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Next time you deserve a cookie, make sure it's one or five of these Out of this World Chewy Oatmeal Cookies.
These cookies don't give off any "I'm AMAZING" vibes from their appearance. As far as cookies go, they are quite average looking, but take a bite and BOOM BABY, there's a party in your mouth.
My friend Allison brought some of these back to our college apartment one week after being home for the weekend. After tasting one I begged for the recipe and her mom gave it to me. I can't believe I haven't shared these yet. They're so dang good!
We love these Out of this World Chewy Oatmeal Cookies so much we always double the recipe and keep them in the freezer to pull out for kids lunches. Sometimes they don't last too long in there because I always find myself sneaking them during nap time or when the kids are in bed for the night because even frozen they are freaking delicious and have an amazing chewy texture that I just can't get enough.
You don't have to use coconut oil as part of the butter or shortening in this recipe, but I totally recommend that do. It adds just a hint of coconut to the flavor of the cookies, making them extra amazing.
I like to use half quick oats half regular oats for the oatmeal. If I don't have quick oats I use all regular and pulse them in my blender or food processor a few times.
These cookies are the Chewiest, most delicious oatmeal cookies i have ever had. They are sweet with the perfect balance of salty, nuttiness. Every time I make them for people I am asked for the recipe. You're going to love them as much as me. I just know it!
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Electric Sheep hosts an afternoon of film, music and comics as part of Rough Trade Shops' RoTa afternoons.
The earliest film version of the legendary figure and one of the first silent horror films, The Phantom of the Opera (1925) stars the great Lon Chaney as the horribly disfigured Erik who leads a secret and lonely existence beneath the Paris Opera. After falling in love with a beautiful young singer, he holds her prisoner in his underground lair. Darkly poetic and full of visual delights, the film creates a startling world of nightmarish beauty while Chaney superbly brings out the terrible humanity of the monster.
The film will be shown with a live DJ rescore by DJ Downfall.
We Are Words + Pictures are a London-based team of illustrators and writers who bring comics to new readers through events, workshops, publications and market stalls. WAW+P will be bringing illustrator Anna Saunders to Electric Sheep Subterranea, where she'll be drawing alongside the screening, as well as a selection of 'zines and comics, which will be on sale in the bar. WAW+P are contributors to the new anthology Solipsistic Pop edited by Eagle Award winner Tom Humberstone, which aims to showcase the best in current British small press and underground comic books, and will be available for sale at the event.


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Some with disabilities can live on their own with a little help. But Virginia is falling behind on its promises to do more.
By Dave Ress
Jesse Monroe lives on his own, with a little help from Hope House and technology built in to his Norfolk apartment. (Dave Ress)
Virginia is behind on its promises to help more people with intellectual or developmental disabilities live on their own instead of in large institutions or group homes, a new review shows.
But for the lucky few who get the help they need to live in their own apartments, that independence is priceless.
"At the group home, you had to eat what they had when they had it — you had to do their activities," said James Burney, who is blind and now lives in a Norfolk apartment. "Now, I can eat what I choose when I choose. I can do what I want to do."
The state's promises came seven years ago, when it pledged to boost community services as part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, which had accused Virginia of violating the rights of people with disabilities who lived in state training centers.
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The latest independent review of Virginia's compliance with the settlement, completed in the fall, found the state still doesn't have enough community services staff, hasn't been able to make local community services boards and private providers adhere to its standards for care, and has no standards for implementing services aimed at behavioral issues. Officials are also transferring people to large group homes or nursing homes before getting the proper approvals, the review found.
The deadline for full compliance is the end of 2020, but the review found it will take Virginia much longer to have in place one crucial promised piece in place: teams that will monitor the quality of care, including how well deaths of clients are investigated.
Virginia still relies heavily on group homes licensed to house as many as 12 people — but to Burney, who lives in his apartment off Terminal Boulevard with support from the Hope House nonprofit agency, they aren't really homes.
"I was in one where three of us shared a room. People were always in your face. I didn't have a place where my family could sit down for a visit," Burney said.
James Burney says that, with a little bit of help, he and others with disabilities can live on their own. (Dave Ress/Staff)
Burney, 57, needs a hand running errands, since he can't see, and appreciates help with cooking. There's a Hope House office across the parking lot that's staffed 24 hours a day, so he can call if he needs anything. The help is funded with a Medicaid waiver — a program that pays for nonmedical services for people who need support.
But unlike many waiver beneficiaries, Burney doesn't have a direct service provider hanging around all day — or have to worry about what happens if the waiver isn't big enough to pay for 24-hour coverage.
That's because Hope Hope bills by the minute. If someone comes down for a half hour to help him cook, or runs him to the supermarket for an hour, that's all his help will cost Medicaid. It means Hope House can stretch Medicaid funds farther — and for Burney, it means the privacy and independence he values.
That includes going to R&B concerts, and with the help of some new technology, he can enjoy going to the movies, with an earpiece that tells him what's on the screen. He's in line for a fancy new cane that can tell him when he is approaching something he might trip over or bump into.
Technology is another way of stretching dollars. Generally, Hope House pays for that with fundraisers. Grey Persons, the agency's community outreach director, wishes Virginia would think harder about how more public funding here could help — just as he wishes the fees Medicaid pays for waiver services better reflected the degree of need for any beneficiary.
Fundraising covered the $16,000 bill that lets Jesse Monroe, who uses a wheelchair, live on his own in an apartment in Norfolk's Ocean View. Those funds paid for the costly work of wiring and programming his home so he could open the front door for visitors — or get out in an emergency. There's a ramp at the front doorstep, a wider doorway to the bathroom and space there for his wheelchair and support worker. Monroe, 41, has a severe case of arthrogriphosis, a contraction of tissues in his joints that keep him from being able to extend his arms and legs.
But when he calls into his smart speaker — "It's Jesse, can you come down?" — someone from the Hope House office upstairs is there for him. Like Burney, he likes that his helpers aren't there all the time, and he likes the idea that he's paying for professional help rather than relying on his family.
"I felt really guilty, always asking them for help," he said. "But I was also scared to be out on my own."
But his parents were in their 60s, and it wasn't as easy for them to lift his 130 pounds. The waiver only covered a few hours a day of a helper, so much of what he needed fell to them. Though his brother stepped up, Monroe didn't like thinking he was a burden to a busy sibling with a growing family.
When he talked to his case manager about his options, they were stark.
If he got an apartment for supported living, he could spend most of the day stuck in bed or his wheelchair for the long hours in the evening, overnight and early morning when there wasn't enough money to pay for support worker to lift him or help him get a shower, or cook a meal, or go to the bathroom.
Or he could go to a nursing home. He knew about that — he had to stay in one for a few weeks when he broke a leg, and remembers being trapped in bed, a call light unanswered, until he soiled himself.
Hope House, with its help with technology and system for 24-hour help, was the alternative he and his case manager didn't realize was there.
"Everybody deserves a chance. Everybody deserves a chance," Monroe said.
The federal investigation of Virginia's treatment of those with disabilities began in 2008. Three years later, the Justice Department said it had found the state was warehousing too many people in large facilities, which deprived them of their civil rights by effectively incarcerating them without cause.
The ensuing settlement, estimated to cost $2 billion, called for the state to provide community services to more than 5,000 people who were kept either in one of its five training centers for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities or in private facilities funded by the state.
Virginia is closing four of the five centers, leaving some beds at Southeastern Virginia Training Center in Chesapeake.
While the latest independent review found the state made progress on several fronts, it also reported officials:
haven't completed a system to assess risks to people with disabilities;
haven't implemented plans for public reporting on community services gaps;
don't have a system to assess adequacy of community supports;
aren't reviewing the quality of case management; and
are missing goals for day programs, including supported employment.
Dorothy Clark has a busy life, with a bit of help from Hope House. She's even hoping to get a driver's license. (Dave Ress/Staff)
If you get the right support, it's possible to have a life like everyone else, said Dorothy Clark, showing off the stunning mural of mountains and a lake in her Virginia Beach apartment. As far as she and Hope House are concerned, she's free to do that — it is definitely her home, not theirs.
She's been enjoying riding her three-wheeler on a nearby bike path, to visit her sister. She sells her paintings at community events and — since she's just passed her learners' permit test — is saving up the proceeds to pay for driving lessons and, someday, a car. Clark, who is 56 and intellectually disabled, wants to use it to ferry others with Hope House when they need to run errands.
It's a life much different than when she first moved into her own place.
"I was afraid to move this far," she said, taking a step or two sideways.
Grace Feazelle says she's "always on the move" now that she lives on her own. (Dave Ress/Staff)
Grace Feazelle, who uses a wheelchair, remembers feeling pinned down before Hope House helped her find a place of her own in Chesapeake. She had been living with her parents.
"They treated me like I was still 5 years old, not 30," she said.
"Now, I'm always on the move," she said.
On her own now, she's built a busy life. She takes trips to the library, where she takes an online biology course, and volunteers at St. Mary's Home for Disabled Children, where she's particularly fond of minding the babies. She spends a lot of time visiting a friend at a nearby group home, pushing staff to make sure she's fed and helped to move around.
"She tells me: I want to get out of here," Feazelle said.
Dave Ress, 757-247-4535, dress@dailypress.com

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For all the photography geeks and pixel peepers out there, this year's Photokina in Cologne was a bumper one. While some announcements were expected, others came from left field. Here are the hottest cameras to fuel your Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
Finally, making many an APS-C Canon shooter happy, Canon's newest 20.2 megapixel ASP-C DSLR was officially revealed. Judging by the specs, it was worth the excruciating anticipation. The EOS 7D Mark II boasts a capture rate of 10 frames per second (fps) along with a new 65-point cross-type AF system and Dual DIGIC 6 processors, indicating the camera is clearly aimed at action and sports shooters. Its ISO now ranges from ISO 100-16 000, expandable to ISO 51 200, and the 7D Mark II also supports both compact flash (CF) and SD cards.
Also onboard is an integrated GPS and digital compass, and a 3" non-reticulated, non-touch LCD screen. Video shooters are catered to with full HD video capture at 60p in MOV and MP4 formats, and new dedicated microphone and headphone sockets for external devices. Subject to change, its body only price is expected to be around R23 000 or R27 500 with an 18-135mm lens.
Nikon has been going full-frame crazy this year, with the D750 being its third model in 2014. As a follow up to the (very) old D700, the D750 sits comfortably between the D610 and D810.
There's a lot to get excited about, since it boasts a newly developed 24.3-MP FX-format CMOS sensor along with a 51-point AF system. This uses 15 cross-type AF sensors, 11 of which are fully functional up to f/8. Also worth noting is that the camera marks the first time that an FX-format (full frame in Nikon speak) DSLR has offered both integrated Wi-Fi and a tilting Vari-Angle 3.2" 1229K LCD, rather than a fixed screen.
Other noteworthy features include an ISO range from 100-12 800, while video is catered to as well; more specifically, the D750 can capture video in Full HD (1920x1080) at 60/30/24p. Expect it to land later this year for R32 000.
Samsung NX1 Smart Camera
Samsung also had something to debut at this year's Photokina; releasing the mirrorless NX1 flagship. The APS-C NX1 Smart camera could best be described, at least in appearance, as looking like a smaller than average DSLR sans pentaprism. It boasts a 28.2-megapixel backside-illuminated CMOS sensor, ISO range up to 25 600, an OLED electronic viewfinder, and a 3" Super AMOLED touchscreen.
As always with Samsung, particular attention has been paid to its connectivity features, which include Wi-Fi, NFC and Bluetooth. Worth noting is the new 205 phase detect autofocus points and the camera's capability to capture an impressive 15 fps, not to forget the 4K video recording. Its price Stateside when it arrives a little later this year is pegged at $1 500. (R16 500).
Leica M Edition 60
Leica's magnificent M3 is regarded as the best rangefinder (if not camera) ever made, and the German company is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the iconic M-System that it spawned, with the debut of the M Edition 60. Back to basics applies here in serious measure, since there is no LCD review screen at the back of the camera - as with film, if you want to see what you shot you will have to wait. With only 600 units available, you better talk to your bank manager to have your $19 500 ready this October.
Fujifilm X100T
Fujifilm's X100 range carries a special place in many a street photographer's heart thanks to its fixed lens, compact size and retro looks. The X100T is set to further this love affair with a new advanced hybrid viewfinder that combines the best of optical and electronic. This 16 megapixel camera with its 23mm (35mm equivalent) f2 lens camera is set to hit locally soon with a RRP of R15 000.
Also unveiled at Photokina by Canon is the newly announced, small but mighty PowerShot G7 X. Looking to compete against Sony's RX100 range, the light (304 g) camera sports a 1.0-type back-illuminated 20.2 megapixel CMOS sensor and f/1.8-2.8, 4.2x lens (24-100mm) in a compact metal body. The G7 X doesn't look like it has been spared any high-end features normally found on DSLRs, including a 31 point AF (autofocus) system, which caters for Touch AF, the Digic 6 image processor, 6.5 fps, while offering full HD 60p video as well. It further sports integrated Wi-Fi and NFC.
Common settings, such as aperture and shutter speed can be adjusted using Canon's Lens Control ring while the ISO range is a respectable 100-12800. Local prices have not been confirmed, but Stateside the camera is expected to cost in the region of $700 (R7 700).
Panasonic Lumix CM1
There's no denying that smartphones have steadily encroached on the fortunes of dedicated cameras over the best year, but rather than push back against the trend, Photokina saw one manufacturer – Panasonic – show how it has wholeheartedly embraced it. Its announcement begged the question - what do you get when you cross a smartphone with a Leica lens? Probably something close to this, the company's newest offering, which boasts a 1" sensor, 20 megapixel resolution and oh yes, a f/2.8 Leica lens.
Also onboard is a 4.7" screen with a 1080p resolution, a 2.3 GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor and 2 GB of memory. Harder to tell is whether the device is intended to be a capable smartphone with exceptional imaging capabilities, or a capable compact with the ability to function as a smartphone too. At present though it is only launching in France and Germany for €900 (R12 750).
A good time
Ultimately, this year's Photokina showed that the camera (whether DSLR, compact or mirrorless) segment is still going strong, and that it has never been a better time to be a photography enthusiast.
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Graham Peden
"Barry always found it amusing that I found difficulty in pronouncing 'Mesothelioma', but I have mastered the pronunciation and am eagerly looking forward to helping raise awareness of Asbestos in our community and, thereby, reduce the incidence of this avoidable cancer.
Graham, who was born in Canada and educated in England, has qualifications in building and quantity surveying. His experience includes major projects in Britain and over 30 years in Australia and has been professionally involved in a range of projects including apartments, schools and colleges, defence facilities as well as involvement in the completion of St. Mary's Cathedral and Bunbury Cathedral.
Graham has been an active member of the Rotary Club of Perth since 2005 where he has been involved in a number of worthy causes involving vocational and cultural issues, homelessness issues, health and sustainability. Graham is a past president of the Rotary Club of Perth and is a past District Governor of Rotary District 9455 here in WA. It was in his role as President in 2015-16 that Graham first had the privilege to meet Reflections Founder Barry Knowles.
Bruce Watkins (Chair)
"It was an honour and a privilege to accept the late Barry Knowles' invitation to succeed him as Chairman of the Reflections board. Barry's energy and inspiration in raising awareness of asbestos related lung disease and his desire to support medical research that would find a cure or treatment for mesothelioma is what drives all of us at Reflections"
Bruce is a strategic business adviser, leadership team facilitator and change management consultant to small and medium sized businesses across Western Australia. Bruce's skills and experience in organisational development, with a focus on people, systems and leadership have helped over 120 SME businesses during the past 18 years.
He has lectured in Entrepreneurship at Murdoch University to Masters level and has been a senior mentor with Curtin University's Centre for Entrepreneurship for the past 20 years. His experience as a non-executive advisory board member to numerous clients and various not for profit organisations, combined with his graduate status in the AICD's Company Directors course, have contributed to Bruce's skills in the key areas of strategy, organisational development and corporate governance.
In addition to Reflections Through Reality, Bruce is actively involved in other not for profit organisations, including:
Baptist Churches of Western Australia Inc. (Council Chairman)
98.5 Sonshine FM Community radio (Board Member)
Blue Sky Pilbara Pty Ltd, a Pilbara community development NFP (Board Member)
Cate Harman
"Having spent my career working in the health and medicine space, I have become quite passionate about giving back some of the value of my experience, especially in the not-for-profit sector, and am delighted to be on Reflections board."
Cate's career spans over 30 years where she has gained experience in a variety of roles and sectors, whilst also raising her family.
She worked in clinical research for several years in both hospital and university environments, and ran a private business tutoring mostly Physiology, Biochemistry and Pathophysiology, while starting her family. After moving to Perth and making WA home to raise her four sons, Cate set up a private health clinic which she ran for several years.
Cate has spent the most part of her career working in the not-for-profit sector, as WA State Manager for Prostate Cancer Foundation, and consulting for other charities. This has provided her management experience with charities as well as small business, and board experience in national organisations.
Cate is passionate about building effective relationships, and currently helps organisations in building effective stakeholder relationships, developing workable strategies, and creating valuable opportunities in a variety of environments.
Jo Morris, Managing Director
"Prior to Dad's diagnosis, I knew very little about asbestos and had never heard of mesothelioma. Sadly, I believe this is not uncommon and without more community awareness, people will continue to suffer the loss and devastation that my family have experienced firsthand through something that is preventable."
Co-founder and Director, Joanne (Jo) Morris is the driving force behind Reflections. Jo's passion for the cause was shared with her father, Barry Knowles, who passed away from mesothelioma in December 2016. Jo is proud to carry on his legacy.
With a background in public relations, sales and marketing, Jo is confident to take on whatever challenge comes her way and to complete it with pride and integrity. Jo's creativity is demonstrated in her role as Design Consultant in the Perth-based building design company she has operated with her husband since 2003.
Justin Manolikos
"With the late Barry Knowles being a long-standing client and friend of mine, his incredible strength and will to help those around him, even as he struggled with his own health, led to my natural desire to be involved with Reflections. It is a cause with a message that needs to be brought to the forefront of everyone's mind via ongoing education and awareness."
Justin provides taxation, accounting and business advice to a diverse client base at Hall Chadwick, with a focus on the engineering, financial and medical sectors. He has extensive experience within the agribusiness sector, particularly in the viticulture sector. He also plays a lead role is within the medical industry providing comprehensive advice to owner/operators.
Justin is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) and has been providing proactive business service advice for 20 years. Justin is a CA SMSF Specialist and a Fellow of Governance Institute of Australia.
Through Justin's sport management experience, he lead's Perth's suite of services which are designed to assist talented athletes achieve their potential and secure a financial future beyond their sporting life. He has enjoyed significant success in managing and promoting four-time, three weight division boxing world champion, Danny Green.
Justin is an inaugural Board Member of the Jackman Furness Foundation established by Hugh Jackman and Deborah Lee Furness to provide financial security for the WA Academy of Performing Arts. He also sits on the Boards of WA Charity Direct, Danny Green's Fight Chance and Cowards Punch Foundations as well as the Reflections Through Reality Foundation.
"Asbestos remains ubiquitous in our environment, and we continually need to ensure people are aware of the dangers this poses. From the first time I met Jo (Morris) I have been impressed with the commitment that Reflections, as an organisation, has in raising awareness about asbestos and in supporting research into asbestos-related disease."
Peter Franklin has a strong interest in, and understanding of, asbestos exposure and asbestos-related disease from both a research and policy point of view. He works in asbestos research at UWA, and asbestos policy at the WA Department of Health.
Peter is an occupational and environmental epidemiologist with a strong research interest in both occupational and non-occupational exposure to asbestos. Other research interests include mining exposures, indoor and outdoor air pollution and children's environmental health. For the past 10 years he has worked in the Occupational Respiratory Epidemiology (ORE) research group at the School of Population and Global Health, UWA. He also teaches environmental and occupational health within the Masters of Public Health program.
In 2012 Peter took a position as a science and policy officer at the Environmental Health Directorate, WA Department of Health. In this role he has been involved in the review and update of the public health asbestos regulations. He also provides advice to the public and local governments on asbestos-related issues and helps in developing material to improve the public's awareness of asbestos in the built environment.
Lex McCulloch
"My entire career was about the wellbeing of Western Australian citizens. Joining the board of Reflections continues this passion."
Retiring in 2019, Lex held various positions within Government including acting CEO of the Pilbara Development Commission, Director General Indigenous Affairs, and Assistant Commissioner Youth Justice Services for the Department of Corrective Services. He was the acting executive director of the WorkSafe Division and acting commissioner of WorkSafe Western Australia for the final seven years of his career.
Lex began his career with the Department for Community Welfare in Moora as a field officer. Two years later, he was appointed Manager of the Kimberley Division being responsible for departmental service delivery. In 1984, Lex transferred to the Goldfields as the supervisor and in 1987 was appointed to the senior executive service of the WA Public Service as the Director North Country based in Port Hedland and responsible for the Pilbara and Kimberley regions. In 1991, Lex transferred to Perth where he held several positions including Director Human Resources, Executive Director South Metropolitan and Executive Director Service Delivery, until leaving the department in 2006.
Born and raised in the Wheatbelt town of Kellerberrin, Lex completed his Leaving Certificate at Merredin Senior High School whilst boarding at St Michaels Hostel, prior to moving to Perth in 1974 to undertake a Bachelor of Applied Science (Social Work) at the WA Institute of Technology, now Curtin University, completing his degree in 1978.


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No.105 Hop In for a Swim at London's Royal Docks on the Thames
London, Royal Docks
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In 1726, a young Benjamin Franklin spent time working as an apprentice in London. One day, while out with his friends walking along the banks of the Thames in Chelsea, he decided to jump into the river. Charming onlookers with his breaststrokes, backstrokes, and overarm skills, he swam all the way to Blackfriars some three-and-a-half miles downriver.
The ability to swim in that era was a novelty. So, gauging his friends' enthusiastic response, the ever-industrious Franklin toyed with the idea of opening a swimming school to teach Londoners how to do it. Prudently, he abandoned the idea, prioritizing some of his other projects that have proved, with hindsight, to be more beneficial.
So Clean You Could Swim In It
The Thames river stretches over 215 miles from its source in Gloucestershire through England's capital and out to the North Sea. It is not only a waterway: Through its winding path the story of England can be told. It has been a source of power both sacred and secular, as evidenced by the numerous abbeys, monasteries, castles, palaces, and even Parliament itself, built on its bank.
While the story of Ben Franklin's Thames swim found its way into Franklin lore because of its sheer novelty, by the late 18th-century Victorian royalty, followed by the rich and famous, had vigorously embraced the practice. Swimming competitions became popular events and by the 1930s, the swimming fad had spread to the masses.
Soon, bathhouses sprung up along the riverbanks. At Kingston, schoolchildren were known to forge across to islands in that stretch of the river. Locals everywhere took advantage of the river as the Thames strong tidal movement periodically exposed sandbanks, creating something akin to beaches at Tower Hill, Greenwich, and Grays.
Never a clean river, by the end of World War II, the Thames was declared biologically dead. The government was finally forced to take action, embarking on a long-term plan to tighten rules for the disposal of chemicals and fertilizer and to prevent household water from reaching the river. The environmental agency also recreated natural habitats, removed concrete barriers and built up mud banks, which allowed reed beds to take hold once again. It generated over 400 new natural habitat areas to slowly coax native wildlife back into the river.
The effort has been a wild success, with the river now at its cleanest in 150 years. One hundred and twenty-five species once again make their home in the river. Salmon return each year to spawn, and seals relax on the sandbanks at low tide. Even sea trout, a species notoriously intolerant of polluted water, have returned.
All signs would indicate that the Thames is once again ready to receive bathers! With its 2010 designation, the "cleanest city river," it entered a period of environmental balance that will hopefully be sustained. It depends to a great degree on good ecological governance. So, as long as London and England see the environment as a priority, the Thames will remain habitable—and swimmable!
With good water quality established—check—where should one hop into the Thames for a dip? It's still a busy waterway. Striking out impromptu as Ben Franklin did might not be as safe as it was a century and a half ago. With a bit of research, I came across the perfect place to dip your toes into Thames waters.
A group of urban open water swimmers have set up shop at the London Royal Victoria Docks in East London. Between early March and late October all levels of swimmers are welcome to take the plunge for play or serious exercise.
This long-neglected London district where old shipyards unloaded goods from remote outposts of the former British empire, went through significant redevelopment for the 2016 London Summer Olympics. Former warehouses were converted into apartment buildings, and the tube extended from Central London. Now where those ships once docked, you can waterski, swim or take a cable car over the river enjoying sweeping views of the city along the way.
We booked into the GOOD Hotel, accommodation on a floating barge central to all the activities in and around the Royal Docks. The temperature was mild for a winter's day when we met London Swimming Club operator Rick Kiddle, one of Britain's first triathletes, and now local swim coach for all levels of outdoor swimming athletes.
At the Edge
Standing at the edge of the London Dock's vast expanse of water, a bit of apprehension crept over me. Since the moment I had the idea to swim in the Thames I had anticipated this moment with excitement. But now, with toes hanging precariously over the edge of the dock's old industrial containment wall, bracingly cool water below, I'm having a bit of a "what did I get myself into?" moment.
Rick's warmth and encouragement quickly take the chill out of the moment. Pointing out the different routes to swim, he gives me a quick rundown on the local etiquette for open water swimming and what to do if I feel like I am in trouble.
If you're like me, most of your swimming experiences have occurred in a pool. And when in the sea, I have never strayed far from shore. So as Rick pointed out the buoy that marked the turnaround point for my swim, it seemed a LONG way away. And once on the way, there are no edges to retreat to for a rest. For me, embarking on this swim would be a small adventure, and most true adventures come with some sense of risk.
I filled out a few required forms and received an official NOWCA (National Open Water Coaching Association) wrist band, inducting me into the largest community of outdoor swimmers, about 20,000 and counting. The band is both a safety device, letting the NOWCA team know who is in the water, and keeps tabs on your open swimming activity so you can track your performance over time and connect with other swimmers. Indicative of NOWCA's worldwide popularity, one of our fellow swimmers was a Japanese businessman in London for a visit who arrived in business attire, changed into his wetsuit, and took the plunge.
Rick has laid out two routes: a longer one for the advanced swimmers, or you can take the shorter course if you are just getting your feet wet. I swam the short route, and then with my confidence building, set out to conquer the longer loop. I took my time. Some of the seasoned swimmers zipped past me twice, lapping me with ease. Though a novice, it still felt exhilarating to swim out in open water; you really get the feeling you are braving the elements. With my second loop conquered, it's out of the water to warm up with a hot cup of tea and biscuits—after all, this IS England.
Chatting with some of the regulars, most swimmers make it several times a week after work as part of their regular exercise regime. But visitors are welcome. In search of a London micro-adventure? Take the plunge!
In the meantime, treat yourself to two amazing books about the Thames river. Check out "Thames", a biography of the Thames by Peter Ackroyd. And "Downstream" by Caitlin Davies, which tells extraordinary stories and offers a rich history of the river.
Planning a swim at the Royal Docks? Here is the current weather and what to expect for the next few days.
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Thanks to Sugar and the Hi Lows for allowing us to license the song "see it for yourself" for our theme song. The Gospel Underground is a joint production of Power of Change and the Bonhoeffer Haus.
Send your comments, feedback and or questions that you might want us to take up here on the underground to info@gospelunderground.org. We are a dialogue taking place in the borderlands between the church and culture and we hope to see you there.
Reid Monaghan received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Computer Science with a minor in Physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While at UNC he also competed on the wrestling team for the then perennial ACC Champion and top ten Tarheels. He is currently doing graduate work in Applied Apologetics, a multidisciplinary degree involving Philosophy, Biblical studies, and Theology at Southern Seminary.
After college, he spent eight years serving alongside his wife Kasey on the college campus with the ministry of Athletes in Action. He pioneered the Athletes in Action campus ministry at Virginia Tech and was the director there from 1998-2004. During his final two years on AIA staff Reid also served as regional director for the Mid-Atlantic and Ivy League schools. From 2004-2008 Reid was on the staff of Fellowship Nashville where he started a work with young adults called Inversion, preached in the Sunday rotation and taught classes in theology and Christian Apologetics.
Along with a team of friends, Reid planted Jacob's Well, a theologically driven and culturally engaged church in Central New Jersey. He also helped pioneer the Acts 29 Network in the state of New Jersey and continues to serve as assessment coordinator for and a consultant to the Acts 29 South Central Network. He is a traveling speaker where he addresses students and athletes on various campuses throughout the United States. He has spoken to college students at such institutions as Brown, Princeton, Yale, Wake Forest, Rutgers, UNC Chapel Hill and Virginia Tech. In addition to his campus work he has spoken in chapel services for the Tennessee Titans, the Jacksonville Jaguars and the New York Football Giants.
He has long been engaged with the task of bringing the gospel to people in culture in clear, relevant and compelling ways combining theological vision, apologetics, Christian thought and popular culture. His thinking and unpublished writing have been quoted in major works by Ravi Zacharias and Gregg R. Allison.
Some of his greatest joys in life are from the gifts God has given him in his wife Kasey (married 1996), and his kiddos Kayla (circa 2001), Kylene (circa 2003), and Thomas Reid (circa 2006).
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Partnerships Lead - Trusts
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At accuRx, we're on a mission to bring patients and their healthcare teams together.
Who are accuRx?
At accuRx, we're building a world-famous healthcare communication platform. Our mission is simple - to change lives by bringing patients and their healthcare teams together. Our technology is revolutionising how technology is adopted and how care is delivered in healthcare.
Established in 2016 and now with £9m in Series A funding, accuRx is one of the UK's fastest-growing tech startups. In two years, we grew from only a few GP practices using us to over 50% of practices in England. Today, over 98% of GP practices rely on us to communicate with their patients. We've just launched in hospitals and are already used by over 15% of hospitals in England. Our vision is that anyone involved in a patient's care can communicate with each other.
In response to COVID-19, we spent March and April working tirelessly to release new features to help frontline staff. This includes a video consultation solution that went from zero to 35,000 daily consultations in the space of 8 weeks.
Unlike many healthtech companies, we are a software provider, not a healthcare provider. We allow existing health and care systems (starting with the NHS in the UK) to deliver technology-enabled care, free from any AI/Blockchain-hype.
Life as a Partnerships Lead at accuRx
accuRx is now transitioning into a new phase of commercialisation. With wide spread use of the product, it's time to secure funding from NHS Trusts in the Community and Acute settings to fund the product for healthcare staff to use. This is a key moment for the company, and this role will play a pivotal role in making the transition a success.
What will our Partnership Lead needs to do?
Currently, we have adoption of our tools across many hospitals, community, and private healthcare providers. The vast majority of the product is given away for free.
accuRx is moving to a freemium business model, providing a set of premium features in a tier called accuRx Plus.
Now we need someone to move Trusts on to accuRx Plus across the country and build productive relationships with Trusts.
Move Trusts over to accuRx Plus
You'll help develop the strategy for converting over 233 Trusts onto accuRx Plus.
You'll deliver broad spread adoption to accuRx Plus within a year, seauring multi-million recurring revenues.
You'll establish a repeatable process for delivering the strategy with the appropriate tools (e.g. CRM).
You'll distill learnings from your engagement with Trusts to help other accuRx teams understand how to solve for their needs.
Building a strong value proposition
You'll be responsible for building a narrative around our value proposition, so that we can communicate it to different stakeholders.
As part of this, you'll also need to get Trusts excited about our upcoming developments that will really enable better patient self-management and integration of care within an area.
Building and nurturing Trusts relationships
We know communication in healthcare can be fragmented. To join up the various services that revolve around a patient, we will need close relationships with Trusts to help us with this.
accuRx Plus is only the beginning, we have a lot of exciting products in the pipeline. Having good relationships with Trusts will be vital to both develop and deploy these solutions.
What the team say ...
Becky - Partnerships Lead
"The best thing about working in Partnerships at accuRx is building relationships with people in all corners of the NHS, the vast majority of whom really see the value in our products and actively want to work with us. It is a really exciting time to join the team as we are going to market for the first time, a pivotal point for the company."
We'd really like to hear from you, if ...
You have 4+ years of experience in account management or sales with exposure to contracts or accounts worth £100,000
The healthcare industry is something you are passionate about
MEDDICC training or qualification is a plus
You're mission-driven and care about positively impacting lives
You're passionate about improving healthcare
You're excited by change and a fast-paced learning environment
You love solving problems, and relish in the constant challenges a startup throws your way.
You're an excellent communicator with the ability to translate complex to simple, bringing your ideas to life.
When you see something not working, you'll flag it and be part of the solution
You share our values
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By James Abeare
Trump's legacy
There is an old Vulcan proverb; "Only Nixon can go to China."
Now there is a new one; "Only Trump can talk to Kim."
The Trump legacy hangs on what happens after this week's summit North Korean leader (dictator) Kim Jung Un.
By early accounts, the summit seems to be a mild success.
We won't know for a few years if this has been really successful.
It didn't take until Bush 41 for the Berlin Wall to come down after Reagan's summits with then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
But we can take away from the Trump-Kim summit that North Korea will (might?) denuclearize.
They will return remains of U.S. troops that died in the Korean War.
Trump has said that he will currently end war games with South Korea.
No money has changed hands and I don't think any real promises have been made.
The left, they don't know what to say about it.
Some are nit picking the U.S. flag size against the North Korean flag.
You do know if this was Obama, the left would be praising the meeting up one side and down the other.
They would be pushing for another Nobel Peace Prize for him.
The left will be coming up with way the summit was bad for the U.S. over the next few weeks.
Let's just take this as it was, the first chapter in a long book that we have just started.
We still have a long way to go.
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Reality shows about gold miners, ax men, and ice-road truckers are a far cry from the Kardashians.
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online
The hysteria over Duck Dynasty reminds us that cable TV is currently inundated with working-class, white-guy reality shows. Top-drawing, relatively low-cost realities showcase gold miners, oil drillers, hunters, locomotive drivers, off-the-grid backwoods eccentrics, fishermen, crabmen, truck drivers, ax men, moonshiners, or the new generation of Beverly Hillbillies. The list of the particular subspecies of the muscular classes is endless.
These shows share a few common themes. They do not take place in an office, where most Americans work. They are not Kardashian psychodramas about plastic surgery gone bad, or a Gucci purse that underwhelmed the latte bunch in Brentwood. The men appear a bit beefier, perhaps stronger, but not necessarily more fit than your average American suburbanite. A big gut can add gravitas to the moonshiner's biceps in a way impossible to achieve at the gym.
These men don't quite shave each day, and close-up shots suggest that none use tooth whiteners. There are no Tony Robbinses on the chain-saw crew. Their speech usually is Southern-inflected, or at least rural-sounding. They are almost exclusively white, but do not seem to especially worry that they are. Whatever their actual income, the players clearly think of themselves as solidly middle to lower middle class. They work with the sorts of machines, many of them dangerous — huge trucks on ice, four-foot-long chain saws, earth-moving equipment, industrial arc welders — that most Americans do not even know how to start up.
Given that these reality shows are, like professional wrestling, largely scripted, one mini-catastrophe — a snapped cable, a tipped-over Cat, a fishing boat dead in the water — is obligatory per episode to remind the viewing audience that we are not watching office workers complaining about someone's too-strong perfume or discussing a sex-discrimination suit filed against the boss.
The performers are also ostensibly politically incorrect, another characteristic preferably hinted at rather than in your face. While producers are usually careful not to allow their casts to spout off about their supposedly obnoxious political views, most viewers assume that a no-nonsense, screw-you attitude accompanies their brutal work. Usually, though, we have to make do with bleeped-out swear words and temper tantrums instead of an incorrect joke or musing. Anger at the gubmint bureaucrats who try to shut down the digging or who want to save a forest rat at the expense of a good tree suggests that the legions of Pajama Boys and Sandra Flukes are not welcome.
There are lots of theories why watching these good ol' boys at work has caught on. The zoo hypothesis suggests that American suburbanites are amused by exotic creatures that they rarely see at the mall or biking about the trails in Spandex — in perhaps the same way as Petronius wrote for his literate audience about smelly soldiers and crafty innkeepers. The miners and cutters certainly don't act like the Prius crowd in Menlo Park or the wine-tasters in Napa Valley.
Instead, just as grizzly bears and Bengal tigers are a big draw at the zoo, so too white-boy reality shows allow us to get close to these perhaps-endangered species. And as long as they do not stick their paws and snouts too far out between the bars to mouth off about gays, minorities, or feminists, there is a quaint appeal in — safely — watching these men cuss, and occasionally fight, while sawing and drilling in the wild. Why go on safari to their usual haunts in Alaska, Louisiana, or Wyoming, where bad things are said to happen to outsiders, when A&E can bring the perpetrator class, slightly sanitized, into your living room? A metrosexual can enjoy Duck Dynasty or Ax Men without necessarily being fond of the political wing inhabited by Sarah Palin or Mike Huckabee.
Aside from the idea of glimpsing rare species in their natural habitat, a second theory suggests that viewers are smugly satisfied that they are not like these uncouth white boys, who are certainly worse spoken, more emotional, less mature, and more intolerant than the viewership. For all the MSNBC talk of "white privilege," these reality shows remind Americans of a non-minority underclass (fabricated though it is for TV) that is a bit worse off than the Latina newscaster who trills her Rs each evening on the news.
The producers perhaps sense that paradox of the so-called privileged being not too privileged. They usually script a clueless laborer forgetting to gas up the drilling rig and then wondering why it won't start – the producers' use of a sort of postmodern white version of Stepin Fetchit. Sometimes a foolish driver takes his tracked vehicle over a ridge — only to be surprised when it tips over. Things seem to smoke, blow up, and go kaboom a lot, as the good ol' boys apply baling wire to broken, but once sophisticated, store-bought machines. These white boys also seem perennially broke — just one good gold vein, a bunch of crab legs, or a good batch of moonshine away from at last dealing with their joyless, bottom-line-watching creditors.
Despite the wide variety of the shows, the characters in all their manifestations are stock. One is the aged patriarch who has no business still hobbling around, poking this and banging that, as if he cannot survive without a few dollars in wages that day. The viewer assumes that such unsophisticated folk are not padding their 401(k)s in anticipation of the time when their arthritic joints, bad backs, or incipient diabetes makes sawing or driving too excruciating. No accountant seems to be around to remind them to depreciate the tractor or write off the doctor's bill for the bad leg. They eat poorly, often smoke, and will not end up at 65 like the viewer who long ago got his cholesterol below 200 and avoids trans fats. Apparently, these strange shows offer viewers the reassurance not just that they are looking better, feeling healthier, and enjoying more security than those on screen, but also that the latter brought their problems on themselves. The ice truckers probably do not go in for their periodic colonoscopies.
But there is yet a third and perhaps more likely hypothesis (none of these are mutually exclusive), well beside the notions that viewers are either amused by the slapstick or satisfied they at least have not yet sunk so low. The national hysteria over Duck Dynasty's successful war against GLAAD and the profit-minded A&E execs might suggest that the white working classes also are therapeutic for millions of Americans. Suburbanites and urban dwellers usually don't know much about nature; their jobs are not predicated on muscular strength. A fir, a pine, a spruce — they are all just trees. Who cares where north is, or whether the wind blows westward? Today's youth don't know the difference between a rip and a cross-cut saw.
Yet Americanus suburbanus also has a vague sense that for all the talk about the Dow Jones, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook economy, someone somewhere else still must be doing something that accounts for lumber at Lowe's, gas at the corner Stop-N-Go, granite counters in the kitchen, and arugula at Whole Foods.
Perhaps for the techie designer, the insurance adjuster, or the special assistant to the university president, all that something in some strange way is felt to be more real, or at least fascinating. In the heart of every suburban soccer mom there is a reason she navigates a huge four-wheel-drive, snow-tire monstrosity, or has treads on her hiking boots that could take her over Mount Whitney. The ability to go anywhere is not necessarily antithetical to the usual reality of going nowhere. Watching these shows is a sort of grubbier version of wandering around an REI store, soaking up all the ways in which to confront the wild.
So good-ol'-boy reality offers glimpses, premodern though they may be, of unrestrained freedom. In our upside-down world, the eighth-grade teacher understands that one wrong word, an ill-timed joke, a casual pat on the shoulder can end a career, pronto — while his punk student with the gang-banging parent who shouts profanity at him are mostly exempt from worry. The boss at the DMV accepts the fact that the whiff of a sexual-harassment suit, the rumor of an impending racial-discrimination allegation, the suggestion of inhospitality to the handicapped are more terrifying than the rowdy 16-year-old who pulls in to take his driving test in a monster truck. In our dreams it is better to be an ax man, where it's Mother Nature, not the local diversity czar, who is after you.
The crabmen and lumberjacks don't seem to worry about what they say or whom they offend — to the degree that such screw-it attitudes can be hinted about on politically correct camera. They are not fellow subjects who live among us in our kingdom of lies, in which you both dare not confess to profiling and dare not walk in a particular Philadelphia neighborhood. In contrast, these mythic men of the wild act as if they do not care about second-hand smoke or the right zip code. They apparently buy fast food, and their kids can watch bad TV — in a world where Mayor Bloomberg and Michelle Obama do not exist. There are no neurotic college-prep kindergartens with long waiting lists outside the trailer park in northern Alaska.
That freedom from our thought police and the Pajama Boy scolds and the social aspirations of the yuppie mesmerize the viewer — all the more so in that it usually entails giving up the good life as defined by the normal upper-middle-class cursus honorum. In our make-believe swamps, rugged forested Lala Lands, or fishing boats tossing at sea, the contemporary Walter Mittys of the world unite to do what they want, say what they please, fight nature rather than the government statistician, and let the clerks sort it out — every night from 5 p.m. onward.
NRO contributor Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author, most recently, of The Savior Generals.
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Stocks end advance as oil rally falters
A halt in this week's rally in oil prices has held back European stocks and pushed German Bund yields below 0.2 per cent as worries about the global economic outlook lingers on.
The renewed aversion to risky assets pushed the Japanese yen to a 2 1/2-year high against the euro. Sterling held steady as talks for a changes in Britain's European Union membership dragged on through the night.
Brent futures were little changed at $US34.27 a barrel on Friday after ending the previous day down 22 cents. A record buildup in US crude stockpiles stoked concern about global oversupply, outweighing moves by oil producers, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, to cap oil output.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 was down 0.38 per cent at 1,289.03 points. In spite of the decline, the index was on course for its best week since January 2015. Britain's FTSE 100 was down 0.1 per cent.
The declines track losses in Asian shares, which slipped from near three-week highs. Assets perceived as safe havens did well, with German 10-year Bund yields falling two basis points to 0.19 per cent. Ten-year US T-note yields also fell two basis points to 1.74 per cent.
"The recovery in risk markets is still fragile," BNP Paribas rate strategist Patrick Jacq said.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.5 per cent and Japan's Nikkei dropped 1.4 per cent. On the week, however, they were up about four per cent and seven per cent, respectively.
The weekly performance came after gains by oil eased some of the deflation concern in the developed world.
Oil prices rose more than 14 per cent in the three days to Thursday after Saudi Arabia and Russia, supported by other exporters, including Venezuela and Iraq, moved to freeze oil output at January's levels. Iran endorsed the plan without commitment on Wednesday.
If approved, it would be the first such agreement in 15 years among the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and non-OPEC members.
Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Thursday talks would continue between OPEC and non-OPEC members to find ways to restore "normal" oil prices.
But data showing US crude inventories rose by 2.1 million barrels last week, to a peak of 504.1 million barrels, the third week of record highs in the past month, holding prices down.
At the EU summit, British Prime Minister David Cameron urged EU leaders to agree a deal that would allow him to campaign in a June referendum to stay in the EU. Fellow leaders and diplomats said an agreement seemed possible by the end of a two-day summit on Friday, but some said outstanding issues were proving tough to crack.
Sterling was down 0.1 per cent against the dollar.
"By the end of today, we should have a decent idea whether the UK is set to have a referendum on EU membership this year," said Simon Smith, chief economist at FxPro.
"This matters for sterling, which has certainly shown strong signs of concern so far this year."
The yen reached its strongest since June 2013 against the euro at 125.33. The dollar was down 0.15 per cent against a basket of major currencies.
Spot gold eased 0.5 per cent to $US1,225.43 an ounce, after gaining two per cent on Thursday. For the week, it has lost one per cent as traders took profits after the metal climbed to a one-year top last week.
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Бахтура́с Бейскба́ев (, более корректная передача на русский — Бактыораз Бейсекбаев; 1920 — ) — стрелок бомбардировщика 1-й авиационной эскадрильи 207-го дальнебомбардировочного авиационного полка 42-й дальнебомбардировочной авиационной дивизии 3-го авиационного корпуса дальней бомбардировочной авиации, младший сержант. Погиб во время боевого вылета, по одной из версий — в результате тарана немецкой механизированной колонны. Посмертно удостоен званий Герой Российской Федерации (1996) и «Народный Герой» (1998, Казахстан).

Биография
Родился в 1920 году в селе Ильинское Верненского уезда Семиреченской области Туркестанской АССР. Казах. Происходит из подрода Байшегир рода Шуманак племени Жалайыр. В Красной армии с 1938 года. На момент начала Великой Отечественной войны служил в 3-й (с 24 июня — в 1-й) эскадрилье 207-го дальнебомбардировочного авиаполка нижним стрелком в экипаже Александра Маслова.

Гибель
26 июня 1941 года при нанесении удара по вражеской колонне на шоссе Молодечно — Радошковичи бомбардировщик ДБ-3Ф, стрелком-радистом которого был Бахтурас Бейскбаев, был подбит и упал около д. Декшняны. Вместе с ним погибли все члены экипажа: командир корабля капитан Александр Маслов, штурман лейтенант Владимир Балашов, стрелок-радист младший сержант Григорий Реутов. Согласно многочисленным данным, командир самолёта Маслов направил горящую машину на скопление вражеской техники на шоссе вместо экипажа Николая Гастелло.

Обстоятельства гибели Б. Бейскбаева: версии и факты
Так как свидетельств гибели самолёта А. С. Маслова не было, Б. Бейскбаев, как и весь экипаж считался «пропавшим без вести». По идеологии того времени военные, чья смерть не была точно установлена, подозревались в возможной «измене Родины».

В 1951 году для последующего торжественного захоронения была произведена эксгумация останков из предполагаемой могилы однополчанина Б. Бейскбаева, командира 2-й эскадрильи Н. Гастелло, который, как считалось, совершил прославленный «огненный таран» в тот же день, когда погиб экипаж Маслова и в том же месте. Однако на месте захоронения были найдены личные вещи капитана Александра Маслова и стрелка-радиста Григория Реутова — членов экипажа Б. Бейскбаева. Руководивший перезахоронением подполковник Котельников с санкции партийных органов провёл секретное расследование, в результате которого было установлено, что на месте предполагаемого тарана Гастелло разбился самолёт Александра Маслова. Так как данные о том, что на месте предлагаемого подвига Гастелло на самом деле погиб другой экипаж, противоречили официальной версии «огненного тарана», информация о месте гибели членов экипажа Маслова не была обнародована, обстоятельства их смерти не расследовались. Останки Б. Бейскбаева и других членов экипажа без огласки перезахоронили в братской могиле на кладбище Радошковичей, фрагменты их бомбардировщика — отправлены в музеи страны, как останки самолёта Гастелло, на месте гибели экипажа Маслова был установлен памятник-монумент, посвященный подвигу экипажа Н. Ф. Гастелло.

В конце 80-х — начале 90-х годов XX века общественности стало известно о том, что на месте известного всей стране «огненного тарана» Н. Гастелло на самом деле потерпел крушение самолёт Александра Маслова. В связи с этим, родилась версия, что колонну вражеской техники таранил экипаж Маслова, а не Гастелло. Усилиями сторонников версии «огненного тарана» самолётом Маслова Б. Бейскбаев, как и все члены экипажа, в 1992 году был удостоен ордена Отечественной войны I степени, а в 1996 году — звания Героя Российской Федерации с формулировкой: «За мужество и героизм, проявленные в борьбе с немецко-фашистскими захватчиками в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 годов». В 1998 году Б. Бейскбаев был удостоен высшей награды Казахстана «Халық Каһарманы» (Народный герой Казахстана).

В то же время ряд исследователей считает полностью несостоятельной версию о том, что таран совершил экипаж Маслова, полагая, что самолёт не врезался в колонну машин с горючим и боеприпасами, а упал на мягкий грунт. Следовательно, они считают не доказанным факт наземного тарана бомбардировщиком Маслова.

Установление истины осложняется тем, что имеющиеся свидетельства противоречивы и запутаны, а многие документы утрачены как в ходе Великой Отечественной войны, так и в послевоенное время.

В истории гибели экипажа Маслова, в том числе Бахтураса Бейскбаева, достоверным является:
 дату гибели — 26 июня 1941 года
 место крушения самолёта — у села Декшняны
 место захоронения — братская могила в пгт. Радошковичи

Награды
 Орден Отечественной войны I степени (1992, посмертно). Приказ Главнокомандующего Объединёнными Вооружёнными Силами СНГ № 43 от 27.04.1992.
 Звание «Герой России» (1996, посмертно). Указ Президента Российской Федерации № 635 от 2.05.1996.
 Звание «Народный Герой» (1998, посмертно). Указ Президента Республики Казахстан от 7.05.1998.

См. также
 Маслов, Александр Спиридонович
 Гастелло, Николай Францевич

Примечания

Литература
 В. Карпенко. Подвиг Гастелло

Ссылки

 Небесные воины
 Забвение за подвиг
Версия: таран Маслова:
 Антон Сидоренко. Где вы, капитан Гастелло?
 Два Капитана. Часть I. «Известия», 28 января 1997 г.
 Два Капитана. Часть II. «Известия», 29 января 1997 г.
 Фёдор Воробьёв. Николай Гастелло — подвиг, которого не было.
Критика версии о таране Маслова:
 Виктор Гастелло. «Правда о легендарном пилоте»
 Виктор Гастелло. Оставьте героев в покое
 Кирилл Экономов. Искушение «Св. Эдуарда»

Авиационные стрелки Второй мировой войны
Авиационные стрелки СССР
Погибшие в боях Великой Отечественной войны
Лётчики Великой Отечественной войны
Похороненные в Молодечненском районе
Погибшие в авиакатастрофах в Белорусской ССР

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Mamta Mohandas, Priya Anand and Prayaga Martin to play the female leads in Neethi
Actor Dileep is currently shooting for his new movie Neethi, directed by B Unnikrishnan. As reported earlier, the movie has three female leads. Mamta Mohandas and Priya Anand were already confirmed in the cast. Latest to join the team is the pretty Prayaga Rose Martin. It is said that all three female actors will have equal prominence in the movie along with Dileep.
Neethi is Mamta's fifth film with Dileep after sharing screen space with him in Passenger, Arike, My Boss and Two Countries. Prayaga has also worked with Dileep in Ramaleela. Priya Anand, who made her Malayalam debut with Ezra, has Kayamkulam Kochunni gearing up for release.
Neethi has Dileep playing the role of an advocate. It is said to be a challenging role as his character has a stuttering problem. Lately, Dileep has mostly been part of serious films as opposed to the fun entertainers that he is popular for among the masses. Neethi scripted by B Unnikrishnan also promises to be one such film. One can expect to see a sincere performance from Dileep this time.
Neethi marks his first time with director B Unnikrishnan, so it will be interesting to see how their rapport works. Bollywood production giant Viacom 18 Motion Pictures is making their entry to Malayalam industry by producing this movie.
As per trustworthy reports, the makers are planning to wrap up the entire shoot in a single schedule. They are trying to release the movie for this year's Christmas season.
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How Maverick Sabre and Daithí created the perfect homecoming track
Words: Dylan Murphy
Photography: George Voronov
This year, Jameson has brought artists from across genre lines together to create and showcase innovative new songs. The latest collaboration sees two enduring artists – Daithí and Maverick Sabre join forces for the first time ahead of an emotional pre-Christmas gig in The Workman's Club. With the performance in their crosshairs, the pair spoke to Dylan Murphy about the importance of intention in the creative process and the field recordings that fuelled an authentic collaboration that celebrated home.
Get your free tickets to the Jameson Connects immersive seasonal experience at The Workman's Club on December 12 – here
Ireland's history is irrevocably intertwined with emigration and since day dot it's been documented in art and culture. Think of the famine exodus recorded in The Pogues' 'Thousands Are Sailing', or more recently, Kojaque's rocky move to London depicted on 'Shmelly'. Music routinely distils complicated and familiar feelings that rear their head every time a friend leaves for London into emotive listens. What's more is, it's what keeps people connected when they are physically so far apart.
When referencing home becomes the emotional centrepiece of a song, it's a delicate tightrope to walk. It's easy for samples to sound contrived and for new iterations of traditional sounds to feel like the backing track to airport tourist shops. That's why Daithí and Maverick Sabre gravitated towards subtle references to the island when Jameson brought them together for the first time ahead of a gig that sees Maverick Sabre return home from London for a special pre-Christmas performance. The pair linked up as part of the latest Jameson Connects series to create a new remix of Mav's 'Open My Eyes', which dropped as part of his debut album Lonely Are The Brave and the subsequent re-recording which landed this year.
"There's a weird thing that kind of happens when you're working with Irish traditional music. You can very quickly get into a really cheesy territory that's super awkward and like cotton-eyed Joe where there's a pump going underneath. The stuff that can translate really well is rhythm, atmosphere, and emotion. If you can pull that stuff out of it and leave all the cheesier aspects it works really, really well", Daithí explains, as he reclines in his studio in County Clare.
There's a weird thing that kind of happens when you're working with Irish traditional music. You can very quickly get into a really cheesy territory that's super awkward and like cotton-eyed Joe where there's a pump going underneath.
Daithí
"I mean my general theory has always been this kind of idea where you never put a sample into a song that doesn't mean something in some way", Daithí says. "He [Maverick Sabre] grew up in New Ross, a small town which has a river running through it . So I had a sample of a beach that was quite close to there in my library of samples. I pulled that into the core structures. I built it all around stuff that I recorded from here and all around this area."
Having never met each other before the collaboration, it'd be understandable if either were apprehensive about the process. However, having spoken on the phone broadly about their approach to music, Mav instantly connected with Daithí's intentional manner of creation. "I think we're both very intent on telling stories and communicating emotions", Mav says. "From being around him, I think our intention is to make people feel something and you know, things can be hokey and poppy and connected and they can have heavy drops and that's all great, but I think if you're not telling anything and you're not bringing some kind of emotive element to music, then that only has a lifetime of however catchy it is."
From my experience when you and the other person are on the same page and you both connect, the music will always reflect that.
"I think you make the best music with other people when your intentions are the same. And when you get each other when it's not forced and it's natural. There's a lot of opportunities in music to make unnatural collaborations, and sometimes they can still connect and make a good song. From my experience when you and the other person are on the same page and you both connect, the music will always reflect that and I think that's the most important point… In my experience, if you approach collaborations like that, I always feel like that's when I've had the best outcome musically."
If there was a venn diagram of the pair's mission statements, the crossover would look very healthy. Having bonded over core beliefs, Daithí's intention to connect to Mav's hometown through field recordings only reinforced the idea they were on the same page. "I thought that's a beautiful way of being able to thread stuff that maybe the listener may not realise into a piece of music that has a deeper relevance than just a nice sound", Mav beams. "It's kind of like there's actually a story told within the instruments and the sounds that are being created and I think that's quite powerful. Those who know about it can tune into it and those who don't are maybe getting a Trojan horse of the influence in the background."
Following some tweaks and in-person meet ups in London, the pair landed on a final version of the song. Prioritising Mav's vocals, the remix brings them front and centre in an imaginative flip that doesn't abandon the soul of the original. It recontextualises it rather than breaking it down and building it new.
"I think his voice is the kind of thing that makes him stand out", Daithí says. "He was one of the people bringing the Irish accent into a hip hop environment and actually making it something that was interesting and palatable to listen to. So that was always really amazing for me… I thought it'd be interesting to do this thing where I just kind of strip everything back as far back as possible and just have his voice as like the thing that pushes through."
He was one of the people bringing the Irish accent into a hip hop environment and actually making it something that was interesting and palatable to listen to.
Daithí on Maverick Sabre
The reinvention is the latest in the Jameson Connects collaborative series which has brought together Irish artists across traditional genre lines to create innovative new music. Monjola and Biig Piig laid to rest any fears about frankensteined link ups when they united for a reworking that made too much sense not to happen on 'Feels Right'. Elsewhere, Narolane rapper MuRli and electronic producer Elaine Mai stretched listener's imagination in their transcendent electronic rap cut 'Ready' before debuting it at All Together Now. So 'Open My Eyes' feels like a natural successor in the Connect series lineage, especially given the fact it'll be debuted in the intimate settings of The Workman's Club, a venue much smaller the 3Olympia Theatre gig Mav has later today or the festival stages Daithí has graced over the years.
"Yeah, I think like as well, I'm sat in the Olympia Theatre ahead of my own sold out show. I haven't performed here since I was like sixteen when I supported The Game years and years ago. It's like a full circle thing. All my friends, family, and my extended family are coming down. Then obviously there's the tune coming out and I'm coming back to the performance of it on the 12th of December. I think, you know, sometimes the meaning of stuff takes you on this journey before you even realise what the meaning is".
Get your free tickets to the Jameson Connects immersive seasonal experience featuring Daithí & Maverick Sabre at The Workman's Club on December 12 – here
As part of the Jameson Connects series, Maverick Sabre, Daithi and more artists will take part in an immersive seasonal experience at The Workman's Club on December 12. With limited tickets available, interested persons can apply on the Jameson Connects website. To register your interest in tickets, head over to the Jameson Connects website here.
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Nanaimo RCMP are warning the public about counterfeit $100 bills that are circulating. (Black Press file)
Nanaimo RCMP issue warning about counterfeit $100 bills
Fake $100 bill successfully passed at pharmacy on Bowen Road this month
Nanaimo News Staff
Police in Nanaimo are asking residents to be mindful when spending and shopping after numerous incidents of fake Canadian currency have been reported.
There has been a significant rise in "individuals attempting to pass counterfeit Canadian currency at various retail outlets throughout Nanaimo," according to an RCMP press release, citing dozens of documented incidents between May 21 and June 24.
A majority of the reported incidents have involved fake $100 bills, which were seized and have identical serial numbers – EJS8511162.
On June 4 at the Bowen Road Rexall pharmacy, a woman was able to successfully use a $100 bill which was later determined to be fake by staff, said the press release. A man tried to pass a counterfeit bill the next day, but was refused service.
"The male involved is described as white, unkempt, 25-35 years of age and with brown hair shaved on the sides," according to the press release. "He was wearing a t-shirt that read 'Believe the Hype,' cargo pants and skater shoes. This same male is believed to be responsible for a June 4 incident at Wendy's in the Rocky City Plaza, where a fake $100 Canadian bill was presented. In that case the bill was seized by staff."
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"We know from previous experience that the people attempting to pass the bills are most likely not the ones reproducing them and are often being lured … with the promise of some discounted real money or drugs," said Const. Gary O'Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman, in the press release. "Many of the investigations are continuing and investigators are confident that the they will be able to determine who is responsible for producing the counterfeits."
Anyone passed a bill suspected as counterfeit is advised to politely refuse it, explain to the suspect it may be a fake bill, ask for another bill and advise the person to check the bill with police. Police should be informed.
According to the press release, people should consider the following when trying to identify fake bills:
Canadian and U.S. bills have raised ink at certain points and by running your fingernail over the shoulders of the portrait, you should feel ink.
Genuine currency has a finish that shouldn't scrape off and colours that don't run if they get wet and holographic strips that are embedded and don't peel off.
There should also be a 'window' on every note that has the same colours and details on both sides, says the press release. It should have a metallic portrait that mirrors the large face on the bill and changes colour when tilted. The windows have small numbers that match the value of the note.
Older $100 bills have a foil strip that should include those same small numbers and a maple leaf that changes colour when tilted.
Anyone with information is asked to call Nanaimo RCMP at 250-754-2345 or contact Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-8477 or submitting a tip online at www.nanaimocrimestoppers.com.
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STANFORD: Grandma made Addi the cutest little outfit!!!
She is so sweet in that outfit...I just want to pick her up and squeeze her right now! I hope she gets feeling better soon (and you too!). Love you guys!
Oh look at her, she is soooo sweet. Thats awsome that she has matching outfits with the cousins, you guys should do a photo shoot. You should come to lunch with us if your ever down here.
What a cutie! Hopefully she gets feeling better.
yes, she looks so cute in her matching cousins outfit!


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Pur non essendo stato scelto al Draft NFL, è ingaggiato dai Green Bay Packers per la stagione 2004. Nell'anno di debutto come rookie ha giocato 14 partite, nessuna da titolare, facendo 19 tackle di cui 15 da solo.

Nel 2º anno (stagione 2005) ha giocato 9 partite, nessuna da titolare, facendo 8 tackle di cui 6 da solo.

Nel 2006 è passato ai Texans senza mai giocare. E non ha giocato nemmeno nella stagione 2007.

Nella stagione 2008 è passato ai Chiefs ma è rimasto fuori per infortunio.

Il 17 marzo 2009 ha firmato per i Raiders che lo hanno rilasciato, infortunato, il 25 agosto.

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