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World Heart Day 2017
World Heart Day 2017 is on Friday 29 September 2017.
Help World Walking celebrate this day and by joining our World Heart Day 2017 group and walk across Europe to help inspire people to be heart healthy.
Here is the link to the group: https://worldwalking.org/groups/4ppmw
Taking part is easy:
Register to join World Walking if you haven't already created your free account, or login if you are already a world walker.
Search for and join the World Heart Day 2017 group via the World Walking 'Groups' page. You can find it by entering worldheartday2017 in the search box
Start the group walk - Walk Europe - which you can do by clicking on your 'My Walks' page where you will see this group walk is available for you to start.
Start walking and adding your steps/miles/kilometers.
Simple as a walk in the park.
We are looking forward to having your company on the walk.
PS Any questions, please contact: [email protected]
Thank You and Happy Walking
Partnership Working with Historic Environment Scotland
World Walking is proud to call Scotland it's home and we enjoy using our platform to help showcase the best our country has to offer at the same time as doing what we can to help get Scotland (and the world) walking.
It just so happens that 2017 is Scotland's Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology. We're delighted to have been given the opportunity of collaborating with Historic Environment Scotland to help promote this unique year-long celebration of our country's rich culture.
Thanks to Historic Environment Scotland's help, you can now enjoy exploring some of the historic highlights of Dumfries & Galloway. As we'll shortly be piloting the use of World Walking in a small number of primary schools in partnership with NHS Dumfries & Galloway we thought this beautiful region of Scotland would be a good place to start. We're hoping to add more virtual historic walks around our wonderful country as 2017 unfolds.
Our new Dumfries & Galloway route takes you a 115 mile walk that takes in 9 historic sites across the region: Caerlaverock Castle, Sweetheart Abbey, New Abbey Corn Mill, Threave Castle, Dundrennan Castle, McLellan's Castle, Cardoness Castle, Glenluce Abbey and Whithorn Priory and Museum.
The team at Historic Environment Scotland has been terrific, especially Marketing Executive, Aimee Bertram, who has provided descriptions for each milestone along the walk as well as arranging for us to be granted permission to use Historic Environment Scotland images to make the walk come alive. Thanks Aimee - you're a star!
Enjoy exploring more of Scotland with World Walking thanks to Historic Environment Scotland.
Inverclyde Million Miles Challenge: Guidance Notes for Schools
The Inverclyde Million Miles Challenge is open to everyone in Inverclyde, including all schools.
We are delighted that the organisers of the Challenge choose to use World Walking to collect and collate the miles being clocked up by those taking part.
World Walking allows you to use the distances you walk in the real world to complete imaginary (virtual) walks ranging from city tours to worldwide journeys. We have over 100 virtual walks to choose from, including an epic 8,000 mile walk from Scotland to Malawi which we hope might appeal to the many schools in Scotland which have links with Malawi through the Scotland Malawi Partnership.
World Walking's many features include:
Everyone's welcome: Go it alone or create your own group - easily!
Easy to use: Create your own unique login.
Track your progress: Anytime you wish. See what milestones you've reached, how many steps you've taken. World Walking app users can even find out how high they've climbed!
See the world: There are hundreds of the world's most amazing places to visit with World Walking. See where you are using the built-in Google Street View.
Gain awards: There are 20 Awards to unlock! The more you walk, the more you receive.
If you would like your school to take part in the Inverclyde Million Miles Challenge, please use the special Inverclyde Million Miles Challenge landing page which we've created to register (if you are new to World Walking) or login (if you have already created an account on World Walking). You will find the landing page at: worldwalking.org/millionmiles
The landing page contains a short video about the Million Miles Challenge.
Once you have registered or logged in using the landing page all of the distances you subsequently add to World Walking will be included automatically in the live total displayed on the landing page of the miles walked by all the individuals and groups taking part in the Challenge.
Although you do not need to do so, it's a good idea to use the Quick Links on the landing page to:
Create a group for your school
Search for other groups taking part in the Million Miles Challenge
Start a new walk for your group
Add (bank) the distances which your pupils and staff walk
Use (spend) the distances you bank to complete the walk which your school has chosen to do from the range available on World Walking.
Apart from anything else, it will let you see at a glance how many miles have been walked by everyone taking part in the Challenge.
Once you have registered to take part in the Inverclyde Million Miles Challenge there are a few simple steps you need to follow. Here they are along with some helpful tips.
Step 1: Create a group for your school using the Quick Link on the landing page titled - "Create a Group"
You can set up your group so that teachers in your school can join it or set it up so that they need to be invited to join.
The easiest way is probably to set up so that anyone can join it. You can always edit your group details later, once everyone who needs to join it from your school has joined the group, and change the group's status so that people have to be invited to join your group.
When you are creating your group you might want to enter a 'group keyword' to make it easy to search for your group on World Walking
Step 2: Start a walk for your group using the Quick Link on the landing page titled - "Start a new walk"
Step 3: Ask your colleagues to:
Register to use World Walking using the landing page to register (or login if they already have a World Walking account).
Join your school's group
Start your group's walk
World Walking allows users to enter an optional display name will be shown in place of their full name on the website. Teachers may wish to enter a display name which describes their class e.g. Miss Turner's Trailblazers or Primary 3.
Search for the group that has been set up for your school using the Quick Link on the landing page for 'Search 'millionmiles' groups' and entering the 'group keyword' in the 'search' box. To join the group, just click the 'Join this group' button.
To start your school's chosen walk your colleagues should just click on 'My Groups', then click on 'Our Walks'. They will see a message which says that they not part of this walk yet and an invitation to join now which they just need to click.
Adding the distances you walk
To log the distance you have walked to help complete your chosen virtual walk you need to deposit your distance in your World Walking 'bank' and then 'spend' the distance you have 'banked' on your walk.
We have included a Quick Link on the landing page for you to use to 'Add your distance (bank)'.
You can 'spend' the distance you have 'banked' anytime. You will find another Quick Link on the landing page labelled 'Spend distance on a walk' which allows you to do that.
Editing your group details
To edit your group details e.g. to change the status of your group to 'invite only', open your 'group' page and then click on the down arrow at the right hand side of the menu bar on your group page.
Select the 'edit group' option from the short drop down menu that appears.
Setting your default unit of distance
With World Walking users can enter their distances in steps, kilometers or miles.
To help users enter their distance correctly they can set a default unit of distance. To do this click on 'settings' on the menu or your dashboard (user's home page) and select the value you prefer to use when entering the distance you walk e.g. miles if your school is doing the Daily Mile.
Four Hundred Miles Steps and Counting
The Inverclyde Globetrotters, a few of whom are 80 years young, met again today at Inverclyde Leisure's Waterfront Gym as part of the Live Exercise Exercise Referral Scheme.
This week they clocked up 642 miles. An excellent week.
It's almost 9 years to the day since the group set off to walk round the world with nothing but a £3.99 map of the world and a box of pedometers kindly donated by the cardiac rehabilitation team at Inverclyde Royal Hospital.
Today the group walked (smashed!) through the 400 MILLION steps mark and with that clocked up more than 170,000 miles on their virtual travels around the world which have taken them to over 100 countries around the globe and all without ever leaving Greenock.
They are currently walking across the Atlantic Ocean, not for the first time, because you can do that in our wonderful world of virtual walking. Their goal is Rio which they intend to reach before the end of the Inverclyde Million Miles Challenge in June 2017.
Inverclyde Million Miles Challenge
World Walking is proud to be supporting Inverclyde's unique Million Miles Challenge which is open to everyone, no matter how young, old or fit you are which, to date, has clocked up over 450,000 miles. To find out more about the Challenge just click on: https://vimeo.com/177253203
If you would like to use World Walking to support your own community-wide challenge, please get in touch with us. We'd love to hear from you.
Kilmacolm Primary School's Epic Malawi Challenge
At World Walking we're always on the lookout for ideas for new walks.
For a while now we've had the idea of a creating a walk from Scotland to Malawi at the back of our minds but never quite got round to it.
But thanks to an approach from Ailie Grant, class teacher at Kilmacolm Primary School, and help from Emily Mnyayi, Youth and Schools Officer, at the Scotland Malawi Partnership in Edinburgh, we're delighted to say we've got round to it in time to help get 2017 off on the right foot.
Scotland's connections with Malawi began with Scottish missionary and explorer, David Livingstone, over 150 years ago.
Today, through the Scotland Malawi Partnership, over 200 Scottish schools have active links with schools in Malawi or learn about Malawi as part of their curriculum. Kilmacolm Primary School is one of them and in Autumn 2016 Ailie and her young world walkers at the school decided to take on the Daily Mile Challenge to help them reach the their sister school in Phinda in Malawi.
The School will also be feeding their miles into the Inverclyde Million Miles Challenge which uses World Walking to log all distances.
Ailie's approach was exactly the push we needed to get cracking. We were delighted when Emily liked the idea and kindly shared some Scotland Malawi Partnership images for us to use to help us create the walk.
We're hoping that this new route will appeal to the Scottish schools with links with schools in Malawi (and others) and motivate them to take up the challenge of walking all the way from Scotland to Malawi. In doing so, we hope the initiative will:
build on the long-standing links between the two countries;
help ingrain the attitudes, skills and behaviours for lifelong physical activity and health; and
develop the pupils' knowledge and understanding of the world and their place in it
Good luck Kilmacolm Primary School and thanks Ailie and Emily for helping make this happen.
If you have an idea for a new route which you'd like to consider please don't hesitate to get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.
Fresh Look World Walking
After months of planning, design and development, we are delighted to launch the brand new World Walking website and mobile apps today.
World Walking has grown from strength to strength since launching in 2013, with our bespoke website and apps updated to accommodate various new features and improvements including group chat, social sharing and street view. Earlier this year our registered users passed 10,000, and we look forward to welcoming more users from across the world to use our free virtual walking platform.
Our brand new website has been redesigned with simplicity and accessibility in mind, and our modernisation including our responsive, mobile optimised layout will make our platform available to even more users across different devices.
Some of the big new features we've introduced in this new version include:
"Banking" steps - you can build up a personal bank of steps, kilometers or miles and spend the distance as you wish on any of your solo or group walks.
Fitbit and Jawbone integration - visit Settings > Apps to connect to your Fitbit or Jawbone account and your daily step total will be automatically pulled in to your World Walking bank.
Clearer walk and milestone progress layout on your solo and group walks.
Notifications - your personal feed of events from your groups or group walks, available on every page
Improved group chat - instant messaging between group members with notifications of new messages on every page
New help pages to guide you with any questions or issues while using our system
Many underlying improvements and fixes to keep our website running smoothly and giving you the best experience.
We'd love to know what you think of our new website. You can tweet us, or pop us an e-mail, and please do share our video by the talented Box Dog Inc with your friends and family, or invite them to join your group via our website.
A big thank you to the generous donations by NHS Health Scotland, Paths for All and our users - we wouldn't have been able to make these updates without your support.
Finally, this update was a joint effort between Glasgow based digital studio Papertank Limited and mobile developers Turing and Fergus Howe. A massive thank you to the combined efforts of everyone, and the ongoing support for World Walking for the past 4 years.
Next on our roadmap is a World Walking fundraising tool, integrated directly into your group walks to help you raise awareness and money for your local charity. Stay tuned!
New World Walking: Coming Soon
We are delighted to announce a new version of our free World Walking website and mobile apps will launch this coming weekend - 20th May 2016.
Thanks to generous donations by NHS Health Scotland, Paths for All and our users, and after several months of planning, design and development, our new version introduces a completely fresh design and exciting new features.
We're excited to launch our new design and hear your feedback. As part of our update, our website and apps will be offline from 8AM - 10AM BST on Friday 20th May - see you on the other side!
10,000 Not Out
Happy Walking. Happy Days
Milestones feature prominently in World Walking. Route milestones. Personal milestones. Group milestones.
Today, World Walking reached a milestone of its own - 10,000 users. We're so chuffed!.
We'd like to thank:
Those who have helped fund the development of World Walking and keep it going; Awards for All, Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland, Paths for All, Inverclyde Council and Inverclyde Health & Social Care Partnership for making this possible.
The great team of David Rushton and Chris Baldie at Papertank Ltd., Michael Park at Turing Ltd. and Fergus Howe at Mayday Development Ltd.for making this happen.
And to all of our 10,000 users for making it worthwhile.
Happy Walking. Happy Days.
World Walking's 2015
2015 was a great year for World Walking.
At the start of the year about 2,600 people had signed up to use World Walking. By the end of 2015, over 7500 people had registered; an increase of 184%!
During 2015, the total number of steps added to World Walking increased by 175% to over 2.95 billion! That's equivalent to walking round the world 50 times.
Some of the year's other highlights for World Walking included:
Supporting the Race Across USA to highlight the work of The 100 Mile Club to raise awareness of and combat the problems caused by childhood obesity in the USA;
Being used successfully to support a worldwide "heart & sole" challenge to promote cardiac rehabilitation organised in partnership with the British Association for Cardiac Prevention & Rehabilitation and Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland;
Being used by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow as part of their campaign to promote the health and well-being benefits of being physically active; and
Supporting the Mayor's health and fitness fair in the town of Titusville, Florida.
We could not have done any of this without a lot of help and support from others so a HUGE thank you to:
Inverclyde Council for its grant to cover the operating costs of World Walking;
Paths for All for its grant to help us enhance World Walking to keep it moving forward; and
Maurice Donohue, Get Active Programme Manager, at the Scottish Association for Mental Health, and Dr Andrew Murray, Sports and Exercise Medicine doctor, GP and runner, for plugging World Walking.
Finally, thanks to Chris Baldie and David Rushton of Papertank Ltd., Michael Park of Turing Ltd. and Fergus Howe; the great team behind the scenes for all the time, effort and thought which they devoted to World Walking during 2015. Without them none of this would be possible.
As our New Year dawns we have a lot of exciting things to look forward to but we'll keep all that good news for another day!
The Inverclyde Globetrotters : 2015
Another year under the belts of the Inverclyde Globetrotters and it's been another great year for the heart health group in Scotland that inspired World Walking.
Walk Across Canada
As if it had been planned all along, the distances that were clocked up by the group over the Festive period brought them to the end of their walk across Canada just in time for the New Year to arrive.
The walk took them from Vancouver in British Columbia on the west coast all the way to St John's, the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador on the east coast; a total of 5,512 miles (12.4 million steps)!
Tally for the Year
The miles from their walk across Canada brought the Inverclyde Globetrotters' total miles for 2015 to an amazing 23,636 miles!
Where to Now?
The group had enough steps left over from their Canadian walk to make a start on their next mammoth trek; Africa - From Cairo to Cape Town.
By the time the Inverclyde Globetrotters walk the 6,000 miles south through the continent of Africa they will have clocked up over 150,000 miles; the equivalent of having walked 6 times round the World since they set off on their first virtual walk way back in 2008 with nothing but a map of the world and some pedometers! Not bad for a group with an average age of about 70 years young.
It's hard for us to believe it but the Inverclyde Globetrotters will be 8 years old in February 2008. They'll be having their birthday bash at the Great Pyramid complex at Giza in Egypt, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the Seven Wonders of the World. What could be better?
What Our Users Think
We're committed to continuously improving World Walking with our very limited resources while responding promptly to any questions from our users. So at the start of the year we decided to sign up to UserVoice to help us collect feedback and prioritise features. We also use its help desk software to support our customers.
One of UserVoice's handy features is its 'Satisfaction Rating Widget'. We decided to take the plunge and have a go.
The question asked of our users during August was "On a scale of 0 to 10 how likely would you be to recommend World Walking to a friend or colleague?"
We've just been looking at the results. We received 183 responses and would like to thank everyone who took part.
We're very pleased to be able to report that those who responded gave World Walking a positive overall rating of 7.3 out of 10 with 70% of respondents giving us the maximum score of 10 out of 10.
Quite a few people who responded also added comments which we greatly appreciated. Here are some of them:
"An excellent way to keep fit and enjoy it"
"I think this is a very useful tool and it encourages you to get out and walk and keep fit"
"I really enjoy adding my steps in at the end of the day and discovering which landmark I've reached. It's really encouraged me to walk more"
"What a great site! It's very motivational to see how far I've walked already, and it's interesting to learn about the places that I'm virtually in now. The fact that this is free is amazing too. Thank you so much!"
"Encourages you to go out and walk"
"It is a great motivational website"
"We are all spread across the country and a fun way to compete"
"Because it is a real incentive when you have a medical problem and walking can be difficult"
"I enjoy the walks, the "street view" and the fun of "visiting" new places"
"I think this is a brilliant way to make what can be quite a dull activity (especially if your walk to work involves a long, straight bit of road) a bit more interesting. Both abstract and concrete at the same time"
"I love the feeling of going somewhere on my walks and having maps and photos to look at"
"Interesting concept to promote and reward progress"
"Excellent incentive to walk"
"Favourite site. Absolutely brilliant!"
"Absolutely love this site, I have told everyone I can about it, and will continue to do so! Wish everyone used it. Good work!"
"I think it's a great idea, I'm very competitive so if I get friends involved it will make me walk more"
"Amazing site that lets you see the world around you; you can even have friends help you conquer the steps from one Milestone to the next. All in great colour and great background descriptions at the Milestone"
"It's good fun, a challenge and a good way to spur me on"
"Simple idea but really does make you walk more in order to travel further on one of the journeys. I am enjoying watching my progress when my position on the map and Google Earth changes each day. It has become part of my daily routine to add my steps from the previous day."
"World walking is great for encouraging my wife and I to go for a walk rather than sit in and watch the TV. And it's great to have the chance to go somewhere virtually. We're currently on our way round the world!"
"I think it's a very fun and motivating way to get some exercise. I also love all the information given about the milestones along the way"
"World Walking is amazing. I have always walked - for a time and then stopped because it seemed as though I was doing nothing more than walking aimlessly around our local streets. Since January 1st I feel fully motivated as I walk with purpose. I am slowly walking my way round the world. Your site is a brilliant motivator to keep people going. I love inputting my latest steps and seeing how far along my chosen route I've got today"
"I really like your variety of walks and that you have longer walks! When you average 20k daily, you need longer walks"
Diabetes Hope Foundation
We're delighted to see World Walking being used by a charity to help raise funds for the first time.
The Diabetes Hope Foundation, based in Mississauga in Canada, was created in 1999 to help families struggling with the financial and emotional challenges of children living with diabetes. Since then, Diabetes Hope has worked in partnership with corporations, families and community partners to support over 1,000 families with diabetes across Canada.
This year Diabetes Hope has decided to revamp their 9th annual Diabetes Walk for Hope in September as a completely new virtual event featuring a Canadian Cities walk which we've created especially for their event. All proceeds raised from the event will be used to support Diabetes Hope Foundation's programmes for young people living with Diabetes across Canada.
We hope the Foundation's 2015 Walk for Hope is a great success.
If you would like to find out more just check out http://www.diabeteswalkforhope.com/
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde: Active Staff
Last year, we were delighted to be invited by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to support its annual walking challenge with the City of Glasgow. This was their first online challenge and we were chuffed to bits when our system helped double the number of participants and distance walked.
The 2015 walking challenge has just ended. Over 800 team took part this year, including some from East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and Renfrewshire Councils. The challenge for the teams this year was to walk the length of Great Britain; all the way from John O'Groats to Land's End.
The total distance walked during this year's 6-week challenge was an amazing 468,060 miles; 7.8% up on last year's terrific total.
This is the third online walking challenge which the organisations have completed using our system. So far, the overall distance walked is 915,946 miles; equivalent to walking 36 times round the world! That's what you call 'active' staff'.
Heart & Sole Challenge 2015
Heart & Sole Walk 2015
A worldwide walk with a difference to promote heart health has just been completed thanks to World Walking, a unique free website created by a group of ordinary people living with heart conditions simply to motivate people to walk more.
In February, the 'Heart & Sole Walk 2015' was launched with the aim of virtually walking round the world to promote the benefits of cardiac rehabilitation. The challenge, which was supported by the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow, was organised by:
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland;
The British Association for Cardiac Prevention & Rehabilitation;
The Cardiac Rehabilitation Interest Group for Scotland; and
The Inverclyde Globetrotters, the heart health group from Greenock which created World Walking.
Over 100 individuals and heart health groups took part to complete the 34,000 mile challenge; one of the longest heart health walk ever undertaken and the first online to circumnavigate the globe involving people on different continents.
Cardiac rehabilitation and heart health groups and services from across the UK took part ranging from the Highland Heartbeat Centre in Inverness to the Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust. The Mid Essex cardiac rehabilitation team have had so much fun taking part in the Heart & Sole Walk that they now plan to walk another lap of the world…in the opposite direction!
Amongst the other most active walkers were a group of 144 prisoners at Wakefield Prison who clocked up over 3,100 miles. The Prison's Physical Education Officer, Neil Evans said
"Over 20% of the 750 prisoner population suffer with cardiac related issues. 144 prisoners voluntarily participated in this organized event. This challenge was a fantastic initiative to raise awareness across the establishment and provide additional opportunities for prisoners to get involved in physical activity at the appropriate level. The success of this project has raised awareness of their own health & well-being and increased participation levels across the establishment. As a result, future projects have been proposed to develop the health & well-being of cardiac patients at this prison."
This unique event also brought together groups from as far afield as Canada and Australia.
The Cardiac Health Foundation of Canada celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year. To mark that important milestone a special walk across Canada was created on World Walking which the 6,000 members of the Foundation's 30 Walk for Life groups across Canada could tackle together as part of their anniversary celebrations. The walk across Canada was based on the route taken by a young man named Alex Horton who had cycled 5,000 miles across Canada in 2011 "to give back to an organisation that had done so much for him in his life and to show that issues with cardiac health don't have to mean the end of active lifestyle and following your ambitions".
The Foundation's Executive Director, Barbara Kennedy, said
"We have walked across Canada with our Toronto Walk of Life event alone and all our 30 Walk of Life groups across Canada will also be taking part. Congratulations to all for this international collaboration of advocacy of cardiac health, rehabilitation and wellness!"
On the other side of the world, a group of 'Heartmoves' clients in the small town of Quirindi in rural New South Wales, Australia led by Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurse Specialist, Robyn Lees, have been so inspired by the event that they have decided to walk half was round the world to meet the Inverclyde Globetrotters, the heart health group in Greenock who created World Walking, starting on June 11th to coincide with the National Heart Foundation of Australia's "Go Red For Women" campaign.
The Walk's Patron, Louise Martin CBE, Chair of Sportscotland said:
"I am delighted to see so many people taking part in the Heart and Sole Walk 2015. Remaining physically active after a heart related issue can be vital and I am proud that this event has helped to spread this message far and wide.
Making physical activity a part of your daily life is so important to overall wellbeing and this virtual walk around the world will benefit those who have taken part as well as those who have been inspired by the event."
Louise Jopling, Honorary Secretary of the British Association for Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation added:
"BACPR promotes excellence in cardiovascular disease prevention and rehabilitation and we are delighted to congratulate the individuals, groups and organisations who came together from across the globe to 'walk the world'. As well as Cardiac Rehabilitation Groups, many of our members and Council took part and benefited ourselves from some motivation to keep active! BACPR is proud to support the Heart & Sole Challenge and worldwalking.org in providing an innovative, fun and engaging way to promote physical activity."
Duncan Galbraith, World Walking
It's not every day that someone writes to you to say "I've been inspired to encourage my cardiac rehabilitation group to walk to meet the Inverclyde Globetrotters." Especially someone on the other side of the world!
But that's exactly Robyn Leece, Registered Nurse and Cardiac Rehabilitation Co-ordinator / Diabetes Nurse at Quirindi Health One in Quirindi in New South Wales, Australia did back on 22 April.
Robyn had read about the Inverclyde Globetrotters in an Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association newsletter and thought this would be a great motivational tool for her 'Heartmoves' group of 20 to 30 cardiac rehabilitation clients and other community members.
They've decided to start their massive 13,500 mile walk from Quirindi to Scotland on 11 June 2015 coincide with the National Heart Foundation of Australia's "Go Red For Women" campaign.
Pedometers have been organised and as enthusiasm has been building the 'Heartmoves' group named their group on World Walking the "Who'd a thought it Walkers" after the highest landmark in town, a hill that has a 360 degree lookout. They've adopted the motto "not by sudden flight but step by step" which is the motto for the local high school.
Needless to say the Inverclyde Globetrotters were well chuffed and it's been decided that the Inverclyde Globetrotters and the Quirindi 'Heartmoves' group will 'twin''. Well if cities and town can 'twin' why not cardiac rehabilitation groups?
A special walk has been created on World Walking for the 'Heartmovers' to follow.
We created World Walking with a community spirit in mind. We are delighted to welcome the 'Heartmove' group from Quirindi to our growing community of World Walkers and we look forward to watching their progress. The warmest of Scottish welcomes awaits them in Greenock!
As a GP, our job is to offer the best to every patient, every time.
There is one treatment that can extend life expectancy by 7 years, can help prevent and treat over 40 chronic diseases, can make you more productive at work, and evidence shows makes you happier on average. Although it sounds too good to be true, we have found that such a miracle treatment exists, and I frequently tell my patients, as well as my friends and family all about it. In fact I believe so strongly in it, that I will take it myself. Best of all there are virtually no side effects, and it is free.
What is this wonder drug I hear you say? Many will have realised by now, that it is walking, or indeed any regular form of exercise. Building 30 minutes 5 times a week or similar into your life gets all these benefits, and you'll also help the environment and perhaps have a good catch up with friends or family if you persuade them to join you.
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, along with a range of other organisations are starting to promote walking, and physical activity as a key component of achieving good health, and are delighted to be doing a virtual walk with World Walking- so far we have walked from Glasgow to India- and we'd love you to join us for the rest of the journey. Just click on https://worldwalking.org/rcpsg. Or else join in any of the other fabulous walks on World Walking.
Andrew Murray, GP, Clinical fellow, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
www.docandrewmurray.com @docandrewmurray twitter
Inverclyde Globetrotters
Who are the Inverclyde Globetrotters?
The idea for the Inverclyde Globetrotters came from our weekly gym based cardiac rehabilitation class in Greenock, Scotland. Our class is just one of many classes delivered by Inverclyde Leisure through the Live Active Exercise Referral Scheme that operates in our area. We now cater for a variety of conditions - although we still have more than our fair share of by-passes, stents and pacemakers.
Everyone knows that as soon as you start walking on a treadmill time immediately slows down and you think, mistakenly, that by staring at the clock on the machine you can will it to go faster.
So in February 2008 we decided to ask our members a question – "Would you be up for the challenge of walking round the world?" – Not the kind of question you get asked every day.
Luckily, once they stopped laughing at the very idea of it, the members agreed to have a go.
The aim of our walk was simply to encourage members to stay active between classes and accrue the health benefits that come from more walking and less sitting. We also hoped that achieving such a long term goal – a journey that would take years to complete - would provide a real sense of accomplishment.
We gratefully accepted a box of pedometers from the cardiac rehabilitation team at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, bought a map, worked out a route and set off on our virtual journey round the world.
We timed the start of our walk to coincide with the launch of the 2008 Scottish campaign to promote cardiac rehabilitation. It was our way of saying thanks.
We contacted GB Olympic rowing legends, Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent, more in hope than expectation, to ask if they would be kind enough to send a few words of encouragement and they did!
Each week pedometers were handed over and steps recorded and distances walked, cycled and rowed during the class captured. We tallied up our figures and plotted our progress on our map.
In May 2010, after 117 weeks on the road, having made it to Beijing in time for the 2008 Olympics, we arrived back in Greenock having clocked up 30,688 miles.
Seven years on we're still walking and have now clocked up over 130,000 miles [that's over 5 times round the world!] to more than 100 countries worldwide without ever leaving Greenock.
Race Across USA
Looking for a new challenge? Then you might like to check out our latest World Walking route.
For the last few weeks we've been happily working to replicate the route of Race Across USA, a 3,000 mile, 140 day long footrace starting in January 2015 in support of The 100 Mile Club, an American not for profit organisation, whose goal is to confront the obesity problem caused by inactivity one child and one school at a time.
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Note: While the use of wxString is unavoidable in wxWidgets program, you are encouraged to use the standard string classes std::string or std::wstring in your applications and convert them to and from wxString only when interacting with wxWidgets.
The following works both for ANSI and Unicode. You could write simpler code for ANSI, but sooner or later you'd have to rewrite it to cope with Unicode.
strcpy( buf, (const char*)foo.mb_str(wxConvUTF8) ); // buf will now contain "Hello world"
Before adding or inserting ('<<'), you need to have a wxString object to hold the results, or you will get weird results.
If you are using wxWidgets both for generation of exe and dll and have a wxString truncated after its first character, check whether your development environment doesn't automatically choose Multi-Bytes for the generation of exe and Unicode for the generation of DLL. (It seems that MS Visual C++ 2005 does it).
This can cause inconsistency with wxConvCurrent as it will be different in SDK's and exe contexts.
If you want to `split' your string, take a look at wxStringTokenizer.
C and C++ strings are distinct.
A C string ends with a zero-terminated character ('\0', NUL). The terminating character is not considered a part of the string.
A Pascal or MS Basic string (used in COM Automation) starts with the string length, and ends when that length is reached. These are similar to C++ Strings.
C++ Strings (STL std::string and others) contain a certain length dictated by Length() (or length()), and, unlike C strings, can contain embedded zero "termination" characters ('\0'). If you call a C string function on it like strlen(), it will give you the value if it was a C string - but really it's a C++ string - so the value from strlen() is, in fact, incorrect (due to possible embedded NULs).
-However- The current wxString is a mishmash of C and C++ strings - and most ancillary functions (a lot of other besides length, such as find()) treat it as a C string - but it could be a C++ string - and wxString::Length() treats it as a C++ string.
The Wikipedia entry on UTF8 is nice if you want some background info.


>> Actually the change includes using statfs() and struct statfs instead of statvfs64 and struct statvfs64, respectively. In struct statfs there is no f_frsize field.
> Ah okay, I read it as statvfs rather than statfs. In that case, it looks good.
I made the further minor change listed below and would like to include it as well. It suppresses defining the symbol statvfs64 on Mac OS X.


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If there is one thing that the last twelve months needed, it was something to make you laugh, and that's what we have in the New Comedy and Returning Comedy categories! Whilst 2020 sucked as a year, it did introduce us to a really strong collection of new comedies, one of which would not have even existed had it not been for us finding ourselves in the middle of a global pandemic. We also had a great collection of returning comedic series to help us keep laughing through a difficult year. We'll start with the New Comedy series which had you chuckling the most.
Best New Comedy Series
Nominees: Awkwafina is Nora from Queens – BBC, Breeders – Sky One, I Hate Suzie – Sky Atlantic, Love Life – BBC One, Miracle Workers – Sky Comedy, Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet – Apple TV+, Righteous Gemstones – Sky Comedy, Run – Sky Comedy, Staged – BBC One, Upload – Amazon Video, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist – E4
Bronze: Upload – Amazon Video
Silver: I Hate Suzie – Sky Atlantic
And the Gold goes to …
Winner: Staged – BBC One
Whilst 2020 was an awful year, one bright light in the darkness was this utterly hilarious comedy which came out of the fact that everything was shutdown. Written and directed by Simon Evans, 'Staged' starred Michael Sheen and David Tennant (or David Tennant and Michael Sheen) playing versions of themselves who are furloughed when their upcoming West End production is suddenly brought to a halt. Evans also plays a version of himself as director of the play, who suggests they try their best to keep the rehearsals on track in lockdown via Zoom calls.
Filmed in the actual homes of the cast, remotely, by the cast themselves, they manage to produce one of the most hilarious and poignant comedies of recent times. It really helped capture the mood of the UK as everyone was struggling to adjust to this strange "new normal" we found ourselves in.
Alongside Sheen, Tennant, and Evans, the series also starred Georgia Tennant, Anna Lundberg, and Lucy Eaton, along with some notable guest stars (which I won't spoil here for those of you that haven't watched it yet). Season 1 is available on iPlayer, and also on Netflix, which has extended versions of the episodes.
The great news is that 'Staged' when down so well that they have filmed a 2nd Season, which premieres Monday, 4th January 2021 at 9:45 pm on BBC One.
Best Returning Comedy Series
Nominees: After Life – Netflix, Ballers – Sky Comedy, Brooklyn Nine-Nine – E4, Cold Feet – ITV, Curb Your Enthusiasm – Sky Comedy, Dead To Me – Netflix, Inside No 9 – BBC, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – Sky Comedy, Modern Family – Sky One, This Country – BBC, What We Do In The Shadows – BBC Two
Bronze: Modern Family – Sky One
Silver: Brooklyn Nine-Nine – E4
Winner: After Life – Netflix
Having won the 'Best New Comedy' last year, it should come as no surprise that the second season of the unstoppable Ricky Gervais' brilliant dark comedy 'After Life' landed the Best Returning Comedy gold this year.
Set in the small fictitious town of Tambury, the comedy-drama series follows Tony (Gervais), a writer for the local newspaper whose life is upended after his wife dies from cancer. In Season 1, Tony contemplated taking his own life, he decided instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on – not caring about himself or anyone else – but it turned out to be tricky when everyone is trying to save the nice guy they used to know. Season 2, continued with Tony trying to become a better friend to those around him. With everyone grappling with their own problems, the situation is only intensified by the looming threat of the local newspaper being shut down.
Once again, Ricky hit it out of the park with the second season. It's a series that manages to continue to thread the needle of being hilariously funny and heartbreakingly tragic in equal measure. A third season is on the way, which Ricky has said will be the finale one. It'll be the first time he's ever done three seasons of a show, and joked when announcing the renewal about ending with an asteroid taking out Tambury to stop Netflix convincing him to do more!
'After Life' Seasons 1 and 2 are available on Netflix around the world right now, and we urge you to go and watch!
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THERE is nothing wrong with being proud of your accomplishments although the Catholic Church considers "pride" as a serious transgression. Perhaps a more appropriate word would be "hubris." Hubris is defined as extreme pride or self-confidence. The original Greek word used by playwrights of Greek tragedies was used to describe excessive pride toward or defying the gods leading to a nemesis, a being or situation that cannot be overcome and leads to one's downfall.
Greek gods did not look kindly on mere mortals who had an arrogant attitude. In common usage, hubris was used to describe someone who in victory unnecessarily shamed or humiliated his opponent and thereby brought shame and ruin on himself.
The Western countries invented the word hubris and raised overconfidence to a new level, not unlike a wealthy taipan at the casino who winds up with nothing left and deeply in debt.
Is the Philippines reaching beyond pride of accomplishment to the dangerous area of hubris?
Chief economist for Asia Pacific at Citi Johanna Chua has some interesting thoughts on the growth of Philippine international reserves now at over $80 billion, the largest in the region following China. The international reserves that a country holds are an important tool to protect the currency and economy from instability as well as to fund import purchases. It is like money in the bank for a rainy day. The government has paraded PHL reserves as an indication of good economic policy. However, the reality is that, to use Ms. Chua's term, excessive reserves are not necessarily healthy. Those dollars the government is holding were purchased by selling pesos. Those pesos inflate the domestic money supply. To "sterilize" the potential inflation problems of these additional pesos, the Bangko Sentral forces banks to deposit more pesos with the BSP on which the BSP pays interest. Sure, strong reserves are important, but balance and moderation are equally important.
Another problem with hubris is that judgment and priorities can become clouded. The cybercrime law is an important piece of legislation. It should have simply addressed economic concerns with the strengthening of PHL data security laws. But well enough could not be left alone and provisions unrelated to data-security were included and now a major controversy has exploded, further confusing and bringing uncertainty and inconsistency to Philippine lawmaking.
The government has not addressed the fiscal matters regarding the very important mining industry. The government has not addressed a rationalization of investment incentives and taxation. The government has not addressed any significant measures to bring more foreign investment into this country.
Overexcited pride almost always leads to an exaggerated sense of accomplishment. Minor improvements are seen as monumental advances forward; and inflated opinion of one's successes. Every time a global bank or broker raises economic growth expectations, you can see the government basking in the glory like a tourist lying on a sunny beach in Boracay. The fact is that PHL economic growth is barely keeping the country's collective head above water and not drowning. Five- percent economic growth will make major inroads into poverty reduction in about 30 years.
The country is not moving forward fast enough to warrant any thoughts of great accomplishments being made. To feel that way is nothing more than hubris. And we know exactly what happens when there is too much pride.


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Groundwater dynamics at Kīlauea Volcano and vicinity, Hawaiʻi
Kīlauea Volcano, on the Island of Hawaiʻi, is surrounded and permeated by active groundwater systems that interact dynamically with the volcanic system. A generalized conceptual model of Hawaiian hydrogeology includes high-level dike-impounded groundwater, very permeable perched and basal aquifers, and a transition (mixing) zone between freshwater...
Patrick, Matthew R.; Orr, Tim R.; Swanson, Don; Houghton, Bruce F.; Hurwitz, Shaul; Peek, Sara E.; Scholl, Martha A.; Bergfeld, Deborah; Evans, William C.; Kauahikaua, James P.; Gingerich, Stephen B.; Hsieh, Paul A.; Lee, R. Lopaka; Younger, Edward F.; Ingebritsen, Steven E.
Attribution: Volcano Hazards Program Office
Hurwitz, S., Peek, S.E., Scholl, M.A., Bergfeld, D., Evans, W.C., Kauahikaua, J.P., Gingerich, S.B., Hsieh, P.A., Lee, R.L., Younger, E.F., and Ingebritsen, S.E., 2021, Groundwater dynamics at Kīlauea Volcano and vicinity, Hawaiʻi, chap. F of Patrick, M., Orr, T., Swanson, D., and Houghton, B., eds., The 2008–2018 summit lava lake at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaiʻi: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1867, 28 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1867F.
The 2008–2018 summit lava lake at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai'i
The 2008–2018 lava lake at the summit of Kīlauea marked the longest sustained period of lava lake activity at the summit in decades and provided a new opportunity for observing and understanding lava lake behavior. The individual chapters of this Professional Paper volume cover the basic chronology of the eruption, rich historical background,...
Patrick, Matthew R.; Orr, Tim R.; Swanson, Don; Houghton, Bruce F.
Patrick, M., Orr, T., Swanson, D., and Houghton, B., eds., The 2008–2018 summit lava lake at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai'i: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1867, variously paged, https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1867.
Views of a century of activity at Kīlauea Caldera—A visual essay
The 2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano marked the end of the first sustained period of volcanic activity at Halemaʻumaʻu Crater in 94 years. The views of the lava lake (informally named "Overlook," nestled within Halemaʻumaʻu) lasted for a decade and seemed timeless. But as we were recently reminded, the summit of Kīlauea is part of a dynamic system...
Patrick, Matthew R.; Orr, Tim R.; Swanson, Don; Houghton, Bruce F.; Gaddis, Ben; Kauahikaua, James P.
Gaddis, B., and Kauahikaua, J., 2021, Views of a century of activity at Kīlauea Caldera—A visual essay, chap. B of Patrick, M., Orr, T., Swanson, D., and Houghton, B., eds., The 2008–2018 summit lava lake at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai'i: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1867, 23 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1867B.
Kīlauea's 2008–2018 summit lava lake—Chronology and eruption insights
The first eruption at Kīlauea's summit in 25 years began on March 19, 2008, and persisted for 10 years. The onset of the eruption marked the first explosive activity at the summit since 1924, forming the new "Overlook crater" (as the 2008 summit eruption crater has been informally named) within the existing crater of Halemaʻumaʻu. The first year...
Patrick, Matthew R.; Orr, Tim R.; Swanson, Don; Houghton, Bruce F.; Patrick, Matthew R.; Orr, Tim R.; Swanson, Don; Houghton, Bruce F.; Wooten, Kelly M.; Desmither, Liliana; Parcheta, Carolyn; Fee, David
Patrick, M., Orr, T., Swanson, D., Houghton, B., Wooten, K., Desmither, L., Parcheta, C., and Fee, D., 2021, Kīlauea's 2008–2018 summit lava lake—Chronology and eruption insights, chap. A of Patrick, M., Orr, T., Swanson, D., and Houghton, B., eds., The 2008–2018 summit lava lake at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai'i: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1867, 50 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1867A.
Correcting the historical record for Kīlauea Volcano's 1832, 1868, and 1877 summit eruptions
Three fissure eruptions are known to have occurred along the northeastern edge of Kīlauea's summit caldera in the 19th century—in the years 1832, 1868, and 1877. Modern portrayal of these eruptions on maps and in written sources indicates that the 1832 eruption was from a fissure on the side of the Poliokeawe scarp south of Byron Ledge, the 1868...
Orr, Tim R.; Hazlett, Richard W.; DeSmither, Liliana G.; Kauahikaua, James P.; Gaddis, Ben
Monitoring network changes during the 2018 Kīlauea Volcano eruption
In the summer of 2018, Kīlauea Volcano underwent one of its most significant eruptions in the past few hundred years. The volcano's summit and East Rift Zone magma system partially drained, resulting in a series of occasionally explosive partial caldera collapses, and widespread lava flows in the lower East Rift Zone. The Hawaiian Volcano...
Shiro, Brian; Zoeller, Michael H.; Kamibayashi, Kevan; Johanson, Ingrid; Parcheta, Carolyn; Patrick, Matthew R.; Nadeau, Patricia; Lee, R. Lopaka; Miklius, Asta
The birth of a Hawaiian fissure eruption
Most basaltic explosive eruptions intensify abruptly, allowing little time to document processes at the start of eruption. One opportunity came with the initiation of activity from fissure 8 (F8) during the 2018 eruption on the lower East Rift Zone of Kīlauea, Hawaii. F8 erupted in four episodes. We recorded 28 min of high‐definition video...
Houghton, Bruce F.; Tisdale, Caroline M; Llewellin, Ed W; Taddeucci, Jacopo; Orr, Tim R.; Walker, Brett H.; Patrick, Matthew R.
The 2018 reawakening and eruption dynamics of Steamboat Geyser, the world's tallest active geyser
Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park's Norris Geyser Basin began a prolific sequence of eruptions in March 2018 after 34 y of sporadic activity. We analyze a wide range of datasets to explore triggering mechanisms for Steamboat's reactivation and controls on eruption intervals and height. Prior to Steamboat's renewed activity, Norris...
Reed, Mara; Munoz-Saez, Carolina; Hajimirza, Sahand; Wu, Sin-Mei; Barth, Anna; Girona, Tarsilo; Rasht-Behesht, Majid; Karplus, M.S; Hurwitz, Shaul; Manga, Michael
Material failure and caldera collapse: Insights from the 2018 Kilauea eruption
The Failure Forecast Method (FFM) was introduced as an empirical model for forecasting catastrophic material failures related to natural hazards, such as landslides and volcanic eruptions, with mixed success. During the 2018 eruption of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, the draining of the summit magma reservoir into the Lower East Rift Zone resulted in...
Tepp, Gabrielle
A probabilistic assessment of tephra-fall hazards at Hanford, Washington, from a future eruption of Mount St. Helens
Hanford, Washington (USA) is the construction site of a multi-billion-dollar high-level nuclear waste treatment facility. This site lies 200 kilometers (km) east of Mount St. Helens (MSH), the most active volcano in the contiguous United States. Tephra from a future MSH eruption could pose a hazard to the air intake and filtration systems at this...
Mastin, Larry G.; Van Eaton, Alexa R.; Schwaiger, Hans F.
Mastin, L.G., Van Eaton, A., and Schwaiger, H.F., 2020, A probabilistic assessment of tephra-fall hazards at Hanford, Washington, from a future eruption of Mount St. Helens: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2020–1133, 54 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20201133.
2017 Volcanic activity in Alaska—Summary of events and response of the Alaska Volcano Observatory
The Alaska Volcano Observatory responded to eruptions, significant and minor volcanic unrest, and seismic events at 16 volcanic centers in Alaska during 2017. The most notable volcanic activity consisted of a major eruption at Bogoslof Island, continuing intermittent dome growth and ash eruptions from Mount Cleveland, the end of the Pavlof Volcano...
Dixon, James P.; Cameron, Cheryl E.; Iezzi, Alexandra M.; Power, John A.; Wallace, Kristi L.; Waythomas, Christopher F.
Attribution: Volcano Hazards Program Office, Region 11: Alaska
Dixon, J.P., Cameron, C.E., Iezzi, A.M., Power, J.A., Wallace, K., and Waythomas, C.F., 2020, 2017 Volcanic activity in Alaska—Summary of events and response of the Alaska Volcano Observatory: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2020–5102, 61 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20205102.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory responded to eruptions, volcanic unrest or suspected unrest, and seismic events at 15 volcanic centers in Alaska during 2016. The most notable volcanic activity consisted of eruptions at Pavlof and Bogoslof volcanoes. Both eruptions produced significant ash clouds that affected regional air travel. Mount Cleveland...
Cameron, Cheryl E.; Dixon, James P.; Waythomas, Christopher F.; Iezzi, Alexandra M.; Wallace, Kristi L.; McGimsey, Robert G.; Bull, Katharine F.
Cameron, C.E., Dixon, J.P., Waythomas, C.F., Iezzi, A.M., Wallace, K.L., McGimsey, R.G., and Bull, K.F., 2020, 2016 Volcanic activity in Alaska—Summary of events and response of the Alaska Volcano Observatory: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2020–5125, 63 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20205125.
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package eu.chainfire.geolog.service;

import java.util.Locale;

import com.google.android.gms.common.ConnectionResult;
import com.google.android.gms.common.GooglePlayServicesClient.ConnectionCallbacks;
import com.google.android.gms.common.GooglePlayServicesClient.OnConnectionFailedListener;
import com.google.android.gms.location.ActivityRecognitionClient;
import com.google.android.gms.location.ActivityRecognitionResult;
import com.google.android.gms.location.DetectedActivity;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationClient;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationListener;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationRequest;

import eu.chainfire.geolog.Debug;
import eu.chainfire.geolog.R;
import eu.chainfire.geolog.data.Database;
import eu.chainfire.geolog.data.Database.Accuracy;
import eu.chainfire.geolog.data.Database.Activity;
import eu.chainfire.geolog.data.Database.Profile.Type;
import eu.chainfire.geolog.ui.MainActivity;
import eu.chainfire.geolog.ui.SettingsFragment;

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.app.AlarmManager;
import android.app.Notification;
import android.app.NotificationManager;
import android.app.PendingIntent;
import android.app.Service;
import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.IntentFilter;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.content.SharedPreferences.OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener;
import android.location.Location;
import android.os.BatteryManager;
import android.os.Build;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.IBinder;
import android.os.Looper;
import android.os.PowerManager;
import android.os.SystemClock;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;
import android.support.v4.content.LocalBroadcastManager;

public class BackgroundService extends Service {
	public static void startService(Context context) {
		context.startService(new Intent(context.getApplicationContext(), BackgroundService.class));
	}

	private static String EXTRA_ALARM_CALLBACK = "eu.chainfire.geolog.EXTRA.ALARM_CALLBACK";

	private volatile ServiceThread thread = null;
	private volatile PowerManager.WakeLock wakelock = null;

	private volatile NotificationManager notificationManager;
	private volatile PendingIntent notificationIntent;
	private volatile Notification.Builder notificationBuilder;

	@SuppressLint("NewApi")
	@Override
	public void onCreate() {
		super.onCreate();
		Debug.log("Service created");

		if (thread == null) {
			Debug.log("Launching thread");
			thread = new ServiceThread();
			thread.setContext(getApplicationContext());
			thread.start();
		}

		PowerManager pm = (PowerManager)getSystemService(POWER_SERVICE);
		wakelock = pm.newWakeLock(PowerManager.PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK, "GeoLog Wakelock");

		Intent i = new Intent();
		i.setAction(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
		i.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);
		i.setClass(this, MainActivity.class);
		i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
		notificationIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, i, 0);

		notificationManager = (NotificationManager)getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
		notificationBuilder = (new Notification.Builder(this)).
			setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_stat_service).
			setContentIntent(notificationIntent).
			setWhen(System.currentTimeMillis()).
			setAutoCancel(false).
			setOngoing(true).
			setContentTitle(getString(R.string.service_title)).
			setContentText(getString(R.string.service_waiting));

		if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN_MR1) {
			notificationBuilder.setShowWhen(false);
		}

		if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
			/* quick turn off, maybe ? if added, make sure to add a button to preferences to disable these buttons
			notificationBuilder.
				setPriority(Notification.PRIORITY_MAX).
				addAction(0, "A", notificationIntent).
				addAction(0, "B", notificationIntent).
				addAction(0, "C", notificationIntent);
			*/
		}

		updateNotification();
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
	@SuppressLint("NewApi")
	private void updateNotification() {
		if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN_MR1) {
			notificationManager.notify(1, notificationBuilder.build());
		} else {
			notificationManager.notify(1, notificationBuilder.getNotification());
		}
	}

	@Override
	public void onDestroy() {
		Debug.log("Stopping thread");
		thread.signalStop();
		try { thread.join(); } catch (Exception e) { }
		thread = null;

		((NotificationManager)getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE)).cancelAll();

		Debug.log("Service destroyed");
		super.onDestroy();
	}

	@Override
	public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
		thread.processIntent(intent);
		return START_STICKY;
	}

	@Override
	public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
		return null;
	}

	private class ServiceThread extends Thread {
		private static final int FLAG_SETUP = 1;
		private static final int FLAG_ACTIVITY_UPDATE = 2;
		private static final int FLAG_LOCATION_UPDATE = 4;
		private static final int FLAG_PROFILE = 8;

		private volatile Context context = null;
		private volatile Handler handler = null;

		private volatile AlarmManager alarm = null;
		private volatile PendingIntent alarmCallback = null;

		private volatile ActivityRecognitionClient activityClient = null;
		private volatile boolean activityConnected = false;
		private volatile PendingIntent activityIntent = null;

		private volatile LocationClient locationClient = null;
		private volatile boolean locationConnected = false;

		private volatile Database.Helper databaseHelper = null;

		private volatile boolean metric = true;

		private volatile Database.Activity lastActivity = Database.Activity.UNKNOWN;
		private volatile int lastConfidence = 0;
		private volatile Location lastLocLoc = null;
		private volatile Database.Location lastLocation = null;
		private volatile long lastLocationDuplicates = 0;
		private volatile long lastNonUnknown = 0;

		private volatile Database.Accuracy lastLocationAccuracy = Database.Accuracy.NONE;
		private volatile int lastLocationInterval = -1;
		private volatile int lastActivityInterval = -1;
		private volatile int lastBatteryLevel = 0;
		private volatile boolean isSegmentStart = true;
		private volatile long lastProfileUpdate = SystemClock.elapsedRealtime();

		private volatile long scheduledReduceAccuracyTime = 0;

		private volatile SharedPreferences prefs = null;
		private volatile Database.Profile currentProfile = null;

		// Main thread

		public void setContext(Context context) {
			this.context = context;
		}

		public void signalStop() {
			if (handler != null) {
				handler.post(new Runnable() {
					@Override
					public void run() {
						Looper.myLooper().quit();
					}
				});
			}
		}

		public boolean processIntent(Intent intent) {
			if (intent == null) return false;

			if (ActivityRecognitionResult.hasResult(intent)) {
				processActivity(intent);
				return true;
			} else if (intent.hasExtra(EXTRA_ALARM_CALLBACK)) {
				processAlarmCallback(intent);
				return true;
			}

			return false;
		}

		private void processActivity(Intent intent) {
			if (handler != null) {
				final DetectedActivity activity = ActivityRecognitionResult.extractResult(intent).getMostProbableActivity();
				if (Database.isDetectedActivityValid(activity)) {
					wakelock.acquire();
					handler.post(new Runnable() {
						@Override
						public void run() {
							setActivity(Database.activityFromDetectedActivity(activity), activity.getConfidence());
							wakelock.release();
						}
					});
				}
			}
		}

		private void processAlarmCallback(Intent intent) {
			if (handler != null) {
				wakelock.acquire();
				handler.post(new Runnable() {
					@Override
					public void run() {
						updateListeners(0);
						wakelock.release();
					}
				});
			}
		}

		// Service thread

		private void setActivity(Database.Activity activity, int confidence) {
			if ((activity == Activity.UNKNOWN) && (SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() < lastNonUnknown + (2 * 60 * 1000)) && (SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() > lastNonUnknown)) {
				return;
			}
			if (activity != Activity.UNKNOWN) {
				lastNonUnknown = SystemClock.elapsedRealtime();
			}

			Debug.log(String.format(Locale.ENGLISH, "A: %s (%d%%)", Database.activityToString(activity), confidence));

			lastActivity = activity;
			lastConfidence = confidence;
			updateListeners(FLAG_ACTIVITY_UPDATE);
		}

		private void setLocation(Location location) {
			Debug.log(String.format(Locale.ENGLISH, "L: lat=%.8f long=%.5f alt=%.5f bearing=%.4f speed=%.4f accuracy=%.2f", location.getLatitude(), location.getLongitude(), location.getAltitude(), location.getBearing(), location.getSpeed(), location.getAccuracy()));

			lastLocLoc = location;
			updateListeners(FLAG_LOCATION_UPDATE);
		}

		@SuppressLint("NewApi")
		private void updateListeners(int flags) {
			if (!(activityConnected && locationConnected && (currentProfile != null))) return;

			if (currentProfile.getType() == Type.OFF) {
				stopSelf();
			}

			if ((flags & FLAG_PROFILE) == FLAG_PROFILE) {
				Debug.log("Profile update");

				lastActivity = Activity.UNKNOWN;
				lastConfidence = 0;

				scheduledReduceAccuracyTime = 0L;
				lastProfileUpdate = SystemClock.elapsedRealtime();
			}

			Accuracy originalAccuracy = lastLocationAccuracy;

			Database.Profile.ActivitySettings wanted = currentProfile.getActivitySettings(lastActivity);
			Database.Accuracy wantedAccuracy = wanted.getAccuracy();
			int wantedLocationInterval = wanted.getLocationInterval();
			int wantedActivityInterval = wanted.getActivityInterval();

			boolean allowUpdateActivityInterval = true;
			boolean allowUpdateLocationInterval = true;
			boolean allowUpdateLocationAccuracy = true;

			if (
					(
							(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() > lastProfileUpdate + (90 * 1000)) ||
							(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() < lastProfileUpdate)
					) &&
					(currentProfile.getReduceAccuracyDelay() > 0) &&
					(
							(wantedActivityInterval > lastActivityInterval) ||
							(wantedLocationInterval > lastLocationInterval) ||
							(Database.accuracyToInt(wantedAccuracy) < Database.accuracyToInt(lastLocationAccuracy))
					)
			) {
				long left = 0;

				if (scheduledReduceAccuracyTime == 0) {
					left = currentProfile.getReduceAccuracyDelay() * 1000;
					scheduledReduceAccuracyTime = SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() + left;
					alarm.set(AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME_WAKEUP, scheduledReduceAccuracyTime + 1000, alarmCallback);
				} else {
					left = scheduledReduceAccuracyTime - SystemClock.elapsedRealtime();
				}

				if (left <= 0) scheduledReduceAccuracyTime = 0L;

				allowUpdateActivityInterval = ((left <= 0) || (wantedActivityInterval < lastActivityInterval) || (lastActivityInterval == -1));
				allowUpdateLocationInterval = ((left <= 0) || (wantedLocationInterval < lastLocationInterval) || (lastLocationInterval == -1));
				allowUpdateLocationAccuracy = ((left <= 0) || (Database.accuracyToInt(wantedAccuracy) > Database.accuracyToInt(lastLocationAccuracy)));

				if (!allowUpdateActivityInterval) wantedActivityInterval = lastActivityInterval;
				if (!allowUpdateLocationInterval) wantedLocationInterval = lastLocationInterval;
				if (!allowUpdateLocationAccuracy) wantedAccuracy = lastLocationAccuracy;

				if (!allowUpdateActivityInterval) Debug.log(String.format(Locale.ENGLISH, "ActivityInterval --> Delay (%ds remaining)", (left / 1000)));
				if (!allowUpdateLocationInterval) Debug.log(String.format(Locale.ENGLISH, "LocationInterval --> Delay (%ds remaining)", (left / 1000)));
				if (!allowUpdateLocationAccuracy) Debug.log(String.format(Locale.ENGLISH, "LocationAccuracy --> Delay (%ds remaining)", (left / 1000)));
			} else {
				scheduledReduceAccuracyTime = 0;
				alarm.cancel(alarmCallback);
			}

			if ((wantedAccuracy != lastLocationAccuracy) || (wantedLocationInterval != lastLocationInterval)) {
				String s = "NONE";
				if (wantedAccuracy == Accuracy.LOW) s = "LOW";
				if (wantedAccuracy == Accuracy.HIGH) s = "HIGH";
				Debug.log(String.format(Locale.ENGLISH, "Location --> %s %ds", s, wantedLocationInterval));

				locationClient.removeLocationUpdates(locationListener);

				if ((wantedAccuracy != Accuracy.NONE) && (wantedLocationInterval > 0)) {
					if ((lastLocationAccuracy == Accuracy.NONE) || (lastLocationInterval == 0)) isSegmentStart = true;

					LocationRequest req = new LocationRequest();
					req.setFastestInterval(wantedLocationInterval * 250);
					req.setInterval(wantedLocationInterval * 1000);
					if (lastLocationAccuracy == Accuracy.NONE) req.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_NO_POWER);
					if (lastLocationAccuracy == Accuracy.LOW) req.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_BALANCED_POWER_ACCURACY);
					if (lastLocationAccuracy == Accuracy.HIGH) req.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY);
					locationClient.requestLocationUpdates(req, locationListener);
				}

				lastLocationAccuracy = wantedAccuracy;
				lastLocationInterval = wantedLocationInterval;
			}

			if (wantedActivityInterval != lastActivityInterval) {
				Debug.log(String.format(Locale.ENGLISH, "Activity --> %ds", wantedActivityInterval));

				activityClient.removeActivityUpdates(activityIntent);

				if ((wantedActivityInterval == 0) && (lastActivityInterval != 0)) {
					lastActivity = Activity.UNKNOWN;
					lastConfidence = 0;
				}

				if (wantedActivityInterval != 0) {
					activityClient.requestActivityUpdates(wantedActivityInterval * 1000, activityIntent);
				}

				lastActivityInterval = wantedActivityInterval;
			}

			if ((flags & FLAG_ACTIVITY_UPDATE) == FLAG_ACTIVITY_UPDATE) {
				if (
						(lastLocation == null) ||
						(lastLocation.getActivity() != lastActivity) ||
						(lastLocation.getConfidence() != lastConfidence)
				) {
					Debug.log("Activity update");
					if (lastLocation == null) {
						lastLocationDuplicates = 0;

						lastLocation = new Database.Location();
						lastLocation.setTime(System.currentTimeMillis());
					}
					lastLocation.setActivity(lastActivity);
					lastLocation.setConfidence(lastConfidence);
				}
			} else if ((flags & FLAG_LOCATION_UPDATE) == FLAG_LOCATION_UPDATE) {
				if (
						(lastLocation == null) ||
						(lastLocLoc == null) ||
						(lastLocation.getLatitude() != lastLocLoc.getLatitude()) ||
						(lastLocation.getLongitude() != lastLocLoc.getLongitude()) ||
						(lastLocation.getAccuracyDistance() > lastLocLoc.getAccuracy()) ||
						(lastLocation.getActivity() != lastActivity) ||
						(lastLocation.getConfidence() != lastConfidence) ||
						(lastLocation.getAccuracySetting() != originalAccuracy) ||
						(isSegmentStart)
				) {
					Debug.log("Location update");

					if (lastLocationDuplicates > 0) {
						Debug.log("Saving last duplicate (out of " + String.valueOf(lastLocationDuplicates) + ")");
						Database.Location.copy(databaseHelper, lastLocation);
					}

					lastLocationDuplicates = 0;

					Database.Location loc = new Database.Location();
					loc.setActivity(lastActivity);
					loc.setConfidence(lastConfidence);
					loc.setBattery(lastBatteryLevel);
					loc.setAccuracySetting(originalAccuracy);
					loc.isSegmentStart(isSegmentStart);
					loc.loadFromLocation(lastLocLoc);
					Debug.log("Saved to database: " + String.valueOf(loc.saveToDatabase(databaseHelper)));

					lastLocation = loc;
					isSegmentStart = false;
				} else if (
						(lastLocation != null) &&
						(lastLocLoc != null)
				) {
					lastLocationDuplicates++;

					lastLocation.setActivity(lastActivity);
					lastLocation.setConfidence(lastConfidence);
					lastLocation.setBattery(lastBatteryLevel);
					lastLocation.setAccuracySetting(originalAccuracy);
					lastLocation.isSegmentStart(isSegmentStart);
					lastLocation.loadFromLocation(lastLocLoc);
				}
			}

			if (lastLocation != null) {
				notificationBuilder.
					setWhen(lastLocation.getTime()).
					setContentText(String.format(Locale.ENGLISH, "%s ~ %d%% / %.5f, %.5f ~ %.0f%s", Database.activityToString(lastLocation.getActivity()), lastLocation.getConfidence(), lastLocation.getLatitude(), lastLocation.getLongitude(), metric ? lastLocation.getAccuracyDistance() : lastLocation.getAccuracyDistance() * SettingsFragment.METER_FEET_RATIO, metric ? "m" : "ft"));

				if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN_MR1) {
					notificationBuilder.setShowWhen(true);
				}

				updateNotification();
			}
		}

		private ConnectionCallbacks activityConnectionCallbacks = new ConnectionCallbacks() {
			@Override
			public void onConnected(Bundle arg0) {
				Debug.log("ActivityRecognitionClient connected");

				activityConnected = true;

				updateListeners(FLAG_SETUP);
			}

			@Override
			public void onDisconnected() {
				Debug.log("ActivityRecognitionClient disconnected");

				activityConnected = false;
			}
		};

		private OnConnectionFailedListener activityConnectionFailed = new OnConnectionFailedListener() {
			@Override
			public void onConnectionFailed(ConnectionResult arg0) {
				Debug.log("ActivityRecognitionClient connection failed");

				activityConnected = false;
				signalStop();
			}
		};

		private LocationListener locationListener = new LocationListener() {
			@Override
			public void onLocationChanged(Location arg0) {
				wakelock.acquire();
				try {
					setLocation(arg0);
				} finally {
					wakelock.release();
				}
			}
		};

		private ConnectionCallbacks locationConnectionCallbacks = new ConnectionCallbacks() {
			@Override
			public void onConnected(Bundle arg0) {
				Debug.log("LocationClient connected");

				locationConnected = true;

				updateListeners(FLAG_SETUP);
			}

			@Override
			public void onDisconnected() {
				Debug.log("LocationClient disconnected");

				locationConnected = false;
			}
		};

		private OnConnectionFailedListener locationConnectionFailed = new OnConnectionFailedListener() {
			@Override
			public void onConnectionFailed(ConnectionResult arg0) {
				Debug.log("LocationClient connection failed");

				locationConnected = false;
				signalStop();
			}
		};

		private BroadcastReceiver databaseUpdated = new BroadcastReceiver() {
			@Override
			public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
				if (
						(currentProfile != null) &&
						(intent != null) &&
						intent.hasExtra(Database.Helper.EXTRA_TABLE) &&
						intent.getStringExtra(Database.Helper.EXTRA_TABLE).equals(Database.Profile.TABLE_NAME) &&
						intent.hasExtra(Database.Helper.EXTRA_ID) &&
						(intent.getLongExtra(Database.Helper.EXTRA_ID, 0) == currentProfile.getId())
				) {
					currentProfile = Database.Profile.getById(databaseHelper, intent.getLongExtra(Database.Helper.EXTRA_ID, 0), currentProfile);
					updateListeners(FLAG_PROFILE);
				}
			}
		};

		private OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener preferencesUpdated = new OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener() {
			@Override
			public void onSharedPreferenceChanged(SharedPreferences sharedPreferences, String key) {
				if (key.equals(SettingsFragment.PREF_UNITS)) {
					metric = !prefs.getString(SettingsFragment.PREF_UNITS, SettingsFragment.PREF_UNITS_DEFAULT).equals(SettingsFragment.VALUE_UNITS_IMPERIAL);
					updateListeners(0);
				}
				if (key.equals(SettingsFragment.PREF_CURRENT_PROFILE)) {
					currentProfile = Database.Profile.getById(databaseHelper, sharedPreferences.getLong(key, 0), currentProfile);
					updateListeners(FLAG_PROFILE);
				}
			}
		};

		private BroadcastReceiver batteryReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
			@Override
			public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
				int status = intent.getIntExtra(BatteryManager.EXTRA_STATUS, -1);
				boolean plugged = (intent.getIntExtra(BatteryManager.EXTRA_PLUGGED, 0) != 0);

				boolean charging = (
						(status == BatteryManager.BATTERY_STATUS_CHARGING) ||
	                    ((status == BatteryManager.BATTERY_STATUS_FULL) && plugged)
	            );

				int level = intent.getIntExtra(BatteryManager.EXTRA_LEVEL, 0);
				if (charging) level += 100;

				lastBatteryLevel = level;
			}
		};

		@Override
		public void run() {
			Debug.log("Thread init");

			databaseHelper = Database.Helper.getInstance(context);

			alarm = (AlarmManager)context.getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
			{
				Intent i = new Intent(context.getApplicationContext(), BackgroundService.class);
				i.putExtra(EXTRA_ALARM_CALLBACK, 1);
				alarmCallback =	PendingIntent.getService(BackgroundService.this, 0, i, 0);
			}

			Looper.prepare();
			handler = new Handler();

			Debug.log("Registering for updates");
			prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context);
			long id = prefs.getLong(SettingsFragment.PREF_CURRENT_PROFILE, 0);
			if (id > 0) currentProfile = Database.Profile.getById(databaseHelper, id, null);
			if (currentProfile == null) currentProfile = Database.Profile.getOffProfile(databaseHelper);
			metric = !prefs.getString(SettingsFragment.PREF_UNITS, SettingsFragment.PREF_UNITS_DEFAULT).equals(SettingsFragment.VALUE_UNITS_IMPERIAL);
			prefs.registerOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(preferencesUpdated);
			LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(context).registerReceiver(databaseUpdated, new IntentFilter(Database.Helper.NOTIFY_BROADCAST));

			Debug.log("Registering for power levels");
			context.registerReceiver(batteryReceiver, new IntentFilter(Intent.ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED));

			Debug.log("Connecting ActivityRecognitionClient");
			activityIntent = PendingIntent.getService(context, 1, new Intent(context, BackgroundService.class), 0);
			activityClient = new ActivityRecognitionClient(context, activityConnectionCallbacks, activityConnectionFailed);
			activityClient.connect();

			Debug.log("Connecting LocationClient");
			locationClient = new LocationClient(context, locationConnectionCallbacks, locationConnectionFailed);
			locationClient.connect();

			Debug.log("Entering loop");
			handler.post(new Runnable() {
				@Override
				public void run() {
					updateListeners(FLAG_SETUP);
				}
			});
			Looper.loop();
			Debug.log("Exiting loop");

			context.unregisterReceiver(batteryReceiver);

			LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(context).unregisterReceiver(databaseUpdated);
			prefs.unregisterOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(preferencesUpdated);

			if (activityConnected) {
				activityClient.removeActivityUpdates(activityIntent);
				activityClient.disconnect();
			}
			if (locationConnected) {
				locationClient.removeLocationUpdates(locationListener);
				locationClient.disconnect();
			}
		}
	}
}

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Home > Huddersfield House Prices > Beaufort Avenue
Sold House Prices in Beaufort Avenue
This page displays sold house prices for Beaufort Avenue in Huddersfield.
Beaufort Avenue in Shelley, Huddersfield consists predominantly of semi-detached houses. Properties on Beaufort Avenue typically have values around £100,000 - £100,000, ranging upwards of £200,000 for larger semi-detached houses.
14 Beaufort Avenue, Shelley HD8 8PY
£173,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 18th May 2012
£146,500 Semi-detached house, Freehold 19th October 2007
£115,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 15th December 2003
£85,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 26th June 2003
£75,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold new build 30th October 2003
£75,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold new build 28th November 2003
£74,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 25th February 2005
£70,750 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 22nd January 2010
£67,500 Semi-detached house, Freehold 26th May 2006
£62,500 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 14th December 2012
£56,000 Semi-detached house, Tenure unknown new build 19th April 2002
£54,000 Semi-detached house, Freehold 20th April 2001
£40,750 Terraced house, Freehold 15th January 2003
£39,975 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 25th April 2003
£39,375 Semi-detached house, Freehold new build 9th February 2001
£39,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 22nd July 2015
£38,750 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 31st October 2007
£38,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 18th November 2011
£37,487 Terraced house, Leasehold 22nd December 2005
£34,500 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 18th January 2013
£33,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 21st July 2000
£33,000 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 21st May 2001
£17,500 Semi-detached house, Leasehold 30th November 2001
£16,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 7th March 2001
£15,000 Terraced house, Leasehold 5th January 2001
Beaufort Avenue
Map showing Beaufort Avenue in Huddersfield.


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On July 30, 1961, while on a motorcycle patrol in the Town of North Kingstown, Lieutenant Bennett would be involved in a motor vehicle accident on Tower Hill Road. Initial injuries to Lieutenant Bennett included a broken leg and despite numerous efforts to save it, his left leg would later be amputated. On November 10, 1964, Lieutenant Bennett died from injuries received in the accident, he was 48 years old. Lieutenant Raymond W. Bennett would have his name added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, located in Washington, DC. Memorial Panel: 24-W: 7
A shadow box at the North Kingstown Police Department was dedicated in honor of Lieutenant Raymond W. Bennett. The North Kingstown Police Department wishes to thank the Bennett Family for contributing the shadow box and the North Kingstown Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 33 for their assistance in making the dedication possible. The shadow box will remain on permanent display within the Police Department.
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Building the framework for our vision starts with perpetuating a message through outreach and education. Empowering and inspiring others to protect the environment, defend the health of our families and pets and create beauty through the growth of clean and sustainable green spaces. BeeSafe Mission 50 endeavors to transition 50% of all turf to organic by the year 2025.
Open and honest green spaces without fear of entry, anxiety of exposure or regret of attendance and use. Playing fields, home lawns and parks that invite children, pets and bare feet every minute of every day.
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Urgency – We know that we must act now.
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Collaboration – When like minded individuals create a group, the passion for the cause compounds and inspires.
Acceptance – Understand that old habits die hard. We will not be frustrated by the opposition.
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December 15, 2013: Staying Back to Get Ahead
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The threat of increasing interest rates on student loans is a concern to many families. Find out how some are putting everything on the line in a controversial practice to secure college basketball scholarships.Less than 1 percent of college basketball players are able to make the leap into the professional ranks. CityLine takes a look at what the future may hold for student-athletes trying to keep their hoop dreams alive after college.The Boston Celtics Stay in School program uses athletes to encourage good attendance, which plays an instrumental role in determining future scholastic success. We are joined in the studio by Celtics Legend and former NBA Champion point-guard, Joseph "JoJo" White to discuss the importance of youth education and taking "PRIDE" (Perseverance, Respect, Integrity, Decisions, Education) in academic accomplishments.
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The threat of increasing interest rates on student loans is a concern to many families. Find out how some are putting everything on the line in a controversial practice to secure college basketball scholarships.
Less than 1 percent of college basketball players are able to make the leap into the professional ranks. CityLine takes a look at what the future may hold for student-athletes trying to keep their hoop dreams alive after college.
The Boston Celtics Stay in School program uses athletes to encourage good attendance, which plays an instrumental role in determining future scholastic success. We are joined in the studio by Celtics Legend and former NBA Champion point-guard, Joseph "JoJo" White to discuss the importance of youth education and taking "PRIDE" (Perseverance, Respect, Integrity, Decisions, Education) in academic accomplishments.


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I wanna be famous but only for five minutes. Just long enough to confirm how awful it seems from down here among the little people.
This week I published a review in an international art magazine. The paintings were fine. Not the most exciting things in the world but competently constructed and successful in the narrow goals they were engineered to accomplish. The more memorable or lasting impression of the twenty minutes I spent in the blue chip gallery where they hung was everything but the art itself.
The nervous gallerinas and gallerinos flitting about in their fashionably ill-fitting garb, the installers taking their sweet time, the antiseptic white cube atmosphere. But more than anything else, I'll remember the prices. None of the eight pieces on show were under 400k.
What was it within these handcrafted grids, triangles, and parallel lines was worth half a million dollars?
The artist has paid his dues. He's not a kid. Been at it for decades and now it's his moment. These prices are a reflection of his remarked-upon showing in the Whitney Biennial and the glowing profile in New York Times Magazine. I wonder what he feels about it. He has to know it's a little ridiculous. His work is now like NFTs—priced astronomically in order to allow the ultra-rich to avoid paying taxes.
In my corner of the art world the stakes are different. A local teacher is running for alderman and asked me to decorate her campaign office. I brought two walls-ful over on my bike. These pieces are also for sale. But none will fetch even a noticeable fraction of what I saw in the West Loop.
Does this mean that these are four hundred times worse than those? i don't think so. It's just a different game we're playing.
This weekend I spent two days sitting and smiling at people in an art center in Oak Park. My fellow vendors sold scarves, hand-thrown pots, little scones in star shapes, and chess sets crafted out of what look like twist-ties—I didn't come up close enough to know for sure. The shoppers and vendors were friendly and at least acted like they were happy to be there. They were celebrating the holiday season and catching up with old friends.
I didn't go to the opening of the show of half-million dollar art but doubt it could've matched the convivial atmosphere. That's a world of status-seeking and deal-making rather than community.
I was happy to be there just long enough to soak in the vibe for my article. Any longer and it might've become contagious.
—Framed a few more collages and put them up in the store and the limited-edition t-shirt I designed for Constellation Chicago is now available.
—Listen to Annie Howard talk to me about paint-by-numbers at Pilsen Community Books and/or to Mallory and I discussing the unnerving new Soft & Quiet.
—If you're in Milwaukee on Saturday come hear me talk about paint-by-numbers at the Lion's Tooth.