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#TGW: Game Week is Near
In college football, the rule of thumb is that you don't want to look too far ahead. In football coaches' terms, that's not past the week ahead.
But, human nature being what it is, there's just no way to avoid looking ahead to the season-opener. It's the reason the words "Alcorn State" have been used more by Georgia Tech student-athletes in the past month than since, well, late August 2015, the only other time the Yellow Jackets met the Braves.
The good news is they won't have to look too far to see the opener, as it actually is the week ahead — next Saturday, to be exact. T-minus-10…
"We're getting to the point now, where it's, as I told our guys, it's close to game week," said head coach Paul Johnson following Wednesday's practice. "We'll go in shells [Thursday] and play a Friday game. Then we'll give them the weekend off and hopefully get their legs back. I know they're a little leg-weary."
Johnson feels his players are locked in enough. So tunnel-visioned, in fact, that they've measured their excitement for next week's opener, kind of not seeing the forest for the trees.
"I think you'll see [the excitement] when you get to game week," he said. "Right now, it's still a long way off to them."
Things will get a lot closer on Friday.
"Friday will be a game-scrimmage. We'll go through all the situations," Johnson said.
"All the situations" means ALL the situations. That's creating more than a little anxiety for Johnson and the staff.
"You never have enough time. You stress about going through everything that you have to go through and just you hope that you can cover everything," he said. "I've been doing this long enough, I've got a long list of stuff that can happen in games and we'll try to get all of it in on Friday.
"It's interesting. Sometimes I'll tell the quarterback to throw it to the other team and he'll look at me like, 'You're nuts,'" he added. "But you've got to practice all that stuff. Score on defense and the other team scores on defense and all those kinds of things you need to practice."
There also are still some position battles to be won. On the defensive side, first-year defensive coordinator Nate Woody is still getting a good look at his depth and trying to settle some of those roles.
"I think they want to play a lot of guys," said Johnson. "I'm sure what's going to happen is early on they're going to roll some guys and then whoever ends up playing the hardest and playing the best will be the guys that get to play the most."
The stinger linebacker position is one such battle.
"[Jalen Johnson] and Christian [Campbell] are competing at that stinger position, so I'm sure they'll both play," said Johnson. "I know that (Johnson's) had to fight a lot of injuries but he's pretty healthy now so hopefully he'll get to play. [Freshman] Charlie Thomas is there, too. I don't know how much he'll play. It just depends how deep they get and what they're doing, I imagine."
Strong safety also is up for grabs, with Kaleb Oliver and Tariq Carpenter expected to see time. About the only edge Johnson would give in that competition is to Oliver — Johnson jokingly said that Oliver has "stood out" more because he literally stands two inches taller (6-4 to 6-2).
It's said there's safety in numbers and Tech certainly has numbers at both safety positions.
"They're just kind of rolling," Johnson said. "Juanyeh [Thomas] is back there some, Malik [Rivera], all those safeties are interchangeable. Kaleb … Christian could go back there if he had to. There's just a bunch of guys rolling back there."
On the other side of the ball, the offensive line will continue to be closely watched as the opener nears.
"We'll just see who's available. That's always the thing," Johnson said. "I think we know who the starters are if everybody's out there but we've got probably nine or 10 we can rotate. Probably will in the first game."
Wednesday's practice served as an example of what the head coach meant by "we'll just see who's available." Potential starting right guard Brad Morgan return to action after an injury and Andrew Marshall, who's spent almost all of camp at tackle, got some reps at center before having to leave practice himself (although Johnson said Marshall's injured foot, which cost him all of last season, wasn't an issue and expects him to be okay).
Marshall was at center because last year's starting left tackle and this year's presumed starter at center, Jahaziel Lee, is at home in Louisiana due to a death in his family. Lee is the presumed starter at center because last year's starter, Kenny Cooper, isn't expected to return to practice until next week due to a lower-body injury sustained during spring practice.
There's also a slew of youngsters competing for a backup guard position — among them are true freshman Austin Smith, redshirt freshman Charlie Clark, sophomores Connor Hansen and Chet Lagod and junior Scott Morgan.
"It's just a constant move-around," said Johnson.
Johnson and the staff will continue to evaluate and the evaluation period will likely continue into the season. There'll be no rush to judgement.
"I usually don't single guys out. We've had guys that had good summers," he said. "We're getting ready to play. Let's let them play a little bit before we start singling them out. We'll know soon enough."
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Home » Companies » 'Extraordinary oversight': IAG faces class action over COVID-19 bungle
'Extraordinary oversight': IAG faces class action over COVID-19 bungle
The Insurance Australia Group is facing a shareholder class action over its handling of botched business interruption claims that triggered an emergency capital raising, plunged the insurer into the red and caused the outgoing chair to apologise to shareholders.
The insurance industry was rattled last year when it became apparent business interruption policy clauses designed to shield insurers from pandemic-related losses relied on an outdated Act of Parliament.
IAG's outgoing chair Elizabeth Bryan apologised to shareholders for management failures. Credit:Christopher Pearce
Insurers claimed the phrasing was a mistake because pandemics were always intended to be excluded from cover and have unsuccessfully sought to pursue court action to deny liability for claims arising from COVID-19 lockdowns.
After the NSW Supreme Court of Appeal sided with policyholders in late November last year, IAG was sent into a trading halt before it announced a $750 million capital raising to cover up to $865 million in claims arising from the findings.
This decision was the main driver in IAG's $427 million full-year loss, reported in August, which was underpinned by the $1.15 billion set aside for business interruption claims and associated costs.
Class action specialist law firm Quinn Emanuel will file the shareholder class action by the end of this calendar year. The lawsuit will not involve a litigation funder and will be filed in the Supreme Court of Victoria.
"It's an extraordinary oversight by the company, an insurer who deals in pricing, risk and being on top of developments would pin its intended exclusion clause on a repealed statute," partner Damian Scattini said.
Mr Scattini said ensuring exclusion clauses are up-to-date is a fundamental part of an insurance company's business, adding IAG's well-remunerated risk committee is tasked with ensuring policies are accurate. "There's no excusing it. This is an extraordinary lapse in judgment for a company that frankly should do much better."
Business interruption policies are typically held by public-facing businesses, including restaurants, bars and gyms – those that were disproportionately forced to close to stop the spread of the virus. After an unsuccessful High Court challenge, insurers are now awaiting the results of an appeal that will determine the scope of liability.
Mr Scattini said IAG had failed to keep the market fully informed of the potential exposure ahead of the NSW Supreme Court's initial ruling, which he said caused IAG's share price to fall by 7 per cent over the month. "During a teleconference with analysts, they were asked what happens if you lose the case? They [IAG directors] just obfuscated."
Quinn Emanuel will allege IAG has a systemic problem with calculating and minimising risk. During the full-year results, IAG's chief executive Nick Hawkins denied there were systemic cultural problems at the insurer, but vowed to improve executive accountability after the full-year loss was driven by risk management failures.
During the same day, IAG's outgoing chair Elizabeth Bryan slammed the company's approach to risk management as "costly and unacceptable" and apologised to all shareholders. Although this was not enough to quell shareholder angst in October, when investors delivered a first strike against executive pay.
Another class action law firm, Gordon Legal, has launched a separate lawsuit against global insurers QBE and Lloyds on behalf of policyholders who have been denied business interruption payments.
IAG declined to comment.
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It's been a while since Rampa aimed for collective affection, providing "The Touch". His current "Sunday" EP, counting as the Keinemusik catalogue number KM045, somehow continues this sort of sonic caress. "Sunday" EP it out now. You can order the vinyl via the Keinemusik Shop – here.


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import com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.Logger;
import com.intellij.openapi.module.Module;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.Computable;
import com.intellij.util.containers.HashMap;
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import org.jetbrains.android.util.ExecutionStatus;
import org.jetbrains.android.util.StringBuildingOutputProcessor;
import org.jetbrains.android.util.WaitingStrategies;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
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    }

    return result;
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Genworth MI Canada Inc. Announces Dividend Payment In the First Quarter 2014 Français
Genworth MI Canada
TORONTO, Feb. 4, 2014 /CNW/ - The Board of Directors of Genworth MI Canada Inc. (the "Company") (TSX: MIC) today announced that it has authorized and declared a dividend of $0.35 per common share for the first quarter of 2014. This dividend will be paid on February 28, 2014, to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 14, 2014.
Genworth MI Canada Inc. designates any and all dividends paid or deemed for Canadian federal, provincial or territorial income tax purposes to be paid as "eligible dividends", unless indicated otherwise in respect of dividends paid subsequent to this notification, and hereby notifies all recipients of such dividends of this designation.
About Genworth MI Canada Inc.
Genworth MI Canada Inc. (TSX: MIC) through its subsidiary, Genworth Financial Mortgage Insurance Company Canada (Genworth Canada), is the largest private residential mortgage insurer in Canada. The Company provides mortgage default insurance to Canadian residential mortgage lenders, making homeownership more accessible to first-time homebuyers. Genworth Canada differentiates itself through customer service excellence, innovative processing technology, and a robust risk management framework. For almost two decades, Genworth Canada has supported the housing market by providing thought leadership and a focus on the safety and soundness of the mortgage finance system. As at December 31, 2013, Genworth Canada had $5.7 billion total assets and $3.1 billion shareholders' equity. Find out more at www.genworth.ca.
SOURCE: Genworth MI Canada
Investors - Samantha Cheung, 905-287-5482 [email protected]
Media - Lisa Azzuolo, 905-287-5520 [email protected]
On July 7th, 2009, Genworth MI Canada Inc. completed its IPO and began trading on the TSX under the symbol "MIC". Genworth MI Canada, through its subsidiary, Genworth Financial Mortgage Insurance Company Canada, has been the leading Canadian private residential mortgage...
Genworth MI Canada Inc. Schedules Fourth Quarter 2020 Earnings...
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So I can happily say that I survived my first day of being a GP registrar. I stayed back late too, and I wasn't actually grumpy about that, unlike being in a hospital rotation. Which I thought was quite unusual actually.
After an awesome 2 days at an island resort attending official orientation with the GP training organization, I was a little apprehensive about starting today. Thoughts filled me with dread about what to do with the extremely difficult patient. What if the patient doesn't like me? What if I bother my supervisor too much? What if I forgot to do a critical investigation?
So I went in this morning to the practice, all tensed up and nervous. I got the software training, and had a tour of the place. Can't believe there is a CT scanner downstairs at the practice!
And when I got around to seeing my first patient, it wasn't actually so bad. Having experienced ED at the hospital, the patients there had been very unwell, and it always felt like I was waiting for a consultant, and constantly waiting for someone to make a decision because I wasn't experienced to make that call. And if patient's had built up, the whole department got stressed, with team leaders pretty much yelling if you were too slow.
I didn't experience any of that today fortunately. And the patients I saw were pretty lovely to be honest (which I guess I wasn't really expecting working in a low socioeconomic status suburb).
My very first patient – menorrhagia after going off the implanon. This has been for 2 years since removal of the implanon. Should I put her on the pill, or should I refer her? When is the normal time frame after implanon removal when patient should have regular period again? All this I didn't know, so asking the supervisor, he advised that I should refer her. And to do a speculum, since last one was done about 1 year ago when she had her pap smear.
And at the end of the day, I have a list of stuff I need to look up in more detail to fill my gaps in knowledge. Things like implanon contraception, hypertension management and investigations, and tinnitus.
My supervisor later told me how specialists would be well gunned for complex and really heavy illnesses, but for common things, would have no clue how to approach. He shared the example of a paeds consultant not knowing how to manage a child with VSD who got a simple finger laceration. The patient got stitched, and given gentamicin (which is overkill). But hey, in general practice, a good GP knows how to manage simple problems, and if its out of their scope or requires specialist intervention, a referral is appropriate.
In a way, that's why I chose general practice. A specialist is excellent in their field of specialty, but for other things – they have no idea how to treat. A GP knows how to manage basic conditions for almost everything, but not to levels of expertise like a specialist. But for things like a rash or bump/lump, I can imagine the cardiologist telling a patient to "go and see the GP".
Having worked in the hospital for the past 3 years, I can say that the first day of any of my rotations have not been as satisfying and bringing content as general practice.


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Fantastic question. The first thing you'll notice Is how well the drag and drop interface is designed. Just choose the element you need on the left, and place it on your layout on the rightside.
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Additionally, there are two things we'd like to see. First is a worldwide undo button. You can undo everything you type in text boxes, but it would be wonderful to erase mistakes once you add or move elements. Secondly, Weebly doesn't have an overall media database that keeps all of your pictures. You'll need to re-upload images for each and every element that requires them.
If any of the Above are must-haves for your website, you'll need to upgrade to Weebly Pro. And for a more comprehensive breakdown, please refer to our complete Weebly pricing comparison page.
Let's get 1 thing out of the way first. if You are an advanced SEO expert who certainly must rank #1 on search engines for a really competitive keyword, you might have a tough time with Weebly. It's not impossible, but there are limitations.
· Your headings are confined to H2. There is a free program which lets you add key words from h1 to h6, but it messes a bit with your formatting. We wonder why Weebly doesn't integrate it in their system.
· Certain pages (categories and product pages) add a mandatory string to your URL. You get things like www.yoursite.com/store/p1/my-product/yellow. Not a huge issue unless your website isn't in English. Same with the blog articles, they'll have'/site /' in the URL structure and this can't be changed.
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Regrettably, we wish Weebly offered more in the way of backup and restore systems. You have to look after it manually by conserving your site for a .zip file frequently. And there is no restore function if disaster strikes. Wix, for instance, tracks new adjustments and lets you jump back in time to a previous version of your website.
We'd say yes, with a caveat. It is great to Sell digital and physical products for small and medium-sized stores, but not for big ones. Although you can use the import and export function to manage many items, you might find Weebly lacking in features such as enormous stores.
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However, 1 thing all the apps have in Common is that a super simple installation feature. One click and bam! All programs are tested and will work immediately on your website. We tried some cool ones like a way to add tables, event calendars, and info bars to display specific information. Our only qualm is the quality and amount of apps is a marginally inferior those in the Wix App Store.
Weebly provides Hosting for all of the websites that are constructed on their platform. That can be good or bad, however in Weebly's situation, it's a pro. They have fast load speeds. Their sites are optimized for their own hosting. They treat security against spam and hackers. With business plans, they even install and keep SSL across your whole site. Here is my speed test.
There Are still speed and safety risks, but overall, it's an advantage for many website owners to have somebody else take care of speed, security, backups, etc.. The price tag is bundled with expert and completely free accounts, so it is a good value-add.
Whenever You begin some piece of software — no matter how instinctive — there is that moment where you think"ok, what can I do today?" That process is called onboarding, and it's also incredibly tough to execute well.
The Software maker doesn't wish to be annoying, but they also wish to provide help. I really like how Weebly builds in strong onboarding and instruction not just via email drip arrangement but also via little info buttons constructed with their platform.
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It is Not necessarily that simple. There's a whole lot of nuances to"drag and drop." Most of us really mean"I wish to drag and click this component and transfer it to a general area where it'll seem good — you know, mechanically centered, etc." In other words, it is like playing tee-ball rather than baseball…or bowling with gutter guards up. You want to do the thing, but also have a bit of assistance.
For The most part, Weebly pulls this off. Their drag and drop really functions. And, for the control freaks among us, they supply access to some custom CSS module, so that you may edit the template into exactly your choosing.
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The Significant advantage of creating your own site on your host is that you don't have to depend on a platform's feature set. If you go the stage route, it is key to be certain they have all the features you desire and need.
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There is No method to add custom content types (except inside a single page). If you are arranging a massive site (like hundreds of webpages ), the articles within Weebly would need a personal system to maintain it all sorted and readily accessible.
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Since Weebly allows for HTML editing, most advertising tools and features can be added to your site. However, since you still do not have 100% control on your site & server — it can be difficult and/or impossible to include advanced marketing tools such as an EV SSL, custom email collection applications, custom analytics packages, custom social shares, special Schemas and A/B testing computer software.
In The jargon — the main issue isn't having"root" or"FTP" access to your own server files. This isn't an unsolvable problem, however it is something to be aware of if you are planning a long-term project.
A bonus for Weebly is their eCommerce performance. It's possible to sell products from your Weebly website without switching platforms or doing any distinctive developments. It fits in effortlessly and contains strong functionality.
It's Great for sites that are primarily lead-generation, informational, etc also wish to sell a few goods. Additionally, it is a good match for anyone testing out products before moving into a long-term stage. It's not a long-term match for sites that are eCommerce-first. For those, an internet store you have with WordPress + WooCommerce or even a specialty eCommerce platform such as Shopify (inspection ) or Bigcommerce (review) are a better match.
If You are looking to construct a long-term content or direct generation site, then I would look at WordPress.com (for articles ) or Wix (for overall drag & drop) rather than Weebly. Even if Weebly meets your needs today, they may not in the medium future.
When we first started testing Weebly many Years ago, it was only another website builder. That's completely changed. Weebly has now evolved into an outstanding site building tool that is better than many competitors. It is easy, uncluttered and easy to use — which is precisely what people with limited technical skills need in regards to making their own online presence.
Of course, it's not 100% perfect. We'd like To see somewhat more templates, for instance. Finding an email address attached to your own domain name is also a bit pricey, as they recommend G Suite, which costs $5 per month, per user. (Although there are workarounds, since you can see in the FAQ below).
But all in all, Weebly reaches the top of our list of site builders. Their ease of use together with cool tools such as the iOS or Android program for editing your website on the go, or the number of add-ons out there from the app centre makes it powerful, and enjoyable to use.


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Q: importing images and placing them in an array in powerpoint I'm new to powerpoint vba programming. I'm struck with a problem, i have a macro script which basically takes the path to the folder where my images are there and it then places one image per slide.
Now i want the macro script to prompt the user whether to place 4 or 6 or 8 images in a slide. the output which i'm expecting is below:

i know that this can be done by "Insert photoalbum" but the problem is it has only option for four images per slide. So that is the reason i'm writing a macro.
this is the code which i used:
Sub CreatePictureSlideshow()
  Dim presentation
  Dim layout
  Dim slide

  Dim FSO
  Dim folder
  Dim file
  Dim folderName

  ' Set this to point at the folder you wish to import JPGs from
  ' Note: make sure this ends with a backslash \
  folderName = "C:\Users\hamanda\Desktop\B2_images\"

  ' Delete all slides and setup variables
  Set presentation = Application.ActivePresentation
  If presentation.Slides.Count > 0 Then
     presentation.Slides.Range.Delete
  End If
  Set layout = Application.ActivePresentation.SlideMaster.CustomLayouts(1)
  Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

  ' Retrieve the folder's file listing and process each file
  Set folder = FSO.GetFolder(folderName)
  For Each file In folder.Files

     ' Filter to only process JPG images
     If LCase(Mid(file.Name, Len(file.Name) - 3, 4)) = ".png" Then

        ' Create the new slide and delete any pre-existing contents
        Set slide = presentation.Slides.AddSlide(presentation.Slides.Count + 1, layout)
        While slide.Shapes.Count > 0
          slide.Shapes(1).Delete
        Wend

        ' Add the picture
        slide.Shapes.AddPicture folderName + file.Name, False, True, 10, 10

        ' Optional: create a textbox with the filename on the slide for reference
        '   Dim textBox
        '   Set textBox = slide.Shapes.AddTextbox(msoTextOrientationHorizontal, 10, 10, 200, 200)
        '   textBox.TextFrame.TextRange.Text = file.Name
     End If
  Next

End Sub

So now how can i modify this for inserting 4 or 6 or 8 images in a slide help me with this

A: Tested
Funtion Mod
And properties of shape like Left,Top,Height,Width will help you to get solution for your problem.
see the comments in the code for better understanding :). Let me know if you need further help .
Below code will insert four images in single slide.. if you look to insert more images then you have to insert elseif and Modvalue
   Sub CreatePictureSlideshow()
      Dim presentation
      Dim layout
      Dim slide

      Dim FSO
      Dim folder
      Dim file
      Dim folderName

      Dim i As Integer

      'Change the folder as per your needs

      folderName = "C:\Temp\C\"
     i = 1

      Set presentation = Application.ActivePresentation
      If presentation.Slides.Count > 0 Then
         presentation.Slides.Range.Delete
      End If

      Set layout = Application.ActivePresentation.SlideMaster.CustomLayouts(1)
      Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
      Set folder = FSO.GetFolder(folderName)

      ' loop though each image in the folder

      For Each file In folder.Files

         If LCase(Mid(file.Name, Len(file.Name) - 3, 4)) = ".jpg" Then

    If i Mod 4 = 1 Then
    ' For 1,5,9 .... images
            Set slide = presentation.Slides.AddSlide(presentation.Slides.Count + 1, layout)

            While slide.Shapes.Count > 0
              slide.Shapes(1).Delete
            Wend

            Set img = slide.Shapes.AddPicture(folderName + file.Name, False, True, 200, 200)
             With img
             .Left = 0
             .Top = 0
             .Height = 300
              .Width = 300
             End With

    ElseIf i Mod 4 = 2 Then
    ' For 2,6,10 .... images

    Set img = slide.Shapes.AddPicture(folderName + file.Name, False, True, 200, 200)
             With img
             .Left = 301
             .Top = 0
             .Height = 300
              .Width = 300
             End With

    ElseIf i Mod 4 = 3 Then
    ' For 3,7,11 .... images

    Set img = slide.Shapes.AddPicture(folderName + file.Name, False, True, 200, 200)
             With img
             .Left = 0
             .Top = 301
             .Height = 250
              .Width = 250
             End With

    Else
    ' For 4,8,12 .... images

    Set img = slide.Shapes.AddPicture(folderName + file.Name, False, True, 200, 200)
             With img
             .Left = 300
             .Top = 301
             .Height = 250
              .Width = 250
             End With
    End If

         End If
     i = i + 1
      Next

    End Sub

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Cork, 1923. Father Dominic, a much-loved Capuchin friar, is found dead in the confessional at Holy Trinity Church. Someone has killed him with a weapon thin enough to pass through the grille separating penitent from confessor, and sharp and long enough to penetrate his brain through his listening ear. Reverend Mother Aquinas, who runs a convent school and knows everyone in Cork, grew up friends with Father Dominic and his brother, Lawrence, also in holy orders. Though respectful of Inspector Patrick Cashman, the detective assigned to the case, and aware that solving the murder is his job, the Reverend Mother brings her keen faculties and web of contacts to bear, hoping to aid the overworked inspector.
The first question is whether the late priest had heard too much–and, given how he died, the metaphor is inescapable. But the secrets of the confessional are never divulged, so there was no chance that Father Dominic betrayed a confidence and paid for it. Nevertheless, shortly before his death, he visited an up-and-coming antique shop and saw something there that agitated him. Since he was no collector–couldn't be, considering his vow of poverty–why he went there raises more questions than it answers. What's more, the owner of the antique shop, Peter Doyle, has a little explaining to do. Witnesses say they saw him at Holy Trinity at the time of the murder; but he says he wasn't, and since he's Protestant, he had no reason to go there.
However, there's something about him that doesn't quite square. A theatrical group that he runs, which is preparing Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado, contains a raft of people who seem to have plenty of money to spend, no matter what their occupation. What connection that has to the murder is anyone's guess, but suffice to say that every cast member of the Mikado becomes a suspect. But what motive would they have to kill a much-loved priest?
Then again, no one is entirely beloved, and Father Dominic ventured into prisons to give the sacraments to incarcerated IRA soldiers. The agreement made the previous year to grant Ireland independence, minus the six northern counties, has pleased practically nobody, and the violence continues. Accordingly, the priest's death becomes a political issue, as do the religious affiliations and family lineages of almost every character in the novel.
I like this aspect of Beyond Absolution. Harrison re-creates the mutual suspicion and prejudice that crops up in or lies beneath the surface of every human transaction. She betrays the loyalties to client, faith, class, or brand of nationalism and how they seep through life and color how people make decisions. You see divisions within the police, the educational system, and the church. Since the dominant ethic seems to be based on tradition, fear, and suspicion, you get the feeling that the sensitive, forward-thinking characters–the Reverend Mother, Inspector Cashman, and a few others–are trying to hold back the ocean. In another nice touch, the Reverend Mother once taught Cashman, so she has a personal stake in wanting him to succeed; likewise, she can recall how several other characters behaved as students of hers.
There were, she supposed, other countries where the exchange operators took a number in silence and put you through, preserving an air of total anonymity about the process, but here in the city of Cork, that would have been considered discourteous. In Cork, it was assumed that everyone knew everyone else's business. And the telephone exchange women did their best to add to that common pool of knowledge. Sensible people, keeping this in mind, spent the first minutes exchanging remarks about the weather and the state of the streets before moving on to matters that were more private.
As for the mystery, Harrison tells her story well and keeps you guessing–at least about most things. It's a little too easy to tell the good guys and bad guys apart–as with Peter Doyle, the characterizations can be one-sided–and the antique-store crowd are a bad lot, which narrows the field quite a bit. You may not guess the killer's identity, but the motive quickly becomes obvious. Sometimes, Harrison clumsily introduces facts she wants you to know or character background. At those moments, I felt I was being Told Something Important rather than being allowed to discover it naturally.
Still, I appreciate Harrison's skill at re-creating an era, and I applaud her decision not to try to clean it up. The Troubles were a very violent time, and she gives a glimpse of why.
Eleven-year-old Annabelle McBride learns to lie because a sadistic newcomer to her rural Pennsylvania town pushes her to it. Betty Glengarry is several years older and uses her superior size, strength, and aggressiveness to work her will. She demands money, threatens Annabelle's younger brothers if Annabelle doesn't comply, and dishes out punishment that suggests what she's capable of. Since it's 1943, and everyone's thinking about the war effort against Germany, it's a nice touch to portray a young girl confronting a bully at home.
In this engaging, evocative novel meant chiefly (but not solely) for children, I wish Wolk had taken more care to connect the dots, of which the bullying theme provides one example. Annabelle never once thinks about what purpose the war might have, or whether the adults around her live up to their patriotism. She doesn't even recognize that the McBrides, as a farm family, can feed themselves more generously than city folk, whose lives are more strictly rationed–another opportunity missed.
Even so, Wolk derives power from small moments writ large. The key character here is Toby, a veteran of the previous war who's never recovered from whatever he saw and did in battle. Toby strikes most people as odd, but, never having hurt anyone, he lives as he likes, as a hermit in the woods, and his eccentricities have never roused anything more hostile than gossip. Now, however, as Betty's cruelties multiply, Toby becomes a convenient suspect. Annabelle gathers that Betty's trying to frame him, and most people implicitly accept his guilt, preferring to blame a misfit rather than a sweet, innocent girl.
Annabelle therefore takes it upon herself to protect a man she knows as fragile and frightened, kind when you allow him to be. It outrages her particularly that her Aunt Lily ranks among his most outspoken (and wrongheaded) critics. But to protect Toby requires more and more deceit, which makes Annabelle uncomfortable, so there's that. And as the net around him tightens, the more she discovers that adults whom she'd trusted to believe in fairness or justice seem ready to let their prejudices guide them instead. This too is a nice touch; she faces down a bully, whereas they attack the victim.
Our old barn taught me one of the most important lessons I was ever to learn: that the extraordinary can live in the simplest things.
But, as White also understood, children's literature is no good without a strong element of subversion. Children see adult hypocrisy, cruelty, irrationality, and faithlessness more clearly than anyone else, because they're tuned to it and suffer from it the most–think of Huckleberry Finn, Alice puzzling her way through Wonderland, or, more recently, Harry Potter's struggles with evil incarnate. Wolk has the moral setup, for sure, delivered with admirable economy. Without fuss or heavy lifting, she gives you good versus evil, truth versus lies, the suffering of the innocents, and betrayal. What more could you want?
Answer: depth and ambiguity. Toby, Annabelle, and just about all her family are 100 percent good, despite a minor failing or two, whereas Betty is all bad, without a redeeming feature. Moreover, it's not just that she's bad; she's a sociopath, a cliché that has ruined many a novel. As my seventeen-year-old astutely observed–he read the book over my shoulder during a long plane ride–Wolf Hollow would be far more gripping and believable had Annabelle rejected Betty's friendly overtures, prompting a reaction. That would have redressed the balance between the characters, which Wolk could have fleshed out further had Betty's cruelties seemed more like acting out or an attempt to get attention rather than cold-blooded violence. Instead, Betty has an accomplice in her ne'er-do-well boyfriend, with whom she gets up to who knows what, so she becomes that kind of girl–another cliché. And to overturn this axis of evil, Annabelle pulls off some rather improbable stunts, especially miraculous from so young a protagonist.
I give Wolk credit for daring to hurt her characters, both good and bad–she's willing to show that life isn't fair. But she'd have written a much better book had she not ducked two subversive truths: Good and bad aren't always easy to see, and doing the right thing is usually more complicated than it appears.


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Liêu Hữu Phương (Chữ Hán: 廖有方; Chinese pinyin: Liao Youfang; Wade–Giles: Liao Yu-fang), Chinese name Liao Yuqīng (fl. 9th century), was an poet and government official of the Tang dynasty during the early 9th century AD.

Biography
Liêu Hữu Phương was of Vietnamese ethnicity. He was born in Jiao prefecture (modern-day Hanoi), Protectorate General to Pacify the South, when Vietnam was part of the Tang dynasty. Little was known about his life.

The Tang imperial system did allow for some promotion by merit and could even be strikingly trans-ethnic. At this time, however Confucianism ideas had very little impacts on the indigenous people of north Vietnam. A Tang official wrote dismissively in 845: "Annan has produced no more than eight imperial officials; senior graduates have not exceeded ten."

In 815, Liêu Hữu Phương took a 1,450-miles journal from Hanoi to Chang'an, capital of the Tang dynasty to take the Tang imperial examination, but he failed. He then took a trip to Shu, modern-day Sichuan Province to visit a fellow student. In the next year, he participated in the civil service examination again and passed it. He was appointed as a librarian at the imperial court.

His poems most now are lost; his On a Stranger's Coffin: A Poem Engraved on the Occasion of Burying a Scholar at Baoqe in Quan Tang Shi is the only preserved one and the oldest extant poem written in Chinese by a Vietnamese.

See also
 Jiang Gongfu (731–805), a Chinese poet born in Annan

References

Works cited

9th-century Chinese poets
9th-century Vietnamese poets
People from Hanoi

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Journalist's Trade
Nieman Reports Summer 2005
Planting the Roots of Public Radio In Chile
'Teaching public radio in a place where people didn't know anything about it was a huge challenge ….'
Doug Mitchell
@nextgenradio
South America Training
ChileFor nearly 18 years I've worked for National Public Radio (NPR), and during much of this time I've trained young people in the United States who want to pursue a career in public radio journalism. In 1996, I decided that I'd apply for an international fellowship through the International Center for Journalists. I wanted to teach about public radio journalism in another country—Chile—where the students I'd be training would arrive with no real idea about what public radio is or does. In hindsight, if I'd thought more about what I was proposing to do, I probably wouldn't have applied. I shudder now to think about what I didn't know then compared with what I know now.
Not quite prepared but eager to try, I arrived at La Universidad de Catolica, in Santiago, Chile in March 1997. It was the first time an American journalist had come to this university to teach. At that point, I'd had only three years of teaching experience at NPR, since most of my experience in radio had been as a producer and director, not a trainer of potential radio journalists. Even so, the training projects I had been involved with had various cultural dimensions to them. At NPR we'd partnered with Black, Asian American, Hispanic and Native American journalists associations and, as part of our partnership, we'd sponsored radio-training opportunities for their student members. We would travel to different annual conference locations each year and immerse ourselves in the culture, issues and languages familiar to the communities we were visiting. It turned out that all of this training had prepared me pretty well for my overseas training mission.
Going to South America and teaching public radio in a place where people didn't know anything about it was a huge challenge, especially in pre-Internet days. I couldn't say to these college students, "Turn on the radio and listen to the stations below 92 on the FM dial," nor could I set up a laptop on my desk and play public radio through the Internet. So I did the next best thing: I brought public radio stories on cassettes and tape reels to them, including a few stories NPR had done in Mexico and others with some Spanish in them, though the students spoke English.
We did a lot of listening. In the beginning, I directed them to listen for style. NPR and public radio, I explained, has a special way of telling stories, so I advised them to listen carefully for the use of sound. I had them keep an audio journal, in which they'd write the first sound they remembered hearing each morning. At first, they thought I was nuts, but the approach paid off. Over time their ability to discern sounds and think about how they could be used in storytelling became very sophisticated. These journals also helped them write copy in which sounds became a key part of the story they wanted to tell.
We spent a few sessions on recording exercises, and we also devoted a class period to doing a mock press conference in which I pretended to be an arrogant U.S. senator on a trip to Santiago to encourage the Chilean government to support multinational companies coming into the country. The students were the reporters. I used the phrase "you people" a lot in an attempt to make them furious. It worked. Even as questions were still being asked of me, some of the students started to call the United States ugly names. When the exercise ended, we talked openly about how reporters cover such an event and why it is important not to engage emotionally with the person being questioned.
Lots of learning took place that day and not only by the students. I'd done a good job at pushing them toward this behavior, but I was surprised by their intense reaction. For the final project, each student produced an "audio postcard." The assignment: Tell me, as a radio listener, about a place in the city by using only sounds and interviews. The seniors did very well, but I quickly discovered that first- and second-year students didn't quite understand the meaning of a deadline.
Moving Out of the Classroom
The classroom experience was only one aspect of the training. I felt that I also needed to find ways for the students to get on the radio. So I met with journalists and management of the largest radio network in Chile, "Radio Cooperativa." I also spent time at "Radio Tierra," a station with programming for and by women, and I traveled twice to Buenos Aires, Argentina to talk with radio professionals there.
I found out that the challenges in these countries were similar: journalism ethics, salaries and self-censorship. Let me illustrate what I mean.
In Chile, which has the highest per capita income in Latin America, journalists are often among the lower-paid workers. Television people are paid more, which is not surprising. But in radio, a medium much more important to news than TV, most university graduates are discouraged from going into it because it does not pay very well. I heard stories about people working as on-air radio journalists holding second and third jobs, some worked in radio by day and drove cabs at night. This inability to earn a living wage can also lead to journalistically unethical behavior. It shocked me to hear from journalists (present and former), as well as academic instructors, that well-known journalists were sometimes being paid by government or private entities for interviews that would go on the air or in the newspaper.
Investigative reporting was practically nonexistent, not because of money, but a lack of training in how to do it and self-censorship. This has to do with the country's long history of military rule and political pressure. When I arrived in 1997, Chile was at a crossroads. Progressive- minded people who taught in the universities wanted to learn how to emulate the U.S. press. Yet at press conferences officials went unchallenged in their statements and news reports sounded like press releases.
As I learned more about these issues, I tried to simulate real working conditions in class as much as I could. But I also urged these students to think of themselves, in their role as journalists, as watchdogs who would ensure that those who serve in government do so honestly and openly, even though I knew that external incentives for selfcensorship were high. General Augusto Pinochet was running the military and driving around the city in a motorcade with heavily armed guards. People felt afraid, and I didn't blame them, given the intimidation they were made to feel. But this is one reason I like working with young people: With fewer established habits to break, they are often less afraid to try something new.
Building on the Foundation
After I returned home from this training assignment, I was visited in Washington, D.C. by Sergio Gogoy, who had overseen my fellowship and teaches radio at Catolica. No one from this university had come to visit NPR before, and when he went back to Chile I gave him tapes of stories and reading material about public radio. We also talked about continuing our radio training projects and, as time went by, we exchanged e-mail. I told Sergio that I wanted to return and do more training.
In 2002, Sergio told me of a proposal he'd made through the U.S. State Department in which I would return for a three week "follow-up" visit. It had been five years since I'd been to Chile, so I was delighted to be reminded of the ongoing interest and impact my teaching had on the students at the school. In October 2003, I returned to Santiago. The university had moved from an old convent to a new, gleaming facility downtown, and when I reached the school, I found a corner office with my name on the outside wall.
For the next three weeks, I did a special evening class in radio for students, spoke to students in other classes during the day, and traveled to Valdivia, in the southern part of Chile, to a university that is producing a lot of radio theater. I talked with professionals and students. This time I brought the stories on CD's, and we listened to NPR doing live broadcasts on the Internet. I also left with them a textbook. And on this trip I met Maria Paz Hermosilla, a student in my evening class who asked a million questions and came by my office to speak with me in her perfect English. As we talked, I wondered what she would think about coming to NPR. (It took quite a bit of work with the U.S. and Chilean governments, but in 2004 Maria Paz arrived in Washington, D.C. to intern at NPR. She is now filing reports for NPR from Chile.)
Unlike my teaching at Catolica in 1997, the university radio station in 2003 allowed the students two nights each week (one hour each night) to produce their own shows for broadcast. One Wednesday night I went to the station, and the live call-in program that night was about Chilean cinema. In the studio there were two student hosts and the film critic for El Mercurio, the largest newspaper in the country. By cell phone, two student reporters were at their locations. One filed a live report about a film festival opening in Valdivia, and the other, at a theater in Santiago, interviewed people as they went to an opening of a film. In the studio, one student ran the console, while another served as director. A third one screened calls. These students produced a piece, too, but the editing wasn't very well done and the sound quality was lacking. But it was clear when I spoke with them that they knew what they did wrong and vowed to not let it happen again.
I was impressed with the progress I observed. As I sat in the control room that night, my mind leapt to 1997 and the hours we'd spent listening to those long reels of tape and how students struggled then to explain "high-end" radio. Now, in 2003, students were efficiently and very seriously doing a live radio show on a real radio station. At that moment, I understood that my fellowship in 1997 had been a success; the mission I'd come to perform had extended and grown beyond me.
Since my first trip to Chile, other NPR colleagues have traveled overseas to teach young journalists, and twoway exchanges have followed. What I learned in Chile and brought back to NPR also helped us to establish our "next generation radio" training program that involves young people in this country. In Chile, I'd seen how young people benefited from having a professional pay attention to them and take them seriously and push them, too. And Maria Paz's experience also taught us about the wise investment we are making in our own radio work when we provide training in what we do and how we do it to young journalists who learn from us and then return home to file stories for our listeners.
Doug Mitchell is the lead project manager for National Public Radio's "Next Generation Radio," a series of internal and external training projects aimed at luring 18-34 year olds into public radio journalism and news media.


South Africa: The Ostrich Killing Capital of the World – Take Action: Tell Hermès and Prada to Ditch Exotic Skins.
Never-before-seen footage shows how birds are shoved into boxes and have their throats slit at slaughterhouses that supply Hermès, Prada and other "luxury" fashion houses.
Take action to help these gentle, curious birds.
In September 2015, PETA US investigators travelled to South Africa to document what happens inside the largest ostrich slaughter companies in the world, including the exclusive supplier of ostrich skins for Hermès Birkin bags. Investigators saw workers force terrified ostriches into stun boxes – causing many to slip and fall – and then slit their throats. The ostriches next in line watched helplessly as their flockmates were killed right in front of them.
Workers were caught on camera striking ostriches in the face during transport, and when ostriches stumbled over a collapsed flockmate outside a slaughterhouse, a plant director joked, "I'll call the animal welfare officer just now".
These slaughterhouses supply ostrich skins to Hermès, Prada, Louis Vuitton and other top European fashion houses. Feathers, some of which are ripped out of the ostriches' skin while they are fully conscious, are used in costumes for the Moulin Rouge and festivals like Brazil's Rio Carnival as well as in feather dusters, boas and accessories. Ostrich meat is also sold throughout South Africa and exported primarily to Europe.
The Western Cape of South Africa is home to the largest ostrich slaughter companies in the world, which supply "luxury" ostrich skins to Hermès and other major fashion houses.
PETA US investigators saw the juvenile birds tightly packed into open-topped vehicles for the terrifying journey to slaughter. Once they reach the slaughterhouse, workers forcibly restrain each bird, electrically stun them and then cut their throats. Moments later, the feathers are torn off the birds' still-warm bodies, they are skinned and dismembered.
While ostriches can live for more than 40 years, farmed ostriches are slaughtered when they are just 1 year old. And while young ostriches typically stay with their parents for up to three years, ostriches raised on factory farms will never even get to meet their parents.
In the wild, these intelligent birds share parental duties, with the camouflaged mother taking care of the eggs during the daytime and the father, who has black feathers, taking night-time duty. One farm manager told our investigators that he has seen ostriches take turns fanning each other on hot days, remarking, "I have a lot of respect for ostrich".


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Alfred Waud
Title: Alfred Waud
Subject: Battle of Fredericksburg, Woodland Plantation (West Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana), Seth Kinman, A Home on the Mississippi, Every Saturday
Collection: 1828 Births, 1891 Deaths, 19Th-Century War Artists, American Artists, American Illustrators, American Magazine Illustrators, American People of English Descent, American War Artists, Artists from London, English Emigrants to the United States, People from London, People of New York in the American Civil War, People of the American Civil War
Alfred Waud photographed in 1863 by Timothy H. O'Sullivan sitting in Devil's Den after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Alfred Rudolph Waud (wōd) (October 2, 1828 – April 6, 1891) was an American artist and illustrator, born in London, England. He is most notable for the sketches he made as an artist correspondent during the American Civil War.
Early career 1
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Post Civil War work 3
Before emigration, Alfred Waud had entered the Government School of Design at Somerset House, London, with the intention of becoming a marine painter. This did not come to fruition, but as a student, he also worked as a painter of theatrical scenery. He intended to pursue that work in the United States, when he immigrated in 1850, seeking employment with actor and playwright John Brougham. In the 1850s, he worked variously as an illustrator for a Boston periodical, the Carpet-Bag, and provided illustrations for books such as Hunter's Panoramic Guide from Niagara to Quebec (1857).
Civil War years
"Kennesaw's Bombardment, 64", sketch of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, scanned from the original and digitally restored.
The period during the American Civil War was a time when all images in a publication had to be hand drawn and engraved by skilled artists. Photography existed but there was no way to transfer a photograph to a printing plate since this was well before the advent of the halftone process for printing photographs. Photographic equipment was too cumbersome and exposure times were too slow to be used on the battlefield. An artist such as Waud would do detailed sketches in the field, which were then rushed by courier back to the main office of the newspaper they were working for. There a staff of engravers would use the sketches to create engravings on blocks of boxwood. Since the blocks were about 4 inches across they would have to be composited together to make one large illustration. The wood engraving was then copied via the electrotype process which produced a metal printing plate for publication.[1]
In 1860, Alfred Waud became an illustrator or "special artist" (a full-time paid staff artist) for the New York Illustrated News. In April 1861, the newspaper assigned Waud to cover the Army of the Potomac, Virginia's main Union army. He first illustrated General Winfield Scott in Washington, D.C., and then entered the field to render the First Battle of Bull Run in July. Waud followed a Union expedition to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina the next month and witnessed the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries. That autumn, he sketched army activity in the Tidewater region of Virginia. Waud joined Harper's Weekly toward the end of 1861, continuing to cover the war. In 1864 Alfred's brother, William Waud (who up to that time had been working with "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper"), joined Alfred on the staff of Harper's and they worked together during the Petersburg Campaign.
Alfred Waud attended every battle of the Army of the Potomac between the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861 and the Siege of Petersburg in 1865. Alfred was one of only two artists present at the Battle of Gettysburg. His depiction of Pickett's Charge is thought to be the only visual account by an eyewitness.
Post Civil War work
Waud continued to be a prolific illustrator, doing numerous illustrations for Harper's Weekly and other prominent publications, achieving his greatest fame in his post-War work.
Waud died in 1891 in Marietta, Georgia, while touring battlefields of the South.
^ Schiffer, Clara Goldberg, collector. Collection, 1839-1994: A Finding Aid - BIOGRAPHY
David Meschutt. "Waud, Alfred R."; (subscription only)American National Biography Online, October 2002 Update.
Our Special Artist by Frederic E. Ray, The Viking Press, 1974
Works by Alfred Waud at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Alfred Waud at Internet Archive
by Michael Farnsley, Bohemianbrigade.comBohemian Brigade - Alfred Rudolph Waud - "Our Special Artists"
AskArt.com - Alfred Rudolf Waud (1828 - 1891).
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The prizes were established in 2008 and are awarded for research results that contribute to advancing natural and technical sciences and the humanities and for creating new equipment and progressive technologies that will boost the knowledge-based development of the national economy, social sphere and defence capability.
Alexei Dmitriyev and Anna Kudryavtseva from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology have been awarded the prize for decoding new mechanisms involved in the emergence and development of the specific metabolism of malignant epithelial tumours.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon friends.
This date's significance goes beyond the scientific community alone. Russia's science, traditions, schools, and unique achievements are, without question, part of not just our national heritage, but the world's heritage. Scientific thought is part of our common culture and civilisation, and the history of scientific ideas is a symbol of progress and advancement.
It is very important that young researchers also take active part in this work. The strategy places particular emphasis on their support. The Russian Scientific Fund is currently drafting a programme especially for this purpose. It will ensure that talented and highly educated people can and will aspire to realise their potential in full measure here, in Russia.
Alexei Dmitriyev and Anna Kudryavtseva work in the field of cancer research. The markers they have developed can be used to diagnose and set prognoses for some of the most common types of cancer. Their solutions are being used not only here in Russia, but at leading clinics and medical centres in 15 other countries, and I am sure that this number will grow.
As you know, I take part in all kinds of events here and abroad. Listening to our today's winners just now, I did not simply listen, but was entranced by what they said and how they spoke. I was struck by how they spoke. A simple but very positive thought came to my mind then. The foundations on which are country stands go so deep, and have such solid roots, that Russia's bright and marvellous future is simply inevitable.


Mux22-IVT/IVT is a device, which combines different formats of video and data in a single duplex fiber cable. The number of video inputs and outputs can be specified when ordering, by selecting dual input or dual output modules. Every single channel and transceiver in the device can be controlled and monitored in real time remotely using Optocore Control application.
The device is fully compatible with all Optocore products, which makes it very flexible. It is very easy to add analog or digital audio to the Mux22 by extending it with the Optocore devices. Still everything is transported via the same single duplex fiber cable.
Mux22 can be used as a point-to-point pair to transport multiple signals between two locations. Furthermore it can be used as a stagebox to Route66 Video Router – in that case it becomes a remote I/O device for the star-based larger system.


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The Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is located 44-miles north of Silver City at the end of a curvy road which takes 1 ½ hours to drive. The visitor center has a very good introductory 15-minute video about the people who lived here more than 700 years ago. The Monument, which is part of the National Park System, is administered by the U.S. Forest Service.
The dwellings were inhabited by Tularosa Mogollon between the late 1270s and the early 1300s. About 40-60 people or 10-15 families lived here, using 5 of the 7 southeast-facing caves which are about 180 feet above the canyon floor. They built about 40 rooms of interlocking stone which survived intact until miners and other pothunters began looting the site in the late 1800s. These people were skilled builders and potters, who made everything from the natural materials at hand. They were hunters and farmers, who raised squash, beans, corn, and other crops both along the river and on the mesa top.
The up-part of the 1-mile loop trail to the dwellings was closed due to rock slides, requiring one to climb up to the cliff dwellings on the trail built by the NPS rather than along the creek bed as the Mogollon did.


Eddie, a Jack Russell Terrier is a lucky dog. He gets to accompany his owner to work every day to the Mukwonago Industrial Park and hang out with the guys. But on August 27th, Eddie went missing, and the search was on. Despite flyering and calling all of the authorities, Eddie seemed to have vanished into thin air.
Fast forward eleven days to Brookfield Wisconsin. Lost Dogs of Wisconsin was attending a fundraising event for Elmbrook Humane Society called Wagfest. Thousands of dog lovers attend this outdoor event each year accompanied by their canine friends. We were doing free microchip scans and at times the line was long. People and dogs waited patiently for their turn. We had placed flyers of our "still missing" dogs on the legs of our pop-up tent in the hopes that people would take a minute to look at the pictures and see if they recognized any.
One woman, Donna (pictured below), was waiting for her dog's turn and suddenly announced that she knew where Eddie was. She pointed to his flyer and remembered that one of her coworkers had picked up Eddie while they were doing a paving job in Mukwonago. Eddie had actually jumped into the worker's car and eaten his breakfast burrito! Eddie's finder took good care of Eddie during the time he had him.
Donna quickly made a few calls and confirmed that yes indeed it was Eddie and arrangements were made to get him back to his owner. The whole process took less than an hour.
Eddie's story had a wonderful ending. It is a good reminder that it doesn't matter whether your dog is simply lost or has been picked up by a Good Samaritan; generating sightings through flyers and signs is the key to a successful recovery. All it takes is ONE call, ONE lead, ONE tip – to set the wheels in motion to get your lost dog back home. Keep flyering, and using signs and posters, until you get the ONE tip that you need.
Never Give Up! Your missing dog is depending on you to bring him safely home.
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Pause, Review, Rethink
By STHOK29th October 2019Heart of Kendal
Campaigners and individuals have been busy, attending meetings, lobbying councillors, feeding into consultations, uniting, and meeting with folks in the community and wider catchment area.
We believe Kendal deserves more sympathetic, non-destructive solutions that deliver for Kendal, its people, heritage and environment not unsightly, concrete walls. We are calling for the EA to:
Pause development of all three phases and initiate an urgent independent review of the environmental, cultural, carbon, heritage and amenity impacts, and the costs of the scheme.
Be honest with the people who live and work here about the costs, risks and goals of the scheme, and engage in meaningful co-creation consultation with the whole community in a spirit of openness and inclusivity.
Make public the full details of the EA's options appraisal.
Address the considerable threat of surface and groundwater flooding rather than merely attempting to contain the river.
Develop natural and non-destructive upstream flood storage and relief measures, develop flood peak storage in existing reservoirs, plant at least one million trees in the catchment as recommended by Kendal Futures, restore and re-meander the river, and carry out targeted gravel removal.
Invest in a scheme that delivers for people, wildlife, heritage, and river. In partnership with local groups, develop a scheme that does not involve concrete walls, tree felling, and huge dams in our river.
Negate tree loss through careful construction and modern arboricultural techniques, including root barriers and root pruning.
Almost ALL Kendal's mature riverside trees will be FELLED. They are essential habitat for wildlife, especially for four local BAT species which SHOULD be protected by U.K. law.
Endangered Atlantic SALMON depend on the upstream riverbed for breeding and spawning at each end of their life-cycle. The huge DAM will impede this and could drive them to local EXTINCTION.
Impending TREE FELLING and construction will ruin the habitat of the Kent's OTTERS during the breeding season. Dippers, Kingfishers, Crayfish and Bullheads are all in grave danger as the river is CANALISED with CONCRETE.
Riverside mature trees WILL NOT be replaced 6 for 1 as many believe. Most planting will be at Mintsfeet; NOT IN TOWN.
The proposed 'nature reserve' area on the edge of town is ALREADY a wild habitat for KESTREL, Otters, Fox and ROE DEER. It will be landscaped as part of the mitigation for environmental habitat damage thus causing EVEN MORE DAMAGE to local species.
Amenity Impact & Tourism
A 6km CONCRETE WALL will OBSCURE the River Kent, and Kendal's cherished river environment will be DAMAGED beyond repair.
Plans show the devastating loss of 545 MATURE riverside trees, plus PERMANENT cultural damage to the Kendal Conservation Area, the setting of grade II listed PARISH HALL, Miller Bridge & Nether Bridge.
Open fields, trees and hugely important RIVERBANK habitat at Mintsefeet and Kentrigg – popular with walkers, golfers, canoeists, anglers and children – will be DESTROYED if a dam structure and flood storage area for 1.7 MILLION cubic meters of water is built.
Construction Impact & Carbon Emissions
From EA plans, engineers estimate that 3500 tons of concrete and over half a million tons of clay, soil and stone will be brought into the town. An estimated 31,000 HGV JOURNEYS.
This will cause TRAFFIC CHAOS for residents, businesses and visitors, as well as a significant ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.
The likely CARBON EMISSIONS for the scheme are in excess of 2,025 tonnes of CO2; EQUIVALENT TO FLYING A 737 JET 300 TIMES AROUND THE WORLD.
Please sign and share before it's too late! The EA states that the scheme will not protect against another Storm Desmond or even one half it's size or less; just 227 homes and 71 businesses will be better off in a 1 in 20 year flood and more than 20 will be newly at risk of flooding. Pause, Review & Rethink!
https://www.change.org/p/secretary-of-state-for-environment-stop-review-and-revise-kendal-flood-management-scheme
Judith Aston says:
Please pause the scheme to assess the damage that will be done
Pete Burton says:
I fully support the Pause, Review Rethink ethos.
I believe that people and wildlife will suffer under the proposed scheme and believe it could exacerbate flooding in Kendal and the surrounding area.
Sharon de-Wit says:
8th December 2019 at 12:29 pm
I live in Swaledale and Kendal is our nearest big shopping centre. I'm horrified by these plans which act as a short term measure to help prevent flood damage, but as part of the bigger picture will be driving climate change and will also be detrimental to the existing riverside wildlife. We need mass tree planting on all our hillsides to urgently commence now, to act as carbon stores, wildlife homes and to reduce flood risks. There was a major flood event in Reeth, Swaledale earlier this year, ever since then the hills have been permanently boggy with an almost constant flow of water running from them onto the roads and lanes. This should clearly demonstrate the need for a change in hill management throughout the UK. I would be interested to know if anyone Is studying the impact these boggy hillsides are having on methane production, will organic matter be breaking down anaerobically rather than aerobically? I'm assuming Lakeland hillsides are also in a boggy state.
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