief pre-suspended, and his performances let them believe the fantasy. At least as much as Edwards's and Wesley's sermons, Whitefield's preaching made people involuntarily twist and shout. Whitefield was the pioneering multimedia evangelical marketer of himself. Newspapers advertised his sermons and published accounts of the ecstatic mobs he attracted. He published a successful autobiography at 26—the first of several. Within a couple of years of his arrival, Whitefield may have been the most famous person in America.
By quoting again and again the biblical passage where Jesus tells a chief rabbi that "except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God," Whitefield implanted in American Christianity one of its big ideas.
As the Great Awakening spread, the Christian Establishment loathed all the embarrassing emotional displays of me me me fanaticism—as one critic at the time wrote, these awful "perturbations of mind, possessions of God, ecstatic flights and supernatural impulses." Sure, the religion was founded on stories of miracles and individual visions and revelations, but whoa…miracles and revelations right here, right now? To which the delirious mob responded yes, exactly. Whitefield wrote that the "screaming, trembling" that he and other evangelists provoked were surely just like the "sudden agonies and screaming" that Jesus provoked among His converts. "Is not God the same yesterday, today, and forever?" It was Anne Hutchinson's argument all over again. Give us the magic now!
"The most distinctive characteristic of early American Methodism," according to one of its modern historians, was "this quest for the supernatural in everyday life." Early American Methodists thus put "great stock in dreams, visions, supernatural impressions, miraculous healings, speaking in tongues." Of course, each preacher and believer of every sect knew that his or her idiosyncratic version of the truth was the truth.
If I think it's true, no matter why or how I think it's true, then it's true, and nobody can tell me otherwise. That's the real-life reductio ad absurdum of American individualism
Franklin and his fellow Founders' conceptions of God tended toward the vague and impersonal, a Creator who created and then got out of the way.
John Adams fretted in a letter to Jefferson that his son John Quincy might "retire…to study prophecies to the end of his life." Adams wrote to a Dutch friend that the Bible consists of "millions of fables, tales, legends," and that Christianity had "prostituted" all the arts "to the sordid and detestable purposes of superstition and fraud." George Washington "is an unbeliever," Jefferson once reckoned, and only "has divines constantly about him because he thinks it right to keep up appearances." Jefferson himself kept up appearances by attending church but instructed his seventeen-year-old nephew to "question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." He considered religions "all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies," including "our particular superstition," Christianity.
When somebody asked Alexander Hamilton why the Framers hadn't mentioned God in the Constitution, his answer was deadpan hilarious: "We forgot." Thus none of the Founders called himself an atheist. Yet by the standards of devout American Christians, then and certainly now, most were blasphemers. In other words, they were men of the Enlightenment, good-humored seculars who mainly chose reason and science to try to understand the nature of existence, the purposes of life, the shape of truth.
Adams was friends with the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, whose 1748 essay "Of Miracles" was meant to be "an everlasting. Adams was friends with the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, whose 1748 essay "Of Miracles" was meant to be "an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion.
"As long as there are fools and rascals," Voltaire wrote in 1767, "there will be religions. [And Christianity] is assuredly the most ridiculous, the most absurd…religion which has ever infected this world.
Christians, instead of seeing telegraphy, high-speed printing presses, railroads, steamships, vaccination, anesthesia and so on as part of the Enlightenment and moderating their beliefs, saw God in these developments, that these marvelous things had happened because well obviously—God was with us.
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Welcome to the first entry on our brand new development blog about our newest Project. We want to start off, introducing you to our first level and it's creation. Have a seat and enjoy this very first insight into the creation of our game "Into the Belly of the Beast".
Here you see one of the very first concepts of our level 1, part 1. No textures, no filters, just a plain level where we could start playing around with the viscosity and also get a first feeling of how it works. I can already tell you that the topic "Viscosity" is going to be a special one.
All of this compared with alot of hard work led us to our first finished level-design. Later we had to completely redesign it due to it's complexity (... and because we changed our mind about the appearance of an organic structure).
Next week we'll start to introduce you to the main character of the game. Showing you his journey from the plotting board to the finished 3D Model.


Waking up and reading about the Tsunami and Earthquake that has affect your area of the world, I hope and pray that you all are alright. I am hoping that you all are not affected. Waiting and watching for posts from my friends who are bloggers, some of which live in that part of the world.
All my prayers and thoughts to the people of Japan.
Its really bad whats happening now, first it was here in NZ now its in Japan. Lets just hope and pray for those who are affected. I had contacted some of the people I know in Japan and luckily they were all OK.
I am glad your friends are alright.
I was just coming over to visit you. *HUGS* I can't wait to see it!
Omg, I really feel sorry by those who have suffered from this horrible earthquake.
Hope they are OK too.
Yes, going through the news reports, it is so scary! Thank you for visiting and commenting.


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Remembering 4 major religious figures who have visited Seychelles
Victoria, Seychelles | April 18, 2019, Thursday @ 14:22 in Entertainment » SEYCHELLES BUZZ | By: Sharon Ernesta | Views: 8884
(Salifa Karapetyan, from Post Office's archive)
(Seychelles News Agency) - As Seychelles - a Christian country - observes the holy week leading to Easter Sunday, SNA presents a buzz of Christian religious leaders who have been immortalised on stamps published by the island nation's post office.
The leaders have all visited Seychelles – a group of 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean – since its discovery in 1742.
1. Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 to 2005. Born in Poland, John Paul II was the second longest-serving pope in modern history after Pope Pius IX, who served for nearly 32 years from 1846 to 1878. He was one of the most travelled world leaders in history, visiting 129 countries during his pontificate.
Pope John Paul II visited the Seychelles in December 1986, when he celebrated mass at the Popular Stadium in the capital city of Victoria, which was attended by thousands.
(Salifa Karapetyan, from Post Office's archive) Photo License: CC-BY
2. Archbishop Makarios III of the island of Cyprus, Greece
Archbishop Makarios III was a strong advocate for self-determination in Cyprus in the middle of the twentieth century. His activities gave the British authorities sufficient reason to exile him to Seychelles for a year.
During this period of banishment, he had a distinct impact on the people of Seychelles, an effect on the country's relations with other involved nations, and developed a relationship with the people of the island.
3. Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey
Carey was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002. During his time as archbishop of the Church of England, Carey ordained its first women priests and the debate over attitudes to homosexuality became more prominent, especially at the 1998 Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops.
Archbishop Carey visited the Seychelles in 1993, as part of a tour of the region. Carey stayed at the residence of the British High Commissioner at Bel Air – a district on the outskirts of Victoria.
After celebrating mass at the International Centre of Seychelles, Carey accompanied by Seychellois Archbishop French Chang Him, left the main island on Mahe for Assumption where he boarded another plane to Tanzania for the continuation of his visit.
4. Lèon des Avanchers, a Capuchin priest
Lèon des Avanchers was a Capuchin priest of the Province of Savoy, France and is credited to have formally established the Catholic faith on the islands in March 1851. By 1853, the priest had already built a small wooden chapel in Victoria.


In line with its vision of getting people to live better through sport, and developed in consultation with local and international sporting and educational experts, Sport Singapore's Game for Life ("GFL") framework helps to equip youths for the real world through sport.
Specially designed to help educators and coaches inculcate values in a clear and comprehensive way, the GFL framework presents sporting pursuits as opportunities for character development and learning valuable life lessons.
While GFL has already been adopted by some local schools, the Real Madrid Foundation Technical Academy Singapore ("RMFTA") is the first private sports academy to adopt the GFL framework.
RMFTA has embraced the GFL framework as it is very much aligned with its values-based focus on their players' holistic development, which forms an integral part of its training philosophy. It has helped RMFTA facilitate a more effective learning process and has proven to be a great tool in its constant endeavour to ensure that its players become not only just better footballers, but also better people at the same time.
RMFTA has since found it easier to infuse values such as respect, responsibility and solidarity into their sessions. By being astute in identifying the opportune moments to impart lessons on values to their charges, the experienced RMFTA coaches have also been able to make this effort appear entirely spontaneous.
"We have often talked about values with our players even before this project (adopting GFL), but GFL has helped us integrate even more values-education into our training sessions. The process of adopting GFL has helped us realise even better how, if you want to focus on a certain value, you can do it based on the exercise that you are carrying out on the pitch. It has helped to enhance our way of planning our lessons," revealed Rafael Palacios, fellow Assistant Technical Director at RMFTA.
Significantly, the infusion of values education does not hinder but, in fact, supports the football training and learning process, as it provides a useful context to young players who are still developing the required technical and soft skills to be effective members of a team. This helps them to take on board new concepts and advice as teams and individuals more easily.
Indeed, Kaki and Mulligan's keen understanding of their coaches' lessons is a clear indicator that the conscious inclusion of values through the Games for Life framework has been successful so far. Even the parents have noticed positive changes in their children, and attribute it to "coaching methods" provided at the Academy, as Steven Chua puts it.
"I think my son Jovan, [who trains with the Academy], has developed better time management skills, discipline, and learnt how to manage and overcome setbacks," he added.
"The players are getting used to these values in the training session. For example, if someone falls down, another will try to help him. These kinds of values are important to us, and [our players learning the right values with us is] maybe the most important thing in our academy," affirmed Ismael.
The Game for Life toolkit, provided to participating institutions in the form of teaching aids and lesson templates, will help sport educators and coaching professionals instil values that pertain to performance on the field (e.g. confidence and diligence), social skills (e.g. harmony and responsibility), and ethics (e.g. integrity and respect).
For a detailed impact analysis report on the Game for Life intervention at the Real Madrid Foundation Technical Academy Singapore, please click here.
To learn more about the Game for Life Toolkit, please click here.
The RMFTA coaches were invited to conduct a values-based football session as part of the Game-for-Life Workshop for coaches in May 2016. Read more about what happened during the workshop here.


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This book has been written taking into consideration that the study of the anatomy of vertebrates has changed drastically in recent years. Previously it was customary to make a classical study of only a few commonly available representative examples. Now it is necessary to also give detailed comparative accounts of organs and organ systems present in all extant forms.
The Drs Saxena have introduced the structure-function concept at the level of organs and organ systems, thus providing the reader with a fundamental understanding of the synthesis of comparative anatomy, and in consequence with an understanding of comparative evolutionary morphology. They have presented the diversity of vertebrate organisation of each organ system in 12 chapters, each one containing outstanding, clear, student-friendly line drawings – easy to understand and to reproduce.
"Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates" is a welcome new title in the fields of biology, animal science and evolutionary science, and will be an excellent textbook for students on such courses.


The Amateur Gardening team take you through how to grow beautiful streptocarpus in all varieties.
Once you've grown one Cape primrose successfully you'll be hooked forever, says Anne Swithinbank.
There are literally hundreds of varieties of streptocarpus and they are very collectable. As the common name Cape primrose suggests, streptocarpus originate mainly from South Africa, where they grow in wooded areas, enjoying moist soil and light shade.
This is an easy environment to replicate indoors. Normal room temperatures are tolerated well, though plants might suffer in hot, dry rooms during winter. Plants can survive cold, down almost to freezing, as long as they are kept on the dry side, however a winter minimum of 7-10˚C/45-50˚F is ideal. I often display my collection in our north-facing porch, alongside potted lilies and ferns.
The biggest danger is overwatering because this kills the roots and causes the plant to wilt badly. Sometimes over-potting adds to the problem and it is wise to leave a plant well alone until it is growing strongly and only then think about giving it a slightly larger pot. Use either a soilless potting compost, or mix in some perlite for a more open texture. Most of us tend to do this by eye, but I reckon three or four parts compost to one of perlite is right.
These are not sun-lovers and too much direct light will scorch the leaves, as will splashes of water. Older leaves naturally turn brown at the tips and most growers either cut them away completely, or trim them back to green healthy tissue using a pair of scissors.
Healthy plants making active growth should be given a balanced or (when flowering) a high potash liquid feed at a quarter the usual strength at every other watering. Pick off individual dead flowers, and cut out stems when they have finished to encourage the plants to produce more.
Keep a watchful eye out for greenfly, which sometimes congregate on the flower stems early in the year. Plants may also have problems with mealy bug and root mealy bug.
'Harlequin Blue' is a new introduction from Dibley's and has two-tone blue and primrose yellow flowers. It was voted Plant of the Year at Chelsea Flower Show – quite an accolade for a house plant.


A Kenyan drug addict who went viral after he was rescued from the streets by his childhood friend in 2017 has died.
Taking to her Facebook on Monday morning to share the sad news, Wanja said Patrick had gone to visit his friends on Thursday before calling his mother to complain about stomach-ache, but it wasn't serious. She also noted that he spent the night with his friends but on Saturday night when the problem persisted, he went to a hospital where he passed on.
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Home Racing Road Racing Bike Event COVID-19 Mitigation Plan Published by Colorado Classic
Bike Event COVID-19 Mitigation Plan Published by Colorado Classic
DENVER, CO (August 3, 2020) — Despite cancelling its own event due to increased concerns around a spike in new COVID-19 cases nationwide, the Colorado Classic today published its COVID Mitigation Plan in the hope it will offer assistance to other event organizers, teams and riders as the sport continues to grapple with the pandemic.
"We spent months recognizing and researching the key elements for a successful COVID mitigation plan applicable to a professional cycling event. It was a very collaborative process that included medical professionals, bio labs, state, county and city health officials and cycling industry professionals; we studied the protocols that were being put into place in our surrounding communities and what was being proposed in other professional sports. We compiled all of this knowledge and through a cycling lens we created our COVID mitigation document," said Lucy Diaz, CEO of RPM Events Group LLC.
The resulting COVID-19 Mitigation Plan was developed in concert with current Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) guidelines and integrates policy and protocol as established by the cycling governing bodies of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and USA Cycling.
Read Colorado Classic COVID-19 Mitigation Plan
The plan takes into account the Colorado Classic's first and crucial step toward a safe racing environment, which was the creation of a "Made for TV Streaming" model. This format eliminated crowd gathering opportunities and amplified their innovative live streaming model instead.
With that in place, the plan addresses the operation and logistics of running a professional cycling event during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. And even goes beyond previously published guidelines in encompassing rider and event staff safety protocols including medical testing and virus contact tracing as well as fan engagement, broadcasting, media and press management and more.
For example, the race organizers were planning to implement an innovative saliva-based testing method in partnership with Summit Biolabs. Summit Biolabs, which allows for a 24-hour turn around for results with a higher level of accuracy. The participating athletes would have been required to report into a race sponsored facility four days prior to the start of the race to be tested; all negative test results would result in a clearance to race. A second test was to be issued after the second day of competition to monitor levels of potential contraction during the competition.
In accordance with the UCI's protocols, pre and post-event screenings were also a key element to the mitigation plan with dedicated resources for contact tracing and continued post-event communication with teams, riders and staff for 14 days.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has created an entirely new perspective for producers of major sporting events. With safety being paramount, we are all working to navigate through the new logistical challenges. While we felt very confident in our plan, we were also realistic that we didn't have all the solutions. One of the main concerns of the pro cyclists is the close contact within the peloton. We were creatively working on guidelines that maintained appropriate social distance measures from start to finish, but short of hosting individual time trials for each stage you can't avoid the peloton formation. Our team will continue to explore solutions and alternate event models as we look towards the 2021 event," said Diaz
"We thought our race would be the first US professional cycling event to return post-COVID outbreak. That is no longer the case, but there will be a "first" pro race; whether that's this autumn or next year, we want to share our work to help keep the cycling community as safe as possible."
Focused on their continued mission to drive awareness around women's cycling, the Colorado Classic team remains engaged with their stakeholders and community. Some recent highlights include:
#WeRide for Women virtual Zwift ride on July 29 raising almost $40,000 so far for the #WeRide Development fund going to the teams that would have raced in the 2020 event
Breakaway Dialogue Series a collection of curated conversation co-hosted by corporate partners such as VF Corporation, Gates Corporation and FirstBank, bringing together business leaders and athletes who have created their own paths for change in both sports and business.
Event organizers are currently working on plans for 2021 and will have an update in mid to late September on what to expect for next year's event.
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It's been a whirlwind couple of days on the tour so far, but extremely rewarding as usual. The alarm went off at 5am and a group of dreary-eyed, shivering former footballers turned up to Harley-Heaven in Alexandria by 6am. We did our live cross to The Today Show, checked out our sparkling new Harley-Davidsons and the Hogs For The Homeless tour was on the road for the fourth time.
We struggled through the pollution of Sydney's M5 airport tunnel, but we knew the fresh air and country smells were coming. Heading past Penrith and into the mountains, we felt the weight of the city lift off our shoulders and pressed on to Oberon for our first coaching clinic. The smiles and laughter of more than 300 kids made the early start worth it and we continued our mission to give every kid we see a footy; pulling the footy shorts back on and kicking the ball around always gives you a zap of energy before you get back on the road for another three or four hours.
We took the long route to Mudgee along some beautiful country roads and through some more awesome weather. Another 200 kids welcomed us into Mudgee before we held our evening function and raised another $6,500 for Father Chris Riley's Youth Off The Streets. That was it for Day One and we got some well-earned rest at the beautiful Soldiers Motel Mudgee – or at least we would have, if Hogs newcomer Steve 'Blocker' Roach's didn't manage to keep the whole building up with his snoring.
The next day saw us ride into Forbes for a sheep auction, which was another crazy country experience. We managed to raise $11,500 through that alone before running out to another clinic, keeping us well on track to reaching our goal of $100,000 to combat youth homelessness.
Overall, it's been an amazing ride so far; Blocker has been a welcome addition to the team (until it's bedtime), everyone's been happy to have us visit and our Harleys have felt like recliners the whole way along. It couldn't have been possible without the hard work of the Hogs team and the support of our sponsors, but there's plenty more riding to be done. Next up on the trip is Cootamundra, Junee and Wagga Wagga – a huge leg of the journey to towns famous for their NSW rugby league legends.


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Times Backpedals on "Muslims 'Silent on Terror'" Headline
Posted on December 27, 2015 by Richard Bartholomew
An amended front-page headline from The Times (image H/T @steveplrose):
According to the text:
Muslims are boycotting the country's key anti-radicalisation programme, The Times can disclose, after it emerged that less than a tenth of extremism tip-offs were coming directly from the community or faith leaders.
The revelation that there were fewer than 300 community tip-offs in six months to the government's Prevent programme will raise concern that the police are being denied information that might prevent terrorist attacks.
The rest of the article is paywalled, although the guts of it appear in a derivative PA article:
…The Times says that data released by the National Police Chiefs Council has revealed that of the 3,288 referrals to Prevent in the first half of the year, just 280 – or 8.6% – came from within the Muslim community, or from family, friends and faith leaders. Nearly 2,200 referrals were made by public bodies outside policing, such as social services and the health or education sectors.
Following the Times article, the National Police Chiefs Council issued a statement:
A legislative change was introduced in April 2015 which required public bodies to make referrals to the Prevent programme, and which led to a high number of referrals being recorded… The figures may not accurately capture the nature of the original source because in many cases members of the community will report in the first instance to the police. For example, the numbers include referrals about domestic extremism and extreme right wing radicalisation. Currently one in ten of the referrals received come direct from communities, whilst referrals from outside of police and prisons form the majority of the other referrals received
Although tactfully written, this knocks the wind out of The Times's front-page splash: the "2,200 referrals" are due to a change in the law, and they include data that has nothing to do with Islamic extremism; and the "280" figure is not a record of the extent to which concerned Muslims may have made "information that might prevent terrorist attacks" known to the police. The article is statistically misleading and lacks any kind of meaningful qualitative interpretation.
Note also the oddness of a headline quote that doesn't appear to be attributed to anyone, and which is then substituted for a different headline quote. Who is saying these things, if not The Times itself? In which case, why are quote marks needed at all? One suspects that the hapless journalist has been handed a press release from someone with an interest, with the data pre-spun.
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A few weeks ago, the Duke and the Duchess of Sussex moved out of Kensington Palace to Frogmore Cottage, implying the very soon arrival of their first royal baby. The couple sincerely wanted to have their own spacey and private home so that the extended family could enjoy themselves to the fullest, and surely, create own household and way of life, apart from the Cambridge kin.
Is baby Sussex really here?
Kind of. Some royal fans are desperately convinced the royal baby is arriving this weekend — just upon the Queen's birthday and Easter. Ladbrokes has slashed the odds to 3/1 on Meghan Markle giving birth between Good Friday and Easter Monday.
According to spokesperson Jessica Bridge, royal fans would truly love the double celebration with Queen Elizabeth's 93rd birthday and the baby Sussex's arrival on Easter.
Hopefully, the young family will really welcome their first-ever baby safe and sound, no matter if it's a girl or a boy.
So, even if the baby Sussex is born over the weekend, the world will know after a while as Meghan and Harry don't want to pose for cameras and would like to keep their baby out of the spotlight.


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'People around here are tough," small town restaurant, grocery owner says
Green's Sausage House and Grocery, in Zabcikville was busy Thursday morning, and enforcing proper social distancing was a problem because when a dozen shoppers get stuffed inside there's not a lot of extra room. (Photo by Paul J. Gately)(KWTX)
By Paul J. Gately
Published: Mar. 27, 2020 at 11:37 AM CDT
Zabcikville, one of several tiny communities in eastern Bell County, is a survivor and since the town took root it has managed to weather every storm that rolled across the prairie,the current one included.
"Oh, everybody's concerned and being careful but life here goes on just like it has for a long time," Marvin Green, owner of Green's Sausage House and Grocery, in Zabcikville, said.
The coronavirus response recently ordered by successive levels of government, forced the sausage house, the only restaurant in town, to cut back to take-out service only, but the other business, the grocery store, is booming.
"Just came up to get some smoked meats and bacon," said customer James Lampley, who drove all the way up from Austin Thursday to get some smoked turkey tenderloins.
The bacon was an afterthought, he said.
The store was busy Thursday morning, enforcing proper social distancing was a problem because when a dozen shoppers get stuffed inside there's not a lot of extra room.
Bu almost everybody in town's related one way or another, anyway, Green said with a laugh.
Green said employees installed a sort of rope line in front of the fresh meat counter that built in a bit of extra space between customers and employees working the counter.
Green said he's not really worried about weathering the storm because "people around here are tough, they've had hard times in the past and come out okay, so I expect that to happen this time."
He'd likely have chosen another route, but the restaurant shutdown has enabled Green to plan and complete some projects he'd been holding back on.
"We took up the carpet in the back to replace it and there are some other things we're doing, new tables, lighting, that we're getting done now."
He said he's hopeful the shutdown won't last too long, and that "I hope they give us some warning when they're going to let us re-open.
"We'll have to replenish stock of perishables like lettuce and tomatoes and that might take some time."
On a normal day the grocery store would total about three-quarters of a day's business, but in these times, it shoulders more of the load.
Green's employs about 26 people, in the shops, the bakery and the smokehouse and butcher plant, and Green says they're all still working.
"We took extra care with cleaning," Green said, "but it's a butcher shop and bakery so we keep them sanitary all the time, anyway," plus staff is doing extra cleaning in the store and display cases, as well.
The grocery Thursday was stocked full, a bit short on bread and some paper goods, but merchandise at Green's grocery isn't an issue for most items because the jams, jellies, pickles, canned fruits, sauces, salsas and dips are produced right there under Green's watchful eye.
Most of the baked goods, things like famous sausage kolaches, and smoked meats are done right there, too and the butcher shop also turns out fresh meats and poultry every day.
Green's Sausage House, since 1946, has been the busiest place in town and it has become a thing of legend among writers who search out unique, and very local, places to eat, most especially those with a Texas flavor.
Green's fits that bill, their sausage burger is legendary, and the sauerkraut and sausage lunch draws diners from all around on Fridays and don't even get started on their deserts.
The governor's orders in response to sheltering forced restaurants to restrict their service to drive-through or take-out, and that's kept the restaurant pretty busy, Green said, but customers still have need for basic items that the grocery store can provide.
Founded by immigrating Czechoslovakian families in the mid-1850s, the town site originally was known as Marekville after the Marek family who owned a store in the area.
"Every little town around here had a grocery store," Green said, "a grocery store and a cotton gin, sometimes a gas station.
"Farmers were growing cotton and it had to be ginned before it could be marketed," adding that back then most farmers in the Blackland Prairie of Texas still were using draft animals to work crops so very local gins were key to the market's success.
"They just couldn't travel a long distance to get to market," Green said.
They were places like Cyclone, Ding Dong, Doubleheader, Heidenheimer, Moffat, Pendleton, Prairie Dell, Seaton, White Hall and Zabcikville, shows a Texas State Historical Association list.
Save for a few today, they're all gone.
Sometime around 1855 the Zabcik family, also immigrants from Ratiboř in the Zlín Region of Moravia, Czech Republic, moved to the area and eventually married into the Marek family.
Soon the store changed hands and when sign over the door changed from Marek to Zabcik the quaint little town on the banks of Possum Creek, overnight, became Zabcikville.
Frank Zabcik, in 1932, replaced the old wood-frame building with a stucco-faced structure that still stands on the north side of Texas State Highway 53 where it intersects Texas Farm-to-Market Road 437, about 12 miles east-southeast of Temple.
The store opened the same day the highway did, Bell County records show.
It's still there, though not in use for several years, right across the street from the sausage house.
Back then the town had a population of about 60 and there were three business there, by 1949 another business, Green's, had opened up and population grew to a few more than 80 residents.
Green said there about 130 folks living in town and in the surrounding countryside today but added "we're not incorporated so we don't really have a city limits."
Jerome and Della Green opened a grocery store for the farming families who lived in the surrounding Blackland Prairie region, but it didn't take long for folks to notice the sausage Jerome was creating in his butcher shop.
The unique mixture of meats and spices, Green said based on a Czech recipe created by and handed down through his family, was the initial reason for wild success.
The market now makes 26 different kinds of sausage with added things like cheese, jalapenos, Cajun spices, onions and a list of others.
"I've always said anything sells better when it has jalapenos or cheese," Green laughed.
He even makes a peanut brittle with jalapenos in it.
Green and his brother Charles are the driving force today and along with them come five other family members, so Green's truly is a Central Texas family business, and Green says he doesn't see that changing.
"Within this establishment's four walls, a touchstone of rural Texas culture is preserved," says an article published in Texas Highways Magazine, in 2014, says.
"From farmers to bikers, everyone who enters Green's doors is looking for a taste of home in a changing world."
"Not many places like this are left. The food is real. The people are real. There are no phonies here," said patron David Anderson.
"This place is special."
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The Waterway Village Zydeco & Crawfish Festival boils up a beaucoup (Cajun for a lot) of fun on Saturday, April 18. Sink your teeth into some hot, juicy, lip-smacking crawfish while dancing to the infectious rhythms of some of the best Zydeco bands from around the South. There will be crawfish races, arts and crafts vendors, children's activities and even an authentic 80-foot shrimp boat on hand offering nonstop fun for all ages.
If that's not enough, you'll have the chance to work up an appetite with the 5K Run/ 1-Mile Fun Run beginning at 8:30 a.m. starting at Waterway Village next to Tacky Jacks Gulf Shores. Then after the race, stay for free beer and refreshments! Part of the proceeds from this race go to a local animal rescue, Furrever Homes. For more race information email Harley Sports at www.harleysports.com or to register online click here.
The pots will begin boiling at 10 a.m. and we'll Laissez les bons temps rouler (let the good times roll) all day long with Zydeco sounds grooving until 6 p.m.
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